T. Belman. When Obama was campaigning to become President I followed him closely. A few years after his election I gave a talk on Obama’s Middle East Debacle. “How and why Obama screwed Israel”. Those that have watched the video have been very effusive in their praise.

By Andrea Widburg, AM THINKER

In 2017, David Garrow’s carefully researched Obama biography, Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama, appeared to much less fanfare than it deserved. The media undoubtedly downplayed it because it offered the truth behind many of Obama’s self-adulatory inventions, and Trump’s new presidency occupied everyone’s energy. What makes the book newsworthy today is that David Samuels has interviewed Garrow and revisited narratives in the book, reminding everyone of the scary, power-obsessed nastiness behind Obama’s carefully built façade.
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By Betsy McCaughey | NY POST | NYC

If you’re a taxpayer — in New York or anywhere in the US – you’re getting scammed by groups like United Way, Catholic Charities and the Central American Refugee Center (CARECEN). You may think these are charities. Truth is, these groups are hauling in millions in taxpayer dollars — your money — under government contracts to facilitate illegal immigration.

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Cabinet secretary: Coalition will seek opposition agreement on main bill in the judicial remake; if no deal, will politicize entire panel, with each bloc getting half the delegates

By TOI STAFF Today, 6:47 am

File: Former Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked together with Supreme Court President Esther Hayut, former finance minister Moshe Kahlon, and other members of the Israeli Judicial Selection Committee at a meeting of the committee in the Ministry of Justice in Jerusalem, February 22, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash 90/File)

A top aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that the coalition plans to pass legislation remaking the Judicial Selection Committee in the fall parliamentary session — arguably the most far-reaching element of the planned legislative package — and then will shelve the remainder of its radical and divisive judicial overhaul package.

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T. Belman. I still believe it was stolen. Common sense tells me so. There is no way, short of cheating, that basement Biden would have defeated Trump.

Jenna Ellis accepts censure from Colorado Supreme Court, acknowledging 10 specific misrepresentations

by Aaron Blake, WaPo March 9, 2023

Trump legal adviser Jenna Ellis speaks during a news conference at the Republican National Committee headquarters on Nov. 19, 2020.

Yet another figure who promoted Donald Trump’s stolen-election claims has backed down in the face of legal scrutiny. This time it’s the Trump campaign’s then-legal adviser, Jenna Ellis.

But even among the succession of walk-backs, this one stands out.

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 By Michael Schwarz, WESTERN JOURNAL August 3, 2023 

In a dystopian society, propaganda reigns, lies become mandatory and the truth inverted. ABC’s “The View,” a weekday echo chamber for leftist propaganda, has degenerated into a dystopian nightmare.On Wednesday’s show, the five co-hosts assumed their usual role as cheerleaders for the political persecution of former President Donald Trump, who faces another round of federal charges, this time related to his efforts to secure justice following his purported loss in the controversial 2020 presidential election.
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Justices imply they’re considering delaying implementation of law that stops court removing premier; Netanyahu’s lawyer calls it ‘unthinkable’ to allow ouster by unelected official

By JEREMY SHARON, TOI  Today, 6:49 pm

President of the Supreme Court Esther Hayut at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, August 3, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)<

The High Court of Justice asserted on Thursday in no uncertain terms that it views a recently passed law blocking the court from ordering the prime minister to recuse himself as a highly personal piece of legislation, and implied that it is considering an explosive ruling which would delay implementation of the law.

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by Jonathan Fulton, JERUSALEM STRATEGIC TRIBUNE     August 2023

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India’s PM Modi, Japan’s PM Kishida, China’s President Xi and Korea’s President Yoon each visited the Gulf recently. Photos credit: Hamad Al Kaabi/UAE Presidential Court/Handout via REUTERS, Saudi Press Agency/Handout via REUTERS, Mohamed Al Hammadi/UAE Presidential Court/Handout via REUTERS

Japanese Prime Minister Kishida, Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and Indian Prime Minister Modi each made a trip recently to Arab countries of the Gulf. In July, Kishida visited Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Qatar while Modi was in the UAE. Yoon visited the UAE in January. These three trips received far less international media coverage than Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Saudi Arabia last December but they are important indicators of changing dynamics in Asia-Gulf relations.

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Reproachment between Israel and Saudi Arabia could have serious consequences – but perhaps there is another way. 

By Jonathan Pollard, INN

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What’s clear about the American led effort to bring about a rapprochement between Israel and Saudi Arabia is that it has a secondary agenda that aims to undermine not only our G-d given claim to Judea and Samaria, but also our right to implement democratically endorsed domestic policies that run counter to the government’s leftist opposition.

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T. Belman. Is democracy a pie in the sky? Is it realistic to expect the people to be ascendant? It seems to me that the people are no match for the oligarchs. They decide everything. Can it really be any other way?

Start listening to the voters on cars, crime and wokery, or there’ll be an uprising even bigger than Brexit

By ALLISTER HEATH, TELEGRAPH 2 August 2023

Our political leaders on both sides of the House have lost sight of the public’s concern CREDIT: JESSICA TAYLOR/UK PARLIAMENT

Britain’s deranged war on cars, our looming ban on gas boilers, the debanking scandal, the failure to prosecute crime, the attempted cancellation of women, the sabotage of the Brexit agenda, the scale of migration: welcome to anti-democratic Britain, where the beleaguered majority is increasingly subject to the whims of an entitled, activist elite that often seems to despise the people over which it exercises so much power.

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T. Belman.  I disagree with the author about what Putin wants. I think he will settle for the four provinces and Crimea if there is an early settlement, otherwise he will take Odesa and all land east of the Dnieper.

By Gamaliel Isaac, AM THINKER

On July 29, 2023, Jamie Glazov posted an interview with Andrei Illarionov, a former economic adviser to Vladimir Putin.  The title of the interview was “Inside the Mind of Putin.”  Dr. Illarionov said that Putin wants to restore Russia to what Putin calls “historical Russia.”  Putin’s writing and speeches indicate that historical Russia refers to the Russian empire that existed from 1721 to 1917.  The modern-day countries with territories once controlled by the Russian Empire include Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Finland, Poland, Moldova, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and the United States (Alaska and parts of California).

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T. Belman. How bizarre can it get?  Its bad enough that it recognized Palestine as a state in 2011, but it goes further to recognize sites that existed thousands of years ago as being in the State of Palestine.

Jericho prides itself on being the oldest most continuously inhabited city in the world, dating back over 10,000 years and for being at the lowest point below sea level of any municipality.

By TOVAH LAZAROFF, JPOST

An image of the ancient Jericho archaeological site.

UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee is expected to list the site of ancient Jericho, which is now an archaeological park located in the modern Palestinian city that still bears the biblical name, as being in the “state of Palestine.”

The city is located in a section of the Jordan Valley, also known as Area A of the West Bank, which is under the auspices of the Palestinian Authority.

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Sitting presidents are generally shielded from indictment and criminal prosecution, but winning back the White House would not protect Trump indefinitely

By JILL COLVIN, TOI 

Republican presidential candidate, former US president Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally, July 29, 2023, in Erie, Pa. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

NEW YORK (AP) — The 2024 election will determine whether Donald Trump returns to the White House. It could also decide if he’ll face time behind bars.

For Trump, who’s now facing his third criminal indictment — this time for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election and block the transfer of presidential power — winning is about more than ego, redemption, score-settling or the future of the country.

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The law makes it so that families will only be allocated one plot of land regardless of how many wives.

By MOSHE COHEN/MAARIV, JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Women prepare traditional flat bread in the Beduin village of Umm al-Hiran, northeast of Beersheba.

Members of Israel’s Bedouin community have criticized a recently approved law denying additional land grants for polygamous families, calling the move “cultural apartheid.”

The law, proposed by Social Equality Minister Amichai Chikli and Justice Minister Yariv Levin to combat polygamy, makes it so that families will only be allocated one plot of land regardless of how many wives there are.

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The volume and density of innovation has made Israel a mandatory destination for all leading investors. 

By Amb. (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, INN 2.8.23

According to a July 17, 2023 Bloomberg report, a leading global investment bank, the NYC-based Jefferies Financial Group, Inc., “expects further growth in Israel’s tech sector despite political unrest over government plans to overhaul the judiciary….

“While there are considerable uncertainties, we anticipate Israel’s tech ecosystem growth and maturation will only accelerate, creating a dominant and necessary opportunity for investors…. The report expressed confidence that Israel’s tech industry will remain globally attractive….

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T. Belman.  Amb Michael Oren sugar-coated everything, This report tells it like it is. The current government will not agree to do what Biden wants which raises the possibility that Netanyahu will replace Smotrich and Ben Gvir  with Gantz and Lapid.

How close are we to the day when an Israeli Prime Minister will walk in Riyadh in public?

By Chuck Freilich, Eldad Shavit and Yoel Guzansky, INSS

President Biden is examining options for promoting a groundbreaking regional move in the Middle East, which will focus primarily on normalization between Saudi Arabia and Israel in exchange for an Israeli commitment to take certain steps on the Palestinian issue and United States approval of a series of significant Saudi demands, including a defense pact, a civilian nuclear program, and advanced weapon systems. New in this dynamic is the apparent greater willingness of the administration to accommodate Saudi demands. The actual prospects for success are unclear, and President Biden is aware that the regional actors, especially Israel, will be required to take to take historic decisions.

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