T. Belman. “For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.” (Newton’s Third Law). Perhaps as a result, the US is going to back Israel and not the PA now, especially since the US is no longer taking marching orders from SA. The US needs a strong ally in the ME and that ally is Israel, perhaps in a confederation with Jordan. It wasn’t so long ago that Biden withdrew support for the East Med pipeline to Europe. Now it appears that pipeline is a lifesaver for Europe, US and Israel.

BY ELLIOT NAZAR, FOREIGN DESK

1. China’s Growing Presence in the Middle East

Following the shocking news that Chinese officials brokered the agreement between Saudi Arabia and the Islamic Republic of Iran, many experts warned that this move was significant for Beijing, which is trying to grow its influence in a region heavily dominated by the U.S. As the Communist government continues to strengthen its economic and military presence throughout the world, officials have hoped to make inroads in Saudi Arabia and Iran through economic and military benefits in the hopes that China’s military can have a presence in the Persian Gulf, a key strategic waterway for oil flow.

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By Raymond Ibrahim, AM THINKER

According to the U.N.’s website,

[t]he United Nations on Friday [03/10/2023] commemorated the first-ever International Day to Combat Islamophobia with a special event in the General Assembly Hall, where speakers upheld the need for concrete action in the face of rising hatred, discrimination and violence against Muslims.

António Guterres, secretary-general of the U.N., delivered the keynote address, “focusing attention — and calling for action — to stamp out the poison of Islamophobia.”  Below are key excerpts followed by correctives:

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While working non-stop to gain support for stopping Iran, the PM has to go to Europe to do damage control after Lapid’s incitement. Op-ed.

By Barry Shaw, INN    Mar 15, 2023, 7:26 PM 

After the Biden Administration destroyed Europe’s energy supplies by blowing up the Russia-Germany Nord-stream pipeline, it has taken the form of Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to step into the breach for a struggling Europe.

Netanyahu has wisely taken his initial diplomatic mission to help Europe by making Italy and Germany his initial stops, contracting with the Europe which is to be supplied with Israel’s maritime reserves of energy via natural reserves in the Mediterranean.

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‘Even if all the proposed reforms were enacted, they would simply align Israel with Canada, New Zealand, or Australia.’

Israel National News    Mar 16, 2023, 

Leading US attorney Prof. Alan Dershowitz, who has voiced his opposition to Israel’s judicial reform plan in the past, now admits that despite his opposition, the legislation would not make Israel any less democratic.

During a Zoom debate with legal scholar Eugene Kontorovich organized by J-AIR Jewish radio on the subject of the reforms, Dershowitz insisted that the majority of opposition to the reform is due to the fact that a right-wing government is proposing it. “If exactly the same proposals were being made by a centrist government, or left-wing government, no one would notice,” he claimed. “There would be no demonstrations. There would be some academic discussion, law school teachers would be teaching it, but hardly anyone would care.”

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T. Belman.  This ruling is outrageous. The AG must be sacked. The powers of the AG must be curtailed.

She limits the Minister to “outlining a general policy” but  “but he is not allowed to interfere in the operative and operational implementation of the policy”. What?  Is it “general policy” for the Minister to demand that terrorism be fought with full force without regard to whether calm is destroyed? Or is this a matter for police to decide based on their “professional judgement”?

Attorney General publishes position on petitions filed with the Supreme Court: Ben Gvir must refrain from giving operative instructions to the police even when they are given under the guise of policy instructions.

Israel National News    Mar 16, 2023, 3:01 AM (GMT+2)

Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara on Wednesday night published her position regarding petitions that were filed with the Supreme Court and which request that National Security Itamar Ben Gvir be ordered to refrain from outlining policy regarding the Israel Police’s conduct during protests against the judicial reform and the government.

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Caroline Glick Show

T. Belman. I am very happy to see Gateway Pundit supporting Israel to such an extent. It has a large following in the US and is very influential.

By Richard Abelson, GATEWAY PUNDIT     Mar. 15, 2023 10:00 am

While US banks fail and the world teeters on the brink of WW III, the criminal Biden Regime is embarking on a series of regime change “color revolutions” around the world, seeking to destabilize conservative governments and install Washington-controlled puppets to do their bidding. The Gateway Pundit will expose these Open Society / National Endowment for Democracy led coup attempts, which seem to be the only thing the Blinken / Nuland / Sullivan Regime is any good at.

Today: Israel.
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T. Belman. From day one I have supported compromising to get a consensus..  At the same time I recognized the the opposition is really not in favour of arriving at a consensus. They want to cause as much trouble as they can,  They will not make meaningful concessions. Kohelet wants Herzog to convene negotiations based on their draft. Hell he couldn’t do it based on his own draft.

Kohelet Policy Forum, one of thinktanks behind push for judicial reform, suggests Override Clause be abandoned.

Israel National News

The Kohelet Policy Forum, a conservative thinktank which for years lobbied in favor of the changes to Israel’s judiciary now included in the Israeli government’s reform plan, is now calling for the judicial overhaul to be softened in the hope of building a broad consensus behind it.

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Na’eh said everyone would do well to wait and see if the establishment of Iranian-Saudi ties even comes to fruition.

By HERB KEINON, JPOST   14.3.23

(photo credit: AMOS BEN-GERSHOM/GPO)

MANAMA – Reports of the death of Israeli-Gulf ties as a result of the announcement Friday of a renewal of Saudi-Iranian relations are greatly exaggerated, Israeli Ambassador to Bahrain Eitan Na’eh indicated on Tuesday.

“I don’t know what the future will bring. I know what I’m told, and I know what I see,” he told journalists at press briefing at Start-Up Nation Central’s “Connect2Innovate” conference in Bahrain. “I am not yet ready to start eulogizing Israel-Gulf relations.”

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MEMRI March 14, 2023

For a variety of reasons, Russia has welcomed the Chinese mediated agreement announced March 11, 2023, between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Islamic Republic of Iran. The agreement provides for a resumption of diplomatic relations between the two states and the reopening of embassies and missions within two months from the signing of the agreement. The document also noted that Tehran and Riyadh reaffirm mutual respect for each other’s sovereignty and territorial integrity as well as commitment to non-interference in each other’s internal affairs.

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(March 13, 2023 / JNS) Media pundits spend a lot of time “explaining” to the rest of us why some political or social development just occurred. Last week, The New York Times presented what it claimed are the real reasons behind the controversy over Israeli judicial reform. The recent election results, which brought Israel a new government—and the judicial reform plan—are part of a “rightward drift” that goes back a number of years, according to the Times’ Jerusalem Bureau Chief Patrick Kingsley.

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T. Belman. Ritter just commented on this. He believes that Georgia will not comply.

T. Belman. Since this Report, I have gotten a number of emails which support the idea that the Abraham Accords are not what they are cracked up to be especially regarding the UAE.

Jafaj Intelligence  January 6, 2023

1. Summary: The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has issued a very harshly worded press statement protesting a visit to the premises of Al-Aqsa Mosque by Itamar Ben-Gvir, the Israeli Minister of National Security. In the statement, UAE emphasized the need for “the comprehensive protection of Al-Aqsa Mosque and that stopping the serious and provocative violations therein, and to respect the role of the sisterly Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in caring for Sanctities and Waqf in accordance with international law and the existing historical situation.”

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What the reaction to a rare Jewish riot in Israel says about Jewish liberals.

by Daniel Greenfield, FPM   13.3.23

One Sunday, two brothers, Hillel and Yagel Yaniv, young men with a bright future ahead of them were murdered while stuck in traffic in the Muslim village of Hawara in Israel. The locals celebrated their crime by singing, handing out candy and shooting off fireworks in the air.

Shmuel Sackett, the head of a tree-planting foundation, wrote:

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