By Ted Belman
David Singer has been alone in promoting the so-called, Saudi Plan, for the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine. Arutz Sheva mistitled his last attempt as Israel set to uncork Hashemite Kingdom genie at UN.
Nowhere in the article is there any mention of Israel’s reaction to the “Saudi Plan” let alone its intention to promote it at the UN.
Not only has Israel not mentioned it, Saudi Arabia hasn’t either.
By Victor Sharpe, INN Dec 30, 2022,
I was complimented some time ago by a reader of one of my earlier published articles, titled, Lies, Myths and Obama, which dealt – as many of them do – with the history of Israel and its enemies: Biblical and post-Biblical.
I had included in the article the following sentence: “Only one people has ever made Jerusalem its capital and only one people ever established their ancestral and Biblical homeland between the River Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea: the Jews.”
Benjamin Netanyahu’s incoming government’s coalition agreement begins with a declaration that the Jewish people have a “natural right” to the Land of Israel. Regarding annexation of the West Bank, the agreement remains vague but says the prime minister will advance policies within whose framework the West Bank will be annexed, taking into consideration timing and both international and national interests.
By Victor Davis Hanson, JWR Dec. 29, 2022
The old antisemitism was more a right-wing than a left-wing phenomenon — perhaps best personified by the now-withered Ku Klux Klan. A new antisemitism followed from the campus leftism of the 1960s. It arose from and was masked by a general hatred of Israel, following the Jewish state’s incredible victory in the 1967 Six-Day War.
That lopsided triumph globally transformed Israel in the leftist mind from a David fighting the Arab Goliath into a veritable Western imperialist, neocolonialist overdog.
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By Yizhar Hess, HAARETZ
Israel’s Law of Return is the expression of a deep-rooted sense of historical responsibility and strategic vision for a small people, a third of whom were murdered over the last centuryCredit: Moti Milrod
If Israel had a constitution, the Law of Return would certainly be one of its first articles. Celebratory. Magnificent. The cornerstone of the national home for a people that was scattered among the nations of the world and which now has a state of its own. The Law of Return is the reason we are here. Conceived in the early days of Israeli legislation and voted on in 1950 by the Knesset on the 20th of Tammuz 5709, the Hebrew anniversary of Herzl’s death. The law was adopted unanimously; not a single MK dared to vote against it.
By Dr. Aaron Lerner, IMRA 29 December 2022
Copies of the coalition agreements are available on the Knesset website:
https://main.knesset.gov.il/mk
The phrase which probably appears in the agreements with the greatest frequency in sections dealing with Judea and Samaria is “in coordination and subject to the consent of the prime minister”.
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The death of a Jordanian police officer during riots that began with fuel price protests in Jordan appears to represent a rare and violent challenge to authority. The incident took place in the southern city of Ma’an.
“The authorities said the policeman was killed on Thursday night by a gunshot fired by an unidentified individual when armed officers entered a neighborhood of Ma’an to quell riots,” Al Jazeera reported. “Youths had attacked government property in the city.”
Israel National News Sep 14, 2022, 6:11 AM
Jonathan S. Tobin, ISRAEL HAYOM
Like the Democrats who went into the streets in their millions the weekend Donald Trump was inaugurated president in January 2017, Benjamin Netanyahu’s foes clearly intend to act as a “resistance,” rather than a loyal opposition.
Netanyahu and his right-wing and religious coalition partners won a clear majority in the 120-seat Knesset, with 64 seats over the collection of left-wing, formerly right-wing and Arab political parties that ran Israel for the last 18 months. Yet, as is the case in the United States, politics in Israel has become a tribal culture war. But even if everyone has become inured to a situation in which two sides view each other as not merely wrong, but enemies of decency and democracy, with Netanyahu’s new government set to be sworn in on Thursday, his opponents are playing with fire.
T. Belman. I first connected with Howard when he started Mantua Books. Since then I have promoted his books and he has generously donated money in support of Israpundit. I too was born in Canada but in my case to two immigrants from Poland who came to Canada in the twenties. You will recall that the US shut the door to Jewish Immigration in the early twenties, ergo Canada. My father’s family were attracted to Communism and my mother’s family were attracted to Zionism.
By Howard Rotberg
Books authored by Howard Rotberg:
The Second Catastrophe: A Novel About a Book and its Author
Tolerism: The Ideology Revealed
The Ideological Path to Submission… and what we can do about it
I am a Canadian author who has written often for Israel National News, New English Review and Frontpage Magazine, with some of my essays carried also in Israpundit. I grew up in a small city about 15 miles from another small city where Ted Belman grew up.
By Dr. Joseph Mercola 29.12.22
T. Belman. In 2007, COMMENTARY MAGAZINE published “Jewish Genius” by Charles Murray, the author of “The Bell Curve”. Its a classic.
By Debbie Jones Thornton 5/10/2020
The last paper I wrote for Proteus was about words, which is a topic that I actually know something about. My topic today is more risky, since it is about Jews, and I am not Jewish. (Full disclosure: my sister married a Jewish man and became a convert, but I’m pretty sure you can’t be considered Jewish via sibling.) This paper had its genesis at Drew Rosenberg’s bar mitzvah in 2003. When I walked in to Tifereth Israel Synagogue, I was immediately struck by Andy Warhol’s series of silkscreen prints and paintings entitled, “Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century” (1980).
David Shuldman (R) and Avital Livny, head of the testimonies project, at the Jerusalem District Court, Jerusalem, Israel, on Sept. 29, 2022. (Courtesy of Avital Livny)
HAIFA, Israel—The Israeli Ministry of Health (MoH) is refusing to provide complete mortality data for the period of the COVID-19 pandemic despite a court order.
A court ordered the agency in September to provide all-cause mortality data by Nov. 15 following a Freedom of Information (FOI) request by David Shuldman, an Israeli citizen.
Redacted with Clayton Morris
YET UKRAINE, FOR ALL ITS ALLEGED WEAKNESS, IS PUSHING THE RUSSIANS BACK IN KREMINNA
Ukraine on the verge of recapturing Kreminna from Russia, official says
Update from Ukraine | Where is Attack on Kreminna? Soldiers fight against corruption in Ukraine
BUT
Mercouris has reported that the victory at Kreminna was fake news and that this attack was repulsed by Russia. The Military Summary Channel is reporting the same thing.
BUT
GAME OVER: Highest-ranking Russian generals lift-up the hand against Putin! THIS COULD BE FAKE NEWS ALSO.
Putin goes up the wall: Largest Arsenal DESTROYED in Crimea Island!
By Mark Sleboda, REAL POLITICK Dec 9
The collective West is in their own twisted version of an anti-Russian Cultural Revolution rabidly vilifying and demonizing Russia to an extent never even dreamt of in the first Cold War, with Russian citizens being banned from international sporting and music events held in the West for the crime of being Russian, the attempt to cancel Russian culture to the extent that Russian composers and literature are being censored out of university curriculums and performances, and absurdly enough even Russian-breed cats and trees being excluded from competitions and Russian salad dressing (which has nothing at all to do with Russia) being renamed.
T. Belman. The fact that Russia is considering giving Iran the S-400 defense system, adds more urgency.
By Micha Gefen, ISRAEL UNWIRED
As Netanyahu prepares to take over the leadership of Israel once more, the Iranian threat looms larger than ever.
One of the key indications that Netanyahu is serious is his appointment of Tzachi Hanegbi to head up the National Security Council. Hanegbi is considered an Iran hawk and a close confidant of Prime Minister Netanyahu.
ITS ONLY 2:30 MINUTES LONG BUT VERY POWERFUL
Religious Zionism party chairman and Finance Minister-designate Bezalel Smotrich penned an Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal Wednesday addressing criticism of the incoming Israeli government and several of the coalition parties, including his own, as far-right and anti-democratic.
According to Smotrich, far from the vilification he and the new government have received in the American media, Israel’s next government will work to expand individual freedoms and will in fact move Israel closer to the American economic and judicial models.
Far-right Israeli lawmaker Itamar Ben Gvir closes his eyes during the swearing-in ceremony for the new Israeli parliament, at the Knesset, or parliament, in Jerusalem, November 15, 2022. (photo credit: MAYA ALLERUZZO/REUTERS)
Israel’s Knesset plenum on Wednesday passed into law the bill by incoming national security minister MK Itamar Ben-Gvir, which will give him unprecedented control over the Israel Police. The debate continued throughout the night, and the final voting began at 10:00 a.m. on a number of reservations put forward by the soon-to-be opposition and then on its second and third reading.
T. Belman. Thanks Sebastien for reminding me of Plaut’s great article, “Time to Annex Judea and Samaria”
“Since 1993, the “Palestinian Authority,” which was set up by the PLO, has violated every single clause in that and the subsequent Oslo Accords. Twenty years hence, the “Palestinians” as represented by the “Authority” have yet to comply with a single one of their obligations. Arafat and his gangsters simply used the Accord as a cover to gain control over part of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.”
Nothing has changed except for an exponential increase in illegal Palestinian construction in Area and in antisemitism..
by Stephen Plaut, FPM 16.1.13
In a few months it will be the twentieth anniversary of the signing of the “Oslo Accord” on the White House lawn. In that signing, Yassir Arafat, on behalf of the so-called “Palestinian Liberation Organization,” committed himself and his “people” to conduct negotiations with Israel that would lead to a peaceful resolution of the Middle East Arab-Israeli conflict. He forswore unilateral actions and decisions.
