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Poll: After half a year of PM Bennett, voters prefer Netanyahu  

Prime Minister Bennett has 44% job approval rating in new poll, with plurality of Israelis favoring Netanyahu as PM.

By David Rosenberg,  INN           Dec 05 , 2021 9:38 PM | updated: 9:40 PM

Six months after the formation of the new Bennett-Lapid government, a new poll shows a plurality of Israelis prefer former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the helm.

On Sunday night, Channel 12 published a new poll conducted by the Midgam polling agency which found that 43% of Israelis would rather have a government headed by Netanyahu than the current ‘change’ coalition, compared to 36% who favor the current government led by Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid.

Nearly half (45%) of respondents preferred Netanyahu as premier over Bennett, with just 25% favoring Bennett. Read more…

December 6, 2021 | 6:11 am | Comments »

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A World Without America?  

by Victor Rosenthal     December 5, 2021

I’m worried. But it’s not my own country that I’m worried about. Despite the recent increase in Arab terrorism and crime-as-jihad, despite the real threat of a regional war with Iran and her proxies, and despite the difficulty of obtaining a stable and Zionist governing coalition, I am convinced that Israel will make it through her current tribulations.

I am not so sure about the United States. I am imagining a world without the American superpower, and I don’t like how it looks (one of the notable symptoms of the problem is that many Americans seem to prefer such a world).

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December 6, 2021 | 1:35 am | 1 Comment »

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Huge Blast Reported at Natanz Nuclear Site  

Mudar, Zahran. Military sources: Iran’s Natanz reactor was subjected to an unprecedented military strike, “and the type of weapon used is not understood”, so that the reactor is now inoperable, with more than 100 workers killed and hundreds of injuries…

Deputy Defense Minister Alon Schuster says Israel will use military means in extreme situations, a day after an explosion near Natanz that Tehran said was an air defense test

By TOI STAFF  Today, 11:19 am

Deputy Defense Minister Alon Schuster on Sunday refrained from directly answering questions about a blast in the vicinity of an Iranian nuclear site a day earlier, only saying he “can’t say” what hit Natanz.

When asked what Israel had to say about the explosion on Saturday near the Natanz site, Schuster said: “We don’t ask a man what he did at night, but we are currently trying to bring about a change in the motivations of the whole world through diplomatic means.”

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December 6, 2021 | 1:35 am | 3 Comments »

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The Counterrevolution and the Republican Party  

By Jared Peterson, AM THNKER

For nearly a year the Biden “presidency” — whoever they are — has subjected the United States to a destructive revolutionary agenda of unprecedented scope and virulence, all of it arising out of an irrational civilizational death wish for which there is no historical parallel.

No more than a small minority of Americans knowingly voted for this.

Given safety from reprisal, large majorities of the electorate would reject both the underlying unhinged beliefs and the ruinous policies and goals that have been promoted since Biden and his opaque gang took office.

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December 6, 2021 | 1:10 am | 3 Comments »

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Bennett to the US: Time to use a different toolkit against Iran  

PM calls on countries negotiating with Iran to ensure Iran does get away with its violations, moves towards nuclear bomb during negotiations

By Yoni Kempinski, ISRAEL HAYOMDec 05 , 2021 11:43 AM

Naftali Bennett
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett addressed the negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program in Vienna at the start of the weekly Cabinet meeting Sunday.

“The first round of talks between Iran and the major powers in Vienna has ended without results. The Iranians, as expected, are proficient negotiators. They backtracked from previous agreements and came with a very strong and thuggish approach,” Bennett said.

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December 5, 2021 | 3:51 pm | Comments »

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The ‘First Iran War’ is just around the corner  

The next war won’t be a “Third Lebanon War.” Iran plans to strike Israel from Lebanon, Syria, Gaza, Judea and Samaria, internally with some Arab Israelis’ help, and through long-range missiles from Iran and Yemen.

By  Likud MK Nir Barkat, ISRAEL HAYOM      Published on  12-03-2021 11:57

As Jews and Israelis, these days are nothing short of bizarre. Iran, a terrorist state behind a global axis of evil, is once again having the last laugh. It is hard to watch as the US and Europe politely attempt to reach a deal with Tehran at the cost of an existential threat to Israel.

The murmurings in Europe of providing Iran an opportunity to take advantage of negotiations along with American ambiguity toward Israel on this issue are a warning sign to Jerusalem. The removal of sanctions will see billions of dollars pour into the Revolutionary Guard coffers for the country’s transformation into a nuclear state. No less dangerous, it will boost their confidence ahead of military action against Israel on multiple fronts.

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December 5, 2021 | 3:44 pm | Comments »

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War: What Israel talks about when it talks about striking Iran’s nuclear program  

Israeli officials have regularly called for a ‘credible military threat’ against Tehran’s nuclear facilities, but less discussed is the major conflict that’s almost sure to follow

By JUDAH ARI GROSS, TOI 3 December 2021, 6:40 am  

In this photo released by the US Air Force, an Israeli Air Force F-15 Strike Eagle flies in formation with a US Air Force B-1B Lancer over Israel as part of a deterrence flight Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021. (US Air Force/Senior Airman Jerreht Harris via AP)

In this photo released by the US Air Force, an Israeli Air Force F-15 Strike Eagle flies in formation with a US Air Force B-1B Lancer over Israel as part of a deterrence flight Saturday, Oct. 30, 2021. (US Air Force/Senior Airman Jerreht Harris via AP)

Nearly one year ago, IDF chief Aviv Kohavi stood on stage at an Institute for National Security Studies conference in Tel Aviv and announced that he had ordered the military to begin preparing renewed plans for a strike on Iran’s nuclear program.

“Iran can decide that it wants to advance to a bomb, either covertly or in a provocative way. In light of this basic analysis, I have ordered the IDF to prepare a number of operational plans, in addition to the existing ones. We are studying these plans and we will develop them over the next year,” Kohavi said.

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December 5, 2021 | 3:25 pm | Comments »

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The ‘Islamophobia’ industry’s attempt to shut down all criticism of Islam  

Exposing the role that Islamic jihad theology and ideology play in the modern global conflicts. Diane Bederman latest book. Interview.

By  Christine Douglass-William, INN     Dec 04 , 2021 7:25 PM

Charlie Hebdo takeoff

In Diane Weber Bederman’s latest book, The Islamophobia Industry: The Insidious Infiltration of Islam into the Westshe provides an essential reality check about the “Islamophobia” industry’s aim to shut down all criticism of Islam, while propagating the irrational and damaging view of Islam as a “race.”

By now, it should be well understood that freedom of expression in free societies incorporates the right to offend. One does not have the same right to offend Islam and Muslim sensibilities in Sharia states, or even in many majority-Muslim countries. In the current era, the Muslim Brotherhood, supported by its affiliates and Islamic countries such as Qatar, has infiltrated free societies at every level, working to instill a fear of criticizing the Islamic ideology. Diane Bederman effectively points out that by means of an “islamophobia” industry that is handsomely funded from abroad, there is an aggressive push to silence anyone who criticizes or questions any aspect of Islam.

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December 5, 2021 | 9:37 am | Comments »

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Israel concerned as UAE seeks rapprochement with Iran  

Israeli official says US weakness responsible for UAE seeking better relations with Iran.

ARUTZ SHEVA

Lapid meets UAE foreign minister

Israel is very concerned about the rapprochement between the United Arab Emirates and Iran, Israel Hayom reported.

A senior delegation is expected to leave for Tehran soon to discuss strengthening ties between the two countries. Its departure coincided with a recent meeting between Anwar Gargash, senior adviser to UAE Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, and the head of the Iranian delegation to the nuclear talks in Vienna, Ali Bakri Kani.

“I hope that the delegation’s departure to Tehran will take place as soon as possible, and all our friends are aware of that. Our goal is to open a new page,” Gargash explained in a media briefing.

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The EU chief has a plan to gut the Nuremberg code  

By Andrea Widburg, AM TH

One of the most heinous things the Nazis did was medical experiments on people.  Mengele was famous for his obsession with twins, whom he cruelly tortured, but the Nazis liked to do insanely cruel things to all sorts of captives.  The Nuremberg Code was enacted to stop this from ever happening again, but individual European states and now the entire E.U. are ready to scrap the code.

The Nuremberg trials after WWII made horribly clear the sadistic “experiments” the Nazis had performed on people.  What was left of the civilized world decided that there needed to be a medical code of conduct so that no nation could ever again act with such sadistic impunity.  So, in 1947, the modern Nuremberg Code was born.  The document prescribes core norms for human experimentation.  It has ten points including, in relevant part:
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December 5, 2021 | 8:59 am | 2 Comments »

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FBI CONDUCTED “TERROR CAMPAIGN”  

By Randy DeSoto,  WESTERN JOURNALISM     December 4, 2021 at 11:32am

Actor Nick Searcy, who is the producer of the new documentary film “Capitol Punishment,” says the FBI has been employing “terror tactics” against American citizens who participated in the Jan. 6 protest in order to send a message far and wide: Don’t speak out against the government.

Searcy, appearing on the popular Christian commentary show “Flashpoint” Thursday, was in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6. Searcy said what the media portrayed and what he witnessed were very different. “Why are they lying to us?” he wondered. “Why are they not showing all the people I saw praying and saying the Pledge of Allegiance and singing ‘The Star-Spangled Banner?’” Why were they only showing windows being broken at the Capitol? Read more…

December 5, 2021 | 8:44 am | Comments »

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THE FALSE PALESTINIAN NARRATIVE  

By Abraham Sion, jns

Palestinian leaders demand that their refugees move to and live in the Jewish state, not to the envisioned Arab one.

Libelous and defamatory words have constantly been used in the last century to undermine Jewish legitimacy. Since Nazi Germany, no other people have mastered this craft more efficiently than the Palestinian Arabs and their supporters, particularly after the peace treaty between Israel and the PLO (the Oslo Accords). Since the Oslo Accords of Sept. 13, 1993, the Arabs of Palestine have been waging a psychological warfare aimed at the destruction of Israel’s image in the world.

To facilitate their campaign, Palestinian leaders and their supporters created a false narrative on various issues, knowing that it would have a deep psychological effect on public opinion, especially when repeated incessantly year after year. Here, I am referring to phrases that we see every day in the news, among politicians and community leaders, even within the Jewish community; phrases such as “The two-state solution,” “West Bank” and “Occupied Territories,” which have become rooted in today’s rhetoric around the world. The only nation in the Arab-Israeli conflict that seems to have neglected to recognize this fabrication is the Jewish nation, for its leaders, politicians and newscasters have fully adopted the Arab narrative.
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December 5, 2021 | 8:34 am | 9 Comments »

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French president: Difficult to reach nuclear deal if Gulf, Israel not involved  

Macron says talks with Iran should have ‘broader dynamic’ and involve regional powers whose security is directly affected by any accord

Today, 2:39 am

 Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (right) meets with French President Emanuel Macron in Paris, on November 30, 2021. (MFA / Quentin Crestinu)

Foreign Minister Yair Lapid (right) meets with French President Emanuel Macron in Paris, on November 30, 2021. (MFA / Quentin Crestinu)

In striking comments Friday, French President Emmanuel Macron suggested Israel should be part of discussions on a return to the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran.

Speaking to reporters as talks were halted in Vienna, Macron said a broader framework might benefit the talks on bringing Washington back into the deal.

“I think everyone is conscious of the fact that not talking, not trying to find a new framework on both nuclear and regional issues, weakens everybody and is a factor in increasing confliction,” the French president said.

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Blinken says nuclear talks halted because Iran ‘doesn’t seem serious’  

Secretary reiterates that US won’t allow Tehran to drag out negotiations while advancing with its nuclear program and that Washington will pursue other options if talks fail

By JACOB MAGID, TOI         3 December 2021, 11:11 pm

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken attends a press conference during an Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) meeting, in Stockholm, Sweden, Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021. (Jonathan Nackstrand/Pool Photo via AP)

United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday that this week’s round of negotiations between world powers and Iran in Vienna was halted because Tehran does not seem to be serious about reaching an agreement with the US that would see a joint return to compliance with the nuclear agreement.

“What we’ve seen in the last couple of days is that Iran right now does not seem to be serious about doing what’s necessary to return to compliance, which is why we ended this round of talks in Vienna,” Blinken told Reuters.
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Court Orders Hospital to Administer Ivermectin  

Dying COVID-19 Patient Recovers

By: Matthew Vadum, EPOCH TIMES  December 1, 2021:

An elderly COVID-19 patient has recovered after a court order allowed him to be treated with ivermectin, despite objections from the hospital in which he was staying, according to the family’s attorney.

After an Illinois hospital insisted on administering expensive remdesivir to the patient and the treatment failed, his life was saved after a court ordered that an outside medical doctor be allowed to use the inexpensive ivermectin to treat him, over the hospital’s strenuous objections.

Ivermectin tablets have been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat humans with intestinal strongyloidiasis and onchocerciasis, two conditions caused by parasitic worms. Some topical forms of ivermectin have been approved to treat external parasites such as head lice and for skin conditions such as rosacea. The drug is also approved for use on animals.

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December 4, 2021 | 8:49 am | 5 Comments »

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Mossad recruited top Iranian scientists to blow up key nuclear facility  

T. Belman.  Why was this info divulged to THE JEWISH CHRONICAL exclusively and why did Israel choose now to divulge it.

THE JEWISH CHRONICAL

Mossad recruited a team of Iranian nuclear scientists to carry out a covert operation which blew up one of the regime’s most secure nuclear facilities earlier this year, the JC can reveal.

Up to 10 scientists were approached by Israeli agents and agreed to destroy the underground A1000 centrifuge hall at Natanz in April, though they believed that they were working for international dissident groups.

Some of the explosives they used were dropped into the compound by a drone and quietly collected by the scientists, while others were smuggled into the high security facility hidden in boxes of food on a catering lorry. The ensuing destruction caused chaos in the highest echelons of the Iranian leadership. It demolished 90 per cent of the centrifuges at the nuclear plant, delaying progress towards a bomb and putting the key complex out of action for up to nine months.
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December 4, 2021 | 8:31 am | 2 Comments »

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Biden Admin Waives Sanctions on Iran as Nuclear Talks Restart  

Critics accuse admin of ‘delivering a dressed-up Chanukah present to the regime’

By Adam Kredo, FREE BEACON    • December 3, 2021

The Biden administration quietly waived sanctions on Iran to allow the hardline regime to sell electricity to Iraq, according to a non-public notification obtained by the Washington Free Beacon that was provided to Congress just as nuclear talks between the United States and Tehran resumed this week.

The timing of the waiver notification—which was signed Nov. 19 but not transmitted to Congress until Nov. 29, the day nuclear negotiations resumed—has prompted accusations the Biden administration is offering concessions to Tehran to generate goodwill as talks aimed at securing a revamped version of the 2015 nuclear deal restart following a months-long standoff.
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