By Ted Belman

I have been watch this for the last hour during which time Mike proved that all election machines are connected to the internet and totally manipulated the results. Apparently the USA is 68% red, not 50-50 as we have been told. Also the Republicans are complicit in the cover-up.

Most Secretarys of State are Republicans and they mostly refused to cooperate. But he says that he now has the proof. Rather than wait for the lawsuits to play out, he has a Plan which will be presented at 1:00 PM Central Time. It is being broadcast around the world.

T. Belman. It is untenable that the Haredi avoid the draft and the secular are forced to serve. They must be equal before the law. The Haredi argue that they are defending Israel by studying Torah. I don’t accept this justification. Like every citizen, they must serve in the IDF.

A meeting with the Defense Minister has produced understandings regarding the Draft Law for the haredi community.

Israel National News     Aug 17, 2023, 

Senior haredi officials were quoted Thursday as saying that there is internalization among haredi political leaders that, amid the public protests against the judicial reform, it will not be possible to approve a conscription law as stipulated in the coalition agreement.

According to a report on the haredi website Kikar Hashabbat, the haredi internalization took shape last week after Defense Minister Yoav Gallant met with senior members of the haredi parties and explained to them that the rift in Israeli society prevents the promotion of a law in the spirit that the haredim demand.

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T. Belman. I don’t trust anything the ADL says and does. Tobin is quite right to take them somewhat to task in this article. Yes, the ADL report points out the problem but at the same time it offers solutions in line with woke policies.

ADL’s report about anti-Israel activism fueling European Jew hatred is welcome but fails to point out that U.S. liberals need to rethink their fealty to woke ideology.

 By JONATHAN S. TOBIN  (August 16, 2023 / JNS)

America isn’t Europe. That’s the key thing to bear in mind when reading the Anti-Defamation League’s sobering report on “Antisemitism and Radical Anti-Israel Bias on the Political Left in Europe,” published last week.

Some parallels can be drawn between the way a bizarre and troubling red-green alliance between leftist elites and Muslim immigrants has mainstreamed antisemitism in Europe and the growing influence of the intersectional left in the United States with the same aims. Americans should be paying close attention to the rising tide of Jew-hatred on the other side of the Atlantic and seeking to learn from it. But it’s important to remember the big differences between the two situations. More than that, the ADL’s policy recommendations stemming from its research don’t adequately alert Americans to the forces that are working toward the same dismal surge in antisemitism.

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T. Belman. This article and letter are so full of crap that I questioned whether I should be posting it. I decided to post it because I think you should know about the letter.

by Chris McGreal, THE GUARDIAN

Hundreds of Israeli and American public figures have called on US Jewish groups to speak out against the occupation of the Palestinian territories as “the elephant in the room” of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s deeply divisive judicial reforms.

The statement has drawn international attention because of the prominent Israelis who have signed its forthright declaration that “Palestinians live under a regime of apartheid”, including the renowned Israeli historian Benny Morris, and the former speaker of the Israeli parliament, Avraham Burg. (anti-Zionists both.)

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AMERICAN THOUGHT LEADERS

Shameful moral idiocy and cowardice.

by Bruce Thornton, FPM

Joe Biden recently spoke out on the terrorist violence afflicting Israel, particularly in the refugee camp in Jenin, currently controlled by Iranian surrogates. Sourcing the violence to vague “extremists”––the West’s go-to euphemism for hiding the widespread popularity of such attacks among Palestinian Arabs––our titular president then pulled out another duplicitous evasion by blaming Israel’s political “extremists” on the right. At the same time, he refused to invite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Washington until he was pressured to do so.

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The Caroline Glick Show

THIS IS A HUGE STORY

Brian Berletic

The tenuous nature of rulers has been attested to by “the Arab Tsunami” (gullibly named “the Arab Spring”), which has traumatized the Arab Street since 2010,

By Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger

A conclusion of an Israeli-Saudi (peace or normalization) accord requires the US State Department to demonstrate realism, by recognizing:

= The inherent constraints of the inter-Arab arena;
– The predominance of the Saudi – over Palestinian – interest;
– The intra-Arab Palestinian track record;
– The critical role of Israel’s posture of deterrence.
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A catalogue of the failures of the various Palestinian factions can be found here: “Palestinian Society Sinks into Shambles,” by James Sinkinson, JNS.org, August 10, 2023:

…Last May, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) spent days bombarding Israel with rockets, forcing the Jewish state to retaliate. Hamas refrained from fighting, yet did not prevent PIJ from attacking Israel—demonstrating the Hamas rulers were either unwilling or unable to curb rival terrorists.

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MK says government should apologize only for IDF Chief of Staff Halevi remaining in role, has a ‘duty to fully condemn’ warnings about army readiness being impaired

By TOI STAFF      Today, 10:23 am

Likud MK Tally Gotliv speaks attends a Knesset State Control Committee meeting, in Jerusalem, on August 15, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Renegade Likud MK Tally Gotliv on Wednesday slammed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for defending Israel Defense Forces officials and the security establishment, and justified recent attacks by lawmakers on the military.

Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant issued a joint statement Tuesday rejecting the mounting rebukes of IDF brass expressed by lawmakers, confidants of the the premier, right-wing media, and others, after defense officials repeatedly voiced concern over damage to the military’s readiness caused by some reservists’ refusals to carry out their duties in protest of the coalition’s judicial overhaul legislation.

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Reserves airmen reportedly explain colleagues’ refusal to serve to defense minister during visit to southern base meant to patch up ties between the government and air force

By TOI STAFF     Today, 2:26 am

Tomer Bar, left, and Yoav Gallant speak to members of the Air Force at Ramon air base on August 15, 2023. (Defense Ministry)

Pilots in the Israeli Air Force reserves reportedly warned Tuesday that they may not be willing to carry out attacks on behalf of Israel should it slide into authoritarianism, expressing sympathy for colleagues who have suspended volunteer duty to protest the government’s designs on the judiciary.

The pilots made the comments during a meeting with Defense Minister Yoav Gallant as he sought to bridge a growing divide between the government and military, the Ynet news website reported.

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BREAKING STORY

ARAB NEWS 16.8.23

DUBAI: The Jordanian army on Wednesday downed a drone loaded with explosive materials (TNT) coming from Syrian territory, the Jordan state news agency said.

“A drone loaded with TNT explosives originating from Syrian territory was intercepted.” said an official statement from the General Command of the Jordanian Armed Forces.

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It turns out the percentage of the globe that burns each year has been declining since 2001.

By Bjorn Lomborg, WSJ     31.7.23

Smoke and flames near Houston, Canada, July 10.

One of the most common tropes in our increasingly alarmist climate debate is that global warming has set the world on fire. But it hasn’t. For more than two decades, satellites have recorded fires across the planet’s surface. The data are unequivocal: Since the early 2000s, when 3% of the world’s land caught fire, the area burned annually has trended downward.

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By Petr Svab, EPOCH TIMES 15.8.23

News Analysis

The indictment of former President Donald Trump in Georgia over his efforts to reverse the results of the 2020 election lacks evidence that he harbored the criminal intent necessary to be convicted.

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis laid out her case on Aug. 14, detailing how President Trump and his alleged co-conspirators claimed fraud in the 2020 election in Georgia and elsewhere, how they arranged for an alternative slate of electors in Georgia and several other states, and how they tried to use this strategy to delay the counting of electoral votes by the vice president on Jan. 6, 2021.
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An Orthodox Jew, ex-Obama chief of staff has extensive ties to Israel, has been critical of Netanyahu

By JACOB MAGID, TOI 13 August 2023,

Former US treasury secretary Jack Lew speaks at the panel “Reforming the Euro Area: Views from inside and outside of Europe,” during the World Bank/IMF Spring Meetings, in Washington, April 19, 2018. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Former US treasury secretary Jack Lew is a leading candidate to become the next US ambassador to Israel, two sources familiar with the matter told The Times of Israel on Sunday.

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