By David B. Ottaway and John M. Goshko, WAPO  15.12.88

In a major change in U.S. Middle East policy, Secretary of State George P. Shultz announced yesterday that the United States is ready to begin a “substantive dialogue” with the Palestine Liberation Organization and authorized the American ambassador in Tunisia to “make himself available” for contacts with its representatives. Shultz acted a few hours after PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat in Geneva declared in the most direct language he has ever used that the PLO has accepted Israel’s right to exist.

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T. Belman. I totally reject the notion that Trump lost because of the ineptitude of Kushner. Kushner broke all kinds of records in the campaign and Trump won massively but lost due to fraud.

Former aide says Trump wanted to replace son-in-law with Steve Bannon as election campaign manager, but didn’t follow through due to ‘family troubles’

By Ash Obel, TOI

Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, left, and Jared Kushner, son-in-law and senior adviser to former US president Donald Trump at the White House in Washington, DC, June 12, 2017. (NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP)

Former US president Donald Trump agreed to fire his son-in-law Jared Kushner and replace him with far-right provocateur Steven Bannon, according to a new book written by former Trump aide Peter Navarro, The Guardian reported Saturday.

Navarro cites a June 25, 2020, entry in his own diary which said a meeting took place between Bannon and major campaign donors.

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By Michael Ordman, VGNI

In the 11th Sep 22 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:

• Israeli scientists have found how to make brain tumors self-destruct.
• A charity is ensuring that all Israeli children are equipped for school.
• An Israeli delegation to Chad brought back children for heart surgery.
• Israeli tech navigated the first unmanned commercial ship.
• Israeli scientists have developed a food that could end global hunger.
• An Israeli supermarket has begun deliveries by drone.
• An Israeli is the oldest player to win a World Championship badminton match.
• Ancient ivories discovered during excavations of a Judean palace in Jerusalem.

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Tierney’s Real News

The Falling Man

At fifteen seconds after 9:41 a.m., on September 11, 2001, a photographer named Richard Drew took a picture of a man falling through the sky—falling through time as well as through space. People on the ground were gasping because people in the building were jumping.

He started shooting pictures through a 200mm lens. He was standing between a cop and an emergency technician, and each time one of them cried, “There goes another,” his camera found a falling body and followed it down for a nine- or twelve-shot sequence.

The picture went all around the world, and then disappeared, as if we willed it away.

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Having lost three consecutive elections to Liberal Justin Trudeau since 2015, the Conservative Party is keen for a leader like Pierre Poilievre, who is a skilled communicator and unabashedly right leaning, said one strategist who expects him to cruise to victory.

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At Least 673 Have Died Since January 2021, Number Likely Higher

By Margaret Flavin, GATEWAY PUNDIT          September 10, 2022

From January 2021 to April 2022, at least 673 athletes are said to have died from sudden death.  This number is only 428 deaths less than the 1100 known to have died as outlined by a study on sudden death in athletes from 1966 through 2004.  Those 1101 athlete deaths occurred over almost 40 years and yet 673 died over an only 16 month period since COVID vaccines have been introduced. Good Sciencing has that number closer to 1323 and includes a comprehensive list of each athlete death.

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The deepening row over the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh has exposed the excruciating error of Israeli strategy towards the Biden administration. Op-ed.

By Melanie Phillips, INN

(JNS) A key strategy of Israel’s push-me-pull-you prime ministers, Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid, has been to refrain from publicly criticizing America’s policies in the Middle East.

By restricting to private discussions with U.S. President Joe Biden and his team Israel’s profound concerns over the proposed nuclear deal with Iran, Bennett and Lapid believed that a grateful American administration would reciprocate by advancing Israel’s interests.

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1.  The State of Israel

a) Israel is the historical homeland of the Jewish people in which the state of Israel was established.
b) The state of Israel is the nation-state of the Jewish people, in which it actualizes its natural, religious, and historical right for self-determination.
c) The actualization of the right of national self-determination in the state of Israel is unique to the Jewish people.

2.  National symbols of the State of Israel
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 JINSA     –  September 9, 2022 | 

Ambassador Ron Dermer and Dr. Michael Makovsky discuss Israel’s misguided approach to opposing a nuclear deal with Iran, German-Israeli relations since the terror attack on the Israeli team at the 1972 Munich Olympics, and the 125th anniversary of the First Zionist Congress.

by Majid Rafizadeh, GATESTONE  •  September 10, 2022

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi hold a meeting in Tehran on July 19, 2022. (Photo by Sergei Savostyanov/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images)

• In spite of the opposition from US allies in the Middle East as well as many US Congressman — both Democrats and Republicans — the Biden administration appeared determined to reward the ruling mullahs of Iran whose policies and ideology are anchored in “Death to America” and “Death to Israel”.
• The Biden administration seemed to hope that if they could just “contain” Iran with a “deal” — put Iran “in a box” even for a few years — it would “free up” the US to deal other problems, such as China, Russia, North Korea, Venezuela and the Indo-Pacific, with one less distraction. If only.
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Justice Sonia Sotomayor puts decision by lower court demanding recognition on hold ‘pending further order’; NY university cited 1st Amendment rights in emergency appeal

By LUKE TRESS, AGENCIES and TOI STAFF

The US Supreme Court building in Washington, Monday, June 27, 2022. (AP/Patrick Semansky, File)

The US Supreme Court temporarily blocked a lower court’s ruling requiring Yeshiva University in New York City to recognize a campus LGBTQ pride group.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor granted an emergency request on Friday filed last week by the modern Orthodox university that cited its rights under the First Amendment, which protects the free exercise of religion. The university argued that such recognition would be contrary to its beliefs.

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“The Jewish community is really in mourning along with the rest of the United Kingdom. We really feel that we have lost, I think someone described her, as the grandmother of the nation,” said Olivia Marks-Woldman, chief executive of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust.

BY DMITRIY SHAPIRO

(September 9, 2022 / JNS) Jews around the world are reflecting on the consequential 70-year reign of Queen Elizabeth II following her death on Thursday and what she meant for the Jewish community.

Shortly after the news was announced, Britain’s Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis released a video where he expressed condolences from the Jewish community throughout the Commonwealth.

Mirvis said that the queen embodied “the most noble values of British society” and was a “rock of stability” in an ever-changing world, and that she had a warm relationship with the Jewish community.

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by David Mark

According to Alma Education and Research Center, Hezbollah is actively preparing for a direct armed conflict with Israel.

Over the last few months, tensions have risen between Israel and Hezbollah over the Karish Gas Field dispute. So far negotiations between Israel and Lebanon have stalled. Hezbollah has increased its threats against Israel and is threatening armed conflict?

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Why Is Israel Protecting Illegal Palestinian Arab Construction?

Regavim director: ‘This government has drawn a de facto partition map of the country’

Nachala – A new Zionist effort to protect the land

Illegal Arab construction: Will PA Arabs skirt the law by identifying as Bedouin?

Watchdog demands Supreme Court close loophole protecting illegal construction

No more mukhtars: Will illegal Arab construction in Jerusalem now stop?

Will illegal Arab villages be evacuated? ‘They’re trespassers’

Third and final hearing for public comment on the project – called ‘lethal’ for future Palestinian state by critics – pushed off without new date

By JEREMY SHARON, TOI        8 September 2022, 

View of the Israeli settlement of Maale Adumin and the area known as E1, in the West Bank on January 2, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

A hearing in a key settlement planning forum regarding the highly controversial E1 construction project has been postponed for the third time without a future date being set.

The left-wing Ir Amim and Peace Now organizations — which have both submitted objections to the project — said they were informed of the postponement by the Higher Planning Committee of the Civil Administration, which oversees settlement planning in the West Bank.

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Should matters of state in Israel be decided by a Jewish majority or a majority of all its citizens?

By Ted Belman

Current Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked, head of the newly created Zionist Spirit party and formerly of the Yamina party, continues to bang this drum:

“But ultimately, we have seen for four election campaigns already, that there was no majority of 61 MKs for a full-fledged right-wing government. Ultimately, we have to consider whether to form – and there’s no such thing according to any poll – a very narrow government that half the country’s residents will feel is not their government, and it is safe to assume will also not be stable, or to form a broader government and fight for what is important for us,”

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_{The U.S. administration is exposing Israel to existential peril.}

by Caroline Glick, ISRAEL UNWIRED  September 8, 2022 

(JNS) For four months, no one could explain the Biden administration’s seeming obsession with forcing Israel to accept responsibility for the death of Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh on May 11. Abu Akleh was killed in Jenin during a gun battle between Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorists, with whom she was embedded, and IDF forces. The battle occurred in the aftermath of a spate of murderous terror attacks in Israeli cities that took the lives of 17 Israelis. Nearly all of the attacks were carried out by PIJ terrorists deployed from Jenin.

The U.S. demand that Israel accept the blame for Abu Akleh’s death was strange for several reasons. First, since the Palestinians seized her body and refused to permit Israeli pathologists to examine it or the bullet that killed her, Israel couldn’t conduct a comprehensive investigation.

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