By BRIANNA LYMAN

Former President Donald Trump reacted on Truth Social to the verdict in the rape and defamation suit brought by E Jean Carroll.

Trump was found liable for defamation and battery, with Carroll to be awarded $5 million in damages. Trump was not found guilty of rape, however. Trump defended himself on Truth Social, maintaining he didn’t know who Carroll was.

“I HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA WHO THIS WOMAN IS. THIS VERDICT IS A DISGRACE – A CONTINUATION OF THE GREATEST WITCH HUNT OF ALL TIME!”

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— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) May 9, 2023

ADL does not press for congressional action against her

The Jewish Leadership Project is a project of Americans for Peace and Tolerance

On May 1, anti-Jewish bigot Rashida Tlaib tweeted that the “apartheid state of Israel was born out of violence and the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. [¶] 75 years later, the Nakba continues to this day.”

As the Democratic Party becomes infested with anti-Semitism, the ADL sits on its hands. This is intolerable. American Jews must demand of the ADL, the Federations, the JCRCs, the AJC, and our rabbis: What is your strategy to deal with Jew-hatred coming from the left, from “people of color,” and from Muslim Americans?

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By Roy Francis, OAN

The Arab league has agreed to reinstate Syria, taking another step towards bringing back Syrian President Bashar Assad back into the fold of the league after a 12-year suspension.

Syria’s membership to the Arab League was revoked in 2011 after Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had brutally repressed pro-Democracy protests in the country.
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It’s Time to Give Up on the Two-State Solution

By Michael Barnett, Nathan Brown, Marc Lynch, and Shibley Telhami, FOREIGN AFFAIRS   14.4.23

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s return to power in Israel with a narrow, extreme right-wing coalition has shattered even the illusion of a two-state solution. Members of his new government have not been shy about stating their views on what Israel is and what it should be in all the territories it controls: a Greater Israel defined not just as a Jewish state but one in which the law enshrines Jewish supremacy over all Palestinians who remain there. As a result, it is no longer possible to avoid confronting a one-state reality.
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T. Belman. This is a very important article. When China Brokered a deal between Iran and SA, I said that it could be a good thing and quoted Newton’s law, “for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.” In other words, it forced the US to respond and this article discusses the response.

It seems the US has a tough time achieving its goals. Bibi is no longer seen as the interrogatory between Arab states and the US. He has been replaced by MBS.

Saudi Arabia is the key to fulfilling President Biden’s strategy in the Middle East, but the kingdom is in a different place than it was a year and a half – and so is Israel

By Zvi Bar’el, HAARETZ    9.5.23

A combination picture shows Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Credit: RONEN ZVULUN/ REUTERS

U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan’s visit to Saudi Arabia did not provide a lot of good news for Israel, which was not even one of the stops planned for his trip. True, Sullivan did hold a conference call with Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi before his flight to Riyadh, and two of his senior advisers – Brett McGurk and Amos Hochstein – did arrive in Israel on Monday to update their Israeli counterparts, but according to Israeli officials, no one is holding their breath in preparation for the signing of an agreement to normalize relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia.

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MUDAR ZAHRAN TWEETED TODAY:

Many think that the Syrian tragedy is a “crisis”, and in fact it is the standard model that the great evil forces wanted for the region and that is generalized to the whole world, the state and the state together, and the citizen’s flight from the regime’s fire into the fire of its opponents, the lawlessness of borders and the chaos of armies Militias, hunger and undernourishment as a way of life, and between all of this is the imposition of keeping the regime with a rope from the superpowers whose legitimacy imposed it secretly in order to demonize it openly and blackmail with malice those who carried out its orders and imprinted with it…!!!
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DR STEVE TURLEY

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By Jan Jekielek and Bill Pan, EPOCH TIMES   May 9, 2023

Former President Donald Trump raises his fist while walking to a vehicle outside of Trump Tower in New York on Aug. 10, 2022. (Stringer/AFP via Getty Images)

There isn’t anything for former President Donald Trump to worry about with a potential lawsuit coming from a Georgia district attorney, although he might have more serious trouble with some of his other cases, said Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz.

Speaking to EpochTV’s “American Thought Leaders” program on May 8, Dershowitz was asked about the $250 million civil fraud lawsuit brought by New York’s Democrat Attorney General Letitia James, who accuses Trump and three of his children of overvaluing the family’s real estate assets by billions of dollars. This case, according to Dershowitz, will likely be resolved by settlement.

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The verdicts and rhetoric surrounding J6 trials are leading to one goal: the arrest and prosecution of Donald Trump.

By Julie Kelly, AM GREATNESS     8.5.23

In 2002, David Frum, chief speechwriter for President George W. Bush, coined the phrase “axis of evil” to describe the despotic regimes of North Korea, Iran, and Iraq during the nascent stages of the global war on terror.

Today, Frum is warning the country about a different axis of evil that he believes similarly threatens the security of America and perhaps even the world: Donald Trump, the Oath Keepers, and the Proud Boys.
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Achieving a remodeled status quo would require on the part of the Palestinian, Jordanian, and Israeli parties, support from the respective religious leaderships, and active, ongoing public encouragement through the media in order to counteract those elements that would inevitably seek to obstruct such a project.

By Alan Baker , ISRAEL HAYOM     05-08-2023 12:17

As appalled as one may feel by the questionable manner in which Minister for National Security Itamar Ben Gvir comports himself in his day-to-day activities and statements, there is one aspect upon which he is right.

This is his oft-repeated and legally-sound claim, from long before he became a minister, that the right of worship – including by Jews – is an internationally recognized universal right that should be applied equally, and without discrimination on Temple Mount, to worshippers of all religions.

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T. Belman. What a ridiculous excuse.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel’s defense establishment kept the security cabinet out of the loop due to their lack of experience in defense and the possibility that intelligence may be leaked

By Jonathan Lis, HAARETZ        May 9, 2023 3:07 pm IDT
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other security establishment heads at the security cabinet meeting earlier in April.Credit: Amos Ben Gershom / GPO

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has avoided convening the security cabinet in advance of the commencement of the IDF’s “Operation Shield and Arrow,” which began during the early hours of Tuesday morning with a series of airstrikes in the Gaza Strip after consultations with senior defense officials and with the approval of Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara.

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by Jonathan Spyer, The Jerusalem Post  May 5, 2023

In a briefing to defense reporters in mid-April, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant noted that under his stewardship, Israeli attacks on Iranian infrastructure had significantly increased. “Since I took office,” Gallant said, “in the first quarter of 2023 we doubled the rate of attacks in Syria.”

Israel’s current actions in Syria take place in the context of a rapidly shifting regional strategic picture, in which the imperative of facing down an emboldened Iran is becoming both increasingly urgent and increasingly complex.
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Home Front Command instructs residents of communities near border with the Gaza Strip to remain in shelters until further notice.

By Elad Benari, INN   9.5.23

The IDF overnight Monday announced the beginning of Operation Shield and Arrow, as part of which the IDF and Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) targeted the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization’s Northern Gaza Division Commanding Officer, responsible for the rocket fire toward Israel in the past month; a senior operative and coordinator of terrorism in Judea and Samaria from Gaza; and the Secretary of the Military Council.

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Mark Sleboda, REAL POLITICK  MAY 8

https://marksleboda.substack.com/p/kiev-brags-about-global-genocidal?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email#details

• Kiev Regime Main Intelligence Directorate Head Budanov Straight Up Tells Western Media He Is Killing and Will Kill Russians All Over the World, they nod sympathetically.
• Prigozhin’s Performance Comes to an End and Suddenly Prigozhin Has Plenty of Shells and Wagner’s Mopping Up of Bakhmut Will Continue
• Kiev Regime’s Offensive About to Begin, Russian Drones & Missles Hammer Staging & Logistics Points, Military Sitrep
• More grain deal jabber

T. Belman.  Freedom of speech is indispensable to a democracy. Suppression of speech is indispensable to a totalitarian state. Of course it is ludicrous to compare them on the question of freedom. Democracies are more free. Perhaps they should be compared on how successful they are. Then the question is what constitutes success.

There is no pure democracy. Every country has a mixture of democracy and elitism, i.e., bottom up and top down. Or a mixture of socialism and capitalism.  Every law that is passed curbs freedom.

By Alex Wu, EPOCH TIMES   7.5.23

Police attempt to stop journalists from recording footage outside the Shanghai Pudong New District People’s Court, where Chinese citizen journalist Zhang Zhan is set for trial in Shanghai on Dec. 28, 2020. (Leo Ramirez/AFP via Getty Images)

China joined other communist states—Vietnam and North Korea—at the very bottom of the latest Reporters Without Borders’ (RSF) World Press Freedom Index released on May 3, which was World Press Freedom Day.

China ranked in 179th place on this year’s index of 180 countries and regions, one spot above North Korea and one place lower than Vietnam. It fell four places from its ranking last year.

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T. Belman.  Its good that Israel didn’t back down.  It forced the EU to show its true colours. Once again Europe is outlawing Jews. Once again it has shown its disrespect for democracy and for Israel.

They suck up to Iran and China and piss on Israel.

European Union snubs National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, cancelling Europe Day event after he was selected to represent Israel.

Israel National News       May 8, 2023, 2:58 PM (GMT+3)

Itamar Ben-GvirAvshalom Sassoni/Flash90

The European Union announced Monday that it has cancelled plans to mark Europe Day in Israel, after the Israeli government selected National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir (Otzma Yehudit) to represent the Jewish state.

In a statement released by the European Union’s mission to Israel, the EU said it would not “offer a platform” to someone with values antithesis to those of the 27-member union.

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This combination picture shows Jordanian MP Imad al-Adwan, reported by Jordanian media to have been arrested at the Allenby Bridge border crossing, and handguns allegedly seized from him on April 23, 2023 (Jordanian media; courtesy)

A Jordanian parliamentarian arrested by Israeli authorities last month for attempting to smuggle over 200 firearms into the West Bank was released on Sunday to face trial back home.

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