By Vijeta Uniyal, LEGAL INSURRECTION

Israel trains India’s future technology and business leaders

It’s not just about nukes. It’s about purging the party of moderate voices and pro-Israel supporters.

By Daniel Greenfield, FPM

Even before 2016, the Iran deal has become a fifth election with national campaigns, big speeches, ads, polls and smear campaigns. Obama sees it as his last shot at a legacy, but it’s even bigger than that.

The deal that will let Iran go nuclear encompasses every bad thing about him in one package.

Internally, there’s the campaign. Obama doesn’t just enact policies. He conducts domestic political warfare. It’s not enough for him to get his way, and he already made it clear to a Democratic congressman opposed to the deal that he will unilaterally remove sanctions even if Congress comes out against the deal, Obama has to turn everything into a larger political war that divides Americans.

Divisiveness is Obama’s strength. His political power is based on dividing and conquering Americans.
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By Yossi Melman, JPOST

The State Department’s publication of documents on Tuesday detailing US-Israel discussions on the Jewish state’s nuclear program comes amid public disagreement between the allies over the Iran nuclear deal.

Jerusalem and Washington worked together to formulate Israel’s nuclear doctrine, the newly released archival documents reveal.

The documents detail the classified discussions that took place on the nuclear program between officials of the two countries.
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ZOA Analysis Shows “340 Rabbis For Iran Deal” Are From Groups Hostile to Israel, Including J Street (Which Works With Apparent Iranian Regime Group NIAC), BDS Group “Jewish Voice for Peace,” and Israel-Bashing “Rabbis for Human Rights”

94% of U.S. Rabbis Did NOT Sign Pro-Iran Deal Statement, While American Jews Oppose Deal by 2-1, Israelis 7-1, and All Americans by 2-1

NEW YORK, August, 18, 2015 — The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA)’s analysis shows that the overwhelming majority of the “340 Rabbis for Iran Deal” come from groups that routinely take positions and engage in activities that are hostile towards Israel and inimical to American interests. The “340 Rabbis for Iran Deal” are a small fringe group. There are over 5,000 Rabbis in the United States. In other words, 94% of American Rabbis did not sign the statement supporting the Iran deal.
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By Karin McQuillan, AMERICAN THINKER

In his soft-spoken voice, Dr. Ben Carson is actually bolder and more outspoken than Donald Trump.  Case in point:  Dr. Carson is the only Republican nominee who has the guts to call out President Obama as an anti-Semite.  He did it first in a column in the Jerusalem Post last week. Then on Fox News Sunday, Dr. Carson extended the accusation in the face of Chris Wallace’s challenge.

Dr. Carson told Wallace:

All you have to do, Chris, is go to Israel and talk to average people on all ends of that spectrum.  I couldn’t find a single person there who didn’t feel that this administration had turned their backs on Israel.

Wallace asked, “What specifically is anti-Semitic in what the president is saying?”
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It costs 148 monthly salaries to buy a home here, compared to 76 in France and 66 in the US. Prices rise 6% per year. Desperate young Israelis are leaving the country. What’s gone wrong, and why can nobody fix it?

By Simona Weinglass, TOI

Erez Amir was riding his bike down Tel Aviv’s trendy Rothschild Boulevard last week when he saw something that upset him.

Arriving at work, the 28-year-old manager of an upscale coffee shop shared his frustration with coworkers and patrons.

“I saw a sign that said ‘A young couple is looking for an apartment to buy in the area’,” he said in disbelief that anyone close to his age could afford to buy in a neighborhood where the average 1-bedroom sells for $430,000.
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Analysis: In releasing the IDF’s grand strategy, the chief of staff has pushed the political leadership into a corner, while circumventing any weight held by the Locker report.

Alex Fishman, YNET

Chief of Staff Eisenkot (Photo: IDF spokesperson)

IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot pulled off a brilliant maneuver this weekend, by allowing the publication of a document which detailed the IDF’s strategic doctrine. In this act, he forced the government into accepting a national security strategy as the IDF sees it – including what threats Israel faces, and the planned responses to those threats.
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By Yochanan Visser, WESTERN JURNALISM

After introducing a new 5-year efficiency plan for the Israel Defense Forces at the end of July, IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot took the highly unusual step of publishing the Israeli army’s new strategy. In Eisenkot’s view, the IDF must be able to deliver a military solution to the multiple threats that Israel is facing.

The new doctrine is already visible on the Golan Heights, where the IDF is preparing for a possible incursion into Syria in response to increasing efforts by Islamist terror groups such as Hezbollah, al-Nusra front and Islamic State to set up camp in the vicinity of the Israeli border.

By Maj. Gen. (res.) Yaakov Amidror, JINSA

The P5+1 agreement with Iran over its military nuclear program doesn’t solve any problems, it merely delays addressing them, at most by 15 years. Afterward, these problems will again need to be dealt with, unless a change takes place within the Iranian regime.

There are however several ramifications of the deal that are unrelated to the Iranian nuclear program, and these dangers should not be ignored. The first and almost immediate ramification of the agreement will be a tremendous arms race in the Middle East, both in terms of conventional and nuclear weapons.
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T. Belman. Actually the title to this article selected by HAARETZ, read “worry about” rather than “applaud”. Rather then attributing this appointment to a desire to get rid of him, perhaps Netanyahu had something else in mind. Appointing Danon is in line with appointing Hotovely to position of Deputy Foreign Minister and Dermer to be Amb to the US. They share the same outlook. Perhaps this signifies that Netanyahu wants to push a right wing message.

From urging Israel to annex the West Bank, to his close ties to Republican heavyweights – some are concerned Danon’s appointment throws Israel off the diplomatic cliff. Here’s why.

By Allison Kaplan Sommer , HAARETZ

Nobody expected Benjamin Netanyahu to appoint a left-winger to the sensitive position of Israel’s ambassador to the UN, or even a centrist. They might have crossed their fingers and hoped for an appointment like current ambassador Ron Prosor or the newly named ambassador to the UK Mark Regev –  a career diplomat who has makes Israel’s case strongly but with utter professionalism – but the odds were still on him handing the plum post to a Likudnik like Gilad Erdan or Ofir Akunis (who had let it be known publicly that he was interested in the job)
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BY: David Isaac NEW BEACON

Tuvia Tenenbom is one of a kind, as is this extraordinary book. Born in Israel and the son of an ultra-orthodox rabbi, Tenenbom rebelled. He left both Israel and religious orthodoxy, obtained advanced degrees in mathematics and literature, founded the Jewish Theater in New York—for which he has written sixteen plays—and became a columnist in German and English.

Catch the Jew! depends on Tenenbom’s talents as both con man and chameleon. He writes: “Yes, I have this strange habit: I enjoy playing with nationalities. By a chance of nature, I have an unidentifiable accent and miraculously people believe me when I tell them that I’m Austrian, Bulgarian, Chinese, or whatever country I happen to fancy at the moment.” His ability to pose as various characters helps to give this book its fresh, off-beat slant despite the darkness of its subject matter. His most successful disguise is as Tobi the German, who wins the instant friendship of every Arab he meets, all of whom admire Hitler.
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Constitution shredding — over and over again.

By Joseph Klein, FPM

Editor’s note: Below is the third article in the Frontpage series, “Obama’s Betrayals.” Click the following to read Part I and Part II. 

President Barack Obama is guilty of multiple counts of illegality and malfeasance in office.  He has both willfully abused his executive powers and willfully neglected to perform his executive duties under the Constitution to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed.”

More than any president in the history of the United States, Obama’s motive for his shredding of the Constitution is the pursuit of absolute power for the purpose of, in his words, “fundamentally transforming the United States of America.”
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By Joseph Puder, FPM

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Given Herb London’s global connections, and his involvement in framing foreign policy, this reporter addressed the following questions to him.

Joseph Puder (JP): Please tell us about the mission of the London Center for Policy Research. What are its goals, and how does it operate?

Herb London (HL): The London Center was organized to promote an independent, non-partisan analysis of “hot spots” on the globe and how to think strategically about them. In the areas where possible mitigation exits, the LCPR offers a variety of recommendations. Because of contacts cultivated in Washington, DC, the LCPR has established a regular seminar series on the Hill for staffers and elected officials, all designed to influence policy and future legislation.
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Is Mahmoud Abbas about to quit? And if so, who’ll take over?

BY AVI ISSACHAROFF, TOI

A wave of attacks. Escalation. Intensification. We have heard these expressions many times in recent months in connection with the situation in the West Bank. So perhaps it is necessary to define this anew: This is the reality in the West Bank. This is the face of things. This is the status quo.

The government of Israel and those leading it are convinced that they are capable of managing the conflict, but they are not striving to resolve it. And this weekend illustrated the price — two stabbings, an attempted arson attack at a gas station, and a few other relatively minor incidents.
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By Dror Eydar, ISRAEL HAYOM

JCPA
Lt. Col. (ret.) Michael Segall

• Ayatollah Khomeini’s founding vision – that the eradication of Zionism is an inevitable precondition for redeeming contemporary Islam – still guides Iran’s current religious, political and military establishment. Today, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei bears the torch and is the chief agitator for the extermination of Israel, spreading this message worldwide over social media, such as Twitter and Facebook, in books, and addressing various audiences in English, Arabic and Persian. The Iranian religious, political, intellectual and military elite support and repeat Khamenei’s messages.

• When negotiating with Western powers, Iran sugar-coats its belligerent ideology, presenting it as the “Iranian Peace Plan.” As part of this peace plan, Iran calls for” a just and permanent solution of the Palestinian question,” which in practice means the elimination of the Jewish state.

• On July 25, 2015, Facebook pages and websites associated with the Revolutionary Guards reported the statement of commander Mohammad Ali Jafari: “Once the Supreme Leader orders all forces to start jihad, we can reduce Israel to dust within 24 hours. Our missiles have been eager to be launched for years.”

• Hojatoleslam Ali Shirazi, Khamenei’s representative in Iran’s Al-Quds Force, said on February 26, 2015: “We shall not rest until the banner of Islam flies over the White House. This is the wish of the Islamic Community.”

• Mohsen Rafighdoost, one of the founders of the Revolutionary Guards, declared at a press conference on Januar 21, 2015: “The countdown to the annihilation of Israel has begun….Now, we wish to be in the front line of the fight for liberating Jerusalem.”

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T. Belman. So much for freedom of speech. For this to be acceptable one must conclude that the Temple Mount and its environs are combustible like a movie theater. You know, you can’t yell “fire” in a crowded movie theater. But there is a difference. In a theater the dreaded response is activated by fear. At the mosques, the ensuing riots are politically motivated.

Muslim Clerics – Jews Are the Descendants of Apes, Pigs, And Other Animals

At a minimum, to restore balance, anyone making these claims in a public place should be arrested. But it shouldn’t end there. Balance must be restored to the Temple Mount. The Wakf should not be permitted to dictate that Jews can’t pray there. There jurisdiction should be limited to the mosques and the immediately surrounding land and the rest of the land should be under the jurisdiction of Israeli authorities.

By Tova Dvorin, INN

Israel Police also arrest a 14 year-old boy for unspecified reasons on Sunday, in latest wave of arrests at Judaism’s holiest site.

The Israel Police arrested a young Jewish Israeli on Sunday, after he retaliated toward an Arab mob on the Temple Mount by stating that “Mohammed is a pig.”
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Deal will increase the amount of natural gas produced by Tamar field, and enable quick development of other fields.

By Gil Ronen, INN

After years of bickering and haggling, the government approved on Sunday the outline for development of offshore natural gas fields, as presented by Minister of Energy, Dr. Yuval Steinitz, with the support of the prime minister.

The deal that is to be signed with private developers will increase the amount of gas produced from the Tamar field, and make possible the quick development of gas fields Leviathan, Karish and Tanin, among others.

The outline aroused harsh and heated opposition, mostly in leftist organizations, but after being submitted to public debate, it was approved by a large majority.
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By Richard  Baehr, ISRAEL HAYOM