by Bassam Tawil, GATESTONE  •  August 28, 2023

• When people such as Vivek Ramaswamy, a candidate for the Republican Party nomination in the 2024 US presidential election, call for decreasing aid to Israel, they are actually sending a message of support to the mullahs in Tehran and their proxies, Hamas and PIJ, as well as the Iran-funded Hezbollah terrorist militia in Lebanon and to nations that would like to see Israel and America “out of the way.”
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The attackers may decide on their own where to strike and carry it out by themselves, but they drink from the same poisonous well that makes the killing of Jews kosher, be it because “Al Aqsa Mosque is being desecrated” or just in the name of Islam or the Palestinian cause.

 By  Nadav Shragai, ISRAEL HAYOM 21.8.23

Once again, we fell into the trap: Even before the bodies of the dead from Saturday’s terrorist attack were laid to rest, it had already been described as a “lone-wolf” incident that was part of the “atmosphere.”

This definition is misleading because there is a hand that rocks the cradle for such perpetrators. Such attacks are not created out of thin air. The atmosphere that creates “atmosphere attacks” – the prevailing sentiment from where would-be attackers get their inspiration for their “lone-wolf attacks” – is part and parcel of the multi-year campaign to glorify terrorists and make Jews legitimate targets regardless of where they are.

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According to a study published on October 11, 2022, by Regavim, there are 81,317 illegal structures in area C. 

By Larry Domnitch, INN

Proximity of illegal Arab building to Efrat homes Regavim

The curvy windy road leading to the northern entrance of Efrat passes by an adjacent Arab town. The town extends from a nearby hill downwards and then ascends upwards almost reaching the Dagan and Tamar neighborhoods of Efrat. The town has no name, but it has schools, and nearby homes. Some of the buildings have not been completed as many of their window frames are empty revealing no residency within their walls. They are unoccupied structures.<
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We are told to get vaccinated to reduce the risk of being infected. But the numbers aren’t working out for them. How can they explain this survey?

STEVE KIRSCH

Executive summary

According to the survey I just did of over 16,000 people, fully vaccinated people are more than 2X as likely to get COVID than the unvaccinated.

What I found was fascinating is that if you did get COVID, the probability of being hospitalized was identical in the two groups.

My survey results are publicly viewable and all the entries can be verified (I have the contact info for each respondent). Happy to provide to any mainstream media fact checker.

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by Avi Abelow

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Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz puts Israel’s judicial reforms into proper perspective in this discussion.  Watch the full debate HERE

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YOU CAN’T IMAGINE HOW DESTRUCTIVE THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS TO AMKERICA.

THEIR GOAL IS TOTAL POWER.

By Michael Ordman, VGNI

Israel’s usual high summer temperatures may explain why so many Israelis are indoors energetically working on innovations to make a better world.  Renewable energy developments include releasing hydrogen from water using regular sunlight; floating solar farms are now a commercial reality; and a solar farm that generates cheaper electricity than can be produced from fossil fuels.

Israeli energy in the medical arena has resulted in the world’s first spine surgery using Augmented Reality; the first implanted tricuspid heart valves; two cancer breakthroughs; life-saving blood clot removal; and the first blood test to diagnose bipolar disorder.  Energetic Israelis are helping save lives after devastating fires in Maui, Hawaii.

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T. Belman. I disagree. We should build as much as we can because it is our right, not to punish terrorism.

by Michael Freund, Jerusalem Post  August 25, 2023

Earlier this week, in less than 48 hours, two Jewish families were shattered forever by Palestinian terrorist gunfire.

On Saturday, Shai Nigreker, 60, and his son Aviad Nir, 28, were shot dead when they stopped at a Palestinian-owned car wash in Huwara, south of Nablus.

Then, on Monday, another one of our ostensible peace partners opened fire on an Israeli vehicle near Hebron, murdering Batsheva Nigri, a 42-year-old mother of three, in front of her 12-year-old daughter who was sitting in the back seat. The driver, Aryeh Gottlieb, a father of six, was seriously wounded.

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By Tom Gross

I attach four articles from today and yesterday involving states in the Persian Gulf.

They cover the following issues:

The Wall Street Journal: Largest Hunger Strick by Imprisoned Liberal Reformers in Bahrain’s History.

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The percentage in haredi society of those who officially work has reached a record high of 55.8%

By Kobi Nachshoni, INN 26.8.213

It’s hard to remain unmoved by the findings of a survey publicized earlier this month showing the rapid growth of haredim (sometimes called ultra-orthodox Jews) in Israel’s workforce. The numbers, crunched by Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics, show that the percentage in haredi society of those who officially work has reached a record high of 55.8%. This is still a far cry from the 63% target set by the government back in 2020, and much further still from the 87% of the general Jewish populace. But the trend is positive and very encouraging: After nearly a decade with no real change in the percentages, the number of gainfully employed haredim is clearly rising, and appears on track to continue to do so.

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By Victor Davis Hanson, JWR

Despite years of Biden family and media disinformation, we are finally learning that President Joe Biden really did fire Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin for looking into state corruption involving the oil company Burisma and Hunter Biden — and ultimately Joe Biden himself.

As vice president, Biden, in his own words, bragged that he had threatened to cancel the deliverance of American foreign aid to Ukraine unless Shokin was dismissed.

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By Sarah Arnold, TOWNHALL | August 23, 2023 

After three years of Democrats refusing to acknowledge there was some level of election fraud during the 2020 presidential election, the office of the Secretary of State in Georgia that there was faulty while handling the ballots.

The admission came after Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) accused Floyd County, Georgia, of botching the ballot process after he ex-husband, Perry Greene, showed up to vote and was told he had already voted by absentee ballot despite not ever requesting an absentee ballot.<
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Economic frustration brings out protesters across Syria, including in areas still under the control of al-Assad.

By Ali Haj Suleiman, AL JAZEERA

Latest protests began in Sweida, in Syria’s south, but support has come from protesters in opposition-controlled areas, too [Ali Haj Suleiman/Al Jazeera]<

Anti-government demonstrations have taken place in several provinces in Syria, as protesters called for an overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad, in scenes reminiscent of the beginning of the Syrian uprising in 2011.

Hundreds of protesters gathered on Friday in Sweida and Deraa, both in southern Syria, northern Aleppo and Idlib, in the northwest, and Deir Az Zor, Raqqa and Hassakeh, in the northeast.

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T. Belman.  Given its anti-Israel policies, it can’t happen soon enough for me. Its decline has been fueled by two additional factors; the immigration  of millions of Muslims into France and Germany and the Ukraine War.

As the continent grapples with an ageing population, new centres of power have emerged

By GERARD ARAUD, TELEGRAPH 25 August 2023 

We Europeans are still convinced of the centrality of our small continent not only to the history of mankind but to shaping the world today. We lecture everyone else based on values that we firmly believe are universal. We think of ourselves as noble, powerful and well intentioned.

But the period of true European power was really just a historical blip.

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T. Belman.  I read this book more than 50 years ago and was profoundly influenced by it. The New World Order envisages a world or life without meaning. As such it is doomed to failure.

In Israel, the Right is imbued with meaning and the Left is bereft of it.

By Samuel Kronen, CITY JOURNAL

Viktor Frankl survived the Holocaust and created a new psychology in which the search for meaning—not pleasure or power—is mankind’s central motivational force.

The Austrian psychiatrist, author, and Holocaust survivor Viktor Emil Frankl was a quintessential humanist. His memoir Man’s Search for Meaning, a psychological portrait of life inside the concentration camps, has become a go-to for seekers of every variety since its original German-language publication in 1946. Listed as “one of the ten most influential books in the U.S.” in 1991, it still appears as one of Amazon’s 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime. Having sold more than 10 million copies and having been translated into 24 languages, Man’s Search for Meaning is considered among the most inspiring nonfiction works. This “should be required reading for anyone desiring to live on this planet,” says a YouTube commentator, regarding one of Frankl’s interviews. Frankl’s crowning literary achievement, however—written in nine days and originally published anonymously—is just the capstone on his life and work.

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