Faced with a nuclear deal that hamstrings the IAEA and massively enriches the Islamic Republic, transforming it into a nuclear-armed regional power, Jerusalem must now make a choice.

by Caroline Glick, ISRAEL UNWIRED     August 29, 2022

(JNS) As news emerged last week that the United States and Iran are on the verge of concluding a new nuclear deal, Israelis were given two very different interpretations of events. Caretaker Prime Minister Yair Lapid and Defense Minister Benny Gantz, along with their media flacks, responded by insisting that although the deal is bad, Lapid and Gantz are handling it like pros and reducing the damage in profound ways.

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By Vijay Jayaraj, AM THINKER

With ice coverage for July and August remaining above the ten-year average of 2010–20, the extent of summer sea ice in the Arctic has surprised experts who once predicted that such levels would be impossible.

This stands in stark contrast to the dominant climate narrative that predicts the dwindling of summer ice in the Arctic.  Some politicians had even claimed that parts of the Arctic would be ice-free by now.
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Tehran says there will be no agreement unless the U.S. calls off U.N. monitors searching for illegal uranium enrichment.

By The Editorial Board, WSJ

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi speaks during a press conference in Tehran, Aug. 29.

Give Tehran credit for candor, of a sort. The Biden Administration and European allies are desperate to negotiate a new nuclear deal with Iran to replace the 2015 Obama-era pact, and the Iranian regime is being honest that it won’t abide by whatever inspections come with that deal.

The latest evidence comes from a rare press conference held Monday by President Ebrahim Raisi. Speaking about the prospects for a new deal and a meeting with President Biden, the Iranian said, “Without settlement of safeguard issues, speaking about an agreement has no meaning.” By “safeguard issues,” he means the International Atomic Energy Agency’s attempts to investigate likely breaches of Iran’s nuclear commitments dating to the early 2000s.

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Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola   30.8.22

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

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By  Major General (res.) Yaakov Amidror, The Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security (JISS)

Changing Israel’s relationship with Arab countries is vital for its regional legitimacy, but it is also in the best interests of the Arab world. Sunni Arab countries want relations with Israel to create a safer region and better tools to deal with the complex reality they face after the “Arab Spring,” in the face of Iranian aggression and American hesitancy.

During a series of lectures and talks in several European countries about the impact of the Abraham Accords on the region, a member of the European Union’s parliament told me, “The truth is that we do not understand what is going on in your Middle East, and more than that, we do not know what has changed there.”

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Percentage of those who identify as right-wing has grown from 46% in 2019 to 62% now, with both center and left shrinking

By CARRIE KELLER-LYNN, TOI      29 August 2022,

Opposition and Likud party leader MK Benjamin Netanyahu casts his vote in Likud primaries, at a polling station in Tel Aviv on August 10, 2022,. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Israel’s right-wing Jewish voter base has grown from 46 percent before the April 2019 election to 62% now, ahead of November’s vote, according to an analysis of self-reported political affiliation by the Israel Democracy Institute.

The growth has been mostly at the expense of the political center, although the left has also taken a dip.

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By Pamela Geller – on August 29, 2022

There’s no other way to say it.

Miami Dolphins exec dies (mysteriously) at 47

Bulgarian Tennis Player Grigor Dimitrov Retires in His Opening Match During Winston Salem Open After Experiencing Dizziness and Shortness of Breath (VIDEO)

18-Year-Old Kentucky High School Athlete Dies Unexpectedly Due to Cardiac Arrest After Helping Flash Flood Victims

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T.Belman. This a fascinating subject. In 2005 I wrote Particularism Before Universalism. I reposted it above.

In fact, particularism is precisely what makes our world a better place.

By Joshua Hoffman, THE FUTURE OF JEWISH  29.5.22

The Western world transformed much of human civilization from a culture of particularism (i.e. tribalism, nationalism, religion) to a culture of universalism — in which a “universalistic ideal” dominates and particularism is viewed as inferior.

Many of today’s institutions are designed around or within universalism, a bias against particularism that (1) produces a colossal waste of talent, energy, and happiness; and (2) leads to lack of meaning and purpose, lack of innovation, and lack of progress. Hyperbole aside, it is one of the great diversity issues of our time.

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by Truth Patriot   August 28, 2022

A CIA officer has confessed that the ‘Deep State’ rigged the 2020 election in Joe Biden’s favor, and has boldly admitted that the agency would do it again.

Former CIA officer John Sipher claimed in a stunning Twitter thread that he took “particular joy” in discrediting the Hunter Biden “laptop from hell” narrative and enthusiastically admitted to “shifting” the election away from Trump.
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Whoever runs Israel’s government in the coming year will need to drop the “nice guy” routine with Biden and return to a tougher approach that can encourage the Jewish state’s many friends to speak up.

By  Jonathan S. Tobin

Like any gambler who is willing to seize on any glimmer of hope that irresponsible betting will be rewarded with an unexpected reversal of fortune, Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid was sounding hopeful this week. The Israeli government that he now leads spent the last year wagering the Jewish state’s security on the idea that better relations with the Biden administration and a decision to downplay differences would influence Washington to finally show some spine and stop appeasing Iran. So, it was hardly unexpected that Lapid would seize on the news that the United States had “hardened” its response to the latest Iranian counter-offer in the talks about renewing the 2015 nuclear deal.

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There is no solution to terror and violence emanating from Gaza except to govern the territory itself.

>By Martin Sherman

Operation Breaking Dawn vividly underscored the pernicious paradox that has characterized Israel over the last five decades. On the one hand, the country displays indisputable tactical and technological brilliance. On the other, it is chronically afflicted by gross strategic imbecility.
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The impending Iran nuclear deal will likely not end Israeli covert operations against Tehran.

By YONAH JEREMY BOB, JPOST

Prime Minister Yair Lapid meets with Mossad chief David Barnea on August 25.

Something has changed in the Mossad.

And that something means the impending Iran nuclear deal will not likely end Israeli covert operations against Tehran.

If at some point in the past, it was content to take orders from prime ministers and be included around the table next to the juggernaut IDF, the spy agency is now taking center stage more often and helping to shape policymakers’ views much more deeply.

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AFP 29.8.22

EuroPride organizers plan to press on with parade despite pushback

Thousands of Orthodox Christians marched in Belgrade Sunday to warn against holding EuroPride, despite the Serbian authorities’ decision to cancel the pan-European gathering of the LGBTQ community next month.

Carrying icons, crosses and religious flags, protesters marched through the city center while praying and chanting before gathering outside the cathedral of St. Sava.

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By Allan Stein, EPOCH TIMES

More than 1,100 scientists and professionals worldwide have signed a World Climate Declaration (WCD) stating that there is no climate emergency.

The independent foundation Climate Intelligence (CLINTEL) issued the one-page summary on June 27, 2022, garnering 1,152 total signatures in 15 countries as of Aug. 23.
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Laith Marouf can always follow his own advice to Israelis – and “go back to where he came from.”

By Hugh Fitzgerald, FPM     29.8.22<

Laith Marouf is a Lebanese man living in Canada who has been working as an “anti-racism” consultant for the Community Media Advocacy Center (CMAC) on a project funded by the government of Canada. His antisemitic and racist tweets have now been exposed; they make for instructive reading. As a result, the Canadian government initially asked that the government-funded agency Canadian Heritage, that has been financing CMAC, look into his behavior and the suitability of his continued employment as a CMAC consultant. The government itself then decided – needing no further investigation —  to end its relationship with CMAC and to shut down its “anti-racism project.”

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The Biden Administration, in other words, decided to reward friends and punish enemies within the (arguable) confines of the rule of law.

By Josh Hammer, AM GREATNESS    26.8.22

Joe Biden’s new plan to “cancel” up to $10,000 in student loan debt for those making less than $125,000 annually is at once a dereliction of constitutional duty, a crass political gambit in the lead-up to a contested midterm election, and a morally perverse value judgment that lavishes the regime’s insular, well-heeled voting base at the expense of the median middle-class American. It is, to borrow a term in vogue in Democratic Party circles these days, a truly “deplorable” act.<
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Administration: Those who thought they had to save the world from the president and those who thought the president would save the world.

By Peter Navarro, AM GREATNESS     25.8.22

While there is no love lost between former Trump Chief of Staff John Kelly and me, I would be the first to dispute Jared Kushner’s ridiculous claim that Kelly would ever shove a woman, much less the president’s daughter, Ivanka Trump. The grimmer truth here is that Jared and Ivanka did everything within their considerable Javanka powers to neuter a man 25.8.22who, even in the best of circumstances, would have had a tough time excelling in a job that required far more finesse and intelligence than brute force.

That was one of my main beefs with Javanka. It did not matter who was chief of staff. If these two spoiled scions did not get exactly what they wanted in the West Wing during the day, they went straight to the East Wing during the evening to lobby their patriarch.

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