Netanyahu’s new coalition is dedicated to protecting Israel’s rights & safety. That’s not “extreme”.

ZOA President Morton Klein, Jan 1, 2023, 7:04 AM

The new government Amos Ben Gershom, GPO

The Zionist Organization of America congratulates Israeli Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu, his Likud party and his coalition partners on Netanyahu’s announcement yesterday that he will be able to form a coalition government. In these times, when Israeli citizens are being subjected to seven terror attacks perpetrated by Palestinian Arab terrorists every day, it is vital that Israel have a strong government such as the incoming coalition, which is dedicated to protecting Israel’s rights and safety.

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By Joe Hoft, GATEWAY December 31, 2022

The GOP is expected to take over the US House of Representatives in 2023 next week.  Here are the first 10 actions they should take after taking control. 

1. Launch investigation into Biden Crime Family – based on extensive evidence from Hunter Biden laptop

The Biden regime is already suggesting they will not comply with House Oversight Committee ranking member Rep. James Comer (R-KY) and House Judiciary ranking member Jim Jordan (R-OH) and their outstanding oversight requests.

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UNGA resolution passes 87-26, calls for IJC’s 1st Israel probe since 2004; all Arab peace partners vote yes; investigation to cover settlements, Jerusalem, ‘discriminatory’ laws

By LUKE TRESS, TOI

A UN General Assembly vote December 30, 2022, on a resolution requesting the International Court of Justice to weigh in on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (Screenshot/UN)

NEW YORK — The United Nations General Assembly approved on Friday a resolution requesting the International Court of Justice weigh in on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Israeli “annexation” and the “legal status of the occupation.”

The resolution promoted by the Palestinians passed by a vote of 87 in favor, 26 against, with 53 abstentions.

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T. Belman. After writing  UNSC Res 242 and the Misrule of Law, I was reminded of this excellent post.  I am now working on a new article on this theme entitled “With Friends like America, who needs Enemies“. which is based on ignoring what the US says regarding Israel and focusing what they do and have done.

By Francis P. Sempa, AM THINKER

American foreign policy elites and their counterparts in allied countries, especially in Europe, repeatedly instruct us that diplomatic and military power should be used to “uphold” the “rules-based international order,” which has been defined as “a shared commitment to conduct international affairs in accordance with laws, principles and practices embodied in institutions such as the United Nations, regional security arrangements, trade agreements and multilateral financial institutions.”

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by Majid Rafizadeh, GATESTONE  •  December 31, 2022

• Evidently the lethal nuclear deal that will enable Iran to have all the nuclear weapons it wants and missiles with which to deliver them — and for which the Obama and Biden administrations have been pining for nearly a decade so that, most likely, Iran will not try them out on their watch but wait for somebody else’s — is not yet dead, according to reports from Israeli officials.
• For the length of a coffee-break, there were rumors that, because the Iranian regime was sending drones to Russia to help crush Ukraine, the deal was – finally – off the table, supposedly for good. In what must be one of the shortest-lived policy decisions ever, that arrangement now seems off the table for good.

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T. Belman. Israel’s rights to all the land west of the Jordan River have been compromised by the Oslo Accords. Israel has agreed, that notwithstanding  such rights, she will negotiate a settlement with the PA whereby they get an autonomous region with the boundaries to be negotiated. This is yet another reason to terminate the Accords.

Another reason for the neglect of our rights from San Remo is that it would make it harder for the left to achieve their vaunted TSS. What’s Bibi’s excuse?

Hopefully this government will reclaim our legal right to all the land.

If the Accords are terminated so is the obligation to negotiate.

By Ted Belman

Dozens of Knesset Members wrote a scathing letter to EU’s top officials accusing them of animus against Jews and Israel in light of leaked program on Area C,

Lazar Berman wrote a detailed article on the letter which was published by Times of Israel on Dec 21/22. It contained this gem;
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The Times of Israel’s translation of the basic principles of Israel’s 37th government:

• The Jewish people have an exclusive and inalienable right to all parts of the Land of Israel. The government will promote and develop the settlement of all parts of the Land of Israel — in the Galilee, the Negev, the Golan and Judea and Samaria.
• The government will actively work to boost national security and provide personal security to its citizens, while resolutely and determinedly fighting violence and terrorism.
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T. Belman. Finally, the first principle of this government is, “The Jewish people have an exclusive and inalienable right to all parts of the Land of Israel.”
That’s what I have been waiting for. Thus the lands are no longer “disputed lands”.

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By Ted Belman (Mar 16, 2016)

When Times of Israel published West Bank settlements are legal, Foreign Ministry asserts in Dec/15, I was generally pleased, thinking that the document the Foreign Ministry was publishing, supported the legality of the settlements. I assumed that it also asserted our rights to the land. I shouldn’t have assumed anything and I should have read the article.

[The document] states that Israel has “valid property claims” to West Bank territory, as “Jewish affinity” with the region and in cities such as Hebron is thousands of years old.

When reading this, I failed to notice that it didn’t support our “valid property claims” based on San Remo Resolution, The Palestine Mandate, and Article 80 of the UN Charter, which specifically preserves these rights. To my mind this was a huge omission and must have been intended.

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Not only does Netanyahu’s government aspire to bring Israel four years of much-needed electoral stability, it will also focus on fixing critical components of Israel’s political system and careful liberal-traditional balance, to ensure the Jewish state is not once again thrown into chaos by destabilizing progressive forces

By  Alex Traiman, ISRAEL HAYOM

Israel inducted a historic right-wing government Thursday, led by three-time Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu’s return to power and the formation of a strong right-wing government is a tremendous achievement for a nation that has increasingly turned towards the right-wing values of strong security and protecting the Jewish character of the state.
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The new government is prepared to stand up to the Biden administration when necessary.

By Caroline Glick, INN        Dec 29, 2022, 11:28 PM

(JNS) With the swearing-in of the latest Netanyahu government, Israel will embark on a new course in foreign policy—and just in time. For the past year-and-a-half of the Bennett-Lapid-Gantz government, Israel’s foreign policy ceased to be independent. In the days and weeks before Naftali Bennett, Yair Lapid and Benny Gantz formed their coalition, they committed themselves to a policy of “no surprises” for the Biden administration.

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Israel’s Maccabean Three may be channelling Jewish history all over again

By MELANIE PHILLIPS

Maccabees; Wojciech Stattler, 1842

Liberal Jews in both the diaspora and Israel have been hyperventilating over the “extremist” ministers in the incoming government headed by Israeli Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu.

These are the rabble-rouser Itamar Ben-Gvir, the theocrat Bezalel Smotrich and the ultra-socially conservative Avi Maoz.

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By Ted Belman

David Singer has been alone in promoting the so-called, Saudi Plan, for the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine.  Arutz Sheva mistitled his last attempt as Israel set to uncork Hashemite Kingdom genie at UN.

Nowhere in the article is there any mention of Israel’s reaction to the “Saudi Plan” let alone its intention to promote it at the UN.

Not only has Israel not mentioned it, Saudi Arabia hasn’t either.

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Jews were the indigenous inhabitants of the Land for millennia long before the Islam was created. There were always Jews in the Land. Op-ed.

By Victor Sharpe, INN    Dec 30, 2022,

I was complimented some time ago by a reader of one of my earlier published articles, titled, Lies, Myths and Obama, which dealt – as many of them do – with the history of Israel and its enemies: Biblical and post-Biblical.

I had included in the article the following sentence: “Only one people has ever made Jerusalem its capital and only one people ever established their ancestral and Biblical homeland between the River Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea: the Jews.”

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The vague agreement says that incoming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will advance a framework to annex the West Bank, taking into consideration national and international interests

By Hagar Shezaf, HAARETZ

Benjamin Netanyahu’s incoming government’s coalition agreement begins with a declaration that the Jewish people have a “natural right” to the Land of Israel. Regarding annexation of the West Bank, the agreement remains vague but says the prime minister will advance policies within whose framework the West Bank will be annexed, taking into consideration timing and both international and national interests.

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By Victor Davis Hanson, JWR    Dec. 29, 2022

The old antisemitism was more a right-wing than a left-wing phenomenon — perhaps best personified by the now-withered Ku Klux Klan. A new antisemitism followed from the campus leftism of the 1960s. It arose from and was masked by a general hatred of Israel, following the Jewish state’s incredible victory in the 1967 Six-Day War.

That lopsided triumph globally transformed Israel in the leftist mind from a David fighting the Arab Goliath into a veritable Western imperialist, neocolonialist overdog.
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If Netanyahu’s new government really does alter Israel’s magnificent Law of Return, it would be both a symbolic tragedy and a crazy blow to how many Jews around the world relate to Israel

By Yizhar Hess, HAARETZ

Israel’s Law of Return is the expression of a deep-rooted sense of historical responsibility and strategic vision for a small people, a third of whom were murdered over the last centuryCredit: Moti Milrod

If Israel had a constitution, the Law of Return would certainly be one of its first articles. Celebratory. Magnificent. The cornerstone of the national home for a people that was scattered among the nations of the world and which now has a state of its own. The Law of Return is the reason we are here. Conceived in the early days of Israeli legislation and voted on in 1950 by the Knesset on the 20th of Tammuz 5709, the Hebrew anniversary of Herzl’s death. The law was adopted unanimously; not a single MK dared to vote against it.

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By Dr. Aaron Lerner, IMRA      29 December 2022

Copies of the coalition agreements are available on the Knesset website:
https://main.knesset.gov.il/mk/government/pages/coalitionagreements.aspx

The phrase which probably appears in the agreements with the greatest frequency in sections dealing with Judea and Samaria is “in coordination and subject to the consent of the prime minister”.
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by Seth J. Frantzman,  The Jerusalem Post December 18, 2022

The death of a Jordanian police officer during riots that began with fuel price protests in Jordan appears to represent a rare and violent challenge to authority. The incident took place in the southern city of Ma’an.

“The authorities said the policeman was killed on Thursday night by a gunshot fired by an unidentified individual when armed officers entered a neighborhood of Ma’an to quell riots,” Al Jazeera reported. “Youths had attacked government property in the city.”

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