By Bassam Tawil, GATESTONE  •  December 19, 2022

Hamas gunmen parade on trucks with rockets in a street in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip on May 27, 2021. (Photo by Thomas Coex/AFP via Getty Images)<
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• The results of several public opinion polls, including the most recent one, demonstrate that Blinken and his team are either engaging in self-deception or simply fail to understand or see what most Palestinians want: Killing more Jews and the obliteration of Israel.
• This is not the first poll to show that a majority of Palestinians oppose the “two-state solution.” That is because they are clamoring for a Palestinian state not alongside Israel, but instead of Israel.

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L. Goudsmit. Daniel Greenfield’s extraordinary article is a history lesson that reminds us freedom is never free. One must be willing to fight to remain free from those who seek to enslave us. We must have courage and contempt of dangers if we are to recover our freedom. So it was then, and so it is today.

Judah the Maccabee also believed that fighting the good fight for freedom would award everlasting glory to the fighter. His call to arms for freedom was founded in his faith in Yahveh. I believe one must consider the billions of people around the world whose fight for freedom is not founded in Yahveh. The Christians, Buddhists, and Hindus also deserve to live free. So, what is the answer? For me it is the belief in freedom itself.

I believe in a variation on the theme of freedom, where individual rights and responsibilities are founded in laws that protect individuals and life in a society of ordered liberty. Differing cultures and religions that support the common purpose of freedom and ordered liberty are all welcome. To live together in peace in a world of variation, freedom is the common denominator that can support the variations. Binary societies of rulers and ruled are not welcome.

By Daniel Greenfield, 18 Dec

 A candle is a brief flare of light. A wick dipped in oil burns and then goes out again. The light of Chanukah appears no different. Briefly there is light and warmth and then darkness again.

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1. Summary: JaFaJ has learned that Chinese President Xi Jinping has asked the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman (MBS) to consider reconciliation with Iran, noting that China could serve as a mediator. Nonetheless, MBS did not seem to be thrilled and requested evidence of Iran’s change in behavior. China has a lot of vested interest in Iran, with four undisclosed Chinese military locations in Iran, including a military base on Kish Island in the Persian Gulf and another one on the Island of Salkah. Salkah is situated near the United Arab Emirates. Hence, China’s recent warmth towards Arab Gulf states is a loss for the Iranian Government because enhanced ties between Beijing and Arab states may come at the expense of Iran’s growing ties with China.

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“This is the third coin of this type found in excavations in Jerusalem, and one of the few ever found in archeological excavations,” said the researchers.

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH, JPOST

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Half-shekel coin from the third year of the Great Revolt. (photo credit: Tal Rogovski)

A rare, half-shekel coin from the Great Revolt from 66 CE to 70 CE during the Second Temple period has been discovered in Jerusalem’s Ophel excavations south of the Temple Mount.

Only a few days ago, a wooden box containing 15 silver coins that serve as proof of the Hanukkah story of the Maccabees – which was found recently during an excavation in the Negev Desert – was announced.

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T. Belman.  David Horovitz, the Editor of TOI, just wrote this editorial. Don’t mess with the Law of Return. The Right would like to remove the grandfather clause so only Halachic Jews have the right of return. What’s at stake is whether we let gentiles increase in number. No one mentions that Israel is heading for “extreme over-population… in the Jewish sector of the population!” For this reason alone , Israel should remove the grandfather clause.

“Israel will have the highest population density in the Western world.”  May 2017

By Miri Shalem November 18, 2018

Redacted with Clayton Morris

Check out the tweets of Mudar Zahran.

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— Mudar Adnan Zahran ???????? ????? (@Mudar_Zahran) December 18, 2022

Join Naomi Linder Kahn, Director of the International Division at Regavim, as she debunks the myths and establishes the facts of this hotly contested and vastly misunderstood part of Israel.

Muslims now make up 10% of the Georgia Senate Democrat delegation.

by Daniel Greenfield, FPM 

In 2015, Ruwa Romman was enabling Oglethorpe University’s Students for Justice in Palestine to pass the first BDS resolution in the region. Around the same time the Jordanian immigrant began working with the Georgia Muslim Voter Project and became the communications director for the Georgia operation of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

CAIR was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the funding of Hamas. A year earlier an individual in Atlanta by the same name urged readers to “join the BDS movement” during the Hamas campaign against Israel caused by the Muslim Brotherhood terror group’s kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers, including Naftali Fraenkel, an American citizen.

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by Amir Taheri, GATESTONE  •  December 18, 2022

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. (Photo by Omer Messinger/Getty Images)

• What [German Chancellor Olaf Scholz] fails or decides not to mention is the need to acknowledge the return of the nation-state as the key force capable of correcting those mistakes.
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By Giulio Meotti, GATESTONE  •  December 18, 2022

The Masjid Umar mosque in Leicester, England. (Image source: NotFromUtrecht/Wikimedia Commons)

• This year, Leicester’s famous multiculturalism, so praised by the establishment, exploded. Knife attacks, stone- and bottle-throwing, cars torched, religious symbols under siege, dozens wounded, including policemen…. Then the hunt for Hindus began in Britain’s streets.
• “Leicester to be first city where white people are minority,” announced The Independent in 2007. Some understood that it would not end well.
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VGNI

The phrase “At the double” is a particularly appropriate title this week. Not only are Israeli innovations and achievements continuing at an incredibly fast pace, but they now seem to be coming in pairs. Two cancer treatment breakthroughs; two big events to mark Israel’s Disabilities Awareness month; two organizations launching major agriculture technology initiatives; two major international trade successes; and two sets of archeological finds from the Biblical Hanukkah period.

In the 18th Dec 22 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:

• Israeli technology unmasks cancer’s attempt to fool the immune system.
• Israel promotes Disabilities Awareness month.
• Israeli startups are developing high-protein crops to feed a hungry world.
• Major ventures to expand Israeli trade with UAE and Turkey.
• Israelis performed a Hebrew play in the capital of Morocco.
• Two archaeological discoveries from the time of the first Hanukkah.
• He was once an Ethiopian shepherd boy; today he is an Israeli lawmaker.

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By MARTIN SHERMAN

Do the Palestinian-Arabs genuinely wish to establish a state for themselves?  Or do they really wish to dismantle the state of the Jews?

To this day, I cannot understand why the Palestinian leadership did not accept the far-reaching and unprecedented proposal I offered them. My proposal included a solution to all outstanding issues: territorial compromise, security arrangements, Jerusalem and refugees – Former PM Ehud Olmert, Washington Post, July 17, 2009

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by Geoffrey Clarfield, NEW ENGLISH REVIEW (January 2016)

NEW YORK – “Bar-Ilan University is the only Zionist university left in Israel,” proclaimed Prof. Efraim Inbar, director of Bar-Ilan’s Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, at a gala dinner of the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA ) held Tuesday night in New York.
— Haaretz-Israeli Newspaper, November 22, 2011

Preface

As more and more American and Canadian campuses are being infiltrated by the Muslim Brotherhood and their fellow travelling cultural Marxists, more and more, Jewish students find that they are being physically threatened and often attacked on the college and university campuses of these two democratic countries.

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Bear Klien, Your Russia is the partner (and has been in the past) of Israel’s great enemies. USA sells Israel’s weapons including partnership on F35. So USA which is super flawed is still not the partner of Israel’s greatest enemies.

I did leave the site due to your supporting Russia an enemy defacto of Israel due to it selling Iran weapons including nuke technology.   You should acknowledge your misjudgment and error on this fact. It would be a sign of integrity.  

William Burns says start of ‘full-fledged defense partnership’ between Tehran and Moscow already has effect in Ukraine, could have ‘an even more dangerous impact on Middle East’

Times of Israel

The head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) said in an interview broadcast Friday that Russia was looking to help Iran, which would pose a threat to US allies in the region.

“What’s beginning to emerge is at least the beginnings of a full-fledged defense partnership between Russia and Iran, with the Iranians supplying drones to the Russians, which are killing Ukrainian civilians as we speak today,” William Burns told PBS.

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By Hassan Mahmoudi, AM THINKER

The protests in Iran are now in their fourth month, and the government is responding with increasing aggression. It has already executed two protesters, both for murder, condemned another protester to death, and has accused 20 or more protesters of crimes punishable by death.

Recently, the Iran Human Rights Society printed a letter from a high school student who was arrested for attending a protest. The law enforcement agents to whom he refers were probably members of the Ministry of Information (MOIS) intelligence service because they tend to drive Samand brand white cars. However, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps occasionally work with MOIS, with the IRGC seizing people and then delivering them to MOIS for interrogation. Given the known track record of the regime when it comes to those who threaten it, there’s good reason to believe the letter is legitimate.
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