Don’t fall for the Turkey illusion

Although Turkey and Israel reestablishing diplomatic relations is a matter worth celebrating, as long as Islamist Erdogan is in power, the country will continue to be hostile toward Israel and support the Hamas terror group. By  Prof. Efraim Inbar

The Iranian aggression on Turkish soil has not stopped Erdogan from scurrying to Tehran several weeks ago to meet his Iranian and Russian counterparts.

By Amnon Lord, ISRAEL HAYOM

When Prime Minister Yair Lapid announced that Turkey and Israel were going to exchange ambassadors and restore full diplomatic ties, he said that this would be a great economic boon for Israelis. This is probably the prism through which Turkish President Recept Tayyip Erdogan sees this new relationship between Ankara and Jerusalem. But if there is a hidden understanding that Israel would now reroute the planned gas pipeline to Europe so that it would pass through Turkish-controlled territory or water, then major scrutiny is in order.

Former National Security Council head Major-General (res.) Yaakov Amidror wrote in a recent analysis published by the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security that giving in to requests to build the pipeline through Turkey would be a mistake.

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Israel-hating activists justify and valorize terrorism.

By Richard L. Cravatts, FPM    18.8.22

In their zeal to create “safe” campus environments, universities have attempted to create an educational environment where students from approved victim groups are coddled, nurtured, and shielded from any criticism or intellectual or emotional challenges.

So-called hate speech—which now includes any expression that contradicts the prevailing progressive orthodoxy on campuses—is said to be harmful, even violent, by those forced to listen to others’ ideas.

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“…no one is allowed to touch those records until the markings are addressed.”

BY LIFEZETTE 12.8.22

VIDEO

While not even president, former President Donald Trump continues to be at the center of Washington, D.C. as the FBI raided his residence at Mar-a-Lago, claiming he possessed classified material. Although the raid was a surprise to many Republicans and the media, it came months after federal investigators removed what they suggested were national security documents from Trump’s property. That was in June. But with new evidence and even a witness, the FBI raided his Florida property, hoping to once again find a treasure trove of classified documents. But according to the Pentagon Chief of Staff for the Trump administration, Kash Patel, they are doing nothing more than wasting time. 
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By John Green, AM THINKER
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When Barr was appointed head the DOJ, he never seemed to recognize something that had been obvious for years to anyone without blinders on.  The DOJ was already steeped in corruption — the rot was part of its culture.

In the years preceding Barr’s tenure, the DOJ had engaged in gun-running to drug cartels.  That was a departmental attempt to “juice up” the gun violence statistics in support of more gun control.  The attorney general at the time, Eric Holder, was even held in contempt of Congress for withholding evidence of the scandal.
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Long reconciliation process reaches successful conclusion as ‘frenemies’ agree to swap envoys, a major step that could have important implications for Middle East

By LAZAR BERMAN, TOI

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, and Israel’s President Isaac Herzog speak to the media after their talks, in Ankara, Turkey, Wednesday, March 9, 2022. .(AP/Burhan Ozbilici)

But it does mean that their interests line up on enough important concerns that they intend to pursue a positive bilateral agenda. And they intend to do it in a way that won’t leave the relationship liable to fall apart at the sight of the first rift.

“This shows the ability of the countries to deal with disagreements, and to create frameworks for the disagreements to be discussed without it ruining the bilateral relationship, as happened in past years,” said Nimrod Goren, president of Mitvim – The Israeli Institute for Regional Foreign Policies, a think tank.

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Benny Gantz’s double-speak in the Knesset was an apt reflection of his “policy” as defense minister: pathetic, infuriating – and dangerous.

By Naomi Linder Kahn,  JPOST

There seems to be no limit to the hypocrisy and double-talk to which Israeli voters are being exposed in this election season.

This week’s installment of double-speak came from no lesser a luminary than Defense Minister Benny Gantz, who is quickly proving himself to be a master of the genre. Speaking from the podium of the Knesset plenum, Gantz, who has held this position for three years under as many prime ministers, is the man responsible for waging and winning Israel’s battle for Area C, the section of Judea and Samaria under full Israeli jurisdiction under international law.

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The event took place in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, from August 1-7 with the participation of nearly 600 students from all over the world

By i24NEWS and ILH Staff

Israel’s math prowess was on display in latest international competition | Illustration: Getty Images/Fuse

Students from Tel Aviv University won first place in the International Mathematics Competition for University Students (IMC).

The event took place in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, between August 1-7 with the participation of nearly 600 students from all over the world, according to the website of the French Association of Tel Aviv University.

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Ramallah would need Biden to forgo Security Council veto, though that would trigger a ban on funding the UN; PLO says DC mulling proposal, but State Department hints odds are low

By JACOB MAGID, TOI   Today, 8:23 am   

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the 73rd session of the General Assembly at the United Nations in New York, September 27, 2018. (TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP)

Palestinian Ambassador to the United Nations Riyad Mansour is once again seeking full member state status at the UN, but Ramallah faces an uphill battle without support from the US, which has passed laws aimed at thwarting such an effort.

In an interview with The Times of Israel Monday, Mansour argued that the new initiative would “save the two-state solution” and serve as a counterweight to unilateral steps taken by Israel in East Jerusalem and the West Bank that have damaged prospects that the framework could eventually be implemented.

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By Patrick Shanahan, AM THINKER

Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is a real thing. Donald Trump came into Washington much like Rodney Dangerfield storming into toney Bushwood Country Club in Caddyshack. And much of official Washington (aka the Swamp) reacted just like Ted Knight’s Judge Smails, with a combination of horror, disgust, and condescension that settled into an ice-cold obsessive rage. It’s a real thing, closer to a disability than anything else. But it does not explain the raid on Mar-a-Lago.
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Demcast Has Been Controlling Reality

To focus on essence, start watching at 30 minutes.

FDA Knew 44% of Pregnant Women in Pfizer Trial Suffered Miscarriages

T. Belman.  In other words, Kushner is a smuck. Although I knew he was a New York liberal and thus at odds with Trump’s agenda, I didn’t realize how he gummed up the works. When Biden succeeded in stealing the election, the Kushners abandoned Trump rather than stand by him in his efforts to reclaim the presidency. That really pissed me off.

I wish Navarro had explained how Kushner was “the man most responsible for the loss of the Trump White House”.

Jared Kushner did more damage to the presidency and the Trump agenda during his four year reign of error

By Peter Navarro, AM GREATNESS        August 15, 2022

Take credit for what worked. Shift the blame for what didn’t. Run to Daddy-in-law whenever the big, bad chief of staff got in his way. That was Jared Kushner’s modus operandi during the long four years I had to serve alongside the man most responsible for the loss of the Trump White House.
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T. Belman.  Mudar Zahran was right on the money in his article Why did the Islamic Jihad agree to a Ceasefire so quickly? which I published 5 days earlier. He also wrote Who Will Succeed Mahmoud Abbas as the Palestinian President?

On intelligence matters, he is way ahead of the curve.

JAFAJ 15.8.22

1. Summary: On August 5, 2022, Israel stepped into the ring and delivered a one-two punch to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) in Gaza killing both of its two top military leaders, leaving the terror group leaderless in the middle of a confrontation with Israel. This led to a rapid ceasefire. A day after, Israel stepped up operations by killing three militants in Nablus in the West Bank belonging to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, a Fattah-PLO faction. This escalation of targeted killing is a translation of Israel’s new strategy of targeting terror leaders as pre-emptive countermeasures for the excepted regional unrest, such as potential military confrontations with either Hezbollah in Lebanon or Iran or a regime change in either Jordan or the Palestinian Authority or both.

Unprecedented Brazenness

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The so-called “dangerous” new Likud has done little if anything to promote issues important to the Right, preferring to lobby for Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu in the media.

By  Prof. Udi Lebel, ISRAEL HAYOM    16.8.22

What hasn’t been said about the Likud Knesset list – it’s been called populist, extremist, anti-state, far from the path of Menachem Begin, and of course, very very right-wing.

There have been discussions on top of discussions about how very right-wing the list is – is it too far Right? Will it boomerang on the Likud and Benjamin Netanyahu if it’s so far Right? Will the “moderate Right” flee because it’s so right-wing? So here’s a different take – all this talk about how right-wing the list is, all the astonishment about how the Likud “has never been so right-wing,” is the best thing that could happen to the Likud and Netanyahu himself, who on the recent anniversary of the disengagement from Gaza managed to avoid being labeled as the person whose support for the disengagement allowed it to be approved.

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Most observers believe that if there is a plea deal, it will only be after the November 1 election – and only if Netanyahu fails to form a government.

By YONAH JEREMY BOB, JPOST   15.8.22

OPPOSITION LEADER Benjamin Netanyahu arrives to testify in Jerusalem last week before the state commission of inquiry into the Meron disaster. (credit: YONATAN SINDEL/FLASH90)

On September 5, in the height of election season, the trial of former prime minister (and current candidate) Benjamin Netanyahu will restart after an approximate six-week summer recess.

What have been the latest developments, and where will the trial go from here?

The Netanyahu trials: Where we stand

The trial opened in May 2000 and witnesses were first called in April 2021. The focus, so far, has mostly been on Case 4000 – the Bezeq-Walla Affair. But this past summer, the prosecution started to dig deeper into Case 1000 – the Illegal Gifts Affair.

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By Jim Hoft, GATEWAY   15.8.22

As time goes by, the death toll among Canada’s medical professionals rises.

Another Canadian doctor, Dr. Ryan Buyting, a neurosurgery resident at Alberta Health Services (AHS) who was only 26 years old, passed away on July 26, 2022, according to his family.

“It is with great sadness that we acknowledge the loss of our beloved son Ryan Mackenzie Buyting on July 26, 2022,” an entry in his obituary read. “He was born on August 6, 1995, to Rob and Karyn (Broad) Buyting and was a loving brother to Jon and Lauryn.”

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By Ury Weiss   14 Aug 2022,

https://rumble.com/v1d33gj-damning-evidence-again-from-virologist-and-immunologist-dr-poornima-wagh-ph.html

I believe, after watching this video, even the most dumbed down individual, would come to the conclusion that there was no pandemic in 2020, just a genocidal world coup d’etat against humanity.

Dr. Poornima Wagh, Virologist and Immunologist on her work back in April 2020 to try to purify and isolate the NON EXISTENT SARS-COV-2. Similar studies were carried out in Canada, back in May 2020 with similar results. No traces of any novel virus SARS-COV-2, or COVID19. Dr. Poornima Wagh claims categorically there was no SARS-COV-2 pandemic and absolutely no variant derived from it. All smoke and mirrors. The current Monkey  Pox bullshit is nothing but a side effect of the Luciferian injections. It depletes the count of the T cells CD4 & CD8 and as a result people injected with the poison shot, contract auto immune diseases, SHINGLES being one of many.

T. Belman. Haaretz keeps smearing the right wing as “extremists”.  I try to ignore their defamation. Nevertheless this article highlights the fact that Likud has turned right. For me that’s a good thing. But that also means they may lose some seats as a result.

In the former prime minister’s party primary, ultra-extremists beat the (relatively) responsible wing by a knockout – and Yair Netanyahu’s influence is climbing. Meanwhile, during the fighting with Gaza, Lapid and Gantz put their egos on hold

By Yossi Verter, HAARETZ    12.8.22

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his son, Yair Netanyahu.

In 2011, halfway through his second term as prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu considered pulling an Ariel Sharon: defecting from Likud together with its responsible lawmakers and rebuilding the party. He even mulled taking a bite out of Kadima to create an enormous centrist party.

Ehud Barak, Netanyahu’s defense minister at the time, encouraged him. In those days, Netanyahu was extremely limited in terms of what he could get through the Likud Central Committee. The “Feiglins” among the party’s members were making him miserable. Netanyahu despised them and their namesake. He saw them as an Israeli version of the Tea Party in the United States, a racist backlash to the presidency of Barack Obama that had begun to take over large sections of the Republican Party.

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Eisenkot wants a Palestinian state.  Sa’ar does not.  How does that work?

Eisenkot wants full equality in Israel but is against a bi-national state. How does that work?

Sa’ar wants to “reduce the conflict” with the Palestinians and “increasing their self-governance.’ More gestures anyone?

By JEREMY SHARON, TOI 14 August 2022,

The leaders of the new National Unity party at the party launch on Sunday night, August 14, 2022, in Kfar Maccabiah, from left to right: Gadi Eisenkot, Defense Minister Benny Gantz and Justice Minsiter Gideon Sa’ar. (Elad Malka)<

Former IDF chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot emphasized his commitment to minority rights and the need to separate from the Palestinians, during a press conference launching the National Unity party on Sunday night.

The new party, an amalgamation of Defense Minister Benny Gantz’s Blue and White and Justice Minister’s Gideon Sa’ar’s New Hope, with Eisenkot and his allies, has touted itself as a moderate center-right outfit capable of forming a broad and stable government despite the deep political divide in the country.

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