By Mordechai Ben-Menachem
Last week’s top story! This brief article attempts to provide an overview. I ask readers to consider this a ‘baseline’ – verify the data and reach your own conclusions.
This is the first in-person forum meeting since the pandemic. Clearly, no other BRICS summit has ever generated such international interest. The declared objective is ‘a shift in global politics.’
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By Malcolm Dash, INN 29.8.23
Dr. Gadi Taub wrote a daring article in Tablet last week titled “Israel’s Elites Revolt Against Democracy.” I agree with Gadi Taub’s Tablet article After all, he was a founder member of the Peace Now movement, changed his mind and he’s an intellectual heavyweight like Ran Baratz.
Taub, with elegance, describes the judicial tyranny exercised by the legal establishment. There are many other right-wing intellectuals who have come to the same understanding as Taub.
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By Victor Davis Hanson, AM GREATNESS
Some truths are so staggering in their ramifications that Americans simply shrug and tune them out as if strangers in a strange land.
Is their current bewilderment because modernist America is unrecognizable —a nonexistent border, downtown homeless juxtaposed to hipster professional elites, DEI racial essentialism, cities reverting to precivilizational wastelands, millions exiting blue states to red, an FBI and DOJ gone rogue, the normalization of violent theft and assault, biologically born men sandbagging women’s sports and their locker room privacy?
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Interviewed by his daughter
With uncharacteristic humility, I would concede that a few positions I’ve argued fiercely in print might be viable on paper, but in practice are a disaster. The “war on drugs” being a fiasco, years ago I advocated the legalisation of recreational pharmaceuticals. But given the dirty, dangerous, dismal tent cities full of addicts in LA, San Francisco, Seattle, and Portland — which have all effectively decriminalised drug possession — it may be fortunate that glib journalists like me don’t control public policy.
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by Bassam Tawil, GATESTONE • August 28, 2023
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.
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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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.
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
YOU CAN’T IMAGINE HOW DESTRUCTIVE THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS TO AMKERICA.
THEIR GOAL IS TOTAL POWER.
By Jeannie DeAngelis, AMER THINKER
The definition of “vindictive” is to have or show a “strong or unreasoning desire for revenge.” As an observer of the ongoing humiliation and persecution currently directed toward Donald J. Trump and anyone who supports him, what America may now be witnessing is an unparalleled display of malicious revenge.
One might ask, “Who is driving this retribution?” The most obvious answer to that question is that it must be a self-absorbed force with a notorious reputation for spiteful exoneration. Judging from past conduct, that force would be none other than former president Barack Obama.
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.
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.
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.
Here in Israel, the current political crisis is causing acute anxiety and dread. But the reason isn’t what so many diaspora Jews think it is.
Most in Britain and America haven’t a clue about the complexities of this crisis, because news outlets rarely give them information that challenges boilerplate prejudices. Instead, diaspora communities have swallowed a cartoonish media distortion.
Jerusalem is the country’s largest Education Ministry district, with over 200,000 students of all grades divided into several streams.<
The Religious Zionist community makes up about 23% (or 130,000) of the city’s total Jewish residents, and their children have approximately 82 state-run religious elementary and high schools (including junior high) at their disposal (48 elementary schools, and 34 high schools).
Vivek Ramaswamy, one of the leading candidates for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination, pushed back against accusations he would harm the US-Israel relationship and Israel’s security by cutting military aid to the Jewish State.
Speaking to Israel’s Channel 12 News following last week’s Republican presidential debate, Ramaswamy claimed that other politicians with more experience than himself put words in his mouth. “What I actually said was that if our relationship with Israel ever gets Israel to the point of being so strong that Israel doesn’t even need our aid anymore, that will actually be a mark of success of a true friendship. I want this to be clear – we will never cut off aid to Israel until Israel tells us that they are ready for it.”
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.
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.
