With low costs, immersion in the Start-Up Nation and antisemitism spiking, it’s no wonder students are choosing the Jewish state. Op-ed.

By Shlomo Annapolle, INN

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(JNS) There are many reasons why students choose to pack their bags and study in Israel. After all, there aren’t many destinations where you can get a world-class education in one of the most innovative countries in the world, while surrounded by history and basking in sunshine for (most of) the year.

This is why—according to the Israeli Council for Higher Education—approximately 12,000 foreign students each year choose to make Israel their home away from home. What’s more, in contrast to declining international student enrollment in other countries, the COVID-19 pandemic actually amplified interest in Israel as a study abroad destination.

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by David Mark. ISRAEL UNWIRED      March 7, 2022

American media has molded the current narrative about the Russia-Ukraine conflict to suit the needs of the political class in both major political parties. Across the political spectrum. Russia has become the unprovoked aggressor and Ukraine the innocent victim. Is this really the truth?

While most Americans and those living in Western Europe have adopted the Russia “bad guy” narrative, most people only tuned in days after the official conflict was said to begin – meaning when Russia invaded Ukraine. The media and the political class rely on their low informed, high distracted populace to be clueless about the actual event and the real historical record.

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A candle is a brief flare of light. A wick dipped in oil burns and goes out again. The Hanukkah light appears no different, but it is.

By Daniel Greenfield, INN  19.12.22

Out of the exile of Babylon, the handful that returned to resettle and rebuild the land faced the might of new empires. The Jews who returned from the exile of one evil empire some twenty-six hundred years ago were forced to decide whether they would be a people with their own faith and history, or the colony of another empire, with its history and beliefs.

Jerusalem’s wealthy elites threw in their lot with the empire and its ways. But out in the rural heartland where the old ways where still kept, a spark flared to life. Modi’in. Maccabee.
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T. Belman. Neither Russia nor the US is our friend. Bringing back the Quartet will achieve nothing. Israel must do what it must do and ignore the international community.

https://www.jns.org/biden-admin-demands-israel-provide-equal-allocation-of-resources-to-countering-israeli-extremists-and-palestinian-violence/

Moscow’s ambassador to United Nations slams Washington’s ‘monopoly’ over Mideast negotiations, accuses Israel of settlement expansion

by Jonathan Lis, HAARETZ  20.12.22

Russia’s Ambassador to the United Nations has slammed recent efforts by the United States to resolve the Israel-Palestine conflict, arguing that, since 2014, Washington’s involvement has created the stalemate that exists today.

During a Security Council meeting in New York on Monday, Vasily Nebenzya said that history has proven many times that the United States’ efforts to monopolize the Middle East peace process have been doomed to failure. He added that the U.S. only increases antagonism between Israel and the Palestinians.

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T. Belman. The public voted On Nov 1. Now its up to Netanyahu to form a government as he sees fit.

Channel 13 News poll finds 45% of the Israeli public prefers National Unity over Religious Zionist Party in the new government.

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A Channel 13 News poll conducted by Camil Fuchs and published on Monday evening shows that there is a significant majority among the Israeli public against changing the legislation in such a way that would allow Shas chairman MK Aryeh Deri to serve as a minister in the new government.

65% of the public is against changing the law and appointing Deri as a minister, with only 24% in favor of the move, the poll found.

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T. Belman. Mudar Zahran will withdraw the Jordan Wakf and give the Temple Mount back to Israel to manage.  He has suggested that Israel appoint its own Wakf from among Israeli Muslims who are loyal to Israel.

I have suggested that the Al Aksa Mosque be surrounded by a fence and that the Islamic holy site be limited to that enclosure. The rest of the Temple Mount will be declared a Jewish holy site which it is.

In the alternative, Israel and the Israel Wakf could administer it jointly.

by Alex Selsky, JNS   December 18, 2022

The great significance of the Temple Mount is beyond religious and historical. It is national. The Temple Mount is a source of strength and power.

It is also a symbol for the Palestinians and their supporters, who see themselves as its landlords, if only through the Jordanian Waqf. It is because of the symbolism of the Temple Mount that Palestinian rejectionists believe Israel is weak and temporary.
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Findings indicate that Washington could be faced with a looming crisis in the Middle East that threatens to upset nearly 30 years of stability between the two former enemies. 

By Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon

Israel’s decades-long peace with Jordan is unraveling, a development that threatens to upset a fragile regional stability that is being challenged by countries like Iran, Russia, and China, a think tank report warns.

“Since 2020, if not before then, the Jordanian peace has turned decidedly cold,” according to Jonathan Schanzer, a former terrorism finance analyst at the Treasury Department who now works at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

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T. Belman.  In 2005, I wrote, Particularism Before Universalism, in which  I concluded:

“I submit that a nation has not only the inherent right of self defense when its national existence is threatened, but also when its cultural essence is at risk. Israel’s enemies deny it both rights. To assert these rights is not racism. Every nation has the right to determine who can immigrate, who can become citizens and what values in its society are inviolable.”

When their numbers are large enough the Muslims will seek to dominate and instill Islamic culture. They reject universalism.

In my article, Trump calls Muslim migration “the all-time biggest Trojan Horse”. I concluded:

“Jewish Americans are very supportive of allowing such numbers into the US. They argue either we have a duty to do so or that Jews should be more welcoming given the history of America banning Jewish immigration in the thirties and forties. But this analogy doesn’t hold up at all. Jews were no threat to Americans personally and to their values, whereas Muslims are both. Furthermore Muslims are very antisemitic and very anti-Israel. The Muslims have many other countries they could go to. The Jews had no other country willing to take them in.  Jews are, in effect, welcoming their enemies into the country.”

By Andrea Widburg, AM THINKER

Image: 140,000 Muslims attend an Eid celebration in Birmingham, England. YouTube screen grab.

England, once the bastion of Western liberty, is rapidly becoming a Muslim-dominated nation, which bodes ill for all who live there. The seeds for this, believe it or not, began with America’s revolution when Parliament rejected inherent rights.

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The outgoing government is mercilessly attacking the incoming one, further eroding the standing of right-wing lawmakers in the international media even before they get their ministerial portfolios.

By Ariel Kahana, ISRAEL HAYOM    19.12.22

Otzma Yehudit leader Itamar Ben-Gvir and Religious Zionist Party leader Bezalel Smotrich in the Knesset | Photo: Oren Ben Hakoon

Far from the spotlight, contrary to the prophecies of rage, the intended ministers of the “most right-wing government in the history of the State of Israel,” have launched a diplomatic outreach effort even before taking official office. Orit Strock met with the ambassador of Germany in Israel, Steffan Seibert. The ambassador also met with the incoming minister of finance, Bezalel Smotrich, who also spoke this week with American Jewish legal scholar Professor Alan Dershowitz.

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By Bassam Tawil, GATESTONE  •  December 19, 2022

Hamas gunmen parade on trucks with rockets in a street in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip on May 27, 2021. (Photo by Thomas Coex/AFP via Getty Images)<
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• The results of several public opinion polls, including the most recent one, demonstrate that Blinken and his team are either engaging in self-deception or simply fail to understand or see what most Palestinians want: Killing more Jews and the obliteration of Israel.
• This is not the first poll to show that a majority of Palestinians oppose the “two-state solution.” That is because they are clamoring for a Palestinian state not alongside Israel, but instead of Israel.

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L. Goudsmit. Daniel Greenfield’s extraordinary article is a history lesson that reminds us freedom is never free. One must be willing to fight to remain free from those who seek to enslave us. We must have courage and contempt of dangers if we are to recover our freedom. So it was then, and so it is today.

Judah the Maccabee also believed that fighting the good fight for freedom would award everlasting glory to the fighter. His call to arms for freedom was founded in his faith in Yahveh. I believe one must consider the billions of people around the world whose fight for freedom is not founded in Yahveh. The Christians, Buddhists, and Hindus also deserve to live free. So, what is the answer? For me it is the belief in freedom itself.

I believe in a variation on the theme of freedom, where individual rights and responsibilities are founded in laws that protect individuals and life in a society of ordered liberty. Differing cultures and religions that support the common purpose of freedom and ordered liberty are all welcome. To live together in peace in a world of variation, freedom is the common denominator that can support the variations. Binary societies of rulers and ruled are not welcome.

By Daniel Greenfield, 18 Dec

 A candle is a brief flare of light. A wick dipped in oil burns and then goes out again. The light of Chanukah appears no different. Briefly there is light and warmth and then darkness again.

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1. Summary: JaFaJ has learned that Chinese President Xi Jinping has asked the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman (MBS) to consider reconciliation with Iran, noting that China could serve as a mediator. Nonetheless, MBS did not seem to be thrilled and requested evidence of Iran’s change in behavior. China has a lot of vested interest in Iran, with four undisclosed Chinese military locations in Iran, including a military base on Kish Island in the Persian Gulf and another one on the Island of Salkah. Salkah is situated near the United Arab Emirates. Hence, China’s recent warmth towards Arab Gulf states is a loss for the Iranian Government because enhanced ties between Beijing and Arab states may come at the expense of Iran’s growing ties with China.

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“This is the third coin of this type found in excavations in Jerusalem, and one of the few ever found in archeological excavations,” said the researchers.

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH, JPOST

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Half-shekel coin from the third year of the Great Revolt. (photo credit: Tal Rogovski)

A rare, half-shekel coin from the Great Revolt from 66 CE to 70 CE during the Second Temple period has been discovered in Jerusalem’s Ophel excavations south of the Temple Mount.

Only a few days ago, a wooden box containing 15 silver coins that serve as proof of the Hanukkah story of the Maccabees – which was found recently during an excavation in the Negev Desert – was announced.

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T. Belman.  David Horovitz, the Editor of TOI, just wrote this editorial. Don’t mess with the Law of Return. The Right would like to remove the grandfather clause so only Halachic Jews have the right of return. What’s at stake is whether we let gentiles increase in number. No one mentions that Israel is heading for “extreme over-population… in the Jewish sector of the population!” For this reason alone , Israel should remove the grandfather clause.

“Israel will have the highest population density in the Western world.”  May 2017

By Miri Shalem November 18, 2018

Redacted with Clayton Morris

Check out the tweets of Mudar Zahran.

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