By  Casey Spencer Brown, TOWNHALL

The Supreme Court’s opinion released Friday is the culmination of decades of work by pro-life activists and comes amid an unprecedented level of hostility toward members of the high court who believed that the “right” to abortion created in Roe and revised in Casey was based on flawed legal reasoning. While the left is already planning for a “night of rage” in response to the decision overruling Roe that merely returns abortion policy-making power to the people and their elected representatives, here’s what Justice Alito said were the five factors that weighed strongly in favor of overturning Roe and Casey.

The Nature of the Court’s Error: 

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by Noah Rothman, COMMENTARY

“Abortion presents a profound moral question,” reads the Supreme Court’s momentous decision overruling the precedents that prevented states from passing restrictive abortion laws. “The Constitution does not prohibit the citizens of each State from regulating or prohibiting abortion. Roe and Casey arrogated that authority.”

That is inarguable. It was, in fact, one of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s primary sources of frustration with the precedents established by the Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade. By invalidating anti-abortion laws in dozens of states, the decision arrested the process of establishing a durable legal equilibrium that experimentation among the states produces. This is also one of the reasons that Roe proved so durable over the last 50 years despite its indefensibly dubious legal rationale.
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by Majid Rafizadeh, GATESTONE  •  June 25, 2022

• The Biden administration’s weak leadership — to hold accountable those who are violating Iran sanctions — is likely a critical reason the Iranian regime is flamboyantly ignoring the US and forging ahead — soon, most likely, to become a nuclear state.
• Presumably to take even further advantage of the Biden administration’s weak leadership, the Iranian regime is also signing long-term agreements with its oil clients to permanently insulate its economy from the US sanctions.

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T. Belman.  If Bibi, playing the Jewish Card, gets elected, then obviously his campaign was well received by people who want a Jewish state.  He will try to speak to Jews as opposed to Israelis.  I think that the divide is nationalists v universalists. or between those who want Israel to be a Jewish state as opposed to a state of all its  citizens.

I thought that “pay homage to their Jewish identity” is intrinsic to Zionism.

In a democratic state all citizens vote and have equal rights but not collective rights. Which means that only Jews have collective right to be a Jewish state. The Jewish character of the State is fixed.

There will be much talk about ‘Jewish character’ in the upcoming campaign – most of it from a Likud party that is led by an atheist and whose candidates seldom live by the Torah’s commandments

By Anshel Pfeffer, HAARETZ

In the short statement Benjamin Netanyahu released on Monday after the news broke that the coalition government had fallen, he blamed it for “relying on terror supporters” and “endangering Israel’s Jewish character.” He signed off, “With God’s help, we will do and succeed.”

What is “Israel’s Jewish character”? It is one of the emptiest terms in Israeli politics, used originally by ultra-Orthodox politicians to try to convince ignorant secular Israelis of their arguments. It is entirely devoid of meaning, but that doesn’t matter. It is aimed at generating a feeling of longing for something that doesn’t exist, and hatred for anyone who can’t claim any connection to that nebulous Jewish character.

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The people clearly gauge where their future lies.

By Dr. Majid Rafizadeh, FPM    24.6.22

The 1979 Iranian revolution was a repudiation of the Pahlavi dynasty’s self-serving economic policies and brutal repression of dissent. It was never intended to establish a theocratic dictatorship in place of a secular one.<
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Most of the factions involved in that revolution, such as the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) and People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), envisioned a democratic future for the country. But despite their support from the vast majority of Iranian citizens, they were not ultimately able to prevent Ruhollah Khomeini from co-opting the revolution to establish a system of absolute clerical rule, with himself at its head.
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Hamas is waiting for an opportunity to create chaos in Judea and Samaria.

By  Eric R. Mandel, ISRAEL HAYOM

June 2022 is the 15th anniversary of the bloody coup in which Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip overthrew the Palestinian Authority in just three days. Since 2007, Hamas in Gaza, with Iranian support, has targeted Israeli civilian homes with tens of thousands of missiles over five wars and committed innumerable other violent attacks.

This month, PA security forces arrested 19 Hamas operatives in Judea and Samaria, or the West Bank, who were tunneling under a PA security facility near Ramallah. This activity is reminiscent of the methods Hamas used to seize Gaza.
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The Likud’s May Golan blasts the Bennett-Lapid government for selling out its values, says most right-wing parties aren’t really Right.

T. Belman. Haley recommends that the US decouple from Russia and China economically. She also calls for the US to no longer support Palestinian  rejectionism. I feel otherwise. The west should embrace Russia.

She adds ” “Only countries proud of their inheritance can defeat their enemies,”. “Our self loathing has to stop”.”.

She grasps that the west’s back is against the wall — and what it needs to do

By Melanie Phillips

US president Joe Biden is about to travel to the Middle East in an attempt to alleviate the mess created by his own ineptitude.

He is due to go cap in hand to Saudi Arabia to beg the leader of a state he has publicly reviled as a human rights “pariah”, Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, to bring oil prices down in order to alleviate the fuel shortage caused by the war in Ukraine.

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T. Belman. Pompeo rejects a negotiated settlement and makes the case for supporting Ukraine with weapons to enable them to win the war. I think Ukraine should cut their losses.

HUDSON INSTITUTE

WASHINGTON—Below is the transcript of the speech by Hudson Distinguished Fellow and the 70th U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gave today at Hudson Institute on the future of Ukraine and why the U.S. should defend Taiwan from Chinese aggression:

“It’s great to be here at the Hudson Institute. To those of you from the Ambassadors Court, thank you for being here. Honored guests and friends, it’s an honor to greet you. I consider it an enormous responsibility to speak to you about a matter of the utmost urgency and significance. It involves war, Ukraine, and the necessity of forming a new global alliance for freedom, which has to contest, which must contest both Russian and Chinese aggression.

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T, Belman. I cover the same subject in The 100 year betrayal of Israel by the West but in greater depth.

 By MARTIN SHERMAN

International agreements involving the abdication of strategic assets in exchange for vague ‘assurances’ of future support are not worth the paper they are written on. 

We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow– Lord Palmerston in the House of Commons, March 1, 1848.
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THIS IS A GREAT INTERVIEW

By Diane Bederman

When will we ever learn?

When    will    we    ever    learn?

The number of Jewish families and young Jews who hide their Jewish symbols speaks to the massive failure of the plethora of Jewish organizations to fight Jew hatred and anti-Zionism. We have witnessed religious Jews attacked walking down the road. Students attacked on campus.

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Anyone who sabotages the establishment of a right-wing government that has the potential to finally realize everything the Right has dreamed of will forever be remembered as a disgrace.

By  Ariel Bulshtein, ISRAEL HAYOM

The late Prime Minister Menachem Begin once explained that “sometimes even the obvious needs to be said.” I will heed his advice and issue a call that, although they are trying to make us forget, should be obvious: The right-wing factions in the current Knesset must form a right-wing government under Opposition Leader Benjamin Netanyahu and spare us all another election and more craziness.

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Yamina rebel holds off on convening his House Committee, the next stop of the bill to call new elections; process expected to be completed next week, but unclear when

By CARRIE KELLER-LYNN, TOI       23.6.22, 11:18 am  

Although the Knesset approved the first of four votes on Wednesday to voluntarily disband, rebel Yamina MK Nir Orbach will halt the dispersal process until Monday to give the Likud-led opposition time to form an alternative coalition and avoid snap elections.

The Knesset requires a law to voluntarily disband, and while Wednesday was the bill’s first step, it needs to pass two committee reviews and three additional readings to be finalized. Its next stop is the Knesset’s House Committee, which Orbach chairs. By refusing to convene the committee until Monday, Orbach is delaying the bill being sent to its first committee review process, a necessary hurdle before its next vote.

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Former AG backs the Democrats’ Jan. 6 show trial.

By Lloyd Billingsley, FPM   22.6.22

Last week, former Attorney General William Barr told the Democrats’ Jan. 6 Committee he hadn’t seen evidence of voter fraud on a scale that could have affected the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. In late November of 2020, Barr told reporters, “to date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election.”

Before the 2020 election, voters may recall, Joe Biden openly touted “the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics.” Voter fraud is a crime, but Biden’s boast failed to spark any investigation by Attorney General William Barr. The addled Biden hunkered down in a basement and scarcely campaigned at all.

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If Opposition Leader Benjamin Netanyahu tells the truth and surrounds himself with good people, rather than frightened populist lackeys, he might find that the pathological hatred of him starts to wane.

By  Nadav Shragai, ISRAEL HAYOM

It looks like this is not only Benjamin Netanyahu’s last chance to be elected prime minister. It’s also his last opportunity to prove he is capable of being a mensch. The dictionary definition of a “mensch” is a “fair, honest person, whose word can be trusted.” But somehow, the popular Yiddish usage explains the meaning better.

A man who allowed himself to throw around endless promises he couldn’t keep, and routinely broke them, both on the personal level in dealing with colleagues and opponents, and in dealing with the public, can finally prove he’s able to do otherwise if he’s only menschy about it.

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