Macgregor discusses Russian strategy and minimizes the effect of the kamikaze drone.

McCarthy is the second House Speaker in history to address the Knesset.

Israel National News

US Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy addressed the Knesset today (Monday), during the opening ceremony of the Knesset’s summer session.

McCarthy is the second House Speaker in history to address the Knesset, and the first since Newt Gingrich in 1998.

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Gantz: No progress in Herzog-mediated judicial reform negotiations

Netanyahu says he ‘fully supports’ overhaul talks, believes deal can be made

US House Speaker McCarthy: If Biden doesn’t invite Netanyahu to DC soon, I will

Netanyahu: I’m committed to reaching as broad a consensus ‘as we can get’ on judicial reform

Netanyahu appears to oppose ‘Override Clause’ in CNN interview

T. Belman.  China intends to bolster the private sector.

Beijing has ramped up self-reliance rhetoric in face of US trade and tech wars but remains wholly committed to economic opening

By XIRUI LI, ASIA TIMES         APRIL 29, 2023

Despite trade and tech wars with the US, China is still committed to opening to foreign investors. Photo: China Daily

The private sector and foreign investors have become increasingly skeptical about doing business in China since Covid-19. The risks of shutdowns, travel restrictions, disruptions to normal operation and supply chains, and liquidity shortages resulting from China’s zero-Covid policy have significantly shaken their confidence.

by John Podhoretz, COMMENTARY

In November 2022, for the first time in a nearly a decade, an election in Israel had a decisive outcome. The government that emerged from that election two months later was instantly unacceptable to other Israelis, who have since taken to the streets.

Over the past two months, the question I have been asked more than any other is: Can you explain what’s going on in Israel? The answer is not difficult: The right is seeking to enact an activist agenda, and that agenda angers, alarms, and/or terrifies everybody who didn’t vote for the parties of the right.

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We may be on the verge of a sea-change; what it will be is far from clear

By Daniel Gordis

Why the dinosaurs? What’s about to become extinct?

Listen carefully to the audio of the very brief clip (below) from Saturday night’s protest, and you’ll hear, in part what you’ve been hearing all along. At the very, very end of the clip you hear the protesters—in what was for Jerusalem a massive protest, in Tel Aviv the numbers went from 120,000 to 180,000 on the eve of the Knesset’s returning from its recess—chanting what they’ve been chanting all along. De-Mo-Krat-Ya. You don’t need to speak a lot of Hebrew to know what that means.

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T. Belman. McCarthy just met with the King in Aquba to discuss the matter.  He is now talking with the Israelis.

Pressure ramps up on Jordanian King Abdullah to secure parliament member Imad al-Adwan’s release

The weapons that according to reports were seized from Jordanian MP Imad al-Adwan.Credit: Use under Section 27A of the Copyright Law

An Israeli military court extended on Sunday the detention of a Jordanian lawmaker who was arrested by Israel for allegedly smuggling large quantities of weapons in the West.

Last Sunday, Jordan’s Foreign Affairs Ministry alleged that Jordanian lawmaker Imad al-Adwan was arrested for smuggling a large quantity of weapons into the West Bank. The court extended the detention by eight days.

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Israel’s future depends more on repairing a modicum of national unity and even global Jewish accord than it does on countering Iran. But competing visions of Israel’s essence and identity are at play.

 By  David M. Weinberg, ISRAEL HAYOM
It is clear to almost any observer of this country that internal disputes are more threatening than external threats; that Israel’s future depends more on repairing a modicum of national unity and even global Jewish accord than it does on countering Iran. In fact, the latter may be impossible without the former.

One can even argue that there is a significant correlation between Israel’s social and spiritual state and the geopolitical reality it faces. The divine promise in the Bible to help Israel surmount its enemies is conditional. It is predicated upon Israel’s adherence to a rigorous code of law and ethics.

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By Peloni

Mercouris had an interview with former US Diplomat, Chas Freeman, mostly on the Ukraine war and Russia and China on which Freeman offers a very informative conversation.  He was the Ambassador to Saudi Arabia during the early 90’s, and was involved in the US Foreign Service for about 30yrs til the mid 90’s.  I recalled Freeman from the notoriety around his appointment to the National Intelligence Council during Obama’s first term, a nomination for which he failed to be confirmed before withdrawing due to the marked controversy which was raised during the election season.  He blamed the Likud and their American allies for having scuttled his nomination, but the truth is that it was his own pronounced pro-Saudi and his anti-Israel positions which led to the opposition to his nomination.  In any event, there is not a great deal of discussion in the interview on the Middle East outside of the Saudi’s relations with China and Russia,  and notably only a single swipe at Israel.  I have to admit that I nearly did not watch the interview due to my recollections of and dislike for Freeman, but I am quite pleased that I did.  Here is the link:

New World Order w/ Ambassador Chas Freeman, Alexander Mercouris and Glenn Diesen

TFI GLOBAL

BY David Mark, ISRAEL UNWIRED

Despite what the Biden administration wants the public to believe, Russia has made up for its early challenges in its invasion of Ukraine and has essentially taken control over all strategically important areas.
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BYD’s $11,400 electrical vehicle, Huawei’s progress in enterprise resource planning software hurt Tesla & Cisco

By David Goldman, ASIA TIMES APRIL 22, 2023

A brand new electric car for $11,700? The Seagull impresses NASDAQ, sending Tesla shares down. Photo: Move Electric

Two of the worst-performing US tech stocks this week – Cisco and Tesla – have something in common: Both ran into a buzz-saw of Chinese competition. At the New York opening April 21, Telsa had lost more than 12% during the week and Cisco more than 8.1%.

Tesla’s Chinese competitor BYD announced an $11,400 electrical vehicle, a challenge to Tesla’s lowest-cost offering at about $33,000.

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By Maurice Hirsch, Adv., PMW | Apr 27, 2023

While the Palestinian Authority continues to hide its finances from the international community, a recent statement by PA Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh again demonstrates the clear effectiveness of Israel’s Anti-Pay-for-Slay law and the pressure being put on the PA by the international community.

The PA government recently approved its 2023 budget. Presenting the budget to the cabinet, Shtayyeh explained that the budget included a deficit of US$610 million. While acknowledging that the PA’s terror reward payments are causing financial damage to the PA, Shtayyeh clarified that the PA has no intention to abolish the payments:

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Why Republicans Cannot Win; Monitor Tech Manipulations, Make Findings Public

by Robert Epstein, GATESTONE  •  April 30, 2023

• [T]ech companies… can flip elections any and all ways they please without anyone knowing.
• When you monitor, you can catch them in their shenanigans, and you can get them to back down. We got Google to back down by exposing some of the manipulations that they were engaging in in the presidential election.
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By Robert Spencer, PJ MEDIA APRIL 29, 2023

Fox’s firing of the most-watched host on cable news, Tucker Carlson, is still roiling Leftists and patriots alike, but now Carlson himself has said that it didn’t actually happen at all. In a text message to the news analysis site 19FortyFive, Carlson said flatly: “I’m still employed by Fox.” This doesn’t mean, however, that all is forgiven and that his show will be back on the air Monday. On the contrary, it could hinder Carlson’s plans to take his truth-telling elsewhere.
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By Wolf Howling, AM THINKER

Image: Wrecking ball generated by DALL-E.

With their decision to take Tucker Carlson’s show off the air, Fox News’s Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch have failed to account for media and political dynamics that have, over a period of years, shifted under their feet. The Murdochs’ decision will inevitably prove catastrophic for Fox News and will likely be an inflection point that marks a wholesale change to a media landscape that, to paraphrase Matt Taibbi, has calcified in progressive concrete.

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Demands include the right to a civilian nuclear program, defensive ties, and the end of US criticism of the murder of Jamal Khashoggi

Israel National News      Apr 30, 2023, 7:20 AM (GMT+3)

Saudi Crown Prince fist bumps Biden upon his arrival in JeddahBandar Algaloud/Courtesy of Saudi Royal Court/Handout via REUTERS

Despite the recent rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and Iran, Washington is examining Riyadh’s demands for a potential normalization with Israel, an American official told Israel Hayom.

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By Ted Belman

From this

to this 8 years later.

For the whole story go to Remember Octomom? See Her Today

T. Belman, Gen Burnham, the current leader of Sudan participated in the normalization agreement with Israel. The opposition was against it. So the fate of this power struggle has implications for Israel. Burnham paid $335 million in reparations to the US for “for victims of the bombings of the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 and the USS Cole in 2000,”

Some suggest that the CIA is involved with the destabilization.

A power struggle between generals has killed hundreds and trapped millions

By Nicholas Bariyo and Gabriele Steinhauser, WSJ April 29, 2023

Smoke rose over Khartoum as rival forces battled in Sudan’s capital in mid-April. PHOTO: MARWAN ALI/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Redacted with Clayton Morris