T. Belman. This is unconscionable but it is typical of the Left. These Rabbis disrespect our democracy and refuse to engage with Smotrich and Ben Gvir in order to  understand them better. They also disrespect the Talmud which always includes dissenting opinions. They are both closeminded and virtue-signalling. Their religion is progressivism rather than Jewish.

Reform, Conservative, Reconstructionist leaders sign letter pledging to not allow some of Netanyahu’s coalition partners from speaking in their synagogues

By RON KAMPEAS, TOI

JTA — More than 330 American rabbis, including some who occupy prominent roles in major cities, are pledging to block far-right members of Benjamin Netanyahu’s incoming government from speaking at their synagogues and will lobby to keep them from speaking in their communities.

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Emerging deals between Likud and partners also provide for death penalty for terrorists, advancing annexation, potential anti-LGBT discrimination, gender-segregated public events

By TOI STAFF

Ending a ban on MKs who incite racism

Otzma Yehudit, led by far-right lawmaker Itamar Ben Gvir, said it had reached an agreement to pass legislation that will end a ban on individuals who incite racism from serving in the Knesset.
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Israel’s controversial Maccabean Three may be channeling Jewish history all over again. 

By Melanie Phillips, INN    Dec 23, 2022, 8:19 AM

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(JNS) 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.

With Netanyahu insisting that he will keep these three on a short leash, the rational position is to judge this government on what it actually does rather than wildly denouncing these men on the basis of their previous behavior.

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T. Belman. According to the article, most of the Olim from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus totaling 52,000 are not Jews..  I assume this means most are not halachic Jews.. We are not informed how many of these came under the grandfather clause and how many without any Jewish connection. Nor does it tell us if this total includes refugees who were given temporary visas.

According to Agency data, 70,000 new immigrants arrived in Israel, most of them from Russia and Ukraine.

Israel National News

Jewish Agency Chairman Maj. Gen. (Res.) Doron Almog with new immigrants Jewish Agency

The Jewish Agency for Israel is wrapping up 2022, marking a record year with a total of 70,000 olim (immigrants) from 95 different countries immigrating to Israel with the Agency’s assistance, in cooperation with the Ministry of Aliyah and Integration. This represents a record number of olim for the past 23 years and a dramatic increase from 2021 when around 28,600 new immigrants arrived in Israel.

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Steve Turley

Why an ideology so graphically repudiated by history – and so bloody in its application – continues to endure.

by Bruce Thornton, FPM

The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 sparked a wave of optimism and triumphalism across the West. Our nuclear-armed rival and ideological enemy had suddenly disappeared, taking with it the shadow of nuclear apocalypse. But for the Left, since 1917 the Soviet Union had been the locus of the hopes and dreams of leftist collectivism. Now history, understood as an ideological game of thrones, had ended, dashing that hope. Liberal democracy, private property, and free-market capitalism had prevailed, and no credible alternative remained.

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“This anti-racism law has never been used against Arabs, only Jews,” explains Otzma Yehudit head.

Israel National News

(R. to l.) Baruch Marzel, Itamar Ben-Gvir, Dr. Michael Ben AriNoam Rivkin Fenton/Flash 90, Eliran Aharon, Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90

New details have emerged regarding the coalition agreement between the Likud and Otzma Yehudit parties which are likely to satisfy right-wing figures such as Bentzi Gopstein, Baruch Marzel, and Dr. Michael Ben Ari.

Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu has acceded to the demand of Otzma Yehudit head and National Security Minister-designate Itamar Ben-Gvir to cancel Clause 7A of the Basic Law: Knesset, which prevents anyone who incites toward racism or who negates the existence of Israel as a Jewish-democratic state from running for the Knesset.

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National-Religious Chief Rabbi to be appointed, programs to enhance Jewish identity promoted.

By Hezki Baruch, INN

MK Bezalel SmotrichYonatan Sindel/Flash90

With the parties of the incoming government poised to sign coalition agreements, details are beginning to emerge. The first agreement the Likud party intends to sign on Thursday is with the Religious Zionism party, headed by MK Bezalel Smotrich.

One of the clauses in their agreement is a commitment to promote an amendment to the Religious Public Education Law, designed to formalize and enhance the status and authority of the state-religious public education system.

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Tucker Carlson Tonight 12/21/22

AMERICAN THINKER “Must-see video: Tucker Carlson takes on the Zelensky money grab“

T. Belman. In general, the left is trying to maintain power in the hands of the civil servants rather that giving the power to the Knesset. For me, the civil servants represent the Deep State.

By Ted Belman

This morning the anti-Zionist HAARETZ reported on:

Jordan riots.

Israeli security officials are worriedly watching the latest developments in Jordan. At the moment the stability of the kingdom is not believed to be at risk, but the events of the past week show the difficulty that the royal house and the government in Amman are having with the combination of protests, violence and economic crisis.

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THE BOMBING OF DONBASS CIVILIANS HAS BEEEN GOING ON FOR 8 YEARS

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PETITION: To NY Times:  OPPOSE Swastika Crossword Puzzle in NY Times on Eve of Chanuka 

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Please sign to write to oppose this action that was taken during Chanukah by the NY Times which claims it  was only about “symmetry ” for the crossword puzzle. The NY Times has been known to publish very antisemitic articles in the name of free speech, or to disavow the fact that the articles are actually antisemitic.

Coalition and opposition lawmakers say internal European document on Area C with plans to boost Palestinians represents ‘same flames of primitive hatred’

By LAZAR BERMAN, TOI        Today, 9:34 pm  

A Palestinian walks on a newly-made section of a road that was financed by the European Union, on the outskirts of the West Bank village of Taqoa, near Bethlehem, January. 16, 2016. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Dozens of right-wing lawmakers from both the presumed incoming coalition and its opponents on Wednesday called a leaked European Union document formulating a new program to protect Palestinian claims in the West Bank an “extremely grave breach” of the EU-Israel relationship.

In a letter to top EU officials, the Knesset members effectively accused the Europeans of antisemitism and of dismissing historical Jewish ties to the West Bank.

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T. Belman. Follow Mudar Adnan Zahran on twitter. He is reporting extensively every day.

Demonstrations in Amman under utter silence from world media.
The revolutionaries continue to upload videos despite the kinglet’s ban on the Tik Tok application and the apparent Arab-Western media collusion in order to obscure the Jordanian revolution…#?????_??????? #????? pic.twitter.com/zB4ebCQWKC

— Mudar Adnan Zahran ???????? ????? (@Mudar_Zahran) December 21, 2022

The Muslim Brotherhood in the Middle East is in decline in part because of the recent deaths of Yusuf al-Qaradawi in Qatar (above left) and Ibrahim Munir in London (above right). Qaradawi’s death may, however, may represent an opportunity for Muslim Brotherhood activists in Europe by removing an embarrassing and anachronistic presence from the world scene.

By Sara Brzuszkiewicz, MEFORUM      20.12.22<
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The Muslim Brotherhood in the Middle East has been experiencing the worst international crisis since its founding in Egypt in 1928. The movement is reeling from the death of its most prominent ideologue Yusuf al-Qaradawi in September and the November death of London-based Ibrahim Munir — who served as the organization’s operational leader. It is also experiencing a loss of support in the Middle East and suffering the lingering effects of a power struggle between its leaders in Egypt and Turkey. Put it all together and it appears the movement is on the verge of disintegrating in the region of its birth.
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UNLESS THE US CAPITULATES AND ACCEPTS PUTIN’S TERMS, UKRAINE WILL BE DESTROYED.

by Seth J. Frantzman, MEFORUM

Qatar has been trying to deflect critique from worker’s rights and human rights during the World Cup. Doha now faces a new challenge. Qatar has been accused of being involved in a corruption scandal in Europe that has ensnared several members of the European Parliament.

Over the past week it has been revealed that large sums of cash were found in two homes, and the EU Parliament voted to remove one Greek MEP as one of the 14 vice presidents of the body.

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For Saudis like me, nothing could be more disheartening than a divorce from the United States.

By Mohammed Khalid Alyahya, FOREIGN POLICY

Xi Jinping is welcomed by Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud at the Palace of Yamamah in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on December 8, 2022. (Royal Court of Saudi Arabia/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Chinese President Xi Jinping just returned from three days of back-to-back summits in Riyadh: the first with Saudi Arabia’s King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the second with leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council, and the third with a larger group of Arab governments. The result of the summit marathon was a number of public and not-so public agreements on energy, trade, investment, technology cooperation, and various other areas. The summits ratified an increasingly close economic and security relationship. Saudi Arabia supplies China with 18 percent of its energy needs, and it is expanding orders for petrochemical, industrial, and military equipment, much of which it previously obtained from the United States.
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By Steve Kramer

Why “defrocking,” a term usually used in the ecclesiastical sense? Well, The New York Times (NYT) has a quasi-religious following among American liberals, especially Jewish ones. It is “the” authority on most things, and one of those things is the paper’s peculiar relationship with the Jewish State of Israel. It says it supports Israel, while we know that it disparages Israel more than anything else.

While many NYT readers might take offense at the term “Jewish State,” that precisely describes this nation, which won its independence in 1948 as the one and only Jewish State. Yes, it’s democratic. Name another country that could have five elections within such a short period without a violent reaction.

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