“We are in constant contact with a range of influential people and organizations who are responsible for determining Israeli policy. Whether government or Knesset members, senior members of the security forces or international organizations like the UN, we are here to provide them with our approach to national security.”
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By Itamar Marcus, PMW | Sep 13, 2022
This week, Fatah posted an old interview with Mamdouh Nawfal who served as Yasser Arafat’s Advisor on Internal Affairs in 2000. Nawfal described in detail Arafat’s decision to take advantage of then Israeli Parliament Member Ariel Sharon’s visit to the Temple Mount in September 2000 to start a terror campaign that would last a “long” time. The terror orchestrated by Arafat and the PA lasted 4.5 years, during which time Palestinian terrorists, including many members of Arafat’s PA security forces funded by the West, murdered 1,100 Israelis.
In an unusual public attack, Lieberman slams the former Prime Minister for standing behind the ‘disturbing allegations,’ a week after the publication of claims regarding Lieberman offering a fee in exchange for having a senior officer murdered
By Allison Kaplan Sommer, HAARETZ 4.9.22
Even by the standards of Israeli election rhetoric, the vicious attack that Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman unleashed against opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday was unprecedented.
“The man is the scum of the earth,” Lieberman said of Netanyahu, who was once his boss in the 1990s and later served alongside him in consecutive governments. “He has no red lines,” Lieberman continued. “And it’s clear to him that all that stands between him and ruling the country is Avigdor Lieberman.”
By STEPHEN M. FLATOW, JPOST
KING CHARLES III, as the Prince of Wales, meets with Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas in Bethlehem, 2020.
The ascent of Prince Charles to the British throne King Charles III is a problem for advocates of the Palestinian Arab cause. The new king’s connection to a key Jewish holy site in eastern Jerusalem could focus attention on a subject that the Arabs are anxious to avoid.
By Ted Belman
A new poll published on Sept 12 indicated that :
Another scenario examined is a situation in which Naftali Bennett reverses his decision to retire from politics and decides to run in the elections for the 25th Knesset. A party led by him would win five seats and the main victim of such a move would again be Benny Gantz, whose party will be weakened to 10. Bennett’s participation would also weaken Ra’am, Meretz, and Yisrael Beytenu, which would be in danger of falling below the electoral threshold.
What’s he waiting for? He owes it to Shaked, Yamina and its supporters.
By Jim Hoft, GATEWAY September 12, 2022
A new pre-print study by nine health experts from major universities showed that the COVID-19 vaccines are 98 times worse than the virus, and mandatory booster vaccination in college is “ethically unjustifiable,” as reported by Epoch Times.
The study was posted on The Social Science Research Network (SSRN) in September, titled, “COVID-19 Vaccine Boosters for Young Adults: A Risk-Benefit Assessment and Five Ethical Arguments against Mandates at Universities.“
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T. Belman. This is a very important article.
By Alexander G. Markovsky, AM THINKER
The capitalist free-market system rests on three pillars: sanctity of contracts, inviolability of private property, and trust in the banking system. Economic sanctions imposed on Russia led to the abrogation of existing contracts, expropriation of Russian companies’ properties, and freezing Russia’s government assets and bank accounts. Moscow reciprocated by expropriating foreign assets on Russian territory. The economic war triggered the collapse of the established exchange of goods and services. The stability and solidity of the capitalist system reliant on economic interdependence dissipated and were replaced by black markets.
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By Michael Bavly , Consul General of Israel in New England, January 29, 1980
Ambassador Andrew Young’s resignation has long been a closed chapter. But the questions which were raised still linger: What is wrong in talking to the Palestine Liberation Organization? Doesn’t the PLO represent the Palestinians? How can there be peace in the Middle East without the PLO? The answers to those questions depend on understanding the PLO and its aims.
The PLO is a loosely grouped body of more than a dozen different factions, strongly supported by the Soviet Union. Some of these were created and are financed by various Arab countries, sometimes combining their efforts and sometimes fighting each other. It took its present form in 1964 with the adoption of the Palestinian National Covenant.
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(September 11, 2022 / JNS) In recent years, anti-Semitism in the U.S. educational system has been primarily associated with the demonization of Israel at institutions of higher education. Activism that targets Jews and a rise in support for the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement among students and faculty underscores the increasing anti-Semitism on American campuses.
However, efforts to delegitimize the Jewish state are now moving from higher education to K-12 public schools. Attempts to falsely label Israel an “apartheid state” and promote similar forms of defamation are being aided and abetted by teachers unions and normalized by mainstream Jewish groups.
T. Belman. Well said but I go further. These voices are also pushing the TSS on us. That’s our business, not yours.
David M. Weinberg, ISRAEL HAYOM
The penchant to pronounce judgement on every Israeli counterterror incident is becoming quite a fun blood sport for the unfriendly-to-Israel crowd. Too many foreign leaders have gotten into the increasingly vulgar practice of second-guessing Israeli security operations.
Pushing back against this is long overdue. Fortunately, Prime Minister Lapid and Defense Minister Gantz last week followed the lead of former Prime Pinister Naftali Bennett in repulsing the State Department’s call for a change in IDF rules of engagement in Judea and Samaria.
BY
The September 11, 2001 jihad terror attacks were twenty-one years ago, and Americans have moved on. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Mogadishu) was widely ridiculed and even reviled a few years ago for breezily characterizing 9/11 as the day when “some people did something,” but she has had the last laugh: the coverage of the attacks every year is a study in avoidance, with the establishment media focusing on anything and everything besides the motivating ideology and goals of the attackers. As always, the media’s favorite preoccupation is the persistence of Muslim victimhood: every 9/11 anniversary, we’re inundated with stories about how Muslims suffered on that day, and continue to suffer, from racist and unwarranted suspicion that has made their lives in America, a land to which they came with so much hope, a veritable living hell.
Want to intimidate or discredit someone you disagree with? If you’re a member of the mainstream media, just describe them as a “denier” or preface their concerns as “unproven allegations” or “discredited claims.”
NPR states… “Trump has endorsed 159 candidates who are election deniers [italics mine] for state and federal offices this year…” They continue… “From the standpoint of a fact-checker, there is no evidence of fraud sufficient to support that claim. After nearly two years of recounts, ballot reviews, expert examinations and court cases, that remains the bottom line. The 2020 election has been scrubbed and studied as none other in U.S. history, and the consensus conclusion remains that it was run more smoothly and counted more reliably than ever.”
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News of the lightening offensive against Russian forces in the Kharkiv area of Ukraine by Ukrainian forces has spread around the world. The Russian retreat was so complete that Ukraine reclaimed 3000 square kilometers of territory from Russia and now stands 40km from the Russian border. So what will happen next?
Contrary to popular belief, Russia has never declared war on the Ukraine. Putin has only called this a limited military operation in order to defend the self declared independent provinces in the Donbass region of the Ukraine.
T. Belman. Fitzgerald does great work.. Here, he reviews the role Le Monde has played in international affairs. Then he discusses a major article of theirs “Palestine, de la colonisation à l’apartheid.” Because Le Monde is such an influential paper he wanted us to know “what the French elite are being fed about the Jewish state and the Palestinians.”
BY
Le Monde is the paper read by the French elite. It was founded in 1944 by the distinguished journalist Hubert Beuve-Méry at the behest of Charles De Gaulle. For a long time it deserved its reputation, for the excellence of its reporting and the elevated language (langue soutenue) in which it was written. But starting in the 1960s, it began its gradual leftwing turn in tone and content. De Gaulle himself, who had pushed for Le Monde’s creation, had deeply resented both the U.S. and the U.K. for having, in his view, paid insufficient attention both to him and to the interests of France. It was Churchill and FDR who met with Stalin in Tehran in 1943, to discuss the conduct of the war; it was again Churchill and FDR who met with Stalin at Yalta in the Crimea in 1945, to discuss how to manage the postwar world. De Gaulle was not invited to attend either conference. The Gaullist anti-Americanism metamorphosed into leftwing anti-Americanism in the pages of Le Monde.
T. Belman. Yes Russia has been forced to withdraw from certain areas but it is too early to count them out.
A man stands next to a business and entertainment centre heavily damaged by a Russian military strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Kharkiv, Ukraine September 9, 2022 (credit: REUTERS/VIKTORIIA YAKYMENKO)
Russia’s state-owned TASS news agency published an interesting article quoting the head of the “Donetsk People’s Republic,” a breakaway republic that Russia has recognized as a country but which is actually part of Ukraine.
Ambassador Tom NidesGilad Kavalerchik
US Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides participated on Sunday in the World Summit on Counter-Terrorism of The International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) at Reichman University and argued that the leadership in Jerusalem must support the two-state solution.
“In order to preserve a democratic Jewish state, it is important to reach a two-state solution. The situation in Judea and Samaria cannot continue,” Nides said.
