The Wall Street Journal reports that top military officials from Israel, Egypt, Jordan Saudi Arabia and Qatar, as well as representatives from the U.S., Bahrain and UAE, discussed the shared Iranian threat

HAARETZ  26.6.22

Top Iranian military officials visit an underground site with drones at an undisclosed location in Iran, last month.Credit: WANA NEWS AGENCY/ REUTERS

Israel took part in a secret, U.S.-initiated meeting of top military officials from throughout the Middle East in Egypt in March in order to discuss combatting the shared threat of Iran’s missile and drone capabilities, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.

The talks, held at Sharm El Sheikh, included senior military officers from Israel, Egypt, Jordan and two countries with whom Israel does not have relations: Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

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The Left, and the spineless Right, have done everything that could be done to resuscitate the nerveless impotence that prevailed on the Right before Trump. Dobbs shows why that’s not going to h

By Roger Kimball, AM GREATNESS    June 25, 2022

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Ah, the Babylon Bee once again dispenses news masquerading as satire. Or, rather, it is both satire and news at the same time. “Dems Pause January 6 Hearings To Call For Insurrection.” They don’t even bother to exaggerate anymore. Hark:

After closing down their presentation entitled ‘How Trump Undermined Institutional Authority,’ Democrats raced to join the crowd surrounding the Supreme Court building. ‘Rigged! Rigged decision!’ shouted Senator Elizabeth Warren. ‘Judges must no longer be allowed to hold power! We will never abide by an illegitimate decision by an illegitimate court. Fight, fight!’ she screamed as beleaguered police arrived in riot gear.

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Why the Left is the worst enemy of every demographic it claims to support.

By Rabbi Chananya Weissman, FPM    June 24/22

The delusional sociopaths who identify as progressives are, as usual, just the opposite of what they claim. Everything they are forcing on society today – without our consent, like rapists – has been done before. If they were honest, they would identify as primitive, regressive extremists – even terrorists, for so many people live in abject terror of raising a peep of objection, and for good reason.

Homosexual marriage dates back to the times of Noach, when that little social experiment first brought God’s wrath upon the world. I’m sure He appreciates the way today’s love-spreaders chose the rainbow as their symbol for parading over thou-shalt-nots. They stick it in God’s face as they stick it in ours.

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T. Belman. Ryan neglects to mention that most democracies have a Bill of Rights of sorts to protect minorities from
majority rule..

Thus Israel can be both Jewish and democratic. The minority are protected in many ways but the majority rules.

By Bob Ryan, AM THINKER

There are a lot of people who incorrectly assume democracy is only mob rule. Democracy is not that limited a form of government. Like many words, it has more than one definition rather than an either-or meaning.

According to Merriam-Webster, democracy is defined as:

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T. Belman. As Horovitz points out, the right wing block is polling 59 to 60 seats now which means this time is different.  The public has got a taste of a centre left coalition and they don’t like it. Also, Horovitz doesn’t bother to report the many statements made by Lapid  concerning kissing Biden’s ass, that I am sure will hurt his standing.

He’ll have about four months in transitional office to establish his credentials — to show that a PM can both protect Israel from its enemies and champion unity at home

By DAVID HOROVITZ, TOI      23 June 2022,

Provided Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid can engineer the demise of their government more efficiently than they held it together, the Knesset will next week pass the final readings of legislation to dissolve itself and set new elections for this fall — marking the fifth time the Israeli electorate has been dragged to the polling stations since April 2019.

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Lapid must formulate Iran policy when he takes office this week, faces IDF support for Iran deal, Mossad opposition to it.

Israel National News

One of the most important policies which Yair Lapid will be required to formulate for himself when he becomes Prime Minister this week is policy on Iran.

Israel Hayom reported Sunday morning that Lapid would be subject to pressure to reverse the policy of the Netanyahu and Bennett governments of opposing the Biden Administration’s intention to return to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.

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By Darlene Casella, AM THINKER

The Mediterranean Levant Basin is offshore to Israel, Lebanon, Syria, and Cyprus. It could hold 120 trillion cubic feet of gas. This is enough to supply energy for the region and Europe.  Israel has two huge gas fields, Leviathan and Tamar, as well as other smaller gas fields, which are part of Israel’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) in that basin.

The Karish natural field is one of these. Gas was discovered there in 2016, Karish is owned by Energean Israel.  In 2017 the Israeli Minister of Energy approved development.
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T. Belman.  UNRWA should be replaced by UNHRC.  The latter is dedicated to resettling refugees throughout the word. The former is dedicated to preserving their refugee status for ever.

Lazzarini: It’s not enough to renew the mandate, UN nations must provide funds for it. Failure to do so would “push the agency towards financial collapse.”

By TOVAH LAZAROFF, JPOST

Chronic underfunding of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency that services 5.6 million Palestinian refugees will lead to its collapse, warned UNRWA Commissioner General Philippe Lazzarini.

“We need US $817 million. The full US $817 million,” Lazzarini said as he asked the donor conference at UN headquarters in New York on Thursday afternoon to help his organization fund its $1.6 billion budget for 2022.

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By  Casey Spencer Brown, TOWNHALL

The Supreme Court’s opinion released Friday is the culmination of decades of work by pro-life activists and comes amid an unprecedented level of hostility toward members of the high court who believed that the “right” to abortion created in Roe and revised in Casey was based on flawed legal reasoning. While the left is already planning for a “night of rage” in response to the decision overruling Roe that merely returns abortion policy-making power to the people and their elected representatives, here’s what Justice Alito said were the five factors that weighed strongly in favor of overturning Roe and Casey.

The Nature of the Court’s Error: 

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by Noah Rothman, COMMENTARY

“Abortion presents a profound moral question,” reads the Supreme Court’s momentous decision overruling the precedents that prevented states from passing restrictive abortion laws. “The Constitution does not prohibit the citizens of each State from regulating or prohibiting abortion. Roe and Casey arrogated that authority.”

That is inarguable. It was, in fact, one of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s primary sources of frustration with the precedents established by the Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade. By invalidating anti-abortion laws in dozens of states, the decision arrested the process of establishing a durable legal equilibrium that experimentation among the states produces. This is also one of the reasons that Roe proved so durable over the last 50 years despite its indefensibly dubious legal rationale.
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by Majid Rafizadeh, GATESTONE  •  June 25, 2022

• The Biden administration’s weak leadership — to hold accountable those who are violating Iran sanctions — is likely a critical reason the Iranian regime is flamboyantly ignoring the US and forging ahead — soon, most likely, to become a nuclear state.
• Presumably to take even further advantage of the Biden administration’s weak leadership, the Iranian regime is also signing long-term agreements with its oil clients to permanently insulate its economy from the US sanctions.

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T. Belman.  If Bibi, playing the Jewish Card, gets elected, then obviously his campaign was well received by people who want a Jewish state.  He will try to speak to Jews as opposed to Israelis.  I think that the divide is nationalists v universalists. or between those who want Israel to be a Jewish state as opposed to a state of all its  citizens.

I thought that “pay homage to their Jewish identity” is intrinsic to Zionism.

In a democratic state all citizens vote and have equal rights but not collective rights. Which means that only Jews have collective right to be a Jewish state. The Jewish character of the State is fixed.

There will be much talk about ‘Jewish character’ in the upcoming campaign – most of it from a Likud party that is led by an atheist and whose candidates seldom live by the Torah’s commandments

By Anshel Pfeffer, HAARETZ

In the short statement Benjamin Netanyahu released on Monday after the news broke that the coalition government had fallen, he blamed it for “relying on terror supporters” and “endangering Israel’s Jewish character.” He signed off, “With God’s help, we will do and succeed.”

What is “Israel’s Jewish character”? It is one of the emptiest terms in Israeli politics, used originally by ultra-Orthodox politicians to try to convince ignorant secular Israelis of their arguments. It is entirely devoid of meaning, but that doesn’t matter. It is aimed at generating a feeling of longing for something that doesn’t exist, and hatred for anyone who can’t claim any connection to that nebulous Jewish character.

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The people clearly gauge where their future lies.

By Dr. Majid Rafizadeh, FPM    24.6.22

The 1979 Iranian revolution was a repudiation of the Pahlavi dynasty’s self-serving economic policies and brutal repression of dissent. It was never intended to establish a theocratic dictatorship in place of a secular one.<
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Most of the factions involved in that revolution, such as the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) and People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), envisioned a democratic future for the country. But despite their support from the vast majority of Iranian citizens, they were not ultimately able to prevent Ruhollah Khomeini from co-opting the revolution to establish a system of absolute clerical rule, with himself at its head.
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Hamas is waiting for an opportunity to create chaos in Judea and Samaria.

By  Eric R. Mandel, ISRAEL HAYOM

June 2022 is the 15th anniversary of the bloody coup in which Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip overthrew the Palestinian Authority in just three days. Since 2007, Hamas in Gaza, with Iranian support, has targeted Israeli civilian homes with tens of thousands of missiles over five wars and committed innumerable other violent attacks.

This month, PA security forces arrested 19 Hamas operatives in Judea and Samaria, or the West Bank, who were tunneling under a PA security facility near Ramallah. This activity is reminiscent of the methods Hamas used to seize Gaza.
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The Likud’s May Golan blasts the Bennett-Lapid government for selling out its values, says most right-wing parties aren’t really Right.

T. Belman. Haley recommends that the US decouple from Russia and China economically. She also calls for the US to no longer support Palestinian  rejectionism. I feel otherwise. The west should embrace Russia.

She adds ” “Only countries proud of their inheritance can defeat their enemies,”. “Our self loathing has to stop”.”.

She grasps that the west’s back is against the wall — and what it needs to do

By Melanie Phillips

US president Joe Biden is about to travel to the Middle East in an attempt to alleviate the mess created by his own ineptitude.

He is due to go cap in hand to Saudi Arabia to beg the leader of a state he has publicly reviled as a human rights “pariah”, Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, to bring oil prices down in order to alleviate the fuel shortage caused by the war in Ukraine.

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T. Belman. Pompeo rejects a negotiated settlement and makes the case for supporting Ukraine with weapons to enable them to win the war. I think Ukraine should cut their losses.

HUDSON INSTITUTE

WASHINGTON—Below is the transcript of the speech by Hudson Distinguished Fellow and the 70th U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gave today at Hudson Institute on the future of Ukraine and why the U.S. should defend Taiwan from Chinese aggression:

“It’s great to be here at the Hudson Institute. To those of you from the Ambassadors Court, thank you for being here. Honored guests and friends, it’s an honor to greet you. I consider it an enormous responsibility to speak to you about a matter of the utmost urgency and significance. It involves war, Ukraine, and the necessity of forming a new global alliance for freedom, which has to contest, which must contest both Russian and Chinese aggression.

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