T. Belman. Netanyahu will have to decide to take his chances on Bennett not succeeding, in which event we will be into a fifth election (polls say no change) or to resign and let the right wing form a government under a different leader.

I think Bennett’s chances are pretty good. He needs a religious party or an Arab party to form a government.

Yamina leader says ‘change bloc’ government will not be any more left-wing than coalitions Netanyahu set up with Barak, Livni; concedes it will not annex West Bank areas

By TOI STAFF   23 April 2021, 9:36 pm

Yamina party leader Naftali Bennett at a press conference in the Knesset, in Jerusalem on April 21, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Yamina leader Naftali Bennett said Friday that he was involved in intensive efforts and countless meetings to set up a national unity government, and had been working on this since coming to the conclusion that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “has no intention” of making the necessary compromises to establish a right-wing government. He said he was by no means certain that the efforts would actually bear fruit.

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The logos used by the 36 parties in the PA parliamentary elections are a window to ideology and goals. No two-states here. Op-ed.

By David Singer, INN , Apr 24 , 2021 10:42 PM

Dry Bones: Biden tries to salvage two-state-solution Y. Kirschenb

Postponement of the upcoming Palestinian Authority elections on 22 May for the 132 member Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) seems virtually assured with the report from an “unnamed US source” that Washington would not object to any such postponement.

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Dec 2020

Violent confrontations near Old City, Rachel’s Tomb, Qalandiya checkpoint, a day after rioting by Arabs and Jews; US Embassy issues security alert for personnel; 4 cops injured

By TOI STAFF and AGENCIES         Today, 1:11 am  Updated at 11:55 am<
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Israeli police officers clash with protestors in East Jerusalem on April 23, 2021 (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

Fresh clashes erupted between Palestinians and Israeli security forces in East Jerusalem and its outskirts on Friday night, a day after the capital saw violent skirmishes involving Jews and Arabs near the Old City.

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By Phyllis Chesler, AM THINKER

We are fast becoming the Disunited Identities of America. American embassies may now fly the gay rainbow flag along with the American flag. What next? A Transgender Flag? A Black Transgender “Sex Worker” Flag? A “Palestinian” Flag? A special flag for American non-binaries and asexuals? How about separate flags for every possible ethnicity that American citizens represent? Better still, a special flag for the illegal/undocumented — they’re here, too.

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They discussed Israel and believe that there is an evil deep state in Israel led by Mossad. I do not believe any of this condemnation and I have have never heard them set out the evidence that they rely on. Both Simon and Mel are Jewish.

Leftist Jonathan Greenblatt, ADL CEO

One of the latest lies promoted by the Marxist left and their fake news media is the assertion that if you denounce open borders and the destruction of America you are racist and you support the “great replacement theory.”

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Problem Rape, sexual harassment, and child abuse in the Sharia states-within-a-state.

By Daniel Greenfield, FPM    Fri Apr 23, 2021

First, Ahmad Saleem, a community organizer for CAIR in Florida, was busted after showing up to molest what he thought was a 12-year-old girl he had met over the internet. When Ahmad showed up in a car with a plate, “Invest in Children”, the cops were waiting for him instead.

The son of Pakistani immigrants had headed up the local Muslim Students Association at the University of Central Florida before moving up the ranks at CAIR. Then it was off to prison.

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T. Belman. I’m with Glick on this. Bennett should not accept this deal. A fifth election won’t solve anything other than to keep Netanyahu as PM for another few months. It is more likely, in my opinion that he will get less votes then.

Just because Shaked supports Bennett totally, doesn’t mean that they have decided to join Lapid.

The best outcome is that Netanyahu resigns to make way for a solid right wing coalition.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not expected to return mandate early.

By GIL HOFFMAN, JPOST  APRIL 22, 2021

YESH ATID Party head Yair Lapid addresses a conference in Jerusalem last week.

President Reuven Rivlin will give Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid the mandate to form a government the day after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s mandate ends on May 4, sources close to Rivlin said on Thursday.

Netanyahu’s associates have admitted that he has given up on forming a government but said he does not intend to return the mandate early and take the advice of advisers who told him it would catch Lapid and Yamina leader Naftali Bennett unprepared.

“Whoever receives the most recommendations from the factions will receive the mandate,” said a source close to the president.

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by Daniel Edelstein, JUSTSECURITY.ORG       March 10, 2021

The primary victor and loser in last fall’s short but brutal battle between Azerbaijan and Armenia was fairly obvious to observers. Seeking control over the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts, Azerbaijan emerged from the conflict reclaiming the majority of territory that it had lost to Armenian separatists in the early ‘90s, leaving only a small percentage of the broader region’s territory under Armenian control, roughly corresponding to its historical Armenian-majority areas.

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By James Reynolds, BBC News,  Published 12 August 2012

First of all, you need to ask for an appointment well in advance. Security agents call your head office to make sure you are who you say you are.

If your credentials check out, an appointment is made, and a guard escorts you to the top floor of the building. Another guard calls you in, tests your equipment and ask you to leave behind your mobile phone. You are taken through further checks and invited to sit in a corridor and admire works of art on the wall as you wait.

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T. Belman.  Azerbaijan is a predominantly Muslim country; more than three-fifths of the population is Shi?i, and about one-third is Sunni. But its government is intensely secular. Population wise it is slightly larger than Israel.

You will recall that it gave Israel landing rights in its fight with Iran. Israel sided with it in its fight against Armenia. Ironically, so did Turkey.

In an exclusive interview, Azerbaijan’s Economy Minister Mikayil Jabbarov says he hopes to open Azeri trade and tourism bureaus in the Jewish state.

By Dean Shmuel Elmas, ISRAEL HAYOM

Like other oil-producing states, Azerbaijan is looking to diversify its economy.

While economic ties between Baku and Jerusalem are strong, the coronavirus has led to a decrease in bilateral trade following a $1.4 billion high in 2019. Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi and Azerbaijan’s Economy Minister Mikayil Jabbarov are set to discuss kick-starting bilateral trade in a meeting of the Israel-Azerbaijan intergovernmental committee to be held next week.

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“This is not a conflict-free situation,” said Wolf. “[Fauci] is not giving us fact-based, science-based guidance.”

By Lauren Marcus, World Israel News

A prominent feminist author spoke out against Dr. Anthony Fauci on Tuesday, saying she believed he does not have the U.S.’s best interests at heart and that he is compromised by Israeli funding.

Dr. Naomi Wolf, a former Democratic party consultant who once advised former president Bill Clinton and former vice president Al Gore, told Fox News that Fauci “does not work for us.”

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By  Harold C. Hutchison, UNCOVER DC       April 22, 2021

In light of the sharp swing to the Left that corporate America is taking – one that has resulted in the transplanting of the boycott, divestment, and sanctions approach from targeting Israel to being aimed at conservative policy preferences like election integrity and the protection of women’s sports. The fact is, at one time, the Republican Party did make its alliance with big business, often because agendas meshed around lower taxes.

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An Updated Response to Advocates and Skeptics

By Amb. Dore Gold, JCPA

The Strategic West Bank Mountain Ridge and the Jordan Valley

By Patricia McCarthy, AM THINKER

If there is one thing that characterizes the left today, it is the fervent need to pretend men like George Floyd, Daunte Wright, Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, Rayshard Brooks, Eric Garner, and others are pillars of society, hapless victims of police brutality and racism.  Those mentioned above all died resisting arrest.  All had criminal records, some of them extensive and for violent crimes.

Not one of them complied with the police when pulled over for a traffic stop or when they were in the process of being apprehended after committing a crime.  All of them attempted to resist, flee, or harm the police who were present.  In nearly all these cases, their own behavior brought about their demise, however tragic they may have been.
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Yamina leader Naftali Bennett would be wise to remember that he cannot accomplish his political goals by joining the Center-Left bloc.

By  Caroline B. Glick, ISRAEL HAYOM

Dear Naftali,

Maybe you remember the conversation we had back in November 2018 when we were waiting for our flight home from New York. I was coming back from a lecture tour. You were coming back from a trip to Pittsburgh. In the aftermath of the massacre of American Jews as the Tree of Life Synagogue, as Minister of Education and Diaspora Affairs you rushed to the scene as the representative of the State of Israel to console and support the community.

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April cop-killing of Daunte Wright strengthens resolve to pursue broader public safety reforms, after previous efforts focused on responding to Floyd’s death

By LONNY GOLDSMITH, TOI

People react after the verdict was read in the Derek Chauvin trial on April 20, 2021 In Minneapolis, Minnesota. Former police officer Derek Chauvin was on trial on second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter charges in the death of George Floyd May 25, 2020. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

TC Jewfolk, via JTA — Enzi Tanner didn’t watch the trial of Derek Chauvin.

Even as the jury returned guilty verdicts Tuesday afternoon on all three counts against the former Minneapolis police officer — second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter — the community safety organizer at Jewish Community Action, a Minnesota social justice organization, had been thinking of issues bigger than the result.

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