T. Belman. Oslo didn’t happen out of the blue. In my article Since when did the Palestinians become entitled to a state, I traced its origin’s back to the Roger’s Plan of  1969. And remember too, that Pres Reagan saved Arafat and his band of terrorists by transporting them from Beirut to Tunisia for safe keeping until an opportunity presented itself to then transport them to Israel.

The Oslo Accord assessed the Palestinian Arab issue via Western lenses, sacrificing Mid-East reality on the altar of wishful thinking.

By Amb.(ret.) Yoram Ettinger     Sep 12, 2023,

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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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TIERNEY NEWS

I highly recommend this overview of what we know now and didn’t know then.

Recently Alan Dershowitz wrote
The Israel Lobby is nothing compared to the Saudi Lobby

These are some of the articles I have written on the vast power of the Saudi Lobby. Don’t miss them.

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

By SCOTT FOSTER    SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

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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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

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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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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Helen Mirren’s Golda Meir offers a profile of greatness in the face of overwhelming adversity.

By Michael Oren 

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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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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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Colluding for a World-wide Welfare State

By Thaddeus G. McCotter, AM GREATNESS 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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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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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…

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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