by Burak Bekdil, GATESTONE

• Western leaders shrugged it off when, in 2016, Erdo?an said in plain language that Turkey did not need to join the European Union “at all costs” and could instead become part of a security bloc dominated by China, Russia and Central Asian nations.
• Erdo?an’s popularity, since he came to power in 2002, has worked as a self-poisoning instrument in the Turkish society, increasingly fuelling anti-Western sentiment, particularly anti-Americanism.
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Since the start of Russia’s invasion, many countries all over the world hoped that China would condemn the decision, instead China has been increasing its rhetorical support for Russia.

A representative from the Chinese Foreign Ministry, Zhao Lijian, stated that current China-Russia relations are a great success because they rose above the political and military trends that had been observed during the Cold War. He stated that one of the reasons this partnership is so effortless is because both states are intent on creating a new example of international relations.

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Tierney’s REAL News (5/3/22)

Netanyahu bloc rises to 59 seats in latest poll, while Bennett coalition falls to 55 seats, with New Hope left out of next Knesset.

By David Rosenberg, INN

Netanyahu?????: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

Support for the Likud continues to rise, according to a new poll released Tuesday, with the party projected to win 36 seats if new elections were held today.

The poll, conducted by Rafi Smith’s Smith Research agency, was published by Galey Israel radio Tuesday morning.

According to the poll, if new elections were held today, the Likud would remain the largest faction in the Knesset, rising from the 30 seats it won in 2021 to 36 seats. That represents a two-seat increase over the previous Smith poll, conducted last December.

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The disturbing tale of how Palestinians find “inspiration”.

By Raymond Ibrahim, FPM    Apr 3/22

Speaking on the first day of Ramadan, April 1, 2022, Mahmoud al-Habbash, the Supreme Sharia Judge of the Palestinian Authority, extolled the jihads waged by the prophet of Islam, Muhammad, during Ramadan:

How was this month [of Ramadan] in the life of Prophet [Muhammad]? … Did the Prophet spend Ramadan in calmness, serenity, laziness, and sleepiness? Far be it from him… The Prophet entered the great Battle of Badr [624] during Ramadan… Also in the month of Ramadan, in the 8th year of the Hijra [629-630], the Prophet and the Muslims conquered Mecca…. Ramadan is … a month of Jihad, conquest, and victory.

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Israel can convince the Americans that a unified Sunni Arab front against the Iranian threat is of greater urgency than continued cooperation with the US on efforts to transform the region into a democratic paradise.

 By  Oded Granot, ISRAEL HAYOM

President Isaac Herzog recently said his wish would be to travel to Riyadh in the future. While certainly understandable, that future is not right around the corner. Herzog himself said in an interview with Israel Hayom that a number of external conditions would need to exist before he could take off for Saudi Arabia. Contrary to popular opinion, though, Israel is also capable of shortening this timeframe.

Saudi Arabia is not an official partner to the Abraham Accords, but these normalization agreements would not have been signed without Riyadh’s encouragement and approval. Israeli planes cross Saudi airspace on their way to the United Arab Emirates, senior Saudi officials no longer boycott their Israeli counterparts at international meetings, and the 36-year-old Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman recently said in an interview with The Atlantic that “We do not view Israel as an enemy, but rather as a potential ally in the many interests that we can pursue together ….”

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Russia calls comments by Lapid ‘anti-historical,’ defends Lavrov’s suggestion the Nazi leader had Jewish blood, claiming some Jews in Holocaust did ‘absolutely monstrous deeds’

By AMY SPIRO , TOI

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (left) attends a press conference in Moscow on April 27, 2022 and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid addresses a press conference in Casablanca, on August 12, 2021. (Yuri KOCHETKOV / various sources / AFP)

Russia’s Foreign Ministry said Tuesday that Israel supports the “neo-Nazi regime” in Ukraine, as tensions between Moscow and Jerusalem ratcheted up following Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s incendiary remarks on the Holocaust earlier this week.

In a statement on Tuesday, Russia accused Foreign Minister Yair Lapid of making “anti-historical statements” that “largely explain why the current Israeli government supports the neo-Nazi regime in Kyiv.”

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I was sure Bennett would keep his promise not to go with the left and Arabs and told my friends to vote Yamina.

By Rabbi Prof. Dov Fischer, INN

Rabbi Prof. Dov Fischer

Before the most recent Israel national elections, I was asked by many of my readers, and by others who regard my judgment as worthwhile, how I recommend they vote. I endorsed Yamina. This was my thinking:

1. The election might have ended up in yet another stalemate. However, if a government would be formed, the lead government partner probably would have been Likud, and Binyamin Netanyahu probably would have emerged as prime minister.

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T. Belman. While I appreciate her pro-Israel sentiments, they are of little value when at the same time she actively opposed Trump. The last thing we want is for her to be reelected so that she can continue her vendetta against Trump in his next Administration.  Disloyalty has a price. No good can come of this.

Thus AIPAC,  by this act, is undermining the most pro-Israel president ever.

By David Israel, JEWISH PRESS

On April 29, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) tweeted that it was proud to support Congresswoman Liz Cheney (R-Wyoming) because “we deeply appreciate her strong and unwavering support for the US-Israel relationship during her entire career in public service.” The tweet was a 180-degree reversal of the group’s previous stance that effectively shunned the congresswoman despite her fervent support for the Jewish State.

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Tierney’s REAL News (5/2/22)

His administration tells Jews to stop praying.

By Daniel Greenfield, FPM

The Biden administration has announced that its titular head will be visiting Israel within a few months. Biden’s last high profile visit to the Jewish State in 2010 ended with him staging a diplomatic incident and refusing to leave his hotel room for an hour to attend an event with Netanyahu. The Israelis have little reason to be optimistic about this Biden expedition.

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By Caroline Glick, ISRAEL HAYOM

Last Tuesday, Israel Hayom reported that there is a growing sense among Israeli and U.S. officials that the Biden administration will not reach a nuclear accord with Iran. To be understood, the report has to be seen in the context of a statement made later on Tuesday by President Joe Biden’s press secretary Jen Psaki.

During her daily press briefing, Psaki said that the administration assesses that Iran is just weeks away from nuclear breakout capabilities. Nuclear breakout is reached when a state achieves the independent wherewithal to develop nuclear weapons. A nuclear breakout state does not necessarily have nuclear weapons, but is regarded as a nuclear-armed state because it has the capacity to build a nuclear arsenal at will and within a relatively short period.
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By Masooma Haq and Roman Balmakov, EPOCH TIMES

The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) entry into the World Trade Organization changed the global economic structure in large part because it unleashed the regime’s strategy of gaining control of America’s elite class so it would do Beijing’s bidding, according to Peter Schweizer, author of the book “Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China.”

Schweizer calls this strategy “elite capture,” and the CCP’s plan was to target the top levels of Big Tech, entertainment, education, Wall Street, and politics.
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T. Belman.  I think the author is wrong to write,

“For two months now, Russia’s wanton killing and destruction has been captured by cell phones, cameras, drones, and satellites and then broadcast to Western audiences. The reaction can be summed up in a single word: revulsion. “

By Charles Lipson – RCP   May 1/22

(AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Slowly, slowly, the United States has expanded its war aims in Ukraine and significantly altered its pipeline of military supplies. Those two changes are mutually reinforcing. The U.S. is finally sending Ukraine the heavy weapons it needs because the Biden administration has finally decided it actually wants Ukraine to win and the Russian army to suffer losses so drastic it will not threaten other Western countries.
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By Hugh Fitzgerald,  JIHAD WATCH

Israel needs only to tell the truth about Temple Mount, about who has been doing the inciting, and the rioting, and the attacks on worshippers, and who, on the other hand, has merely been trying to stop the rioting, and end the attacks. Which side has tried to protect its own worshippers, praying inoffensively at the Western Wall, and at the same time, to protect from disruption the prayers at Al-Aqsa Mosque of peaceful Muslims, people who have been disturbed by rioters, who have stockpiled weapons in the mosque and chosen to launch their barrages of rocks and Molotov cocktails from inside the mosque at Israeli police outside? A report on what Israel should continue to clarify is here: “Israel’s Best PR Strategy on the Temple Mount: Tell the Truth,” by Jeremiah Rozman, Algemeiner, April 27, 2022:

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Meanwhile, Waqf officials entrusted with managing the Temple Mount and who receive their salaries from Jordan, identify with Hamas and other Islamist groups.

By  Dana Ben-Shimon , Israel Kasnett and ILH Staff

Palestinians protest on the last Friday of Ramadan ahead of the prayer in front of the Dome of the Rock at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City, April 29, 2022 | Photo: Reuters/Ammar Awad

Jordan fears it is losing its recognized status as the official custodian of Jerusalem’s holy Muslim sites, including the Temple Mount, Judaism’s holiest site, as Palestinians incited by Hamas, other terror groups and the Palestinian Authority continuously held riots during the Muslim month of Ramadan. In at least one incident, rioters nearly set the Al-Aqsa mosque on fire. Jordan has blamed Israel for the violence and for violating the status quo there. And now, it is demanding total control over the Temple Mount, with worrying consequences. But experts say the story goes deeper.

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Redacted with Natali and Clayton Morris