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Israel was startled by the Egyptian president’s comment that the Palestinian reconciliation process he is brokering would lead to peace with Israel.

Abdel Fatteh El-Sisi put it this way in an interview on Sunday, Oct. 8:

“The Egyptian moves aimed at helping the Palestinian brothers to start a new stage of unity of the Palestinian ranks would pave the way for a just peace between Palestine and Israel.” He defined his goal as being: “The establishment of an independent Palestinian state to meet the legitimate aspirations of the Palestinian people for a secure, stable and prosperous life.”

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By Jonathan Schanzer, THE ATLANTIC

President Donald Trump is taking considerable heat for his expected announcement this week that he will “decertify” the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. Critics say he is heedlessly discarding a deal that has been working, and needlessly putting America on a collision course with Iran.

As it turns out, Trump is actually not poised to “rip up the deal.” By decertifying it, the president and his advisors are, in fact, signaling their intent to strengthen it, with the help of Congress, so that the deal advances U.S. national security interests. Those interests are key criteria for the certification process, which takes place every 90 days, as laid out in the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act (INARA) of 2015. Right now, with the Iranians hindering inspection of military sites, working feverishly on their ballistic missile program, and banking on the nuclear deal’s sunset clauses, which all but guarantee Tehran an advanced nuclear program in roughly a decade, it’s hard to argue the deal is working for the United States.
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American president, who has called the 2015 nuclear deal an “embarrassment,” is expected to announce that he will decertify the accord ahead of an Oct. 15 deadline • Trump is also expected to designate Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist group.

By ISRAEL HAYOM

U.S. President Donald Trump will make an announcement this week on an “overall Iran strategy,” including whether to decertify the international deal curbing Tehran’s nuclear program, the White House said on Tuesday.

“He’ll make that later this week,” White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders told reporters when asked about the certification decision and the administration’s broader strategy on Iran.

Trump, who has called the 2015 pact agreed between Iran and six world powers an “embarrassment,” is expected to announce that he will decertify the deal ahead of an Oct. 15 deadline, a senior administration official said last week.
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Among the projects on the list is new housing for the Jewish community in Hebron.

BY Tovah Lazaroff, JPOST

Israel will have advanced plans for 12,000 settler homes in 2017, Israeli officials said on Tuesday as they continued to defend Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against charges that he had not done enough for Jewish building in the West Bank.

To date, plans for 5,000 settler homes have been advanced and tenders have been issued for 3,000 homes.

Next week, the Higher Planing Council for Judea and Samaria is set to hold its third meeting this year. According to officials, it will advance plans for 3,763 homes, bringing the total to close to 12,000.
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But CJH’s Hostile-to-Israel CEO, David Myers, Must Be Fired, and CJH’s Other Bigoted Programming Must Stop; ZOA Urges Pro-Israel Activists: Join the Protest at CJH (15 West 16 Street, Manhattan) next Wednesday Evening October 18, from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.!

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton A. Klein released the following statement:

The ZOA is pleased that the Center for Jewish History (CJH) announced that it is cancelling two of CJH’s scheduled extreme anti-Israel programs, co-sponsored with the disgraceful Israel boycott promoter “Jewish Voice for Peace” (JVP), and featuring JVP leaders.  Even the leftwing Anti-Defamation League (ADL) named JVP as one of the “Top 10 anti-Israel groups; the worst of the worst.”  The CJH/JVP canceled a scheduled program condemning the Balfour Declaration that was comprised of JVP coordinator Robert Herbst and co-founder of the Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center, Jonathan Kuttab.  The Sabeel Center seeks to replace all of Israel with a Palestinian Arab state, and specializes in working to turn Christians against Jews and Israel.  Like JVP, Sabeel is also listed among ADL’s “Top 10 anti-Israel groups; the worst of the worst.”
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Currently,   ALL sites which  designated by the Iranians as military sites are NOT subject to UN or any other inspection. Intelligence states  that if the Iranians are not conducting nuclear development operations in those sites, it will be the first time in a generation that  the Iranians are not doing so.

Currently, Iranian scientists are working side-by-side with North Korean scientists on both the North Korean nuclear development program in the North Korean missile development program. The head of Iran’s largest international trading company assures me that when Iran wants nuclear warheads Iran will purchase them from North Korea and  North Korea  will be very  willing  to sell them to Iran.

The Coming Confrontation between Israel and Iran

Left unchecked, Iran will be able to place nuclear missiles in Syria

By Elliott Abrams, CFR

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Howard Laitin to David Suissa of the Jewish Journal.

You have a tremendous responsibility. You can steer the Jewish Journal into being a community “feel-good” paper filled with emotionally fulfilling stories about those who give outstanding service to the community. You can fill it with pious pontifications concerning civil rights, immigration, gun control, etc.

Or you can help educate a liberal leaning and well-meaning but poorly informed  Jewish population with articles such as this one by Robert Satloff as to the historical events which put Israel and American Jews into a precarious situation.

Given your Moroccan background, this article  which appeared in Mosaic by Robert Satloff is a good start. It barely touches the surface of the vast  pool of anti-Semitism that existed and still exists in the State… and in many parts of the federal bureaucracy.

Three personal examples.
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Is Jerusalem united? Let me throw a bucket of icy water over those of our politicians who are in denial.

BY Barry Shaw, JPOST

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week pledged to support a Greater Jerusalem bill that would annex places like Ma’aleh Adumim, Givat Ze’ev and villages in the Etzion Bloc and would allow their residents to vote in Jerusalem mayoral elections.

This bill would also create independent municipalities for Israeli-Arabs living within Jerusalem’s municipal boundaries, but outside the security barrier.

Members of Knesset and mayors acclaim this move.
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NEWSMAX

Sen. Tom Cotton told Politico that Cabinet members Rex Tillerson and Gen. Jim Mattis should resign if they can’t execute on the president’s directives that are in conflict with their own positions.

Cotton made the comments talking about the Iran nuclear accord, one that both Tillerson and Mattis have strongly advised the U.S. should stay in, but that President Donald Trump is reportedly going to decertify, Politico reported.

Cotton, R-Arkansas, sides with the president.
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By Mudar Zahran, ISRAEL RISING

While everyone in Israel and the Arab world was shocked with the sudden reconciliation between Hamas and Fatah, we have been aware of this being worked on since February. It was very expected by all insiders. Nonetheless, journalists may sometimes build their analysis on what they see on the outside, and some second hand inside information they get, and therefore may end up with faulty conclusions.

In fact, we have seen some writers concluding that Hamas had “won”. Some went as far as suggesting that Hamas now has a freehand to fight Israel while Abbas gets the blame as Gaza’s ruler. While these concerns may be justified when taking matters by their face value, realities on the ground maybe very different.
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by Rabbi Shraga Simmons, publishes in aish.com

Where are President Trump & the GOP?

By Anne Bayefsky, Breitbart.com.

If President Trump is backtracking on his promise to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, allegedly for the sake of a “peace process,” why is he simultaneously allowing the Palestinians to violate U.S. law and sink peace unilaterally?

American law requires that funding for Palestinians be drastically curtailed if they use the International Criminal Court (ICC) to turn Israelis into war criminals. Though Palestinians have given the ICC a veritable bear hug, hundreds of millions of American dollars are still flowing into Palestinian coffers.
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US president predicts decision ‘in not too distant future,’ but wants to give proposal US is formulating a chance to work first

By TOI STAFF

US President Donald Trump said Saturday he will not consider moving the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem until an Israeli-Palestinian peace plan his administration is working on is given a chance to succeed.

Appearing on a show hosted by former Arkansan Governor Mike Huckabee on the TBN network, Trump said a decision on moving the embassy would be made “in the not too distant future,” but also indicated it would have to wait for the results of a nascent peace proposal being formulated by the US.

“I want to give that a shot before I even think about moving the embassy to Jerusalem,” Trump said.
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By Asaf Romirowsky, BESA

BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 606, October 7, 2017

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: “Occupation” has become an all-purpose Palestinian tool. On the one hand, the Palestinians claim the Israeli “occupation” makes serious negotiations with Israel impossible. On the other, they claim the “occupation” makes the development of local institutions and civil society impossible. Western and Israeli diplomats have largely avoided criticism of this strategy, possibly because it has become a central tenet of Palestinian identity.

A consistent Palestinian strategy for seeking statehood while blaming Israel for its absence has been codified through the narrative of “occupation.” The anniversary of the 1967 war brought this to the forefront in endless accusations regarding the Israeli “occupation” of the West Bank. There is even an assertion that Gaza is still “occupied.”
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T. Belman. I disagree with her praise of the Rabbis. It was in appropriate for the Rabbis to attack the arms sales without knowing what’s behind such sales. Our government has chosen to be silent. I prefer to give the government the benefit of the doubt.

Some 150 countries are currently involved in territorial disputes. Israel isn’t to blame.

BY LIAT COLLINS, JPOST OCTOBER 5, 2017

I don’t want to start a fight, especially when there are so many already going on, but it goes with the territory. There are always two sides (or more) to self-determination efforts and if you back one (or are perceived as favoring one), you’ll inevitably upset the other.

Regular readers will know my family’s peculiar penchant for supporting independence movements largely overlooked by the rest of the world, which remains fixated for some reason on the Palestinian issue.

A few months ago, I expressed my support for the poor people of West Papua, whose plight seems to have consistently been off the radar, despite the horrific reports of persecution at the hands of Indonesian forces. Last week, according to Radio New Zealand, the UN’s decolonization committee refused to accept a petition signed by 1.8 million West Papuans calling for an independence vote, saying West Papua’s cause is outside the committee’s mandate.
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By JNi.Media

The IDF Civil Administration in Judea and Samaria is examining a project of translating from Turkish registration books and documents that are being kept in its possession, and documenting land ownership in the area under military rule, NRG reported Saturday. It will be part of an effort to streamline contemporary land registration procedures, which are naturally based on past documents.

The administration has in its possession handwritten land registration books from the Ottoman, British, Jordanian and Israeli periods. Some of the books are in Ottoman, an old Turkish dialect used by the imperial bureaucracy.
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