By Shimon Shapira, JCPA

• In mid-April, Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah paid a secret visit to Tehran where he met with the top Iranian officials headed by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and Gen. Qasem Suleimani, the commander of the Quds Force of the Revolutionary Guard Corps. Suleimani prepared an operational plan named after him based upon the establishment of a 150,000-man force for Syria, the majority of whom will come from Iran, Iraq, and a smaller number from Hizbullah and the Gulf states.

• Suleimani’s involvement was significant. He has been the spearhead of Iranian military activism in the Middle East. In January 2012, he declared that the Islamic Republic controlled “one way or another” Iraq and South Lebanon. Even before recent events in Syria, observers in the Arab world have been warning for years about growing evidence of “Iranian expansionism.” Read more…

By Ari Briggs, JPOST

Last Thursday TV personality Avri Gilad went on a trip to the northern Negev with Regavim – an independent, professional research institute and policy planning think tank involved in protecting Israel’s national lands. So disturbed was he by what he saw on that trip that upon his return he immediately penned the following post on Facebook:

“I came back from a tour of the Negev conducted by Regavim. I’m appalled by what I’ve seen. There’s no more Negev.

The Beduin have taken it over completely by force….

By shameless criminal activity, with insolence met only by fear and submission, the Beduin have taken over the entire Negev.”

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As Both Rebels and Hezbollah Close In on Syria’s Chemical Weapons
By TheTower.org Staff | 05.03.13 9:22 pm

The buzz around Palin is about whether she will run in 2014 to get elected as the Senator from Alaska and whether she will use that as a platform to run for the presidency.

Some suggest she will run run for president as an independent.

Some say she will focus on doing in 2014 what she so successfully did in 2010.

I have been on the Michael Coren Show when he was just cutting his teeth on Islamism. He has come a long way. Meir Weinstein is the intrepid leader of the Jewish Defense League and I know him well. He is well respected by the Jewish establishment, the Canadian Government and society at large. He has been active in defending Jews for over 10 years.

Being a Jewish-nation state must trump being a democratic state or democratic values will trump being Jewish Nation state. Being a Jewish state means giving preference to Jews and things Jewish. In a democracy this is verbotten. DON’T GUT THE BILL. By Ted Belman

MKs work to revive ‘nation-state’ bill

ISRAEL HAYOM

Habayit Hayehudi faction chairwoman Ayelet Shaked and MK Ruth Calderon (Yesh Atid) intend to work together to formulate an updated version of the so-called nation-state bill, which aims to legislate the state’s Jewish identity.

The controversial bill, proposed by then-Homefront Defense Minister Avi Dichter in the last government but ultimately scrapped, seeks to prevent the establishment of a binational state and to define Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people. The original bill called for Jewish religious law to serve as inspiration for new legislation and for the dropping of Arabic as an official language, granting it only “special status.”
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By David Hornick, FPM

By Ted Belman

In response to the alleged Arab League softening, Netanyahu said:

“The root of the conflict isn’t territorial. It began way before 1967. The Palestinians’ failure to accept the state of Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people is the root of the conflict. If we reach a peace agreement, I want to know that the conflict won’t continue – that the Palestinians won’t come later with more demands.”

Thus he is embracing “land for peace”. He is saying that he would rather have an end of conflict agreement and recognition of Israel as a Jewish state than Judea and Samaria or east Jerusalem.

You will recall that when Pres Obama was here he said “The Palestinians must recognize Israel as a Jewish state. I wondered at the time why he would make such a gratuitous remark out of the blue. But now that Netanyahu has said virtually the same thing, one wonders if some kind of deal was cut.
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Lapid’s core curriculum demand will force ultra-Orthodox sector to seek support from hasidic sects such as Satmar

By Ohad Shaked, YNET

Yair Lapid’s war on the haredim is an old war. His father, Yosef “Tommy” Lapid also tried to fan the flames, and he got burned. We believe this Lapid will also get burned. The question is how much damage will be caused to the country. Not to us haredim, but to the country.

Let me explain. Two men survived the Holocaust in the same country. One, the late Yosef Lapid, became famous and served as justice minister and chairman of Yad Vashem. The other, who was just as famous, was Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum, the admor of Satmar. The Satmar doctrine may appear radical to many, but it has been embraced by more than 100,000 hasidim around the world, mainly in the US. You will not find one Satmar hasid who disagrees with this doctrine, and, as times goes by, the reality indicates that the rebbe’s theory may have been right.
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