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Apoplexy greets Israel’s move against terror NGOs  

The reaction illuminates how Europe shores up the Biden team’s hostility to Israel

By Melanie Phillips    26.8.22

 

PFLP terrorists in Gaza. Credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash 90

When Israeli security forces raided the offices of several NGOs in Ramallah last week and closed them down, they lifted a stone to reveal a buzzing nest of Israel’s enemies.

During the past two years, Israel declared that these NGOs were affiliated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorist group.’

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August 28, 2022 | 2:24 am | 2 Comments »

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Two are Better than One: The Role of Qatar and Egypt in Gaza  

INSS Insight No. 1636, August 25, 2022

Increasing cooperation between Qatar and Egypt has implications for regional geopolitics and specifically for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Most recently, it contributed to efforts to achieve calm between Israel and Hamas during Operation Guardian of the Walls, and was particularly significant during Operation Breaking Dawn. Enhanced coordination with Qatar was a force multiplier for Egyptian mediation in the Gaza Strip and made the influence of two countries more effective with regard to restraint of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, and regarding reconstruction of the Strip – all of which are in Israel’s interest. At the same time, Israel must ensure that rising Qatari involvement does not harm its relations with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, which still view Doha’s regional moves with suspicion.

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August 28, 2022 | 2:17 am | Comments »

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Naomi Wolf: COVID vax is a bioweapon aimed at reproduction of the next generation of the West  

The feminist writer pointed out there was already data showing the harmful impact of lipid nanoparticles before the COVID jab rollout. Now, she argues, the West in particular is suffering reproductive harm.

(LifeSiteNews) — Feminist writer Naomi Wolf decried the COVID-19 mRNA jab as a “bioweapon” targeting the West for depopulation.

“I’ve concluded that this is in fact a bioweapon aimed at the reproductive capacity of the next generation, especially in the West,” Wolf declared, referring to the mRNA shots, during a Wednesday webinar on the injections’ impact on women, hosted by activists Frank Gaffney and Reggie Littlejohn.

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August 28, 2022 | 1:56 am | 2 Comments »

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Why did the FBI redact the Mar-a-Lago raid affidavit?  

By Rajan Laad, AM THINKER

After a series of attempts by the Department of Justice to keep the affidavit used in the FBI’s August raid on Mar-a-Lago sealed from the public eyes, the document was finally released on Friday afternoon just before the 12:00 p.m. ET deadline set by federal Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart.

The affidavit was supposed to provide the reasoning for the Mar-a-Lago raid.
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August 28, 2022 | 1:49 am | 9 Comments »

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MBS is a game-changer  

By Ted Belman.

I am thoroughly enjoying reading Kushner’s book “Breaking History”

“Back in January, during Trump’s first call with King Salman bin Abdulaziz, the Saudi ruler told us to coordinate the potential trip with his son Mohammed bin Salman, the charismatic thirty- one- year- old deputy crown prince and minister of defense, known as MBS. Trump said that I would be his point person. When I got back to my desk, I already had an email from MBS asking to set up a call.

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August 28, 2022 | 1:04 am | Comments »

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Why Palestinians Are Happy to Use Ramon Airport and why Jordan’s King Is Furious with It   

By Mudar Adnan Zahran

On the 23rd of August, the Israeli authorities allowed Palestinian passengers to travel from the West Bank to Cyprus via Ramon International Airport which is near Eilat, in Israel..  This is a pilot program to see if such procedure could be expanded and sustained.  For the Palestinians, it is also a drastic change from the regularly horrendous travel route over land to cross the border to Jordan and then on to Amman International Airport where treatment of Palestinian passengers in particular is said to be very poor.

A look at Palestinian social media proves beyond a doubt that the Palestinians are happy with the idea of travelling via Ramon Airport.  It gives them an unexpected freedom.

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August 26, 2022 | 11:11 am | 2 Comments »

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Interfaith dialogue – a failure by definition  

T. Belman.  I have never been a proponent of inter-faith dialogue.

Non-Orthodox rabbis embrace the progressive ideals of their Christian counterparts, using modern terms for an ancient hatred.

By Matthew M. Hausman, JD, INN     Aug 25, 2022,

In an outrageous display of moral vacancy, the Presbyterian Church (USA) recently labelled Israel an apartheid state – despite an abundance of evidence and legal precedent to the contrary. Though mainline protestant churches have grown increasingly hostile toward Israel based on false claims of human rights abuses and a disregard for Jewish history, their condemnations are simply modern iterations of the same doctrinal prejudice used to demean Jews and Judaism for two millennia. Their anti-Israel bias is vile but historically consistent, and it raises the issue of how progressive rabbis can sit with liberal activist clergy who promote hoary antisemitic myths wrapped in the language of human rights advocacy.

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August 26, 2022 | 7:14 am | 27 Comments »

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Saudi Arabia Reforms School Curriculum, Cuts Religion Classes; Journalists, Intellectuals Praise The Decision  

MEMRI

Saudi Arabia’s Education Ministry recently announced the introduction of a new curriculum for the kingdom’s schools,  which involves, among other changes, a reduction of hours devoted to religious studies. As part of the reform, Qur’an and Islamic studies have been merged into a single subject and the number of classes devoted to these two topics has been reduced from 34 to 15 weekly classes in middle school and from 38 to 30 weekly classes in primary school.

In addition, a new subject, financial education, will be introduced in high school. Further changes in the curriculum have not year been made public, but the online London-based daily Raialyoum.com reported that the hours devoted to math, science, English and Arabic will be increased.

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August 26, 2022 | 1:44 am | Comments »

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Israel’s control of Judea & Samaria (West Bank) – US interests?  

Ambassador (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, “Second Thought: a US-Israel Initiative”    25.8.22

*Has Israel’s control of the mountain ridges of Judea & Samaria enhanced or injured US interests?

Will the proposed Palestinian state in Judea and Samaria boost or undermine US interests?

*During the October 1994 Israel-Jordan peace treaty ceremony, top Jordanian military officers warned their Israeli counterparts that a Palestinian state west of the Jordan River would doom the pro-US Hashemite regime east of the River, transforming Jordan into a uncontrollable terrorist heaven, haunting the highly vulnerable pro-US regimes of the oil-producing Arab Gulf states, as well as the pro-US Egypt.
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August 26, 2022 | 1:33 am | 2 Comments »

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LET MY PEOPLE KNOW: Territorial concession will create “…compulsive temptation to attack Israel “  

By Martin Sherman, IDSF

The principal architect of the Oslo Accords, Nobel laureate Shimon Peres, warned of the deadly perils entailed in the policy he later embraced.

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (Who will guard the guardians themselves) –Roman poet,  Juvenal, in  Satires (c. AD 100–127)

The recent visit to the Middle East by US President Joe Biden nudged the “Palestinian issue” back toward the focus of international attention, after having been placed decidedly on the back burner during the Trump -Netanyahu era. With this shift of emphasis, the question of the prudence and practicality of significant Israeli withdrawal from land beyond the 1967 “Green Line” will, in all likelihood, assume greater pertinence and prominence than in the recent past,

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August 26, 2022 | 1:15 am | 4 Comments »

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Religious Zionism primary keeps sitting MKs at top of Knesset slate  

T. Belman. “Religious Zionism would work to advance judicial reform, governance in the Negev and Galil – two areas with large Arab populations – extend Israeli sovereignty into the West Bank”.  So why can’t he join with Shaked?

Current Knesset members grab the four realistic spots behind Smotrich, who is reportedly negotiating to unify with rebel former Yamina MK Amichai Chikli

By CARRIE KELLER-LYNN, TOI     23 August 2022, 

 

Religious Zionism’s Tuesday primary ended with existing lawmakers holding the only realistic spots on the party’s Knesset slate and failing to open its ranks to varied voices, as party leader Bezalel Smotrich said was the primary’s intention.

Current lawmakers MKs Ofir Sofer, Orit Strock, Simcha Rothman and Michal Waldiger were the top vote-getters, respectively, nabbing election slate spots behind Smotrich.

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August 25, 2022 | 12:30 pm | Comments »

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Ted Cruz: Nuclear deal is designed to let the Ayatollah cheat his way to a nuclear arsenal  

Texas Senator fires back after State Department spokesperson claims Iran deal is predicated “on the most rigorous and intensive inspections”.

By 25.8.22

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Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Wednesday fired back after State Department spokesperson Ned Price claimed the nuclear deal with Iran, that the Biden administration seeks to return to, is predicated “on the most rigorous and intensive verification and monitoring regime ever negotiated. If we were to get back into this deal and if Iran were to attempt to violate it, we would know.”

In a lengthy Twitter thread responding to Price, Cruz wrote, “Complete horse manure. The Iran nuclear deal is designed to let the Ayatollah cheat his way to a nuclear arsenal.”

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August 25, 2022 | 7:34 am | Comments »

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