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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By Debra Heine, AM GREATNESS June 15, 2021

In an extraordinary interview last week, Dr. Peter McCullough, an American professor of Medicine and Vice Chief of Internal Medicine at Baylor University, declared that the world has been subjected to a form of bioterrorism, and that the suppression of early treatments for COVID-19—such as hydroxychloroquine— “was tightly linked to the development of a vaccine.”

Dr. McCullough made the explosive comments during a webinar on June 11, with  Dr. Reiner Fuellmich, a German trial lawyer, who believes the pandemic was planned, and is “a crime against humanity.”
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Yair Lapid, who will serve as foreign minister until his scheduled entry into the Prime Minister’s Office in two years, has long been preparing himself for the job.

By NIMROD GOREN, JPOST

YAIR LAPID, foreign minister-designate, at the Knesset yesterday.

The new government offers an opportunity for significant improvements in Israeli foreign policy. The popular belief is that this government will be ineffective in this domain due to the ideological differences among its member parties. Indeed, dramatic moves vis-à-vis the Palestinians, such as evacuating settlements or annexing territory, are not expected to occur, but this is not the sum total of Israeli diplomacy.

The weakening of Israel’s Foreign Service under Netanyahu, flawed policy directions that were taken, and regional potential that was left untapped – all provide fertile ground for action on which the government could agree despite its diversity.

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By Noga Tarnopolsky, NYT      June 15, 2021

Few politicians have more experience than Naftali Bennett with being heckled and jeered, usually by left-wing rivals, for his hard-line positions opposing the establishment of a Palestinian state. But it must have been jarring to be the target of insults and abuse hurled by his fellow right-wingers when he tried to deliver his maiden speech as Israel’s unlikeliest and possibly luckiest incoming prime minister on Sunday.

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By Yaniv Kubovich, HAARETZ     Jun. 16, 2021 5:58 AM

Israel’s supervision of the equipment and materials that enter the Gaza Strip for humanitarian reasons is flawed and has enabled Hamas to build attack tunnels, reports released by the defense establishment show.

The reports, which deal with Hamas empowerment and were presented recently to security and political officials, state that the oversight problems stem from reduced manpower for the oversight units and problematic behavior within them.

The reports also say that the lack of a state budget led to a freeze in funding to strengthen these oversight units, undermining their enforcement ability and allowing Hamas to build hundreds of kilometers of tunnels the length and breadth of the Gaza Strip.

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Over half of survey respondents say the Islamist terror group is ‘most deserving of representing and leading the Palestinian people,’ versus less than 15% percent who prefer Fatah

By AGENCIES and TOI STAFF         15 June 2021, 9:04 pm  

Palestinians gather during a Hamas rally in Gaza City, June 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

A new poll released Tuesday finds a dramatic surge in Palestinian support for Hamas following last month’s Gaza conflict, with around three-quarters viewing the Islamist terrorists as victors in a battle against Israel to defend Jerusalem and its holy sites.

The poll by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research also found plummeting support for Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who was sidelined by the fighting but is seen internationally as a partner for reviving the long-defunct peace process.

The poll found that 53% of Palestinians believe Hamas is “most deserving of representing and leading the Palestinian people,” while only 14% prefer Abbas’ secular Fatah party.
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