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Is Alan Dershowitz right to warn against the ‘override clause’?  

Unlike Israel’s agenda-driven cynics, the world-renowned attorney has at least proven trustworthy where his views on the Jewish state are concerned, even if one disagrees with some of them. Op-ed.

(JNS) The enthusiastic response of the “anybody but Bibi” camp to a video message delivered on Friday by renowned criminal attorney Alan Dershowitz through the Hebrew news site Ynet is amusing. The same Israelis who’d been casting aspersions on the retired Harvard professor for criticizing the decision to indict Benjamin Netanyahu—the country’s longest-serving prime minister, soon to resume the premiership—are now hailing him as an expert to be heeded.

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December 7, 2022 | 6:54 am | 6 Comments »

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BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Big Tech Censorship Is the Largest Campaign Finance Violation in History Costing Americans Billions and Potentially Trillions  

By Joe Hoft, GATEWAY

Big Tech censorship is the largest campaign finance violation ever and the cost to Americans is in the billions. 

Engineer and data expert, Chris Gleason has been reaching out to Florida politicians since early 2021 to get them to look a the real cost of Facebook and Twitter’s actions of censoring and de-platforming conservative websites.  He’s received little to no response to date.

With the information released by Twitter this past weekend, the cost of Twitter’s actions related to US politics is now very relevant.

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December 7, 2022 | 6:22 am | 1 Comment »

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Poland and Hungary are all set to take on the EU and side with Russia.  

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Ever since Russia waged war in Ukraine, everything has gone through a sea change. The Russo-Ukrainian war has altered the global dynamics for good and rebel member states are rising against the unfair hegemony of stronger states, which would probably be the end of the EU. Two such powers are Poland and Hungary who are now all set to take on the EU and side with Russia. Now, this is what irks the Union and hence the leader Germany made a plan to expose Poland to the Russian attack. Watch the video to know more. 

December 7, 2022 | 2:11 am | 15 Comments »

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Israeli democracy is indeed in danger, but not from the Right  

Leftists claim to be the gatekeepers of democracy, but by inciting a boycott, and even a civil rebellion, against the incoming government, they are doing the exact opposite.

 By  Prof. Asher Cohen, ISRAEL HAYOM

The hysterical headlines are true: Israeli democracy is indeed in danger, but not in the way the Left makes it seem. Democracy is not in danger of religious “fascists” and “fundamentalists,” but rather lawmakers who adopt such rhetoric every time a right-wing government is elected into power.

We have often heard such warnings over the years, but in the last few days – as Prime Minister-elect Benjamin Netanyahu is nearing the establishment of a government – they have begun bordering on incitement and outright rebellion.
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December 7, 2022 | 1:52 am | 2 Comments »

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Kari Lake Campaign Issues Scathing Response to Judge Who Sanctioned Her Lawyers: ‘An Angry Obama Appointee Who Wants to Send a Message’  

By Ryan Ledendecker, REPUBLICAN BRIEF   December 6, 2022

Judge John Tuchi of the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona received a sharp round of criticism from Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake’s campaign.Lake is challenging the process of the Nov. 8 election where Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs has been declared the winner, according to results certified Monday.The backlash from Lake’s campaign came in the wake of a ruling from Tuchi on Thursday sanctioning lawyers who represented Lake and Republican Secretary of State candidate Mark Finchem in a previous election-related lawsuit, according to KNXV-TV in Phoenix.
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December 6, 2022 | 5:30 pm | 2 Comments »

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Democrat Voter Fraud: A Brief History  

By J.R. Dunn, AMER THINKER


This is a “brief history” because the complete history of Democrat electoral malfeasance reaching back to Tammany Hall and Tweed would require four volumes or more. (I’m running into the same problem with a new book I’m outlining analyzing the Democrats as a criminal organization, much like the Mafia or the Camorra.)

So a brief history it is, limited to the past thirty years or so. Believe you me, there’s no lack of cases even in that short span.

The Dinkins Magic Voting Machines

Just days before voting in the 1993 David Dinkins/Rudolf Giuliani election, the New York Times reported that a number of voting machines had been found in a closed Manhattan school. All the machines were loaded with votes for Democrat incumbent David Dinkins.

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December 6, 2022 | 5:21 pm | 3 Comments »

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Israeli bar chief slams plan to limit top court  

T. Belman. The Judicial Selection Committee (JSC) is made up on nine persons, 5 of which are sitting Supreme Court Judges and representatives of the Bar Assn. Obviously they are aligned in resisting change. Himi said:

“Our judicial method anchors universal values that are the infrastructure for our shared lives. If there is no equality, morality or justice, and there is legislation that harms one minority or another — that’s not democracy,”

“The apparent new government does not have the right to change the method of governance in Israel,” 

That’s a crock.  Any Israeli government has the right to change the method of governance including the makeup of the JSC. Also a democratically elected government has the right to legislate the values it will uphold and such values need not be “universal values” which is merely a buzz word for liberal left values.

Avi Himi says public should ‘take to the streets’ over proposals to let Knesset overturn High Court rulings, change how judges appointed

5 December 2022, 11:33 pm

The head of the Israel Bar Association warned Monday against legal reforms being pushed by members of the expected new religious-right coalition that would sharply curb the authority of the courts and allow politicians to determine judicial appointments.

Avi Himi called for a broad public effort to oppose the proposals, which include legislation that would allow the Knesset to overturn rulings by the High Court of Justice and change the criteria by which the chief justice is chosen.

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December 6, 2022 | 4:52 pm | 4 Comments »

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Stop Funding Palestinian Jew-Hatred | Opinion  

T. Belman.  Trump recognized this and began cutting down on their funding and question the role of UNRWA.  Biden reversed this and restored US funding and support for it. It reasons, the more support, the bigger US influence. In other words, Arab terrorists are US proxies.
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American tax dollars are funding terrorist attacks on Israel and the United States.

As crazy as that statement sounds, it could not be more true.

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December 6, 2022 | 4:12 pm | Comments »

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“Biden adopts the Palestinian cause,”  

T. Belman. This article suggests that the US is committed to the “land for peace” formula for solving the Arab/Israel conflict. The intent of Res 242 was to help the Arabs save face after their devastating loss.  The intent of the US was to wean the Arabs away from Russia and to make them dependent on the US for protection from Israel.  Today the issue is much less potent. Now the Biden administration does not want to advance the Abraham Accords before the Palestinian issue is solved. That’s the excuse. By putting the Pal cause first, Biden and the globalists are preventing the growth of peace between Israel and more Arab countries. That is their goal. For the Globalists, championing the Palestinian cause gives them huge leverage over what happens and keeping both Jew and Arab beholden to them. No one gives a damn about the Pals

By Jed Babbin,  Washington Times, 12/3/2022,  

The president’s team is intent on undoing everything Trump did — no matter how good it was

President Biden inherited a Middle East that posed the greatest opportunities for stability, if not peace, in almost six decades. Former President Donald Trump‘s 2018 revocation of the Obama nuclear weapons deal with Iran and imposition of severe economic sanctions on it backfooted the terrorist state. The Arab nations, terrified by the prospect of a nuclear-armed Iran, saw Mr. Trump‘s Abraham Accords as the best chance to align themselves with the U.S. and Israel, the only regional power able to face up to Iran.

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December 6, 2022 | 4:08 pm | 3 Comments »

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Deal will reportedly give ultra-Orthodox Shas control of Israel’s community centers  

Netanyahu’s Likud agrees to transfer hundreds of neighborhood facilities from education ministry to interior, after handing extremist lawmaker some school programming, report says

By TOI STAFF   Today, 6:50 am   

Shas chairman MK Aryeh Deri after coalition talks with Religious Zionist party head MK Bezalel Smotrich and Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu outside a hotel in Jerusalem, December 5, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Presumed incoming prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party has agreed to hand control of community centers to the ultra-Orthodox Shas party amid tense coalition negotiations between the two sides, according to a Monday report.

Likud has agreed to transfer the Israel Association of Community Centers from the education ministry to the interior ministry, which Shas is expected to hold in the next government, the Globes business daily reported.

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December 6, 2022 | 1:54 pm | 1 Comment »

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Covid Was Man-Made Virus: Wuhan Lab Scientist In New Book  

By Pragativadi News Service 

New York: In what appears to be an astonishing revelation, a US-based scientist, who worked at a controversial research lab in China’s Wuhan, has said that COVID-19 was a “man-made virus” that leaked from the facility.

Covid was leaked from Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), a state-run and funded research facility, two years ago, the New York Post reported, quoting US-based researcher Andrew Huff’s statement in the British newspaper The Sun.

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December 6, 2022 | 1:17 pm | 5 Comments »

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Lapid’s call to disobey next government puts civil society at risk, legal analysts say  

Israel’s outgoing PM urged municipalities not to cooperate with an educational department to be headed by lawmaker Avi Maoz.

BY DAVID ISAAC, jns

 Even before taking power, Benjamin Netanyahu has found himself on the defensive over his prospective coalition’s “fringe elements.” During an NBC interview on Sunday, Netanyahu felt obliged to declare, “I’m going to safeguard Israeli democracy.”

However, legal analysts told JNS the danger to democracy may come from another corner, namely the actions of outgoing Prime Minister Yair Lapid, who called on local authorities to flout the incoming government’s directives.

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December 6, 2022 | 12:59 pm | 2 Comments »

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President Trump is the hero of many a Capra film  

By David Zukerman, AMER THINKER

DC Larson recently pointed out in an American Thinker publication that Donald J. Trump is a real-life John Doe, the populist hero from one of Frank Capra’s four great populist movies, “Meet John Doe” (1941). Larson is, of course, correct in comparing Mr. Trump to John Doe. I would go further, as I see indicia of other Capra populist heroes in the former president as well: Longfellow Deeds in “Mr. Deeds Goes to Town” (1936); Jefferson Smith in “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” (1939); and George Bailey in “It’s a Wonderful Life” (1946).

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December 5, 2022 | 4:27 pm | Comments »

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By Giving Far Right a Stake in Israeli Education, Netanyahu Awakens a Sleeping Giant  

T. Belman. Did you know that Avi Maoz, the soon to be new Minister said,

“There are currently 3,000 educational programs written by progressive, far-left NGOs, funded by foreign foundations and the European Union. Are they there to strengthen the Jewish state? Of course not. They want to make Israel a state like all states.

“Who will make sure that Jewish identity programs be written instead of ‘state-of-all-its-citizens’ programs?” That’s my job.

Throughout his career, whether as prime minister or in opposition, Benjamin Netanyahu has disregarded the Education Ministry. He’s now learning that local councils don’t share that indifference

By Anshel Pfeffer, HAARETZ   Dec 4,2022

Of all the agreements signed so far between Benjamin Netanyahu and the prospective members of his incoming governing coalition, the news that the new deputy minister in the Prime Minister’s Office, Avi Maoz, will also control the Education Ministry department in charge of external programing for public schools has caused the most significant backlash.

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December 5, 2022 | 3:22 pm | 12 Comments »

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New Smotrich powers likely to see settlements flourish, Palestinian building limited  

Under deal with Likud, Religious Zionism minister to oversee key Defense Ministry organizations responsible for enforcing regulations, daily life in the West Bank

By JEREMY SHARON, TOI      2 December 2022,

The newly agreed terms of the coalition agreement between the Likud and the far-right Religious Zionism parties will give the latter outsize influence over civilian issues in the West Bank and almost certainly allow for accelerated growth of Israeli settlements there.

In addition, enforcement against illegal Palestinian construction in the territory will be ramped up significantly, a step which would likely generate strong international opposition and heighten tensions with the Palestinian Authority and the Palestinian populace more generally.

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December 5, 2022 | 2:58 pm | 2 Comments »

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US Funds Arabs Who Want to Destroy Israel  

by Bassam Tawil, GATEWAY  •  December 5, 2022 at 5:00 am

Pictured: A promotional mural for the soccer World Cup on a building in Doha, Qatar. (Photo by Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images)

  • What is disturbing is that a large portion of this incitement is coming from Arabs whose governments signed peace treaties or other agreements with Israel: Egypt, Jordan and the Palestinians.
  • What is even more disturbing is that the hate against Israel is coming from Arabs who continue to benefit from unconditional US financial aid.
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December 5, 2022 | 12:59 pm | 3 Comments »

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Coalition deal: Smotrich will appoint COGAT and Civil Administration chief  

Religious Zionism will appoint the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) and the head of the IDF Civil Administration and not the Defense Minister.

The coalition agreements with the Likud establish that in addition to control of the Civil Administration and its course of operation, and of the high planning board, Smotrich or a minister representing him will appoint the two most powerful men in Judea and Samaria, other than the IDF Central Command chief and Defense Minister.

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December 5, 2022 | 9:10 am | 1 Comment »

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