By David Israel, JEWISH PRESS    Dec 26, 2022

A clause in Likud’s coalition agreement with the Religious Zionism Party led by Bezalel Smotrich states that “the government will not approve Israel’s accession to the Istanbul Treaty,” Walla reported Sunday.

The Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence which was signed in Istanbul on May 11, 2011, is a human rights treaty against violence against women and domestic violence. On March 20, 2021, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced his country’s withdrawal from the convention – before Turkey, like Israel, had stepped into what amounts to a trap intended to force countries that offer temporary shelter to refugees from conflict areas to accept these refugees permanently.

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By Mark Sleboda Dec 14

It seems that the US’s aggressive policies of economic warfare, provocative military containment, and covert regime change ops against any and all states that refuse to surrender their sovereignty and independence to the Hegemon, has resulted in more blowback than pushing Russia and China into a strong defensive strategic partnership. US officials are now panicking about a rapidly solidifying similar partnership between Russian and Iran. Indeed the 3 states now all have a tri-partite strategic partnership with each other.>

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T. Belman. This means that religious beliefs supersede group rights when there is alternative. That’s the way it should be.

The incoming far-right government says private businesses will be allowed to deny their product or service as long as it ‘is not unique, and a similar substitute can be obtained at a similar price in geographic proximity’

By Allison Kaplan Sommer, HAARETZ

Netanyahu greeting United Torah Judaism’s Yitzchak Goldknopf in the Knesset last month.Credit: Ohad Zwigenberg

The idea of “religious liberty” is a controversial issue in American politics, climaxing in the 2017 Supreme Court decision letting a Colorado baker refuse to sell wedding cakes to same-sex couples on the basis of his religious beliefs.

The debate migrated to Israel over the weekend following the revelation that the Likud party’s agreements with two coalition partners – United Torah Judaism and Religious Zionism – include a commitment that would let business owners refuse service on the basis of religion. This amendment of the country’s antidiscrimination law was widely interpreted as a license to refuse services to LGBTQ people and other groups.

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THE NEW ATLAS w/ Carl Zha & Mark Sleboda

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T. Belman. I don’t trust this report. The only sources mentioned are the CIA and Ukraine. Even if it happens the fighters only have a range of 3600 km whereas the return trip to Israel and back is about the same. Israel has the means to shoot them down in transit so I imagine they will only be used for defense and they are no match for Israel’s F-35.

Intelligence cited by Channel 12 indicates Iranian pilots are already training with Russian-made jets

By TOI STAFF  25 December 2022,

File: Russian Sukhoi Su-25 assault aircrafts  flying over Red Square during a military parade,  (Alexander Nemenov/AFP)

Russia is preparing to provide Iran with Sukhoi Su-35 fighter jets in the near future, according to a Saturday report citing Western intelligence officials.

The report by Channel 12 said the deal could include as many as 24 jets that were originally intended for Egypt, in a deal that the United States thwarted.

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Patrick Byrne discusses the testimony regarding the machines and the changed testimony on day 2:

Discussion: Kari Lake’s Temporary Setback in Maricopa from Judge Peter Thompson
20 min video

This one lays it all bare, folks.

In Maricopa on Election Day this year, in numerous polling locations across Maricopa, the print-on-demand printers were printing on the correct 20? ballot paper, but taking the 20? ballot image and shrinking it down to 19? before printing. The difference is imperceptible to the human eye. However, when fed into a tabulator, the difference causes the ballot to be rejected, which lets the poll workers innocently and honestly say, “Something has gone wrong, the tabulators do not seem to be reading your ballot, just leave it in Drawer #3.”

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HOW PROPAGANDIZED AND HOODWINKED JEWISH LIBERALS – AN EXTINCTION SPECIES – GOT THE SHAFT FROM DEMOCRATS

By Andrew Benjamin

In their Trump Derangement daily messaging manufactured by the Democrat Party through their media, it’s been already fashionable for generations of Liberal Jews who fancy themselves “progressives,” to have attached themselves to the Democrat caboose.

These True Believers who watched CNN 24/7 drank the Cool Aid. Even to the point that they believed wholesale the Russia Collusion Hoax, coupled to the message that “Obama was America’s First Jewish President.”

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“She is very vocal in her hatred towards Israel.”

by Daniel Greenfield      December 24, 2022 

Israel has a new conservative government and its enemies, and by that, I mean anti-Israel leftists, couldn’t be angrier. Ron Kampeas at the JTA has another anti-Israel press release disguised as a news story promoting a push by anti-Israel activists to boycott members of the incoming Israeli government.
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BY HUGH FITZGERALD, JIHAD WATCH

While the soccer matches in Doha were exciting, especially the final with Argentinian Lionel Messi rising to the occasion — his last — in other ways Qatar’s big moment on the world stage was a devastating failure. Both Qatar’s attempts at proselytizing for Islam, and its failure to provide, as promised, world-class facilities for visitors, were distinctly off-putting. More on this can be found here: “Qatari Islamization of the World Cup Backfires,” by Hany Ghoraba, Algemeiner, December 22, 2022:

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By Daniel Greenfield, FPM         24 Dec

Elvis Ming Chan, the FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge at the center of the TwitterFiles scandal, had started out as an engineer at NEC: a Japanese computer company. The son of Chinese immigrants who was raised in Seattle, near the hub of Big Tech, Chan describes a tech industry where going into national security was always a backdoor option.

“One of my buddies who I worked with at the company I was at, his game plan was always to join The Bureau,” Chan revealed in an interview. “And he got in and he’s calling me from the FBI academy in Quantico, which you were able to visit with me. Maybe we’ll talk about that later. But he said, ‘Elvis,’ he’s calling me on the phone, he’s like, ‘you would love this. We’re shooting guns. We’re kicking down doors. I’m learning about the constitution. This is awesome.’”
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By TAL SCHNEIDER, ToI    

Zohar Palti speaks with Channel 13 news in an interview aired on March 25, 2022. (Screenshot/Channel 13)

Zohar Palti, the former head of the Defense Ministry’s political-military bureau and former intelligence director in the Mossad, says that Iran is days to weeks away from enriching uranium to the 90% military-grade level.

Iran, he says “is at a more advanced level than I can ever remember when it comes to uranium enrichment,” Palti says. “They are days or weeks away from enriching uranium to 90%, which is military-grade.” Such a level “does not mean they can immediately build a nuclear weapon… but it’s very bad, and we’ve never been closer to it.”

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VGNI In this latest positive newsletter, cancer and cystic fibrosis patients on trials of the latest Israeli treatments will hope for a brighter future. A breakthrough Israeli therapy uses UV light to release medication into the body. And two Israeli AI systems will provide virtual “warning lights” to alert doctors and patients to life-threatening conditions.

The light is certainly shining on Israeli relations with Arab countries. Israel attended the Arab cybersecurity conference, played Israel’s National Anthem in Abu Dhabi, and even lit Hanukkah candles in Qatar.

Israeli technology news includes a super-efficient heat engine from the aptly named Luminescent Solar Power; solar panels inside greenhouses to help grow food crops; and even drones with flashing lights to save bats from flying into wind turbines. Europe has certainly seen the light, purchasing Israeli systems for wastewater treatment in France, reducing food waste in the Netherlands, and saving lives on roads in Germany.

Finally Israeli children unearthed a 2000-year-old lamp; archeologists have shed light on the reign of the Jewish King Hezekiah in the Land of Judah 2,700 years ago; 100 rescued Ukrainians alighted at Ben Gurion International airport; and the Jewish Festival of Lights has brought more Hanukkah miracles to our times.

In the 25th Dec 22 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:

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By Harry G. Hutchison, AM THINKER

Francis Fukuyama claimed, dubiously, that we are witnessing the end of history, with the universalization of liberal democracy as the final form of human government.  Yet we live in a world of worrisome pendulum shifts.  Republican congressional leaders disprove Fukuyama’s claim as they celebrate their stunning betrayal of the American people by supporting the passage of the $1.7-trillion McConnell-Schumer omnibus bill.

Rather than protect America’s southern border and comply with Congress’s constitutional duty, this bill moves the country farther to the left by explicitly funding a “woke” identity group supporting LGBT indoctrination in elementary schools, abolishing ICE, and defunding the police.  At the same time, this bill hands more power to a federal government dedicated to the preposterous claim that America is systemically racist.

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T. Belman. I saw this coming. The Judge held that Lake “failed to provide evidence of intentional misconduct”. But her expert witness was emphatic in saying it was intentional. Expert evidence is evidence.

TO MY MIND, THE JUDGE JUST DIDN’T WANT TO OVERTURN THE ELECTION.

Kari Lake, a Republican who was defeated by Katie Hobbs in the Arizona governor’s race, had made false election claims the centerpiece of her campaign.”

By Alexandra Berzon and Charles Homans,NYT

A state judge on Saturday rejected Kari Lake’s last-ditch effort to overturn her defeat in the Arizona governor’s race, dismissing for lack of evidence her last two claims of misconduct by Maricopa County election officials.

The ruling, after a two-day trial in Phoenix that ended Thursday, follows more than six weeks of claims by Ms. Lake, a Republican, that she was robbed of victory last month — assertions that echoed the false contention that was at the heart of her campaign: that an even larger theft had stolen the 2020 presidential election from Donald J. Trump.

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T. Belman. The Saudi terms make Biden and Congress the deal maker. Without their cooperation, it can not happen. According to the tentative terms, Israel doesn’t have to pursue a deal with the Palestinians.  It just has to refrain from annexing (extending sovereignty) Area C.  The Saudis also want to replace Jordan on the Temple Mount. My guess is the Saudi demands are not written in stone.

When Mudar Zahran becomes the leader of Jordan, his freedom of action will be limited by Saudi and US pressure. They will be financing Jordan.

Since his victory in the last elections, designated Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been in under-the-radar contact with Riyad.

By Ido Ben Porat,INN, Dec 24, 2022,

MBS and NetanyahuYonatan Sindel/Flash90, Reuters

Since his victory in the last elections, designated Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been in under-the-radar contact with Riyad, through Washington, with the goal of laying the groundwork for a historic agreement between Israel and Saudi Arabia, an agreement which will complete the process which began with the Abraham Accords.

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By Andrea Widburg, AMER THINKER

A few days ago, the unconstitutionally conducted January 6 committee referred Donald Trump for criminal prosecution. Yesterday, it published its final, detailed report. In true Trumpian fashion, Trump came out swinging, calling out the lies and omissions that fueled the committee’s ludicrous referral. No wonder Trump’s supporters still stand by him.

The 845-page report looks comprehensive, but it’s not, and that’s one of the main points Trump makes in his statement. The report is honest about one thing, though. It insists that Congress must ban Trump from ever holding office again. And there you have the whole point of this exercise: Democrats and anti-Trump Republicans will do anything, no matter how corrupt, to keep Trump from returning to the White House.
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Report says sides agreed that PM’s approval will only be needed at an initial stage in planning process and not at every step of the way, as is currently the case

By TOI STAFF     23 December 2022, 10:33 pm  

Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu and Religious Zionist party head Bezalel Smotrich and other party leaders in a group photo after the swearing-in of the 25th Knesset, November 15, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)<
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Incoming prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly agreed to relinquish significant control over the approval process for West Bank settlement construction to far-right leader Bezalel Smotrich’s Religious Zionism party.

As part of the coalition agreement reached between Netanyahu’s Likud party and Religious Zionism, the prime minister’s approval will only be required at an initial stage of the planning process, when the government decides the scope and location of projects to be placed on the docket of the Civil Administration’s High Planning Subcommittee — the Defense Ministry body that authorizes settlement construction, the Kan public broadcaster reported Friday.

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