T. Belman. How can we expect American Jews who are fleeing their Jewish Identity and intermarrying, to simultaneously care about Israel. In fact because they are fleeing their identity they are more likely to flee Israel than an ordinary American.

The conventional wisdom says the problem is Israel. It’s wrong.

By Elliot Abrams, MOSAIC

Everyone knows that American Jews and Israel are drifting apart—and everyone is confident of the reasons why. Israel, it is said, has become increasingly nationalistic and right-wing; “the occupation” violates liberal values; and the American Jewish “establishment,” with its old familiar defense organizations and their old familiar apologetics, has lost touch with young American Jews who are put off by outdated Zionist slogans and hoary appeals for communal solidarity. In brief, the fundamental problem resides in the nature of the Israeli polity and the policies of the Israeli government, which together account for the growing misfit between Israelis and their American Jewish cousins.
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DEBKA

They were once good friendsLast Friday, April 1, President Reccep Tayyip Erdogan had his first encounter with a group of American Jewish leaders, at his request. The full details of its contents were hard to sort out because the Turkish translator censored his master’s words with a heavy hand to make them more acceptable to his audience. But Erdogan’s bottom line, DEBKAfile’s New York sources report, was a request for help in explaining to the Obama administration in Washington and the Netanyahu government in Jerusalem why they must on no account extend support to the Syrian Kurdish PYD and its YPG militia or recognize their bid for a separate state in northern Syria.
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Three out of 13 displays put together for the exhibition were disqualified by the UN including one about Jerusalem, another about Israeli Arabs and a third about Zionism.

By DANIELLE ZIRI, JPOST

NY – An exhibition initiated by Israel’s permanent mission to the United Nations with the organization StandWithUs and expected to open at the UN headquarters on Monday, was partially censored by the international body this weekend.

Three out of 13 displays put together for the exhibition were disqualified by the UN, including one about Jerusalem, another about Israeli Arabs and a third about Zionism.
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Justice minister slams Court for striking down Netanyahu’s gas policy, saying she fears that the world will start to view Israel as a “country which eats its investors.

By YONAH JEREMY BOB, JPOST

To a rowdy melee of cheers and boos, Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked effectively declared war on the High Court of Justice on Monday, hitting it with blow after blow for the recent decision declaring the natural gas policy unconstitutional.

Shaked said she fears that the world will start to view Israel as a “country which eats its investors.”

She added that “the significance of the decision…could cost the government billions of shekels.”
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By Jonathan Ben Moshe

Israel has been saddled with an arrogant, dictatorial ‘all knowing’ Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon, with a very poor job performance.

He recklessly ‘Pre-judged’ and ‘Pre-convicted’ a highly praised Israeli combat soldier. And inappropriately made public statements that have seriously ‘Maligned’ that soldier.

Ya’alon’s rash ‘Pre-judgment’ has been followed by scorn, ridicule, threats, Intimidation, and bullying, of anyone who as much as suggests that the soldier should not be charged as Ya’alon is demanding. He in fact rejects all criticism outright if the viewpoint is not in lock step with his “Insistent Hostile Demands”.
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By Ariel Ben Solomon, JPOST

If attacks on Islamic State continue to weaken the group in Syria and Iraq, it could relocate its headquarters to Libya’s northern coastal town of Sirte, its Libyan headquarters since early spring 2015, an Israeli expert on Africa said on Sunday.

Prof. Yehudit Ronen, a leading expert on Libya and the African Sahel region at Bar- Ilan University, said the Syrian regime and Russia’s military victory in retaking the ancient city of Palmyra from Islamic State was a watershed defeat for the group.
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By Andrew McCarthy, NATIONAL REVIEW

President Obama and his subordinates blatantly lied to Congress in order win approval — or, more accurately, to escape disapproval — of his Iran nuclear deal. At a time when jihadist mass-murder attacks are surging, and when the Syrian regime’s war crimes are abetted by Iran’s jihadist armed forces (which include Hezbollah and the Quds Force, both formally designated terrorist organizations), Obama’s deal infuses Iran, the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism and an unapologetic enemy of the United States, with over $100 billion in sanctions relief . . . some slice of which, the Obama administration admits, will be diverted to terrorism.
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By Shlomo Pyotrkovsky, INN

Be’er Sheva district court judge Yisrael Pablo Axelrod on Sunday rejected the petition to release Meir Ettinger from his administrative detention for several hours on Monday so as to attend the brit milah (circumcision) of his firstborn son.

Ettinger has been held for the past eight months without trial or charges against him on administrative orders, a relic from the British Mandate which has almost exclusively been used against Arab terror suspects.
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Yishai Fliesher, who is interviewed on this video and who is the international spokesman for Hebron, wrote to me to tell me that I would love the interview and that it covered all my issues. He was right on both counts. He articulates the divide between American Jews and Israelis in a way that makes sense and calls on American Jews to have some humility and empathize with our struggles.

By Ted Belman  Feb 28, 2008

I thought I would begin with a prediction. “Obama will win the nomination but lose the election.”

Fox News are on to him and all the arguments our “smear” camping is making and for the most part it is running with them. Sean Hannity is the best.

Slowly, but surely Obama, is doing himself in. It is not just the company he keeps but also what he is now saying. Ed Lasky, the News Editor of The American Thinker, reports on Senator Obama’s Coming Out Party in Cleveland. Ed does a brilliant job of ferreting out the true meaning of Obama’s remarks. But in my opinion he mis-states two things which I want to address first.
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By Michael Makovsky and William Kristol, WEEKLY STANDARD

In a famous episode of Seinfeld, George Costanza concludes that every instinct he’s had, every decision he’s made, has been wrong and that he should henceforth do the opposite of what he had routinely been doing. He implements this new philosophy and promptly manages to entice an attractive woman to go out with him by introducing himself as unemployed and living with his parents. He then gets a job with the New York Yankees by telling off its imperious and temperamental owner, George Steinbrenner.
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DEBKA

President Barack Obama said Friday April 1, that “Iran has so far followed the letter of the [nuclear] agreement [with the six powers], but, he added, “the spirit of the agreement involves Iran also sending signals to the world community and business that it is not going to be engaging in a range of provocative actions that may scare business off,” such as fire-testing nuclear-capable ballistic missiles, calling for Israel’s destruction and providing Hizballah with missiles.

At a news conference ending the two-day nuclear summit in Washington, Obama went on to say: “Some of the concerns that Iran has expressed, we are going to work with them to address.” But meanwhile, he said, the US and its allies are taking steps to help Iraq benefit from the agreement by facilitating trade and banking transactions with the Islamic Republic; and the US Treasury Department is seeking to set clearer investment guidelines for Iran.
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T. Belman. When Reuters reported on this they left the word “illegal” out.

US State Department criticizes Israel for enforcing building laws on Arabs in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria.

By David Rosenberg, INN

US State Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau told reporters on Friday that the US was “concerned” by Israel’s recent demolitions of illegally built Arab structures in Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria.

In March Israel security forces demolished an illegal Arab building in the village of Khirbet Tana in the Jordan River Valley, Reuters reported. The structure, which was reportedly being used as a school, had been constructed with the help of the European Union.
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Chance of agreement being destroyed by Balad and the Islamic Movement.

By ARIEL BEN SOLOMON, JPOST

The hostility and harsh rhetoric by Arab Israeli leaders toward the government demonstrates that on many issues a compromise is unlikely to be found.

A few hundred apparently mostly Arab protesters from the North and other areas arrived at the unrecognized illegal Beduin settlement of Umm al-Hiran in the Negev on Wednesday to protest on Land Day, wave Palestinian flags, and hear vigorous speeches by Arab politicians and leaders against the state and its leaders.

“Destroying Umm al-Hiran would be a declaration of war against Arabs of the Negev,” Joint List MK Ahmad Tibi told The Jerusalem Post at the rally.
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World leaders discuss ISIS plans to target Western cities.

By David Rosaenberg, INN

World leaders gathered on Friday in Washington for the Nuclear Security Summit to discuss the growing threat of nuclear terrorism.

Noting the chilling possibility of a nuclear attack, US President Barack Obama remarked that Islamic State terrorists have already made use of weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East, and that there is evidence ISIS has made efforts to acquire nuclear material.

“ISIL has already used chemical weapons,” Obama said. “[T]here is no doubt if these madmen ever got their hands on a bomb or nuclear material they would use it to kill as many as possible”.
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The Israeli public is sick of the army siding with anti-Israel elements, tying the hand of its soldiers and commanders, thus putting them in harm’s way. The outrage over the denunciation of the soldier in the Hebron shooting is the pot boiling over.

By Emily Amrousi, ISRAEL HAYOM

The long, sunny days between the Hebrew month of Adar and Pessah. And this time of year, when terrorist attacks are commemorated twice a day. Five years since the Fogel family was slaughtered. Twenty years since the terrible Dizengoff bombing, the Purim when costumed children were murdered and wounded. Fourteen years since Bloody March. The Park Hotel. The Matza Restaurant. Thirteen years since the No. 37 bus bombing in Haifa. Three years since Evyatar “Napo” Borovsky was slaughtered at a bus stop at Tapuah Junction. That’s only a partial list. And people are still being murdered in our streets.
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By Ted Belman

Contrary to what I alleged in my talk on OBAMA’S MIDDLE EAST DEBACLE, they both surrendered their law licences voluntarily. I had done my research in 2008 and hadn’t realized that subsequently, it was proven otherwise.

My assertion that Barak Obama was a homosexual was also challenged. I stand by my assertion. The evidence is overwhelming. One source said that one of the reasons Obama stayed in Rev Wright’s church was because they had a homosexual relation.

When I listed a number of high profile people in Chicago who had influence over Obama I failed to mention Valerie Jarrett, which I do below.
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T. Belman. The first thing Israel should do is wipe out all illegal Arab construction.

The solutions offered by Caroline Glick of annexing all J&S and offering a path to citizenship or by Martin Sherman of annexing all the land and inducing emigration of Arabs with a carrot and a stick, did not even make the list.

By Prof. Hillel Frisch, BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 336

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: When Mahmoud Abbas departs from his post as leader of the Palestinian Authority, Israel will have to make strategic choices. This paper discusses five possible policy approaches, none of which is ideal. They are caretaker conflict resolution, creative friction, constructive chaos, unilateral withdrawal, and unilateral annexation. The caretaker option is probably the most feasible; unilateral withdrawal is the least. In every case, however, Israel will have to maintain a military presence in Judea and Samaria.

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