Will US-Russia policy give Iran the bomb and kill the Abraham Accords?  

Liberals may blanch at the phrase but an “axis of evil” now exists with Russia, China, North Korea and Iran. It is a severe mistake for the Biden administration to focus all its attention on the first three and stand on the sidelines while Iran joins the nuclear club and aids our enemy in Ukraine.

By Mitchell Bard

(October 28, 2022 / JNS) The Biden administration has been pursuing a reckless policy toward Russia that has far-reaching implications that threaten American, European and Israeli security; emboldens Iran; and undermines opportunities for expanding the Abraham Accords. That is a foreign policy trifecta disaster.
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October 29, 2022 | 3:38 pm | 1 Comment »

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Russia and Iran, New “Axis of Evil,” Emboldened by Biden Administration  

By Majid Rafizadeh, GATESTONE  •  October 29, 2022

  • Despite this escalation [Iran supplying suicide drones to Russia], the European Union would not admit that the Iranian regime was entrenched in the war on Ukraine: EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell wanted “proof”….
  • Iran’s regime, apparently even more emboldened, then began sending troops to Crimea to assist Russia in its attacks on Ukraine’s infrastructure and civilian population and to increase the effectiveness of the suicide drones.

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October 29, 2022 | 1:08 pm | Comments »

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Final Poll: Bibi Gets his 61, Smotrich-Ben Gvir 15, Arabs & Meretz Tetering over the Abyss  

By  David Israel, JEWISH PRESS    28.10.22

MKs Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich at an election campaign event in Sderot, October 26, 2022.

Last Wednesday, I told you that the stalemate between Netanyahu’s right-wing bloc and Lapid’s left-wing will remain until we know how the Arabs voted. If Arab turnout is high, Netanyahu’s bloc would be down to 58-59 mandates; if it’s low, Netanyahu would be the next prime minister (Camille Fuchs’s Survey: Lapid 27, Smotrich-Ben Gvir 14, Likud 31, Shaked 2.2%). But on Friday, an Israel Hayom poll proved me wrong, suggesting Netanyahu will get 61 mandates regardless of the Arab vote.

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October 29, 2022 | 1:30 am | Comments »

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Full text of Putin speech and answers at Valdai Discussion Club  

MECOURIS STARTS TALKING ABOUT PUTIN’S BIG SPEECH TODAY AT 14 MINUTES.

He explains its content and importance before providing clips of Putin delivering the speech.

The full text of the speech may be found here MIRAGE  28.10.22

It is a very long speech exceeded only by a 2 hour question and answer period which follows it.

I can’t help but contrast this openness to the cancel culture of the West.

October 29, 2022 | 12:35 am | 4 Comments »

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Mail-In Ballot Total Surges Past 10 Million Across US Ahead of 2022 Midterms  

By Jack Phillips, EPOCH TIMES

More than 10 million people have cast mail-in ballots ahead of the Nov. 8 midterm elections, according to an election monitoring project.

Another 5 million or so have voted early and in person, research from the U.S. Elections Project shows as of Oct. 27. This week, a number of states opened early in-person voting, including Texas.

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October 28, 2022 | 4:00 pm | 2 Comments »

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Russian ambassador says Israel need not worry about Moscow’s ties with Iran  

Pressed on purchase of Iranian drones, Anatoly Viktorov says Moscow not ‘playing against Israel’ and takes its ‘legitimate security concerns’ into account

By TOI STAFF27 October 2022, 11:43 pm

Russian Ambassador to Israel Anatoly Viktorov on Thursday sought to calm growing Israeli concerns of Moscow’s cooperation with Tehran following the recent purchase and deployment of Iranian drones against Ukraine.

“Russia is not playing against Israel and I would like to confirm that we fully and totally are taking into account the legitimate security concerns of Israel,” Viktorov responded when asked about the drone purchases during an interview with Kan news.
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October 28, 2022 | 12:47 pm | 8 Comments »

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Internal polls show Shaked at 5 seats  

October 28, 2022 | 12:22 pm | 1 Comment »

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Religious Zionist Party’s platform on Diaspora Jewry and Aliyah.  

By Zvika Klien, JPOST


Israeli lawmaker Itamar Ben Gvir carries an Israeli flag as he dances together with others by Damascus gate just outside Jerusalem’s Old City June 15, 2021 (credit: REUTERS/RONEN ZEVULUN)

The Jerusalem Post has obtained Religious Zionist Party’s platform on Diaspora Jewry and Aliyah.

“Informed by a deep sense of responsibility for our fellow Jews around the world, we seek to address the following challenges,” the platform stated. Some of the plans the party claims to promote are creating “increased apathy toward Jewish identity and detachment from Zionism among many Diaspora Jews, specifically young adults.” In addition, they suggest they will try to assist with the “struggle to sustain communal institutions and Jewish schools in many Jewish communities abroad.”

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October 28, 2022 | 7:41 am | Comments »

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The unholy alliance between Republicans and Islamists  

Conservative despair about the liberal erosion of the West is delivering it to its mortal foes. Op-ed.

(JNS) The tacit alliance between the Western left and the Islamists—Muslims intent upon conquering the West for Islam—has long been a source of deep concern.

Left-wingers, who exercise outsize influence over Western culture, sometimes make common cause with Islamists over their mutual aim of destroying the West and the State of Israel. This is even though the Islamists’ theocratic denial of democracy and human rights, their oppression of women and their persecution of gay people and dissidents run wholly contrary to the Western left’s professed values.

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October 28, 2022 | 7:17 am | Comments »

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The Sovereignty Movement: Unmasking Gantz’s Policy  

The Sovereignty Movement is troubled by the lack of clarity regarding Defense Minister Benny Gantz’s policy, and is publicizing an ad that clarifies the strategy indicated by his actions.

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Under the headline: “Israel or Palestine,” the Sovereignty Movement warns against steps taken by Minister Benny Gantz that promote, in practice, the establishment of a Palestinian state.

The movement expresses concern about what its members characterize as a right-wing mask behind which Benny Gantz conceals his political philosophy.

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October 28, 2022 | 6:56 am | 5 Comments »

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Beijing’s courtship of Israel has been canny and effective  

BY Matti Friedman, TABLET

Chinese Itzik Comes to Haifa

Last week I drove up to Haifa to see with my own eyes a sight that, for most Israelis, has yet to sink in: the country’s brand new port, our third, which is beautiful, automated, efficient, and operated by the same Chinese company that runs the megaport at Shanghai. The first full container ship dropped anchor the day after my visit. Chinese characters adorn the soaring ship-to-shore cranes, freshly painted red and white; Israeli workers man joysticks opposite computer arrays running Chinese software; and in the managerial offices sit Chinese executives.

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October 27, 2022 | 6:59 pm | Comments »

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Israel’s French New Wave  

The growing and distinctly western Mediterranean olim are a boon to Israel but a dark omen for the future of France

By Matti Friedman, TABLET

Newly arrived immigrants from France study Hebrew at ulpan on March 12, 2015, in Netanya, IsraelLIOR MIZRAHI/GETTY IMAGES

The rumblings of Jewish history take many forms, and in this case the form was a disk of lemon filling, the dough brittle, meringue slightly browned. I was at Gagou de Paris. Across the street was the rival patisserie L’Artisan. I was called jeune homme by a manager graciously rounding down, and heard French at three of the four outdoor tables adjacent to mine. But hurrying by us on the sidewalk were the familiar capotes, the e-bikes, the skinny jeans on Arab teens, the religious girls with hair wrapped like African queens—it was Jerusalem.

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October 27, 2022 | 6:36 pm | 33 Comments »

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Abbas deputy admits that the PA security forces are working together with terrorists  

By Maurice Hirsch, Adv. , PMW| Oct 27, 2022

In the morning of Oct. 25, 2022, Israeli Security Forces carried out an anti-terror mission against the “Lion’s Den” terror cell. The cell had carried out a number of terror attacks. The goal of the mission was to neutralize one of its senior members Wadi’ Al-Houh and disrupt the cell’s terror activities. During the mission, Al-Houh and other members of the cell were killed. The apartment they were killed in, also served as a bomb making laboratory.

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October 27, 2022 | 6:17 pm | 1 Comment »

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