The Jordanian Opposition Coalition, headed by Mudar Zahran, asked me to post this Press Release of theirs.

Notice from the Jordanian Opposition Coallition

Mr. Michael Ross, a prominent Jewish activist, has resigned his position as foreign policy advisor for the JOC effective immediately.

Mr. Ross announced his resignation for personal, political and business reasons, which include accepting full time responsibility for the International Jewish Muslim Dialogue Center and an increased role as an educator and philosopher.

The JOC would like to thank Mr. Ross for his efforts and valuable advice, as well as outstanding work.

While the JOC deeply appreciates the values of freedom of speech and choice, it cannot endorse or condone previous lobbying efforts conducted by Mr. Ross with respect to certain legally accepted industries within the United States and Western World.

While we adore America’s free trade and business values, we also proudly uphold Jordanian social and moral values, which are in fact, very similar to those of the American people.

We wish Mr. Ross continued success in his future endeavors on behalf of Israel and world Jewry.

Israeli ambassador to Kazakhstan says that Israeli technologies may well fit in into the concept of the New Silk Road.

BY ARIEL BEN SOLOMON, JPOST

As US President Donald Trump is in Asia this week, a topic of conversation with Chinese President Xi Jinping could be his ambitious multi-billion- dollar plan to create the Belt and Road initiative (BRI) – a modern Silk Road of trade and infrastructure connecting Asia to Europe and the Middle East.

Israel has a great opportunity to expand relations with Central Asian countries, which are the linchpin in the project, to tap into this bonanza.
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by Tyler Durden, ZERO HEDGE

One year ago, we introduced readers to William Binney, a former high-ranking NSA official turned whistleblower with an interesting theory: Binney believes the intelligence community’s assessment that Russia-linked hackers stole emails from the DNC as they pushed to sway the election in Trump’s favor is bullshit.

The real story, he says, is that a DNC insider stole the emails by downloading them manually from the DNC’s server onto a hard drive. Binney says he arrived at this conclusion after conducting an independent analysis of the metadata from the emails with a particular eye toward timestamps that he says indicate a download speed consistent with loading the files onto a thumb drive.
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And it looks a lot like a plan to squeeze Iran.

By Dov Zakheim, FP

T. Belman. No mention is made of the illegal UN construfction elsewhere.  Israel must stop all illegal construction regardless of diplomatic immunity. There is nothing to discuss and no concessions to be made. A legal way must be found to prevent the illegal construction from continuing and to enable the destruction of what is already built. It is obvious that the Netanyahu government wants to negotiate everything rather than put its foot down.

Even as PM agrees with UN Sec Gen that future construction would be in accordance with law, UN prepares for new illegal construction.

By Mordechai Sones, INN

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu stated that he concluded with UN Secretary General Guterres that current and future construction by the UN at the Government Palace will be carried out in accordance with the principles of zoning and building laws.

However, it turns out that only recently has UNTSO issued a tender for the demolition and reconstruction of one of the buildings built during the British Mandate in the Armon Hanatziv compound – in violation of the law and without a building permit from the Jerusalem Municipality.
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“It is the most volatile period in Saudi history in over a half-century.”

by Zack Beauchamp, VOX

Mohammed bin Salman, the ambitious 32-year-old crown prince of Saudi Arabia, is rounding up the opposition — specifically, the opposition inside his own royal family.

Over the weekend, Saudi police arrested an astonishing 11 princes, along with dozens of other officials and businessmen, at the direction of bin Salman and his father, King Salman. Nominally, the arrests are part of an anti-corruption drive spearheaded by the prince, widely known as MBS, but many experts say what’s really happening is the crown prince and heir to the throne jailing potential rivals to cement his own power.

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BREITBART JERUSALEM

Dubai (AFP) – Saudi Arabia and Iran traded fierce accusations over Yemen on Monday, with Riyadh saying a rebel missile attack “may amount to an act of war” and Tehran accusing its rival of war crimes.

Tensions have been rising between Sunni-ruled Saudi Arabia and predominantly Shiite Iran, which are opposed in disputes and conflicts across the Middle East from Yemen and Syria to Qatar and Lebanon.

On Monday, a Saudi-led military coalition battling Tehran-backed rebels in Yemen said it reserved the “right to respond” to the missile attack on Riyadh at the weekend, calling it a “blatant military aggression by the Iranian regime which may amount to an act of war”.
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The usual answer is Truman—but it could just as easily be Stalin. In fact, thanks to Zionist diplomacy, it was both; and therein lies a lesson for the Jewish state today.

By Martin Kramer, MOSAIC

A truck with the faces of Soviet Communist leaders Lenin and Stalin at the labor day parade held in Tel Aviv on May 1, 1949. Pinn Hans/Israeli Government Press Office.

What distinguishes the left these days is its compulsion to forego dialogue and portray conservatism as inherently evil, while giving a pass to progressives who engage in violence, intimidation, and public vandalism.

By Matthew M. Hausman, J.D., INN

The American media has been straining mightily to link Donald Trump to the “Alt-right” and to blame conservatives for increased anti-Semitism and social unrest.  Nevertheless, the uptick in partisan violence and anti-Jewish rhetoric these days seems to come more from the left than the right.  This is not to ignore the actions of neo-Nazis, Klansmen, and right-wing extremists; but they don’t have sympathetic journalists portraying them as legitimate protesters or mainstream politicians rationalizing their conduct.

The Alt-right are also not instigating much of the conflict marring town squares and college campuses today.   No, this is most often the work of progressive activists and groups, like the Antifa movement, who engage in confrontation and seek to suppress speech.  And the epidemic of campus anti-Semitism is largely attributable to liberal BDS advocates, leftist faculty stooges, and Islamists – not neo-Nazis or white supremacists, who unlike progressives don’t have a symbiotic relationship with American academia.
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I REMOVED THIS ARTICLE BECAUSE I NOW BELIEVE IT TO BE A HOAX

I AM SORRY FOR HAVING PUBLISHED IT WITHOUT INVESTIGATING.

By Daniel Schwammenthal, NEWSWEEK

Imagine terrorists who have killed hundreds of people in Europe and the U.S. receiving generous rewards for their crimes.

And imagine further this blood money being indirectly funded by Western taxpayers.

As outrageous as it sounds, this is exactly what the Palestinian Authority (PA)—financially dependent on U.S. and European generosity—is doing.

Each year it pays about $140 million to terrorists who are or have been in Israeli prisons, and $175 million to families of terrorists killed in action, such as suicide bombers.

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By Thomas Lifson, AMERICAN THINKER

A coup is taking place within the House of Saud, in which a modernizing monarch is grabbing power and taking out rivals.  Forces now under command of the ruler just arrested 11 princes among dozens of others and is launching financial investigations that could lead to serious punishment. In Saudi Arabia, they behead people (at least 157 times in 2015) and amputate a limb off of thieves.  It is widely believed that baksheesh is not unknown in Saudi Arabian business circles, and an “anti-corruption committee” was recently formed.  In other words, the tools are in place to take out any opposition among the powerful, within or outside the royal family.
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They never ever counted on the one entity for which neither media hacks nor pollsters have any  respect: the American public!

By Joan Swirsky

On Tuesday, American voters will once again go to the polls hoping that the candidate(s) they vote for will fulfill what should be their one and only mission, i.e., to serve the needs of We the People.

Republican, ahem, leaders are appropriately nervous that the phony so-called conservatives they’ve been foisting on us for decades will be replaced by authentic conservatives who will help President Trump fulfill his mission to Make America Great Again!

And––oxymoron here––Democrat leaders are even more agitated because looming over the entire election will be the initiative President Trump announced last May to investigate voter fraud, an issue they are all-too-seedily familiar with.
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‘We want to live a normal life. A life in which our religion translates to tolerance, to our traditions of kindness’

AFP

Saudi Arabia’s powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has pledged to make his country “moderate, open”, breaking with ultra-conservative clerics in favour of an image catering to foreign investors and Saudi youth.

The Saudi strongman, 32, did not mince words on Tuesday in declaring a new reality for the kingdom, hours after announcing the launch of an independent $500 billion megacity – with “separate regulation” – along the Red Sea coastline.
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