By Dr. Frank Musmar, BESA      September 12, 2021

President Bill Clinton watches King Hussein and PM Yitzhak Rabin shaking hands, October 1994, image via Israel GPO

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Unlike Israel’s earlier peace agreements with Egypt and Jordan, the Abraham Accords involved Arab countries that do not border Israel, have never fought it on the battlefield, and are relatively unburdened by the Palestinian question. Accordingly, they were able to implement a “people to people” peace that eluded their predecessors.

The search for a peaceful settlement to the conflict between Israel and its neighbors reached a critical juncture in 1979 when Egyptian president Anwar Sadat and Israeli PM Menachem Begin signed the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty. Fourteen years later, in September 1993, Israel and the PLO signed the Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Agreements (DOP) after secret talks in Oslo, and in October 1994 a Jordanian-Israeli peace treaty was signed. In the subsequent two-and-a-half decades, no new Arab-Israeli agreements were signed until the conclusion in August 2020 of the Abraham Accords between Israel, the UAE, and Bahrain, followed a month later by normalization agreements between the Jewish state, Sudan, and Morocco.

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PULSE OF ISRAEL

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by Phil Schneider, UNWIRED July 26, 2021

The White House is run today by Obama insiders who are back in power. They are more experienced in one thing than anything else. They know how to organize a movement of people around ideas. This is very powerful. They also understand that the key to organizing people around ideas is to control the information. And they understand well that Facebook has more control over information than any other source today. Therefore, the White House and Facebook have begun to control the information flow from Facebook. This is indeed frightening.

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Reports to cops by local residents who encountered the escapees were instrumental in their capture; trackers following discarded items and footprints in the dirt did the rest

TOI

Five days into a national manhunt for six Palestinian security prisoners who escaped from a high-security jail in northern Israel, police captured two of the fugitives in Nazareth Friday night. Hours later, two others — including notorious terror commander Zakaria Zubeidi — were apprehended in the nearby town of Shibli–Umm al-Ghanam.

In both cases, Arab Israelis who encountered the fugitives reported them to authorities, aiding in their capture. Police sources told Walla news that dozens of Arabs phoned in reports in recent days.

The fugitives had managed to avoid capture since breaking out of Gilboa Prison early Monday.

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Tierney’s Real News (9/11/21)

The Falling Man

America should help Israel develop mechanisms for reviewing both inbound investments and outbound commerce to counter Chinese influence, argue three experts from JINSA.

By   JOHN BIRD, ERIELLE DAVIDSON and ARI CICUREL, BREAKING DEFENSE  ,
September 09, 2021 at 2:23 PM

While top Israeli officials focus their attention on the future of the Iran nuclear deal, another, more subtle threat emanating from much farther east than Tehran is growing in the region, according to Vice Admiral (ret.) John Bird, Erielle Davidson and Ari Cicurel of the Jewish Institute for National Security of America. Israel and the US must check the ambitions of Beijing, they argue below, and with an unusual weapon: oversight.

When President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett met last week, US attempts at reviving the Iran nuclear deal topped the agenda – and it was clear the two leaders still do not see eye to eye. But beyond Tehran, there’s another area of growing geopolitical concern that could offer an opportunity for mutually beneficial, and much needed, cooperation between the U.S. and its Middle Eastern ally: countering China’s activity in the region and inside Israel itself. To address the security challenges posed by Beijing, Washington and Jerusalem should and must work together, economically.

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AMERICAN THOUGHT LEADERS

Conrad Black: Can the US Recover from Its Botched Afghanistan Withdrawal? – The Epoch Times

We sit down with Conrad Black, once one of the world’s leading newspaper publishers and author of several presidential biographies.

By Mark Hanna, AM THINKER

“Tonight, I’m announcing that the Department of Labor is developing an emergency rule to require all employers with 100 or more employees that together employee[sic] over 80 million workers to ensure their workforces are fully vaccinated, or show a negative test at least once a week,” Biden pontificated on Thursday.

The edict hasn’t actually been issued yet; it is only in the making.  The White House has given itself several weeks — even months, possibly — for OSHA to bring it into force.

After cratering his own approval rating down to an unprecedented 39% — the lowest ever for a Democrat president at this point in his term — Biden seems to have retreated from his imbecilic “Ready, Fire, Aim” Afghanistan withdrawal strategy, which he boastfully executed under an immovable August 31 deadline.
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T Belman.  Islam is the mortal enemy of the Judeo-Christian world, Israel included, and we refuse to recognize it. To the contrary we treat it with the respect it doesn’t deserve.  More than that we protect it from criticism.

America dives, Islam thrives.

By Bruce Bawer, FPM

On 9/11, the world was shown, in one horrific, indelible image, precisely what Islam is all about. Today, to write the previous sentence is to be guilty of Islamophobia. How did that come to be? It began in the days after 9/11 itself, when George W. Bush – by repeatedly insisting that the cause of the jihadists had nothing to do with Islam – effectively ruled out of bounds any criticism of that religion, or any honest education and open discussion about it. Instead, Bush – who had gotten it into his head that all religions are basically good, and who was manipulated by advisors who wanted to project American power in a part of the world about which they knew very little – used 9/11 as an excuse to rein in Americans’ civil liberties and go nation-building abroad.

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By Bradley Bowman, FDD

U.S. Central Command announced Sept. 1 that it has assumed responsibility for U.S. forces in Israel. This positive development reflects changes in Arab-Israeli relations and offers an opportunity to build a more unified and militarily capable American-Israeli-Arab coalition to deter aggression from Iran and its terrorist proxies — one of CENTCOM’s top priorities.

Despite Israel’s location in the Middle East, when CENTCOM was created in 1983, responsibility for the Jewish state was assigned to U.S. European Command. That decision reflected Israel’s political isolation from its Arab neighbors. As a Pentagon news report noted in January with a bit of understatement, Israel’s regional isolation would have “complicated” efforts by CENTCOM to coordinate multilateral exercises and operations that included Israel.

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Read also: Biden Adviser Says Administration Will ‘Run Over’ GOP Governors Who Resist Vaccine Mandates

By Wendi Strauch Mahoney, UNCVERDC

A red state rebellion against the vaccine mandate is now unfolding after President Biden laid out his six-point plan to fight COVID-19. Biden announced what many see as draconian vaccine mandates on Thursday in his speech to the nation. He told the American people, “we’ve been patient, but our patience is wearing thin.”

Officials from twenty-seven states have now announced their refusal to cooperate. Right out of the gate, South Carolina’s Republican Governor tweeted, “The American Dream has turned into a nightmare under President Biden and the radical Democrats.”

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By Jason Edelstein, ONE TABLE

September 10, 2021 — With a bleak news cycle and pandemic anxiety again top of mind, more Jewish young adults than ever are finding a sense of belonging through Shabbat. In the first half of 2021, OneTable nourished more than all the dinners in 2020 – that’s 17,000 dinners all hosted by volunteers, creating 100,000 seats at Shabbat tables across the country.

From its beginning in 2014, Jewish funders and practitioners joined forces through OneTable to address two alarming trends: 1) Jewish young adults dissociating from Judaism – 30% of Jewish millennials between 30-38 describe themselves as having “no religion” (1 in 2 under the age of 30 say the same), and 2) Young adults are facing an epidemic of loneliness, isolation, and addiction to technology. More than half of millennials viewed themselves as lonely even before COVID-19.

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T. Belman. “Devolved”, my ass. This takeover of the conference by the NGO’s was intended and planned from the beginning. It was attended by 3000 NGO’s.

NGO Forum at Durban Conference 2001 . NGO Moniter was there and fully reported on it..

BY RON KAMPEAS , JTA    SEPTEMBER 9, 2021 

(JTA) — Some of the Jewish organizational officials flying into the coastal city of Durban, South Africa, on the last week of August 2001 were excited. They believed the U.N.’s anti-racism conference there would be an opportunity to exchange notes on a cause that the Jewish world had worked on for decades.

Others, steeped in how the United Nations and its affiliates functioned, were wary of some of the players, who were known for tirelessly steering every international conference to complaints about Israel. Still others who had been tracking preparations for the gathering knew that Iran, Israel’s implacable enemy, was planning to take over the proceedings.

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Toleration of evil is not a Jewish value. And we can look back to the 1967 War, to see how ideological tolerism led to a key mistake by a top Israeli General. Op-ed.

By Howard Rotberg, INN          Sep 09 , 2021

“Lest they pray”; police escort Jews on Temple Mount

A number of excellent pro-Israel writers have addressed the issue of the lessons for Israel with respect to President Biden’s bizarre handling of the withdrawal from Afghanistan of American troops and citizens and Afghan interpreters.

Some argue that America can no longer be trusted by its allies. Others conclude that America is weak and in decline. Can Israel rely on an administration headed by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and filled with anti-Israel policy makers?

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On 9/11, CAIR advises against the term “Islamic terrorists” to sanitize the image of radical Islamist front groups -like CAIR itself.

By Steve Emerson, INN

Memorial to 9/11

As we commemorate the 20th anniversary of the horrific 9/11 attacks, the pain endures for the survivors and for the family members of the nearly 3,000 people who perished that day. New York lost hundreds of first responders at the World Trade Center, and 2,500 U.S. soldiers made the ultimate sacrifice in Afghanistan. We should be honoring and commemorating all of them on Saturday.

But instead of focusing on the victims, or insuring that we never forget the Islamist terrorists who carried out this attack, the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) has been assiduously trying to frame the focus on Muslims being the victims.

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BY JACK PHILLIPS, EPOCH TIMES

President Joe Biden will direct the Department of Labor to develop a rule that companies with more than 100 employees will require vaccinations or once-per-week testing for their workers, potentially affecting tens of millions of U.S. private-sector employees, according to the White House.

The administration’s rule will require that “all employers with 100 or more employees to ensure their workforce is fully vaccinated or require any workers who remain unvaccinated to produce a negative test result on at least a weekly basis before coming to work,” which will affect more than 80 million workers in the private sector.

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Where Greg Epstein’s influence may well be felt, I fear, is on Jewish students’ perceptions of Israel, the Holocaust and antisemitism.

By Moshe Phillips

(September 6, 2021 / JNS) The news media has been full of stories recently about the man-bites-dog story of the self-proclaimed atheist who was recently named chief chaplain at Harvard University. This matters not because more members of Congress attended Harvard Law School than any other law school and more American presidents were educated at Harvard than at any other university. This chaplain, Greg Epstein, will have an outsized role in life on campus. He has repeatedly illustrated radical ideas regarding not just G-d, Judaism and Torah, but also related to Israel, terrorism and the Holocaust. For example, Epstein has referred to Israelis as “Jewish supremacists,” a slur cribbed from white-supremacist leader David Duke.

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by Burak Bekdilb  BESA Center Perspectives

Wildfires blaze along Turkey’s southern Aegean coast last month.

August was an unfortunate month for Turkey. Firefighters and locals had to battle the nation’s most intense blazes on record across the Mediterranean coastline. At least eight people died, with hundreds of tourists evacuated as 300 fires spread across 40 provinces. The absence of a functioning national fleet of firefighting aircraft forced Turkey to wait for specialized planes to arrive from other countries.

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by Leo Hohmann  9.9.2021

Without fanfare and with hardly a peep from the corporate-owned establishment media, the United Nations World Health Organization, also known as the WHO, issued a document last week that should set off alarm bells for lovers of freedom and liberty everywhere.

The document provides “guidance” for every nation in the world on how to go about implementing digital health passports, which is something Bill Gates, Klaus Schwab and other power elites have said since last year would be absolutely essential to conquering the Covid pandemic.
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