By Dogan Akman 

On November 16, 2016 the Minister of International Development, Marie Claude Bibeau of the Liberal government of Justin Trudeau, in power since October 19, 2015, announced that the government had reversed the 2010 decision of the preceding the Conservative government led by Stephen Harper that cancelled Canada’s annual contribution of $25 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).

A portion of these monies contributes to the financing, as the Minister put it, of the schooling of “vulnerable Palestinian refugees” attending UNWRA schools.  The reinstatement of this contribution occurred in the midst of allegations that UNWRA it is tied too closely to Hamas, which Canada designates as a terrorist organisation, and despite the well substantiated evidence that the textbooks used by UNWRA and published by the P.A are toxic in their treatment of Israel. Read more…

If support for the Jewish state is declining, it may have more to do with American Jews than the Israelis they claim to deplore.

By Jonathan Tobin, JNS

If American Jews are unhappy with Israel, it may not be so much a function of a new law that says it’s a Jewish state as the growing consensus that it is an “illiberal” state. That’s the new narrative being promoted by many of the Israeli government’s critics.

In numerous articles published in both secular and Jewish media, the critique has not been so much about the nation-state law as the notion that Israel no longer represents liberal Jewish values that Diaspora Jews consider integral to their identity. Sometimes this thesis is put forward from those who consider themselves Zionists, and sometimes from those who make the case that support for Israel and Zionism is itself illiberal. But the consistent theme is that contemporary Israel no longer fits with the way most American Jews think, and that the fault for this lies squarely on the shoulders of the Israelis.
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 Angry protests have spread across Iran with people chanting ‘Death to the Dictator’ against the suppressive regime led by President Hassan Rouhani

By Mark Hodge, THE SUN 

THE Iranian regime has fired on protesters amid Trump’s economic sanctions – as an expert warns the country is on the brink of revolution.

Since August 2, people have taken to the streets of Iran chanting “Death to the Dictator” in angry demonstrations against the tyrannical government and the Islamic Republic’s sluggish economy.

Last Friday, a young man was shot dead by regime forces in Karaj outside of capital Tehran while a large number of protesters were arrested, according to resistance units.
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This is the opportunity to take advantage of economic problems to effect a regime change.

By Amil Imani, INN

Over the past 40 years, many of us have seen various Iranian opposition groups and TV channels pop up, one after another, but none united or supported their competitors. Each group had its own agenda. A typical Iranian dilemma: “too many chiefs, not enough Indians.”

Let’s make a note of it: If we remain divided, there won’t be a chance against the powerful Islamic regime with the vast and destructive power apparatus who has no problem in using it against its own population as it did to the 2009 Green Movement.

Sadly, my experience tells me that Iranians are inherently too stubborn to work within a group like Japanese are.  A Japanese proverb says “A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle.” This means that ten arrows are stronger than a single arrow. If you change the arrows to people, you will understand more about why the Japanese are so group oriented.
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By Dr Eran Lermer, ISRAEL HAYOM

By Noga Tarnopolsky, LA TIMES

“King Bibi,” a documentary tracking Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s 40 years of public life through the lens of his appearances in the news media, sold out both times it played at the Jerusalem Film Festival, which closed Sunday.

It was an easy sell: Israelis are obsessed by the media and by their long-serving prime minister, who is considered both a wizard of communication and a leader defined by his hatred of the press.

Production notes for the film mention that 20 years before Donald Trump was elected president of the United States, “Netanyahu already understood the political benefits of a toxic relationship with the media, and direct communication with the public.”
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The growth years are set to succumb to a new era of debt and distress, forcing the country to look inward and maybe even dispense with Erdogan

By David  Rosenberg, HAARETZ

One of Israel’s frustrations with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan wasn’t just his visceral dislike of the Jewish state but the fact that he was presiding over a country with growing economic and military power and pretensions to regional leadership. Erdogan wasn’t only an enemy but an increasingly powerful one.

Those days are now coming to an end. Erdogan may remain an enemy, at least in terms of inflammatory rhetoric, but Turkey’s economy is rapidly going down the drain and with it will go his ability to influence events in the region.

The Turkish economic miracle that Erdogan was given credit for over the last decade and a half was more an illusion than reality. The economy grew rapidly, at times at a pace that exceeded China’s, but its foundation was faulty.

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NOBODY INTIMIDATES CANDACE OWENS. SHE HOLDS HER GROUND AND GETS THE BETTER OF EVERY EXCCHANGE. SHE IS AMAZING.

The international community must continue to shoulder its political and moral responsibilities towards Palestinian refugees

BY REUTERS

AMMAN – A United Nations agency helping Palestinian refugees is facing a severe financial shortfall. Jordan warns of “catastrophic” impact on the lives of millions of refugees in the region.

Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said after meeting visiting UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) Commissioner-General Pierre Krähenbühl the budget crisis facing the agency could deprive refugees of core education, healthcare and food security service that would only “deepen their humanitarian plight.”

“UNRWA faces a dangerous financial deficit that threatens catastrophic consequences on refugees if it is not covered before its financial allocations run out,” Safadi was quoted as saying in a foreign ministry statement.
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By Patricia McCarthy, AMERICAN THINKER

All written history is revisionist.  With each successive generation, history is rewritten by people with new access to classified information, memoirs of those who were present, and the ever changing political landscape that colors everything we read about history and current events, political and cultural.  Often, the revisions of important events of the past are welcome and truthful, corrections of past misperceptions.  But just as often, revisionist history is slanted toward the politics of the era, the decade, or the current climate.

Since the 1960s and the takeover of higher education by tenured radicals that followed, American history has indeed been revised to favor the progressive left and to indoctrinate Americans with a distorted view, if not outright misrepresentation, of the facts of American history.  The 1960s were characterized by the anti-Americanism of the new left, and these leftists set out to drastically alter how Americans learned the history of their country.  Academia, in short, lied.  Its books lied.Dinesh D’Souza’s new documentary,  Death of a Nation, attempts to correct the record and to inform viewers about the various -isms that are generally conflated by academics and the media, most all of whom are anti-American leftists: Nazism, socialism, communism, Marxism, fascism, and progressivism.  They are all of a piece, and the left admires and endorses them all in one form or another.  All are anti-capitalist, anti-American.  All are characterized by totalitarianism to one degree or another.
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We are closing in on operation in Gaza,’ IDF senior official says – IDF hits more than 140 Gaza targets; three Gazans said killed, including pregnant woman and child – U.S. Mideast envoy Greenblatt: Hamas ‘subjecting people to war conditions’

By Jack Khoury, HAARETZ

A fireball exploding during Israeli air strikes in Gaza City, August 8, 2018 AFP

The Israeli military said Thursday morning that it struck more than 140 targets in Gaza in retaliation to a massive barrage of rockets that was fired at Israel overnight. More than 150 rockets were fired at Israel, the military said, with 25 rockets intercepted by the Iron Dome missile defense system. The rest landed in open areas.

Government advancing legislation to force organization to fund state-run national infrastructure projects

By ANDREW TOBIN, TOI

JTA — American Jews dropped nickels and dimes into the Jewish National Fund’s blue charity boxes to help Zionists build the Jewish state.

More than a century later, the JNF, known in Hebrew as Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael, is rich. It owns 13 percent of all the land in the country and brings in some $3 billion a year, most of it from land sales.

Israel now wants a big cut of that revenue to help fund state-run national infrastructure projects, and the government is pushing legislation that would force the JNF to pay up. But the JNF is holding out, saying it is doing a fine job developing the country on its own.
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JEWISH NATIONAL FUND

In response to petitions submitted to the Supreme Court, KKL-JNF emphasized the importance of Zionism, alongside the fact that the Jewish state belongs to the Jewish people, and that it is also the state of all its citizens

Photo: KKL-JNF Photo Archive

• KKL-JNF – Trustee for the Jewish People on its land
• The Perpetual Property of the Jewish People
• The Position of KKL-JNF
• KKL-JNF – A Green Global Organization for ALL Residents of Israel
• Your Opinion is Important to us

KKL-JNF – Trustee for the Jewish People on its land

WIKEPEDIA

Leasing policy controversy

A community in the Negev established by the JNF under its Blueprint Negev program

Aminadav Forest

The JNF stipulates that only Jews can buy, mortgage or lease JNF land. Article 23 of the JNF lease states that the lessee must pay compensation to the JNF if this stipulation is violated.[64] On 13 October 2004, Adalah, an organization and legal center for Arab minority rights in Israel, submitted a petition to the Supreme Court entitled Challenging the Prohibition on Arab Citizens of Israel from Living on Jewish National Fund Land.[65] Shortly afterwards, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel and the Arab Center for Alternative Planning also filed a petition to the Supreme Court challenging the ILA policy as discriminatory.[66] The JNF responded to the two petitions on 9 December. In its response, the JNF stated:
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The Jewish Nation-State Law is a major event in Israel’s history and in the Zionist vocation. In days to come, this basic law will be broadly recognized and widely heralded. Jewish history is on the

BY JOEL H. GOLOVENSKY, JPOST  AUGUST 3, 2018

Foreign ministers agree to introduce ‘blocking statute’ banning EU companies from abiding by US president’s new penalties

INDEPENDANT UK

The UK has agreed to work with the EU to try to block the impact of Donald Trump‘s new sanctions against Iran.

Jeremy Hunt, the foreign secretary, signed a joint statement with other EU foreign ministers to ensure European companies doing business with Iran will be protected.

The ministers promised to introduce a “blocking statute” to ban European firms from abiding by the US sanctions, which were reimposed by Mr Trump on Monday.

The US president decided to reintroduce the penalties after withdrawing from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal negotiated by his predecessor, Barack Obama.
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BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS, JIHAD WATCH,  AUG 7, 2018

Following Saudi Arabia’s arrest of two more women’s rights activists, as part of the government’s crackdown on dissidents, Canada responded by demanding the release of the women and accusing Saudi Arabia of human rights violations. Well-known activists Samar Badawi and Nassima al-Sada were among those arrested. Samar is the sister of Raif Badawi, a humanitarian writer and dissident who was “flogged in public 50 times in January. He has 950 lashes and nearly a decade in prison left to serve – simply for blogging about free speech.”

Canada’s rebuke and demands drew the ire of the Saudis, followed by a swift, wrathful response: the Saudis expelled Canadian ambassador, Dennis Horak,  froze all trade, announced the withdrawal of all Saudi-sponsored students at Canadian universities, colleges and other schools, and suspended all flights by Saudi Arabian Airlines. Yet Canada stood strong in the face of Saudi accusations. Its display of strength is admirable, as women are being thrown in jail in Saudi Arabia for standing up for their rights. Women are also forced to live under the degrading guardianship system, under which they must seek permission from a male, be it husband, father, brother, son, uncle, to make basic decisions in their lives.
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Lobby group warns hate speech could lead to violence against homosexual community

By TOI STAFF

Participants in Jerusalem’s Gay Pride Parade, August 2, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Close to 600 US and Canadian rabbis from across the spectrum of Judaism have signed a letter calling on Orthodox rabbis in Israel to retract a recent letter which described gay people as perverts who are striving to destroy the notion of family.

The document also urged the Israeli government to reverse recent legislation that excluded unmarried men from the right to father a child via surrogacy, and advocated greater separation of religion and state in Israel.
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