T. Belman.  Such meetings and expressions of solidarity are meaningless so long as the US continues to negotiate with and appease Iran to get a meaningless deal.  And also so long as the US still supports the TSS and the division of Jerusalem.

Meeting of national security advisers at White House comes a day after massive Israeli air force drill to simulate striking Iranian nuclear facilities; US denies taking part

By EMANUEL FABIAN and JACOB MAGID, TOI

IAF and AFCENT F-15 and F-16 jets are seen over southern Israel during the ‘Desert Eagle’ drill, August 10, 2021. (Israel Defense Forces)<
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National Security Council chairman Eyal Hulata and his US counterpart Jake Sullivan met Wednesday in Washington for talks largely focused on Iran, with the two pledging economic, diplomatic, and military coordination to stop Teheran from acquiring nuclear weapons.

“The officials committed to coordinate on efforts to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon and toward deterring Iran’s aggressive regional activities,” said a joint statement after a meeting at the White House of the US-Israel Strategic Consultative Group.

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JUSTICE A LA SOVIET UNION

By Ella Kietlinska and Joshua Philipp, EPOCH TIMES

Brandon Straka, a conservative activist, was confronted with a choice between pleading guilty to a crime he did not commit and facing serious charges with a long prison term related to the Jan. 6 Capitol rally. He chose to accept the plea deal because he felt he would not get a fair trial.

On Jan. 6, 2021, after then-President Donald Trump addressed the rally at the Ellipse, a park near the White House, Straka walked to U.S. Capitol where he was supposed to give a speech at an event planned to take place on the east side of the building, Straka recollected of that day.

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Confronting the forgotten history of Muslim occupation of Israel.

By Daniel Greenfield, FPM

When Jordan’s Arab Legion seized half of Jerusalem, ethnically cleansed its Jewish population and annexed the city– the only entity to recognize the annexation was the United Kingdom which had provided the officers and the training that made the conquest possible. Officers like Colonel Bill Newman, Major Geoffrey Lockett and Major Bob Slade, under Glubb Pasha, better known as General John Bagot Glubb, whose son later converted to Islam, invaded Jerusalem and used the Muslim forces under their command to make the partition and ethnic cleansing of Jerusalem possible.

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Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative”

The US does not extend foreign aid to Israel. Rather, the US makes an annual investment in Israel, which yields to the American taxpayer an annual R-O-I (Return-On-Investment) of several hundred percent.  Is that a valid statement?* While Israel is a most grateful recipient of a few hundred US military systems, it serves as the battle-tested, cost-effective laboratory of the US defense and aerospace industries, which employ – directly and indirectly – 3.5 million Americans.
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Arizona 2020 Election Results May Have Been Different, Election Integrity Group Says

By Beth Brelje, EPOCH TIMES    June 1, 2022

With the 2022 midterm elections around the corner, scrutiny of the 2020 election continues to raise questions about election integrity, including a newly identified anomaly in Maricopa County, Arizona.

Arizona Law requires that, to be considered valid, ballots must be received by the county no later than 7 p.m. on Election Day.

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18 year old Lucy Thomas owns it.

It is our own individual responsibility that must play a part in saving the order of things.

By Emina Melonic, AM GREATNESS

I first encountered the work of David Mamet in my undergraduate English seminar on modern American drama. We read many of his works, but after all these years, what sticks out is Mamet’s 1987 screenplay “House of Games,” which he also directed. I was in my very early 20s, only a few years after my arrival to America from Bosnia. Although I spoke English well, the nuances in Mamet’s use of the language were something very new to me.

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After shelving plan bisecting West Bank in January amid international pressure and assuring US it wasn’t moving forward, Jerusalem places project back on docket for meeting in July

By JACOB MAGID, TOI   31 May 2022,

A Palestinian boy rides a donkey in the E-1 area near the West bank settlement of Ma’aleh Adumim, December 5, 2012. (Sebastian Scheiner/AP)

The Defense Ministry is planning to advance a controversial housing project in the E1 Area of the West Bank after the Israeli government withdrew the plan in January amid international pressure, and assured the Biden administration that it would not be moving forward with it.

The ministry’s Civil Administration body that authorizes West Bank construction published on Tuesday its agenda for a July 18 meeting to discuss objections to projects that have received initial approval. Two E1 plans totaling 3,412 housing units were the only ones on the docket.

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By: WIN Staff

The Palestinian Authority has been working intensely to establish eastern Jerusalem as the capital of a Palestinian state by 2030, drawing up elaborate plans for the expropriation of Israeli land for the project, Yediot Ahronot reported on Friday.

Biden seeks to boost relations with Palestinians before Israel visit – Amb. (Ret.) Danny Ayalon

According to the report, the Palestinian Authority has been attempting over the past two years to implement a plan created in 2020 that would see parts of the Oslo Accords appealed. The vision includes PA police stations and a separate PA municipality within Israel’s capital city and large-scale construction of Arab neighborhoods

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T. Belman.  The Likud Camp plus Saar have 58 seats. To form government without elections, they would need to coopt three defectors from Yamina.  Sure looks doable.

The Justice Minister reportedly held talks with a Likud representative about the option of forming a new government without dissolving the Knesset.

By GIL HOFFMAN, JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Israel’s Justice Minister Gideon Sa’ar is seen speaking at the Jerusalem Post annual conference at the Museum of Tolerance in Jerusalem, on October 12, 2021.

Justice Minister Gidon Sa’ar is in talks with the Likud on forming an alternate government led by opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu, Yediot Ahronot reported on Wednesday.

According to the report, Sa’ar would become Foreign Minister and other MKs in his New Hope party would be given top posts.

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T. Belman. In reading this brief,  I get the impression that Israel doesn’t need more stringent legislation.  It just needs to apply the designation ruthlessly.

At least according to Adalah

Adalah’s Expert Opinion: Israel’s 2016 Counter-Terrorism Law and 1945 Emergency Regulations Regarding the Outlawing of Six Palestinian Human Rights and Civil Society Groups

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Severe and Immediate Legal Implications of these Designations and Declarations

The consequences of the designations and declarations are severe, for the organizations, their staff and members, and their supporters. First, the organizations themselves can no longer operate and continue with any of their activities, including, for example, the crucial work the six groups conduct in defending the rights of Palestinians and exposing Israel’s violations of international law.

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An overwhelming presence of security forces prevented a large protest gathering in Abadan Monday night, but demonstrations took place in other Iranian cities.

Videos and reports published on social media show tens of security forces on each street, preventing movement of people in Abadan, and the government resorting to tear gas for dispersing crowds before gatherings could get larger. In some videos firing of military weapons are also heard but news coming out of Abadan is sketchy.

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A tough test for Bennett’s statesmanship.

By Joseph Puder, FPM      May 31/22

For the first time since Israel began its aerial bombing over Syria, a battery of S-300 aerial defense missiles (ground-to-air) manned by Russian crews fired at an Israeli jet earlier this month. The missile missed its target, and apparently was not intended to shoot down the Israeli jet, but merely to serve as a warning. Putin’s Russia wanted to signal to Israel that it has perceived a tilt by Jerusalem toward Ukraine in the ongoing conflict between the two countries, and that it will not be without a price for Israel to pay.

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By Olivia Murray,  AM THINKER

(See also Andrea Widburg’s Canada plans to follow in the path of the world’s worst dictators.)

Last week marked the conclusion of the annual conference of the World Economic Forum in Davos, an event with particular focus on the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations. These goals, collectively known as Agenda 2030, are a set of objectives designed to be a “shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future.” The Agenda includes seventeen Goals, like “No Poverty” and “Zero Hunger” – however, underneath the facade of humanitarianism is a malevolent truth: Agenda 2030 is nothing more than an assault on national sovereignty and common people by the power-hungry global aristocracy.
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T. Belman. The UAE gave tep0id criticism of Israel’s activities on the Temple Mount.  Ignore it. This is what counts.

Israel and the United Arab Emirates sign comprehensive free trade deal – the first of its kind between Israel and an Arab country.

Israel National News

Barbiva and Abdulla bin Touq al Marri?????: Anuj Taylor, Strap Studios

Israel and the United Arab Emirates signed a comprehensive free trade agreement Tuesday morning, the first time the Jewish state has signed such a deal with an Arab country.

Israeli Economy and Industry Minister Orna Barbiva signed the deal with the UAE Minister of Economy Abdulla bin Touq al Marri.

The deal marks the culmination of months of negotiations to hammer out the details of the comprehensive agreement, which will eliminate tariffs on 96% of trade goods and streamlines regulations for trade between the two countries.

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Famous author Uwe Telkamp is cancelled for saying that most Muslim migrants are not fleeing persecution but looking for social welare.

 By Giulio Meotti?,  INN

“I have to justify even being German, to dare to refer to Goethe. Suddenly, you are like a pariah.” This is how Uwe Tellkamp speaks at the Süddeutsche Zeitung. His is the cultural case of recent years.

Not only because in 2008 Tellkamp published the great novel “The Tower”, which sold over a million copies and describes the last years of the German Democratic Republic through the educated middle class of Dresden. It has won numerous literary awards and has been celebrated by all feuilletons and literary critics.

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T. Belman. What impressed me most about this article was the elegant prose it contains.

Prose aside its about the Reform Movement and its future.

Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch sees his unapologetic Zionism as the key to Reform Judaism’s survival and flourishing, while others see it as a betrayal of the movement’s universalist aims

BY ARMIN ROSEN, TABLET         JANUARY 26, 2022

“Here’s what I learned from decades of studying and embracing liberalism: The liberal mindset is one of openness and doubt,” Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch of the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue, a flagship of the Reform Movement, said during a Friday night sermon not long ago. “True liberals are never so sure of themselves. We acknowledge and embrace complexity. It’s why we rely on science and evidence. Every place where people live requires repair. One of the key insights of liberalism is that I could be wrong. And I am open to being convinced.”

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Palestinianism denies the historical fact that is Eretz Yisrael, and denies the right of the Jewish people to re-establish a state there.

By MOSHE DANN, JPOST

As Palestinianism spreads throughout the world, it attracts support because it presents itself as a national liberation movement that seeks to free itself from Israeli occupation, colonialism, oppression and persecution. An examination of its real agenda, however, available in the PLO Covenant, Hamas Charter and its daily messages, reveals its true intention: isolating and destroying Israel – a second Holocaust, if they could.

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