By Majid Rafizadeh, GATESTONE•  July 30, 2022

• In 2015, the European powers — France, Germany and the United Kingdom — changed their Iran policy from imposing pressure to adopting diplomacy. The diplomatic route included lifting oil and gas sanctions on Iran as well as removing some Iranian individuals and entities from the list of countries to be sanctioned.
• According to the preface of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action: “The JCPOA will produce the comprehensive lifting of all UN Security Council sanctions as well as multilateral and national sanctions related to Iran’s nuclear programme, including steps on access in areas of trade, technology, finance, and energy.”

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T. Belman. This is a terrific analysis. Bibi won’t attack the Zionist Spirit (ZS). He will make sure they cross the threshold. The people who voted for the 15 potential seats Nadav mentioned will know this and will want the ZS to be as big as possible.

Building a broad coalition is important because being in the hands of Ra’am on one end and in the hands of Smotrich and the Haredim on the other, is not good.

By  Nadav Haetzni, ISRAEL HAYOM     07-29-2022

Derech Eretz chief Yoaz Hendel and Yamina leader Ayelet Shaked launched their new joint bid for the Knesset in Ramat Gan on Wednesday, July 27, 2022 | Photo: Gideon Markowicz

The relaunch of the newest iteration of the Yamina party will either end in glory or disaster. If it fails, we can expect to continue on the same insane loop we’re on. But if it succeeds and even just exceeds the electoral threshold, it will become a kingmaker. It will determine who the next prime minister will be, which coalition will arise, and where we all are headed in the coming years. All of the players in the political arena, from right to left, understand this and aren’t exactly happy about it. Therefore they will make every effort to diminish, degrade, and undermine the “Zionist Spirit” party’s chances of reaching the Knesset and deciding their fates.

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However, a defense official warned that “all Hamas does is prepare for war,” adding that this can undermine any Israeli efforts to boost civilians living in the Gaza Strip.

BY YAAKOV LAPPIN

(July 29, 2022 / JNS) A key goal of Israel’s defense establishment is to delay frequent war to the extent possible in order to give Israeli civilians extended periods of calm and to allow Israel’s economy to continue to develop.

As part of that goal of conflict delay, the Israel Defense Force’s Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories Unit has been taking increasingly bold steps in the Gaza Strip in the past year to improve the economic situation of Gaza’s estimated 2.2 million civilians, thereby contributing to the stability of the region to a degree.
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Iraqi protesters taking over the Iran-controlled parliament, chanting “IRAN OUT! IRAN OUT! BAGHDAD WILL BE FREED!” pic.twitter.com/N2pyLz077Q

— Mudar Adnan Zahran ???????? ????? (@Mudar_Zahran) July 27, 2022

Today has marked the launch of the Iraqi revolution against the Iranian occupation. PEACEFUL protesters have taken over the Green Zone, besieged the residence of ex-PM, terrorist Nouri Malki, and taken to the streets of Najaf.
This is won't stop in Iraq. #Jordan SOON.
Stay tuned.

— Mudar Adnan Zahran ???????? ????? (@Mudar_Zahran) July 27, 2022

Why UAE, Saudi and other Arab states have announced they won't be joining an Arab NATO?
Simply because they CAN'T join a collation with Jordan's king; a man who's openly allied with Iran, Qatar and Muslim Brotherhood.
NO Arab NATO before kinglet is gone.https://t.co/BKVAiPsV38

— Mudar Adnan Zahran ???????? ????? (@Mudar_Zahran) July 25, 2022

Abdullah, Iran's lab dog, says "Iran's behavior should change as Jordan faces danger from its militias"
This liar is Iran's ally, he's signed a mega deal with its puppets in Iraq, opened Jordan to the IRG under"religious tourism", he's No.1 arms supplier to Iran militias in Syria

— Mudar Adnan Zahran ???????? ????? (@Mudar_Zahran) July 24, 2022

The NEW JORDAN will be a REPUBLIC… In which there will no place for a single Hashemite, whether above or below our soil
We will bring economic prosperity, higher salaries, universal health coverage, housing at European standards and Racism will become a crime punishable by jail https://t.co/diC8ZMQEP0

— Mudar Adnan Zahran ???????? ????? (@Mudar_Zahran) July 24, 2022

T. Belman. Netanyahu will make sure they achieve the threshold.  All he has to do is ask some of his Likud voters to vote for them.

After faction leaders Shaked and Hendel unify to raise both of their political fortunes, their unity government appeal might put them in position to crown Israel’s next leader

By CARRIE KELLER-LYNN,, TOI 

Despite the festive atmosphere surrounding the launch of the right-wing Zionist Spirit joint slate Wednesday, for many the move smacked of desperation, with two politicians left stranded amid Israel’s stormy political waters grabbing onto each other to stay afloat.

Both Ayelet Shaked’s Yamina and Yoaz Hendel’s Derech Eretz parties are struggling to find a voter base, and it’s not immediately clear if their unified Zionist Spirit slate will present a compelling enough offering to win supporters back before the November 1 Knesset election.

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Until a year ago, the pro-Israel powerhouse was at pains to explain that it was not, in fact, a PAC.

By RON KAMPEAS/JTA

THEN-PRIME minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the AIPAC Conference in Washington in 2018.
(photo credit: HAIM ZACH/GPO)

WASHINGTON — AIPAC believes it’s getting bang for its buck. Big time.

As of this month, the United Democracy Project, one of the two political action committees AIPAC established last December, is the biggest-spending nonpartisan political committee and the second-largest overall this cycle, dispensing more than $26 million on its favored candidates.

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T. Belman. As I have said in the past. it is the Jordan Option which will come to pass and not the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.

Israel, Jordan and the PLO/PA seem to be moving along on the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine plans. Can it be? Op-ed.

By David Singer, INN    Jul 29, 2022, 8:20 AM (GMT+3)

Lapid and the King of JordanCourtesy

Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid’s meeting with King Abdullah on 27 July could see negotiations being announced shortly between Israel and Jordan to create a single territorial entity encompassing Jordan, Gaza and parts of the West Bank.

This newly created entity -designated The Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine –together with Israel – will constitute the elusive and previously unattainable two-state solution – pursued by:

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T. Belman.  Of course he is right but the Lapid/Gantz government was all too happy to lose.

The same US and UK who want us to make concessions to the PA, do not expect Ukraine to do the same for peace. Op-ed.

By Alex Nachumson, INN    Jul 28, 2022, 1:03 PM

Alex Nachumson

The Palestinians are weak, both the Palestinian Authority and Hamas. Arab countries will not deal with them and are even tired of them. The Turks are busy with Syria and their economy. Europe and the USA are busy with Ukraine and dealing with inflation.

Even the Israeli public has already forgotten the wave of murderous attacks a few months ago and is preoccupied with the cost of living, because it hurts more right now. This is precisely the time not to abandon the Palestinian Arabs, but to push them harder and impose our conditions on them, before it is too late.
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by Sharon Wrobel, ALGEMEINER

A view shows the entrance to a Russian branch of the Jewish Agency for Israel, in Moscow, Russia July 21, 2022. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina

Israel is prepared to deal with the Russian government’s legal claims against the Jewish Agency and make changes necessary to enable its continued operations in the country, said Aliyah and Integration Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata after a preliminary court hearing in Moscow.

“The Israeli government is providing the necessary legal framework for the Jewish Agency to deal with the allegations raised by the Russian Ministry of Justice, and I am sure that the issue will be clarified quickly, even if some adjustments are required — we are prepared for that,” Tamano-Shata said.
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by Kari Donovan, REPUBLICAN BRIEF     July 28, 2022

A new and strange report is out about the Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court (SCOTUS), John Roberts, that claims he was secretly trying to pressure the other sitting justices to not overturn the historic Roe V Wade decision in what is seen as both the left and the right, as a complete betrayal of the moderate position the leader of the SCOTUS claims to favor.

The new report is causing the left to claim all sorts of new things about the nature of the May 2 Politico leak, which ignited a well-prepared mob of street activists to stalk and attack members of SCOTUS.

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By Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative”   July 28, 2022,

Conventional wisdom vs. evidenced-reality

According to the late Prof. John Kenneth Galbraith, “the notion of conventional wisdom… is commonly understood as knowledge that is accepted within a certain community or among the general public…. [They] tend to hold on to opinions and ideas that fit with their established worldviews. Accordingly, conventional wisdom provides an obstacle for the acceptance of new knowledge or novel and original thinking….

“To its adherents, conventional wisdom provides comfortable padding against inconvenient truths and the complexities of reality…. This is a prime manifestation of vested interest. For a vested interest in understanding is more preciously guarded than any other treasure…. Acceptable ideas are disinclined to change….

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By Mike Konrad, AM THINKER

What is a nation?  That is the question.

In the book of Genesis — whether you take it literally or metaphorically — a nation is essentially an extended family.  Genesis Chapter Ten, often referred to as the Table of Nations, lists the peoples of the Earth, from Israel’s perspective, along with their lineages. The number, apart from Israel, came to 70.

Each particular nation was traceable back to an ancestor.  Mankind was told to fill up the whole Earth, but disobeyed, and started to build the Tower of Babel, where, in Chapter Eleven, the languages of men were confounded, and the peoples were forced to scatter and separate.
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