By David M. Weinberg, JPOST  June 1, 2017

The fireworks and fanfare of the Jerusalem liberation jubilee have shoved under the radar a blockbuster expose about the unruly situation in eastern Jerusalem. Alarm bells should be ringing about the nefarious, intensifying involvement of Erdogan’s Turkey and radical Islamist groups in eastern Jerusalem political and social affairs.

Dr. David Koren and Ben Avrahami are the advisers on eastern Jerusalem affairs for the Municipality of Jerusalem. They lead the team that oversees all of City Hall’s interactions with the city’s Muslim and Christian populations. They are intimately familiar with the thicket of contradictory interests, tensions, and disagreements that inform daily life in earthly Jerusalem.
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The fireworks and fanfare of the Jerusalem liberation jubilee have shoved under the radar a blockbuster expose about the unruly situation in eastern Jerusalem. Alarm bells should be ringing about the nefarious, intensifying involvement of Erdogan’s Turkey and radical Islamist groups in eastern Jerusalem political and social affairs.

Dr. David Koren and Ben Avrahami are the advisers on eastern Jerusalem affairs for the Municipality of Jerusalem. They lead the team that oversees all of City Hall’s interactions with the city’s Muslim and Christian populations. They are intimately familiar with the thicket of contradictory interests, tensions, and disagreements that inform daily life in earthly Jerusalem.
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Mar ’09

The uncompromising verdict of Dr Mörner is that all this talk about the sea rising is nothing but a colossal scare story, writes Christopher Booker.

T. Belman. Actually the PA and Jordan want the status quo but Saudi Arabia wants to free themselves of the Palestinian problem. To that end they are prepared to normalize in stages without waiting for such a state. They want to outlaw the MB but Jordan doesn’t. So a big shake-up is coming.

I think that is why Trump didn’t want to move the embassy this time around. He wants to solidify the S Arabian change first.

Even more than it endangers Israel, a Palestinian Arab state threatens Saudi Arabia and Jordan – and they know it.

By Mark Langfan, INN

Introducing President Trump to the assembled 50 Muslim/Sunni Presidents on May 21, 2017, King Salman of Saudi Arabia spent 8 pages of text excoriating the “Iranian Regime and its affiliated organizations such as Hezbollah and the Houtis, as well as ISIS (Daesh) and Al-Qaeda” for “attempts to exploit Islam as a cover for political purposes that fuel hatred, extremism, terrorism, and religious and sectarian conflicts.”

The Saudis have realized that the Iranian knife is at the Saudi and Sunni jugular vein. The Saudis need all the military help they can get and have finally come to understand how militarily vital Israel’s existence is to the safety of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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T. Belman. Actually the PA and Jordan want the status quo but Saudi Arabia wants to free themselves of the Palestinian problem. To that end they are prepared to normalize in stages without waiting for such a state. They want to outlaw the MB but Jordan doesn’t. So a big shake-up is coming.

I think that is why Trump didn’t want to move the embassy this time around. He wants to solidify the S Arabian change first.

Even more than it endangers Israel, a Palestinian Arab state threatens Saudi Arabia and Jordan – and they know it. Opinion.

By Mark Langfan, INN

Introducing President Trump to the assembled 50 Muslim/Sunni Presidents on May 21, 2017, King Salman of Saudi Arabia spent 8 pages of text excoriating the “Iranian Regime and its affiliated organizations such as Hezbollah and the Houtis, as well as ISIS (Daesh) and Al-Qaeda” for “attempts to exploit Islam as a cover for political purposes that fuel hatred, extremism, terrorism, and religious and sectarian conflicts.”

The Saudis have realized that the Iranian knife is at the Saudi and Sunni jugular vein. The Saudis need all the military help they can get and have finally come to understand how militarily vital Israel’s existence is to the safety of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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New survey shows both Jews and Arabs strongly oppose dividing Jerusalem, prefer unified Jerusalem over final status agreement with the PA.

Israelis strongly oppose the idea of partitioning the Old City of Jerusalem, even if the division would be an essential part of a potential future peace deal with the Palestinian Authority, a new poll shows.

According to a survey by the Maagar Mohot agency conducted on behalf of Israel Hayom, the overwhelming majority of Israelis oppose any Palestinian Authority control in historic area.

The partition of Jerusalem, including the surrender of parts of the Old City of Jerusalem – first and foremost the Temple Mount – to a new Palestinian state, has been a key demand of the Palestinian Authority for more than two decades.
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New survey shows both Jews and Arabs strongly oppose dividing Jerusalem, prefer unified Jerusalem over final status agreement with the PA.

By David Rosenberg, INN

Israelis strongly oppose the idea of partitioning the Old City of Jerusalem, even if the division would be an essential part of a potential future peace deal with the Palestinian Authority, a new poll shows.

According to a survey by the Maagar Mohot agency conducted on behalf of Israel Hayom, the overwhelming majority of Israelis oppose any Palestinian Authority control in historic area.
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Dispelling doubts as to the feasibility (and morality) of largescale, financially incentivized emigration as the only non-kinetic approach to resolve the Israel-Palestinian impasse.

Consideration should be given even to the heroic remedy of transfer of populations…the hardship of moving is great, but it is less than the constant suffering of minorities and the constant recurrence of war

President Herbert Hoover, The “Great Humanitarian”, in “The Problems of Lasting Peace”.

With all the money that has been invested in the problem of the Palestinians, it would have been possible long ago to resettle them and provide them with good lives in Arab countries.  Andrei Sakharov, cited in “The New Republic”, June 22, 2009.
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By MARTIN SHERMAN

Dispelling doubts as to the feasibility (and morality) of largescale, financially incentivized emigration as the only non-kinetic approach to resolve the Israel-Palestinian impasse.

Consideration should be given even to the heroic remedy of transfer of populations…the hardship of moving is great, but it is less than the constant suffering of minorities and the constant recurrence of war

President Herbert Hoover, The “Great Humanitarian”, in “The Problems of Lasting Peace”.

With all the money that has been invested in the problem of the Palestinians, it would have been possible long ago to resettle them and provide them with good lives in Arab countries.  Andrei Sakharov, cited in “The New Republic”, June 22, 2009.
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Multiculturalism is definitely not working.

By Giulio Meotti, ARUTZ SHEVA

It had been announced as a multicultural experiment prior to the actual arrival of hundreds of thousands of immigrants whom everyone in Germany expected would be speedily integrated into German society and its glorious universities. The University of Dortmund had opened an interfaith prayer hall with special rules. It had been named “raum der stille”, the room of silence, a prototype which was opened in many universities in Germany during the last two years.

Just twenty square meters, the walls painted green, a red carpet, two sofas, two chairs, a bookcase from Ikea. Minimalism of the “same God”. A strictly “neutral” space. You can find it in the University of Berlin as well as in Bremen. Students of all faiths, Christians, Jews, Buddhists and Muslims, could have found a gathering space there. But it did not fare very well.
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Multiculturalism is definitely not working.

It had been announced as a multicultural experiment prior to the actual arrival of hundreds of thousands of immigrants whom everyone in Germany expected would be speedily integrated into German society and its glorious universities. The University of Dortmund had opened an interfaith prayer hall with special rules. It had been named “raum der stille”, the room of silence, a prototype which was opened in many universities in Germany during the last two years.

Just twenty square meters, the walls painted green, a red carpet, two sofas, two chairs, a bookcase from Ikea. Minimalism of the “same God”. A strictly “neutral” space. You can find it in the University of Berlin as well as in Bremen. Students of all faiths, Christians, Jews, Buddhists and Muslims, could have found a gathering space there. But it did not fare very well.
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By Prof Efraim, Inbar, BESA

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Despite mounting international pressure, Israel must follow up on its recent declaration to build in and around Jerusalem, particularly in Area E1, which connects the capital to the settlement of Maaleh Adumim. Creating continuous Jewish settlement in that area is necessary to enable Israel to have secure access to the strategic Jordan Valley.

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu must ignore the Pavlovian response of the international community against building in Jerusalem, particularly in Area E1. The fate of the Jewish State depends largely upon the government’s ability to take immediate action and to populate the area that links Jerusalem to Maaleh Adumim with thousands of Jews.
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BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 483, June 1, 2017

By Prof. Hillel Frisch, BESA

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The two recent US air strikes on a Syrian convoy heading to the al-Tanf military base in the southern Syrian Desert a few miles from the Jordanian-Syrian border have major strategic importance. The attack signaled for the first time since the Syrian civil war broke out in 2011 that the US would not countenance the reemergence of the Iranian-controlled Shiite crescent that Iran had created through Teheran, Baghdad, Damascus, and Beirut after the US exited Iraq in 2010.
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BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 483, June 1, 2017

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The two recent US air strikes on a Syrian convoy heading to the al-Tanf military base in the southern Syrian Desert a few miles from the Jordanian-Syrian border have major strategic importance. The attack signaled for the first time since the Syrian civil war broke out in 2011 that the US would not countenance the reemergence of the Iranian-controlled Shiite crescent that Iran had created through Teheran, Baghdad, Damascus, and Beirut after the US exited Iraq in 2010.
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ARUTZ SHEVA

“Donald Trump made a mistake when he objected to my appointment as Deputy Secretary of State. He should have looked at who could help the Trump administration and not looked back at his campaign,” said Elliot Abrams in a Walla News interview. Abrams, who was Secretary of State Tillerson’s choice for his deputy, was rejected by President Trump. A known Israel supporter, Abrams served in senior posts in the Reagan and Bush administrations and said that Israel had also expressed disappointment that he was not appointed.
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ARUTZ SHEVA

“Donald Trump made a mistake when he objected to my appointment as Deputy Secretary of State. He should have looked at who could help the Trump administration and not looked back at his campaign,” said Elliot Abrams in a Walla News interview. Abrams, who was Secretary of State Tillerson’s choice for his deputy, was rejected by President Trump. A known Israel supporter, Abrams served in senior posts in the Reagan and Bush administrations and said that Israel had also expressed disappointment that he was not appointed.
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Hadi al-Amiri, commander of the strongest Iraqi Shiite militia, the Badr Brigades, said Wednesday, May 31, that his forces are preparing to enter Syria. The advanced capabilities of this powerful Iranian-led militia, would tilt the Syrian war strongly in Iran’s favor, with alarming ramifications for the US, Israel and Jordan.

Al-Amri, in making this announcement, cited Iran’s new slogan: “Iraq’s security will be maintained only if Syria’s security is preserved.” In other words, the Syrian conflict would end only when pro-Iranian Shiite militias, including Hizballah, control Syria like they control Iraq.
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