The annual $3.8bn extended by the US to Israel (to purchase only US military systems) does not constitute “foreign aid.” It is an annual US investment 

by Amb. (ret.) Yoram Ettinger      Aug 24, 2023,

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu at ceremony for new F-35 

Israel’s use of the F-35 benefits the US

A recent mega-billion-dollar increase in the export of Lockheed-Martin’s F-35 combat aircraft is due to the overcoming of a series of pivotal glitches. This was achieved by Lockheed-Martin, as well as by Israel’s air force and aerospace industries (especially the innovative Israel Aerospace Industries – IAI), known as the cost-effective and battle-tested laboratory of the US defense and aerospace industries and armed forces.

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By Ted Belman.

Today I tried to communicate with my daughter about what is really going on. She is in the thick of it. It turned into a shouting match so I decided to text her. The following is the exchange.

https://www.israpundit.org/israels-elites-revolt-against-democracy/#respond

Both the Tablet article and the comments I have added, prove the elites are the enemy of democracy.

Highly recommended article about Basic Laws.

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T. Belman. Haaretz has it all wrong. Long before normalization with SA takes place, King Abdullah will be gone and Mudar  Zahran will be the leader of Jordan. So what Abdullah says and does is irrelevant. MBS is aware of this and may also have had discussions with Israel as to what happens the day after.  I have known for years that MBS is interested but have yet to hear that Israel is willing. The alternate for Israel is to set up an Israel Wakf which Wakf would not have jurisdiction over the whole Temple Mount, only the Muslim Holy places..  As for the alleged Israeli commitment not to annex Judea and Samaria, she only agreed to suspend annexation for a time.

At the time Kushner said, “Israel has agreed to suspend the annexation, to suspend applying Israeli law to those areas for the time being,” he told the WAM agency. “But in the future it is a discussion that I am sure will be had. But not in the near future.””

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman hasn’t hidden his desire to be the guardian of all of Islam’s holy places — including the Al-Aqsa Mosque — which is causing tension with Jordanian King Abdullah

By Zvi Bar’el, HAARETZ

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman receives Jordan’s King Abdullah ll in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, in 2022.
Credit: Saudi Press Agency/Handout via REUTERS

Among a series of hints and signals, slips of the tongue and commentaries in recent weeks over the possible normalization of relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia, there’s one explicit decision that remains lacking. Saudi Arabia hasn’t yet clearly stated its position on whether Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman intends to take the step, and if so, subject to what conditions and what time frame would it be carried out?

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By Hunter Fielding, NEWS ADDICT       August 21, 2023

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“Russia has just released an explosive 2000-page report that provides overwhelming evidence proving that the Covid pandemic was manufactured in a coordinated effort by deep state operatives and Big Pharma companies.”…………<

“Under the guise of monitoring disease, the US Deep State has proliferated the world with illegal biolabs engaged in inhumane research, the embassy stressed .The statement also pointed out that these institutions have been built up close to Russia’s borders, encircling the nation. “The goal is obvious – to be able to create crisis situations of a biological nature at the right time, form artificial foci of infections,” the diplomats clarified.”

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What the latest outburst of anti-Haredi misinformation tells us about progressive notions of identity and power

BY LIEL LEIBOVITZ,TABLET aUG 23, 2023

Late last week, a 29-year-old Israeli reporter boarded a United Airlines flight from New York to Tel Aviv. A short while later, she tweeted a photo of several Orthodox Jewish men, with the following caption: “Haredis on my flight right now are trying to move me around from one seat to another. Because I’m a woman. By the way, United Airlines are doing nothing about it. They’re telling me that because of me, the flight won’t take off. For shame.”
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By Efraim Karsh  : 18 Aug 2023

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S.A. McCarthy  August 21, 2023

A new report is sounding the alarm on the growing number of schools embracing transgender ideology and keeping parents in the dark. According to Parents Defending Education, at least 1,040 U.S. school districts have adopted policies instructing or encouraging faculty and staff to keep students’ gender identities a secret from parents. Those districts include over 18,000 schools responsible for nearly 11 million students. The vast majority of those school districts (593) are in California.
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The focus of Israel’s Declaration of Independence is overwhelmingly on Jewish sovereignty and political independence in the ancestral Jewish homeland—not on liberal democratic governance 

By Martin Sherman

“As embodied in the Declaration of Independence, the essence of the State of Israel is to be a Jewish and democratic state.“  Colonel (res.) Adv. Pnina Sharvit Baruch, the Institute for National Security Studies, February 19, 2023.

The Declaration of Independence expresses a deep commitment to freedom, justice and peace in the spirit of the vision of the Biblical prophets— Yohanan Plesner, President of the Israel Democracy Institute, April 26, 2023.
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By Newsmax Wires    |   Tuesday, 22 August 2023 

Vivek Ramaswamy didn’t tell the truth about the real reason he took money from the family of George Soros.

After criticism for receiving a $90,000 grant from the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship to attend Yale Law School, Ramaswamy claimed that he did so only because he “didn’t have the money” pay for it.

But in 2011, the same year he started Yale, Ramaswamy reported he made $2.2 million in income, according to his tax returns reviewed by Fox News.

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The Caroline Glick Show

THIS DICUSSION IS CRUCIAL TO UNDERSTANDING THE ROOTS OF THE CURENT INTERNAL CONFLICT.

I HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT.

A striking feature of the Left’s anti-government campaign has been the prominence of veterans of the 1973 Yom Kippur War in the effort. What happened in that war that radicalized so many of its soldiers? How did that war affect Israeli society in the fifty years since the war? Is there a deeper decades-old ideological debate that is coming to the surface now with judicial reform?

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Ben Shapiro talks much too quickly for my liking.

I prefer this:  “China Will Lose 600 Million People…” – Jim Rickards

THE BLAZE

Instead of preparing for wildfires, Hawaii was busy going “green.”

By Daniel Greenfield, FPM 22.8.23

Dr Steve Turley

By Yisrael Medad, JEWISH PRESS

In according with the Basic Law: Government, the 37^th Government of Israel was formed on December 29, 2022 having presented itself before the Knesset, announcing its guidelines of its policy, its make-up, and the distribution of functions among the Ministers, and merited an expression of confidence. Parliamentary democracy, following multiple elections and inter-party negotiations, won out. A coalition with a clear majority assumed power. But, then, something happened.

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By Chen Maanit, HAARETZ

The court denied a petition filed by the right-wing Regavim organization against the defense minister and army officials, claiming they had unreasonably avoided demolishing illegal construction. The court’s handling of the case may demonstrate an effort to get around recent controversial legislation

Israel’s High Court denied a petition on Sunday filed by the right-wing nonprofit group Regavim which challenged the government’s policy regarding demolition of illegal construction in the West Bank.

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An Interview with Victor Davis Hanson.’The philosophy of the left globally is that they are so morally superior…that they have to use any means necessary.

By Sara Lehmann, INN AUG 22/23

You recently visited Israel. Can you talk about your impressions of the country as it is enmeshed in a conflict over judicial reform? Do you see parallels between Israeli protesters against reform and the American left?

Yes, I do. I think the Israeli left, like the American left, doesn’t believe that its agenda will achieve 51% public support necessary to ensure they have the political power to achieve that agenda. In lieu of public support for an agenda that’s often utopian or impractical, or antithetical to the foundational documents of the country, they always look at process.
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AMERICA FINALLY GETS A WAKE-UP CALL