Shaked: Jerusalem construction plans only delayed by 1 week  

Interior Minister postpones entire construction approval agenda for next week after PMO removes construction for Jews from agenda.

ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS

Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked responded to reports that the Prime Minister’s Office has instructed to remove from the agenda of the Jerusalem District Committee the plan to build 2,000 housing units for Jewish residents in eastern Jerusalem and said that the plans would only be delayed by one week,

Shaked reportedly refused to remove the plans from the agenda and instead rejected the entire agenda for the week, which includes construction plans for both Jews and Arabs.
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July 13, 2022 | 2:38 am | 1 Comment »

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Identity Politics for People Without Identity  

There’s no one quite so woke as a white twenty-something with no identity of his, her or xer own, only peer tastes and consumer products. The corporate fusion of consumerism and identity politics in which everyday brands and retailers from Dove to Walmart champion black nationalism or celebrate ‘pride’ happened because they have the same target demographic.

Identity politics, like brand consumerism, is identity for people without healthy identities. The political resurrection of black nationalism was ushered in by Barack Obama, who wrote an entire book about his neurotic sense of racial inauthenticity. Sexual identity politics is equally neurotic.
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July 13, 2022 | 2:00 am | Comments »

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Israel announces ‘goodwill gestures’ to Palestinians, delay in Jewish building, ahead of Biden visit  

“The defense minister from Blue and White/New Hope is actually giving new hope towards the establishment of a PA State,” said Gush Etzion Regional Council head Shlomo Ne’eman.

By TPS

Defense Minister Benny Gantz (right) and Acting Prime Minister Yair Lapid (Flash90/Hadas Parush)

Ahead of U.S. President Joe Biden’s arrival in Israel Wednesday, Prime Minister Yair Lapid announced a delay in the existing plan to build 2,000 housing units for Jewish residents of eastern Jerusalem.

The plan was reportedly scheduled for approval on Monday and Lapid postponed it ahead of the visit.

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July 13, 2022 | 1:06 am | Comments »

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It’s time to de-normalize ‘Palestinianism’  

T. Belman.  I am in the process of writing an article which links the increase in antisemitic attacks to Israel’s tolerance for Palestinian propaganda.

Israel must limit Palestinian speech which undermines Jews and Israel. 

Jews can no longer afford to tolerate the erasure of our identity, our ethnicity, our people and our nation. Op-ed.

Jul 10, 2022,

(JNS) Last year, there were nearly 3,000 anti-Semitic attacks in the U.S., an increase of 34% over 2020. In New York City, attacks increased by 409%. This is mirrored in the daily incidents on campus involving blatantly anti-Israel professors, speakers, students and resolutions. And it entered politics with Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s introduction of a “Nakba” resolution in Congress, which sought to enshrine in law that Israel’s creation was a “catastrophe.”

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July 13, 2022 | 12:28 am | Comments »

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Palestinians Reject U.S. Demand for Normalization Between Israel, Arab World  

By Jack Khoury, HAARETZ

Palestinian Authority officials are in discussions with their U.S. counterparts ahead of the meeting between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and U.S. President Joe Biden in Bethlehem this Friday.

Palestinian sources and Western diplomats speaking with Haaretz expressed discontent over the positions Washington has presented them so far, saying it appears that Biden will only address economic issues and not the diplomatic ones.

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July 12, 2022 | 3:02 pm | 2 Comments »

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The Crusader Reconquest of Acre  

By Raymond Ibrahim, AM THINKER

Today in history, the important fortress city of Acre fell back to Crusader hands, and in so doing ushered in the Third Crusade, arguably the most bloody and violent of all crusades.

Following the decisive battle of Hattin in 1187, Sultan Saladin went on to conquer Jerusalem and most other Christian kingdoms, including coastal Acre.  Elated by his success, he vowed not only to eliminate all Crusaders from the Holy Land, but to invade Europe and “pursue the Franks there, so as to free the earth of anyone who does not believe in Allah, or die in the attempt.”
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July 12, 2022 | 2:43 pm | 5 Comments »

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If Bibi can’t form a government in the time allotted, he should step down and let Likud do so in the extended period.  

By Ted Belman

The Center left is doing their damndest to have this election a referendum on Netanyahu. They want him out as Prime minister.

Liberman just announced, ‘We won’t sit with Netanyahu – no matter what’..   You might ask,  What makes Avigdor Liberman run?  Read it and find out.

They would all rather sit with Ra’am than with PM Netanyahu.

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July 12, 2022 | 2:25 pm | Comments »

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Settlers fear Biden visit may strengthen Palestinian hold on Area C  

People gather as Israeli machineries demolish a Palestinian house in Masafer Yatta, in the West Bank July 4, 2022.
(photo credit: REUTERS/MUSSA QAWASMA)

Settlers fear Israel is weighing the retroactive legalization of Palestinian homes in Area C as a gesture to US President Joe Biden that would be announced during his visit, Yesha Council CEO Yigal Dilmoni said on Monday.

“We are talking about scores of illegal Palestinian sites,” Dilmoni said, as he clarified that he did not know which specific areas were on the table.

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July 12, 2022 | 1:27 pm | 6 Comments »

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Why Biden’s ‘Gestures’ to the Palestinians Will Not Bring Peace or Stability  

by Bassam Tawil, GATEDSTONE  •  July 12, 2022

  • The Biden administration might do itself a favor if it understood that previous “gestures” made by Israel did not contribute to peace and stability in the region, and did not advance any peace process between the Israel and the Palestinians.
  • There is much that the Palestinian Authority can do to ease tensions and help create a suitable atmosphere for the resumption of the peace process with Israel. The PA could, for example, stop the incitement against Israel, halt payments to families of terrorists, condemn terrorism and crack down on terror groups operating under its control.
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July 12, 2022 | 12:24 pm | 3 Comments »

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Israelis are grossly misinformed  

Israelis  have no idea about the electoral fraud committed by Democrats to elect Biden nor of the various abuses being perpetrated against Trump supporters.

PEW RESEARCH

Most Israelis Express Confidence in Biden, but His Ratings Are Down From Trump’s
Americans’ views on Israel differ sharply by party and age

WASHINGTON, D.C. (July 11, 2022) – As President Joe Biden embarks on his first visit to Israel as president, he does so against an amicable backdrop: A large majority of adults in both Israel (89%) and the United States (74%) think current bilateral relations are in good shape. More than half in each country also have a favorable view of the other country, though 83% of Israelis have positive views of the U.S. compared with just 55% of Americans who say the same about Israel. (Note: The Israeli survey took place from March 16 to May 1, 2022 – prior to the collapse of the governing coalition and Yair Lapid taking over as the interim prime minister.)

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July 12, 2022 | 1:49 am | Comments »

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Discrimination on the basis of gender identity violates federal law  

T. Belman.  I had no idea that western governments have criminalized the refusal to use preferred pronouns as discrimination.  STOP THE MADNESS..

You can be fired if you refuse to call people by their preferred pronouns

By Smith Amundsen

If the employee is at-will, they can be fired for any non-discriminatory reason (or no reason at all); and, intentionally using the wrong name or pronoun to refer to a coworker is certainly a non-discriminatory reason.  Even if the employee has “for cause” protection through an employment contract, there’s a pretty good chance that intentionally misgendering their coworker is sufficient cause to terminate, especially if they’ve been previously warned about similar behavior.

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July 11, 2022 | 3:21 pm | 2 Comments »

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