By Hugh Fitzgerald,  JIHAD WATCH

Israel needs only to tell the truth about Temple Mount, about who has been doing the inciting, and the rioting, and the attacks on worshippers, and who, on the other hand, has merely been trying to stop the rioting, and end the attacks. Which side has tried to protect its own worshippers, praying inoffensively at the Western Wall, and at the same time, to protect from disruption the prayers at Al-Aqsa Mosque of peaceful Muslims, people who have been disturbed by rioters, who have stockpiled weapons in the mosque and chosen to launch their barrages of rocks and Molotov cocktails from inside the mosque at Israeli police outside? A report on what Israel should continue to clarify is here: “Israel’s Best PR Strategy on the Temple Mount: Tell the Truth,” by Jeremiah Rozman, Algemeiner, April 27, 2022:

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Meanwhile, Waqf officials entrusted with managing the Temple Mount and who receive their salaries from Jordan, identify with Hamas and other Islamist groups.

By  Dana Ben-Shimon , Israel Kasnett and ILH Staff

Palestinians protest on the last Friday of Ramadan ahead of the prayer in front of the Dome of the Rock at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City, April 29, 2022 | Photo: Reuters/Ammar Awad

Jordan fears it is losing its recognized status as the official custodian of Jerusalem’s holy Muslim sites, including the Temple Mount, Judaism’s holiest site, as Palestinians incited by Hamas, other terror groups and the Palestinian Authority continuously held riots during the Muslim month of Ramadan. In at least one incident, rioters nearly set the Al-Aqsa mosque on fire. Jordan has blamed Israel for the violence and for violating the status quo there. And now, it is demanding total control over the Temple Mount, with worrying consequences. But experts say the story goes deeper.

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Yossi Dagan responds to the attack near Ariel: The State of Israel must stop giving money to the PA.

By Orli Harari, INN     May 1/22

Scene of attack in ArielMagen David Adom

Yossi Dagan, head of the Samaria Regional Council, responded on Saturday night to the murderous attack at the entrance to Ariel on Saturday night.

“We all share the pain of the family of the slain and the entire people of Israel after the horrific attack at the entrance to the capital of Samaria. A young hero’s life was cut short only because he was a Jew, two days before Memorial Day and Independence Day,” he said.

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JaFaJ  Intelligence Report   Apr 30/22

Summary:

1. JaFaJ has confirmed that the President Sisi of Egypt has survived an assassination attempt. The attempt took place on April 29, 2022. Sisi was injured in the attempt, but the shock and injuries are reported to be superficial. Reportedly, the assailants were rouge members of the Presidential Guards whose job is to protect Sisi and his family.

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If the Biden administration’s goal really was to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons, Biden and his advisors would have responded forcefully to Iran’s actions.

By Caroline Glick, ISRAEL HAYOM

On Tuesday, Israel Hayom reported that there is a growing sense among Israeli and US officials that the Biden administration will not reach a nuclear accord with Iran. To be understood the report has to be seen in the context of a statement made later Tuesday by President Joe Biden’s press secretary Jen Psaki.

During her daily press briefing, Psaki said that the administration assesses that Iran is just weeks away from nuclear breakout capabilities. Nuclear breakout is reached when a state achieves the independent wherewithal to develop nuclear weapons. A nuclear breakout state does not necessarily have nuclear weapons. But it is regarded as a nuclear armed state because it has the capacity to build a nuclear arsenal at will and within a relatively short period of time.

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A recent comment tells us everything about the danger to the west from the Biden administration

By Melanie Phillips

Samson and Delilah; Anthony van Dyck, c 1630

Earlier this week, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the breakout time for Iran to produce fissile material for a nuclear weapon had now come down to “a matter of weeks”.

This is clearly deeply alarming news. But why did Blinken choose to announce this to the world? After all, it invites the question, “So what are you going to do about it?”

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“We are dealing with megalomaniacs, psychopaths, and sociopaths…”

Just like many people all over the world, Dr. Reiner Fuellmich watched as numerous governments didn’t hesitate in the slightest to hurl citizens into lockdowns over the COVID-19 pandemic. That was just the start as social distancing, mask mandates, and the highly controversial COVID-19 drug followed shortly after.
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NATO secretary-general says alliance is ready to support Ukraine in the war against Russia for years. Russian ministry says it used a diesel submarine in the Black Sea to strike Ukrainian military targets with Kalibr cruise missiles.

Witnessing “an epicenter of unbearable heartache and pain” in Kyiv, UN Chief Guterres condemns Moscow for attacks on civilians. Sweden’s prime minister rejects referendum on possible NATO membership.

By  AP , Reuters and ILH Staff

Firefighters put out a fire after a Russian rocket attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, April 28, 2022 | File photo: AP/Efrem Lukatsky

Ukraine’s leader accused Russia of trying to humiliate the United Nations by raining missiles on Kyiv during a visit by Secretary-General António Guterres, an attack that shattered the capital’s tentative return to normality as the focus of the war moved east.

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T. Belman. There is much in this article that I disagree with. I want only to deal with is “the desire to establish a rules-based World Order”. It would be nice but it ain’t gonna happen. Rules are always broken and need a force to uphold them. In my article Can the UN impose a solution on Israel? I refer to  The Plan to Have the UN Rule.  The author quotes from a State Department official in 1945;

“ there is no provision in the Charter itself that contemplates ending war. It is true the Charter provides for force to bring peace, but such use of force is itself war. The Charter is built to prepare for war, not to promote peace. The Charter is a war document, not a peace document.

Not only does the Charter organization not prevent future wars, it makes it practically certain that we shall have future wars, and as to such wars it takes from us the power to declare them, to choose on which side we shall fight, to determine what forces and military equipment we shall use in the war, and to control and command our sons who do the fighting.”

Besides, for Nations wouldn’t accept such an organization as it a diminishment of their sovereignty. That’s why it was necessary to give Russia, US, China, Great Britain and France a veto or they wouldn’t have joined. National interests come first.

If the response of democratic nations to the Russian invasion is to promote a rules-based world order, it begs the question of how useful the world body can be as long as Moscow exercises a power of veto.

By Ben Cohen, JNS

(April 29, 2022 / JNS) A recent letter delivered to U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres by 200 former senior U.N. officials included a bleak warning regarding the consequences should diplomacy fail to end Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. Such an outcome would mean that “the U.N. becoming increasingly irrelevant and, eventually, succumbing to the fate of its predecessor, the League of Nations, with the human losses and material destruction that went with it,” the letter declared.

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by Meir Y. Soloveichik, COMMENTARY   Sept 2021

What is Judaism’s holiest site? It is a simple question with an obvious answer. Thrice daily, Jews pray for the restoration of sacred service to Jerusalem’s Temple Mount. It is toward this location that all Jewish prayers have been poured out since the Temple was destroyed. The Mount is the only area on earth where, according to a Jewish law, certain parts cannot be entered in a state of ritual impurity, and many traditional Jews have refrained from ascending to the site lest they violate Jewish law.

Yet many now believe that, with a knowledge of the layout, history, and religious laws pertaining to the location, it is permissible to visit certain parts of the Temple Mount Plaza. They do so under religious guidance, immersing first in a ritual bath, or mikvah, in order to commune with the God they believe still dwells at what is unquestionably Judaism’s holiest site.

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By Wasiq Wasiq, WESTERN ISLAMISM   Apr 28/22

Alhamdulillah.

After years of silence in the face of demonization, UK elites are fighting back against an Islamist campaign to abolish Prevent, an imperfect, but hugely necessary counter-extremism program established in 2010 to reduce the threat of terrorism.

The opening salvo of this counterattack came on April 26 when the Policy Exchange, a non-partisan think tank issued a report titled “Delegitimizing Counter-Terrorism: The Activist Campaign to Demonise Prevent.” The report details how “a number of inter-related, well-organised, and media-savvy campaigns […] have sought to undermine Prevent and counterextremism efforts.”

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The simmering conflict between Egypt and Ethiopia over the construction of a massive dam on the Blue Nile could have grave ramifications for Israel

By Martin Sherman, IISS

…no one can take a drop from Egypt’s water, and if it happens, there will be inconceivable instability in the region. – Egyptian President, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Aljazeera, March 30, 2021.

…we … don’t want to live in darkness – Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, Aljazeera, March 30,  2021.

These two short quotes encapsulate the essence of the brewing conflict between the leaders of the two North African nations over the waters of the Nile, triggered by the construction of a huge dam on the Blue Nile by Ethiopia, just east of its border with Sudan. The dam—the Great Ethiopian Renaissances Dan (GERD) is the largest in Africa and one of the largest in the world.

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By David Israel, JEWISH PRESS

Hundreds of Arab rioters, some masked, threw stones and fired fireworks on the Temple Mount on the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan (making for an intriguing “What I did on my Ramadan Vacation” report). At least one stone landed in the Kotel Plaza below, where Jews were engaged in the morning prayer. Police entered the Temple Mount compound and used tear gas and rubber bullets to repel the rioters. The Red Crescent reported that 12 were injured in the clashes.
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In new book ‘Watching Darkness Fall,’ former US ambassador David McKean illustrates how antisemitism, apathy and internal politics set America back in the war against Germany

By RICH TENORIO, TOI    28 April 2022, 11:28 pm

• United States Ambassador William E. Dodd leaves the presidential palace in Berlin, September 6, 1933, after presenting his credentials to President Paul von Hindenburg. After receiving military honors, the new ambassador made a brief speech in which he mentioned the cultural ties between the two nations. (AP Photo)
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