With overwhelming victory, Netanyahu to form strong, stable, legitimate, right-wing gov’t  

The vote was a national referendum on the tremendous damage caused cycle after election cycle by opposing parliamentarians who conspired to block the people’s choice from serving as prime minister. Op-ed.

By Alex Traiman, INN    

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(JNS) Apparently in Israel, the fifth time is the charm. After repeated attempts by the opposition, by defectors from his own right-wing bloc, by the prosecution and the Supreme Court to prevent embattled former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from ruling, the electorate finally ended Israel’s protracted political deadlock by voting overwhelmingly in favor of Netanyahu and his natural—and loyal—right-wing allies.
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November 3, 2022 | 4:20 pm | 1 Comment »

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After Snagging Elections, This Time Netanyahu Might Fundamentally  

T. Belman. One of the big frustrations the Right has had with Bibi was that he was too centrist. He now has to be more aggressive in subduing Arab terrorism and the Arab narrative. And more aggressive in draining the swamp and in reforming the High Court and making the Knesset  the voice of Israel and not the Court.

The Religious Zionist Party will insist on it.

The former prime minister hasn’t been big on military adventures or changes to the judicial system, but his need to cancel his corruption trial is converging with far-right partners keen to curb the Supreme Court

By Amos Harel, HAARETZ

Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud party waged an amazingly well-engineered and disciplined campaign over the past two months. Likud’s loudmouth backbenchers were silenced until the polling stations closed.

The alliance with far-rightist Itamar Ben-Gvir was downplayed and Netanyahu came across as responsible, almost statesmanlike. Every time he was asked if he envisioned dramatic legislation if he became prime minister, he was deliberately vague.

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The Left were the mad scientists — We were their lab rats  

By Victor Davis Hanson

As the midterms approach, one way of looking at America’s current disaster is that we, the American people, were lab rats. And since 2021, the Left were the mad scientists, eager to try out their crackpot leftist experiments on us.

The result is that the housing market is tottering on the verge of collapse.

As interest rates soar, our $31 trillion national debt crowds out everything else in the budget.

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November 3, 2022 | 2:30 pm | 3 Comments »

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ZOA Congratulates PM Benjamin Netanyahu and recommends a to-do list  

The Religious Zionism Party is NOT “Extreme.”

THIS IS A GREAT TO-DO LIST

Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) National President Morton A. Klein released the following statement:

The Zionist Organization of America congratulates former and soon-to-be-new Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the entire pro-Zionist bloc (including Likud, Religious Zionism, Shas and Agouda) on their apparent election win yesterday.  According to reports, this victory is likely to be confirmed after the “double envelope” (absentee) votes are all counted.

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The Bibi Camp got 49.5% of the vote, yet 54% of the seats.  

By Ted Belman

Haaretz asks how it is that both both the Bibi Camp and the anti-Bibi camp received 49.5 % of the vote, each, yet the Bibi Camp got 65 seats. They go on to blame the Labour leader for not running with Meretz. Meretz went on to garner only 3% of the vote and such votes ended up in the ash-can of failed votes. These votes if part of a joint run should have increased the Anti-Bibi Camps total of seats by 3 or 4.

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November 2, 2022 | 8:35 pm | 13 Comments »

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Report: Biden Admin. won’t work with Ben-Gvir  

T. Belman. I’m glad to hear it. The Biden Admin only communicates to influence and apply pressure.

It is a hinderance, not a help.

Ben-Gvir could become the first Israeli minister to be boycotted by the US government.

Nov 2, 2022, 6:58 PM


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The Biden Administration is likely to refuse to work with Otzma Yehudit chairman Itamar Ben-Gvir if he becomes a minister in Israel’s next government, Axios reported.

Two US officials said that no final decision has been made yet, but the administration is likely to boycott Ben-Gvir, who would become the first Israeli minister the US government would refuse to work with.

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November 2, 2022 | 7:32 pm | 4 Comments »

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Journalist: ‘Shaked’s run brought down Meretz’  

T. Belman. Very interesting. I wonder what it means. Are they assuming that but for Shaked, those that voted for her wouldn’t have votes otherwise. Is that not a stretch.

What did she mean by “Our running is strategic and after the elections, you will understand why,”?

Did Bibi ask her to not drop out figuring that her votes would not be at the expense of the Right? If so, what did he promise her?Perhaps a Minister’s portfolio or an Ambassadorship. You don’t have to be an MK to be either.

Journalist Amit Segal says Ayelet Shaked’s run gave right-wing bloc three more seats, brought down Meretz.

Nov 2, 2022, 11:51 AM

Channel 12 journalist Amit Segal believes that Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked and her Jewish Home party brought the right-wing bloc to victory – even though the party itself did not pass the electoral threshold.

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The ‘Islamophobia’ Industry Goes Bankrupt  

Turns out, Muslims—not evangelicals, Jews, or rednecks—are the most ‘Islamophobic’ demographic in America.

For long, the powers that be have insisted that Islamophobia—defined as “unfounded fear of and hostility towards Islam”—is the root of all problems between Muslims and non-Muslims in the West. Speaking last May, Joe Biden lamented that “so many Muslims [are] being targeted with violence. No one, no one should [be] discriminated against or be oppressed for their religious beliefs…. Muslims make our nation stronger every single day, even as they still face real challenges and threats in our society, including targeted violence and Islamophobia that exists.”

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A Tale of Two Islamic States  

One is liberalizing, the other is massacring its people. Can you guess which one Biden is aiding – and the one he’s pushing away?

Biden and the woke Democrats have enthralled themselves in a bizarre love affair with the Mullahs in Iran, while repelling energy and capital giant Saudi Arabia.

The strategic imbecility of this position amounts to geopolitical malpractice. It has emboldened the Iranian regime to murder Americans around the world, including threatened attacks against our former president and members of his administration, and to ruthlessly suppress dissent at home.

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November 2, 2022 | 3:28 pm | Comments »

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How will a Netanyahu-Ben-Gvir gov’t change Israel as a Jewish state? – analysis  

BY Zvika Klein, JPOST

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RZP holds newfound parliamentary power

The RZP has a few main topics that it wishes to promote, but the ones most relevant to diaspora Jews and secular Israelis are putting forward very conservative views regarding security, religion and state, and of course Israel-Diaspora relations.

Smotrich has said that he will strengthen Judea and Samaria and preferably ask for the Defense Ministry portfolio. In addition, Ben-Gvir is interested in leading the Public Security Ministry.

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November 2, 2022 | 1:18 pm | 2 Comments »

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The Midterm Election Rigging is Underway  

By Daniel Greenfield, 01 Nov 09:52 PM

Election Day results, like clean streets and easily available products in supermarkets, have become artifacts of a recent glorious past. Don’t count on finding eggs and milk at the market or finding out who won the election on Election Day. The 2022 midterms, like the 2020 elections, are a work in progress that will, one day, when the right ballots are found, elect somebody.

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November 2, 2022 | 1:03 pm | 4 Comments »

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The Real Israelis who elected Ben-Gvir  

T. Belman.  Put another way, Arab rejectionism got Ben Gavir elected.

Itamar Ben-Gvir is a perfectly worthy MK, and he is as qualified to be a cabinet minister as is any other party head or co-head, despite leftist smears. Op-ed.

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I previously have published here my strong support for Itamar Ben-Gvir (and Bezalel Smotrich and their Religious Zionism party). I am disgusted by this era’s tactic by leftists in Israel — and in America — to depict their opponents on the right as Nazis.

In Israel they compare Ben-Gvir to Hitler. In America, they compare Donald Trump to Hitler. Interesting:

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November 2, 2022 | 11:59 am | Comments »

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The conspiracy to shrink Israel  

By Ted Belman  (first published on July 19, 2006)

The Secret War Against the Jews by John Loftus and Mark Aarons was published in 1994. It was sub-titled “How Western Intelligence Betrayed the Jewish People.”

I quote from Deane Rink’s review of this book.

“The modern world begins, the authors suggest, at the end of World War I, when British diplomat/adventurers Jack Philby (father of Soviet spy Kim Philby and legendary Arabist) and Lawrence of Arabia endeavour to unify a bunch of warring Bedouin tribes into nationhood, best represented by Saudi Arabia. Aware that black gold (oil) lies underneath the desert sands, Philby gingerly befriends Ibn Saud, and makes him the first Saudi king. But Philby is not solely interested in empire, even his own British one; he is interested in making money, and forges an alliance with an American intelligence agent in charge of Middle Eastern affairs, Allen Dulles.
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