by Vinay Kaura, JERUSALEM STRATEGIC TRIBUNE July 2023

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and China’s President Xi Jinping during the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan, June 2019. Photo credit: REUTERS

Introduction: Recurring Pakistani And Growing Chinese Challenges  

India faces disputed boundaries and territorial claims with both Pakistan and China. Though the direct threat from Pakistan has become less salient, the boundary dispute with China remains a massive problem. Furthermore at a time when the US and China are locked in a global competition, China’s assertiveness in projecting its authoritarian governing model in India’s neighborhood is a normative challenge to Indian democracy.

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By Phil Schneider, ISRAEL UNWIRED       June 6, 2023

“The key to democracy is alive and well in Israel.” That is a powerful and true statement by Allen Dershowitz. Yet, Dershowitz spoke out forcefully against the left for trying to undercut the Israeli economy with extortionary techniques. There is nothing at all about the Supreme Court reforms which have anything to do with the Israeli economy. But Israel’s left has shown that it has no red lines as far as how it has handled its protests of the judicial reforms.

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By DANIEL GREENFIELD, JIHAD WATCH

Islamic terrorists are getting money, manpower and territory from the White House.

At a press conference, Biden falsely claimed that Al Qaeda was no longer operating in Afghanistan. “I said al Qaeda would not be there. I said it wouldn’t be there. I said we’d get help from the Taliban. What’s happening now? What’s going on? Read your press. I was right.”

In reality, Al Qaeda is operating training camps in six provinces, including Helmand, which hundreds of Marines had been killed and wounded trying to secure during Obama’s surge. The 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment lost 25 marines, including the son of former Chief of Staff John Kelly, and suffered 34 amputations. 378 Marines were killed and 5,000 were wounded.
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T. Belman. Friedman said in his NYT piece  that Biden is “questioning why the US should defend Israel in international forums like the United Nations and the International Criminal Court.”  This the first sign that the Biden admin is looking for ways to punish Israel.

The only reason the ICC has potential jurisdiction to indict Israel for war crimes, is because it ruled that Palestine was a state contrary to reality. The US did nothing to reverse that ruling. And now the US probably instigated the EU Parliament to make such a statement. Not that the EU parliament needed any prodding.

Ukraine has started shelling civilians in the Donbass again.  That is clearly a war crime but if you are waiting for the ICC to prosecute, don’t hold your breath.

European Union Parliament adopts statement in support of International Criminal Court’s probe into possible war crimes by Israel.

By Elad Benari, INN 14.7.23

The European Union (EU) Parliament on Thursday adopted a statement in support of an investigation by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague into possible war crimes by Israel in Judea and Samaria, according to Haaretz.

The statement expressed the EU’s support for the ICC’s investigation into “war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in the occupied Palestinian territories.”

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News from the Middle East Forum   July 13, 2023

PHILADELPHIA – July 13, 2023 – Middle East Forum leaders yesterday joined Knesset members from both the ruling coalition and opposition, Israeli government ministers and security officials, and members of the U.S. Congress in re-launching the Knesset Israel Victory Caucus (KIVC) in Israel’s 25^th Knesset, and calling for new strategies to defeat Israel’s enemies.

The Forum presented KIVC co-chairs MK Ohad Tal (Religious Zionism) and MK Evgeny Sova (Yisrael Beitenu) with its Gaza Victory plan, a major policy paper authored by Brigadier General (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser that challenges Israel’s passive “mow the lawn” Gaza policy and lays out a plan for Israel Victory via military, economic, and cultural initiatives. The Caucus will focus its efforts on implementing the plan.

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By Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative” 13.7.23

US pressure

*The extended delay of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s invitation to the White House, the threat to reassess US-Israel relations and the emerging White House’s concern for the future of Israeli democracy, constitute means to intensify pressure on Israel to refrain from

• any independent military action against Iran’s nuclear infrastructure,
• to freeze Jewish construction in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) and East Jerusalm (while inducing Arab construction there),
• to redivide Jerusalem,
• to retreat to the pre-1967 lines (which were defined as “Auschwitz Lines” by the late very dovish Israeli Foreign Minister, Abba Eban) and to facilitate the establishment of a Palestinian state.
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Sen. Cruz Slams Biden for Netanyahu Snub: Most 'Anti-Israel' Ever https://t.co/BrjhqM7Dgq

— Ted Belman (@TedBelman) July 13, 2023

T. Belman. Elliot Abrams blames the Whitehouse interference on pressure from the Israeli Left and the American Left. He fails to mention that even without such pressure, the Whitehouse has no compunction against criticizing Israel.

The Biden administration continues to interfere in Israel’s internal debate over the role of the judiciary, most recently adding unfair criticism of how demonstrations are being handled by police.

by Elliott Abrams, CFR        July 12, 2023

France has been swept by violent demonstrations, and one young demonstrator [17-year-old Nahel Marzouk] was shot and killed by police. CNN reported on July 4^th that:

Nightly protests have erupted in cities across France and its overseas territories over the past week, with protesters expressing fury and accusations over how France’s marginalized communities are policed, and raising questions over whether race was a factor in Nahel’s death.

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By John Gaski, AM THINKER

The term “gaslighting” was just selected word of the year because of its overuse.  But why would that usage increase have happened?  Maybe because the practice itself has become more common as a political weapon.

In practical parlance, “gaslighting” means trying to persuade others not to believe their “lying eyes,” or not to believe what they already had known as established fact.  Recent examples of such disinformation themes include:
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T. Belman. Bibi’s son Yair is pressuring his father not to stop or soften legislation to annul the reasonableness doctrine in court review of government decisions

TOI, Today, 2:35 pm  

Shortly after amending the text of a controversial bill to outlaw judicial oversight over the reasonableness of government and minister decisions, Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee chair MK Simcha Rothman tells the panel that the new “wording does not open up additional fronts.”

The updated bill text specifies that the High Court of Justice cannot intervene to force a minister to exercise their authority, or in appointments made by the cabinet or its ministers.
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Erdogan Gets What He Wants, Vilnius NATO Summit a Bad Romantic-Comedy Sequel,

By Mark Sleboda, REAL POLITICK

My latest radio interview on the Critical Hour 11/07/23

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Topics:

• Erdogan Cashes in His Sweden in NATO Bargaining Chip for US F16s

• NATO summit in Vilnius set to escalate militarism across the world
  https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/07/10/nato-summit-in-vilnius-set-to-escalate-militarism-across-the-world/
• Abandon key treaty with Russia, Lithuania tells NATO
  https://www.rt.com/news/579517-lithuania-nato-russia-act/
• White House opposes independent oversight of Ukraine aid
  https://www.rt.com/news/579510-white-house-opposes-ukraine-aid-oversight/

T. Belman.  According to INN,  another 130 Ethiopians arrived in Israel today.. The Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Jewish Agency said that Israel was “continuing to facilitate the Aliyah and absorption of Ethiopians who have long yearned to arrive in the Jewish homeland, we have actualized the core value of the State of Israel and the Jewish people to advocate for the most vulnerable individuals among us,”

What a con job. They are not coming in under the law of return either.

Ahead of Israeli delegation trip to Ethiopia, immigration policy expert accuses Israel of bringing in non-Jewish immigrants.

Israel National News 24.5.23

An Israeli immigration policy expert accused the government Wednesday of knowingly bringing in non-Jewish immigrants from Ethiopia.

Attorney Dr. Yona Cherki from the Center for Israeli Immigration Policy said Wednesday that the current Israeli government is continuing policies put in place years ago to maintain immigration from Ethiopia, expanding Aliyah to include potential immigrants who claim to be descended from Jews forced to convert to Christianity.

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By Victor Sharpe, RENEW AMERICA 11.7.23

“Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive.”

“But when we’ve practiced for a while, How vastly we improve our style.”

The Left’s domestic and international mainstream media, by ever falsely blaming the victim, Israel, for the endless and barbaric Palestinian Arab acts of terror against Israeli men, women and children simply encourages the terrorists and their Iranian financiers to continue their brutal crimes. They do this while hiding their lethal weapons within their own Arab settlements. This, while the same Palestinian terrorists cower behind their own women and children and repulsively use them as human shields, hoping that they will be killed and exploited as propaganda tools. These evil acts alone are Palestinian crimes against humanity.

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HANSON ATTACKS TRIBALISM.

MK Simcha Rothman says those demonstrating against the judicial reform either “don’t know what they’re talking about or are just trying to deceive the public.”

Israel National News     Jul 12, 2023, 4:47 AM 

MK Simcha Rothman, the chairman of the Knesset’s Constitution Committee, told i24NEWS in an interview on Tuesday that those demonstrating against the judicial reform either “don’t know what they’re talking about or are just trying to deceive the public.”

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Mark Sleboda, REAL POLITICK

Radio Interview on the Final Countdown 11/07/23

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UNBELIEVEABLE  : HOW CAN THIS BE A GOOD THING?

OAN Abril Elfi     , July 11, 2023

According to a new poll from Brown University’s student paper, the number of students that identify as part of the LGTBQ+ community has doubled since 2010.

38% of students at the Ivy League school identified as homosexual, bisexual, queer, asexual, pansexual, questioning, or other than heterosexual. That number is five times the national rate for adults that are part of the community.

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