By Gidon Ben-Zvi, ALGEMEINER

In a recent exposé published by the Israeli daily Ma’ariv, journalist Lilac Sigan paints a disturbing picture of The New York Times’ coverage of Israel during the first half of 2022.

Based on her analysis of pieces published on the front page, the Opinion section, and the World section of The New York Times online, Sigan found that the “newspaper of record” disproportionately focuses on Israel, is overly selective in which Israel-related stories it reports on, and fails to provide its readers with the proper context in its coverage of news surrounding Israel and the Palestinians.

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By Mike Konrad, AM THINKER

President Biden’s recent comment at a Palestinian hospital in Jerusalem, the capital of Israel — where he compared the Palestinians’ situation to the Irish under British rule — could be dismissed as a simple gaffe, except that the false analogy (the technical terms is casuistry) is gaining ground in Europe for all the wrong reasons.

In simple terms, the Irish have almost nothing in common with the Palestinians — not in their history, not in their culture, not in their situation.
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By Andrea Widburg, AM THINKER

There are several entities that saw a benefit in declaring war on fossil fuel: The environmentalists who are so historically illiterate that they believe a world without fossil fuels will be a bucolic paradise, rather than a Hobbesian nightmare; the leftists who want to break the West to rebuild it as a socialist paradise; the Great Reset/New World Order crowd, which envisions happy, possession-free serfs; and the Chinese, who foresee a bloodless conquest of the West which, believe me, will not be anybody’s paradise. While the winner among these groups isn’t clear, the loser is coming into focus: Ordinary people across the Western world. The latest example comes from Germany.

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T. Belman.  This explanation of why the US and the EU want the new Iran deal, rings true. But I should mention that they wanted this deal since Biden was inaugurated, long before the Ukraine War.

by Marilyn Stern, MEFORUM  24.6.22

Efraim Inbar, president of the Jerusalem Institute for Security Studies (JISS), spoke to a June 24^th Middle East Forum Webinar (video) about the implications of a potential nuclear deal between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Inbar said the U.S. has made a “strategic decision” to “pivot away from the Middle East” to concentrate on China and its goal to “undermine” the U.S. This makes the Biden administration “desperate” to close a nuclear deal with Iran to open the regime’s oil to the world market and relieve America’s energy crisis and the resulting inflation and economic pressure.

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by Ben Cohen, ALGEMIENER

US President Joe Biden is greeted by Prince Khaled al-Faisal al-Saud, Governor of Mecca, on his arrival in Saudi Arabia. Photo: Reuters/Saudi Press Agency

As US President Joe Biden arrived in Saudi Arabia on Friday on the final leg of a Middle Eastern tour that has placed Iran’s nuclear ambitions front and center, the United Arab Emirates, a key regional ally, delivered the unexpected announcement that it was breaking ranks by seeking a rapprochement with the Tehran regime.

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The White House is refusing to share details about its coordinated efforts to engage in a federal takeover of election administration.

By Molly Hemingway, THE FEDERALIST

President Biden really does not want the public to know about his federal takeover of election administration. Dozens of members of Congress have repeatedly asked for details, to no avail. Good government groups, members of the media, and private citizens have filed requests under the Freedom of Information Act. Not a single one has been responded to. All signs indicate a concerted effort to keep the public in the dark until at least after the November midterm elections. The lack of transparency and responsiveness is so bad that the Department of Justice and some of its agencies have been repeatedly sued for the information.

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Tectonic shift in the region now has links to global partnerships that put regional powers in the driver’s seat hosting summits that link the US with Israel, the UAE, India and others.

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN, JPOST

US President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid attend the first virtual meeting of the “I2U2” group with leaders of India and the United Arab Emirates, in Jerusalem, July 14, 2022

A virtual summit during US President Joe Biden’s visit to Israel – including Biden, Prime Minister Yair Lapid, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan – represents a huge strategic shift.

It has been years in the making, as Israel and India were already strategic partners, and the Abraham Accords brought in the UAE.

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By  David Israel, JEWISH PRESS      15.7.22

Communications Minister Yoaz Hendel (L) and his faction partner MK Zvi Hauser, June 6, 2022.

According to a Panels Politics Institute poll published by Maariv on Friday, shows Yamina led by Ayelet Shaked well below the 3.25% vote threshold. Yamina crashes in this poll, to a low of 2.2%, compared to 2.6% in the previous poll by the same outfit. Meretz, after the retirement of Nitzan Horowitz from his post as chairman, receives 2.5% – compared to 2.1% in the previous poll.

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T. Belman. I also support this bill. People in small communities should have the right to exclude who they will. Some Condominiu owners in the US already have this right.

By  David Israel, JEWISH PRESS      – May 29, 2022

Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked on Sunday tweeted giddily: “A Zionist message on Jerusalem Day – the Admissions Committees bill, making it possible to increase thenumber of families in municipalities with admissions committees, has been approved by the Ministerial Legislative Committee.”

“This is a step on the way to strengthening and expanding Jewish settlement in the Galilee on the one hand, and for the housing market on the other,” Shaked explained, adding, “For 10 years we’ve been trying to pass this law and now we are past the first phase. Thanks to MKs Nir Orbach and Yomtov Kalfon for pushing this forward.”

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The countries “further reaffirm that the strategic U.S.-Israel partnership is based on a bedrock of shared values, shared interests, and true friendship.”

By Aryeh Savir, TPS

Joint Declaration signed by US President Joe Biden and Israeli PM Yair Lapid, July 14, 2022. (GPO)

U.S. President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Yair Lapid met in Jerusalem on Thursday and adopted the historic Joint Declaration on the U.S.-Israel Strategic Partnership, known as the Jerusalem Declaration. In the declaration, the two allies “reaffirm the unbreakable bonds between our two countries and the enduring commitment of the United States to Israel’s security.” The countries “further reaffirm that the strategic U.S.-Israel partnership is based on a bedrock of shared values, shared interests, and true friendship.” Read more…

US president, first ever to attend ‘Jewish Olympics’ held every four years, tells American athletes he is ‘damn proud of them,’ validating one of world’s largest competitions

By MELANIE LIDMAN and TOI STAFF     14 July 2022, 11:21 pm   

US President Joe Biden, center, gives a thumbs up as he stands behind a glass partition with President Isaac Herzog, left, and Prime Minister Yair Lapid during the opening ceremonies of the Maccabiah Games at Teddy Stadium in Jerusalem, July 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

More than 10,000 athletes marched into Jerusalem’s Teddy Stadium Thursday night, waving flags of their home nations alongside Israel’s blue and white as the 21st edition of the Maccabiah international sporting competition kicked off with US President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Yair Lapid in attendance.

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Despite the president’s genuine affection for Israel, his itinerary sent out baleful signals.

By Melanie Phillips, INN

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(JNS) When dealing with politicians, it’s important always to pay less attention to what they say than what they actually do—and also to what they choose not to say, which may provide a clue to their actions.

When U.S. President Joe Biden arrived this week in Israel, he said he was proud that America’s relationship with Israel was “deeper and stronger, in my view, than it’s ever been” and told an Israeli interviewer that returning to Israel was “like going home.”

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Multistate Updates

By Robert B. Sklaroff, 

As in the past, articles dealing with the global issue of election integrity are provided prior to those impacting specific states, with major pieces emphasized with minimal analysis.

Courts squash Dems’ ‘Most Secure Election’ Lie: Swing States Didn’t Follow Their Own Laws In 2020

Mollie Hemingway recommended that state officials warn their localities to not follow Brandon’s executive order to transform government assistance centers into GOTV hubs because inter alia these GOTV hubs exceed federal authority under the Voting Rights Act.

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T. Belman.  Melanie Phillips and David Friedman discuss every thing you want them to discuss. The discussion is very informative. They also discuss the same issues that I raised in this article. Israel can say “no” to the US demands more often than not, and the sky won’t fall.

So long as the progress base of the Democrat Party dictates Biden’s foreign policy, those policies will continue to fail, to the detriment of regional security and stability. Op-ed.

By Caroline Glick, INN

(JNS) Ahead of U.S. President Joe Biden’s trip to Israel and Saudi Arabia, the president published an op-ed in The Washington Post, in which he placed his trip in the context of his overall Middle East policy. A few days later, Israel’s opposition leader, former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, made a brief statement on Biden’s then upcoming visit that spoke directly to the claims Biden made in his article. Taken together, the two communications explain why Biden’s visit was a failure before it even began—and what a successful policy looks like.
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T. Belman, As I have written before, what does confederation mean and what will be confederated?  It is my belief that the only lands to be “confederated” with Jordan are Areas A and Gaza and such lands won’t be a state but will simply territories over which Israel is sovereign and Jordan replaces the PA and Hamas as the administrator.

By Daniel Gordis

With President Biden’s visit to Israel and Saudi Arabia this week, the future of the Palestinians—an issue that to their frustration has mostly disappeared from the news—may return to the headlines once again.

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Analysis Nine Words Biden Uttered at Tel Aviv Airport Reveal His Policy on Israel-Palestine

In U.S. President Biden’s speech on the first day of his visit to Israel and the West Bank, he actually mentioned ‘peace’ once, but it seems nearly all those present would rather avoid it

By Noa Landau, HAARETZ

Over the years, welcoming ceremonies in Israel for American presidents usually include several motifs that are repeated, irrespective of who the hosts or guests are. Among such motifs – which are really akin to the red carpet and the playing of the American and Israeli national anthems – there is regular mention in the speeches of the “unbreakable” bond between the countries and the Bible and the Holocaust as well as technology and defense. But beyond that, they always feature the aspiration for peace, whether genuine or not.

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T. Belman. This report doesn’t  mention 6 Master Plans but does reference ” the approval of six outline construction plans for Arabs in Judea and Samaria”.  Are they the same things?  Remember gestures are gratuitous and can be rescinded in most cases. They are not contractual obligations.

Do more parts of the Land of Israel have to be given to the Palestinians, every time Uncle Sam visits, wondered the Ad Kan organization.

By Aryeh Savir, TPS

Several Israeli leaders have sounded the alarm following a series of “trust-building” gestures toward the Palestinian Authority (PA) that Defense Minister Benny Gantz approved, ahead of U.S. President Joe Biden’s visit to Israel this week.

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