In French National Assembly, Far Right and Far Left Unite Against Israel  

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Just after Biden left the Middle East, Mahmoud Abbas flew to Paris to try to persuade President Macron to support Israeli-Palestinian negotiations toward a “two-state solution.” Abbas had been deeply disappointed in Biden’s insistence that the time was not yet ripe for such negotiations; furthermore, he was angered at Biden’s refusal to publicly commit, during the press conference he held with Abbas, to reopening the “consulate to the Palestinians” in Jerusalem, or to reopening the PLO office in Washington, or to removing the PLO from the list of terrorist organizations.

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July 26, 2022 | 10:01 am | 1 Comment »

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Smotrich & Ben Gvir Negotiations on the Rocks  

By David Israel, JEWISH PRESS

The negotiations between Religious Zionism Chairman MK Bezalel Smotrich and Otzma Yehudit Chairman Itamar Ben Gvir will decide the fate of national-religious politics for the next few years, but the game is mostly about how much would Ben Gvir be able to capitalize on his popularity and how far down would Smotrich be able to keep his price. The polls have been predicting between 10 and 12 seats, occasionally a little more, for their united front, which is the traditional number associated with the best the old NRP was ever able to win. Ben Gvir, who hails from groups well to the right of the NRP community––the Rabbi Meir Kahana heirs, if you will––wants half, in Knesset seats, committee chairmanships, and government ministries. The response from Smotrich so far has been a big, fat, “in your dreams.”

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July 26, 2022 | 2:32 am | Comments »

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The Globalist Effort to ‘Get Trump’ Is Backfiring…Bigly!  

By J.B. Shurk, AM THINKER

The race is on!  The Great Resetters who want an America of servile citizens willing to eat bugs, obey commands, accept fuel rationing, and own nothing have put the pedal to the metal in their nefarious plans to usher in worldwide communism for the masses and perpetual wealth, power, and privilege for the Schwab-Obama-Soros axis of evil (SOS, America, we’re in distress!).  What had been a slow and long march through the institutions these last hundred years has taken on such urgency today that the communists have scurried out of their usual hiding places in the shadows to prance around before us in broad daylight!
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July 26, 2022 | 2:28 am | 2 Comments »

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GETTING READY TO CLEAR THE SWAMP  

By Peg Tierney

This is a great article about what President Trump was doing behind the scenes to drain the swamp and eliminate 50,000 subversive Communist bureaucrats embedded in our Government who are working with our enemies. Now you know why they needed to get rid of him!

This gives me hope. Please read it all. I removed the snark. The bottomline is that Trump was NOT fooled by the RINOs as many proclaim – his personnel choices were NOT naive – he was working to find a legal way to get rid of the Communist Deep State that is destroying our nation from within!

TRUMP’S REVENGE

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July 26, 2022 | 2:16 am | 5 Comments »

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Hollywood and Israel, a love story: How the Jewish state met the silver screen  

In a new book, authors Tony Shaw and Giora Goodman examine the history of modern Israel’s representation in cinema — with all its ups and downs

By RICH TENORIO, TOI

Detail from photograph of Gal Gadot posing for Moses Pini Siluk as Wonder Woman for Israeli Sheva Leylot magazine years before snagging the role in the film. (Moses Pini Siluk)

Israel plays a larger-than-life role on America’s silver screen. From big-budget epics such as Paul Newman’s 1960 hit “Exodus” to Adam Sandler’s raunchy “You Don’t Mess With the Zohan” in 2008, Hollywood films about the Jewish state can evoke a cluster of competing reactions.

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July 26, 2022 | 1:55 am | 9 Comments »

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Don’t Blame Dostoyevsky  

I understand why people hate all things Russian right now. But our literature did not put Putin in power or cause this war.

By Mikhail Shishkin, ATLANTIC


About the author: Mikhail Shishkin is a Russian-Swiss writer and the author of more than a dozen books, of which the novels Maidenhair and The Light and the Dark and the short-story collection Calligraphy Lesson appear in English.

Culture, too, is a casualty of war. After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, some Ukrainian writers called for a boycott of Russian music, films, and books. Others have all but accused Russian literature of complicity in the atrocities committed by Russian soldiers. The entire culture, they say, is imperialist, and this military aggression reveals the moral bankruptcy of Russia’s so-called civilization. The road to Bucha, they argue, runs through Russian literature.

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July 26, 2022 | 1:36 am | 2 Comments »

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‘Climate Crisis Will Lead to Increase in Unstoppable Massive Wildfires in Israel’  

T. Belman.  At first the climate crises denoted rising oceans and now the big scare is burning forests. Is there any truth to either?  Even if true, will banning of fossil fuels make a significant difference.

According to sources in Israel’s firefighting service, the organization lacks hundreds of millions of shekels in personnel and equipment needed to effectively deal with the anticipated fires

By Lee Yaron, HAARETZ    25.7.22

Firefighter battling flames in the Jerusalem hills in 2021.Credit: Ohad Zwigenberg

The climate crisis is expected to cause an increase in massive wildfires in Israel, particularly in populated areas, which will constitute “immediate danger to life and property,” according to a special climate crisis committee of the Israel Fire and Rescue Services. The frequency and intensity of the fires may cause the collapse of the firefighting system, which will be unable to cope, warns the committee.

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July 25, 2022 | 3:15 pm | 4 Comments »

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Former Israeli UN envoy: Russia promised to use veto for Israel  

By Ariel Kahana, ISRAEL HAYOM

Iran trying to turn Syria into its Middle East base, Israeli envoy warns

Former Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon | Photo: UNTV via AP

At the end of 2016, as former US President Barack Obama’s final days in office were drawing to a close, Russia promised to use its UN veto on behalf of Israel, former Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon reveals in his book In the Lion’s Den: Israel and the World.

In addition to Resolution 2334, Obama and then-US Secretary of State John Kerry had also authored a resolution called “Parameters for Peace,” which had never been publicly discussed and laid out Obama’s parameters for peace between Israel and the Palestinians.

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July 25, 2022 | 2:54 pm | Comments »

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On the offensive against anti-Zionists  

by Dr. Eric R. Mandel, MEPIN

A 2019 Apartheid Week demonstration by BDS

In Israel recently, I was chatting with friends who are Zionist thought leaders. The next day one of them met with a leadership group to discuss how to combat the BDS movement, which denies the Jewish people the right to a homeland, and like the UN, holds Israel to an unrealistic standard that isn’t applied to any other country.

My advice is to go on the offensive, as you will continue to lose the argument playing defense all the time. This is not a revolutionary thought, but many Jewish organizations only sheepishly defend Zionism lest they offend its critics. It would be helpful if their focus expanded from the despicable antisemitic right and targeted the progressive anti-Zionist far-left, arguably the more dangerous threat.

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July 25, 2022 | 1:21 pm | 1 Comment »

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Me vs him, forward vs backward: Netanyahu and Lapid try to ‘frame the choice’  

T. Belman.  The focus should be on whether to keep Area C or give it away .  It should not be about Bibi or the economy.

The challenger has begun his campaign with an economic focus. But he and the incumbent will likely end up making mirror arguments about the dangers posed by the rival camp

By SIMON DAVIES and JOSHUA HANTMAN, TOI        24 July 2022,

Likud party leader Benjamin Netanyahu tours the Malha Mall in Jerusalem as he kicks off his election campaign for Israel’s 25th Knesset on June 30, 2022. (Screenshot/Facebook)

The state of the Israeli election campaign: Poll of polls, July 24, 2022, showing the number of seats parties would be expected to win if the election was held today, based on a weighing of the latest opinion polls.

At their core, election campaigns are about defining the choice facing voters.

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July 25, 2022 | 1:07 pm | 1 Comment »

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What the Death of Hollywood Means for America  

By Daniel Greenfield,      24 Jul 09:57 PM

Peak TV, a stunning era during which Big Tech and traditional studios entered into a furious competition to make a bewildering amount of content, is dead. The 559 scripted shows from last year represent a historic hubris that everyone, especially investors, is recovering from.

That was the year that Netflix announced that it was spending $18 billion on content.

In the aftermath, Netflix lost subscribers for the first time and expects to lose millions more as its stock fell 35%. The dot com giant lost, but so did its rivals. Disney+ lost billions, HBO Max is cutting back programming, and so are most others, including the ‘N’ in the FAANG oligarchy.

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July 25, 2022 | 12:51 pm | 1 Comment »

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Israel has strengthened America many times over the years  

The Jewish state has given the United States invaluable intelligence and military expertise, and protects American interests in the Middle East. 

By Amb.(ret.) Yoram Ettinger, INN    25.7.22

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(JNS) “Israel did not grow strong because it had an American alliance. It acquired an American alliance because it had grown strong,” said Professor Walter Russell Mead, a leading historian of American foreign policy. He was right.

In 1948, Israel was misconstrued by the U.S. State Department as a burden upon the U.S. It believed the newborn state would be too feeble to withstand an all-out Arab military offensive, jeopardize U.S. ties with the Arab World and potentially turn pro-Soviet.

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July 25, 2022 | 11:07 am | Comments »

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