By Ted Belman (Originally published in Aug ’05)

President Moshe Katsav in a recent interview underscored that, more then any time in the past, the upcoming election will be a referendum on Israel’s borders and so it will.

All parties are prepared to withdraw to varying degrees and on different preconditions. In effect, Labour and Kadima accept the two-state solution as envisioned by the Roadmap and Likud is paying lip service to it because its preconditions are unlikely to be fulfilled.
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by: Fern Sidman, JEWISH VOICE

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) canceled a Palestinian “Nakba Day” event headlined by Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) at the U.S. Capitol and replaced it with an event marking 75 years of Israel-U.S. ties, World Israel News reported on Tuesday.

The original event, which was slated to be held at a 400-person auditorium at the Capitol Building, would commemorate the Nakba — Arabic for “catastrophe” — which condemns the founding of the Jewish state in May of 1948.

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Cancelling due to Ben Gvir’s presence is just the newest hypocrisy. Europe celebrates with dictators, but boycotts democratic Israel.

By Giulio Meotti, INN

“The ambassadors of the European Union member states present in Qatar are pleased to invite you to a special event to celebrate Europe Day in Qatar”. And again: “Every year, on May 9, we celebrate the Schuman declaration. The EU ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Patrick Simonnet, has organized a lunch to celebrate Europe Day in Riyadh”. Same invitation in Türkiye.

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The strike in the Gaza Strip bolstered Israeli deterrence and showed that Israel’s domestic strife won’t impact its actions on national security. Now we must make sure the terrorists’ response from Gaza won’t offset Israel’s accomplishments.

By Meir Ben Shabbat, INN      10.5.2

We must:

1. Maximize our defense so that the death count is minimal. Beyond simply saving lives, this will deny the enemy success and make sure that when the operation is over, they remain beaten down and without accomplishments to point to.

2. Focus on PIJ, while preparing for Hamas to enter the fighting. Hamas should think twice before it joins the fray; if Israel picks up signals it is about to do so, it must take a proactive stance by targeting its leaders and facilities.

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By Amir Tibon, Jonathan Lis, Jack Khoury, HAARETZ    11.5.23

The Biden administration is signaling to Israel to reach a ceasefire and end its ongoing operation in the Gaza Strip, as talks between Israel and the Palestinians, mediated by Egypt, Qatar and the UN, continue.

A source familiar with the details of the negotiations told Haaretz that “the talks go on, but the situation is complicated and tense.” Nevertheless, the source said “we’re moving toward a ceasefire, but at a slower pace than usual.”

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By Patricia McCarthy, AM THINKER

Few of his supporters were surprised to learn that Trump was going to do a sit-down in New Hampshire for CNN.  The man does not shy away from potential political disasters; he thrives on them, runs straight at them, unafraid.

Why?  Because he always comes out of these things having won bigly.  Not only is he quick thinking and knowledgeable when it comes to the facts on all the relevant issues, he is gloriously entertaining, verbally and visually.  His facial expressions and gestures say as much he does with words.

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Today, the U.S. position is reflected in the DoD Law of War Manual:

However, the broadest protection is found in Article 51(7) of the 1977 Additional Protocol I. It provides,

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By Jonathan F. Keiler, AMERICAN THINKER 2014

The other day Kenneth Roth, the executive director of Human Rights Watch, appeared on the “Huckabee Show” on FOX News to make the case that Israel is committing war crimes in Gaza. Huckabee is a strong supporter of Israel, instinctively on the right side of the issue, but could do little but respond with exasperation to Roth’s technical sounding claims of Israeli law-breaking. While the pro-Huckabee studio audience didn’t buy it, Roth’s calm, prim, and professorial accusations against Israel might easily sway a neutral observer who didn’t actually know the law. His weak but carefully articulated claims help establish the pseudo-legal sounding framework which the left-wing media, most of Europe and the Obama administration use to pressure and condemn Israel. It works to encourage Hamas’ own continuing war crimes, rather than promote adherence to the law.
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Pres Trump went into the lion’s den without preconditions.
The questions were fair.
The nasty lady was over-bearing and spoke over him to assert her answer.
“Who do you want to win the war?” Trump: “I want the killing to end. I will end the war in 24 hours”
“What will you do about inflation?” Trump: “Drill Baby Drill”
“Roe v Wade”. “I am proud of of cancelling it because it gave the pro-life people negotiating power.”
Jan 6 prisoners. “I will issue many pardons.”
“Sexual battery case.” Trump: “Entirely made up story. I didn’t testify because I didn’t want to give the story credibility. I stand by my decision”. “She named her dog “vagina” but Judge didn’t allow us to tell that to the jury.

T. Belman.  I continue to publish the emails from Galina because she is an authentic Russian voice.

By Galina.

I carefully read your article. Clearly, The US is the aggressor in the War in Ukraine. I disagree with some of your conclusions.

On the expansion of NATO to the east

At the NATO summit in London on July 5-6, 1990, the final declaration was adopted. NATO offered former adversaries friendship and the creation of institutions for interaction with the alliance, invited Mikhail Gorbachev to speak in Brussels, and invited the countries of the Warsaw Treaty Organization to join a joint declaration on the end of hostility. However, not a word was said in the document about the further expansion or, conversely, the cessation of NATO expansion. On July 17, US President Bush called the Secretary General and confirmed the main provisions of the declaration adopted at the summit, including the idea of expanding the role of the OSCE and creating new European institutions in which the Soviet Union could participate in order to become part of the new Europe.

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L. Goudsmit. James Lindsay presents an extraordinary and original analysis of the existential threat facing western civilization. He introduces Marxism as the genus of ideological thought, and exposes classical economic Marxism, radical feminism, critical race theory, queer theory, post-colonial theory, and wokism as species in the genus of Marxism. It is a magnificent discourse that identifies Wokism as 21st-century Marxism evolved to attack the West.

Lindsay is addressing the European parliament, and in my opinion, it is disappointing that at his conclusion he fails to state that European governments, the government of the United States, and the government of Israel, are all participating in the Woke take down of western civilization. The enemy is within. The only Judeo-Christian governments resisting Wokism are eastern European, because they have already lived the lies of communism.

“One of the most important speeches made in the EU Parliament.”
James Lindsay Woke culture.

The definition of Equity – woke is Maoism with western characteristics

April 30, 2023 [transcript]

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Blessed cooperation between Steve Bannon War Room and Dr. Naomi Wolf from the Daily Clout

BY URI WEISS

https://rumble.com/v2mts3i-dr.-naomi-wolf-cdc-director-rochelle-walensky-steps-down.html

https://rumble.com/v2mrivu-dr-naomi-wolf-pfizer-and-fda-knew-that-pfizer-mrna-covid-vaccine-caused-dir.html

One good thing, which the psychopaths who orchestrated this PLAN-DEMIC didn’t anticipate happened as a direct result of their hideous criminal activity. They brought together organizations from the “far right”, Steve Bannon from the War Room, with Dr. Naomi Wolf from the Daily Clout in the “far left” of the political spectrum.

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By BRIANNA LYMAN

Former President Donald Trump reacted on Truth Social to the verdict in the rape and defamation suit brought by E Jean Carroll.

Trump was found liable for defamation and battery, with Carroll to be awarded $5 million in damages. Trump was not found guilty of rape, however. Trump defended himself on Truth Social, maintaining he didn’t know who Carroll was.

“I HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA WHO THIS WOMAN IS. THIS VERDICT IS A DISGRACE – A CONTINUATION OF THE GREATEST WITCH HUNT OF ALL TIME!”

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We’re back. pic.twitter.com/sG5t9gr60O

— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) May 9, 2023

ADL does not press for congressional action against her

The Jewish Leadership Project is a project of Americans for Peace and Tolerance

On May 1, anti-Jewish bigot Rashida Tlaib tweeted that the “apartheid state of Israel was born out of violence and the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. [¶] 75 years later, the Nakba continues to this day.”

As the Democratic Party becomes infested with anti-Semitism, the ADL sits on its hands. This is intolerable. American Jews must demand of the ADL, the Federations, the JCRCs, the AJC, and our rabbis: What is your strategy to deal with Jew-hatred coming from the left, from “people of color,” and from Muslim Americans?

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By Roy Francis, OAN

The Arab league has agreed to reinstate Syria, taking another step towards bringing back Syrian President Bashar Assad back into the fold of the league after a 12-year suspension.

Syria’s membership to the Arab League was revoked in 2011 after Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had brutally repressed pro-Democracy protests in the country.
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It’s Time to Give Up on the Two-State Solution

By Michael Barnett, Nathan Brown, Marc Lynch, and Shibley Telhami, FOREIGN AFFAIRS   14.4.23

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s return to power in Israel with a narrow, extreme right-wing coalition has shattered even the illusion of a two-state solution. Members of his new government have not been shy about stating their views on what Israel is and what it should be in all the territories it controls: a Greater Israel defined not just as a Jewish state but one in which the law enshrines Jewish supremacy over all Palestinians who remain there. As a result, it is no longer possible to avoid confronting a one-state reality.
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T. Belman. This is a very important article. When China Brokered a deal between Iran and SA, I said that it could be a good thing and quoted Newton’s law, “for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.” In other words, it forced the US to respond and this article discusses the response.

It seems the US has a tough time achieving its goals. Bibi is no longer seen as the interrogatory between Arab states and the US. He has been replaced by MBS.

Saudi Arabia is the key to fulfilling President Biden’s strategy in the Middle East, but the kingdom is in a different place than it was a year and a half – and so is Israel

By Zvi Bar’el, HAARETZ    9.5.23

A combination picture shows Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Credit: RONEN ZVULUN/ REUTERS

U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan’s visit to Saudi Arabia did not provide a lot of good news for Israel, which was not even one of the stops planned for his trip. True, Sullivan did hold a conference call with Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi before his flight to Riyadh, and two of his senior advisers – Brett McGurk and Amos Hochstein – did arrive in Israel on Monday to update their Israeli counterparts, but according to Israeli officials, no one is holding their breath in preparation for the signing of an agreement to normalize relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia.

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MUDAR ZAHRAN TWEETED TODAY:

Many think that the Syrian tragedy is a “crisis”, and in fact it is the standard model that the great evil forces wanted for the region and that is generalized to the whole world, the state and the state together, and the citizen’s flight from the regime’s fire into the fire of its opponents, the lawlessness of borders and the chaos of armies Militias, hunger and undernourishment as a way of life, and between all of this is the imposition of keeping the regime with a rope from the superpowers whose legitimacy imposed it secretly in order to demonize it openly and blackmail with malice those who carried out its orders and imprinted with it…!!!
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DR STEVE TURLEY