By Michael Bavly , Consul General of Israel in New England,    January 29, 1980

Ambassador Andrew Young’s resignation has long been a closed chapter. But the questions which were raised still linger: What is wrong in talking to the Palestine Liberation Organization? Doesn’t the PLO represent the Palestinians? How can there be peace in the Middle East without the PLO? The answers to those questions depend on understanding the PLO and its aims.

The PLO is a loosely grouped body of more than a dozen different factions, strongly supported by the Soviet Union. Some of these were created and are financed by various Arab countries, sometimes combining their efforts and sometimes fighting each other. It took its present form in 1964 with the adoption of the Palestinian National Covenant.
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Endorsing BDS and teaching defamatory material on Israel has become mainstream.

By Irit Tratt

(September 11, 2022 / JNS) In recent years, anti-Semitism in the U.S. educational system has been primarily associated with the demonization of Israel at institutions of higher education. Activism that targets Jews and a rise in support for the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement among students and faculty underscores the increasing anti-Semitism on American campuses.

However, efforts to delegitimize the Jewish state are now moving from higher education to K-12 public schools. Attempts to falsely label Israel an “apartheid state” and promote similar forms of defamation are being aided and abetted by teachers unions and normalized by mainstream Jewish groups.

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T. Belman. Well said but I go further. These voices are also pushing the TSS on us.  That’s our business, not yours.

Apparently, the plucky, expert, and high-minded European diplomats know better than Israel about the inner workings and plotting of Palestinian terrorist-supporting groups.

By  David M. Weinberg, ISRAEL HAYOM

The penchant to pronounce judgement on every Israeli counterterror incident is becoming quite a fun blood sport for the unfriendly-to-Israel crowd. Too many foreign leaders have gotten into the increasingly vulgar practice of second-guessing Israeli security operations.

Pushing back against this is long overdue. Fortunately, Prime Minister Lapid and Defense Minister Gantz last week followed the lead of former Prime Pinister Naftali Bennett in repulsing the State Department’s call for a change in IDF rules of engagement in Judea and Samaria.

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BY ROBERT SPENCER, JIHAD WATCH

The September 11, 2001 jihad terror attacks were twenty-one years ago, and Americans have moved on. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Mogadishu) was widely ridiculed and even reviled a few years ago for breezily characterizing 9/11 as the day when “some people did something,” but she has had the last laugh: the coverage of the attacks every year is a study in avoidance, with the establishment media focusing on anything and everything besides the motivating ideology and goals of the attackers. As always, the media’s favorite preoccupation is the persistence of Muslim victimhood: every 9/11 anniversary, we’re inundated with stories about how Muslims suffered on that day, and continue to suffer, from racist and unwarranted suspicion that has made their lives in America, a land to which they came with so much hope, a veritable living hell.

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By Jack Gleason, AM THINKER

Want to intimidate or discredit someone you disagree with? If you’re a member of the mainstream media, just describe them as a “denier” or preface their concerns as “unproven allegations” or “discredited claims.”

NPR states… “Trump has endorsed 159 candidates who are election deniers [italics mine] for state and federal offices this year…” They continue… “From the standpoint of a fact-checker, there is no evidence of fraud sufficient to support that claim. After nearly two years of recounts, ballot reviews, expert examinations and court cases, that remains the bottom line. The 2020 election has been scrubbed and studied as none other in U.S. history, and the consensus conclusion remains that it was run more smoothly and counted more reliably than ever.”
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by Micha Gefen, ISRAEL UNWIRED         September 12, 2022

News of the lightening offensive against Russian forces in the Kharkiv area of Ukraine by Ukrainian forces has spread around the world. The Russian retreat was so complete that Ukraine reclaimed 3000 square kilometers of territory from Russia and now stands 40km from the Russian border. So what will happen next?

Contrary to popular belief, Russia has never declared war on the Ukraine. Putin has only called this a limited military operation in order to defend the self declared independent provinces in the Donbass region of the Ukraine.

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T. Belman. Fitzgerald does great work.. Here, he reviews the role Le Monde has played in international affairs. Then he discusses a major article of theirs “Palestine, de la colonisation à l’apartheid.” Because Le Monde is such an influential paper  he wanted us to know “what the French elite are being fed about the Jewish state and the Palestinians.”

BY HUGH FITZGERALD, JIHAD WATCH

Le Monde is the paper read by the French elite. It was founded in 1944 by the distinguished journalist Hubert Beuve-Méry at the behest of Charles De Gaulle. For a long time it deserved its reputation, for the excellence of its reporting and the elevated language (langue soutenue) in which it was written. But starting in the 1960s, it began its gradual leftwing turn in tone and content. De Gaulle himself, who had pushed for Le Monde’s creation, had deeply resented both the U.S. and the U.K. for having, in his view, paid insufficient attention both to him and to the interests of France. It was Churchill and FDR who met with Stalin in Tehran in 1943, to discuss the conduct of the war; it was again Churchill and FDR who met with Stalin at Yalta in the Crimea in 1945, to discuss how to manage the postwar world. De Gaulle was not invited to attend either conference. The Gaullist anti-Americanism metamorphosed into leftwing anti-Americanism in the pages of Le Monde.

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T. Belman.  Yes Russia has been forced to withdraw from certain areas but it is too early to count them out.

If Moscow can blame its Ukrainian separatist partners for its failures, perhaps Russia can save face.

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN, JPOST

A man stands next to a business and entertainment centre heavily damaged by a Russian military strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Kharkiv, Ukraine September 9, 2022 (credit: REUTERS/VIKTORIIA YAKYMENKO)

Russia’s state-owned TASS news agency published an interesting article quoting the head of the “Donetsk People’s Republic,” a breakaway republic that Russia has recognized as a country but which is actually part of Ukraine.

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Ambassador Tom Nides argues that Israel should promote the two-state solution “in order to maintain a Jewish and democratic state.”

By Nitsan Keidar, INN

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US Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides participated on Sunday in the World Summit on Counter-Terrorism of The International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) at Reichman University and argued that the leadership in Jerusalem must support the two-state solution.

“In order to preserve a democratic Jewish state, it is important to reach a two-state solution. The situation in Judea and Samaria cannot continue,” Nides said.

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By David B. Ottaway and John M. Goshko, WAPO  15.12.88

In a major change in U.S. Middle East policy, Secretary of State George P. Shultz announced yesterday that the United States is ready to begin a “substantive dialogue” with the Palestine Liberation Organization and authorized the American ambassador in Tunisia to “make himself available” for contacts with its representatives. Shultz acted a few hours after PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat in Geneva declared in the most direct language he has ever used that the PLO has accepted Israel’s right to exist.

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T. Belman. I totally reject the notion that Trump lost because of the ineptitude of Kushner. Kushner broke all kinds of records in the campaign and Trump won massively but lost due to fraud.

Former aide says Trump wanted to replace son-in-law with Steve Bannon as election campaign manager, but didn’t follow through due to ‘family troubles’

By Ash Obel, TOI

Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, left, and Jared Kushner, son-in-law and senior adviser to former US president Donald Trump at the White House in Washington, DC, June 12, 2017. (NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP)

Former US president Donald Trump agreed to fire his son-in-law Jared Kushner and replace him with far-right provocateur Steven Bannon, according to a new book written by former Trump aide Peter Navarro, The Guardian reported Saturday.

Navarro cites a June 25, 2020, entry in his own diary which said a meeting took place between Bannon and major campaign donors.

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By Michael Ordman, VGNI

In the 11th Sep 22 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:

• Israeli scientists have found how to make brain tumors self-destruct.
• A charity is ensuring that all Israeli children are equipped for school.
• An Israeli delegation to Chad brought back children for heart surgery.
• Israeli tech navigated the first unmanned commercial ship.
• Israeli scientists have developed a food that could end global hunger.
• An Israeli supermarket has begun deliveries by drone.
• An Israeli is the oldest player to win a World Championship badminton match.
• Ancient ivories discovered during excavations of a Judean palace in Jerusalem.

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Tierney’s Real News

The Falling Man

At fifteen seconds after 9:41 a.m., on September 11, 2001, a photographer named Richard Drew took a picture of a man falling through the sky—falling through time as well as through space. People on the ground were gasping because people in the building were jumping.

He started shooting pictures through a 200mm lens. He was standing between a cop and an emergency technician, and each time one of them cried, “There goes another,” his camera found a falling body and followed it down for a nine- or twelve-shot sequence.

The picture went all around the world, and then disappeared, as if we willed it away.

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Having lost three consecutive elections to Liberal Justin Trudeau since 2015, the Conservative Party is keen for a leader like Pierre Poilievre, who is a skilled communicator and unabashedly right leaning, said one strategist who expects him to cruise to victory.

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At Least 673 Have Died Since January 2021, Number Likely Higher

By Margaret Flavin, GATEWAY PUNDIT          September 10, 2022

From January 2021 to April 2022, at least 673 athletes are said to have died from sudden death.  This number is only 428 deaths less than the 1100 known to have died as outlined by a study on sudden death in athletes from 1966 through 2004.  Those 1101 athlete deaths occurred over almost 40 years and yet 673 died over an only 16 month period since COVID vaccines have been introduced. Good Sciencing has that number closer to 1323 and includes a comprehensive list of each athlete death.

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The deepening row over the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh has exposed the excruciating error of Israeli strategy towards the Biden administration. Op-ed.

By Melanie Phillips, INN

(JNS) A key strategy of Israel’s push-me-pull-you prime ministers, Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid, has been to refrain from publicly criticizing America’s policies in the Middle East.

By restricting to private discussions with U.S. President Joe Biden and his team Israel’s profound concerns over the proposed nuclear deal with Iran, Bennett and Lapid believed that a grateful American administration would reciprocate by advancing Israel’s interests.

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1.  The State of Israel

a) Israel is the historical homeland of the Jewish people in which the state of Israel was established.
b) The state of Israel is the nation-state of the Jewish people, in which it actualizes its natural, religious, and historical right for self-determination.
c) The actualization of the right of national self-determination in the state of Israel is unique to the Jewish people.

2.  National symbols of the State of Israel
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 JINSA     –  September 9, 2022 | 

Ambassador Ron Dermer and Dr. Michael Makovsky discuss Israel’s misguided approach to opposing a nuclear deal with Iran, German-Israeli relations since the terror attack on the Israeli team at the 1972 Munich Olympics, and the 125th anniversary of the First Zionist Congress.