By Dr. Eric R. Mandel, MEPIN

Photo: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and then-Vice President Biden talk prior to a meeting on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 21, 2016. Source: Michel Euler/AP, Caption: NPR.

At the end of March, in the wake of increasing violence emanating from the cities of Nablus and Jenin in Judea and Samaria, a group of anti-Israel members of Congress wrote a letter to President Joe Biden asking him to “undertake a shift in U.S. policy” regarding Israel. In other words, they asked him to end the U.S.-Israel special relationship.

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D. Nussbaum. An Op-Ed in the Jerusalem Post from the esteemed Chair of the largest Zionist Grass Roots organization in Israel, Douglas Altabef.  As usual, Mr. Altabef takes into account a broad variety of issues relevant to the major problem facing Israel today, and does so in a very balanced fashion.

Not every MK is a budding Churchill, but overwhelmingly they care deeply about this country, and have its welfare at heart.

By DOUGLAS ALTABEF, JPOST

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seen in a government cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, April 2, 2023 (photo credit: OLIVIER FITOUSSI/POOL)

A good friend, a bright entrepreneur in his mid-30s, recently confided to me that, while a lifelong Likudnik, he had recently attended an anti-judicial reform rally. He said that there were basically two groups of people there: the Bibi-haters, deploring the “Crime Minister,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who had engineered some kind of coup; and then there were people like himself: fearful, sad, worried that the country they knew and loved was being taken away from them.

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“The smearing of the word ‘Allah’ in Dr. Awadallah’s name is apparently intentional.”

by Daniel Greenfield, FPM

CAIR, like other Brotherhood groups, is an Islamist organization masquerading as a civil rights community group. The Islamist mission is not to protect any ethnic or even religious group, but to impose Islamic law.

CAIR-MN recently got slapped down for trying this with pictures of Mohammed being shown at an art class at Hamline University.

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By Andrea Widburg, AM THINKER

Image: Magdalen College by Remi Mathis. CC BY-SA 3.0.

When Henry VIII broke with the papacy, he did not break with Christianity. Instead, the Church of England became a Protestant-Catholic hybrid, with the monarch in place of the Pope. England’s institutions reflected the nation’s ardent Christianity. This was especially true of Oxford’s and Cambridge’s myriad individual colleges that, for hundreds of years, produced leaders steeped in their country’s Anglo-Christianity. Exhibit A is Oxford’s Magdalen College.
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Israel at 75: Never has the State of Israel faced such savage opposition from sections of the Jewish community — at home and abroad

By Barbara Amiel,  National Post

As Israel marks the 75th anniversary of its founding this year, the National Post is hosting a five-month celebration of the “startup” nation, telling the remarkable story of its rebirth and resilience against all odds.

My generation, the last to have been born before the State of Israel was created and while the Holocaust was in progress, is all but an anachronism now. Faint British childhood memories are of blackout curtains, air-raid sirens and my grandfather showing me the crater that a German V-2 rocket had created overnight on the nearby heath.

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I found his speech to be fascinating. I think you will agree

The lawlessness of the left-wing rioters and the cowardice of the IDF and the police in the face of the Left’s rejecting the voters’ will in the last elections are pushing Israel into crisis.Op-ed.

By Dr. Aviel Sheyin-Stevens, INN

Israel is ruled by a judicial despotism that is not accountable to the people. Due to their loss of power in elections, the political Left transformed Israel’s legal system to a rule of law mafia; controlling government policies and Knesset legislation. The Netanyahu government’s proposed judicial reform is the first real threat to their control over Knesset and the government; hence the Left’s total war against it. The lawlessness of the left-wing rioters and the cowardice of the IDF and the police in the face of the Left’s rejecting the voters’ will in the last elections are pushing Israel into crisis.

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By Jeffrey A. Tucker, EPOCH TIMES      April 3, 2023

Newspaper front pages with former U.S. President Donald Trump are displayed at a news stand in New York on March 31, 2023. (Ed Jones/AFP via Getty Images)[/caption]

The terms anarchy and tyranny seem like they are contradictory. Anarchy means no state. Tyranny means nothing but state. What possibly could anarcho-tyranny mean?

It’s a phrase coined by the right-Hegelian political theorist Samuel Francis, whose dark worldview was never my cup of tea, to say the least. Even so, he was insightful, especially concerning the ambitions of the left.

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The protest organizers are doing irreparable harm to the state, its institutions and its economy, in a classic “cutting off your nose to spite your face” campaign.

By Alex Traiman, INN   9.4.23

(JNS) Since the announcement of a package of proposed judicial reforms by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing government, a small protest movement quickly gained momentum, headed by opposition leader Yair Lapid, claiming that Israel was on its way toward becoming a fascist dictatorship (read Part I and Part II).

From the outset, political leaders were warning that the protests would lead to political violence and ultimately a civil war. Such warnings were seen as hyperbole and condemned for their malicious tone but did not deter Netanyahu’s coalition from racing ahead with its planned legislation.

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Editor David Horovitz and military correspondent Emanuel Fabian reconstruct the sequence of events that led to escalating violence on Israel’s borders over the holiday weekend

By TOI STAFF      Today, 1:02 pm  

Welcome to The Times of Israel’s Daily Briefing, your 15-minute audio update on what’s happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world, from Sunday through Thursday.

Editor David Horovitz and military correspondent Emanuel Fabian join host Amanda Borschel-Dan on today’s episode.

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By Daniel Greenfield, 08 Apr

Over 3,000 years ago a slave revolt took place that is repeated every year. It was not just a rebellion against a long since vanished pharaoh whose dynasty and people have been consigned to dust along with his treasure cities that the Jewish slaves had labored over.

The revolutions of the past come and go. Nations rise and fall, and then fall further into the history books. Passover however was a remarkable revolt not just against an empire, but paganism, and it remains relevant even all these thousands of years later. In a recent poll, only 39% said that religion was very important to them. That’s down from 62% a generation ago.

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Gravitas

Gravitas Plus:

Gravitas is a pro-western news outlet, The opposite of TFI GLOBAL

By: Amil Imani Mar 2006

Why confront Islam(ism)? Because if we don’t it will continue to get more extreme. This is not Islamophobia, as many Muslims and their apologists protest.  A phobia is a baseless irrational fear. Detestation of Islamism, the violent form of Islam, is based on irrefutable facts and it is not only rational, but it is also ethically imperative.

It is a virtue to take action to oppose the hateful, and vice to ignore it. It is a virtue to hate tyranny, misogyny, discrimination of all sorts, oppression, and all manners of violations of the legitimate rights of the individual and people.
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Wake up, Palestinians, even for once. The Jordanian Waqf at Al-Aqsa and the intelligence services of Abdullah II are exploiting you to ignite confrontations with the aim of pressuring Israel, America and Britain to support the survival of the king, who fears an imminent coup against him. How long will they exploit you when you are deaf in wedding ceremony? Wake up from your heavy sleep!

— Naseem Gheewan ???? ??????? (@NGheewan) April 6, 2023

Wake up, Palestinians, even for once. The Jordanian Waqf at Al-Aqsa and the intelligence services of Abdullah II are exploiting you to ignite confrontations with the aim of pressuring Israel, America and Britain to support the survival of the king, who fears an imminent coup against him. How long will they exploit you when you are deaf in wedding ceremony? Wake up from your heavy sleep!

By Shalom Pollack

Another day another Jew was murdered in the Jewish state, in the Jewish homeland. Today it was two sisters and their mother in critical condition. The strongest army in the Mideast and beyond could not prevent it, again.

It wasn’t always this way.

I remember a time when terror attacks were not a  daily event and one remembered the few that remained in our memories and consciousness. We would refer to particular attacks and recall all their details. Today only computers can remember. Two sisters today, two brothers last week.. who can digest it all?

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by David McGrogan,  The Brownstone Institute,

The most important two sentences in the history of political philosophy since the ancient Greeks appears towards the beginning of Machiavelli’s The Prince.

‘[A] wise ruler,’ the author informs his reader, ‘must think of a method by which his citizens will need the state and himself at all times and in every circumstance. Then they will always be loyal to him.’

The history of the development of modern governance is essentially a riff on this basic insight. It tells us almost everything we need to know about our current predicament: those who rule us vigorously engaged in the task of making us need them, so that they can retain our loyalty and hence stay in power – and gain more of it.

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