The land acquired by Israel in 1967 is not the issue. Opinion.

By Amb. (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, INN Feb 19 , 2021

Israelis march in Judea and Samaria

Conventional wisdom assumes that the Palestinian Authority is amenable to peaceful-coexistence with Israel; that peaceful-coexistence is advanced by financial support of the Palestinian Authority; that a core concern for the Palestinian Authority is the land acquired by Israel in the 1967 War; and that land-for-peace (Israel’s retreat to the pre-1967 lines) is a prerequisite for Israel-Palestinian peaceful-coexistence.

Are these assumptions consistent with the Palestinian Arab reality?

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BY ROBERT SPENCER, JIHAD WATCH

This is incredible. 100 “prominent figures” are enraged because a BBC interviewer asked the Muslim Council of Britain’s Zara Mohammed some tough questions. Many of them no doubt signed on to this because they assume that Muslims are subjected to widespread discrimination and harassment in Britain and all over the West, and so should be given special consideration. But the fact that there is any outrage at all over this is an indication of how far that assumption is from the truth. Zara Mohammed is not downtrodden; she is privileged. That’s why there is this outcry: Emma Barnett dared to challenge a privileged person whom she should have regarded with reverence and treated with kid gloves.
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By Vic Hughes, AM THINKER

How would your family, and a hundred thousand other families, like to be stuck in your cars for days at minus 16 degrees?

The death toll would be huge.  It almost happened in New England in 1989.

And in Texas this week.
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Pence was perfectly suited to be vice president . . . for Mitt Romney.

By Carmen Catanzaro, AM GREATNESS   February 16, 2021

“Keep your friends close and your enemies closer” is a maxim of realpolitik and other matters where the stakes are high. To be effective in practice, an enemy invited into one’s organization needs to be kept truly close—that is, monitored carefully and always held accountable.

President Donald Trump appointed many NeverTrumpers and other enemies of his agenda—more significantly, enemies of his voters—to influential posts within his administration. In most cases, these appointees were not “kept close”—at least not close enough to prevent them from undermining his policies, his relationship with his political base, and his viability for reelection.
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by Con Coughlin, GI  •  February 20, 2021

• Under the terms of that agreement with the US, the Taliban agreed to negotiate a peaceful resolution of this benighted country’s long-running civil war in return for Washington agreeing to withdraw all its remaining forces. In addition, they agreed to cut their ties with Islamist terrorist organisations such as Al-Qaeda.
• While Mr Trump kept his side of the bargain, reducing US forces from around 13,000 at the time the deal was signed last February to just 2,500 when he left office, there has been little evidence of the Taliban fulfilling their commitments under the terms of the agreement.

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By Adam Kredo, FREE BEACON  – FEB 19, 2021

The International Criminal Court’s decision to initiate an investigation into alleged Israeli war crimes threatens to undermine the body’s judicial integrity and is driven by groups that seek to delegitimize the world’s only Jewish state, according to a group of former senior government and military officials from the United States and Europe.

The ICC’s recent decision to pursue charges against Israel represents an “unprecedented campaign of delegitimization against Israel waged by the enemies of the Jewish State and supported by numerous international institutions,” according to a letter sent by these government officials on Friday to newly installed ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan. The Friends of Israel Initiative, an international coalition of former military and government officials that advocates on Israel’s behalf, organized the letter, a copy of which was obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
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BY ZACHARY STIEBER, EPOCH TIMES    February 20, 2021

YouTube took down a newly recorded interview with former President Donald Trump in Google’s latest action against conservatives.

A Newsmax spokesperson told The Epoch Times via email that the company was told the Feb. 17 interview was removed because it violated YouTube’s community guidelines.

A Google spokesperson told The Epoch Times via email: “We have clear Community Guidelines that govern what videos may stay on YouTube, and we enforce our Community Guidelines consistently, regardless of speaker and without regard to political viewpoints.”

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L. Goudsmit. The climate hucksters were unable to frighten people into submission with their doom and gloom predictions, so the COVID19 hucksters took over to make the scare more personal. 9 years is the estimated time it will take for the Great Reset to be fully implemented, and for the planetary governance of technocracy to enslave us all. At this rate it won’t take that long. Climate change and COVID19 are two of the most sinister and dangerous Humanitarian Hoaxes cooked up to collapse the United States of America. World government cannot be achieved without the destruction and submission of the U.S. Everything else is details.<
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by Jack Davis, WESTERN JOURNAL

Waving a rhetorical banner of doom and trashing former President Donald Trump, Biden administration climate czar John Kerry proclaimed Friday that looming climate disaster is only nine years away.

Kerry spoke to the Munich Security Conference as part of the hoopla surrounding the formal readmission of the United States to the Paris climate accords, which seeks to reduce global emissions.

“Three years ago, scientists warned that if we want to prevent the worst consequences of the climate crisis, we have to limit the planet’s warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. That’s the magic number by consensus among most scientists,” Kerry said Friday, according to a transcript of his remarks posted by Yahoo.

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Despite preconceived notions, Rachel Yakobov established ‘The Pleasure Academy’ and decided to teach women about their sexuality after enrolling in a ‘sex school’ in Moscow, as her own way to do a mitzvah

By Lori Stadtmauer, YNET NEWS

Rachel Yakobov

It was a brisk autumn night in the Russian capital of Moscow when Rachel Yakobov’s husband, David, came back home, excitedly waving a brochure advertising a “sex school”.

While Rachel’s first reaction was to take offense at David’s proposition, she eventually decided to enroll in the class, which would ultimately change her life for the better.

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We must not wait for the international community to approve construction in Judea and Samaria. That will come once Israel has established the facts on the ground.

By  Prof. Eyal Zisser, ISRAEL HAYOM

Exactly one year ago, Israel was poised to realize the dream of applying sovereignty to large parts of Judea and Samaria with US support and the tacit consent of a few Arab states. Israel, however, chose not to take this path, preferring the immediate achievements of the signing of the Abraham Accords to a possible confrontation with the Palestinians and the international community.

The realization of the sovereignty dream was postponed and may, as Israel Hayom‘s Ariel Kahana argued earlier this week, have been missed entirely. With Joe Biden now serving as US president, it will take a massive effort, and maybe even a miracle, to advance such a move. This is clear from the recent statements by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, in which he stopped short of endorsing former US President Donald Trump’s recognition of the Golan Heights as part of Israel. He said that unlike Israel’s practical control over the territory, which the US fully supports, the question of sovereignty would need to be dealt with in legal and other talks when Syria can get back on its own two feet.

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An ungracious and neurotic elite whose judgment is bankrupt and whose privilege is paid for by those who don’t have it threatens to drag us to the depths of unreason.

By Victor Davis Hanson, AM GREATNESS

These are crazy times. A pandemic led to national quarantine, to self-induced recession, to riot, arson, and looting, to a contested election, and to a riot at the Capitol.

In response, are we focusing solely on upping the daily vaccination rate?

Getting the country back to work? Opening the schools as the virus attenuates? Ensuring safety in the streets?

Or are we descending into a sort of madness?
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In 2009, the majority of built-up space in Area C was populated by Jews. By 2019, most of the built-up space was Palestinian. Such a feat rivals even the most successful settlement projects of the Jewish Agency during the Mandate.

By  Hillel Frisch, ISRAEL HAYOM

All too often, the Palestinian Authority is dismissed as a failed entity. This is wishful thinking. To the contrary: the PA is winning one of the most important battles it has ever waged against Israel. It is the same battle the Zionist movement and later the State of Israel successfully waged: that of strategic settlement. This means the creation of rural and urban infrastructure to consolidate control over territory required to create a state.

Israel’s Homa u’Migdal (tower and stockade) movement, the War of Independence, the heroism and durability of the kibbutzim on the Syrian front before the 1967 Six-Day War, Kiryat Shmona and the kibbutzim in the Hula Valley in the 1980s, and Sderot and the kibbutzim around Gaza in the past two decades are a living testimony to the historic importance of “strategic settlement,” a term first coined by the Zionist movement in 1942.

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A new biography uncovers the facts behind the fake news.

By Bruce Bawer is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center.

Jack Cashill has written over a dozen books, including two about the mysterious 1996 explosion of TWA Flight 800, one about the Trayvon Martin case, and two – now three – about Barack Obama. His new book, Unmasking Obama: The Fight to Tell the True Story of a Failed Presidency, is a definitive account not only of Obama’s eight years in office but also of the transformation of most mainstream American political journalists, largely during the Obama era, from relatively objective reporters of the facts – emphasis on “relatively” – to dedicated partisans of the left, ready and eager at every turn to cover up unpleasant truths (however important) about Democrats and to promote outrageous lies (however destructive) about Republicans.

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Uzra Zeya nominated for undersecretary of civilian security, democracy, and human rights

By Alana Goodman, FREE BEACON    – FEBRUARY 18, 2021

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President Joe Biden’s nominee for a top State Department position played a key role in assembling a book on the nefarious influence of the “Israel lobby” while working for an organization that promoted claims about Jewish media control and dual loyalty to Israel.

As a staffer at the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, Uzra Zeya compiled research for a book that argues that “the Israel lobby has subverted the American political process to take control of U.S. Middle East policy” by establishing a secret network of “dirty money” PACs that bribe and extort congressional candidates into taking pro-Israel positions. Zeya, a former U.S. diplomat who was nominated for undersecretary for civilian security, democracy, and human rights, worked for the Washington Report and its publishing group, the American Educational Trust, in 1989 and 1990. The news outlet is staunchly anti-Israel and has published articles questioning the national loyalty of American Jews and opposing taxpayer funding to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

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By Dr Eric R. Mandel, MEPIN

The return to the 2015 Iran agreement known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) is a fait accompli. For a successful negotiation, you need two parties who want to make a deal, and that is what today between Tehran and Washington under the Biden administration.

The Biden administration has been clear that it wants to return to the nuclear agreement as long as Iran complies with its specifications. With two willing partners, all that remains is the theatrics to make it look as if Iran has stood firm against America, while the Biden administration claims a new, cosmetically improved deal that tackles the flaws of the original. The promise of additional negotiations with more restrictions on Iran’s nuclear weapons and ballistic missile development will be championed as a great victory to reassure allies and create regional stability.
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JaFaJ Intelligence   February 12, 2021

On Feb. 10th, hawkish Jordanian politician Abdul Hadi Al Majali passed away. The cause of his death was due to COVID-19 complications. While it is normal for authoritarian regimes to have senior pillars passing away, in the case of Abdul Hadi, his death has huge implications for the country, crown and Jordanians in general.

Abdul Hadi was from Kerak, a small town 80 miles south of Amman, the nation’s capital. It is known as a pillar of the Hashemite Kingdom because Kerak has a tradition of producing the most influential and trusted officials and security henchmen for the Hashemites – a family of just over 80 individuals.
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