Ukraine, with Russian troops on its borders, is pressing for membership. But President Biden and European leaders are not ready for that step.

By Edward Wong and Lara Jakes, NEW YORK TIMES    Jan 13/22

WASHINGTON — The tense talks this week among the United States, Russia and European members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization have made one thing clear: While the Biden administration insists it will not allow Moscow to quash Ukraine’s ambitions to join NATO, it has no immediate plans to help bring the former Soviet republic into the alliance.

By Zachary Stieber, EPOCH TIMES     Jan 13/22

The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for private businesses but decided to let a separate regulation that requires health care workers to get a vaccine take effect.

In a 6–3 ruling, justices halted the mandate for all private employers with 100 or more workers, ruling the states and companies that challenged the rule were likely to succeed.

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T. Belman. I am totally against such a confederation or annexation by Jordan. The Jordan River is the only border I will accept. On an interim basis , once Mudar is in power, Jordan will replace the PA and manage Areas A and B in their stead. When Israel finally destroys Hamas, Jordan will maintain law and order there. Over the next 10 years about 2 million Arabs from Judea and Samaria and Gaza will emigrate to Jordan. Then Israel will extend Israeli law to all lands west of the Jordan.

The alternative to the two-state solution?

By Joseph Puder, Front Page Mag  Jan 13/22

In an unprecedented meeting on December 28, 2021, at the private residence of Benny Gantz in Rosh Haayin (central Israel), Israel’s Defense Minister hosted Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmud Abbas. Gantz approved significant trust-building concessions to the Palestinians. Aiming at bolstering the failing fortunes of the PA and Abu Mazen’s in particular, against the increasing influence of Hamas in the West Bank. Gantz approved the addition of 600 entry permits to Israel for Palestinian businessmen, as well as Palestinian vehicles. Dozens of Palestinian officials will receive VIP permits. Moreover, Gantz agreed to provide the PA with advanced tax payments collected from Palestinians working in Israel worth NIS (New Israeli Shekels) 100 million, or $32 million.
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Highest state sees 65 percent increase in prime-age mortality, only 36 percent attributed to COVID-19

BY PETR SVAB, EPOCH TIMES    Jan 12/22

Deaths among people aged 18 to 49 increased more than 40 percent in the 12 months ending October 2021 compared to the same period in 2018–2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to an analysis of death certificate data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) by The Epoch Times.

The agency doesn’t yet have full 2021 numbers, as death certificate data trickles in with a lag of one to eight weeks or more.

The increase was notable across the country and in no state was COVID reported in more than 60 percent of the excess deaths. Some states experienced much steeper hikes than others.

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Report says negotiations to start Thursday over ‘unprecedented’ program; 21 arrested in 2nd night of riots over official tree-planting in Negev, which has sparked coalition turmoil

By TOI STAFF      

Amid Bedouin riots and a major coalition crisis over controversial tree-planting in disputed parts of the Negev Desert, a report said Wednesday that the government was advancing a comprehensive plan to recognize some unrecognized villages.

For the second night in a row, residents of southern Bedouin communities clashed violently with police Wednesday night over the three-day Jewish National Fund planting in the region, seen by the Bedouin communities as part of a government effort to expel them from their unrecognized hamlets.

Police said Thursday morning that 21 rioters were arrested during the night in Tel Sheva, Segev Shalom and Rahat. On the previous night, 18 people were arrested.

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T. Belman. Indonesia is also in discussions.

The Mossad chief met with the Libyan PM to discuss normalization with Israel, which may be difficult considering the ongoing chaos in Libya.

By YONAH JEREMY BOB, JPOST  JAN 12/22

Mossad chief David Barnea (center) at the funeral of Aura Herzog, wife of late Israeli president Chaim Herzog, and mother of current Israeli president Isaac Herzog on January 12, 2022

Mossad Director David Barnea and Libyan prime minister Abdulhamid Mohammed Al-Dabaiba recently met in Jordan to discuss normalization and security cooperation, Saudi and Libyan media outlets reported Wednesday night.

The reports said that Al-Dabaiba’s office denied the meeting occurred.

In November, Haaretz reported that Saddam Haftar, son of Libyan warlord Gen. Khalifa Haftar, flew to Ben Gurion Airport for meetings with Israeli officials regarding potential normalization.

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Kristi Leigh TV, FREE WORLD NEWS

Dr. Malone reacts to the newest whistleblower revelations about gain of function research spearheaded by Dr. Fauci, responds to the coordinated attack against him and others sounding the alarm about mass formation psychosis, and gives a warning about a new virus discovered in China.

By JAN JEKIELEK, AMERICAN THOUGHT LEADERS

Previously, in part one of our interview with Dr. Robert Malone, the pioneer of mRNA vaccine technology, we discussed his career and the intriguing psychological phenomenon known as “mass formation.”

Now in part two, we discuss how the COVID-19 vaccines are faring against Omicron, how the concept of herd immunity has been grossly misunderstood, and why he’s deeply concerned about vaccine mandates for children.

“They’re being forced onto your children. And they have risks. And the media—through its censorship—and Big Tech [are] blocking your ability to even learn what those risks are so you can make an informed decision for your children yourself. That is a huge crime.”

Missed part one? You can watch it here. 

By Howard Rotberg, JEWISH VOICE

“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.”  – Edgar Allan Poe

Israeli immigrant ends hunger strike for citizenship- David Ben Moshe, the protagonist is a Professor, son of a Holocaust Survivor, who writes a book during the suicide bombings of the Second Intifada, claiming that a Second Holocaust has begun.  He perceives that the genocidal nature of Iranian, Islamist and Arab attitudes to the Jewish Homeland, and the empathy of Western leftists with Arab and Iranian threats, along with the double standards used with respect to the Jewish state, are beyond mere dislike, and are approaching exterminationalism, fortunately stopped to date by Israeli military superiority..

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T. Belman. Visser speaks highly about Mudar.  I have know Mudar for over 10 years and he was never shy about expressing his pro-Zionist bias.  I would say that contrary to the title, the Abrahamic Accords were the fallout from my conference in 2017 in which Mudar and I introduced the Jordan Option.

“Jews are not settlers or conquerors in the Land of Israel. Believing so would be detrimental to the Islamic faith”

By Yochanan Visser, ISRAEL TODAY | January 11, 2022

Is there such a thing as Arab Zionism? You can read below that this exists, and the phenomenon is expanding.

In 2021, relations between Jews and Arabs within Israel deteriorated markedly as evidenced by the extreme violence in mixed-population cities during the war in May last year and the continued stoning of cars owned by Jewish Israelis in Arab Jerusalem.

However, outside of Israel, there seems to be a very promising revolution in relations between the Jewish state and Arab countries, including those at the micro-level.

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T. Belman. Not mentioned in this article is that the same thing is happening in Area C. In both cases all illegally built homes must be demolished even if Israel has provided them with electricity. The Electricity Law doesn’t legalize the buildings except by implication as far as I know..

By Israel Harel, HAARETZ                    Jan. 12, 2022 

This is how, while law enforcement institutions and the political establishment had their eyes wide shut, Israel’s Bedouin secured the Electricity Law: Dunam by dunam, house by house, drug smuggle by drug smuggle, unconcealed marijuana fields, gun and ammunition thefts (also conducted openly–watch the videos they posted), extortion of homes and businesses, theft of water, building materials, cars, gasoline and electricity; and an alternative economy, in which “taxes” are paid to gang leaders.

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T. Belman. This article ignores the fact that 30% of Syria lies east of the Euphrates River and is controlled by the US. It has most of the oil in Syria and fertile agriculture lands. Russia can’t afford to rebuild Syria. Only the US can do this.

That aside, I am sure the price of reconciliation with the Gulf States will be the ouster of Iran and Hezbollah.

In any event nothing should induce Israel to return the Golan.

Senior diplomatic figure quoted saying 2022 may see reduction of Iranian threat near northeastern border, but adds IDF strike on Tehran’s nukes would bring Lebanese fire on Israel

By TOI STAFF

A senior diplomatic official reportedly said Tuesday that Israel was taking a positive view of reconciliation between Syria and Gulf states, predicting it could help curb Iranian influence in the country.

The unnamed source, quoted by the Ynet news site, said that by drawing closer to Sunni countries, Syria may be indicating it wants to oust Iranian and other Shiite entities from within its borders.

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The Democratic-media alliance gambled everything on 2020 but in corrupting democracy in the name of protecting the country from an enemy of democracy, they tied themselves to a sinking ship.

By Conrad Black, AM GREATNESS       January 10, 2022

Almost no one seems to grasp the colossal irony of the current American political condition. The uniquequality of it is that the country is divided between two political forces which, in the tedious hyperbole of contemporary political jargon, view each other as an “existential threat to democracy.” The Democrats can’t sell the bunk that January 6 was an “insurrection;” they can’t wish away concerns about the integrity of the 2020 election. All they have is the tired claim that Trump is a threat to democracy, and in their advocacy of that falsehood, they have made themselves the threat to democracy.

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T. Belman. This is the article that Dennis Prager took to task.

by Rabbi Pini Dunner, ALGEMEINER

A section of the title page of Thomas Hobbes’ “Leviathan,” 1651. Photo: British Library / Wikimedia Commons

Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) is a foundational political philosopher of the modern era. Best remembered for his 1651 book Leviathan, he believed that all humans are naturally selfish — even evil — and unless they are ruled by a common master, essentially a totalitarian regime, human existence will inevitably descend into complete anarchy. As he put it, “the condition of man … is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.”

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T. Belman. This raises a big question. Why doesn’t Yamina work with the Right Wing to pass right wing  legislation. Just as it is doing here.

Religious Zionist MK drafts new version of Citizenship Law, aimed at limiting Palestinian Arab family reunification requests.

Israel National News 

Right-wing lawmakers in the Opposition are poised to help the Bennett government pass an extension to a law strictly limiting Palestinian Arab requests for family reunification in Israel, according to a report by Israel Hayom.

The report, published Wednesday morning, claimed that months after the coalition failed to pass a bill renewing the 2003 version of Israel’s Citizenship Law, Opposition lawmakers are preparing to work with the government to prevent a wave of family reunification requests by Palestinian Authority residents.

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By Mort Klein, ZOA   January 11, 2022

(L to R) Rita Klein, Dr. Miriam Adelson, Sheldon G. Adelson, and Morton A. Klein

It has now been a year since the world lost the extraordinary philanthropist and Zionist Sheldon G. Adelson, of blessed memory. It feels as if Sheldon was here only a moment ago, because his good and sacred works continue daily to inspire, educate, and promote a better world for America, for Israel, for Jews, and for all people. It’s telling that even though Sheldon Adelson was a brilliant businessman extraordinaire, his own heroes were not great business stars, but were the world’s great humanitarians and Zionists.
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By Anna Mahjar-Barducci*  January 11, 2022

MEMRI

Renowned Russian academic Sergey Karaganov describes Russian President Vladimir Putin’s speech at the latest October Valdai Forum[1] as the “first major and strong call for reinventing Russian ideology for Russia and the world.”[2] Indeed, Putin’s speech can be viewed as an ideological manifesto that tries to put Russia back in the center of the world’s political map.

Karaganov, who has been the Kremlin’s advisor on foreign policy for twelve years, explains that for many years the economy was the central factor for countries and societies (“it is the economy, stupid”). However, history proves something else. “Yes, people are driven by economic interests, but when they are partially satisfied, when at the bare minimum no one starves, they turn to other interests like security, national pride, ideological views, cultural stereotypes and needs – that is, phenomena and values of a higher order,” Karaganov states.[3]

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