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Medical team in the coronavirus unit of Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv, May 4, 2020. (Flash90/Yossi Aloni)
Friends launch crowdfunding campaign to help the family of Moshe Harazi, who died when hospital staff failed to notice his ventilator detached.
By Paul Shindman, World Israel News
Friends of a coronavirus patient who died in a Tel Aviv hospital when staff failed to notice his ventilator hose had disconnected have started a crowdfunding campaign to support his family, Kan News reported Wednesday.
Moshe Harazi, 47, died last Friday when the ventilator that was helping him breath detached and medical staff failed to notice the alarm from the breathing machine until it was too late.
Married and a father of five, the funds will go to help his widow Tali and their five children, the eldest of whom is 21 and the youngest only 6 years old.
Family members set a goal for the crowdfunding campaign of 300,000 shekels ($92,000) to support the family.
Harazi had been in good health with no background illnesses when he was infected with the coronavirus. He had been hospitalized in the intensive care ward at Tel Aviv’s Ichilov Hospital where like at hospitals across the country medical teams have been struggling to keep up with the record numbers of Israelis who are critically ill with the virus.
“Hours after the campaign opened and tens of thousands of shekels have already been raised,” family member Vered Mishalof told Kan News, adding the funds will “give some kind of base point for the children who are left orphaned without a father.”
On Tuesday evening Ichilov director general Professor Ronni Gamzu, the former head of Israel’s national coronavirus task force, visited the family home for the second time in as many days, telling the mourners he expressed his pain and promised to continue sharing the findings from the hospital’s internal investigation into the death.
As of Wednesday afternoon Health Ministry statistics showed that 1,904 Israelis are currently hospitalized with coronavirus, with 1,185 listed in serious condition.
Of those in serious condition, 388 are in critical condition with 309 of them connected to ventilators to assist their breathing.
Israel’s death toll from the pandemic stands at 4,144, with 275 people dying of the virus since Friday.
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"Medical team in the coronavirus unit of Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv, May 4, 2020. (Flash90/Yossi Aloni)\nFriends launch crowdfunding campaign to help the family of Moshe Harazi, who died when hospital staff failed to notice his ventilator detached.\nBy Paul Shindman, World Israel News\nFriends of a coronavirus patient who died in a Tel Aviv hospital when staff failed to notice his ventilator hose had disconnected have started a crowdfunding campaign to support his family, Kan News reported Wednesday.\nMoshe Harazi, 47, died last Friday when the ventilator that was helping him breath detached and medical staff failed to notice the alarm from the breathing machine until it was too late.\nMarried and a father of five, the funds will go to help his widow Tali and their five children, the eldest of whom is 21 and the youngest only 6 years old.\nFamily members set a goal for the crowdfunding campaign of 300,000 shekels ($92,000) to support the family.\nHarazi had been in good health with no background illnesses when he was infected with the coronavirus. He had been hospitalized in the intensive care ward at Tel Aviv’s Ichilov Hospital where like at hospitals across the country medical teams have been struggling to keep up with the record numbers of Israelis who are critically ill with the virus.\n“Hours after the campaign opened and tens of thousands of shekels have already been raised,” family member Vered Mishalof told Kan News, adding the funds will “give some kind of base point for the children who are left orphaned without a father.”\nOn Tuesday evening Ichilov director general Professor Ronni Gamzu, the former head of Israel’s national coronavirus task force, visited the family home for the second time in as many days, telling the mourners he expressed his pain and promised to continue sharing the findings from the hospital’s internal investigation into the death.\nAs of Wednesday afternoon Health Ministry statistics showed that 1,904 Israelis are currently hospitalized with coronavirus, with 1,185 listed in serious condition.\nOf those in serious condition, 388 are in critical condition with 309 of them connected to ventilators to assist their breathing.\nIsrael’s death toll from the pandemic stands at 4,144, with 275 people dying of the virus since Friday.",
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Airstrike attributed to Israel targeted Iranian weapons stores including parts for Iran’s nuclear program.
By Paul Shindman, World Israel News
A Syrian human rights group said Wednesday that at least 40 people were killed and as many injured in airstrikes attributed to Israel that targeted three different Iranian weapons facilities in eastern Syria on the Iraqi border.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that in the attacks that occurred just after midnight only nine of the dead were Syrians with the rest belonging to “loyal militias of Iranian nationalities other than Syria.”
The SOHR said the attacks extended from the city of Al-Zour city to the Syrian-Iraqi border and targeted ammunition and weapons depots for the regime forces, the Lebanese Hezbollah, Iranian forces and militias loyal to it.
Quoting a senior U.S. intelligence official with knowledge of the attack, the Associated Press reported that the U.S. supplied Israel with intelligence for the airstrikes that “targeted a series of warehouses in Syria that were being used in a pipeline to store and stage Iranian weapons.”
The American official said Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met on Monday with the head of Israel’s Mossad spy agency, Yossi Cohen, at a cafe in Washington to discuss the airstrike, adding that the warehouses targeted also served as a pipeline for components that support Iran’s nuclear program.
“I do not know if there is a connection to the visit [to Washington] of the head of the Mossad, Yossi Cohen, nor do I know if it happened,” Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz told Israel Army Radio, adding that there is a “formidable struggle against Iran and its attempts to achieve nuclear weapons and establish themselves in Syria.”
The airstrikes hit targets in the area of the city of Deir Ezzor, as well as warehouses of ammunition and weapons in the Albu Kamal desert and in the Al-Mayadeen desert, the SOHR reported, adding that “this Israeli targeting is the most intense of its kind on Syrian territory, while no response or attempt to confront the Israeli bombing was monitored by the [Syrian] regime’s air defenses.”
According to the SOHR, the city Deir Ezzor, in which several areas have been bombed, and on its outskirts, are under Russian control.
“The arms warehouses for Iranian weaponry & equipment were located in Syria’s Deir Ezzor region on the Iranian-Syrian supply route,” tweeted Lenny Ben-David, a former diplomat with Israel’s Foreign Ministry. “Does Deir Ezzor sound familiar? In 2007 Israel bombed a Syrian-North Korean [nuclear] reactor there. Later the area fell into ISIS hands (imagine what if).”
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National Guard troops reinforce security around the U.S. Capitol ahead of the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden, Jan. 17, 2021. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)
So far, however, Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy and other leaders say they have seen no evidence of any threats.
By AP and World Israel News Staff
U.S. defense officials say they fear the very service members deployed to protect President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, prompting the FBI to vet all of the 25,000 National Guard troops coming into Washington for the event.
The massive undertaking reflects the extraordinary security concerns that have gripped Washington following the breach of the Capitol building by Trump supporters on Jan. 6 that has been labeled an “insurrection” by Democrats and sympathetic media like the Associated Press.
Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy told The Associated Press on Sunday that officials are conscious of the potential threat, and he warned commanders to be on the lookout for any problems within their ranks as the inauguration approaches.
So far, however, he and other leaders say they have seen no evidence of any threats, and officials said the vetting hadn’t flagged any issues that they were aware of.
”We’re continually going through the process, and taking second, third looks at every one of the individuals assigned to this operation,” McCarthy said in an interview after he and other military leaders went through an exhaustive, three-hour security drill in preparation for Wednesday’s inauguration.
He said Guard members are also getting training on how to identify potential insider threats.
Guard troops deploying
About 25,000 members of the National Guard are streaming into Washington from across the country — at least two and a half times the number for previous inaugurals. And while the military routinely reviews service members for extremist connections, the FBI screening is in addition to any previous monitoring.
Multiple officials said the process began as the first Guard troops began deploying to D.C. more than a week ago. And they said it is slated to be complete by Wednesday. Several officials discussed military planning on condition of anonymity.
“The question is, is that all of them? Are there others?” said McCarthy. “We need to be conscious of it and we need to put all of the mechanisms in place to thoroughly vet these men and women who would support any operations like this.”
In a situation like this one, FBI vetting would involve running peoples’ names through databases and watchlists maintained by the bureau to see if anything alarming comes up. That could include involvement in prior investigations or terrorism-related concerns, said David Gomez, a former FBI national security supervisor in Seattle.
Insider threats have been a persistent law enforcement priority in the years after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. But in most cases, the threats are from homegrown insurgents radicalized by al-Qaida, the Islamic State group or similar groups.
In contrast, the threats against Biden’s inauguration have been fueled by supporters of President Donald Trump. Many believe Trump’s accusations that the election was stolen from him, ignoring the mainstream media’s effort to push the narrative that the claims are “baseless” and “without evidence.”
According to McCarthy, service members from across the military were at the Jan. 6 rally, but it’s not clear how many were there or who may have participated in the breach at the Capitol. So far only a couple of current active-duty or National Guard members have been arrested in connection with the Capitol riot.
Gen. Daniel R. Hokanson, chief of the National Guard Bureau, has been meeting with Guard troops as they arrive in D.C. and as they gather downtown. He said he believes there are good processes in place to identify any potential threats.
“If there’s any indication that any of our soldiers or airmen are expressing things that are extremist views, it’s either handed over to law enforcement or dealt with the chain of command immediately,” he said.
Other threats
The insider threat, however, was just one of the security concerns voiced by officials on Sunday, as dozens of military, National Guard, law enforcement and Washington, D.C., officials and commanders went through a security rehearsal in northern Virginia.
As many as three dozen leaders lined tables that ringed a massive color-coded map of D.C. reflected onto the floor. Behind them were dozens more National Guard officers and staff, with their eyes trained on additional maps and charts displayed on the wall.
The Secret Service is in charge of event security, but there is a wide variety of military and law enforcement personnel involved, ranging from the National Guard and the FBI to Washington’s Metropolitan Police Department, U.S. Capitol Police and U.S. Park Police.
Commanders went over every aspect of the city’s complicated security lockdown, with McCarthy and others peppering them with questions about how the troops will respond in any scenario and how well they can communicate with the other enforcement agencies scattered around the city.
Hokanson said he believes his troops have been adequately equipped and prepared, and that they are rehearsing as much as they can to be prepared for any contingency.
The major security concern is an attack by armed groups of individuals, as well as planted explosives and other devices. McCarthy said intelligence reports suggest that groups are organizing armed rallies leading up to Inauguration Day, and possibly after that.
The bulk of the Guard members will be armed. And McCarthy said units are going through repeated drills to practice when and how to use force and how to work quickly with law enforcement partners. Law enforcement officers would make any arrests.
He said Guard units are going through “constant mental repetitions of looking at the map and talking through scenarios with leaders so they understand their task and purpose, they know their routes, they know where they’re friendly, adjacent units are, they have the appropriate frequencies to communicate with their law enforcement partners.”
The key goal, he said, is for America’s transfer of power to happen without incident.
“This is a national priority. We have to be successful as an institution,” said McCarthy. “We want to send the message to everyone in the United States and for the rest of the world that we can do this safely and peacefully.”
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Scott Applewhite)\nSo far, however, Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy and other leaders say they have seen no evidence of any threats.\nBy AP and World Israel News Staff\nU.S. defense officials say they fear the very service members deployed to protect President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration, prompting the FBI to vet all of the 25,000 National Guard troops coming into Washington for the event.\nThe massive undertaking reflects the extraordinary security concerns that have gripped Washington following the breach of the Capitol building by Trump supporters on Jan. 6 that has been labeled an “insurrection” by Democrats and sympathetic media like the Associated Press.\nArmy Secretary Ryan McCarthy told The Associated Press on Sunday that officials are conscious of the potential threat, and he warned commanders to be on the lookout for any problems within their ranks as the inauguration approaches.\nSo far, however, he and other leaders say they have seen no evidence of any threats, and officials said the vetting hadn’t flagged any issues that they were aware of.\n”We’re continually going through the process, and taking second, third looks at every one of the individuals assigned to this operation,” McCarthy said in an interview after he and other military leaders went through an exhaustive, three-hour security drill in preparation for Wednesday’s inauguration.\nHe said Guard members are also getting training on how to identify potential insider threats.\nGuard troops deploying\nAbout 25,000 members of the National Guard are streaming into Washington from across the country — at least two and a half times the number for previous inaugurals. And while the military routinely reviews service members for extremist connections, the FBI screening is in addition to any previous monitoring.\nMultiple officials said the process began as the first Guard troops began deploying to D.C. more than a week ago. And they said it is slated to be complete by Wednesday. Several officials discussed military planning on condition of anonymity.\n“The question is, is that all of them? Are there others?” said McCarthy. “We need to be conscious of it and we need to put all of the mechanisms in place to thoroughly vet these men and women who would support any operations like this.”\nIn a situation like this one, FBI vetting would involve running peoples’ names through databases and watchlists maintained by the bureau to see if anything alarming comes up. That could include involvement in prior investigations or terrorism-related concerns, said David Gomez, a former FBI national security supervisor in Seattle.\nInsider threats have been a persistent law enforcement priority in the years after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. But in most cases, the threats are from homegrown insurgents radicalized by al-Qaida, the Islamic State group or similar groups.\nIn contrast, the threats against Biden’s inauguration have been fueled by supporters of President Donald Trump. Many believe Trump’s accusations that the election was stolen from him, ignoring the mainstream media’s effort to push the narrative that the claims are “baseless” and “without evidence.”\nAccording to McCarthy, service members from across the military were at the Jan. 6 rally, but it’s not clear how many were there or who may have participated in the breach at the Capitol. So far only a couple of current active-duty or National Guard members have been arrested in connection with the Capitol riot.\nGen. Daniel R. Hokanson, chief of the National Guard Bureau, has been meeting with Guard troops as they arrive in D.C. and as they gather downtown. He said he believes there are good processes in place to identify any potential threats.\n“If there’s any indication that any of our soldiers or airmen are expressing things that are extremist views, it’s either handed over to law enforcement or dealt with the chain of command immediately,” he said.\nOther threats\nThe insider threat, however, was just one of the security concerns voiced by officials on Sunday, as dozens of military, National Guard, law enforcement and Washington, D.C., officials and commanders went through a security rehearsal in northern Virginia.\nAs many as three dozen leaders lined tables that ringed a massive color-coded map of D.C. reflected onto the floor. Behind them were dozens more National Guard officers and staff, with their eyes trained on additional maps and charts displayed on the wall.\nThe Secret Service is in charge of event security, but there is a wide variety of military and law enforcement personnel involved, ranging from the National Guard and the FBI to Washington’s Metropolitan Police Department, U.S. Capitol Police and U.S. Park Police.\nCommanders went over every aspect of the city’s complicated security lockdown, with McCarthy and others peppering them with questions about how the troops will respond in any scenario and how well they can communicate with the other enforcement agencies scattered around the city.\nHokanson said he believes his troops have been adequately equipped and prepared, and that they are rehearsing as much as they can to be prepared for any contingency.\nThe major security concern is an attack by armed groups of individuals, as well as planted explosives and other devices. McCarthy said intelligence reports suggest that groups are organizing armed rallies leading up to Inauguration Day, and possibly after that.\nThe bulk of the Guard members will be armed. And McCarthy said units are going through repeated drills to practice when and how to use force and how to work quickly with law enforcement partners. Law enforcement officers would make any arrests.\nHe said Guard units are going through “constant mental repetitions of looking at the map and talking through scenarios with leaders so they understand their task and purpose, they know their routes, they know where they’re friendly, adjacent units are, they have the appropriate frequencies to communicate with their law enforcement partners.”\nThe key goal, he said, is for America’s transfer of power to happen without incident.\n“This is a national priority. We have to be successful as an institution,” said McCarthy. “We want to send the message to everyone in the United States and for the rest of the world that we can do this safely and peacefully.”",
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The Peace Monument is framed by the Capitol dome on Capitol Hill in Washington, Jan. 4, 2021. (AP/Susan Walsh)
The president’s Republican allies in the House and Senate plan to object to the election results.
By World Israel News Staff and AP
President Donald Trump’s extraordinary effort to overturn the presidential election is going before Congress as lawmakers convene for a joint session to confirm the Electoral College vote won by Joe Biden.
The typically routine proceeding Wednesday will be anything but, a political confrontation unseen since the aftermath of the Civil War as Trump mounts a last-ditch effort to stay in office.
The president’s Republican allies in the House and Senate plan to object to the election results, heeding supporters’ plea to “fight for Trump” as he stages a rally outside the White House.
The longshot effort is all but certain to fail, defeated by bipartisan majorities in Congress prepared to accept the results. Biden, who won the Electoral College 306-232, is set to be inaugurated Jan. 20.
“The most important part is that, in the end, democracy will prevail here,” Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, among those managing the proceedings, said in an interview.
Cruz-led group to battle
Still, more than a dozen Republican senators led by Josh Hawley of Missouri and Ted Cruz of Texas, along with as many as 100 House Republicans, are pressing ahead to raise objections to the state results of Biden’s win.
“My view is Congress should fulfill our responsibility under the Constitution to consider serious claims of voter fraud,” Cruz told conservative host Mark Levin on Monday.
Cruz said, “And that’s why I assembled a coalition of 11 senators that we are going to vote to object to the electors — not to set aside the election, I don’t think that would actually be the right thing to do — but rather to press for the appointment of an electoral commission that can hear the claims of voter fraud, hear the evidence and make a determination as to what the facts are and the extent to which the law was complied with.”
The joint session of Congress, required by law, will convene at 1:00 p.m. under a watchful, restless nation — months after the Nov. 3 election, two weeks before the inauguration’s traditional peaceful transfer of power and against the backdrop of a surging Covid-19 pandemic.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who warned his party off this challenge, is expected to deliver early remarks. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, set to gavel proceedings on her side of the Capitol, called it a day of “enormous historic significance.” It is about “guaranteeing trust in our democratic system,” she said in a letter to colleagues.
Despite Trump’s repeated claims of voter fraud, election officials and his own former attorney general have said there were no problems on a scale that would change the outcome. All the states have certified their results as fair and accurate, by Republican and Democratic officials alike.
However, those who say the election was stolen present their own collection of evidence. Levin argues the election was unconstitutional from the get-go when states like Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Arizona allowed public officials to change their voting rules. (Only the state legislatures can change the rules according to the law.)
Others point to the implausibility of Trump’s loss. They find it hard to accept that a candidate such as Biden, who rarely made appearances, and when he did it was to anemic crowds, and who appears to suffer from early stages of dementia, should command 15.4 million more votes than did Barack Obama.
It’s also noted that the Republicans won all 27 ‘toss-up’ House races “in addition to picking up 7 of the 36 seats the outlet rated as ‘likely Democrat’ or ‘lean Democrat,’” according to The Washington Examiner.
Skeptics also say Biden’s win seems to be due to his outperforming in a few key Democrat-run cities. “Biden [won] Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin because of an apparent avalanche of black votes in Detroit, Philadelphia, and Milwaukee. Biden’s ‘winning’ margin was derived almost entirely from such voters in these cities, as coincidentally his black vote spiked only in exactly the locations necessary to secure victory,” The American Spectator says.
What will Pence do?
But it is Vice President Mike Pence who will be closely watched as he presides over the session.
Pence has a largely ceremonial role, opening the sealed envelopes from the states after they are carried in mahogany boxes used for the occasion, and reading the results aloud. But he is under growing pressure from Trump to tip it to the president’s favor, despite having no power to affect the outcome.
While other vice presidents, including Al Gore and Richard Nixon, also presided over their own defeats, Pence supports those Republican lawmakers mounting challenges to the 2020 outcome.
“I hope that our great vice president comes through for us,” Trump said at a rally in Georgia this week. “He’s a great guy. Of course, if he doesn’t come through, I won’t like him quite as much.”
It’s not the first time lawmakers have challenged results. Democrats did in 2017 and 2005. But the intensity of Trump’s challenge is like nothing in modern times, and an outpouring of current and elected GOP officials warn the showdown is sowing distrust in government and eroding Americans’ faith in democracy.
“There is no constitutionally viable means for the Congress to overturn an election,” said Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., announcing his refusal to join the effort on the eve of the session.
Under the rules of the joint session, any objection to a state’s electoral tally needs to be submitted in writing by at least one member of the House and one of the Senate to be considered. Each objection will force two hours of deliberations in the House and Senate, ensuring a long day.
House Republican lawmakers are signing on to objections to the electoral votes in six states — Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Arizona will likely the be the first to be disputed as the state tallies are announced in alphabetical order, and Cruz has said he will join House Republicans in objecting to that state.
Hawley has said he will object to the election results from Pennsylvania, almost ensuring a second two-hour debate despite resistance from the state’s Republican senator, Pat Toomey, who said the tally of Biden’s win is accurate.
Sen. Kelly Loeffler may challenge the results in her state of Georgia. But it’s unclear if any of the other senators will object to any other state, as lawmakers were still devising a strategy.
Democrats have the majority in the House and the Republican-led Senate is divided over the issue. Bipartisan majorities in both chambers are expected to soundly reject the objections.
The group led by Cruz is vowing to object unless Congress agreed to form a commission to investigate the election, but that seems unlikely.
Those with Cruz are Sens. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, James Lankford of Oklahoma, Steve Daines of Montana, John Kennedy of Louisiana, Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, Mike Braun of Indiana, Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming, Roger Marshall of Kansas, Bill Hagerty of Tennessee and Tommy Tuberville of Alabama.
Trump has vowed to “fight like hell” to stay in office. He said at a rally in Georgia the electors voting for Biden are “not gonna take this White House!”
Many of the Republicans challenging the results said they are trying to give voice to voters back home who don’t trust the outcome of the election and want to see the lawmakers fighting for Trump.
Hawley defended his role saying his constituents have been “loud and clear” about their distrust of the election. “It is my responsibility as a senator to raise their concerns,” he wrote to colleagues.
As criticism mounted, Cruz insisted his aim was “not to set aside the election” but to investigate the claims of voting problems. He has produced no new evidence.
Both Hawley and Cruz are potential 2024 presidential contenders, vying for Trump’s base of supporters.
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"What will Pence do? Congress set to confirm Biden as Trump faithful prepare to fight\nThe Peace Monument is framed by the Capitol dome on Capitol Hill in Washington, Jan. 4, 2021. (AP/Susan Walsh)\nThe president’s Republican allies in the House and Senate plan to object to the election results.\nBy World Israel News Staff and AP\nPresident Donald Trump’s extraordinary effort to overturn the presidential election is going before Congress as lawmakers convene for a joint session to confirm the Electoral College vote won by Joe Biden.\nThe typically routine proceeding Wednesday will be anything but, a political confrontation unseen since the aftermath of the Civil War as Trump mounts a last-ditch effort to stay in office.\nThe president’s Republican allies in the House and Senate plan to object to the election results, heeding supporters’ plea to “fight for Trump” as he stages a rally outside the White House.\nThe longshot effort is all but certain to fail, defeated by bipartisan majorities in Congress prepared to accept the results. Biden, who won the Electoral College 306-232, is set to be inaugurated Jan. 20.\n“The most important part is that, in the end, democracy will prevail here,” Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, among those managing the proceedings, said in an interview.\nCruz-led group to battle\nStill, more than a dozen Republican senators led by Josh Hawley of Missouri and Ted Cruz of Texas, along with as many as 100 House Republicans, are pressing ahead to raise objections to the state results of Biden’s win.\n“My view is Congress should fulfill our responsibility under the Constitution to consider serious claims of voter fraud,” Cruz told conservative host Mark Levin on Monday.\nCruz said, “And that’s why I assembled a coalition of 11 senators that we are going to vote to object to the electors — not to set aside the election, I don’t think that would actually be the right thing to do — but rather to press for the appointment of an electoral commission that can hear the claims of voter fraud, hear the evidence and make a determination as to what the facts are and the extent to which the law was complied with.”\nThe joint session of Congress, required by law, will convene at 1:00 p.m. under a watchful, restless nation — months after the Nov. 3 election, two weeks before the inauguration’s traditional peaceful transfer of power and against the backdrop of a surging Covid-19 pandemic.\nSenate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who warned his party off this challenge, is expected to deliver early remarks. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, set to gavel proceedings on her side of the Capitol, called it a day of “enormous historic significance.” It is about “guaranteeing trust in our democratic system,” she said in a letter to colleagues.\nDespite Trump’s repeated claims of voter fraud, election officials and his own former attorney general have said there were no problems on a scale that would change the outcome. All the states have certified their results as fair and accurate, by Republican and Democratic officials alike.\nHowever, those who say the election was stolen present their own collection of evidence. Levin argues the election was unconstitutional from the get-go when states like Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Arizona allowed public officials to change their voting rules. (Only the state legislatures can change the rules according to the law.)\nOthers point to the implausibility of Trump’s loss. They find it hard to accept that a candidate such as Biden, who rarely made appearances, and when he did it was to anemic crowds, and who appears to suffer from early stages of dementia, should command 15.4 million more votes than did Barack Obama.\nIt’s also noted that the Republicans won all 27 ‘toss-up’ House races “in addition to picking up 7 of the 36 seats the outlet rated as ‘likely Democrat’ or ‘lean Democrat,’” according to The Washington Examiner.\nSkeptics also say Biden’s win seems to be due to his outperforming in a few key Democrat-run cities. “Biden [won] Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin because of an apparent avalanche of black votes in Detroit, Philadelphia, and Milwaukee. Biden’s ‘winning’ margin was derived almost entirely from such voters in these cities, as coincidentally his black vote spiked only in exactly the locations necessary to secure victory,” The American Spectator says.\nWhat will Pence do?\nBut it is Vice President Mike Pence who will be closely watched as he presides over the session.\nPence has a largely ceremonial role, opening the sealed envelopes from the states after they are carried in mahogany boxes used for the occasion, and reading the results aloud. But he is under growing pressure from Trump to tip it to the president’s favor, despite having no power to affect the outcome.\nWhile other vice presidents, including Al Gore and Richard Nixon, also presided over their own defeats, Pence supports those Republican lawmakers mounting challenges to the 2020 outcome.\n“I hope that our great vice president comes through for us,” Trump said at a rally in Georgia this week. “He’s a great guy. Of course, if he doesn’t come through, I won’t like him quite as much.”\nIt’s not the first time lawmakers have challenged results. Democrats did in 2017 and 2005. But the intensity of Trump’s challenge is like nothing in modern times, and an outpouring of current and elected GOP officials warn the showdown is sowing distrust in government and eroding Americans’ faith in democracy.\n“There is no constitutionally viable means for the Congress to overturn an election,” said Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., announcing his refusal to join the effort on the eve of the session.\nUnder the rules of the joint session, any objection to a state’s electoral tally needs to be submitted in writing by at least one member of the House and one of the Senate to be considered. Each objection will force two hours of deliberations in the House and Senate, ensuring a long day.\nHouse Republican lawmakers are signing on to objections to the electoral votes in six states — Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.\nArizona will likely the be the first to be disputed as the state tallies are announced in alphabetical order, and Cruz has said he will join House Republicans in objecting to that state.\nHawley has said he will object to the election results from Pennsylvania, almost ensuring a second two-hour debate despite resistance from the state’s Republican senator, Pat Toomey, who said the tally of Biden’s win is accurate.\nSen. Kelly Loeffler may challenge the results in her state of Georgia. But it’s unclear if any of the other senators will object to any other state, as lawmakers were still devising a strategy.\nDemocrats have the majority in the House and the Republican-led Senate is divided over the issue. Bipartisan majorities in both chambers are expected to soundly reject the objections.\nThe group led by Cruz is vowing to object unless Congress agreed to form a commission to investigate the election, but that seems unlikely.\nThose with Cruz are Sens. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, James Lankford of Oklahoma, Steve Daines of Montana, John Kennedy of Louisiana, Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, Mike Braun of Indiana, Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming, Roger Marshall of Kansas, Bill Hagerty of Tennessee and Tommy Tuberville of Alabama.\nTrump has vowed to “fight like hell” to stay in office. He said at a rally in Georgia the electors voting for Biden are “not gonna take this White House!”\nMany of the Republicans challenging the results said they are trying to give voice to voters back home who don’t trust the outcome of the election and want to see the lawmakers fighting for Trump.\nHawley defended his role saying his constituents have been “loud and clear” about their distrust of the election. “It is my responsibility as a senator to raise their concerns,” he wrote to colleagues.\nAs criticism mounted, Cruz insisted his aim was “not to set aside the election” but to investigate the claims of voting problems. He has produced no new evidence.\nBoth Hawley and Cruz are potential 2024 presidential contenders, vying for Trump’s base of supporters.",
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Israel is “not yet aware” of all of Iran’s military capabilities, says Iranian army spokesperson.
By Neta Bar, Israel Hayom via JNS
Iranian army spokesperson Brig. Gen. Abolfazl Shekarchi on Wednesday dismissed remarks made a day earlier by Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi as “psychological warfare” and warned that the “slightest mistake” by Israel would lead the Islamic Republic to “level Haifa and Tel Aviv.”
Kochavi on Tuesday said the IDF was preparing offensive contingencies against Iran and warned the Biden administration against rejoining the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.
In an address to the Institute for National Security Studies, Kochavi said a return to the deal, even with some improvements, “is bad operationally and bad strategically.” He said allowing Iran to proceed with its nuclear program would be “an unacceptable threat and will lead to nuclear proliferation across the region.”
Shekarchi told Iran’s the semi-official Tasnim News Agency: “If we notice the slightest mistake on the part of the Zionist regime towards the regime of the Islamic Republic, we will strike both the missile bases, which, according to them, are intended to strike Iran, and in the shortest time will level Haifa and Tel Aviv to the ground.”
According to Shekarchi, Israel was “not yet aware” of all of Iran’s military capabilities.
Mahmoud Vaezi, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s chief of staff, also responded to Kochavi’s comments, saying, “Our people and people of the region are familiar with the language so far used by the Zionist regime’s officials, who talk more and seek to conduct psychological warfare.”
Vaezi also argued that Israel has “neither a plan nor the ability” to attack Iran.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday echoed Kochavi’s warnings to Tehran.
“I would like to emphasize that the policy I am pursuing is clear: We will not allow Iran to arm itself with nuclear weapons. I say this to enemies and friends alike. It is our top mission, to preserve the life of our country.”
This article first appeared in Israel Hayom.
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Hamas blocked residents from visiting a U.S.-funded hospital on the Israeli side of the Gaza Strip for not offering enough services, like chemotherapy, which aren’t available in the coastal enclave.
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The IDF took off in hot pursuit and so far have arrested 20 suspects.
By David Isaac, World Israel News
The stone-throwing attack that critically injured a 30-year-old woman near Neve Tzuf in the Binyamin region of Judea and Samaria was an organized attack made up of two terrorist squads, Israel’s Channel 20 reports.
One of the groups blocked the road while the second threw stones. One of those rocks struck the young woman in the head. She was treated at the scene and rushed to Tel Hashomer hospital.
The IDF took off in hot pursuit, focusing on the nearby Arab village of Deir Nizam. By 8:00 p.m., Arabs in the village said that the IDF had encircled it. So far the IDF has arrested 20 suspects.
The driver has been identified as Rivka Teitel. Two of her sons with her were not injured.
According to website 0404, one of Rivka’s sisters said, “This is the second time our family has been hit by terrorism, [another sister] Sarah’s husband Moshe was injured 12 years ago in a shooting attack and went blind as a result. To this day he is defined as 100% disabled. We’re used to thinking of stones as smaller [less deadly] but they can be much more dangerous.
“Rivka is suffering from a head injury and more than that at the moment we do not know – we are waiting for doctors who will update us and tell us what to do,” she said.
Two weeks ago in the same area, terrorists threw stones at vehicles on Route 465, near the same village. A vehicle was damaged but there were no casualties.
A week ago, terrorists threw stones at a bus between the HaOfakim junction and Beit Anun, north of Kiryat Arba. The bus was damaged.
Tensions are high in Judea and Samaria after a Jewish teen, Ahuvia Sandak, was killed on Dec. 21 in a high-speed car chase with police. The other people in the car with Sandak say that police bumped the car, causing it to flip over, leading to Sandak’s death.
It was reported on Sunday that the officers involved in the chase would not be prosecuted.
Protests, often violent, have taken place against the police since the accident
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University of California Merced professor who tweeted about “IsraHell” and Zionist “world domination” will not teach spring semester after outcry
By Algemeiner Staff
Abbas Ghassemi, a chemical engineering professor at the University of California Merced, will not be teaching in the spring semester at the school, after outrage last month over his anti-Semitic social media posts, the Merced Sun-Star reported Friday.
The Twitter posts, exposed in Dec. 2020 by the Jewish News of Northern California, led to calls for Ghassemi’s firing and prompted an inquiry by the school, which has not yet commented on his employment status.
One post, on Dec. 13, read, “the Zionists and IsraHell interest have embedded themselves in every component of the American system, media, banking, policy, commerce … just a veneer of serving US interest and population — everyone pretends that is the case.”
Another included an image of a “Zionist brain” with labels such as “frontal money lobe,” “Holocaust memory centre,” “self-pity gland” and “world domination lobe.”
“The opinions presented in this Twitter account do not represent UC Merced or the University of California,” said a Dec. 29 statement from Chancellor Juan Sánchez Muñoz and Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Gregg A. Camfield. “They were abhorrent and repugnant to us and to many of our colleagues and neighbors; they were harmful to our university, our students, and our years of work to build an inclusive and welcoming community.”
The statement also promised that the school would develop programming for the upcoming semester on antisemitism, free speech and hate speech.
Jim Chiavelli, assistant vice chancellor of external relations at UC Merced, told the Sun-Star Friday that “the associate chancellor is still evaluating partnerships for specific programming on anti-Semitism” at UC Merced.
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"University of California Merced professor who tweeted about “IsraHell” and Zionist “world domination” will not teach spring semester after outcry\nBy Algemeiner Staff\nAbbas Ghassemi, a chemical engineering professor at the University of California Merced, will not be teaching in the spring semester at the school, after outrage last month over his anti-Semitic social media posts, the Merced Sun-Star reported Friday.\nThe Twitter posts, exposed in Dec. 2020 by the Jewish News of Northern California, led to calls for Ghassemi’s firing and prompted an inquiry by the school, which has not yet commented on his employment status.\nOne post, on Dec. 13, read, “the Zionists and IsraHell interest have embedded themselves in every component of the American system, media, banking, policy, commerce … just a veneer of serving US interest and population — everyone pretends that is the case.”\nAnother included an image of a “Zionist brain” with labels such as “frontal money lobe,” “Holocaust memory centre,” “self-pity gland” and “world domination lobe.”\n“The opinions presented in this Twitter account do not represent UC Merced or the University of California,” said a Dec. 29 statement from Chancellor Juan Sánchez Muñoz and Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Gregg A. Camfield. “They were abhorrent and repugnant to us and to many of our colleagues and neighbors; they were harmful to our university, our students, and our years of work to build an inclusive and welcoming community.”\nThe statement also promised that the school would develop programming for the upcoming semester on antisemitism, free speech and hate speech.\nJim Chiavelli, assistant vice chancellor of external relations at UC Merced, told the Sun-Star Friday that “the associate chancellor is still evaluating partnerships for specific programming on anti-Semitism” at UC Merced.",
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‘We’re not far from civil war,’ warns former Chief Rabbi of Israel
Rabbi Shlomo Moshe Amar urged leaders in the haredi community to work with law enforcement and the army to avoid further violence related to nationwide corona lockdown.
By Ebin Sandler, World Israel News
Chief Rabbi of Jerusalem Shlomo Moshe Amar issued a stern warning on Tuesday amid violent protests in the haredi sector in response to lockdown regulations that have closed schools and businesses throughout Israel.
In an interview with Army Radio, Amar warned, “Nothing justifies raising your hand against your brother [or] bloodshed, and we’re not far away from that. There is nothing more serious than civil war.”
Amar made the comments after haredi rioters in Jerusalem and Bnei Brak clashed with police Sunday night when law enforcement attempted to enforce coronavirus regulations.
In Bnei Brak, protesters torched a passenger bus, while rioters in Jerusalem damaged a light rail train. Following the incident in Bnei Brak, the bus driver told the media he feared for his life.
Amar joins a growing chorus of leaders from the haredi sector condemning violence from a minority within the community, with current Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel Yitzhak Yosef releasing a video on Monday calling the violence blasphemous and a desecration of God’s name.
Yosef added that there is no justification for the types of protests that swept Jerusalem and Bnei Brak on Sunday.
In his comments to Army Radio, Amar added, “The rabbis, the heads of the yeshivot [religious schools] and the heads of the police and the army need to speak, [and] really hear one another to try to find ways [to resolve the conflict].”
Amar added, “I’m ready to take part in the discussions. It would be unwise to ignore [the problem].”
According to Yosef, the riots are the product of “a handful of youths who are detached from Torah, decency, and good character.”
“Certainly there is no justification for such serious acts,” said Yosef in his video on Monday. “Those who do such acts in the name of Torah are desecrating God’s name in public. … This minority stains the image of the entire haredi population, the vast majority of whom are very far from behavior such as this.”
The minority to which Yosef referred has ignored healthcare guidelines and lockdown restrictions, and encouraged others to do the same, as the coronavirus continues to wreak havoc in the Jewish state.
Over a 24 hour period on Monday and Tuesday, 100 people died in Israel from COVID-19 and its complications.
From 2003 to 2013, Amar held the position of former Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel, serving concurrently as Chief Rabbi of Rishon LeZion, the fourth-largest city in Israel.
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Anti-Defamation League is the first major Jewish group to call on the president to resign. AJC, AIPAC say Trump “incited.”
By Paul Shindman, World Israel News
The Anti Defamation League became the first major Jewish organization to call on President Donald Trump to resign following the riot on Capitol Hill by his supporters last week, the organization said in a statement released Friday.
“The Anti-Defamation League today called for the removal of President Donald Trump from office, either by the means afforded by the U.S. Constitution or through his own resignation,” the statement said.
“In our over 100 years of history, ADL has never called for the President of the United States to be removed from office, but what occurred on Wednesday was inexcusable,” said ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt. “It will forever be remembered as one of the darkest days of American democracy and it makes unambiguously clear: President Trump is unfit for office and needs to be removed.”
Greenblatt later told The Forward newspaper he knew that Trump would most likely not see the ADL statement, but said “as one of the nation’s leaders on tracking and fighting white supremacy the ADL had to make the strongest possible statement after Wednesday’s assault on the Capitol.”
“The idea that a sitting president could incite a terror attack on the American government, there is no precedent for that,” said Greenblatt. “It is indisputable that the responsibility lies right at his feet.”
Greenblatt served in the White House as Special Assistant to President Barack Obama. Under Greenblatt’s leadership, the ADL has been accused of engaging in partisan politics and veering from its primary mission, which is, in its words: “To stop, by appeals to reason and conscience and, if necessary, by appeals to law, the defamation of the Jewish people.”
In one prominent example, in 2018, the ADL immediately attacked the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, stating its concern that “Judge Kavanaugh’s judicial record does not reflect the demonstrated independence and commitment to fair treatment for all that is necessary to merit a seat on our nation’s highest court.”
At the time, JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin wrote: “By repeatedly involving it in political controversies, it is impossible to pretend that Greenblatt’s vision of the group isn’t fundamentally that of a Democratic Party auxiliary that is increasingly overshadowing and marginalizing its still vital role as the nation’s guardian against anti-Semitism.”
Two other major Jewish groups criticized Trump, but stopped short of calling for his ouster.
“We share the anger of our fellow Americans over the attack at the Capitol and condemn the assault on our democratic values and process. This violence, and President Trump’s incitement of it, is outrageous and must end,” tweeted AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, that is seen as the most influential bipartisan Jewish lobby group in Washington.
Similarly, the American Jewish Committee slammed Trump for inciting his supporters.
“Pres. Trump, You’ve incited rioters,” tweeted AJC director David Harris. “You’ve undermined democratic values by a refusal to accept the election results. You’ve encouraged folks to reject a peaceful transfer of power. I represent a nonpartisan org., but never when it comes to acts of violence & insurrection.”
Harris tweeted later that he had been attacked in social media “for speaking up against violent threats to democracy & rule of law in America, I’ve now been called: Traitor, Liar, S**thead, Fraud, Imbecile, Communist sheep, Turncoat, Nonamerican, Sellout, Pathetic joke.”
The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations issued a less direct statement, calling for the “orderly transfer of power,” but not referring to Trump by name.
“The orderly transfer of power is a hallmark of and essential to American democracy,” the organization said. We are disgusted by the violence at the US Capitol and urge the rioters to disperse immediately. Law and order must be restored, and the peaceful transition of administrations must continue.”
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The IDF is preparing three alternative scenarios that will be presented to the government in the near future, the report said.
By Paul Shindman, World Israel News
The IDF is working on three new plans to deal with Iran’s nuclear program in the wake of Tehran’s recent violations and the possibility that incoming president Joe Biden will return the U.S. to the Iran nuclear deal, Israel Hayom reported on Thursday.
Against the background of progress in the Iranian nuclear program, the IDF is preparing three alternative scenarios that will be presented to the government in the near future, the report said.
Iranian government leaders say they want to return to the nuclear deal, but in the past weeks have ramped up the enrichment of uranium and accumulated assets that could allow it to shorten the time needed to produce an atomic bomb.
“Iran has made progress in recent years in the field of research and development, both in the accumulation of enriched material and in offensive capabilities, and it has a regime that really wants to reach nuclear weapons,” said Defense Minister Benny Gantz, himself a former IDF chief of staff.
“It is clear that Israel needs to have a military option in front of it. It requires resources and investment, and I am working to make that happen,” he said.
The IDF has already clarified that the preparation of military options requires billions of shekels that are in addition to the current defense budget, the report noted.
Iran’s decision to begin enriching to 20% a decade ago nearly brought an Israeli strike targeting its nuclear facilities and last week Tehran announced it was again resuming enrichment to 20% in direct violation of the Iran nuclear deal.
Ali Akbar Salehi, the U.S.-educated head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, a supposedly “civilian” body, said “We are like soldiers and our fingers are on the triggers.”
As part of its activities that deviate from the nuclear deal, Iran has accumulated about three tons of low-level enriched uranium, as well as installed advanced centrifuges at its nuclear facilities. Its most recent breach of the accords came Wednesday, when it announced it was producing uranium metal-based fuel for a research reactor.
Uranium metal can be used in the core of a nuclear bomb and the deal imposes a 15-year ban on Iran producing or acquiring it.
In Israel, it is believed that this activity is intended to “accumulate assets” ahead of the expected negotiations with the Biden administration, which has already made it clear that it intends to return to the nuclear agreement despite fierce opposition from Israel.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also intends to appoint a special task force to coordinate on the Iran nuclear issue, with the leading candidate to head it being the current head of the Mossad, Yossi Cohen, who would take on the role immediately after his term ends in June.
Israel wants a future agreement with Iran to include a longer period of oversight of its nuclear programs, as well as restrictions on nuclear research and development, the development and production of ballistic missiles and its terrorist activities in the region.
Iran has already made it clear that it will oppose this and demands the immediate lifting of sanctions before any return to the nuclear deal.
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He is the 10th-ranked chess player in the world, having earned the title of grandmaster at the age of 14.
By JNS
Azeri-Jewish chess grandmaster Teimour Radjabov, 33, became emotional following his victory on Sunday in the final match of the Champions Chess Tour Airthings Masters online tournament, winning the $60,000 grand prize.
His opponent in the crucial final standoff was an Armenian player, 38-year-old Levon Aronian.
During the first day of the finals, Teimour won with a 2.5-1.5 score and beat his opponent 2-1 on the second day. Upon finishing the last game, Radjabov broke into tears.
In the match for the third place, Daniil Dubov of Russia lost to Maxime Vachier-Lagrave of France.
Radjabov was born in 1987 in the Azerbaijani capital of Baku. His father, Boris Sheynin, is a petroleum engineer who attended the same chess school in Baku as chess legend Garry Kasparov, and his mother, Leyla Radjabova, is an English-language teacher.
Rajabov is the 10th-ranked chess player in the world. He earned the title of grandmaster at the age of 14, which made him the second-youngest grandmaster in history at the time. In 2003, Rajabov gained international attention after beating then-world No. 1 Kasparov in the Linares International Chess Tournament, followed by victories over former world champions Viswanathan Anand and Ruslan Ponomariov the same year.
“This is a huge deal for me. I am not the kind of person who likes to show his emotions during the game. But after I won the tournament, I felt really overwhelmed and could not hold back my tears,” Norwegian government-owned radio and television public-broadcasting company NRK quoted Radjabov as saying.
“The final match was quite intense. I was so close to getting defeated but managed to save the day,” he continued. “I wanted to give my country a reason to feel proud. Aronian must’ve come with the same objective. I just hope we can all live in peace.”
Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev and his wife, Mehriban Aliyeva, sent a congratulatory letter to Radjabov, saying: “Your convincing victory during this competition by demonstrating professionalism, will and perseverance made the people of Azerbaijan happy. This success of yours is also a clear indication of the high intellectual potential of our people.”
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Scene of a three-vehicle crash in Samaria caused by rocks thrown at one of the vehicles, Nov. 23, 2020. (MDA)
Surge in attacks included the brutal murder of an Israeli mother and a large increase in firebombings.
By Paul Shindman, World Israel News
December 2020 was the most violent month for terrorism since 2017 with overall statistics showing violence didn’t take a break during the coronavirus pandemic, Kan News reported Saturday.
Statistics released by the Israel National Security Agency showed 98 serious incidents in December, 56 of them in Judea and Samaria, 38 in Jerusalem and four coming from Gaza.
In the worst attack, a Palestinian terrorist stalked and murdered Esther Horgan, 52, a mother of six who went out for an afternoon jog.
Out of the 3,951 incidents of rock-throwing by Palestinians against Israelis and security forces reported last year, only 218 indictments were filed against the perpetrators according to data from the IDF, Kan reported, noting that only 1 in 18 rock throwing attacks resulted in an indictment.
The IDF clarified the low number of indictments saying that a single indictment can contain several cases of rock-throwing, and that there are other indictments in which the main offense is more serious, so that the rock-throwing was not included in the papers filed to the count.
According to data released on the weekend, Israeli violence against Palestinians was also up with 41 “price tag” incidents carried out last month by Israelis against Palestinians, most of them stone-throwing that resulted in injuries to seven Palestinians, the report said.
The attacks in December by Palestinians against Israelis included pipebombs, small-arms fire, arson, stabbing and a leap in firebomb attacks from 60 incidents in November to 84 firebombings in December with Palestinians hurling molotov cocktails – glass bottles filled with gasoline – primarily at IDF forces and Israeli vehicles traveling on the roads in Judea and Samaria.
There were also three separate incidents of terrorists in Gaza firing rockets at Israeli towns and cities. Also in Gaza, Hamas united the different terrorist groups and staged a mock war against Israel in the last week of December and issuing a statement saying “the factions are united under one word, one rifle, one missile, which will be activated simultaneously to defeat” Israel.
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Lebanon was founded to serve as a home for Christians and other minority groups in the region. Over the years, however, it gave up its national character and symbols and began to fall apart from within.
By Lt. Col. (res.) Dr. Mordechai Kedar, BESA Center
Lebanon, like Syria, Jordan, Iraq, and Israel, was born on the ruins of the Ottoman Empire after its lands were conquered by Britain, which, together with France, was given a mandate by the League of Nations to establish independent states in those territories. The idea that dominated the Arabic-speaking intellectual-nationalist world was to set up a big state in the region that would include the Muslim, Christian, Druze, Alawite, and Jewish religious communities.
But many of the Christians in Lebanon, particularly the Maronites, didn’t like this idea, as they were well aware of the fate the Armenians and the Assyrians had suffered in WWI—a dark period during which more than a million Armenian Christians were murdered by Muslims in strange and barbarous ways. They knew a big Syrian state would have a large Muslim majority while the Christians would constitute a minority, just as they had in the days of the Muslim Ottoman Empire.
When the Ottoman Empire collapsed, the Lebanese Christians saw an opportunity to free themselves of the Muslim majority’s yoke. Their guiding principle was that the Lebanese state could solve their problem as Christians. The French—who held the Syria mandate—identified with the Christians’ yearning for independence and cooperated with the effort to turn Lebanon into a separate state for them.
Among the Christians of Lebanon, a debate was waged between believers in a “little Lebanon” and those who pushed for a “big Lebanon.” “Little Lebanon” was the territory extending from Beirut eastward, and northward to Tripoli. While this territory was indeed small, all its residents were Christian.
The problem with that zone is it is entirely mountainous, so its economic, particularly agricultural, potential is inherently limited. The alternative was a “big Lebanon” that contained the Bekaa Valley—a large and fertile agricultural expanse—and the lands south of Beirut. The difficulty there was that those additional territories were populated by Druze and by Shiite and Sunni Muslims, which would jeopardize Lebanon’s Christian character.
After a public debate, those who favored a “big Lebanon” with constitutional and governmental mechanisms in place that would perpetuate the Christian hegemony emerged as the winners. The state that was established was a democracy of sorts that allotted political roles among the different communities.
The trouble started when the Christian minority began to forgo the Christian nature of the country. That process could be seen to unfold at many points in Lebanon’s history, of which three will be noted here.
Palestinian refugee camps
First, in the Cairo Agreement of 1969, Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser put Lebanon in a situation in which Palestinian refugee camps—of which there were 10 at that time—formed an extraterritorial domain whose residents could organize, arm themselves, and train for the “liberation of Palestine.” The Palestinian military presence in Lebanon quickly became a security threat to the state’s existence, and indeed it was armed Palestinians who ignited the Lebanese Civil War in 1976.
The second turning point occurred in 1980 when Lebanon allowed Khomeini-ruled Iran to start sending Shiite propagandists to the country with the aim of boosting the Shiites’ communal spirit. Later, Tehran would send military advisers, weapons, and ammunition to add a military dimension to the Shiite community’s spiritual strength. This process occurred while the country was embroiled in a civil war and the government’s ability to stymie the Shiites’ military empowerment was limited. The Israeli military presence in southern Lebanon provided a pretext for this process.
The third milestone was the 1989 Taif Agreement, which ended the civil war. This agreement stipulated that all communal militias would be disbanded and the Lebanese army would be the only armed force. The Syrians, who then held sway in Lebanon, broke up all the militias except Hezbollah, which they continued to arm and bolster until it became the strongest force in Lebanon—even stronger than the state military.
Meanwhile, a bidirectional demographic process was occurring in Lebanon in which the Christian population decreased because of a low birthrate and high emigration and the Shiite population increased because of a high birthrate and low emigration. The Shiite community is now the largest in the country. Although no census is conducted in Lebanon because of the demographic issue’s sensitivity, the Shiite community is said to be larger than all the others put together; in other words, it enjoys a decisive majority in Lebanon.
Over the years, the Christian community in Lebanon has not acted in unison (there are more than 10 different Christian groups in the country), and many Christian politicians have sought allies among other communities and cooperated with them mainly to promote personal interests. The most notable example is Lebanon’s current president Michel Aoun, who was elected in 2016 as Hezbollah’s long arm.
Hence a situation has emerged in which Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah is the effective ruler of Lebanon. It is he who determines which politicians of the different communities are appointed to “leadership” positions, and he decides when they are to be removed from the political system or even assassinated (as in the case of former PM Rafiq Hariri).
In a slow but undeniable process, Lebanon ceased to be the “Switzerland of the Middle East” as the Christian community for which Lebanon was founded, gave up the country’s “Christianness.” That community’s corrupt leaders devoted themselves to fulfilling the hegemonic aims of the Shiite community—a group that was included in the country because of the territorial appetites of the Christian proponents of a “big Lebanon.”
Israeli demographics
For Israel, the lesson of the Lebanese case is that it must do its utmost to maintain a clear and solid Jewish demographic majority. This author’s “emirates plan” is intended to bring about a separation between Israel and the overwhelming majority of the Palestinian population in Judea and Samaria while keeping most of the sparsely populated rural land under Israeli sovereignty.
Israel must also anchor the nation-state of the Jewish people not only in a basic law, the Nation-State Law, but also in a long list of laws, regulations, and actions on the ground that are based on the Nation-State Law and apply it in practice.
In addition, Israel must be alert to any attempt to undermine its status as the state of the Jewish people, particularly on the part of Israeli foundations and groups as well as foundations in Europe and the U.S. whose whole purpose is to put an end to that reality. Israel must likewise be vigilant toward anti-Jewish activity in Jerusalem in general and on the Temple Mount in particular, and must remove all foreign actors who have gained a foothold in Israel’s capital—from Jordan to Turkey, from the waqf (which Moshe Dayan unwisely foisted on the place) to the Islamic Movement.
If Israel gives up its status as the state of the Jewish people, its fate will be the same as that of its Lebanese neighbor to the north, which was meant to be the state of the Christians.
This is an edited version of an article published in Makor Rishon on January 12, 2021.
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"Lebanon was founded to serve as a home for Christians and other minority groups in the region. Over the years, however, it gave up its national character and symbols and began to fall apart from within.\nBy Lt. Col. (res.) Dr. Mordechai Kedar, BESA Center\nLebanon, like Syria, Jordan, Iraq, and Israel, was born on the ruins of the Ottoman Empire after its lands were conquered by Britain, which, together with France, was given a mandate by the League of Nations to establish independent states in those territories. The idea that dominated the Arabic-speaking intellectual-nationalist world was to set up a big state in the region that would include the Muslim, Christian, Druze, Alawite, and Jewish religious communities.\nBut many of the Christians in Lebanon, particularly the Maronites, didn’t like this idea, as they were well aware of the fate the Armenians and the Assyrians had suffered in WWI—a dark period during which more than a million Armenian Christians were murdered by Muslims in strange and barbarous ways. They knew a big Syrian state would have a large Muslim majority while the Christians would constitute a minority, just as they had in the days of the Muslim Ottoman Empire.\nWhen the Ottoman Empire collapsed, the Lebanese Christians saw an opportunity to free themselves of the Muslim majority’s yoke. Their guiding principle was that the Lebanese state could solve their problem as Christians. The French—who held the Syria mandate—identified with the Christians’ yearning for independence and cooperated with the effort to turn Lebanon into a separate state for them.\nAmong the Christians of Lebanon, a debate was waged between believers in a “little Lebanon” and those who pushed for a “big Lebanon.” “Little Lebanon” was the territory extending from Beirut eastward, and northward to Tripoli. While this territory was indeed small, all its residents were Christian.\nThe problem with that zone is it is entirely mountainous, so its economic, particularly agricultural, potential is inherently limited. The alternative was a “big Lebanon” that contained the Bekaa Valley—a large and fertile agricultural expanse—and the lands south of Beirut. The difficulty there was that those additional territories were populated by Druze and by Shiite and Sunni Muslims, which would jeopardize Lebanon’s Christian character.\nAfter a public debate, those who favored a “big Lebanon” with constitutional and governmental mechanisms in place that would perpetuate the Christian hegemony emerged as the winners. The state that was established was a democracy of sorts that allotted political roles among the different communities.\nThe trouble started when the Christian minority began to forgo the Christian nature of the country. That process could be seen to unfold at many points in Lebanon’s history, of which three will be noted here.\nPalestinian refugee camps\nFirst, in the Cairo Agreement of 1969, Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser put Lebanon in a situation in which Palestinian refugee camps—of which there were 10 at that time—formed an extraterritorial domain whose residents could organize, arm themselves, and train for the “liberation of Palestine.” The Palestinian military presence in Lebanon quickly became a security threat to the state’s existence, and indeed it was armed Palestinians who ignited the Lebanese Civil War in 1976.\nThe second turning point occurred in 1980 when Lebanon allowed Khomeini-ruled Iran to start sending Shiite propagandists to the country with the aim of boosting the Shiites’ communal spirit. Later, Tehran would send military advisers, weapons, and ammunition to add a military dimension to the Shiite community’s spiritual strength. This process occurred while the country was embroiled in a civil war and the government’s ability to stymie the Shiites’ military empowerment was limited. The Israeli military presence in southern Lebanon provided a pretext for this process.\nThe third milestone was the 1989 Taif Agreement, which ended the civil war. This agreement stipulated that all communal militias would be disbanded and the Lebanese army would be the only armed force. The Syrians, who then held sway in Lebanon, broke up all the militias except Hezbollah, which they continued to arm and bolster until it became the strongest force in Lebanon—even stronger than the state military.\nMeanwhile, a bidirectional demographic process was occurring in Lebanon in which the Christian population decreased because of a low birthrate and high emigration and the Shiite population increased because of a high birthrate and low emigration. The Shiite community is now the largest in the country. Although no census is conducted in Lebanon because of the demographic issue’s sensitivity, the Shiite community is said to be larger than all the others put together; in other words, it enjoys a decisive majority in Lebanon.\nOver the years, the Christian community in Lebanon has not acted in unison (there are more than 10 different Christian groups in the country), and many Christian politicians have sought allies among other communities and cooperated with them mainly to promote personal interests. The most notable example is Lebanon’s current president Michel Aoun, who was elected in 2016 as Hezbollah’s long arm.\nHence a situation has emerged in which Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah is the effective ruler of Lebanon. It is he who determines which politicians of the different communities are appointed to “leadership” positions, and he decides when they are to be removed from the political system or even assassinated (as in the case of former PM Rafiq Hariri).\nIn a slow but undeniable process, Lebanon ceased to be the “Switzerland of the Middle East” as the Christian community for which Lebanon was founded, gave up the country’s “Christianness.” That community’s corrupt leaders devoted themselves to fulfilling the hegemonic aims of the Shiite community—a group that was included in the country because of the territorial appetites of the Christian proponents of a “big Lebanon.”\nIsraeli demographics\nFor Israel, the lesson of the Lebanese case is that it must do its utmost to maintain a clear and solid Jewish demographic majority. This author’s “emirates plan” is intended to bring about a separation between Israel and the overwhelming majority of the Palestinian population in Judea and Samaria while keeping most of the sparsely populated rural land under Israeli sovereignty.\nIsrael must also anchor the nation-state of the Jewish people not only in a basic law, the Nation-State Law, but also in a long list of laws, regulations, and actions on the ground that are based on the Nation-State Law and apply it in practice.\nIn addition, Israel must be alert to any attempt to undermine its status as the state of the Jewish people, particularly on the part of Israeli foundations and groups as well as foundations in Europe and the U.S. whose whole purpose is to put an end to that reality. Israel must likewise be vigilant toward anti-Jewish activity in Jerusalem in general and on the Temple Mount in particular, and must remove all foreign actors who have gained a foothold in Israel’s capital—from Jordan to Turkey, from the waqf (which Moshe Dayan unwisely foisted on the place) to the Islamic Movement.\nIf Israel gives up its status as the state of the Jewish people, its fate will be the same as that of its Lebanese neighbor to the north, which was meant to be the state of the Christians.\nThis is an edited version of an article published in Makor Rishon on January 12, 2021.",
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“Jewish people today on campus can be tolerated, protected or abused. At no point are they treated as equals.” — David Collier, Academia, January 18, 2021.
By Richard Kemp, Gatestone Institute
“The goal is achieved! No more Jews at German universities,” the leading Nazi student newspaper, Die Bewegung, triumphantly proclaimed in 1938.
Of course, nothing like it could ever happen again. Except something like it is happening again — now, and in Britain. According to a report published this week by David Collier, a British researcher, some UK universities are now virtually Judenfrei: free of Jews.
This is a chilling indictment not just of British academia but of a liberal democratic society that has tolerated, often through ignorance or complacency, a wave of discrimination against Jews that has swept through the universities over recent decades.
From these halls of learning anti-Semitism has spread out, driving and empowering what is now a solid movement that threatens Jews in various parts of society and has led to many of them leaving. This is not just in Britain. Collier characterizes academia as “the epicentre of global anti-Semitism”.
Skulks behind veneer of anti-Zionism
This Jew-hate is cloaked in anti-Zionism, a doctrine that claims the Jewish state, alone among the nations, has no right to exist. It seeks to whip up anti-Israel hatred by focusing on three core lies: accusations of apartheid, ethnic cleansing and settler-colonialism.
As Jewish students and professors were hounded out and eventually banned from universities and high schools by German state edict, today in Britain anti-Zionist academics and the students they influence have created an environment that alienates many Jews, by using the pretext of their support for the Jewish State. Of course, not every Jewish student supports Israel and very few are uncritical, as with their own country. Nevertheless, Collier says:
“Jewish people today on campus can be tolerated, protected or abused. At no point are they treated as equals. The best they can hope for is protection and tolerance in a hostile environment. On the campus the prevailing wisdom is that their beliefs in Jewish identity are fundamentally wrong.”
Specifically, Jews are grotesquely branded as members of a race that has no place in the land of Israel, but is a “white” colonialist occupier and oppressor of the indigenous peoples.
Collier asks: “Why would an openly Jewish student want to go to a university where they will be vilified by other students and victimised by lecturers?”
The reality in Britain today is that many Jewish students choose their university not by the course content or the quality of teaching, but by the extent of anti-Semitism they will find there.
Baroness Ruth Deech, formerly Britain’s Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education, and an accomplished academic and former principal of an Oxford college, previously commented that “amongst Jewish students there is gradually a feeling that there are certain universities that you should avoid.”
You can meet many Jewish students in Britain and in several other Western countries who attest to this, who will tell you of some universities that are relatively safe for them and others that need to be sidestepped.
I speak frequently at universities on a range of subjects. Only when speaking at the invitation of Jewish or pro-Israel groups have I experienced any hostility as opposed to open debate. In virtually every case, some form of physical protest as well as social media abuse is guaranteed — not to disagree but to silence.
This has taken place in the UK, U.S., South Africa and Australia, where one talk was so severely disrupted that it led to an in-depth investigation by the university authorities with rare disciplinary action taken against the perpetrators that included academic staff.
Collier’s research shows that:
“If they [Jewish students] are abused, it is far less serious than an offence against someone from the Muslim, BAME or LGBTQ communities. If an academic is responsible for the abuse (see Bristol, Leeds, Warwick) it is the academic who will be protected and the complaining Jewish student who will be victimised – even if the student can prove abuse.”
In a classic pattern of radicalization, there exist in some universities networks of academics who widely contaminate their students with their bias and hatred. Most effectively in terms of perpetuating the spread of anti-Semitism, some will indoctrinate their students through supervision of PhD studies that can lead to hard-core activism and further lateral and vertical transmission, often from university to university and from country to country.
Their influence is not confined to the universities. Some write libel-filled books, publish twisted columns in national newspapers and are called on to spread their bias in the broadcast media. NGOs, government organizations and international corporations consult and partner with these individuals.
They often play leading roles in movements such as the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign and activist groups like the so-called Palestine Solidarity Campaign, inciting anti-Jewish hatred far and wide, sometimes damaging property and intimidating Jews on the streets.
Corbyn’s defenders from academia
The staunchest defenders of Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party came from the academic world. University professors were involved in dozens of events accusing those who opposed Corbyn of smearing him and his henchmen with politically-motivated lies.
Unfortunately for them, Labour became the first ever mainstream political party to be investigated by the UK’s Equality and Human Rights Commission. The EHRC found Labour guilty of the very thing these armies of academics were denying — illegal discrimination and harassment against Jews.
Britain cannot be compared to Germany in the 1930s, but similarities exist in some of the objectives and methods of the Nazi bully-boys at German universities in that era. Before Jews were finally excluded, members of the National Socialist Students’ League often disrupted lectures, provoked altercations and intimidated Jewish students. All of this can be seen in British university campuses today.
Responding to a violent protest by students at King’s College London protesting a visiting Israeli speaker, Lord Eric Pickles, UK Special Envoy for Post-Holocaust issues, said in Parliament: “If we need to know who the new fascists are, we need only look at those who perpetrated that attack.”
As Robert Festenstein of the UK’s Jewish Human Rights Watch, who have been working for years to combat anti-Semitism in British universities, told this author: “Jews are being educationally ethnically cleansed from certain universities in the UK.”
The anti-Semites’ goal
The objective of today’s academic bullies is not so much to drive the Jews out but to shut them up and shut them down — to suppress any dissent from their own radical anti-Zionist agenda aimed at delegitimizing the Jewish State. They often succeed, forcing Jews to go elsewhere, to keep quiet about facts regarding Israel and even to cause them to hide their Jewish identity.
Quite understandably, many young Jews just want to get on with their studies and their lives, not to engage in potentially damaging political confrontations and to risk vilification or worse, which could also have adverse effect on their examination results and employment prospects.
Why should any Jew, as any member of any race or religion, be victimized because of who they are? Why should any proud Jew that wants to express his or her support for the Jewish state be afraid to do so? Israel is one of Britain’s most important allies, supplying us with life-saving intelligence and technology, and is an increasingly strong trade partner.
Above all, contrary to the twisted precepts of the Jew haters, Israel is not guilty of the false claims they make to undermine it. At any rate, in a civilized society it must be possible to openly put across the opposing argument without fear.
In 2016, the British government adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition of anti-Semitism, which provides a tool to enable public bodies to act against such discrimination as is rife in our universities. The government has been working to persuade universities to adopt the IHRA definition, including by warning that funding streams may be removed.
Often bitterly contested by academic staff desperate to remain unchallenged in their bully pulpits, as of last autumn only 29 of 133 higher education institutions had complied, although a few others have apparently done so since. More pressure needs to be piled onto the rejectionists, as well as rigorous monitoring, to ensure adherence on the campuses, if need be enshrining the definition in law.
It is also necessary to shine a light on the plight of Jewish students — hardly any British people will have the slightest inkling of what has been going on in our so-called seats of learning. This is where David Collier’s work is vital. His report is the starting point of a project to map the anti-Semitic networks in every one of Britain’s universities, to understand where and how the hostility exists and to put a stop to it.
Colonel Richard Kemp is a former British Army Commander. He was also head of the international terrorism team in the U.K. Cabinet Office and is now a writer and speaker on international and military affairs.
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"“Jewish people today on campus can be tolerated, protected or abused. At no point are they treated as equals.” — David Collier, Academia, January 18, 2021.\nBy Richard Kemp, Gatestone Institute\n“The goal is achieved! No more Jews at German universities,” the leading Nazi student newspaper, Die Bewegung, triumphantly proclaimed in 1938.\nOf course, nothing like it could ever happen again. Except something like it is happening again — now, and in Britain. According to a report published this week by David Collier, a British researcher, some UK universities are now virtually Judenfrei: free of Jews.\nThis is a chilling indictment not just of British academia but of a liberal democratic society that has tolerated, often through ignorance or complacency, a wave of discrimination against Jews that has swept through the universities over recent decades.\nFrom these halls of learning anti-Semitism has spread out, driving and empowering what is now a solid movement that threatens Jews in various parts of society and has led to many of them leaving. This is not just in Britain. Collier characterizes academia as “the epicentre of global anti-Semitism”.\nSkulks behind veneer of anti-Zionism\nThis Jew-hate is cloaked in anti-Zionism, a doctrine that claims the Jewish state, alone among the nations, has no right to exist. It seeks to whip up anti-Israel hatred by focusing on three core lies: accusations of apartheid, ethnic cleansing and settler-colonialism.\nAs Jewish students and professors were hounded out and eventually banned from universities and high schools by German state edict, today in Britain anti-Zionist academics and the students they influence have created an environment that alienates many Jews, by using the pretext of their support for the Jewish State. Of course, not every Jewish student supports Israel and very few are uncritical, as with their own country. Nevertheless, Collier says:\n“Jewish people today on campus can be tolerated, protected or abused. At no point are they treated as equals. The best they can hope for is protection and tolerance in a hostile environment. On the campus the prevailing wisdom is that their beliefs in Jewish identity are fundamentally wrong.”\nSpecifically, Jews are grotesquely branded as members of a race that has no place in the land of Israel, but is a “white” colonialist occupier and oppressor of the indigenous peoples.\nCollier asks: “Why would an openly Jewish student want to go to a university where they will be vilified by other students and victimised by lecturers?”\nThe reality in Britain today is that many Jewish students choose their university not by the course content or the quality of teaching, but by the extent of anti-Semitism they will find there.\nBaroness Ruth Deech, formerly Britain’s Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education, and an accomplished academic and former principal of an Oxford college, previously commented that “amongst Jewish students there is gradually a feeling that there are certain universities that you should avoid.”\nYou can meet many Jewish students in Britain and in several other Western countries who attest to this, who will tell you of some universities that are relatively safe for them and others that need to be sidestepped.\nI speak frequently at universities on a range of subjects. Only when speaking at the invitation of Jewish or pro-Israel groups have I experienced any hostility as opposed to open debate. In virtually every case, some form of physical protest as well as social media abuse is guaranteed — not to disagree but to silence.\nThis has taken place in the UK, U.S., South Africa and Australia, where one talk was so severely disrupted that it led to an in-depth investigation by the university authorities with rare disciplinary action taken against the perpetrators that included academic staff.\nCollier’s research shows that:\n“If they [Jewish students] are abused, it is far less serious than an offence against someone from the Muslim, BAME or LGBTQ communities. If an academic is responsible for the abuse (see Bristol, Leeds, Warwick) it is the academic who will be protected and the complaining Jewish student who will be victimised – even if the student can prove abuse.”\nIn a classic pattern of radicalization, there exist in some universities networks of academics who widely contaminate their students with their bias and hatred. Most effectively in terms of perpetuating the spread of anti-Semitism, some will indoctrinate their students through supervision of PhD studies that can lead to hard-core activism and further lateral and vertical transmission, often from university to university and from country to country.\nTheir influence is not confined to the universities. Some write libel-filled books, publish twisted columns in national newspapers and are called on to spread their bias in the broadcast media. NGOs, government organizations and international corporations consult and partner with these individuals.\nThey often play leading roles in movements such as the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign and activist groups like the so-called Palestine Solidarity Campaign, inciting anti-Jewish hatred far and wide, sometimes damaging property and intimidating Jews on the streets.\nCorbyn’s defenders from academia\nThe staunchest defenders of Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party came from the academic world. University professors were involved in dozens of events accusing those who opposed Corbyn of smearing him and his henchmen with politically-motivated lies.\nUnfortunately for them, Labour became the first ever mainstream political party to be investigated by the UK’s Equality and Human Rights Commission. The EHRC found Labour guilty of the very thing these armies of academics were denying — illegal discrimination and harassment against Jews.\nBritain cannot be compared to Germany in the 1930s, but similarities exist in some of the objectives and methods of the Nazi bully-boys at German universities in that era. Before Jews were finally excluded, members of the National Socialist Students’ League often disrupted lectures, provoked altercations and intimidated Jewish students. All of this can be seen in British university campuses today.\nResponding to a violent protest by students at King’s College London protesting a visiting Israeli speaker, Lord Eric Pickles, UK Special Envoy for Post-Holocaust issues, said in Parliament: “If we need to know who the new fascists are, we need only look at those who perpetrated that attack.”\nAs Robert Festenstein of the UK’s Jewish Human Rights Watch, who have been working for years to combat anti-Semitism in British universities, told this author: “Jews are being educationally ethnically cleansed from certain universities in the UK.”\nThe anti-Semites’ goal\nThe objective of today’s academic bullies is not so much to drive the Jews out but to shut them up and shut them down — to suppress any dissent from their own radical anti-Zionist agenda aimed at delegitimizing the Jewish State. They often succeed, forcing Jews to go elsewhere, to keep quiet about facts regarding Israel and even to cause them to hide their Jewish identity.\nQuite understandably, many young Jews just want to get on with their studies and their lives, not to engage in potentially damaging political confrontations and to risk vilification or worse, which could also have adverse effect on their examination results and employment prospects.\nWhy should any Jew, as any member of any race or religion, be victimized because of who they are? Why should any proud Jew that wants to express his or her support for the Jewish state be afraid to do so? Israel is one of Britain’s most important allies, supplying us with life-saving intelligence and technology, and is an increasingly strong trade partner.\nAbove all, contrary to the twisted precepts of the Jew haters, Israel is not guilty of the false claims they make to undermine it. At any rate, in a civilized society it must be possible to openly put across the opposing argument without fear.\nIn 2016, the British government adopted the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition of anti-Semitism, which provides a tool to enable public bodies to act against such discrimination as is rife in our universities. The government has been working to persuade universities to adopt the IHRA definition, including by warning that funding streams may be removed.\nOften bitterly contested by academic staff desperate to remain unchallenged in their bully pulpits, as of last autumn only 29 of 133 higher education institutions had complied, although a few others have apparently done so since. More pressure needs to be piled onto the rejectionists, as well as rigorous monitoring, to ensure adherence on the campuses, if need be enshrining the definition in law.\nIt is also necessary to shine a light on the plight of Jewish students — hardly any British people will have the slightest inkling of what has been going on in our so-called seats of learning. This is where David Collier’s work is vital. His report is the starting point of a project to map the anti-Semitic networks in every one of Britain’s universities, to understand where and how the hostility exists and to put a stop to it.\nColonel Richard Kemp is a former British Army Commander. He was also head of the international terrorism team in the U.K. Cabinet Office and is now a writer and speaker on international and military affairs.",
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“Lorne. I got this,” Braff wrote, referring to “Saturday Night Live” creator Lorne Michaels.
By Shiryn Ghermezian, Algemeiner
Former “Scrubs” star Zach Braff wants to play fellow Jew and newly elected Georgia senator Jon Ossoff on “Saturday Night Live,” he tweeted on Tuesday evening.
“Lorne. I got this,” Braff wrote, referring to “Saturday Night Live” creator Lorne Michaels, as election results rolled in. Ossoff’s victory as Georgia’s first Jewish senator was announced the following day.
“Don’t toy with me. If this doesn’t happen I will be heartbroken,” wrote one fan in response, while another joked, “@nbcsnl are you taking notes?”
Some on Twitter were having fun with the idea of a Jewish actor playing Ossoff on “SNL” and even replied to Braff’s post by suggesting Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Timothee Chalamet as alternatives.
More than one Twitter follower recommended that the actor’s “Scrubs” co-star Donald Faison should also come on “SNL” to play, alongside Braff, Ossoff’s new fellow Georgia senator Rev. Raphael Warnock.
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Tel Aviv chosen as one of Abu Dhabi's 8 new investment hubs
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The Abu Dhabi Investment Office will expand the cooperation between the two nations to unlock opportunities for innovation and collaboration.
By James Spiro, CTech via The Algemeiner
The Abu Dhabi Investment Office (ADIO) announced on Sunday that it will establish eight new offices, one of which will be in Israel, as part of a series of strategic opportunities to boost support for investors around the world. The global network, which is in collaboration with the Abu Dhabi Department of Economic Development (ADDED), will help businesses capitalize on opportunities across the UAE.
In total, the eight new markets include New York, San Francisco, Frankfurt, London, Paris, Beijing, and Seoul. The inclusion of the Israeli city of Tel Aviv is a testament to the dedication both nations have to the Abraham Accords and the normalization between the two nations.
“Abu Dhabi offers global investors an attractive business environment, world-class infrastructure, and major growth opportunities,” explained H.E. Dr. Tariq Bin Hendi, Director General of ADIO. “Our network of international offices will serve as a gateway to greater opportunity, enabling us to reach companies of all sizes wherever they are operating. Our global teams will provide a window into Abu Dhabi, with local understanding and capabilities, to ensure investors have the holistic support needed for their growth and expansion.”
“ADIO’s opening of eight regional offices around the world reflects Abu Dhabi’s commitment to launch greater investment opportunities in collaboration with the emirate’s key international partners,” added H.E. Mohammed Ali Al Shorafa, Chairman of ADDED and ADIO. “The representative offices will serve as a bridge between key international markets and the exciting opportunities in some of our economy’s highest potential areas, opening up new areas for cooperation between the domestic private sector and its international counterparts.”
The decision to establish its first international office in Tel Aviv was announced in September 2020. The office will expand the cooperation between the two nations and unlock opportunities for innovation and collaboration.
The ADIO is a government entity responsible for attracting investments in the UAE. It helps investors and businesses to connect and partner with each other within the country’s ecosystem.
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The Ministry of Health said Monday morning that it documented 5,616 new COVID-19 cases over the past day.
By Aryeh Savir, TPS
Israel passed a grim milestone on Monday when it counted 4,005 deaths caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19) since the outbreak in the country started in February 2020.
Israel is in the second week of a tight countrywide lockdown, after two weeks of a more loose closure, while the infection rate still remains high and there is no significant drop in the number of hospitalized patients.
The Ministry of Health updated Monday morning that it documented 5,616 new COVID-19 cases over the past day.
Of the 63,516 tests done on Sunday, 9.1% returned positive.
1,130 patients hospitalized with Corona are in serious condition, 273 of them are on life support.
Over 2, 116,257 Israelis have received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, some 23.8% of the population.
Some 152,000 people were vaccinated on Sunday, 72,000 received the first dose, and 80,000 the second dose.
Professor Eran Segal, a computational biologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science and an expert on COVID-19 in Israel, compared the second and third waves of infections and noted that until a few days ago the graph of the new daily patients was similar, but in the second wave, the breaking point and the decline in the number of new patients started on the 13th day of the closure. In the third wave, a full 20 days into the lockdown, Israel may finally be seeing the breaking point.
However, he noted that Israel may be seeing the effect of the vaccines. This week the number of serious patients aged 60 and over increased by 15%, compared with a 40% increase in people aged 40-55.
In comparison, in the previous two weeks, the increase in people aged 60 and above was about 30%.
In the meantime, the government is trying to stem the spread of the various COVID-19 variants after the UK mutation spread rapidly through the country.
The Cabinet decided Sunday evening that all persons who return from the United Arab Emirates and Brazil will be required to quarantine in state-run designated hotels, with the South African and Brazilian variants in mind.
A similar decision made regarding persons returning from South Africa and Zambia has been extended for an additional 10 days.
It was also decided to extend by two weeks the requirement to quarantine in designated hotels for all persons returning from any country in the world unless they agree to be tested upon entering Israel and commit to being tested again after nine days’ quarantine at home.
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Iran’s decision to begin enriching to 20% a decade ago nearly brought an Israeli strike targeting its nuclear facilities.
By Associated Press
Iran said on Monday it has begun enriching uranium up to 20% at an underground nuclear facility, a short, technical step to weapons-grade levels of 90% amid escalating tensions with the U.S.
Iranian state television quoted spokesman Ali Rabiei as saying that President Hassan Rouhani has given the order for the move at the Fordo facility.
Iran’s decision to begin enriching to 20% a decade ago nearly brought an Israeli strike targeting its nuclear facilities, tensions that only abated with the 2015 atomic deal. A resumption of 20% enrichment could see that brinksmanship return.
Iran’s decision comes after its parliament passed a bill, later approved by a constitutional watchdog, aimed at hiking enrichment to pressure Europe into providing sanctions relief. It also serves as pressure ahead of the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden, who has said he is willing to re-enter the nuclear deal.
Iran informed the International Atomic Energy Agency last week that it planned to take the step.
Shielded by the mountains, Fordo is ringed by anti-aircraft guns and other fortifications. It is about the size of a football field, large enough to house 3,000 centrifuges, but small and hardened enough to lead U.S. officials to suspect it had a military purpose when they exposed the site publicly in 2009.
The 2015 deal saw Iran agree to limit its enrichment in exchange for sanctions relief. The accord also called for Fordo to be turned into a research-and-development facility.
Under Iran’s former hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Tehran began enrichment at the 20% level. Israel, which has its own undeclared nuclear weapons program, feared Tehran was building an atomic bomb.
After the discovery of Fordo, the U.S. worked on so-called “bunker buster” bombs designed to strike such facilities. As Israel threatened at one point to bomb Iranian nuclear sites like Fordo, U.S. officials reportedly showed them a video of a bunker-buster bomb destroying a mock-up of Fordo in America’s southwestern desert.
Israel, which under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has continued to criticize Iran’s nuclear program, offered no immediate comment Saturday.
Up to now, Iran had enriched uranium up to 4.5%, in violation of the accord’s limit of 3.67%. Experts say Iran now has enough low-enriched uranium stockpiled for at least two nuclear weapons, if it chose to pursue them. Iran long has maintained its nuclear program is peaceful.
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"Iran’s decision to begin enriching to 20% a decade ago nearly brought an Israeli strike targeting its nuclear facilities.\nBy Associated Press\nIran said on Monday it has begun enriching uranium up to 20% at an underground nuclear facility, a short, technical step to weapons-grade levels of 90% amid escalating tensions with the U.S.\nIranian state television quoted spokesman Ali Rabiei as saying that President Hassan Rouhani has given the order for the move at the Fordo facility.\nIran’s decision to begin enriching to 20% a decade ago nearly brought an Israeli strike targeting its nuclear facilities, tensions that only abated with the 2015 atomic deal. A resumption of 20% enrichment could see that brinksmanship return.\nIran’s decision comes after its parliament passed a bill, later approved by a constitutional watchdog, aimed at hiking enrichment to pressure Europe into providing sanctions relief. It also serves as pressure ahead of the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden, who has said he is willing to re-enter the nuclear deal.\nIran informed the International Atomic Energy Agency last week that it planned to take the step.\nShielded by the mountains, Fordo is ringed by anti-aircraft guns and other fortifications. It is about the size of a football field, large enough to house 3,000 centrifuges, but small and hardened enough to lead U.S. officials to suspect it had a military purpose when they exposed the site publicly in 2009.\nThe 2015 deal saw Iran agree to limit its enrichment in exchange for sanctions relief. The accord also called for Fordo to be turned into a research-and-development facility.\nUnder Iran’s former hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Tehran began enrichment at the 20% level. Israel, which has its own undeclared nuclear weapons program, feared Tehran was building an atomic bomb.\nAfter the discovery of Fordo, the U.S. worked on so-called “bunker buster” bombs designed to strike such facilities. As Israel threatened at one point to bomb Iranian nuclear sites like Fordo, U.S. officials reportedly showed them a video of a bunker-buster bomb destroying a mock-up of Fordo in America’s southwestern desert.\nIsrael, which under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has continued to criticize Iran’s nuclear program, offered no immediate comment Saturday.\nUp to now, Iran had enriched uranium up to 4.5%, in violation of the accord’s limit of 3.67%. Experts say Iran now has enough low-enriched uranium stockpiled for at least two nuclear weapons, if it chose to pursue them. Iran long has maintained its nuclear program is peaceful.",
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Tu B’Shvat is a Jewish holiday that begins this week in which Jews plant trees.But this year it’s the Palestinians who are doing the planting.
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Palestinians are planting for Israel's tree holiday and seizing land in the process
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But this year it’s the Palestinians who are doing the planting.
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Recent attention has focused on the Bnei Menashe Indians who just arrived in Israel, but there’s an older Indian community that’s been here since the country was founded.
By Naama Barak, ISRAEL21c
Whatever way you look at it, the Jewish community of Cochin is an ancient one.
If you rely on traditional lore, the Jews of the city of Cochin in southwestern India can trace their roots there all the way back to the times of the biblical King Solomon.
If you’d rather go with archeological finds, then 10th century copper tablets detailing the rights given to the community by a local king should do the trick.
Yet despite these ancient roots, only eight Cochin Jews remain in the southwestern Indian state of Kerala. The rest, now numbering around 8,000, reside here in Israel.
“Immigration to Israel began the moment the state was declared. The Jews immediately began getting ready,” explains Mira Elia of the Cochin Jewish Heritage Center. “Their whole purpose was to immigrate to Israel and that was their goal.”
Before arriving in Israel, the Jewish community there had a rich heritage and unique traditions.
“The Jews resided in two cities and three villages in southwestern India and mostly worked in trade,” Elia says.
Earlier centuries saw the Cochin Jews engage in international trade, but by the 20th century commerce was far more local and included both trade and work at a printing press and a soda factory.
In all cases, members of the community used to work independently from the rest of the population to enable them to adhere to rules pertaining to Shabbat and the holidays. They also used to live in great proximity to the synagogue.
“The community was very devout,” Elia says. “Until the arrival in Israel it was very religious and that is what preserved it.”
And yet, relations with the rest of the multicultural communities of the area were positive, she notes.
“You must remember that we’re in Cochin, in a huge India, where tolerance and patience is what it’s all about,” she says. “There was respect for one another.”
Another element that characterized the community, and which was very much linked to the prominence of trade, was the status of women.
“There was great respect for women. Women had center stage,” Elia notes. “The woman, the mother, was the one who stayed at home to manage the home and take care of the children and their education. The result was that their status was very, very high.”
The husband depended on his wife to manage the money he sent home. “She was responsible to both save and organize the funds in an adequate way for children to receive their education.”
Resettling in Israel
This go-getting attitude, Elia says, also characterized the community as it settled in Israel.
Back in 1949, the first members of the community to immigrate traveled via train for three days to reach Bombay – present-day Mumbai – where they waited for many months to catch a flight to the Holy Land.
By 1953, the great majority of the community – some 2,800 people – arrived in the country and went to live in rural communities, or moshavim, as well as in a few urban neighborhoods.
Elia resides in Nevatim, a moshav in the Negev Desert that’s home to many members of the community. It’s also where she operates the Cochin Jewish Heritage Center that welcomes visitors to learn more about and enjoy different aspects of the community.
The center is currently shuttered because of Covid-19, but in regular times it offers exhibitions on the community’s dress, wedding traditions and life back in Kerala. Recently, it has also conducted online lectures in English for senior citizen centers in Israel and is open to more of the sort.
Elia says that unlike the difficulties experienced by other communities that immigrated to Israel, the Jewish Cochin community had a relatively smooth landing, even though they had left lush surroundings for a more arid desert atmosphere.
“They arrived from a beautiful, green and tropic land, but they wanted to settle in a place where they could work and establish the state,” Elia says.
What also helped, she notes, is the moshav’s proximity to Beersheva, the city of Abraham.
Nowadays, the Cochin community in Israel numbers some 8,000 people – the 2,800 people who immigrated and their subsequent families. But as the younger generation of the community began marrying Israelis of other origins, traditions changed.
“The community is very varied,” Elia notes. “If you ask an 80-plus-year-old whether this is how things were done in Cochin, then they’d smile. Because it’s far from it. We grew up into this reality, we can see the changes, but the community is still important.”
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"Recent attention has focused on the Bnei Menashe Indians who just arrived in Israel, but there’s an older Indian community that’s been here since the country was founded.\nBy Naama Barak, ISRAEL21c\nWhatever way you look at it, the Jewish community of Cochin is an ancient one.\nIf you rely on traditional lore, the Jews of the city of Cochin in southwestern India can trace their roots there all the way back to the times of the biblical King Solomon.\nIf you’d rather go with archeological finds, then 10th century copper tablets detailing the rights given to the community by a local king should do the trick.\nYet despite these ancient roots, only eight Cochin Jews remain in the southwestern Indian state of Kerala. The rest, now numbering around 8,000, reside here in Israel.\n“Immigration to Israel began the moment the state was declared. The Jews immediately began getting ready,” explains Mira Elia of the Cochin Jewish Heritage Center. “Their whole purpose was to immigrate to Israel and that was their goal.”\nBefore arriving in Israel, the Jewish community there had a rich heritage and unique traditions.\n“The Jews resided in two cities and three villages in southwestern India and mostly worked in trade,” Elia says.\nEarlier centuries saw the Cochin Jews engage in international trade, but by the 20th century commerce was far more local and included both trade and work at a printing press and a soda factory.\nIn all cases, members of the community used to work independently from the rest of the population to enable them to adhere to rules pertaining to Shabbat and the holidays. They also used to live in great proximity to the synagogue.\n“The community was very devout,” Elia says. “Until the arrival in Israel it was very religious and that is what preserved it.”\nAnd yet, relations with the rest of the multicultural communities of the area were positive, she notes.\n“You must remember that we’re in Cochin, in a huge India, where tolerance and patience is what it’s all about,” she says. “There was respect for one another.”\nAnother element that characterized the community, and which was very much linked to the prominence of trade, was the status of women.\n“There was great respect for women. Women had center stage,” Elia notes. “The woman, the mother, was the one who stayed at home to manage the home and take care of the children and their education. The result was that their status was very, very high.”\nThe husband depended on his wife to manage the money he sent home. “She was responsible to both save and organize the funds in an adequate way for children to receive their education.”\nResettling in Israel\nThis go-getting attitude, Elia says, also characterized the community as it settled in Israel.\nBack in 1949, the first members of the community to immigrate traveled via train for three days to reach Bombay – present-day Mumbai – where they waited for many months to catch a flight to the Holy Land.\nBy 1953, the great majority of the community – some 2,800 people – arrived in the country and went to live in rural communities, or moshavim, as well as in a few urban neighborhoods.\nElia resides in Nevatim, a moshav in the Negev Desert that’s home to many members of the community. It’s also where she operates the Cochin Jewish Heritage Center that welcomes visitors to learn more about and enjoy different aspects of the community.\nThe center is currently shuttered because of Covid-19, but in regular times it offers exhibitions on the community’s dress, wedding traditions and life back in Kerala. Recently, it has also conducted online lectures in English for senior citizen centers in Israel and is open to more of the sort.\nElia says that unlike the difficulties experienced by other communities that immigrated to Israel, the Jewish Cochin community had a relatively smooth landing, even though they had left lush surroundings for a more arid desert atmosphere.\n“They arrived from a beautiful, green and tropic land, but they wanted to settle in a place where they could work and establish the state,” Elia says.\nWhat also helped, she notes, is the moshav’s proximity to Beersheva, the city of Abraham.\nNowadays, the Cochin community in Israel numbers some 8,000 people – the 2,800 people who immigrated and their subsequent families. But as the younger generation of the community began marrying Israelis of other origins, traditions changed.\n“The community is very varied,” Elia notes. “If you ask an 80-plus-year-old whether this is how things were done in Cochin, then they’d smile. Because it’s far from it. We grew up into this reality, we can see the changes, but the community is still important.”",
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The regime now knows that Biden seems desperate for a deal and doubtless sees this as a delectable weakness.
By Majid Rafizadeh, The Gatestone Institute
The Iranian regime received a dangerous and unprecedented level of concessions from the Obama administration for Iran’s 2015 “nuclear deal,” known as the JCPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action) — which, by the way, Tehran never signed. The major concession was that the deal paved the way for Iran legally to become a full-blown nuclear state.
The sunset clauses, which enshrined that commitment, had set a firm expiration date for restricting Iran’s nuclear program. The Obama administration also helped swiftly lift all four rounds of UN sanctions against Iran — sanctions it had taken decades to put in place.
Furthermore, Iran’s military sites were exempt from inspection by the International Atomic Energy Agency, and other inspections were only to be at the times and places of Iran’s choosing — if ever. Iran then rejoined the global financial system with full legitimacy — plus billions of dollars flowing into the treasury of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and its expanding militias across the Middle East.
Mullahs angling for more
You would think, then, that the regime would be delighted to return to the same nuclear deal, right? Wrong. The mullahs want an even sweeter deal. Why? Partially because Joe Biden already showed his cards by stating that he wants the deal. “I will offer Tehran a credible path back to diplomacy,” Biden stated in a CNN op-ed.
“If Iran returns to strict compliance with the nuclear deal, the United States would rejoin the agreement as a starting point for follow-on negotiations. With our allies, we will work to strengthen and extend the nuclear deal’s provisions, while also addressing other issues of concern.”
The regime now knows that Biden seems desperate for a deal, and doubtless sees this as a delectable weakness.
Just as enticing to the mullahs, Biden has appointed Wendy Sherman — a key negotiator in the talks which led to the nuclear deal in 2015 during the Obama administration — to be Deputy Secretary of State. Biden actually pointed to this professed accomplishment:
“She [Sherman] has successfully rallied the world to strengthen democracy and confront some of the biggest national security challenges of our time, including leading the U.S. negotiating team for the Iran Deal”.
That sent a further strong message to Iran that the Biden administration was desperate to return to the nuclear deal.FFy
Meanwhile, the Iranian regime can only feel emboldened by the position of the European Union. The EU is lobbying for returning to the JCPOA and lifting sanctions on Iran — in spite of the fact, as France’s Foreign Minister Jean Yves Le Drian recently acknowledged, that Tehran is rapidly acquiring nuclear weapons capacity. The EU announced last week its “strong commitment” to the Iranian nuclear deal and urged Biden swiftly to rejoin it:
“The EU reiterates its strong commitment to and continued support for the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. The JCPoA is a key element of the global nuclear non-proliferation architecture and an achievement of multilateral diplomacy, endorsed unanimously by the UN Security Council through resolution 2231.”
Iran’s ruling mullahs also most likely assume that they can extort even more concessions from a Democrat administration, particularly Biden’s, because they successfully did so in the past, with the Obama administration, when Biden served as Vice President.
A new deal
Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, nevertheless, told a forum organized by New York’s Council on Foreign Relations that he wants a new deal.
“A sign of good faith is not to try to renegotiate what has already been negotiated,” he said, adding in the same speech that the U.S. must “compensate us for our losses.” Iran’s top judicial body had already demanded that the U.S. pay $130 billion in “damages.”
Iran’s regime, in addition, is playing another dangerous game, as it did with the Obama administration, to program to extort greater concessions from the Biden administration: It is ratcheting up nuclear threats.
Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of the civilian Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, stated on January 1, 2021 that Tehran will enrich uranium at a higher level, a short technical step away from weapons-grade level. The IAEA confirmed the plan:
“Iran has informed the agency that in order to comply with a legal act recently passed by the country’s parliament, the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran intends to produce low-enriched uranium (LEU) up to 20 percent at the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant. Iran’s letter to the agency, dated [Dec. 31, 2020] did not say when this enrichment activity would take place.”
Now, at an underground facility, Iran’s theocratic establishment is enriching uranium at 20 percent.
Furthermore, on January 4, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) seized in the Gulf a South Korean-flagged ship carrying thousands of tons of ethanol, according to Fars News. The move alarmed the U.S. State Department. A spokesperson noted:
“The (Iranian) regime continues to threaten navigational rights and freedoms in the Persian Gulf as part of a clear attempt to extort the international community into relieving the pressure of sanctions. We join the Republic of Korea’s call for Iran to immediately release the tanker,”
Meanwhile, General Hossein Salami, commander-in-chief of the IRGC, recently threatened the U.S. and the United Kingdom. “If you cross our red line,” he announced, “we will destroy you. We will not leave any move unanswered. The enemy will not have security anywhere.” He added that the regime’s “patience has a limit.”
The Iranian parliament also recently passed another law, requiring the government to expel the nuclear inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
All these measures — using threats and nuclear violations — are just aimed at getting a still sweeter deal from the Biden administration.
Dr. Majid Rafizadeh is a business strategist and advisor, Harvard-educated scholar, political scientist, board member of Harvard International Review, and president of the International American Council on the Middle East. He has authored several books on Islam and U.S. foreign policy.
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"The regime now knows that Biden seems desperate for a deal and doubtless sees this as a delectable weakness.\nBy Majid Rafizadeh, The Gatestone Institute\nThe Iranian regime received a dangerous and unprecedented level of concessions from the Obama administration for Iran’s 2015 “nuclear deal,” known as the JCPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action) — which, by the way, Tehran never signed. The major concession was that the deal paved the way for Iran legally to become a full-blown nuclear state.\nThe sunset clauses, which enshrined that commitment, had set a firm expiration date for restricting Iran’s nuclear program. The Obama administration also helped swiftly lift all four rounds of UN sanctions against Iran — sanctions it had taken decades to put in place.\nFurthermore, Iran’s military sites were exempt from inspection by the International Atomic Energy Agency, and other inspections were only to be at the times and places of Iran’s choosing — if ever. Iran then rejoined the global financial system with full legitimacy — plus billions of dollars flowing into the treasury of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and its expanding militias across the Middle East.\nMullahs angling for more\nYou would think, then, that the regime would be delighted to return to the same nuclear deal, right? Wrong. The mullahs want an even sweeter deal. Why? Partially because Joe Biden already showed his cards by stating that he wants the deal. “I will offer Tehran a credible path back to diplomacy,” Biden stated in a CNN op-ed.\n“If Iran returns to strict compliance with the nuclear deal, the United States would rejoin the agreement as a starting point for follow-on negotiations. With our allies, we will work to strengthen and extend the nuclear deal’s provisions, while also addressing other issues of concern.”\nThe regime now knows that Biden seems desperate for a deal, and doubtless sees this as a delectable weakness.\nJust as enticing to the mullahs, Biden has appointed Wendy Sherman — a key negotiator in the talks which led to the nuclear deal in 2015 during the Obama administration — to be Deputy Secretary of State. Biden actually pointed to this professed accomplishment:\n“She [Sherman] has successfully rallied the world to strengthen democracy and confront some of the biggest national security challenges of our time, including leading the U.S. negotiating team for the Iran Deal”.\nThat sent a further strong message to Iran that the Biden administration was desperate to return to the nuclear deal.FFy\nMeanwhile, the Iranian regime can only feel emboldened by the position of the European Union. The EU is lobbying for returning to the JCPOA and lifting sanctions on Iran — in spite of the fact, as France’s Foreign Minister Jean Yves Le Drian recently acknowledged, that Tehran is rapidly acquiring nuclear weapons capacity. The EU announced last week its “strong commitment” to the Iranian nuclear deal and urged Biden swiftly to rejoin it:\n“The EU reiterates its strong commitment to and continued support for the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. The JCPoA is a key element of the global nuclear non-proliferation architecture and an achievement of multilateral diplomacy, endorsed unanimously by the UN Security Council through resolution 2231.”\nIran’s ruling mullahs also most likely assume that they can extort even more concessions from a Democrat administration, particularly Biden’s, because they successfully did so in the past, with the Obama administration, when Biden served as Vice President.\nA new deal\nIran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, nevertheless, told a forum organized by New York’s Council on Foreign Relations that he wants a new deal.\n“A sign of good faith is not to try to renegotiate what has already been negotiated,” he said, adding in the same speech that the U.S. must “compensate us for our losses.” Iran’s top judicial body had already demanded that the U.S. pay $130 billion in “damages.”\nIran’s regime, in addition, is playing another dangerous game, as it did with the Obama administration, to program to extort greater concessions from the Biden administration: It is ratcheting up nuclear threats.\nAli Akbar Salehi, the head of the civilian Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, stated on January 1, 2021 that Tehran will enrich uranium at a higher level, a short technical step away from weapons-grade level. The IAEA confirmed the plan:\n“Iran has informed the agency that in order to comply with a legal act recently passed by the country’s parliament, the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran intends to produce low-enriched uranium (LEU) up to 20 percent at the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant. Iran’s letter to the agency, dated [Dec. 31, 2020] did not say when this enrichment activity would take place.”\nNow, at an underground facility, Iran’s theocratic establishment is enriching uranium at 20 percent.\nFurthermore, on January 4, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) seized in the Gulf a South Korean-flagged ship carrying thousands of tons of ethanol, according to Fars News. The move alarmed the U.S. State Department. A spokesperson noted:\n“The (Iranian) regime continues to threaten navigational rights and freedoms in the Persian Gulf as part of a clear attempt to extort the international community into relieving the pressure of sanctions. We join the Republic of Korea’s call for Iran to immediately release the tanker,”\nMeanwhile, General Hossein Salami, commander-in-chief of the IRGC, recently threatened the U.S. and the United Kingdom. “If you cross our red line,” he announced, “we will destroy you. We will not leave any move unanswered. The enemy will not have security anywhere.” He added that the regime’s “patience has a limit.”\nThe Iranian parliament also recently passed another law, requiring the government to expel the nuclear inspectors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).\nAll these measures — using threats and nuclear violations — are just aimed at getting a still sweeter deal from the Biden administration.\nDr. Majid Rafizadeh is a business strategist and advisor, Harvard-educated scholar, political scientist, board member of Harvard International Review, and president of the International American Council on the Middle East. He has authored several books on Islam and U.S. foreign policy.",
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President Donald Trump, in a video message, is urging supporters to “go home” but is also keeping up attacks about the presidential election.
The video was issued more than two hours after protesters began storming the Capitol on Wednesday as lawmakers convened for an extraordinary joint session to confirm the Electoral College results and President-elect Joe Biden’s victory.
Trump opened his video, saying, “I know your pain. I know your hurt. But you have to go home now.”
He also went on to call the supporters “very special.” He also said, “we can’t play into the hands of these people. We have to have peace. So go home. We love you. You’re very special.”
In the video, Trump repeated his charge that the election was stolen. Twitter labeled his tweet with the following message: “This claim of election fraud is disputed, and this Tweet can’t be replied to, Retweeted, or liked due to a risk of violence.”
Republican lawmakers and previous administration officials had begged Trump to give a statement to his supporters to quell the violence. The statement came as authorities struggled to take control of a chaotic situation at the Capitol that led to the evacuation of lawmakers.
Angry supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday in a protest aimed at thwarting a peaceful transfer of power, forcing lawmakers to be rushed from the building and interrupting challenges to Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory.
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Tunisia President Kais Saied caught in video posted to social media blaming the country’s financial woes on “Jewish thieves.”
By Paul Shindman, World Israel News
The Tunisian president came under fire Wednesday after a video posted to social media showed him accusing “Jewish thieves” of deepening social tensions in his country, the Jewish news website Juif.org reported.
President Kais Saied recently met with residents of the impoverished Al-Tadamon neighborhood of of the capital city Tunis, discussing the current economic challenges facing the country that have sparked a movement of renewed protest.
While meeting with residents out in the streets, Saied was filmed as he blamed Tunisia’s misfortunes on “Jewish thieves.”
A recording of the visit to Al-Tadamon, including the president’s comments, was uploaded to his Facebook account and the clip of his comments on the Jews was circulated on Twitter.
Saied’s comments were condemned by the Conference of European Rabbis, which warned that Tunisian Jews could be targeted as a result of Saied’s verbal attacks.
“The Conference of European Rabbis wishes to express its deep concern over the serious and public remarks made this morning by Tunisian President Kais Saied, accusing the Jews of being responsible for the instability in the country,” the organization said in a statement, urging him “to withdraw his remarks, which pose an immediate threat to the physical and moral integrity of Tunisian Jewish citizens.”
Chief Rabbi Pinchas Goldshmidt, president of the CER, tweeted later Wednesday that Saied had indeed taken the comments back.
“The President of Tunisia a few minutes ago called up the chief rabbi of Djerba, Rabbi Haim Bitan and apologized for his diatribe against the Jews, faulting them for the unrest in the country,” Goldshmidt tweeted.
Earlier, Goldshmidt said the CER considers the Tunisian government “to be the guarantor of the security of Tunisian Jews. Such allegations threaten the integrity of one of the world’s oldest Jewish communities.”
Jews have lived in Tunisia for at least 2,000 years, with the Jewish population hitting about 100,000 around the time of the Second World War. Rampant anti-Semitism after the war led to most of the Jews leaving to Israel and France, with only about 1,500 remaining today.
Tunisia also hosted the Palestine Liberation Organization, the main Palestinian terror group, that fled to Tunis in 1982 following the Israel invasion of Lebanon, with the PLO remaining there until it recognized Israel and signed the Oslo Accords in 1993.
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Family and friends attend the funeral of Esther Horgan who was murdered near her home in Tal Menashe, Dec. 22, 2020. (Flash90/Meir Vaknin)
Included among the units are over 100 in Tal Menashe, the home community of the late Esther Horgan.
By David Isaac, World Israel News
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu directed the construction of approximately 600 housing units in Judea and Samaria on Monday.
Included among the units are over 100 in Tal Menashe, the home community of the late Esther Horgan, who was killed by a Palestinian terrorist on Dec. 20.
Her husband, Benjamin Horgan, told Israel Hayom after the killing: “All of us in the locality, in the town council, all the people of Israel, must give the appropriate and Zionist answer to acts of destruction and killing by more light, more life, more construction, more creation, more action on the ground – for our children and all the people of Israel.”
Jewish relatives who have seen their loved ones murdered often show remarkable discipline and resilience, expressing the sentiment that no revenge should be taken but only more building on Jewish land.
U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman repeated Benjamin Horgan’s desire in a condolence visit to the Horgan family on Dec. 29. He said that the only proper response to the Palestinian terrorist who murdered Esther was to expand her community of Tal Menashe.
Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) drew a direct line between Horgan’s death and Palestinian Authority incitement.
Muhammad Cabha, the terrorist who murdered Horgan by smashing her head with a rock, told Shin Bet interrogators that he “decided to carry out a terrorist attack after he was influenced – inter alia – by the death of a security prisoner he knew, Kamal Abu Wa’er,” who died in prison from cancer.
Abu Wa’er, who was serving six life sentences for involvement in the murder of at least four Israelis, recently died of cancer in prison.
During his illness, the PA and Fatah launched an incitement campaign citing top officials who falsely claimed Israel was denying him proper treatment, and once Abu Wa’er had died, they intensified the libel that his death was caused by “deliberate medical neglect.”
Approximately 400 housing units are also to be built in Beit El, Evyatar, Shavei Shomron, Oranit, the Barkan Industrial Zone, Karnei Shomron and Givat Zeev.
Over 200 units are also slated for Rehalim and in Nofei Nehemia, pursuant to providing regular status for the community.
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Police scuffle with demonstrators at a protest against the visit of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the city of Nazareth, Jan.13, 2021. (Flash90/Roni Ofer)
The prime minister was met by protesters on a visit to a major Arab city to call on them to vote for Likud.
By Paul Shindman, World Israel News
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu campaigned Wednesday in the predominantly Arab city of Nazareth and was greeted by protesters as he called upon Arabs to vote for his Likud Party in the upcoming national election.
Although the visit was ostensibly to a coronavirus vaccination center at a health clinic to encourage people to get inoculated, Netanyahu gave a major election pitch to the Israeli Arab sector as hundreds of demonstrators protested nearby.
“If Jews and Arabs can dance together in the streets of Dubai, they can dance together in the State of Israel as well,” Netanyahu tweeted, referring to the successful peace treaty signed last year with the United Arab Emirates.
“A new era begins today — of prosperity, integration and security,” the prime minister said, giving a speech in which he called on Arabs to vote for his party, which has been thought of as hostile to Arabs.
Netanyahu promised to restore law and order to the Arab sector that has been hit hard in the past year by violent crime, but spent time trying to extricate himself from comments he made before the 2015 elections that were perceived as racist, when he exhorted Jews to come out and vote because Israeli Arabs “were rushing to the polls.”
“For years, political elements distorted my words,” Netanyahu said. “In the 2015 elections, my intention was not to warn about the vote of Arab citizens of Israel, but to warn against voting for the Joint List [party] that subsequently opposed four historic peace agreements I achieved with four Arab states,” he said, emphasizing that “all Jewish and Arab citizens of Israel must vote, it is a democratic right.”
Veteran Knesset member Ahmad Tibi of the Arab Joint List who participated in the protests, slammed Netanyahu after police clashed with the demonstrators outside the health clinic and arrested 10 people, including Arab Knesset member Sondos Saleh, who required medical treatment after apparently being shoved by a police officer and crashing into a street marker before being dragged away despite her parliamentary immunity.
“Netanyahu’s love attack on Arabs goes through beatings and shovings by police against demonstrators and journalists in Nazareth who came to protest his cynical exploitation of vaccines before the election and the search for Arab votes to gain immunity,” Tibi tweeted. “Where are these cops when you need them in front of criminals and weapons smugglers and protection rackets?”
“A ‘clash’ they call it in the Hebrew media when three armed policemen attack, drag and hit a Knesset member who is armed with a bottle of water,” Saleh tweeted, showing a picture of a policeman grabbing her by the arm as he held a riot gun in the other.
Saleh, the youngest lawmaker in the Knesset, tweeted that she was in the hospital with a suspected broken arm.
“We will continue to oppose Netanyahu’s policies, racism and the ugly attempt to separate among us [Israeli Arabs] just to continue to rule.”
Israel’s fourth national elections in the past two years are scheduled to be held March 23.
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A girl in eastern Jerusalem walks out her front door, which has a graffiti image of the late former Palestinian Authority leader Yasser Arafat in the village of Ras Al-Amoud, near the Mount of Olives, Jan. 29, 2014. (Flash90/Hadas Parush)
“This is a project that severely violates Israeli sovereignty in Jerusalem and must not be carried out,” said Jerusalem Minister Rafi Peretz.
By Lauren Marcus, World Israel News
On Sunday, the Palestinian Authority (PA) announced the launch of a new campaign to renovate homes in Jerusalem, as part of a project to “strengthen and root [Palestinian] people” in the city.
Alongside images of former PLO head Yasser Arafat and current PA President Mahmoud Abbas, promotional material revealed that the project aims to renovate some 50 Jerusalem homes in derelict conditions each year.
The PA stated that the renovation’s goal is to “ensure a decent life for Jerusalem residents and strengthen their resilience.” Throughout the material, the Arabic name for Jerusalem, al-Quds, is used.
Jerusalem Minister Rafi Peretz told Israel Hayom that he would work to block the PA project. “The State of Israel is the sovereign power in East Jerusalem. Foreign intervention in civil matters in the city of Jerusalem and severe violations of sovereignty are inconceivable.”
“This… should not be allowed to happen. Sovereignty [takes place] not in speech but in deeds. This is a project that severely violates Israeli sovereignty in Jerusalem and must not be carried out. In the coming days, I will do what it takes to stop this move.”
Maor Tzemach, chair of right-wing NGO Your Jerusalem, told World Israel News, “According to the Law of Implementation established in the Oslo Accords, the Palestinian Authority is forbidden to operate in Jerusalem.”
“Unfortunately, at this moment, Israel is looking the other way. Israel is the sovereign power in eastern Jerusalem and must not allow any foreign interference in the management of the city’s civil affairs. Israel must stop a project of this kind, humanitarian as it may be, and thus prevent harm to Israel’s sovereignty in Jerusalem.”
The announcement that the PA intends to fund and execute development projects in Jerusalem is just the latest in a series of moves that right-wing critics say weaken Israeli sovereignty in the city.
Last week, senior PA officials told Channel 20 that they intend to set up voting sites in eastern Jerusalem, so that residents may cast ballots in PA elections. The ability for eastern Jerusalem residents to vote is viewed as an “essential condition” for PA elections, officials said.
In December, a viral video showed PA policemen freely patrolling the streets of an eastern Jerusalem neighborhood.
Tzemach told WIN that the Israeli government was setting a dangerous precedent by allowing PA security forces to enforce coronavirus lockdowns in eastern Jerusalem areas.
“Giving Palestinian Authority police officers the opportunity to roam the streets of Jerusalem is a huge violation of Israeli sovereignty in Jerusalem,” Tzemach said.
He expressed concern that if Israel continues the policy of permitting PA security forces to patrol these neighborhoods, they may eventually end up as de jure Palestinian territories.
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With the Biden administration in charge, the dominance of the bipartisan, credentialed, coastal, and connected establishment class will be restored.
By Alex Joffe, BESA Center
Washington, DC is built on a swamp at the convergence of the Potomac and Anacostia Rivers. Like all swamps it is subject to periodic flooding.
The DC foreign policy swamp has well and truly returned. The presumptive Biden administration has made a series of appointments that, along with a growing number of pronouncements from insiders and hangers-on, is beginning to give shape and color to its foreign policy.
What are some of its salient features? First are three interlinked phenomena: the return of second-tier players from the Obama administration, the explicit marginalization of overt progressives and radical ideas, and the empowerment of progressives in lower-level staff positions.
The appointment of Anthony Blinken as Secretary of State and Avril Haines as Director of Central Intelligence returns faithful Obama apparatchiks to power. Blinken, former Deputy National Security Advisor and Deputy Secretary of State, epitomizes, in the words of European analysts, a “Europeanist, multilateralist, internationalist” viewpoint. The fulsome praise for his public service, “Jewish roots, European conscience,” and flawless, unaccented French neatly, if not parodically, sums up the viewpoint and expectations of the European elite.
Haines, a lawyer rather than an intelligence professional, is similarly praised for her eclecticism (judo training in Japan, theoretical physics degree, pilot’s license), rather than her backing of the CIA’s controversially widespread drone program.
But her resumé, which in the past four years includes multiple positions at Columbia University and a position at a Blinken-run consulting firm, epitomizes the swamp’s revolving door between government, academia, and industry.
The gushing treatment of Blinken and Haines by the press is telling as well: the return of sycophancy marks the end of the media’s self-appointed role as keystone of the “resistance” to Trump. But the adage that personnel is policy applies at the lower levels.
Progressives closer to power
A look at various members of Biden’s and Harris’s staffs shows that lower-key progressives are being seated closer to the centers of power, mostly as a function of the holy trinity of “diversity, equity, and inclusion.”
What are Biden’s foreign policy priorities? A series of tweets from former U.S. ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul lays out the consensus view of the bipartisan Washington establishment. First is to rejoin the Paris climate agreement, followed by extending the New START treaty and reentering the JCPOA nuclear agreement.
Thus, two of the top three priorities of the incoming administration are to reenter immensely complex agreements made by the executive branch without the consent of the U.S. Senate, each with opaque workings and vast implications.
McFaul’s further priorities are the immediate convening of meetings with NATO and EU heads and with Asian democracies, as well as a “Democracy Summit” to “fundamentally reorganize USG to enhance democracy” and raise climate change as a policy goal.
International processes and the surrounding optics are the priorities; there is no mention of American interests. Presumably this is implicit, along with the idea that nations are guided not by interests but by accepted procedures and “norms.”
The establishment’s cautious recognition that the U.S. is engaged in a Cold War 2.0 with China is a welcome acknowledgment of reality that was almost entirely missing from the Obama administration. But this viewpoint is undercut by repeated statements from Biden figures such as NSA Jake Sullivan that China must remain engaged on paramount issues of global concern, above all climate change and the Covid-19 pandemic.
The irony is that China is the leading source of emissions that may drive climate change, and has failed to meet its Paris Agreement promises. China is also the source of the pandemic and has lied at every turn about its origins and spread. Here as in every sphere, not least of all human rights, China violates international procedures and “norms.”
From the establishment point of view, China’s totalitarianism is an inherent weakness that is vulnerable to soft power pressure — economic sanctions and moral shaming — so long as it doesn’t threaten the larger liberal international order and its economic foundations of trade, technology, and finance. It is these foundations, however, that China seeks to dominate completely.
The establishment-endorsed policies for containment are thus a replay of the first Cold War. If the U.S. re-embraces internationalism, “repairing the enormous damage to America’s global image caused by President Trump’s failure to address the coronavirus pandemic,” it “could act to convince the world of the superiority of the West’s democratic, free-market system, expose the debt traps created by China’s Belt and Road Initiative, discredit the Chinese dream and convince the Chinese that being a ‘responsible stakeholder’ in the international community would best enable their nation’s continued, peaceful rise as a great power.”
China’s refusal to play by these mid-20th century rules — including the prescribed terms of its “peaceful rise” — is not recognized. It was Trump’s, not Xi Jinping’s, defiance of these ”norms” in pursuit of American interests that was regarded as an existential crisis for the international order.
The establishment’s absolute rejection of Trump’s legitimacy in turn gave European states license to reject his confrontational approach. National interests were set aside in favor of abstractions.
On the other hand, some progressives keep asking why Iran and even China should be “contained” at all. More tempered is a strand of progressive left thinking that actually echoes certain Trump policies (albeit with minimal attribution), particularly in questioning continued U.S. involvement in Afghanistan, Syria, and Iraq, and promoting the idea that regional powers police their own interests. Implicit in this is a critique of American involvement in every hemisphere.
It also illustrates the contrast (and convergence) of left-wing and right-wing critiques: one attacks American “hyperpuissance” (as it was labeled in post-Cold War Europe) in favor of multipolarity and is regarded politely, while the other is dismissed as “isolationism.”
Back to Iran deal
With regard to Iran, Biden and the establishment clearly aim to reenter the JCPOA over the objections of Israel and the Gulf States and with the enthusiastic support of Europe. Biden’s statement that he would reenter the JCPOA and then demand Iranian concessions is an improbable opening gambit — one which, as Middle Eastern commentators note, simply gives up existing leverage — that has been met by Iranian demands for economic compensation for sanctions.
But it illustrates that regime change — the Trump administration’s implicit or unconscious strategy — is off the table. Biden’s goals and negotiating style reflect the status quo ante Trump, in that they presume an ability to manage another “peaceful rise.”
The recent killing of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh revealed the Iranian regime to be deeply penetrated by foreign intelligence agencies and unable to rouse internal support in the face of a collapsing economy. This seems to matter less to the swamp — which has condemned the killing — than punishing Saudi Arabia.
Growing opposition to sale of F-35s to the UAE and to delisting Sudan as a terror state seem to be efforts to turn back the clock on a new Middle Eastern framework to a situation in which states are U.S. dependents, hostage to its overall policy, especially toward Iran.
The idea that a Grand Bargain with Iran is possible, leading to an Obama-style wholesale reorientation of U.S. Middle East policy defined by the embrace of Tehran and the abandonment of traditional allies, has yet to be fully articulated by Biden factotums. Like most if not all of Obama’s policies, it ran counter to reality, not least of all the expressed desires of the Iranian revolutionary regime.
Return of anti-Israel obsession
Then there is Israel, which is being returned to its status as a front burner if not obsessive issue.
One sign of this is the return of anti-Netanyahu attack pieces from the court media. Jackson Diehl of the Washington Post excoriated Netanyahu’s “malevolent audacity” in thanking Trump for his support of Israel, allegedly killing a top Iranian nuclear engineer, and announcing the expansion of Jewish neighborhoods in Jerusalem.
For Diehl and for many others, Netanyahu’s pursuit of Israeli interests is de facto partisanship toward the Republican party and disrespect toward Biden. Diehl goes on to threaten Netanyahu and Israel with a Democratic grassroots revolt. This kind of rhetoric was common during the Obama years and was directed solely at Israel, never at other states. It signals the swamp’s core view that Israel is a vassal that must be brought to heel.
The Trump administration and its agonists revealed the many failures of the early 21st century status quo and many critical fault lines. Class is the most important feature of American life, foreign policy included.
With the Biden administration in charge, the dominance of the bipartisan, credentialed, coastal, and connected establishment class will be restored. No fundamental rethinking of any aspect of American policy is likely to occur, as it did under Trump, except those introduced by stealth, such as a “green new deal” and the continued spreading of racialized “wokeness” in society.
But the fact that reviled outsiders led by an erratic and crude individual, working on the basis of intuition alone, produced no new wars, negotiated several peace and trade agreements, and began to reorient the U.S. and its allies from a rhetorical to a real opposition to China — all while producing record economic growth — should not be forgotten. For the establishment, especially the foreign policy swamp, these results were produced by the wrong people in the wrong way.
Now, with the band back together and bipartisan comity reestablished in Washington and across the Atlantic, the future remains to be seen. The institutions of global diplomacy will be reinvigorated, as will the media and academic organs that are vital to the manufacturing of consent. So too will the oligarchies dedicated to profiting from the monopolization of global information, finance, commerce, and “green” energy, all well represented in Biden’s administration.
Whether these class structures, built atop crumbling foundations, will benefit American citizens or, indeed, citizens of any country, as opposed to those who exist above and beyond them, is far more uncertain.
Alex Joffe is a non-resident senior fellow at the BESA Center.
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"With the Biden administration in charge, the dominance of the bipartisan, credentialed, coastal, and connected establishment class will be restored.\nBy Alex Joffe, BESA Center\nWashington, DC is built on a swamp at the convergence of the Potomac and Anacostia Rivers. Like all swamps it is subject to periodic flooding.\nThe DC foreign policy swamp has well and truly returned. The presumptive Biden administration has made a series of appointments that, along with a growing number of pronouncements from insiders and hangers-on, is beginning to give shape and color to its foreign policy.\nWhat are some of its salient features? First are three interlinked phenomena: the return of second-tier players from the Obama administration, the explicit marginalization of overt progressives and radical ideas, and the empowerment of progressives in lower-level staff positions.\nThe appointment of Anthony Blinken as Secretary of State and Avril Haines as Director of Central Intelligence returns faithful Obama apparatchiks to power. Blinken, former Deputy National Security Advisor and Deputy Secretary of State, epitomizes, in the words of European analysts, a “Europeanist, multilateralist, internationalist” viewpoint. The fulsome praise for his public service, “Jewish roots, European conscience,” and flawless, unaccented French neatly, if not parodically, sums up the viewpoint and expectations of the European elite.\nHaines, a lawyer rather than an intelligence professional, is similarly praised for her eclecticism (judo training in Japan, theoretical physics degree, pilot’s license), rather than her backing of the CIA’s controversially widespread drone program.\nBut her resumé, which in the past four years includes multiple positions at Columbia University and a position at a Blinken-run consulting firm, epitomizes the swamp’s revolving door between government, academia, and industry.\nThe gushing treatment of Blinken and Haines by the press is telling as well: the return of sycophancy marks the end of the media’s self-appointed role as keystone of the “resistance” to Trump. But the adage that personnel is policy applies at the lower levels.\nProgressives closer to power\nA look at various members of Biden’s and Harris’s staffs shows that lower-key progressives are being seated closer to the centers of power, mostly as a function of the holy trinity of “diversity, equity, and inclusion.”\nWhat are Biden’s foreign policy priorities? A series of tweets from former U.S. ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul lays out the consensus view of the bipartisan Washington establishment. First is to rejoin the Paris climate agreement, followed by extending the New START treaty and reentering the JCPOA nuclear agreement.\nThus, two of the top three priorities of the incoming administration are to reenter immensely complex agreements made by the executive branch without the consent of the U.S. Senate, each with opaque workings and vast implications.\nMcFaul’s further priorities are the immediate convening of meetings with NATO and EU heads and with Asian democracies, as well as a “Democracy Summit” to “fundamentally reorganize USG to enhance democracy” and raise climate change as a policy goal.\nInternational processes and the surrounding optics are the priorities; there is no mention of American interests. Presumably this is implicit, along with the idea that nations are guided not by interests but by accepted procedures and “norms.”\nThe establishment’s cautious recognition that the U.S. is engaged in a Cold War 2.0 with China is a welcome acknowledgment of reality that was almost entirely missing from the Obama administration. But this viewpoint is undercut by repeated statements from Biden figures such as NSA Jake Sullivan that China must remain engaged on paramount issues of global concern, above all climate change and the Covid-19 pandemic.\nThe irony is that China is the leading source of emissions that may drive climate change, and has failed to meet its Paris Agreement promises. China is also the source of the pandemic and has lied at every turn about its origins and spread. Here as in every sphere, not least of all human rights, China violates international procedures and “norms.”\nFrom the establishment point of view, China’s totalitarianism is an inherent weakness that is vulnerable to soft power pressure — economic sanctions and moral shaming — so long as it doesn’t threaten the larger liberal international order and its economic foundations of trade, technology, and finance. It is these foundations, however, that China seeks to dominate completely.\nThe establishment-endorsed policies for containment are thus a replay of the first Cold War. If the U.S. re-embraces internationalism, “repairing the enormous damage to America’s global image caused by President Trump’s failure to address the coronavirus pandemic,” it “could act to convince the world of the superiority of the West’s democratic, free-market system, expose the debt traps created by China’s Belt and Road Initiative, discredit the Chinese dream and convince the Chinese that being a ‘responsible stakeholder’ in the international community would best enable their nation’s continued, peaceful rise as a great power.”\nChina’s refusal to play by these mid-20th century rules — including the prescribed terms of its “peaceful rise” — is not recognized. It was Trump’s, not Xi Jinping’s, defiance of these ”norms” in pursuit of American interests that was regarded as an existential crisis for the international order.\nThe establishment’s absolute rejection of Trump’s legitimacy in turn gave European states license to reject his confrontational approach. National interests were set aside in favor of abstractions.\nOn the other hand, some progressives keep asking why Iran and even China should be “contained” at all. More tempered is a strand of progressive left thinking that actually echoes certain Trump policies (albeit with minimal attribution), particularly in questioning continued U.S. involvement in Afghanistan, Syria, and Iraq, and promoting the idea that regional powers police their own interests. Implicit in this is a critique of American involvement in every hemisphere.\nIt also illustrates the contrast (and convergence) of left-wing and right-wing critiques: one attacks American “hyperpuissance” (as it was labeled in post-Cold War Europe) in favor of multipolarity and is regarded politely, while the other is dismissed as “isolationism.”\nBack to Iran deal\nWith regard to Iran, Biden and the establishment clearly aim to reenter the JCPOA over the objections of Israel and the Gulf States and with the enthusiastic support of Europe. Biden’s statement that he would reenter the JCPOA and then demand Iranian concessions is an improbable opening gambit — one which, as Middle Eastern commentators note, simply gives up existing leverage — that has been met by Iranian demands for economic compensation for sanctions.\nBut it illustrates that regime change — the Trump administration’s implicit or unconscious strategy — is off the table. Biden’s goals and negotiating style reflect the status quo ante Trump, in that they presume an ability to manage another “peaceful rise.”\nThe recent killing of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh revealed the Iranian regime to be deeply penetrated by foreign intelligence agencies and unable to rouse internal support in the face of a collapsing economy. This seems to matter less to the swamp — which has condemned the killing — than punishing Saudi Arabia.\nGrowing opposition to sale of F-35s to the UAE and to delisting Sudan as a terror state seem to be efforts to turn back the clock on a new Middle Eastern framework to a situation in which states are U.S. dependents, hostage to its overall policy, especially toward Iran.\nThe idea that a Grand Bargain with Iran is possible, leading to an Obama-style wholesale reorientation of U.S. Middle East policy defined by the embrace of Tehran and the abandonment of traditional allies, has yet to be fully articulated by Biden factotums. Like most if not all of Obama’s policies, it ran counter to reality, not least of all the expressed desires of the Iranian revolutionary regime.\nReturn of anti-Israel obsession\nThen there is Israel, which is being returned to its status as a front burner if not obsessive issue.\nOne sign of this is the return of anti-Netanyahu attack pieces from the court media. Jackson Diehl of the Washington Post excoriated Netanyahu’s “malevolent audacity” in thanking Trump for his support of Israel, allegedly killing a top Iranian nuclear engineer, and announcing the expansion of Jewish neighborhoods in Jerusalem.\nFor Diehl and for many others, Netanyahu’s pursuit of Israeli interests is de facto partisanship toward the Republican party and disrespect toward Biden. Diehl goes on to threaten Netanyahu and Israel with a Democratic grassroots revolt. This kind of rhetoric was common during the Obama years and was directed solely at Israel, never at other states. It signals the swamp’s core view that Israel is a vassal that must be brought to heel.\nThe Trump administration and its agonists revealed the many failures of the early 21st century status quo and many critical fault lines. Class is the most important feature of American life, foreign policy included.\nWith the Biden administration in charge, the dominance of the bipartisan, credentialed, coastal, and connected establishment class will be restored. No fundamental rethinking of any aspect of American policy is likely to occur, as it did under Trump, except those introduced by stealth, such as a “green new deal” and the continued spreading of racialized “wokeness” in society.\nBut the fact that reviled outsiders led by an erratic and crude individual, working on the basis of intuition alone, produced no new wars, negotiated several peace and trade agreements, and began to reorient the U.S. and its allies from a rhetorical to a real opposition to China — all while producing record economic growth — should not be forgotten. For the establishment, especially the foreign policy swamp, these results were produced by the wrong people in the wrong way.\nNow, with the band back together and bipartisan comity reestablished in Washington and across the Atlantic, the future remains to be seen. The institutions of global diplomacy will be reinvigorated, as will the media and academic organs that are vital to the manufacturing of consent. So too will the oligarchies dedicated to profiting from the monopolization of global information, finance, commerce, and “green” energy, all well represented in Biden’s administration.\nWhether these class structures, built atop crumbling foundations, will benefit American citizens or, indeed, citizens of any country, as opposed to those who exist above and beyond them, is far more uncertain.\nAlex Joffe is a non-resident senior fellow at the BESA Center.",
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Blue and White when it ran to unseat the Likud in the last three elections: l-r, Benny Gantz, Yair Lapid (Yesh Atid), Moshe Ya'alon (Telem), and Gabi Ashkenazi. (Flash90)
Several parties say that the best way to help unseat the prime minister is for Blue and White to disband.
By Batya Jerenberg, World Israel News
Left-wing parties have rejected the lead that Blue and White leader Benny Gantz tried taking to unite the opposition to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his Monday night admission that he had erred in joining a Likud-led coalition following last March’s elections.
Leader of the Opposition Yesh Atid swiftly responded by saying that it would be the party to spearhead such a move.
“We will make every effort to [forge the] connections that will lead to a sane and liberal government that will change the country,” it said.
Meretz head Nitzan Horowitz, possibly referring to the crashing poll numbers of Blue and White, said “Every morning someone decides that he is establishing a party that is a nothing. Whoever gets fractions of percentage points should retire and not waste votes. We are Left and this time we will run alone,” he said.
Avigdor Liberman (Israel Beiteinu) attacked Gantz, who had led the opposition before the last election, but then joined with Netanyahu in a government after promising during the campaign not to do so.
“We already had the chance to unseat Bibi [Netanyahu], but you chose to become a reserve prime minister,” he tweeted. “The only thing that you can do now for the sake of the country is to announce that you are not running in the next Knesset.”
As head of an amalgam of parties united under the name Blue and White, Gantz had come closest to unseating Netanyahu in three successive elections over the course of 2019-2020. He would have been the undisputed leader of the opposition had he not joined the emergency government last March. He explained his decision, saying that the country could not afford fourth elections when it had to fight the global Covid-19 pandemic that had just hit Israel’s shores.
Gantz had called out the names of the leaders of all the parties who have taken a firm public stand against Netanyahu. This included established ones such as Meretz, Israel Beiteinu and Yesh Atid, that last of which will undoubtedly be in the next Knesset, and newly formed parties such as The Israelis, Tnufa, the Economy party, and Telem, which just broke away from Yesh Atid to run alone.
Out of these, only Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai’s Israelis is currently polling above the electoral threshold.
“Let’s meet, we’ll find the method, the way. Let’s go into a room already tomorrow and we’ll find solutions,” he said.
“At a time of emergency, we cannot run with shards of parties. Let’s unite for the good of the state without fear and ego,” he said, adding that he didn’t have to be the one to lead such an umbrella group. The important thing was to “ensure that Netanyahu is finished as prime minister and we lead the next government in a unified way that respects all Israeli citizens.”
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"Blue and White when it ran to unseat the Likud in the last three elections: l-r, Benny Gantz, Yair Lapid (Yesh Atid), Moshe Ya'alon (Telem), and Gabi Ashkenazi. (Flash90)\nSeveral parties say that the best way to help unseat the prime minister is for Blue and White to disband.\nBy Batya Jerenberg, World Israel News\nLeft-wing parties have rejected the lead that Blue and White leader Benny Gantz tried taking to unite the opposition to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his Monday night admission that he had erred in joining a Likud-led coalition following last March’s elections.\nLeader of the Opposition Yesh Atid swiftly responded by saying that it would be the party to spearhead such a move.\n“We will make every effort to [forge the] connections that will lead to a sane and liberal government that will change the country,” it said.\nMeretz head Nitzan Horowitz, possibly referring to the crashing poll numbers of Blue and White, said “Every morning someone decides that he is establishing a party that is a nothing. Whoever gets fractions of percentage points should retire and not waste votes. We are Left and this time we will run alone,” he said.\nAvigdor Liberman (Israel Beiteinu) attacked Gantz, who had led the opposition before the last election, but then joined with Netanyahu in a government after promising during the campaign not to do so.\n“We already had the chance to unseat Bibi [Netanyahu], but you chose to become a reserve prime minister,” he tweeted. “The only thing that you can do now for the sake of the country is to announce that you are not running in the next Knesset.”\nAs head of an amalgam of parties united under the name Blue and White, Gantz had come closest to unseating Netanyahu in three successive elections over the course of 2019-2020. He would have been the undisputed leader of the opposition had he not joined the emergency government last March. He explained his decision, saying that the country could not afford fourth elections when it had to fight the global Covid-19 pandemic that had just hit Israel’s shores.\nGantz had called out the names of the leaders of all the parties who have taken a firm public stand against Netanyahu. This included established ones such as Meretz, Israel Beiteinu and Yesh Atid, that last of which will undoubtedly be in the next Knesset, and newly formed parties such as The Israelis, Tnufa, the Economy party, and Telem, which just broke away from Yesh Atid to run alone.\nOut of these, only Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai’s Israelis is currently polling above the electoral threshold.\n“Let’s meet, we’ll find the method, the way. Let’s go into a room already tomorrow and we’ll find solutions,” he said.\n“At a time of emergency, we cannot run with shards of parties. Let’s unite for the good of the state without fear and ego,” he said, adding that he didn’t have to be the one to lead such an umbrella group. The important thing was to “ensure that Netanyahu is finished as prime minister and we lead the next government in a unified way that respects all Israeli citizens.”",
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A Vanity Fair report says that West Wing staffers were told to avoid Trump as the riot raged.
By David Isaac, World Israel News
As Trump rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol building on Wednesday, some White House staffers were panicked that they were being swept up in a coup. White House Counsel Pat Cipollone told them not to speak to Trump lest they be caught in a treason trial, Vanity Fair‘s Gabriel Sherman reports.
It’s not clear how widely spread the feeling was in the West Wing as the Vanity Fair report bases its information on the word of a friend of a White House staffer, who said “What do I do? Resign?”
“The West Wing staffer told the friend that White House Counsel Pat Cipollone was urging White House officials not to speak to Trump or enable his coup attempt in any way, so they could reduce the chance they could be prosecuted for treason under the Sedition Act,” Sherman reports.
Sherman says the White House declined to respond to the report.
Trump’s bete noire, the Squad, a group of progressive House Democrats, actually have called for Trump’s removal for “open sedition.”
“Cipollone’s purported concern that Trump was committing treason – a federal crime – illustrates the chaos and fear of Wednesday’s unprecedented events,” according to Sherman.
“At least one staffer isn’t waiting to flee the ship. On Wednesday night, CNN reported that Stephanie Grisham, the former White House communications director and Melania Trump’s current chief of staff, resigned over the Trump-inspired riot,” he writes.
An AP report depicts Trump as slow to respond to the violence, which began after he spoke at a Wednesday rally near the Capitol to protest Congress, which was in the process of certifying the electoral vote count, which it concluded doing early Thursday.
Citing a White House official, AP reports that Trump was “largely disengaged” as a group of his supporters burst into the Capitol and disrupted the debate. One woman, a Trump supporter, was shot and killed by law enforcement. Three others died as well from other causes that were not clear.
Sherman writes that Republicans told him that “Trump wants to blow things up on his way out the door.”
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Netanyahu’s tweet of a sunrise backfired.
By David Isaac, World Israel News
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu certainly didn’t expect that he was handing a small propaganda victory to his political opponents in the upcoming election when he tweeted the photo of a sunrise on Thursday morning.
Netanyahu tweeted the picture with the words: “Stunning sunrise photographed a few days ago in the Dagan neighborhood in Efrat – good morning!”
זריחה מהממת שצולמה לפני מספר ימים בשכונת הדגן באפרת – בוקר טוב! קרדיט: שמואל לנדאו@odedrevivi pic.twitter.com/C0hr9X20tL — Benjamin Netanyahu (@netanyahu) January 28, 2021
The trouble is the leading opposition party, Yesh Atid, has been using a shining sun in its campaign.
The party’s members immediately retweeted the prime minister’s tweet, and even changed their profile descriptions to an orange sun.
Yair Lapid, leader of Yesh Atid, also added an orange sun emblem to his Twitter feed and retweeted the prime minister’s tweet:
Netanyahu’s tweet itself was a retweet from Oded Revivi, mayor of Efrat. Netanyahu’s retweet was undoubtedly a way to show support for the settlements ahead of the March 23 elections.
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"Netanyahu hands victory to opponents in election campaign gaffe\nNetanyahu’s tweet of a sunrise backfired.\nBy David Isaac, World Israel News\nPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu certainly didn’t expect that he was handing a small propaganda victory to his political opponents in the upcoming election when he tweeted the photo of a sunrise on Thursday morning.\nNetanyahu tweeted the picture with the words: “Stunning sunrise photographed a few days ago in the Dagan neighborhood in Efrat – good morning!”\nזריחה מהממת שצולמה לפני מספר ימים בשכונת הדגן באפרת – בוקר טוב! קרדיט: שמואל לנדאו@odedrevivi pic.twitter.com/C0hr9X20tL — Benjamin Netanyahu (@netanyahu) January 28, 2021\nThe trouble is the leading opposition party, Yesh Atid, has been using a shining sun in its campaign.\nThe party’s members immediately retweeted the prime minister’s tweet, and even changed their profile descriptions to an orange sun.\nYair Lapid, leader of Yesh Atid, also added an orange sun emblem to his Twitter feed and retweeted the prime minister’s tweet:\nNetanyahu’s tweet itself was a retweet from Oded Revivi, mayor of Efrat. Netanyahu’s retweet was undoubtedly a way to show support for the settlements ahead of the March 23 elections.",
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Trump wants to run again, says former acting director of national intelligence
President Donald Trump gestures as first lady Melania Trump looks on at Andrews Air Force Base, Jan. 20, 2021. (AP/Luis M. Alvarez)
Grenell said that Trump had told him “personally, a number of times,” he plans to run for a second term.
By David Isaac, World Israel News
President Donald Trump “does want to run again,” Richard Grenell, the former acting Director of National Intelligence, told Newsmax TV on Saturday.
Grenell said that Trump had told him “personally, a number of times,” he plans to run for a second term.
Grenell said he opposed the formation of a third ‘Patriot’ party (Trump has been rumored to be considering such a move). “We should work very hard on the Republican party,” Grenell said.
“Look, it’s like a sports team, right. Your party is not always perfect and you try to get it better… You don’t abandon it,” he told Newsmax TV.
“Clearly, Donald Trump is a Republican and should run again as a Republican,” Grenell said.
Grenell’s comments came after Trump made his first public remarks since leaving office on Friday to a Washington Examiner reporter in which he said, somewhat cryptically, “We’ll do something, but not just yet.”
Trump faces a second impeachment trial in the Senate. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said she will send the articles of impeachment to the Senate on Monday. If the Senate votes to impeach, and it will require 67 votes to do so, he will be barred from running again. Pro-Trump supporters have argued that is the only reason Democrats have impeached Trump a second time – they fear his return.
The House of Representatives voted on Jan. 13 to impeach Trump for “high crimes and misdemeanors” – specifically, inciting an insurrection.
There is a disagreement over whether a former president can be impeached. Attorney Alan Dershowitz has come out strongly against the idea, telling World Israel News, “It violates the impeachment provision of the Constitution, as well as the person. It’s a terrible thing.”
However, Keith E. Whittington, professor of politics at Princeton, disagrees, writing in the Wall Street Journal on Jan. 22, “For the Founders, it would have been obvious that the ‘power to impeach’ included the ability to hold former officials to account.”
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"Trump wants to run again, says former acting director of national intelligence\nPresident Donald Trump gestures as first lady Melania Trump looks on at Andrews Air Force Base, Jan. 20, 2021. (AP/Luis M. Alvarez)\nGrenell said that Trump had told him “personally, a number of times,” he plans to run for a second term.\nBy David Isaac, World Israel News\nPresident Donald Trump “does want to run again,” Richard Grenell, the former acting Director of National Intelligence, told Newsmax TV on Saturday.\nGrenell said that Trump had told him “personally, a number of times,” he plans to run for a second term.\nGrenell said he opposed the formation of a third ‘Patriot’ party (Trump has been rumored to be considering such a move). “We should work very hard on the Republican party,” Grenell said.\n“Look, it’s like a sports team, right. Your party is not always perfect and you try to get it better… You don’t abandon it,” he told Newsmax TV.\n“Clearly, Donald Trump is a Republican and should run again as a Republican,” Grenell said.\nGrenell’s comments came after Trump made his first public remarks since leaving office on Friday to a Washington Examiner reporter in which he said, somewhat cryptically, “We’ll do something, but not just yet.”\nTrump faces a second impeachment trial in the Senate. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said she will send the articles of impeachment to the Senate on Monday. If the Senate votes to impeach, and it will require 67 votes to do so, he will be barred from running again. Pro-Trump supporters have argued that is the only reason Democrats have impeached Trump a second time – they fear his return.\nThe House of Representatives voted on Jan. 13 to impeach Trump for “high crimes and misdemeanors” – specifically, inciting an insurrection.\nThere is a disagreement over whether a former president can be impeached. Attorney Alan Dershowitz has come out strongly against the idea, telling World Israel News, “It violates the impeachment provision of the Constitution, as well as the person. It’s a terrible thing.”\nHowever, Keith E. Whittington, professor of politics at Princeton, disagrees, writing in the Wall Street Journal on Jan. 22, “For the Founders, it would have been obvious that the ‘power to impeach’ included the ability to hold former officials to account.”",
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Another mass ultra-Orthodox wedding was held in violation of corona restrictions.
By Paul Shindman, World Israel News
A large ultra-Orthodox wedding was held Wednesday evening in the city of Netanya, where followers of Sanz and Toldot Aharon hasidic sects broke coronavirus lockdown restrictions that limit indoor gatherings. Pictures of the event were posted on social media showing what appeared to be several hundred people in the wedding hall.
In terms of hasidic weddings, it was a small event as normally such nuptials would host thousands of guests. Police might not have been informed of the event and did not intervene, unlike when a riot broke out when they broke up a wedding last week in the city of Bnei Brak.
While most ultra-Orthodox communities in Israel have been abiding by the health guidelines, public anger in Israel has been growing over the refusal by some sects to comply with restrictions.
Israeli public opinion of the haredi sector, already conflicted, took a hit the past week when riots broke out in several locations against police attempting to enforce corona restrictions, including in Ashdod, Bnei Brak and Jerusalem. The public was treated to the site of hundreds of young ultra-Orthodox Jews clashing with authorities.
In reaction, a recent poll found that 61% of Israelis don’t want ultra-Orthodox parties to take part in the next government. Even a majority of right-wing voters, 52%, prefer a government without the Shas and United Torah Judaism parties. Elections are scheduled for March 23.
Key haredi leaders have come out against the riots and urged their followers to refrain from violence.
Haredi leaders say the restrictions strike at the heart of their daily life, which centers around communal activities like study and prayer, and that police enforcement has ignored blatant violations by secular Israelis who also hold large gatherings, including anti-government protests attended by thousands – although many of those protests have also been broken up by the police.
In an effort to increase compliance, the Knesset is working on a law to raise fines for coronavirus violations.
Meanwhile, ultra-Orthodox journalist Yisrael Frey noted that the number of large ultra-Orthodox gatherings was on the rise.
“After several days of enforcement and fear, receiving a flood of reports of weddings, especially in the cities of Bnei Brak, Modi’in Illit and Beit Shemesh,” Frey tweeted, including a video clip from a large wedding in Beit Shemesh Tuesday where the guests were unmasked and crowded together.
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"Another mass ultra-Orthodox wedding was held in violation of corona restrictions.\nBy Paul Shindman, World Israel News\nA large ultra-Orthodox wedding was held Wednesday evening in the city of Netanya, where followers of Sanz and Toldot Aharon hasidic sects broke coronavirus lockdown restrictions that limit indoor gatherings. Pictures of the event were posted on social media showing what appeared to be several hundred people in the wedding hall.\nIn terms of hasidic weddings, it was a small event as normally such nuptials would host thousands of guests. Police might not have been informed of the event and did not intervene, unlike when a riot broke out when they broke up a wedding last week in the city of Bnei Brak.\nWhile most ultra-Orthodox communities in Israel have been abiding by the health guidelines, public anger in Israel has been growing over the refusal by some sects to comply with restrictions.\nIsraeli public opinion of the haredi sector, already conflicted, took a hit the past week when riots broke out in several locations against police attempting to enforce corona restrictions, including in Ashdod, Bnei Brak and Jerusalem. The public was treated to the site of hundreds of young ultra-Orthodox Jews clashing with authorities.\nIn reaction, a recent poll found that 61% of Israelis don’t want ultra-Orthodox parties to take part in the next government. Even a majority of right-wing voters, 52%, prefer a government without the Shas and United Torah Judaism parties. Elections are scheduled for March 23.\nKey haredi leaders have come out against the riots and urged their followers to refrain from violence.\nHaredi leaders say the restrictions strike at the heart of their daily life, which centers around communal activities like study and prayer, and that police enforcement has ignored blatant violations by secular Israelis who also hold large gatherings, including anti-government protests attended by thousands – although many of those protests have also been broken up by the police.\nIn an effort to increase compliance, the Knesset is working on a law to raise fines for coronavirus violations.\nMeanwhile, ultra-Orthodox journalist Yisrael Frey noted that the number of large ultra-Orthodox gatherings was on the rise.\n“After several days of enforcement and fear, receiving a flood of reports of weddings, especially in the cities of Bnei Brak, Modi’in Illit and Beit Shemesh,” Frey tweeted, including a video clip from a large wedding in Beit Shemesh Tuesday where the guests were unmasked and crowded together.",
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Oumuamua is the first known interstellar object seen passing through the Solar System, Prof. Avi Loeb of Harvard University says it may be artificial in origin.
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Samantha Power, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, addresses an audience at Harvard University, Oct. 16, 2017. (AP/Steven Senne)
Power dismissed claims that the Obama administration had been unfriendly to Israel, saying that the administration had made “unprecedented” efforts to help Israel’s standing in the UN.
By Lauren Marcus, World Israel News
President-elect Joe Biden announced Samantha Power as his pick to head US Agency for International Development (USAID) on Wednesday.
In his announcement, Biden called Power, a former U.S. Ambassador to the UN under the Obama administration, “a world-renowned voice of conscience and moral clarity.”
“As a journalist, activist and diplomat, I’ve seen the world-changing impact of USAID,” Power tweeted Wednesday morning.
Power is expected to direct the agency’s efforts towards global coronavirus relief, especially in developing countries. The agency has a $20 billion annual operating budget.
During her tenure from 2013 to 2017 as U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Power notably supported the Obama administration’s decision to not use its veto power to stop a resolution condemning Israeli settlements.
UN Resolution 2334, which was passed 14-0 in December 2016, demanded that Israel “immediately and completely cease all settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territory,” including eastern Jerusalem.
The resolution also stated that Israeli settlements have “no legal validity” and constitute a “flagrant violation under international law.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the Obama administration’s break with previous policy to block such resolutions as a “shameful anti-Israel ambush at the UN.”
Addressing the UN ahead of the vote, Power explained the U.S.’s decision to abstain.
“Israeli settlement activity in territories occupied in 1967 undermines Israel’s security, harms the viability of a negotiated two-state outcome, and erodes prospects for peace and stability in the region,” she said.
“The settlement problem has gotten so much worse that it is now putting at risk the very viability of that two-state solution…One cannot simultaneously champion expanding Israeli settlements and champion a viable two-state solution that would end the conflict. One has to make a choice between settlements and separation.”
After the vote, then-U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Daniel B. Shapiro, was summoned by the Israeli government, and Israel recalled its ambassadors to New Zealand and Senegal, which supported the resolution.
In November 2019, the Trump administration announced a reversal of U.S. policy regarding settlements, rejecting the Obama administration’s view and saying that it no longer considered Israeli settlements as illegal under international law.
“We’ve recognized the reality on the ground,” said Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
In an interview with PBS in December 2017, Power said the vote had been difficult for her, as she acknowledged anti-Israel bias in the UN.
“One of the reasons the vote was hard – even though the content of the resolution, opposing settlements, opposing violence, terrorism, incitement… basically reflected our policy – was because the institution has been biased against Israel,” she said.
“With 18 resolutions in the general assembly against Israel and 1 against Syria…things are way out of whack at the UN.”
Power appeared to place the blame on the stalled peace process on settlement building, saying, “If a two state solution stands a chance…allowing Israel and the people of Palestine to live in security and dignity side-by-side, the building has to stop.”
She dismissed claims that the Obama administration had been unfriendly to Israel, saying that the administration had made “unprecedented” efforts to help Israel’s standing in the UN.
“For all of the public discussion about this single vote, the record is the one that’s going to stand the test of time,” she said.
In her memoir, Power blasted unnamed countries for easing up on criticism of Iran’s human rights violations after the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.
“Unfortunately, some countries were so pleased by the nuclear agreement that they felt it was unnecessary to run an annual UN General Assembly resolution condemning Iran’s human rights abuses,” she wrote.
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Lawyer who said ‘we need a new Hitler’ condemned by alma mater
Dean of Southwestern Law School condemns alumnus who said “we need a new Hitler.”
By Algemeiner Staff
The Dean of Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles issued a strident denunciation of an alumnus who appeared to engage in anti-Semitic and genocidal hate speech on social media, including the statement “we need a new Hitler.”
The IsraellyCool website revealed on Jan. 19 that Farhad Khorasani had made a number of anti-Semitic and hateful posts, including calling Israel the “main enemy of the human race” and its supporters a “satanic cartel”; and claiming “freedom of speech under assault by the Jewish-Israeli lobbies”; “Hitler has proved that he knew these terrorist semites very well”; and “Hitler was right, we need a new Hitler.”
He also promoted Holocaust denial and the claim that Israel was behind the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
The State Bar of California investigated Khorasani’s conduct, but took no action.
Dean Susan Westerberg Prager of Southwestern Law School issued a statement saying, “Southwestern is aware of the intensely offensive anti-Semitic statements posted on social media by a Southwestern alumnus. We strongly and unequivocally condemn these statements.”
“The hate speech is contrary to the rule of law and to the values of human decency, justice, tolerance, nonviolence, and diversity, values that Southwestern has stood for since its inception,” she asserted.
“We value our Jewish community and oppose bigotry and hate speech of any kind,” Prager said. “Please know the Southwestern administration has taken appropriate measures in response.”
Jonathan Greenblatt, the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, praised Prager’s statement, saying, “Absolutely unacceptable to see a California lawyer incite violence against Jews — all institutions and attorneys should follow Southwestern Law’s lead and speak out against such inexcusable hatred.”
In an Instagram post Saturday, Khorasani apologized, while claiming that his social media accounts had been hacked and that he was not responsible for the posts.
“Nonetheless, I would like to apologize to the Jewish community worldwide, and let them know that my DNA tests show that I have 3% Ashkenazi Jewish in me, and I have Jewish acquaintances and friends whom I embrace and treasure,” he wrote.
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“Jews don’t count,” commented former New York Times editor Bari Weiss, breaking down anti-Semitism on the left and right in a Megyn Kelly interview.
By Algemeiner Staff
“Right now, Jews are in a very precarious and strange position,” said author and former New York Times editor Bari Weiss in a wide-ranging interview Friday, with former Fox News and NBC host Megyn Kelly.
“Jews don’t count,” she argued. “If someone said to another editor at the The New York Times, ‘are you writing about the Blacks again? Are you writing about the trans again? Are you writing about the gays again?’ — think about how that sounds to your ear; it’s disgusting. And yet some people think it’s acceptable to say about Jews.”
The former opinion section editor resigned from The New York Times in July 2020, publishing an open letter that criticized colleagues for “harassing” behavior.
“They have called me a Nazi and a racist; I have learned to brush off comments about how I’m ‘writing about the Jews again,’” she wrote in the letter.
Kelly, the former news anchor who launched “The Megyn Kelly Show” podcast in 2020, asked Weiss on Friday why antisemitism had recently become more prominent.
“In the anti-Semitic conspiracy theory … Jews or the Jewish state comes to stand for whatever a given culture or civilization defines as its most loathsome or disgusting qualities,” said Weiss, who in 2019 authored the book “How to Fight Anti-Semitism.”
“That’s how the Jews can be so many things at once” under ideologies like Nazism and Communism, she added.
“You have the accusation that comes from the far-right — from people like the killer who stormed into my synagogue in Pittsburgh two years ago, and he said ‘all Jews must die,’ and he killed eleven of my neighbors,” said Weiss, referring to the 2018 Tree of Life massacre in her home town.
For this kind of anti-Semite, Weiss explained, Jews are “fake white people” — the conviction that motivated the infamous chants of “Jews will not replace us” at the 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
“On the far left it’s kind of a mirror image,” she continued. “What the far-left says is: Jews claim to be a minority, they say that they’re oppressed … but hold on, they’re white, they’re white-passing, they’re white-adjacent.”
“More than that they support Israel, which is the last standing bastion of white colonialism in the Middle East,” Weiss continued, conveying what she calls the far-left breed of anti-Demitism. “So in fact, not only are they not a minority and they’re not oppressed — they’re handmaidens to white supremacy.”
“If you look at the world that way, our oppression — the physical attacks that are taking place almost every single day against visible Jews in neighborhoods of Brooklyn like Crown Heights and Boro Park — they don’t rank.”
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IDF troops near the scene of the failed attack, Jan. 9, 2021 (IDF)
The attackers first tried to ram the IDF soldiers and then shoot them.
By World Israel News Staff
Palestinian terrorists attempted a car-ramming and shooting attack at IDF troops on Sunday. The attack took place at an IDF post adjacent to the village of Ya’bad, west of the city of Jenin Jenin.
The terrorists didn’t succeed in their attack and one of the assailants dropped his weapon at the scene.
IDF soldiers are searching the area for the two suspects. No IDF injuries were reported.
Two vehicles were standing at a routine IDF security crossing adjacent to the village of Ya’bad.
After the first vehicle completed inspection and continued driving, two assailants in the second vehicle accelerated toward the IDF troops at the crossing in an attempt to run them over. An IDF soldier was hit by the assailants’ vehicle, but did not need to be evacuated for medical treatment.
One of the assailants dropped his weapon from the vehicle after attempting to shoot at the IDF troops. The weapon, a “Carlo” submachine gun, was seized by IDF troops.
IDF troops have set up security checks in the area, and are pursuing the vehicle and the assailants.’
The attack follows one on Jan. 5 when a terrorist attempted an attack with a meat cleaver at the Gush Etzion Junction near Jerusalem and southwest of Bethlehem. The attacker was killed by security forces, the IDF reports.
An 30-year-old Israeli woman was seriously injured in a rock-throwing attack on Jan. 3.
On Dec. 16, a pregnant woman was wounded in a stoning attack on Route 60 in the Binyamin Region in Samaria.
Kan News reported Saturday that Dec. 2020 was the most violent month for nationalist crime since 2017 with overall statistics showing terrorism did not take a break during the coronavirus pandemic.
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As of Friday, four babies were hospitalized in a newly established coronavirus unit at Hadassah Ein Karem Medical Center. Three were listed in serious condition.
By Yori Yalon, Israel Hayom via JNS
As of Friday, there were four infants and toddlers hospitalized in a new intensive-care unit for children at Hadassah Medical Center-Ein Kerem in Jerusalem.
Three of the children, who ranged in age from 13 days to two years old, were listed in serious condition.
The medical center reported that two of the infants suffered from “serious, chronic” pre-existing conditions.
“One of the children, age two, is in serious condition. The second, age six weeks, is in serious condition. The third, 13 days old, is in serious condition but stabilized, and the fourth, age nine months, who doesn’t have any preexisting conditions, is in serious condition,” the medical center reported on Friday.
Director of Hadassah Pediatric Intensive Care, Dr. Uri Polk, explained that the special coronavirus unit—the first of its kind in Israel—had been established to care for “children and infants with COVID-19 who need ventilators or intensive care by staff whose expertise is in putting children in a medically induced coma and caring for them in an intensive care setting.”
According to Polk, three of the patients on the new unit were in medically-induced comas and on ventilators due to serious lung conditions.
“Their condition is extremely serious,” Polk stressed.
Head nurse on the new unit Sonya Sharabi said, “These are babies whose parents, or other relatives, are also sick. The parents can come here if they’d like to be here 24/7, but they’re torn between caring for the other children at home and staying on the unit with the babies Some of them are constantly running back and forth between the hospital and home.”
“As staff members, we realize their immense difficulty. The babies need to be hugged, touched, and when there’s no parent by their side, it’s very hard to think about what they’re going through. We all try to help with everything, and of course there are staff members inside for hours at a time to watch over them closely,” Sharabi said.
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The IDF is planning on sending officials to speak at a conference in which Israel is portrayed as an occupying power.
By David Isaac, World Israel News
The International Red Cross and the Association for Civil Rights in Israel will hold a conference in a few weeks on the topic of Israel’s “occupation” in Judea and Samaria. What is surprising is that senior Israeli Army officials will speak at the conference.
Channel 20’s Hillel Biton Rosen reports on Tuesday that Israel’s Military Advocate General is sending people to address the conference, which is sure to be anti-Israel, despite the high-sounding names of the groups organizing it.
The Association for Civil Rights in Israel, which receives the majority of its funding from abroad (over 19 million shekels between 2012-2020) “publishes reports and organizes public events alleging ‘violations committed by the Israeli authorities,'” according to NGO Monitor.
It also accuses Israel’s government of “implementing ‘racist’ and ‘discriminatory’ policies of ‘collective punishment’ in ‘violation of international law,'” NGO Monitor says.
Channel 20’s Biton notes it’s “one of the flagship organizations of the New Israel Fund. In the past, the association was called the ‘Association for Hamas Rights’ by the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, after it petitioned the High Court and prevented the deportation of hundreds of terrorists – as a result the deportation was stopped and the damage to the State of Israel was enormous.”
The Red Cross, an organization well-respected in the West, has unfortunately shown its stripes where Israel is concerned. It has adopted the Palestinian narrative in the Arab-Israel conflict.
So eager is it to find Israeli human rights violations that in December 2020, in a bizarre series of tweets, it noted fictitious human rights violations on an Israeli TV show, the popular Netflix series Fauda.
Ironically, the three violations of humanitarian law the Red Cross called out on Twitter have been committed by the Palestinians many times over in real life.
In spite of this, not only is the IDF sending representatives but Israel’s Justice Department also plans on sending a senior jurist, Biton reports.
Only two years ago, he says, the Association for Civil Rights petitioned against the IDF to prevent them from harming terrorists during the March of Return riots in the Gaza Strip.
“Many bereaved parents who we spoke with today expressed great resentment that the IDF respects the organization that represents terrorists who harmed them,” Biton reports.
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Zarif says Iran is not interested in America rejoining the nuclear deal unless all sanctions are lifted first.
By Paul Shindman, World Israel News
Iran’s foreign minister said Wednesday that unless the incoming Biden administration significantly lifts the economic sanctions on Iran, the Islamic Republic has no interest in recommitting itself to 2015 nuclear deal.
“Iran has to effectively feel the results of any potential sanctions relief from the United States, not merely a toothless signature, in case Washington decided to return to its obligations under the 2015 nuclear agreement,” Javad Zarif said in comments reported by state-run Press TV.
Signing a U.S. return is not enough, Zarif said. “[T]he sufficient condition here is witnessing the effects of the U.S. actions” in removing the sanctions, Zarif said.
Following Biden’s election, group of Democrats called for the U.S. to return to the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) under which Iran agreed to reduce its nuclear program in return for easing of sanctions.
President Donald Trump withdrew from the agreement in 2018 and reimposed sanctions, calling the JCPOA a bad deal. Critics, including Israel, noted that when the JCPOA expires in 2030 Iran would have unrestricted enrichment of uranium to develop nuclear weapons. Last month, Zarif said the nuclear deal “will never be renegotiated.”
Also in December, in a clear violation of the deal, Iran announced it had started enriching uranium to 20% purity, reducing the “breakout time” needed to produce an atomic bomb.
Zarif noted that not only did the Trump administration restore the sanctions against Iran that existed before the JCPOA, but also imposed new sanctions to complicate the removal of the initial bans.
“The U.S. has to first live up to its obligations” of terminating all these complications and help restore Iran’s trade ties with the world back to normal, “then the issue of its return to the JCPOA can be addressed,” Zarif said, noting the sanctions had badly affected Iran’s international trade.
Zarif also brought up the issue of Iranian demands for compensation “for the damage that it has suffered as a result of the U.S.’s coercive measures as something that has to be addressed in subsequent stages.”
“If Mr. Biden signed an executive order, we would sign one too. Whenever, they (the Americans) started to implement it, we would implement [our side of the deal] too,” Zarif said.
Also Wednesday, Iran’s Tasnim news agency reported that the Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, Major General Hossein Salami, said the JCPOA is no longer necessary whether or not the next U.S. administration returns to the nuclear deal.
Salami commented that “even American think tanks admit that the U.S. is falling apart from inside,” and the situation has become such that Iran is in no need of the JCPOA, whether or not the U.S. rejoins the deal.
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The commander of the troops shot the terrorist as one of his soldiers, a female, blocked the assailant.
By World Israel News Staff
IDF troops thwarted an attempted stabbing attack at Gitai Avisar Junction, near Ariel in Samaria, which is southwest of the Arab-populated town of Nablus, or Shechem, at around noon on Tuesday.
IDF troops at a military post spotted the assailant, who attempted to stab two IDF soldiers guarding the junction.
One of the soldiers blocked the assailant’s multiple stabbing attacks, and the commander of the troops who was at the scene fired towards the assailant and neutralized him. No IDF injuries were reported.
Israel’s N12 website reports that the incident began when a male and female soldier crossed the intersection of Giti Avisar to inspect a suspicious vehicle. When the terrorist passed, they perceived something suspicious in his behavior, turned to him and recognized that he had a knife drawn directly at the female soldier.
She said later she fought and pushed the terrorist away with her hand and then with her rifle.
As this went on, the troop commander took a step back and looked for an open angle to fire at the terrorist without hitting his soldier. He finally succeeded in getting off a shot.
Preliminary documentation from the scene shows the terrorist lying on the floor after being neutralized.
The female soldier is a lone soldier from England, meaning she immigrated to serve in the IDF without her immediate family as support.
Yossi Dagan, head of the Shomron Regional Council, arrived at the scene of the attack and talked to the soldiers, N12 reports.
“You are heroes, thanks to you a much bigger attack was avoided,” he said. “The residents of Samaria and the entire State of Israel thank you.”
Addressing the government, he said, “The response of the government and the guidance of the political echelon to the army should be a determined action within the villages from which the perpetrators emerge to make it clear that we will not permit harm to life’s routine and certainly not to human lives.”
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Joe Biden is sworn in as the 46th president of the United States by Chief Justice John Roberts as Jill Biden holds the Bible at the U.S. Capitol, Jan. 20, 2021. (AP/Andrew Harnik)
“This is America’s day. This is democracy’s day. A day in history and hope, of renewal and resolve,” he said.
By World Israel News Staff and AP
Joe Biden became the 46th president of the United States on Wednesday, declaring that “democracy has prevailed” as he took the helm of a deeply divided nation.
“The will of the people has been heard, and the will of the people has been heeded. We’ve learned again that democracy is precious and democracy is fragile. At this hour, my friends, democracy has prevailed,” Biden said.
“This is America’s day. This is democracy’s day. A day in history and hope, of renewal and resolve,” he said.
Biden talked about the challenges ahead, including the pandemic. He looked out over a capital city dotted with empty storefronts that attest to the pandemic’s deep economic toll and where summer protests laid bare the nation’s renewed attention to claims of racial injustice.
“We have much to do in this winter of peril, and significant possibilities: much to repair, much to restore, much to heal, much to build and much to gain,” Biden said.
His predecessor’s absence underscored the country’s division. Donald Trump departed Washington on Wednesday morning ahead of the inauguration rather than accompany his successor to the Capitol. He instead flew to Florida after promising to return and saying “it’s not a long term goodbye.”
Trump has contested the vote, saying the election was stolen. His attorneys filed over 50 lawsuits challenging President Biden’s victories. U.S. courts rejected those efforts.
Biden said, “I know the forces that divide us are deep and they are real. But I also know they are not new. Our history has been a constant struggle between the American ideal that we all are created equal and the harsh, ugly reality of racism, nativism, fear, demonization that have long torn us apart.”
“This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge, and unity is the path forward and we must meet this moment as the United States of America,” Biden said.
Biden won about 12.8 million more votes than Barack Obama won in 2016 despite an uninspiring campaign, in which he spent a good part of it in his basement. Few attended his rallies. Trump nicknamed him “sleepy Joe.” The media generally ignored the more worrying signs of early dementia as Biden gave indications that his mind was going and he might not be up to the job.
In October, he appeared to confuse Trump with George W. Bush.
Biden has repeatedly denied there’s anything wrong with him and refuted suggestions he isn’t up for the job of president. At age 78, he is the oldest president inaugurated.
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"Joe Biden is sworn in as the 46th president of the United States by Chief Justice John Roberts as Jill Biden holds the Bible at the U.S. Capitol, Jan. 20, 2021. (AP/Andrew Harnik)\n“This is America’s day. This is democracy’s day. A day in history and hope, of renewal and resolve,” he said.\nBy World Israel News Staff and AP\nJoe Biden became the 46th president of the United States on Wednesday, declaring that “democracy has prevailed” as he took the helm of a deeply divided nation.\n“The will of the people has been heard, and the will of the people has been heeded. We’ve learned again that democracy is precious and democracy is fragile. At this hour, my friends, democracy has prevailed,” Biden said.\n“This is America’s day. This is democracy’s day. A day in history and hope, of renewal and resolve,” he said.\nBiden talked about the challenges ahead, including the pandemic. He looked out over a capital city dotted with empty storefronts that attest to the pandemic’s deep economic toll and where summer protests laid bare the nation’s renewed attention to claims of racial injustice.\n“We have much to do in this winter of peril, and significant possibilities: much to repair, much to restore, much to heal, much to build and much to gain,” Biden said.\nHis predecessor’s absence underscored the country’s division. Donald Trump departed Washington on Wednesday morning ahead of the inauguration rather than accompany his successor to the Capitol. He instead flew to Florida after promising to return and saying “it’s not a long term goodbye.”\nTrump has contested the vote, saying the election was stolen. His attorneys filed over 50 lawsuits challenging President Biden’s victories. U.S. courts rejected those efforts.\nBiden said, “I know the forces that divide us are deep and they are real. But I also know they are not new. Our history has been a constant struggle between the American ideal that we all are created equal and the harsh, ugly reality of racism, nativism, fear, demonization that have long torn us apart.”\n“This is our historic moment of crisis and challenge, and unity is the path forward and we must meet this moment as the United States of America,” Biden said.\nBiden won about 12.8 million more votes than Barack Obama won in 2016 despite an uninspiring campaign, in which he spent a good part of it in his basement. Few attended his rallies. Trump nicknamed him “sleepy Joe.” The media generally ignored the more worrying signs of early dementia as Biden gave indications that his mind was going and he might not be up to the job.\nIn October, he appeared to confuse Trump with George W. Bush.\nBiden has repeatedly denied there’s anything wrong with him and refuted suggestions he isn’t up for the job of president. At age 78, he is the oldest president inaugurated.",
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Victoria's Secret, 'Bath & Body Works' come to Israel
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Israel-Saudi relations souring as Palestinian problem comes to fore
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U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo meets with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Neom, Saudi Arabia, Nov. 22, 2020. (State Department/Ron Przysucha)
An Israeli official tells a London-based Arabic news outlet that the Saudis have cut off all behind-the-scenes coordination with Israel.
By Shahar Klaiman, JNS
A senior Israeli official claims that Saudi Arabia will not be signing any peace agreement with Israel unless progress is made on the Palestinian issue, the London-based Arabic news outlet Elaph reported on Thursday.
The report comes some two months after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman held a secret meeting in Riyadh.
The report went on to say that the unnamed source had told Elaph reporter Majdi Halabi that attempts to present Israeli-Saudi normalization as just around the corner were likely motivated by personal or political considerations.
The source said that Israeli relations with the Saudis had changed, and revealed that the Saudis had entirely cut off contact with Israel. According to the report, even American-mediated indirect communication had stopped, due to the meeting between Netanyahu and bin Salman’s having been leaked. Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan denied that the meeting took place.
Elaph reported that Saudi Arabia had not been satisfied with the denial alone, and had stopped all behind-the-scenes contact and coordination.
The source quoted in the report further stated that American attempts to pressure Saudi Arabia into signing a normalization agreement with Israel had not succeeded.
This article first appeared in Israel Hayom.
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“They sure as heck thinks he wants to run. That’s why they’re doing this to him,” Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani told Newsmax as to the reason the Democrats want to impeach President Donald Trump.
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Larry King conducted an estimated 50,000 on-air interviews and presided over a 1995 Middle East peace summit with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, and King Hussein of Jordan.
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Larry King, the suspenders-sporting everyman whose broadcast interviews with world leaders, movie stars and ordinary Joes helped define American conversation for a half-century, died Saturday. He was 87.
King died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, his production company, Ora Media, tweeted. No cause of death was given, but a spokesperson said Jan. 4 that King had COVID-19, had received supplemental oxygen and had been moved out of intensive care. His son Chance Armstrong also confirmed King’s death, CNN reported.
A longtime nationally syndicated radio host, from 1985 through 2010 he was a nightly fixture on CNN , where he won many honors, including two Peabody awards.
King conducted an estimated 50,000 on-air interviews. In 1995 he presided over a Middle East peace summit with PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat, King Hussein of Jordan and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. He welcomed everyone from the Dalai Lama to Elizabeth Taylor, from Mikhail Gorbachev to Barack Obama, Bill Gates to Lady Gaga.
With his celebrity interviews, political debates and topical discussions, King wasn’t just an enduring on-air personality. He also set himself apart with the curiosity he brought to every interview, whether questioning the assault victim known as the Central Park jogger or billionaire industrialist Ross Perot, who in 1992 rocked the presidential contest by announcing his candidacy on King’s show.
In its early years, “Larry King Live” was based in Washington, which gave the show an air of gravitas. Likewise King. He was the plainspoken go-between through whom Beltway bigwigs could reach their public, and they did, earning the show prestige as a place where things happened, where news was made.
Especially after he relocated to Los Angeles, his shows were frequently in the thick of breaking celebrity news, including Paris Hilton talking about her stint in jail in 2007 and Michael Jackson’s friends and family members talking about his death in 2009.
‘Never Overprepared’
King boasted of never overpreparing for an interview. His nonconfrontational style relaxed his guests and made him readily relatable to his audience.
“I don’t pretend to know it all,” he said in a 1995 Associated Press interview. “Not, `What about Geneva or Cuba?’ I ask, `Mr. President, what don’t you like about this job?’ Or `What’s the biggest mistake you made?’ That’s fascinating.”
At a time when CNN as the lone player in cable news was deemed politically neutral, and King was the essence of its middle-of-the-road stance, political figures and people at the center of controversies would seek out his show.
And he was known for getting guests who were notoriously elusive. Frank Sinatra, who rarely gave interviews and often lashed out at reporters, spoke to King in 1988 in what would be the singer’s last major TV appearance. Sinatra was an old friend of King’s and acted accordingly.
“Why are you here?” King asks. Sinatra responds, “Because you asked me to come and I hadn’t seen you in a long time to begin with, I thought we ought to get together and chat, just talk about a lot of things.”
King had never met Marlon Brando, who was even tougher to get and tougher to interview, when the acting giant asked to appear on King’s show in 1994. The two hit it off so famously they ended their 90-minute talk with a song and an on-the-mouth kiss, an image that was all over media in subsequent weeks.
After a gala week marking his 25th anniversary in June 2010, King abruptly announced he was retiring from his show, telling viewers, “It’s time to hang up my nightly suspenders.” Named as his successor in the time slot: British journalist and TV personality Piers Morgan.
By King’s departure that December, suspicion had grown that he had waited a little too long to hang up those suspenders. Once the leader in cable TV news, he ranked third in his time slot with less than half the nightly audience of his peak year, 1998, when “Larry King Live” drew 1.64 million viewers.
His wide-eyed, regular-guy approach to interviewing by then felt dated in an era of edgy, pushy or loaded questioning by other hosts.
Meanwhile, occasional flubs had made him seem out of touch, or worse. A prime example from 2007 found King asking Jerry Seinfeld if he had voluntarily left his sitcom or been canceled by his network, NBC.
“I was the No. 1 show in television, Larry,” replied Seinfeld with a flabbergasted look. “Do you know who I am?”
Old School Influencer
Always a workaholic, King would be back doing specials for CNN within a few months of performing his nightly duties.
He found a new sort of celebrity as a plainspoken natural on Twitter when the platform emerged, winning over more than 2 million followers who simultaneously mocked and loved him for his esoteric style.
“I’ve never been in a canoe. #Itsmy2cents,” he said in a typical tweet in 2015.
His Twitter account was essentially a revival of a USA Today column he wrote for two decades full of one-off, disjointed thoughts. Norm Macdonald delivered a parody version of the column when he played King on “Saturday Night Live,” with deadpan lines like, “The more I think about it, the more I appreciate the equator.”
King was constantly parodied, often through old-age jokes on late-night talk shows from hosts including David Letterman and Conan O’Brien, often appearing with the latter to get in on the roasting himself.
King came by his voracious but no-frills manner honestly.
He was born Lawrence Harvey Zeiger in 1933, a son of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe who ran a bar and grill in Brooklyn. But after his father’s death when Larry was a boy, he faced a troubled, sometimes destitute youth.
A fan of such radio stars as Arthur Godfrey and comedians Bob & Ray, King on reaching adulthood set his sights on a broadcasting career. With word that Miami was a good place to break in, he headed south in 1957 and landed a job sweeping floors at a tiny AM station. When a deejay abruptly quit, King was put on the air — and was handed his new surname by the station manager, who thought Zeiger “too Jewish.”
A year later he moved to a larger station, where his duties were expanded from the usual patter to serving as host of a daily interview show that aired from a local restaurant. He quickly proved equally adept at talking to the waitresses, and the celebrities who began dropping by.
By the early 1960s King had gone to yet a larger Miami station, scored a newspaper column and become a local celebrity himself.
At the same time, he fell victim to living large.
“It was important to me to come across as a ‘big man,”‘ he wrote in his autobiography, which meant “I made a lot of money and spread it around lavishly.”
He accumulated debts and his first broken marriages (he was married eight times to seven women). He gambled, borrowed wildly and failed to pay his taxes. He also became involved with a shady financier in a scheme to bankroll an investigation of President John Kennedy’s assassination. But when King skimmed some of the cash to pay his overdue taxes, his partner sued him for grand larceny in 1971. The charges were dropped, but King’s reputation appeared ruined.
King lost his radio show and, for several years, struggled to find work. But by 1975 the scandal had largely blown over and a Miami station gave him another chance. Regaining his local popularity, King was signed in 1978 to host radio’s first nationwide call-in show.
National Phenomenon
Originating from Washington on the Mutual network, “The Larry King Show” was eventually heard on more than 300 stations and made King a national phenomenon.
A few years later, CNN founder Ted Turner offered King a slot on his young network. “Larry King Live” debuted on June 1, 1985, and became CNN’s highest-rated program. King’s beginning salary of $100,000 a year eventually grew to more than $7 million.
A three-packs-a-day cigarette habit led to a heart attack in 1987, but King’s quintuple-bypass surgery didn’t slow him down.
Meanwhile, he continued to prove that, in his words, “I’m not good at marriage, but I’m a great boyfriend.”
He was just 18 when he married high school girlfriend Freda Miller, in 1952. The marriage lasted less than a year. In subsequent decades he would marry Annette Kay, Alene Akins (twice), Mickey Sutfin, Sharon Lepore and Julie Alexander.
In 1997, he wed Shawn Southwick, a country singer and actress 26 years his junior. They would file for divorce in 2010, rescind the filing, then file for divorce again in 2019.
The couple had two sons — King’s fourth and fifth kids, Chance, born in 1999, and Cannon Edward, born in 2000. In 2020, King lost his two oldest children, Andy King and Chaia King, who died of unrelated health problems within weeks of each other.
He had many other medical issues in recent decades, including more heart attacks and diagnoses of type 2 diabetes and lung cancer.
Through his setbacks he continued to work into his late 80s, taking on online talk shows and infomercials as his appearances on CNN grew fewer.
“Work,” King once said. “It’s the easiest thing I do.”
Funeral arrangements and a memorial service will be announced later in coordination with the King family, “who ask for their privacy at this time,” according to the tweet from Ora Media.
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"Larry King conducted an estimated 50,000 on-air interviews and presided over a 1995 Middle East peace summit with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, and King Hussein of Jordan.\nBy Associated Press\nLarry King, the suspenders-sporting everyman whose broadcast interviews with world leaders, movie stars and ordinary Joes helped define American conversation for a half-century, died Saturday. He was 87.\nKing died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, his production company, Ora Media, tweeted. No cause of death was given, but a spokesperson said Jan. 4 that King had COVID-19, had received supplemental oxygen and had been moved out of intensive care. His son Chance Armstrong also confirmed King’s death, CNN reported.\nA longtime nationally syndicated radio host, from 1985 through 2010 he was a nightly fixture on CNN , where he won many honors, including two Peabody awards.\nKing conducted an estimated 50,000 on-air interviews. In 1995 he presided over a Middle East peace summit with PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat, King Hussein of Jordan and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. He welcomed everyone from the Dalai Lama to Elizabeth Taylor, from Mikhail Gorbachev to Barack Obama, Bill Gates to Lady Gaga.\nWith his celebrity interviews, political debates and topical discussions, King wasn’t just an enduring on-air personality. He also set himself apart with the curiosity he brought to every interview, whether questioning the assault victim known as the Central Park jogger or billionaire industrialist Ross Perot, who in 1992 rocked the presidential contest by announcing his candidacy on King’s show.\nIn its early years, “Larry King Live” was based in Washington, which gave the show an air of gravitas. Likewise King. He was the plainspoken go-between through whom Beltway bigwigs could reach their public, and they did, earning the show prestige as a place where things happened, where news was made.\nEspecially after he relocated to Los Angeles, his shows were frequently in the thick of breaking celebrity news, including Paris Hilton talking about her stint in jail in 2007 and Michael Jackson’s friends and family members talking about his death in 2009.\n‘Never Overprepared’\nKing boasted of never overpreparing for an interview. His nonconfrontational style relaxed his guests and made him readily relatable to his audience.\n“I don’t pretend to know it all,” he said in a 1995 Associated Press interview. “Not, `What about Geneva or Cuba?’ I ask, `Mr. President, what don’t you like about this job?’ Or `What’s the biggest mistake you made?’ That’s fascinating.”\nAt a time when CNN as the lone player in cable news was deemed politically neutral, and King was the essence of its middle-of-the-road stance, political figures and people at the center of controversies would seek out his show.\nAnd he was known for getting guests who were notoriously elusive. Frank Sinatra, who rarely gave interviews and often lashed out at reporters, spoke to King in 1988 in what would be the singer’s last major TV appearance. Sinatra was an old friend of King’s and acted accordingly.\n“Why are you here?” King asks. Sinatra responds, “Because you asked me to come and I hadn’t seen you in a long time to begin with, I thought we ought to get together and chat, just talk about a lot of things.”\nKing had never met Marlon Brando, who was even tougher to get and tougher to interview, when the acting giant asked to appear on King’s show in 1994. The two hit it off so famously they ended their 90-minute talk with a song and an on-the-mouth kiss, an image that was all over media in subsequent weeks.\nAfter a gala week marking his 25th anniversary in June 2010, King abruptly announced he was retiring from his show, telling viewers, “It’s time to hang up my nightly suspenders.” Named as his successor in the time slot: British journalist and TV personality Piers Morgan.\nBy King’s departure that December, suspicion had grown that he had waited a little too long to hang up those suspenders. Once the leader in cable TV news, he ranked third in his time slot with less than half the nightly audience of his peak year, 1998, when “Larry King Live” drew 1.64 million viewers.\nHis wide-eyed, regular-guy approach to interviewing by then felt dated in an era of edgy, pushy or loaded questioning by other hosts.\nMeanwhile, occasional flubs had made him seem out of touch, or worse. A prime example from 2007 found King asking Jerry Seinfeld if he had voluntarily left his sitcom or been canceled by his network, NBC.\n“I was the No. 1 show in television, Larry,” replied Seinfeld with a flabbergasted look. “Do you know who I am?”\nOld School Influencer\nAlways a workaholic, King would be back doing specials for CNN within a few months of performing his nightly duties.\nHe found a new sort of celebrity as a plainspoken natural on Twitter when the platform emerged, winning over more than 2 million followers who simultaneously mocked and loved him for his esoteric style.\n“I’ve never been in a canoe. #Itsmy2cents,” he said in a typical tweet in 2015.\nHis Twitter account was essentially a revival of a USA Today column he wrote for two decades full of one-off, disjointed thoughts. Norm Macdonald delivered a parody version of the column when he played King on “Saturday Night Live,” with deadpan lines like, “The more I think about it, the more I appreciate the equator.”\nKing was constantly parodied, often through old-age jokes on late-night talk shows from hosts including David Letterman and Conan O’Brien, often appearing with the latter to get in on the roasting himself.\nKing came by his voracious but no-frills manner honestly.\nHe was born Lawrence Harvey Zeiger in 1933, a son of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe who ran a bar and grill in Brooklyn. But after his father’s death when Larry was a boy, he faced a troubled, sometimes destitute youth.\nA fan of such radio stars as Arthur Godfrey and comedians Bob & Ray, King on reaching adulthood set his sights on a broadcasting career. With word that Miami was a good place to break in, he headed south in 1957 and landed a job sweeping floors at a tiny AM station. When a deejay abruptly quit, King was put on the air — and was handed his new surname by the station manager, who thought Zeiger “too Jewish.”\nA year later he moved to a larger station, where his duties were expanded from the usual patter to serving as host of a daily interview show that aired from a local restaurant. He quickly proved equally adept at talking to the waitresses, and the celebrities who began dropping by.\nBy the early 1960s King had gone to yet a larger Miami station, scored a newspaper column and become a local celebrity himself.\nAt the same time, he fell victim to living large.\n“It was important to me to come across as a ‘big man,”‘ he wrote in his autobiography, which meant “I made a lot of money and spread it around lavishly.”\nHe accumulated debts and his first broken marriages (he was married eight times to seven women). He gambled, borrowed wildly and failed to pay his taxes. He also became involved with a shady financier in a scheme to bankroll an investigation of President John Kennedy’s assassination. But when King skimmed some of the cash to pay his overdue taxes, his partner sued him for grand larceny in 1971. The charges were dropped, but King’s reputation appeared ruined.\nKing lost his radio show and, for several years, struggled to find work. But by 1975 the scandal had largely blown over and a Miami station gave him another chance. Regaining his local popularity, King was signed in 1978 to host radio’s first nationwide call-in show.\nNational Phenomenon\nOriginating from Washington on the Mutual network, “The Larry King Show” was eventually heard on more than 300 stations and made King a national phenomenon.\nA few years later, CNN founder Ted Turner offered King a slot on his young network. “Larry King Live” debuted on June 1, 1985, and became CNN’s highest-rated program. King’s beginning salary of $100,000 a year eventually grew to more than $7 million.\nA three-packs-a-day cigarette habit led to a heart attack in 1987, but King’s quintuple-bypass surgery didn’t slow him down.\nMeanwhile, he continued to prove that, in his words, “I’m not good at marriage, but I’m a great boyfriend.”\nHe was just 18 when he married high school girlfriend Freda Miller, in 1952. The marriage lasted less than a year. In subsequent decades he would marry Annette Kay, Alene Akins (twice), Mickey Sutfin, Sharon Lepore and Julie Alexander.\nIn 1997, he wed Shawn Southwick, a country singer and actress 26 years his junior. They would file for divorce in 2010, rescind the filing, then file for divorce again in 2019.\nThe couple had two sons — King’s fourth and fifth kids, Chance, born in 1999, and Cannon Edward, born in 2000. In 2020, King lost his two oldest children, Andy King and Chaia King, who died of unrelated health problems within weeks of each other.\nHe had many other medical issues in recent decades, including more heart attacks and diagnoses of type 2 diabetes and lung cancer.\nThrough his setbacks he continued to work into his late 80s, taking on online talk shows and infomercials as his appearances on CNN grew fewer.\n“Work,” King once said. “It’s the easiest thing I do.”\nFuneral arrangements and a memorial service will be announced later in coordination with the King family, “who ask for their privacy at this time,” according to the tweet from Ora Media.",
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Sheba Medical staff receive the second round of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine at Sheba Medical Center outside of Tel Aviv, Jan. 10. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
Nothwithstanding the encouraging results of a study assessing the success of the Pfizer vaccination, infection rates in the country remain high and Netanyahu is calling for an extension of the lockdown.
By World Israel News Staff
Preliminary results of an Israeli study are encouraging, showing the Pfizer vaccination to be highly effective in protecting individuals against the coronavirus.
According to a study by Maccabi Health Services, 0.4% of 715,425 Israelis who received their second dose of the Pfizer vaccination contracted COVID-19 at least seven days afterwards, TPS reports. Of the 317 who were infected, 16 were hospitalized.
The results concur with Pfizer studies that showed the vaccine to be 95 percent effective.
“The fact that seven to 18 days after receiving the second dose the vaccine shows a 92% efficacy is very encouraging data,” Dr. Anat Aka Zohar, head of the Information and Digital Health Division at Maccabi, said, The Jerusalem Post reports.
“We will continue to monitor the situation to see that if the number increases and reaches the 95% demonstrated during the Pfizer study,” she added.
PM: ‘We want to win’
Nothwithstanding the apparent success of the vaccination program, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is urging the Knesset to add two weeks to the lockdown, which is scheduled to end on January 31.
Since the outbreak of the virus almost a year ago, 4,609 Israelis have died, including 96 in the past day.
“We are in a situation in which we can exit from this accursed disease and gradually open our economy,” he said. “We must make a common effort to exit from the coronavirus thanks to the millions of vaccines that we have. We can open our economy if we take care to fight the mutation.
“The mutation is currently striking the whole world; we are in a close race with it. We want to win and get rid of it; for this, a final effort is required.”
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Grand Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Husseini, reviewing a unit of Muslim Bosnians in the service of the Nazis. (Yad Vashem)
“There is a beautiful poetic justice when you see the house of Hajj Amin al-Husseini crumbling down.”
By Batya Jerenberg, World Israel News
A house belonging to one of the most notorious enemies of the Jewish people in pre-state Israel is slated to become a synagogue, The Jerusalem Post reported Sunday.
Called Qasr al-Mufti (the Mufti’s Palace), it was built for Haj Amin al-Husseini in 1933, 12 years after he was appointed the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem by the British authorities, who ruled what was then Palestine.
While his job was to be the Muslim cleric in charge of the city’s Islamic holy places, the British turned a mostly blind eye to his main activity, which was fomenting deadly riots against Jews across the country.
The empty mansion is situated on a hilltop in the Arab-majority Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, which is between the Old City and Mount Scopus. A 28-apartment complex owned by a Jewish developer has been largely built around it.
Daniel Luria, a spokesman for Ateret Cohanim, which helps Jews buy properties in the eastern part of Jerusalem but is not involved in the Mufti development, says the old house will become a synagogue and maybe a children’s day care facility to serve the expected buyers.
“There is a beautiful poetic justice when you see the house of Hajj Amin al-Husseini crumbling down,” he said.
Al-Husseini never actually lived in his grand, 500 square meter home, but his secretary’s family did and it became a social center for wealthy local Arabs and British officials, the Post reports.
The mufti finally drew the attention of the authorities when he turned his attention not only against Jews but also the British, starting a three-year-long Arab revolt against them in 1936. He had to flee the country the next year with a warrant sworn out for his arrest.
He ended up in Germany, collaborating with the Nazis by recruiting Bosnian Moslems for the Waffen-SS and regularly broadcasting propaganda for Hitler in Arabic on the radio. After the war, he fled to Egypt to escape prosecution for war crimes.
Following the War of Independence, the house became part of a hotel, but the state took over the abandoned property when Jerusalem was reunited in 1967’s Six Day War. It was eventually sold to late American billionaire Irving Moskowitz, a philanthropist and Zionist actively involved in building projects that include the Har Homa and Ma’ale HaZeitim neighborhoods.
The small new Jewish enclave is not yet on the market because the company building it has enough land to double its size. This requires rezoning the land, but its request to do so has been stuck since 2008, said the report.
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Israeli soldiers on the Gaza border. (Flash90 /Gili Yaari)
For the second time this week, IDF pounded Hamas positions in the Gaza Strip in response to rocket attacks.
By TPS
IDF tanks shelled Hamas terror targets in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday night in response to a rocket attack on Israel earlier in the evening.
Gaza-based terrorists launched a rocket at Israel’s south. The rocket exploded in an open area, causing no injuries or damage.
In response, the IDF hit Hamas military targets in the Strip.
This was the second rocket attack from Gaza in 48 hours.
Terrorists fired two rockets at Israel early Monday morning, causing no injuries or damage.
The rockets landed in the sea, off the coast near the city of Ashdod.
In response, the Israeli Air Force (IAF) bombed Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip, including workshops for its terror tunnel-digging project.
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Joe Biden is sworn in as the 46th president of the United States, Jan. 20, 2021. (AP/Andrew Harnik)
Biden’s top medical adviser on COVID-19, Dr. Anthony Fauci, also announced renewed U.S. support for the World Health Organization.
By Associated Press
As the U.S. enters “what may well be the toughest and deadliest period of the virus,” President Joe Biden is putting forth a national COVID-19 strategy to ramp up vaccinations and testing, reopen schools and businesses and increase the use of masks — including a requirement that they be worn for travel.
Biden also will address inequities in hard-hit minority communities as he signs 10 pandemic-related executive orders on Thursday, his second day in office. However, details were few.
“We need to ask average Americans to do their part,” said Jeff Zients, the White House official directing the national response. “Defeating the virus requires a coordinated nationwide effort.”
They’re also depending on Congress to provide $1.9 trillion for economic relief and COVID-19 response. And they face a litany of complaints from states that say they are not getting enough vaccine even as they are being asked to vaccinate more categories of people.
Biden’s top medical adviser on COVID-19, Dr. Anthony Fauci, also announced renewed U.S. support for the World Health Organization after it faced blistering criticism from the Trump administration, laying out new commitments to tackle the coronavirus and other global health issues.
Fauci said early Thursday that the U.S. will join the U.N. health agency’s efforts to bring vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics to people in need, whether in rich or poor countries and will resume full funding and staffing support for WHO.
The U.S. mask order for travel being implemented by Biden will apply to airports and planes, ships, intercity buses, trains and public transportation. Travelers from abroad must furnish a negative COVID-19 test before departing for the U.S. and quarantine upon arrival. Biden has already mandated masks on federal property.
Although airlines, Amtrak and other transport providers now require masks, Biden’s order makes it a federal mandate, leaving little wiggle room for passengers tempted to argue about their rights.
It marks a sharp break with the Trump administration, under which masks were optional, and Trump made a point of going maskless and hosting big gatherings of like-minded supporters.
Biden also is seeking to expand testing and vaccine availability, with the goal of 100 million shots in his first 100 days in office. Zients called Biden’s goal “ambitious and achievable.”
However, some independent experts say the administration should be setting a higher bar for itself than 100 million shots. During flu season, the U.S. is able to vaccinate about 3 million people a day, said Dr. Christopher Murray of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation in Seattle.
“Given the number of people dying from COVID, we could and should do more — like what we’re able to do on seasonal flu,” he said.
Betsy McCaughey. chairman of the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths and a former lieutenant governor of New York, wrote recently, 100 million shots “will not do the job. It is barely half of what is needed. A staggering 1.8 million people a day need to be vaccinated between now and the end of May to achieve herd immunity by July, according to the American Hospital Association.”
As part of his COVID-19 strategy, Biden will order the establishment of a COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force to ensure that minority and underserved communities are not left out of the government’s response.
Surveys have shown vaccine hesitancy is high among African Americans, a problem the administration plans to address through an education campaign.
But Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith, the top White House health adviser on minority communities, said she’s not convinced that race should be a factor in vaccination. Disparities seem to have more to do with risky jobs and other life circumstances.
“It’s not inherent to race,” she said. “It’s from the exposures.”
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Air traffic controllers were told a plane will be sent into the Capitol building on Wednesday to avenge the death of Iranian general Soleimani.
By World Israel News Staff
The FBI is investigating after an anonymous broadcast on aviation frequencies that was heard by air traffic controllers threatening to fly a plane into the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, CBS News reported Tuesday.
A digitized voice told air traffic controllers in New York: “We are flying a plane into the Capitol on Wednesday. Soleimani will be avenged.”
The recording obtained by CBS came on the first anniversary of the American airstrike ordered by President Donald Trump that killed Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, Iran’s top military strategist who was involved in boosting Iranian-backed militias and regimes across the Middle East.
Iranian leaders vowed that they would avenge the killing, including threats to take out President Trump.
The government does not believe the attack warning to be credible, but is investigating the message as a breach of the use of aviation frequencies, CBS reported.
Sources told CBS News that the Pentagon and other agencies were briefed Tuesday about the recorded threat and said it suggests the Capitol would be attacked on the day that Congress is set officially confirm the Electoral College of the U.S. presidential election.
Aviation experts said the intrusion into the airline frequencies is of serious concern because broadcasts could also be used to give false instructions to pilots.
A message sent to all air traffic controllers on Tuesday reminded them to immediately report any threat or indications of any plane deviating from its flight path.
In the terror attacks on September 11, 2001, members of the Al Qaeda Islamic terror group hijacked four passenger planes and killed or disabled the crews. It was the worst terrorist attack in American history, killing 2,977 people.
Two of the planes were flown into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York and a third hit the Pentagon. Passengers in the fourth plane that might have been targeting the White House managed to break into the cockpit to confront the hijackers, who crashed the airliner into an empty field in Pennsylvania killing all aboard.
The FBI told CBS it is not commenting but added that it takes “all threats of violence to public safety seriously.”
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Chuck Norris denies he was at Capitol building during riot
A photo of a man who resembled Norris apparently with a member of the mob began trending online.
By World Israel News Staff and AP
Action star and martial artist Chuck Norris did not take part in the riot at the U.S. Capitol, his manager says.
A photo of a man who resembled Norris apparently with a member of the mob began trending online.
“This is not Chuck Norris,” Norris manager Erik Kritzer told The Associated Press on Tuesday.
“Chuck remains on his range in Texas where he has been with his family,” Kritzer said. He acknowledged that the man photographed looked somewhat like Norris but “Chuck is much more handsome.”
In 2016, Norris announced his support for President Donald Trump.
The karate champion who is a black belt in several disciplines and founded his own, Chun Kuk Do, was Professional Middleweight Karate champion for six years starting in 1968. He then transitioned to become a successful actor. He starred in “Walker, Texas Ranger,” in which he played karate-kicking lawman Cordell Walker. It ran on CBS from 1993 to 2001.
In recent years, he has become almost as famous for the jokes and memes he’s inspired as he has for his career.
Famous one-liners associated with Norris, who boasts a tough-guy image are:
Chuck Norris doesn’t read books. He stares them down until he gets the information he wants.
Time waits for no man. Unless that man is Chuck Norris.
When God said, “Let there be light!” Chuck said, “Say Please.”
Chuck Norris doesn’t do pushups, he pushes the Earth down.
So far, there haven’t been one-liners about what would have happened if Norris had actually appeared at the U.S. Capitol riot, perhaps because the wound is still too raw. Once emotions cool, possible contenders could be:
If Chuck Norris had really stormed the Capitol…
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Elections pose a major risk for Abbas’ Fatah party and also for the Hamas terror group, which welcomed the decree.
By Associated Press
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday decreed parliamentary and presidential elections for later this year in what would be the first vote of its kind since 2006, when the Islamic terror group Hamas won a landslide victory.
Elections would pose a major risk for Abbas’ Fatah party and also for Hamas, which welcomed the decree. Both have faced protests in recent years over their bloody feud with one another and failure to meet even the most basic needs of those in the territories they govern.
Fatah and Hamas have been publicly calling for elections for more than a decade but have never agreed on a process for holding them, and despite Friday’s decree, it remained far from clear whether the voting would actually be held.
Elections could also complicate President-elect Joe Biden’s plans to restore aid to the Palestinians and to revive the peace process with Israel.
The 2006 election victory by Hamas, designated a terrorist group by Israel and the Western world, led to heavy international pressure being placed on the Palestinian Authority. Clashes between Fatah and Hamas raged for more than a year, culminating in Hamas’ 2007 brutal takeover of the Gaza Strip, which it still controls, despite clashes with rival terror groups, such as Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
Abbas’ Palestinian Authority is confined to Judea and Samaria, where it administers major population centers according to agreements with Israel.
The decree sets a timeline in which legislative elections would be held on May 22, followed by presidential elections on July 31 — the first since Abbas was elected to a four-year term in 2005. On Aug. 31, elections would be held for the National Council of the Palestine Liberation Organization, a group “responsible for scores of acts of terrorism from its creation, resulting in the deaths of thousands of civilians,” according to the Anti-Defamation League.
Abbas handed the decree to Hanna Nasir, the head of the Central Election Commission.
Hamas welcomed the decree and expressed its “strong eagerness to make this obligation successful.”
“We have worked in the past months to surmount all hurdles to reach this day, and we have shown a lot of flexibility,” it said in a statement.
A poll carried out in December by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research found that if parliamentary elections were held, Fatah would win 38% of the vote and Hamas would win 34%. Abbas would lose in a presidential election against Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, 43% to 50%, according to the survey. The pollsters interviewed 1,270 Palestinians face to face across Judea and Samaria and Gaza, and reported a margin of error of 3%.
Hamas has spent years building up its vast arsenal of rockets and other arms, bankrolled by Iran, which it uses against Israeli civilians in periodic attacks.
It would be virtually impossible for Hamas to assume responsibility over the Palestinian enclaves in Judea and Samaria, where Israel maintains overall security control to prevent Palestinian terror groups from gaining a foothold there.
The Palestinian Authority coordinates with Israel on security, economic and other matters.
Abbas, 85, has led the Palestinian Authority and the PLO since the death of Yasser Arafat in 2004 and has no clear
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“The president wanted me to know, as well as a handful of others, that the president is a Republican, he is not starting a third party,” Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) said.
By David Isaac, World Israel News
President Donald Trump sent a reassuring message to Republican senators through a former aide that he will not start a third party, Politico reports on Tuesday.
Brian Jack, Trump’s former political director at the White House, quietly delivered the message, the website says.
“The president wanted me to know, as well as a handful of others, that the president is a Republican, he is not starting a third party and that anything he would do politically in the future would be as a Republican,” Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.) said, recounting the message.
“The Republican Party is still overwhelmingly supportive of this president,” Cramer added.
Politico says the message is also a veiled threat, warning Republicans that Trump is still part of the party “and for many, still the leader of his party.” Republicans who vote for impeachment may have to contend with Trump targeting them for censure or supporting their opponents in their reelection efforts.
“Trump has already threatened his critics in the Senate GOP with primary challengers,” Politico reports.
House Democrats brought the sole impeachment charge of “incitement of insurrection” to the Senate on Monday evening.
They are hoping that strong Republican denunciations of Trump after the Jan. 6 riot will translate into a conviction and a separate vote to bar Trump from holding office again.
However, their hopes for success appear to be dimming as Republicans, either out of reasons of principle or politics, back away from impeachment. It now looks unlikely that 17 Republicans, the number necessary to convict, will support the largely Democratic effort.
“A lot of people made strong statements, and I put myself in the category, of what the president’s role was, particularly right after Jan. 6 happened,” said Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Politico reports.
“And I suppose as time goes on the political considerations begin to weigh in.”
The report made no mention of whether Trump intends to run again but Richard Grenell, the former acting Director of National Intelligence, told Newsmax TV on Saturday that he does.
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With Joe Biden scheduled to be sworn in as president next week, Netanyahu removes Trump from the banner of his Twitter feed.
By Paul Shindman, World Israel News
President Donald Trump has been dropped from the the Twitter homepage of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, after having been featured there for most of the past 14 months.
With president-elect Joe Biden due to be sworn in next week, the Twitter feed now features a picture of Netanyahu getting his second shot of coronavirus vaccine this past weekend.
A check of the Wayback Machine web archive website shows that the picture of the premier and Trump during a meeting in the White House seems to have made its first appearance in October, 2019 and stayed there most of the time since.
In December, the Netanyahu-Trump photo was replaced with a Chanukah holiday-themed image, Ynet reported, sparking media speculation that with the election results confirmed Netanyahu was distancing himself from Trump.
However, after the holiday the Chanukah picture was replaced with a photo of Trump, Netanyahu and Arab leaders at the signing of the historic Abraham Accords at the White House last August at which the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, under Trump’s mediation efforts, agreed to establish diplomatic relations with Israel.
Netanyahu is one of the few world leaders who has had an excellent relation with Trump, who changed several longstanding American foreign policies towards Israel including the watershed move of the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
As Trump continued to reject the results of the U.S. presidential election, Netanyahu stayed out of the controversy. Following the attack on the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters last week, Netanyahu tweeted that “The rampage at the Capitol … was a disgraceful act that must be vigorously condemned. I have no doubt that American democracy will prevail – it always has,” but did not mention Trump specifically.
A day later, he hosted Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin in Jerusalem, taking the opportunity to praise Trump’s efforts on behalf of Israel.
“I want to thank President Trump and all of you in the administration for all you have done and are doing for peace. You’ve made a real difference, achieving one breakthrough after another, bringing the UAE, Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan into the circle of peace,” Netanyahu said.
Netanyahu and Biden have a long standing friendship that goes back to the 1980s when Netanyahu was Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations. With Trump still president until January 20, Netanyahu has said little about Biden’s election victory and incoming administration, tweeting only once in November and nothing since.
“I would like to start with congratulations for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris,” Netanyahu tweeted at the start of the Nov. 8 cabinet meeting. “I have a long and warm personal connection with Joe Biden for nearly 40 years, and I know him as a great friend of the State of Israel.”
Netanyahu gave no indication as to why he changed the picture, which came after Twitter announced it “permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence” following the incident at the Capitol Building.
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Pride in members of the tribe in the new administration is understandable, even if many disdained the Jews in the Trump White House. But what matters is what they will do, not their religion.
By Jonathan Tobin, JNS
Jewish Democrats are celebrating this week and with good reason. Their party is about to take back power in Washington and end the presidency of the man they all love to hate: President Donald Trump.
But adding a certain frisson of pride to their touchdown dances is the number of Cabinet members, and other officials and personalities, within the new First and Second families who are Jewish.
It’s an impressive tally. Social media is awash with posts with lists of the Jewish cabinet secretaries and undersecretaries, as well as the Jewish connections of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.
When placed in the broad sweep of the nation’s history, it’s an important statement about the acceptance and the accomplishments of American Jewry. A century ago or even for several decades afterward, such a number would have been inconceivable.
But it’s 2021, not 1921. Having Jews in positions of great influence is no longer such a big deal; in fact, it’s quite commonplace.
Nine Jews are in the new Senate (including the new Majority Leader) and 25 in the House of Representatives, making up more than 6 percent of the total Congress. That’s more than triple the percentage of Jews in the general population.
There are also two Jews out of the nine justices on the U.S. Supreme Court. Seen in that light, a Jewish secretary of state, treasury secretary, homeland security secretary, attorney general and director of national intelligence — to name a few high-level positions — are merely a reflection of the preponderance of Jews who have risen to the top of just about every sector of American society.
Nor is it a great break from the previous administration, though that is something that many of those sharing those posts on Facebook about the Jews and Biden don’t like to talk about. The list of Jews in important positions in Trump’s administration was also impressive. But since the overwhelming majority of Jews despised Trump, there was a great deal more demonizing than kvelling going on about them on Jewish social media the last four years.
In a country that is not only living through one of the most hyper-partisan and divisive moments in its history — and where for most people, politics has replaced the role that religion used to play in their lives — that’s to be expected.
If you thought Trump was a Nazi — a piece of deeply misleading hyperbole that became conventional wisdom among many Jews — you weren’t going to care if the secretary of the treasury or a number of other important officials was a Jew, or about the fact that the president had a daughter who converted to Judaism and had Jewish grandchildren.
Since politics has become a cultural tribal war, Jews on the other team are to be deemed traitors or worse; only your side’s Jews are something about which to express pride.
But there are still two important points to be gleaned from the discussion about counting Jews in any administration.
There was once a reason to care about counting Jews in presidential cabinets. In times when Jews were a marginalized minority shunned by society, the ability of a Jewish politician or adviser to rise to prominence was not only a source of communal pride, but an inspiration to young people to believe that they, too, could aspire to high office.
That was especially true in the early 20th century as anti-Semitism became even more prevalent. At such times, Jews needed role models wherever they could be found. In that same spirit, Jewish sports heroes were particularly important.
They symbolized not just acceptance, but the sort of strength that was an answer to the harmful stereotypes employed by anti-Semites. In that context, someone like Hank Greenberg was more than just a baseball slugger; he was a much-needed example of Jewish strength.
But while some Jewish baseball fans still take note of players who identify as Jews, in an era when, despite the persistence of anti-Semitism, American Jews are not the weak minority they were in Greenberg’s time, it doesn’t really matter.
The same applies to those counting Jews in any administration, but with one caveat. Having someone who can be considered Jewish in positions of influence is especially unimportant if their policies and actions don’t contribute to the security of the Jewish community or of Israel.
One of the most disgraceful chapters in American Jewish history involves the behavior of those Jews — like Rabbi Stephen Wise and others like Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter — who had the ear of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, yet failed to use their influence to advocate for the rescue of European Jewry during the Holocaust.
By contrast, Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. is remembered with honor because he did speak up for rescue when it mattered and helped save many lives.
Many Jewish officials have played important roles in formulating U.S. foreign policy throughout the last three decades. But for the most part — and without casting aspersions on their integrity or intentions — their presence in the corridors of power did little to influence events to the benefit of the alliance between the only Jewish state on the planet and the United States.
Indeed, many Jewish diplomats seemed to specialize in pressuring Israel and in seeking to undermine its efforts to resist policies that the majority of its people believed to be dangerous to their security.
Similarly, the role of some Jews like Wendy Sherman and Ben Rhodes in crafting a disastrous nuclear deal with Iran that endangered Israel and the entire Middle East, and enriched and empowered a genocidal terrorist state, is not something about which their co-religionists should regard with pride, even if those who did so were merely mistaken rather than ill-intentioned.
Thanks to Trump’s deeply irresponsible behavior that culminated in the U.S. Capitol riot, his administration’s record is viewed by many solely through the prism of the way it is leaving power. But it bears remembering that the key people in his Middle East policy team, including his senior adviser/son-in-law Jared Kushner and U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, as well as others, were not just people who count in the tally of Jews in office.
They actually used their power to support Israel against its enemies and to successfully work to bring about historic acts, such as the moving of the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and normalization agreements with Arab and Muslim countries, the importance of which will long outlive the petty political arguments into which most of us pour so much energy.
What ought to matter to the Jewish community is not the number of Jews or people with Jewish relatives there are in any administration, but whether they act in a manner that makes both the United States and the Jewish people more secure.
The verdict of history on those who served Trump should be far more laudatory than most American Jews are currently likely to give them. It remains to be seen whether those employed by Biden will deserve as much praise.
Jonathan S. Tobin is editor in chief of JNS—Jewish News Syndicate.
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A century ago or even for several decades afterward, such a number would have been inconceivable.\nBut it’s 2021, not 1921. Having Jews in positions of great influence is no longer such a big deal; in fact, it’s quite commonplace.\nNine Jews are in the new Senate (including the new Majority Leader) and 25 in the House of Representatives, making up more than 6 percent of the total Congress. That’s more than triple the percentage of Jews in the general population.\nThere are also two Jews out of the nine justices on the U.S. Supreme Court. Seen in that light, a Jewish secretary of state, treasury secretary, homeland security secretary, attorney general and director of national intelligence — to name a few high-level positions — are merely a reflection of the preponderance of Jews who have risen to the top of just about every sector of American society.\nNor is it a great break from the previous administration, though that is something that many of those sharing those posts on Facebook about the Jews and Biden don’t like to talk about. The list of Jews in important positions in Trump’s administration was also impressive. But since the overwhelming majority of Jews despised Trump, there was a great deal more demonizing than kvelling going on about them on Jewish social media the last four years.\nIn a country that is not only living through one of the most hyper-partisan and divisive moments in its history — and where for most people, politics has replaced the role that religion used to play in their lives — that’s to be expected.\nIf you thought Trump was a Nazi — a piece of deeply misleading hyperbole that became conventional wisdom among many Jews — you weren’t going to care if the secretary of the treasury or a number of other important officials was a Jew, or about the fact that the president had a daughter who converted to Judaism and had Jewish grandchildren.\nSince politics has become a cultural tribal war, Jews on the other team are to be deemed traitors or worse; only your side’s Jews are something about which to express pride.\nBut there are still two important points to be gleaned from the discussion about counting Jews in any administration.\nThere was once a reason to care about counting Jews in presidential cabinets. In times when Jews were a marginalized minority shunned by society, the ability of a Jewish politician or adviser to rise to prominence was not only a source of communal pride, but an inspiration to young people to believe that they, too, could aspire to high office.\nThat was especially true in the early 20th century as anti-Semitism became even more prevalent. At such times, Jews needed role models wherever they could be found. In that same spirit, Jewish sports heroes were particularly important.\nThey symbolized not just acceptance, but the sort of strength that was an answer to the harmful stereotypes employed by anti-Semites. In that context, someone like Hank Greenberg was more than just a baseball slugger; he was a much-needed example of Jewish strength.\nBut while some Jewish baseball fans still take note of players who identify as Jews, in an era when, despite the persistence of anti-Semitism, American Jews are not the weak minority they were in Greenberg’s time, it doesn’t really matter.\nThe same applies to those counting Jews in any administration, but with one caveat. Having someone who can be considered Jewish in positions of influence is especially unimportant if their policies and actions don’t contribute to the security of the Jewish community or of Israel.\nOne of the most disgraceful chapters in American Jewish history involves the behavior of those Jews — like Rabbi Stephen Wise and others like Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter — who had the ear of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, yet failed to use their influence to advocate for the rescue of European Jewry during the Holocaust.\nBy contrast, Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. is remembered with honor because he did speak up for rescue when it mattered and helped save many lives.\nMany Jewish officials have played important roles in formulating U.S. foreign policy throughout the last three decades. But for the most part — and without casting aspersions on their integrity or intentions — their presence in the corridors of power did little to influence events to the benefit of the alliance between the only Jewish state on the planet and the United States.\nIndeed, many Jewish diplomats seemed to specialize in pressuring Israel and in seeking to undermine its efforts to resist policies that the majority of its people believed to be dangerous to their security.\nSimilarly, the role of some Jews like Wendy Sherman and Ben Rhodes in crafting a disastrous nuclear deal with Iran that endangered Israel and the entire Middle East, and enriched and empowered a genocidal terrorist state, is not something about which their co-religionists should regard with pride, even if those who did so were merely mistaken rather than ill-intentioned.\nThanks to Trump’s deeply irresponsible behavior that culminated in the U.S. Capitol riot, his administration’s record is viewed by many solely through the prism of the way it is leaving power. But it bears remembering that the key people in his Middle East policy team, including his senior adviser/son-in-law Jared Kushner and U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, as well as others, were not just people who count in the tally of Jews in office.\nThey actually used their power to support Israel against its enemies and to successfully work to bring about historic acts, such as the moving of the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and normalization agreements with Arab and Muslim countries, the importance of which will long outlive the petty political arguments into which most of us pour so much energy.\nWhat ought to matter to the Jewish community is not the number of Jews or people with Jewish relatives there are in any administration, but whether they act in a manner that makes both the United States and the Jewish people more secure.\nThe verdict of history on those who served Trump should be far more laudatory than most American Jews are currently likely to give them. It remains to be seen whether those employed by Biden will deserve as much praise.\nJonathan S. Tobin is editor in chief of JNS—Jewish News Syndicate.",
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IDF fighter jets hit Hamas military targets, including sites for digging underground cross-border attack tunnels.
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Israeli military aircraft struck targets in the Gaza Strip early on Monday in response to two rockets fired from the Gaza Strip, the military said.
In a statement, the IDF said fighter jets hit Hamas military targets, including sites for digging underground cross-border attack tunnels, some of which stretch into Israel. There were no immediate reports of injuries from the airstrikes.
There were also no reports of damage or injury from the rockets launched.
It was not immediately clear who fired the rockets. Hamas maintains an unofficial cease-fire with Israel, but Israel holds the group responsible for any fire emanating from Gaza, which is home to a number of other terror groups, including Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
Israel and Hamas have fought three wars since the Islamic terror group seized power of the coastal enclave in 2007 via bloody coup, running rival Palestinian faction Fatah out of the strip.
While no major confrontation has occurred since 2014, terrorists in Gaza regularly launch rockets at Israel.
While rocket attacks and Israeli retaliatory artillery and aerial strikes are frequent, they have largely been subdued in recent months due to the coronavirus outbreaks in both territories.
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Nazareth Mayor Ali Salam says Netanyahu offered him a “safe” spot on the Likud list in the March elections.
By Paul Shindman, World Israel News
Nazareth Mayor Ali Salam said Thursday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked him to run on the Likud list in the upcoming national elections.
As a member of Israel’s Arab minority, he would be offered a “safe” spot on the Likud list, almost guaranteeing him a seat in the Knesset, Salam said.
“Netanyahu offered me one of the first places on the [Likud] list. I asked him to let me think about it, [because] I am not built to be in the Knesset and live there and I cannot tolerate freeloaders,” Salam said in an interview with Radio 103 FM in Tel Aviv.
“I have known Netanyahu for many years and I was in his office several times. If I want, I can be a minister.”
Salam met with Netanyahu Wednesday during the prime minister’s visit to Nazareth, where he campaigned for Arab votes ahead of the March 23 election.
In Israel’s proportional representation system, voters cast their ballot for a party, not an individual. The seats in Israel’s 120-seat parliament are divided by the percentage of votes, so that winning 10 percent of the popular vote would give a party 12 seats. The top 12 politicians on the party list, submitted before the election, go into the Knesset. Current opinion polls predict the Likud stands to win about 30 seats.
Asked if he thought the Arab sector could really put its trust in Netanyahu, whose Likud Party is traditionally seen as anti-Arab, Salam said the answer is probably yes.
“I said I support Netanyahu, and he will receive between three and four seats from Arab society in the upcoming elections. I am responsible for my words,” Salam said. “Netanyahu has promised to give budgets to Arab society, and he will.”
“I asked him to make peace with the Palestinians, this is the most important thing, since 1948 we have been paying a price, and he will do it,” Salam added. “He and I will make peace with the Palestinians, the Arabs of Israel will be the bridge of peace between the Palestinians and the Israelis.”
Salam had some harsh words for Arab politicians in the Knesset who belong to the Arab Joint List, calling their performance a “disappointment.”
“[The List] did not prove itself and did nothing for Arab society,” he said, adding that Joint List leader Ayman Odeh “is not worth anything.”
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Palestinians at the site started a violent riot with Israeli security forces who were evacuating an illegal building in a village called At-Tuwani.
By World Israel News and AP
The Palestinian Health Ministry said Saturday a 24-year-old man named Haron Abu Aram was shot at a construction site near Hebron.
The location is an illegal construction site in an area controlled by Israel, not the Palestinian Authority (PA). It is therefore against the law to build there without a permit from the Israeli government.
Palestinians at the site started a violent riot with Israeli security forces who were evacuating an illegal building in a village called At-Tuwani. Palestinians attacked troops with “massive amount of rocks,” the IDF announced, when soldiers seized an electricity generator belonging to Abu Aram that was being used to build the illegal structure.
According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, Abu Aram is suffering from paralysis a day after he was shot in the neck and is now quadriplegic.
“We are aware of a report regarding a Palestinian who was injured by live fire during the incident. The incident is being investigated,” the Israeli military told The Associated Press on Saturday.
Video showed a group of Palestinians trying to take back confiscated generators from soldiers before a gunshot is heard and Abu Aram appears on the ground.
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Hunger strikers at the protest tent of Yesha Council and Young Settlements Forum outside the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, Jan. 4, 2020. (Flash90/Yonatan Sindel)
The spokesman for the Yesha Council roundly criticized Gantz’s decision.
By Batya Jerenberg, World Israel News
Defense Minister Benny Gantz decided Sunday not to give initial authorization to 46 young settlements in Judea and Samaria despite the pressure of the settlement movement to get them started on their path to legalization before President Trump leaves office, Channel 11 News reported.
After meeting with the ministry’s legal advisers, Gantz said that he would not begin the normalization of their status until they put into place a framework for enforcing construction regulations. This, said reporter Roy Sharon, includes adding inspectors to the regional councils who could destroy homes built without permits, especially on what is considered private Palestinian land, and drafting the physical plans of these fledgling settlements and their boundaries.
The spokesman for the Yesha Council roundly criticized Gantz’s decision.
“Shame on him,” said Elchanan Zecharia. “Tens of thousands of Israeli residents are waiting for basic humanitarian infrastructure. The time has come to break the rules of the game.”
Some 20,000 people live in approximately 70 such settlements, many of which have been built on state land and have received at least some funding from government ministries after setting up mostly mobile homes. It is unclear what Gantz’s opinion was on the other approximately 25 settlements, since the number 46 was specifically mentioned.
The legalization issue had been brought up in the Knesset in November, when Settlement Affairs Minister Tzachi Hanegbi said that according to his legal advisers, the way forward required “a government decision that will define the young settlements as ‘settlements in the process of regularization.’” At the time, Gantz had said, “We are not against regularization. We’re for regularization wherever it’s legally possible on state land. Illegal outposts are illegal, period.”
Right-wing leaders in general, and the heads of the Young Settlements Forum in particular, have been pressing the government especially hard in the last few months to begin the authorization process. Their two main lines of argument are that tax-paying citizens shouldn’t suffer from an irregular supply of water and electricity, and that there was a fast-closing window of opportunity granted by having a government in Washington that would not criticize the move.
Democratic president-elect Joe Biden, who is set to take office in just nine days, has often said that he is not in favor of Jewish building in Judea and Samaria, considering it an impediment to a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians.
The Young Settlements Forum began a hunger strike a week ago in front of the prime minister’s office in Jerusalem to call attention to their plight. On Sunday, they were joined by Yael Shevach, the widow of Rabbi Raziel Shevach, who was murdered by Palestinian terrorists on the road to his then-unauthorized community of Havat Gilad in 2018.
Although the settlement was built largely on land bought by a private Israeli citizen decades ago, the status of some of the area was unclear and it was left in legal limbo. The Israeli cabinet approved its legalization in response to the murder.
“We have been shouting too long for this regulation of status,” Shevach said in explaining her decision. “We have this window of opportunity that will be gone in a moment and then we will again be left with promises that have been left in the air for far too long.”
“We are really suffering,” she said. “Now it’s pleasant [weather]…but winter will begin and again we’ll have problems with water and electricity – it’s a humanitarian issue.”
Although Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could have begun the authorization process in any of the right-wing governments he has led over the last decade, he has never chosen to do so. He had already pointed the finger of blame at Gantz, his erstwhile coalition partner, before this official decision, for his supposed inability to act at this time as well.
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"We have a legal and moral duty to ensure that the Palestinians are vaccinated," said Ran Goldstein, executive director of Israel’s branch of Physicians for Human Rights.
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J Street’s substantive political viewpoint is openly radical and partisan, identifying clearly with the Palestinian narrative.
By Alan Baker, JNS
According to its website, the congressional lobbying organization calling itself J Street was established “to serve as the political home and voice for pro-Israel, pro-peace Americans” through “organizing pro-Israel and pro-peace Americans to promote U.S. policies that embody our deeply held Jewish and democratic values and that help secure the State of Israel as a democratic homeland for the Jewish people.”
In its founding aims and principles, J Street declares its overriding aim as “reshaping political perceptions of what it means to be pro-Israel.”
The first and evidently central provision of J Street’s basic principles acknowledges that Israel faces enemies, and J Street expresses support for Israel to defend itself and live in security and peace within internationally recognized boundaries.
However, J Street’s political manifesto as detailed on its website would appear to run counter to — and even undermine — any such sentiment.
False presentation
On the one hand, J Street presents itself and is perceived by many naïve elements within the Jewish and non-Jewish communities as a genuine lobbying organization with the veneer of supporting Israel and expressing concern for its welfare.
But behind the misleading platitudes and sweeping statements in its manifesto, it is clear that J Street’s substantive political viewpoint is openly radical and partisan, identifying clearly with the Palestinian narrative and aligning with other openly critical-of-Israel organizations such as the Israel Policy Forum, Brookings and the International Crisis Group.
J Street has failed to welcome and promote the normalization agreements between Israel and Arab states, apparently because they downgrade the urgency of a Palestinian state. The organization has actively lobbied against military aid to those Arab states that normalized relations. As such, J Street is clearly undercutting any genuine concern for Israel’s security and is, in fact, undermining Israel’s right to defend itself.
J Street ignores and attempts to bypass the agreements and other documents signed by the Palestinians and Israel during the course of the Middle East peace negotiation process. These include the internationally-accepted and sponsored Oslo Accords to which the United States, together with Russia, the European Union and others are signatories, and which the United Nations sponsored.
J Street has adopted a political viewpoint that parallels and parrots positions expressed in numerous politically-generated anti-Israel resolutions in the U.N. and other international fora, such as the infamous 2016 Security Council Resolution 2334, as well as in numerous biased political statements uttered by Palestinian and European leaders.
In so doing, J Street has adopted a narrative hostile to Israel’s interests. So much so that it attempts to preempt and prejudge the agreed-upon and internationally-supported negotiating process by which issues such as boundaries, Jerusalem, settlements, security and the permanent status of the territories are to be settled.
While referring to Israel as the state of the Jewish people, J Street has nevertheless adopted and openly advocates complete submission to the Palestinian narrative, without requiring any change, without calling for Palestinian acceptance of Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people and without calling for an end to Palestinian incitement to hatred, terror and anti-Semitism.
J Street fails to call upon the Palestinians to completely stop the payment of salaries to terrorists, even though such payments violate internationally-accepted counter-terror conventions, as well as central commitments in the Oslo Accords.
J Street’s website is replete with anti-Israel propaganda and blanket, one-sided condemnations of Israeli security actions, presented out of context, all of which reads more like a summary of Israel-bashing U.N. resolutions. Its website even reproduces and attempts to fuel the false accusations claiming that Palestinians “living under occupation in the West Bank and Gaza” do not have access to COVID-19 vaccines and have not been included in the Israeli government’s current vaccination plans.
In calling for Israel to “give up the vast majority of occupied territory in favor of a Palestinian state based on the pre-1967 lines,” J Street is prejudging the agreed-upon negotiation process for the permanent status of the territories, as well as the issue of negotiating boundaries. Their declared preference for a two-state solution ignores the fact that any solution, whether involving one, two, or three states, a federation, confederation, or any other permutation, can only be the outcome of direct negotiation between the parties.
Misrepresents international law
J Street, which professes concern for Israel’s welfare, cannot advocate imposing a solution upon Israel that would be opposed to Israel’s basic interests.
In determining that Israel’s settlement policies are in violation of international law, J Street is not only misrepresenting international law and thereby misleading its supporters, but also prejudging and attempting to undermine the agreed negotiating process between the Palestinians and Israel on the issue of settlements.
In calling for reinstating an independent U.S. diplomatic mission to the Palestinians in eastern Jerusalem, J Street advocates a policy that runs counter to numerous congressional resolutions, as well as attempting, again, to prejudge the agreed-upon negotiating issue of Jerusalem.
In supporting a right for the Palestinians to join international organizations, institutions and conventions as a member state, J Street is deliberately ignoring the legal reality in which, pending the outcome of the permanent status negotiations, there is no “Palestinian state.”
J Street is not only seeking to prejudge the issue of the future permanent status of the territory but sanctions and encourages a material breach of the Oslo Accords, under which the Palestinians committed not to join international organizations and conventions pending the outcome of negotiations on the permanent status of the territories.
In J Street’s most recent flurry of activity aimed at influencing the incoming Biden administration, it has reportedly presented to President-elect Joe Biden and his advisers detailed policy recommendations that echo a distinct Palestinian, anti-Israel narrative.
J Street is on the other side
Such proposals include reversing the Trump peace plan, reversing the State Department’s legal opinion regarding the legality of settlements, reopening the Palestinian diplomatic mission in Washington, restoring U.S. financial aid to the Palestinians, canceling the penalization of boycott activity against Israel and diluting the accepted international definition of anti-Semitism.
In a further attempt to undermine the internationally accepted and agreed peace negotiation process called for in U.N. Security Council resolutions and implemented through the Oslo Accords, J Street advocates setting aside bilateral, direct negotiation, preferring to recommend a “multilateral approach to resolving the conflict.” Such a multilateral approach echoes ongoing Palestinian attempts to bypass direct negotiations with Israel and transfer the issue to an international conference that would impose a solution on Israel.
Despite universal condemnation of Iran’s declared hostility toward Israel, its oft-repeated intention to attack the Jewish state and its deep involvement in encouraging and financing international and regional terror, J Street is nevertheless pressing the incoming administration to relax sanctions on the Islamic Republic. It encourages a return to the JCPOA arrangement that would enable Iran to push ahead with its aims to achieve nuclear weapons capability.
How does J Street square its supposed concern for Israel’s security and welfare with advocating a policy of appeasement vis-à-vis Iran while deliberately ignoring Iran’s direct existential threats against it?
All of the above indicates that J Street has evolved from an organization justifying its existence by expressing concern for Israel’s security and welfare into one actively working to undermine Israel’s interests, legitimacy, security and international standing, as well as its democratically elected government.
J Street is doing so first and foremost within the U.S. Jewish community, and secondly within the U.S. congressional and governing bodies.
Judging from J Street’s recent activity, it seems to be more intent on bolstering its own stature in new White House and congressional circles than in acting in accordance with its declared aims. To the contrary, J Street is increasingly acting to harm Israel, side with Israel’s enemies, fuel false information and incite against Israel.
While logical and substantive criticism of any particular action or policy by Israel may well be legitimate, J Street, by its actions and policies, has redefined itself as an anti-Israel organization. What is perhaps even worse is that through its activities and incitement, J Street is permitting itself to be a tool for Palestinian and European organizations hostile to Israel, which utilize its ostensible concern for Israel to bolster and enhance their own credibility and status.
Any purported concern for Israel as a means of justifying and mobilizing support and financing from donors and organizations within the U.S. Jewish community is patently false. It is nothing more than a sham, a thin veil of deception, poorly camouflaging an intense and obvious aversion to Israel’s democratically elected leadership and government as well as a deep-rooted and radical political agenda that is an anathema to Israel’s security and national interests.
J Street cannot presume to determine for Israel the details of its government, security and political interests. In attempting to do so, it deceives its constituency, acts with unclean hands and misrepresents its true intentions.
J Street is working to undermine Israel, its democratically elected government and the will of the Israeli public. It is nothing more than another anti-Israel pressure group that has blindly adopted the Palestinian narrative.
It is therefore high time that J Street remove the letter “J” from its name, replace it with the letter “P,” and admit to its supporters and donors that it is functioning solely to undermine Israel, promote Palestinian interests and maintain itself.
Alan Baker is director of the Institute for Contemporary Affairs at the Jerusalem Center and the head of the Global Law Forum. He participated in the negotiation and drafting of the Oslo Accords with the Palestinians, as well as agreements and peace treaties with Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon. He served as legal adviser and deputy director-general of Israel’s Foreign Ministry and as Israel’s ambassador to Canada.
This article was first published by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.
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"J Street’s substantive political viewpoint is openly radical and partisan, identifying clearly with the Palestinian narrative.\nBy Alan Baker, JNS\nAccording to its website, the congressional lobbying organization calling itself J Street was established “to serve as the political home and voice for pro-Israel, pro-peace Americans” through “organizing pro-Israel and pro-peace Americans to promote U.S. policies that embody our deeply held Jewish and democratic values and that help secure the State of Israel as a democratic homeland for the Jewish people.”\nIn its founding aims and principles, J Street declares its overriding aim as “reshaping political perceptions of what it means to be pro-Israel.”\nThe first and evidently central provision of J Street’s basic principles acknowledges that Israel faces enemies, and J Street expresses support for Israel to defend itself and live in security and peace within internationally recognized boundaries.\nHowever, J Street’s political manifesto as detailed on its website would appear to run counter to — and even undermine — any such sentiment.\nFalse presentation\nOn the one hand, J Street presents itself and is perceived by many naïve elements within the Jewish and non-Jewish communities as a genuine lobbying organization with the veneer of supporting Israel and expressing concern for its welfare.\nBut behind the misleading platitudes and sweeping statements in its manifesto, it is clear that J Street’s substantive political viewpoint is openly radical and partisan, identifying clearly with the Palestinian narrative and aligning with other openly critical-of-Israel organizations such as the Israel Policy Forum, Brookings and the International Crisis Group.\nJ Street has failed to welcome and promote the normalization agreements between Israel and Arab states, apparently because they downgrade the urgency of a Palestinian state. The organization has actively lobbied against military aid to those Arab states that normalized relations. As such, J Street is clearly undercutting any genuine concern for Israel’s security and is, in fact, undermining Israel’s right to defend itself.\nJ Street ignores and attempts to bypass the agreements and other documents signed by the Palestinians and Israel during the course of the Middle East peace negotiation process. These include the internationally-accepted and sponsored Oslo Accords to which the United States, together with Russia, the European Union and others are signatories, and which the United Nations sponsored.\nJ Street has adopted a political viewpoint that parallels and parrots positions expressed in numerous politically-generated anti-Israel resolutions in the U.N. and other international fora, such as the infamous 2016 Security Council Resolution 2334, as well as in numerous biased political statements uttered by Palestinian and European leaders.\nIn so doing, J Street has adopted a narrative hostile to Israel’s interests. So much so that it attempts to preempt and prejudge the agreed-upon and internationally-supported negotiating process by which issues such as boundaries, Jerusalem, settlements, security and the permanent status of the territories are to be settled.\nWhile referring to Israel as the state of the Jewish people, J Street has nevertheless adopted and openly advocates complete submission to the Palestinian narrative, without requiring any change, without calling for Palestinian acceptance of Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people and without calling for an end to Palestinian incitement to hatred, terror and anti-Semitism.\nJ Street fails to call upon the Palestinians to completely stop the payment of salaries to terrorists, even though such payments violate internationally-accepted counter-terror conventions, as well as central commitments in the Oslo Accords.\nJ Street’s website is replete with anti-Israel propaganda and blanket, one-sided condemnations of Israeli security actions, presented out of context, all of which reads more like a summary of Israel-bashing U.N. resolutions. Its website even reproduces and attempts to fuel the false accusations claiming that Palestinians “living under occupation in the West Bank and Gaza” do not have access to COVID-19 vaccines and have not been included in the Israeli government’s current vaccination plans.\nIn calling for Israel to “give up the vast majority of occupied territory in favor of a Palestinian state based on the pre-1967 lines,” J Street is prejudging the agreed-upon negotiation process for the permanent status of the territories, as well as the issue of negotiating boundaries. Their declared preference for a two-state solution ignores the fact that any solution, whether involving one, two, or three states, a federation, confederation, or any other permutation, can only be the outcome of direct negotiation between the parties.\nMisrepresents international law\nJ Street, which professes concern for Israel’s welfare, cannot advocate imposing a solution upon Israel that would be opposed to Israel’s basic interests.\nIn determining that Israel’s settlement policies are in violation of international law, J Street is not only misrepresenting international law and thereby misleading its supporters, but also prejudging and attempting to undermine the agreed negotiating process between the Palestinians and Israel on the issue of settlements.\nIn calling for reinstating an independent U.S. diplomatic mission to the Palestinians in eastern Jerusalem, J Street advocates a policy that runs counter to numerous congressional resolutions, as well as attempting, again, to prejudge the agreed-upon negotiating issue of Jerusalem.\nIn supporting a right for the Palestinians to join international organizations, institutions and conventions as a member state, J Street is deliberately ignoring the legal reality in which, pending the outcome of the permanent status negotiations, there is no “Palestinian state.”\nJ Street is not only seeking to prejudge the issue of the future permanent status of the territory but sanctions and encourages a material breach of the Oslo Accords, under which the Palestinians committed not to join international organizations and conventions pending the outcome of negotiations on the permanent status of the territories.\nIn J Street’s most recent flurry of activity aimed at influencing the incoming Biden administration, it has reportedly presented to President-elect Joe Biden and his advisers detailed policy recommendations that echo a distinct Palestinian, anti-Israel narrative.\nJ Street is on the other side\nSuch proposals include reversing the Trump peace plan, reversing the State Department’s legal opinion regarding the legality of settlements, reopening the Palestinian diplomatic mission in Washington, restoring U.S. financial aid to the Palestinians, canceling the penalization of boycott activity against Israel and diluting the accepted international definition of anti-Semitism.\nIn a further attempt to undermine the internationally accepted and agreed peace negotiation process called for in U.N. Security Council resolutions and implemented through the Oslo Accords, J Street advocates setting aside bilateral, direct negotiation, preferring to recommend a “multilateral approach to resolving the conflict.” Such a multilateral approach echoes ongoing Palestinian attempts to bypass direct negotiations with Israel and transfer the issue to an international conference that would impose a solution on Israel.\nDespite universal condemnation of Iran’s declared hostility toward Israel, its oft-repeated intention to attack the Jewish state and its deep involvement in encouraging and financing international and regional terror, J Street is nevertheless pressing the incoming administration to relax sanctions on the Islamic Republic. It encourages a return to the JCPOA arrangement that would enable Iran to push ahead with its aims to achieve nuclear weapons capability.\nHow does J Street square its supposed concern for Israel’s security and welfare with advocating a policy of appeasement vis-à-vis Iran while deliberately ignoring Iran’s direct existential threats against it?\nAll of the above indicates that J Street has evolved from an organization justifying its existence by expressing concern for Israel’s security and welfare into one actively working to undermine Israel’s interests, legitimacy, security and international standing, as well as its democratically elected government.\nJ Street is doing so first and foremost within the U.S. Jewish community, and secondly within the U.S. congressional and governing bodies.\nJudging from J Street’s recent activity, it seems to be more intent on bolstering its own stature in new White House and congressional circles than in acting in accordance with its declared aims. To the contrary, J Street is increasingly acting to harm Israel, side with Israel’s enemies, fuel false information and incite against Israel.\nWhile logical and substantive criticism of any particular action or policy by Israel may well be legitimate, J Street, by its actions and policies, has redefined itself as an anti-Israel organization. What is perhaps even worse is that through its activities and incitement, J Street is permitting itself to be a tool for Palestinian and European organizations hostile to Israel, which utilize its ostensible concern for Israel to bolster and enhance their own credibility and status.\nAny purported concern for Israel as a means of justifying and mobilizing support and financing from donors and organizations within the U.S. Jewish community is patently false. It is nothing more than a sham, a thin veil of deception, poorly camouflaging an intense and obvious aversion to Israel’s democratically elected leadership and government as well as a deep-rooted and radical political agenda that is an anathema to Israel’s security and national interests.\nJ Street cannot presume to determine for Israel the details of its government, security and political interests. In attempting to do so, it deceives its constituency, acts with unclean hands and misrepresents its true intentions.\nJ Street is working to undermine Israel, its democratically elected government and the will of the Israeli public. It is nothing more than another anti-Israel pressure group that has blindly adopted the Palestinian narrative.\nIt is therefore high time that J Street remove the letter “J” from its name, replace it with the letter “P,” and admit to its supporters and donors that it is functioning solely to undermine Israel, promote Palestinian interests and maintain itself.\nAlan Baker is director of the Institute for Contemporary Affairs at the Jerusalem Center and the head of the Global Law Forum. He participated in the negotiation and drafting of the Oslo Accords with the Palestinians, as well as agreements and peace treaties with Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon. He served as legal adviser and deputy director-general of Israel’s Foreign Ministry and as Israel’s ambassador to Canada.\nThis article was first published by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.",
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The newly found Lasioglossum dorchini bees – female on left, male on right. (Alain Pauly/Belgian Journal of Entomology/Israel21c)
Amidst decreasing global bee populations, new finding provides optimism for pollination and bee habitat conservation.
By Abigail Klein Leichman, Israel21c
A new species of bee unique to the sand dunes of Israel’s coastal plains has been identified and described by Alain Pauly, a taxonomist from the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences in Brussels.
The species was named Lasioglossum dorchini in tribute to the Israeli bee researcher Achik Dorchin of the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History at Tel Aviv University.
This new type of bee is especially exciting because a decline in the world bee population is putting crop pollination in danger.
Crop pollination relies mainly on managed colonies of the domesticated honeybee. However, wild, unmanaged bees are also highly effective in pollinating natural and agricultural systems.
Native bees are the most important wild pollinator group. This is why researchers have been trying to conserve native bee habitats in Israel’s coastal region, where large-scale eucalyptus plantings caused dramatic changes in habitat characteristics and decreased local biodiversity.
Israeli and Belgian researchers led by professor Yael Mandelik and PhD candidate Karmit Levy from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem spent the past five years studying the effect of restoration activities and specifically how they are benefiting the local bee population.
It was during their studies at Alexander River National Park that they found the new wild bee species.
The discovery was recently published in the Belgian Journal of Entomology.
“Beyond just the professional excitement of discovering a new species that was previously unknown to science, this finding has broader applicative value in helping us better understand bee communities, their habitat requirements and the pollination services they may provide,” said Mandelik.
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“They’re not aggressive enough in fighting back. They allow these groups to run rampant,” said Marc Greendorfer.
By Joseph Wolkin, World Israel News
Marc Greendorfer and Ron Machol created the Zachor Legal Institute in 2015 to battle anti-Israel and anti-Semitic groups in the United States, mainly focusing on the Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions (BDS) movement.
Zachor recently urged President Donald Trump’s administration to publish a list of organizations with ties to BDS. Most of the organizations collaborate with terrorist groups, such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad, Greendorfer says.
The group is working with Elan Carr, the special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism, to expose these groups for illegally working with and being funded by known terrorist organizations.
It also combats anti-Semitism and the BDS movement on college campuses. Thanks to President Trump’s executive order adding a section to Title VI called “Combating Discrimination Against Jewish Students,” Greendorfer says Jewish students have more power to defend themselves.
Greendorfer, president of the Zachor Legal Institute, spoke with World Israel News.
Q: How was the Zachor Legal Institute created?
“I had zero interest in doing nonprofit work and activism. I’m an attorney focused on corporate mergers and acquisitions, securities and typical big firm stuff. I was in the San Francisco Bay Area and Ron Machol called me.
“We’ve been longtime friends for 30 years. He made Aliyah to Israel around 1993, and we’ve always kept in touch. He said he saw something going on in the Bay Area, where he’s from. It was dock workers refusing to unload an Israeli ship. It was part of some organized boycott movement, and he asked how is that legal? I said I have no idea. I started looking into it and said something is going on here.
“This led me to researching the background of BDS and how existing federal laws apply to it. I knew there were federal anti-boycott laws that apply to anti-Israel boycotts. I saw this was not just a couple of guys saying they don’t like Israel. It was actually a very organized movement and a big threat. From there, we talked about expanding from this isolated incident to BDS in the world generally”
Q: What have you learned about the BDS movement in the last five or so years that shows its illegality?
“The first thing that jumped out at me — as a lawyer, language is very important — is the text of the existing anti-boycott law and the arguments legal groups supporting BDS were making. They said the law simply didn’t apply. I realized it’s a broad disinformation campaign. They start with lies about the existence of Israel, they claim there is no Jewish claim to the land of Israel and things like that.
“Once we started to dig into who is behind BDS and what they do to be so effective in spreading the message, we found there are ties between the organizing committee of the Palestinian group that formed it and designated terror groups like Hamas, PFLP and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. It turned out to be a front for their campaign against Israel and to delegitimize it. Legal groups were simply lying, and terror groups were behind it.
Q: What is the biggest takeaway from the list of pro-BDS organizations?
“Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in mid-November asked Elan Carr, who is the special envoy to combat anti-Semitism in the State Department, to assemble the list. BDS supporters have said this is not an issue of anti-Semitism or discrimination. They say it’s an issue about politics because they find Zionism to be an abhorrent political position.
“We know that’s not what is going on. If they really cared about Palestinian rights, they would be doing something other than boycotting Israel. They would actually be agitating in the territories for equal rights, infrastructure and things like that.
“We had already assembled a similar list of BDS organizations about two years ago. We sent it to the Department of Justice with the request they investigate the terror ties of these BDS organizations for potential federal racketeer charges. We assembled a list of U.S. affiliates of BDS organizations, including weird groups like Jewish Voice for Peace, which is not only a Jewish group, but is clearly just another front for the terror groups.
“We have no idea what happened with the investigation. We had the basics Secretary of State Pompeo was asking for. We decided that since there are career people at the State Department who probably want to bury this stuff, we would make sure Special Envoy Carr had this information available. We added more organizations and more details and sent it.
“What will hopefully happen is Special Envoy Carr will publish the list. It will be part of an effort to get the State Department to boycott the boycotters, and then they won’t have anything to do with organizations that support the delegitimization of the right of Jews to their homeland.”
Q: Why is right now the perfect time to publicize this list?
“Who knows what is going to happen in the next week or two with the administration and with Biden or if Trump stays in office. Either way, we assume there’s going to be a fairly significant change in the administration. Given the ties that exist between Biden and Barack Obama, we assume the Obama administration policies will go back into effect. We’re very concerned the things Obama did will be continued.”
Q: What did President Obama do that you are concerned about?
“For example, there was a story that came out this week that an Obama admin knowingly funded an al-Qaeda affiliate. We know Obama was funding these groups. We’re worried that groups like Jewish Voice for Peace, which has a nice name with an unsavory agenda, will be brought into the Biden administration.
“You also have Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar who will probably demand funding for these radical groups. We want people to know these anti-Semitic organizations are anti-Semites. We’re concerned these groups will be funded and be used for reports.”
Q: Could publishing the list backfire and make people support those organizations even more?
“I never thought about that, but that’s a good point. In general, those who support these types of things will support them anyway. Publicizing their identity, it may on the fringe, have a negative effect. But I think the overall positive effect will outweigh it.”
Q: What do you think will happen with a likely Biden administration on this issue?
“I think Obama also said BDS is not helpful, but he ultimately supported those who support BDS. He supported a lot of the elements of the BDS platform for delegitimizing Israel. He essentially told Benjamin Netanyahu that he wasn’t welcome at the White House at one point. As much as Biden says he doesn’t support BDS, he is probably going to undo the things President Trump has done to combat it.
“Title VI was extended through an executive order to cover anti-Zionism and it’s being enforced by the Department of Education. This is something that can be undone, and I suspect those who support Biden will push him to reverse that definition under Title VI.
“I suspect there will be movement to undo the move of the embassy to Jerusalem in some way, to bolster Iran and undermine the peace deals being made. I can’t imagine why he’d do such a thing, but it seems to be the agenda. Hopefully, he distances himself enough from Obama that it doesn’t happen. Everything that’s been said and done to this point makes me believe it’s going to be a third term of Obama.”
Q: Do you see any optimistic signs from Biden’s appointees?
“So far, I haven’t seen anything. Everyone who he’s been naming to cabinet positions indicates he’s buying in to the progressive agenda. I’m going to be very happy if I am wrong.”
Q: How do you think the fight against BDS is going right now, especially on university campuses?
“The universities are a big program. BDS started in a large part as a commercial boycott with the Arab League. If a company like Pepsi or Coke did business with Israel, they couldn’t do business with the rest of the Arab world. That never had much of an effect. Anyone can look at the economy of Israel and see that it’s booming. The impact of commercial boycotts has been slim to none.
“Unfortunately, the academic-type of boycott means pro-Israel speakers aren’t allowed and there’s glorification of terror like what happened at San Francisco State and the Leila Khaled incident. It’s becoming a dominant narrative on university campuses, which will then have a generational effect. They intimidate everyone on campus from supporting Israel and speaking out against anti-Semitism. It’s taking over.
“We’re currently working with the Department of Education on an investigation at UCLA about what happened a year and a half ago. They hosted a Students for Justice in Palestine conference, where a number of Jewish and pro-Israel students were harassed and intimidated.
“This was never investigated before by the Department of Education because they said it wasn’t covered by Title VI. Title VI didn’t cover religious discrimination and now, it’s being included. These groups are now being scrutinized. If this continues, we have hope about the future of combating anti-Semitism on campus.”
Q: What’s been the hardest part about the fight against BDS and anti-Semitism?
“For me, personally, it really is a personal thing. My mother is a Holocaust survivor. To see what they’re doing straight from the playbook of World War II Nazism by demonizing Jews and marginalizing us to be attacked is very troubling. When I see so many organizations, including some religious ones, backing BDS and thinking is about civil rights, it’s scary and infuriating. You put the mantle of social justice and civil rights onto a movement, and most people buy into it. How do you fight that?”
Q: What can Jewish students do to stand up for themselves going forward?
“That’s something we’re working on right now. We believe that there’s a lack of a backbone in many pro-Israel and Jewish organizations. They’re not aggressive enough in fighting back. They allow these groups to run rampant. The students are afraid. There needs to be something that gives students something to defend themselves.
“Title VI is a great tool, and I don’t think a lot of people know it exists. We need to work with these and expand this executive order to assist these students better. Once they know they can rely on the Department of Education to protect them from this kind of harassment and intimidation, it will then trickle down into the campus environment.”
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Thanks to President Trump’s executive order adding a section to Title VI called “Combating Discrimination Against Jewish Students,” Greendorfer says Jewish students have more power to defend themselves.\nGreendorfer, president of the Zachor Legal Institute, spoke with World Israel News.\nQ: How was the Zachor Legal Institute created?\n“I had zero interest in doing nonprofit work and activism. I’m an attorney focused on corporate mergers and acquisitions, securities and typical big firm stuff. I was in the San Francisco Bay Area and Ron Machol called me.\n“We’ve been longtime friends for 30 years. He made Aliyah to Israel around 1993, and we’ve always kept in touch. He said he saw something going on in the Bay Area, where he’s from. It was dock workers refusing to unload an Israeli ship. It was part of some organized boycott movement, and he asked how is that legal? I said I have no idea. I started looking into it and said something is going on here.\n“This led me to researching the background of BDS and how existing federal laws apply to it. I knew there were federal anti-boycott laws that apply to anti-Israel boycotts. I saw this was not just a couple of guys saying they don’t like Israel. It was actually a very organized movement and a big threat. From there, we talked about expanding from this isolated incident to BDS in the world generally”\nQ: What have you learned about the BDS movement in the last five or so years that shows its illegality?\n“The first thing that jumped out at me — as a lawyer, language is very important — is the text of the existing anti-boycott law and the arguments legal groups supporting BDS were making. They said the law simply didn’t apply. I realized it’s a broad disinformation campaign. They start with lies about the existence of Israel, they claim there is no Jewish claim to the land of Israel and things like that.\n“Once we started to dig into who is behind BDS and what they do to be so effective in spreading the message, we found there are ties between the organizing committee of the Palestinian group that formed it and designated terror groups like Hamas, PFLP and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. It turned out to be a front for their campaign against Israel and to delegitimize it. Legal groups were simply lying, and terror groups were behind it.\nQ: What is the biggest takeaway from the list of pro-BDS organizations?\n“Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in mid-November asked Elan Carr, who is the special envoy to combat anti-Semitism in the State Department, to assemble the list. BDS supporters have said this is not an issue of anti-Semitism or discrimination. They say it’s an issue about politics because they find Zionism to be an abhorrent political position.\n“We know that’s not what is going on. If they really cared about Palestinian rights, they would be doing something other than boycotting Israel. They would actually be agitating in the territories for equal rights, infrastructure and things like that.\n“We had already assembled a similar list of BDS organizations about two years ago. We sent it to the Department of Justice with the request they investigate the terror ties of these BDS organizations for potential federal racketeer charges. We assembled a list of U.S. affiliates of BDS organizations, including weird groups like Jewish Voice for Peace, which is not only a Jewish group, but is clearly just another front for the terror groups.\n“We have no idea what happened with the investigation. We had the basics Secretary of State Pompeo was asking for. We decided that since there are career people at the State Department who probably want to bury this stuff, we would make sure Special Envoy Carr had this information available. We added more organizations and more details and sent it.\n“What will hopefully happen is Special Envoy Carr will publish the list. It will be part of an effort to get the State Department to boycott the boycotters, and then they won’t have anything to do with organizations that support the delegitimization of the right of Jews to their homeland.”\nQ: Why is right now the perfect time to publicize this list?\n“Who knows what is going to happen in the next week or two with the administration and with Biden or if Trump stays in office. Either way, we assume there’s going to be a fairly significant change in the administration. Given the ties that exist between Biden and Barack Obama, we assume the Obama administration policies will go back into effect. We’re very concerned the things Obama did will be continued.”\nQ: What did President Obama do that you are concerned about?\n“For example, there was a story that came out this week that an Obama admin knowingly funded an al-Qaeda affiliate. We know Obama was funding these groups. We’re worried that groups like Jewish Voice for Peace, which has a nice name with an unsavory agenda, will be brought into the Biden administration.\n“You also have Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar who will probably demand funding for these radical groups. We want people to know these anti-Semitic organizations are anti-Semites. We’re concerned these groups will be funded and be used for reports.”\nQ: Could publishing the list backfire and make people support those organizations even more?\n“I never thought about that, but that’s a good point. In general, those who support these types of things will support them anyway. Publicizing their identity, it may on the fringe, have a negative effect. But I think the overall positive effect will outweigh it.”\nQ: What do you think will happen with a likely Biden administration on this issue?\n“I think Obama also said BDS is not helpful, but he ultimately supported those who support BDS. He supported a lot of the elements of the BDS platform for delegitimizing Israel. He essentially told Benjamin Netanyahu that he wasn’t welcome at the White House at one point. As much as Biden says he doesn’t support BDS, he is probably going to undo the things President Trump has done to combat it.\n“Title VI was extended through an executive order to cover anti-Zionism and it’s being enforced by the Department of Education. This is something that can be undone, and I suspect those who support Biden will push him to reverse that definition under Title VI.\n“I suspect there will be movement to undo the move of the embassy to Jerusalem in some way, to bolster Iran and undermine the peace deals being made. I can’t imagine why he’d do such a thing, but it seems to be the agenda. Hopefully, he distances himself enough from Obama that it doesn’t happen. Everything that’s been said and done to this point makes me believe it’s going to be a third term of Obama.”\nQ: Do you see any optimistic signs from Biden’s appointees?\n“So far, I haven’t seen anything. Everyone who he’s been naming to cabinet positions indicates he’s buying in to the progressive agenda. I’m going to be very happy if I am wrong.”\nQ: How do you think the fight against BDS is going right now, especially on university campuses?\n“The universities are a big program. BDS started in a large part as a commercial boycott with the Arab League. If a company like Pepsi or Coke did business with Israel, they couldn’t do business with the rest of the Arab world. That never had much of an effect. Anyone can look at the economy of Israel and see that it’s booming. The impact of commercial boycotts has been slim to none.\n“Unfortunately, the academic-type of boycott means pro-Israel speakers aren’t allowed and there’s glorification of terror like what happened at San Francisco State and the Leila Khaled incident. It’s becoming a dominant narrative on university campuses, which will then have a generational effect. They intimidate everyone on campus from supporting Israel and speaking out against anti-Semitism. It’s taking over.\n“We’re currently working with the Department of Education on an investigation at UCLA about what happened a year and a half ago. They hosted a Students for Justice in Palestine conference, where a number of Jewish and pro-Israel students were harassed and intimidated.\n“This was never investigated before by the Department of Education because they said it wasn’t covered by Title VI. Title VI didn’t cover religious discrimination and now, it’s being included. These groups are now being scrutinized. If this continues, we have hope about the future of combating anti-Semitism on campus.”\nQ: What’s been the hardest part about the fight against BDS and anti-Semitism?\n“For me, personally, it really is a personal thing. My mother is a Holocaust survivor. To see what they’re doing straight from the playbook of World War II Nazism by demonizing Jews and marginalizing us to be attacked is very troubling. When I see so many organizations, including some religious ones, backing BDS and thinking is about civil rights, it’s scary and infuriating. You put the mantle of social justice and civil rights onto a movement, and most people buy into it. How do you fight that?”\nQ: What can Jewish students do to stand up for themselves going forward?\n“That’s something we’re working on right now. We believe that there’s a lack of a backbone in many pro-Israel and Jewish organizations. They’re not aggressive enough in fighting back. They allow these groups to run rampant. The students are afraid. There needs to be something that gives students something to defend themselves.\n“Title VI is a great tool, and I don’t think a lot of people know it exists. We need to work with these and expand this executive order to assist these students better. Once they know they can rely on the Department of Education to protect them from this kind of harassment and intimidation, it will then trickle down into the campus environment.”",
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Teen injured in rock-throwing terror attack in Samaria
There were no serious injuries in a rock-throwing incident Sunday that damaged several cars.
By World Israel News Staff
A 15-year-old girl from the community of Neve Tzuf, aka Halamish, in the Binyamin region of Samaria was mildly injured in a Palestinian terror attack Sunday afternoon, TPS reported.
Several vehicles were damaged in the rock-throwing attack.
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Israel vaccinates 1.9 million, reducing age limit for shot to 55 and over
Shaare Zedek staff member receives the second round of the Covid-19 vaccine, Jan. 10, 2021. (Flash90/Yonatan Sindel)
Israel’s goal is to vaccinate its entire population by March.
By David Isaac, World Israel News
Israel continues to vaccinate at a record-setting clip. The Health Ministry reported 1,876,,388 Israelis have been vaccinated against the coronavirus on Monday.
The Health Ministry says those ages 55 and over will be vaccinated starting on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Health Minister Yuli Edelstein arrived at Ben Gurion Airport on Sunday to welcome a fresh batch of vaccines from Pfizer. Netanyahu said the rate of vaccinations will increase to 170,000 per day.
On Jan. 7, Israel became the first country to completely vaccinate all residents and employees of elder-care and assisted-living facilities.
Israel’s goal is to vaccinate its entire population by March.
Israel has received praise for its vaccine rollout and is being sought for advice by other countries. Minister Edelstein spoke with his British counterpart, Matt Hancock, recently and advised him to brig the vaccine to the people, N12 reports.
“Do not place a huge immunization station in the middle of your city and wait for people to come,” Edelstein said. “Try to get as far as them – if not to their homes, at least to the residential areas. To the suburbs, to the small towns”
All is not roses for Israel. Simultaneously with its vaccination drive, it faces a spike in cases. It has been forced to institute a strict two-week lockdown starting last Friday at midnight. The rate of positive cases remains high, reported at 7.4% as of Monday morning.
The number of serious cases is 1,044 with 251 of them on respirators. A total of 3,671 Israelis died since the outbreak of the plague.
Israeli officials the exit from the lockdown will be gradual. It will be determined by the rate of infections and the number of critically ill patients. The situation will be evaluated at the end of the current week, Health officials say.
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"Israel vaccinates 1.9 million, reducing age limit for shot to 55 and over\nShaare Zedek staff member receives the second round of the Covid-19 vaccine, Jan. 10, 2021. (Flash90/Yonatan Sindel)\nIsrael’s goal is to vaccinate its entire population by March.\nBy David Isaac, World Israel News\nIsrael continues to vaccinate at a record-setting clip. The Health Ministry reported 1,876,,388 Israelis have been vaccinated against the coronavirus on Monday.\nThe Health Ministry says those ages 55 and over will be vaccinated starting on Tuesday.\nPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Health Minister Yuli Edelstein arrived at Ben Gurion Airport on Sunday to welcome a fresh batch of vaccines from Pfizer. Netanyahu said the rate of vaccinations will increase to 170,000 per day.\nOn Jan. 7, Israel became the first country to completely vaccinate all residents and employees of elder-care and assisted-living facilities.\nIsrael’s goal is to vaccinate its entire population by March.\nIsrael has received praise for its vaccine rollout and is being sought for advice by other countries. Minister Edelstein spoke with his British counterpart, Matt Hancock, recently and advised him to brig the vaccine to the people, N12 reports.\n“Do not place a huge immunization station in the middle of your city and wait for people to come,” Edelstein said. “Try to get as far as them – if not to their homes, at least to the residential areas. To the suburbs, to the small towns”\nAll is not roses for Israel. Simultaneously with its vaccination drive, it faces a spike in cases. It has been forced to institute a strict two-week lockdown starting last Friday at midnight. The rate of positive cases remains high, reported at 7.4% as of Monday morning.\nThe number of serious cases is 1,044 with 251 of them on respirators. A total of 3,671 Israelis died since the outbreak of the plague.\nIsraeli officials the exit from the lockdown will be gradual. It will be determined by the rate of infections and the number of critically ill patients. The situation will be evaluated at the end of the current week, Health officials say.",
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The editor of Five Towns Jewish Times apologized for “terrible damaging message” of smiling columnist at Capitol Hill riot.
By World Israel News Staff
The editor of a suburban New York Jewish newspaper issued an apology this week after running a front page picture of one of the paper’s columnists smiling and celebrating outside the U.S. Capitol on the day it was overrun by supporters of President Donald Trump.
“Last week’s front page of the 5 Towns Jewish Times featured a photograph that communicated a terrible damaging message and for that I categorically and unequivocally apologize to our readers personally and to the community at large,” publisher and editor Larry Gordon wrote on the paper’s website.
The picture showed a smiling Times‘ columnist Dr. Gila Jedwab with her arms outstretched and hundreds of people already swarming the Capitol after others had torn down a security fence.
“The photo that so many found troubling and even disturbing was not intended to G-d forbid, glorify or even minimally condone that type of message,” Gordon wrote. “There is no place for violence in our society under any circumstances.”
“To the extent that you were offended I reiterate my apologies and will endeavor that we are more sensitive and careful and that a situation like this is never repeated,” Gordon told his readers.
The paper caters to the predominantly Orthodox Jewish community from the Far Rockaway section of Queens and extending into the Nassau County communities of Lawrence, Cedarhurst, Woodmere and Inwood.
The picture caused two Orthodox synagogues in the area, Congregation Beth Sholom in Lawrence and Young Israel of Woodmere, to ask Gordon to stop delivering the paper to their premises, the Long Island Herald reported.
“We strongly object to your posting of Gila Jedwab with her arms extended in a welcoming fashion during the despicable event in front of the nation’s capital together with all its negative ramifications,” Young Israel said in a letter to Gordon.
Jedwab posted a chronology of what she did during the protests on her Facebook page, saying she herself saw no violence.
“None of us had any idea that there was any real violence or that people were killed. Events were unfolding in real time as we stood there. We had poor reception on our phones, so we were clueless. All we saw were happy people. The air around us was friendly and calm,” Jedwab wrote, adding that only later did she see the pictures of the mayhem.
“None of us condones violence. It makes us all sick to our stomachs. But a rigged election and a country stolen by traitors also makes us sick,” she wrote, repeating pro-Trump slogans that have not been proven.
“The whole day had been the most beautiful display of patriotism we ever saw. When I saw footage later on of shootings and other violence I was horrified. All of us were,” Jedwab said. “When the paper came out with my smiling face on the cover and people jumped to all kinds of conclusions, all I wanted was the chance to tell my story.”
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Qatar reconciles with Gulf Arabs, but says it’s not ready to adopt their normalization with Israel.
By Paul Shindman, World Israel News
A senior member of Qatar’s ruling family said that despite the reconciliation of Qatar with its neighboring Gulf Arab states, it has no intention of adopting their policy of normalizing relations with Israel, the English language news website Doha News reported Sunday.
“Qatar believes that if Israel is committed to peace, to end the occupation, the two-state solution, and the state of Palestine with East Jerusalem as its capital, and if there is Arab approval, we accept that,” Qatar’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani said in an interview on the Al Jazeera network that is based in Qatar.
Al-Thani said Qatar remains committed to the Arab Peace Initiative proposed by Saudi Arabia in 2002 that was adopted by the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), of which Qatar is a member. That plan calls for Arab states to recognize Israel only after the Palestinian conflict has been resolved, a demand bypassed by neighboring Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates who signed the breakthrough Abraham Accords last year and now have diplomatic relations with Jerusalem.
Following the UAE and Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco both announced the establishment of normal relations with Israel, but Al-Thani said that had nothing to do with his country.
“The Abraham Accords is a sovereign decision and we do not interfere in sovereign decisions,” Al-Thani said. Last month when progress was reported in talks to resolve the GCC crisis with Qatar, Al-Thani reiterated that as far as Qatar was concerned “the Gulf crisis has nothing to do with the Abraham Accords or any normalization with Israel.”
Qatar was boycotted by the GCC and Egypt, which broke off diplomatic relations in 2017 over Qatar’s close ties with Iran and its support for the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamic fundamentalist movement that is considered a terror group by those countries. Last week GCC members made amends with Qatar and re-established ties in an apparent bid to smooth relations with the incoming Biden administration in Washington.
Although Qatar and Israel do not have formal diplomatic relations, the two countries are known to cooperate, especially over Qatar’s support of the Gaza Strip that is controlled by the Hamas terror group, which was founded by Muslim Brotherhood members and is aligned with its ideologies.
Qatar is financing several large development projects in Gaza and more importantly delivers tens of millions of dollars in U.S. cash monthly for distribution to impoverished families. The families get $100 bills in order to help them survive, but also to keep pressure off Hamas under whose military rule the Gaza economy is stagnant with unemployment over 50%.
“I think, if you look at Qatar’s reactions to normalization [with Israel], it is clear that everything should happen in coordination with the Palestinians,” Mahjoob Zweiri, Director of Gulf Studies Center at Qatar University, told Doha News, adding that stability in the GCC would result in more economic and political support to the Palestinians.
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Squad member Tlaib accuses Israel of racism for Palestinian failure to secure and administer vaccines.
By Paul Shindman, World Israel News
Democratic Representative Rashida Tlaib attacked Israel on Tuesday, claiming that her grandmother living in lands controlled by the Palestinian Authority was being denied a coronavirus vaccine because of Israeli “racism.”
Interviewed by the Democracy Now! television program, Tlaib latched onto recent accusations by anti-Israel organizations that claimed Israel was responsible for providing coronavirus vaccinations to Palestinians.
The Palestinian Authority itself has not requested vaccines from Israel and for the past several decades has run its own separate healthcare system under the terms of the Oslo Accords.
The PA has repeatedly said it is procuring its own vaccines through the World Health Organization and the UN, and last December announced it had purchased 4 million doses of the Russian coronavirus vaccine, 5,000 of which are due to arrive this week, Reuters reported.
Tlaib ignored the Palestinian health program and laid the blame on Israel, calling it a “racist state” because “they would deny Palestinians like my grandmother access to a vaccine; that they don’t believe that she’s an equal human being that deserves to live, deserves to be protected by this global pandemic.”
“Israel has no intention of every being caring, or allow equality or freedom for them [Palestinians] as their neighbors,” she charged.
Israeli officials have stated clearly that their responsibility is to their own population. The Health Ministry is inoculating all Israelis, including its roughly 2 million Arab citizens, regardless of their religion or ethnicity.
Tlaib is known for her anti-Semitic statements and support for the anti-Israel BDS movement that the U.S. State Department declared last year is a “manifestation of anti-Semitism.”
When it became clear earlier this month that the deliveries of the Russian vaccine were delayed, Palestinian officials started blaming Israel and anti-Israel organizations echoed the accusation, drawing fierce rebukes from Israeli NGOs.
“The PA has been assuring its population for two months that its Ministry of Health is in control, has ordered vaccines, and that their arrival is imminent, without Israel’s help and the PA’s behavior following its inability to acquire the Covid-19 vaccine fast enough is no different,” said Maurice Hirsch of the media watchdog group Palestinian Media Watch, which reported last week on the Palestinian efforts.
”The PA has chosen its default excuse for all PA failures: to blame Israel,” Hirsch said. “This sudden attack ignores the fact that the PA did not want Israel’s help and did not ask for Israel’s help, and contradicts its repeated assurances that it succeeded to secure the vaccines.”
Hirsch documented that in November, Palestinian Minister of Health Mai Alkaila met with WHO and UN officials, announcing that the PA would “submit the necessary documents to the WHO and the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) to ensure that Palestine is provided with adequate coronavirus vaccines.”
It was widely reported at the time that Israel was purchasing vaccines from multiple sources, however, the Palestinian Authority made no request to Israel and on Dec. 12 announced the deal for 4 million doses of the Russian coronavirus vaccine. On Jan. 9, the PA announced they were getting 2 million more doses from the British company AstraZeneca.
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The Coalition for Jewish Values rejected calls for Rep. Mary Miller’s resignation after she apologized for quoting Hitler in a recent speech.
By World Israel News Staff and AP
In a letter sent on Friday to Congresswoman Mary Miller of Illinois, the Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV) expressed support for the freshman congresswoman, who apologized for knowingly quoting Adolf Hitler during a rally outside of the U.S. Capitol earlier in the week.
Miller was among the Republicans who tried to challenge the certification of certain Electoral College votes that went to incoming President Joe Biden, issued the apology in the face of calls for her to resign.
“I sincerely apologize for any harm my words caused and regret using a reference to one of the most evil dictators in history to illustrate the dangers that outside influences can have on our youth. This dark history should never be repeated,” the newly sworn-in congresswoman said in a statement.
The CJV, which represents “over 1,500 traditional, Orthodox rabbis in American public policy,” rejected calls for Miller’s resignation after she released the apology.
The letter sent to Miller stated that the Biblical admonition, “and you shall teach them to your children,” would have provided a “better model for your lesson.”
In her address, Miller said, “Each generation has the responsibility to teach and train the next generation. You know, if we win a few elections, we’re still going to be losing unless we win the hearts and minds of our children. This is the battle. Hitler was right on one thing. He said, whoever has the youth has the future.”
Responding to Miller’s statement multiple Illinois and Congressional legislators called for her resignation.
CJV rabbis “respectfully disagreed.”
“It’s easy to accuse someone of modeling Hitler, and very difficult to defend against such an accusation,” said Rabbi Moshe B. Parnes, Southern Regional Vice President of the CJV,
Parnes “lost much of his extended family during the Holocaust,” said a CJV statement.
“It’s important for humanity to learn lessons from our enemies, even from beasts like Hitler, so that we understand how powerful the forces they employed truly are, and use them for good. The Talmud, the main source of Jewish law, philosophy and ethics, often does,” Parnes added.
The letter added that “while mentioning Hitler was distasteful,” Jews learn lessons from the villain of the Purim story, Haman, in the Book of Esther, and from Roman general Titus who destroyed the Jewish Holy Temple.
Miller, who represents Illinois’ 15th District and is from Oakland, a small city about 100 miles (160 kilometers) west of Indianapolis, spoke Tuesday at a “Save the Republic Rally” hosted by a conservative group, “Moms for America.”
The rally took place a day before supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol.
In her apology, Miller also said “some are trying to intentionally twist my words to mean something antithetical to my beliefs.”
“Let me be clear: I’m passionately pro-Israel and I will always be a strong advocate and ally of the Jewish community. I’ve been in discussion with Jewish leaders across the country and am grateful to them for their kindness and forthrightness,” Miller said.
Several prominent Illinois Democrats have called on Miller to resign, including Sen. Tammy Duckworth and Reps. Jan Schakowsky and Marie Newman. Democratic legislators circulated a petition calling on her to step down immediately.
“There are some things that cross a very definite line and that was one of them,” said Schakowsky, who is Jewish. “At a moment like this, when emotions have been so high on all sides, to invoke the name of Hitler was about as inappropriate and wrong as you can get.”
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"The Coalition for Jewish Values rejected calls for Rep. Mary Miller’s resignation after she apologized for quoting Hitler in a recent speech.\nBy World Israel News Staff and AP\nIn a letter sent on Friday to Congresswoman Mary Miller of Illinois, the Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV) expressed support for the freshman congresswoman, who apologized for knowingly quoting Adolf Hitler during a rally outside of the U.S. Capitol earlier in the week.\nMiller was among the Republicans who tried to challenge the certification of certain Electoral College votes that went to incoming President Joe Biden, issued the apology in the face of calls for her to resign.\n“I sincerely apologize for any harm my words caused and regret using a reference to one of the most evil dictators in history to illustrate the dangers that outside influences can have on our youth. This dark history should never be repeated,” the newly sworn-in congresswoman said in a statement.\nThe CJV, which represents “over 1,500 traditional, Orthodox rabbis in American public policy,” rejected calls for Miller’s resignation after she released the apology.\nThe letter sent to Miller stated that the Biblical admonition, “and you shall teach them to your children,” would have provided a “better model for your lesson.”\nIn her address, Miller said, “Each generation has the responsibility to teach and train the next generation. You know, if we win a few elections, we’re still going to be losing unless we win the hearts and minds of our children. This is the battle. Hitler was right on one thing. He said, whoever has the youth has the future.”\nResponding to Miller’s statement multiple Illinois and Congressional legislators called for her resignation.\nCJV rabbis “respectfully disagreed.”\n“It’s easy to accuse someone of modeling Hitler, and very difficult to defend against such an accusation,” said Rabbi Moshe B. Parnes, Southern Regional Vice President of the CJV,\nParnes “lost much of his extended family during the Holocaust,” said a CJV statement.\n“It’s important for humanity to learn lessons from our enemies, even from beasts like Hitler, so that we understand how powerful the forces they employed truly are, and use them for good. The Talmud, the main source of Jewish law, philosophy and ethics, often does,” Parnes added.\nThe letter added that “while mentioning Hitler was distasteful,” Jews learn lessons from the villain of the Purim story, Haman, in the Book of Esther, and from Roman general Titus who destroyed the Jewish Holy Temple.\nMiller, who represents Illinois’ 15th District and is from Oakland, a small city about 100 miles (160 kilometers) west of Indianapolis, spoke Tuesday at a “Save the Republic Rally” hosted by a conservative group, “Moms for America.”\nThe rally took place a day before supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol.\nIn her apology, Miller also said “some are trying to intentionally twist my words to mean something antithetical to my beliefs.”\n“Let me be clear: I’m passionately pro-Israel and I will always be a strong advocate and ally of the Jewish community. I’ve been in discussion with Jewish leaders across the country and am grateful to them for their kindness and forthrightness,” Miller said.\nSeveral prominent Illinois Democrats have called on Miller to resign, including Sen. Tammy Duckworth and Reps. Jan Schakowsky and Marie Newman. Democratic legislators circulated a petition calling on her to step down immediately.\n“There are some things that cross a very definite line and that was one of them,” said Schakowsky, who is Jewish. “At a moment like this, when emotions have been so high on all sides, to invoke the name of Hitler was about as inappropriate and wrong as you can get.”",
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CNN’s Cuomo criticizes his own network for falsely claiming no vaccine program existed under Trump
Chris Cuomo slams network after Fauci denies claim Biden administration was “starting from scratch” on vaccine rollout.
By World Israel News Staff
CNN anchor Chris Cuomo criticized his own network after coronavirus expert Dr. Anthony Fauci debunked a CNN report that claimed the Biden administration was “starting from scratch” to get vaccines distributed to Americans, Fox News reported Friday.
On Thursday, CNN reported an alleged “scoop” that quoted unnamed Biden administration officials saying there was no vaccine program in place under Trump and “we are going to have to build everything from scratch.”
However, at a White House press briefing later the same day, Dr. Fauci rejected the allegation that the Biden team was “starting from scratch.”
“We certainly are not starting from scratch because there is activity going on in the distribution,” Fauci said in response to a question about the state of the vaccine rollout.
Cuomo interviewed Fauci after the press conference during his “Cuomo Prime Time” show, where he slammed his own network for pushing the misinformation.
“Another thing that I don’t buy comes out of our reporting … that people in the administration say they’re starting from scratch with the vaccine. No, they’re not,” Cuomo said.
Turning to Fauci, Cuomo asked the renowned epidemiologist who has served six presidents about the existing vaccine program.
“You have an infrastructure out there that you’re well aware of that has to be improved. But they shouldn’t get any benefit of a low bar here either. … Are they gonna scrap it or are they going to build on it, make it better?” Cuomo asked.
“No, no they’re not going to scrap it,” Fauci responded. “I was involved in the development of that stuff. They were not going to scrap that.”
CNN heavily pushed the story prior to the White House briefing, with Fourth Watch media critic and former CNN producer Steve Krakauer noting that the network mentioned the alleged scoop “a total of 23 times.”
The original CNN report quoting the unnamed Biden officials was done by White House correspondent MJ Lee, who defended her reporting by tweeting that Fauci was “a holdover from the Trump administration,” despite the award-winning physician having served each of the previous five presidents, both Republican and Democrat.
Lee’s error was ripped on social media with hundreds of users pointing out that Fauci has served the White House since the 1980s.
As of Friday morning, the CNN headline still said “Biden inheriting nonexistent coronavirus vaccine distribution plan and must start ‘from scratch,” although lower down in the article the text was updated to include Fauci’s White House rejection of the allegation comment that “we’re certainly not starting from scratch.”
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"CNN’s Cuomo criticizes his own network for falsely claiming no vaccine program existed under Trump\nChris Cuomo slams network after Fauci denies claim Biden administration was “starting from scratch” on vaccine rollout.\nBy World Israel News Staff\nCNN anchor Chris Cuomo criticized his own network after coronavirus expert Dr. Anthony Fauci debunked a CNN report that claimed the Biden administration was “starting from scratch” to get vaccines distributed to Americans, Fox News reported Friday.\nOn Thursday, CNN reported an alleged “scoop” that quoted unnamed Biden administration officials saying there was no vaccine program in place under Trump and “we are going to have to build everything from scratch.”\nHowever, at a White House press briefing later the same day, Dr. Fauci rejected the allegation that the Biden team was “starting from scratch.”\n“We certainly are not starting from scratch because there is activity going on in the distribution,” Fauci said in response to a question about the state of the vaccine rollout.\nCuomo interviewed Fauci after the press conference during his “Cuomo Prime Time” show, where he slammed his own network for pushing the misinformation.\n“Another thing that I don’t buy comes out of our reporting … that people in the administration say they’re starting from scratch with the vaccine. No, they’re not,” Cuomo said.\nTurning to Fauci, Cuomo asked the renowned epidemiologist who has served six presidents about the existing vaccine program.\n“You have an infrastructure out there that you’re well aware of that has to be improved. But they shouldn’t get any benefit of a low bar here either. … Are they gonna scrap it or are they going to build on it, make it better?” Cuomo asked.\n“No, no they’re not going to scrap it,” Fauci responded. “I was involved in the development of that stuff. They were not going to scrap that.”\nCNN heavily pushed the story prior to the White House briefing, with Fourth Watch media critic and former CNN producer Steve Krakauer noting that the network mentioned the alleged scoop “a total of 23 times.”\nThe original CNN report quoting the unnamed Biden officials was done by White House correspondent MJ Lee, who defended her reporting by tweeting that Fauci was “a holdover from the Trump administration,” despite the award-winning physician having served each of the previous five presidents, both Republican and Democrat.\nLee’s error was ripped on social media with hundreds of users pointing out that Fauci has served the White House since the 1980s.\nAs of Friday morning, the CNN headline still said “Biden inheriting nonexistent coronavirus vaccine distribution plan and must start ‘from scratch,” although lower down in the article the text was updated to include Fauci’s White House rejection of the allegation comment that “we’re certainly not starting from scratch.”",
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Dubai plastic surgery conference gets new look as both Israeli and Iranian doctors to attend
A plastic surgeon gives a 41-year-old restaurant manager a treatment at London Centre for Aesthetic Surgery in Dubai, UAE. (AP/Kamran Jebreili)
Iran maintains a hardline policy against any fraternization between its citizens and Israelis, including in international events.
By Lauren Marcus, World Israel News
In the latest sign of strengthening ties after the historic Abraham Accords peace agreement, Israeli doctors were invited to a medical conference in the United Arab Emirates for the first time.
The conference, hosted by the Emirates Plastic Surgery Society, will take place the last week of January.
Industry-leading plastic surgeons from the United States, Belgium, Turkey and Italy are slated to speak at the conference.
Dr. Meir Cohen, chairman of the Israeli Association of Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery said in a statement, “Our participation in the conference will contribute to strengthening the field in the two countries, will lead to the exchange of knowledge, research and experience and may even contribute to creating opportunities for extensive training abroad…the Emirates also do breast augmentation, liposuction, facelifts and injections.”
Some 70,000 Israelis undergo plastic surgery in the Jewish state each year, according to the Israeli Association of Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery.
“At the conference, we will host a few of the most brilliant minds in the world in the field of plastic surgery, all coming to share, present, and debate in the latest developments,” said Dr. Zuhair Al Fardan, president of The Emirates Plastic Surgery Society.
The Islamic Republic of Iran will also send representatives to Dubai, who will participate in the conference alongside doctors from the Jewish State. This marks the first time that both Iranian and Israeli doctors have participated in the same conference.
Iran maintains a hardline policy against any fraternization between its citizens and Israelis, including in international events.
In widely publicized incidents, Iranian judokas and chess players have been forced to forfeit or withdraw from matches to avoid competing against Israelis.
The Emirati medical conference, in which both nations’ representatives will participate, may be a sign that Tehran is softening on the policy.
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"Dubai plastic surgery conference gets new look as both Israeli and Iranian doctors to attend\nA plastic surgeon gives a 41-year-old restaurant manager a treatment at London Centre for Aesthetic Surgery in Dubai, UAE. (AP/Kamran Jebreili)\nIran maintains a hardline policy against any fraternization between its citizens and Israelis, including in international events.\nBy Lauren Marcus, World Israel News\nIn the latest sign of strengthening ties after the historic Abraham Accords peace agreement, Israeli doctors were invited to a medical conference in the United Arab Emirates for the first time.\nThe conference, hosted by the Emirates Plastic Surgery Society, will take place the last week of January.\nIndustry-leading plastic surgeons from the United States, Belgium, Turkey and Italy are slated to speak at the conference.\nDr. Meir Cohen, chairman of the Israeli Association of Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery said in a statement, “Our participation in the conference will contribute to strengthening the field in the two countries, will lead to the exchange of knowledge, research and experience and may even contribute to creating opportunities for extensive training abroad…the Emirates also do breast augmentation, liposuction, facelifts and injections.”\nSome 70,000 Israelis undergo plastic surgery in the Jewish state each year, according to the Israeli Association of Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery.\n“At the conference, we will host a few of the most brilliant minds in the world in the field of plastic surgery, all coming to share, present, and debate in the latest developments,” said Dr. Zuhair Al Fardan, president of The Emirates Plastic Surgery Society.\nThe Islamic Republic of Iran will also send representatives to Dubai, who will participate in the conference alongside doctors from the Jewish State. This marks the first time that both Iranian and Israeli doctors have participated in the same conference.\nIran maintains a hardline policy against any fraternization between its citizens and Israelis, including in international events.\nIn widely publicized incidents, Iranian judokas and chess players have been forced to forfeit or withdraw from matches to avoid competing against Israelis.\nThe Emirati medical conference, in which both nations’ representatives will participate, may be a sign that Tehran is softening on the policy.",
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Har-Lev’s family released a statement dismissing the possibility that he committed suicide and asking the police to investigate the death as a murder.
By Lauren Marcus, World Israel News
The family of Lt. Col. (Res.) Dr. Avi Har-Lev, who was found dead last week of a gunshot wound in his vehicle in the Lahav Forest, has stated that they reject initial findings that the death was a suicide.
Har-Lev, 50, was the director of the Fertility and IVF Department at Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon and a prominent researcher who contributed some 45 articles to medical journals.
He was returning to his home in Sansana, a town in northern Judea and Samaria that he helped found, after reserve duty in the IDF when his body was discovered.
Calling their father an optimistic man who had recently made plans for the future, Har-Lev’s family released a statement dismissing the possibility that he committed suicide and asking the police to investigate the death as a murder.
“We reject the unfounded rumors about the circumstances of Avi’s death that have been prevalent since his death,” read the statement. “We were convinced from the first moment that Avi was murdered.”
“We call on the Israel Police to thoroughly examine all directions of the investigation, including the possibility of a nationalist incident.
“It should be noted that in similar incidents in the past (such as in the murders of the late Rabbi Moshe Talbi and the late Yaron Gispen), the initial impression of the investigators, that it was a suicide, turned out to be incorrect.
“Especially in this case, when Avi was on his way from reserve service and wearing IDF uniform, a comprehensive and exhaustive examination is called for,” the statement said.
Mount Hebron Regional Council Chairman Yochai Damari supported the family with his own statement, saying, “I call on the security forces to carefully investigate the possibility that this was [terrorism].
“Lahav Forest is a commonly used route for illegal [Palestinian] residents crossing from the Hebron area [over the Green Line], and it is possible that one of them spotted a Lt. Colonel in uniform and decided to attack.”
Esther Horgan, a mother of six from Tel Menashe, was murdered in a terrorist attack in the Lahav Forest in December 2020.
“Dr. Har-Lev stood out at Barzilai as a beloved man with a huge heart and a captivating personality that impressed and won the hearts of everyone who knew him – staff members and patients alike,” said Barzilai Hospital in a statement.
“Dr. Har-Lev gave wholeheartedly to his colleagues and patients, and everyone who met him could not help but be impressed by his magnetism and personality.”
Har-Lev is survived by his wife, Shulamit, their five children Ron, Moriya, Lavi, Maor, and Hadar Shira, and two grandchildren.
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Sunday is the anniversary of the American assassination of IRGC leader Qassem Soleimani, and Israel could be targeted as a close U.S. ally.
By Batya Jerenberg, World Israel News
Israel’s defense forces are bracing for an attack by Iran or its terror proxies as the Islamic Republic marks the first anniversary of the assassination of one of its most important generals on Sunday.
On January 3, 2020, an American drone fired a missile at a car driving away from Baghdad International Airport and killed the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps – Quds Force, Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, along with other terrorists.
Soleimani coordinated Iran’s extraterritorial military operations that included working closely with Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip, and other terrorist groups in Iraq and Yemen.
The IDF has taken into account many scenarios, including an attack by any one or a combination of these proxies. These could be a drone or missile strike from afar, such as by Yemen’s Houthi rebels’, who have carried out several similar long-distance missions against Saudi Arabia, the latest targeting Riyadh last June. Another possibility is an order from Iran to its Gaza or Lebanese clients to launch a rocket attack or infiltration attempt over Israel’s northern or western borders.
Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Aviv Kochavi already started warning Iran against targeting the Jewish state or Israeli objectives abroad two weeks ago.
“The IDF will forcefully attack anyone who is involved, in part or in full, from near or far, in action against the State of Israel or against Israeli targets,” he said.
“I am simplifying things and describing the situation to our enemies as it is,” he added. “Our retaliation plans are prepared, and they already have been practiced.”
Although the IDF Spokesman’s Unit would not confirm the report, Kan News also reported that an Israeli submarine passed openly through the Suez Canal in December, moving toward the Persian Gulf in another message to Tehran.
Iranian leaders have vowed vengeance ever since Soleimani’s assassination, and Israel has always known that as the closest U.S. ally in the region it could absorb a blow meant to send a message to Washington. Tehran has also threatened Jerusalem over the targeted killing last November in Iran of its top nuclear scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, who was believed to head the Islamic Republic’s efforts to construct nuclear weapons.
Israel has never taken responsibility for the assassination.
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According to a Fatah official, representatives from Egypt and Jordan warned the head of the PA that Mahmoud Abbas’ party is not prepared for Hamas’ election challenge.
By Baruch Yedid, TPS
“Egyptian and Jordanian intelligence chiefs who visited Ramallah this week and met with Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) warned the Palestinian Authority that Israel would not cooperate with a Palestinian government in which Hamas would be a partner,” a senior Fatah official told TPS.
This message was conveyed following the possibility of a Hamas victory in the Palestinian parliamentary and presidential elections announced for May and July. It should be noted that Fatah and Hamas are discussing running a joint list and forming a unity government after the election, which could lead to Hamas’ participation in the Palestinian government.
Hamas is expected to run in the Palestinian Legislative Council elections. However, for the time being, Hamas has not decided whether to run for the presidency of the Palestinian Authority.
According to the Fatah official, the guests from Egypt and Jordan warned the head of the PA that Fatah was not prepared for the election challenge, due to internal power struggles and the apparent split of the lists, which raises the possibility of significant political gains for Hamas, as in the 2006 elections. Abu Mazen will work for the unity of all Fatah factions again before the election.
Abbas Kamal, the head of Egyptian intelligence, said the decision to go to the polls was too early, as the US position on the Palestinian issue is unclear at the moment, and there is no official American position on the election anyway.
Kamal added that Abu Mazen has no guarantee that Hamas will accept the Palestinian political position on the issue of the borders of 1967 and the issue of a two-state solution, however, it can still gain international legitimacy and take advantage of the elections to advance its goals. Kamal also criticized the enthusiasm aroused by Hamas over elections and warned that the lessons of 2006 were not learned.
“The election will now be the last nail in the coffin of the Palestinian Authority,” the guests warned, adding that if the Fatah camp is not united, Hamas will take over the PA in Judea and Samaria through the ballot box.
Abu Mazen was surprised by the demand for Fatah unity, which was interpreted as Egyptian and Jordanian opposition to the elections, before the Fatah unification.
The conflict between Abu Mazen and Muhammad Dahlan, a Fatah official who was expelled from the movement and whom the PA intends to prevent from running in the election on the basis of criminal accusations, is receiving the most attention in the organization, especially in light of the fact that Dahlan supports Marwan Barghouti, a senior Fatah official at odds with Abu Mazen who has signaled his intention to run for the presidency in July as well.
TPS learned that at a meeting held after a visit by intelligence officials in Ramallah, which was attended by Nasser Kadua, Abbas Zaki, and senior Fatah figures, it was estimated that the chances of canceling the elections were high due to the growing fear of the strengthening of Muhammad Dahlan and Marwan Barghouti camp, which could undermine the power of Abu Mazen’s associates and confidants, Majed Faraj, Palestinian intelligence chief and Hussein al-Sheikh, the PA’s Minister of Civil Affairs.
Concerns about Hamas’ power in the PA also arose at that meeting.
The Arab media published reports of an Arab effort to end the conflict between Abu Mazen and Dahlan, but on the ground, Abu Mazen’s efforts to harm Dahlan’s camp continue and the arrests of his men continue. A few days ago, Akram Abu Shalbak, an associate of Dahlan, an eastern Jerusalem journalist carrying an Israeli ID, was arrested by Palestinian security personnel and taken to Ramallah.
The fear in Abu Mazen’s camp is now growing with the formation of a coalition between Dahlan and Barghouti, which could be joined by Nasser al-Qidwa, a member of the Fatah Central Committee and a relative of Arafat, as well as other independent elements. Qidwa recently said he opposes the establishment of a joint list for Fatah and Hamas because it “smells of opportunism and personal interests at the expense of the interests of the people.”
“We must understand that elections in themselves do not achieve unity and may even perpetuate the split between Fatah and Hamas, and I warn against what appears to be a tendency to postpone the substantive issues until after the election,” Qidwa said.
In recent days, there has been a resurgence among Palestinian Authority and Fatah officials following the possibility of the movement’s defeat in the election, and there has been criticism that Abu Mazen was reluctantly dragged into the election, under pressure from the European Union and messages from the new US administration.
Sources in Ramallah told TPS that Abu Mazen is unable to withstand the pressure due to his growing dependence on continued economic aid from the European Union and his desire to signal to the Biden administration that he is working to renew the legitimacy of the Palestinian leadership through elections.
It was learned that in internal talks, Hussein a-Sheikh, an associate of Abu Mazen, said of the election that “there are no holy dates” and hinted at the need to postpone them.
Sources in Ramallah estimate that if Abu Mazen wants to stop the election process, he can take advantage of the issue of the elections in eastern Jerusalem and claim that due to the Israeli refusal to allow the democratic move, he was forced to postpone the elections.
Meanwhile, Hamas is organizing for elections and is even discussing the possibility of postponing the internal elections to its political bureau in order to concentrate efforts on the challenge of the general elections. The Shura Council has also begun to discuss this and has not yet decided on the matter.
Hamas leaders in Judea and Samaria are already calling on the PA to allow their political activity. For example, Sheikh Naif Rajoub, a senior Hamas official, and Jibril’s brother, a senior Fatah official, demand that Hamas be allowed to operate freely and pledged to respect the election results. Abdel Rahman Zidan, a Hamas member from Tul Karem, demands that the PA “guarantee the freedoms and stop political arrests.”
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However, for the time being, Hamas has not decided whether to run for the presidency of the Palestinian Authority.\nAccording to the Fatah official, the guests from Egypt and Jordan warned the head of the PA that Fatah was not prepared for the election challenge, due to internal power struggles and the apparent split of the lists, which raises the possibility of significant political gains for Hamas, as in the 2006 elections. Abu Mazen will work for the unity of all Fatah factions again before the election.\nAbbas Kamal, the head of Egyptian intelligence, said the decision to go to the polls was too early, as the US position on the Palestinian issue is unclear at the moment, and there is no official American position on the election anyway.\nKamal added that Abu Mazen has no guarantee that Hamas will accept the Palestinian political position on the issue of the borders of 1967 and the issue of a two-state solution, however, it can still gain international legitimacy and take advantage of the elections to advance its goals. Kamal also criticized the enthusiasm aroused by Hamas over elections and warned that the lessons of 2006 were not learned.\n“The election will now be the last nail in the coffin of the Palestinian Authority,” the guests warned, adding that if the Fatah camp is not united, Hamas will take over the PA in Judea and Samaria through the ballot box.\nAbu Mazen was surprised by the demand for Fatah unity, which was interpreted as Egyptian and Jordanian opposition to the elections, before the Fatah unification.\nThe conflict between Abu Mazen and Muhammad Dahlan, a Fatah official who was expelled from the movement and whom the PA intends to prevent from running in the election on the basis of criminal accusations, is receiving the most attention in the organization, especially in light of the fact that Dahlan supports Marwan Barghouti, a senior Fatah official at odds with Abu Mazen who has signaled his intention to run for the presidency in July as well.\nTPS learned that at a meeting held after a visit by intelligence officials in Ramallah, which was attended by Nasser Kadua, Abbas Zaki, and senior Fatah figures, it was estimated that the chances of canceling the elections were high due to the growing fear of the strengthening of Muhammad Dahlan and Marwan Barghouti camp, which could undermine the power of Abu Mazen’s associates and confidants, Majed Faraj, Palestinian intelligence chief and Hussein al-Sheikh, the PA’s Minister of Civil Affairs.\nConcerns about Hamas’ power in the PA also arose at that meeting.\nThe Arab media published reports of an Arab effort to end the conflict between Abu Mazen and Dahlan, but on the ground, Abu Mazen’s efforts to harm Dahlan’s camp continue and the arrests of his men continue. A few days ago, Akram Abu Shalbak, an associate of Dahlan, an eastern Jerusalem journalist carrying an Israeli ID, was arrested by Palestinian security personnel and taken to Ramallah.\nThe fear in Abu Mazen’s camp is now growing with the formation of a coalition between Dahlan and Barghouti, which could be joined by Nasser al-Qidwa, a member of the Fatah Central Committee and a relative of Arafat, as well as other independent elements. Qidwa recently said he opposes the establishment of a joint list for Fatah and Hamas because it “smells of opportunism and personal interests at the expense of the interests of the people.”\n“We must understand that elections in themselves do not achieve unity and may even perpetuate the split between Fatah and Hamas, and I warn against what appears to be a tendency to postpone the substantive issues until after the election,” Qidwa said.\nIn recent days, there has been a resurgence among Palestinian Authority and Fatah officials following the possibility of the movement’s defeat in the election, and there has been criticism that Abu Mazen was reluctantly dragged into the election, under pressure from the European Union and messages from the new US administration.\nSources in Ramallah told TPS that Abu Mazen is unable to withstand the pressure due to his growing dependence on continued economic aid from the European Union and his desire to signal to the Biden administration that he is working to renew the legitimacy of the Palestinian leadership through elections.\nIt was learned that in internal talks, Hussein a-Sheikh, an associate of Abu Mazen, said of the election that “there are no holy dates” and hinted at the need to postpone them.\nSources in Ramallah estimate that if Abu Mazen wants to stop the election process, he can take advantage of the issue of the elections in eastern Jerusalem and claim that due to the Israeli refusal to allow the democratic move, he was forced to postpone the elections.\nMeanwhile, Hamas is organizing for elections and is even discussing the possibility of postponing the internal elections to its political bureau in order to concentrate efforts on the challenge of the general elections. The Shura Council has also begun to discuss this and has not yet decided on the matter.\nHamas leaders in Judea and Samaria are already calling on the PA to allow their political activity. For example, Sheikh Naif Rajoub, a senior Hamas official, and Jibril’s brother, a senior Fatah official, demand that Hamas be allowed to operate freely and pledged to respect the election results. Abdel Rahman Zidan, a Hamas member from Tul Karem, demands that the PA “guarantee the freedoms and stop political arrests.”",
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While the president-elect wants a nuclear deal with Iran, Israel and regional neighbors say it has to be much tougher than the original one.
By Batya Jerenberg, World Israel News
A source close to the Biden transition team said that Israel will be consulted before any strategy is formulated regarding a nuclear deal with Iran, Israel Hayom reported Friday.
Channel 12 also reported Saturday that the incoming administration has already begun unofficial talks with Iran and has kept Israel in the loop regarding those discussions.
The president-elect, who comes into office on Wednesday, is eager to come to an arrangement that will prevent the Islamic Republic from manufacturing nuclear weapons. The question is whether he would acquiesce to Iran’s demand to return to the original 2015 agreement, which has built-in clauses removing most of the restrictions on uranium enrichment by 2030.
Israel and its new Sunni allies strongly object to a mere reinstatement of the original deal, seeing it as an existential danger to their countries. The UAE and Bahrain, which normalized relations with the Jewish state in September, and Iran’s chief nemesis, Saudi Arabia, “are on the same page…when it comes to Iran,” said Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Ron Dermer at a discussion convened by The Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington.
At the same roundtable, UAE Ambassador to the U.S. Yousef Al Otaiba said, “I think one of the things we should seriously consider doing is look at a bigger and better JCPOA 2.0, one that addresses the shortcomings of JCPOA 1.0.”
The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), as the deal is formally called, does not deal with Iran’s ballistic missile program, its support for terrorism, or its military meddling in places such as Syria and Yemen. These are issues that Biden has said he wants to include in the renewed discussions, but Iran strongly objects to anything but a focus on the nuclear issue.
Alluding to the crippling economic sanctions the Trump administration slapped onto Iran after walking away from the deal in 2018, Otaiba said that the U.S. has “a lot of leverage” that it should use to its advantage. Iran, meanwhile, is demanding that the sanctions be lifted even before agreeing to return to any deal.
Possibly upping the ante, Iran announced on Wednesday that it was starting research on producing uranium metal. This is something “Iran has no credible civilian use for,” said the three European signees on the JCPOA – France, Germany and the UK – on Saturday.
The move comes barely two weeks after Iran declared that it has begun enriching its uranium stockpile, which it has increased far beyond the limits allowed it under the JCPOA, to a high of 20%. It is generally recognized that there is no peaceful use for such uranium, which is only a technical step below the enrichment level of 90% needed for a nuclear bomb.
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Far-right personality “Baked Alaska” was arrested in the Capitol riot probe.
By Associated Press
Far-right media personality Tim Gionet, who calls himself “Baked Alaska,” has been arrested by the FBI for his involvement in the riot at the U.S. Capitol, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press.
Gionet once pursued a career as a rapper under his “Baked Alaska” moniker and earned a week-long Twitter ban for photoshopping an image of Jewish right-wing activist Laura Loomer into a gas chamber meme.
Gionet has also posted videos joking about the Holocaust and tweeted a meme containing a popular 14-word white supremacist slogan.
On Sunday, Gionet was arrested by federal agents in Houston , according to the official, who was not authorized to discuss the matter before the public release of a criminal complaint and spoke on condition of anonymity.
Thousands of supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 as Congress was meeting to vote to affirm President-elect Joe Biden’s electoral win. Five people died in the mayhem.
Gionet faces charges of violent and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds and knowingly entering a restricted building without lawful authority, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
Court documents don’t list an attorney for Gionet or say where he is being held. The jail in Harris County, which includes Houston, didn’t immediately reply to phone messages seeking further information.
FBI Special Agent Nicole Miller said in an affidavit filed in the case that Gionet streamed live for about 27 minutes from inside the Capitol and could be heard encouraging other protesters not to leave, cursing and saying “I’m staying,” “1776 baby,” and “I won’t leave guys, don’t worry.”
She wrote that Gionet entered various offices and when told by law enforcement officers to move, identified himself as a member of the media. Miller wrote that Gionet then asked officers where to go before cursing a law officer while alleging the officer shoved him, then leaving the building.
Gionet also posted video that showed Trump supporters in “Make America Great Again” and “God Bless Trump” hats milling around inside the Capitol and taking selfies with officers who calmly asked them to leave the premises. The Trump supporters talked among themselves, laughed, and told the officers and each other, “This is only the beginning.”
Law enforcement officials across the country have been working to locate and arrest suspects who committed federal crimes. So far, they have brought nearly 100 cases in federal court and the District of Columbia Superior Court.
In a 2017 interview with “Business Insider,” Gionet said he was given the nickname “Baked Alaska” because he is from Alaska and that he smoked marijuana at the time.
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Israelis have been warned about visiting Dubai. The discovery of Iranian terror squad underscores the danger.
By David Isaac, World Israel News
An Iranian terror squad was broken up by UAE intelligence in the capital of Abu Dhabi and its most populous city, Dubai, media reports.
Israelis have visited the UAE in the thousands since the signing of the Abraham Accords on the White House Lawn on Sept. 15, 2020. From Iran’s point-of-view, they make a soft target and one easily reached.
Tensions have been particularly high in recent weeks as Israel went on high alert due to the approaching anniversary of the killing of Islamic Revolutionary Guards Commander, Gen. Qassem Soleimani, who was assassinated by a U.S. drone strike on Jan. 3, 2020. Iran has repeatedly vowed revenge against both the U.S. and Israel, although the latter has not taken credit for being involved in the attack.
Israel’s National Security Council had also warned in late November of security threats to Israeli tourists in Dubai. But Israelis have largely ignored the warnings.
Dubai has been a prime location for carrying out kidnappings.
In 2000, a reserve colonel in the IDF, Elhanan Tannenbaum, was kidnapped in Dubai and and held for more than three years by Hezbollah in Lebanon. Although Tannenbaum was a shady character who had gone to Dubai to complete a drug deal, the IDF decided to do what it could to get him back given that he was privy to IDF information as part of his reserve service. He was returned as part of a prisoner swap in Jan. 2004.
In July 2020, Iran kidnapped a California man for being part of an Iranian dissident group. Jamshid Sharmahd was staying in Dubai.
“We’re seeking support from any democratic country, any free country,” his son Shayan Sharmahd told the AP. “It is a violation of human rights. You can’t just pick someone up in a third country and drag them into your country.”
Even the man portrayed in the 2004 film “Hotel Rwanda,” Paul Rusesabagina, was seized in Dubai in Sept. 2020. It appears he was nabbed on an arrest warrant by the Rwandan government. His daughter described it as a kidnapping.
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“Anybody doing any deal ever knows that it’s easier to do a deal when you’ve got certainty and it’s less easy to do a deal when there’s uncertainty,” said Aryeh Lightstone.
By Josh Plank, World Israel News
Rabbi Aryeh Lightstone, outgoing U.S. special envoy for economic normalization in the Middle East, voiced optimism about the region while acknowledging that a changing U.S. administration has led to uncertainty about future peace deals in an interview with Kan News on Wednesday.
When asked whether the lack of a second term for the Trump administration had damaged developing peace negotiations between Arab nations and Israel, Lightstone said, “I don’t want to say ‘damaged,’ but certainly has given pause.”
“Anybody doing any deal ever knows that it’s easier to do a deal when you’ve got certainty and it’s less easy to do a deal when there’s uncertainty,” he said.
The Trump administration has successfully brokered normalization agreements between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco. Lightstone said he has been involved in talks with “over a dozen more” countries.
He said that he believes Saudi Arabia will be ready for a normalization agreement with Israel “at some point.”
“[T]he region is pivoting towards the benefits of greater prosperity, security, and safety for all of the inhabitants,” he said.
Lightstone said it is in America’s best interest for countries to be not dependent but independent.
“And if you are going to become independent and rejoin the community of nations, it’s been the policy of this president that you can’t do that and still decide that you’re not going to have normalization with Israel,” he said.
“You can’t be my best friend unless you’re going to talk to my other best friend, right? It’s not possible. I can’t imagine a relationship like that,” said Lightstone.
He said that this seemingly obvious fact was “not obvious at all” to other nations when the normalization talks began.
In an interview with i24News on Sunday, Lightstone was optimistic about future normalization agreements, saying there would be “definitely more to come.”
“Peace does not belong to Republicans or to Democrats. It is not an issue for Jews, or Christians, or Muslims; it’s an issue for mankind,” he said.
“I don’t need to prognosticate about a future administration because I can prognosticate about the American people. The American people and the United States of America have always been for peace. They’ve always been for freedom. They’ve always been for prosperity. They’ve always been for security,” said Lightstone.
“The Abraham Accords, stemming and starting with the United States of America standing without any daylight between our number one ally in the region, Israel, has caused and created the room for the Abraham Accords to progress and to progress rapidly. Any and every American will be supportive of this,” he said.
Outgoing U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, to whom Lightstone has served as a senior advisor, told CBN News in a recent interview that the Trump administration has left the Mideast in a good place.
“I would urge real caution in changing any of the dynamic. It ain’t broke, so don’t fix it,” he said.
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"U.S. Special Envoy Aryeh Lightstone (r) stands beside U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman (Twitter/U.S. Ambassador to Israel)\n“Anybody doing any deal ever knows that it’s easier to do a deal when you’ve got certainty and it’s less easy to do a deal when there’s uncertainty,” said Aryeh Lightstone.\nBy Josh Plank, World Israel News\nRabbi Aryeh Lightstone, outgoing U.S. special envoy for economic normalization in the Middle East, voiced optimism about the region while acknowledging that a changing U.S. administration has led to uncertainty about future peace deals in an interview with Kan News on Wednesday.\nWhen asked whether the lack of a second term for the Trump administration had damaged developing peace negotiations between Arab nations and Israel, Lightstone said, “I don’t want to say ‘damaged,’ but certainly has given pause.”\n“Anybody doing any deal ever knows that it’s easier to do a deal when you’ve got certainty and it’s less easy to do a deal when there’s uncertainty,” he said.\nThe Trump administration has successfully brokered normalization agreements between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco. Lightstone said he has been involved in talks with “over a dozen more” countries.\nHe said that he believes Saudi Arabia will be ready for a normalization agreement with Israel “at some point.”\n“[T]he region is pivoting towards the benefits of greater prosperity, security, and safety for all of the inhabitants,” he said.\nLightstone said it is in America’s best interest for countries to be not dependent but independent.\n“And if you are going to become independent and rejoin the community of nations, it’s been the policy of this president that you can’t do that and still decide that you’re not going to have normalization with Israel,” he said.\n“You can’t be my best friend unless you’re going to talk to my other best friend, right? It’s not possible. I can’t imagine a relationship like that,” said Lightstone.\nHe said that this seemingly obvious fact was “not obvious at all” to other nations when the normalization talks began.\nIn an interview with i24News on Sunday, Lightstone was optimistic about future normalization agreements, saying there would be “definitely more to come.”\n“Peace does not belong to Republicans or to Democrats. It is not an issue for Jews, or Christians, or Muslims; it’s an issue for mankind,” he said.\n“I don’t need to prognosticate about a future administration because I can prognosticate about the American people. The American people and the United States of America have always been for peace. They’ve always been for freedom. They’ve always been for prosperity. They’ve always been for security,” said Lightstone.\n“The Abraham Accords, stemming and starting with the United States of America standing without any daylight between our number one ally in the region, Israel, has caused and created the room for the Abraham Accords to progress and to progress rapidly. Any and every American will be supportive of this,” he said.\nOutgoing U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, to whom Lightstone has served as a senior advisor, told CBN News in a recent interview that the Trump administration has left the Mideast in a good place.\n“I would urge real caution in changing any of the dynamic. It ain’t broke, so don’t fix it,” he said.",
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IDF says Palestinians grabbed officer’s gun as warning shot was fired, resulting in a Palestinian being accidentally shot.
By Paul Shindman, World Israel News
An IDF investigation into the shooting of a Palestinian showed that Palestinians tried to seize the weapon of an IDF officer that discharged, seriously wounding one man, Walla News reported Thursday.
The soldiers were in real danger and were violently attacked, but the Palestinian who was seriously wounded was shot unintentionally, the report said over the incident Friday in the village of At-Tuwani in the southern Hebron Hills area.
According to the investigation, Palestinians violently attacked the commander of the force during an altercation over a electrical generator the soldiers confiscated from an illegal construction site.
Video posted on social media showed the Palestinians attacking the commander of the force from the IDF’s engineering battalion , but the field of view changes just before a shot is heard and the camera then refocuses on the wounded Palestinian lying on the ground.
According to the report, after the Palestinians refused to evacuate the area and continued to attack the soldiers, the commander of the force began a standard arrest procedure, which included firing a warning shot into the air.
While firing his weapon, two Palestinians attacked the commander, with one pulling him by force and the other grabbing his weapon wildly. He subsequently fired unintentionally, hitting another Palestinian who was part of the small riot, the report said.
Soldiers had been deployed to At-Tuwani in the afternoon to investigate reports of illegal construction and the confrontation developed when the force moved to confiscate equipment, resulting in a tug-of-war between the soldiers and the Palestinians.
The Palestinian was taken to hospital in critical condition with the Palestinian Health Ministry later reporting that the victim identified as Haron Abu Aram, 24, was paralyzed by the gunshot.
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The similarities between the stories seem too close to dismiss as coincidence.
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It appears that Vice President-elect Kamala Harris purloined an anecdote told by civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and placed herself at the center of it in an interview with Elle Magazine published in October, Fox News reports.
The story Harris told Elle involved accompanying her parents to a civil rights march in the 1960s when she was still in a stroller. “At some point, she fell from the stroller… and the adults, caught up in the rapture of protest, just kept on marching. By the time they noticed little Kamala was gone and doubled back, she was understandably upset,” writes Ashley C. Ford in the Elle feature.
“My mother tells the story about how I’m fussing,” Harris tells Elle Magazine. “And she’s like, ‘Baby, what do you want? What do you need?’ And I just looked at her and I said, ‘Fweedom.’”
Fox News reports that Twitter user @EngelsFreddie and Andray Domise, contributing editor of Canada’s Maclean’s, noted the similarity between Harris’s story and one King told in a 1965 Playboy interview.
So it turns out Kamala Harris lifted her “Fweedom” story from a 1965 Playboy interview with Martin Luther King, by Alex Haley. Much thanks to @EngelsFreddie for spotting the similarityhttps://t.co/zDONW4Ueqs pic.twitter.com/yQuWZHYEMz — Q. Anthony (ɔpɛ asem) (@andraydomise) January 4, 2021
“I will never forget a moment in Birmingham when a White policeman accosted a little Negro girl, seven or eight years old, who was walking in a demonstration with her mother,” King said.
“‘What do you want?’ the policeman asked her gruffly, and the little girl looked at him straight in the eye and answered, ‘Fee-dom.’ She couldn’t even pronounce it, but she knew. It was beautiful! Many times when I have been in sorely trying situations, the memory of that little one has come into my mind, and has buoyed me.”
Fox News included a number of comments on social media from those who agreed that the similarities between the two stories were too strong to dismiss.
“Read this too-perfect Kamala Harris story,” tweeted former New York Times op-ed editor Bari Weiss. “Then click on this 1965 Alex Haley interview with MLK and search for the word ‘fee-dom,'”
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It had removed the page, along with hundreds of others, for what it calls “coordinated inauthentic behavior.”
By AP and World Israel News Staff
Facebook briefly removed Press TV’s English language page from its site, part of the removal of 783 Iran-linked pages, accounts and groups from its service. Press TV is the Islamic State’s international news network.
Facebook removed the pages for what it calls “coordinated inauthentic behavior.” That’s the social network’s term for fake accounts run with the intent of disrupting politics and elections.
However, it appears Press TV’s removal was a mistake on Facebook’s part as it returned the page to its platform after a complaint from the Iranian broadcaster, this despite saying the decision was “final,” according to Press TV’s website.
Press TV had posted to Twitter on Tuesday: “Facebook deletes Press TV’s main page without any warning or explanation.”
Three hours later, Press TV tweeted, “#Facebook just reversed the decision in response to an appeal filed by #PressTV. Now you can access Press TV’s facebook page.”
URGENT: #Facebook just reversed the decision in response to an appeal filed by #PressTV.
Now you can access Press TV’s facebook page https://t.co/SvTWTKT0Xi — Press TV (@PressTV) January 12, 2021
So it appears that in Press TV’s case at least, its Facebook page’s behavior was not “inauthentic” but authentic Iranian state propaganda.
Facebook has been disclosing its purges more regularly in recent months, including ones linked to groups in Myanmar , Bangladesh and Russia.
The accounts on Facebook and Instagram typically misrepresented themselves as locals in more than two dozen countries ranging from Afghanistan, Germany, India, Saudi Arabia and the U.S.
Facebook said Thursday the accounts spent about $30,000 on advertisements, paid for in U.S. dollars, British pounds, Canadian dollars and euros.
The company said Twitter helped its investigation by sharing information about suspicious activity it found on its own service. The companies, along with others in the tech industry, have been cooperating more when it comes to such account takedowns by sharing information.
Such cooperation can help the companies avoid regulatory scrutiny by showing critics and lawmakers that they can set aside differences when it comes to battling outside threats that affect their users.
The latest removed accounts, Facebook said, typically represented themselves as locals in various countries, often using fake accounts and posting news stories on current events. This included using stories from Iranian state media about conflicts in Syria and Yemen.
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How long would it take Iran to breakout to an atomic bomb?
Iran announced it is violating the nuclear deal and enriching uranium to 20%. How long will it take it to make a nuclear weapon?
By Paul Shindman, World Israel News
Iran on Tuesday announced it is producing nine kilograms of enriched uranium with 20% purity a month at its Fordow nuclear facility, Press TV reported, fueling the speculation over just how long the Islamic Republic needs to produce a nuclear weapon.
If Iran enriches significant quantities of uranium to 20%, its nuclear breakout time will become “very, very small,” Ernest Moniz, who played a key role in negotiating the 2015 deal as Barack Obama’s energy secretary told the Axios news website. “The key question is how much they make.”
“This is a significant escalation,” Kelsey Davenport of the Washington-based Arms Control Association told The Independent. “Enriching to 20% constitutes about 90% of the necessary work to produce weapons-grade uranium. Twenty percent poses a more serious proliferation risk, and stockpiling material at this level will begin to reduce Iran’s breakout time more quickly.”
The Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS), a top-ranked think tank in Washington that keeps its finger on the pulse of the Iranian nuclear program, tweeted Tuesday that once Iran has enough uranium enriched to 20% purity, the breakout time – the time it needs to produce 90% bomb-grade uranium – would drop to only six weeks.
ISIS said that although it doesn’t know how many centrifuges are currently dedicated to 20% enrichment, they based their educated assessment on reports they had seen that approximately 1000 IR-1 centrifuges will be used, at least initially.
With years of experience in analyzing enrichment of uranium by the Iranians, ISIS predicted that the Natanz nuclear site could produce about 15-20 kg per month, meaning it would take Iran about 10-13 months to produce enough near 20 percent enriched uranium for a bomb.
However, a day before the Iranian announcement, ISIS had already predicted that adding the Fordow centrifuges could “double the monthly rate to a total of 30-40 kg per month and take Iran as little as five or up to six and half months to produce enough near 20% enriched U for a bomb.”
“With enough near 20% enriched uranium for a bomb, the breakout timeline would be reduced to as short as 1.5 months,” said ISIS, whose researchers predicted two months ago that “Iran’s estimated breakout time as of early November 2020 is as short as 3.5 months.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the Iranian enrichment “a blatant and utter violation” of its international commitments.
“There is no other explanation for this – other than the realization of Iran’s continued intention to produce nuclear weapons,” Netanyahu said in a statement released Monday evening. “I repeat – Israel will not allow Iran to produce nuclear weapons.”
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The direct cost of the coming March 23 election is estimated to be at least $221 million with the total cost of all four elections estimated at over $3 billion.
By Paul Shindman, World Israel News
Israel’s national election on March 23 is expected to be the most expensive yet with an estimated direct cost of 700 million shekels ($221 million), Makor Rishon reported Tuesday.
Although several million Israelis will have received both of the two required coronavirus vaccinations by Election Day, millions more won’t and that means special requirements to ensure the safety of voting.
Israel’s previous election took place in March, 2019 at the beginning of the pandemic when there were barely 100 confirmed cases of coronavirus infection in the country. Even so, the Central Elections Committee (CEC) set up special polling stations allowing those who were in isolation to vote and then return home to quarantine themselves.
However, as of Tuesday the Health Ministry reported 73,966 Israelis are currently infected with coronavirus with the infection rate nearly 10,000 a day, while hundreds of thousands more are in home isolation after being exposed to the virus.
The CEC decided to increase the number of polling stations from roughly 10,000 last year to 13,000 this March to avoid congestion, overcrowding and long queues. The additional 3,000 polling stations will require not just additional materials like ballot boxes and voting slips, but also several thousand staff to run them and supervise the voting.
The direct cost of the election campaign itself includes the activities of the CEC, the operation of the polling stations, the preparation of voters lists by the Ministry of the Interior, financing election campaigns of all parties running and other costs.
In order to level the playing field, the government funds the election campaigns for the political parties, giving access to even the smallest new parties vying for seats in the 120-seat Knesset, Israel’s parliament.
The CEC said special preparations required by the pandemic demand a considerable budget increase, especially giving that with potential tens of thousands of voters who may be sick with the virus on Election Day, drive-through polling stations may be set up as well as polling stations only for those in quarantine, polling stations in hospitals and possibly polling stations at HMOs.
A new move by the CEC is to equip a supervisor at each polling station with a body camera that will be activated in special cases to help document possible violations. Given the huge number of polling stations, the cameras will be an additional expense when coupled with the estimated 70,000 people who are expected to be hired to work on the election.
The additional costs are currently estimated at 130 million shekels ($41 million) for the polling and an additional 180 million shekels ($57 million) in campaign funding with more than 30 parties expected to register by the February 3 deadline.
The indirect costs to the economy are even higher, as Election Day is a national holiday with an expected loss of 1.5 billion shekels ($470 million) in productivity.
This is Israel’s fourth election in the past two years as the previous three resulted in no clear winner. The loser, however, is the economy, as the four elections together have set Israel back an estimated 10 billion shekels ($3.2 billion), the report said, noting that the sum is almost 50% more than last year’s entire welfare budget for the country.
“We should do everything possible so that this day, which increases polarization and perforates our pockets, will be the last in the coming years,” Makor Rishon commented.
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Mother of six Esther Horgan (l) was killed near her village of Tal Menashe by Muhammad Cabha (r). (Courtesy/Shin Bet)
Her body was found in the early hours of Monday morning after her family reported her missing.
By David Isaac, World Israel News
The suspect who killed Esther Horgan was 40-year-old Muhammad Cabha from the town of Tura al-Gharbiyyeh, near Jenin. Cabha admits to the killing, says the Israeli Security Agency (ISA).
Cabha has previously served time for terrorist-related activity. Four additional suspects were arrested with him for assisting him in hiding from the security forces following the attack, the ISA says.
During the investigation, it was learned that Cabha murdered Horgan out of anti-Israel motives.
He revealed that approximately six weeks before the murder, he decided to carry out a terrorist attack after he was influenced, among other things, by the death of a security prisoner he knew, Kamal Abu Awar, who died in prison due to an illness.
He went to the area of the murder via a breach in the security fence in order to familiarize himself with the area. After discerning scant traffic and the passage of Israeli civilians, he decided that the place was suitable for carrying out the attack.
On the day of the murder, Cabha was in the forest adjacent to Tal Menashe in order to engage in smuggling cigarettes through the fence when he identified a Jewish woman walking alone. He attacked and killed her.
In the days following the attack, the suspect was aided by his relatives, as well as acquaintances in the village of Dayr al-Ghusun, in hiding from the security forces, the ISA reports.
The investigation of the suspect is ongoing. It’s anticipated that he will be tried in the Samaria Military Court, the ISA says.
Horgan, 52, was killed on Sunday, Dec. 20 when she went for a morning jog hear her town of Tal Menashe in Samaria. She was last seen minutes before she disappeared via a security camera as she headed into the Reihan forest near her town.
Her body was found in the early hours of Monday morning after her family reported her missing. Her skull had been smashed in by a rock.
“Esther went for a walk in nature, which she loved so much,” said Horgan’s husband, Benjamin. “She was not going off on an adventure, but [for] a routine walk, like a person does in any normal place in the country, and did not return.”
Horgan worked as an artist and marriage counselor. She was a mother of six. She was buried on Dec. 22.
Israel’s security forces announced they had arrested someone in connection with the killing on Dec. 24 but wouldn’t release more details than that it was a 40-year-old man from the Jenin area.
Jewish reaction to the killing was to call for more building in Judea and Samaria.
Samaria Regional Council chairman Yossi Dagan called “on all leaders of the state to support the expansion of the settlement of Tal Menashe and construction throughout Judea and Samaria.”
Esther’s husband told President Reuven Rivlin, who paid a condolence call, that the family was not interested in revenge. Their consolation would be the government signing off further construction of 107 new homes to double the size of Tal Menashe.
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