“Biden repudiates Trump on Iran, ready for talks on nuke deal,”  Matthew Lee, AP News, 2/18/2021,

“Biden’s Six-Step Strategy to Rejoin the Iran Nuclear Agreement,”  Eric R. Mandel, The Hill, 2/18/2021,

[Dr. Eric R. Mandel is the director of  MEPIN, the Middle East Political Information Network. He regularly briefs members of the U.S. Senate, House, and their foreign-policy advisers. He is the senior editor for “ Security ” at the Jerusalem Report/The Jerusalem Post.)]

“Israel Cautions Biden against Rejoining Iran Deal,”  Mairead McCardle, National Review, 2/19/2021,
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By Ted Belman

Go this link

Dark To Light: The Deep Rig – An Interview With Patrick Byrne

and listen to the interview.

I intend to buy his book The Deep Rig.

Miri Aloni and Ehud Olmert may display masochism in believing Israel’s enemies, but most Israelis know better. Does the West? Opinion.

By Howard Rotberg, INN   Feb 22 , 2021

“We are tired of fighting; we are tired of being courageous; we are tired of winning; we are tired of defeating our enemies.” – Ehud Olmert

Masochistic Personality Disorder “is a pervasive pattern of self-defeating behavior, beginning by early adulthood nd present in a variety of contexts. The person may avoid or undermine pleasurable experiences, be drawn to situations or relationships in which he or she will suffer…”- Psychnet.com

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By Victor Rosenthal

Bedouins are tribal, nomadic Arabs, tracing their ancestry to the Arabian peninsula, who today live all over the Middle East and North Africa. Today there are at least 200,000 Bedouins in Israel, and the population is growing rapidly. They are Israeli citizens with full political and civil rights.

Historically they fed themselves primarily by herding animals and other forms of nomadic agriculture and fishing. Some were bandits, raiding the caravans that passed through their region, and taxing non-Bedouin tribes in the vicinity. Over the years they have become more settled, with many of them living in towns and cities. But there still are some who follow traditional nomadic ways.
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By Ariane de Vogue and Devan Cole, CNN February 22, 2021

A poll watcher monitors the counting of ballots at the Allegheny County elections warehouse on November 6, 2020 in Pittsburgh.

Christian leaders remain silent as another church figure recycles its oldest hatred

By Melanie Phillips

Jews being persecuted; Rochester Chronicle, 13th century

The World Council of Churches has gone full theological incitement against the State of Israel.

In a recent Zoom webinar with more than 300 Christian activists to promote a film about the pro-Palestinian activism of Michel Sabbah — the former Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem — Rev. Frank Chikane, the moderator of the WCC’s Commission of the Churches on International Affairs, went much further than the usual falsehoods about Israel’s “brutality” towards the Palestinians.

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The Democratic administration of US President Joe Biden takes Europe’s opinion of Israel very much into account. As such, the work of Shai Bazak, a former Israeli diplomat and currently CEO of ELNET, an organization dedicated to fostering Israeli-European ties, becomes that much more critical.

By  Ran Puni, ISRAEL HAYOM

Former diplomat and ELNET CEO Shai Bazak | Photo: ELNET/Wikimedia Commons

Earlier in his career, Shai Bazak was the media director for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the consul general in Miami and later in Boston, and head of the Jewish National Fund mission in London.

Most recently, he has been bringing his 25 years of experience as a diplomat to ELNET, a pro-Israeli nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening relations between Europe and Israel.

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Experts call the spill Israel’s worst beach contamination in memory, and they fear much marine life has been wiped out. Nobody can say how long recovery will take

By SUE SURKES, TOI

Main image by Ariel Schalit/AP: People clean tar from an oil spill in the Mediterranean sea in Gador nature reserve near Hadera,

An oil spill at sea that has dumped tons of tar almost all the way along Israel’s Mediterranean coast forced the authorities on Sunday to close all beaches from Rosh Hanikra in the north to Ashkelon in the south until further notice.

Gila Gamliel, the environmental protection minister, said she hopes the cleanup will end in time for beach season to open as planned in May, but neither she nor anybody else can be certain yet of the damage wreaked by the disaster.
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BY AXIOS

In his first post-presidential appearance, Donald Trump plans to send the message next weekend that he is Republicans’ “presumptive 2024 nominee” with a vise grip on the party’s base, top Trump allies tell me.

• A longtime adviser called Trump’s speech a “show of force,” and said the message will be: “I may not have Twitter or the Oval Office, but I’m still in charge.” Payback is his chief obsession.

I’ve learned that Trump advisers will meet with him at Mar-a-Lago this week to plan his next political moves, and to set up the machinery for kingmaking in the 2022 midterms.

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Racist Dems buy a ticket in the leftist lawsuit lottery.

By Matthew Vadum, FPM   Fri Feb 19, 2021

The leftist NAACP, which never met a conservative it didn’t consider to be a racist hatemonger, is suing former President Donald Trump using an obscure law that was wielded against the Democratic Party-affiliated terrorists of the Ku Klux Klan who murdered blacks and their Republican enemies after the Civil War.

The Ku Klux Klan Act is an unusual tool to pull from a cobweb-covered chest of old laws nobody knew were still in existence. President Ulysses S. Grant (he’s the guy on the $50 bill, millennials!) used the statute to declare martial law, penalize terrorist organizations, and use military force to suppress the KKK after the Civil War.
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By Isa Cox, WESTERN JOURNAL

The Arizona state Senate just passed a bill that would allow the state legislature to subpoena critical elections records, paving the way for a closer look into some of the most contested data amid the messy fallout of the 2020 election.

Senate Bill 1408 passed 16-14 cleanly along party lines with Republicans forming the affirming vote, according to the Arizona Mirror.

If the bill is ultimately signed into law, it would force officials in Maricopa County to hand over documents and information they have been so far refusing to provide to the state legislature in an ongoing legal battle, including those pesky voting machines themselves.

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by Alex Nachumson,  The Jewish Press

Jewish and Christian volunteers work to rebuild a stone wall at site of Joshua’s Altar on Mount Ebal earlier this month after it was bulldozed by the Palestinian Authority.

There is a well-known saying: “Truth is the first casualty in war.”

Ever since the Arabs of the region first attacked the idea of a return to Jewish sovereignty, the truth of the rights and history of Jews in their ancestral and indigenous homeland has been at stake.

While at the turn of the last century, most Arabs knew the strong Jewish connection to the land, there was a strong undercurrent to try and change the narrative.

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Sunlight is the best disinfectant, and the scrutiny the Democrats are not being subjected to will likely make it difficult for them to maintain their Senate and House majorities in 2022.

By Caroline Glick, jns

(February 21, 2021 / JNS) The Democrats had a lousy week. It began with former President Donald Trump’s acquittal in the Senate.

Trump’s acquittal was a major blow to the Democrats. It isn’t that anyone believed Trump would be convicted. Whether Republicans love or hate the former president, the fact is that it is unconstitutional to hold an impeachment trial for a former officeholder. And for that reason alone, there was no chance that more than a smattering of Republicans would support the move.

But once the farcical trial ended, public focus moved to the Democrats—who now control both houses of Congress and the White House. True, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is already planning to drag Trump back to center stage with her “January 6 Truth Commission.” But that won’t happen for several months. And in the meantime, for the first time in five years, the Democrats find themselves, and their actions, the focus of public attention.
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Newly-appointed Hague chief prosecutor Karim Khan reminded that Israel is not a member of the ICC and has an independent, internationally recognized legal system that investigates and prosecutes when necessary.

By  Ariel Kahana, ISRAEL HAYOM

No fewer than 16 former heads of state, high-ranking ministers, and security experts have reached out to the newly-appointed chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court at The Hague, Karim Khan, and warned him that an investigation against Israel would be part of international efforts to delegitimize Israel and would make the ICC into a political entity, hurting its own standing.

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by Peter Schweizer, GI  •  February 21, 2021

• The Obama administration negotiated a nuclear deal (JCPOA) with the Iranian mullahs that was bad for the U.S. (which found it had only legitimized the regime that the U.S. Department of State called the “world’s worst state sponsor of terrorism”) and bad for Israel (the deal would allow Iran, after a few years, to become a full-blown nuclear power).

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T. Belman. Joe Biden is not a friend of Israel

I just received a PDF which contains the following articles.  I will post one a day starting with this one.
Joe Biden courts Islam, not Muslims 
Joe Biden repudiates Trump on Iran 
Joe Biden repudiates Trump on Palestinians 
Joe Biden’s anti-Semitic & anti-Israel appointments 
Joe Biden: Israel’s Fake ‘Friend’ 
Joe Biden’s bitter exchange with Menachem Begin 

By Mark Durie,  Jewish News Syndicate, 8/12/2020, at    https://www.jns.org/opinion/joe-biden-courts-islam-not-muslims/

As Muslim communities in Western nations continue to grow in size and influence, politicians will court their vote.

In the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Muslims had the lowest rate of voter registration of any religious group. This time around, however, the Million Muslim Votes movement is seeking to change all that by getting Muslims to turn out in droves for presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden on November 3.

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T. Belman.  Rather than assert that she won’t lift the sanctions, the US comes out with the weak assurance that she “doesn’t anticipate taking additional steps, as in snapback”.  That is, until she does .

“We’re prepared to reengage in negotiations with the P5+1 on Iran’s nuclear program,” Biden tells the Munich Security Conference.

By OMRI NAHMIAS, TOVAH LAZAROFF, REUTERS

FEBRUARY 21, 2021 04:36

U.S. President Donald Trump talks about the United States imposing fresh sanctions on Iran as Vice President Mike Pence looks on in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, U.S., June 24, 2019  (photo credit: REUTERS/CARLOS BARRIA)

The United States has no plans to meet Tehran’s demand that it lift Trump-era sanctions against Iran as a prerequisite to holding talks to reenter the 2015 nuclear deal with the Islamic Republic.

“There’s no plan to take additional steps in advance of having a conversation — a diplomatic conversation,” White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki told a reporter aboard Air Force One on Friday en route to Michigan. She spoke in direct response to a question on the matter.

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