In a closed-door meeting, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz said that a viral post threatening an Arab takeover of the country was “not far from reality.”

BY YEHUDA SHLEZINGER, jns

Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz gives a statement to the media at the IDF Central Command headquarters in Jerusalem, on March 30, 2022. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

In the closed portion of a Blue and White Party faction meeting last week, Defense Minister Benny Gantz read out a WhatsApp message that had gone viral across the country, containing threats by anonymous, ostensibly Arab elements to take control of the country. According to Gantz, the authors of the message were correct, and the future Jewish state could ultimately lie “between Gedera and Hadera.”
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JORDAN: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE: The Jordan Option Revisited

By Naseem Al-Gheewan, Dep Sec’y Gen, JOC

JORDAN: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE: The Jordan Option Revisited

By Dr. Edy Cohen

JORDAN: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE: The Jordan Option Revisited

By Geoffrey Clarfield

JORDAN: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE: The Jordan Option Revisited

By Michael Ross, Advisor to the JOC

Opinion: The longer only one side of the so-called Palestinian Catastrophe is cultivated, the longer hatred will continue to be nurtured, while historical facts point to Palestinians openly supporting Nazi propaganda during WWII

By Ben-Dror Yemini, YNET|   May 15/22

We’re told time and time again that we must recognize the Palestinian “narrative” of the conflict’s origins in order to understand their pain, and usher in peace.

The truth is that we need to do just the opposite. The Palestinian narrative has already become widely endorsed by many in the academia, and the more it continues to gain recognition, the more miniscule the chances for peace will become. What we need in order to achieve peace are not narratives, but historic facts.

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Being on the right side of history matters more than vainly trying to achieve positive pr from an antisemitic world. 

By Ronn Torossian, INN

For a very very long time, I thought Israel’s Public Relations problems were a major problem for the State Of Israel. Having founded one of the largest PR agencies in the United States, I am well aware of the power of the media. As I get older, I realize many in the media simply don’t care about the truth.

I also realize in many matters of war and peace, force matters most. Does one really think Russia and Vladimir Putin care about truth and media?

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T. Belman. So, Min. Gantz, what are you going to do about it?  When is Israel going to take charge of its life and stop allowing the Arabs to use illegal construction, propaganda and violence to achieve their ends.

In closed conversations, Defense Min. Gantz warns Israel may lose Negev and Galilee, with Jewish state limited to central Israel only.

Israel National News   16.05.22 08:38

Benny GantzYonatan Sindel/Flash90

Defense Minister Benny Gantz (Blue and White) has warned that Jewish Israel may soon be limited to the center of the country only, Israel Hayom reported.

In a closed meeting with his party last week, Gantz read aloud a WhatsApp containing threats from unnamed Arab sources, warning that they would take over Israel.

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JORDAN: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE: The Jordan Option Revisited

By Abedelelah Amaala, JCC

Conference resolution:

1-The conference recognises that Jordan is an unstable country at the moment and has been for a  few years. The conference recognises the status quo in Jordan is a threat to regional peace and prosperity.

2-The conference recognises the Jordanian Opposition Collation as the only and sole legitimate representative of the people of Jordan.

3-the conference recognised as a necessity for all peace supporting parties and governments to provide political, logistical and technical support and help to the Jordanian Opposition Coalition to soft land Jordan from the current state of extreme chaos into  safety,  prosperity and  peacefulness

4-the conference emphasises the necessity of turning Jordan into an economically attractive destination under a new regime led by the JOC

The Conference recommends that Jordan join the Abraham Accords.

Declassified files show Britain attempted to sow division between Moscow and its Arab allies using fake reports blaming both sides for Egypt’s defeat in the 1967 Six Day War

By TOI STAFF         14 May 2022, 11:43 pm  

The British government ran a secret propaganda campaign aimed at destabilizing the country’s enemies during the Cold War by inciting violence, supporting racial tensions and encouraging hatred toward Israel, according to newly declassified documents.

The documents, which were reported on by The Guardian, highlighted a “black propaganda” campaign from the mid-1950s to late 70s that mostly targeted African countries, the Middle East and parts of Asia with fake reports that were ultimately intended to spread anti-communist sentiment.

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An official report about the university’s early history and a student editorial denouncing Israel reflect the confused state of higher education’s values.

By Ruth R. Wisse, WSJ    May 13, 2022 1:50 pm ET

The campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., July 16, 2019.

A recent report, “Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery,” notes that the university’s faculty, staff and leaders held more than 70 black slaves between 1636, when Harvard was founded, and 1783, when Massachusetts abolished slavery. In atonement, President Lawrence Bacow reports, the university intends to dedicate $100 million of its endowment to help address “the persistent corrosive effects of those historical practices on individuals, on Harvard, and on our society.”

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By Armin Rosen SAPIR JOURNAL

There were names on the letter that I knew, even a few I admired.On June 9, 2021, not long after the escalation between Israel and Gaza-based militant groups ended, scores of journalists signed a public statement decrying the “decades-long journalistic malpractice” of the news industry’s alleged bias in favor of Israel. The media had premised its coverage of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict on Israeli narratives of proportionality and legitimate self-defense, the signers suggested, in part through failing to adopt the viewpoints of the letter-signers’ preferred segments of Palestinian society. “These terms?—?apartheid, persecution, ethnic supremacy?—?are increasingly gaining institutional recognition after years of Palestinian advocacy, and we, as journalists, need to examine whether our coverage reflects that reality,” the letter instructs. Coverage could be rebalanced only by endorsing a Palestinian-nationalist interpretation of the conflict and ending the scandalous evenhandedness that treated Israel as if it were a normal country with just as much of a moral, legal, and practical foundation as any other. Read more…

by Majid Rafizadeh, GATESTONE  •  May 14, 2022

• The European Union is basically admitting that it views the nuclear deal with Iran’s ruling clerics from the perspective of economic opportunity. That should not be the objective of the nuclear talks. Instead, European leaders ought to be seeking a strong deal that will prevent the Iranian regime from acquiring nuclear weapons, especially — as they should have learned from Russia by now — because those nukes may soon be aimed at their countries.
• By revealing its desperation to buy oil, the EU is empowering Iran’s ruling clerics to gain the upper hand in the nuclear talks and obtain even more concessions to revive the nuclear deal. Desperation, to the Iranian regime, means weakness.

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ZOOM CONFERENCE

MAY 15, 2022,

7:00 pm Israel Time (12:00 pm, EST)

JORDAN, PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
The Jordan Option Revisited

The Jordan Option has been touted for over 20 years but gained little traction. Essentially it embraces the idea that Jordan should be seen as the Palestinian state.  The primary resistance to the idea came from the Hashemites.

Mudar Zahran, Secretary General of the Jordan Opposition Coalition together with Ted Belman, Editor of Israpundit, held a conference at the Begin Centre in Jerusalem on Oct 17, 2017. It justified the rationale behind Jordan being the Palestinian State and called for the end of the Hashemite control of Jordan.  Mudar Zahran announced he  was ready, willing and able to serve as President of Jordan.

Here we are, 5 years later, on the cusp of success.  Register for the Conference and find out why.

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T. Belman.  This is how the NYT reported what happened. From start to finish it is a smear job.  They write “was shot by Israeli soldiers, though Israeli officials said she could have been struck by either Palestinian or Israeli fire.”  There is no proof of this yet they said it anyways.

The Israeli police were exercising their authority and the so-called mourners were there to flout their authority.

I totally support the police.

As hundreds gathered to witness the start of Shireen Abu Akleh’s funeral procession, riot police assaulted the people carrying her coffin.

By Patrick Kingsley and Raja Abdulrahim, NYT        May 13, 2022

Israeli police officers restoring order on Friday.Maya Levin/Associated Press

JERUSALEM — In life, Shireen Abu Akleh, an acclaimed Palestinian American broadcaster, was one of the leading chroniclers of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Her death, while covering an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, turned her into one of the conflict’s most prominent recent victims. Palestinian witnesses and officials said Ms. Abu Akleh, 51, long a leading television reporter for Al Jazeera, was shot by Israeli soldiers, though Israeli officials said she could have been struck by either Palestinian or Israeli fire.

Then, on Friday in Jerusalem, her funeral was marred by another burst of violence.

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The funeral procession of Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh on Friday was marred by thishttps://t.co/uaBMpLkZRYpic.twitter.com/yuO98bmK3S

— Haaretz.com (@haaretzcom) May 13, 2022

BY DAVID SOLWAY, PJ MEDIA    MAY 13, 2022 9:18 PM ET

(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)