T. Belman. Amb. Ettinger says “*The proposed Palestinian state, on the one hand, and US values and national security, on the other hand, constitutes a classic oxymoron.” And so does the US kissing up to Iran not make sense. Obviously something else is going on here that Ettinger does not even allude to.

So the real question is, why is the US doing this? I suggest when you identify the goal of the US, their embrace of Palestine and Iran won’t be such an oxymoron.

Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative” July 5, 2023

According to the late Prof. John Galbraith, the enemy of conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of facts, which may expose conventional wisdom as useless or dangerous.  Prof. Galbraith also suggests that conventional wisdom does not accommodate itself to the real world, but to a certain view of the world.
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T. Belman. I agree with Spyer, except when he refers to Russia’s “floundering invasion of Ukraine” and “ill-conceived invasion of Ukraine” and “faltering war effort”. The truth is just the opposite.

The latest events confirm the emergent strategic alliance between Russia and Iran.

By JONATHAN SPYER, JPOST

AN IRANIAN woman passes in front of a sign that says ‘Made in Russia’ at the International Oil, Gas, and Petrochemical Exhibition in Tehran last month. (photo credit: MAJID ASGARIPOUR/WANA/REUTERS)

The failed mutiny launched by Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner Group last week has returned Russia to the global headlines. As of now, however, despite the former caterer’s efforts, it appears that the regime of President Vladimir Putin remains securely in power.<

As such, it is an opportune moment to take a close look at some of Russia’s less-remarked-upon activities, far from the road to Moscow, Rostov-on-Don and the Ukrainian front. The first leader who Putin chose to call, once it was clear that he had survived the Wagner mutiny, was President Ebrahim Raisi of Iran. Not by chance.

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T. Belman. All Israel’s bashers including some of her friends, know nothing of the rules of war. For those who wish to know read this. Bomb Gaza before invading

White House Says Civilians Must Be Protected .  Wrong. IDF soldiers must be protected. The Rules of War say civilians can’t be targeted.

American Jewish Committee rejects claim by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres that Israel used excessive force in Jenin.

Israel National News    7.7.23

The American Jewish Committee (AJC) on Thursday rejected the claim by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres that Israel used excessive force in its operation to capture terrorists in Jenin.

“We strongly reject the assertion made by UN Secretary-General Guterres that Israel used excessive force during its counter-terrorism operation in Jenin,” it said.

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T. Belman. The only occupation there is , is the Arab occupation of our land.<

by Moshe Dann, ISRAEL UNWIRED      July 6, 2023

According to the European Union, which influences policymaking in the international community, Israel’s occupation of the “West Bank” (areas that the IDF conquered in 1967) is a “violation of international law” – the Hague and Fourth Geneva Conventions – and is illegal; therefore, Israel must withdraw to the 1949 Armistice lines.

While this is a powerful and effective emotional and psychological weapon against Israel, few understand that, for Palestinians, “the occupation” includes all of Israel, everything “from the [Jordan] river to the [Mediterranean] sea.”

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By Miranda Devine, NY POST

Israeli professor Dr. Gal Luft laid out his bribery allegations against President Biden’s family in an extraordinary video filmed in an undisclosed location while he’s on the run.

The “missing witness” from the Biden corruption investigation, Israeli professor Dr. Gal Luft, has laid out his bribery allegations against the president’s family in an extraordinary video filmed in an undisclosed location while he’s on the run.

In the 14-minute recording, obtained exclusively by The Post, the fugitive former Israeli army officer claims he was arrested in Cyprus to stop him from testifying to the House Oversight Committee that the Biden family received payments from individuals with alleged ties to Chinese military intelligence and that they had an FBI mole who shared classified information with their benefactors from the China-controlled energy company CEFC.

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FirstOneThrough   h 7.6.23

39 immigrants suffocate in a truck in Bucharest.

Over 60 migrants die when their boat breaks apart off the coast of Italy.

53 migrants die in the sweltering heat in the back of a truck in San Antonio.

Between 79 and 600 refugees drown when their boat sunk off Greece.

Boat packed with as many as 750 fleeing migrants capsizes off Greece in June 2023<
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By Tom Elliot

The more we learn about the 2020 election, the more undeniable it becomes that Biden owes his “victory” to blatant political corruption. To wit:

1) An IRS probe into the Biden’s money laundering payments from hostile nations — the normal outcome of which would have ended his candidacy — was instead given a stand-down order

2) The FBI & IRS wanted to search Biden’s house in September 2020 but were given a stand down order. 

3) The FBI authenticated Hunter’s laptop a year before the NYPost first reported on its contents
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Into the fray: My appearance on Politics Live

How the BBC captioned the Politics Live segment on Israel’s counter-terrorism operation in Jenin

I took part this week in an edition of the BBC TV show Politics Live. My fellow guests were the veteran human rights lawyer Baroness Helena Kennedy, the Conservative peer Lord Bethell and the libertarian Spiked writer Ella Whelan. You can listen to the audio of the show at the link below. The segment on Jenin starts at around 29 mins into the audio recording.

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Palestinian Media Watch Director Itamar Marcus spoke about PA Antisemitism at several events last month. One was a panel discussion “From East to West: The Export of Antisemitism from Arabic Media,” hosted by PMW and CAMERA Arabic at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem. Marcus also spoke at a live-streamed conference organised by Pulse of Israel called “Unmasking Jew-hatred within the Palestinian national movement.”

[Its worse than you think.]

The following are excerpts of two articles summarizing Marcus’ talks and his and PMW’s findings on PA Antisemitism:

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The Caroline Glick Show

T. Belman. It doesn’t get better than this. Carice Witte is brilliant. I met her when I made aliya in 2009. She made aliya from the US the year before. At that time she decided to devote all her efforts in embracing China. As a result, she is the leading expert in the Israel-China relationship. She just returned from the US where she participated in 20 meetings with US officials and congressmen who wanted to benefit from her knowledge. She is now expanding her focus from China to the World and in particular, India, South Korea and Japan.

I have alarming news to report. The U.N. Human Rights Council is now in session, but they’ve rigged the speaker’s lists so that I can’t take the floor.

Today, they're holding a debate on Iran. The Council gave the floor to numerous dictatorships, and to three “non-governmental”… pic.twitter.com/H6bYTSSoaW

— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) July 5, 2023

Palestinian leaders do their Nazi job.

by Joseph Puder, FPM         5.7.23

The first thing the Nazis had done upon assuming power in Germany was to turn the children into loyal Nazis, and ultimately into heartless killers. The Palestinians under Yasser Arafat and Mahmud Abbas have done the same. Peace can not be made with a regime that indoctrinates their youth to wage an uncompromising war against the Jews and encourage them to become martyrs for Palestine. That is what the Nazis did, and this is what the Palestinians are doing now. And if one wonders why there is no peace between the Palestinians and Israel, one clear answer is the Palestinian educational system, Palestinian media and the mosques that support it.
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National Security Advisor Tzachi Hanegbi speaks with Israel Hayom on the emerging agreement between the US and Iran, stressing there is “a lot of warmth” in the Netanyahu-Biden relations. “We can trust the US in this period just like in the past on matters that are critical to national security.”

 By  Shirit Avitan Cohen, IH     18.6.23

National Security Advisor Tzachi Hanegbi | Photo: Oren Ben Hakoon

All that separates Iran from transforming into a nuclear state rather than a nuclear-threshold state is one decision. The Israeli security agencies are closely monitoring what is happening in the Islamic Republic that openly threatens Israel with annihilation and is keeping abreast of the reports of the emerging deal with the West.

In public, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the defense establishment have repeatedly said that Israel will maintain the freedom to act in such a scenario. Against this backdrop, with Israel watching the shifting sands in the region and gearing up for a new reality, Israel Hayom spoke with National Security Advisor Tzachi Hanegbi for an interview on the threats facing Israel. Despite the rising dangers on multiple fronts, he remains optimistic.

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Vantage with Palki Sharm

T. Belman. Palki blames France for not integrating the Muslims rather than blaming the Muslims for not wanting to integrate.. The issue is how much of their culture should be rejected in order to integrate or how much accommodation should France support?

As counter-terror operation ends, thousands of refugee camp residents start returning and others emerge from their homes to find roads torn up, vehicles and buildings destroyed

By TOI STAFF and AGENCIES     Today, 12:35 pm  

Palestinians walk on a damaged road in the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank, July 5, 2023, after the Israeli army withdrew its forces from the terror stronghold. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

After the Israel Defense Forces withdrew all troops from the Jenin refugee camp early Wednesday, local Palestinian residents emerged from their homes in the morning to large-scale destruction, as the thousands who fled their homes during the counter-terror operation started to return.

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In an interview with JNS, the former secretary of state chides Biden for policies on Israel, calls the FBI probe of Shireen Abu Akleh’s death “political” and says Netanyahu has the right to choose his cabinet ministers “full stop.”

By ALEX TRAIMAN, jns         5.11.22

Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo oversaw the foreign policy of the most pro-Israel administration in American history. His policy, which came to be known as the Pompeo Doctrine, reversed long-standing American wisdom that Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria were illegal.

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FirstOneThrough

Once again Israel is being forced to combat terrorists who have committed and plan to commit murderous attacks on civilians. Once more, the locus for the attacks is coming from United Nations’ “refugee” camps. Once again, the majority of the terrorists are Arabs whom the UN has told have rights to move into grandparents’ homes in Israel.

UNRWA Wards By The Numbers

For the year ending December 2021, according to UNRWA, there were 6,539,844 Palestinian wards who accept services from the agency, of which 5,807,653 (89%) were “refugees” and another 732,191 (11%) were other people whom the UN thought deserved particular support. Of the 6.5m, 863,708 (13.2%) are above age 60, suggesting perhaps only 2.6% of the total, or 175,000 are actual refugees from 1948 who lost homes a few miles away in Israel, after they launched a war to destroy the Jewish state.

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T. Belman.  Bennett has proven himself adept at handling outrageous interviews. The interviewer is blatantly trying to demonize Israel she kept repeating that the Israel kept killing children and kept repeating condemnations of Israel.

The US as usual, virtue signalled, by saying, “It is imperative to take all possible precautions to prevent the loss of civilian lives,” The US knows there is no need to remind Israel to avoid harm to civilians. Israel has always shown it self to take greater precaution, even more than the law requires, then any other country in the world, including the US, who, I now read, are sending banned cluster bombs to Ukraine. The laws of war do not impose such a standard on combatants.

Bomb Gaza before invading

The law proscribes targeting civilians, not harming them

Former PM responds to BBC interviewer who asserted that the IDF is happy to kill children: We’re doing the right thing, they’re killing civilians.

Israel National News   Jul 4, 2023, 11:59 PM (GMT+3)

https://youtu.be/0vdnCLj4R2c

Former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Tuesday gave an interview to the BBC, during which the interviewer stunned him by claiming that “the Israeli forces are happy to kill children”.
“You know, it’s quite remarkable that you’d say that, because they are killing us,” Bennett replied. “Now, if there’s a 17-year-old Palestinian that’s shooting on your family, what is he?”
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