By Shoshana Bryen, JEWISH POLICY CENTER • August 18, 2023 • Daily Caller

The arrival in Washington of Ron Dermer, a key security advisor to Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, suggests that after negotiating terms for Israel with Saudi Arabia – a two-way parlay on a three-country deal – Washington may be asking Israel for input. Or Israel may be demanding input. In either case, the parties are performing a dance that will play out over the next several months – deal or no deal, this way or that way, for better or for worse.

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The US won’t defend NATO allies if they launched a preemptive attack, despite Article 5 of the treaty. Likewise, under a treaty with Israel, it won’t defend it in the case of a pre-emptive strike on Iran. In fact, a treaty would motivate the US to pressure Israel not to escalate.

By  Jacob Nagel, ISRAEL HAYOM

A “limited defense treaty” between the US and Israel as part of a normalization agreement with Saudi Arabia and a trilateral agreement between the US, Saudi Arabia, and Israel, contains much more cons than pros, especially when it might come at the expense of Israel’s top priority concern: Preventing a bad Iran nuclear deal (or understandings) that will lead Iran on its sure path to a bomb in a very short timeframe.<
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And the mishandling of the problem of anti-Semitism

by Michael R. Pompeo and Elan S. Carr, COMMENTARY

President Biden has often made reference to his close relationship with Israel and Israeli leaders over the last half century as a way of proving his bona fides on matters relating to the Jewish state. The Obama administration had badly strained those relationships, but when Biden was elected in 2020, many hoped and some predicted that his would be an administration far friendlier to Israel. And on the surface it has been; the steady current of hostility that emanated from Obama’s White House has not been present in Biden’s.
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by Haisam Hassanein, WASH EXAMINER AUG 17

Is a Saudi-Israeli peace deal just around the corner or still just a long-term hope? The Wall Street Journal reported that Washington and Riyadh “have agreed on the broad contours of a deal” for the Saudis to recognize Israel. Yet when asked about that story, a State Department spokesman seemed to throw cold water on it, saying that normalization has “a long road to go with an uncertain future.”<
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The US administration has struck another deal with the Islamic Republic which will bolster Iran’s economy and international standing.

By Eitan Divinsky, INN

Critics are livid as US President Joe Biden prepares to pay the Iranian regime a hefty $16 billion for five hostages held by Tehran. Not only does the huge ransom provide a lifeline for its sanction-stricken economy and help continue exporting terror across the world, the deal leaves out three American nationals held as bargaining chips by the Islamic Republic.

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T. Belman Yesterday I wrote an article about Lindell’s Election Summit and about Lindell now having the proof he needs to defend against the defamation suit against him. I submitted it for publication to a prominent site and they were too frightened to publish it. I also submitted it to one of the listed defendants below and doubt they will publish it.  Then I will have to decide if it is too dangerous for me to publish it.

By Alison Durkee, FORBES Apr 19, 2023,

TOPLINE

Fox News settled Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation lawsuit against it Tuesday for $787.5 million, avoiding an anticipated six-week trial in the case and bringing two years of litigation to an end—but Dominion and rival company Smartmatic still have numerous other cases pending against right-wing defendants over fraud claims involving the companies’ machines, including a separate pending case against Fox News.

KEY FACTS

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By Debra Heine, AM GREATNESS AUG 19

Government whistleblowers have allegedly told Infowars’ Alex Jones that the Biden regime is preparing to impose full COVID lockdowns and mask mandates starting this fall due to concerns about the latest COVID variant.  According to Jones, sources from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said that the restrictions will begin as early as next month.
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This was produced by Simcha Jacobavici, a  Canadian orthodox Jew.  It is very entertaining.

The history of the influence of Eastern European Jewish Emigre culture has had on Hollywood and the films created in its golden age.

T. Belman. For me the message that Israel is deporting Ukrainian refugees who were taken in temporarily. Good, they are not Jews.

Canceling the visa-free policy with Israel is also being considered, Yevhen Kornichuk says.

 By  David Baron, ISRAEL HAYOM

Ukraine’s ambassador to Israel threatened Sunday to block entry for Israelis to Uman for the annual Rosh Hashanah pilgrimage unless Jerusalem “stopped deporting Ukrainians.”

Canceling the visa-free policy with Israel is also being considered, Yevhen Kornichuk said.

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T. Belman.  THIS IS WAR AND MUST BE FOUGHT AS SUCH.

After denying the Kohelet Policy Forum its chief donor, far-left activists have trained their sights on the Tikvah Fund.

By Caroline Glick, JNS

Campaigners against Israel’s Netanyahu government scored a notable victory on Aug. 4. After a six-month demonization, defamation and harassment campaign against the Kohelet Policy Forum and its chief donor, Arthur Dantchik, Dantchik, a Philadelphia businessman, announced that he was ending his support for the conservative Jerusalem think tank.

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By Michael Ordman, VGNI

I may have taken an extended holiday recently, but Israel’s innovators and high achievers certainly haven’t. The 50 positive articles in my latest newsletter are some of the best, but only a small portion of the great news stories from Israel that were published in the last month.  My apologies if you sent me articles recently – I will try to catch up and include them in a future newsletter.  Meanwhile, I hope that you enjoy reading this selection.

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Malcom Dash. I agree with Gadi Taub’s Tablet article (He was a founder member of the Peace Now movement), he’s an intellectual heavyweight, as is Ran Baratz. Taub, with elegance, describes the judicial tyranny exercised by the legal establishment. There are many other right-wing intellectuals who come to the same understanding as Taub.

They too describe the problem in the same manner, as I believe many right-wing politicians, Bibi included, do. However, this is a political conflict with no chance of resolution through legal nuances. It’s past time for straight talk. The Right must leave its comfort zone—an ivory tower—of academic legal parrying for and against judicial reform.

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Vantage with Palki Sharma

Palki is the best. Watch her to the end where she criticizes western media. You’ll love her.

BY: JORDAN BOYD, FEDERALIST

Attorney General Merrick Garland announced on Friday that U.S. attorney for the District of Delaware David Weiss, who orchestrated Hunter Biden’s sweetheart plea deal, will now serve as special counsel in the government’s probe of the Biden family business.

The blatantly partisan decision to appoint a co-conspirator in the plot to cover up the Biden family business should not go unpunished. Republicans should start by impeaching Garland, whose track record even before the recent special counsel appointment was worth immense scrutiny. Garland’s decision to bestow special privileges and status on yet another one of Biden’s corrupt deep-state attorneys only adds to the growing list of reasons why he should be prosecuted and removed.

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By Victor Davis Hanson, RCP

Imagine if the United States treated China in the same way it does us?

What if American companies simply ignored Chinese copyrights and patents, and stole Chinese ideas, inventions, and intellectual property, as they pleased and with impunity?

What if the American government targeted Chinese industries by dumping competing American export products at below the cost of production — to bankrupt Chinese competitors and corner their markets?

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by Majid Rafizadeh, GATESTONE  •  August 19, 2023

• The Biden Administration has destabilized the Middle East, launched a potential international nuclear arms race, incentivized global terrorism, increased American taxpayers’ funding both sides of the Ukraine war, crushed even further a people fighting for their freedom and appeased yet another rogue regime — after Afghanistan, China and Venezuela – this time one that the US State Department itself has called the “top state sponsor of terrorism,” Iran, all in one week.

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The fact that the Israeli system was chosen over the French one – despite a strong European lobby – is a badge of honor to the Arrow 3’s proven effectiveness, but also underscores Germany’s desire to join the US-Israel alliance on this limited and complex aspect of missile defense. 

By  Yoav Limor, ISRAEL HAYOM 18.8.23

An Arrow 3 missile defense test in Alaska | Photo: Missile Defense Agency/Ministry of Defense

It’s hard to overestimate the importance of the Arrow 3 export deal to Germany. The boon extends to all aspects of our lives – economic, diplomatic, and defense – but above all, it is symbolic: Some 80 years after World War II and the Holocaust, Israel is poised to protect Germans and many parts of Europe.

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