Today, Liberalism has far more in common with Conservatism than it does with Leftism. Op-ed.

By Alex Rose, INN    Sep 23, 2022,

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“The Left’s view of America was encapsulated in then presidential candidate Barak Obama’s statement in 2008. ‘We are 5 days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America,’ he said.” [Dennis Prager].

Perhaps an understanding of the present day plague which haunts us is best described in “Quotation of the Day on Why the Left is Consumed by Hate ” by Mark J. Perry, featured in AEIdeas of September 24, 2018.

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By Alexander G. Markovsky, AM THINKER

After Russia announced partial mobilization, which effectively doubled the Russian forces to be engaged in Ukraine, politicians, government officials, and analysts proclaimed that the action was a sign of Russian failure, weakness, and desperation. Be that as it may, the West once again has demonstrated aloofness from history and a refusal to face the reality that regardless of the amounts of weaponry, international sanctions, and billions in financial assistance, the West cannot defeat Russia. Hitler couldn’t do it. Embracing unrealistic expectations will inevitably lead to complete distraction and eventual dismemberment of Ukraine.
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by Majid Rafizadeh, GATESTONE  •  September 24, 2022

• [M]ore than a year and half of negotiations seems to have benefited no one except the ruling and Islamist mullahs of Iran. The endless negotiations seem simply to have bought time for the mullahs, so that they could comfortably advance their nuclear program to their highest level ever. Not only has the Biden administration seen no urgency to change its disastrous path, it is actually redoubling efforts to for Iran talks, presumably after America’s mid-term election on November 8.
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State TV reports 35 fatalities over past eight nights, though rights group says at least 50 killed in unrest triggered by death of woman detained by morality police

By AGENCIES       Today, at 1:01 pm

A picture obtained by AFP outside Iran on September 21, 2022, shows Iranian demonstrators burning a rubbish bin in the capital Tehran during a protest for Mahsa Amini, days after she died in police custody. (AFP)

The official death toll has nearly doubled to 35 in a crackdown by Iran’s security forces on more than a week of protests that erupted after the death of a young woman in custody.

Angry demonstrators have taken to the streets of major cities across Iran, including the capital Tehran, for eight straight nights since the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini.

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T. Belman. Sa’ar is 100% wrong is rejecting the supremacy of the Knesset over the High Court. He argues that a democracy requires checks and balances so the Knesset shouldn’t have authority over the election of Judges. In the US, the President appoints the judges subject to the approval of the Senate. What Netanyahu wants is for the Knesset to approve judges.

Secondly he he totally rejects the overrule by 61 MKs in  the Knesset. Perhaps he is right to say its too easy but in all democracies, the legislature passes laws and the courts interpret them according to the intention of the legislature when passing them. In Israel the High Court has appropriated too much power to legislate. It dictates to the Knesset what kind of country Israel should be i.e. a country of all its citizens. It also took the position that everything is justiciable and anyone can apply to the court. I would prefer that the wings of the Court be clipped thereby reducing their authority. In such a case, the Knesset will still need an override. That’s checks and balances.

POLITICAL AFFAIRS: Sa’ar said Netanyahu wants to make election of Israeli judges require Knesset approval, making it part of coalition negotiations.

By YONAH JEREMY BOB, ELIAV BREUER

JUSTICE MINISTER Gideon Sa’ar. We support settlement where it is legal. This is an important distinction, because today there are extremists that have different approaches.

If opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu becomes prime minister and his policies are enacted, Israel will no longer be a liberal democracy and will instead become an “authoritarian democracy,” according to Justice Minister Gideon Sa’ar.

This, more than anything else, is what is at stake in the upcoming election, and Sa’ar, in an exclusive interview with The Jerusalem Post in his sprawling office at the Justice Ministry in Jerusalem, is seriously worried.

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Dr  Jonathan Turley

Washington D.C. (September 23, 2022) | Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) issued the following statement after Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy announced the Republican’s Commitment to America plan:

“Today, Congressional Republicans are unveiling our plan to address the issues and return to a nation that is free, safe, and full of opportunity, with a government that is accountable to the people. Our ‘Commitment to America’ acknowledges the struggles hardworking Americans are facing every day and lays out a plan of common sense solutions to fix these problem. Our plan includes legislative policies to restore America’s energy independence, stop wasteful government spending, secure our southern border, support law enforcement, and ensure parents are given a voice in their kids’ education. My colleagues and I are committed to restoring our nation to one that is free, safe, and full of opportunity for everyone.”

Background:

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By David Israel, JEWISH PRESS

PM Yair Lapid speaking at the UN General Assembly, September 22, 2022.

Prime Minister Yair Lapid channeled Benjamin Netanyahu at his finest on Thursday night, when he delivered a well-written speech with just the right amount of strong Israel vs. threatened Israel, the Holocaust, peace in our time (ok, that was Lapid channeling his inner Shimon Peres), and the startup nation Israeli-made widgets that are keeping your heart pumping as we speak – I gave him very high marks on both text and delivery – and then, as had been promised for at least a day, he promised a Palestinian State, even after mentioning Israel’s unilateral disengagement from the Gaza Strip in 2005 which resulted not in peace but instead, “Since we left Gaza, over 20,000 rockets and missiles have been fired at Israel. All of them at civilians. All of them at our children.”

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T. Belman. He is referring to the US administration’s policies. He is demanding that the US settle the matter. But he is wrong to think there is any going back. The only deal that will work today is that Russia keeps its territorial gains and the US and the EU lift all sanctions.

He also drew a parallel between the Ukraine War and the Iraq War. In both cases the US has justified their actions with lies.

Former PM Netanyahu reacts to Lapid’s speech at the UN: We will not allow Hamastan to be established on the border of Kfar Saba, Petah Tikva and Netanya.

Tonight we heard a speech full of weakness, defeat and surrender.

After the right-wing government led by me removed the Palestinian state from the global agenda, after we brought four historic peace agreements with Arab countries that bypassed the Palestinian veto, Lapid is bringing the Palestinians back to the forefront of the world stage and putting Israel right into the Palestinian pit. Lapid has already said in the past that he is ready to “evacuate 90,000 Israelis to establish a Palestinian state”. Now he intends to give them a state of terror in the heart of the country, a state that will threaten us all.

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T. Belman. I have taken a lot of heat for siding with Putin and not Biden. Yesterday I posted a video by Dr Turley with whom I often agree. But the comments totally rejected him. REDACTED totally agrees with Turley too. So does Alexander Mecouris whom I also follow as does TFIG.

It doesn’t matter whether the west recognizes the annexation of the Donbass. The West has to reconsider whether they will attack the Donbass when Russia claims it as their sovereign territory. I think the West will back off.

I highly recommend this video.

T. Belman. I hope so. This election should be about the Palestinians and not about Netanyahu. The Palestinians are a threat to Israel, Netanyahu is not.

By officially calling for “an agreement with the Palestinians, based on two states for two peoples,” Prime Minister Yair Lapid has changed the election paradigm from “anybody but Netanyahu” back to the issue that has divided Israel’s left and right since Yitzhak Rabin signed the infamous Oslo Accords in 1993.

By Alex Traiman, JNS

With just 29 words, from the stage at the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday, temporary caretaker Prime Minister Yair Lapid may have completely changed Israel’s fifth election landscape from the first four election cycles over the past two-and-a-half years.

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By Dr Jonathan Turley

By Talia Einhorn

This paper discusses the establishment of Israel, the state of the Jewish people, west of the Jordan River. It shows that the Arab claim that there is a legal right to a separate Arab state to be established in Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip (in Hebrew acronym – “Yesha”), whereas Jews are forbidden by public international law precepts from settling there, and the further claim that all Arabs who can trace their origins to pre-1967 Israel have a right to return to Israel, have no basis in international law. Nonetheless, Israel has been put under incessant international pressure calling on it to recognize the “rights” of the Arab people and to uproot the Jewish towns and villages in Yesha by deporting hundreds of thousands of Jews to the territory of tiny, pre-1967 Israel. The international pressure is supported by internal pressure coming from Israeli citizens, who had been educated to prefer international comradeship and universal values – even when those are shattered in the face of reality – over the basic needs of Jewish national existence. The pressures from within and outside Israel have caused part of the Israeli public to lose faith in their just cause. The Oslo Agreements and their difficult consequences are testimony to that.
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The clashes showed that bolstering the PA isn’t merely an Israeli security interest, but above all a Palestinian interest. Palestinians don’t want a vacuum of governance; they want a functioning PA that will protect them and tend to civil affairs

By Jack Khoury, HAARETZ

Palestinian demonstrators protesting the arrest of two Palestinian militants clash with Palestinian security forces, in Nablus in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Tuesday.Credit: MOHAMAD TOROKMAN/ Reuters

Early Wednesday morning, representatives of armed Palestinian groups in Nablus and the Palestinian security services reached agreements to return the city to normal in the wake of the clashes that erupted in the West Bank following the Palestinian Authority’s arrest of Hamas operatives wanted by Israel. Soon after, the municipal teams began cleaning the streets where the clashes broke out, including the main square. The city center, which yesterday looked like a battlefield after residents burned tires, threw stones and vandalized public property, returned to a kind of routine. But the city’s residents are now left with a sobering taste of what could happen if the Palestinian Authority loses its control over the West Bank.

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A fierce and immediate response from the opposition and from within Lapid’s own government drown out any positive feedback to the prime minister’s intention to call for the solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

By Haaretz

Justice Minister Gideon Sa’ar, left, and Yair Lapid at the Knesset.Credit: Olivier Fitoussi

Israel’s Prime Minister Yair Lapid faced a heavy retaliation from within the country, after sources revealed his intention to promote a two-state solution with the Palestinians in his UN speech on Thursday.

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