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T. Belman.  I totally agree with Friedman’s remarks. Not that I was a fly on the wall but because that’s also how I viewed Trump’s position. Regarding the fact that we intended to annex immediately and then the rug was pulled from under us, my guess is that the UAE or Saudi Arabia contacted Trump and nixed the idea.

In an exclusive interview with World Israel News, Friedman said that Trump’s disparaging remarks against Netanyahu were possibly taken out of context.   

By Debbie Reiss, World Israel News

Former U.S. ambassador to Israel David Friedman has rejected claims made by Barak Ravid in his book, “Trump’s Peace,” saying the veteran Israeli journalist “should have called me.”

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The only thing that has prevented Israeli governments since 1967 from applying Israeli law in Judea and Samaria is their own timidity

By Naomi Kahn, jns   June 13/22

The Emergency Regulations Law in Judea and Samaria is expected to be brought to the Knesset plenum for another vote in the coming days, after being voted down in the Knesset plenum for the first time in over five decades. This rather standard legislation, which has been passed without question every five years since 1967, failed to pass a first reading last week, due to a “perfect storm” of political and ideological arm wrestling: Of the Knesset’s 120 parliamentarians, 52 voted in favor, 58 opposed.

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“Our Nation is SUFFERING. Our Economy is in the Gutter – What is the Democrat Congress Focused On? A Kangaroo Court” – 

GATEWAY PUNDIT

Day II of the January 6 Democrat Party Show Trial was held on Monday morning following their ratings bust on opening night.

The January 6 hearings that aired in primetime last Thursday took in less viewers than a normal night of television.

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The sham Jan. 6 Committee public show trials continued on Monday in Washington DC.

The committee was put in place to discredit and smear President Donald J. Trump and his supporters.

In her remarks earlier today activist Liz Cheney stated, without any proof or evidence, that the movie “2000 Mules” was debunked.

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The Pulse of Israel interviews Amir Avivi  the CEO of IDSF

Shoshana Bryen, JPC • June 13, 2022 • Jewish News Syndicate

In December, the Biden administration quietly proposed a five-government summit to enhance prospects for the “two-state solution” it promotes as key to Middle East regional security. Israel, Jordan, Egypt, the Palestinian Authority and the United States would meet to discuss, discuss … discuss … what?

Israel apparently waited several months to see if something useful would materialize but has now said it will not participate. No surprise. Negotiations work best; in fact, they work only when the parties have a common endgame. Hashing out the mechanisms, concessions, policies, gains and losses is the way to get to an agreed-upon future. These five governments have no common view.

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T. Belman. This title is very misleading because what was discussed was the “problem” of the Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. Begin proposed that the Palestinians in Lebanon be transferred to other countries. No where in this report is there mention of “expelling”.  Remember that the Arab League committed themselves to preventing the resettlement of any Palestinian refugees.  They want them kept in limbo so as to apply pressure on Israel to take them back.

By Ofer Aderet, HAARETZ

Ronald Reagan and Menachem Begin outside the White House in 1981.Credit: Yaakov Saar/GPO

Two weeks after the outbreak of the First Lebanon War, which Israel embarked upon 40 years ago this month, Prime Minister Menachem Begin and U.S. President Ronald Reagan met in Washington.

Among the items on the agenda: the need to find a “final solution” to the “problem” of the Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. The Americans agreed that Israel had a right to take action against the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization), which had entrenched itself in Lebanon after being expelled from Jordan in the 1970s, and used it as a base to launch attacks within Israel.

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T. Belman. I am shocked by Sa’ar’s move. I support Likud’s Bill totally. I reject the notion that to have the Knesset pick the Judges rather than the Selection Committee is anti-democratic.  Just the opposite.

If the government is elected by a right wing public, why not allow them to appoint judges who share their view point? Why is that not democratic?

In the US, the government picks the judges subject to Senate approval. It always picks Judges which reflect its views on the constitution. How is what is being proposed any different?

Justice minister vows to torpedo proposal, which he says will ‘eliminate’ the court’s independence; warns a Netanyahu government will endanger Israeli democracy

By TOI STAFF  Today, 

A view of the Supreme Court building in Jerusalem. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Justice Minister Gideon Sa’ar on Monday assailed an opposition bill aimed at reforming the selection process for Supreme Court judges, vowing to torpedo it.

According to the bill — submitted by lawmakers from the Likud, Shas, United Torah Judaism and Religious Zionism parties — Supreme Court judges, including its president and vice president, will be appointed by the government, with final approval given by a vote in the Knesset plenum.

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Religious Zionist MK slams Israeli Supreme Court’s judicial activism.

Read the full speech from the Tikvah Fund Jewish Leadership Conference

MK Simcha Rothman, INN

Rothman at Tikvah ConferenceCourtesy

Judge Robert Bork, once said about former Israeli Supreme Court Chief Justice Aharon Barak:

“… Barak’s court can turn ordinary legislation into a constitution, force it on the nation, and then announce that it can prevent any democratic amendment. In this, Barak surely establishes a world record for judicial hubris.”

With great foresight, Bork referred to a danger that has only grown with time.

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Government ministries are changing their profile pictures on social media to LGBT-supporting images.

Israel National News

LGBT ‘pride’ parade in JerusalemYonatan Sindel/Flash90

With the start of “Pride Month,” various government offices have set their social media profile pictures to be rainbow flags, rainbow-themed, or rainbow-tinted.

Among the ministries to make the change are the Foreign Ministry, led by Minister Yair Lapid (Yesh Atid), and the Health Ministry, led by Minister Nitzan Horowitz (Meretz), who is gay.

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The Los Angeles-based Brentwood School called the allegations of anti-Semitic teaching ‘a work of whole fiction’

By Adam Sabes | Fox News

A Los Angeles area private school is being sued by a father of a student who attended the school, claiming that it treats Jewish people as “oppressors” and operates under a “racially divisive, anti-Semitic” ideology.

The lawsuit, filed by Jerome Eisenberg in Los Angeles court, alleges that the head of Brentwood School, Michael Riera, pulled a “bait-and-switch with the school’s curriculum and culture” after accepting parents’ tuition payments. Eisenberg alleges in the lawsuit that Riera and Brentwood School have a “scheme to transform the school under a racially divisive, anti-Semitic ideology that seeks to indoctrinate children to reject Western values.”

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By Tamir Eshel, Defense Update:

The Israeli Ministery of Defense (IMOD) OFEK program (Horizon in Hebrew, often referred to as OFEQ) will be awarded the prestigious ‘Israel’s Defense Prize for 2022? for the group’s achievements that jointly developed, produced, and deployed Israel’s most advanced observation satellite – OFEK-16. The award will be given in a ceremony to be held on 14 June at the residence of the President of Israel, Mr. Itzhak Herzog. The program is led by the Space directorate at the Directorate of Defense Research & Development (DDR&D) of the Israeli Defense Ministry (IMOD), with IAI as the prime contractor and Elbit Systems as the payload provider.

Israel’s most advanced electro-optical observation satellite, OFEK-16, was launched into space on 6 July 2020, equipped with a new, high-performance space camera developed and manufactured by Elbit Systems. In August 2020, the IMOD released the first high-resolution images from the satellite, showing the Tadmor world heritage site in Syria. On this occasion, IMOD also unveiled the national infrastructure for the production of space cameras, a joint project of the IMOD and Elbit Systems. The national infrastructure includes laboratories for the production of advanced space-qualified optical instruments and a vacuum chamber that simulates the conditions in space and is used to test the satellite camera before it is launched for its mission in space.

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