T. Belman. At least it passed. Now we will see if it will be enforced.  Bennett: No more suitcases of cash for Hamas in Gaza.  This article highlights the problem of the financial condition of the PA and suggests we are responsible for it because we need the PA. Especially because we need the PA to be stronger than Hamas in the eyes of the Palestinians.

I disagree with this mentality. Israel should never assume the responsibility of supporting the PA. I prefer it to fall than for us to keep them alive. With all their corruption, there is no way that they will overtake Hamas among the Palestinians. In effect we are condoning the pay for slay policy of the PA. It is time that we made demands of the PA so that they no longer undermine peace.

Bennett, last I heard has also demanded the return of the two Israelis and the bodies of the two deceased Israelis to be returned. Let’s see if he stands firm.

Even though decision eventually passed, security officials warned that now is a bad time to deal a financial blow to PA, according to Walla

By TOI STAFF     13 July 2021, 8:58 pm  

Defense Minister Benny Gantz, Transportation Minister Merav Michaeli, and Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz all had reservations about a security cabinet decision to withhold hundreds of millions of shekels from the Palestinian Authority to offset funds that it paid to terrorists and their families, the Walla news website reported Tuesday.
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T. Belman. Let’s be clear, Jordan is not “Israel’s ally”.  Recently Edy Cohen of BESA wrote Sorry but Jordan is not a friend?  It supports a two-state solution west of the Jordan River and it supports Iranian expansion. The sooner the King abdicates, the better.

In setting out the Jordan Option I proposed that Israel provide Jordan with much more water than Bennett just did.  As I pointed out in Memo to Kushner, this water would come from a new desalination plant that Israel would build at a cost of $1.2 billion. What Bennett gave them is a drop in the bucket, so to speak.

Any one who thinks that Egypt would bring Iranian oil to the Mediterranean rather than Saudi oil, is delusional. Nothing will happen in Jordan without Saudi consent.  Rest assured that SA will not permit Jordan to kiss up to Iran. The Saudi-Jordan border is 450 miles long. SA wants to keep it peaceful.

Opposition leader claims that supplying additional water to Amman enables it to provide oil to Iran via a never-built pipeline, thus bolstering Tehran’s nuclear program

By Amy Spiro, TOI            12 July 2021, 9:09 pm

Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to accuse Israel’s ally Jordan of aiding Iran’s nuclear program via a never-implemented pipeline deal Monday.

Netanyahu’s comments were aimed at prime minister Naftali Bennett, whose government recently agreed to double the amount of water Israel exports to Jordan, which is experiencing a severe shortage.

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T. Belman. This is where the kingpins decide who and what to deplatform and how to maintain their control of the people.

T. Belman. This is a fascinating interview. In it, Cashill informs us that 25 years ago the deep state was powerful enough to coverup the truth about the downing of TWA flight 800. He continued his narrative to explain how it was used to coverup Obama’s true identity and his date of birth and to take Pres Trump down. He went so far as to explain that SCOTUS is a puppet of the deep state due to its fear about being assassinated by it.

The most alarming aspect of Bennett’s secret meeting with Abdullah is the regional context in which it took place.

By Caroline B. Glick, ISRAEL HAYOM 07-12-2021 20:06

Jordan’s King Abdullah is the newest member of the Iranian axis. On June 27, Abdullah met in Baghdad with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi and Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Kadhimi. The three leaders signed a deal to transport Iraqi oil to Europe through Jordan and Egypt. As Arab affairs scholar Dr. Edy Cohen put it in the Jerusalem Post, “This agreement is King Abdullah’s ‘coming out of the closet’ with Iran. It’s now official: Jordan is allied with Iran because Iraq is actually under Iran’s control.”

Just as Iran controls Lebanon through its Shiite proxy army Hezbollah, so Iran controls Iraq through the Iraqi Shiite militias that operate as its proxies.
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T. Belman.  It would appear that neither side is willing to change their position on Israel/Palestinian relations.

Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid is expected to announce Israel’s intention to join the Creative Europe program, which grants generous support to cultural initiatives but bars funding for projects in settlements

By Eric Mandel, THE HILL  — 07/10/21 12:00 PM EDT

As President Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken ponder how to entice the Palestinian Authority (PA) to negotiate with Israel, a far more significant problem is being ignored. The Biden team marched along, facilitating a transfer of money to the PA and reopening the U.S. Consulate in East Jerusalem, another Palestinian demand, without tangible reciprocity. But this will not reveal the elephant in the room: an inevitable, coming uprising by Hamas in the West Bank.

Hamas instigated the Gaza war in May as part of a strategy to weaken Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and his Fatah party and increase Hamas’s popularity among Palestinian Arabs living in the West Bank. As Amos Harel writes in Haaretz, the rule of Abbas “is less stable. … The succession battles among his subordinates are being waged openly and, above all, Hamas is continuing to gain popularity against the backdrop of what is perceived as its success in standing up to Israel during the fighting in May.”

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by Soeren Kern, GATESTONE INSTITUTE  •  July 12, 2021 at 5:00 am

• • The July 2 “Joint Declaration on the Future of the European Union” represents the first significant endeavor by euroskeptic parties to jointly oppose efforts by European federalists to transform the European Union into a godless multicultural superstate.
  • The document states that the European Union requires “profound reform” because, “instead of protecting Europe,” it has itself become “a source of problems, anxiety and uncertainty.” The signatories say that the EU has become a tool of “radical forces” that are determined to carry out a civilizational transformation of Europe. Their objective, they say, is to create a European superstate void of European traditions, social institutions or moral principles.

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By Gamaliel Isaac, AM THINKER

Critical Race Theory is liable to end for reasons very similar to the reasons the Salem witch trials ended.

In January 1692, nine-year-old Elizabeth (Betty) Parris and 11-year-old Abigail Williams (the daughter and niece of Samuel Parris, minister of Salem Village) began having fits, including violent contortions and uncontrollable outbursts of screaming. After a local doctor, William Griggs, diagnosed bewitchment, other young girls in the community began to exhibit similar symptoms.

A special court, the court of Oyer and Terminer convened in Salem to hear the cases; and based on spectral evidence the first convicted witch, Bridget Bishop, was hanged that June. Eighteen others followed Bishop to Salem’s Gallows Hill, while some 150 more men, women, and children were accused over the next several months.
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By Gabriel Greschler, Jewish Weekly | July 9, 2021

The American Jewish Committee and two figures in the Bay Area Jewish community have come out in defense of a nominee for a federal position who has been accused by GOP lawmakers of holding anti-Israel sentiments.

Dilawar Syed was nominated March 3 by President Joe Biden to be deputy administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration. If confirmed, he would become the highest ranking Muslim American in the Biden administration.

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Rather than condemning Israel, progressives in the West who recoil at “settler colonial projects” should embrace the Jewish state as an example of decolonization.

By James Sinkinson, JNS

(June 28, 2021 / FLAME) Israel’s enemies have accused it of many outlandish transgressions over its 73 years. It has been called an offspring of Nazi Germany, a socialist outpost, a “Crusader nation” and an apartheid state. The Palestinian Arabs and their Western apologists happily appropriate the latest fad terminology describing something evil and attach it to the Jewish state.

One of the most persistent slurs against Israel in recent years, especially among academics, is pinning to it the label of “settler-colonial project” or simply “imperialist state.”

Like almost all the slanders against Israel, this one has a zero factual basis.

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