DEBUNKING THE “ISRAEL IS AN APARTHEID STATE” LIBEL  

Democratic Party US Rep Rashida Tlaib Defends Terrorist NGOs, Calls Israel ‘Apartheid Regime’

The anti-Semitic ‘apartheid state’ libel is a slanderous Big Lie
“Israel is an open, pluralistic and democratic society”

The links below are to detailed, irrefutable documentation on why Israel is NOT an apartheid state.  Calling Israel an apartheid state is spewing a slanderous Big Lie. Israel is an open, pluralistic and democratic society.  Charging Israel with being an “apartheid state” is an anti-Semitic libel.

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October 24, 2021 | 7:26 am | 2 Comments »

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Ten False Assumptions or Lies Regarding Israel  

T. Belman. One of the arguments against extending sovereignty to Judea and Samaria is that Israel would be obligated to give a path to citizenship to all arabs living there and the failure to do so would truly make her an apartheid state. NOT TRUE.

In such an event, Israel only has to give citizenship to stateless people living within her territory. This wouldn’t apply to the arabs living in Judea and samaria because they are all Jordanian citizens. These Arabs would be classified as foreign residents.

By Amb. Alan Baker, JCPA    August 15, 2016

Israel is inundated with one-sided international resolutions, declarations, “peace plans,” and advice from governments, international organizations, leaders, pundits, and elements within the Jewish, Christian and Muslim communities.

Most of the above rest on widely-held, false and mistaken assumptions regarding Israel, its leaders, government, policies, and positions held by the vast majority of the Israeli public.

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October 24, 2021 | 7:16 am | 1 Comment »

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Bennett gov’t votes down implementing sovereignty law, slammed for ‘dividing Jerusalem’  

“There seems to be no limit that this government does not cross,” Religous Zionism leader Smotrich said, accusing Bennett of “dividing Jerusalem de facto.”

By Aryeh Savir, TPS Oct 20/21
Bennett gov’t votes down sovereignty law, slammed for ‘dividing Jerusalem’

Hamas supporters at al-Aqsa Mosque on Temple Mount in Jerusalem, May 7, 2021. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

The coalition, headed by Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, and in cooperation with the Arab-majority Joint List from the opposition, voted against the Jerusalem Sovereignty Law on Wednesday in the Knesset.

The law would have enshrined the prohibition set forth in the Oslo Accords for the Palestinian Authority’s activity within the State of Israel.

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October 24, 2021 | 1:44 am | 1 Comment »

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AMERICA’S BETRAYAL OF ISRAEL  

T. Belman. Believe nothing the US says including that it has our back.  It doesn’t. Whatever political bone it gives us comes with a big price tag.

  • If you want a peace deal with Saudi Arabia, approve of a US consulate for Palestinians in Jerusalem
  • If you want us to take diplomatic action against Iran, make concessions to the Palestinians.
Since the Yom Kippur War, the defense establishment has believed that Israel should subject its independent policy to American interests. This failed concept is currently collapsing with regard to Iran.

By  Caroline B. Glick, ISRAEL HAYOM  10-22-2021 21:51

Bennett-Biden meeting expected to go ahead as Kabul bombing death toll climbs

US President Joe Biden and PM Naftali Bennett | Photo: Yossi Zeliger, AFP, Getty Images

A report this week about the discussions Israel and the US are now holding regarding the Iranian nuclear program was nothing short of an earthquake. On Tuesday, Israel Hayom ran a red headline on its front page: “Iran is cozying up to moderate states, and Israel is worried.” The story, by military correspondent Yoav Limor, told us two deeply alarming things about the state of American-Israeli coordination on Iran’s nuclear program. First, the Americans are not working with Israel to block Iran from becoming a nuclear power. They are working against Israel.

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October 23, 2021 | 3:56 pm | 6 Comments »

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Border Patrol Arrests Shatter All Records at Southern Border  

BY CHARLOTTE CUTHBERTSON, EPOCH TIMES

A group of Venezuelans wait to be picked up by Border Patrol after illegally crossing the Rio Grande from Mexico into Del Rio, Texas, on June 3, 2021. (Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times)[/caption]

Border Patrol agents apprehended a total of 1,666,167 illegal immigrants along the southwest border in fiscal 2021—breaking all records since 1925 after the agency was formed (when 22,199 illegal aliens were arrested).

An additional 294,352 were stopped after trying to enter at a port of entry without legal papers, bringing the total to almost 2 million (1,956,519) for fiscal 2021, according to new Customs and Border Protection (CBP) statistics.

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October 23, 2021 | 1:00 pm | Comments »

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Pres Trump and Fake Conservatives   

Yes, the RINOs: are too influential—but it’s up to you and me to change that.

By 

“He’s so crude!” and “Remember the Billy Bush Tape!”

“And what about Stormy Daniels, and all the others?”

“Also, don’t forget his tweets!”

You’ve heard all these and many others before. It’s the never-ending loop of Trump criticism—a critique which seems inconsequential when compared to his four years in office and the record of his policy accomplishments. From crushing the ISIS caliphate to creating a pre-COVID economy the likes of which America—and the world—had never seen, to the many displays of his inconvertible commitment to conservative causes, such as his being the only serving Republican president to address the annual March for Life rally in Washington, D.C.. These are matters of record.

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October 23, 2021 | 12:53 pm | Comments »

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Yale Study: Natural Immunity Protects Against COVID Three Times Longer Than Vaccine  

BY ATHENA THORNE, PJ MEDIA          OCT 22, 2021 

AP Photo/Matt Rourke

To their dismay, the Yale School of Public Health just concluded that immunity acquired by COVID-19 infection lasts three times longer and is stronger than that provided by vaccination. Naturally, the Yale Daily News downplayed the info under the headline, “COVID-19 reinfection is likely among unvaccinated individuals, Yale study finds.”The Yale study concluded that the risk of COVID-19 reinfection stands at 5% at three months after recovery and decreases to 50% at 17 months. By contrast, COVID-19 vaccine protection against infection can wane to a mere 20% as early as five months after full vaccination. Now, I may not be a Fauci-approved Scientist, but I’m also not stupid.Related: Natural Immunity for the WIN! Israeli Study Suggests COVID-19 Vaccine Policies Should Change Now

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October 23, 2021 | 12:46 pm | 21 Comments »

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The National School Boards Association backs down  

By Andrea Widburg, AM THINKER

At one point, it looked as if Biden’s DOJ and FBI were in the catbird seat waging war against parents who dared challenge leftist dominance in schools in the form of school boards authorizing Critical Race Theory, gender madness, and masks on healthy children. The wheel of fortune has turned, though. Merrick Garland exposed his ignorance and partisanship before congress and the National School Boards Association (“NSBA”) has offered a groveling apology. It works to push back against ascendant leftism.

The big news week before last was that an organization most people had never heard of—the NSBA—had sent a letter to the White House informing the administration that parents opposing school boards were probably domestic terrorists. Practically by return mail, Merrick Garland assured the NSBA that the FBI would work with school boards across America to stop this plague. Parents rightly understood that they were being threatened.
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October 23, 2021 | 12:34 pm | 1 Comment »

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Israeli ‘terror’ designation of Palestinian NGOs sparks furious backlash  

In Washington, progressive members of Congress condemn decision, while PA slams ‘libelous slander’; UN and EU question Israeli claim that civil society groups were fronts for PFLP

By Aaron Boxerman, TOI            Today, 9:23 pm

Pro-Palestinian protesters march outside the White House, Thursday, Aug. 25, 2021 in Washington. (AP/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades)

An Israeli decision to label six Palestinian rights groups and civil society movements as “terror organizations” elicited a swift and fierce backlash Friday, with Palestinians, international organizations and left-wing American politicians slamming the move.

Representatives of at least two of the groups denied the charges, with international organizations accusing Israel of trying to silence criticism of alleged human rights abuses on shaky pretenses.

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October 23, 2021 | 7:47 am | 3 Comments »

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“The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America.”  

T. Belman. Hanson seems to say that democracy was born in Greco/Roman times. I think not. Only citizen in Rome and Greece could vote. But 90% of the residents were not citizens.

FASCINATING INTERVIEWWATCH

AMERICAN THOUGHT LEADERS

A DISCUSSION WITH VICTOR HANSON ON HIS NEW BOOK

Victor Davis Hanson: The ‘Era of Intimidation,’ Tribalism, and Elite Contempt for the Middle Class

“A very dangerous pre-civilizational pathology is tribalism … I hire my first cousin—and not the other person who’s better qualified—because he’s part of the tribe,” says classicist and historian Victor Davis Hanson. Now, “we’ve gone back in a retrograde fashion to a pre-civilizational mentality,” Hanson says.

Here’s the transcript if you prefer.
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October 22, 2021 | 9:44 am | 2 Comments »

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Judicial Watch: Records Reveal Coordinated Effort to Advance Critical Race Theory Initiatives in Loudoun County  

T. Belman. As I read this I wondered if any law was broken. Surely CRT is discriminatory. Who gets to decide what values are taught? Is it left entirely to thge teachers unions or to the school boards? Are the school boards elected?

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that it received 3,597 pages of records from Loudoun County, VA, that reveal a coordinated effort to advance Critical Race Theory initiatives in Loudoun County public schools despite widespread public opposition.

The records were produced in accordance with two Judicial Watch Virginia Freedom of Information Act (VFOIA) requests to Loudoun County Public Schools. In March and April 2021 requests, Judicial Watch asked for communications between Loudoun County Superintendents Eric Williams and/or Scott Ziegler with school board members, teachers and parents regarding anti-racism initiatives, including a proposed speech code.

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October 22, 2021 | 9:32 am | Comments »

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The German-Turkish deadly love affair  

T. Belman.  Israel cuts a similar deal with the PA and with Hamas. Be nice and we will tolerate you and make concessions. To confront them and to stand firm on what you want, involves a big price to pay.  Better to kiss their asses.

A dossier should be put together on how Angela Merkel capitulated to Erdogan – and why. 

By Giulio Meotti, INN

While the birth of the new SPD-Greens-Liberals government was being discussed in Germany, Angela Merkel was in Istanbul on her last visit to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. “Exchange of views on the process of Turkey’s rapprochement with the EU”, was the formula used for the meeting.

“The fact that Merkel took the time to visit Erdogan shortly before her retirement shows the great importance that Turkey has always had for her,” comments the Neue Zürcher Zeitung. “In exchange for the migrant agreement, Merkel was ready to ignore the threat to freedom of expression, the rule of law and democracy in Turkey. She also accepted the fact that her visit was seen as an aid to the campaign for Erdogan in view of the parliamentary elections”.

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October 22, 2021 | 9:06 am | Comments »

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US, Israeli Diplomat, Dangling Saudi Relations in Return for ‘Palestinian Consulate’  

T. Belman. Evidently Israel is being offered recognition by Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries in exchange for a division of Jerusalem otherwise known as the establishment of the US Consulate in Jerusalem.

I say NEVER

By David Israel, JEWISH PRESS – – October 21, 2021

Israel’s Consul in Dubai Ilan Sztulman told Globes on Tuesday that there has been a recent acceleration in the contacts between the Jewish State and several Arab countries who may join the Abrahamic agreements, hinting that the big catch in this fisherman’s net is Saudi Arabia. Globes reported that there are ongoing, quiet behind-the-scenes contacts, but that they would not necessarily lead to full diplomatic relations as with the Emirates and Bahrain.

All of this shiny goodness comes with a price, which a Wednesday Globes report  called “gestures to the Palestinians,” which is another way to say opening the American consulate for PA residents on Agron Street, at the heart of western Jerusalem. Globes suggested that just as the cost of the initial Abrahamic Accords was a settlement construction freeze and abandoning the promise of partial sovereignty in Judea and Samaria, so would the cost of Saudi diplomatic sugar be allowing the folks from Ramallah to establish a permanent presence in the Israeli capital.

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October 22, 2021 | 1:51 am | 5 Comments »

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Launching missiles, muting responses  

Why doesn’t Israel put an end to the Gaza-launched missiles the way any other country would if a weaker neighbor was bombarding them?

By Rabbi Dov Fischer and Walter E. Block

Imagine a peaceful world. Suddenly, relatively weak Liechtenstein launches rockets into the next-door domain of far stronger Germany. Or posit that Monaco does so against its neighbor, France. These attacks kill dozens, maybe hundreds of people in the attacked countries.

What would then happen? Germany and France are civilized countries. They would assume, at least initially, that this was an accident. These two powerful nations, however, would ensure that nothing like that ever happened again. They would expect that those responsible for this outrage be held accountable for it.

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October 22, 2021 | 1:38 am | 1 Comment »

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US-Israel Study of 94,354 Adolescents Shows Vaccines Effective Against Delta Variant, Reduce Contagion by 90%  

T. Belman. The Amer Academy of Pediatrics just reported in Children and COVID-19: State-Level Data Report that: Among states reporting, children were 0.00%-0.25% of all COVID-19 deaths, and 7 states reported zero child deaths, and In states reporting, 0.00%-0.03% of all child COVID-19 cases resulted in death

So who cares if the vaccines further reduce this negiglable number of deaths. So what if it reduces the number of children who test positive.

IN ALL PROBABILITY MORE CHILDREN WILL HAVE ADVERSE EFFECTS FROM THE “VACCINE” THEN ARE SAVED FROM DEATH BY IT.

By David Israel, JEWISH PRESS

A grand-scale study that was conducted by scientists from Boston Children’s Hospital, Clalit Research Institute in Tel Aviv, and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, that matched 94,354 adolescent vaccine recipients with 94,354 unvaccinated control adolescents, showed that the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine (a.k.a. BNT162b2 mRNA) was highly effective in the first few weeks after vaccination against both documented infection and symptomatic Covid-19 with the delta variant among adolescents between the ages of 12 and 18 years.

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October 21, 2021 | 6:08 pm | 4 Comments »

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Get Smart About What Really Happened in the 2020 Election  

T. Belman.  These weren’t the only things that contributed to the election steal.

By J. Christian Adams, GATESTONE INSTITUTE  •  October 21, 2021

  • Two ingredients drove the outcome in the 2020 elections: First, private philanthropy injected into government election offices and, second, a banana-republic style suspension of agreed-upon election rules. You didn’t need much outright voter fraud when these two ingredients combined to poison the 2020 election.
  • The CTCL took “ZuckBucks” and with extreme, strategic precision, re-granted it to thousands of government election officials to “help” them conduct the 2020 election. It converted election offices in key jurisdictions with deep reservoirs of Biden votes into Formula One turnout-machines.
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October 21, 2021 | 11:46 am | Comments »

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Northern Getaway in Israel  

by Steve Kramer, ISRAEL SEEN

If you were going away by car for a few days, could you have lunch at a 2,000 year old seaport, once the most modern in the world? Or, could you spend a few days in a Holy City which once was – and still might be – the center of the Kabbala movement? Recently, Michal and I enjoyed a 3-day getaway up north doing those things.

On the way north we decided to stop at Caesarea National Park to briefly look around and then enjoy a delicious lunch at one of the many cafes on the Mediterranean, situated adjacent to the ancient Crusader fort and the Roman ruins. Straton’s Tower, the city’s original name, was founded during Persian rule (586-332BCE). It eventually was annexed by the Jewish Hasmonean Kingdom (think Maccabees) under the rule of Alexander Jannaeus in 103BCE, only to shortly later become subject to Roman rule in Judea.
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October 21, 2021 | 11:38 am | Comments »

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It’s a Tribal Conflict  

By Victor Rosenthal

Humans have always arranged themselves into families, extended families, and tribes. After all, they are primates, and many other primate species act similarly. Sometimes tribes clash over a piece of territory. Maybe the ground is fertile or the hunting is good. When that happens, the tribes fight. If there are other tribes nearby, each side may seek allies to help them win. This is the way human beings behave.

We think we are different today. We are not. Usually one tribe is the aggressor and one is the victim. The goal of the aggressor is to take what the victim has: property and land, and sometimes to enslave the useful members of the victim tribe. Some tribes have been very successful in serial aggressions, even building empires as they sweep across the land, employing techniques of aggression that they improve with successive conquests. The Arab conquests of the 7th century and the Mongols of the 13th come to mind.
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October 21, 2021 | 9:41 am | 2 Comments »

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