T. Belman.  The only status quo that the Muslims want to maintain is the one in which Jews are subjugated like on the Temple Mount.

By Daniel Greenfield, SULTAN KNISH

The Secretary of State of the United States traveled to the Muslim country of Jordan to assure its Foreign Minister that Jews would not be praying any more at the holiest site in Judaism.

Israel is often accused of apartheid and segregation, but here was the Secretary of State championing both, as long as it was Muslim segregation aimed at Jews. The Temple Mount “Status Quo” worriedly talked about by Kerry and the media as the answer to the recent Muslim stabbing spree is no different than the Muslim ban on Jews entering the Cave of the Patriarchs, where Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are buried, past the seventh step. It rewards Muslim violence by upholding Muslim segregationist racism.
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By Arlene Kushner

Item one:

In late September, Reuters conveyed Iranian media reports establishing that the Iranians recently took their own environmental samples at their Parchin military facility, where they conducted tests relevant to the detonation of nuclear warheads, in lieu of having IAEA inspectors take the samples

Item two:

In mid-October, Omri Ceren of TIP wrote, “Iranian media reported that Tehran recently tested a new precision-guided long-range ballistic missile, the Emad (show below), which is capable of carrying a nuclear warhead. The test is a black-letter violation of United Nations Security Council resolution (UNSCR) 2231, in which ‘Iran is called upon not to undertake any activity related to ballistic missiles designed to be capable of delivering nuclear weapons, including launches using such ballistic missile technology’ for the next eight years.” Read more…

By Shoshana Bryen, AMERICAN THINKER

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ISIS? ISIS claimed first to have shot the plane down and later (after it became clear that it probably hadn’t actually been shot down) claimed responsibility instead for “destroying” it without specifying how. ISIS by itself is a fairly long shot; it is known to be operating in Sinai, but not in the southern part near Sharm el-Sheikh.

Posit, then, cooperation between ISIS and Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood, two Sunni jihadist organizations operating both in Egypt and in Syria. While ISIS’s prime target would be Russia, the Brotherhood’s would be Egypt.
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New Economy Ministry statistics show that 49 percent of hareidi-religious males are working at regular jobs.

By Hana Levi Julian, JP

In a new report, Israel’s Economy Ministry has released statistics showing that 49 percent of hareidi-religious men are now bona fide members of the working world, according to the Hebrew-languageKikar Shabbat website.

The finding is a quantum leap up from statistics of ten years ago, when only a third of the same population (33 percent of hareidi-religious males) had regular jobs.
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While ‘absolute’ certainty in God on decline among Americans, 36% of Jews polled say religion ‘very important’ to them

TOI

American Jews appear to be growing steadily more religious, faster than most other communities in the United States, according to a new Pew poll published Tuesday.

The survey, conducted in 2014, studied American perspectives on religions across the country’s various sects and communities and compared them to a similar study in 2007. It found that overall, the proportion of Americans who say they are “absolutely certain” God exists has dropped sharply from 71 percent to less than two-thirds.

Pew released the findings, based in part on a 2014 telephone survey of more than 35,000 people, as religious leaders are grappling with the shifting makeup of American religious life.
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By Daniel Pipes, ISRAEL HAYOM

Like other observers of Turkish politics, I was stunned on Nov. 1 when the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) was reported to have increased its share of the national vote since the last round of elections in June 2015 by 9% and its share of parliamentary seats by 11%.

The polls had consistently shown the four major parties winning about the same number of seats as in June. This made intuitive sense; they represent mutually hostile outlooks (Islamist, leftist, Kurdish, nationalist), making substantial movement between them in under five months highly unlikely. That about one in nine voters switched parties defies reason.

The AKP’s huge increase gave it back the parliamentary majority it had lost in the June 2015 elections, promising President Recep Tayyip Erdogan a semi-legal path to the dictatorial powers to which he aspires.
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NGO MONITOR

Jerusalem – “The European Union’s decision to label Israeli-made products from beyond the Green Line is another act in the ongoing NGO campaign to delegitimize Israel,” Professor Gerald Steinberg of NGO Monitor said. “This strategy is also the driving force of BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) campaigns, and it is led by EU-funded NGOs that are detrimental a peaceful, negotiated solution.”

For years, the EU has given money earmarked for humanitarian aid and peace-building to political groups that abuse human rights to promote their own agendas. These organizations have lobbied hard for the EU to adopt their ideas, with the rhetoric of “consumer choice” masking what is clearly an anti-Israel measure.
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Cruz leads effort to sanction the group

By Adam Kredo, NEW BEACON

Lawmakers in both houses of Congress filed legislation on Tuesday that would formally designate the Muslim Brotherhood a sanctioned terrorist organization, according to an advance copy of the legislation obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

The legislation outlines the Brotherhood’s long history of sponsoring terrorism and outlines congressional support for it to be designated a global terrorist outfit. The bill also would force Secretary of State John Kerry to explain why the Obama administration has been hesitant to label the Brotherhood a terrorist group.
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By Lahav Harkov, JPOST

New Bill creates a seperate, easier-to-prosecute crime of incitement to terrorism, as opposed to general incitement to violence, passed its first reading in the Knesset on Monday.

The penal code currently establishes that incitement to violence or terrorism, which carries a five-year prison sentence, is when someone publicizes a call to an act of violence or terrorism, or praises, sympathizes with or encourages such acts, and the statements have a real chance of causing someone to behave violently or commit an act of terrorism.
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He was all about making accusations and was not interested in allowing her to answer.

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked (Jewish Home) gave the Arab MK’s a piece of her mind in a sarcastic Knesset speech this week regarding the minimum punishment law for rock throwing. Shades of Mark Antony?

By Ayet Shaked, INN

The Joint Arab List claims that the government is taking advantage of the security situation to pass racist laws that trample democratic principles and freedoms.

As I look at you, my fellow Knesset members of the Joint Arab List Party, and listen to what you are saying, I absolutely understand where your sincereconcern for Israeli democracy is coming from.

For example, take the head of your party list, MK Aimen Odeh, who was recently asked in an interview to explain why he doesn’t call on the Arabs to cease their terrorist activities. Odeh answered – and I quote – “I cannot sit in my house in the Carmel [mountain range near Haifa] and tell the Palestinian people how to conduct their struggle.”
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DEBKA

Syrian media reported an Israeli air force attack Sunday, Nov. 1, after two sorties Friday night against Syrian army and Hizballah bases in the Qalamoun Mountains on the Lebanese border. The IDF declined to confirm or deny these reports. Syrian sources described a large number of Israeli airplanes as bombing a Hizballah unit based in the village of El Ain in northern Lebanon and the arms depot of the 155^th Brigade of the Syrian army at Al-Katifa to the east.

The two targets are 70 km apart. So these air strikes must have targeted two key points along the Iranian arms supply route to Hizballah.
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By Matthew Vadum, CFP

The preeminent funder of border-busting campaigns in the U.S. and overseas now openly admits his efforts in Europe are aimed at destroying national borders on that continent.

The unusually frank statement from frequent coup kingpin George Soros comes after Hungary’s prime minister accused him of helping to orchestrate the ongoing invasion of the landlocked nation and the rest of Europe by illegal aliens. Soros is arguably the biggest mass migration-promoting coyote on the planet. He is also an admitted Nazi collaborator, described by David Horowitz as a “deracinated Jew,” who arguesthat Muslims are treated so badly in the West that they are the new Jews. Soros doesn’t care that these migrants and Syrian war refugees are largely Muslim men and that intelligence agencies fear that many of the new arrivals have connections to Islamic terrorism.
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By Ng Weng Hoong, CJN

The groundbreaking first visit to Israel by an Indian president Oct. 13 to 15 hardly featured in the global media, which were more focused on a potential third intifadah uprising, the growing U.S.-Russia proxy war in Syria, and the Iranian parliament’s approval of Tehran’s nuclear deal with six global powers.

Nevertheless, President Pranab Mukherjee’s historic entry into Jerusalem from the Palestinian territories and his stirring speeches to underline New Delhi’s pro-Israel shift could have a more lasting impact on the Middle East as it adds India, together with China, to Israel’s increasing security, political and economic pivot toward Asia.

Mukherjee’s opening speech powerfully and unequivocally laid out India’s support for Israel as he condemned “the growing menace of terrorism and extremism” amid the outbreak of Palestinian stabbings of Israelis.

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T. Belman. What must be said in his defense, the others didn’t have to contend with the growing BDS movement, growing EU pressure or with a President so committed to stopping all settlement construction including in Jerusalem.

Building in Judea-Samaria just over 1/4 of what it was under Ehud Barak, and half of figures under Ariel Sharon.

By Ido Ben-Porat, INN

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s governments have built the least in Judea and Samaria, despite being widely portrayed as right-wing.

The Yesha Council released a damning set of statistics Tuesday, in concordance with the Caucus for the Land of Israel, revealing the true pace of building in the region over more than 15 years.

The findings:
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Ted Belman. This Haaretz editorial correctly identifies Netanyahu’s position on the conflict and notes that it is supported by a majority of Israelis. It concludes with this:

The regime described in Netanyahu’s vision has a name – it’s called apartheid. There is no other term for two populations living in the same area, one with political rights and the other under perennial military occupation. No security argument or warnings about the effects of Islam can whitewash the implications of this vision. Netanyahu’s words should shock anyone who is concerned about the justice of Israel’s cause and the country’s future. Concerned people should unite and form a national salvation front that will work to replace this government.

If Israel’s choice is between an “apartheid state” and a neighbour state dedicated to its destruction, I choose the former.

If I am holding a tiger by the tail and that is the only thing preventing it from eating me, I would never let go even if I was not being fair to the tiger.

To the contrary, I believe that “the justice of Israel’s cause and her country’s future” depend on Israel claiming sovereignty over all of Judea and Samaria.

If the Palestinian Nazis wanted to end the “occupation” they could always abandon the maximalist demands and settle for less. But they won’t. They won’t give up on their desire to eradicate Israel.

In the real world, outside the realm of speechmaking, Netanyahu is only ready to hold empty and aimless talks with the Palestinians.

Haaretz Editorial

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu presented his current political vision to the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee this week. While saying that that he does not want a binational state, Netanyahu stressed that Israel “must control the entire area for the foreseeable future.” He explained that he was prepared to divide the land but “the other side is unwilling,” and that the Middle East is subject to Islamic religious influences that preclude any possibility for peace.
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By Caroline Glick, JPOST

PM Netanyahu’s meeting with US President Barack Obama next week is likely to look less like a rapprochement than a showdown at the OK Corral.

The flurry of spy stories spinning around in recent weeks makes clear that US-Israel relations remain in crisis.

Two weeks ago, The Wall Street Journal published a fairly detailed account of the US’s massive spying operations against Israel between 2010 and 2012.
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The U.S. says it has Putin and Assad right where it wants them.

WALL STREET JOURNAL

So the U.S. government that was surprised by Vladimir Putin’s takeover of Crimea, surprised by his invasion of eastern Ukraine, surprised by his plan to sell S-300 missiles to Iran, and surprised by his intervention in Syria now thinks the Russian strongman will sue for peace in Syria on U.S. terms and oust Bashar Assad.

“Russia’s intervention is a powerful example of the law of unintended consequences,” said Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken at a security conference in Bahrain this weekend. “It will have two primary effects. First, it will increase Russia’s leverage over Assad. But second, it will increase the conflict’s leverage over Russia. And that in turn creates a compelling incentive for Russia to work for, not against, a political transition.”
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BREAKING: Citing incitement, IDF shuts down Fatah-affiliated radio station in Hebron

Justice Ministry-led bill lowers threshold for what constitutes incitement to violence or terror, and will allow state to file more indictments against alleged inciters.

By Jonathan Lis, HAARETZ

The government approved the first reading of legislation loosening the legal criteria for what constitutes incitement on Monday, in a move that could infringe of freedom of speech, as part of an attempt to crackdown on what the Israeli government says is the source of the recent string of terror attacks.

The bill, being led by the Justice Ministry, lowers the threshold for what constitutes incitement to violence or terror, and will allow the state to file more indictments against alleged inciters. The Cabinet Secretary requested the Knesset fast track the bill, and a vote is expected as early as Tuesday.
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By Ted Belman

Among Israelis, the secular socialists, otherwise known as Mapainiks and Communists, are descended from people who made Aliyah (returning to Israel from the diaspora) in 1900, give or take 30 years, with the intent of becoming “new Jews” who would work the land and eschew being middlemen, the sort of occupation that landless Jews were forced into over centuries of European persecution.

In other words they wanted to be just like the gentiles. Working the land became their highest value. While this served its purpose at the time, Israel has moved on.  But in the 21^st century, labor is no longer venerated. Brains are. Ingenuity and innovation are Israel’s new ethos. The “new Jew” has become the “old Jew.” Rather than wishing to be ordinary, the Jews have shown themselves to be extraordinary.
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