T. Belman. It may be that the three terrorists on the Temple Mount were taking instructions from the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan. Also, there is talk about the MB behing the attack on the Israeli diplomat. If it is the MB behind this then rest assured King Abdullah is behind them.

I hear also that King Abdullah wanted to keep the pot boiling on the Temple Mount and to have an intifadah rage for a few years. Kushhner wanted the situation to calm down and he ordered in blunt language both Abdullah and Abbas to cease and desist or there would be consequences.

Intervention by Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser was part of US efforts to defuse crisis between Jerusalem and Amman

BY ALEXANDER FULBRIGHT, TOI

US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner reportedly called Jordan’s King Abdullah II on Sunday in a bid to help end the diplomatic standoff between Amman and Jerusalem over the fatal shooting at Israel’s embassy in the country.

After an incident where an Israeli security guard was stabbed and wounded and then shot and killed the Jordanian attacker and a bystander, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tried and failed to get hold of the Jordanian King.

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The Adelson-owned daily, long known for boosting the PM, castigates him for ‘surrendering’ in Temple Mount metal detector standoff

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JULY 25

Source: State Dept. ignoring White House edicts, going rogue on key issues

By Adam Kredo, FREE BEACON

The State Department under Secretary Rex Tillerson has been locked in a growing power struggle with the White House that has angered officials in the West Wing and sparked claims that the Trump administration’s top diplomatic organ is now in “open war” with the White House on a range of critical issues, including the Israeli-Palestinian impasse, Iran, the crisis with Qatar, and other matters, according to multiple sources who spoke to the Washington Free Beacon about the situation.

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The security services will do anything to prevent another intifada—including prop up Mahmoud Abbas.

By Daniel Pipes, WSJ

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah, July 21. Photo: abbas momani/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah Party announced Saturday that the “campaign for Jerusalem has effectively begun, and will not stop until a Palestinian victory and the release of the holy sites from Israeli occupation.” Fatah demanded the removal of metal detectors and other security devices from the entrance to the Aqsa Mosque on the Temple Mount. A week earlier two Israeli policemen were killed by terrorists who had stashed their weapons inside the mosque.

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By Thomas Erdbrink, NYT

Mr. Lin visiting the Khavaran Alyaf Parsian polyester factory. He established his factories along what will be a key part of the “One Belt, One Road” trade route. CreditArash Khamooshi for The New York Times

NEYSHABUR, Iran — When Zuao Ru Lin, a Beijing entrepreneur, first heard about business opportunities in eastern Iran, he was skeptical. But then he bought a map and began to envision the region without any borders, as one enormous market.

“Many countries are close by, even Europe,” Mr. Lin, 49, said while driving his white BMW over the highway connecting Tehran to the eastern Iranian city of Mashhad recently. “Iran is at the center of everything.”

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Israeli sovereignty over the Old City has been further diminished.

By Jonathan S Tobin, ISRAEL HAYOM

There is no way to see the outcome of the standoff over metal detectors at the Temple Mount as a triumph for Israel’s government. After first refusing to remove them despite threats of Palestinian demonstrations and violence, and then seeing the beginning of what might be a new “stabbing intifada,” the reversal in response to what amounts to blackmail from Jordan will not help Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s popularity, although it may help him in Washington.

No matter how it tries to spin the measures that will replace the detectors as providing the same or better security, it still looks as though the Israeli government surrendered to violent threats. The same Palestinian Authority that fomented this controversy and that should be held responsible for the bloodshed — the original terror attack at the Temple Mount that killed two policemen and the subsequent slaughter in Halamish as well as the attack on the Israeli Embassy in Amman — will claim victory.

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Source says public slights intentionally designed to lead attorney general, chief of staff to the exit doors

by Jim Stinson, LIFEZETTE

Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Reince Priebus, chief of staff, are not expected to last much longer in President Donald Trump’s Cabinet, one of the president’s longtime confidantes told LifeZette Monday.

The reason? Trump is deeply unhappy about the administration always being on defense, and he believes Sessions and Priebus have contributed to that situation. Trump believes it’s time for “fresh” faces — people who will fight.

Democrats have suggested for months that the Trump campaign or Trump associates might have helped Russia coordinate the release of the hacked information to WikiLeaks. There is no proof of that yet, and as liberal defense attorney Alan Dershowitz has pointed out, there is arguably nothing illegal about that scenario — even if there were truth to it.

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Barack Obama holdovers are driving the State Department’s Iran policy.

By Matthew R J Broderick, JPOST

For the second time during Donald Trump’s brief tenure as president, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and the State Department won in the inter-administration battle over the fate of the nuclear deal with Iran, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). That victory, however, may end up being short lived given the trajectory of the administration’s overall developing policy toward the regime in Tehran and the process by which the reoccurring 90-day certification of Iran took place in April and again on July 17.

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Don’t send a pussy to a knife fight

By Evan Sayet

My Leftist friends (as well as many ardent #NeverTrumpers) constantly ask me if I’m not bothered by Donald Trump’s lack of decorum. They ask if I don’t think his tweets are “beneath the dignity of the office.”

Here’s my answer:

We Right-thinking people have tried dignity. There could not have been a man of more quiet dignity than George W. Bush as he suffered the outrageous lies and politically motivated hatreds that undermined his presidency. We tried statesmanship. Could there be another human being on this earth who so desperately prized “collegiality” as John McCain? We tried propriety – has there been a nicer human being ever than Mitt Romney? And the results were always the same.

This is because, while we were playing by the rules of dignity, collegiality and propriety, the Left has been, for the past 60 years, engaged in a knife fight where the only rules are those of Saul Alinsky and the Chicago mob.

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JERUSALEM — In an extensive radio interview, Breitbart’s Jerusalem bureau chief and senior reporter Aaron Klein confronted an Islamic leader here about his false claim that Israel is attempting to limit Muslim worship at the holy site.

During the interview, Waleed Taha, the deputy chairman of the Islamic Movement, labeled the Western Wall an “occupied area” and rejected archaeological evidence and the historical record tying Jews to the site. Klein challenged Taha on those allegations, as well as the Temple Mount’s Islamic custodians’ attempts to dispose of Jewish artifacts from the site.

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Kimberly Winkler suffers strong headaches during 10-day trip, is found to have life-threatening aneurysm • Delicate operation precedes weeks in hospital • She regains motor and communication skills • Grateful father says he cannot thank hospital enough.

Kimberly Winkler, a University of Minnesota student from the Dominican Republic, owes her life to the staff at the Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem.

Winkler came to Israel as a participant in the Taglit-Birthright Israel program, but almost died of a brain aneurysm during what was supposed to be a 10-day trip. Towards the end of her trip, she began suffering from severe headaches, and felt so unwell she had to miss the Friday night Shabbat meal.

“I stayed in the hotel with my friend Hunter, hoping that I would get better, but my situation only worsened,” she said. Hunter called her father, Dr. Grant Winkler, who happens to be an eye doctor. He told Hunter to “get some help.” At the same time, Winkler began having convulsions, and an ambulance was called and transferred her to the hospital.

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Trump just appointed her Press Secretary.

By Dr. Joseph Frager, INN

When I asked Governor Mike Huckabee what the name “Huckabee” meant he told me it meant “up the hill”. At the time I thought it was a sign that he might become President some day.

I was wrong, but not completely so because his daughter became one of the most powerful people in the world this past week. She is indeed not only “up the hill” but on top of the hill. It is not unexpected. In 2010 Time Magazine voted her as one of the 40 under 40 top personalities in the world. That year she had helped run Senator John Boozman’s successful Campaign.

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by Dr. Eric Mandel, JPOST

It has become painfully clear that former US president Obama’s desire to make the Islamic Republic of Iran a “very successful regional power” has come to fruition. Iran is on the verge of creating its longsought Shi’ite Islamist land corridor from Tehran to the Mediterranean.

Unfortunately, Obama’s goal to develop “an equilibrium…between Sunni states and Iran in which there’s competition… but not an active or proxy warfare” has utterly failed. Just look at Syria, Iraq and Yemen.

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