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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The writer of this article) holds a degree in statistics and says there is no way Shaked will pass the threshold. Op-ed.

By Suzie Dym, INN     Oct 18, 2022,

Yair Lapid is a delightful man, far more genial than Netanyahu, and Benny Gantz is well-intentioned and good-looking. Nonetheless, if they continue to hold power, especially if that power is shared with their partners, Meretz and the likes of Ofer Kasif (the MK who said “Palestinians shooting IDF soldiers are like partisans fighting Nazis“), Israel’s fate will resemble a delicious chocolate cake baked for the holidays – it will disappear. Territorially.

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Even if there are no “Jewish-free” zones here, there are quite a few places where Jews are decidedly unwelcome.

(Oct. 17, 2022) We are second-year law students at the University of California, Berkeley. We are Jewish. And we are Zionists. (We are also speaking for ourselves, and not on behalf of the school or any organization.)

Friends, family, and the media repeatedly contacted us over the past several weeks to ask how it feels to be students at a school with “Jewish-free” zones. While there are no explicit “Jewish-free” zones at Berkeley Law, there is an unacceptable tolerance for excluding and demonizing Zionist identities. We want to share the impact this has on us as Jewish students.

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Saving 200,000 European Jews.

by Joseph Puder, FPM  October 18, 2022

Ken Burns’ The US and the Holocaust underplayed Peter Bergson’s role in the creation of the War Refuge Board, which is said to have saved 200,000 European Jews. Burns’ documentary, whether for ideological reasons or willful ignorance treated Bergson’s role as an afterthought. On the other hand, Rabbi Stephen Wise, Bergson’s nemesis received positive attention in Burns’ documentary. Yet, it was Stephen Wise who told the antisemitic State Department to hold off on distributing Gerhard Riegner’s report of the German Nazis systematic murder of Jews in Europe until he could verify it! It was pretty clear then, in 1943, that Hitler’s Germany intended to annihilate Europe’s Jews.

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A teenage dissident trailed behind a group of smugglers in the borderlands of western Iran. For three days, Rezan trekked a rocky mountain range and walked through minefields along a winding path forged by seasoned smugglers to circumnavigate the country’s heavily armed Revolutionary Guards. It was a trip too dangerous for respite of much more than a few stolen moments at a time.

WRAL NEWS

TIME FOR ISRAEL TO TAKE NOTE.

T. Belman. Blum nails it. She is the daughter of the late Commentary editor, Norman Podhoretz and Midge Decter. Commentary was my favorite publication when growing up.  I read every article and saved every edition for many decades.

Kindly note how she spells “antisemitic”. Today. it is most common to spell it “anti-Semitic”. I am with her and I often amend articles that I post to correct the spelling. In the fifties and sixties, the only spelling one used was antisemitic. This is not about being against Semites. It is not about Semites. It is about Jews.

The response to the former US president’s Truth Social post has been nothing short of a hysterical – purposeful – misreading of his words, which were neither threatening nor antisemitic.

 By  Ruthie Blum

The response to the former US president’s Truth Social post has been nothing short of a hysterical – purposeful – misreading of his words, which were neither threatening nor antisemitic.

The latest brouhaha surrounding former US President Donald Trump pertains to comments he posted on Sunday about – and directed to – American Jews.
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Clashes erupt as officers detain relatives and acquaintances of Udai Tamimi, accused of killing Sgt. Noa Lazar in shooting attack in Shuafat earlier this month

By EMANUEL FABIAN, TOI

Officers detain a Palestinian man in the Shuafat refugee camp in East Jerusalem, October 18, 2022. (Israel Police)

Eight Palestinians suspected of aiding a gunman who allegedly killed an Israeli soldier at a checkpoint near Jerusalem earlier this month were arrested by Israeli security forces in the predawn hours of Tuesday.

Sgt. Noa Lazar, 18, a member of the Military Police’s Erez battalion, was shot on October 8 along with a civilian guard when the gunman opened fire at a checkpoint near the Shuafat refugee camp in East Jerusalem. The guard was hospitalized in serious condition. Lazar was rushed to the hospital but died of her wounds shortly after.
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Times of Israel

Religious Zionism party leader Bezalel Smotrich presents his plans to overhaul the justice system.

Leading the plan is the abolition of the criminal charge of fraud and breach of trust, currently faced by former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his current trial.

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GLAZOV GANG

https://rumble.com/v1ofnmc-naomi-wolf-were-in-a-biblical-moment..html

This new Glazov Gang episode features Dr. Naomi Wolf, a bestselling author, columnist, and professor. She is the cofounder and CEO of the DailyClout.io. Her new book is: The Bodies of Others: The New Authoritarians, COVID-19 and The War Against the Human. Visit her on Gettr.

Naomi stresses We’re in a Biblical Moment, and she asks: What side will you serve?

Dr Mercola

https://rumble.com/v1mrnsg-after-forcing-cdc-to-release-v-safe-data-excessive-covid-vaccine-injuries-a.html

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

• V-Safe, a database managed and monitored by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is a voluntary “after vaccination health checker” deployed to collect data on those who got the COVID jab. For the past 15 months, the Informed Consent Action Network (ICAN) have fought a legal battle to get the CDC to release the V-Safe data
• The V-Safe data confirms suspicions that the COVID jabs are dangerous in the extreme
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by Jonathan Spyer, The Jerusalem Post
October 14, 2022

The crisis in western Iran is intensifying. As Sanandaj and other cities burn, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) last weekend issued a curious statement threatening a military incursion into Kurdish northern Iraq.

The statement read: “In case of inability of some neighbors in expelling elements of separatist terrorists and hypocrites stationed in the border areas… the armored and special forces units of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s armed forces are ready to be deployed to free this region of these evils forever.”
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T. Belman. The drone costs bout $20,000 compared to an average of $13 million for a missile. They are easy to shoot down as their speed is 115 miles/hr. The also have a small payload. Iran is sending them to Hezbollah and Syria too. The Iron Dome missile costs between $20,000 and $100,000 each depending on who you believe.

Ukrainian officials said Russia killed at least four people on Monday by detonating a so-called kamikaze drone in Kyiv, the latest apparent use of the unmanned explosive device.

The officials suggested the strike — one of 28 drones that targeted the Ukrainian capital on Monday — appeared to involve an Iranian Shahed-136 drone, with video showing an aircraft quickly lowering on its target in the city’s center.

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T. Belman. Weiss rightfully castigates Kanye but she is off the mark on Trump who said “No President has done more for Israel than I have,” and “US Jews have to get their act together and appreciate what they have in Israel—Before it is too late!”” She erroneously called this a threat. She went on to say, “However you read the opaque missive, the toxic notion of the ungrateful Jew is unambiguous” thereby labeling Trump, an antisemite. No way, no how. He was merely doing what all politicians do, namely drawing attention to his achievements and calling for support. Trump is voicing his consternation in asking why Jews don’t support him more. Good question though. He was also saying that Biden is a threat to Israel. Couldn’t agree more.

By Bari Weiss, COMMON SENSE

Kanye West in London. (Neil Mockford/GC Images)

Yesterday was any given Sunday in America, which meant that most Jews were not at all astonished when we looked down at our phones and discovered a former president was calling us ingrates and one of the most famous artists in the world was doing Louis Farrakhan one better. We are long past astonishment.

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