By Ryan Ledendecker, REPUBLICAN BRIEF   December 6, 2022

Judge John Tuchi of the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona received a sharp round of criticism from Arizona Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake’s campaign.Lake is challenging the process of the Nov. 8 election where Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs has been declared the winner, according to results certified Monday.The backlash from Lake’s campaign came in the wake of a ruling from Tuchi on Thursday sanctioning lawyers who represented Lake and Republican Secretary of State candidate Mark Finchem in a previous election-related lawsuit, according to KNXV-TV in Phoenix.
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The head of the Israel Bar Association warned Monday against legal reforms being pushed by members of the expected new religious-right coalition that would sharply curb the authority of the courts and allow politicians to determine judicial appointments.

Avi Himi called for a broad public effort to oppose the proposals, which include legislation that would allow the Knesset to overturn rulings by the High Court of Justice and change the criteria by which the chief justice is chosen.

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T. Belman.  Trump recognized this and began cutting down on their funding and question the role of UNRWA.  Biden reversed this and restored US funding and support for it. It reasons, the more support, the bigger US influence. In other words, Arab terrorists are US proxies.

>A Palestinian woman walks past the shuttered headquarters of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Refugees (UNRWA) in Gaza City during a general strike of employees in UNRWA institutions in the Palestinian strip, on November 29, 2021.MOHAMMED ABED/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES<

American tax dollars are funding terrorist attacks on Israel and the United States.

As crazy as that statement sounds, it could not be more true.

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T. Belman. This article suggests that the US is committed to the “land for peace” formula for solving the Arab/Israel conflict. The intent of Res 242 was to help the Arabs save face after their devastating loss.  The intent of the US was to wean the Arabs away from Russia and to make them dependent on the US for protection from Israel.  Today the issue is much less potent. Now the Biden administration does not want to advance the Abraham Accords before the Palestinian issue is solved. That’s the excuse. By putting the Pal cause first, Biden and the globalists are preventing the growth of peace between Israel and more Arab countries. That is their goal. For the Globalists, championing the Palestinian cause gives them huge leverage over what happens and keeping both Jew and Arab beholden to them. No one gives a damn about the Pals

By Jed Babbin,  Washington Times, 12/3/2022,  

The president’s team is intent on undoing everything Trump did — no matter how good it was

President Biden inherited a Middle East that posed the greatest opportunities for stability, if not peace, in almost six decades. Former President Donald Trump‘s 2018 revocation of the Obama nuclear weapons deal with Iran and imposition of severe economic sanctions on it backfooted the terrorist state. The Arab nations, terrified by the prospect of a nuclear-armed Iran, saw Mr. Trump‘s Abraham Accords as the best chance to align themselves with the U.S. and Israel, the only regional power able to face up to Iran.

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Netanyahu’s Likud agrees to transfer hundreds of neighborhood facilities from education ministry to interior, after handing extremist lawmaker some school programming, report says

By TOI STAFF   Today, 6:50 am   

Shas chairman MK Aryeh Deri after coalition talks with Religious Zionist party head MK Bezalel Smotrich and Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu outside a hotel in Jerusalem, December 5, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Presumed incoming prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party has agreed to hand control of community centers to the ultra-Orthodox Shas party amid tense coalition negotiations between the two sides, according to a Monday report.

Likud has agreed to transfer the Israel Association of Community Centers from the education ministry to the interior ministry, which Shas is expected to hold in the next government, the Globes business daily reported.

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By Pragativadi News Service 

New York: In what appears to be an astonishing revelation, a US-based scientist, who worked at a controversial research lab in China’s Wuhan, has said that COVID-19 was a “man-made virus” that leaked from the facility.

Covid was leaked from Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), a state-run and funded research facility, two years ago, the New York Post reported, quoting US-based researcher Andrew Huff’s statement in the British newspaper The Sun.

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Israel’s outgoing PM urged municipalities not to cooperate with an educational department to be headed by lawmaker Avi Maoz.

BY DAVID ISAAC, jns

(December 5, 2022 / JNS) Even before taking power, Benjamin Netanyahu has found himself on the defensive over his prospective coalition’s “fringe elements.” During an NBC interview on Sunday, Netanyahu felt obliged to declare, “I’m going to safeguard Israeli democracy.”

However, legal analysts told JNS the danger to democracy may come from another corner, namely the actions of outgoing Prime Minister Yair Lapid, who called on local authorities to flout the incoming government’s directives.

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BIBI IS A NATIONAL TREASURE.

YET HE IS TREATED ABOMINABLY AND PERSECUTED

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By David Zukerman, AMER THINKER

DC Larson recently pointed out in an American Thinker publication that Donald J. Trump is a real-life John Doe, the populist hero from one of Frank Capra’s four great populist movies, “Meet John Doe” (1941). Larson is, of course, correct in comparing Mr. Trump to John Doe. I would go further, as I see indicia of other Capra populist heroes in the former president as well: Longfellow Deeds in “Mr. Deeds Goes to Town” (1936); Jefferson Smith in “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” (1939); and George Bailey in “It’s a Wonderful Life” (1946).

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T. Belman. Did you know that Avi Maoz, the soon to be new Minister said,

“There are currently 3,000 educational programs written by progressive, far-left NGOs, funded by foreign foundations and the European Union. Are they there to strengthen the Jewish state? Of course not. They want to make Israel a state like all states.

“Who will make sure that Jewish identity programs be written instead of ‘state-of-all-its-citizens’ programs?” That’s my job.

Throughout his career, whether as prime minister or in opposition, Benjamin Netanyahu has disregarded the Education Ministry. He’s now learning that local councils don’t share that indifference

By Anshel Pfeffer, HAARETZ   Dec 4,2022

Of all the agreements signed so far between Benjamin Netanyahu and the prospective members of his incoming governing coalition, the news that the new deputy minister in the Prime Minister’s Office, Avi Maoz, will also control the Education Ministry department in charge of external programing for public schools has caused the most significant backlash.

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Under deal with Likud, Religious Zionism minister to oversee key Defense Ministry organizations responsible for enforcing regulations, daily life in the West Bank

By JEREMY SHARON, TOI      2 December 2022,

The newly agreed terms of the coalition agreement between the Likud and the far-right Religious Zionism parties will give the latter outsize influence over civilian issues in the West Bank and almost certainly allow for accelerated growth of Israeli settlements there.

In addition, enforcement against illegal Palestinian construction in the territory will be ramped up significantly, a step which would likely generate strong international opposition and heighten tensions with the Palestinian Authority and the Palestinian populace more generally.

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by Bassam Tawil, GATEWAY  •  December 5, 2022 at 5:00 am

Pictured: A promotional mural for the soccer World Cup on a building in Doha, Qatar. (Photo by Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images)

• What is disturbing is that a large portion of this incitement is coming from Arabs whose governments signed peace treaties or other agreements with Israel: Egypt, Jordan and the Palestinians.
• What is even more disturbing is that the hate against Israel is coming from Arabs who continue to benefit from unconditional US financial aid.
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Israel National News       

Religious Zionism will appoint the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) and the head of the IDF Civil Administration and not the Defense Minister.

The coalition agreements with the Likud establish that in addition to control of the Civil Administration and its course of operation, and of the high planning board, Smotrich or a minister representing him will appoint the two most powerful men in Judea and Samaria, other than the IDF Central Command chief and Defense Minister.

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Moscow sought to make sure that Israel would not interfere with the transfer of defense measures from Syria to Ukraine.

Israel National News   Dec 5,2022

Senior Israeli and Russian officials have been holding talks in recent days, Kan 11 News reported on Sunday.

According to the report, the purpose of the conversations was, among other things, to make sure that Israel would not interfere with the transfer of air defense measures that Russia is taking out of Syrian territory to the Ukrainian area.

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All government responses to High Court on settlements to require Smotrich’s approval.

Israel National News  Dec 5, 2022, 8:33 AM (GMT+2)

Smotrich, Netanyahu, and their negotiating teamsSpokespersons

Last Thursday, the Likud party signed a coalition agreement with the Religious Zionism party, headed by MK Bezalel Smotrich; on Monday morning, that agreement was published in full.

Heading the agreement is a clause stipulating that all government responses to the Supreme Court on the issue of settlements must be authorized by Smotrich himself. In addition, the position of “Minister within the Defense Ministry” will be permanently enshrined in law (in the Basic Law: Government). A Religious Zionism representative will be appointed to that position, which will include authority over the Civil Administration (the de facto government of Area C in Judea and Samaria, which rules over all the Jewish communities there).

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By Jay Valentine, AM THINKER

Database latency — a geeky term, but that’s how they did it!

A policeman pulls over a speeder.  The police computer reports that three hours ago a similar vehicle and person held up a liquor store — so the police are on alert.

No database latency.
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By Baruch Yedid / TPS

In the 15 years since Hamas seized control of Gaza, 12 percent of the Strip’s population has fled, according to a study released by an organization associated with the terror group. The report appears to mark the first time Hamas is acknowledging — indirectly — widespread Gazan emigration since it violently seized control of the Strip in 2007.

The report, written by the Hamas-affiliated Council on International Relations, was published in September and recently seen by the Tazpit Press Service. It claims that over 60,000 Gazan residents have migrated from the Gaza Strip in recent years to escape poverty and war.

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Heretofore overlooked British General Staff documents demonstrate that the oft-marginalized Lehi leader Avraham ‘Yair’ Stern’s assessment of British intentions toward Mandate Palestine was correct

BY EDWARD N. LUTTWAK, TABLET   NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Avraham Stern in 1942ISRAELI GOVERNMENT PRESS OFFICE

When the warrior poet Avraham “Yair” Stern founder and leader of Lohamei Herut Israel (Lehi, “Fighters for the Freedom of Israel”) who believed that the British had to be forced out with assassinations and bombs and would never leave voluntarily, was killed after being captured and handcuffed by British detectives on Feb. 12, 1942, no Jew could celebrate his death.

But the leaders of the Jews of British Mandatory Palestine, already then led by David Ben-Gurion, viewed Stern’s death as a gain for the national cause rather than a loss—and not only because the poet and his followers were reckless political dilettantes: Some fantasized alliances with Mussolini, even the Nazis, as well as Arab nationalists in a common anti-British cause.

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