T, Belman. I cover the same subject in The 100 year betrayal of Israel by the West but in greater depth.

 By MARTIN SHERMAN

International agreements involving the abdication of strategic assets in exchange for vague ‘assurances’ of future support are not worth the paper they are written on. 

We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow– Lord Palmerston in the House of Commons, March 1, 1848.
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THIS IS A GREAT INTERVIEW

By Diane Bederman

When will we ever learn?

When    will    we    ever    learn?

The number of Jewish families and young Jews who hide their Jewish symbols speaks to the massive failure of the plethora of Jewish organizations to fight Jew hatred and anti-Zionism. We have witnessed religious Jews attacked walking down the road. Students attacked on campus.

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Anyone who sabotages the establishment of a right-wing government that has the potential to finally realize everything the Right has dreamed of will forever be remembered as a disgrace.

By  Ariel Bulshtein, ISRAEL HAYOM

The late Prime Minister Menachem Begin once explained that “sometimes even the obvious needs to be said.” I will heed his advice and issue a call that, although they are trying to make us forget, should be obvious: The right-wing factions in the current Knesset must form a right-wing government under Opposition Leader Benjamin Netanyahu and spare us all another election and more craziness.

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Yamina rebel holds off on convening his House Committee, the next stop of the bill to call new elections; process expected to be completed next week, but unclear when

By CARRIE KELLER-LYNN, TOI       23.6.22, 11:18 am  

Although the Knesset approved the first of four votes on Wednesday to voluntarily disband, rebel Yamina MK Nir Orbach will halt the dispersal process until Monday to give the Likud-led opposition time to form an alternative coalition and avoid snap elections.

The Knesset requires a law to voluntarily disband, and while Wednesday was the bill’s first step, it needs to pass two committee reviews and three additional readings to be finalized. Its next stop is the Knesset’s House Committee, which Orbach chairs. By refusing to convene the committee until Monday, Orbach is delaying the bill being sent to its first committee review process, a necessary hurdle before its next vote.

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Former AG backs the Democrats’ Jan. 6 show trial.

By Lloyd Billingsley, FPM   22.6.22

Last week, former Attorney General William Barr told the Democrats’ Jan. 6 Committee he hadn’t seen evidence of voter fraud on a scale that could have affected the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. In late November of 2020, Barr told reporters, “to date, we have not seen fraud on a scale that could have effected a different outcome in the election.”

Before the 2020 election, voters may recall, Joe Biden openly touted “the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American politics.” Voter fraud is a crime, but Biden’s boast failed to spark any investigation by Attorney General William Barr. The addled Biden hunkered down in a basement and scarcely campaigned at all.

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If Opposition Leader Benjamin Netanyahu tells the truth and surrounds himself with good people, rather than frightened populist lackeys, he might find that the pathological hatred of him starts to wane.

By  Nadav Shragai, ISRAEL HAYOM

It looks like this is not only Benjamin Netanyahu’s last chance to be elected prime minister. It’s also his last opportunity to prove he is capable of being a mensch. The dictionary definition of a “mensch” is a “fair, honest person, whose word can be trusted.” But somehow, the popular Yiddish usage explains the meaning better.

A man who allowed himself to throw around endless promises he couldn’t keep, and routinely broke them, both on the personal level in dealing with colleagues and opponents, and in dealing with the public, can finally prove he’s able to do otherwise if he’s only menschy about it.

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T. Belman. I agree with the attempt to form another government but Bibi is not offering nearly enough. With Yamina on board, his block is 58 seats. Bibi should offer Sa’ar the PM position for at least the first year, in exchange for getting  New Hope on board. He should be Min of Foreign Affairs and Shaked should be Justice Minister.  Bennett could be Defense Minister. Bibi must relinquish power to bring this together.

Opposition leader willing to give up Justice Ministry, right of veto on legal matters, in order to form alternative government, avoid elections.

Israel National News

Opposition leader MK Benjamin Netanyahu (Likud) has said in closed conversations that he is willing to compromise on both the Justice Ministry and the right of veto in legal matters if it means Israel will avoid new elections, Israel Hayom reported.

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Tucker Carlson savages Republican politicians’ disrespect for Americans

By Andrea Widburg, AM THINKER

Tucker Carlson’s puckishness is a bit brittle lately. Rather than having fun poking at political foibles while still making interesting points, he often seems genuinely angry lately. I can’t blame him because I’m angry, too, at what Biden and his cohorts have done to America. What makes me even angrier is that congressional Republicans and many Republican governors seem happy to go along with this. Sure, they’ll sometimes make the right noises (Lindsey Graham’s a master at this) but, at the end of the day, they side with Democrats—and last night Tucker lit up the Republicans for their disconnect with the American people.

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Self-inflicted damage is irreversible as long as Putin remains in charge

By Ian Bremmer, NIKKEI ASIA   June 20, 2022 17:00 JST

Vladimir Putin has exposed Russia as a delusional and dangerous power.   © Sputnik/AP

Russia continues to make gains on the ground in Ukraine, particularly in the Donbas region, where the war’s fighting is now most intense.

President Vladimir Putin can and will inflict more pain, and though his military is not strong enough to overthrow the Zelenskyy government and capture all of Ukraine as he initially hoped, he is confident that Ukraine is not strong enough to oust his troops from the territory it already holds. He also knows that the global food and fuel inflation his war creates will test the limits of Western resolve to continue support for Ukraine at its current levels.

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Sources tell CNN that US not informed about Israel’s efforts against Iran’s nuclear program, including assassination of IRGC Colonel Khodaei

By TOI STAFF       21 June 2022, 10:36 pm

Israel is keeping the US in the dark as it steps up alleged covert operations against Iran’s nuclear program, according to a report Tuesday.

The report from CNN, citing multiple sources, would appear to crack the veneer of close communication and cooperation between Israel and the US regarding efforts against Iran’s nuclear program, and may underline US concerns surrounding Israel’s more aggressive campaign, which has been blamed for a number of high profile killings recently.

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A tyranny rotting from within.

By Struan Stevenson, FPM    JUNE 22/22

There were three pillars on which the Iranian regime was founded, following the 1979 revolution, hi-jacked by the elderly fanatical cleric Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

The first pillar was the system of velayat-e-faqih, or guardianship of the Islamic jurist, which laid the foundations for the first fundamentalist Islamic state and was written into the constitution.

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By Ezequiel Doiny, INN   21.6.22

On June 20, 2022 Arutz 7  reported “Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Alternate Prime Minister Yair Lapid have decided to dissolve the current government and hold new elections…The two will submit a bill to this effect for approval by the Knesset next week…Yair Lapid will become prime minister during the transition period as per the coalition agreement and will greet US President Joe Biden as Israel’s premier during his visit to the Jewish State on July 13.”

And Arutz 7 further reported that “US President Joe Biden still plans to visit Israel next month despite the collapse of the Israeli government.

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Bennett will apparently resign soon and not run in the upcoming election as renegade lawmakers who brought down the government in hopes of joining the opposition may be left with nothing

By Yossi Verter, HAARETZ

The way Prime Minister Naftali Bennett announced that he was passing the torch to Yair Lapid sounded a fitting final chord to the tune the government they led has played for 375 days. They are political rivals who were wise enough to create a rare partnership, almost utopian by Israeli political standards. They began nicely and ended even better. We were as dreamers – is this Israel, or Denmark?

By David Israel, JEWISH PRESS

The morning after Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s announcement that he is dispersing the Knesset and handing over the help to his brother-in-arms Yair Lapid, United Torah Judaism MK Uri Maklev told Army radio: “I think Netanyahu will not be able to form a government. I hope it won’t be the case, I don’t want to tempt the devil, it’s not a good thing, but if Gantz is the one who can put it together, he should be able to fit into the foundation outlines. I think he can also fit in with right-wing parties.”

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