While the new government holds a cluster of threats that could spark violence in the West Bank, the UAE is the first country to publicly legitimize Ben-Gvir by connecting him to Netanyahu’s commitment to the Abraham peace accords

By Zvi Bar’el, HAARETZ  Dec 4/22

Far-right Otzma Yehudit Chairman Itamar Ben-Gvir shakes hands with Emirati Ambassador Mohamed Al Khaja, last week.

Diplomatic protocol didn’t require the embassy of the United Arab Emirates in Israel to invite National Security Minister-designate Itamar Ben-Gvir to the Persian Gulf state’s 51st anniversary celebration. The new Israeli cabinet has not yet been sworn in, and political leaders are asking themselves what message the invitation might be sending to other Arab states, to Israel’s Arabs and especially to Palestinians.

A Jordanian official said the invitation should be seen as expressing Amman’s desire to influence the actions of the government that incoming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is putting together.

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T. Belman. Qatar is our enemy and always has been. A related fact is that Israelis have been travelling in droves to the UAE. But the Arabsd in the UAE are not reciprocating.

Israeli journalists and fans are being boycotted and yelled at by fans, locals, and officials at the FIFA World Cup in Qatar.

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Scotland v Israel – Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland, Britain – October 9, 2021 General view as people display signs and Palestine flags outside the stadium before the match Action  (photo credit: REUTERS/LEE SMITH)

Multiple Israelis have claimed to have been met by an atmosphere of hostility and hatred at the World Cup in Qatar, with fans refusing to speak to Israeli journalists, waving Palestinian flags in the background of their videos and yelling at them.

Moav Vardy, KAN’s foreign affairs reporter, was yelled at by a Saudi fan who told him that “You are not welcome here. This is Qatar. This is our country. There is only Palestine; no Israel.”

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Analysis of data from 1991-2018 shows Israel has the worst decline in public confidence in its court system in the world.

Israel National News  Dec 4, 2022,

Supreme CourtYonatan Sindel/Flash90

The judicial activism of Israel’s Supreme Court has harmed the trust the public places in the judicial system, according to a Hebrew University study published today (Sunday) by Israel Hayom.

The research, conducted by Prof. Yonatan Givati ??and PhD student Aaron Gerber, uses a unique database that was unknown to legal researchers until today. This includes figures on public trust in the judicial system from 1991-2018, which appear to resolve the dispute between former Supreme Court Presidents Moshe Landau and Aharon Barak.

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Alex Mecouris

BY SALIM MANSUR

The WEF Globalist agenda of the “Great Reset” for deindustrialization and depopulation that is at play in the West and imposed upon the developing countries of the global south has been accelerated by the war in Ukraine. But this agenda remains unfocused in public discussions due to the obvious and deliberate failing of the mainstream media to inform and educate the public.

This agenda has been long in the making and opposition to the agenda has been marginalized by the ruling elite. The winners and losers of this agenda has also been obvious – the winners being the small elite segment of the global population, and the losers being most of the people herded and cajoled by fears of economic downturns, wars, pandemics, and natural calamities to which the people in general are hopelessly vulnerable.

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The sound of silence: the media almost completely ignore Twitter revelations  Dec 3, 2022

By Andrea Widburg

They don’t want the public to know that a public square gatekeeper worked with the Biden campaign, and maybe the government, to censor anti-Biden content. More

Media all over the map of ‘stupid’ and ‘hypocritical’ in wake of Musk Twitter censorship revelations  Dec 3, 2022

By Monica Showalter

Everything from pooh-poohing Musk to calling it a matter of “thorny” moderation decisions, to ignoring the story altogether, the press disgraces itself on this vital First Amendment story.  More

A deep dive into Elon Musk’s 2020-busting ‘Twitter Files     ‘Dec 3, 2022

By Rajan Laad

Musk has revealed devastating internal Twitter emails that prove that the social media giant was actively working with the Democrats to control the 2020 presidential election.  More

Tracy Beanz and Joe Pags break down the case against the central government and its work with big tech to shut down freedom of speech. This is a big deal. Missouri vs. Biden.

The post Pags and Beanz: How Deep Does the Censorship Go? appeared first on UncoverDC.

Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei reportedly ordered the judicial system to stop some severe indictments against protesters.

By TZVI JOFFRE, JPOST : DECEMBER 1, 2022

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, May 14, 2019 (photo credit: KHAMENEI.IR)

A special bulletin prepared by media experts for IRGC commander-in-chief Hossein Salami noted concerns by Iranian officials that the Basij paramilitary organization is too weak to stop the protests and that too strict indictments were being issued against protesters, according to a document leaked by the Black Reward hacktivist group on Wednesday.

According to the Black Reward group, the bulletins were periodically prepared under the supervision of Abbas Darwish Tawangar, the Deputy Director of Fars News Agency. The leak comes amid a series of documents and recordings retrieved from the Fars News Agency’s databases by the hacktivist group.

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A Conversation with Senator Joni Ernst

This week Hudson Institute launched its Center on Europe and Eurasia, directed by Senior Fellow Peter Rough. To launch the center, he spoke with Senator Joni Ernst of Iowa about why the United States needs alliances with Europe. Below are some shortened excerpts.

Watch the talk and read the transcript.

Key Insights

1. Why is it important that Ukraine emerge victorious from its war with Russia?

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by Majid Rafizadeh, GATESTONE  •  December 3, 2022

The Biden administration appears to be repeating Obama administration’s policy of choosing to be silent in the face of the Iranian regime’s bloodshed, human rights violations, and crackdowns that kill and wound peaceful protesters. Pictured: An anti-regime protest at Amirkabir University in Tehran, Iran on September 20, 2022. (Image source: Darafsh/Wikimedia Commons)

• The Biden administration appears to be repeating Obama administration’s policy of choosing to be silent in the face of the Iranian regime’s bloodshed, human rights violations, and crackdowns that kill and wound peaceful protesters — and has the same policy regarding brave Chinese protestors as well.

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T. Belman.  Thank you Gateway for publishing this.

By By Wayne Allyn Root, GATEWAY PUNDIT

Let me start with a disclaimer. I’m a Jew. Not just any Jew. Ancestery.com tested my DNA and reported I’m 99.9% Eastern European Jewish ancestry. That’s about as Jewish as you can get.

I had two Jewish parents, and four Jewish grandparents. Several of my ancestors were victims of the Holocaust. Others escaped Germany just in the nick of time.

I love the Jewish people. I’m proud of the success of the Jewish people. And I’ve fought strongly and proudly for Israel my entire adult life.

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An Israeli-Palestinian crisis sparked by irresponsible actions, combined with an Israeli drift away from liberal values, could reshape a decades-long relationship between the U.S. and Israel

By Alon Pinkas, HAARETZ   Dec 2, 2022 8:40 pm IST

Benjamin Netanyahu and then-Vice President Joe Biden in Jerusalem in 2010.Credit: Ronen Zvulun/Reuters

It’s fashionable in the punditocracy and in the incoming Israeli opposition that a crisis in U.S.-Israel relations is inevitable. Not a day has gone by since the election without a report on “U.S. concerns,” “the administration is warning privately,” “Israeli policies will be watched vigilantly” or “Washington is unhappy.”

Perhaps. The ingredients are definitely there, but for a visible crisis to erupt, an Israeli policy has to be perceived as provocative. Forecasting a crisis without such evidence is speculation and political expediency.

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by Dexter Van Zile, Focus on Western Islamism, November 25, 2022

Published originally in one part under the title “Former Salafist Umar Lee: Middle East Islamism Is in Decline.”

See Part II: The Akh-Right and Antisemitism.

Umar Lee grew up in a Baptist family before converting to Islam at the age of 17. Living as a teenager in North St. Louis, Lee was keenly aware of — and troubled by — America’s racial divide, which he hoped to transcend by converting to Islam. “I was attracted to Islam by black men — the lectures of the Nation of Islam, rappers, and the legacy of Malcolm [X],” he wrote in his recent memoir, In Malcolm’s Path: A Journey Through Community Chaos, Muslim Fundamentalist Fantasy, and The Tragedies of America (2020).

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Dr. Jonathan Turley

Likud leader assails outgoing PM for urging municipalities to fight educational dictates of homophobic MK, reportedly warning IDF general of far-right attempts ‘to gain control’

By TOI STAFF      Today,

A composite image of incoming prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and outgoing prime minister Yair Lapid leading their respective Likud and Yesh Atid faction meetings at the Knesset, on November 8, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday censured outgoing prime minister Yair Lapid for “attempting to incite rebellion among military officers and local authorities against the elected government.”

His comments came after Lapid urged local authority leaders not to cooperate with an extremist far-right member of the incoming government on educational issues, and after he was reported to warn a military general earlier this week against allowing the far-right “to gain control over the military.”

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White House has been subtle in expressing concern over far-right’s rise, but Democrat close to president says administration working behind the scenes to push back

By JACOB MAGID, TOI Today, 3:58 am

A Democratic US senator on Thursday said the Biden administration has been working to try to limit the influence far-right lawmakers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben Gvir will have in the expected next Israeli government.

While the White House has sought to be more subtle and tight-lipped about its discomfort with the rise of the Religious Zionism and Otzma Yehudit party leaders, Democrat Chris Van Hollen, who is seen to have a close relationship with US President Joe Biden, described Washington’s concerns more bluntly.

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Herzl would recognize all too well the tragic fantasy of assimilation. Op-ed.

By Melanie Phillips

(JNS) A perverse feature of the Jewish people is that they make one particular mistake over and over again. They are persecuted. They frantically try to assimilate into their host community in the belief that this will avert future persecution. They are persecuted again. They frantically assimilate again.

This week saw the publication of the first collected works of Theodor Herzl, the founding father of modern Zionism. The set initiated the Library of the Jewish People, a new series of works by classic Jewish writers issued by the Koren publishing house.

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