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.

By RUTHIE BLUM, JPOST

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.

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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.

By David Fine, JPOST    2.10.22

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.

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Like the past four rounds, Nov. 1 is largely a referendum on Netanyahu — but with a new element, the rise of a far-right party bent on remaking Israel’s governance and orientation

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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By Ted Belman

Gantz lays out conditions for joining coalition with Netanyahu

Yisrael Beytenu chief reveals conditions for joining a government

Lapid says ‘no problem’ sitting with Likud, but not under Netanyahu leadership

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DON’T MISS THIS. VERY INFORMATIVE

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.

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By Laureen Lipsky, AM THINKER

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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by Dr. Eric R. Mandel, MEPIN

 The United Nations headquarters building in New York City, and the UN logo: (photo credit: CARLO ALLEGRI/REUTERS)

One of the most troubling ongoing crimes against humanity is the “discriminatory detention” and “serious human rights violations” committed by the Chinese Communist government against its Muslim Uighur population. Interviews find credible reports of food deprivation, rape, forcible medical interventions, sleep deprivation, forced labor and brainwashing.

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The last thing Benjamin Netanyahu wants is for voters to start focusing on his political partners in Religious Zionism and the Haredi parties, 

By Anshel Pfeffer, HAARETZ

Benjamin Netanyahu’s political allies are acting as if they have already won the election.

First it was Shas leader Arye Dery, who, in a radio interview two weeks ago, was asked how under the terms of his plea bargain (for tax evasion) he could be a minister in the next government. Dery angrily responded that if the High Court of Justice dared to intervene, the Netanyahu government would pass an “overriding clause” and bypass the courts.

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We are facing challenging years in national security, the likes of which we have not known perhaps since the Yom Kippur War.

By Kobi Finkler, INN   Oct 20, 2022,

Defense Minister Benny Gantz on Wednesday presented to the experts of the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) the main security challenges as he sees them.

“As the Minister of Defense and as someone who has devoted most of his years to the security of Israel – I must tell you that we are facing challenging years in terms of national security, the likes of which we have not known for many years, perhaps since the Yom Kippur War. The IDF and the security forces are required to take daily actions against five active fronts and more – in Israel, in Gaza, on the northern border with Syria, Lebanon, as well as in the cyber dimension. All this alongside operations that take place far beyond enemy lines, and that it would be best not to speak of,” said Gantz.

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Social crises in Europe face escalation this winter.

The AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE

While 2022 has already seen its fair share of horror in the ongoing Russo-Ukraine War, this winter might see the further rise of a new specter: civil war. German social researcher Piotr Kocyba expects a new, violent wave of protests as the continent turns colder. Kocyba, who works at the Chemnitz University of Technology and is a member of the board of the Berlin Institute for Protest and Movement Research, claims that right-wing extremists are already heating up the mood, but the left also wants to call citizens to street demonstrations. “If the crisis lasts longer, it cannot be ruled out that terrorist groups will form, as was the case during the anti-refugee protests,” the researcher explained to German media.

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T. Belman. It is obvious to me that Lapid has decided wooing the Arab voters is his best chance to form the next government. With that mindset does anyone doubt that not only will he continue with Ra’am in his coalition but will also go after the other Arab party, Joint List. With them added to his coalition, he will have a majority according to the polls. It’s him or Bibi.

PM makes appeal to Israeli Arab sector to vote for Yesh Atid in the upcoming elections.

Israel National News  Oct 18, 2022, 11:55 PM

Prime Minister Yair Lapid addressed the Arab public and asked that they vote for his Yesh Atid party in the upcoming Knesset elections, citing his government’s support for Muslim rights on the Temple Mount and policy prohibiting Jews from praying at the site.

In an interview with two Israeli Arab channels, Lapid stated that his government has done a lot in the fight against crime in the Arab sector, but qualified by saying: “It is not enough. There is improvement, but the improvement is too small. It is a process, and we need to make sure that this process continues and is strengthened.”

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BIBI AT HIS BEST

by Seth J. Frantzman, The Jerusalem Post   October 13, 2022

Published originally under the title “Israel Air Defense Again in Spotlight as West Promises Ukraine Defenses.”

Israel is again being singled out as a country that could be doing more for Ukraine in the wake of the Russian bombardment of Ukrainian cities using drones and missiles.

The Washington Post noted this week that “as missiles strike Ukraine, Israel won’t sell its vaunted air defense.” This adds to a chorus of voices who have wondered since the war began whether Israel would supply air defenses to Ukraine. Some of the criticism is uniquely aimed at Israel, with references to the Holocaust and other claims that the Jewish state must send defenses.

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