The Palestinian Authority is corrupt, the former US secretary of state warns in The Hill with Sander Gerber; the Saudis should support their fellow Muslims through a new NGO that bypasses the PA and the UN

By Daniel Edelson, YNET NEWS

Former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo issued a warning against the involvement of the Palestinian Authority (PA) in any potential Saudi-Israeli normalization agreement. The Trump administration official and Sander Gerber, the chief executive of Hudson Bay Capital Management, sounded the alarm in a recent opinion column for The Hill.

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Caroline Glick Show

Why is the uniparty risking a war we’re so ill-prepared to fight?

By Douglas Macgregor, AMER CONSERVATIVE

When Richard Nixon lost the election to John F. Kennedy, Nixon told supporters, “I know Jack Kennedy. He’s a patriot.” Nixon knew that the nation would be safe in President Kennedy’s hands.

Most Americans do not have the same confidence in President Biden. In April 2023, fewer than four in ten U.S. adults (37 percent) said they approved of Joe Biden’s job performance as president, with six in ten saying they disapproved. By a 2-to-1 margin, American voters now believe controlling the U.S. border is more important than helping Ukraine fight Russia. For the first time in 30 years, the U.S. Government’s interest payments on the sovereign debt equal defense spending.
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A legal drama of the highest order unfolded in the High Court of Justice on Tuesday, as arguments that cut to the core of Israel’s constitutional character were debated by all 15 justices of the court and attorneys for and against the government’s reasonableness limitation law.

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Smotrich calls emergency meeting of Religious Zionism party; Ben Gvir calls on PM to publicly disavow reports or ‘face consequences’; defense minister says no arms were transferred

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Religious Zionist party leader MK Bezalel Smotrich (right) with Otzma Yehudit party leader MK Itamar Ben Gvir in the Knesset plenum, December 28, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Far-right ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben Gvir railed angrily at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday over reports that the government approved the transfer of a shipment of armored vehicles and weapons from the United States to the Palestinian Authority.

Both ministers claimed that the move was made without their knowledge and accused Netanyahu of plotting to lay the foundations for an alternative government with National Unity party leader Benny Gantz.

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by Bassam Tawil, GATESTONE  •  September 13, 2023

• Palestinian officials… have assured the US that they will not oppose Saudi-Israeli efforts at normalization, in the hope of receiving security, financial and political incentives from the Biden administration.
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T. Belman. This is a good synopsis but it misses the elephant in the room. I explain in my addendum at the bottom of this article.

This week, for the first time ever, Israel’s entire Supreme Court of 15 justices is hearing petitions challenging a key judicial coup law passed by the Netanyahu government. What does the new law say? Who is contesting it, and why? What are the repercussions of this dramatic confrontation?

By Allison Kaplan Sommer, HAARETZ

No matter the result, September 12, 2023 will be remembered as a historic day for Israeli democracy – and possibly the beginning of a constitutional crisis, or worse.

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Martin Indyk is shocked by his friend, Mahmoud Abbas. So are we – by him.

By Barry Shaw, Israel Institute for Strategic Studies.

Former US diplomat, Martin Indyk, who for decades promoted Palestinian advancement over Israeli sovereignty, is shocked by the recent anti-Semitic remarks of his dear friend. Mahmoud Abbas.

Indyk tweeted, “I have been despairing about how to respond to Abu Mazen’s profoundly anti-Semitic diatribe. How could someone who has treated me as a personal friend for three decades at the same time harbor such hateful views of my people?”

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T. Belman. Oslo didn’t happen out of the blue. In my article Since when did the Palestinians become entitled to a state, I traced its origin’s back to the Roger’s Plan of  1969. And remember too, that Pres Reagan saved Arafat and his band of terrorists by transporting them from Beirut to Tunisia for safe keeping until an opportunity presented itself to then transport them to Israel.

The Oslo Accord assessed the Palestinian Arab issue via Western lenses, sacrificing Mid-East reality on the altar of wishful thinking.

By Amb.(ret.) Yoram Ettinger     Sep 12, 2023,

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Oslo Accord’s writing on the wall

In January 1979, President Carter facilitated the Ayatollahs’ rise to power in Iran, assuming that they would be “preoccupied with tractors, not with tanks.”

In September 1993, Prime Minister Rabin embraced the Oslo Accord, assuming that Arafat would be “preoccupied with domestic issues of the newly-established Palestinian Authority, not with terrorism.”

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TIERNEY NEWS

I highly recommend this overview of what we know now and didn’t know then.

Recently Alan Dershowitz wrote
The Israel Lobby is nothing compared to the Saudi Lobby

These are some of the articles I have written on the vast power of the Saudi Lobby. Don’t miss them.

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T. Belman. Kissinger famously said at the time. he wanted Israel to suffer a bloody nose so she would be more amenable.

This article Yom Kippur War: The surprise belongs to NSA’s Jew Room. explains that part of the US knew there would be an attack and prevented Israel from hearing about it.

Then-U.S. secretary of state feared too much winning would make Israel harder to influence.

BY COLUM LYNCH, FOREIGN POLICY | AUGUST 9, 2019,

For Henry Kissinger, the prospect of an Israeli defeat during the 1973 Arab-Israeli War was always unthinkable. A victory by a Soviet-armed Arab coalition against a U.S.-armed Israel would shatter Washington’s strategic advantage in the Middle East and send the message to other Cold War clients that they “need to rely on the Soviet Union,” the then-U.S. secretary of state told his staff.

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BY HUGH FITZGERALD, JIHAD WATCH SEPT 9, 2023

In the just-released movie about Golda Meir and her role as Israeli Prime Minister prior to, and during, the surprise attack launched by Egypt and Syria on the Jewish state in 1973, President Richard Nixon appears only in one brief scene. But Nixon was critical to Israel’s victory in the Yom Kippur war, by sending 567 planeloads of weapons and ammunition to the IDF when it had run catastrophically low on both.

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