By Valarie Greenfield, AMERICAN THINKER

I am not a rabbi, but I know that throughout Jewish history, many holidays begin with “They tried to kill us, but we survived.  Let’s eat.”  As history continues to repeat itself, “they” still want to kill us, and by allowing undocumented immigrants from any country into the U.S., we are inviting danger for dinner.

Recently, almost 2,000 American rabbis wrote a letter to President Trump and congressional officials to “ensure that our refugee program be maintained and strengthened, not halted, paused or restricted.”  Although Jews are known for tikkun olam, repairing the world, this request does not use our Jewish noodle – only our bleeding heart.  If President Trump and Congress admit unidentified immigrants, they will be derelict in their most important duty: to keep America safe.
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T. Belman. Glick is absolutely correct.Surely Trump knows all this. So why did he do it? Did Obama holdovers convince him or is he giving Abbas the rope to hang himself? Trump and Tillerson must now focus on Iran, N Korea, Russia and Syria. His embrace of Abbas and the peace process is just filling space while he attends to his real problems. Secondly, Abbas, will be out of office within 2 years. Why start negotiations with him for real at this time. The fall of Abbas will give rise to the Jordan is Palestine option. In the meantime, Abbas will discredit himself as a peace partner making it possible for Trump to come up with an alternate solution.

David Horovitz has a different take in Trump’s welcome for Abbas is so warm he might have been hosting an Israeli leader. In gracious remarks, US president makes clear he considers PA president to be part of the solution, not part of the problem.. That will be the day. He is so wrong.

Israel is the most immediate casualty of Trump’s decision to embrace Abbas and the PLO, because the PLO is Israel’s enemy.

BY CAROLINE B. GLICK, JPOST

By all accounts, US President Donald Trump is a friend of the Jewish state.

It is due to Trump’s heartfelt support for Israel and the US-Israel alliance that his meeting Wednesday with PLO chief Mahmoud Abbas at the White House is most discouraging.

By meeting with Abbas, and committing himself to working toward achieving a peace deal between Abbas and his PLO and Israel, Trump undermines Israel.
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Ministers Shaked and Levin spearhead new legislation to apply Israeli law in Judea and Samaria.

By ARUTZ SHEVA

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked (Jewish Home) and Tourism Minister Yariv Levin (Likud) are advancing revolutionary new legislation which seeks to apply sovereignty over Judea and Samaria.

At the moment, due to the fact that Israeli law does not apply in Judea and Samaria, the army Head of Central Command, which is the official sovereign entity in Judea and Samaria, applies some of the laws on Jewish residents in Judea and Samaria by means of orders signed by the General.
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Promoting Jordan as the Arab Palestinian state is consistent with international law and would resolve the problem of national self-determination both for Arabs living in Judea and Samaria and for those in Israel.

By Moshe Dann, YNET

The problem with “the two-state solution” —creating a sovereign independent Palestinian state west of the Jordan River—is that a Palestinian state already exists east of the Jordan River; it’s called Jordan. Its population is predominantly “Palestinian” and it is located in the eastern part of what was once called “Palestine.” Demographically and geographically, therefore, Jordan is a Palestinian state.
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By Evelyn Gordon

Speaking at official ceremonies marking Israel’s Independence Day, both President Reuven Rivlin and Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein warned of the dangers of internal rifts in Israeli society. Yet, in fact, the run-up to Independence Day provided eloquent evidence that two of Israel’s deepest internal schisms are slowly healing.

One piece of evidence was a poll published two weeks before Independence Day showing that 74 percent of Israeli Arabs feel “comfortable” in Israel–an astounding figure for members of a minority whose kin have been at war with their country since its inception. Another was the unprecedented effort by Haredim (ultra-Orthodox Jews) to mark Israel’s Memorial Day, which they have traditionally shunned.
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By Martin Sherman

The Humanitarian Paradigm, advocating funded emigration of Palestinian-Arabs  appears the most plausible method for achieving the goals of the Israel Victory Caucus

The major issue is not [attaining] an agreement, but ensuring the actual implementation of the agreement in practice.  The number of agreements which the Arabs have violated is no less than number which they have kept – Shimon Peres, Tomorrow is Now (Hebrew),  1978

Even if the Palestinians agree that their state have no army or weapons, who can guarantee that a Palestinian army would not be mustered later to encamp at the gates of Jerusalem and the approaches to the lowlands? And if the Palestinian state would be unarmed, how would it block terrorist acts perpetrated by extremists, fundamentalists or irredentists? – Shimon Peres, The New Middle East, 1993
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by Ben Cohen, ALGEMEINER

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas during a past UN General Assembly address. Photo: Screenshot.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas offered a strong signal on Wednesday that he would abandon the strategy he pursued in recent years seeking unilateral statehood recognition at international fora in place of peace talks with Israel.

At a joint White House press appearance with US President Donald Trump, Abbas — speaking through a translator — indicated that he would no longer favor unilateralism over negotiations.
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New legislation, which would have special status as a basic law, designed to ensure Israel is officially “a nation-state of the Jewish people” • MK Avi Dichter says such law is essential because Israel’s enemies are trying to deny its Jewish character.

By Gideon Allon, ISRAEL HAYOM

The Ministerial Committee for Legislation is expected to discuss Sunday a new bill that would define Israel as a Jewish state. The bill, “Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People,” was introduced by Likud MK Avi Dichter, who is the head of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. It has already garnered support from 11 MKs in the coalition.

According to the bill, the goal of the new measure is to “preserve Israel’s status as the nation-state of the Jewish people by having its values as a Jewish and democratic state become an integral part of its basic laws.”

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DEBKA

Israel was seriously dismayed Wednesday, May 3, when first reports reached Jerusalem about the telephone conversation between Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin Tuesday, during which Trump agreed to consider Putin’s plan for “de-escalation zones” in Syria, in place of the American security zones proposal. The Russian president’s plan includes the posting of Iranian military officers as co-monitors for those zones, one of which is to be located on the Syrian-Israeli border.

President Trump described the conversation as “Very good.”

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THIS GIRL’S GOT BALLS!!

The Authorities Aren’t Dealing With It

By Z. Harel*, MEMRI

The rising number of terror incidents carried out by ISIS-affiliated Jordanian nationals, along with the high numbers of young Jordanians joining Salafi-jihadi organizations that are fighting in Syria and Iraq,[1] have caused great concern in Jordan.

Jordan has recently become a target of many terror attacks. The latest attack took place on December 18, 2016, when a cell of four Jordanian nationals struck a number of targets in the city of Karak; the gunmen fired at a patrol and a security facility in the city, holed up in the 10th-century Karak Crusader castle, and waged an hours-long firefight with Jordanian security forces until they were killed. During the firefight, four security personnel were killed, along with two civilians and a Canadian tourist.[2]A search of the terror cell members’ rented apartment in the town of Al-Qatraneh turned up five explosive belts ready for use, and other explosives. The Islamic State (ISIS) claimed responsibility for the attack.^[3] The investigation showed that three of the cell members had served prison time for attempting to join the Islamic State (ISIS).[4]
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T. Belman.  Study this carefully. Jabotinsky says it is natural for the Arabs to resist Zionism. As a result Zionism shouldn’t expect to negotiate the establishment of a state. Instead he argues that Zionism be impregnable. So much so that the Arabs believe that they have no choice but to acquiesce. We must present an iron wall to convince them that hope of destroying us is a fool’s errand.

This is the opposite of what Israel has been doing. Instead it is the Arabs who have built an iron wall in their rejection of Israel or compromise.

Once we internalize this we will understand that there is no diplomatic solution and that Israel must act unilaterally.

by Vladimir Ze’ev Jabotisnky (November 4, 1923)

It is an excellent rule to begin an article with the most important point,  but this time, I find it necessary to begin with an introduction , and, moreover , with a personal introduction.

I am reputed to be an enemy of the Arabs, who wants to have them ejected from Palestine, and so forth. It is not true.

Emotionally, my attitude to the Arabs is the same as to all other nations – polite indifference. Politically, my attitude is determined by two principles.  First of all, I consider it utterly impossible to eject the Arabs from Palestine. There will always be two nations in Palestine – which is good enough for me, provided the Jews become the majority. And secondly, I belong to the group that once drew up the Helsingfors Programme , the programme of national rights for all nationalities living in the same State.  In drawing up that programme, we had in mind not only the Jews, but all nations everywhere, and its basis is equality of rights.

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T. Belman. This article holds that Abbas and the Arab countries really want true peace with Israel based on the API. The truth is otherwise. If they want peace with Israel, why not compromise your demands just as Israel is being asked to do. The Arabs want to weaken Israel though they need Israel to defend them.

Mahmoud Abbas to meet U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington Wednesday • Abbas expected to argue that Israeli economic gestures are no alternative to talks on two-state solution • U.S. official warns: The president is not super patient.

Associated Press and Israel Hayom Staff

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the Arab League summit in Jordan, in March | Photo credit: AP

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ relief at being invited to the White House is now clouded by concerns he might have to say no to U.S. President Donald Trump in their first meeting Wednesday.

Palestinians fear Trump will ask Abbas to halt stipends for families of Palestinians killed or jailed in the context of the conflict with Israel, and a senior U.S. official said Tuesday that such a request was raised in preparatory talks with Palestinian officials. Israel considers such payments a reward for terrorists, but stopping them seems untenable to Abbas, especially at a time of broad Palestinian support for a mass hunger strike of prisoners held by Israel.
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Both presidents advanced ideas for security zones to de-escalate the violence in Syria and deemed their cooperation “critical.” But both needed to consult their allies first.

DEBKA

One of the most consequential exchanges on the disposition of Syria’s border lands with Israel and Jordan – and the future of the Syrian conflict at large – took place between Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in a phone call on Tuesday, May 2. The call took place when German Chancellor Angela Merkel was visiting Putin at his Black Sea residence in Sochi.

DEBKAfile’s military and intelligence sources reveal that the two presidents focused strongly on an effort to agree on how de-escalate the Syrian conflict now in its sixth year and bring it to an end. The Russian leader proposed drawing armistice lines between the warring sides under the guarantee of a special Russian military mechanism. The Americans have not released any ideas, but they are believed to be contemplating establishing safety zones barred to the Syrian air force. One of those zones would be marked out in the south on Syria’s borders with Israel and Jordan.
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UN culture organization votes to adopt resolution denying Israeli rights to capital, Jerusalem.

By Gary Willig, INN

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Steering Committee voted Tuesday afternoon to adopt a resolution denying Israel’s rights to its own capital, Jerusalem.

The vote took place on Israel’s Independence Day. 22 nations voted in favor of the resolution, compared to 10 which voted against it. 23 nations abstained.
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It is not a coincidence that the German Foreign Minister, Sigmar Gabriel, met with the NGO Breaking the Silence (Shovrim Shtika, in Hebrew). The German government, in fact, finances it.

By Giullio Meotti, INN

One of the worst diplomatic crises between Israel and Germany is brewing around an Israeli NGO. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu refused to meet German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel on his visit to Israel after the German vice-Chancellor decided to meet the Israeli NGOs B’Tselem and Breaking the Silence.

In the newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), one of the most influential in Germany, journalist Majid Sattar wrote: “Representatives of the German government during their visits to Russia, China, but also to Saudi Arabia, always attach great importance to meetings with representatives of civil society”. So according to FAZ, Israel is on the same level as those autocratic and totalitarian regimes whose governments repress their own population. In 2012, during an election campaign, Gabriel himself said of Israel: “This is an apartheid regime”.
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By David P. Goldman

Jews are sadly accustomed to becoming collateral damage in disputes in other peoples’ civil wars. Dr. Sebastian Gorka, a senior White House official, is one of the few gentile victims of a Jewish civil war. Dr. Gorka, long a Fox News commentator on counter-terrorism, will speak at the Jerusalem Post’s annual New York conference in May and at this year’s Zionist Organization of America Gala. But a left-leaning Jewish website, the Forward, has published 39 articles alleging that Gorka has neo-Nazi ties in Hungary, the country of his parents’ birth where he was active in politics during the 2000s.
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