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T. Belman. This signifies a basic difference between Trump and Obama/Biden. Trump believed in strengthening Israel as a means to strengthen the US.  Obama/Biden believe that holding out the prospect of Israeli concessions, enables the US to gain more influence with Israel’s enemies. So as long as everything is still in play, the US benefits.

In other words, Trump wanted to end the conflict and Obama/Biden want a never-ending conflict.

State Department pushes back on signature Trump admin foreign policy decision

By Adam Kredo , WASHINTON FREE BEACON• June 24, 2021 2:20 pm

An Israeli soldier walks early morning near Moshav Alonei HaBashan in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights on April 29, 2021. / Getty Images

The Biden administration is walking back the United States’ historic recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the contested Golan Heights region along Israel’s northern border, a significant blow to the Jewish state and one of the Trump administration’s signature foreign policy decisions.

The Trump administration declared the territory—seized by Israel from Syria in 1967 and later annexed by the country—to be wholly part of the Jewish state in 2019. Then-secretary of state Mike Pompeo took a trip to the area in 2020 and reaffirmed that America formally abandoned a decades-long policy of considering the area occupied.

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T. Belman.  I recently wrote Victor Rosenthal the following;

I posted your terrific article, Keeping the Jewish State, Jewish with this comment,

“This is a terrific article.

I hope you follow up with an article on what Israel must do to protect Israel as the state of the Jews.

How can Israel outlaw antizionists not only from the Knesset but also from the right to vote.

How can Israel outlaw Palestinian propaganda which seeks to challenge our narrative with their contrived narrative?
How can Israel ban the celebration of the Naqba?
How can Israel enforce a different curriculum in the Arab schools which teaches the Israel narrative rather than the Arab narrative?

In short, how can we defend ourselves? Many Israelis think that democracy prevents us legislating so. But I don’t.

This article, I believe is his response.

By Victor Rosenthal

It’s not a silly question. There are serious disagreements about the answer. But there is only one answer that justifies the sacrifices that have been made to re-establish the Jewish state in its historical homeland, and those that will be required in the future to keep it.

That answer is given by Zionism, which holds that a sovereign state in the Land of Israel is a necessity to protect and preserve the Jewish people – and that their preservation is an objective worth attaining.

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Tierney’s Real News (6/24/21)

As the Arizona forensic audit wraps up, and it’s not looking good for the Democrats, the Biden administration is taking desperate steps to do everything in its power to stop what’s coming. America is seriously looking more and more like a Communist dictatorship. – this is a must read.

https://www.tierneyrealnewsnetwork.com/post/tierney-s-real-news-6-24-21

The security cabinet will now convene frequently and on its agenda are an immediate decision about Iran, strengthening the preparations for war in the north, preparation for the possibility of aggressive action in the Gaza Strip, and above all — defining the nature of the IDF’s relations with Israeli society.

By  Yoav Limor, ISRAEL HAYOM        06-18-2021

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, left, and IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi, second from left, sit with other top IDF personnel | Photo: Ariel Hermoni / Defense Ministry

This week, the Bennett government passed its first security challenge. The flag march proceeded peacefully without provoking unnecessary shockwaves, and events in Gaza were also under control while Israel adhered to its commitment of treating balloon arson the same way it does rocket fire.

However, this is not the threshold of challenges that the new government will have to face in the coming years. It will be confronted with many issues, each requiring the formulation of policy and the drawing up of courses of action. It is likely that the security cabinet ? which rarely convened in recent years ? will now meet frequently for a series of in-depth discussions. On the agenda: Iran, the United States, the northern and Palestinian fronts, the structure and budget of the army, and more.

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BY MATT MARGOLIS, PJ MEDIA             JUN 23, 2021 3:40 PM ET

A now-retired elections clerk from Brown County, Wisconsin, says political activists working for a group funded by Mark Zuckerberg “seized control” of the November elections in key cities in the state, including Green Bay, according to a report from Just the News. Career experts found themselves sidelined as these activists made last-minute changes that may have violated state law.“They had no business doing that,” ex-Brown County clerk Sandy Juno told Just the News. Read more…

By Thomas Lifson, AJM THINKER

This is huge. Those of us who have had hopes that Saudi Arabia can transformed from a sponsor of hardline jihad into a modernizing force in the Islamic world have cause for hope.

Remarks made by the real ruler of Saudi Arabia, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS), suggest that he carefully laying the grounds for a fundamental reinterpretation of orthodox Islam.

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The overthrow of Bibi is the first part of a multiphase project. The second phase begins now. Op-ed.

By Alexander Maistrovoy, INN    , Jun 23 , 2021 3:41 PM

Government session

In Israel’s Creeping Coup D’etat I claimed that the Israeli elite is driven by two fundamental goals:

– Ending the “occupation” at any cost

– Turning Israel from a Jewish state into a “state for all its citizens”.

Despite all his flaws Netanyahu was the only one who resisted these plans, and that is why he was so hated by the elite. This hatred grew into paranoia, fanatical frenzy, a kind of sectarian cult.

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T. Belman. How long can everyone moderate their goals. This can only be possible if they are satisfied focusing on their common agenda.  Is that enough to get them to forego their professed ideologies.

Washington needs to be smart and sensitive to what it demands from Israel, lest steps it takes leads to this government’s downfall.

By HERB KEINON, JPOST     JUNE 23, 2021 21:12<

The only way the current Bennett-Lapid government can last – a government that includes Meretz and Labor on the Left, Yamina and New Hope on the Right, and Ra’am (United Arab List) – is for the parties to put their ideologies in their pockets.

At least temporarily. At least for the duration of this government’s life.

That means, for instance, that Meretz is going to have to stop pushing an anti-settlement agenda, and Yamina must not push a pro-settlement one. In that context, Meretz MK Mossi Raz’s co-sponsorship of a conference in the Knesset on Tuesday discussing Israel as an “apartheid state” is the type of stunt that will shorten the life of this government.

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JINSA
Mike Pompeo, Former Secretary of State
Sander Gerber, JINSA Distinguished Fellow

There has been a recent push in the US to utilize the Palestinian Authority (PA) as a “go-between” to ensure that aid to Gaza reaches civilians and is not pocketed by Hamas, the terrorist group currently controlling the Palestinian territory. But what this push signifies – and what its long-term ambitions might be – deserves further examination.

The reliance on the PA to be the broker of stability in the Arab-Israeli conflict is ill-considered, because partnering with a group itself implicated in terrorist activities in order to stop terrorism represents a failure of logic. It is easy to forget that the US Congress, in the 1987 Anti-Terror Act, determined the Palestinian Liberation Organisation and its related entities to be sponsors of terrorism and a threat to US interests. The PA fits squarely within this law.
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It is the vile behavior of the un-Jews towards Israel that allows the non-Jewish anti-Semites to be open about their own deep seated pathology and bigotry.

 By Victor Sharpe, INN       2018

Many years ago, posing as a supporter of the PLO, I infiltrated an Arab anti-Israel meeting held in a room above a London pub. There were mostly Arabs present with a sprinkling of non-Arabs, mostly local Brits.

Among the Brits was a man who told the audience that he was a Jew and hated Israel. His self-loathing expressed itself in hostility towards the increasingly embattled Jewish state.

But in all the bile that fell from his lips, he revealed a total lack of knowledge about Judaism and Jewish history – certainly he exhibited no understanding of the rebirth of Israel in its ancestral and biblical homeland or of the immense odds of its survival in the face of enormous Arab and Muslim aggression.

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CRT: Teachers union president calls for educators to “teach the truth” and include critical race theory in curriculum CBS.  Republicans see critical race theory as new front in ongoing culture wars The Hill.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_morningbrief/critical-race-theory-may-violate-civil-rights-act-the-constitution-dr-carol-swain_3868093.html?

https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_morningbrief/if-america-is-racist-why-have-millions-of-blacks-emigrated-here-did-jews-emigrate-to-germany-in-the-1930s_3869310.html?

by Clare M. Lopez, FPM

This is the fourth article in this series on Critical Race Theory (CRT). The earlier three may be seen here, here, and here. Their intent was to document the deteriorating situation across America, and especially in our schools, where curricula increasingly focus on Marxist propaganda that teaches children to hate their own country and seeks to instigate racial divisiveness intended to foment civil strife and eventually, a communist revolution. The series began with an explanation of the purely Marxist origins of CRT, its ideological roots in the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, the transplant of the Frankfurt School to the U.S. in the 1930s, and the eventual spread of CRT narratives throughout American academia, faith communities, government, media, popular culture, and society in general.

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A recent poll of Arab youths in Israel shows that between one-third and half of those questioned still perceive themselves through an ethnic-religious prism, which perhaps explains their sense of disconnect with their national-political representatives.

By  Jalal Bana, ISRAEL HAYOM

Last weekend, a survey was published within the framework of a conference on the important issues facing the younger generation of Arabs in Israel. The findings were very surprising.

The survey, conducted by the Haifa-based Baladna Association for Arab youth, which is affiliated with Balad political party, comprised 500 participants and 10 focus groups. The findings paint an interesting picture that needs to sound alarm bells for the entire Arab leadership in Israel and organizations that are active in the Arab sector, particularly with the young generation.

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T. Belman. I hope this is true. Haven’t seen it reported elsewhere. Bennett recently make a speech in which he said there will be zero tolerance for balloons or rockets emanating from Gaza. The use of batons and get tough policy for rioters, seems to be evidence that it applies across the board. Way to go, Naftali.

Numerous instances have been recorded of police officers dragging Palestinian protesters to the posts and beating them outside Jerusalem’s Old City

By Nir Hasson, HAARETZ

Palestinians detained by Border Police at Damascus Gate in MayCredit: Ohad Zwigenberg

Salah al-Natshe, a 20-year-old resident of East Jerusalem, was on the steps of the Old City’s Damascus Gate on Saturday afternoon. Police orders are that every time concerns are raised about Palestinians gathering at the site, they are to start clearing people from the stairs and the plaza at the gate.

Over the past few weeks, policemen have started to use an old-new weapon: The baton. Police push back those standing in the area and deliver blows to the legs with their batons to those who they don’t think are moving fast enough. “Move back, move back,” shouted one of the police, as he hit Al-Natshe on his legs with the club again and again.

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By Raymond Ibrahim, AM THINKER

All throughout sub-Saharan Africa — in Nigeria, Mozambique, the Central African Republic, Mali, the Democratic Republic of Congo — Muslims are terrorizing and slaughtering Christians, and have been for many years now.

Nor is there any hope on the horizon, for problems that cannot be correctly and objectively addressed are doomed to persist in perpetuity.  As far as the Western “mainstream” is concerned, all such persecution and terrorism is a byproduct of economic grievances — or, in the words of an April 16, 2021 report, titled “How poverty and corruption fuel terrorism across Africa”:

On March 24th, a group of jihadis struck the town of Palma in Mozambique, killing dozens and burning government buildings to the ground.  ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack — but doubts have been cast over who was behind the siege[.]

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Boris Epshteyn: Constitution doesn’t prohibit Trump reinstatement | One America News Network https://t.co/f5xc3yTBDM

— Boris Epshteyn (@BorisEP) June 23, 2021