T. Belman. David Israel raises an interesting point.  Would Bibi prefer to embrace left wing Gantz or right wing Sa’ar and/or Bennett?

By David Israel , JEWISH PRESS

Will new elections change the political map and lead to a clear decision between the two main blocs? Four consecutive elections have failed to produce a decisive result for either bloc, and so, after the third try, Benjamin Netanyahu and Benny Gantz attempted to co-exist for about a year, and after the fourth, the strangest bunch of bedfellows took over and they, too, don’t appear to go anywhere. So, why should we expect a fifth election to produce different results (and, by the way, it wasn’t Einstein who said that bit about madness and expecting the same action to produce different results – the first time it appeared in print was in a 1981 article about 12-step programs).

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Iran has been trying to dissuade Turkey from a fresh intervention in Syria while making military preparations on the ground to protect its interests amid a growing rift between the two neighbors.

By Fehim Tastekin, Al-Monitor

This aerial view shows Turkish-backed Syrian rebel fighters in the border town of Azaz in the rebel-held northern part of the Aleppo province heading toward the Kurdish-controlled town of Tel Rifaat on June 9, 2022. – BAKR ALKASEM/AFP via Getty Images[/caption]

Driven apart by clashing regional interests, Turkey and Iran appear headed for a face-off in Syria, with Tehran explicitly opposing Ankara’s plan for a fresh military operation against Kurdish-held areas, wary of risks to its own posture in the region.
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The UN is the most conspicuous example of a fundamental mistake by the west

By Melanie Phillips

A few days ago, Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, was elected as a vice president of the UN General Assembly. He will thus chair its meetings and help set its agenda when it assembles for its next annual session in September.

This was a rare diplomatic victory for Israel at the United Nations, and the latest example of the vigorous pushback being mounted by Israeli diplomats against the institution’s bigoted hostility. “Nothing will stop me — and I mean nothing — from fighting the discrimination against Israel,” said Erdan.

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T. Belman. This is an extreme case of projection. Just as the evidence mounts of  an extremely broad …extremely well-organized conspiracy to steal the 2020 election, Liz Cheney describes Jan 6 as an  “extremely broad . . . extremely well-organized” conspiracy to overthrow the government that day. What the committee uncovered related to the alleged conspiracy, Cheney warned, is “really chilling.’

Facts don’t matter in Collaboration Theater.

By Julie Kelly, AM GREATNESS    June 9, 2022

This week produced yet another example of the shameless collaboration between the U.S. Department of Justice, the Democratic Party, and the national news media to destroy Donald Trump and everyone around him. The ink was barely dry on the not guilty verdict for Michael Sussmann, just one of many figures who acted as a pass-through between Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and the FBI to manufacture the Russia collusion hoax, before the same players were up to their old tricks.

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What needs to be done to ensure free and fair elections – and to strengthen voter confidence.

By J. Christian Adams, FPM     June 10/22

The most important election integrity document is the voter roll. It tells election officials who is eligible to vote. It controls to who and where automatic vote by mail ballots are sent. Inaccurate voter rolls leads to chaos in elections.

Clean and accurate voter rolls are essential to free and fair elections.

The Public Interest Legal Foundation, of which I am President, has sued Secretaries of State across the country to remove deceased and duplicate registrants from the voter rolls. In Pennsylvania, we won litigation that resulted in removing over 20,000 deceased registrants from the voter rolls. We have similar ongoing litigation in Michigan to remove over 25,000 deceased registrants from the voter rolls. Read more…

One played the part of a brave cowboy and one really was a brave cowboy. Which one does today’s Israel Resemble?  Op-ed.

By Howard Rotberg, INN

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I grew up in a “traditional” North American Jewish home – kosher at home, most holidays observed, driving to the synagogue, and with the television on during Shabbat. I remember that around my tenth birthday, we boys were expected to go to Shabbat services, but before that age we stayed home and even watched television. Saturday mornings saw the broadcast of some of the best children’s programs, and the most popular of all was the singing cowboy, Roy Rogers and his wife Dale Evans.

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By Arlene Kushner   June 9, 2022

On Thursday, Times of Israel editor David Horowitz wrote: “Netanyahu and the right are about to regain power; they will hold it for a long time.” (Emphasis added here and below)

For which I say Thank Heaven.

Continued Horowitz, “The final blow to the coalition could come from many directions, but come it will. And Israel will get a government of the ideological hue most of the electorate voted for a year ago.”

https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-and-the-right-are-about-to-regain-power-theyll-hold-it-for-a-long-time/

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By Bassam Tawil, GATESTONE  •  June 9, 2022

• While Hamas and the Houthis target Israel, the Palestinian Authority (PA) leadership, in addition to that, continues to act against the interests of its own people. PA President Mahmoud Abbas appears to be encouraged by the unconditional support he is receiving from the Biden administration, to the point where he feels free to continue denying his people good governance and judicial due process.
• All signs now indicate that most people in the region are fed up with the anti-peace camp in the Arab and Muslim world, especially with Iran’s proxies Hamas, the Houthis and Hizbollah, all of which have offered the region, including the Palestinians, nothing but violence and bloodshed.
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T. Belman. Everything in this article reeks of pro-Democratic propaganda, starting with the sub-title. It totally supports the Democratic narrative which is itself as big a lie as the Russian Hoax has proven to be. It ignores the truth and the reality. As such it should be abhorrent to most lovers of truth and justice. And to think it was written by the lead journalist Ron Kampeas, who is the Chief of the Jewish Telegraph Agency.

For the opposite read Peg Tierney’s Report on the subject today.

Sessions aim to reveal chronicle of events leading up to storming of building by Trump supporters, many of whom had ties to bigoted, antisemitic, far-right groups

By RON KAMPEAS, TOI    Today, 9:07 am

Rioters shout at the US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. (Julio Cortez/AP)

WASHINGTON (JTA) — The US House of Representatives Select Committee investigating the January 6, 2021 insurrection at the US Capitol is about to tell a story, and it comes with a warning: Some parts might be unsettling to Jews.

The committee, chaired by Rep. Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat, is launching primetime hearings at 8 p.m. eastern Thursday night. They will be broadcast on ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC and CNN. There will be more hearings held intermittently through September.

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By Victor Davis Hanson, JWR

I recently led a group of about 100 citizens to tour Israel for nearly two weeks. Before returning to the United States, all participants had to indicate their vaccination status and take a COVID-19 test for reentry.

Anxieties swept the group as Israeli testers swabbed them.

Anyone testing positive would have to delay his or her return. That quarantine would entail spending thousands of dollars in finding scarce hotel accommodations, additional living expenses, and rebooked airline tickets – depending upon the length of the mandatory sequestration.

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But dubious happy-talk can’t hide the real lesson of the Ukraine war.

By Bruce Thornton, FPM  June 9/22

The sponsors of “moralizing internationalism,” as historian Corelli Barnett called it, are busy trying to spin the Russo-Ukrainian war as a crisis that has renewed European unity. For globalists, Russia’s return of Europe to its benighted past of invasions, destruction, and slaughters––horrors that the “rules-based international order” supposedly ended––has instead strengthened and highlighted two show-case institutions of that order, the European Union and NATO. Globalists claim that rather than an indictment of globalism’s failures, the war is restoring both institutions and confirming the superiority of supranational institutions in keeping order and creating prosperity.
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Today’s haters of Israel are heirs to one of the longest and most effective anti-Semitic propaganda campaigns in modern history. Op-ed.

By Avner Yeshurun, INN

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(JNS) Kennan Institute scholar Izabella Tabarovsky wrote in a 2019 essay for Fathom that the Soviet Union’s campaign against Zionism and Jews “succeeded at emptying Zionism of its meaning as a national liberation movement of the Jewish people and associating it instead with racism, fascism, Nazism, genocide, imperialism, colonialism, militarism and apartheid.” Not surprisingly, students on college and university campuses across the United States often hear similar if not identical rhetoric from anti-Zionist groups like Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), Solidary for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR) and Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP).

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It outrageously finds no Palestinian Arab terrorist, no Palestinian terrorist organizations and no Palestinian terrorism. Op-ed.

By Anne Bayefsky, INN

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(JNS) The United Nations has declared an existential war on the state of Israel. Last year, the U.N. Human Rights Council contrived a unique “Commission of Inquiry” after Israel responded to another round of Hamas rocket attacks. The Inquiry has just issued its first report. Now emanating from the U.N.’s top human-rights body is a brazen attempt to resurrect the old 1975 lie that a Jewish state is a racist state. The report’s allegation that discrimination by Jews against non-Jews lies at the core of the Arab-Israeli conflict is actually at the core of modern anti-Semitism.

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Investigations into alleged criminal activities of Arkansas former Governor President Bill Clinton. Many people involved in the research and investigations reported by this film have been murdered or died under questionable circumstances.

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By Richard Bledsoe, WESTERN JOURNALISM  June 8, 2022

Even while the United States suffers under the Biden administration’s mismanagement, a rebellious quip is becoming truer all the time: “Get woke, go broke.” Former President Donald Trump even coined his own more scatological version of the gibe.Now the network stars of CNN, one of the establishment media’s citadels of wokeness, might be facing consequences for their reckless partisan agendas.Chris Licht, the network’s new president, is reviewing the performance of notable personalities at the news channel to see if they are too tainted by ideology to act as journalists, Axios reported on Tuesday. Read more…