T. Belman. Outsiders should have no say in the matter. Israel’s elected government can decide for itself what to ban and what to encourage.  The German Ambassador said ““Lively and unhindered relations between civil societies are of essential value in our liberal democracies,” Israel has the right to decide if it wants to be a “liberal democracy”.

US, Germany, other EU states denounce proposed legislation to limit donations to human rights groups, prompting Netanyahu, Foreign Ministry to consider postponement, report says

By TOI STAFF    26.5.23

The government is weighing its approach to a proposed law that would significantly limit Israeli civil society groups’ ability to accept donations from foreign governments, after numerous allies including the US, Germany and France voiced opposition to the bill, a Thursday report said.

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Mark Sleboda, REAL POLITICK

Radio Interview on the Critical Hour 24/05/23

Listen · 15M:

• Shredding Kiev’s post-Bakhmut spin & copium
• Fuzzy US excuses for why Kiev’s NeoNazi Raid into Bilgorod used brand new US miltiary gear shipped to Ukraine for the spring offensive
• Why giving F16s to Kiev is an escalation by the West but no gamechanger

T. Belman.  I am totally in favour of banning this flag.  The Palestinians and their supporters are an existential threat to Israel.  We should not be tolerant of the intolerant. The Palestinians are our enemy. And we should suppress the calls for commemorating the “Naqba”.

Joint statement says measure would infringe on free speech, make schools ‘branches of police and Shin Bet’; Tel Aviv University chief vows not to enforce ‘fascist’ law if passed

By TOI STAFF 25.5.23

Illustrative: Israeli and pro-Palestinian students stage protests at Ben-Gurion University in Beersheba on May 23, 2022. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)

Israeli university chiefs on Thursday blasted a coalition law bill set to be discussed in the upcoming cabinet meeting that would outlaw waving the Palestinian national flag anywhere in Israel, alleging that if it passes, it would trigger a “wave of academic boycotts of Israeli institutions all around the world.”

The president of Tel Aviv University, Ariel Porat, went further in a separate statement, saying that if the passes, he will not enforce the law’s clause mandating the permanent expulsion of students who wave the Palestinian flag.

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Fourth generation of Khorramshahr ballistic missile, dubbed Kheibar, can carry a 1,500 kilogram warhead, Tehran’s defense minister claims

By TOI STAFF and AFP   25.5.23

A handout picture from Iran’s Defense Ministry shows a 4th generation Khorramshahr ballistic missile being launched at an undisclosed location in Iran, May 25, 2023 (handout via AFP)

Iran unveiled a new version of a ballistic missile with a range of 2,000 kilometers (1,242 miles), enough to hit areas of Israel.

The Kheibar missile — the latest version of the Khorramshahr, which is Iran’s longest-range missile to date — was unveiled Thursday alongside a replica of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem’s Old City, in a live broadcast on state television.

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T. Belman.  I fail to see how they are better off with a “war of attrition”. The government passed the budget in less than 4 weeks. It can pass the judicial reform in the same time period, particularly if they include it all in one bill.

The protestors  don’t want a Jewish state, They want  “liberal democracy” i.e., a state of all its citizens. With the changing demographics, the only way they can get what they want is to prevent Judicial reform. But the battle is over what kind of state do we end up with.

The protest movement against the Netanyahu government’s judicial overhaul is switching from ‘days of disruption’ and blocking intersections to a state of vigilance that some are calling the ‘war between wars’

By Bar Peleg, HAARETZ

It’s 10 P.M. Saturday and traffic on the Ayalon Highway is flowing. A few weeks ago, that was unimaginable. Saturday nights were given over to gridlock – human, not vehicular. The mass demonstrations forced drivers to reconsider their planes or find a different route. It has been different for a month, and not only due to the break in protests caused by the latest military operation in Gaza. Read more…

He gets 600 death threats a year for criticizing Islam in Europe. 

By Giulio Meotti, INN      May 24, 2023, 11:27 AM (GMT+3)

Geert WildersReuters

In the country where Spinoza became a prophet of atheism, Karl Marx investigated the roots of capitalism, the Founding Fathers started their journey, Descartes, Rousseau and Sade published their writings and Locke put his hand to the “Letter on Tolerance”, there is a man transformed into a ghost for criticizing Islam: he is the most protected in Europe.

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T. Belman. This article “raises the question of how much a society is willing to do in order to protect its most vulnerable members.” No it doesn’t.. The hypocritic oath says the standard is “do no harm”.  There was never a scientific basis for the over-reaction. The question remains “was the government’s handling of the crises illegal?”

And remember the government’s unscientific banning of Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin.

Health Ministry says 0 reports of people 18-50 dying of COVID-19 without preexisting conditions – but bases its information only on epidemiological investigations.

Moshe Feiglin, however, wrote that the government “locked you up in your homes, and stole a year of normal education from your children…all for a ‘plague’ which hurt zero citizens below the age of 50 without preexisting conditions.”

Israel National News   May 25, 2023, 9:53 AM (GMT+3)

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Coronavirus ward at Ziv Medical CenterDavid Cohen/Flash90

Former MK Moshe Feiglin published on Twitter a Health Ministry response to queries regarding various coronavirus statistics.

In the document, the Health Ministry clarified that no adults without preexisting conditions who were between the ages of 18-49 at the time of their death, died of coronavirus.

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by Jonathan Spyer, The Jerusalem Post  May 19, 2023

The issue of Yemen constituted a key litmus test in the recently concluded rapprochement between Iran and Saudi Arabia. Since the launch of the Houthis’ bid for power in 2014 and the Saudi intervention to prevent the strategic disaster of a pro-Iran force reaching the choke point of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, Yemen has formed the main battlefront between Riyadh and Tehran.

More than 150,000 people have been killed in the subsequent war, including 14,500 civilians. In light of this, the question of future arrangements in that blighted country looms large when considering the feasibility of the current Arab efforts to defang, via diplomacy, the Iranian project for regional domination.

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by Burak Bekdil, GATESTONE  •  May 24, 2023 at 5:00 am

• Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an tirelessly struggles to harm Western interests. He should be punished and sanctioned for doing that. Instead, the UN, under U.S. direction, rewarded Turkey by appointing a close Erdo?an confidant to a critical Afghan post, and the Biden administration rewarded Erdo?an by requesting Congressional authorization to sell critical fighter jet parts to Turkey.
• In an effort to help Putin evade sanctions, Turkey agreed to pay 25% of its natural gas bill to Russia in rubles. In return, to help Erdo?an find a way out of a punishing economic crisis, Putin deferred repayment Turkey’s $20 billion gas debts to Russia until 2024.

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BREAKING: @KariLake Announces Largest Ballot Chasing Operation in American History! pic.twitter.com/9JZOYUmPQ0

— Kari Lake (@KariLake) May 23, 2023

By Daniel Greenfield,         23 May 08:51 PM

In 2021, the Equal Justice Institute celebrated a settlement with the University of California in which the system agreed to stop using SAT and ACT test scores, objective merit-based metrics, in college admissions, until 2025. The racialist lawsuit claimed that test scores violate the California Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause as “indicators” of race.

The “SAT is a barrier to equal opportunity”, Lisa Holder, a counsel with the Equal Opportunity Institute, claimed.
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Report also claims both Washington and Riyadh are conditioning potential establishment of diplomatic ties on Israel restarting peace talks with Palestinians

By TOI STAFF   23 May 2023, 10:18 pm

The White House reportedly wants Israel to halt its judicial overhaul and restart peace talks with the Palestinian Authority in order for the US to move forward with brokering normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia.

Reports have swirled in recent days that Jerusalem and Riyadh are in the midst of negotiations over direct flights between the nations that have the potential to lead to a wider normalization deal — which has long been sought by Israel but largely rejected by the Saudis.

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T. Belman. Tuvia Tanenboim in his very popular book, Catch the Jew, identified Germany as the worst offender in supporting anti-Israel activities in Judea and Samaria. German support for this anti-Israel activity comes from both the Government and the churches.

Report: Germany donating millions to BDS groups

NGO Monitor says 42% of 4 million euros donated by Berlin to Israeli nongovernmental organizations has found its way to groups promoting anti-Israeli agenda • German Embassy in Israel.

‘The kids are alright’ in the fight against German antisemitism but where are the adults?

By Benjamin Weinthal, INN

Police guard synagogue in GermanyReuters

An exemplary form of Jewish resistance against one of Germany’s leading pro-Iran regimes and anti-Israel politicians unfolded last week at Jewrovision, the international song and dance competition for European Jews aged 10-19.

Young German Jews booed the Green Party’s federal culture minister, Claudia Roth, during her speech at the competition in Frankfurt on May 19, drowning out her remarks. The protestors directed their pent-up anger toward Roth with calls of “Get off the stage!” and “You’re not welcome here!”
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By Lt. Col. (res.) Dr. Shaul Bartal, BESA       May 23, 2023

BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,198, May 23, 2023

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: In the past year, we have seen a crumbling of the Palestinian Authority’s level of control over the West Bank. The PA is seen by many Palestinians as a corrupt organization that no longer represents their interests. Recent events in Nablus and Jenin suggest the possibility of a change in the status quo and an end to the PA-Israel order.  
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Since 1967, it has been searching for a formula to achieve a comprehensive peace in the Middle East. It has failed because it underestimates Arab antisemitism and intransigence.

By Mitchell Bard, IH

The US State Department was determined to prevent the establishment of a Jewish state, opposing both partition and recognition. After it failed, diplomats spent decades trying to prevent the development of an alliance. Before the Trump administration, much of its effort was devoted to forcing Israel back to the 1949 armistice lines. Now, State wants to return to the partition idea, fantasizing about creating a Palestinian state that it knows will seek to replace the Jewish state.
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What cannot go on, will not go on and all the absurdities of the present will end with a bang not a whimper.

By Victor Davis Hanson, AM GREATNESS<
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A sign of a civilization in headlong decline is its embrace of absurdities. Unfortunately for the United States, we are witnessing an epidemic of nihilist nonsense. Here are a few examples:

Reparations 

How could a dysfunctional state like California even contemplate $800 billion in reparations?

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‘The Golden Path: Maimonides Across Eight Centuries,’ a Yeshiva University exhibit, shows the far-reaching impact of one of the Middle Age’s most prolific Torah scholars

By CATHRYN J. PRINCE, TOI    23.5.23

Clockwise from left: Arthur Szyk, Maimonides, New Canaan,1950, Watercolor and gouache on paper. (Collection of Yeshiva University Museum, gift of Louis Werner); Moses Maimonides’ Commentary on the Mishnah, Egypt, after 1168. (The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford); Guide of the Perplexed, Barcelona, 1347 or 1348, by Moses Maimonides. (The Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen/ all images from the Yeshiva University Museum exhibition ‘The Golden Path: Maimonides Across Eight Centuries’)<

NEW YORK — In 1784, three years after the American Revolution, New York City cantor Hendla Jochanan van Oettingen composed a prayer for the well-being of Gen. George Washington and Gov. DeWitt Clinton. That prayer may have been lost to history — had it not been for the way van Oettingen knitted Maimonides’ 13 Principles of Faith together with the newfound freedom of the original 13 states.

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