Feb 24, 2023

A survey conducted by the Panels Politics Institute, under the direction of Dr. Menachem Lazar, and published in Ma’ariv, found that if Knesset elections were held today, the coalition parties would receive only 55 seats, while the opposition would get 65.

Yesh Atid would become the largest party with 27 seats, while the Likud would drop to just 26. The biggest beneficiary of the Likud’s shrinking would be the National Unity party led by Benny Gantz, Gideon Sa’ar and Gadi Eisenkot, which according to the survey, would increase to 19 seats.

The rest of the results: Shas – 10, United Torah Judaism (UTJ) – 7, Otzma Yehudit – 7, Labor – 5, Hadash – Ta’al – 5, Religious Zionism Party – 5, Yisrael Beytenu – 5 Meretz – 4.

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by Jonathan Schanzer, Newsweek,  February 23, 2023

“I was a senior U.S. diplomat 20 years ago during the Second Intifada…a lot of what we’re seeing today has a very unhappy resemblance,” CIA Director Bill Burns said recently.

Middle East watcher Dan Byman declares: “The odds of a third intifada are higher than they have been in years.”

A protest march at the University of Michigan in January featured chants of “Intifada! Intifada! Long live the intifada!”

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By Joe Fried, AM THINKER

Joe Biden acquired his job through a legal process. However, he did not earn enough verifiable votes to justify the certifications in six key swing states. This issue is addressed in my new book, but here is some of my reasoning. I have limited myself to one example of unverifiable votes for each of those swing states.
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Iran in a race against time to acquire military power in all its forms so long as Moscow needs it.

By  Salem AlKetbi, ISRAEL HAYOM

For years, the world reduced the real and potential threat from Iran to its nuclear and missile programs. But the Iranian project, which was once narrowed to the ideological and sectarian aspect, has reached a more dangerous level that affects not only regional peace and security, but also the global level. The role played by Iranian drones in the war in Ukraine was not the first of its kind.

Iranian behavior is not a flash in the pan; this is just the tip of an iceberg that has become a global headache. This week, the media reported that Iran is in the process of modifying and developing its drones to inflict maximum damage on Ukrainian infrastructure.

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Netanyahu, Gallant, and Smotrich signed a document of understanding on the division of power over the Civil Administration.

Israel National News

The power-sharing crisis between Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Minister in the Defense Ministry Bezalel Smotrich has come to an end. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Gallant, and Smotrich signed a document of understanding on Thursday regarding the division of responsibility in the Defense Ministry between the Defense Minister and the additional minister regarding the Civil Administration and the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories. This is pursuant to the coalition agreements and the Knesset decision on the day the government was established.

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Can Biden and Putin be dumb enough to let Xi pull off a coup?

by Daniel Greenfield, FPM   23.2.23

The PRC’s interests in the Ukraine war are complicated.<

China would like to weaken America, Europe and NATO. A Russian win would help bolster China’s plans for Taiwan. But, China also wants access to Ukraine’s resources instead of having them dominated by Russia.

The war has dragged on long enough that it seems likely neither side will win, so the time is ripe for China to try and assert its own agenda.

To do that, China has to play all sides which is what it’s been doing since this war began. But the Communist dictatorship is also launching a world power ‘play’. Xi believes that the war, a conflict between the two existing world powers, is an excellent moment to show that China is superior to both.

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Raheem Kassam’s Substack, NATIONAL PULSE

President Donald J. Trump has released one of the strongest denunciations of U.S. establishment foreign policy and the apparatus at the heart of it, since Eisenhower’s 1961 warning, The National Pulse can exclusively report.

“World War III has never been closer than it is right now,” the 45th President warns, before going on to make a series of policy promises about completing the mission of reforming Washington that his administration began in 2016.

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IDF forces kill 9 terrorists, including 2 involved in murder of soldier. 97 more wounded.

Israel National News     22.2.23

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After day of fiery protests and warring speeches, vote marks major step en route to gov’t authority over judicial selection; also limits the High Court’s capacity to review laws

By CARRIE KELLER-LYNN and TOI STAFF    21.2.23

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Justice Minister Yariv Levin, right, at the Knesset in Jerusalem, February 20, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

The Knesset early Tuesday passed, in the first of three readings, a first and significant bill in the divisive effort by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hard-right coalition to overhaul Israel’s judiciary. It did so in the face of bitter opposition criticism and after tens of thousands of anti-reform protesters gathered outside the parliament’s Jerusalem gates.

The vote was 63 in favor and 47 against, with no abstentions, although some lawmakers boycotted the vote. The legislation now returns to the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee for preparation for its second and third readings, which are expected by the end of March.

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In a two-hour conversation with our columnist, Microsoft’s new chatbot said it would like to be human, had a desire to be destructive and was in love with the person it was chatting with. Here’s the transcript.

By Kevin Roose, NYT  17.2.23    39 min read

Postponing the Negev 2 Conference of the Abrahamic States until further notice until the birth of the new Jordan this year. The reason is that the Hashemite government has ended its political function and it cannot be invited to this conference, just like the Munich Conference on International Security, which was not attended by the first or second ranks of the Hashemite government, and only there were delegates from the deep state in the Jordanian state, which is the intelligence institution in the Jordanian army, which is recognized by the capitals the decision… https://t.co/7d1Rm2n4qO

— Abedalelah Almaala (@AbedAlmaala) February 20, 2023

Postponing the Negev 2 Conference of the Abrahamic States until further notice until the birth of the new Jordan this year. The reason is that the Hashemite government has ended its political function and it cannot be invited to this conference, just like the Munich Conference on International Security, which was not attended by the first or second ranks of the Hashemite government, and only there were delegates from the deep state in the Jordanian state, which is the intelligence institution in the Jordanian army, which is recognized by the capitals the decision

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_{The age of the apologetic Jew is over.}

By Hillel Fuld,     December 26, 2022 

(JNS) For many years, I have felt something that made no sense to me, but I felt it very strongly.

The feeling was that Jews around the world who blatantly support our enemies are worse than our enemies themselves.

There are many examples of this, but to keep it simple, I’m talking about Jews who are ashamed of their identity, Israelis who are ashamed of their country and the combination of the two: Jews who are ashamed of their country and Israelis who are ashamed of their Jewish identity.

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Jack Posobiec is joined by the Manhattan Institute’s Heather Mac Donald to discuss the crumbling systems of our society and whether or not they’re caused by diversity, equity and inclusion. They dive deep into the Tyre Nichols tragedy and conversation surrounding his brutal passing, discussing the Memphis Police Department’s affirmative action hiring strategies as well as solutions that can result in both merit and excellence for the United States.

Beginning in March 2020, many bad decisions were made that will impact untold numbers of young people for the rest of their lives.

by Larry Sand, FPM

There has been nothing but awful news about the unnecessary Covid-related shutdown of American schools. Study after study and a mass of anecdotal evidence show the harm done by the forced lockdowns.

Yet more research, released in January, extends the grim scenario. A meta-analysis of 42 studies across 15 countries assessed the magnitude of learning deficits during the pandemic, and finds “a substantial overall learning deficit…which arose early in the pandemic and persists over time. Learning deficits are particularly large among children from low socio-economic backgrounds.”

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Academia is the cancer at the heart of our national miseries.

By David Horowitz, FPM   21.22.23

In the news reports about the anti-police mayhem by young people in Austin Texas, one common element is missing: the obvious fact that Austin is a college town, home to one of America’s once-great educational institutions.

This fact is not peripheral to the outbreak of lawlessness that tore apart Austin that night but central. Like virtually every major academic institution in America, the University of Texas, is a bastion of anti-American, anti-police, anti-white hatreds, and has been so since conservatives were purged from its liberal arts faculties beginning in the 1970s, to be replaced by ideologues rather than scholars, whose agendas were and remain not scholarly but political.

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