So far, the only agreement signed has been between Yesh Atid and Meretz.

By GIL HOFFMAN, JPOST      JUNE 10, 2021 22:52

Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid meet with the party leaders who make up their new coalition on June 6, 2021.

Efforts to replace Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faced more challenges on Thursday, as the eight parties forming the new government struggled to seal their coalition agreements.

At press time, the only agreement signed was between Yesh Atid and Meretz. Seven more deals must be signed by Friday at 4 p.m. ahead of Sunday’s vote on the new government.

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By David Rosenberg , INN        Jun 10 , 2021 10:34 PM

The Likud would remain the largest faction in the Knesset if new elections were held today, a new poll released Thursday shows, but Yesh Atid continues to cut into the Likud’s lead.

According to the poll, which was conducted by Maagar Mohot and published by Channel 20 Thursday night, if new elections were held today, the Likud would retain its 30 seats, while Yesh Atid would soar from 17 seats to 23, a gain of three compared to the previous Maagar Mohot poll.

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T. Belman.  The author encourages Congress to “ensure in a cool, logical, and peaceful manner, that the 2020 election is never repeated”  Not good enough.  It must be undone.

By Vince Coyner, AM THINKER

Earlier in the week, I asked the question: What if Proof of 2020 Presidential Election Fraud Develops? I mentioned several remedies that have been widely talked about from impeachment to a Pentagon coup to rioting in the streets.

None is an ideal solution. The first wouldn’t correct the problem, the second would turn the United States into a third-world banana republic and the last would bring about a modern version of the bloody chaos that characterized post-revolutionary France. An ideal solution would reverse Biden’s inauguration and inaugurate Donald Trump as the rightful president — and do so while maintaining our Constitutional Republic.
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by Con Coughlin, GATESTONE INSTITUTE •  June 10, 2021

• The improvement in Iran’s technical ability to develop nuclear weapons is the result of a number of steps Tehran has taken during the past year to increase its nuclear activity, all of which constitute clear violations of the terms Tehran agreed under the JCPOA.
• Consequently, if the predictions are correct and Raisi emerges triumphant in the presidential elections [June 18], the prospects of the hardliners making any tangible concessions over the country’s nuclear programme will be negligible…. [Raisi] made his name during as a prominent member of Iran’s notorious Death Commissions, when opposition activists were either executed or sent to clear minefields during the Iran-Iraq war.
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T. Belman. The X Mossad chief argues that “it was a massive strategic error for Netanyahu to be in open conflict with the Obama and Biden administrations over Iran.” Who am I to disagree with him, but I do. Obama and Biden are not our friends. They care only about their agenda to strengthen Iran and to force a two-state solution on Israel or at a minimum to force Israel keep the status quo. A friend would ask us, what do you want to do with the Palestinians and then support us.  As for Iran, they don’t care about our security as they are enabling Iran to get the bomb. What’s to talk about.

Netanyahu’s non-strategy led to 60% nuke enrichment

By YONAH JEREMY BOB   JPOST      JUNE 9, 2021 20:07

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during his Iran news conference on April 30, 2018

Former Mossad director Tamir Pardo on Wednesday said that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has broken the country’s strategy for dealing with Iran with the support of the US.

Speaking at the Meir Dagan conference at Netanya Academic College, Pardo said it was a massive strategic error for Netanyahu to be in open conflict with the Obama and Biden administrations over Iran.

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Biden administration reportedly planning to encourage more Arab countries to sign accords with Israel.

By Elad Benari, INN

The Biden administration is laying the groundwork for a renewed push to encourage more Arab countries to sign accords with Israel and working to strengthen existing deals, The Associated Press reported on Wednesday.

The embrace of the so-called Abraham Accords is a rare carryover of a signature Trump administration policy by President Joe Biden and other Democrats, noted the report.

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Survey: 82% of Israelis Believe Only Full Defeat of Hamas Can End Conflict, Most Believe Fighting Should Have Continued

By  Jewish Press 

A comprehensive new survey undertaken for The Israel Victory Project shows for the first time the attitudes of the Israeli public regarding Operation Guardian of the Walls and the official policy regarding Hamas. Midgam Research and Consulting conducted the survey for the Middle East Forum following the recent conflict with Hamas. It asked 22 questions in Hebrew or Russian on May 27-31 of 503 Jewish Israeli respondents. The poll has a margin of error of 4.4%.

82% of respondents to the poll agreed with the statement that “There can be no appeasing Hamas; only by defeating it unequivocally can we bring this conflict to an end. Likewise, 70% agreed that “There can be no deals with terrorist organizations, only defeat. Israel must use all its military, diplomatic and economic means to crush Hamas’ will to continue fighting.”

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By Maj. Gen. (res.) Gershon Hacohen, BESA

Sunset aerial photograph of the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem (view from the south), image via Wikipedia

BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 2,068, June 9, 2021

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Surrendering to Hamas threats and canceling the flag parade in Jerusalem constitutes a grave violation of Israeli sovereignty that will lead to no less serious acts of extortion on the political and security levels.
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By David Israel, JP

Yamina chairman Naftali Bennett is going to be the first religious Jew to serve as prime minister of Israel, but judging by the past two weeks, his job would be less like politics and more like plate juggling, and with his tiny, nickel yarmulke he’s probably going to have to pick up that thing off the floor a lot of times. As things are shaping up, it’s Bennett against everyone else in the “change government” coalition, with Bennett enjoying the rare pleasure of fighting for control within, while being the subject of unprecedented, raw hate from the outside.
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Israel’s Security Cabinet decided last night to reschedule the annual Jerusalem Flag March to this upcoming Tuesday in order to give the police more time to prepare.

They did so after the police initially cancelled the march, which was set to take place on Thursday, due to threats from Hamas. Nonetheless, it is unknown at this time if the police will approve the march.

It’s true that Hamas views the march as a provocation, but then, Hamas sees the existence of a Jewish state as a provocation. Does that mean we should pack our bags?

By Eytan Meir, IM TIRZU

(June 8, 2021 / JNS) On May 14, 1948, David Ben-Gurion made the fateful decision to declare the establishment of the State of Israel. He did so despite immense pressure opposing the move and the prophecies of doom regarding the nascent Jewish state.

Ben-Gurion passed the test that the State of Israel, 73 years later, has failed.
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By Debra Heine, AM GREATNESS

court battle is underway in Fulton County, Georgia, where election integrity advocates are fighting to have 147,000 mail-in ballots unsealed to allow for a close inspection.

Henry County Superior Court Judge Brian Amero last month granted a forensics review of ballots cast in the Nov. 3 presidential election after a group of Georgia voters led by government watchdog Garland Favorito, filed the lawsuit in an attempt to prove that fraudulent ballots and other irregularities led to Joe Biden’s 2020 win in Georgia. Fulton County has retained criminal defense attorneys to fight the lawsuit, and has managed to temporarily block the audit.

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A previously unpublished interview with the man who would be prime minister.

By Sara Lehmann, INN

A little over nine years ago, a good friend from Queens called me up with a request. Can I please interview an Israeli speaker with a good English who is in New York for a few days and can talk about the Middle East?

My friend had been tasked with finding a speaker on the topic of Israel for a local shul dinner. Failing to locate a prominent Israeli politician, she was desperate to find anyone with a good English. Someone suggested a little-known Israeli entrepreneur who happened to be in New York. Having no choice, she arranged for him to speak. His speech was a big success. My friend liked what she heard and, with the help of a PR consultant, got him on local media stations to speak on Israel’s behalf.

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In repeatedly breaking his most solemn promises to coalition partners, Netanyahu has convinced growing ranks of potential allies it’s simply not profitable to do business with him

By HAVIV RETTIG GUR, TOI          Today, 6:02 am

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a ceremony honoring medical workers and hospitals for their fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, in Jerusalem on June 6, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Yair Lapid and Naftali Bennett may have accomplished the seemingly impossible. Sunday will mark not only the end of 12 consecutive years of Benjamin Netanyahu’s premiership but, if all goes to plan, the founding of the strangest and most improbable government in the history of the country.

Islamist Ra’am and hawkish New Hope, progressive Meretz and deeply conservative Yamina, parties avowedly religious and passionately secular, MKs anxious to see the establishment of a Palestinian state and MKs equally anxious to avoid that outcome, are all jostling for space at the coalition table.

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