T. Belman. I was born in 1937 and grew up close to the Toronto Jewish community. After the war, fellow Jews would tell me about this riot with great pride for having fought back. The riot lasted 6 hours.

‘Gangsters vs. Nazis’ book tells how a New York judge secretly directed mafia bosses Meyer Lansky and Bugsy Siegel to recruit an army of Jewish thugs to intimidate antisemites

By RENEE GHERT-ZAND, TOI       Today, 11:02 am

Carrying swastika flags, the German-American Bund parades down East 86th Street in New York City before a large rally at the Yorkville Casino. (New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Collection, Library of Congress, LC-USZ62-11748/courtesy Michael Benson)

New York judge Nathan D. Perlman was apparently a big believer in the adage: If you need a job done right, you’ve got to turn to the right people. So in 1938, he called up notorious Jewish mobster Meyer Lansky with a favor to ask of him.
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In this bracing essay, David Horowitz calls out the Left for what it is–criminal, racist, and sometimes fascist. David argues that conservatives need to understand the utter bad faith with which the Left conducts itself, and stand up bravely to defend our country from the ravages of the Left.

By David Horowitz, POWERLINE

The crisis currently facing our nation is a crisis of faith – faith in the Constitution that has shaped our destiny, faith in the rule of law, and faith in the principle of equality before the law. The root cause of the lawlessness that is consuming our country is the monopoly of the executive power in Washington by a political party that has fallen under the control of the radical left. This left describes itself as “progressive,” but is focused on the goal of “re-imagining” American institutions and principles, in other words of dismantling the constitutional order that created the prosperity and freedoms that have shaped this country since its beginnings.
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Jordan’s government planning a media campaign to counter the soon to happen collapse of Jordan’s currency. They will be blaming everyone but themselves. Meanwhile, the kinglet and his office manager are drafting HIS ABDICATION SPEECH

— Mudar Adnan Zahran ???????? ????? (@Mudar_Zahran) June 15, 2022

Seeking to influence Biden to ice the accords in favor of the Palestinians

By David M. Weinberg, JPOST

FORMER JORDANIAN foreign minister Marwan Muasher speaks with Reuters TV in Amman, 2020.
(photo credit: MUHAMMAD HAMED/REUTERS)

Marwan Muasher, who was foreign minister and deputy prime minister of Jordan and is a confidant of Jordanian King Abdullah, just published a wholesale attack on the Abraham Accords. Muasher claims that they are “a recipe for violence, not peace,” and he urges the US to stop offering incentives to Arab governments to join the accords “so long as Israel continues to take Palestinian land.”

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Twin strategic and economic crises prompt search for a way out of Ukraine trap

By DAVID P. GOLDMAN, ASIA TIMES

The Biden Administration faces a double disaster after its Ukraine miscalculation, namely a US recession and a second strategic humiliation in the space of a year.

The United States economy is almost certainly in recession, while oil prices drive inflation that has cut workers’ real pay by about 6% year on year.
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By Maurice Hirsch, Adv. PMW    | Jun 17, 2022

On June 17, 1967, today 55 years ago, then Israeli Minister of Defense Moshe Dayan solely made one of the most important and fateful decisions in the history of the State of Israel and the Jewish people. Just days after the end of the Six Day War, Dayan agreed to establish the new “Status Quo” regarding the Temple Mount. Fearing open discussion about his decision, Dayan’s agreement was not positively ratified by Israel’s government of the day or by any government since.

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– despite all the warm words in Jerusalem,

By Melanie Phillips, jns

(JNS) People dining this week on the charming terrace at Jerusalem’s King David Hotel were surprised to find at the next table Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission.

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So does this mean the E.U. is now changing its attitude to Israel? Until now, it has been hostile. It promotes the Palestinian Arab narrative that seeks to delegitimize Israel through lies about its “illegal” settlements and alleged Israel Defense Forces’ aggression; it funds NGOs devoted to harming and destroying Israel; in an aggressive move in 2015 against Israeli “occupation” of the disputed territories, it started to label products from the “West Bank.”

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T. Belman. 3 days ago I posted WSJ: A Jordanian Future for the West Bank?. And now this video.  They are both selling the Jordan Option after years of silence.  I think both have been planted to start the public dialogue so that the idea can move forward.  Expect more such articles and statements to prepare the public for this..

That doesn’t mean that these articles reflect the actual deal being contemplated.  I opposed the idea of creating a Palestinian State on J & S so was against a confederation. What it really is about is connecting Area A and maybe B to Jordan. Obviously the rest goes to Israel. The monologue does not confirm the title. But I think it is more correct as to what is happening.. Just as Jordan made the West Bank part of Jordan in 1949, Israel is now making it  the “Israel Bank” save for Areas A,

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Israel Defense and Security Forum

Organizing principle:

Establishing a Jordanian-Palestinian confederation or federation between the Kingdom of Jordan and major Palestinian population centers in Judea and Samaria.

Rationale:  The affinity between the Kingdom of Jordan and the Palestinian population finds expression in a number of dimensions:

• Population: The Jordanian population includes about 10.5 million inhabitants (including refugees), of which between 70-80% are Palestinians. Jordan does not declassify the exact number, fearing political friction. The capital Amman, with 4 million inhabitants, is the world’s largest Palestinian city.

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By Malcolm Dash

The Day After

A year has elapsed since Israel cobbled together a Post Zionist coalition of eight disparate political factions. This came about as the brainchild of Lapid, chairman of the Yesh Atid party, who co-opted an enthusiastic partner in Naftali Bennett of Yamina. Although Bennett had only seven seats, he unashamedly assumed the prime minster-ship of the state. In his election campaigning, he swore he would not go into coalition with the Left, and that included Lapid. He emphatically repudiated seeking the support of any Arab party; with fraudulent insolence he reversed his promises, deceived his constituency, and in an egocentric, greedy grab for power, he extirpated his ideology, if indeed he had any to begin with? And forged his bizarre government.

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They know what apartheid really means.

By Hugh Fitzgerald, FPM   16.6.22

The UN Commission of Inquiry tasked with investigating Israel for supposed “crimes” against the Palestinians, headed by the virulently anti-Israel Navi Pillay, has just issued its report, which includes, among other calumnies, the charge that Israel practices apartheid. Black South Africans who were victims of the original, South-African brand of apartheid were incensed at this charge and have answered it, citing the real situation in Israel and invoking both Martin Luther King (“When People Criticize Zionists, They Mean Jews”), and Nelson Mandela (“Israel Has The Right To Exist”). A report on their demonstration against the Pillay Report is here: “‘Nelson Mandela Would Not Approve’: South Africans Denounce UN Report on Palestinians,” by Ben Cohen, Algemeiner, June 10, 2022:

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T. Belman. This was written over a month ago by a former MK. I disagree with her on a number of her observations. I believe that King Hussein is the problem and not the solution.

By Ksenia Svetlova, The Media Line  05/13/2022

Israelis and Jordanians no longer hide their willingness to cooperate, but King Abdullah’s complex internal situation and mounting tensions at Al-Aqsa Mosque may impede rapprochement.

Relations between Israel and Jordan have experienced a rebirth over the past year. After the exit from office of former Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, under whose leadership relations with the Hashemite monarchy were strained and sometimes hostile, the two sides have rediscovered each other, like a couple that falls in love again after years of mutual acrimony. The Jordanians no longer hide their willingness to cooperate with Israel on a variety of topics, such as a joint food program, renewable energy, the struggle against radical Islam, preventing arms smuggling, and stabilizing the Palestinian territories.

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Ambassador David Friedman on his bestselling new book, his time as ambassador, and his view of the state of the world in the Biden era.

By Yoni Kempinski, INN    14.6.22

Israel National News sat down with Ambassador David Friedman, former American ambassador to Israel, for a special Interview discussing his bestselling book and his current views on Israel and American foreign policy.

Friedman’s book “Sledgehammer: How Breaking with the Past Brought Peace to the Middle East” was released four months ago and has been a huge seller. In the first week, it was a bestseller in Israel, selling more copies of any book on the subject on Israel in the past 10 years, and was also number six in the country for hardcover non-fiction.

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