Hamas-Riyadh rapprochement talks look to be in the cards. BUT LOOKIS CAN BE DECEIVING

(April 19, 2023 / JNS) Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas met with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the Red Sea city of Jeddah on Tuesday.

Salman in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, April 18, 2023. Source: Saudi Foreign Ministry/Twitter.

The Fatah leader’s visit comes at the same time that a delegation from rival political faction and terrorist group Hamas is also in the country.

According to the P.A.-controlled Wafa news agency, Abbas and the prince discussed “the latest political developments of the Palestinian cause and the situation in the occupied Palestinian territory.”

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 – Oversight Committee Has Evidence of Biden Family Connections to Human Trafficking of Prostitutes from US, Russia, Ukraine

By Jim Hoft, GATEWAY PUNDIT Apr. 18, 2023 9:10 pm

Prior to the 2020 election, The Gateway Pundit released sordid details from the Hunter Biden laptop. The mainstream media and regime lapdogs refused to report on the criminal conduct of Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, and the Biden Crime Family, in order to protect them days before the 2020 election.

The Gateway Pundit reported in October 2020 on Hunter Biden’s Russian orgies, his many nights with Russian hookers, his father wiring him money for his prostitutes, and his fears of being blackmailed by the Putin regime.

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By DAVID BAUDER, RANDALL CHASE and GEOFF MULVIHILL, AP

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Fox News agreed Tuesday to pay Dominion Voting Systems nearly $800 million to avert a trial in the voting machine company’s lawsuit that would have exposed how the network promoted lies about the 2020 presidential election.<
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The stunning settlement emerged just as opening statements were supposed to begin, abruptly ending a case that had embarrassed Fox News over several months and raised the possibility that network founder Rupert Murdoch and stars such as Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity would have to testify publicly.

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T. Belman. Mudar and I discussed his views on The Temple Mount in a Q&A session at the end of the 2017 conference. He said that if and when he became the ruler of Jordan that he didn’t want to be in charge of Al Aksa. Instead , he said Israel should create its own Wakf  of Israeli Muslims who are loyal to Israel and he would turn it over to it.

I suggested that the Temple Mount should be shared by Muslims and Jews. . Al Aksa Mosque and some lands around it should be the Muslim holy site  and the rest of the Temple Mount should be the Jewish Holy Site.

Looks like something like that is happening.

Mudar Zahran tweeted on April 17, 2023 the following:

The King of Jordan sold Al-Aqsa Mosque to Israel for $30 billion

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By Ted Belman.

I was fortunate to get introduced to Galina who is the mother of my daughters friend. She spent her whole life in Russia and just emigrated when the war began. She is extremely knowledgeable and intelligent and I think its safe to say she hates Putin.

I shared her view point with a number of equally knowledgeable and intelligent people.  What follows is what we have each written. Her remarks are translated by Google.

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by Con Coughlin, GATESTONE  •  April 19, 2023

• In the absence of any desire on the part of the Biden administration to support the Saudis — for decades one of Washington’s most important allies in the region — China has moved quickly to fill the diplomatic vacuum to launch its own initiative to restore ties with Iran.
• [T]he fact that the Chinese can pull off a diplomatic coup involving a country that was formerly a key ally of the US serves as a devastating indictment of the Biden administration’s incompetence.
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_{Lapid’s support for a Palestinian state compounds a disastrous error.}

by Melanie Phillips September 28, 2022 

(JNS) As soon as it emerged that Israel’s acting Prime Minister Yair Lapid would tell the United Nations General Assembly this week that he supports the establishment of a Palestinian state, he was engulfed by outrage, incredulity and dismay.

Critics charged that he was endangering Israel’s security by seeking to establish a terrorist state on land to which Israel is lawfully entitled. This, they said, would incentivize yet more Palestinian terrorism.

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ETTINGER NAILS IT. DON’T MISS IT.

Why suppress this bestseller?

By Mark Tapson, FPM

A week ago, Newsmax sent out the following memo to its readers: “You need to find out why the major media — even Fox News — is banning any mention of ‘Final Battle’ as it soars to the top of the bestseller lists…” Final Battle: The Next Election Could be the Last is the title of Freedom Center founder David Horowitz’s latest book. It is the number one best-selling political book in the nation as recorded on Amazon’s best-seller list. For three months it has been the number one best-seller in Amazon’s “Elections” category, topping such powerhouse books as Alan Dershowitz’s Get Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ new book The Courage to Be Free. Former President Donald Trump praised Final Battle as “Great!” and urged his followers to read it. He even named his presidential campaign “Final Battle.”

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By Eric Utter, AM THINKER

Recently, news broke regarding an explosion at a dairy farm in the Texas Panhandle, in which approximately 18,000 cows were killed (and one person critically injured).  The Castro County Sheriff’s Office confirmed the explosion to Fox News Digital and stated that the cows were in a holding area before being brought in for milking when the blast occurred at the Southfork Dairy Farm in Dimmitt.  The Texas State Fire Marshal’s Office is investigating the cause of the fire.

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The remedies are agreed upon, but the needed medicine is feared more than the disease. Because today, the government is the cause of our many crises.

By Victor Davis Hanson, AM GREATNESS     17.4.23

Twenty-first-century America was on a trajectory of gradual decline — until it began to implode.

Was the accelerant the COVID-19 pandemic and unhinged lockdowns?  Or was the catalyst the woke revolution fueled by the 2020 summer of exempted rioting, looting, arson, and violence? Or was it perhaps the deranged fixation on removing Donald Trump from the presidency and destroying the rule of law in the process?  Or all that and more?

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INSS report argues that rebranding of extremist groups as human rights organizations threatens to bring fringe ideas into the mainstream

By LAZAR BERMAN, TOI Today, 9:26 am  

As antisemitic attacks continue to rise in the United States, a growing alliance with far-left organizations has shielded US Islamist groups from scrutiny of their antisemitic statements and ideas, a study by an Israeli think tank warned.

“US Islamist groups and leaders have increasingly sought common cause with progressive left-wing groups that promote minority rights and intersectionality among racial, ethnic, and religious minorities in their efforts to build coalitions around common interests,” charged Yehudit Barsky and Ehud Rosen, authors of the Institute for National Security Studies report “Islamist Antisemitism in the United States,” set to be published Tuesday.

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By Shoshana Bryen • April 17, 2023 • Jewish News Syndicate

Israeli checkpoint at in the Old City area of Jerusalem.

The horrors inherent in the possibility of a mullah-led Iranian regime with nuclear weapons are clear. But less seems clear—at least, to the U.S. government—about the non-nuclear threat Iran poses. One result is that the nature of the rocket barrage from Lebanon and the Gaza Strip into Israel’s north on Passover was nearly obscured. An alliance between Iranian proxies Hamas and Hezbollah was on full display, but the U.S. administration had little to say about it.

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by Aparna Pande, JSTRIBUNE April 2023

US President Joe Biden talks with India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the opening of the G20 Summit, November 15, 2022. Photo credit: BAY ISMOYO/Pool via REUTERS

India and the United States have overcome the distance and suspicions that arose out of India’s refusal to align itself with the US soon after its independence in 1947. Over the last three decades, the world’s oldest and largest democracies have built a multi-layered and likely enduring partnership.

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T. Belman. Ritter is interviewed by a Polish journalist. Ritter shows his brilliance. He discusses how corrupt Ukraine is, how stupid Poland is and how indispensable Putin is to Russia. He is very critical of the US because it uses its “friends” and abuses them. Ritter trashes NATO. China doesn’t want to invade Taiwan. Taiwan does not want to be the next Ukraine. China and Taiwan will resolved their differences on their own. Russia has an antidote for all the advanced weapons and tanks that the US is giving to Ukraine. The 7:1 ratio is an average. Today it is probably 10:1 and tomorrow perhaps 20:1. Ukraine has no chance of defeating Russia.

China got Iran and Saudi Arabia to make peace which was the opposite of what the US wanted.

T. Belman. On Feb 23, 2023, Bloomberg reports Russian Support for Putin’s War in Ukraine Is Hardening. A year after the invasion, the Kremlin is confident the country is ready to keep fighting.

Keep in mind that Russian media is tightly controlled.

By  Natasha Lindstaedt, THE CONVERSATION  Dec 8, 2022

Career limiting move: a Russian journalist stages a one-woman protest against the war on Russian primetime news.

Leaked internal Russian government polling recently indicated that as few as one in four Russians may be in favour of the war in Ukraine. Analysts believe that the forced mobilisation of over 300,000 civilians and the high level of casualties have all contributed to waning support for Russia’s war effort.
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By Autumn Spredemann, EPOCH TIMES    16.4.23

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (R) inspects an honor guard with Chinese leader Xi Jinping during a welcome ceremony held outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, on April 14, 2023. (Ken Ishii,-Pool/Getty Images)

Amidst the buzz surrounding Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s China visit that began on April 12, the leaders of both countries have signed more than 20 new bilateral agreements.

On the surface, the trip was a run-of-the-mill diplomatic visit. However, some say it underscores an ongoing deprioritization of relations with the United States.

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By Mike Lindell

As I’m writing this email, volunteers are gathering in Texas to do trial run throughs on paper ballot hand count elections that HAVE NO COMPUTER VOTING MACHINES. 7 counties in Texas ALREADY do strictly paper ballot hand count elections- it’s a proven and secure method of tallying election ballots! Imagine….

TEXAS FIRST Volunteers perfecting election procedures using an enlarged calculator to track number of votes per candidate. No wifi, no bluetooth, no modems, no access.

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By Nadav Shragai / Israel Hayom – May 4, 2022

(JCPA) The status quo on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, as formulated by Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan in 1967, no longer exists. Today, the reality on the mount is very different from what it was 55, 40, or 30 years ago.

One of the explanations the Palestinians often give for the recurrent riots and violence on the mount is that Israel is violating and altering the status quo in ways that favor Israel and the Jewish side and harm Muslims. They call this an “assault on Al-Aqsa,” an “invasion of Al-Aqsa” and, most frequently of all, proclaim that “Al-Aqsa is in danger.”

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T. Belman.  I wrote to Christine :

I just posted your excellent article even though I had a few problems with it.

” Although Dayan formulated the agreement to pacify hostile Arab forces that were bent on obliterating Israel, this fact does not alter the reality about Jewish rights or about the violent outbreaks on the Temple Mount. “

Dayan gave the keys to the Wakf to Jordan after Jerusalem was liberated in the ’48 war. He did so, not to pacify hostile Arab forces, but to remove a grievance from the Arabs throughout the ME which might result in a forever war with the Arabs.

He did this without the approval of the Israeli government. He acted alone.

It should be pointed out that there is no Israeli law which prohibits Jews from praying on the Temple Mount. The SC acknowledged this but went on to say that the Police can prevent it to avoid violence. Ben Gvir wants to change the police action.

One final thought.  The Al Jazeera article is full of lies.

BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS, JIHAD WATCH

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has now barred Jewish visitors from the Temple Mount until the end of Ramadan, due to widespread violence. According to the prime minister’s Office, this was done “on the unanimous recommendation of the Defense Minister, the IDF Chief-of-Staff, the Director of the ISA and the Israel Police Inspector General.” But Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir called the move a “‘serious mistake’ that risks further inflaming tensions.”

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