“Mideast News Hour” with Caroline Glick and guest Dr. David Wurmser

Glick and Wurmser discuss why the International Atomic Energy Agency’s announcement that Iran has crossed the nuclear threshold, has mastered the nuclear fuel cycle and can independently develop nuclear weapons has gone virtually unremarked by Israeli and American media. Instead, there are reports that the United States—in the interest of lowering fuel costs—may allow Iran to expand its export of oil.

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By Richard Kemp, GATESTONE  •  June 8, 2022

• Putin went to war to turn into reality his much repeated insistence that Ukraine is an illegitimate state that has no right to exist and is inseparable from the rest of Russia. Similarly, the UN mandate allows it to question the very existence of the State of Israel. Unlike all other UN inquiries, this one has no historic time limit and enables the commission to range right back to the foundation of the state. The commissioners won’t be bold enough to explicitly declare that Israel has no right to exist, but you can be certain that will be the subtext running throughout its report.
• [E]ven before the notorious 2009 Goldstone Report, the UNHRC justified and encouraged Hamas violence, and that has played a crucial role in efforts to vilify and isolate Israel as well as incite greater bloodshed in the Middle East and attacks against Jews around the world.
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In this new podcast: Adam Milstein speaks with the American Friends of Unit 669, the Combat Search and Rescue Unit of the Israeli Air Force on Not Another Iron Dome – Adam Milstein’s Mission to Build Israel’s Iron Sword.

The mission entails a strategic approach to defending Israel and Jewish communities through social entrepreneurship and impact investing.

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“In life, there are generally only two certainties: death and taxes. But we can add a third, that the United Nations will always find Israel guilty,” Arsen Ostrovsky, CEO of the International Legal Forum, told World Israel News.

By World Israel News Staff

A new report from the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) placed the blame for Palestinian terror on the actions of Israel, delving into a plethora of alleged Israeli human rights violations and war crimes.

“The findings and recommendations relevant to the underlying root causes [of the Arab-Israeli conflict] were overwhelmingly directed towards Israel, which we have taken as an indicator of the asymmetrical nature of the conflict and the reality of one state occupying the other,” stated Navanethem Pillay, who is heading the UN’s Commission of Inquiry investigating Israel.

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The Palestinian Authority leadership seeks to ease the tensions between the PA and the UAE and Bahrain – tensions that escalated after the Abraham Accords were signed.

Should Israel be concerned about the expected rapprochement, or should it rather try to take advantage of the opportunities that might ensue?

By  Yoel Guzansky and  Kobi Michael, INSS

INSS Insight, No. 1607, June 7, 2022

Recent indications suggest that the Palestinian Authority is eager to ease tensions with some Arab Gulf states – tensions that escalated after the Abraham Accords were signed. To be sure, the poor relations and bad blood, especially between PA head Mahmoud Abbas and United Arab Emirates President Mohammed bin Zayed, challenge a fresh start anytime soon. Nonetheless, the recent developments, insofar as they suggest a turning point in relations between the parties, are likely to have a considerable impact on the Palestinian arena and Israeli interests.

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And Especially To Palestinian Cause

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In an April 13, 2022 article in the London-based Saudi daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, political scientist Tawfiq Al-Saif stated that a characteristic of Arab political culture is a refusal to negotiate and compromise on various issues, especially when it comes to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Even when the majority of people are willing to compromise, he said, they eventually succumb to the pressure of a dogmatic minority that takes an “all or nothing” approach, and this prevents finding solutions for the problems of the region.

Tawfiq Al-Saif (Source: Al-Madina, Saudi Arabia)

The following are translated excerpts from his article:[1]

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by Alan M. Dershowitz, GATESTONE  •  June 7, 2022

• Navarro has a strong claim of executive privilege that should be decided by the courts before any indictment can lawfully issue.
• [A]bsent a judicial order, he cannot lawfully be indicted for invoking executive privilege and refusing to reveal arguably privileged material just because a committee of Congress, controlled by Democrats, has voted that he should. It is not enough to allow him to appeal after the fact, because information, once revealed, cannot be erased. He is obliged to claim privilege now and refuse to respond. That is not a crime. It is the constitutionally correct action.

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Can you guess who a new book blames the persecution of Christians on?

By Raymond Ibrahim, FPM

Raheb, a Lutheran clergyman and academic in Bethlehem, argues that “Christian persecution is a Western construct that says more about the West than about the Christians of the Middle East.” Whatever persecution Christians may experience has little to do with Islam and is rather a byproduct of political developments that were and are almost always precipitated by Western or Israeli actions.

To make his thesis work, Raheb predictably begins his history in 1800 with the waning of Islam and the ascendancy of Europe. Christianity under Islam for the preceding twelve centuries—when it went from being the dominant faith to a tiny minority due to sporadic bouts of persecution and systemic discrimination—is otherwise presented in a rosy picture. Thus, the “persecution of Christians under the Ottomans, if any, was rare and localized.”

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By Pandra Selivanov, AM THINKER

Google “Islam is a peaceful religion” and a number of sources will come up, declaring that Islam is indeed a religion that teaches peace and tolerance. Still, there have been hundreds of terrorist attacks in the name of Islam for decades. The Taliban is now enforcing the burqa in Afghanistan, even for female journalists. Ilhan Omar, the anti-Semitic representative from Minnesota, still enjoys strong support from the Muslim community despite her characterization of 9/11 as “some people did something.” I don’t pretend to be an expert on Islam but all this seems less than peaceful.
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With an entire globe from which to choose, they pinpoint the Jews — only the Jews. The one country in the world with a Jewish majority.Op-ed

By Rabbi Prof. Dov Fischer, INN

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It is rather a challenging time these days for committed, devoted Jewish college students on liberal American campuses. They don’t know how to fight, seem only to defend and feel frightened, and their life experiences in being “nice” have left them utterly unprepared for the vicious Jew-hating, even Nazi-like, campaigning against them and Israel they have encountered in college.

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By Maya Carlin, CENTER FOR SECURITY POL;ICY

Over the years, Israeli military officials have hinted at the country’s ability to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities if necessary. The Jewish state has led successful operations in the past, striking nuclear facilities in Iraq in 1981 and Syria in 2007. While Iraq and Syria are closely positioned to Israel, Iran is nearly 1,000 miles away. The distance between Israel and Iran remains the most challenging obstacle for this type of operation. However, Israel’s arsenal of long-range fighters and its potentially nuclear-capable intermediate-range ballistic missile would lead to an effective operation.

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Caving in to Arab threats in order to “safeguard the public order.”

By Hugh Fitzgerald, FPM   June 6/22

In 1967, Israel’s Minister of Defense Moshe Dayan made a fateful decision. Just after Israel, through force of arms, took possession of east Jerusalem, including the Old City and the Temple Mount, Dayan declared that Jewish visitors to the Mount would not be allowed to pray, either aloud or silently, at the site. You read that right: At the holiest site in Judaism, Jews would not be allowed to pray. Dayan, himself completely secular and insufficiently appreciative of the rights of religious Jews, thought that such a prohibition would be a way of winning favor with the Arabs.

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By Hana Levi Julian, JEWISH PRESS

The Judea and Samaria Law failed to pass a vote in the Knesset plenum late Monday night.

The bill presented by New Hope Justice Minister Gideon Sa’ar and supported by the coalition, fell in a vote of 58 to 52. Ahead of the vote, Sa’ar declared it the vote that would decide the fate of the coalition based on how the coalition members voted.

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What the Sussmann trial really showed.

By Daniel Greenfield, FPM

With 3 Clinton donors on the jury and a judge who is the poster boy for conflicts of interest, the outcome of the Michael Sussmann trial was never in doubt. But these are also the same conflicts that made Russiagate possible and trying a Russiagate case in D.C. entirely hopeless.

D.C.’s professional class build their careers around a web of personal connections. And no one was better at pulling on all those connections than the Clintons who had spent a generation assembling their own political machine of careerists and loyalists by offering them positions in the government and their non-profit organizations. The Clintons had built an army and a state within a state. Russiagate, at the most basic level, was an attempt by corrupt careerists before the election to protect their future jobs and after the election to exact an embittered revenge.

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Celebrate diversity, you bigot! What could possibly go wrong?

By Robert Spencer, FPM

Ilhan Omar is thrilled; on Friday, she retweeted a tweet celebrating the fact that the Islamic call to prayer, the adhan, has begun to be broadcast over loudspeakers in Minneapolis. According to the Associated Press, Minneapolis “became the first large city in the United States to allow the Islamic call to prayer, or adhan, to be broadcast publicly by its two dozen mosques.” AP added that “the transforming soundscape is testament to the large and increasingly visible Muslim community, which is greeting the change with both celebration and caution, lest it cause backlash.”

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“The UN may have introduced ESG ratings, but today the World Economic Forum is one of ESG’s biggest supporters.”

BY ZACH HEILMAN, RED VOICE

Going against the usual rhetoric of billionaires helping support organizations like the World Economic Forum, which was created by billionaire Klaus Schwab, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has sent waves through the group of elitists who meet annually to discuss where the future of humans is heading. Most recently, Musk addressed the economy in America and was hesitant about what lay ahead, given the current leadership in D.C. Not only were his words met with criticism, but he also targeted the ESG index after Tesla was dropped. He admitted, “ESG is a scam. It has been weaponized by phony social justice warriors.” On top of attacking the ESG index, the Biden administration, and the WEF, it seems Musk isn’t remotely slowing down as he implored as to why the Department of Justice hasn’t released the client list of both Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

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Like a terminally ill patient who defies a doctor’s predictions, the Bennett-Lapid government has held together for a year, and almost managed not to destroy what Netanyahu achieved.

By  Ariel Kahana, ISRAEL HAYOM

Like a terminally ill patient who defied doctors’ predictions, Lapid and Bennett are rounding out a year in office. From the prime minister down, the sense is that the end could come at any time. Meanwhile, willpower and miracles are keeping the patient alive, for who knows how long.

In these difficult political conditions, the “feudal government” is seeing not inconsiderable successes. Much of these rest on Netanyahu’s time in office, like the quiet in the Gaza Strip since Operation Guardian of the Walls, the improved economic situation, the low prices of energy (Yuval Steinitz gets the praise for that one), Israel’s freedom of action in Syria and – according to foreign reports – in Iran, and of course the Abraham Accords. Lapid and Bennett have barely ruined any of these. Here and there, they managed to make improvements.

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Alex Newman is a brilliant political analyst. His particular strength is exposing how the International Pandemic Treaty, and amendments to the existing International Health Rules, are an existential threat to our national sovereignty disguised as public health. Globalism’s will to power is not going away – it is just being redrafted.

by Alex Newman, EPOCH TIMES    June 5, 2022

This photograph taken on March 5, 2021 shows the flag of the World Health Organization (WHO) at their headquarters in Geneva amid the Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP) (Photo by FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP via Getty Images)[/caption]

Despite a setback at the World Health Organization’s 75th annual meeting in Geneva in late May, the push to further empower the United Nations agency is moving ahead, remaining a major threat to U.S. national sovereignty and self-government, according to leading experts.

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The photo is of the “I Love Jerusalem” sign near Jaffa Gate, Jerusalem. A magnet for tourists to Israel’s capital.

In the 5th May 22 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:

• Celebrating the life of a groundbreaking immunologist.
• New Israeli Arab firefighters and Muslim home guards.
• Israeli natural gas is heading to Europe.
• More Israeli solutions to global hunger and drought.
• Two more countries that used to boycott Israel now invest in it.
• Deep Purple delights fans in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
• Suriname has announced it will open an embassy in Jerusalem.

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