T. Belman. This is a good article except he makes it sound like Israel is only a dependent of the US.  He totally ignores the benefits the US gets from partnering on innovation particularly, military innovation.

A corollary to this is that the US certainly doesn’t want Israel partnering with China. Furthermore if China dominates the ME, it will dominate Africa.

Israel at 75 Is Threatened but Strong
It can no longer take its relationship with the U.S. for granted, but it may not need to.

By Walter Russell Mead, The Wall Street Journal May 15, 2023

It’s been 75 years since the Jewish community in British Palestine rejected a last-minute plea from the Truman administration and declared independence as the last British forces left the embattled land. It wasn’t the most auspicious moment. One day earlier, the strategically located Gush Etzion bloc of Jewish agricultural settlements fell to Arab assailants following a bitter siege.

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T. Belman. Fitzgerald is more optimistic than I am.  The Democratic Party tolerates the antisemitic remarks by members of the Squad, and supports the Palestinians who want to kill us. Muslim immigration continues to increase as does antisemitism in the US. The Dems may support military aid to Israel but it the Israel in their image, not the Israel that Israelis voted for.

Is anti-Israel sentiment in Congress the wave of the future?

by Hugh Fitzgerald, FPM   17.5.23

Representative Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) has promised to “kill” any resolution in the House that attempts to place conditions on aid to Israel, including such demands on Israel as ending all new settlement building in Judea and Samaria. Gottheimer is a liberal Democrat and one of many who are unswerving in their support for Israel, giving the lie to those who claim that Israeli can no longer count on the support of liberal Democrats. More on his statement can be found here: “US Lawmaker Pledges to ‘Kill’ Growing Efforts to Condition Aid to Israel,” by Andrew Bernard, Algemeiner, April 26, 2023:

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By Andrea Widburg, AM THINKER

Image: The Altar of Mount Ebal (Joshua’s Altar) by Hoshvilim. CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of the important things to remember about Biblical archeology is that our modern understanding keeps changing as the earth keeps disgorging materials hidden for millennia, and new technologies allow us better to understand those discoveries. That’s the case with a Bronze Age tablet that reveals something consistent with one of the Bible’s oldest and most consequential narratives.
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The Caroline Glick Show

T. Belman. While we are on the subject read;

Bomb Gaza. Win the War.

Don’t muddy the waters.

by Dr. Eric R. Mandel, MEPIN

Image from tweet made by the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs Twitter account @francediplo_EN.

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By Mark Sleboda, REAL POLITICK   MAY 16

AUDIO

• US Disinfo (Pentagon Leaks) vs Russian Psy Ops ({Prigozhin) = Farce
• WaPo deletes part of Zelensky interview from website after his paranoid tantrum
• Russian missile strikes in Kiev takes out US-supplied Patriot air defense system (CNN reports Biden admin officials now admitting it was “damaged”)
• Bakhmut update

Washington has recently received evidence and video recorded confessions in the aftermath of the detained Jordanian parliament member, proving that Jordan's kinglet has been DIRECTLY involved in supporting terrorism…https://t.co/RgWXPCi9FL@tedcruz@mdubowitz pic.twitter.com/U4WtLqnuIB

— Mudar Adnan Zahran ???????? ????? (@Mudar_Zahran) May 16, 2023

'Saudi's rapprochement with Iran 'has no impact on a bilateral Saudi-Israeli relationship'

In an exclusive interview, @USAmbIsrael discusses Iran, judicial reform, Abraham Accords, and more

Tune in: 8 pm Israel time, 1 pm US EST on #TheRundown with @calev_i24 pic.twitter.com/L6XICDLaBW

— i24NEWS English (@i24NEWS_EN) May 16, 2023

Coalition and Opposition reach agreements on future of reasonableness standard and the status of ministerial legal advisors.

Israel National News      May 17, 2023, 7:49 AM (GMT+3)

Negotiating teams from the Opposition and Coalition who have been meeting at the president’s residence for talks aimed at reaching an agreement on judicial reform have made significant progress towards a deal, according to a report Wednesday morning.

A report by Reshet Bet said that the two sides have reach an accord over two key issues: the future use by courts of the reasonableness standard, and the status of ministerial legal advisors.

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One of the architects of judicial overhaul warns that the government won’t survive if reform isn’t passed.

Israel National News    May 16, 2023, 11:55 AM (GMT+3)

MK Simcha Rothman with Justice Minister LevinYonatan Sindel/Flash90

Chairman of the Knesset’s Constitution Committee MK Simcha Rothman (Religious Zionist Party) called on the government Tuesday morning to move forward with the judicial reform plan, even if no deal can be reached with the Opposition regarding a compromise.

Speaking with Radio 103FM, Rothman blamed Opposition lawmakers for the deadlocked talks, adding that while he hopes an agreement is reached, the government must move forward with the overhaul regardless of the outcome of the talks.

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T. Belman. This is another example of the left refusing to accept the results of the last election. It will go to any means to prevent the passing of the budget this month. I expect the protests to increase over the next two weeks to make it every so difficult for this government to rule.

“If passed, the Arnona Fund law would appropriate between 10% to 28% of commercial property taxes raised by municipalities, with higher income communities paying a higher rate, to support a fund which would subsidize lower income communities to encourage them to build more housing units.”

This transfer of funds from the rich communities to the poorer ones is a good policy.  It will lower the cost of housing for all and will serve to decentralize Israel and support the outlining communities which everyone in Israel wants.

Schools shuttered in dozens of cities and municipal services frozen in ongoing strike protesting new city tax redistribution plan.

Israel National News     May 16, 2023, 9:45 AM (GMT+3)

A strike launched Monday in protest of the government’s new city tax redistribution plan continued in major cities and towns across Israel Tuesday, leaving schools closed and municipal services out of commission.

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Alongside my classmate, Barack Obama.

by Wayne Allyn Root, FPM     May 16, 2023

This open border disaster is not a “Johnny-come-lately” story. It is a plan that was created many decades ago by leftist radicals intent on destroying America.

I should know: I was there. I am a witness.

I am a blue-collar S.O.B. (son of a butcher) from the wrong side of the tracks: a poor, majority-black town on the Bronx borderline. I attended almost all-black middle school and high school in Mount Vernon, New York. After I graduated valedictorian, I was accepted at prestigious Ivy League Columbia University.

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T. Belman. I wrote about immigration as a tool for Islam to conquer the world in Trump calls muslim immigration the all time biggest “Trojan Horse”

By: Amil Imani

Nearly 1400 years ago, a large number of Muslim jihadists from across the scorching Arabian desert, motivated by the ideology of Islam, indoctrinated by Muhammad, unafraid of death, conquered Iran (Persia), one of the greatest, strongest and most tolerant empires known throughout the history of man. The invasion of Persia was completed five years after the death of the Prophet of Islam, Muhammad, though Persian resistance continued for centuries up to and including the present time. (Most Iranians consider the current Islamic regime as the continuation of 1400 years of Islamic tyranny and oppression).
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Redacted with Clayton Morris

T. Belman. In Israel, son of last shah says Iranians ‘absolutely’ ready for Israel ties
During emotional press conference in Tel Aviv, Reza Pahlavi says Israel and Iran can be ‘strategic partners’ and that majority of Iranians ‘think differently’ from regime.  19 April 2023,

Caroline Glick and others are calling for Israel to commit to regime change in Iran .rather than just destroying their nuclear facilities.

By Amil Imani

The streets of Tehran were awash with people, their chants and slogans echoing across the city. “Reza Reza Pahlavi! Reza Reza Pahlavi!” they shouted, as they marched towards the parliament building.

Among the crowd were three friends, Payam, Zohreh, and Zubin. They had grown up together, gone to school together, and now, they were protesting together. As they walked, they discussed the events of the day, their hopes, and their fears.

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By Mark Sleboda. REAL POLITICK

AUDIO

• More “Pentagon leaks” narrative management
• West supplies Kiev regime with more long range missiles capable of striking inside Russia, even as Western MSM conveniently forget numerous strikes the Kiev regime has already conducted inside Russia
• Prigozhin’s psy op performances somewhat successful in once again goading Kiev regime forces into diverting more resources and manpower into the Bakhmut meatgrinder, that could be better used elsewhere for offensive operations.
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The authorities knew for years about the wreck off Beit Yanai but didn’t know how extraordinary its cargo was

By Ruth Schuster, HAARETZ

Huge columns of the finest white marble found on the seafloor by Israel from 1,800 years agoCredit: The underwater archaeology unit at the Israel Antiquities Authority

Having a nice springtime swim off the central Israeli coast as he does every morning, Gideon Harris saw huge stone columns lying on the seabed. He did the right thing and called the authorities, who were monumentally unsurprised.The Israel Antiquities Authority had known for years about the ancient shipwreck off Bait Yanai, a moshav (agricultural community) six kilometers north of Netanya. They even assumed it was from Roman times and knew that it bore a cargo of marble items.

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