T. Belman. The status quo is not sustainable. The Arabs are fighting to amend it in their favour. The Jews meanwhile only want to maintain it. This passivity is losing ground to the Arab aggression as Shragai points out. Jews must fight for Jerusalem even more vigorously than the Arabs do. It will boil down to the battle of wills. He, who wants it the most, will win.

Recently I watch MK Nir Barkat discuss his Sovereignty Plan in a ZOA webinar. I was very impressed by him. I think he will be Prime Minister when Netanyahu leaves the scene. During the question period he, being a former Mayor of Jerusalem, was asked what is position was on Biden’s plan to open a US Consulate for the Arabs in eastern Jerusalem. He said it was there for many years before Trump and he saw nothing wrong with it being put back there. His answer provoked the following comment from me; “Trump did us a great favour by taking Jerusalem off the table and it would be a grave mistake for us to put it back on the table by allowing the Consulate to return.

New Public Security Minister Omer Bar-Lev effectively supports dividing Jerusalem, even if he doesn’t define it that way. But first, he has to restore order to the city, where Hamas is digging in. 

By Nadav Shragai, ISRAEL HAYOM

During the First Intifada, then-Israel Police Commissioner David Krauss felt that Jerusalem – the city that had been brought together – was slipping away from him. Krauss, an Auschwitz survivor, didn’t know what to do. He swore that Jerusalem “would not fall” on his watch, and with great emotional devotion ordered his forces to “re-liberate Jerusalem.” Yes, in those words, which were considered completely politically correct at the time.

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By J.B. Shurk, AM THINKER

Do you remember how conservatives went out of their way to separate rank-and-file FBI agents from the corrupt actions of Jim Comey, Andrew McCabe, Bill Priestap, James Baker, James Rybicki, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, and others as more evidence came to light revealing that the top brass at the bureau had worked to create an “insurance policy” that could be used to overthrow President Trump from office?  Writers and television pundits would always couch any criticism of the bureau in some respectful language like “we’re only talking about high-ranking officials here, not the FBI, itself, which is filled with the best agents in the world who are always looking out for America.”
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Sometimes it takes a few pogroms to drive home the solution, inducing Diaspora Jews to make Aliyah as their forebears left Europe. Op-ed.

By Howard Rotberg, INN

Merriam-Webster defines “pogrom” as “an organized massacre of helpless people – specifically such a massacre of Jews.”

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, OED), the word pogrom entered English from Yiddish which borrowed it from Russian. The OED gives two meanings for the word: “In Russia, Poland, and some other East European countries in the late 19th and early 20th centuries: an organized massacre aimed at the destruction or annihilation of a body or class of people, esp. one conducted against Jewish people” and “An organized, officially tolerated, attack on any community or group.”
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Palestinian Authority plans to pave road just beyond Jerusalem, exerting de facto control over State-held lands.
By Ido Ben Porat ,  INN    Jun 17 , 2021 3:28 PM

Site of proposed construction

The Regavim movement has sent a letter to Defense Minister Benny Gantz and to the Civil Administration (that has authority over Judea and Samaria), demanding that they take immediate action to enforce Israeli law and prevent the paving of a strategic road that would link two key villages under Palestinian Authority control.

The two villages in question are Battir, south-west of Jerusalem, and Husan, further south-west and just moments away from the haredi city of Beitar, both located in the Gush Etzion bloc in the Judean Hills. The Palestinian Authority is planning to pave a road that runs from Har Gilo, just outside the capital, and links areas of illegal expansion north of Battir all the way south to Husan.
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By Antonio R. Chaves, AM THINKER

A month ago, Tucker Carlson raised concerns over the unusual number of deaths associated with the COVID vaccines.  Prominent “fact-checkers” immediately scrambled to discredit these concerns as “misleading” and “lacking in context.”  FactCheck.org even went on to say, “it’s wrong to suggest that reported deaths in the VAERS System database were all caused by vaccines,” but Tucker Carlson never made this claim.

The news site Revolver provided context with a graph that showed an astonishing 3,000% spike in vaccine-related deaths.  Unfortunately, the article did not provide a link to the source, and the “Open VAERS” website is cumbersome to navigate.  Fortunately, the U.K.-based Daily Exposé provided a direct link to the CDC’s interactive website, so I am forever in its debt.  I was so impressed with the website that I prepared a three-minute instructional video.  Share this video with your doctor.

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T. Belman.  This law must be extended. Everybody is playing hardball. Ra’am is bluffing because it doesn’t want to jeopardize all the goodies it is getting. Is Shaked right when she says that Netanyahu will vote with the government? My guess is that Changes to the law aren’t needed and Ra’am will go along with it.

In bid to embarrass new government, opposition parties refuse to vote for law even though they support it; Ra’am opposes law and won’t vote with coalition partners

By TOI STAFF

Israel’s new Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (L) talks with Mansour Abbas, head of the Islamic Raam party during a special session to vote on the new government at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on June 13, 2021. (EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP)

The new unity government failed in its efforts Wednesday to extend a law barring Palestinians who marry Israeli citizens from receiving citizenship.

Coalition chairman Idit Silman (Yamina) was forced to pull the measure from the Knesset Arrangements Committee agenda upon realizing that she did not have enough votes for it to pass. While the right-wing opposition parties of Likud and Religious Zionism support extending the law, they decided to embarrass the coalition by announcing ahead of time that they would not back the measure.

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by Seth J. Frantzman, JPOST June 10, 2021

Thousands of Bedouin live in 35 villages not recognized by the Israeli state.

The incoming government has promised to invest in the Arab sector and also to possibly recognize several Bedouin villages in the Negev as part of the coalition agreement with the Ra’am Party.

Mansour Abbas has been praised for his flexibility and willingness to join a coalition government, breaking with his former Joint List partners and paving the way for active participation in the government. He has also been praised by Arabs in Israel. Moussa Al-Zaydana of Rahat, a large town populated mostly by Bedouin, said Abbas should be commended.

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