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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T. Belman. Good for Bennett. He’s not alone. but he is wrong to say say, “we enjoyed a year of flourishing relations with European countries” because it was due to the fact that he allowed them to steal our land in Area C. That’s no achievement at all. That’s a sell out.

Netanyahu is making a mistake by constantly arguing that Shaked won’t pass the threshold. Instead he should be supporting her like he supported Ben Gvir.  With his support, she will pass the threshold and he will get his majority.

Why does he not want her in his government?

Shaked calls Smoltrich and Ben Gvir extremists. Not good enough. She should say what she would do differently.

Alternate PM says PM Lapid risking Israel security by bringing up possibility of PA state at the UN.

Israel National News

Alternate Prime Minister Naftali Bennett slammed Prime Minister Yair Lapid for his intention to declare his support for the establishment of a Palestinian state in his address to the United Nations General Assembly tomorrow.

“The path I led as prime minister was not to quarrel with the whole world unnecessarily, but also not to fold unnecessarily. There is no place or logic to re-introduce the idea of ??a Palestinian state,” Bennett said.

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Essayist Sandelin writes: “I doubt those who lived here a generation ago would believe me when I tell them what is happening today.” Op-ed.

By Giulio Meotti, Italy

In Malmö, the third largest city in Sweden that has always been ruled by the Social Democrats, there is the famous spiral skyscraper designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava. Inspired by a human torso, the work wants to symbolize the dozens of ethnic groups who live in cities in brotherhood in a multicultural embrace… In the 1970s, the Jewish community had five thousand members: today there are fewer than five hundred left.

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MKs from both the coalition and opposition call on Israel’s government to walk back its intention to sign agreement discriminating against Judea, Samaria, Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights.

Israel National News   22.9.22

Yoav Kisch Arutz Sheva

Dozens of MKs from both the coalition and the opposition are demanding to immediately stop the government’s move to approve an international agreement in the field of culture which discriminates against Judea, Samaria, Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights.

According to Israel Hayom, the MKs, which include members of the coalition, called on the Yamina bloc – Yamina and New Hope – to use their veto power, which was intended specifically for such situations, in order to prevent a hasty move which would harm Judea and Samaria.

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Tierney’s Real News

It wasn’t just Facebook & Twitter & Hillary & the FBI & the RINOs & the Labor Unions & the left-wing media like CNN & MSNBC that helped our enemies rig the 2020 election – it was also Fox News & Google. There is proof of both!

There is a new book out that was written by a reporter from the New York Times and the New Yorker and in it they talk about how Fox News called Arizona for Biden WAY EARLY on election night – which, back then, nobody understood.

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By Victor Davis Hanson, AM GREATNESS    19.9.22

What once distinguished the United States from illiberal regimes following the Orwellian mantra “some are more equal than others” was the hallowed American idea of “equal justice under the law.”

The phrase is engraved above the entrance to the United States Supreme Court—an ideal that took centuries to achieve. Yet it is an ancient concept—what the Greeks called isonomia that distinguished classical democratic Athens from its anti-democratic rivals. Isonomia later became enshrined as the central criterion of all Western consensual governments.
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The Levy Report has reinvigorated the issue after years of Israel’s silence about its legal rights in Judea and Samaria: The rules of belligerent occupation do not apply to an agreed-upon peacetime presence.

By Prof. Avi Bell, INN 1.8.2012

Earlier this month, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was presented with the report of the Commission to Examine the Status of Building in Judea and Samaria, headed by former Supreme Court Justice Edmond Levy (the “Levy report”).The report has drawn a flurry of overwrought criticism due to its inclusion of a section concerning the lawfulness of Israeli settlement activity.
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By Amb. Alan Baker JCPA   15.2.22

The EU Signed as a Witness to Uphold the Oslo Accords

Recent policy decisions by the European Union regarding the Israeli-Palestinian dispute indicate profound contradictions, double standards, and hypocrisy.

Being signatories as witnesses to the 1991-3 Oslo Accords between Israel and the PLO, together with the United States, Russia, Norway, and Egypt, the EU took upon itself a responsibility to encourage the parties to observe the obligations and commitments encapsulated in the Accords and ensure that they would be duly honored and followed by the parties.

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By Andrea Widburg, AM THINKER

In 1990, Ken Burns was the great talent behind The Civil War, an epic nine-episode PBS documentary that he made for PBS. It was comprehensive, gorgeous, heartbreaking, and riveting. His later work wasn’t as good but it was still damned good. But Burns, like so many leftists, is now so riddled with hatred for Republicans that he cheapens his every utterance and destroys his own legacy. The latest example is how he’s used his upcoming documentary, The US and the Holocaust, to bash modern Republicans and cover for WWII-era Democrats.
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by Daniel Pipes, Knesset Israel Victory Caucus

https://www.danielpipes.org/21355/spelling-out-an-israel-victory

This is the introduction to a collection of essays, Israeli Views on Victory.

When formulating the Israel Victory idea in the late 1990s (and first writing about it in April 2001), it seemed as distant as the moon. But now, the combination of a more realistic Israeli body politic and Arab states focused on the Iranian threat brings it within reach. Therefore, its implications need to be worked out in some detail. That is the goal of this pamphlet.

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EUROPE — "The country with the lowest vaccination rate has the lowest excess mortality rate and the country with the highest vaccination rate has the highest excess mortality." pic.twitter.com/qslvKukPUq

— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) September 16, 2022

Wish you all a good year and a prosperous Year

Palestinian Authority’s security forces entered Nablus to arrest Hamas operative Musab Shtayyeh, but encountered resistance raids.

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Palestinian demonstrators protesting the arrest of two Palestinian militants clash with Palestinian and Israeli security forces, in Nablus on September 20, 2022. (photo credit: REUTERS/MOHAMAD TOROKMAN)

Violence broke out between Palestinian Authority security forces and armed factions in the West Bank city of Nablus on Tuesday with gunfights erupting on city streets.

The fights began late Monday night when 53-year-old Firas Yaish was shot dead by Palestinian Authority security forces in clashes that continued into the morning with local militias. PA forces used gunfire, tear gas and other protest dispersal means in an attempt to stop the violent riots.

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The Pakistani delegation is scheduled to meet with President Isaac Herzog later this week, according to a report.

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Supporters of religious and political party Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) carry flags and signs in support of Palestinian people to condemn the diplomatic agreement between the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Israel, during a protest in Karachi, Pakistan August 16, 2020

Diplomatic delegations from Pakistan and Indonesia are both in Israel for secret visits this week, Israeli-based i24NEWS reported on Monday.

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