Long reconciliation process reaches successful conclusion as ‘frenemies’ agree to swap envoys, a major step that could have important implications for Middle East

By LAZAR BERMAN, TOI

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, and Israel’s President Isaac Herzog speak to the media after their talks, in Ankara, Turkey, Wednesday, March 9, 2022. .(AP/Burhan Ozbilici)

But it does mean that their interests line up on enough important concerns that they intend to pursue a positive bilateral agenda. And they intend to do it in a way that won’t leave the relationship liable to fall apart at the sight of the first rift.

“This shows the ability of the countries to deal with disagreements, and to create frameworks for the disagreements to be discussed without it ruining the bilateral relationship, as happened in past years,” said Nimrod Goren, president of Mitvim – The Israeli Institute for Regional Foreign Policies, a think tank.

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Benny Gantz’s double-speak in the Knesset was an apt reflection of his “policy” as defense minister: pathetic, infuriating – and dangerous.

By Naomi Linder Kahn,  JPOST

There seems to be no limit to the hypocrisy and double-talk to which Israeli voters are being exposed in this election season.

This week’s installment of double-speak came from no lesser a luminary than Defense Minister Benny Gantz, who is quickly proving himself to be a master of the genre. Speaking from the podium of the Knesset plenum, Gantz, who has held this position for three years under as many prime ministers, is the man responsible for waging and winning Israel’s battle for Area C, the section of Judea and Samaria under full Israeli jurisdiction under international law.

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The event took place in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, from August 1-7 with the participation of nearly 600 students from all over the world

By i24NEWS and ILH Staff

Israel’s math prowess was on display in latest international competition | Illustration: Getty Images/Fuse

Students from Tel Aviv University won first place in the International Mathematics Competition for University Students (IMC).

The event took place in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, between August 1-7 with the participation of nearly 600 students from all over the world, according to the website of the French Association of Tel Aviv University.

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Ramallah would need Biden to forgo Security Council veto, though that would trigger a ban on funding the UN; PLO says DC mulling proposal, but State Department hints odds are low

By JACOB MAGID, TOI   Today, 8:23 am   

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the 73rd session of the General Assembly at the United Nations in New York, September 27, 2018. (TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP)

Palestinian Ambassador to the United Nations Riyad Mansour is once again seeking full member state status at the UN, but Ramallah faces an uphill battle without support from the US, which has passed laws aimed at thwarting such an effort.

In an interview with The Times of Israel Monday, Mansour argued that the new initiative would “save the two-state solution” and serve as a counterweight to unilateral steps taken by Israel in East Jerusalem and the West Bank that have damaged prospects that the framework could eventually be implemented.

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By Patrick Shanahan, AM THINKER

Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is a real thing. Donald Trump came into Washington much like Rodney Dangerfield storming into toney Bushwood Country Club in Caddyshack. And much of official Washington (aka the Swamp) reacted just like Ted Knight’s Judge Smails, with a combination of horror, disgust, and condescension that settled into an ice-cold obsessive rage. It’s a real thing, closer to a disability than anything else. But it does not explain the raid on Mar-a-Lago.
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Demcast Has Been Controlling Reality

To focus on essence, start watching at 30 minutes.

FDA Knew 44% of Pregnant Women in Pfizer Trial Suffered Miscarriages

T. Belman.  In other words, Kushner is a smuck. Although I knew he was a New York liberal and thus at odds with Trump’s agenda, I didn’t realize how he gummed up the works. When Biden succeeded in stealing the election, the Kushners abandoned Trump rather than stand by him in his efforts to reclaim the presidency. That really pissed me off.

I wish Navarro had explained how Kushner was “the man most responsible for the loss of the Trump White House”.

Jared Kushner did more damage to the presidency and the Trump agenda during his four year reign of error

By Peter Navarro, AM GREATNESS        August 15, 2022

Take credit for what worked. Shift the blame for what didn’t. Run to Daddy-in-law whenever the big, bad chief of staff got in his way. That was Jared Kushner’s modus operandi during the long four years I had to serve alongside the man most responsible for the loss of the Trump White House.
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T. Belman.  Mudar Zahran was right on the money in his article Why did the Islamic Jihad agree to a Ceasefire so quickly? which I published 5 days earlier. He also wrote Who Will Succeed Mahmoud Abbas as the Palestinian President?

On intelligence matters, he is way ahead of the curve.

JAFAJ 15.8.22

1. Summary: On August 5, 2022, Israel stepped into the ring and delivered a one-two punch to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) in Gaza killing both of its two top military leaders, leaving the terror group leaderless in the middle of a confrontation with Israel. This led to a rapid ceasefire. A day after, Israel stepped up operations by killing three militants in Nablus in the West Bank belonging to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, a Fattah-PLO faction. This escalation of targeted killing is a translation of Israel’s new strategy of targeting terror leaders as pre-emptive countermeasures for the excepted regional unrest, such as potential military confrontations with either Hezbollah in Lebanon or Iran or a regime change in either Jordan or the Palestinian Authority or both.

Unprecedented Brazenness

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The so-called “dangerous” new Likud has done little if anything to promote issues important to the Right, preferring to lobby for Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu in the media.

By  Prof. Udi Lebel, ISRAEL HAYOM    16.8.22

What hasn’t been said about the Likud Knesset list – it’s been called populist, extremist, anti-state, far from the path of Menachem Begin, and of course, very very right-wing.

There have been discussions on top of discussions about how very right-wing the list is – is it too far Right? Will it boomerang on the Likud and Benjamin Netanyahu if it’s so far Right? Will the “moderate Right” flee because it’s so right-wing? So here’s a different take – all this talk about how right-wing the list is, all the astonishment about how the Likud “has never been so right-wing,” is the best thing that could happen to the Likud and Netanyahu himself, who on the recent anniversary of the disengagement from Gaza managed to avoid being labeled as the person whose support for the disengagement allowed it to be approved.

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Most observers believe that if there is a plea deal, it will only be after the November 1 election – and only if Netanyahu fails to form a government.

By YONAH JEREMY BOB, JPOST   15.8.22

OPPOSITION LEADER Benjamin Netanyahu arrives to testify in Jerusalem last week before the state commission of inquiry into the Meron disaster. (credit: YONATAN SINDEL/FLASH90)

On September 5, in the height of election season, the trial of former prime minister (and current candidate) Benjamin Netanyahu will restart after an approximate six-week summer recess.

What have been the latest developments, and where will the trial go from here?

The Netanyahu trials: Where we stand

The trial opened in May 2000 and witnesses were first called in April 2021. The focus, so far, has mostly been on Case 4000 – the Bezeq-Walla Affair. But this past summer, the prosecution started to dig deeper into Case 1000 – the Illegal Gifts Affair.

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By Jim Hoft, GATEWAY   15.8.22

As time goes by, the death toll among Canada’s medical professionals rises.

Another Canadian doctor, Dr. Ryan Buyting, a neurosurgery resident at Alberta Health Services (AHS) who was only 26 years old, passed away on July 26, 2022, according to his family.

“It is with great sadness that we acknowledge the loss of our beloved son Ryan Mackenzie Buyting on July 26, 2022,” an entry in his obituary read. “He was born on August 6, 1995, to Rob and Karyn (Broad) Buyting and was a loving brother to Jon and Lauryn.”

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By Ury Weiss   14 Aug 2022,

https://rumble.com/v1d33gj-damning-evidence-again-from-virologist-and-immunologist-dr-poornima-wagh-ph.html

I believe, after watching this video, even the most dumbed down individual, would come to the conclusion that there was no pandemic in 2020, just a genocidal world coup d’etat against humanity.

Dr. Poornima Wagh, Virologist and Immunologist on her work back in April 2020 to try to purify and isolate the NON EXISTENT SARS-COV-2. Similar studies were carried out in Canada, back in May 2020 with similar results. No traces of any novel virus SARS-COV-2, or COVID19. Dr. Poornima Wagh claims categorically there was no SARS-COV-2 pandemic and absolutely no variant derived from it. All smoke and mirrors. The current Monkey  Pox bullshit is nothing but a side effect of the Luciferian injections. It depletes the count of the T cells CD4 & CD8 and as a result people injected with the poison shot, contract auto immune diseases, SHINGLES being one of many.

T. Belman. Haaretz keeps smearing the right wing as “extremists”.  I try to ignore their defamation. Nevertheless this article highlights the fact that Likud has turned right. For me that’s a good thing. But that also means they may lose some seats as a result.

In the former prime minister’s party primary, ultra-extremists beat the (relatively) responsible wing by a knockout – and Yair Netanyahu’s influence is climbing. Meanwhile, during the fighting with Gaza, Lapid and Gantz put their egos on hold

By Yossi Verter, HAARETZ    12.8.22

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his son, Yair Netanyahu.

In 2011, halfway through his second term as prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu considered pulling an Ariel Sharon: defecting from Likud together with its responsible lawmakers and rebuilding the party. He even mulled taking a bite out of Kadima to create an enormous centrist party.

Ehud Barak, Netanyahu’s defense minister at the time, encouraged him. In those days, Netanyahu was extremely limited in terms of what he could get through the Likud Central Committee. The “Feiglins” among the party’s members were making him miserable. Netanyahu despised them and their namesake. He saw them as an Israeli version of the Tea Party in the United States, a racist backlash to the presidency of Barack Obama that had begun to take over large sections of the Republican Party.

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Eisenkot wants a Palestinian state.  Sa’ar does not.  How does that work?

Eisenkot wants full equality in Israel but is against a bi-national state. How does that work?

Sa’ar wants to “reduce the conflict” with the Palestinians and “increasing their self-governance.’ More gestures anyone?

By JEREMY SHARON, TOI 14 August 2022,

The leaders of the new National Unity party at the party launch on Sunday night, August 14, 2022, in Kfar Maccabiah, from left to right: Gadi Eisenkot, Defense Minister Benny Gantz and Justice Minsiter Gideon Sa’ar. (Elad Malka)<

Former IDF chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot emphasized his commitment to minority rights and the need to separate from the Palestinians, during a press conference launching the National Unity party on Sunday night.

The new party, an amalgamation of Defense Minister Benny Gantz’s Blue and White and Justice Minister’s Gideon Sa’ar’s New Hope, with Eisenkot and his allies, has touted itself as a moderate center-right outfit capable of forming a broad and stable government despite the deep political divide in the country.

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T. Belman.  Singer avoids mentioning this paragraph in the Saudi Plan.

“This proposed enlarged kingdom would include present-day Jordan, Gaza, and the West Bank (areas populated by Palestinians attached in a contiguous manner and physically connected to Jordan, i.e., not broken up into islands). Israeli arguments as to the need to retain the Jordan Valley become moot since the valley will now be controlled by a Jordanian government with a reliable record of maintaining peace with Israel. “

Notice that it isn’t limited to Areas A, B and Gaza. It is close to Trump’s plan which gave Israel 30% of Area C and included the Jordan Valley. The Saudi Plan can do without the Jordan valley.

The Jordan Option differs from the Saudi Plan in that it involves the replacement of the monarchy and the birth of Jordan as a republic.  Its present western boundary of the Jordan River remains. The New Jordan does not get sovereignty over any lands west of the River. It simply puts Jordan in charge of the Palestinian Authority which has an administrative role in A, B and Gaza, maybe forever. As such it should be totally acceptable to a majority of Israelis.

The Jordan Option goes further and supports incentivizing Palestinians to emigrate to Jordan. Jordan under Mudar’s leadership is prepared to accept all emigrants but is against the expulsion of Palestinians from Israel. So is Israel.

Will an Israeli De Gaulle emerge to endorse Mr Shihabi’s plan as part of his platform in the upcoming Israeli elections? 

By David Singer, INN   Aug 14, 2022,

Dry Bones – which one is the statesman? Y. Krischen

A plan proposed by Ali Shihabi – a Saudi author and commentator on Middle Eastern Politics – proposing the merger of Jordan, Gaza and part of the ‘West Bank’ into one single territorial entity to be called “The Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine” – has received little attention in the Israeli media or been commented on by Israeli politicians since its release on 8 June.

Yet the plan contains the following features which should excite Israel’s reluctant media to be seeking responses from its political leaders:

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In interview with Ben Shapiro, Netanyahu recounts his lengthy career and explains what it looks like to continue keeping peace while on the edge of disaster at all times.

Israel National News   Aug 15, 2022, 1:32 AM

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Former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s life has been spent serving the state of Israel, from the Israel Defense Force to serving 5 terms as prime minister, and he’s shown no signs he’s done yet.

In our episode, PM Netanyahu recounts his lengthy career and explains what it looks like to continue keeping peace while on the edge of disaster at all times. Plus, he tells us about how he managed his relationship with the United States and what he has on the agenda if he is re-elected.

T. Belman. Unfortunately, I think Doiny is right. Mudar Zahran used to tell me that Netanyahu opposed the Jordan Option as Prime Minister  and that Bennett was in favour. This really surprised me. Mudar used to tell me that Netanyahu was protecting King Abdullah.

Remember Netanyahu formed a government with Blue and White and made Gantz his Min of Defense.  Surely he knew how Gantz felt about this issue.

I have been waiting to hear what Netanyahu or Likud has to say about extending sovereignty. For me it is the key issue.

by Ezequiel Doiny, ISRAEL UNWIRED August 14, 2022

On July,30 2022 Arutz 7  reported “In a leaked copy of his new book, Jared Kushner claims that Netanyahu “responded with less-than-expected enthusiasm”(to the move of the embassy to Jerusalem) and Trump defined him as “the problem”.
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This video comes highly recommended.

https://rumble.com/v1fsq9h-ryan-cole-on-how-to-identify-a-person-killed-by-the-covid-vaccine.html

Steven Kirsch

I discuss a variety of topics with Ryan Cole related to his expertise as a pathologist who specializes in COVID injuries and death.

The most shocking thing revealed in this video is that the CDC could easily determine how many people have likely been killed by the vaccine, but they are not interested in instructing the medical examiners in how to look for vaccine-related deaths both during the exam and after the exam.

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