SEE ALSO: Iran, Russia Link Banking Systems Amid Western Sanction

by Judith Bergman, GATESTONE  •  January 31, 2023

Firefighters in Kyiv, Ukraine try to put out a fire in a four-story residential building, in which three people were killed when it was hit by a “kamikaze drone” (many of which are supplied to Russian forces by Iran), on October 17, 2022. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)

• Iran is now selling surface-to-surface missiles to Russia for use in its war on Ukraine — on the cusp of a reported “major Ukrainian offensive” — in addition to the drones it has already been delivering, two senior Iranian officials and two Iranian diplomats told Reuters.

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The Supreme Court should not have a veto over Israeli security and counterterrorism policies, let alone other professional decisions.

By Alex Nachumson, INN    30.1.23

(JNS) The American Declaration of Independence famously guarantees the right to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

Over the last 250 years, people have tended to focus on “liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” but it is no coincidence that the phrase begins with the right to life.

The right to life is and should be paramount over all other considerations, because it is the basis of existence. In the current debate over potential reforms to Israel’s judicial system, this element has been glaringly absent.

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T. Belman. Could it be that the malaise in Europe which is leading to the destruction of its culture and identity, is a result of Europe’s failed attempt to destroy the Jews.  Instead of replacing us  as its replacement theology willed, the end result is that the Jews have survived and prospered. The Church it appears has nothing more to live for.

In 2020, Orthodox Israeli women had an average of 6.64 children, “traditional” an average of 3.92 and secular an average of 1.96. 

By Giulio Meotti, INN

Throughout the West, from foolish America to senescent Europe, the two pillars that have always supported civilizations are collapsing: faith and fertility, the fact of believing in something rather than nothing and of having a sufficient number of children to keep the civilization alive.

• Eric Kaufman wrote a great book about it, “Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?”.
• “Italy is dying,” Elon Musk wrote about demographic collapse.
• Michel Houellebecq denounces a “Western demographic suicide”.

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MARK LEVIN INTERVIEWS EUGENE KONTOROVICH

by Victor Rosenthal   January 31, 2023 

It has been this way since our ancestors started walking upright, maybe before that. Two tribes struggle over a piece of land. One will prevail and the other will be defeated. One will remain in the land and the other will not. The loser will be destroyed, expelled, dispersed, or absorbed. Usually, the loser of such a conflict disappears from history.

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T. Belman,  What’s in it for the US or the EU for that matter? Russia is no threat to them. The only reason they are doubling down is because they want to destroy Russia which has been their goal since the fall of the USSR.

Russia isn’t the imperialist here, the US is.

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The west’s liberal hypocrites have Jewish blood on their hands

By MELANIE PHILLIPS

Jubilant Palestinian Arabs celebrate their latest murder of Israeli Jews

Seven Israeli Jews were murdered outside a Jerusalem synagogue on Friday night, the start of the Jewish sabbath, in the working class orthodox neighbourhood of Neve Ya’akov. Several others who were wounded remain in hospital.

As is commonplace among Palestinian Arabs after they have murdered Israeli civilians, jubilant celebrations broke out in their communities with fireworks, celebratory gunfire, hooting car-horns and crowds chanting in support of the killing of Jews.

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First.One.Through Jan 30,2023

The Arab-Israeli conflict gets so much ink and analysis because the region is always in flux.

Yet some things remain constant.

The Israelis and Palestinian Arabs poll themselves frequently about sentiments on a variety of topics. Occasionally, they conduct joint polls as occurred on January 24, 2023. The Palestinian Center of Policy and Survey Research (PCPSR) and Tel Aviv University’s International MA Program in Conflict Resolution and Mediation (Israeli Pulse) issued their report as Palestinians and Israelis engaged in a series of attacks. The joint poll is another tool to assess how Israeli Jews, Israeli Arabs and Palestinian Arabs (there are no Palestinian Jews anymore, as Palestinians exclude Jews from the definition) consider different aspects of living together, and how trends in such attitudes change.

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By David Levy, BESA

BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,176, January 30, 2023

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Washington will likely call upon Israel to participate in future multinational coalitions, which will entail IDF forces deploying to foreign countries as part of US-led operations. Israel has not participated in past coalitions due to regional threats and Washington’s desire to avoid complications with allied majority Muslim states. These two concerns were significantly diminished by the Abraham Accords, increasing the likelihood that Washington will seek Israel’s direct support in future campaigns.

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AMERICANS FOR PEACE AND TOLERENCE

Under its current leader, Jonathan Greenblatt, the ADL has, among many other things:

• Enthusiastically accepted a non-apology from arch Jew-hater Ilhan Omar for saying that “Israel has hypnotized the world.”

• Declared that the BDS movement is not necessarily anti-Semitic.
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T. Belman. “peace through strength” and “calm through force”. The end of appeasement is over, I hope. Terrorism is fueled by hope.  All hope for a TSS or for the destruction of Israel, must be dashed. Obviously the US and the EU by pushing for the TSS are fueling terrorism.

IDF to deploy 2 companies to help cops in capital, West Bank barrier area; Shin Bet chief said to warn against sealing off E. Jerusalem neighborhoods, as Smotrich, Ben Gvir sought

By EMANUEL FABIAN, TOI       29 January 2023, 8:40 pm

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant speaks to reporters after an assessment at the IDF’s West Bank headquarters, January 29, 2023. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)

BEIT EL, West Bank — Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said Sunday that Israel was seeking calm, but would not hesitate to act against terror, as tensions remained high following a series of Palestinian attacks.

Speaking after an assessment at the military’s West Bank headquarters, Gallant said Israel “will act decisively and forcefully against anyone who threatens our citizens… Every terrorist will either go to court or the cemetery.

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T. Belman. Mort points out that due to the grandfather clause , the Jewish majority in Israel is shrinking 1% every three years. He also says eliminating it will not hurt US emigration to Israel as only 67 American non-Jews  made aliya under this clause in the last 10 years.

The Law of Return’s Grandchild Clause could be responsible for an ever-shrinking Jewish majority.

By MORTON A. KLEIN, JPOST

UKRAINIANS fleeing the war arrive on aliyah at Ben-Gurion Airport last year.

The Law of Return was intended to allow Jews an automatic right to become a citizen of the Jewish state.

But the 1970 amendment to Israel’s “Law of Return” – which allows non-Jews with only one Jewish grandparent, who is not defined as a Jew by any major Jewish movement, the automatic right to immigrate and become Israeli citizens – needs to be eliminated or modified.

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By David Israel, JEWISH PRESS

Otzma Yehudit Mk Zvika Fogel, a retired Brigadier General, 66, on Saturday night, following Friday night’s massacre of 8 in Neve Yaakov, Jerusalem by an Arab terrorist, and Shabbat morning’s attack on civilians by a teenage terrorist, told a News12 panel: “I’ll tell you in the simplest possible language – between calming things down and exploding the arena, what would, in the end, bring the results I want? I’m going with the explosion, never mind the calm. Look where the calming has brought us.”

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by Amir Taheri, GATESTONE  •  January 29, 2023

Since 1979, when the mullahs seized power, Iran has topped the list of countries hit by “brain drain”. However, what was a sectoral hemorrhage may now become a general bleeding affecting other sectors of the population. (Image source: Curimedia/Wikimedia Commons)

• Since 1979, when the mullahs seized power, Iran has topped the list of countries hit by “brain drain”. However, what was a sectoral hemorrhage may now become a general bleeding affecting other sectors of the population.
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The Islamic Republic claimed that the drone attack had failed and only cause minor roof damage.

By YONAH JEREMY BOB, JPOST     29.1.23

An explosion is seen at an Iranian missile and drone test at the 17th Great Prophet drill in Iran.

Despite Iranian claims, the drone attack on Iran at Isfahan was a tremendous success, according to a mix of Western intelligence sources and foreign sources, The Jerusalem Post has learned.

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India is poised to become the most populous nation on Earth, surpassing long-time titleholder, China. But with the demographic changes come both major opportunities and challenges.

By  Oshrit Birvadker, ISRAEL HAYOM

India’s population keeps increasing by a million every month | File photo: AP

The complex relationship between India and China is not a new matter, with the two countries constantly engaging in competition. Data-wise, China seems to be leading in aspects: territory, defense, budget, navy, and the middle class.

But according to estimates, this coming April India will snatch away from China the title of being the most populated country on Earth. For the first time since the 1950s, a country other than China will hold the title.

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By Michael Ordman, VGNI

This week’s positive Israel newsletter is full of healthy facts and innovations. Israel’s subsidized medical treatments have just received a record annual increase of funds. There is news of current and potential treatments for Inflammatory bowel disease, bacterial infections, Parkinson’s disease, personalized medicine, and the aging process. No wonder that Israeli women are among the world’s healthiest. An Israeli charity looks after the health of the elderly; Sderot’s trauma center is a global model of resilience; and the hearing-impaired have a new Israeli app. Meanwhile, Israelis are helping to sustain farmers in India and relieve war-weary civilians in Ukraine.

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The most basic of all basics is that no Arab terrorist acts alone;  he or she is incited to genocidal murder by the entire structure of Palestinian Arab society. 

By Howard Rotberg, INN

Neve Yaakov terror victims

“License to Kill” (Bob Dylan)“Now, they take him, and they teach him, and they groom him for life

And they set him, on a path where he’s bound to get ill

Then they bury him with stars

Sell his body like they do used cars

Now, there’s a woman on my block

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