I have been a fan of Tucker for many years. He often shared a collage of main stream media bites that were exactly the same; as if someone had sent out a news release earlier in the day with “what to say.” He was the go-to-guy for the other side; sharing missing facts. He attacked Fake News. He ends his broadcast with:
“The show that is the sworn enemy of lying, pomposity, smugness, and groupthink.”
By now, everyone knows that Kari Lake lost the bid for Governor of Arizona. However, very few people know that the person who won the election, Democrat Katie Hobbs, was in charge of the election. That prompts me to point out the obvious, and that is, “the person in charge of counting the votes always wins.” Hobbs and her associates should not have been allowed to run the election, but the Republican party refused to call them out. Then recently, we found out that U.S. aid money sent to Ukraine was laundered through FTX and sent back to Democrats as campaign donations.
T. Belman I disagree with the sub-title. I think Netanyahu will cave at the last second, not the Rabbis. I wonder if it is possible to separate out Area C from the Defence portfolio. If so it may be a workable compromise. But I don’t think that will happen because the US is not worried about who will defend the country but is worried who will be in charge of Area C.
What most distinguishes the Right from the centre or Left is their plans for area C. The Right wants to keep it all and the others want to give it to the Palestinians for their state.. That’s why Smotrich will not settle for anything less than Min of Defense.
The rabbis will make sure a disappointed Smotrich doesn’t trigger another election
The heads of the parties with the president, this week.Credit: Ohad Zwigenberg
Likud chief Benjamin Netanyahu is regretting two mistakes he made after the election – unforced errors uncharacteristic of a skilled politician who has already formed five governments.
First, he didn’t reserve four strategic ministries for Likud well in advance: defense, finance, foreign affairs and justice. With 32 Knesset seats, half his governing coalition, he had every right to do so.
Birthright participants pose for a picture. Credit: Courtesy of Birthright Israel.
(November 18, 2022 / JNS) U.S. Jews who participated in Birthright trips to Israel are more highly identified and engaged in communal life than their peers who did not, according to an analysis of the Pew Research Center’s 2020 survey of American Jews conducted by researchers at the Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies at Brandeis University.
The profound disparity in attitudes and behavior also held true when the analysts took into account differences in the respondents’ backgrounds.
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T. Belman. What does Israel owe Europe or the US or Ukraine. They oppose Israel in so many ways. Israel should not be friendly to them as they are not friendly to her.
And they did not support us in the War of Independence, the Six Day War or any other war we had to fight. Nor will they in any future wars we have to fight.
By Yossi Melman, HAARETZ Nov 17/22
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy listening to the national anthem during his visit to Kherson on Monday.Credit: /AP
Under pressure from the U.S. administration, Israel recently agreed to finance “strategic materials” worth millions of U.S. dollars to contribute to the Ukrainian war effort.
Haaretz has learned from three senior European diplomatic officials that the United States approached the Israeli government a few weeks ago and pushed it to team up with NATO and the West in the struggle against Russia and President Vladimir Putin.
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Feels like the world is changing before our eyes. As Israel thrives and grows, outside concerns – Jewish and non-Jewish – from the United States “warn” Israel.
People express “concern” about the results of Israel’s democratic election. Mind you, in a world ripe with so many issues, Israel has just concluded its 5th democratic election with a peaceful transition of power.
Some powers in Washington, D.C. don’t like certain legislatures in Jerusalem? Im sure the people of Tiberias, Lod, Holon, Efrat and Dimona don’t care. Does the United States not have enough international issues to deal with? There are enough US issues with Russia and with China to not enflame the Middle East even further. A new Middle East post-Abraham accords.
Imagine a Super Bowl where the Reds were ahead 27-25 with a minute to go. All of a sudden, the power went out in the entire stadium. When the lights came on after a couple minutes of chaos, fans noticed the scoreboard showed 27-29.
Anyone witnessing such an event would be beyond outraged. Sports are supposed to be about “may the best team win,” and referees and officials are supposed to be neutral. Videotape and remote judges are used to evaluate disputed plays.
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Nov 17, 2022, 7:25 AM (GMT+2)
Knesset buildingOrel Cohen/FLASH90
Before the dust settled and all votes were counted, the American liberal establishment began lamenting the death of Israeli democracy as Benyamin Netanyahu was poised to form the next government with a commanding number of Knesset seats and a potentially stable coalition.
The last time I checked, that’s how the Israeli electoral system works. But political progressives have conflated the term “democracy” with its antithesis – an agenda promoting censorship, thought control, viewpoint discrimination, woke intolerance, and hatred of Israel and the west. What they are peddling is not democratic at all, but a dictatorial stew that degrades personal rights and discourages dissent. And in so doing they are abetted by a mainstream media that engages in political activism and preys on its audience’s ignorance of constitutional and democratic values.
T. Belman. Good for Melanie, She said what needed to be said.
“The real question may not be whether Israel can survive without support from the United States, but whether the United States itself can survive at all.”
By Melanie Phillips, JNS NOV 18
Can Israel break its dependency on the United States?
The question has always been widely dismissed as unthinkable. But recent events are prompting it to be raised with increasing urgency.
The administration of US President Joe Biden has been far from friendly towards Israel. Despite continuing to fund its defence needs and support it against the relentless malice of the UN, the Bidenites’ reckless appeasement of the Iranian regime has increased the Islamic republic’s capacity to attack Israel. At the same time, the US has repeatedly pressured Jerusalem to make dangerous concessions to the Palestinian Arabs.
T. Belman. The problem, according to the authors, is that Smotrich and Ben Gvir “incite against the Arabs”. I am dumbfounded. The truth is that the Arabs are inciting against the Jews and Israel. The US obviously want Israel to cave to the Arab demands. Because we refuse to capitulate, they say, we don’t have shared values. They threaten all kinds of dire consequences, should we exhibit different values. To the contrary, if we were to share their woke values and agree to appease the Arabs, it would be the end of us. We are entitled to embrace our own values even if the US doesn’t want us to. Shared values are not at the core of our relationship. Our relationship is based on mutual interests. Why the US supports the Palestinian cause at our expense has always puzzled me. It cannot be that she wants to benefit the Palestinians. It must be that they want to weaken us.
by Dennis Ross, David Makovsky, WASH INSTITUTE 2.11.22
Appointing senior ministers who incite against Arabs would undermine the shared values that buttress the bilateral relationship while giving fuel to Israel’s critics in Washington.
Following Israel’s fifth election in less than four years, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s longest-serving prime minister, is poised to return to that office again. Even if divided, the country has clearly moved to the right. The “government of change,” which lasted a year included the left, center, right, and an Arab party for the first time, but it was undone not by its ideological diversity but by violence. Polls showed that in March 2022 a majority of Israeli Jews believed it was a good thing that an Arab party was in the government. (WE NOW KNOW BETTER.) That view changed dramatically with Palestinian acts of terror against Israelis during Ramadan—and the right wing’s claim that the government was limited in its response because it depended on an Arab party.
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Arizona Republican candidate Kari Lake said on Nov. 17 that she’s still fighting in the state governor’s race, in her first major update since Democrat Katie Hobbs declared victory.
“I wanted to reach out to you to let you know that I am still in this fight with you,” Lake, a former television anchor, said in a video statement.
Lake said concerns raised by her campaign about Hobbs, the Arizona secretary of state, overseeing the election and electronic voting equipment turned out to be legitimate. As an example, she pointed to how tabulators across Maricopa County weren’t working properly on Election Day.
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Why didn’t Sigmund Freud leave Vienna any sooner? He, who pioneered and/or popularized the idea that humanity was ruled by a capacity for love (eros) and an equal capacity for aggression, cruelty, murder, even genocide (thanatos); he, who knew what had been happening to his Jewish colleagues in Germany and on his very own street in Vienna. Nevertheless, the great man delayed, denied, refused to depart his beloved Vienna, the city of his dreams – and of his pioneering dream interpretations.
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Right now, Communist China is in Canada setting up police stations to intimidate residents and Xi trying to rig their elections, too.
In the mid-terms, Republicans won the popular vote by 5 MILLION votes and took back the House (which was historic actually) and Democrats stole the Senate in Arizona, Nevada and Pennsylvania with laundered FTX money and ballot harvesting and voter fraud and everybody now knows it. The fake news continues to gaslight us
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It’s hardly even believable: the stuttering, sputtering John Fetterman, a stroke victim who only rarely manages to utter a complete sentence, coasted to victory in the Pennsylvania Senate race. Like Joe Biden, Fetterman is so clearly unfit for his new job that no sane person could possibly think otherwise; it boggles the mind to think that any Pennsylvania voter could have seen any of Fetterman’s incoherent ramblings over the last few weeks, both in his debate with Dr. Mehmet Oz and in his campaign rallies, and thought, “That’s the man I want representing Pennsylvania in the Senate.” But Fetterman will show up in the Senate in January — if someone can guide him to where it is — and all the explanations of why this ridiculous charade is set to happen are bad in different ways.
The media and the Democrats want us to believe that Kari Lake, along with others, lost because the “Red Wave” did not exist, and that close association with President Trump was the kiss the of death for Republicans. Really?
Let’s take a closer look at the numbers to see what actually occurred in Arizona.
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By SETH J. FRANTZMAN, JPOST 17.11.22
Iranian woman protests at night, November 2022 (photo credit: 1500tasvir)
Iran is worried that several recent incidents in Iran point to a growing chance that the two-month-old protests are becoming increasingly violent.
From the regime’s point of view, violence is a problem when it spills over and when the protesters may have arms.
An article in Iranian pro-Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps media on Thursday indicated that the media narrative, spun from the top levels of government, will now focus on armed attacks by the protesters. Iran calls these groups “separatists,” a term it generally uses for Kurds, Baloch, Arabs and other minority groups in Iran.
T. Belman. Great. Yesterday I published There is another option, not yet pursued and wrote:
“We know that Ben Gvir and Smotrich have agreed that either they are both in or they’re both out. That means its either Gantz or them. Now if Ben Gvir and Smotrich convince either Shas or UTJ to join them in a common front, ball game over. Bibi will be forced to go with them. I doubt he will abandon the three parties and go with Lapid.”
“Netanyahu (Likud) on Wednesday evening set the coming Wednesday, November 23, as the deadline for forming the next government,”
Israel National News Nov 17, 2022, 11:27 AM
Bezalel SmotrichPhoto by Yossi Aloni/Flash90
The Likud party’s negotiating team on Thursday will meet with the negotiating teams of the United Torah Judaism (UTJ), Shas, and Religious Zionism parties.
A senior source in UTJ’s Agudat Yisrael faction, who is involved in the coalition negotiations with the Likud, said he fully supports Religious Zionism chief MK Bezalel Smotrich.
