The plaintiffs include the family of the late Taylor Force, a Hamas terror victim. The awards were for $171,403,803 in compensatory damages.

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF  Published: AUGUST 4, 2022 17:59

Taylor Force, 29, was killed by a Palestinian terrorist who went on a stabbing rampage in Jaffa on March 8, 2016
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Three families of American citizens whose loved ones were murdered by Hamas in Israel have been awarded a judgment against the Iranian and Syrian governments by the US District Court for the District of Columbia.

The plaintiffs include the family of Taylor Force, a West Point graduate and business student who was stabbed to death by a Hamas terrorist in Tel Aviv in March 2016.

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T. Belman.  I am proud to say that Edy Cohen is a friend of Mudar Zahran and he spoke at my conference on the Jordan Option in 2017 and in my Webinar on the same subject 2 months ago. THIS IS GREAT NEWS.

How did an Israeli Jew get recognized as the second most influential person in the Arab world?

By David Lazarus, ISRAEL TODAY | August 5, 2022 

Edy Cohen runs for election Photo: Edy Cohen

A candidate in the upcoming November elections in Israel may be just the man who could help bring peace to the Middle East, more than anyone we have seen in Israeli politics for a long time, if, that is, you believe anyone short of the Messiah could.

This is the story of Edy Cohen that begins in Lebanon, that unique combination of French, Muslim, and Christian Arab culture that was crushed by Iranian-supported Hezbollah armies. The once prosperous European destination whose civil wars and raging jihadists now churn perched astride Israel’s northern borders.
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What happens when justice is subverted by a radical billionaire financier?

By John Dempsey, FPM

Crime is rapidly rising in major American cities, primarily where liberal District Attorney’s (DA) received large sums of money from liberal billionaire George Soros in their election campaigns. Many of these DAs take it upon themselves to dismiss charges for various reasons – whether it is income, racial, or status based, ignoring the law. Liberal George Soros DAs, like any other politician, do what their largest donor wants them to do. In the case of American criminal justice, we see what George Soros wants: criminals who get away with crime and victims who never see justice.

America is a unique country. We are a nation guided by the Constitution which provides Due Process, prohibiting the government from depriving a person of his or her day in court. It means that someone cannot be accused of a crime and thrown in jail, making the court process an integral part of our criminal justice system should the accused want to face their accuser.

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Oct 18/2018

Terror group threatens to engulf Lebanon and the entire region in war.

By Ari Lieberman, FPM   4/8/22

By any metric, Lebanon represents the classic textbook definition of a failed state. The nation is characterized by sectarian rivalry, bread lines, chronic fuel shortages, rolling blackouts, substandard healthcare, and mountains of uncollected garbage. Bullet-riddled buildings, pot-marked by years of internecine conflict, dot the Lebanese landscape. Lebanon’s judiciary remains virtually non-existent, except in rare instances where Lebanese citizens are caught maintaining benign, cordial contact with the “Zionist Entity.” In those cases, the Lebanese judiciary acts with alacrity to prosecute the “guilty.”

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Netanyahu, however, said that he and Trump exchanged letters on the day before the ceremony unveiling the Trump peace plan.

By LAHAV HARKOV, JPOST

THEN-PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the annual Jewish Agency Board of Governors meeting in Jerusalem, in 2019.
(photo credit: NOAM REVKIN FENTON/FLASH90)

Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu denied that his plans to annex parts of the West Bank were not coordinated with the Trump administration, as former senior adviser to the president Jared Kushner maintains in his upcoming memoir.

“The allegation that prime minister Netanyahu surprised Jared Kushner and [former] president [Donald] Trump by announcing Israel’s intention to apply Israeli law to the 30% of Judea and Samaria envisioned in the Trump plan as sovereign Israeli territory is completely false,” a spokesperson for Netanyahu said on Thursday.

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T. Belman. What this plan and the Jordan Option have in common is that they both are against creating another state. They both look to Jordan for the solution. The UN debate shows that the UN is totally committed to creating a third state. I should point out that the UN has no jurisdiction in the matter and simply is butting in By international law, the land belongs to Israel. .  When it comes right down to it, the UN can and should be ignored.

The Security Council and its vast bureaucracy certainly can not claim ignorance of the Saudi proposal. Op-ed.

By David Singer, INN

Dry Bones: burying the Hashemite Kingdom of PalestineY. Kirschen

The United Nations Security Council has lost any authority to broker an end to the Jewish-Arab conflict – after its 26th July Quarterly Open Debate: “The situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question” proceeded for 5 hours without any speaker making reference to a new solution emanating from Saudi Arabia to resolve the 100 years-old conflict.

That Saudi solution – the merger of Jordan, Gaza and part of the ‘West Bank’ into one separate territorial entity to be called “The Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine”- had been published on 8 June in Al Arabiya News.

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T. Belman. TOI keeps labeling Ben Gvir and his party, Otzma Yehudit, as extremist and Kach as racist. I reject both smears.

“Otzma advocates for the annexation of the entire West Bank, but without granting Palestinians Israeli citizenship; seeks to expel “disloyal” Arab citizens from Israel without defining how such a determination be made; and encourages Arab citizens in general to emigrate so as to make Israel more homogeneously Jewish.”

Sounds good to me.

With a poll giving Religious Zionism 13 seats if headed by extremist Itamar Ben Gvir, a look at where these votes are coming from and what they say about where Israel may be headed

By JEREMY SHARON, TOI

If you are a politician looking to bolster your man-of-the-people bona fides ahead of an election, you head to Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda market to gladhand the shoppers and hawkers bustling about its stalls and alleyways.

Last month, the market was host to pre-eminent far-right, ultra-nationalist MK Itamar Ben Gvir, a man convicted in the past of incitement to racial hatred and who, until recently, had a picture of a mass-murderer hanging in his living room.

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T. Belman.  The JCPOA expires in 2025 and lifts sanctions in 2023. Why bother reviving it? No one is suggesting what changes are being negotiated. The bottom line is Europe and the US want to start trading with Iran and want Iran’s oil released to the world. Is there any other purpose? I thought Russia was supposed to do the negotiating?

Tehran also plans to install an additional six IR-2m cascades at the facility in a new operating unit. Officials in Jerusalem skeptical whether efforts will lead to a breakthrough this time around.

By  Tamir Morag , i24NEWS and Reuters

Centrifuge machines in Natanz uranium enrichment facility in central Iran | File photo: AP via Atomic Energy Organization of Iran

Iran has completed installing three advanced IR-6 centrifuge cascades at its Natanz fuel enrichment plant, according to an International Atomic Energy Agency report to member states on Wednesday seen by Reuters.

Tehran has also informed the agency it planned to install an additional six IR-2m cascades at the facility in a new operating unit, the report said. 

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T. Belman. There are defensive weapons. I suppose he wants to be able to do his Iran nuclear deal again.  Why not give them offensive wepons to enable them to diminish the threat. No way.

Deal includes $3 billion for Patriot missiles for Riyadh, designed specifically to protect against rocket attacks by Houthis in Yemen, and $2.2 billion for UAE missile defense

By MATTHEW LEE, TOI

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration on Tuesday approved two massive arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to help them defend against Iran.

The more than $5 billion in missile defense and related sales follow US President Joe Biden’s visit to the Middle East two weeks ago, during which he met with numerous regional leaders in Saudi Arabia. Both Saudi Arabia and the UAE have been hit in recent months with rocket attacks from the Iran-backed Houthi rebel movement in Yemen.

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A transitional Israeli government cannot make concessions to a dysfunctioning Lebanese state dominated by a terrorist organization

By Amir Avivi, TOI

Hezbollah fighters raise their hands as their leader Hassan Nasrallah speaks via a video link during a rally to mark Jerusalem day or Al-Quds day, in a southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, April 29, 2022. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

As these lines are being published, Amos Hochstein, the US Senior Adviser for Energy Security, has arrived in Israel unexpectedly to further talks on the maritime border with Lebanon. Hochstein is attempting to complete an elusive task that many have attempted before him (including himself in previous administrations): securing an agreement between long-time foes Lebanon and Israel on the Economic Exclusive Zones (EEZ) of both countries, and the subsequent exploration rights of natural resources. Some of these areas are disputed and cannot be explored until agreements are secured; some of the areas are under unchallenged Lebanese sovereignty but cannot be explored as long as Lebanese Hezbollah maintains its chokehold on the government. And some, under full Israeli sovereignty, have already begun the process of exploration and extraction of natural gas.

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T. Belman. When Spencer was asked what to do about Muslim friends who attack you, his only response was to “be alert, aware and careful”. That doesn’t work for me.

Otherwise he was right on the money. He should be listened to. The best thing the US, Israel and other countries can do is to enforce the law but they don’t.

[ Hungary Has Accepted About 787,000 Ukrainian Refugees Since War Started ]

T. Belman. This article tells what Orban stands for and what the opposition Globalists mounted against him. Yet he won big time.

By Mark Ivanyo, AM THINKER

Viktor Orban has now served twelve years as prime minister of Hungary, emerging as one of the most exemplary conservative leaders of our time.  On Sunday, he once again faces re-election as he seeks to lead Hungary for a fourth term as prime minister.  Although this is a pivotal election for Hungary and for Europe, it is also vital for American conservatives to hope and pray for an Orban victory.

For one, Orban has shown what populist conservatives can do when given sufficient time and political capital to succeed.  While it is true that the system of government in Hungary and its relative age has prevented the development of a U.S.-style “Deep State,” Orban’s refreshing willingness to use power for conservative ends has allowed him to deliver on ideological priorities and also benefit the Hungarian people.  His innovative family policies have seen birthrates rise, his independent foreign policy has allowed his country to wield outsized influence with regional and world powers, and his fortitude on immigration has helped preserve Hungarian national identity.
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by Alan M. Dershowitz, GATESTONE  •  August 3, 2022

• This organization — the Jewish Democratic Council — is misnamed. It recruits members and solicits money based on false advertising. It promotes itself as comprised of pro-Israel Jews. But the reality is that its leadership consists mainly of progressive Democrats who just happen to be Jewish. For them Israel, Iran and anti-Semitism are peripheral issues.
• That is increasingly true of many Democratic Jewish voters who prioritize other concerns over Israel, over the growing threat of anti-Semitism from the hard left and hard right, and over other issues that directly affect the Jewish people.
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By David Israel, JEWISH PRESS   Aug 3/22 –

Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu at the inauguration ceremony of a new neighborhood in Beit El, Samaria, July 12, 2022.<

Likud Chairman and former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday morning presented his economic plan for the 25th Knesset and managed to include a few excellent ideas that in another country where voters choose their leaders based on their economic needs and aspirations rather than based on tribal affiliation, he could have persuaded many to give him a chance. But Israelis vote their clans, and so only two newspapers picked up the story as it happened – Globes and The Marker. The Moses newspaper empire didn’t go near it, and neither did Israel Hayom which is no longer in Bibi’s camp.

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