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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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T. Belman.  I met Jasser in Washington about 15 years ago and have been following him since. At the time he was planning a million man march among Muslims for reform. Only about 50,000 people showed up and they were mostly Jews. I took the position that the reason he couldn’t get traction among fellow Muslims was the fault of the then US government because it was favouring CAIR. I argued that the US should reject CAIR and embrace Jasser’s movement and even finance it.  It was his movement that the US should recognize as the voice of the Muslim community.  Alas, it was not to be.

Zuhdi Jasser is a reformer aspiring for relevance, but his efforts are in vain, because real Islam is impossible to reform. Op-ed.

By Dr. Stephen M. Kirby, INN

Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, aspiring reformer and modernizer of Islam, founder of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, and one of the founders of the Muslim Reform Movement, recently wrote an article in the White Rose magazine in which he maintained that those like him who are aspiring to reform and modernize Islam are being held back by Jewish leaders in the United States.[1]

In this article Jasser noted:

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By Larry Elliott, GUARDIAN

The perverse effects of sanctions means rising fuel and food costs for the rest of the world – and fears are growing of a humanitarian catastrophe. Sooner or later, a deal must be made

‘The Kremlin thinks Russia’s threshold for economic pain is higher than the west’s, and it is probably right about that.’ Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Wednesday. Photograph: Mikhail Metzel/AP

It is now three months since the west launched its economic war against Russia, and it is not going according to plan. On the contrary, things are going very badly indeed.

Sanctions were imposed on Vladimir Putin not because they were considered the best option, but because they were better than the other two available courses of action: doing nothing or getting involved militarily.

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The Palestinians push a false reality that the rest of the world buys into, and then insists Israel buy into it as well.

By  Douglas Altabef, jns

There are alternative narratives and then there are alternative universes. The first might employ fabricated ideas and “facts,” but the latter is a complete departure from anything like reality.

Welcome to the alternative universe of Palestinian “sovereignty.”

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There is also a lethal refusal to face reality in the Middle East that has characterized American administrations, as well as governments in Britain and Europe, for many decades.

 By  Melanie Phillips, JNS

The Biden administration’s obsession with boosting the Palestinian cause at the expense of Israel continues apace.

It was reported last week that the administration had reluctantly abandoned its proposal to reopen the Palestinian consulate in Jerusalem.

In 2019, former President Donald Trump had closed the consulate down. Israel objected to the American plan to reopen it on the basis that a mission serving Palestinian Arabs that operated from Israeli territory was an encroachment on Israeli sovereignty.

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by Dr. Eric R. Mandel, MEPIN

International Atomic Energy Organization Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi, right, speaks with with Iran’s foreign minister, Hossein Amirabdollahian, left, during a meeting in Tehran on March 5, 2022. Grossi met with Iranian officials as talks in Vienna over Iran’s tattered nuclear deal with world powers appeared to be reaching an end. Source: Associated Press.

Lost amid all the news about Ukraine, uncontrolled U.S. inflation, and a potential recession in America is the critical issue of whether America and Iran will agree to return to the nuclear agreement known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) — which should be a first-tier U.S. national security concern…
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The point: Israel allegedly strengthens rightist populism around the world and rightist populism strengthens Zionism. Op-ed.

INN

The duplicity of Berlin’s political establishment is hard to match. On the one hand, city authorities recently banned the “Al-Quds Day” parade which during many years featured pacifist chants such as “Death to Israel!” and “Jewish swine come outside and fight alone!”

Realizing the harm the annual event did to Berlin’s global brand as an international capital of peace and tolerance, this year the city of Berlin banned the parade. The city of Berlin’s hypocrisy unfortunately did not end.
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Officials from nations that don’t recognize Israel among those at event highlighting Jewish nation’s unique potential on continent; ‘Palestinian issue a non-issue,’ says envoy

By LAZAR BERMAN, TOI     4 June 2022,

Simon Seroussi, spokesman for Israel’s embassy in France (L), Magatte Seye, Senegal’s envoy to France, Ben Bourgel, Israel’s envoy to Senegal, and Anne-Sophie Sebban-Bécache, director of AJC Paris, speak at the Israel Back to Africa summit in Paris, May 31, 2022. (MFA)

PARIS — “Israel is back in Africa” was the unmistakable message of a conference here this week on the Jewish state’s ties with the continent in the years ahead.

Organized by Israel’s embassy in France (which paid for this reporter’s flight) and the American Jewish Committee’s Paris office, the one-day event brought together French and African journalists, diplomats, entrepreneurs and artists to examine the future of Israeli cooperation with African countries and businesses.

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Peg Tierney goes into it in depth 

By David Zukerman, AMERICAN THINKER

The arrest of Peter Navarro by the FBI, shock troops of the radical Democrat party, should make clear to the most hidebound Republican member of Congress that the anti-Constitution cabal is confident it will maintain power after the November 8 elections, and the presidency for decades to come.

As Breitbart pointed out, the June 3 arrest of the freedom-loving Navarro came one day after he predicted that, following the midterms, the impeachment of Biden will take place by the GOP.  He was arrested for defying the assault on liberty that is the January 6 House Inquisition panel.
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T. Belman. Of course removing the sunset clauses would be great but it is not a panacea. We know the Iranians have been cheating and will continue t do so.  We also know that our inspectors aren’t up to the task of identifying violations.  Nothing short of requiring roll back of their ill gotten gains will suffice.

The proposed plan is a deal without the 2015 JCPOA’s “sunset clauses,” which gradually lift restrictions on Iran’s nuclear program.

By YAAKOV KATZ, LAHAV HARKOV, JPOST

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani reviews Iran’s new nuclear achievements during Iran’s National Nuclear Energy Day in Tehran, Iran April 10, 2021.
(photo credit: IRANIAN PRESIDENCY OFFICE/WANA (WEST ASIA NEWS AGENCY)/HANDOUT VIA REUTERS)

With Iran nuclear talks frozen, Israel has presented the Biden administration an alternative path forward: to offer Tehran a nuclear deal in which economic sanctions would be lifted, but not the restrictions on its nuclear program.

National Security Adviser Eyal Hulata raised the idea in his meetings with his American counterpart Jake Sullivan in Washington this week.

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By Robert Hunter, AM THINKER

On February 24, President Vladimir Putin of Russia ordered an invasion of Ukraine.  Russian forces attacked on multiple fronts, only to meet fierce resistance.  In response, the Russian Army has shifted gears.  It is now advancing slowly and methodically, executing a war of attrition against the Ukrainian Army.  The outlook for Ukraine is grim.  Russia seems certain to achieve victory, albeit with heavy losses and with massive damage to Ukraine’s infrastructure and population.
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Looking at the trial of attorney Michael Sussman, who represented Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign, from Israel, it is impossible not to draw parallels to the trial of former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

By  Caroline B. Glick, ISRAEL HAYOM    June 3/22

Former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu enters a courtroom as witness Shlomo Filber is due to testify on May 11, 2022 | File photo: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

In the US as in Israel, the polarization between Left and Right grows from day to day. Our societies have never been more divided. A chief source of the social and ideological divide is the politicization of our countries’ legal systems. Over the past generation, leftist ideologues seized control over our state prosecution and law enforcement agencies and transformed our institutions of law into arms of the political Left.

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by Alex Joffe and Asaf Romirowsky, WASH EXAMINER ,

Congressional resolutions honor and commemorate, condemn, and even bluster. Rarely do they endorse a false conception of history as a means of conducting political warfare against an American ally.

House Resolution 1123, introduced by Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), does just that. It also serves as an ominous warning about the future of the wider Democratic Party as its progressive wing organizes and grows in anticipation of a changing of the guard.

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By Rita Li, EPOCH TIMES    June 3/22

Former Attorney General William Barr called the Russiagate “a dirty political trick” against former President Donald Trump and criticized the justice system as “rigged” to target Republicans.

“I thought we were heading into a constitutional crisis,” Barr told conservative talk radio host Glenn Beck in a recent episode, after being asked about his return to politics between 2019 and 2020. Barr then brought up the Russia probe against Donald Trump, the second president he served as the attorney general after George H.W. Bush.
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THIS IS A FASCINATING ACCOUNT OF THE ORIGINAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE CANEL AND THE RECENT WIDENING OF IT.

I FOUND IT QUITE INTERESTING.

BY FOREIGN DESK NEWS

The Red Sea’s Tiran (foreground) and the Sanafir (background) islands in the Strait of Tiran between Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula and Saudi Arabia, seen from a plane (AFP/Getty)

In yet another move that could signal future normalization, Israel and Saudi Arabia have agreed to brand new security arrangements, allowing Egypt to transfer ownership of Tiran and Sanafir in the Straits of Tiran to Saudi Arabia. In his upcoming end of the month trip to the Middle East, President Joe Biden is expected to announce the agreement and praise the two countries for their cooperation. This agreement is sure to generate praise from many in the Middle East and international community as Israel and Saudi Arabia inch closer to full normalization.

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