Shlomo Ne’eman to INN: ‘Desert is becoming a Palestinian city – and the country is silent’  

Israel National News tours area marked by Oslo Accords as nature reserve, discussing with local leader how the Palestinian Authority is working strategically to create barrier between Jewish areas.

By Yoni Kempinski, INN

Gush Etzion Regional Council head Shlomo Ne’eman, who also heads the YESHA Council, spoke to Israel National News – Arutz Sheva about how the desert is slowly transforming into a Palestinian city.

Standing near what was supposed to be a nature reserve in eastern Gush Etzion, Ne’eman called on the government to act more harshly to stop the process.

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September 8, 2023 | 3:44 pm | 7 Comments »

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How Solar Energy Is Making Settlers in the West Bank Even More Powerful  

Plans for 22 solar power plants in the settlements would make them a central supplier of power to Israel and the Palestinians — and increase the country’s dependence on them

Nir Hasson, HAARETZ

Solar electricity is booming in Israel’s West Bank settlements, even as bureaucratic hurdles stall efforts to expand solar within the country.

The Civil Administration, Israel’s administrative body in the West Bank, is now moving forward with plans for 22 solar power plants in the West Bank. One plan calls for creating a plant in the Jordan Valley with greater power generation than any of the existing solar plants in Israel.

Implementing the plans would make solar power a major economic industry in the settlements and increase the country’s dependence on them.

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September 8, 2023 | 3:08 pm | Comments »

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The 21st Century Will NOT Be Chinese  

By Drieu Godefridi, GATESTONE  •  September 8, 2023

  • [T]he news of the week is most likely the crash of China. Real estate, currency, stock markets, technology, demographics: it all fits together, and what lies ahead for China looks like stagnation at best.
  • There are an estimated 80 million unoccupied homes in China — a huge number, even for a giant country. While real estate has driven China’s growth for decades, it is now in danger of wrecking it.

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September 8, 2023 | 2:42 pm | 1 Comment »

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BREAKING HUGE: “Voter Identity Theft”  

– Arizona Judge Defines Voter Registration Record, Rules that Mail-In Ballot Signatures Have Been Compared Illegally! 

     Sept 6. 2023

A Yavapai County judge last week ruled in favor of the Arizona Free Enterprise Club and Restoring Integrity and Trust in Elections in a recent lawsuit that seeks to prohibit the Arizona Secretary of State from enforcing illegal election procedures relating to mail-in ballot signature verification.

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September 8, 2023 | 11:01 am | 6 Comments »

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Bannon War Room Clips  

Thursday, 7 September 2023

BREAKING: Michigan SOS Caught Sending And Accepting Fraudulent Voter Registrations

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Seb Gorka: “They wanna destroy him put him in prison, according to the Atlantic they wanna kill him”

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September 8, 2023 | 9:52 am | 1 Comment »

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They must go  

It is not Israel’s obligation to offer itself as a movie stage for Africans to play out their murderous violence against each other. 

Illegal immigrants must be expelled from Israel. They must go.

Y’know why? Because these Mistan’nim (illegal infiltrators) are . . . Illegal Infiltrators. They must go.

If a person steals 100 shekels from a store, it is fitting justice that his crime be reversed and he restore to the store the 100 shekels stolen plus further damages. If a person wrongfully breaks a person’s window, he should be required to reverse his wrong by paying for the window’s repair. And if he enters a country illegally, he should be required to reverse his wrong and leave. If he does not leave, he should be expelled forcibly. If he is from Eritrea, it does not matter whether he supports Dictator Isaia Afwerki, wears red, and celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of his “election” or whether he opposes Afwerki and wears blue. Both sides are in Israel illegally. They must go.

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September 8, 2023 | 8:51 am | 3 Comments »

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Arab source: US demanded that the Palestinians not place preconditions on Israel-Saudi Arabia normalization  

T. Belman. This is huge news if it proves to be true. I have been under the impression the the US wants to get the best deal possible for  the Palestinians and to secure the prospect of a TSS. The Saudis and the Israelis do not care about the Palestinians or the prospect of a TSS.

US wants talks on normalization between Saudi Arabia, Israel, with no preconditions from the Palestinian Authority, source says.

6.9.23

A Palestinian Arab source told Al-Araby Al-Jadeed that Barbara Leaf, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, demanded that the Palestinian Authority not set preconditions for Saudi Arabia regarding a normalization agreement between it and Israel.

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September 7, 2023 | 2:42 pm | 1 Comment »

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80% of Ultra-Orthodox Women Participate in the Workforce  

 – 2022 Statistical Report on Ultra-Orthodox Society in Israel

By Dr. Gilad Malach and Lee Cahaner. January 02, 2023

The seventh annual report on ultra-Orthodox society in Israel found that in 2021 78% of ultra-Orthodox women and 51% of the men participate in the workforce; preliminary reports show a slight improvement in the first three quarters of 2022 – 80% and 53% respectively. In addition 44% of the ultra-Orthodox in Israel live in poverty

The survey presents recent trends in ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) society in a range of areas, including standard of living, education, employment, social mobility, leisure, and lifestyles.

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September 7, 2023 | 11:34 am | Comments »

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Jared Kushner, Lindsey Graham push Trump to back Biden-brokered Saudi-Israel deal  

T. Belman. I totally disagree. First a deal should not be approved sight unseen. Secondly, there is no urgency.  It can wait a few more months until Trump’s second term.

Furthermore, Biden is heavily advocating for the PA and the two state solution. That has to affect the deal.

The problem is that Trump will not also be able to get a 2/3 majority to back it.

Recognizing that GOP support is needed for deal to succeed, son-in-law and senator tell ex-US president that new potential normalization accord would vindicate his Mideast policy

Today, 4:47 am

White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, right, looks on during a meeting between US President Donald Trump, left, and leaders at the Gulf Cooperation Council Summit in Riyadh, May 21, 2017. (AP/Evan Vucci)<

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham and former senior White House adviser Jared Kushner have encouraged former US president Donald Trump to support his successor Joe Biden’s effort to broker a normalization agreement between Israel and Saudi Arabia.

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September 7, 2023 | 11:16 am | 6 Comments »

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Comparing the Arab and Jewish communities in Israel  

T. Belman.  I was surprised to learn that “The Jewish population is growing at a rate of 1.7% per year and the Arab population at a rate of 2.1%.”. I thought we had a higher growth rate due to Jewish immigration and higher fertility.

The Arabs are not as well off because their women do not work (only 28.3% compared to Jewish women at 61.3% and Heredi women at 80%)

Central Bureau of Statistics assessment shows barely half of Arab households can cover monthly expenses, employment rates lower than for Jewish counterparts

20 June 2023, 4:01 pm
Arab women sit on a bench in central Jerusalem, on January 04, 2022. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

New data released Monday on the differences between the Jewish and Arab communities pointed to significant gaps between the two populations, with Arab Israelis earning less income, being more likely to slip into poverty, and dying younger.

The Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) report, titled “Gaps Between Jews and Arabs,” examined differences in demographic characteristics, standards of living, employment, health, welfare services, personal security, crime, education, transportation and the environment.
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September 7, 2023 | 10:35 am | 4 Comments »

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Goldknopf: No judicial reform without Draft Law’  

UTJ head says govt. may collapse if the Draft Law exempting yeshiva students from IDF service is not passed.

  Sep 6, 2023, 9:16 PM 

Yitzhak GoldknopfAvshalom Sassoni/Flash90

United Torah Judaism chairman and Construction Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf stated this evening (Wednesday) that if the Draft Law is not passed during the Knesset’s winter session, the government’s planned judicial reforms would not be allowed to pass and the government may even collapse.

The Draft Law would enshrine in law the exemptions from military service that haredi yeshiva students receive. The latest version of the bill would also lower the age of exemption so that haredi men could enter the workforce at a younger age.

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September 7, 2023 | 2:42 am | 3 Comments »

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The Truth of January 6, 2021 Reveals “Constitutional Failures”  

By Renee Parsons, GLOBAL RESEARCH

As the four indictments against former President Donald Trump continue to unfold, the American people have begun to recognize the painful truth that the country’s justice and judicial system, especially the DC District Court in Washington DC,  reveal itself as a microcosm of evil monsters as Congress refuted its Constitutional responsibility.

In May, 2021, there was momentum to establish an ‘independent’ Congressional inquiry into the facts surrounding the January 6 event when thousands of Stop the Steal Americans left Trump at the Ellipse to “peacefully and patriotically’ walk to the Capitol.   At the time, the House was meeting to count Electoral College votes and certify the 2020 election which millions of Americans felt was rampant with voter irregularities and digital manipulation.

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September 6, 2023 | 5:51 pm | Comments »

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How Israel became a cyber superpower  

The IDF has turned into a locomotive that is pulling the Israeli economy in technology and cyber sectors.

 By  Gabi Siboni, ISRAEL HAYOM

The Israel Innovation Authority’s 2023 annual report shows that in recent decades, the hi-tech industry has become the engine that pulls the Israeli economy, in which it is the industry with the largest and fastest-growing output. The report also shows that between 2012 and 2023, the average growth rate of the number of employees in the hi-tech industry was three times the general rate in the economy (6.3% and 2.2% respectively). Moreover, the sector’s contribution to GDP was over 18%, having doubled within a decade to 290 billion shekels ($76.5 billion) in 2022.

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September 6, 2023 | 5:30 pm | Comments »

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The 1993 Oslo Accord dismissed the writing on the wall  

Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative”
September 6, 2023, https://bit.ly/3r1wJeY

Oslo Accord’s writing on the wall

In January 1979, President Carter facilitated the Ayatollahs’ rise to power in Iran, assuming that they would be “preoccupied with tractors, not with tanks.”

In September 1993, Prime Minister Rabin embraced the Oslo Accord, assuming that Arafat would be “preoccupied with domestic issues of the newly-established Palestinian Authority, not with terrorism.”

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September 6, 2023 | 5:12 pm | 2 Comments »

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