China now has the world’s fastest supercomputer, faster than anything we’ve got by a factor of five. Forget the South China Sea. That’s rope-a-dope, and we’re the dope that’s getting roped. We lost that one. We’re about to lose the next round, too.
China has built the computer with chips that it designed and manufactured in China, after the United States banned Intel from selling its fastest chips to China.
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“The Land of Israel is the indigenous homeland of the Jewish people by right and by law,” says the language proposed by the Iron Dome Alliance.
A Jewish Political Action Committee is seeking to get the Republican Party platform to recognize the West Bank as an “indigenous” part of the Jewish homeland.
“The Land of Israel is the indigenous homeland of the Jewish people by right and by law and we oppose any measures to force, coerce or otherwise impose a security ‘solution’ or artificial borders on the Jewish state,” says the language proposed by Iron Dome Alliance. “We recognize an undivided Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and Judea and Samaria as integral parts of the indigenous Jewish homeland.”
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This is a factual must read which imparts a clear grasp of the legal rights of the Jews to a renewed Jewish state – and where it was to be.
By Wallace Edward Brand, JD, INN, (The writer is an alumnus of Harvard and UCLA.)
Forward: Danny Danon’s new job may possibly present an opportunity to correct the bogus opinion of WT Mallison, a close friend of Henry Cattan who had been a member of the Arab Higher Committee and had represented the Arabs at the UNSCOP hearings in the late 40s. Mallison wrote an approving foreword when Cattan wrote a book containing his version of the problems causing an Arab-Jewish conflict in Palestine and the effect of the Partition Resolution, and followed with his own book virtually copying the views of Cattan. Prior to that book he had not been author of any book or article except for one on Naval Warfare in which he was second author.
Mallison was hired by a subdivision of the UN now entitled The Division of Palestinian rights. He wrote an opinion claiming that Jewish Settlements outside the Green Line were illegal under international law. This was sponsored, published, and widely distributed by what is now called the the UN Division of Palestinian Rights. This was based on the proposition that Jewish sovereignty was based solely on the UN General Assembly Partition Resolution even though the UN General Assembly has no authority to bind the parties.
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JCPA held a conference on this topic last May which I attended. Here are a number of videos taken at it.
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By Ted Belman
JPOST has published an op-ed under the heading of “Hot Opinions” by Michael Cohen titled A qualitative difference for the Democratic platform on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. I wasn’t going to republish it until this excerpt caught my attention,
“A critical area where the committee has an opportunity to make a difference is the role of the next administration in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Whoever is president will focus on the core issues: borders, security, refugees and Jerusalem.
“There is not much left to negotiate with these issues; most have been discussed in the formal negotiations, the Geneva Accords, the Pittsburgh Process, et cetera. In many ways, preventing an agreement from being reached are the issues under the table, because they are the heart of the conflict.
Tony Lee: Trump needed to give this speech in front of a packed crowd in a city that has been devastated by bad trade deals. Second, Trump took a step forward but needs to keep improving as a candidate. Today, he often sounded like a Congressman at a hearing reading something that was written for him by career staffers. It didn’t feel like he viscerally owned the speech and its themes, which is something he needs to get down before the general public starts paying attention to the general election in a month. Third, Trump’s speeches never have a thread that binds everything together. Trump needs to show some vulnerability and talk about how he was underestimated and dismissed when he tried to get into New York’s real estate market from Brooklyn. He needs to then talk about some of his setbacks and then argue that America/Americans can roar back like he did.
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The heads of four factions that together comprise nearly half the European Parliament have warned that passage of a controversial bill requiring Israeli nongovernmental organizations to report foreign funding sources could hurt Israel’s relations with the European Union.
The so-called “transparency bill” mainly affects human-rights organizations. It was introduced by Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, with the support of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
In a letter to President Reuven Rivlin, who is scheduled to fly to Europe Sunday and to address the parliament in Strasbourg on Wednesday, the four faction leaders said that the bill encourages attacks against human-rights activists.
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DEBATING AT ITS FINEST
The EU is a Dictatorship that Britain Should Leave
By Anthony Bright-Paul, AMERICAN THINKER
There can be no ifs and buts about it – the EU is a Dictatorship. How come? How dare I say such a thing? Answer: When the Commission headed by Herr Juncker issues a Regulation it has the force of law for all 28 member States immediately. Let me repeat that one word – immediately.
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The Council on American Islamic Relations is now charged with fraud and cover up perpetrated against hundreds of victims.
The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) will stand trial on charges of fraud and cover up for alleged crimes perpetrated against hundreds of victims, according to a new ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
The case against CAIR National was originally dismissed by a federal judge but unanimously overturned by the appellate court. Two cases are involved in the suit, which the appellate court consolidated into one, since both cases involve racketeering, a federal RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) crime.
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Israel’s new fighter jet, known as “Adir” (“Mighty”) in Hebrew, will be unveiled Wednesday at Lockheed Martin plant in Texas • Despite “typical growing pains,” the plane “will be able to perform everything expected of it and more,” officials say.
All F-35s acquired by Israel will be fitted with Israeli-made technology | Photo credit: Yissachar Ruas
The Israel Air Force’s fighter jet of the future, the F-35, named “Adir” (“Mighty”) in Hebrew, will be unveiled Wednesday in a festive roll out ceremony to be held at the Lockheed Martin plant in Fort Worth, Texas. The aircraft is expected to arrive in Israel by the end of the year.
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Foreign Ministry: Peace with the Palestinians will be achieved only through two-way, direct negotiations.
The Foreign Ministers of the 28-member EU threw their support Monday behind the convening of an international peace conference at the end of the year, triggering an irritated response from Israel.
“The EU is determined, alongside other international and regional partners, to bring a concrete and substantial contribution to a global set of incentives for the parties to make peace with a view to an international conference planned to be held before the end of the year,” read a statement issued at the end of the meeting held in Luxembourg which – among other issues – discussed the so-called French diplomatic initiative.
The Foreign Ministry, which has come out strongly against the French initiative, issued a statement saying that “peace with the Palestinians will be achieved only through two-way, direct negotiations without preconditions.”
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T. Belman. Bennett wants Israel to declare her legal rights to the land, take the TSS off the table and no longer participate in negotiations based on it and finally wants to have a dramatic increase on our Hasbara budgets to about $300 million. I totally agree.
By Shai Landesman, ARUTZ SHEVA
Israel needs to stand up for its rights more forcefully in the international arena, according to Education Minister Naftali Bennett, who said that continued talk of a “two-state solution” actually harmed Israel’s standing abroad.
The Jewish Home party leader spoke today (Tuesday) at a conference entitled “Towards A New Law of War”, held in Jerusalem by “Shurat Hadin”, a human rights organization dedicated to taking legal action against terrorist groups and those who fund them, and called for the establishment of an official government body for combating delegitimization.
“We can’t win the battle if we don’t fight it. This is a struggle for our survival and we don’t allocate enough resources to it like we do for planes, tanks and guns,” Bennett said.
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The standard narrative about Israel these days goes like this: The current government is the most right-wing ever, the public is increasingly racist and anti-democratic, and the prime minister is either a right-wing zealot or a coward afraid to challenge his right-wing base. But the most remarkable part of this narrative is how durable it has proven despite all evidence to the contrary.
The latest such evidence comes from today’s Jerusalem Post report about a massive drop in construction in the settlements. According to the Central Bureau of Statistics, housing starts in the settlements plummeted by 53 percent in the first quarter, compared to an 8.1 percent decline in housing starts nationwide. Needless to say, one would expect settlement construction to soar under Israel’s “most right-wing government ever” and a prime minister captive to his right-wing base. Yet in fact, as I’ve written before, the “right-wing” Benjamin Netanyahu has consistently built less in the settlements than any of his left-wing predecessors–a fact that never seems to disturb proponents of the “far-right extremist” narrative.
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Turkey and Israel to upgrade diplomatic relations, six years after Mavi Marmara incident.
Turkey and Israel will this weekend announce a deal on normalizing ties, ending a six-year diplomatic crisis sparked by a deadly Israeli raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla in which 10 Turkish nationals died, a report said Tuesday.
The Hurriyet daily said the two sides would make the announcement during final talks on June 26 after intensive diplomacy resulted in a compromise agreement on the partial lifting of Israel’s blockade on the Gaza Strip.
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Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz says Israel is exploring gas supply deals with Egypt and Jordan, as well as Cyprus-Greece-Europe distribution routes • Normalizing ties with Turkey is seen as a linchpin to unlocking Israel’s natural gas wealth.
Reuters and Israel Hayom Staff
An Israeli gas platform is seen in the Mediterranean sea
On the sidelines of a nuclear security summit in Washington in March, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan held a private meeting with Israel’s Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz. It was the highest level contact between Israel and Turkey since diplomatic relations broke down in 2010 after Israeli forces intercepted a Turkish ship bound for the Gaza Strip.
The meeting, which lasted nearly 30 minutes and whose details have not been previously disclosed, discussed the war in Syria, Iran’s presence there, terrorism and natural gas. That last item is a key driver of efforts to forge a rapprochement between Israel and Turkey. At stake are reserves of natural gas worth hundreds of billions of dollars under Israeli and Cypriot waters. To exploit them, Israel will likely require Turkey’s cooperation.
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T. Belman. I attended the Shurat Hadin Conference, on Toward a New Law of War, yesterday and thought this speech was important. I haven’t heard an Israeli politician come out so strongly for the winding up of UNRWA. I also attended the conference today which was excellent. I intend to post the videos of the panels and speeches as they become available.
The United Nations has lost it
By Yair Lapid, TOI
The following is an edited version of a speech delivered by Yair Lapid to the Israel Law Center conference in Jerusalem.
The United Nations has lost it. When it comes to Israel the UN has lost credibility, lost common sense, and more than anything lost its most important asset – its integrity.
At the end of March, I stood in Geneva, with hundreds of protesters, wrapped in Israeli flags. We stood beneath the Broken Chair Monument which stands opposite the United Nations Human Rights Council. Inside, in the elegant hall, there was a debate, another debate, about Israel.
The UN Human Rights Council’s treatment of Israel strayed from the boundaries of legitimate criticism long ago. In the past decade the council has voted for 61 resolutions condemning human rights abuses across the world and 67 resolutions which condemned Israel.
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To the dismay of the Left, the public won’t go along for another ride with them, no matter how much hysteria they promote.
Over the past few days, two incidents occurred which together, tell us the story of the Israeli Left.
Monday night, Channel 10 revealed that the Labor Party has no regard for Israel’s national interests.
Channel 10 disclosed that ahead of the 2015 Knesset elections, Labor – and now Zionist Union – leader MK Yitzhak Herzog engaged in private negotiations with PLO chief and Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas. During the course of their meetings, Herzog signed a letter, which he sent to Abbas.
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Sunni refugees
In the last few days, the Western press has been full of harrowing reports on the death and destruction wrought by the Islamic State in Fallujah, western Iraq. But no media outlet is covering the still ongoing human disaster in which tens of thousands of the city’s Sunni residents are fleeing for their lives, including many elderly people, women and children. Some are escaping the intense fighting or because their homes were destroyed. But many Sunnis are fleeing in dread of their ‘liberators,” the pro-Iranian Iraqi Shiite militias that captured the eastern and central parts of Fallujah.
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By Sierri Rayne. AMERICAN THINKER
After an onslaught of highly liberal biased polls against Donald Trump during the past week, it was refreshing to see an only modestly biased poll – in relative terms – released on Saturday by Gravis.
In its biased form, the poll shows Trump only 2% behind Hillary Clinton in the head-to-head matchup, far below the ridiculously large Clinton leads of up to 12% that Bloomberg and other leftist media outlets have been oozing of late.
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Yesh Atid leader accuses international body of becoming a “collaborator of Islamic fundamentalism.” I don’t recall an Israeli leader lambasting UNRWA, and those who finance it, so effectively
Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid on Monday accused the United Nations of becoming a “collaborator of Islamic fundamentalism,” saying that the body facilitated aid that reaches “agents of terrorist organizations like Hamas and Hezbollah.”
“Instead of being an organization the defends world-wide freedom, democracy, liberal values and peace, some branches of the United Nations have become the exact opposite,” the former finance minister stated at the Israel NGO Shurat HaDin’s annual conference.
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