Just yesterday, former Trump adviser and campaign strategist Steve Bannon was sentenced to four months in jail following his conviction on two counts of criminal contempt of Congress. Bannon was ordered to pay a fine of $6,500.
Bannon was subpoenaed by the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 incident for records and testimony in September of last year.
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Lapid’s behavior since taking over the caretaker government shows that if he forms the next government, the foundations of Israel’s democratic system and the basic freedoms of a free society including freedom of the press, will be imperiled. Op-ed.
(JNS) Back in 2019, Caretaker Prime Minister Yair Lapid infamously accused his opponent, then-prime minister and current opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu, of dictatorial tendencies and contempt for democracy. Speaking at an anti-Netanyahu demonstration, Lapid said, “Listen Bibi!…We won’t let you be Erdogan. There will be no Turkish dictator here…We won’t let you destroy the country. This is our country. You’re not above the law. We won’t let you be a dictator.”
Little analytical acumen is needed to grasp that a Palestinian state will comprise a multi-dimensional threat to Israel. Whether one considers height, width, length, or depth, such a state would entail existential dangers for Israel
“It is difficult to imagine any other issue for which the international media have been so successfully exploited—from the point of view of the Arabs—as has the Palestinian issue. Not since the time of Dr. Goebbels [Head of the Nazi Propaganda Machine], there has ever been a case in which continual repetition of a lie has borne such great fruits…”– Prof. Amnon Rubinstein, in Palestinian Lies“, Haaretz, 30 July, 1976.
by Majid Rafizadeh, GATESTONE • October 22, 2022
My fellow humans worldwide, the time for silence is over. I have been beating this drum for years now, but for some reason, the decision by a panel of 15 “doctors” at the CDC to place the COVID-19 shot on the childhood vaccination schedule has caused me to reignite my plea.
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By David Israel, JEWISH PRESS 20.10.22
Former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives for a court hearing in his trial at the District Court in Jerusalem, May 11, 2022.
On Wednesday, I reported that according to MK Bezalel Smotrich, “fraud” and “breach of trust” should not be on the books as criminal offenses, because they are “fluid and undefined,” and the biases of the police and prosecution set the goalposts for these alleged crimes.
The item regarding those two offenses was a tiny part of a complex and erudite list of amendments to the country’s justice system which I presented and analyzed (Media Ignore Smotrich’s Plan to Repair the Judicial System, Calling It a Plot to Exonerate Netanyahu).
By David Israel,, JEWISH PRESS
Yamina leaders Ayelet Shaked and Naftali Bennett, August 21, 2019. / Ben Dori / Flash 90[/caption]
In an exclusive interview on News12, Amit Segal, possibly the most influential right-leaning (some say right-winger) in Israel’s mainstream media, asked the woman who followed former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett through thick and thin for more than a decade Ayelet Shaked, “Let’s talk about Naftali Bennett, OK? Is your relationship the same as it used to be? Are you still Siamese twins like you were over the past decade?”
By Orly Harari, INN
Ayelet ShakedTomer Neuberg/Flash90
Haaretz journalist Yossi Verter on Friday morning wrote that a “complete veto” from the “house in Caesarea” is preventing MK Benjamin Netanyahu from helping Ayelet Shaked’s Jewish Home party pass the electoral threshold.
Chief justice says government does not need to lawmakers’ approval for international agreements
By Chen Maanit, HAARETZ
Supreme Court President Esther Hayut at the court in Jerusalem, on Thursday.Credit: Ohad Zwigenberg
The Knesset does not need to vote on international agreements made by Israel – including the contentious maritime deal with Lebanon, Supreme Court President Esther Hayut ruled on Thursday.
Speaking during a High Court of Justice hearing on four appeals against the deal reached with Lebanon last week, Hayut noted that the government’s regulations do not require the cabinet to present every international agreement to the Knesset. Among the appellants were the Kohelet Policy Forum, the Lavi Organization and MK Itamar Ben-Gvir.
By TOI STAFF
Prime Minister Yair Lapid on Friday morning slammed a United Nations report accusing Israel of violating international law, as part of an ongoing inquiry into alleged rights abuses in Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip following last year’s 11-day fight between Israel and the Hamas terror group.
“Precisely because I was not prime minister at the time of Operation ‘Guardian of the Walls,’ I feel obliged to emphasize: The UN report on the operation is biased, false, inciting, and blatantly unbalanced,” Lapid said on Twitter, referencing the 2021 conflict.
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Yair Lapid’s chance of preventing Benjamin Netanyahu from winning the Israeli elections hinges on the Arab parties crossing the threshold. To charm Arab voters, he’s vilifying Itamar Ben-Gvir.
A billboard of then-Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and Itamar Ben Gvir, head of the Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Strength) , as part of Otzma Yehudit election campaign, in the northern Israeli city of Tzfat, February 28, 2020.(photo credit: DAVID COHEN/FLASH 90)<
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With each passing day ahead of the fast-approaching November 1 Knesset elections, the rhetoric against opposition leader and Likud Party chairman Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu increases in volume and vitriol. Gossip disguised as investigative reportage keeps cropping up about the former prime minister vying to return to the premiership.
For many Israelis, the role of the religious Zionism is narrowly conceived as being solely related to issues of land and the military response to our enemies but it is so much more than that.
Rabbi David Fine (L) is seen shaking hands with Religious Zionist Party leader MK Bezalel Smotrich.(photo credit: Yechiel Radutsky)
A few weeks ago, an important event was played out to great fanfare when Zionists from around the world descended on Basel to celebrate 125 years since the First Zionist Congress where the Basel Platform was released, which set out the goals of the modern Zionist movement.
For religious Zionists, this was, of course, an important event, but the platform and its goals laid out in 1897 were neither new, unique nor ground-breaking.
By David Horowitz, TOI 19 October 2022,
From left to right: Otzma Yehudit leader MK Itamar Ben Gvir, opposition leader and Likud chairman Benjamin Netanyahu, and Religious Zionism head MK Bezalel Smotrich. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
At a press conference on Tuesday, Bezalel Smotrich, the leader of the far-right Religious Zionism party — which is soaring in the polls ahead of the elections in less than two weeks — unveiled a program designed, he said, to heal Israel’s “sick” judicial system.
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Joshua Phillips, CROSSROADS
CCP’s Role in America. WATCH HERE
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has established police offices on American soil, and this is a continuation of other programs the regime has been pushing to extend its tyrannical policies beyond its borders. According to Alex Newman, author and award-winning international journalist, much of this exported abuse has been allowed to happen through Obama holdovers
By Melanie Notkin, NY POST 15.10.22
A recent effort by the Law Students for Justice In Palestine at the University of California Berkeley bans speakers who are favorable to Israel and Zionism. The move reflects a growing campaign to silence supporters of the Jewish State.Berkeley Law Students for Justice.
There is nothing “unprecedented” about challenging election results. And for Democrats, there’s nothing unprecedented in trying to manipulate them.<
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By Victor Davis Hanson, AM GREATNESS
A Democratic myth has arisen that Donald Trump’s denial of the accuracy of the 2020 vote was “unprecedented.”
Unfortunately, the history of U.S. elections is often a story of both legitimate and illegitimate election denialism.
The 1800, 1824, 1876, and 1960 elections were all understandably questioned. In some of these cases, a partisan House of Representatives decided the winner.
Not much unifies Jews these days, sadly, but the tweet from Kanye West on Saturday, October 8 did just that. A world-famous celebrity with 31.5 million followers on Twitter threatened the Jewish people in a response to a fellow black celebrity, Sean Combs, and accused him of being controlled by Jews.
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