STORY AT-A-GLANCE
T, Belman. Key take away. Liberman said “I think I am no less [capable of becoming prime minister] in terms of seniority, ability, execution and knowledge,” adding that there was a chance he would cooperate with the Likud party, but only if it were led by someone other than Benjamin Netanyahu.”
That gives Likud one more option in forming government.
Gantz, Lapid both said courting ex-IDF chief Eizenkot for spot on slate ahead of elections; United Torah Judaism’s Gafni calls new PM; Liberman says he could be premier
By TOI STAFF 2 July 2022,
With Yair Lapid taking the post of prime minister as the country heads to elections, the interim cabinet is considering a reshuffle of certain portfolios, according to a Friday report.
Channel 13 news said Justice Minister Gideon Sa’ar could move to the Foreign Ministry (taking over from Lapid) and Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked could take Sa’ar’s Justice Ministry.
Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative” “Israel Hayom”, October 23, 2016,
According to Prof. Robert Bellah, a leading UC Berkeley sociologist, there is “a well-institutionalized civil religion” in the US, which stipulates separation between religion and state, but not between religion and society. In fact, President John Quincy Adams wrote: “The law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal , as well as a moral and religious code.”
Prof. Bellah contended that civil liberties – reflecting more responsibility than rights – are Bible-driven: “Behind civil religion lie biblical archetypes [such as] the Exodus, Chosen People, Promised Land, New Jerusalem… a heritage of moral and religious experience….”
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T. Belman. Peg Tierney, draws attention to the fact that Communists in Russia and China induced famines, killing 20 million in Russia and 60 million in China and now they are playing this card again and the Dutch farmers are protesting en masse. I have posted her abstract at the bottom.
The Climate hoax and the Pandemic are tools of the Communists and NWO people to destabilize and impoverish people so that , the elite can take over.
Global warming is not a serious topic. No one cares, but the left wants us all to suffer in order to drop the Earth’s temperature by less than a degree or whatever.
Let’s cannibalize future economic growth, curb population growth while we’re at it, and declare war on burgers.
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There is no use trying to prove how moral Israel is because the world does not resent Israel for being immoral, but for being more moral than any other nation would be in Israel’s shoes. Op-ed.
By Rafael Castro, INN 3.7.22
Muslim Brotherhood supporters hold pro-Palestinian demonstration in AmmanReuters
Israeli leaders largely operate under the illusion that if only Israel were able to avert every Palestinian Arab civilian casualty, rein in all hilltop youths and silence all raving rightwing Zionists, the world would acknowledge that the greatest and most heartfelt desire of Israelis is to live in peace and let its neighbors enjoy peace and freedom.
By PM Yair Lapid
I want to start by thanking the 13th Prime Minister of the State of Israel, Naftali Bennett. For your decency, for your friendship and for leading the government this past year to economic and security achievements not seen here for years. A special thank you for allowing the citizens of Israel to see this week an orderly transition between people who keep agreements and believe in one another.
The State of Israel is bigger than all of us. More important than any of us. It was here before us, and will be here long after us. It doesn’t belong only to us. It belongs to those who dreamed of it for thousands of years in the Diaspora, and also to those yet to be born, to future generations.
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Saudi academic Dr. Marzouq Bin Tinbak said in a May 20, 2022 show on Al-Arabiya Network (Saudi Arabia) that the Islamic world does not contribute anything to civilization and progress today because it has recoiled from and rejected modernity and because it clings too closely to its heritage. He said that in contrast, some countries have managed to simultaneously conform to the novelty of Western civilization while preserving their heritage. In addition, Dr. Bin Tinbak said that traditional Islamic thought was appropriate for past eras, but that today’s modern world requires new fatwas and new ijtihad (religious reasoning).
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Tanks are pictured at an Israeli military post near the Israeli-Syrian border on March 9, 2022, (Jalaa Marey/AFP via Getty Images)
Recently, this writer attended a dinner at which the keynote speaker was Yossi Cohen, the former director of Mossad, Israel’s external intelligence service.
The focus of Cohen’s address was the impact of global events on Israel’s strategic security.
What leftist, on the verge of losing his power in Washington, and yet possessed of the means of retaining it through violence, would have walked away as Trump did?
By Dan Gelernter, AM GREATNESS
A Trump aide testified that the president tried to grab the steering wheel of the presidential limo so he could go to the Capitol on January 6, 2021. After the aide’s testimony, Representative Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) embraced her, as though expressing solidarity with someone who has just been through a tremendous ordeal. You could say that Washington and Hollywood have finally converged, turning into a single giant Oscars ceremony that no one is watching.
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“The historical argument between left and right over the fate of Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria no longer exists; it was decided on the ground, aided by the failures of Oslo and the disengagement. Meanwhile, now that our possession of Judea and Samaria is axiomatic and no longer at the core of our divisions, we can also redesign the political map and concentrate all the good actors together.”
Last Saturday, I met with a group of friends who served with me in the army as officers, eons ago. What can I say? The State of Israel and the Jewish people have no finer people than these – all patriots, talented, and decent individuals. The overwhelming majority of them have historically voted center-left, and all had praise for now-former prime minister, Naftali Bennett.
After a year in the Religious Services Ministry, Yamina MK gets a middling grade from liberal figures for shaking up Haredi hegemony but failing to advance core issues
Religious Affairs Minister Matan Kahana, left, with Haya Kliger, on July 15, 2021 (Courtesy)
In his short term as head of Israel’s Religious Services Ministry, Matan Kahana made his mark on the often-overlooked office, rolling out a number of reforms that won’t easily be reversed no matter who wins the upcoming election.
Kahana updated the long-maligned process of naming municipal rabbis, removing many of the aspects that left the positions open to corruption and abuse. At his direction, women have not only been allowed to participate in the management of religious services but are now mandated to do so for certain tasks.
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Dr. Vladimir Zelenko, a Nobel prize-nominated physician who famously discovered and used an early treatment for COVID, dubbed the “Zelenko Protocol,” passed on June 30, 2022, at the age of 48 after a long battle with pulmonary artery sarcoma, a rare form of cancer.
He was born in 1973, in Kyiv, Ukraine, and came to Brooklyn, New York, in 1977 with his family.
Zelenko earned a B.S. in chemistry with high honors at Hofstra University and then earned an M.D. at the Buffalo School of Medicine in 2000.
By Kevin Daley, DAILY BEAST • July 2, 2022
Blue state judges and liberal bureaucrats caught flak for littering their states with drop-boxes and accepting mail-in ballots during the 2020 election without permission from lawmakers. The Supreme Court is poised to stop them from doing it again in 2024.×
The justices announced Thursday that they will hear a case later this year involving the “independent state legislature theory,” which holds that state lawmakers alone control election procedures and redistricting. The news invigorated conservative groups who say bureaucratic tinkering with district lines and election laws is destroying public confidence in the political process.
by Mark Durie, Middle East Quarterly
An underestimated, unappreciated, and oft-denied driver of the Arab-Israeli conflict is Islamic religious antisemitism. How deeply entrenched is this religious bigotry, and can it prevent, or slow down, the nascent reconciliation between Israel and the Arab world?
Some might question whether it is justifiable to speak of “Islamic antisemitism” and view this charge as a slur on the name of one of the world’s great faiths, followed by close to two billion people. Yet the numerous passages in Islam’s canonical sources (the Qur’an and Sunna) that depict the Jews as a warmongering, cowardly, and treacherous lot have played a key role in the perpetuation of the Arab-Israeli conflict, as evidenced among other things by the outpouring of antisemitic hate speech during and after the May 2021 Hamas-Israel war.
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I have written extensively on inverted totalitarianism, that being the once nascent, now entrenched form of government that truly controls the levers of federal power in the United States. This behemoth has turned the USA into a “managed democracy”; a bureaucracy which cannot be held accountable by the elected representatives of the people. Sometimes called the 4th estate, this monster is also referred to as the “deep state” the civil service, or the administrative state.
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The courts are getting increasingly skeptical of the ‘administrative state’<
Abortion will surely define the Supreme Court’s 2021–22 term. But lately the justices have been reconsidering more than just Roe v. Wade. In case after case, they are reconsidering the modern administrative state’s place in the rule of law. At stake is nothing less than the basic structure and sensibility of modern American government.
Administrative law tends to be the stuff of “a pretty dull lecture,” as Justice Scalia once quipped. But recent regulatory cases have brought the Court back to fundamental questions, not just in sleepy cases about esoteric technical statutes, but in front-page conflicts over high-stakes policies. That is especially true this year, in challenges to the Occupational Safety & Health Administration’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate and the Environmental Protection Agency’s climate regulations.
For the last several years, the United States, along with NATO, has been poking the Russian bear, apparently pushing for war with Russia. Why?
When Trump was president it was Russia, Russia, Russia. When Democrats found that Trump was actually getting along with Putin, they became further enraged, even though Trump was pushing NATO to pay its fair share and get more ground troops, ships, and planes ready for combat. You know, getting NATO to do what it’s supposed to do.
By Christian Adams, PJ MEDIA 2.6.22
A strange constellation has emerged through public records requests of coordination between progressive funders, federal authorities, corporations, state election officials, and leftist organizations. Freedom of information requests have uncovered oddball and opaque relationships between some state election officials, federal officials, corporations, progressive activists, and those trying to influence the conduct of those same election officials. These relationships extend to junkets that include baseball games, travel, and even data exchanges between state officials and outside progressive groups. Read more…
