By Ted Belman

From time to time I have to seek a techie who can solve all my problems on the internet and on my site. I have found that I get very good value by using people from the east.

One person applied for one of the jobs I needed done. His name is Mohammed and he lives in India. I contracted him though I had misgivings due to the fact that he was a Muslim and my site is very anti-Islam. But I hired him anyway. He was very knowledgeable and very pleasant to work with and over time and many more jobs I contracted for, I came to trust him.

I decided to ask him how he felt about Israel. You will be as surprised with his answers as I was.
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BY DAVID P. GOLDMAN, PJ MEDIA

The world was anti-Semitic in 1944, when Ben Hecht wrote A Guide for the Bedevilled. The majority of educated, civilized, and rational people believed that the Jews in some fashion had brought their own problems upon themselves. Hecht began fighting anti-Semitism after an unsettling exchange with a New York hostess, who explained to him that Jews had to acknowledge their own responsibility in the matter of their persecution. This polite Gentile lady explained:

The Jews complain. They suffer dreadfully, and they accuse. But they never stop to explain or to reason or to figure the thing out and tell the world what they, and only they, know…They are–how shall I put it–collaborative victims, a thing they refuse to see…The Germans are not a race of killers, fiends, of a special and different sort of sub-humans.

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T. Belman. Israel will have no choice to massively invade and bomb the shit out of it to reduce Hezbollah’s ability to fire rockets on Israel.

TIP

The next war between Israel and Hezbollah will be devastating, and Hezbollah will be the guilty party, journalist Willy Stern wrote in the June 20 issue of The Weekly Standard.

Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed terrorist group based in Lebanon, has an arsenal of more than 130,000 rockets, more than all NATO countries, excluding the U.S., combined. This number includes long-range rockets and M-600 ballistic missiles, which carry a high payload and would be able to “wipe out a good chunk of Times Square and maim and kill people four football fields away from the point of impact.” Hezbollah has approximately 100,000 short-range rockets trained on schools, homes, and hospitals in northern Israel that would unleash chaos and potentially kill hundreds of Israeli civilians.
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By Tabitha Korol

The Washington Post, in its Standards and Ethics, committed itself to “an aggressive, responsible and fair pursuit of the truth,” so that the reader may be “without fear of any special interest,” but it has abandoned its pledge.  Pursuant to the recent wave of deadly Palestinian attacks against Israelis, the newspaper’s Beirut correspondent Hugh Naylor had utterly ignored the terror victims’ horrific sufferings and, instead, focused on the discomfort claimed by Palestinians.

Since September 2015, four hundred and forty-four Jews have been injured, some quite seriously, and 34 killed in what the Palestinians arrogantly call the Knife Intifada. There were also at least 851 stone-throwings and 337 petrol bomb-throwings, with many more that had gone unreported. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, a despicable, deceitful man who indoctrinates his people from toddlerhood to hate Jews, incites them to attack and kill civilians with an assortment of weaponry (knives, axes, meat cleavers, screwdrivers). This time the fabricated threat is that Israel was plotting to close down the Al Aqsa Mosque.  Read more…

By Yoram Ettinger, ISRAEL HAYOM

In 850 BCE, the legendary Greek author, Homer, introduced the mythical king of Ithaca, Odysseus, as a role model of leadership. Sailing home from the battlefield, Odysseus overcame sweeping temptations to dwell on wishful-thinking rather than reality. Odysseus overcame supreme seduction to stray from the proper course, and join the beautiful Sirens, who lured sailors with their seductively hypnotizing voices, music, and looks to shipwreck on the rocky coast of their island.

In 2016, the modern day Sirens of the Western media and policymaking try to divert (and confuse) Israel from the proper course of combatting terrorism, contending that “one’s terrorist is someone else’s freedom fighter”; that Palestinian terrorism is reaction to occupation; that Palestinian terrorists are “lone wolves” not institutional; and that Islam is a religion of peace, not terrorism.

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Troops can see through armoured vehicles

By Yaacov Lappin, JPOST

Elbit Systems unveiled a helmet-mounted system on Wednesday designed to allow armoured personnel carrier and tank crews to see straight through their armour.

The helmets give soldiers a 360-degree, real-time view of their surroundings while in the vehicle.

Called Iron Vision, the system has attracted the interest of the IDF, which may choose to acquire it. If it does, the product would represent a significant leap in the capability of personnel in closed-hatched armoured fighting vehicles to identify threats, as well as friendly forces.
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By Martin Kramer, FOREIGN AFFAIRS

Was the feud between U.S. President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, first over settlements and then over Iran, a watershed? Netanyahu, it is claimed, turned U.S. support of Israel into a partisan issue. Liberals, including many American Jews, are said to be fed up with Israel’s “occupation,” which will mark its 50th anniversary next year. The weakening of Israel’s democratic ethos is supposedly undercutting the “shared values” argument for the relationship. Some say Israel’s dogged adherence to an “unsus­tainable” status quo in the West Bank has made it a liability in a region in the throes of change. Israel, it is claimed, is slipping into pariah status, imposed by the global movement for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS).

Biblical-style lamentations over Israel’s final corruption have been a staple of the state’s critics and die-hard anti-Zionists for 70 years. Never have they been so detached from reality. Of course, Israel has changed—decidedly for the better….

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T. Belman. So the Arabs are invading our beaches and then some. The Left says “so it should be” whereas the right says “what can we do about it.” Moshe Feiglin and Martin Sherman advocate paying the Arabs to leave. There is no question that that is the best solution.

In the meantime, the Arabs present a problem. Jews want to have exclusive Jewish communities and schools and, yes, beaches. But they are prevented by our activist Court who worships equality. But even if we got rid of the Court’s intervention, how far would the right go to keep us separate?

I believe in having exclusive areas for Jews or Arabs and public areas where all are welcome. The trick is where to draw the line.

By Shmuel Sackett, JEWISH LEADERSHIP BLOG

I would imagine that in most parts of the world, if you want to know what is happening, you need to read the newspapers and talk to experts. In Israel, however, that is not what you do. For years, people found out the real news from taxi drivers but today, in the modern world, the #1 expert to talk to is… the lifeguard at the beach!
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By Victor Davis Hanson , NATIONAL REVIEW 

The history of nations is mostly characterized by ethnic and racial uniformity, not diversity.

Most national boundaries reflected linguistic, religious and ethnic homogeneity. Until the late 20th century, diversity was considered a liability, not a strength.

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By Martin Sherman

“Commanders for Israel’s Security” are a group I would much rather respect than ridicule, but drivel is drivel, even when it comes from men with an illustrious past and an accumulated 6000 years of security experience

 One does not have to be a military expert to easily identify the critical defects of the armistice lines that existed until June 4, 1967

   Deputy PM Yigal Allon, former commanderof Palmah strike-force, 1976.

…historians a thousand years hence will still be baffled by the mystery of our affairs. They will never understand how it was that a victorious nation, with everything in hand, suffered themselves to be brought low, and to cast away all that they had gained by measureless sacrifice and absolute victory…Now the victors are the vanquished…

   Winston Churchill, in the House of Commons, 1938.
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The failure of France’s “peace” conference, on the one hand, and the success of Netanyahu’s fourth visit to Moscow on the other hand, were poetic bookends of the week.

By Caroline Glick, JPOST

There was something poetic about the events that bookended the past week of diplomacy. This week began with French President François Hollande’s “peace” conference and ended with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s state visit to Moscow.

From the perspective of both substance and style, the contrast between the two events couldn’t have been more striking.

France hosted yet another anti-Israel diplomatic pile-on. Hollande had hoped to show that France was stepping into the void left by the US’s abandonment of its position as world leader. But all the confab served to do was show how irrational and self-destructive France – and Western Europe – has become.
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Tenenbom tells truths that liberals, including liberal Jews, try to airbrush away. He sees Jews everywhere craven and cringing, trying to hide their Jewishness.

By Melanie Phillips, JPOST

Tuvia Tanenbom has a problem. His books sell so well he can’t find a publisher in the English-speaking world.

His last book, Catch the Jew!, was a spectacular international success. Published in Germany and, in English, in Israel, it shot to the top of numerous best-seller lists. His previous book, I Sleep in Hitler’s Room, was also a German best-seller.
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By Mordechai Kedar, INN

At this very moment, the Iraqi government is in the midst of a fierce offensive aimed at retaking the city of Fallujah and wresting it from the hands of ISIS. This military campaign was meticulously planned for several months with the help of American and Iranian advisors and representatives of the “Popular Forces” – a group of Shiite militias whose activities are indistinguishable from those of ISIS because they, too, mercilessly butcher, burn and eliminate their enemies, the only difference being that their enemies are Sunni rather than Shiite.

Several groups with varying goals and diametrically opposed views are participating in the battle for Fallujah, but it is clear that the enmity between Sunni and Shiite Muslims is at the core of what is happening. The city’s residents and the ISIS fighters holed up in the city are Sunni, while the government, militias, “Popular Forces” and Iranians targeting them are Shiite.
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T. Belman. Shavit is way too optimistic about Yaalon’s chances. A May 17/16 Maariv poll showed Likud 26, Bayit Yehudit 14, Yisrael Beitanu 11, and the two religious parties 13, totalling 64 seats. He also presupposes that some center parties can join to reach more than 26 seats in order to get the first chance to form a government.

Even if they could, I believe that they couldn’t form a government because the religious parties won’t abandon Bibi who brought them in from the cold. They would have to be replaced by the Arab Joint List.

Yaalon is not as popular as Shavit says he is.

By Ari Shavit, HAARETZ

[..] Netanyahu and Ya’alon ostensibly were allies. Neither believed in peace now and both tried to prevent war tomorrow. Neither thought it was possible to end the conflict but made every effort to contain it.

But about a year ago the defense minister detected that the prime minister had a pretty radical agenda – he wanted to cut down to size the legal elite, the media elite and the military elite. I won’t lend a hand to that, the minister in charge of the army told his superior. I won’t support an attack on the rule of law and the media, and I won’t let you ruin the army.
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Israel’s response to a Ramadan terror attack: withdraw Ramadan freedom to murder Israelis.\

By Hana Levi Julian, JEWISH PRESS

Thanks to two Arab terrorists, the cost of Israeli self-defense has again come at a high price for Islamic worshipers and families who were looking forward to visiting each other in the next few weeks. But terrorists rarely take the concerns of “civilians” into account when waging “jihad” against Jews and Israelis.

The initial Israeli response to Wednesday night’s terror attack on the upscale Sarona Center in Tel Aviv by two Palestinian Authority gunmen from Yatta has been swift — and it may be followed by further actions.
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By Michael Curtis, AMERICAN THINKER

Russia is now back on the international scene, a significant geopolitical player. President Vladimir Putin, who reminds the world that during World War II the Soviet Union suffered the largest number of casualties, estimated at between 20 and 28 million of any country, is determined that Russia remain a world power in spite of its declining economy, largely due to falling oil prices. Putin has revived the May 9 military parade in Red Square. The current Russian posture is one of self-confidence, reminiscent of Russian life in the late 19th century, with its extraordinary rich cultural scene.
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Gary Bauer, AMERICAN VALUES

Barring some unpredictable development, the November election will be a choice between former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Libertarian Gary Johnson and perhaps a center-right spoiler candidate in some states.

A new NBC News tracking poll finds Clinton leading Trump 48% to 44%. But when you factor in third-party candidates, the dynamics change significantly.

Offering voters the choice of Libertarian and Green Party candidates results in Trump leading with 40%, Clinton at 39%, Libertarian Johnson at 9% and Green Party nominee Jill Stein at 4%. If voters are given a generic choice of “Other,” the results are Trump 39%, Clinton 36% and “Other” 22%.
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Museums, governments can keep stolen works by waiting out legal clock

A visitor takes a photograph of a painting called ‘Shepherdess Bringing in Sheep’ that the Nazis stole

BY: Adam Kredo, FREE BEACON

Museums across the world, including in the United States, have been trying to run out the clock on legal statutes that would compel them to return high-priced works of art to Jewish victims of the Holocaust who had these precious items stolen by the Nazis during World War II, according to testimony before Congress.

Ambassador Ronald Lauder, council chair of the World Jewish Restitution Organization, disclosed to Congress on Tuesday that “governments, museums, and many knowing [art] collectors” have been amassing artworks originally owned by Jewish individuals who fell victim to Hitler’s Nazi death machine during the war.
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The war of the generals makes the media war and its latest French donor battle, pale in comparison.

By Guilio Meotti, INN

Israelis are great soldiers out of necessity, not because of militarism. The former chief of staff, the archaeologist Yigal Yadin, said that “in Israel a civilian is a soldier with eleven months leave.”

Some have called Israel “the modern Sparta.” Others, less benign, “the small Middle East Prussia.”

Because of its geographical location and the genocidal intentions of its foes, Israel can not afford a war of position and attrition, it has to win right away. It must have an army that goes hand in hand with the political leadership.
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