By Dr. George N. Tzogopoulos, BESA

Q: The recent infiltration of Israeli airspace by an Iranian drone launched from Syria was considered by Jerusalem a severe violation of its sovereignty. In response, Israel conducted a mission to strike the Iranian drone installation in Syria. During that mission, an Israeli F-16 jet crashed. In the aftermath of this incident, Israel – while not wishing to escalate – made clear that it is prepared to act with determination and exact a heavy price from anyone who attacks it. BESA joins the debate by posing the question: How might the Israeli-Iranian face-off in Syria evolve?

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By Wayne Allen Root, GATEWAY PUNDIT

Trump’s first year was amazing. Ask the Heritage Foundation. They rate Trump as better than President Ronald Reagan in his first year. Trump fulfilled more conservative goals and objectives (by far) than Reagan. That makes Trump the most successful conservative president ever- after one year.

But that’s one year. President Trump has a long way to go. That’s like being ahead 21-0 in the first quarter of a football game. It sounds great, but I’ve lost quite a few of those. The jury is still out on whether Trump becomes the greatest conservative president of all time.

But year two began with a controversy. Trump signed that $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill last week. As I made clear on my national TV and radio shows late last week- I disagree, I disagree, I disagree. I was angry. I was disgusted. I was outraged. This was my first-ever disagreement with President Trump and I was disappointed.
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T. Belman.  Remember Jenin. Remember the Mavi Marmara, Everything the press reports is coming from Hamas and is lies and propaganda. I totally believe only the IDF.  The fact that 10 of the 15 alledgedly killed were known terrorists shows a) that the protest wasn’t peaceful and b) that the IDF was not indescriminate in whom they shot at.

This “protest” is part of a larger war and must be defeated. In any event, it is extremely important that the IDF not let one person infiltrate into Israel. the IDF has the right to kill people who violate our sovereignty.

Naftali Bennett said,‘Imagine the march of return along Israel’s main highway’ – He called on supporters of the two-state solution to imagine 30,000 Gazans protesting Israel’s existence along main highway.

JPOST
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A new book exposes the depth of anti-Israel hate on US campuses. The smear campaign aimed at Prof. Andrew Pessin for defending Israel in the 2014 war against Hamas is a frightening example.

By Noah Beck, INN

About six months after Andrew Pessin posted on his Facebook profile a defense of Israel during its 2014 war against Hamas, the once popular Connecticut College philosophy professor was subjected to an academic smear campaign. The school paper published articles defaming him. The administration hosted condemnations of Pessin from across the campus community on the school’s website, and tolerated other anti-Semitic activities that only worsened the climate for Jews and Israel supporters. Pessin received death threats and, in the spring of 2015, took a medical leave of absence. The Connecticut College administration offered no meaningful protection or support to Pessin, and never issued any apology for its role in his abuse.

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By Marc A. Thiessen, The Washington Post 3-28-18

WASHINGTON — In the wake of President Trump’s decision to appoint John Bolton as his national security adviser and Mike Pompeo as secretary of state, a consistent criticism has emerged: Trump will no longer have any “adult” supervision in the national security decision-making process or any Cabinet-level “checks” on his own worst instincts.

This view is not only insulting, it is fundamentally anti-democratic. The Constitution places many checks on a president’s power, including Congress, an independent judiciary and a free press. It’s not the job of Cabinet officials to be a “check” on the president. Their job is to give the president options so he can make decisions — not restrict choices to constrain him.
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Egypt is set to establish a free economic zone in South Sinai’s Nuweiba, bringing the number of free zones in the country to 11.

Ahram Online

In an official statement, Egypt’s investment and international cooperation minister Sahar Nasr said the government decided to establish the free zone as part of a comprehensive development plan for Sinai that involves pumping domestic and Arab investments.

In a separate statement, South Sinai governor Khaled Fouda revealed that the free zone covers 26 feddans at a total cost of $400 million, and that the project will be established in around two years and will provide 14,000 job opportunities.

Fouda highlighted that Nuweiba city has been suffering from a lack of tourism, despite other South Sinai cities like Sharm El-Sheikh and Dahab seeing increases in tourism of up to 40 percent.
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T. Belman. Joseph Shellim is the person who approached me to help get his screen play Holy War produced as a movie in Jerusalem. We are working on it.

This is the first chapter of the book it is based on. Joseph has spent a great deal of time researching the subject because he wants it to be as historical as possible.

It makes for fascinating reading I urge you to buy the book

• Historical-Drama of the First 100 years after Jesus Christ [37-137 CE], Based on the Roman, Greek & Hebrew Writings.
• A Movie Edition based on this book and titled as “Holy-War” is in development.
• The Book is available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble’s, and ITunes.

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LIVE UPDATES: 30,000 Palestinians demonstrate throughout Gaza for ‘March of Return’ ? Soldiers exchange fire with two Palestinians ? Abbas asks UN to protect demonstrators ? UN to Israel: Situation may deteriorate, lethal force must be last resort

By Jack Khoury, Yaniv Kubovich and Almog Ben Zikri, HAARETZ

Around 30,000 Palestinians rallied throughout the Gaza Strip on Friday during the “March of Return,” a series of mass protests along the Israel-Gaza border. At least 16 Palestinians have been killed and dozens wounded during clashes with Israeli soldiers over several hours, after a number of protesters threw stones and firebombs toward soldiers stationed along the fence.

A senior United Nations official told the Security Council on Friday that the situation in Gaza “might deteriorate in the coming days” and called for civilians, particularly children, not be targeted.

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PA defies new U.S. law, hails U.S. subsidized payments to terrorists

By Adam Kredo, NEW BEACON

The Palestinian Authority is continuing to pay out salaries to convicted terrorists using funds provided by the American taxpayer, a policy that defies a recent U.S. law mandating the PA stop these subsidies or face a cutoff in U.S. aid dollars, according to U.S. and Israeli lawmakers who spoke to the Washington Free Beacon.

Palestinian officials in recent days have rejected a new U.S. law, known as the Taylor Force Act, or TFA, that bans the PA government from providing salaries to terrorists and their families, a longstanding policy that had become the center of controversy after it was found U.S. taxpayer aid dollars to the Palestinians had been used to subsidize this practice.
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By Ted Belman (first published Dec 10/14)

Two days ago I posted an article by Joel Pollak entitled Israel’s secular elite commit treason with “Palestine” letter.  It was originally published by Breitbart’s and garnered considerable interest there from both the lovers and haters of Israel.

I exchanged comments with Justin and thought they should be posted here.

Justin • a day ago

Israel is playing with fire and its American apologists like Joel Pollak are stupidly fanning the flames.

The demographics are changing – the non-European Jews are having way more babies than their European counterparts while American Jews are increasingly embarrassed by Israeli politics and actions in the West Bank & Gaza. Support for Israel isn’t going to disappear overnight, but I think the Israelis overestimate American public support. Our support is not unconditional, nor should it be.

At some point it is fair to question whether the Israeli public wants peace more than it wants expansion, and I think we are well beyond that point. If Israel wants to act in a way that even Vladimir Putin wouldn’t condone, that’s Israel’s business, but Americans shouldn’t have to foot the bill.
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BBC

Media caption.The silent film shows Jewish characters being abused in the street and forced from their homes. Credit: Filmarchiv Austria
[Go HERE to view the film.]

A silent film from 1924 predicting the rise of Nazism was found in a Paris flea market in 2015 after being lost for decades. Thanks to a huge fundraising campaign, it has now been restored and returned to cinemas, reports the BBC’s Bethany Bell in Vienna.
An Orthodox Jew is set upon by three taunting men.

A woman shopping at a market stall becomes outraged at the high prices. She starts pelting a passing Jewish man with fruit.

Later, huge protesting crowds gather outside the chancellor’s office. Inside, the leader consults with an adviser. “It is awful to expel the Jews,” he says. “But one must satisfy the people.”
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T. Belman. David Singer has been an advocate of this deal for decades. A year ago when I posted The Ultimate Alternate Solution  he argued in detail for his deal (negotiate with Jordan’s King and give them half of West Bank) rather than my deal (put Mudar Zahran in power and keep all of the West Bank). Neither of us has changed our respective positions. I submit that Bolton, when viewing the benefits of my deal, will opt for it. After all, there is nothing to negotiate and it is easier to effect.

By David Singer, INN

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Bolton has an answer – provided with amazing prescience on 5 January 2009 in his Washington Post article headlined “The Three-State Solution”:

“Let’s start by recognizing that trying to create a Palestinian Authority from the old PLO has failed and that any two-state solution based on the PA is stillborn. Hamas has killed the idea, and even the Holy Land is good for only one resurrection. Instead, we should look to a “three-state” approach, where Gaza is returned to Egyptian control and the West Bank in some configuration reverts to Jordanian sovereignty. Among many anomalies, today’s conflict lies within the boundaries of three states nominally at peace. Having the two Arab states re-extend their prior political authority is an authentic way to extend the zone of peace and, more important, build on governments that are providing peace and stability in their ocome close to what is necessary; we need real states with real security forces.”

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T. Belman. As you read this article, think Jordan. Like Qatar, Jordan embraces the MB and is reaching out to Iran and Turkey. Jordan is likely to follow the path of Qatar. If it does, it will greatly weaken the GCC and the West. All the more reason to replace the King with Mudar Zahran and the Jordanian Opposition Council. Jordan will then unambiguously align with the West. That’s why Saudi Arabia will not reject such replacement.

THE NEW ARAB

Last June, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain took an unprecedented action against a fellow GCC member, cutting all political, diplomatic and economic ties with Qatar. The GCC trio – joined by Egypt – accused Doha of endangering regional stability by allegedly supporting terrorist organisation and other Islamist movements, along with forging cordial relations with their arch-foe Iran.

Despite severe measures undertaken by Quartet states – including bans on Qatari nationals and the closure of their airspace, water and land borders to Qatar – Doha has shown remarkable resilience. Against all odds, Qatar neutralised the effects of the initial shock of the blockade and quickly accommodated to the new reality.
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Recent leaks show that Trump is planning to establish a mini-Palestine only consisting of Gaza and half of West Bank.

By Anders Persson, AL JAZEERA

When Donald Trump was elected US president in November 2016, he initially signalled some real hope for the peaceful resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Some analysts argued that he may actually manage to deliver what he calls “the deal of the century” and bring peace to Israel andPalestine. These assumptions were based on the fact that Trump is the type of person that could wake up one morning, say “enough”, and pressure Israeli and Palestinian leaders to sign a peace deal on his terms.
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The Russian Revolution Could Never Have Happened Without One Billion Dollars Of German Aid