The agreement negotiated in Beijing to restore relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran signaled at least a temporary reordering of the usual alliances and rivalries, with Washington left on the sidelines.

By By Peter Baker, NYT   March 11, 2023

A photograph released by Chinese state media showing officials Wang Yi, center, China’s top foreign policy official, with Ali Shamkhani, right, the secretary of Iran’s security council, and Musaad bin Mohammed Al Aiban, Saudi Arabia’s minister of state, in Beijing, on Friday.Credit…China Daily, via Reuters

WASHINGTON — Finally, there is a peace deal of sorts in the Middle East. Not between Israel and the Arabs, but between Saudi Arabia and Iran, which have been at each other’s throats for decades. And brokered not by the United States but by China.

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Israel’s dream of forming an Arab alliance against Iran was shattered on Friday with the news that China had brokered the restoration of diplomatic ties between Iran and Saudi Arabia

By Zvi Bar’el, HAARETZ

Israel’s dream of forming an Arab alliance against Iran was shattered on Friday with the news that Iran and Saudi Arabia have agreed to restore diplomatic ties within two months. The dramatic announcement is likely to redraw the regional map of friends and foes, and will have global reverberations. The agreement provides Iran with much-needed legitimacy in the Arab world, and could lead to further deals with Arab states like Egypt, pave the way to end the war in Yemen, offer a workable solution to the crisis in Lebanon, and even lead to a resumption of negotiations to save the nuclear deal.

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The problem isn’t Tucker’s show; it’s how GOP elites submit to radicals.

by AMANDA CARPENTER, THE BULWARK   8.3.23

(Composite by Hannah Yoest / Photos: GettyImages)

Republican members of Congress upset with Tucker Carlson’s rewrite of January 6th as a peaceful protest should redirect their ire. It’s their colleague, GOP Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy, who is giving that lie new life.

The only reason Carlson is airing these specials is because McCarthy provided him the content to produce them.

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By John Dale Dunn, AM THINKER    11.3.23

I watched what I thought was a serious journalist blow the first night of the supposed big J6 tape release. But I couldn’t help noticing that  he picked stuff we already knew — and he was WEAK.

Where was the video of fed provocateurs and violence coordinators?

Capitol Police flash bang and rubber bullet/baton attacks on an unarmed citizen crowd?
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by Benjamin Weinthal Fox News   March 5, 2023

https://www.meforum.org/64230/the-secret-russia-iran-nuclear-deal-enriched

Published originally under the title “Russia and Iran Secret Nuclear Deal Would Allow Uranium Transfers to Tehran’s Illicit Weapons Program.”

Amid the International Atomic Energy Agency’s disclosure this week that the Islamic Republic of Iran accumulated near weapons-grade enriched uranium for its alleged nuclear weapon program, Fox News Digital has learned that Iran has allegedly secured secret deals with Russia to guarantee deliveries of uranium.

In what could be a major setback to a new Iran nuclear deal, foreign intelligence sources speaking on the condition of anonymity, and who are familiar with the negotiations between Moscow and Tehran over Iran’s reported illegal nuclear weapons work, told Fox News Digital that Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to return enriched uranium that it received from Iran if a prospective atomic deal collapses. The State Department would neither confirm nor deny the reports.

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Benjamin Weinthal, a Middle East Forum writing fellow, reports on Israel, Iran, Syria, Turkey and Europe for Fox News Digital. Follow him on Twitter at @BenWeinthal.

by Majid Rafizadeh, GATESTONE  •  March 11, 2023

• Ever since the Biden Administration shifted Washington’s Iran policy from maximum pressure to total appeasement, the ruling mullahs’ nuclear advances have been remarkable.
• In the meantime, the Biden administration does not appear even slightly concerned that a regime which has frequently threatened to wipe two entire countries, America and Israel, off the map, is closer than ever to possessing nuclear weapons.

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6 deputy commissioners call for Shabtai to resign over handling of now-frozen removal of Tel Aviv district commander, linked to Ben Gvir’s criticism of response to protesters

By TOI STAFF

Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir in the Tel Aviv police command center, during demonstrations in the city against the coalition’s judicial overhaul, March 1, 2023. (via Twitter; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)<
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Tel Aviv District Commander Amichai Eshed, whose removal from his position with the Israel Police was announced Thursday by National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, reportedly told Israel Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai that he was “unfit” to lead the police and that he was making a mistake he would regret, in a call between the two before the decision was made public.

Excerpts of the call were widely reported in Hebrew-language media on Thursday and Friday, citing unnamed persons familiar with the “difficult” exchange.

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T. Belman. I attribute the rise to four things. 1.) increased Muslim immigration in Europe and The US. 2.) Palestinian Authority anti-Israel propaganda. 3) EU and US support for the Palestinian cause. 4) Support for intersectionality by the Democratic Party and the Left.

Spielberg said hatred has been ‘standing proud with hands on hips like Hitler and Mussolini’

By Kristine Parks | Fox News

Spielberg warns about rising antisemitism in the US

Filmmaker Steven Spielberg warned against antisemitism in the US becoming more overt. “Not since Germany in the ‘30s have I witnessed antisemitism no longer lurking but standing proud…”

Prolific director Steven Spielberg warned he has not witnessed antisemitism so “overt” as it is now in the United States.

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John Hannah’s Analysis

Today’s announcement that Saudi Arabia and Iran have restored diplomatic relations is, according to John Hannah, the Randi & Charles Wax Senior Fellow at JINSA, the continuation of a long-term regional hedging strategy driven by a lack of confidence in the United States.

“Unfortunately, the deal is further evidence of the damage being done to US interests by President Biden’s misguided Middle East policies,” Hannah said. “A pattern of exhibiting weakness toward our enemies and contempt toward our friends has generated a predictable effort by countries like Saudi Arabia to fend for themselves any way they can.”

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By Mark Sleboda, REAL POLITICK MAR 10

Radio Interview on Sputnik’s Faultlines 09/03/23

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Even as the Biden administration sounds the alarm on Israel’s democratic character, it provides support of many billions of dollars to countries where the courts are for show only, whose rulings are dictated by the government, and where human rights have been trampled on for many years.

By  Nadav Shragai, ISRAEL HAYOM  24.2.23

The White House in Washington | Photo: AP/Ron Edmonds

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s low-key reaction to the “Breaks Speech” by US Ambassador to Israel Thomas Nides, and the fact that the entire right-wing government has actually ignored the blatant US attempt to interfere in the great debate in Israel about the legal reform, aroused among some of us – and, I must admit, myself included – a burst of nostalgia and a strong desire for a different Israeli response.

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T. Belman.  This is bad news for Israel. SA said that to join the AA, they needed stuff from the US. Obviously they are embracing Iran without anything from the US. Blood is thicker than water.

Does this mean that Iran is no longer a threat to SA? Does it mean that China is replacing the US in the ME.

Tehran and Riyadh sent officials for talks in China, where eventually Iran-Saudi ties were restored.

By REUTERS

TOP: The flag of Iran BOTTOM: The flag of Saudi Arabia (photo credit: Canva, Wikimedia Commons)

Iran and Saudi Arabia have agreed to re-establish diplomatic relations after talks in Beijing between officials from the two rival Middle East powers, Iranian state media reported on Friday.

The agreement was reached after talks in Beijing between top security officials from the two rival Middle East powers.

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MK Tzvi Sukkot demands the Defense Minister forbid the transfer of money to the city where the Yaniv brothers were murdered.

Israel National News

MK Zvi Sukkot (Religious Zionism party) has announced his intention to demand that Defense Minister Yoav Gallant confiscate money raised to benefit victims of the riots in the Samaria city of Huwara.

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The larger, more insidious goal at the heart of the Democrats’ “investigation”.

by Robert Spencer, FPM  10.3.23

What was the point of the Democrats’ Jan. 6 hoax? Now that Tucker Carlson has provided abundant confirmation (with more on the way) that there was no “insurrection” on Jan. 6, 2021, and that the Democrat leadership knew full well that there wasn’t even as they went full-throttle with their narrative, the question is inevitable: why? What were Leftists hoping to accomplish? Some obvious answers are that they hoped to destroy Donald Trump as a political force once and for all and discredit and demoralize his supporters. But there was clearly a larger, more insidious goal as well: the Democrats hoped with their fabricated Jan. 6 “insurrection” to create the pretext to do nothing less than destroy their legitimate opposition, not rhetorically but in a real sense, so that America would henceforth be functionally a one-party state in which only one point of view would be allowed.

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By Victor Davis Hanson

Recently there were some remarkable online videos of a Portland, Oregon good Samaritan confronting shoplifters and forcing them to dump loads of their pilfered goods.

More stunning, however, was the sheer outrage — of the thieves!

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Crime, treason, riots, open borders and our other threats are coming out of campuses.

by Daniel Greenfield, FPM    10.3.23

T. Belman.  Read this and you will understand why Smotrich said Huwara should be destroyed. You will also understand how despicable the leftist Jews are for raising a large sum of money for the ‘victims” of the rampage.

By Arlene Kushner     March 10, 2023

I do want to focus on the judicial reforms – an ongoing topic of huge significance. But the terror attack at Huwara remains in the media spotlight and there are updates and additional information that it is also important to share. And so, we will look at both issues, starting with Huwara.

The terrorist who killed Hallel and Yagel Yaniv has been caught. We always get them in the end – our intelligence is superb – even if it takes a few days.

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