The move comes less than three months after Biden’s controversial visit to Saudi Arabia, OPEC’s de facto leader, a trip widely considered to be the administration placing boosted oil production ahead of human rights considerations

By Ben Samuels, HAARETZ   6.10.22

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman greets President Joe Biden with a fist bump after his arrival in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Friday.Credit: Bandar Aljaloud /AP

WASHINGTON – Democratic lawmakers have expressed outrage at OPEC+’s decision to cut oil production by two million barrels per day, calling for a dramatically redefined U.S.-Saudi Arabia relationship amid the Biden administration’s months-long efforts at repairing ties with Riyadh.

The move from the oil producing cartel, meant to spur a recovery in prices that had fallen to roughly $80 a barrel from more than $120 in early June, comes despite pronounced pressure from the Biden administration in hopes of aiding the global economy and lower fuel prices five weeks before the midterm elections.

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by Majid Rafizadeh, GATESTONE  •  October 8, 2022

• “I am absolutely sincere in this regard when I say that Iran got much more than it could expect [from the Biden administration]….. [The Iranian leaders] are fighting for [their] national interest like lions. They fight for every comma, every word, and as a rule, quite successfully.” — Mikhail Ulyanov, Russia’s chief negotiator for the US in the nuclear talks, The New York Post, March 12, 2022.
• Russia, of course, is freely trading with Iran, in spite of sanctions against both countries.

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By Alexander G. Markovsky, AM THINKER

Donald Trump’s “America First” doctrine encountered stormy weather in the American globalists’ community, which characterized it as a mix of nationalism, unilateralism, and xenophobia.

However, “my country first” doctrine was not a new approach to international order. It was originated in the 17th century by a Frenchman, Armand-Jean du Plessis, known as Cardinal de Richelieu. Richelieu offered a revolutionary concept to create stability in the international system, later known as raison d’état or national interests. The concept has served as the most reliable guide for government policies for the last 300 years.
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By  Alex Traiman, Israel Hayom    7.10.22

(JNS) Conservative superstars Jordan Peterson and Ben Shapiro lectured a standing-room only audience of approximately 3,000 at Jerusalem’s International Convention Center on Thursday.

In their speeches, the Daily Wire pundits addressed major challenges currently facing the Western world, the dynamics of power and totalitarianism, how the Torah’s well-known stories and a core belief in God serve as pillars of morality for all of mankind and the role Israel can play as an emerging technological and moral superpower on the world stage.

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US voters left ignorant of the peril from Biden’s two-faced approach to Israel and Iran

By Melanie Phillips

It has often been said that the media is a pillar of democracy because it keeps our politicians honest.

Lifting the veil of secrecy in which authorities like to cloak themselves, revealing inconvenient truths that expose the inadequacies and worse of government actions and subjecting all politicians to forensic questioning without bias — this is how the media acts in the public interest.

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T. Belman. There you have it. The US is committed to “preserving the path towards negotiations for two states, and advancing equal measures of security, prosperity and freedom for Israelis and Palestinians alike.”” and “along the pre-1967 lines with mutually agreed land swaps.”

Meanwhile the US is portrayed as not wanting to head a peace process. Reject this idea, the US is focussing on facts on the ground like the PA and the EU are.

In sit-downs with Jake Sullivan, Wendy Sherman and others, PA minister Hussein al-Sheikh says he pressed to end Israeli ‘unilateral actions that destroy’ prospects for peace

By JACOB MAGID, TOI       6 October 2022

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US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman, left, meets with Palestinian Authority Minister of Civilian Affairs Hussein al-Sheikh in Washington DC, on October 4, 2022. (US State Department/Twitter)

The Biden administration has said its top officials highlighted their commitment to a two-state solution during a series of meetings they held this week in Washington with a senior Palestinian official visiting from Ramallah.

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Poll: Right-wing bloc wins 62 seats, National Unity Party weakens
Channel 14 poll shows that while the Likud strengthens to 35 seats, the Religious Zionism Party drops slightly to 11 seats.

Maariv poll predicts rise for Religious Zionism party, enabling Likud-led bloc to form coalition.

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A new poll published in Maariv‘s weekend paper shows that if elections were held today, the Likud-led bloc would have enough seats to form a coalition.

This is the first time the poll has shown this since July.

The new poll predicts the Likud party will win 32 seats, followed by Yesh Atid with 23. The poll also predicts that Religious Zionism will win 14 seats, and the National Unity party 12.

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CROSSROADS

Gender ideology is a Marxist system meant to break children from families, and societies from traditions. This is according to Jay Richards, director of the Heritage Foundation’s DeVos Center for Life, Religion, and Family.We speak with Richards about how children are being turned against their own bodies, how legal action is possible against doctors carrying out transition surgeries, and how gender ideology is a tool in the communist playbook.

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By John Binder, BREITBART

Mass immigration to the United States has pushed up the number of foreign-born voters across 75 percent of the nation’s critical swing states since 2016, new data shows.

The data, published by the American Immigration Council, reveals the extent to which ongoing mass immigration levels are dramatically changing the demographic makeup of the American electorate.

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By Selwyn Duke, AM THINKER

With news that Israeli intelligence has detected an “irregular presence” of nuclear-capable Russian bombers near Finland and retired general David Petraeus casually saying NATO would likely sink Vladimir Putin’s Black Sea fleet if Russia used a tactical nuclear weapon in Ukraine, it’s perhaps time for a few questions:

First, can we discuss a situation that could very well result in thermonuclear war — and the end of life as we know it — intelligently and rationally? Or must all questions about our Dr. Strangelove policy be met with childish name-calling (e.g., “stooge of Putin!”) designed to silence debate?
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The amnesty that refuses to die.

by Daniel Greenfield, FPM

Implementing an amnesty for illegal aliens through the White House was one of the more blatant usurpations of legislative authority by Obama. And was followed by a fundamental lack of consequences.

In one of the more insane Roberts decisions, the liberal chief justice claimed that former Attorney General Sessions hadn’t followed proper procedure in declaring that DACA was unconstitutional and therefore the Obama amnesty had to stand. Somehow the Trump administration was not allowed to toss out a previous administration’s “selective enforcement” priority without following proper procedures. And Roberts decided he could even order the Trump administration to accept new illegal aliens as applicants as part of his APA power grab.

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T. Belman. That’s because the US supports the TSS which is why they it supports a center-left government, There it swupports Ra’am and rejects Ben Gvir.

Many of those who cheered the inclusion of an Islamist in the last coalition now want Netanyahu to atone for considering having Itamar Ben-Gvir join his next cabinet.

 By  Jonathan S. Tobin, ISRAEL HAYOM

One of the most prominent supporters of the State of Israel in the US Senate recently issued a warning to the leader of Israel’s largest party. In the context of the calendar, it seemed to represent the view of many other Americans who think that Benjamin Netanyahu – the Likud chairman hoping to add to his record as his country’s longest- serving prime minister after the Nov. 1 Knesset elections – has some atoning to do.

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Lapid instructs negotiators to turn down ‘significant’ new demands, warns Hezbollah that any attack would end talks permanently; Netanyahu takes credit for Israel’s stance

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Prime Minister Yair Lapid addresses the state ceremony for 1973’s Yom Kippur War fallen, at Mount Herzl military cemetery on October 6, 2022 (Amos Ben Gershom / GPO)

Prime Minister Yair Lapid rejected on Thursday Lebanon’s requested modifications to a proposed maritime border deal, according to a senior Israeli official. Contradicting earlier assertions by Western officials that Lebanon’s objections were minor, the official called Beirut’s demands “significant.”

The statement cast doubt on the viability of a deal that, only days ago, Israeli officials were speaking of as a foregone conclusion.

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The price of gas from the Middle East is high – in the long term. Op-ed.

By Giulio Meotti, INN   Oct 6, 2022,

“Gas as a holy war. Gas as a new fantasy of revenge on the West. It is the ‘gift of Allah’. There is a desire for conquest “. So writes with irony Kamel Daoud, the celebrated Algerian writer, in the French weekly Le Point.

Saudi Arabia (which is also financing the first mosque in Cuba at the moment) was the first stop on a recent tour of the German Chancellor Olaf Scholz which included the Emirates and Qatar.

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