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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By Steve Kramer    JAN 10, 2022,

The West abhors terror attacks for good reason, whether in their country or an ally. Except when it comes to Israel. Not having learned the lesson that Islamist terror doesn’t abide by any type of agreement, the US and the West still think that they can buy off terrorists. They can’t, as experience has proven. But when it comes to Israel, not a problem. In fact, these countries fund it, knowing and unknowingly! And those who don’t, spend other people’s money to have the United Nations and other Israel haters do it for them. In fact, the US pays more than 20% of the UN budget, an organization that has chosen Israel as the worst country in the world, or at least the worst that it pays attention to.

In 2021, the General Assembly of UN passed 14 resolutions against Israel. The number of resolutions passed against all the other member states totaled 5. In addition, the General Assembly recently passed an unlimited and open-ended probe of alleged war crimes against Israel, by a vote of 125 for, 8 against, and 34 abstentions. Its open season on Israel, all the time…
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By Dennis Prager, PJ MEDIA JAN 11, 2022

The Algemeiner, a Jewish publication I highly respect, published a column about Judaism that is not merely wrong; it actually advances a thesis that is the opposite of what Judaism teaches.That fact alone would not have prompted me to write a rebuttal. What prompts me is that the column was written by an Orthodox rabbi. It is sad enough that many non-Orthodox rabbis have been influenced more by their secular/Left educations than by the Torah. But when a rabbi identified as “centrist Orthodox” distorts one of the most important and normative ideas in Judaism, and is published in a major Jewish journal, we might be in trouble. Of course, he might be an outlier. But I don’t think he is unique. Though certainly not yet dominant, secular values have entered parts of modern Orthodox life just as they have traditional Catholic and Protestant Christian life.
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By Terry Paulding, AM THINKER   Jan 5/22

I’ve just completed a marathon of listening to six hours of Joe Rogan interviewing two doctors — first Peter McCullough, then Robert Malone.  Both, uncensored on Gettr and Spotify, are worth your time.  Listening certainly furthered my education.

The two doctors collaborate and are friends, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t a few contradictions between them.  Dr. McCullough said Moronic (AKA omicron) is only four times more contagious than alpha was, but Dr. Malone said omicron is much more contagious.

Also, at Dr. McCullough’s request, Dr. Malone corrected Dr. McCullough’s statement that one can’t get the virus more than once.  Apparently, they’ve been finding that, while people who had alpha didn’t get delta, omicron is sufficiently different in its structure that it’s infecting even those who’ve had COVID previously.  The good news is that, symptomatically, it’s still not much worse than a cold, and yeah, it will provide antibodies that will keep you from getting COVID again, or so it seems.

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Change by statistics bureau to affect over 400,000 Israelis, most of them Russian-speakers not defined as Jewish and non-Arab Christians, who were previously categorized as ‘other’

By Tal Schneider, TOI         10 January 2022, 7:25 pm  

Changes to Israel’s census bureau means that citizens will only be classified as Jews or Arabs, with all non-Jews who are not Arab being counted under a new “extended Jewish population” rubric.

The change will see the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) eliminate the separate category of “others” in official publications on demographics, after a request from a Yesh Atid minister who worried the word could put off those included in it.

The “extended Jewish” category will include any citizen who is not Arab and not Jewish according to Jewish religious law. The CBS said it would also classify groups that are neither culturally Jewish nor Arab in the “extended” category.

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Both sides expressed some optimism after negotiations in Geneva, but did not break an impasse over Russia’s demand that Ukraine never become a member of NATO.

NEW YORK TIMES Jan. 10, 2022,

The American delegation, left, and its Russian counterparts as they met in Geneva on Monday.Pool photo by Denis Balibouse

There should be no doubt in anyone’s mind that the Electricity Law is bad legislation passed by a bad legislative process. 

By Naomi Kahn, Regavim 

Illegal Negev structureRegavim

(JNS) Last week, following stormy committee debates, application of highly unusual parliamentary rules, dismissal of the Knesset Legal Counsel’s explicit and adamant recommendations, and a confrontational plenum session resulting in one of the most unusual votes ever conducted on the Knesset floor, the Israeli parliament passed legislation sponsored by the Ra’am Party that will allow connection of unlicensed structures to national electricity, water and gas systems.

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