How Ramaswamy’s stance on American aid to Israel falls short.

by Hugh Fitzgerald, FPM

Vivek Ramaswamy, who has suggested that American military aid to Israel be ended by 2028, apparently does not realize just how important Israel’s successful use of American weapons on the battlefield has been as a selling point for those weapons in other countries. Nor is he aware of the extent of Israeli improvements to those American weapons that Israel is able to buy with that $3 billion in annual military aid, improvements that Israel of course shares with its American ally. Finally, Ramswamy does not know just how important is the flow of Israeli-made weapons to the U.S. military.

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By Mordechai Ben-Menachem

Last week’s top story!  This brief article attempts to provide an overview.  I ask readers to consider this a ‘baseline’ – verify the data and reach your own conclusions.

This is the first in-person forum meeting since the pandemic.  Clearly, no other BRICS summit has ever generated such international interest.  The declared objective is ‘a shift in global politics.’
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The right-wing camp has to know that we are at a historic moment in Jewish history; a genuine threat to Jewish sovereignty is at hand, and its identity and soul are at stake.

By Malcolm Dash, INN 29.8.23

Dr. Gadi Taub wrote a daring article in Tablet last week titled “Israel’s Elites Revolt Against Democracy.” I agree with Gadi Taub’s Tablet article After all, he was a founder member of the Peace Now movement, changed his mind and he’s an intellectual heavyweight like Ran Baratz.

Taub, with elegance, describes the judicial tyranny exercised by the legal establishment. There are many other right-wing intellectuals who have come to the same understanding as Taub.
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We’re reaching the point where the once unbelievable has become the banal

By Victor Davis Hanson, AM GREATNESS

Some truths are so staggering in their ramifications that Americans simply shrug and tune them out as if strangers in a strange land.

Is their current bewilderment because modernist America is unrecognizable —a nonexistent border, downtown homeless juxtaposed to hipster professional elites, DEI racial essentialism, cities reverting to precivilizational wastelands, millions exiting blue states to red, an FBI and DOJ gone rogue, the normalization of violent theft and assault, biologically born men sandbagging women’s sports and their locker room privacy?
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Interviewed by his daughter

Its liberal Maid programme has been turned into a political weapon

BY LIONEL SHRIVER, UnHERD 21.8.23

With uncharacteristic humility, I would concede that a few positions I’ve argued fiercely in print might be viable on paper, but in practice are a disaster. The “war on drugs” being a fiasco, years ago I advocated the legalisation of recreational pharmaceuticals. But given the dirty, dangerous, dismal tent cities full of addicts in LA, San Francisco, Seattle, and Portland — which have all effectively decriminalised drug possession — it may be fortunate that glib journalists like me don’t control public policy.
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by Bassam Tawil, GATESTONE  •  August 28, 2023

• When people such as Vivek Ramaswamy, a candidate for the Republican Party nomination in the 2024 US presidential election, call for decreasing aid to Israel, they are actually sending a message of support to the mullahs in Tehran and their proxies, Hamas and PIJ, as well as the Iran-funded Hezbollah terrorist militia in Lebanon and to nations that would like to see Israel and America “out of the way.”
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The attackers may decide on their own where to strike and carry it out by themselves, but they drink from the same poisonous well that makes the killing of Jews kosher, be it because “Al Aqsa Mosque is being desecrated” or just in the name of Islam or the Palestinian cause.

 By  Nadav Shragai, ISRAEL HAYOM 21.8.23

Once again, we fell into the trap: Even before the bodies of the dead from Saturday’s terrorist attack were laid to rest, it had already been described as a “lone-wolf” incident that was part of the “atmosphere.”

This definition is misleading because there is a hand that rocks the cradle for such perpetrators. Such attacks are not created out of thin air. The atmosphere that creates “atmosphere attacks” – the prevailing sentiment from where would-be attackers get their inspiration for their “lone-wolf attacks” – is part and parcel of the multi-year campaign to glorify terrorists and make Jews legitimate targets regardless of where they are.

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According to a study published on October 11, 2022, by Regavim, there are 81,317 illegal structures in area C. 

By Larry Domnitch, INN

Proximity of illegal Arab building to Efrat homes Regavim

The curvy windy road leading to the northern entrance of Efrat passes by an adjacent Arab town. The town extends from a nearby hill downwards and then ascends upwards almost reaching the Dagan and Tamar neighborhoods of Efrat. The town has no name, but it has schools, and nearby homes. Some of the buildings have not been completed as many of their window frames are empty revealing no residency within their walls. They are unoccupied structures.<
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We are told to get vaccinated to reduce the risk of being infected. But the numbers aren’t working out for them. How can they explain this survey?

STEVE KIRSCH

Executive summary

According to the survey I just did of over 16,000 people, fully vaccinated people are more than 2X as likely to get COVID than the unvaccinated.

What I found was fascinating is that if you did get COVID, the probability of being hospitalized was identical in the two groups.

My survey results are publicly viewable and all the entries can be verified (I have the contact info for each respondent). Happy to provide to any mainstream media fact checker.

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by Avi Abelow

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Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz puts Israel’s judicial reforms into proper perspective in this discussion.  Watch the full debate HERE

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YOU CAN’T IMAGINE HOW DESTRUCTIVE THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS TO AMKERICA.

THEIR GOAL IS TOTAL POWER.

By Michael Ordman, VGNI

Israel’s usual high summer temperatures may explain why so many Israelis are indoors energetically working on innovations to make a better world.  Renewable energy developments include releasing hydrogen from water using regular sunlight; floating solar farms are now a commercial reality; and a solar farm that generates cheaper electricity than can be produced from fossil fuels.

Israeli energy in the medical arena has resulted in the world’s first spine surgery using Augmented Reality; the first implanted tricuspid heart valves; two cancer breakthroughs; life-saving blood clot removal; and the first blood test to diagnose bipolar disorder.  Energetic Israelis are helping save lives after devastating fires in Maui, Hawaii.

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T. Belman. I disagree. We should build as much as we can because it is our right, not to punish terrorism.

by Michael Freund, Jerusalem Post  August 25, 2023

Earlier this week, in less than 48 hours, two Jewish families were shattered forever by Palestinian terrorist gunfire.

On Saturday, Shai Nigreker, 60, and his son Aviad Nir, 28, were shot dead when they stopped at a Palestinian-owned car wash in Huwara, south of Nablus.

Then, on Monday, another one of our ostensible peace partners opened fire on an Israeli vehicle near Hebron, murdering Batsheva Nigri, a 42-year-old mother of three, in front of her 12-year-old daughter who was sitting in the back seat. The driver, Aryeh Gottlieb, a father of six, was seriously wounded.

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By Tom Gross

I attach four articles from today and yesterday involving states in the Persian Gulf.

They cover the following issues:

The Wall Street Journal: Largest Hunger Strick by Imprisoned Liberal Reformers in Bahrain’s History.

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The percentage in haredi society of those who officially work has reached a record high of 55.8%

By Kobi Nachshoni, INN 26.8.213

It’s hard to remain unmoved by the findings of a survey publicized earlier this month showing the rapid growth of haredim (sometimes called ultra-orthodox Jews) in Israel’s workforce. The numbers, crunched by Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics, show that the percentage in haredi society of those who officially work has reached a record high of 55.8%. This is still a far cry from the 63% target set by the government back in 2020, and much further still from the 87% of the general Jewish populace. But the trend is positive and very encouraging: After nearly a decade with no real change in the percentages, the number of gainfully employed haredim is clearly rising, and appears on track to continue to do so.

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