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September 12, 2023

The protest movement wants Israel to be a democracy, without its being a Jewish state. That will never go over.  

The anti Judicial Reform protest movement is doomed to failure

By Avi Abelow, INN  12.9.23

As Israel’s Supreme Court is in the process of illegally transforming Israel’s Declaration of Independence into Israel’s de facto constitution, as declared in a recent article by former Chief Justice Aaron Barak, I want to share the following story and thoughts.<
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I just returned from a meeting where the CEO brought up the insane and depressing times we are living in. The CEO is a secular Israeli Jew, and he said to me “in our office we have secular empolyees, haredi employees, national- religious employees and we all get along. But outside we are being told that we are divided. It is so depressing.”

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September 12, 2023 | 5:08 pm | 3 Comments »

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Malice Aforethought on the COVID-19 Pandemic:  

“This is a global coup d’etat and intentional mass murder.”

By Dr. Mike Yeadon, GLOBAL RESEARCH 11.9.23

I find that attempting to put all the information together in such a way as to allow for the whole even to be benign or at least not wholly malevolent is impossible. That’s because, as you’ve no doubt heard me say, I believe it is malevolent!

I too struggled early on, arguing “surely they must have known this!?” Etc.

Once I allowed for the possibility that all the bad things were intentional, I find all the rest falls into place. Obviously that alone doesn’t prove that it was intentional.

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September 12, 2023 | 2:41 pm | 3 Comments »

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Public Emergency v Constitution  

T. Belman.  As I recall Aharon Barak refused to diminish rights in the case of an emergency. He argued all the more reason to protect rights, as I recall.

CROSSROADS WITH JOSH PHILLIPS

It was a day of tragedy 22 years ago on Sept. 11; 2,977 people were killed, and 3,000 children were left without parents. Some of the best people in the nation—first responders—lost their lives trying to save the lives of others. And in the wars that followed, America lost some of its finest young men and women. But something else happened on 9/11. Americans were forced to surrender some of their basic rights. Facing the threat of terror attacks, and amid the 2001 anthrax attacks, President George Bush passed the USA PATRIOT Act, also known as the “Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001.” The PATRIOT Act raised the question of whether Americans should sacrifice their constitutional rights in exchange for safety. And now, there’s a broader social debate on whether an emergency order can override the rights of Americans under the Constitution.

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September 12, 2023 | 11:19 am | Comments »

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Ben-Gvir: ‘Otzma Yehudit will not support negotiations’  

T. Belman.  Netanyahu has already caved. No surprise there. This fight is not about democracy. It is a fight over values. Do we want the High Court to continue to impose its liberal values or do we want the Knesset to have the say over what values are important to the Jewish state. There is no way that the left will concede on its liberal values so it must be forced to.

Minister Ben-Gvir declared that his party would not support the renewed negotiations on the judicial reform at the President’s house.

Israel National News     Sep 11, 2023, 

Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir today (Monday) criticized the resumption of talks at the President’s Residence and made it clear that Otzma Yehudit would not support the move.

“I am in favor of negotiations, but against surrender,” clarified Minister Ben-Gvir and explained that “the reform is important for the State of Israel, it will balance the three authorities – the legislative, executive and judicial branches. Surrender in the President’s House means humiliating more than half of the people.”

According to him, “Surrender in the President’s Residence means a violation of right-wing values. Otzma Yehudit will not support this. I call on my friends, the heads of the coalition, make your voice heard, let’s go against the surrender.”

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September 12, 2023 | 10:33 am | Comments »

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September 11, 2023

Kissinger Dreaded All-Out Israeli Victory in Yom Kippur War  

T. Belman. Kissinger famously said at the time. he wanted Israel to suffer a bloody nose so she would be more amenable.

This article Yom Kippur War: The surprise belongs to NSA’s Jew Room. explains that part of the US knew there would be an attack and prevented Israel from hearing about it.

Then-U.S. secretary of state feared too much winning would make Israel harder to influence.

BY COLUM LYNCH, FOREIGN POLICY | AUGUST 9, 2019,

For Henry Kissinger, the prospect of an Israeli defeat during the 1973 Arab-Israeli War was always unthinkable. A victory by a Soviet-armed Arab coalition against a U.S.-armed Israel would shatter Washington’s strategic advantage in the Middle East and send the message to other Cold War clients that they “need to rely on the Soviet Union,” the then-U.S. secretary of state told his staff.

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September 11, 2023 | 6:36 pm | 4 Comments »

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Nixon, Golda, and His Finest Hour  

BY HUGH FITZGERALD, JIHAD WATCH SEPT 9, 2023

In the just-released movie about Golda Meir and her role as Israeli Prime Minister prior to, and during, the surprise attack launched by Egypt and Syria on the Jewish state in 1973, President Richard Nixon appears only in one brief scene. But Nixon was critical to Israel’s victory in the Yom Kippur war, by sending 567 planeloads of weapons and ammunition to the IDF when it had run catastrophically low on both.

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September 11, 2023 | 6:24 pm | 4 Comments »

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Russia defies sanctions with homemade Sukhoi Superjet  

J-100 jettisons previous reliance on Western-made parts and systems in import substitution program that tracks China’s C919

By SCOTT FOSTER    

The Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ-100). Photo: Wikipedia

A Russian passenger jet built almost entirely with domestically manufactured components completed its first test flight on August 29, a launch that gave Yakovlev Design Bureau and United Aircraft Corporation’s (UAC) respective shares on the Moscow Exchange a buoyant lift.Designed by Yakovlev and manufactured by UAC at its Komsomolsk-na-Amure factory, the new Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ-100) is a narrow-body regional aircraft with a range of 4,578 kilometers (2,472 nautical miles) that can carry 87 to 108 passengers depending on seat configurations.
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September 11, 2023 | 1:27 am | Comments »

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Oslo is dead: A Palestinian state will never exist –  

T. Belman. Yes, Oslo is dead but we are stuck with its legacy which includes Hamas, PA, Gaza, Area A and Area B and a dramatic increase in antisemitism.

I still believe in the Jordan Option. Keeps your fingers crossed because its going to solve a lot of problems

Inherent in the JO is the fact that Jordan as it exists today will be the Palestinian state.

Thirty years on, we can say with confidence that Oslo and everything that it stood for is dead. Rather than trying to revive it, we would do well to offer it a fitting eulogy.

By MICHAEL FREUND, POST

US PRESIDENT Bill Clinton watches prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat shake hands after signing the Oslo I Accord, at the White House in Washington on September 13, 1993.
(photo credit: GARY HERSHORN/REUTERS)
Next week marks the 30th anniversary of the signing of the Oslo Accords, one of the most colossal strategic errors in modern Israel’s history.

Three decades after prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO terrorist-in-chief Yasser Arafat shook hands as a beaming US president Bill Clinton looked on, the smiles have long ago been erased thanks to the disaster wrought by the agreement.

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September 11, 2023 | 1:05 am | 6 Comments »

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VERY GOOD NEWS ISRAEL  

By Michael Ordman, VGNI

Israelis are constantly working hard to return patients back to health, especially from cancer, Parkinson’s and dementia. Also to early-diagnose these life-threatening conditions.

Israel has seen good returns for its diplomatic missions; including the Arab countries who signed the Abraham Accords, plus Cyprus, Greece, and especially Papua New Guinea which opened its new embassy in Jerusalem to show solidarity with Israel’s return to the Promised Land. Israeli doctors are even helping Pakistan return normal vision to children with deadly eye cancer in Afghanistan.
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September 11, 2023 | 1:04 am | Comments »

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Since when did the Palestinians become entitled to a state?  

By Ted Belman 1.1.17

In 2011, Newt Gingrich said “The Palestinians are an invented people.” He was right. So why are they entitled to a state?

In 1964, the Palestine Liberation Organization was formed to liberate Palestine through armed struggle. But it took years for the notion of a Palestinian people to crystalize.  In 1967, they were not recognized as such, nor were they considered a party to the conflict.  Security Council Resolution 242 passed after the ’67 war, made no mention of them.

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September 11, 2023 | 12:57 am | 44 Comments »

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September 10, 2023

Trump: ‘COVID Hysteria’ Back Because ‘Election Coming Up  

By Eric Mack, NEWSMAX

Former President Donald Trump warned “COVID hysteria” is coming back because “there’s an election coming up,” and Republicans have to step in to stop the tyranny.

“Congressional Republicans should also stop the Biden administration from bringing back COVID mandates, lockdowns, and restrictions of any kind, cutting off the money,” Trump told the South Dakota GOP convention Friday night in a speech that aired live and in its entirety on Newsmax.

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September 10, 2023 | 2:19 am | 2 Comments »

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A Nazi speech in Ramallah tells a much larger tale  

The Israeli left, the European Union and the Biden administration have a shared interest in repressing the Nazi roots of Palestinian Arab nationalism. 

By Caroline Glick

(JNS) Last Wednesday, a spat between Israeli Education Minister Yoav Kisch and Yad Vashem chairman Dani Dayan caused an international uproar.

Dayan was appointed by the Bennett-Lapid government. He is a member of Gideon Sa’ar’s party of former Likudniks and an outspoken hater of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. It might thus have been expected that when Kisch sent a letter to Dayan on Wednesday listing a series of allegations of mismanagement of Yad Vashem that have been leveled against Dayan, the opposition would respond that Kisch was waging a political witch hunt against their guy.

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September 10, 2023 | 2:10 am | 3 Comments »

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September 9, 2023

The WEF and the Climate Cult  

Colluding for a World-wide Welfare State

By  SEPT 9, 2023

One should never underestimate the Left’s propensity for projecting its sins upon its victims; nor, when the Left does manage to admit the destructive effects of their regressive ideology, to proclaim these disastrous consequences as fundamental transformational and “liberation.” To avoid such a fraught misunderstanding, one must ever remember the Left perverts the purported rationale of every entity captured in their “long march” through the institutions.

To wit: The World Economic Forum (WEF).
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September 9, 2023 | 9:56 pm | 3 Comments »

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EvRe shares her journey from left to right with us.  

T.  Belman.  I was impressed with EvRe’s comments so I asked her to tell us a bit about her journey.  I’m glad I did.

By Eve Rowell aka EvRe1

I’ve been asked to write something to let you know me better. I am a retired physician, mother, and grandmother. I come from a progressive family.

After a 2006 visit to Israel in my early ’50s, I had a lot of questions, mainly about Israel’s history and the history of the US-Israel relationship.

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September 9, 2023 | 9:34 pm | 5 Comments »

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“Biden Backdoors Israel in the U.N., Rescinding Trump’s Recognition of Sovereignty over the Golan,”  

T. Belman.  And we are supposed to welcome US sponsored normalization talks.  No thanks, Israel is better off without the US involvement.

by Tony Badran, TABLET, Sept 6, 2023

Upon returning to power, the Biden administration underscored its plan to reopen the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem. It also quickly tipped its hand on its intention to reaffirm Obama’s position on the Golan. In February 2021, Secretary of State Antony Blinken telegraphed the administration’s rejection of Trump’s decision, as well as their plan to rescind it during their tenure. The administration continued to speak of Israel’s “control” (as opposed to “sovereignty”) over the Golan as a “practical” matter. The issue of “legality,” however, was “something else” that the administration was “still working on,” as U.N. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield put it in June 2021. Read more…

September 9, 2023 | 9:22 pm | 2 Comments »

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Biden Administration Bypassing Americans, Violating US Law, to Appease Regime of Iran  

By Majid Rafizadeh, GATESTONE •  September 9, 2023

  • The Biden administration has been accused of secretly bypassing US laws to reach a deal with Iran’s Islamist regime.
  • On August 10, the Biden administration apparently cut a “deal” excluding Congress and keeping the American people and U.S. regional allies in the dark — even though they are the ones who would be the most directly affected by a “deal.”

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September 9, 2023 | 4:52 pm | 2 Comments »

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