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Following confirmation of the peace deal, the United Arab Emirates will become the fourth Arab country with an embassy in Israel.
By Paul Shindman, World Israel News
The government of the United Arab Emirates on Sunday approved a decision to establish an embassy in Tel Aviv.
The move comes after the two countries signed the historic Abraham Accords at the White House in September followed by ratifying full diplomatic ties in October.
“The Council of Ministers approves … the establishment of the UAE embassy in Tel Aviv in the State of Israel,” the UAE tweeted on its official government account.
During an official visit to Israel in November, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Bahraini Foreign Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid Al-Zayani announced the opening of embassies in each other’s countries.
The two Gulf Arab nations will join Egypt and Jordan, two of Israel’s immediate neighbors that established embassies in Tel Aviv following their own peace treaties with the Jewish State.
After the signing of the the Abraham Accords, Sudan announced the establishment of ties with Israel, and last month Morocco decided to established formal relations. Informal ties that existed for decades between Morocco and Israel were broken off by Rabat in 2000. An estimated quarter of Israel’s 9.3 million population are Moroccan Jews or their descendants, and many senior Israeli government members hail from the northwestern African nation.
Since inking the Abraham Accords, Israel and the UAE have been involved in a whirlwind of economic and diplomatic moves to cement the relations and fire up trade. Those deals include a $3 billion regional development fund, an agreement worth up to $150 for Israeli trade fairs being held in Dubai, and Israeli acquiescence to an American deal to sell $35 billion in advanced weaponry to the Gulf nation.
On Sunday, in another move to cement ties, Israel’s postal service began service to the UAE, making it possible to send and receive letters and parcels. Other Arab states in the region still do not accept mail to or from Israel.
“The relationship that is being forged between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, and the connection between the postal administrations, will make it possible to strengthen trade ties between the two countries,” said Danny Goldstein, CEO of Israel Post.
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Despite the closure of air passenger traffic to Israel, the border crossing with Jordan – a source of possible virus mutations – remains open.
By Paul Shindman, World Israel News
In order to block the spread of mutations of the coronavirus, Israel shut down passenger air traffic in and out of the country but forgot to close the land border crossing with Jordan, Kan News reported Tuesday.
“There is a legal gap in the corona law, which only applies to Ben Gurion Airport,” Tzachi Braverman, Deputy Director General of the Prime Minister’s Office, told Kan News, saying he issued orders to close the land crossings.
The border crossing between Israel and Jordan in the Arava desert just north of the city of Eilat remains open for Israelis to enter. This means that Israelis who are currently abroad and could not make it back before the airport was shut down can fly to Jordan and from there go to Israel by ground transportation.
A senior Health Ministry source said they are working to close the border crossings with Jordan Tuesday.
“A dangerous loophole has been created by default and this loophole must be closed here and now,” the source said of the land crossings.
“We are hermetically closing the skies apart from very rare exceptions in order to prevent the entry of mutated viruses and in order to ensure that we will advance quickly with our vaccines operation,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday, when the decision was taken to shut the airport as of Monday at midnight. “We are thereby ensuring that the damage from the mutation, if it enters, and from additional variants, if they enter, will be much smaller.”
The government decision allows for emergency or humanitarian exceptions to fly into Israel as well as private planes with up to nine seats, but that would allow only those who can afford the exceptionally high cost of the private flights on planes with an estimated cost of about $10,000 per hour of flight time, the report said.
Health officials said Monday that they expect to recommend the air closure be extended by at least another week.
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The IHRA definition identifies targeting the State of Israel as one possible manifestation of anti-Semitism.
By Josh Plank, World Israel News
The Reform movement has joined the list of U.S. Jewish groups urging the Biden administration not to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition of anti-Semitism.
The Union for Reform Judaism, Central Conference of American Rabbis, Women of Reform Judaism, and Association of Reform Zionists of America made their position known in a statement issued Monday.
“We will oppose any effort to use the definition to silence, marginalize, or shun those seeking to positively contribute to the public conversation,” the statement said.
“Our commitment to principles of free speech and concerns about the potential abuse of the definition compel us to urge its use only as intended: as a guide and an awareness raising tool.
“The definition should not be codified into policy that would trigger potentially problematic punitive action to circumscribe speech, efforts which have been particularly aimed at college students and human rights activists,” the statement said.
The IHRA definition identifies targeting the State of Israel as one possible manifestation of anti-Semitism.
According to the IHRA, examples of anti-Semitic targeting could include “claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor” and “drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.”
“However, criticism of Israel similar to that leveled against any other country cannot be regarded as anti-Semitic,” the IHRA said.
Prior to the Reform movement’s statement, far-Left Jewish groups came out opposing the IHRA definition, fearing it would interfere with their efforts to pressure Israel to cave to Palestinian demands because it would label the Palestinian side as anti-Semitic by virtue of its anti-Zionism.
Jonathan Tobin, editor-in-chief of the Jewish News Service, writes, “The definition rightly declares that, among other things, judging Israel by a double standard and demonizing the one Jewish state on the planet and its backers is anti-Semitic.”
On Jan. 13, the Progressive Israel Network issued a statement expressing concern over the adoption of the IHRA definition as a “legal tool” and urging the Biden administration not to codify its use.
The statement said that the use of the definition “has created opportunities for abuse and politicization by the outgoing Trump administration and others, undermining the moral clarity of the effort to dismantle anti-Semitism.”
Members of the Progressive Israel Network include Ameinu, Americans for Peace Now, Habonim Dror North America, Hashomer Hatzair World Movement, Jewish Labor Committee, J Street, New Israel Fund, Partners for Progressive Israel, Reconstructing Judaism, and T’ruah.
Writing in a separate op-ed, Tobin said, “Though some members of these left-wing groups may claim that they are still Zionist and opposed to anti-Semitism, their increasingly ambivalent attitude towards Israel, coupled with hostility to those who have called out Palestinians and other anti-Zionists for their anti-Semitism, seem far more important to them.”
The statements by the Reform movement and the Progressive Israel Network come after a Jan. 12 letter to Biden from the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.
The letter, which was also signed by the Jewish Federations of North America, the Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish Committee, Hadassah, and the Orthodox Union, said that the IHRA definition “ought to inform the enforcement of Title VI [of the 1964 Civil Rights Act] throughout the government.”
The letter praised Trump’s 2019 Executive Order on Combating Anti-Semitism and called upon Biden to maintain and build upon the policies of previous presidents in fighting anti-Semitism.
In December 2019, Trump ordered the use of the IHRA definition by all executive departments and agencies charged with enforcing the Civil Rights Act.
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The mullahs would hope for “plausible deniability” if Yemeni rebels launch a strike on their behalf, says Iranian expert.
By Batya Jerenberg, World Israel News
The Houthi movement that controls almost all of northern Yemen has received so-called “suicide drones” from Iran that could hit Israel, Newsweek reported in an exclusive on Wednesday.
The extremist Shiite group, officially called Ansar Allah, has as its slogan, “Allah is Greater, Death to America, Death to Israel, Curse on the Jews, Victory to Islam.” Its years-long attempt to take over Yemen has been steadily supported by Iran while being opposed by a Saudi-led coalition.
The Iranian Shahed-136 loitering munitions are said to have a range of 2,000 to 2,200 kilometers (1,240 to 1,370 miles), putting the Jewish state within striking distance.
The Houthis have also used Iranian-made UAVs to attack Saudi Arabia over recent years.
The report said that an anonymous expert on Iran’s doings in the region confirmed images of the drones that the weekly had received.
“What [the Iranians] are trying to achieve is plausible deniability,” the expert said, “as in being able to strike either a U.S., Saudi, Gulf, or Israeli target and then having the strike traced back to Yemen, and hoping for deniability against any kind of retribution.”
As the closest U.S. ally in the region, Israel has been on high alert for weeks in case Tehran decides to avenge the Jan. 3, 2020 American assassination of one of its most senior military commanders, Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani. The mullahs also blame Israel directly for the November assassination of its top nuclear weapons scientist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.
Israel has not admitted any responsibility for the targeted killing.
IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi openly warned Iran weeks ago not to try attacking Israel either directly or through any of its terrorist proxies. He said the army was prepared, whether for infiltration attempts by Hezbollah on Israel’s northern border, or missile strikes from further afield, such as by the Houthis.
On Sunday night, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that the United States would be designating the Houthis as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist entity.
“These designations will provide additional tools to confront terrorist activity and terrorism by Ansarallah, a deadly Iran-backed militia group in the Gulf region,” Pompeo said. “The designations are intended to hold Ansarallah (the Houthi rebels) accountable for its terrorist acts, including cross-border attacks threatening civilian populations, infrastructure, and commercial shipping.”
The latest attack attributed to the Houthis was a Dec. 30 missile strike on the airport in Aden meant to kill the Yemeni prime minister and Cabinet members of a new government, who had just landed in the country. At least 25 people were killed and 110 wounded in the attack.
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Move to include Israel in CENTCOM now makes sense after Israel signed peace accords with more Arab countries, says retired Army Maj. Gen. Mike Jones.
By Paul Shindman, World Israel News
In one of his final acts as his term in office comes to an end, President Donald Trump ordered that Israel be included in CENTCOM, the major U.S. military command for the Middle East, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
The expansion of the U.S. Central Command to include Israel is a last-minute reorganization that pro-Israel advocates have been pushing for in order to encourage strategic cooperation against Iran, American officials told the paper.
For decades Israel had been part of the U.S. military’s European Command, mostly due to the historical friction between Israel and the Arab countries who are also American allies in the region that CENTCOM covers.
That changed when the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain signed peace agreements with Israel, followed by Sudan and Morocco. CENTCOM maintains major U.S. military bases in both the UAE and Bahrain.
Th U.S. military was moving toward having CENTCOM play a bigger role in Israel, the armed forces newspaper Stars and Stripes reported, noting that in 2018, now-retired Gen. Joseph Votel was the first CENTCOM chief to make an official visit to Israel, followed a year later by current CENTCOM commander Gen. Kenneth McKenzie.
Israel and the UAE have already started defense coordination between the two countries, who both share the threat of an increasingly militant Iran that has threatened to destroy Israel and carry out attacks on Sunni Arab countries in the Gulf, including the UAE.
The move is the latest in a series of Trump administration policy changes before president-elect Joe Biden takes office next week, which include increased sanctions against Iran and the declaration of the Iran-backed Houthi rebel forces in Yemen as a terror organization.
One former commander of CENTCOM said there was good reason to move Israel into the sphere of its military command, where it becomes the 21st country in its field of operation along with Qatar, Bahrain, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, Jordan and Egypt.
“I think moving Israel to CENTCOM makes sense from a U.S. policy perspective in that many Israeli issues are tied to the other countries in CENTCOM’s AOR,” retired Army Maj. Gen. Mike Jones, who served at CENTCOM chief of staff in 2011 under then-commander James Mattis, told the Military Times.
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The strike was Israel’s first on Syria since President Joe Biden took office earlier in the week and follows intense raids last week during which 57 fighters were killed and dozens were wounded in Syria.
By Associated Press
Syrian state media said Israeli warplanes fired several missiles toward central Syria early on Friday.
The Israeli military also announced it downed a drone that had crossed into Israel from Lebanon. It did not say how the aircraft was brought down. There was no immediate word from the Lebanese side but the Hezbollah terror group has sent drones into Israel’s airspace in the past.
Syria’s state-news agency SANA quoted an unnamed military official as saying the missile attack took place shortly before dawn when Israeli warplanes flew over neighboring Lebanon.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office also declined to comment on the reports Friday. Israel has launched hundreds of strikes against Iran-linked military targets in Syria over the years. But it rarely acknowledges or discusses such operations.
The Syrian military official said the attack was aimed at several targets in and near the central province of Hama.
The official said the strike killed a family of four, including the parents and two children. The strike also wounded four others, including two children, and destroyed three homes on the western edge of the provincial capital of Hama, SANA quoted the official as saying.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war monitoring group that tracks Syria’s civil war, said the strikes targeted five posts for Iran-backed fighters based within Syrian army positions.
It said the posts were destroyed, adding that parts of one of the air defense missiles fell on a residential area, causing the casualties among civilians.
It was Israel’s first strike on Syria since President Joe Biden took office.
Tension has been high in the Middle East in recent weeks around the anniversary of the U.S. killing of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard commander Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad last January.
Last week, Israeli warplanes carried out intense airstrikes in eastern Syria, targeting positions and arms depots of Iran-backed forces. At least 57 fighters were killed and dozens were wounded, according to monitors.
The Observatory said it recorded 39 Israeli strikes inside Syria in 2020 that hit 135 targets, including military posts, warehouses and vehicles.
Iranian entrenchment on Israel’s northern border remains a red line for the Jewish state, and the IDF has repeatedly struck Iran-linked facilities and weapons convoys destined for Hezbollah terrorists. The latest strikes also come amid intensifying low-altitude Israeli warplane missions in Lebanese skies that have caused jitters among residents.
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"The strike was Israel’s first on Syria since President Joe Biden took office earlier in the week and follows intense raids last week during which 57 fighters were killed and dozens were wounded in Syria.\nBy Associated Press\nSyrian state media said Israeli warplanes fired several missiles toward central Syria early on Friday.\nThe Israeli military also announced it downed a drone that had crossed into Israel from Lebanon. It did not say how the aircraft was brought down. There was no immediate word from the Lebanese side but the Hezbollah terror group has sent drones into Israel’s airspace in the past.\nSyria’s state-news agency SANA quoted an unnamed military official as saying the missile attack took place shortly before dawn when Israeli warplanes flew over neighboring Lebanon.\nIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office also declined to comment on the reports Friday. Israel has launched hundreds of strikes against Iran-linked military targets in Syria over the years. But it rarely acknowledges or discusses such operations.\nThe Syrian military official said the attack was aimed at several targets in and near the central province of Hama.\nThe official said the strike killed a family of four, including the parents and two children. The strike also wounded four others, including two children, and destroyed three homes on the western edge of the provincial capital of Hama, SANA quoted the official as saying.\nThe Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, an opposition war monitoring group that tracks Syria’s civil war, said the strikes targeted five posts for Iran-backed fighters based within Syrian army positions.\nIt said the posts were destroyed, adding that parts of one of the air defense missiles fell on a residential area, causing the casualties among civilians.\nIt was Israel’s first strike on Syria since President Joe Biden took office.\nTension has been high in the Middle East in recent weeks around the anniversary of the U.S. killing of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard commander Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad last January.\nLast week, Israeli warplanes carried out intense airstrikes in eastern Syria, targeting positions and arms depots of Iran-backed forces. At least 57 fighters were killed and dozens were wounded, according to monitors.\nThe Observatory said it recorded 39 Israeli strikes inside Syria in 2020 that hit 135 targets, including military posts, warehouses and vehicles.\nIranian entrenchment on Israel’s northern border remains a red line for the Jewish state, and the IDF has repeatedly struck Iran-linked facilities and weapons convoys destined for Hezbollah terrorists. The latest strikes also come amid intensifying low-altitude Israeli warplane missions in Lebanese skies that have caused jitters among residents.",
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Ashli Babbitt, a US Air Force veteran, was shot and killed at the Capitol Building on Jan. 6, 2021. (Twitter/Common Ash Sense/Screenshot)
“I’m numb. I’m devastated. Nobody from DC notified my son and we found out on TV,” said her husband’s mother, Robin Babbitt.
By Lauren Marcus, World Israel News
The unarmed woman shot dead during clashes at the Capitol Building was identified by her family as a 14-year veteran of the US Air Force Ashli Babbitt.
Babbitt, 35, whose family said she served four tours of duty while in the military, was a resident of San Diego, California.
News station KUSI reported she was considered a “high-level security official” during her time in the Air Force.
“She loved her country, and she was doing what she thought was right to support her country in joining up with like-minded people that also love their president and their country,” her husband, Aaron Babbitt, told local news station KSWB.
“She was voicing her opinion, and she got killed for it. I don’t know why she had to die in the people’s house,” he said. “That’s our house; it’s everybody’s house.”
“I’m numb. I’m devastated. Nobody from DC notified my son and we found out on TV,” her husband’s mother, Robin Babbitt, told The New York Post.
She added that her daughter-in-law was “a Trump supporter.”
Babbitt’s brother-in-law, Justin Babbitt, said the event is “pretty surreal. It’s hard, because we haven’t been officially notified.”
During a press conference Wednesday, Metropolitan Police Department Chief Robert Contee said Babbitt was shot by one Capitol police officer. The department did not identify Babbitt by name.
“This is a tragic incident and I send my condolences to the victim’s family and friends,” he added.
On Tuesday, Babbitt had tweeted messages of support indicating that she would join those at the Capitol Building protesting against Congress’ certifying the election results.
“Nothing will stop us….they can try and try and try but the storm is here and it is descending upon DC in less than 24 hours….dark to light!”, she wrote.
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"Ashli Babbitt, a US Air Force veteran, was shot and killed at the Capitol Building on Jan. 6, 2021. (Twitter/Common Ash Sense/Screenshot)\n“I’m numb. I’m devastated. Nobody from DC notified my son and we found out on TV,” said her husband’s mother, Robin Babbitt.\nBy Lauren Marcus, World Israel News\nThe unarmed woman shot dead during clashes at the Capitol Building was identified by her family as a 14-year veteran of the US Air Force Ashli Babbitt.\nBabbitt, 35, whose family said she served four tours of duty while in the military, was a resident of San Diego, California.\nNews station KUSI reported she was considered a “high-level security official” during her time in the Air Force.\n“She loved her country, and she was doing what she thought was right to support her country in joining up with like-minded people that also love their president and their country,” her husband, Aaron Babbitt, told local news station KSWB.\n“She was voicing her opinion, and she got killed for it. I don’t know why she had to die in the people’s house,” he said. “That’s our house; it’s everybody’s house.”\n“I’m numb. I’m devastated. Nobody from DC notified my son and we found out on TV,” her husband’s mother, Robin Babbitt, told The New York Post.\nShe added that her daughter-in-law was “a Trump supporter.”\nBabbitt’s brother-in-law, Justin Babbitt, said the event is “pretty surreal. It’s hard, because we haven’t been officially notified.”\nDuring a press conference Wednesday, Metropolitan Police Department Chief Robert Contee said Babbitt was shot by one Capitol police officer. The department did not identify Babbitt by name.\n“This is a tragic incident and I send my condolences to the victim’s family and friends,” he added.\nOn Tuesday, Babbitt had tweeted messages of support indicating that she would join those at the Capitol Building protesting against Congress’ certifying the election results.\n“Nothing will stop us….they can try and try and try but the storm is here and it is descending upon DC in less than 24 hours….dark to light!”, she wrote.",
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It goes against editorial agendas to report on the Jewish state in a positive light unless they can somehow twist a good story to turn it bad.
By Richard Kemp, Gatestone Institute
Prejudice against the Jewish state is so intense in the Western media that praiseworthy actions guaranteed to hit the headlines if attributable to any other country are frequently ignored, diminished or denigrated when it comes to Israel.
When there is a disaster anywhere in the world, for example, Israel is often the first, or among the first, to offer assistance and send in relief workers. Most recently, last month the Israel Defense Forces dispatched a team to Honduras following the devastation of category 4 hurricanes Eta and Iota which left thousands homeless.
In the last 15 years. IDF relief missions have deployed in Albania, Brazil, Mexico, Nepal, the Philippines, Ghana, Bulgaria, Turkey, Japan, Columbia, Haiti, Kenya, the US, Sri Lanka and Egypt — and many other countries in the years before.
Under Operation Good Neighbour, between 2016 and 2018, the IDF set up field hospitals on the Syrian border to treat civilians wounded by violence in their country and sent vital supplies directly into Syria, a nation which is at war with Israel, to help suffering people there.
Few outside Israel, Jewish communities around the world and the places that have benefited from IDF assistance have any idea of any of this because the media is not interested. In some cases, news items about countries contributing teams to disaster relief have omitted Israel despite knowing the IDF was playing an important role.
All the good twisted
The same negative policy extends to other major benefits that Israel has brought to the world, including scientific innovation, medical technology and life-saving intelligence. It goes against editorial agendas to report on the Jewish state in a positive light unless they can somehow twist a good story to turn it bad.
This week we have seen exactly that in newspapers and broadcast media on both sides of the Atlantic as they contort themselves — and the truth — to bash Israel over its remarkable success in vaccinating against Coronavirus. In the UK, the Guardian newspaper reported:
“Two weeks into its vaccination campaign, Israel is administering more than 150,000 doses a day, amounting to initial jabs for more than 1 million of its 9 million citizens — a higher proportion of the population than anywhere else.”
With the world so focused on coronavirus and national reactions everywhere, papers such as the Guardian could hardly avoid reporting Israel’s achievement, much as they would likely have preferred not to. So the article had to be headlined: “Palestinians excluded from Israeli Covid vaccine rollout as jabs go to settlers.”
Effectively accusing Israel of racism by neglecting Palestinian Arabs, the Guardian wrote: “Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza can only watch and wait.”
Across the Atlantic, the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) gleefully headlined its article on Israel’s success with: “Palestinians left waiting as Israel is set to deploy COVID-19 vaccine.” The Washington Post published similarly malign sentiments under the headline: “Israel is starting to vaccinate, but Palestinians may have to wait months.”
Predictably the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs leapt onto this rickety bandwagon, publishing on its website a joint statement by a range of human rights organizations, leveling the same criticism and erroneously claiming violations of international law.
Ken Roth, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch — an organization which its founder, the late Robert L. Bernstein, left precisely because of its unjust stance against Israel — in a tweet alleged: “Israel’s discriminatory treatment of Palestinians” and claimed in a separate tweet: “it has not vaccinated a single Palestinian.”
Unwilling to be left out of these gratuitous efforts to attack Israel, Amnesty International also leveled accusations of contravening international law by not vaccinating Palestinian Arabs.
Vaccine slanders
As with most Israel-related stories in the mainstream media and the propaganda relentlessly churned out by so-called human rights groups, these slanders are entirely false. Palestinian Arabs living in Judea and Samaria, or the West Bank, and Gaza, are not even Israeli citizens and they are not signed up to Israeli healthcare providers.
Under the Oslo Accords between Israel and the Palestinians in the 1990s, which created the Palestinian Authority (PA), it alone and not Israel is responsible for the health care of Palestinians, including vaccinations. Nearly 150 UN members recognize “Palestine” as a state, yet these media and human rights bodies, displaying deplorably predictable bias, cannot bring themselves to allow it agency.
The Palestinian Authority has its own plans for vaccinating its people, including in conjunction with the World Health Organization’s Covax scheme, which have been reported in the same media that is attempting to traduce Israel.
At the time when Israel was planning its vaccination program and procuring vaccines, the Palestinian Authority had broken off relations with Israel. Since contact has been restored, until now, neither the PA nor the Hamas terrorist regime that runs the Gaza Strip have asked Israel for any help with vaccinations, evidently preferring their own paths.
However, as late as January 5, a Palestinian Authority official claimed the PA is now discussing with Israel the possibility of some vaccines being supplied to them, which the Israeli authorities are reportedly considering.
Reports also suggest that some doses of vaccine had already been secretly provided by Israel to the Palestinian Authority, following earlier unofficial approaches. The reason for this smoke-and-mirrors approach is the embarrassment the PA has at publicly seeking assistance from Israel, which it unfailingly rages against and vilifies at every opportunity. None of this is likely to be known or covered by the majority of media: it doesn’t fit their agenda.
The idea advanced by some media and human rights commentators that Israel might be allowed to vaccinate the citizens of Gaza, whose rulers have been firing lethal rockets at Israeli territory before and since the pandemic began, is derisory. What are these media commentators and so-called human rights groups doing to persuade the international community to help Gazans in their plight?
Contradicting allegations of a racist or “apartheid” policy, Israel has been vaccinating its Arab citizens since the program began. Given some reluctance to be vaccinated among these communities, the Israeli government, in conjunction with Arab community leaders, have been making concerted efforts to encourage them, including a visit by Prime Minister Netanyahu to two Arab towns in the last few days for this purpose.
Jerusalem Post journalist Seth Frantzman personally confirms that Arabs in eastern Jerusalem have been and are being vaccinated. These people are classed by Ken Roth as Palestinian citizens, by his own lights giving the lie to his assertion that Israel “has not vaccinated a single Palestinian.”
According to Frantzman, there are cases of non-citizens in Israel getting vaccinated by showing up at the mass vaccination points. He cites the example of a Palestinian citizen in Judea who was vaccinated by Israeli authorities despite not having an Israeli health card, illustrating that “Israel’s health authorities are doing all they can to vaccinate as many people as possible, regardless of whether they are Arab or Jewish.”
As anyone who actually knows Israel even slightly would expect, its government will be doing everything it reasonably can to help Palestinians in Judea and Samaria and in Gaza with their fight against coronavirus.
Despite the usual allegations to the contrary, the IDF say they have accepted and facilitated all requests for medical assistance of any kind into the Gaza Strip, including ventilators, oxygen generators and coronavirus testing equipment. This accords with their track record of making all possible efforts to coordinate humanitarian aid for the people of Gaza, even during periods of intensive conflict initiated by Gaza terrorists.
The New York Times also takes a swipe at Israel but from a different angle. While noting the criticisms over “failure” to vaccinate Palestinians, the paper majors not on that but on strong and labored implications that Israel’s success is driven by Prime Minister Netanyahu’s desire to “bolster his own battered image.” One way or another, journalists are determined that Israel’s achievements must not be painted in a positive light.
Abraham Accords derided too
The same approach can be seen over the Abraham Accords of 2020, historic achievements in a hitherto elusive peace between Israel and the Arabs. These have often been received with callous cynicism in the media as well as among veteran peace processors, whose own prescriptions have repeatedly failed.
Many political leaders in Europe have followed suit. Their decades-old opposition to the Jewish state was actuated largely by a self-interested desire to take sides with an Arab world vehemently opposed to Israel’s existence even to the point of battle.
Lord David Trimble, former First Minister of Northern Ireland and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, in November nominated Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the prize, along with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan of Abu Dhabi.
Lord Trimble recognized that Netanyahu is the driving force behind the Abraham Accords, whose origins date back to his speech to a joint session of U.S. Congress in 2015, when he made a stand against Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Netanyahu’s solitary stance was seized on by Arab leaders, who began to realize they had common cause with the State of Israel, which could lead to a brighter future for them than one encumbered with unnecessary animosity.
There has been no greater move towards peace anywhere in the world in decades. We will see whether Netanyahu receives the Nobel Prize in October. If not, it will be due to the same contempt that the New York Times and many self-proclaimed Western intelligentsia have for this prime minister who, though controversial both at home and abroad, represents the Israeli spirit that they seem determined to denigrate at every turn — even in the face of such monumental achievements as the Abraham Accords and a world-beating vaccination program.
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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"It goes against editorial agendas to report on the Jewish state in a positive light unless they can somehow twist a good story to turn it bad.\nBy Richard Kemp, Gatestone Institute\nPrejudice against the Jewish state is so intense in the Western media that praiseworthy actions guaranteed to hit the headlines if attributable to any other country are frequently ignored, diminished or denigrated when it comes to Israel.\nWhen there is a disaster anywhere in the world, for example, Israel is often the first, or among the first, to offer assistance and send in relief workers. Most recently, last month the Israel Defense Forces dispatched a team to Honduras following the devastation of category 4 hurricanes Eta and Iota which left thousands homeless.\nIn the last 15 years. IDF relief missions have deployed in Albania, Brazil, Mexico, Nepal, the Philippines, Ghana, Bulgaria, Turkey, Japan, Columbia, Haiti, Kenya, the US, Sri Lanka and Egypt — and many other countries in the years before.\nUnder Operation Good Neighbour, between 2016 and 2018, the IDF set up field hospitals on the Syrian border to treat civilians wounded by violence in their country and sent vital supplies directly into Syria, a nation which is at war with Israel, to help suffering people there.\nFew outside Israel, Jewish communities around the world and the places that have benefited from IDF assistance have any idea of any of this because the media is not interested. In some cases, news items about countries contributing teams to disaster relief have omitted Israel despite knowing the IDF was playing an important role.\nAll the good twisted\nThe same negative policy extends to other major benefits that Israel has brought to the world, including scientific innovation, medical technology and life-saving intelligence. It goes against editorial agendas to report on the Jewish state in a positive light unless they can somehow twist a good story to turn it bad.\nThis week we have seen exactly that in newspapers and broadcast media on both sides of the Atlantic as they contort themselves — and the truth — to bash Israel over its remarkable success in vaccinating against Coronavirus. In the UK, the Guardian newspaper reported:\n“Two weeks into its vaccination campaign, Israel is administering more than 150,000 doses a day, amounting to initial jabs for more than 1 million of its 9 million citizens — a higher proportion of the population than anywhere else.”\nWith the world so focused on coronavirus and national reactions everywhere, papers such as the Guardian could hardly avoid reporting Israel’s achievement, much as they would likely have preferred not to. So the article had to be headlined: “Palestinians excluded from Israeli Covid vaccine rollout as jabs go to settlers.”\nEffectively accusing Israel of racism by neglecting Palestinian Arabs, the Guardian wrote: “Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza can only watch and wait.”\nAcross the Atlantic, the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) gleefully headlined its article on Israel’s success with: “Palestinians left waiting as Israel is set to deploy COVID-19 vaccine.” The Washington Post published similarly malign sentiments under the headline: “Israel is starting to vaccinate, but Palestinians may have to wait months.”\nPredictably the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs leapt onto this rickety bandwagon, publishing on its website a joint statement by a range of human rights organizations, leveling the same criticism and erroneously claiming violations of international law.\nKen Roth, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch — an organization which its founder, the late Robert L. Bernstein, left precisely because of its unjust stance against Israel — in a tweet alleged: “Israel’s discriminatory treatment of Palestinians” and claimed in a separate tweet: “it has not vaccinated a single Palestinian.”\nUnwilling to be left out of these gratuitous efforts to attack Israel, Amnesty International also leveled accusations of contravening international law by not vaccinating Palestinian Arabs.\nVaccine slanders\nAs with most Israel-related stories in the mainstream media and the propaganda relentlessly churned out by so-called human rights groups, these slanders are entirely false. Palestinian Arabs living in Judea and Samaria, or the West Bank, and Gaza, are not even Israeli citizens and they are not signed up to Israeli healthcare providers.\nUnder the Oslo Accords between Israel and the Palestinians in the 1990s, which created the Palestinian Authority (PA), it alone and not Israel is responsible for the health care of Palestinians, including vaccinations. Nearly 150 UN members recognize “Palestine” as a state, yet these media and human rights bodies, displaying deplorably predictable bias, cannot bring themselves to allow it agency.\nThe Palestinian Authority has its own plans for vaccinating its people, including in conjunction with the World Health Organization’s Covax scheme, which have been reported in the same media that is attempting to traduce Israel.\nAt the time when Israel was planning its vaccination program and procuring vaccines, the Palestinian Authority had broken off relations with Israel. Since contact has been restored, until now, neither the PA nor the Hamas terrorist regime that runs the Gaza Strip have asked Israel for any help with vaccinations, evidently preferring their own paths.\nHowever, as late as January 5, a Palestinian Authority official claimed the PA is now discussing with Israel the possibility of some vaccines being supplied to them, which the Israeli authorities are reportedly considering.\nReports also suggest that some doses of vaccine had already been secretly provided by Israel to the Palestinian Authority, following earlier unofficial approaches. The reason for this smoke-and-mirrors approach is the embarrassment the PA has at publicly seeking assistance from Israel, which it unfailingly rages against and vilifies at every opportunity. None of this is likely to be known or covered by the majority of media: it doesn’t fit their agenda.\nThe idea advanced by some media and human rights commentators that Israel might be allowed to vaccinate the citizens of Gaza, whose rulers have been firing lethal rockets at Israeli territory before and since the pandemic began, is derisory. What are these media commentators and so-called human rights groups doing to persuade the international community to help Gazans in their plight?\nContradicting allegations of a racist or “apartheid” policy, Israel has been vaccinating its Arab citizens since the program began. Given some reluctance to be vaccinated among these communities, the Israeli government, in conjunction with Arab community leaders, have been making concerted efforts to encourage them, including a visit by Prime Minister Netanyahu to two Arab towns in the last few days for this purpose.\nJerusalem Post journalist Seth Frantzman personally confirms that Arabs in eastern Jerusalem have been and are being vaccinated. These people are classed by Ken Roth as Palestinian citizens, by his own lights giving the lie to his assertion that Israel “has not vaccinated a single Palestinian.”\nAccording to Frantzman, there are cases of non-citizens in Israel getting vaccinated by showing up at the mass vaccination points. He cites the example of a Palestinian citizen in Judea who was vaccinated by Israeli authorities despite not having an Israeli health card, illustrating that “Israel’s health authorities are doing all they can to vaccinate as many people as possible, regardless of whether they are Arab or Jewish.”\nAs anyone who actually knows Israel even slightly would expect, its government will be doing everything it reasonably can to help Palestinians in Judea and Samaria and in Gaza with their fight against coronavirus.\nDespite the usual allegations to the contrary, the IDF say they have accepted and facilitated all requests for medical assistance of any kind into the Gaza Strip, including ventilators, oxygen generators and coronavirus testing equipment. This accords with their track record of making all possible efforts to coordinate humanitarian aid for the people of Gaza, even during periods of intensive conflict initiated by Gaza terrorists.\nThe New York Times also takes a swipe at Israel but from a different angle. While noting the criticisms over “failure” to vaccinate Palestinians, the paper majors not on that but on strong and labored implications that Israel’s success is driven by Prime Minister Netanyahu’s desire to “bolster his own battered image.” One way or another, journalists are determined that Israel’s achievements must not be painted in a positive light.\nAbraham Accords derided too\nThe same approach can be seen over the Abraham Accords of 2020, historic achievements in a hitherto elusive peace between Israel and the Arabs. These have often been received with callous cynicism in the media as well as among veteran peace processors, whose own prescriptions have repeatedly failed.\nMany political leaders in Europe have followed suit. Their decades-old opposition to the Jewish state was actuated largely by a self-interested desire to take sides with an Arab world vehemently opposed to Israel’s existence even to the point of battle.\nLord David Trimble, former First Minister of Northern Ireland and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, in November nominated Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the prize, along with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan of Abu Dhabi.\nLord Trimble recognized that Netanyahu is the driving force behind the Abraham Accords, whose origins date back to his speech to a joint session of U.S. Congress in 2015, when he made a stand against Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Netanyahu’s solitary stance was seized on by Arab leaders, who began to realize they had common cause with the State of Israel, which could lead to a brighter future for them than one encumbered with unnecessary animosity.\nThere has been no greater move towards peace anywhere in the world in decades. We will see whether Netanyahu receives the Nobel Prize in October. If not, it will be due to the same contempt that the New York Times and many self-proclaimed Western intelligentsia have for this prime minister who, though controversial both at home and abroad, represents the Israeli spirit that they seem determined to denigrate at every turn — even in the face of such monumental achievements as the Abraham Accords and a world-beating vaccination program.\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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The Israeli government is in denial about the growing violent anarchy in the Negev, Galilee and certain cities.
By Maj. Gen. (res.) Gershon Hacohen, BESA Center
A little over a week ago, cars and trucks belonging to the Lod Municipality were burned after an illegal residence was destroyed by the city. Gunfire is heard routinely in that town.
In the Galilee and the Negev, business owners and even government companies are paying protection money to survive. In the Negev there is gunfire day and night, even in the vicinity of communities. Judges are threatened and the police suffer from a chronic lack of manpower.
Unfortunately, recognition of the country’s helplessness to enforce its sovereignty in these areas has not led to any seriously grappling with the issue. The Hashomer Hahadash (New Guard) organization, which offers protection to farmers, is insufficient. Its main contribution is to raise awareness, and though it does recruit volunteers, their activity is small in scope and lacking in authority.
Where can a Jewish citizen sleep peacefully without fearing that his parked car will be stolen? In “unplanned” communities of the Southern Hebron Hills, like Avigayil and Asael, or in the large, planned, neighboring community of Meitar, which is located within the Green Line?
The difference is that in Judea and Samaria, security falls under IDF auspices. The fact that in the Negev and the Galilee the threat to governance is spearheaded by crime families with Israeli citizenship prevents the authorities from internalizing the significance of the threat. To put it plainly, the State of Israel has not even begun to develop a conceptual approach to the reality that is taking shape.
What is needed is a more serious effort to understand what is happening. We are facing a large-scale threat, with all that that entails, to the sovereignty and indeed the existence of the Jewish state. The magnitude of the threat requires a systemic reconfiguration that fully incorporates the security forces, including IDF units.
After the uprooting of the residents of Gush Katif in 2005, I was quoted in Haaretz as saying: “Here, in a sovereign decision of the State of Israel, which was implemented by deploying the army and the police, we gave the State of Israel the right and the justification to impose its laws and its sovereignty on other citizens in other places as well.”
Responding to claims that the army should not be used for domestic purposes, I said that a sovereign must defend its sovereignty against both domestic and external threats, and has an army and a police force for that purpose.
In normal times, a democratic state should indeed use its military for defense against external enemies and its police force to maintain domestic law and order. But when the domestic threat reaches a state of emergency, the distinction between external and internal threat loses meaning. In Paris and Brussels, too, over the past decades, military units have been deployed to help the police.
It is often said that “only in Israel is the whole country on reserve duty,” but that adage has not been true for a long time. Most of those discharged from the IDF are not assigned to reserve units at all. What is needed is the creation of a sizable security force based on reserve soldiers and perhaps under the authority of the Home Front Command or the Border Police. This would be a kind of “civil guard” similar to the National Guard in the United States — expanded, empowered and professional.
Citizens under threat deserve state protection. Unfortunately, the Israeli government is in denial and does not allow itself to acknowledge a phenomenon that is turning into an existential threat. What is needed is an all-out campaign: the formation of a military and police force alongside appropriate preparations by the State Attorney’s Office and the legal system to restore sovereignty and governance.
Maj. Gen. (res.) Gershon Hacohen is a senior research fellow at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies. He served in the IDF for 42 years. He commanded troops in battles with Egypt and Syria. He was formerly a corps commander and commander of the IDF Military Colleges.
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"The Israeli government is in denial about the growing violent anarchy in the Negev, Galilee and certain cities.\nBy Maj. Gen. (res.) Gershon Hacohen, BESA Center\nA little over a week ago, cars and trucks belonging to the Lod Municipality were burned after an illegal residence was destroyed by the city. Gunfire is heard routinely in that town.\nIn the Galilee and the Negev, business owners and even government companies are paying protection money to survive. In the Negev there is gunfire day and night, even in the vicinity of communities. Judges are threatened and the police suffer from a chronic lack of manpower.\nUnfortunately, recognition of the country’s helplessness to enforce its sovereignty in these areas has not led to any seriously grappling with the issue. The Hashomer Hahadash (New Guard) organization, which offers protection to farmers, is insufficient. Its main contribution is to raise awareness, and though it does recruit volunteers, their activity is small in scope and lacking in authority.\nWhere can a Jewish citizen sleep peacefully without fearing that his parked car will be stolen? In “unplanned” communities of the Southern Hebron Hills, like Avigayil and Asael, or in the large, planned, neighboring community of Meitar, which is located within the Green Line?\nThe difference is that in Judea and Samaria, security falls under IDF auspices. The fact that in the Negev and the Galilee the threat to governance is spearheaded by crime families with Israeli citizenship prevents the authorities from internalizing the significance of the threat. To put it plainly, the State of Israel has not even begun to develop a conceptual approach to the reality that is taking shape.\nWhat is needed is a more serious effort to understand what is happening. We are facing a large-scale threat, with all that that entails, to the sovereignty and indeed the existence of the Jewish state. The magnitude of the threat requires a systemic reconfiguration that fully incorporates the security forces, including IDF units.\nAfter the uprooting of the residents of Gush Katif in 2005, I was quoted in Haaretz as saying: “Here, in a sovereign decision of the State of Israel, which was implemented by deploying the army and the police, we gave the State of Israel the right and the justification to impose its laws and its sovereignty on other citizens in other places as well.”\nResponding to claims that the army should not be used for domestic purposes, I said that a sovereign must defend its sovereignty against both domestic and external threats, and has an army and a police force for that purpose.\nIn normal times, a democratic state should indeed use its military for defense against external enemies and its police force to maintain domestic law and order. But when the domestic threat reaches a state of emergency, the distinction between external and internal threat loses meaning. In Paris and Brussels, too, over the past decades, military units have been deployed to help the police.\nIt is often said that “only in Israel is the whole country on reserve duty,” but that adage has not been true for a long time. Most of those discharged from the IDF are not assigned to reserve units at all. What is needed is the creation of a sizable security force based on reserve soldiers and perhaps under the authority of the Home Front Command or the Border Police. This would be a kind of “civil guard” similar to the National Guard in the United States — expanded, empowered and professional.\nCitizens under threat deserve state protection. Unfortunately, the Israeli government is in denial and does not allow itself to acknowledge a phenomenon that is turning into an existential threat. What is needed is an all-out campaign: the formation of a military and police force alongside appropriate preparations by the State Attorney’s Office and the legal system to restore sovereignty and governance.\nMaj. Gen. (res.) Gershon Hacohen is a senior research fellow at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies. He served in the IDF for 42 years. He commanded troops in battles with Egypt and Syria. He was formerly a corps commander and commander of the IDF Military Colleges.",
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Prime minister eulogizes Adelson as “an incredible champion of the Jewish people.”
By Paul Shindman, World Israel News
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mourned the passing of American businessman Sheldon Adelson, whom he called a wonderful personal friend and “an incredible champion of the Jewish people.”
“Sara and I are heartbroken… by the passing of Sheldon Adelson. He was a wonderful friend to us personally and an incredible champion of the Jewish people, the Jewish State and the alliance between Israel and America,” Netanyahu said in an official statement.
“Sheldon unabashedly loved America and cherished the freedom and opportunity it gave him. He worked tirelessly to ensure that very same freedom and opportunity would be given to others in America and around the world,” Netanyahu added.
The family of Adelson, 87, announced that he had passed away from complications of a long illness. Adelson was known for his close ties to Israel and Netanyahu, and had most recently bought the former estate that formerly housed the U.S. Ambassador to Israel in an upscale seaside neighborhood north of Tel Aviv for an estimated $80 million.
“The warmth of his heart, the clarity of his thinking and the decisiveness of his actions were truly exceptional,” Netanyahu said. “From humble beginnings in a suburb of Boston, he rose to be one of the world’s greatest entrepreneurs and philanthropists.”
Adelson was “a great friend, a great man, and a great Jewish patriot. We will never forget him. May his memory be blessed,” the premier said.
Netanyahu was joined by other Israeli political leaders from across the political spectrum who praised Adelson as a great friend of Israel.
“Saddened by the passing of Sheldon Adelson, who loved the Jewish people and Israel, was a great American patriot, and who strengthened the bonds between Israel and America with boundless generosity,” tweeted Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin.
Right-wing Yemina Party leader Naftali Bennett tweeted that Adelson “was a Jewish patriot, one of the greatest lovers of the Jewish nation and will forever be recorded in the annals of the State of Israel.”
Opposition leader Yair Lapid of Yesh Atid tweeted his condolences, noting that Adelson’s “involvement and contribution to Yad Vashem, the Taglit project and many other projects that have strengthened the heritage of the Jewish people will accompany us for many years to come.”
“I had the privilege of a long and personal acquaintance with him,” said Jewish Agency director Isaac Herzog, former leader of the Labor Party. “He was one of the leaders of the Jewish people in our generation, one of the pillars of Jewish education in the world. We at the Jewish Agency are the benefactors of his vision in many places in Israel.”
American Ambassador to Israel David Friedman tweeted that Adelson was “the greatest of Jewish philanthropists with boundless commitment to his beloved wife Miriam and entire family. While blessed with vast wealth, he had exceptional humility and faith. No one will fill his shoes.”
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"Prime minister eulogizes Adelson as “an incredible champion of the Jewish people.”\nBy Paul Shindman, World Israel News\nPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mourned the passing of American businessman Sheldon Adelson, whom he called a wonderful personal friend and “an incredible champion of the Jewish people.”\n“Sara and I are heartbroken… by the passing of Sheldon Adelson. He was a wonderful friend to us personally and an incredible champion of the Jewish people, the Jewish State and the alliance between Israel and America,” Netanyahu said in an official statement.\n“Sheldon unabashedly loved America and cherished the freedom and opportunity it gave him. He worked tirelessly to ensure that very same freedom and opportunity would be given to others in America and around the world,” Netanyahu added.\nThe family of Adelson, 87, announced that he had passed away from complications of a long illness. Adelson was known for his close ties to Israel and Netanyahu, and had most recently bought the former estate that formerly housed the U.S. Ambassador to Israel in an upscale seaside neighborhood north of Tel Aviv for an estimated $80 million.\n“The warmth of his heart, the clarity of his thinking and the decisiveness of his actions were truly exceptional,” Netanyahu said. “From humble beginnings in a suburb of Boston, he rose to be one of the world’s greatest entrepreneurs and philanthropists.”\nAdelson was “a great friend, a great man, and a great Jewish patriot. We will never forget him. May his memory be blessed,” the premier said.\nNetanyahu was joined by other Israeli political leaders from across the political spectrum who praised Adelson as a great friend of Israel.\n“Saddened by the passing of Sheldon Adelson, who loved the Jewish people and Israel, was a great American patriot, and who strengthened the bonds between Israel and America with boundless generosity,” tweeted Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin.\nRight-wing Yemina Party leader Naftali Bennett tweeted that Adelson “was a Jewish patriot, one of the greatest lovers of the Jewish nation and will forever be recorded in the annals of the State of Israel.”\nOpposition leader Yair Lapid of Yesh Atid tweeted his condolences, noting that Adelson’s “involvement and contribution to Yad Vashem, the Taglit project and many other projects that have strengthened the heritage of the Jewish people will accompany us for many years to come.”\n“I had the privilege of a long and personal acquaintance with him,” said Jewish Agency director Isaac Herzog, former leader of the Labor Party. “He was one of the leaders of the Jewish people in our generation, one of the pillars of Jewish education in the world. We at the Jewish Agency are the benefactors of his vision in many places in Israel.”\nAmerican Ambassador to Israel David Friedman tweeted that Adelson was “the greatest of Jewish philanthropists with boundless commitment to his beloved wife Miriam and entire family. While blessed with vast wealth, he had exceptional humility and faith. No one will fill his shoes.”",
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“Just as the United States separates from Trump, probably for good, so we must part with Abu Mazen [aka Mahmoud Abbas],” arch-terrorist Yasser Arafat’s widow said.
By Baruch Yedid, TPS
“We also deserve a change of presidents like in the United States,” Suha Arafat, Yasser Arafat’s widow, told TPS in a phone conversation, and demanded that Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas leave after 15 years in power and four presidential terms in the US.
Her remarks were accompanied by an unprecedented attack and with very harsh criticism of the head of the Palestinian Authority.
“I am now watching the live broadcast of the change of government and the display of democracy in the White House,” Arafat said in the call, “and I decided it was time to publicly demand that Abu Mazen [aka Mahmoud Abbas] withdraw from Palestinian life and resign because he has already lost his legitimacy and moral right to rule the Palestinian people.”
In a scathing attack on Abbas, Arafat demands that he leave his post as Palestinian president “just as Trump was expelled from the White House,” adding that “just as the United States separates from Trump, probably for good, so we must part with Abu Mazen.”
“The Palestinians, like the Americans, deserve better leadership and now, as President Biden infuses new blood into the corridors of the White House, we too deserve different leadership and new blood in the Muqata’s building in Ramallah,” she said.
Elected leadership must replace ‘Abbas dictatorship’
“We deserve new and young leadership in place of Abu Mazen’s dictatorship, which is no different from the dictatorships of Saddam Hussein and Bashar al-Assad,” she added.
According to her, only an elected leadership that is not based on the “Abbas dictatorship” will be able to take advantage of the positive momentum in the White House and harness it in favor of the Palestinians, and therefore Abu Mazen must make room for others.
Arafat says that her husband, whom she calls “the eternal leader Abu Amar,” used to emphasize and say many times that “the Palestinian people are better and more important than their leaders and deserve better leaders.”
She now demands that Abu Mazen respect her husband’s legacy and cease his reign of fear.
“Like Saddam Hussein and Bashar Assad, Abu Mazen also uses his presidency and control of the Palestinian people’s money to starve his people, and like those tyrannical leaders, when he has a problem with one of the family members he does not hesitate to harm the entire family,” she said.
In recent weeks, Arafat has often criticized Abu Mazen’s leadership, but in a conversation with TPS, she “shifted up the gear,” apparently against the background of the upcoming Palestinian Authority elections, and said serious and unprecedented remarks condemning the PA chairman.
“He uses propaganda methods that are reminiscent of [Nazi propagandist] Joseph Goebbels’ methods,” said Suha Arafat.
Referring to the upcoming elections, Yasser Arafat’s widow demands that Abu Mazen leave his post and added, “I hope he does not take advantage of the next election to return to the Palestinian presidency by oppressing the younger generation.”
Rooting for terrorist Marwan Barghouti
During the conversation, Suha Arafat said that she appreciated and hoped that Marwan Barghouti, a senior Fatah official imprisoned in Israel for five life sentences, would run for the Palestinian presidency and oust Abu Mazen.
In recent days, Fatah sources have said that Abu Mazen, the movement’s presidential candidate, is working to prevent Barghouti from running against him. Against this background, Suha says, “I hope Marwan will not succumb to the pressures exerted on him and face Abu Mazen. Marwan understands that if he does not run now, the PA will work under Abu Mazen and Majed Faraj, the head of Palestinian intelligence, to keep him in prison for decades to come.”
Asked about the identity of the “young leadership,” Arafat said: “Abu Mazen should allow the younger generation to run for leadership. Do you know everyone who came from Tunis to the PA alongside Arafat? Do you know Palestinian businessmen or academics? I am sure Israel does not know many who are worthy of replacing Abu Mazen, but there is a reason for this and that is that Abu Mazen and his ilk in the Palestinian leadership are suppressing any other leadership.”
“It is not possible the young Palestinians succeed abroad and achieve in the fields of economics and science and academia, and only in the territories of the PA are they failing and oppressed. We must nurture the students and entrepreneurs and academics and replace Abu Mazen’s rule of fear and corruption, “she told TPS.
Suha Arafat does not distinguish between PA rule and Hamas in the Gaza Strip: “Abu Mazen’s rule is no different from Hamas’ rule in the Gaza Strip and in PA territories, the Palestinians have become hostages under a rule of fear that Abu Mazen leads through his security forces and Fatah members.”
In her remarks, she stressed that she meant the Fatah factions loyal to Abu Mazen and not those loyal to Marwan Barghouti or Muhammad Dahlan.
Abbas ‘will now act to discredit me’
Referring to the recent criticism she passed over Abu Mazen, Suha Arafat said that she was “sure that Abu Mazen will now act to discredit me in a series of comments and claim against me that I close personal accounts, especially with the head of his bureau, but he must understand that in politics everything is personal and I admit that he and his secretary Antisar Abu Amara have an open war, which they started against me.”
Suha Arafat says of Abu Amara, “She is an Israeli Shin Bet agent and she knows that I know all her secrets. Tell our members in the Shin Bet that Abu Amara is no longer a security asset, just as Abu Mazen’s entire rule is not a security asset for Israel, and only thanks to it [Israel] he can survive and maintain his seat.”
Abu Amara is the head of Abu Mazen’s bureau and is considered an ironwoman who, along with his associates, including Hussein A-Sheikh, the PA’s Minister of Civil Affairs, and Colonel Majed Faraj, the head of intelligence, created a very strong center of power in Ramallah.
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Against this background, Suha says, “I hope Marwan will not succumb to the pressures exerted on him and face Abu Mazen. Marwan understands that if he does not run now, the PA will work under Abu Mazen and Majed Faraj, the head of Palestinian intelligence, to keep him in prison for decades to come.”\nAsked about the identity of the “young leadership,” Arafat said: “Abu Mazen should allow the younger generation to run for leadership. Do you know everyone who came from Tunis to the PA alongside Arafat? Do you know Palestinian businessmen or academics? I am sure Israel does not know many who are worthy of replacing Abu Mazen, but there is a reason for this and that is that Abu Mazen and his ilk in the Palestinian leadership are suppressing any other leadership.”\n“It is not possible the young Palestinians succeed abroad and achieve in the fields of economics and science and academia, and only in the territories of the PA are they failing and oppressed. We must nurture the students and entrepreneurs and academics and replace Abu Mazen’s rule of fear and corruption, “she told TPS.\nSuha Arafat does not distinguish between PA rule and Hamas in the Gaza Strip: “Abu Mazen’s rule is no different from Hamas’ rule in the Gaza Strip and in PA territories, the Palestinians have become hostages under a rule of fear that Abu Mazen leads through his security forces and Fatah members.”\nIn her remarks, she stressed that she meant the Fatah factions loyal to Abu Mazen and not those loyal to Marwan Barghouti or Muhammad Dahlan.\nAbbas ‘will now act to discredit me’\nReferring to the recent criticism she passed over Abu Mazen, Suha Arafat said that she was “sure that Abu Mazen will now act to discredit me in a series of comments and claim against me that I close personal accounts, especially with the head of his bureau, but he must understand that in politics everything is personal and I admit that he and his secretary Antisar Abu Amara have an open war, which they started against me.”\nSuha Arafat says of Abu Amara, “She is an Israeli Shin Bet agent and she knows that I know all her secrets. Tell our members in the Shin Bet that Abu Amara is no longer a security asset, just as Abu Mazen’s entire rule is not a security asset for Israel, and only thanks to it [Israel] he can survive and maintain his seat.”\nAbu Amara is the head of Abu Mazen’s bureau and is considered an ironwoman who, along with his associates, including Hussein A-Sheikh, the PA’s Minister of Civil Affairs, and Colonel Majed Faraj, the head of intelligence, created a very strong center of power in Ramallah.",
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Palestinian Islamic leaders issue religious edict banning Muslims from supporting the accords that established peace between Israel and Arab countries.
By World Israel News Staff
The leading Palestinian Islamic religious body issued a ruling on Wednesday condemning the use of the term “Abraham Accords” to refer to the historic agreement signed at the White House last year, The Jerusalem Post reports.
The Palestinian Supreme Fatwa Council took exception to the accords being named for the biblical patriarch Abraham, who is revered as the father of Judaism, Islam and Christianity, the three “Abrahamic” religions.
The Supreme Fatwa council is in charge of Islamic religious affairs for the Palestinian territories in Gaza, Judea and Samaria as well as issuing edicts for the Muslim population in Jerusalem. The council ruled that naming the Abraham Accords was an “alleged Abrahamic religion project” that both attacked the Muslim faith and politicized religion.
The name “Abraham Accords is “a form of deception” that “benefits the occupier and constitutes a clear threat to our nation’s causes, first and foremost the Palestinian cause and al-Aqsa Mosque,” the council ruled.
Those behind the use of the term “Abraham Accords” were seeking to “redraw the map of the Middle East in line with the Greater Israel map,” according to the Council, the Post reported.
The council pointed out that Muslims and Palestinians “have no problem with the followers of the monotheistic religions,” but “the reality of the struggle in our land is to confront the Zionist occupation and the settlement enterprise.”
In order to try and block support by any Palestinians for the accords, the council warned that calls to follow the accords and establish peace with Israel “are dangerous and tantamount to apostasy.”
The report said the council also ruled that it was forbidden to Muslims to support “the new Abrahamic faith,” adding instead that Muslims should instead “refute these calls and expose their true goals and dangers.”
Following the normalization by the UAE and Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco also announced the establishment of diplomatic relations with Israel, joining Egypt and Jordan who were the first to sign peace treaties with the Jewish State.
Palestinian leaders were furious with all four countries, saying they had stabbed the Palestinian cause in the back by breaking with the terms of the previous Arab Peace Initiative under which Arab states would only recognize Israel after the Israeli-Palestinian conflict had been resolved.
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Advanced DNA sequencing device that can detect mutations in the coronavirus arrives in Israel.
By Lauren Marcus, World Israel News
An advanced DNA sequencing device that can detect mutations in the coronavirus arrived in Israel on Sunday, Makor Rishon reported.
The device, special ordered from the United States by the Health Ministry, can decipher more than 1,000 DNA sequences from coronavirus tests within hours, enabling the quick tracking of mutations.
The device, the Novaseq 6000 made by Illumina, a San Diego-based maker of life science tools, costs over a million shekels ($300,000).
Until now, the Central Laboratory for Viruses at Tel HaShomer, the institute responsible for tracking the spread and variants of the coronavirus within Israel, had equipment with the ability to sequence a low number of samples at any given time.
The addition of the new American device will enable Israel virologists to better and more efficiently track the spread of mutations, including the UK and South African variations recently discovered in Israel.
“It’s very exciting – we have made huge efforts to obtain this device,” Prof. Ella Mendelssohn, director of the Central Laboratory for Viruses, told Makor Rishon.
“We are working around the clock to sequence the coronavirus DNA and identify mutations that may be more contagious and change our ability to fight the spread,” said Dr. Neta Zuckerman, director of the Bioinformatics Unit at the Central Laboratory for Viruses.
“We are taking survey samples from across the country and morbidity numbers, trying to get a picture that will give us a more comprehensive look at the types of corona that are present here in Israel and where,” she added.
Virologists from the Central Laboratory for Viruses believe that the RNA vaccine will still be effective against coronavirus mutations.
“Our great fortune is that although these viruses have undergone changes, the technology of vaccines that produce antibodies for the ‘spike’ of corona protein manages to make the body produce antibodies that are able to respond to these changes as well,” the institute said in a statement.
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“We will use all of our force, intelligence, means, police, intelligence and technology,” he added.
By David Isaac, World Israel News
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with local council heads of the Arab community on Sunday to discuss his proposal to defeat violence and crime in Arab society.
“It cannot be that in our state people fear to walk the streets. This embitters your lives. I am certain that there are threats against you, against all of you,” Netanyahu said at the meeting.
“We want to submit a genuinely comprehensive plan for a war on crime and violence in Arab society. This is a very vigorous fight but victory is within our grasp. We can do this, I am completely certain of it,” Netanyahu said.
“We will use all of our force, intelligence, means, police, intelligence and technology,” he added.
There has been an uptick in violent crime among Israeli-Arabs over the last couple of years. Illegal weapons are common and clashes between Arab crime families have become more brazen.
Most recently, two Arab men were shot in Jaffa in the middle of the day with a criminal motive suspected. In late December, in a revenge killing, a car was machine-gunned and two killed on Highway 6 despite being escorted by three police cruisers.
Israeli Arab Knesset leaders have blamed Israeli inaction for the violence. However, in October 2019 then-Minister of Public Security Gilad Erdan said Arab society and culture must take responsibility for its own shortcomings.
“Arab society, and I say that with sadness, is a very violent society,” he said. “It’s connected to the culture there. A lot of disputes that end here with a lawsuit, there they pull out a knife and gun.”
Arab MKs immediately blasted Erdan for racism.
Netanyahu’s focus on the Arab community of late is part of an outreach to win their votes ahead of the March 23 election. He told a Likud Party meeting recently that he is courting the Arab vote.
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Anti-Israel activists protest against alleged "apartheid" and call to boycott Israel hosting the Eurovision song contest in Tel Aviv, May 14, 2019. (Flash90/Tomer Neuberg)
“The lecture did take place and the Israeli government will have to contend with our existence until the apartheid regime ends,” B’Tselem tweeted in response.
By Paul Shindman, World Israel News
Education Minister Yoav Galant on Monday ordered education officials to block a European-funded anti-Israel NGO from speaking to high school students after the B’Tselem organization announced that it now views Israel as an “apartheid” state.
“We will not allow organizations that call the State of Israel ‘State of Apartheid’ to lecture to students who are about to be drafted into the IDF,” Galant said in a statement. He “instructed the director general of the ministry and the directors of the districts and divisions to ban the entry of these organizations into the education system.”
According to Galant’s directive, schools must prohibit the entry of organizations “that operate contrary to the purposes of state education, including the portraying the State of Israel in false derogatory terms.”
Despite the ban, B’Tselem CEO Hagai Elad tweeted that he had talked to students at a high school in Haifa and said he would continue to push his message.
“The lecture did take place and the Israeli government will have to contend with our existence until the apartheid regime ends,” B’Tselem tweeted in response.
Last week, B’Tselem issued a press statement accusing Israel of being “an apartheid regime” and the organization “rejects the perception of Israel as a democracy.”
However, while the declaration got wide coverage abroad, it was generally ignored in Israel including by the Hebrew website of the left-wing Haaretz newspaper that didn’t consider the announcement newsworthy, the media watchdog website The 7th Eye reported, noting that in Israel the B’Tselem statement was only covered in English.
“This is fascinating. B’Tselem was once a key part of Israeli discourse. Prime ministers worried about what it would say,” commented Times of Israel political analyst Haviv Rettig Gur. “No longer. It’s now a foreign-funded, foreign-aimed PR operation producing increasingly bombastic reports for progressive CNN journos. Israelis don’t hear it.”
According to the watchdog group NGO Monitor, the bulk of B’Tselem’s funding comes from foreign sources and between 2012-2020 B’Tselem received 46,258,659 shekels ($14.3 million) from foreign governmental bodies. Forced to reveal funding sources by Israeli transparency law, the organization on its own website states that “B’Tselem was 69% funded by foreign state entities in 2019.”
“B’tselem has traded any remaining credibility within Israel for taking center stage in the anti-Israel propaganda arena,” NGO Monitor tweeted last week, adding that their funders have to decide between ending financial support, “or continuing to share responsibility for these attacks.”
“This is no longer the same NGO that once gained respect, even from critics, by championing human rights based on credible research. Today, it is a platform for demonizers … and for promulgating the ‘apartheid’ libel,” NGO Monitor noted.
Eugene Kontorovich, a well-known professor of constitutional and international law at George Mason University, said the apartheid accusation “is not just totally false, it is anti-Semitic.”
“Invoking the heinous crime of apartheid to criticize Israeli policy is a classic anti-Semitic rhetoric: it accuses Jews, uniquely among the peoples of the world, of one of the most heinous crimes, while also judging the Jewish state by a metric not applied to any other country,” wrote Kontorovich, who is a contributor to the Jerusalem-based Kohelet Forum that promotes Israeli democracy.
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House Speaker says representatives who try to bypass metal detectors in Congress face a fine of up to $10,000.
By Paul Shindman, World Israel News
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi introduced new fines of up to $10,000 targeting some Republican members of Congress whom she said are ignoring new security protocols by walking around new metal detectors on Capitol Hill, the Washington Examiner reported Wednesday.
Republican lawmakers were upset after new metal detectors were installed following the Jan. 6 breach of the Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump that ended with five people dead including one supporter who was shot and killed inside the building by Capitol security.
Republican Congressman Chip Roy of Texas called the detectors “unnecessary” and “unconstitutional,” saying that he “will not comply in the future.”
“She’s trying to say Republican members of Congress can’t be trusted. It’s a nasty, partisan message and would violate the Constitution if they actually tried to stop us,” Republican Congressman Thomas Massie of Kentucky told the Examiner.
Some lawmakers, including Florida Representative Matt Gaetz, were seen walking around the metal detectors, the report said.
“Article 1, Section 6 of the U.S. Constitution contains specific language prohibiting Members of Congress from being impeded on the way to a session of the House or to a vote. This is harassment. We need protection from the Speaker, not each other,” said Republican Congressman Louie Gohmert of Texas, after reportedly telling Capitol police he could not be stopped from walking around the scanners and then did so.
Recently sworn-in Congresswoman Lauren Boebert (R-CO), who ran on a pro-Second Amendment platform, tussled with police who wanted to see what was in her bag. She was eventually allowed into the chamber.
“It is a shame that Nancy Pelosi is trying to disarm Members of Congress in the very place that needed more protection on January 6,” Boebert said in a statement. “It is clear metal detectors would not have deterred the violent acts we saw; this political stunt does nothing to improve the safety of Members in the Capitol complex.”
Pelosi said in a statement Wednesday night, “On behalf of the House, I express my deepest gratitude to the U.S. Capitol Police for the valor that they showed during the deadly insurrection on the Capitol, as they protected the lives of the staff and the Congress.”
“Many House Republicans have disrespected our heroes by verbally abusing them and refusing to adhere to basic precautions keeping members of our Congressional community, including the Capitol Police, safe. The House will soon move forward with a rule change imposing fines on those who refuse to abide by these protections,” Pelosi said.
The fine for a first offense by a member of Congress will be $5,000 and for repeat offenders the fine will jump to $10,000, the report said.
“It is tragic that this step is necessary, but the Chamber of the People’s House must and will be safe,” Pelosi said.
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Netanyahu swaps 10 million doses of vaccine in return for Israel becoming the test lab for nationwide coronavirus vaccination.
By Paul Shindman, World Israel News
Israelis are test subjects in the world’s first attempt to inoculate an entire country against the coronavirus, the Globes business newspaper reported on the weekend.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced last week that his personal connection with Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla helped Israel obtain millions of highly sought-after doses of coronavirus vaccine in return for sharing data with Pfizer, but revealed few details other than that Israel would be able to vaccinate its entire adult population within the coming few months.
Under the deal, Israel will receive a up to 500,000 doses of Pfizer vaccine over the next 10 weeks with more than 10 million doses in total by the middle of March – enough to vaccinate all of its 9.3 million citizens over the age of 16, the report said.
In return, Israel will collect data for Pfizer including the results of the vaccinations, side effects, efficacy, and the amount of time it takes to develop antibodies to fight the virus. The data will be sorted by patient data including age, gender, preexisting conditions and other data points, but will be provided anonymously to protect patient privacy.
The project amounts to a giant research project with Israel as the laboratory and its adult citizens being the guinea pigs.
The idea of using Israel as a giant testing ground for coronavirus immunization came from at least three sources outside of the government: 1) A researcher at the Israel Institute of Biological Research that is developing Israel’s homegrown vaccine which is currently in a phase three clinical trial 2) a senior Health Ministry doctor who last fall proposed exchanging data with drug companies in return for early deliveries of vaccine, and 3) a World Health Organization official told Israeli experts that “Israel would be an ideal country for early and efficient rollout of the vaccine and could instruct the world on how to do it,” Globes reported.
Israel being a test lab for vaccine administration ended up being an attractive offering because under Israel’s health care system every citizen is a member of one of four national Health Maintenance Organizations. The HMOs work very closely with the Health Ministry and Israel’s hospitals, meaning the vaccinations could not only be administered quickly, but the system is already in place to track every single patient who is vaccinated.
Given the massive size of the project and its expected attractiveness to both drug companies and WHO, Netanyahu himself made the pitch along with some leading Israeli medical experts.
“After the idea was broached, Pfizer consulted with the WHO and the leaders of other countries,” Globes wrote. “Pfizer representatives closely scrutinized Israel’s health system, asked their questions and were shown the quality of Israel’s data systems at the Covid-19 headquarters of the Ministry of Health.”
In the end, Pfizer was impressed with Israel’s health system and the way government, HMOs, laboratories and the IDF cooperated in managing the crisis, as well as the computerized systems that were set up to track data.
The deal was apparently closed after Pfizer saw the success of Israel’s distribution of the vaccines, with up to 180,000 people getting vaccinated in one day while other countries like Germany struggled to overcome bureaucratic hurdles and were moved slowly.
“A senior WHO official told his counterpart in Israel’s Ministry of Health that they were astonished by the pace of distribution and the ability to channel the vaccinations correctly,” the report said.
In the end, both Pfizer and the WHO will receive the data and a WHO delegation is expected to arrive in February to study the Israeli vaccination program.
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In first, female officer to head Israeli intelligence efforts against Iran
Lt. Col. R., 37, who started her military service decrypting aerial images, says she’s “excited and proud” to be the first women in a job so important to Israel’s security.
By Lilach Shoval, Israel Hayom
In another first for women’s military service in Israel, deputy commander of the Israel Defense Force’s Unit 9900, Lt. Col. R. has been appointed head of the Military Intelligence unit monitoring Iran.
She will be the first woman to hold the position.
In her new role, R. will oversee the intelligence-gathering aspect of operations against what the IDF defines as third-circle enemy states, including Iran.
R., 37, a married mother of two, came up through the ranks of Military Intelligence. She started her service in 2002, decrypting aerial images, then completed officers’ training and served in a number of roles in Unit 9900, which is responsible for image analysis and creating maps from encrypted images.
“I’m excited and proud to be the first woman to serve in a job so important to the security of Israel, a role that requires responsibility, the ability to cooperate and make the proper operational decisions in such a complicated arena,” R. said, after her appointment was announced.
This article first appeared in Israel Hayom.
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Police arrest five men who smashed tables at luxury Dan hotel to protest their mandatory quarantine.
By Paul Shindman, World Israel News
Police arrested five Israelis who rioted in the lobby of Jerusalem’s Dan Panorama Hotel Wednesday and caused extensive damage to property. They were angered because new government regulations forced them into coronavirus quarantine for two weeks at the hotel, Kan News reported.
In a video circulated on social media, the suspects are seen yelling at the staff as they overturned tables and broke down a protective barrier designed to protect hotel staff and IDF soldiers assigned to the quarantine center.
“At the decision of the political echelon, it was decided that all returnees from Brazil, the United Arab Emirates and South African countries would be isolated in Home Front Command isolation hotels, with exceptions approved by the Ministry of Health Exceptions Committee,” the IDF Spokesperson’s Office said in a statement.
“In the incident, those staying in the isolation hotel were seen behaving with physical and verbal violence against the Home Front Command staff due to the lack of Health Ministry approval to release them from the hotel,” the IDF said.
Sources at the hotel said that since the government changed the regulations requiring all those returning from the United Emirates to quarantine at a government-specified hotel set up for that purpose, there have been almost daily clashes with returning Israelis who do not want to stay.
The same sources said the problems begin at Ben Gurion Airport when the returning passengers are taken by police and reluctantly put on buses to the quarantine hotels. After arriving at the hotels those who object to being held in the hotel demand to see a medical committee to request a release to their home, but there may be no representatives of Health Ministry at the hotel.
On the weekend, the Health Ministry ordered all those returning from Africa, Central and South America, and large parts of the Far East to isolate for two weeks at quarantine hotels after the South African mutation of the coronavirus was found in passengers who returned from the UAE.
הופכים שולחנות ושוברים את החיץ ביניהם לבין הצוות: ישראלים ששבו מדובאי אתמול בלילה מתפרעים במלון דן פנורמה בירושלים | תיעוד @ittaishick pic.twitter.com/QuDB9CQCDD — כאן חדשות (@kann_news) January 21, 2021
The Ministry of Health responded to the violence at the hotel saying that in this instance there was a ministry representative present, but that those who rioted in the lobby were “not entitled to exemption from isolation because they did not meet the criteria for doing so.”
On Tuesday, the government approved mandatory hotel quarantine for all returnees on flights from Dubai. The ministers also approved a new regulation that requires every passenger entering Israel to pass a corona check 72 hours before traveling to Israel.
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The report, extraordinary for its distortions, ignored the integration of Arab-Israelis into Israeli society.
By David Isaac, World Israel News
A radical anti-Israel NGO, B’Tselem, which has been mischaracterized as a “leading Israeli human rights group” by Associated Press, described Israel and its control of the Palestinian territories as a single “apartheid” regime.
In a report released Tuesday, B’Tselem says that while Palestinians live under different forms of Israeli control in Judea and Samaria, Gaza, eastern Jerusalem and within Israel itself, they have fewer rights than Jews in the entire area between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River.
“One of the key points in our analysis is that this is a single geopolitical area ruled by one government,” said B’Tselem director Hagai El-Ad. “This is not democracy plus occupation. This is apartheid between the river and the sea.”
The report, extraordinary for its distortions, ignores facts that contradict its premise, but which are evident to anyone conducting even a cursory analysis of Arabs’ place in Israeli society, where an Arab party, the Joint List is the third-largest faction in the Knesset with 15 seats. Israeli Arabs serve on Israel’s Supreme Court and last year, Israel’s Foreign Ministry appointed its first Bedouin ambassador, who represents the country in Eritrea.
Recently, the Israel Defense Forces was surprised by the number of Israeli Arabs who responded to an online manpower initiative. “As a result, we opened a recruitment bureau in the Galilee, where volunteers can study to improve their Hebrew. This branch will be able to recruit a total of up to 2,500 people a year,” the IDF’s Manpower Directorate told Ynet.
B’Tselem also appeared to ignore the fact that the vast number of Palestinians in Judea and Samaria, some 1.5 million, are ruled by the Palestinian Authority and not Israel. The Gaza Strip with a population of some 700,000 is controlled by Hamas.
Eugene Kontorovich, director of international law at the Jerusalem-based Kohelet Policy Forum, says the fact that the Palestinians have their own government makes any talk of apartheid “inapplicable,” calling the B’Tselem report “shockingly weak, dishonest and misleading.”
Palestinian leaders agreed to the territorial divisions in the Oslo accords. That, Kontorovich says, is a far cry from the territories designated for Black South Africans under apartheid — known as bantustans — to which many Palestinians compare the areas governed by the PA.
Kontorovich said the use of the word “apartheid” was instead aimed at demonizing Israel in a way that “resonates with racial sensitivities and debates in America and the West.”
Itay Milner, a spokesman for Israel’s consulate general in New York, dismissed the B’Tselem report as “another tool for them to promote their political agenda,” which he said was based on a “distorted ideological view.”
B’Tselem is a marginal group in Israel with little public backing and which relies on foreign funding for its support. NGO Monitor says “donations from foreign countries comprised 64.7% of total donations from 2012-2016” for B’Tselem.
In Oct. 2018, B’Tselem’s leader El-Ad spoke before the UN Security Council where he also compared Israel to Apartheid-era South Africa.
His talk was roundly condemned by both sides of Israel’s political aisle. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called it a “disgrace.” Opposition MK Yair Lapid said El-Ad’s appearance was “the predictable mix of lies, distortions and propaganda. They represent no one but themselves.”
Then-US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley also criticized El-Ad’s talk, calling it “the sort of distorted and one-sided accounting” frequently seen at UN debates on the Israel-Palestinian conflict.
AP contributed to this report.
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Trump ally Lindsey Graham commented, “Today, all I can say is count me out. Enough is enough.”
By Associated Press
A sober, shaken Senate returned to its chamber Wednesday night to reject election challenges, but its secondary purpose seemed to be to rise from the wreckage of a shocking day in which they fled the Capitol when Trump supporters “occupied” it.
The riot in the Capitol prompted more than half of those who had signed on to the protest to instead vote “no.” Catering to Trump’s supporters seemed less important than defending democracy.
Tennessee’s GOP senators abandoned the effort, as did Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., who lost her runoff election Tuesday, helping to deliver control of the Senate to Democrats. Wisconsin’s GOP Sen. Ron Johnson dropped out, as did James Lankford, R-Okla., a promising younger Republican who raised eyebrows when initially supporting the effort.
The 93-6 tally upholding President-elect Joe Biden’s win in Arizona was preceded by an unusually serious debate in which party labels were shed and constitutional prerogatives embraced.
“We will not be kept out of this chamber by thugs, mobs, or threats. We will not bow to lawlessness or intimidation,” said Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. “We are back at our posts. We will discharge our duty under the Constitution for our nation. And we are going to do it tonight.”
As senators debated, Trump took it on the chin from longtime critics like Mitt Romney, R-Utah, while other Republicans who had tiptoed around Trump spoke frankly.
“We witnessed today the damage that can result when men in power and responsibility refuse to acknowledge the truth,” said Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa. “We saw bloodshed because the demagogue chose to spread falsehoods and sow distrust of his own fellow Americans.”
The debate was forced by Sens. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., and Ted Cruz, R-Texas, who argued that it was the only way to speak up for millions of Americans who believe Trump’s claims that the election was stolen from him. But their reputations as presidential wannabes hung over the debate.
“I ask my colleagues, do we weigh our own political fortunes more heavily than we weigh the strength of our republic, the strength of our democracy, and the cause of freedom?” said Romney, whose desk is directly behind Hawley. “What’s the weight of personal acclaim compared to the weight of conscience?”
More than 90 senators populated the chamber for the debate — guarded by dozens of heavily armed police — and the typically verbose crowd had to keep their remarks to just five minutes.
Trump ally Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., also abandoned the president, appearing to cite his role in encouraging the mob.
“Trump and I, we had a hell of a journey. I hate it being this way,” Graham said. “From my point of view, he’s been a consequential president. But today … all I can say is count me out. Enough is enough.”
Romney, the party’s 2012 nominee, reminded his colleagues that he knows how unpleasant it is to lose a presidential election, drawing hearty laughter. But he earned an enthusiastic, spontaneous round of applause with a simple observation: “The best way we could show respect for the voters who are upset is by telling them the truth.”
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PA gloats as Biden teams returns to old peace formula: The deal of the century is dead
Palestinian minister says that the PA had received assurances that the “Deal of the Century” has been taken off the table.
By Batya Jerenberg, World Israel News
The Palestinian Authority (PA) reacted with relief Tuesday to the Biden administration’s new-old approach to the Arab-Israeli conflict as outlined by the U.S. acting ambassador to the UN earlier in the day.
“For the first time, President Biden’s administration has officially expressed its position toward the peace process and the two-state solution,” said PA Minister of Social Development Ahmed Majdalani.
“We believe that this position constitutes an important positive step on the road to restoring U.S.-Palestinian bilateral relations and opens the door wide to restore the peace process within the framework of multilateral international sponsorship.”
Majdalani also noted that the new American administration had quietly told the PA that it rejected former president Trump’s peace plan, which had been hailed in Israel as a workable basis for negotiations with the Palestinians, but which the PA had vetoed out of hand.
“There are channels of communication between the Palestinian Authority and Biden’s staff, and it’s now possible to get relations with the U.S. back on track after important indications were received regarding the removal of the Deal of the Century off the table,” he said.
Speaking at the monthly UN Security Council meeting on the Middle East, Richard Mills had stressed the importance of “renewing U.S. relations with the Palestinian leadership” and reinstating American aid as part of confidence-building measures to encourage negotiations toward a two-state solution.
He had also welcomed the idea of working towards this end with a broad array of actors, including the Quartet, which consists of the U.S., Russia, the UN and the EU.
The Trump administration, seeing the failure of earlier attempts to bring about Mideast peace deals, decided to act alone and enjoyed remarkable success, convincing four Muslim countries to normalize relations with Israel. The PA considered these deals as a betrayal of its cause, as for decades the Arab world had said that it would not recognize Israel until negotiations were concluded with a Palestinian state.
Palestinian government spokesman Ibrahim Milhem, quoted in Saudi Arabia-based Arab News, said President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh “welcomed” Mills’ words.
Miilhem then used the same carrot-and-stick line that the PA has used for decades regarding the peace process.
“We are ready to resume diplomatic negotiations with Israel, with the help of international parties, based on international laws and UN resolutions,” he said. “Any solution, however, that does not take into account Palestinian rights as enshrined by international laws and UN agreements will fail.”
The Palestinians are also pushing for another international peace conference, which Abbas had called for at the opening of the UN General Assembly last September.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov backed the idea at Tuesday’s UNSC meeting, proposing “an international, ministerial-level meeting in spring-summer 2021.” He said it should include Israel, the PA, the Quartet, Saudi Arabia, and four Arab states that have diplomatic relations with Israel: Egypt, Jordan, Bahrain and the UAE.
Former U.S. Ambassador to the UN Kelly Craft had said in reaction to Abbas’ call for a conference that the Trump administration had “no objection to meeting with international partners to discuss the issue. But I have to ask, how is this different than every other meeting convened on this issue over the past 60 years?”
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"PA gloats as Biden teams returns to old peace formula: The deal of the century is dead\nPalestinian minister says that the PA had received assurances that the “Deal of the Century” has been taken off the table.\nBy Batya Jerenberg, World Israel News\nThe Palestinian Authority (PA) reacted with relief Tuesday to the Biden administration’s new-old approach to the Arab-Israeli conflict as outlined by the U.S. acting ambassador to the UN earlier in the day.\n“For the first time, President Biden’s administration has officially expressed its position toward the peace process and the two-state solution,” said PA Minister of Social Development Ahmed Majdalani.\n“We believe that this position constitutes an important positive step on the road to restoring U.S.-Palestinian bilateral relations and opens the door wide to restore the peace process within the framework of multilateral international sponsorship.”\nMajdalani also noted that the new American administration had quietly told the PA that it rejected former president Trump’s peace plan, which had been hailed in Israel as a workable basis for negotiations with the Palestinians, but which the PA had vetoed out of hand.\n“There are channels of communication between the Palestinian Authority and Biden’s staff, and it’s now possible to get relations with the U.S. back on track after important indications were received regarding the removal of the Deal of the Century off the table,” he said.\nSpeaking at the monthly UN Security Council meeting on the Middle East, Richard Mills had stressed the importance of “renewing U.S. relations with the Palestinian leadership” and reinstating American aid as part of confidence-building measures to encourage negotiations toward a two-state solution.\nHe had also welcomed the idea of working towards this end with a broad array of actors, including the Quartet, which consists of the U.S., Russia, the UN and the EU.\nThe Trump administration, seeing the failure of earlier attempts to bring about Mideast peace deals, decided to act alone and enjoyed remarkable success, convincing four Muslim countries to normalize relations with Israel. The PA considered these deals as a betrayal of its cause, as for decades the Arab world had said that it would not recognize Israel until negotiations were concluded with a Palestinian state.\nPalestinian government spokesman Ibrahim Milhem, quoted in Saudi Arabia-based Arab News, said President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh “welcomed” Mills’ words.\nMiilhem then used the same carrot-and-stick line that the PA has used for decades regarding the peace process.\n“We are ready to resume diplomatic negotiations with Israel, with the help of international parties, based on international laws and UN resolutions,” he said. “Any solution, however, that does not take into account Palestinian rights as enshrined by international laws and UN agreements will fail.”\nThe Palestinians are also pushing for another international peace conference, which Abbas had called for at the opening of the UN General Assembly last September.\nRussian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov backed the idea at Tuesday’s UNSC meeting, proposing “an international, ministerial-level meeting in spring-summer 2021.” He said it should include Israel, the PA, the Quartet, Saudi Arabia, and four Arab states that have diplomatic relations with Israel: Egypt, Jordan, Bahrain and the UAE.\nFormer U.S. Ambassador to the UN Kelly Craft had said in reaction to Abbas’ call for a conference that the Trump administration had “no objection to meeting with international partners to discuss the issue. But I have to ask, how is this different than every other meeting convened on this issue over the past 60 years?”",
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WATCH: 25,000 National Guard soldiers to secure Capitol ahead of inauguration
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Israeli students are fed courses funded by foreign countries, the report says. (Flash90/Chen Leopold)
One course funded by the U.S. is an interactive site called Switch, which features Arabs and Jews in Israel trading identities. It ends with the Israeli choosing not to serve in the IDF.
By Lauren Marcus, World Israel News
Foreign governments are funding millions of dollars’ worth of educational programming and teacher training in Israel each year, revealed a report from Israel’s Channel 20 on Sunday.
The report alleges that over the last decade, European states and the American government donated substantial sums of money to developing and promoting educational content which reaches Israeli schools, via NGOs operating in the Jewish state and seminars for educators.
The curriculum and courses funded by foreign sources often promote liberal, left-wing causes that are likely at odds with the values publicly stated by Israel’s Education Ministry.
According to the Channel 20 report, the American government has contributed some 14 million shekels (about $4 million) to NGOs the Haviva Fund and Abraham Initiative.
One course funded by the U.S. is an interactive site called Switch, which features an Arab and Jewish Israeli trading identities.
The Jewish Israeli learns about Israel’s War of Independence from the perspective of an Arab, and at the end of the experiment, decides to forgo serving in a combat unit in the army.
Between 2014 and 2019, the European Union donated some 10 million shekels ($3 million) to the Midreshet Adam and Association for Civil Rights.
These organizations, the report says, promote educational programs that describe the Holocaust as a universal genocide, rather than a uniquely Jewish tragedy, and suggest that the suffering of Gazans and Israeli residents of Sderot are comparable.
Germany, Canada, and the Netherlands also donated millions of shekels to NGOs dedicated to promoting left-wing causes in Israel’s educational system, according to the report.
A May 2020 report by Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs warned that funds donated to Palestinian aid organizations, from both state sources and private donors, are used to support terrorism.
The report came on the heels of an announcement by the European Union that it will continue funding Palestinian nonprofits, even if said nonprofits have links to terrorist organizations.
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Israel’s Defense Minister said the nation currently needs to purchase another squadron of stealth F-35 warplanes from the United States.
By Ebin Sandler, World Israel News
On Monday, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz said that Israel should purchase another batch of F-35s fighter jets, which would be the nation’s third squadron of the stealth warplanes.
Israel purchases the aircraft from the United States, and Gantz expressed hope that an agreement for the planes could be concluded while President Donald Trump remains in office. He is set to step down on January 20.
With the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on the verge of acquiring its own fleet of F-35s, Israel is pursuing strategies to maintain its qualitative military edge in the Middle East.
The Trump administration signaled willingness in 2020 to sell F-35s to the UAE, which concluded a peace agreement with Israel last year as part of the Abraham Accords.
In addition to the UAE, Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco also signed on to establish diplomatic relations with Israel as part of the accords, widely viewed as one of the crowning achievements of Trump and senior advisor Jared Kushner.
Speculation is currently running high that Saudi Arabia will be the next Muslim country in the Mideast to sign a deal with Israel.
Prior to the Abraham Accords, the U.S. appeared unwilling to permit other allies in the region to purchase F-35s.
While Israel and its new Arab allies have touted benefits related to trade, technology, and tourism, the Abraham Accords also appear designed to forge a unified front against Iran, which operates terror proxies in Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, and the Gaza Strip.
Iran is also believed to be behind attacks in Saudi Arabia and recently captured a South Korean tanker in the Persian Gulf. Analysts believe the Islamic Republic is holding the ship hostage to force South Korea to disgorge $7 billion in funds frozen due to tightening economic sanctions imposed by the Trump administration.
In addition to sponsoring and training terror groups, developing ballistic missiles, and perpetuating civil war in Yemen and Syria, Iran is suspected of developing nuclear weapons.
Israel produced credible evidence in 2018 of Iran’s nuclear ambitions, which Jerusalem says has been confirmed by Iran’s announcement this week it is enriching uranium to 20% in breach of the 2015 nuclear pact.
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The New York Times has placed Iran — but not Israel — on its list of “52 Places to Love in 2021.”
By Ira Stoll, Algemeiner
“People see Iran as politically charged and oppressive. But there is a lot of beauty and innocence,” the Times-chosen item on Isfahan explains, sounding like the tourist promotion authority for the terror-sponsoring, genocide-intending, nuclear-bomb-building Islamic Republic. One excellent reason that “people see Iran” as oppressive, after all, is that it is oppressive.
The annual feature is usually called “52 Places to Go,” but the headline was reworked for the pandemic, which has restricted travel. The paper narrowed down the list from what it said were 2,000 reader submissions.
The reader who submitted the Isfahan item, Neeknaz Abari, wrote, “There’s a difference between the people and the government. I wish Americans could see the vibrant curiosity of the people who live here. I used to visit Isfahan every year. I spent long mornings lifting weights in the women-only gyms, and afternoons with my grandfather, watching him lovingly watering the plants in his garden and shooing away stray cats. But divisive politics, and now Covid-19, have made it harder.”
“Divisive politics” is a euphemism for what a Times op-ed published this week accurately describes as Iran’s “appalling campaign of kidnapping and execution, its policy of using arrested dual nationals as hostages.”
A Times news article this week also acknowledged that “Al Qaeda’s second-in-command, Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, who went by the nom de guerre Abu Muhammad al-Masri, was assassinated in Tehran in August.” Said the Times news article, “It is true that Iran has consistently and unconvincingly denied housing Qaeda officials.”
It is certainly accurate, at least, that there is a difference between the Iranian people and the Iranian government.
The last time the Times put Iran on its “52 Places” list, in 2019, the travel journalist the newspaper hired to visit all 52 places eventually had to concede it was too dangerous to go there: “in consulting with security experts, the risks of deportation or detention are just too high.”
The Times itself was charging up to $135,000 apiece for luxury “Times Journey” tours that included stops in Iran and Havana and an “exclusive brunch” with the paper’s then-publisher, Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr. For a lower price, the paper ran tours of Iran chaperoned by Times journalists. The paper finally suspended the trips in 2018 under pressure.
Ira Stoll was managing editor of The Forward and North American editor of The Jerusalem Post. His media critique, a regular Algemeiner feature, can be found here.
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After being banned from Twitter, Trump is reportedly turning to the Parler app, but may eventually launch his own platform.
By Associated Press
One Twitter wag joked about lights flickering on and off at the White House being Donald Trump signaling to his followers in Morse code after Twitter and Facebook squelched the president for inciting rebellion.
Though deprived of his big online megaphones, Trump does have alternative options of much smaller reach. The far right-friendly Parler may be the leading candidate, though Google and Apple have both removed it from their app stores and Amazon decided to boot it off its web hosting service. That could knock it offline for a week, Parler’s CEO said.
Trump may launch his own platform. But that won’t happen overnight, and free speech experts anticipate growing pressure on all social media platforms to curb incendiary speech as Americans take stock of Wednesday’s violent takeover of the U.S. Capitol by a mob.
Twitter ended Trump’s nearly 12-year run on Friday. In shuttering his account it cited a tweet to his 89 million followers that he planned to skip President-elect Joe Biden’s Jan. 20 inauguration that it said gave rioters license to converge on Washington once again.
Facebook and Instagram have suspended Trump at least until Inauguration Day. Twitch and Snapchat also have disabled Trump’s accounts, while Shopify took down online stores affiliated with the president and Reddit removed a Trump subgroup.
Twitter also banned Trump loyalists including former national security advisor Michael Flynn in a sweeping purge of accounts promoting the QAnon conspiracy theory and the Capitol insurrection. Some had hundreds of thousands of followers.
In a statement Friday, Trump said: “We have been negotiating with various other sites, and will have a big announcement soon, while we also look at the possibilities of building out our own platform in the near future.”
Experts had predicted Trump might pop up on Parler, a 2-year-old magnet for the far right that claims more than 12 million users and where his sons Eric and Don Jr. are already active.
Parler hit headwinds, though, on Friday as Google yanked its smartphone app from its app store for allowing postings that seek “to incite ongoing violence in the U.S.” Apple followed suit on Saturday evening after giving Parler 24 hours to address complaints it was being used to “plan and facilitate yet further illegal and dangerous activities.”
Public safety issues will need to be resolved before it is restored, Apple said.
Amazon struck another blow Saturday, informing Parler it would need to look for a new web-hosting service effective midnight Sunday. It reminded Parler in a letter, first reported by Buzzfeed, that it had informed it in the past few weeks of 98 examples of posts “that clearly encourage and incite violence” and said the platform “poses a very real risk to public safety.”
Parler CEO John Matze decried the punishments as “a coordinated attack by the tech giants to kill competition in the marketplace. We were too successful too fast,” he said in a Saturday night post, saying it was possible Parler would be unavailable for up to a week “as we rebuild from scratch.”
Earlier, Matze complained of being scapegoated. “Standards not applied to Twitter, Facebook or even Apple themselves, apply to Parler.” He said he “won’t cave to politically motivated companies and those authoritarians who hate free speech.”
Losing access to the app stores of Google and Apple — whose operating systems power hundreds of millions of smartphones — severely limits Parler’s reach, though it will continue to be accessible via web browser. Losing Amazon Web Services will mean Parler needs to scramble to find another web host — in addition to the re-engineering.
Gab is another potential landing spot for Trump. But it, too, has had troubles with internet hosting. Google and Apple both booted it from their app stores in 2017 and it was left internet-homeless for a time the following year due to anti-Semitic posts attributed to the man accused of killing 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue. Microsoft also terminated a web-hosting contract.
Online speech experts expect social media companies led by Facebook, Twitter and Google’s YouTube to more vigorously police hate speech and incitement in the wake of the Capitol rebellion, as Western democracies led by Nazism-haunted Germany already do.
David Kaye, a University of California-Irvine law professor and former U.N. special rapporteur on free speech believes the Parlers of the world will also face pressure from the public and law enforcement as will little-known sites where further pre-inauguration disruption is now apparently being organized. They include MeWe, Wimkin, TheDonald.win and Stormfront, according to a report released Saturday by The Alethea Group, which tracks disinformation.
Former U.N. ambassador, Nikki Haley commented that the Trump ban savaged the First Amendment, which prohibits the government from restricting free expression.
“Silencing people, not to mention the President of the US, is what happens in China not our country,” Haley tweeted.
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But that won’t happen overnight, and free speech experts anticipate growing pressure on all social media platforms to curb incendiary speech as Americans take stock of Wednesday’s violent takeover of the U.S. Capitol by a mob.\nTwitter ended Trump’s nearly 12-year run on Friday. In shuttering his account it cited a tweet to his 89 million followers that he planned to skip President-elect Joe Biden’s Jan. 20 inauguration that it said gave rioters license to converge on Washington once again.\nFacebook and Instagram have suspended Trump at least until Inauguration Day. Twitch and Snapchat also have disabled Trump’s accounts, while Shopify took down online stores affiliated with the president and Reddit removed a Trump subgroup.\nTwitter also banned Trump loyalists including former national security advisor Michael Flynn in a sweeping purge of accounts promoting the QAnon conspiracy theory and the Capitol insurrection. Some had hundreds of thousands of followers.\nIn a statement Friday, Trump said: “We have been negotiating with various other sites, and will have a big announcement soon, while we also look at the possibilities of building out our own platform in the near future.”\nExperts had predicted Trump might pop up on Parler, a 2-year-old magnet for the far right that claims more than 12 million users and where his sons Eric and Don Jr. are already active.\nParler hit headwinds, though, on Friday as Google yanked its smartphone app from its app store for allowing postings that seek “to incite ongoing violence in the U.S.” Apple followed suit on Saturday evening after giving Parler 24 hours to address complaints it was being used to “plan and facilitate yet further illegal and dangerous activities.”\nPublic safety issues will need to be resolved before it is restored, Apple said.\nAmazon struck another blow Saturday, informing Parler it would need to look for a new web-hosting service effective midnight Sunday. It reminded Parler in a letter, first reported by Buzzfeed, that it had informed it in the past few weeks of 98 examples of posts “that clearly encourage and incite violence” and said the platform “poses a very real risk to public safety.”\nParler CEO John Matze decried the punishments as “a coordinated attack by the tech giants to kill competition in the marketplace. We were too successful too fast,” he said in a Saturday night post, saying it was possible Parler would be unavailable for up to a week “as we rebuild from scratch.”\nEarlier, Matze complained of being scapegoated. “Standards not applied to Twitter, Facebook or even Apple themselves, apply to Parler.” He said he “won’t cave to politically motivated companies and those authoritarians who hate free speech.”\nLosing access to the app stores of Google and Apple — whose operating systems power hundreds of millions of smartphones — severely limits Parler’s reach, though it will continue to be accessible via web browser. Losing Amazon Web Services will mean Parler needs to scramble to find another web host — in addition to the re-engineering.\nGab is another potential landing spot for Trump. But it, too, has had troubles with internet hosting. Google and Apple both booted it from their app stores in 2017 and it was left internet-homeless for a time the following year due to anti-Semitic posts attributed to the man accused of killing 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue. Microsoft also terminated a web-hosting contract.\nOnline speech experts expect social media companies led by Facebook, Twitter and Google’s YouTube to more vigorously police hate speech and incitement in the wake of the Capitol rebellion, as Western democracies led by Nazism-haunted Germany already do.\nDavid Kaye, a University of California-Irvine law professor and former U.N. special rapporteur on free speech believes the Parlers of the world will also face pressure from the public and law enforcement as will little-known sites where further pre-inauguration disruption is now apparently being organized. They include MeWe, Wimkin, TheDonald.win and Stormfront, according to a report released Saturday by The Alethea Group, which tracks disinformation.\nFormer U.N. ambassador, Nikki Haley commented that the Trump ban savaged the First Amendment, which prohibits the government from restricting free expression.\n“Silencing people, not to mention the President of the US, is what happens in China not our country,” Haley tweeted.",
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Israel and U.S. vote against budget, citing funding of programs that are anti-Israel and anti-Semitic.
By Paul Shindman, World Israel News
Israel and the United States were the only two countries that voted Thursday against the United Nations 2021 budget, with the U.S. calling it “outrageous” that the world body was funding “anti-Semitism, anti-Israel bias, and hostility toward freedom of expression.”
Both nations objected to items in the $3.2 billion budget that set aside funds to mark the 20th anniversary of what Israeli Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan called “the disgraceful and anti-Semitic Durban Conference.”
“Far too often UN member states abandon principle for expediency and integrity for consensus,” tweeted U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Kelly Craft. “The budget adopted today reflects that trend by including funding to celebrate the Durban Declaration, extending a shameful legacy of hate, anti-Semitism & anti-Israel bias.”
“Twenty years on, there remains nothing about the Durban Declaration to celebrate or to endorse. It is poisoned,” Craft said.
Held in 2001 in the South African city of Durban, the UN World Conference Against Racism was described afterwards by international human rights lawyer Irwin Cotler as “a conference of racism against Israel and the Jewish people.” Led by an anti-Israel voting block, the conference passed resolutions that singled out Israel “as being a meta-violator of human rights and as the new anti-Christ of our time,” Cotler said.
Both Israel and the U.S. have repeatedly called for reforms in the UN to bring to an end the anti-Israel bias marked by repeatedly singling out Israel for condemnation.
“Over the last 20 years, the United States has consistently opposed the corrosive Durban process. We call on all UN member states to seek new means to address constructively and inclusively the challenge of racism and racial discrimination,” the U.S. State Department said in a statement. “In particular, it is outrageous that the UN will fund in 2021 an event to promote the objectives of the Durban Declaration – a document saturated with anti-Semitism, anti-Israel bias, and hostility toward freedom of expression.”
“The United Nations should never serve as a platform for those determined to divide and diminish, but sadly that is all too often the case. For our part, we will continue to hold the United Nations to a higher standard,” the State Department said.
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The government-backed Association Mimouna of Morocco has worked toward greater local understanding of Jews since 2007.
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A government-backed Moroccan NGO signed the second deal ever made in the Arab world with the United States to fight anti-Semitism and promote peaceful coexistence with Israel on Friday.
The Association Mimouna of Morocco and the State Department’s Office to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism agreed to cooperate in targeting “all forms of antisemitism, including anti-Zionism and the delegitimization of the State of Israel” in an official Memorandum of Understanding (MOU).
The ceremony was conducted over Zoom, with America’s czar on anti-Semitism, Elan Carr, signing for the United States in what may be his last act as a member of the departing Trump administration.
He called the MOU a “historic agreement,” because it formally espoused the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) definition of anti-Semitism, and praised the Association Mimouna for being “transformative in its work.”
The association is a cultural non-profit established in 2007 by young Muslim students dedicated to promoting and preserving Moroccan Jewish heritage, as its website explains. It started by designing activities for high school and university students to educate them about the centuries-old Jewish life in the country, “to reclaim the cultural diversity of Morocco through its history.”
In 2011, it organized the first conference on the Holocaust in the Arab world, to highlight the courage of the late King Mohamed V, who refused to hand over his country’s Jews to the Vichy occupation authorities. In 2012, it was also the first to bring a group of young Arab Muslims to see Israel for themselves. It has since created a Holocaust curriculum, the first one “by and for Muslims,” explained the Association’s president, Elmehdi Boudra.
Moroccan ambassador to the U.S. Princess Lalla Joumala made it clear that her government wholeheartedly supports the MOU, signed less than a month after Rabat and Jerusalem announced the full normalization of ties between the two countries.
“This new partnership is both timely and welcome as it extends the government of Morocco’s firm commitment to combating antisemitism, Islamophobia and all forms of hatred to the civil society sector, aptly represented here by Association Mimouna of Morocco,” she said in a statement.
“The MOU also reinforces the deep and longstanding partnership between our two countries in the fight against all forms of intolerance and the promotion of peace and mutual coexistence. It is an unwavering engagement spearheaded by His Majesty King Mohammed VI, who leads by example and upholds the proud heritage of tolerance perpetuated by his forefathers.”
In another historic first for an Arab state, Morocco’s Education Ministry added Jewish history and culture lessons to the sixth grade curriculum for the upcoming 2021 term even before it became the fourth country after the UAE, Bahrain and Sudan to normalize relations with Israel late last year.
In October 2020, Carr signed a similar Memorandum of Understanding with the King Hamad Global Center for Peaceful Coexistence in Bahrain, which is backed by the monarchy. It was the first time that an Arab country had even indirectly promoted the idea of combatting anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism.
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Iranian official: IDF chief of staff’s talk is empty, Israel has ‘no ability’ to attack us.
By Paul Shindman, World Israel News
Senior Iranian officials responded Wednesday to a statement by the head of the IDF that Israel is preparing military contingency plans to deal with Iran’s nuclear ambitions, saying “that Israelis keep talking all the time but can’t do anything against Iran.”
“Israel is not in a position to issue a threat against Iran,” said Iran’s First Vice President, Es’haq Jahangiri, in comments reported by the Tehran Times.
On Tuesday, IDF chief of staff Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi said Israel would not accept a U.S. return to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal by the Biden administration and that he had “ordered the IDF to prepare a number of operational plans.”
In Tehran, the chief of staff to Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said that Israelis keep talking all the time but can’t do anything against the Islamic Republic.
“Our people and the people of the region both are familiar with the rhetoric of the Zionist regime’s officials,” Mahmoud Vaezi told Iran’s ISNA news agency. “They have virtually no plan and no ability to do so.”
“I think the new U.S. administration is independent like other countries and that this Zionist regime’s rhetoric is psychological warfare,” Vaezi said, adding he thought that the U.S. may return to the Iran nuclear deal, but that Israel and Saudi Arabia are working to make sure that that won’t happen.
“Saudi Arabia and the Zionist regime are lobbying in Washington but we should not take that seriously,” Vaezi said.
Last month, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu congratulated President Joe Biden on his inauguration and said that Israel and the Arab states, six of which now have peace agreements with Israel, had shared concerns over Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
“I look forward to working with you to further strengthen the U.S.-Israel alliance, to continue expanding peace between Israel and the Arab world and to confront common challenges, chief among them the threat posed by Iran,” Netanyahu said.
While Kochavi echoed Israel’s position that it rejected an American return to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal without major changes to stop Iran’s nuclear program, Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said there was no way the Iranians would agree to make any changes or concessions in order to renew the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) that President Donald Trump withdrew from in 2018.
“Why on earth should Iran – a country that stood firm & defeated 4 years of a brutal US economic terrorism imposed in violation of JCPOA & UNSC Resolution – show goodwill gesture first?” Zarif tweeted Wednesday, putting the ball in Biden’s lap. “It was the U.S. that broke the deal – for no reason. It must remedy its wrong; then Iran will respond.”
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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., leads the final vote of the impeachment of President Donald Trump, Jan. 13, 2021. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)
With the Capitol secured by armed National Guard troops inside and out, the House voted 232-197 to impeach Trump.
By Associated Press
President Donald Trump was impeached by the U.S. House for a historic second time Wednesday, charged with “incitement of insurrection” over the deadly mob siege of the Capitol in a swift and stunning collapse of his final days in office.
With the Capitol secured by armed National Guard troops inside and out, the House voted 232-197 to impeach Trump. The proceedings moved at lightning speed, with lawmakers voting just one week after pro-Trump loyalists stormed the U.S. Capitol.
Ten Republicans fled Trump, joining Democrats who said he needed to be held accountable and warned ominously of a “clear and present danger” if Congress should leave him unchecked before Democrat Joe Biden’s inauguration Jan. 20.
Trump is the only U.S. president to be twice impeached. It was the most bipartisan presidential impeachment in modern times, more so than against Bill Clinton in 1998.
The Capitol insurrection stunned and angered lawmakers, who were sent scrambling for safety as the mob descended, and it revealed the fragility of the nation’s history of peaceful transfers of power.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi invoked Abraham Lincoln and the Bible, imploring lawmakers to uphold their oath to defend the Constitution from all enemies, foreign “and domestic.”
She said of Trump: “He must go, he is a clear and present danger to the nation that we all love.”
Holed up at the White House, watching the proceedings on TV, Trump took no responsibility for the bloody riot seen around the world, but issued a statement urging “NO violence, NO lawbreaking and NO vandalism of any kind” to disrupt Biden’s ascension to the White House.
In the face of the accusations against him and with the FBI warning of more violence, Trump said, “That is not what I stand for, and it is not what America stands for. I call on ALL Americans to help ease tensions and calm tempers.”
Trump was first impeached by the House in 2019 over his dealings with Ukraine, but the Senate voted in 2020 to acquit. He is the first to be impeached twice. None has been convicted by the Senate, but Republicans said Wednesday that could change in the rapidly shifting political environment as officeholders, donors, big business and others peel away from the defeated president.
The soonest Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell would start an impeachment trial is next Tuesday, the day before Trump is already set to leave the White House, McConnell’s office said. The legislation is also intended to prevent Trump from ever running again.
McConnell believes Trump committed impeachable offenses and considers the Democrats’ impeachment drive an opportunity to reduce the divisive, chaotic president’s hold on the GOP, a Republican strategist told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
McConnell told major donors over the weekend that he was through with Trump, said the strategist, who demanded anonymity to describe McConnell’s conversations.
In a note to colleagues Wednesday, McConnell said he had “not made a final decision on how I will vote.”
Unlike his first time, Trump faces this impeachment as a weakened leader, having lost his own reelection as well as the Senate Republican majority.
Even Trump ally Kevin McCarthy, the House Republican leader, shifted his position and said Wednesday the president bears responsibility for the horrifying day at the Capitol.
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"Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., leads the final vote of the impeachment of President Donald Trump, Jan. 13, 2021. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)\nWith the Capitol secured by armed National Guard troops inside and out, the House voted 232-197 to impeach Trump.\nBy Associated Press\nPresident Donald Trump was impeached by the U.S. House for a historic second time Wednesday, charged with “incitement of insurrection” over the deadly mob siege of the Capitol in a swift and stunning collapse of his final days in office.\nWith the Capitol secured by armed National Guard troops inside and out, the House voted 232-197 to impeach Trump. The proceedings moved at lightning speed, with lawmakers voting just one week after pro-Trump loyalists stormed the U.S. Capitol.\nTen Republicans fled Trump, joining Democrats who said he needed to be held accountable and warned ominously of a “clear and present danger” if Congress should leave him unchecked before Democrat Joe Biden’s inauguration Jan. 20.\nTrump is the only U.S. president to be twice impeached. It was the most bipartisan presidential impeachment in modern times, more so than against Bill Clinton in 1998.\nThe Capitol insurrection stunned and angered lawmakers, who were sent scrambling for safety as the mob descended, and it revealed the fragility of the nation’s history of peaceful transfers of power.\nHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi invoked Abraham Lincoln and the Bible, imploring lawmakers to uphold their oath to defend the Constitution from all enemies, foreign “and domestic.”\nShe said of Trump: “He must go, he is a clear and present danger to the nation that we all love.”\nHoled up at the White House, watching the proceedings on TV, Trump took no responsibility for the bloody riot seen around the world, but issued a statement urging “NO violence, NO lawbreaking and NO vandalism of any kind” to disrupt Biden’s ascension to the White House.\nIn the face of the accusations against him and with the FBI warning of more violence, Trump said, “That is not what I stand for, and it is not what America stands for. I call on ALL Americans to help ease tensions and calm tempers.”\nTrump was first impeached by the House in 2019 over his dealings with Ukraine, but the Senate voted in 2020 to acquit. He is the first to be impeached twice. None has been convicted by the Senate, but Republicans said Wednesday that could change in the rapidly shifting political environment as officeholders, donors, big business and others peel away from the defeated president.\nThe soonest Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell would start an impeachment trial is next Tuesday, the day before Trump is already set to leave the White House, McConnell’s office said. The legislation is also intended to prevent Trump from ever running again.\nMcConnell believes Trump committed impeachable offenses and considers the Democrats’ impeachment drive an opportunity to reduce the divisive, chaotic president’s hold on the GOP, a Republican strategist told The Associated Press on Wednesday.\nMcConnell told major donors over the weekend that he was through with Trump, said the strategist, who demanded anonymity to describe McConnell’s conversations.\nIn a note to colleagues Wednesday, McConnell said he had “not made a final decision on how I will vote.”\nUnlike his first time, Trump faces this impeachment as a weakened leader, having lost his own reelection as well as the Senate Republican majority.\nEven Trump ally Kevin McCarthy, the House Republican leader, shifted his position and said Wednesday the president bears responsibility for the horrifying day at the Capitol.",
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Israel delivers 2nd Iron Dome battery to US, completing deal
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The deal called for the delivery of two Iron Dome batteries.
By Aryeh Savir, TPS
Israel’s Ministry of Defense delivered the second of two Iron Dome Defense System batteries to the U.S. Army over the weekend, completing an agreement with the U.S.
In August 2019, the U.S. and Israel signed an agreement for the procurement of two Iron Dome Defense System batteries (IDDS-A).
The first battery was delivered in September and is already undergoing a process of implementation in the U.S. The second battery was delivered in accordance with the agreement and project schedule.
These batteries will be employed in the defense of U.S. troops against a variety of ballistic and aerial threats.
The systems transferred to the U.S. include some minor modifications. A series of experiments and demonstrations were conducted at the White Sands experimental field in the US prior to the transfer of the systems.
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz stated that “the delivery of the Iron Dome to the U.S. Army once again demonstrates the close relations between the Israel Ministry of Defense and the U.S. Department of Defense, the effectiveness of the system against various threats, and the excellent technological capabilities of Israeli industries.”
He expressed confidence that “the system will assist the U.S. Army in protecting American troops from ballistic and airborne threats as well as from developing threats in the areas where US troops are deployed on various missions.”
The prime contractor for the development and production of the Iron Dome is Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. The MMR radar is developed by ELTA, a subsidiary of Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), and the command and control system (BMC), is developed by mPrest.
Developed in 2007 by Israel’s Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and deployed by the Israeli Air Force in 2011, the Iron Dome system will complete a decade of operations in the coming year with more than 2,400 operational interceptions with a high 90% success rate that probably saved hundreds of Israeli lives.
The Iron Dome, which is designed for short-range interceptions, is part of Israel’s multi-layer defense system, which includes four operational defense layers: the Iron Dome system, the Magic Wand system, designed to contend with mid-range missiles, and the Arrow 2 and Arrow 3 systems, developed for long-range threats.
They provide a defense against a wide array of ballistic projectiles, with eyes on the Iranian ballistic threat and those presented by the Hezbollah terror organization from Lebanon and Hamas and Islamic Jihad from Gaza.
In 2018, the Iron Dome system was voted Israel’s all-time top innovation in a competition organized by the Ministry of Economy in honor of Israel’s 70th Yom Ha’atzmaut (Independence Day) celebrations.
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"The deal called for the delivery of two Iron Dome batteries.\nBy Aryeh Savir, TPS\nIsrael’s Ministry of Defense delivered the second of two Iron Dome Defense System batteries to the U.S. Army over the weekend, completing an agreement with the U.S.\nIn August 2019, the U.S. and Israel signed an agreement for the procurement of two Iron Dome Defense System batteries (IDDS-A).\nThe first battery was delivered in September and is already undergoing a process of implementation in the U.S. The second battery was delivered in accordance with the agreement and project schedule.\nThese batteries will be employed in the defense of U.S. troops against a variety of ballistic and aerial threats.\nThe systems transferred to the U.S. include some minor modifications. A series of experiments and demonstrations were conducted at the White Sands experimental field in the US prior to the transfer of the systems.\nIsraeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz stated that “the delivery of the Iron Dome to the U.S. Army once again demonstrates the close relations between the Israel Ministry of Defense and the U.S. Department of Defense, the effectiveness of the system against various threats, and the excellent technological capabilities of Israeli industries.”\nHe expressed confidence that “the system will assist the U.S. Army in protecting American troops from ballistic and airborne threats as well as from developing threats in the areas where US troops are deployed on various missions.”\nThe prime contractor for the development and production of the Iron Dome is Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. The MMR radar is developed by ELTA, a subsidiary of Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), and the command and control system (BMC), is developed by mPrest.\nDeveloped in 2007 by Israel’s Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and deployed by the Israeli Air Force in 2011, the Iron Dome system will complete a decade of operations in the coming year with more than 2,400 operational interceptions with a high 90% success rate that probably saved hundreds of Israeli lives.\nThe Iron Dome, which is designed for short-range interceptions, is part of Israel’s multi-layer defense system, which includes four operational defense layers: the Iron Dome system, the Magic Wand system, designed to contend with mid-range missiles, and the Arrow 2 and Arrow 3 systems, developed for long-range threats.\nThey provide a defense against a wide array of ballistic projectiles, with eyes on the Iranian ballistic threat and those presented by the Hezbollah terror organization from Lebanon and Hamas and Islamic Jihad from Gaza.\nIn 2018, the Iron Dome system was voted Israel’s all-time top innovation in a competition organized by the Ministry of Economy in honor of Israel’s 70th Yom Ha’atzmaut (Independence Day) celebrations.",
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Zaher Ghanem, recently released from Israeli prison after an 18-year sentence, told Palestinian Authority TV on December 27, 2020 that Israel might use the pretext of Covid-19 to poison prisoners “with blood on their hands.”
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Millionth Israeli vaccine recipient wasn't a murderer after all, embarrassed Hebrew news site says
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Prime Minister Netanyahu visits the millionth person to receive the coronavirus vaccine in the Arab town of Umm el-Fahm, Jan. 1, 2021. (GPO/Haim Zach)
It turns out the man was actually a convicted robber.
By Josh Plank, World Israel News
Kan public broadcasting retracted its claim and apologized for reporting on Sunday that Israel’s millionth coronavirus vaccine recipient had been convicted of a double homicide. World Israel News cited the Kan report and also apologizes.
According to Kan‘s corrected report, 66-year-old Muhammad Abd al-Wahhab Jabarin had actually served 14 years for armed robbery and weapons charges with his last prison term ending in 1999.
“However, we think it was important to broadcast the essential details: a man who has served a lengthy prison sentence for serious offenses stood near the prime minister without anyone around him knowing anything about the man and his past,” Kan reported.
Jabarin told Kan, “I paid my debt to society, and put all that behind me.”
“If people want to take on Netanyahu, they shouldn’t do it via me,” he said. Jabarin now says he’s voting for Netanyahu in the March elections.
Jabarin received Israel’s millionth dose of the coronavirus vaccine on Friday at a facility in the town of Umm Al-Fahm in northern Israel.
שמחתי לבקר באום אל פאחם לרגל החיסון המיליון בישראל. המגזר הערבי מצטרף לסיפור ההצלחה של ישראל! pic.twitter.com/Ob1Q9hkmCM — Benjamin Netanyahu (@netanyahu) January 2, 2021
Attending the vaccination were Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Health Minister Yuli Edelstein, Umm Al-Fahm Mayor Samir Sobhi Mahameed, Clalit Healthcare Services Chairman Harel Locker, and Maccabi Healthcare Services Chairman Ran Saar.
“What excitement, Jabarin is the millionth person in the State of Israel to be vaccinated. We are breaking all of the records,” said Netanyahu on Friday, using the opportunity to celebrate the extraordinary speed with which Israel is vaccinating its population against Covid-19.
“We are ahead of the entire world and now we are ahead of them with our excellent HMOs. We are moving forward at great speed in order to vaccinate the entire population. It is important to me also that the Arab population in the State of Israel be vaccinated quickly,” he said.
“We are all in this together. There is no difference between Jews and Arabs, religious and secular,” Edelstein said.
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"Prime Minister Netanyahu visits the millionth person to receive the coronavirus vaccine in the Arab town of Umm el-Fahm, Jan. 1, 2021. (GPO/Haim Zach)\nIt turns out the man was actually a convicted robber.\nBy Josh Plank, World Israel News\nKan public broadcasting retracted its claim and apologized for reporting on Sunday that Israel’s millionth coronavirus vaccine recipient had been convicted of a double homicide. World Israel News cited the Kan report and also apologizes.\nAccording to Kan‘s corrected report, 66-year-old Muhammad Abd al-Wahhab Jabarin had actually served 14 years for armed robbery and weapons charges with his last prison term ending in 1999.\n“However, we think it was important to broadcast the essential details: a man who has served a lengthy prison sentence for serious offenses stood near the prime minister without anyone around him knowing anything about the man and his past,” Kan reported.\nJabarin told Kan, “I paid my debt to society, and put all that behind me.”\n“If people want to take on Netanyahu, they shouldn’t do it via me,” he said. Jabarin now says he’s voting for Netanyahu in the March elections.\nJabarin received Israel’s millionth dose of the coronavirus vaccine on Friday at a facility in the town of Umm Al-Fahm in northern Israel.\nשמחתי לבקר באום אל פאחם לרגל החיסון המיליון בישראל. המגזר הערבי מצטרף לסיפור ההצלחה של ישראל! pic.twitter.com/Ob1Q9hkmCM — Benjamin Netanyahu (@netanyahu) January 2, 2021\nAttending the vaccination were Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Health Minister Yuli Edelstein, Umm Al-Fahm Mayor Samir Sobhi Mahameed, Clalit Healthcare Services Chairman Harel Locker, and Maccabi Healthcare Services Chairman Ran Saar.\n“What excitement, Jabarin is the millionth person in the State of Israel to be vaccinated. We are breaking all of the records,” said Netanyahu on Friday, using the opportunity to celebrate the extraordinary speed with which Israel is vaccinating its population against Covid-19.\n“We are ahead of the entire world and now we are ahead of them with our excellent HMOs. We are moving forward at great speed in order to vaccinate the entire population. It is important to me also that the Arab population in the State of Israel be vaccinated quickly,” he said.\n“We are all in this together. There is no difference between Jews and Arabs, religious and secular,” Edelstein said.",
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Justice Minister Nasredeen Abdulbari signed the accord Wednesday with visiting U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.
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Sudan on Wednesday said it signed the “Abraham Accords” with the U.S., paving the way for the African country to normalize ties with Israel.
A statement from the office of Sudan’s prime minister said Justice Minister Nasredeen Abdulbari signed the accord Wednesday with visiting U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.
The recent U.S.-negotiated deals between Arab countries and Israel have been a major foreign policy achievement by President Donald Trump’s administration.
The U.S. and Sudan on Wednesday agreed to settle the African’s country’s debt to the World Bank, widely seen as a key step toward the nation’s economic recovery after the 2019 overthrow of longtime autocrat Omar al-Bashir.
The move came during Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s visit to Khartoum, making him the first senior American official to land there since President Donald Trump’s administration removed the African country from the list of state sponsors of terrorism.
Mnuchin arrived at Khartoum’s international airport, where he was received by acting Finance Minister Heba Mohammed Ali, and U.S. Charge d’Affaires in Sudan Brian Shukan, the prime minister’s office said in a statement.
It is the first visit by a sitting U.S. treasury chief to Sudan, the statement said. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in August became the first top American diplomat to visit Sudan since 2005, when Condoleezza Rice visited. Pompeo was also the most senior U.S. official to visit the African country since last year’s ouster of al-Bashir.
Mnuchin’s visit came after a one-day-visit to Cairo, where he met with Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, a close U.S. ally. The stops are part of a flurry of activity during the final days of the Trump administration. Democrat Joe Biden becomes president on Jan. 20.
The U.S. treasury secretary met with Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, and is scheduled to meet with other Sudanese leaders including Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, head of the ruling sovereign council.
The visit came “at a time when our bilateral relations are taking historical leaps towards a better future. We’re planning to make tangible strides today as our relations enter a #NewEra,” Hamdok tweeted.
Mnuchin’s one-day visit focused on the country’s struggling economy and possible U.S. economic assistance, including debt relief, the statement said. Sudan today has more than $60 billion in foreign debt. Relief from its arrears and access to foreign loans are widely seen as its gateway to economic recovery.
Sudan’s Finance Ministry said it inked a “memorandum of understanding” with the U.S. Treasury Department to to facilitate the payment of Sudan’s arrears to the World Bank.
The ministry said the settlement would enable Sudan’s government to have more than $1 billion annually from the World Bank, for the first time in nearly three decades when Sudan was designated a pariah state. It did not provide further details.
The Justice Ministry, however, announced last month that the U.S. would pay a $1 billion bridge loan to the World Bank to help clear Sudan’s arrears with the institution, in addition to $1.1 billion direct and indirect aid from the U.S.
Sudan is on a fragile path to democracy after a popular uprising led the military to overthrow al-Bashir in April 2019. The county is now ruled by a joint military and civilian government that seeks better ties with Washington and the West.
The government has been struggling with a huge budget deficit and widespread shortages of essential goods, including fuel, bread and medicine.
Annual inflation soared past 200% in the past months as prices of bread and other staples surged, according to official figures.
Last month, Trump’s administration finalized the removal of Sudan from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism. The move was a key incentive for the government in Khartoum to normalize relations with Israel.
The two countries, Sudan and Israel, have agreed to have full diplomatic ties, making Sudan the third Arab state — after the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain — to move to normalize relations with Israel late last year. Morocco also established diplomatic ties with Israel.
Sudan’s economy has suffered from decades of U.S. sanctions and mismanagement under al-Bashir, who had ruled the country since a 1989 Islamist-backed military coup.
The designation dates back to the 1990s, when Sudan briefly hosted al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden and other wanted militants. Sudan was also believed to have served as a pipeline for Iran to supply weapons to Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip.
Mnuchin’s visit came amid rising tensions between military and civilian members of Sudan’s transitional government. That tensions, which resurfaced in recent weeks, have largely centered on the Sudanese military’s economic assets, over which the civilian-run Finance Ministry does not have control.
John Prendergast, co-founder of The Sentry watchdog group, urged The U.S. treasury secretary to pressure the military and security apparatus to allow “independent oversight” to businesses they control.
“As Secretary Mnuchin engages with the leadership in Khartoum, it is critical that he weighs in with strong support for international anti-money laundering standards and fiscal transparency, which are essential for Sudan to counter the looting of its national economy,” he said.
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"Justice Minister Nasredeen Abdulbari signed the accord Wednesday with visiting U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.\nBy Associated Press\nSudan on Wednesday said it signed the “Abraham Accords” with the U.S., paving the way for the African country to normalize ties with Israel.\nA statement from the office of Sudan’s prime minister said Justice Minister Nasredeen Abdulbari signed the accord Wednesday with visiting U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.\nThe recent U.S.-negotiated deals between Arab countries and Israel have been a major foreign policy achievement by President Donald Trump’s administration.\nThe U.S. and Sudan on Wednesday agreed to settle the African’s country’s debt to the World Bank, widely seen as a key step toward the nation’s economic recovery after the 2019 overthrow of longtime autocrat Omar al-Bashir.\nThe move came during Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s visit to Khartoum, making him the first senior American official to land there since President Donald Trump’s administration removed the African country from the list of state sponsors of terrorism.\nMnuchin arrived at Khartoum’s international airport, where he was received by acting Finance Minister Heba Mohammed Ali, and U.S. Charge d’Affaires in Sudan Brian Shukan, the prime minister’s office said in a statement.\nIt is the first visit by a sitting U.S. treasury chief to Sudan, the statement said. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in August became the first top American diplomat to visit Sudan since 2005, when Condoleezza Rice visited. Pompeo was also the most senior U.S. official to visit the African country since last year’s ouster of al-Bashir.\nMnuchin’s visit came after a one-day-visit to Cairo, where he met with Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, a close U.S. ally. The stops are part of a flurry of activity during the final days of the Trump administration. Democrat Joe Biden becomes president on Jan. 20.\nThe U.S. treasury secretary met with Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, and is scheduled to meet with other Sudanese leaders including Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, head of the ruling sovereign council.\nThe visit came “at a time when our bilateral relations are taking historical leaps towards a better future. We’re planning to make tangible strides today as our relations enter a #NewEra,” Hamdok tweeted.\nMnuchin’s one-day visit focused on the country’s struggling economy and possible U.S. economic assistance, including debt relief, the statement said. Sudan today has more than $60 billion in foreign debt. Relief from its arrears and access to foreign loans are widely seen as its gateway to economic recovery.\nSudan’s Finance Ministry said it inked a “memorandum of understanding” with the U.S. Treasury Department to to facilitate the payment of Sudan’s arrears to the World Bank.\nThe ministry said the settlement would enable Sudan’s government to have more than $1 billion annually from the World Bank, for the first time in nearly three decades when Sudan was designated a pariah state. It did not provide further details.\nThe Justice Ministry, however, announced last month that the U.S. would pay a $1 billion bridge loan to the World Bank to help clear Sudan’s arrears with the institution, in addition to $1.1 billion direct and indirect aid from the U.S.\nSudan is on a fragile path to democracy after a popular uprising led the military to overthrow al-Bashir in April 2019. The county is now ruled by a joint military and civilian government that seeks better ties with Washington and the West.\nThe government has been struggling with a huge budget deficit and widespread shortages of essential goods, including fuel, bread and medicine.\nAnnual inflation soared past 200% in the past months as prices of bread and other staples surged, according to official figures.\nLast month, Trump’s administration finalized the removal of Sudan from the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism. The move was a key incentive for the government in Khartoum to normalize relations with Israel.\nThe two countries, Sudan and Israel, have agreed to have full diplomatic ties, making Sudan the third Arab state — after the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain — to move to normalize relations with Israel late last year. Morocco also established diplomatic ties with Israel.\nSudan’s economy has suffered from decades of U.S. sanctions and mismanagement under al-Bashir, who had ruled the country since a 1989 Islamist-backed military coup.\nThe designation dates back to the 1990s, when Sudan briefly hosted al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden and other wanted militants. Sudan was also believed to have served as a pipeline for Iran to supply weapons to Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip.\nMnuchin’s visit came amid rising tensions between military and civilian members of Sudan’s transitional government. That tensions, which resurfaced in recent weeks, have largely centered on the Sudanese military’s economic assets, over which the civilian-run Finance Ministry does not have control.\nJohn Prendergast, co-founder of The Sentry watchdog group, urged The U.S. treasury secretary to pressure the military and security apparatus to allow “independent oversight” to businesses they control.\n“As Secretary Mnuchin engages with the leadership in Khartoum, it is critical that he weighs in with strong support for international anti-money laundering standards and fiscal transparency, which are essential for Sudan to counter the looting of its national economy,” he said.",
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‘Kerry said it couldn’t happen, but we did it,’ says Pompeo about Israel-Arab peace deals
Secretary of State John Kerry listens on Capitol Hill while testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the impacts of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), July 29, 2015. (AP/Andrew Harnik)
Mike Pompeo embarks on a burst of actions in his final days as Secretary of State, contrasting his achievements with predecessors.
By Associated Press
Mike Pompeo isn’t quietly fading away.
“Remember this Middle East ‘expert?’ He said it couldn’t happen. We did it,” Pompeo said in a taunting tweet featuring a video clip of John Kerry saying Arab countries would not recognize Israel without an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal. Kerry, a former secretary of state, will serve as climate envoy in Joe Biden’s administration.
“As the UN’s largest contributor, I put U.S. taxpayers and America’s interests first,” Pompeo tweeted on Monday. It was accompanied by a photo of former President Barack Obama, Kerry, Obama’s national security adviser Susan Rice and Obama’s U.N Ambassador Samantha Power at the United Nations. Along with Kerry, Rice and Power have also been named to prominent positions in Biden’s administration.
During the past week, Pompeo has embarked on a burst of actions in his final days as Secretary of State, contrasting his achievements with predecessors.
Since last Saturday, Pompeo rescinded long-standing restrictions on U.S. contacts with Taiwan, a move that will no doubt anger China.
He also declared Yemen’s Houthi rebels a terrorist organization and redesignated Cuba a “state sponsor of terrorism.”
Pompeo also announced that Iran has deep and longstanding ties with al-Qaeda.
Throughout his tenure, Pompeo has attacked China, Iran, various U.N. organizations, institutions like the International Criminal Court, and bilateral treaties such as arms control accords with Russia, two of which the Trump administration has withdrawn from during his time as America’s top diplomat.
On Iran, Pompeo has re-imposed all sanctions that had been eased by the Obama administration after the 2015 nuclear deal and added more penalties. He also advocated for the killing of a top Iranian general in Iraq at the beginning of last year and has been at the forefront of an effort to encourage Sunni Arab states to unite against predominantly Shiite Iran.
“The foreign policy blob constantly looks for a moderate inside the Iranian regime who will ‘normalize relations,'” Pompeo said this week. “The reality is you have a better chance finding a unicorn.”
Led by Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner, the administration relentlessly promoted Israeli-Arab peace efforts, culminating in agreements for the normalization of relations between the Jewish state and the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco.
On Thursday, Pompeo lauded Trump’s March 2019 decision to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, which it captured from Syria in 1967. He tweeted a video of himself and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking at Netanyahu’s residence in Jerusalem that night with the caption: “I’ll never forget this moment.”
Pompeo also voided a decades-old U.S. legal opinion regarding the legality of Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria. On his last visit to Israel in November, Pompeo became the first secretary of state to visit a settlement and on Thursday proudly promoted a Samarian wine named after him.
“L’Chaim to Pompeo wine!” Pompeo said on Twitter.
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Jerusalem District Court says Netanyahu’s defense lawyers had enough time to prepare for resumption of corruption trial next week.
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The panel of judges overseeing the corruption trial of Prime Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected a request for a delay so his lawyers would have extra time to study new material.
Netanyahu’s defense team had petitioned the Jerusalem District Court for more time to review the implications of amendments to the charges that accuse the prime minister of bribery, fraud and breach of trust.
“For the record, it should be noted that the legal significance of the amended indictment is being reviewed in relation to the immunity law for lawmakers, their rights and obligations, and Netanyahu reserves his rights on the matter,” the lawyers said according to the Haaretz report.
The judges ruled that defense lawyers were in possession of the original indictment for over a year and that the amendments to the charge sheet were not substantial enough to warrant a delay.
The change in the indictment involved a case accusing the premier of giving political favors in return for positive media coverage, dividing the charges into those alleging Netanyahu’s personal requests from those made by his family members.
Two weeks ago the lawyers had asked the court to dismiss the charges against Netanyahu, saying the investigation began without the written approval of the attorney general to conduct the investigation, as required by law.
On Tuesday, Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit denied he had given approval retroactively, telling the court he gave verbal authorization for the police investigation and had not written it down, but had documented the office meetings at which the decision was made.
However, the judges ruled in favor of Netanyahu, saying the documents given to the court by Mandelblit were not in the proper format and therefore did not show proof that Mandelblit had approved the probe in advance, the report said, with the judges agreeing that the documents had to be handed over to Netanyahu’s defense team.
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For a time on Wednesday, the official Twitter feed for the U.S. ambassador to Israel had its title changed to add “the West Bank and Gaza.”
By Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon
The Biden administration on Wednesday reversed a change to the U.S. ambassador to Israel’s Twitter account name to read, “the official Twitter account of the U.S. Ambassador to Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza” after a Washington Free Beacon report highlighting the shift.
For a time on Wednesday, the official Twitter feed for the U.S. ambassador to Israel had its title changed to add “the West Bank and Gaza,” territories the United States has for decades avoided taking a stand on due to ongoing peace talks between the Israelis and Palestinians.
The title change sparked an outcry online, including among Republican lawmakers, and was quietly changed back to read only, “U.S. ambassador to Israel.” The State Department would not comment on the initial change or why it was changed back to its original form.
Embassy officials have speculated that the title was inadvertently changed by Twitter due to a technical glitch when the accounts were switched from the Trump administration over to the Biden administration. The Free Beacon could not confirm the veracity of these claims.
“The U.S. doesn’t have ambassadors to any other disputed territory in the world. Singling out Israel, once again, is wrong,” said Len Khodorkovsky, former deputy assistant secretary at the State Department. “Instead of building on all the progress that’s been made toward peace in the Middle East, the Biden administration seems to be reversing course toward the failed policies of the Obama years.”
During the Obama administration, former ambassador Dan Shapiro was referred to in official communications as the “U.S. Ambassador to Israel.”
While President Joe Biden has said he would maintain the U.S. embassy facility in Jerusalem — which former President Donald Trump moved in a historic policy shift — it is likely he will put greater emphasis on Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, which have long been stalled. Biden also will grapple with the last administration’s decision to recognize the Golan Heights area along the Israel-Syria border as officially part of the Jewish State.
Reacting to the shift, Rep. Michael McCaul (R., Texas), lead Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said on Twitter: “It’s incredibly troubling the administration made this controversial move on Day One, [without] consulting w/Congress. It also seems to fly in the face of comments made by Antony Blinken yesterday. I strongly urge the president to clarify this provocative move quickly.”
The title change also seemed to contradict comments by Biden’s secretary of state nominee, Anthony Blinken, who said during his confirmation hearing Tuesday that he would not seek to relocate the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem and would continue the tight security relationship between the United States and Israel.
Jonathan Schanzer, a veteran Middle East expert and vice president for research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said the move could lead to significant policy changes.
“One can interpret this in two ways: On the one hand, it could be a recognition of the fact that the East Jerusalem Consulate is no longer, thus underscoring that the embassy in Jerusalem is the central clearinghouse for all things related to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. On the other hand, it also seems to imply that all three territories are to be treated with equal recognition — and that might mark a significant change in policy,” Schanzer said.
“Clarification will be needed on whether America’s diplomatic approach to Israel and the Palestinians is changing on day one of the Biden administration.”
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"For a time on Wednesday, the official Twitter feed for the U.S. ambassador to Israel had its title changed to add “the West Bank and Gaza.”\nBy Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon\nThe Biden administration on Wednesday reversed a change to the U.S. ambassador to Israel’s Twitter account name to read, “the official Twitter account of the U.S. Ambassador to Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza” after a Washington Free Beacon report highlighting the shift.\nFor a time on Wednesday, the official Twitter feed for the U.S. ambassador to Israel had its title changed to add “the West Bank and Gaza,” territories the United States has for decades avoided taking a stand on due to ongoing peace talks between the Israelis and Palestinians.\nThe title change sparked an outcry online, including among Republican lawmakers, and was quietly changed back to read only, “U.S. ambassador to Israel.” The State Department would not comment on the initial change or why it was changed back to its original form.\nEmbassy officials have speculated that the title was inadvertently changed by Twitter due to a technical glitch when the accounts were switched from the Trump administration over to the Biden administration. The Free Beacon could not confirm the veracity of these claims.\n“The U.S. doesn’t have ambassadors to any other disputed territory in the world. Singling out Israel, once again, is wrong,” said Len Khodorkovsky, former deputy assistant secretary at the State Department. “Instead of building on all the progress that’s been made toward peace in the Middle East, the Biden administration seems to be reversing course toward the failed policies of the Obama years.”\nDuring the Obama administration, former ambassador Dan Shapiro was referred to in official communications as the “U.S. Ambassador to Israel.”\nWhile President Joe Biden has said he would maintain the U.S. embassy facility in Jerusalem — which former President Donald Trump moved in a historic policy shift — it is likely he will put greater emphasis on Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, which have long been stalled. Biden also will grapple with the last administration’s decision to recognize the Golan Heights area along the Israel-Syria border as officially part of the Jewish State.\nReacting to the shift, Rep. Michael McCaul (R., Texas), lead Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said on Twitter: “It’s incredibly troubling the administration made this controversial move on Day One, [without] consulting w/Congress. It also seems to fly in the face of comments made by Antony Blinken yesterday. I strongly urge the president to clarify this provocative move quickly.”\nThe title change also seemed to contradict comments by Biden’s secretary of state nominee, Anthony Blinken, who said during his confirmation hearing Tuesday that he would not seek to relocate the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem and would continue the tight security relationship between the United States and Israel.\nJonathan Schanzer, a veteran Middle East expert and vice president for research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said the move could lead to significant policy changes.\n“One can interpret this in two ways: On the one hand, it could be a recognition of the fact that the East Jerusalem Consulate is no longer, thus underscoring that the embassy in Jerusalem is the central clearinghouse for all things related to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. On the other hand, it also seems to imply that all three territories are to be treated with equal recognition — and that might mark a significant change in policy,” Schanzer said.\n“Clarification will be needed on whether America’s diplomatic approach to Israel and the Palestinians is changing on day one of the Biden administration.”",
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Israeli ambassador to the U.S. and UN Gilad Erdan (r) with outgoing Israeli Ambassador to the US Ron Dermer (Israel Embassy)
Israel’s UN ambassador is the first since Abba Eban in the 1950s to wear both caps.
By Batya Jerenberg, World Israel News
Israeli UN ambassador Gilad Erdan stepped into his primary job as U.S. ambassador Thursday, becoming only the second Israeli since Abba Eban in the 1950s to take on both roles simultaneously.
Erdan is taking over for Ron Dermer, who is stepping down after seven successful years in the demanding position. In the last four years, Dermer became a confidante of many in the Trump administration, who dealt with the Middle East and knew he had the ear of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as one of his closest advisers.
According to his aides, Erdan has been preparing for his new role by holding many discussions with Dermer and other diplomats, meeting with senior Democrats in Congress, and consulting heads of American Jewish organizations, among others.
“Good luck, Gilad!” Dermer tweeted to his replacement. “I am confident that our new Ambassador to Washington, @giladerdan1, will further strengthen the great alliance between America and Israel, and I wish him the best of success.”
It is a delicate time in the relationship between the two countries, as Democrat Joe Biden’s presidential term begins. While Biden is pro-Israel, his positions on crucial issues such as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and, particularly, Iran veer sharply from those of the current Israeli government.
When Erdan flew to Israel last month for discussions with Netanyahu, unnamed officials told the media that the prime minister had asked him to relinquish one of the two positions, even though he had been promised both of them.
Middle East expert and retired ambassador Yoram Ettinger, said then, “The intention for Erdan to be ambassador to Washington and the United Nations, despite being a former senior minister, is an insult to the United States, as it means that Erdan will only serve part-time as ambassador to the U.S. capital. This is an unacceptable act that undermines the greatness of our friendship.”
“The government has the tremendous potential to upgrade U.S. support for Israel,” he added. “This is a violation of Israeli interests.”
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"Israeli ambassador to the U.S. and UN Gilad Erdan (r) with outgoing Israeli Ambassador to the US Ron Dermer (Israel Embassy)\nIsrael’s UN ambassador is the first since Abba Eban in the 1950s to wear both caps.\nBy Batya Jerenberg, World Israel News\nIsraeli UN ambassador Gilad Erdan stepped into his primary job as U.S. ambassador Thursday, becoming only the second Israeli since Abba Eban in the 1950s to take on both roles simultaneously.\nErdan is taking over for Ron Dermer, who is stepping down after seven successful years in the demanding position. In the last four years, Dermer became a confidante of many in the Trump administration, who dealt with the Middle East and knew he had the ear of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as one of his closest advisers.\nAccording to his aides, Erdan has been preparing for his new role by holding many discussions with Dermer and other diplomats, meeting with senior Democrats in Congress, and consulting heads of American Jewish organizations, among others.\n“Good luck, Gilad!” Dermer tweeted to his replacement. “I am confident that our new Ambassador to Washington, @giladerdan1, will further strengthen the great alliance between America and Israel, and I wish him the best of success.”\nIt is a delicate time in the relationship between the two countries, as Democrat Joe Biden’s presidential term begins. While Biden is pro-Israel, his positions on crucial issues such as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and, particularly, Iran veer sharply from those of the current Israeli government.\nWhen Erdan flew to Israel last month for discussions with Netanyahu, unnamed officials told the media that the prime minister had asked him to relinquish one of the two positions, even though he had been promised both of them.\nMiddle East expert and retired ambassador Yoram Ettinger, said then, “The intention for Erdan to be ambassador to Washington and the United Nations, despite being a former senior minister, is an insult to the United States, as it means that Erdan will only serve part-time as ambassador to the U.S. capital. This is an unacceptable act that undermines the greatness of our friendship.”\n“The government has the tremendous potential to upgrade U.S. support for Israel,” he added. “This is a violation of Israeli interests.”",
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In the wake of the attack on the U.S. Capitol, Israeli officials discussed the scenario of an attempted mass takeover of the Knesset.
By Paul Shindman, World Israel News
In the wake of the attack on the Capitol in Washington, senior members of the Knesset including speaker of the house Yariv Levin and Internal Security Minister Amir Ohana held a meeting Wednesday to examine contingencies for the scenario of a mob trying to break into the grounds and take over the Knesset, Channel 12 News reported.
The discussion included representatives from the national police force, Ohana’s ministry and the Knesset Guard that is similar to the Capitol Police and which is charged with security of Israel’s parliament located in the center of Jerusalem.
The hearing took place at the request of Levin, although there is no preliminary intelligence information that might indicate an intention to break into the Knesset. The move is part of preparations for extreme cases of violence after the storming of Capitol Hill on Jan. 6 by supporters of former President Donald Trump.
Over the past year protestors have held numerous large demonstrations outside the heavily guarded Knesset building. The main targets of the protests have been the government’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with some of the protests against Netanyahu turning violent.
The Knesset Guard was established in 1958 following an assassination attempt in the Knesset the year before when a grenade was thrown at then Prime Minister David Ben Gurion. Foreign Minister Golda Meir was slightly injured in the attack, and eventually became prime minister herself in 1969.
The Guard regularly trains for both natural disasters and terrorist attacks, and the officials at the meeting agreed to coordinate and refine procedures to prepare for a scenario along the lines of what happened in Washington.
Under existing procedures, the security of the Knesset is the sole responsibility of the Knesset Guard and the police are not authorized to even enter the grounds, let alone operate there.
Security at the Knesset was severely tightened following the 1994 assassination of Yitzhak Rabin in Tel Aviv. All visitors to the Knesset building, including tourists and Israelis, must have a prior appointment and go through an extensive security check before being allowed onto the grounds, which are surrounded by a high security fence backed up with extensive additional measures.
Based on the current security protocols, the officials at the meeting wanted to make sure that in the case of an attempted mass takeover, the Knesset Guard would be able to handle the situation for a prolonged time without reinforcements, the report said.
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President Joe Biden speaks during the 59th Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol, Jan. 20, 2021. (AP/Patrick Semansky)
Have Democrats run roughshod over the U.S. Constitution in an effort to elect their man? The question deserves at least a hearing.
By David Isaac, World Israel News
At noon on Wednesday, Joe Biden became the 46th president of the United States. He enters office under a cloud. Over 30% of Americans don’t trust that the elections were accurate, according to a Dec. 9 NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll. That number rises to 72% when speaking of Republicans.
Even before courts rejected the Trump lawyers’ appeals, the mainstream media refused to take seriously allegations of election fraud, injecting opinion into straight news stories. Though the word “claims” already conveys the idea that something is not verified, the media felt it necessary to add “baseless” or “false” whenever it appeared, as in “baseless claims” and “false claims” of election fraud.
In an election where there was an unprecedented number of unverified mail-in ballots, ballot harvesting and electronic voting, it is very difficult to prove fraud, especially in a short timeframe.
However, what is visible to the naked eye doesn’t exactly inspire confidence. It is clear that Democrats worked hard to weaken ballot integrity and they did so under the cover of Covid.
John Perazzo writes in FrontPage Mag, “Beginning more than a year ago, Democrats filed nearly 300 lawsuits in dozens of states – most notably all of the key battleground states – in an effort to change election laws and regulations in ways that would benefit Democrat candidates.”
Critics have argued that electoral changes made in key battleground states were unconstitutional, citing Article II, Section 1, Clause 2, which says only state legislatures may make changes to election law.
Conservative pundit Mark Levin says such rule changes were made in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Arizona. He goes so far as to call Biden “illegitimate.”
Have Democrats run roughshod over the U.S. Constitution in an effort to elect their man? The question deserves at least a hearing.
Other evidence of fraud appears circumstantial, though taken together gathers weight, i.e., President Trump won more votes than any previous incumbent seeking re-election; states where Trump was leading suddenly stopped counting on Election Night; Trump’s support among blacks and Hispanics grew; Trump won 18 of 19 bellwether counties; Republicans won all 27 House races that were ‘toss-ups’ even as Trump lost, and so on.
Where Biden found the numbers to win were in Democratic cities in battleground states. It was in these places on Election eve that voting was stopped.
“After official vote counting had been suspended, tabulations of votes took place that have astounded statisticians and computer experts. These experts have not been able to explain them except as a result of fraud,” writes Claes G. Ryn, professor of politics and founding director of the new Center for the Study of Statesmanship at The Catholic University of America.
We are not taking sides on this matter, but while the media can ignore such things, the 74 million people who voted for Trump have not.
Biden enters the White House facing a fractured country. So deep is the distrust that the Defense Department ordered 25,000 National Guard service members into Washington to protect the incoming president and then proceeded to vet every one of them, fearing an insider attack.
It falls to Biden to rebuild trust in America’s institutions. He says he wants to.
In his inauguration speech, Biden stressed the importance of unity, saying “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.”
Worryingly, his actions speak louder than his words. Biden has already stoked the flames of division by sitting back passively as the House impeached Trump for the second time. Sen. Lindsey Graham was right when he begged Biden to intercede and stop it; that it would only antagonize Trump supporters more.
Biden did nothing, standing aside to let Pelosi, et al., do their worst.
How he governs will also determine how quickly the country heals. But here, too, Biden has done nothing to ease concerns. He has already announced he’s shutting down the Keystone Pipeline, that he’s returning to the Paris Climate Accord, and, most worrisome for Israel, that he’s going back to the Iran deal.
“I have a very ambitious, very progressive agenda,” Biden told NBC’s Lester Holt.
That doesn’t sound like he’s playing to the middle.
David Isaac is managing editor of World Israel News.
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"President Joe Biden speaks during the 59th Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol, Jan. 20, 2021. (AP/Patrick Semansky)\nHave Democrats run roughshod over the U.S. Constitution in an effort to elect their man? The question deserves at least a hearing.\nBy David Isaac, World Israel News\nAt noon on Wednesday, Joe Biden became the 46th president of the United States. He enters office under a cloud. Over 30% of Americans don’t trust that the elections were accurate, according to a Dec. 9 NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll. That number rises to 72% when speaking of Republicans.\nEven before courts rejected the Trump lawyers’ appeals, the mainstream media refused to take seriously allegations of election fraud, injecting opinion into straight news stories. Though the word “claims” already conveys the idea that something is not verified, the media felt it necessary to add “baseless” or “false” whenever it appeared, as in “baseless claims” and “false claims” of election fraud.\nIn an election where there was an unprecedented number of unverified mail-in ballots, ballot harvesting and electronic voting, it is very difficult to prove fraud, especially in a short timeframe.\nHowever, what is visible to the naked eye doesn’t exactly inspire confidence. It is clear that Democrats worked hard to weaken ballot integrity and they did so under the cover of Covid.\nJohn Perazzo writes in FrontPage Mag, “Beginning more than a year ago, Democrats filed nearly 300 lawsuits in dozens of states – most notably all of the key battleground states – in an effort to change election laws and regulations in ways that would benefit Democrat candidates.”\nCritics have argued that electoral changes made in key battleground states were unconstitutional, citing Article II, Section 1, Clause 2, which says only state legislatures may make changes to election law.\nConservative pundit Mark Levin says such rule changes were made in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Arizona. He goes so far as to call Biden “illegitimate.”\nHave Democrats run roughshod over the U.S. Constitution in an effort to elect their man? The question deserves at least a hearing.\nOther evidence of fraud appears circumstantial, though taken together gathers weight, i.e., President Trump won more votes than any previous incumbent seeking re-election; states where Trump was leading suddenly stopped counting on Election Night; Trump’s support among blacks and Hispanics grew; Trump won 18 of 19 bellwether counties; Republicans won all 27 House races that were ‘toss-ups’ even as Trump lost, and so on.\nWhere Biden found the numbers to win were in Democratic cities in battleground states. It was in these places on Election eve that voting was stopped.\n“After official vote counting had been suspended, tabulations of votes took place that have astounded statisticians and computer experts. These experts have not been able to explain them except as a result of fraud,” writes Claes G. Ryn, professor of politics and founding director of the new Center for the Study of Statesmanship at The Catholic University of America.\nWe are not taking sides on this matter, but while the media can ignore such things, the 74 million people who voted for Trump have not.\nBiden enters the White House facing a fractured country. So deep is the distrust that the Defense Department ordered 25,000 National Guard service members into Washington to protect the incoming president and then proceeded to vet every one of them, fearing an insider attack.\nIt falls to Biden to rebuild trust in America’s institutions. He says he wants to.\nIn his inauguration speech, Biden stressed the importance of unity, saying “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.”\nWorryingly, his actions speak louder than his words. Biden has already stoked the flames of division by sitting back passively as the House impeached Trump for the second time. Sen. Lindsey Graham was right when he begged Biden to intercede and stop it; that it would only antagonize Trump supporters more.\nBiden did nothing, standing aside to let Pelosi, et al., do their worst.\nHow he governs will also determine how quickly the country heals. But here, too, Biden has done nothing to ease concerns. He has already announced he’s shutting down the Keystone Pipeline, that he’s returning to the Paris Climate Accord, and, most worrisome for Israel, that he’s going back to the Iran deal.\n“I have a very ambitious, very progressive agenda,” Biden told NBC’s Lester Holt.\nThat doesn’t sound like he’s playing to the middle.\nDavid Isaac is managing editor of World Israel News.",
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Analysis: Wendy Sherman and the art of failing upward
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Biden’s foreign-policy team is a veritable Obama era reunion party.
By Jonathan S. Tobin, JNS
Albert Einstein didn’t say it. Neither did Benjamin Franklin. Whoever it was who was the first to observe that doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity may not have been as smart as either of those two acclaimed geniuses, but they were nonetheless correct.
Yet unfortunately no one seems to have informed either President-elect Joe Biden or Wendy Sherman about this.
Sherman, who was officially named as Biden’s choice to be Deputy Secretary of State over the weekend, is yet another familiar name among those slated to lead the new administration.
Biden’s foreign-policy team is a veritable Obama era reunion party with virtually every leading figure having been part of the same group that led the nation from 2009 to 2017, including incoming Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and National Security Advisor Jake Sherman.
The new president has chosen people with whom he is already comfortable and who know the ropes. After four years of the circus that was the Trump administration, that sounds good to a lot of people. But while Americans will welcome calm and discretion from those in power, that is not necessarily the same thing as being smart or effective.
And while experience is usually an asset in most facets of life, there are exceptions to that rule. When people continually fail at their jobs — and then not only don’t learn from their mistakes, but are so self-deluded that they believe they’ve been right all along — that’s where that line about insanity may prove relevant.
Sherman has already served at the State Department in a few different capacities. During the Clinton administration, she was an Assistant Secretary of State and then served as Counselor to Secretary Madeleine Albright.
So-called ‘expert’
Under Obama, she was Deputy Secretary of State for Political Affairs, which made fourth in the pecking order at the department. Now, after spending the Trump years raking in cash working for Albright’s consulting group and enjoying a comfortable sinecure as a professor at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, she’ll be the No. 2 at State.
But Sherman’s claim to fame is not her glittering résumé and connections. She is what passes for an “expert” in negotiating nuclear agreements with rogue regimes. That makes her a living, breathing example of how overrated diplomatic experience can be. No one else can claim credit for playing the principal role in two of the worst negotiations ever conducted by an American diplomat.
In 1994, Clinton gave her the job of negotiating an agreement with North Korea with a goal to obligate that mad Communist government to freeze and then dismantle its nuclear program.
Clinton had given her a fool’s errand. North Korea was then led by Kim Jong-il, the father of Kim Jong-un, the current head of that criminal regime. There was no possible inducement that the United States could offer to get him to give up his bid for nuclear weapons.
A wiser diplomat than Sherman would have told her superiors that any effort to appease him was doomed to failure, and that the goodies the United States were offering would strengthen him while worsening the plight of North Korea’s people and further destabilizing the region.
But Sherman was not in possession of that kind of wisdom. Instead, she went ahead offering various cash prizes and diplomatic concessions in order to get the North Koreans to sign an agreement that could be presented to the world as a foreign-policy triumph. She continued in that vein until Clinton left office, in spite of the fact that the other side simply pocketed every gift she brought while not actually doing anything they were asked to do.
On her watch, the North Korean nuclear problem was not only not solved, but grew worse as rather than “freeze and dismantle,” Kim Jong-il continued to accumulate nukes and missiles.
One would think that after this abysmal failure, Sherman would have lost any credibility as a diplomat. But if you are a member in good standing of the foreign-policy establishment, there’s no such thing as having your work judged by arbitrary standards like success or failure.
In that world, the only assets worth having are experience and connections — and Sherman had both. So the next time a Democrat arrived in the White House, she was back in business at the State Department with an even more important title and an even bigger task: negotiating an agreement with Iran that would fulfill President Barack Obama’s campaign promise to eliminate Iran’s nuclear program.
In the talks with Iran, Sherman had an advantage that she hadn’t had when faced with Kim Jong-Il. Unlike the North Koreans, Iran had a large economy that was connected to the rest of the world. It was dependent on the sale of oil to keep its government and the vast terrorist enterprise run by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps afloat.
Congress had forced Obama to go along with tough international sanctions on Iran and the pain they inflicted forced Iran to the negotiating table.
But while Iran’s position was weak, its chief negotiator, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif had one card to play, and he did so expertly. He knew that Sherman’s primary goal — and that of Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry — was a deal at any price.
Sherman rolled over
So when Zarif said “no” to each of the West’s demands, Sherman conceded each point. Like all appeasers, Sherman claimed that the only alternatives were a false choice between appeasement and war. In the agreement that Obama heralded as a triumph for diplomacy, sanctions would be lifted, yet there would be no dismantling of Iran’s nuclear program. While it would temporarily halt nuclear enrichment, it would keep its advanced technology.
Nor did the deal place any curbs on Iran’s support of terrorism, its illegal missile production or its foreign adventures in pursuit of regional hegemony. Worst of all, Sherman agreed to sunset clauses that would mean that each of the limited restrictions on Iran’s program would eventually expire. The last of them will end in 2030, at which point Iran can race to build a bomb with Western approval.
By any objective standard, Sherman’s handiwork was a disaster. A government that was a merciless tyranny at home, a threat to the stability of neighboring Arab states and pledged to Israel’s destruction had been enriched and empowered.
Sherman was one of those who greatly benefited from Obama’s decision to make support for the deal a partisan litmus test for Democrats. Since something so closely identified with a popular president against whom criticism was often falsely attributed to racism, Sherman’s handiwork escaped the sort of close analysis from journalists who had become — in the words of Obama staffer Ben Rhodes — a “media echo chamber” for the administration.
The deal left future presidents with the unenviable task of having to clean up Sherman’s mess. Sooner or later, the United States was going to have to scrap the pact and start the work of pressuring Iran to renegotiate and get a deal that would foreclose, rather than postpone the nuclear threat, in addition to dealing with its terrorism and missiles.
President Donald Trump chose to do so sooner, and his “maximum pressure” strategy returned the West to the position of strength it held in 2013, when Sherman started giving away the store to Zarif. But rather than negotiate, Iran listened to the advice of Kerry and simply waited for a Democrat to win in 2020.
With Biden’s victory, he now has a chance to fulfill his pledge to revive the nuclear deal with Iran. Still, he understands that’s not enough and is therefore also promising to strengthen the agreement to correct Sherman’s mistakes.
But who has he chosen to accomplish that difficult task? None other than Wendy Sherman.
While choosing someone with such a dismal record of failure is a terrible idea under any circumstances, it might be somewhat defensible had Sherman publicly held herself accountable for her errors and pledged not to repeat them in the future. But she has not done so.
Terrible at what she does
While Sherman is clearly an appalling negotiator and a terrible diplomat, she is something of a genius when it comes to gaining favor with Democratic presidents. Indeed, if capitalizing on your mistakes as opposed to learning from them is an art, then she is the Michelangelo of failing upward.
Her ascent in spite of her colossal incompetence is a cautionary tale of the perils of prioritizing political loyalty and familiarity in making appointments. But as comic as the prospect of her returning to the task of appeasing Iran might seem to the theocrats of Tehran, it’s a tragedy for the United States and its allies.
Like allowing someone with a record of drunk-driving arrests at the wheel of a car with your children in the backseat, putting Wendy Sherman in charge of dealing with the Iranian nuclear threat is an act of criminal negligence. While all patriotic Americans wish the new administration success, Biden is already setting himself — and the world that looks to him for leadership — up to fail on one of the most important foreign-policy challenges facing him.
Jonathan S. Tobin is editor in chief of JNS—Jewish News Syndicate.
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"Biden’s foreign-policy team is a veritable Obama era reunion party.\nBy Jonathan S. Tobin, JNS\nAlbert Einstein didn’t say it. Neither did Benjamin Franklin. Whoever it was who was the first to observe that doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity may not have been as smart as either of those two acclaimed geniuses, but they were nonetheless correct.\nYet unfortunately no one seems to have informed either President-elect Joe Biden or Wendy Sherman about this.\nSherman, who was officially named as Biden’s choice to be Deputy Secretary of State over the weekend, is yet another familiar name among those slated to lead the new administration.\nBiden’s foreign-policy team is a veritable Obama era reunion party with virtually every leading figure having been part of the same group that led the nation from 2009 to 2017, including incoming Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and National Security Advisor Jake Sherman.\nThe new president has chosen people with whom he is already comfortable and who know the ropes. After four years of the circus that was the Trump administration, that sounds good to a lot of people. But while Americans will welcome calm and discretion from those in power, that is not necessarily the same thing as being smart or effective.\nAnd while experience is usually an asset in most facets of life, there are exceptions to that rule. When people continually fail at their jobs — and then not only don’t learn from their mistakes, but are so self-deluded that they believe they’ve been right all along — that’s where that line about insanity may prove relevant.\nSherman has already served at the State Department in a few different capacities. During the Clinton administration, she was an Assistant Secretary of State and then served as Counselor to Secretary Madeleine Albright.\nSo-called ‘expert’\nUnder Obama, she was Deputy Secretary of State for Political Affairs, which made fourth in the pecking order at the department. Now, after spending the Trump years raking in cash working for Albright’s consulting group and enjoying a comfortable sinecure as a professor at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, she’ll be the No. 2 at State.\nBut Sherman’s claim to fame is not her glittering résumé and connections. She is what passes for an “expert” in negotiating nuclear agreements with rogue regimes. That makes her a living, breathing example of how overrated diplomatic experience can be. No one else can claim credit for playing the principal role in two of the worst negotiations ever conducted by an American diplomat.\nIn 1994, Clinton gave her the job of negotiating an agreement with North Korea with a goal to obligate that mad Communist government to freeze and then dismantle its nuclear program.\nClinton had given her a fool’s errand. North Korea was then led by Kim Jong-il, the father of Kim Jong-un, the current head of that criminal regime. There was no possible inducement that the United States could offer to get him to give up his bid for nuclear weapons.\nA wiser diplomat than Sherman would have told her superiors that any effort to appease him was doomed to failure, and that the goodies the United States were offering would strengthen him while worsening the plight of North Korea’s people and further destabilizing the region.\nBut Sherman was not in possession of that kind of wisdom. Instead, she went ahead offering various cash prizes and diplomatic concessions in order to get the North Koreans to sign an agreement that could be presented to the world as a foreign-policy triumph. She continued in that vein until Clinton left office, in spite of the fact that the other side simply pocketed every gift she brought while not actually doing anything they were asked to do.\nOn her watch, the North Korean nuclear problem was not only not solved, but grew worse as rather than “freeze and dismantle,” Kim Jong-il continued to accumulate nukes and missiles.\nOne would think that after this abysmal failure, Sherman would have lost any credibility as a diplomat. But if you are a member in good standing of the foreign-policy establishment, there’s no such thing as having your work judged by arbitrary standards like success or failure.\nIn that world, the only assets worth having are experience and connections — and Sherman had both. So the next time a Democrat arrived in the White House, she was back in business at the State Department with an even more important title and an even bigger task: negotiating an agreement with Iran that would fulfill President Barack Obama’s campaign promise to eliminate Iran’s nuclear program.\nIn the talks with Iran, Sherman had an advantage that she hadn’t had when faced with Kim Jong-Il. Unlike the North Koreans, Iran had a large economy that was connected to the rest of the world. It was dependent on the sale of oil to keep its government and the vast terrorist enterprise run by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps afloat.\nCongress had forced Obama to go along with tough international sanctions on Iran and the pain they inflicted forced Iran to the negotiating table.\nBut while Iran’s position was weak, its chief negotiator, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif had one card to play, and he did so expertly. He knew that Sherman’s primary goal — and that of Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry — was a deal at any price.\nSherman rolled over\nSo when Zarif said “no” to each of the West’s demands, Sherman conceded each point. Like all appeasers, Sherman claimed that the only alternatives were a false choice between appeasement and war. In the agreement that Obama heralded as a triumph for diplomacy, sanctions would be lifted, yet there would be no dismantling of Iran’s nuclear program. While it would temporarily halt nuclear enrichment, it would keep its advanced technology.\nNor did the deal place any curbs on Iran’s support of terrorism, its illegal missile production or its foreign adventures in pursuit of regional hegemony. Worst of all, Sherman agreed to sunset clauses that would mean that each of the limited restrictions on Iran’s program would eventually expire. The last of them will end in 2030, at which point Iran can race to build a bomb with Western approval.\nBy any objective standard, Sherman’s handiwork was a disaster. A government that was a merciless tyranny at home, a threat to the stability of neighboring Arab states and pledged to Israel’s destruction had been enriched and empowered.\nSherman was one of those who greatly benefited from Obama’s decision to make support for the deal a partisan litmus test for Democrats. Since something so closely identified with a popular president against whom criticism was often falsely attributed to racism, Sherman’s handiwork escaped the sort of close analysis from journalists who had become — in the words of Obama staffer Ben Rhodes — a “media echo chamber” for the administration.\nThe deal left future presidents with the unenviable task of having to clean up Sherman’s mess. Sooner or later, the United States was going to have to scrap the pact and start the work of pressuring Iran to renegotiate and get a deal that would foreclose, rather than postpone the nuclear threat, in addition to dealing with its terrorism and missiles.\nPresident Donald Trump chose to do so sooner, and his “maximum pressure” strategy returned the West to the position of strength it held in 2013, when Sherman started giving away the store to Zarif. But rather than negotiate, Iran listened to the advice of Kerry and simply waited for a Democrat to win in 2020.\nWith Biden’s victory, he now has a chance to fulfill his pledge to revive the nuclear deal with Iran. Still, he understands that’s not enough and is therefore also promising to strengthen the agreement to correct Sherman’s mistakes.\nBut who has he chosen to accomplish that difficult task? None other than Wendy Sherman.\nWhile choosing someone with such a dismal record of failure is a terrible idea under any circumstances, it might be somewhat defensible had Sherman publicly held herself accountable for her errors and pledged not to repeat them in the future. But she has not done so.\nTerrible at what she does\nWhile Sherman is clearly an appalling negotiator and a terrible diplomat, she is something of a genius when it comes to gaining favor with Democratic presidents. Indeed, if capitalizing on your mistakes as opposed to learning from them is an art, then she is the Michelangelo of failing upward.\nHer ascent in spite of her colossal incompetence is a cautionary tale of the perils of prioritizing political loyalty and familiarity in making appointments. But as comic as the prospect of her returning to the task of appeasing Iran might seem to the theocrats of Tehran, it’s a tragedy for the United States and its allies.\nLike allowing someone with a record of drunk-driving arrests at the wheel of a car with your children in the backseat, putting Wendy Sherman in charge of dealing with the Iranian nuclear threat is an act of criminal negligence. While all patriotic Americans wish the new administration success, Biden is already setting himself — and the world that looks to him for leadership — up to fail on one of the most important foreign-policy challenges facing him.\nJonathan S. Tobin is editor in chief of JNS—Jewish News Syndicate.",
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“If Iran comes back into compliance we would too,” said U.S. Secretary of State nominee Antony J. Blinken, referring to the 2015 nuclear deal that the Islamic Republic continues to breach.
By Algemeiner Staff
Ahead of US President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration on Wednesday, his nominee for Secretary of State told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the new administration would entertain a new deal with Iran if there was a “longer and stronger agreement.”
“If Iran comes back into compliance we would too,” Antony Blinken — Biden’s nominee — told the Tuesday hearing.
Blinken, who served as both Deputy Secretary of State and Deputy National Security Adviser during the Obama administration, explained that his approach would be to use the return to the 2015 nuclear deal exited by President Donald Trump as a “platform” for a broader agreement.
“We would use that as a platform with our allies and partners, who would once again be on the same side with us, to seek a longer and stronger agreement,” Blinken stressed.
He added that the issue of Iran’s ballistic missile program would also be addressed, but that at the moment “we’re a long way from there.”
Blinken also said that the US would work actively to restore confidence with its allies and partners under the new administration.
“The reality is that the world doesn’t organize itself. When we’re not engaged, when we aren’t leading, then one of two things will probably happen: either some other country tries to take our place, but not in a way that advances our interests or values,” Blinken said. “Or, maybe just as bad, no one does, and then you get chaos. Either way, that does not serve the American people. Humility and confidence should be the flip sides of America’s leadership coin.”
On the Israeli-Palestinian dimension of the Middle East conflict, Blinken confirmed that the US commitment to the Jewish state’s well-being was “sacrosanct.”
Blinken said he supported a two-state solution, describing the current situation as “very challenged.”
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To be a Zionist is to revel in the ways Israel has integrated Jewish principles and traditions into the daily life of a large modern democratic society.
By Douglas J. Feith, JNS
There are negative reasons to be a Zionist, and there are affirmative reasons.
The negative ones, which relate to historical anti-Jewish hatred and abuse, make the humanitarian case for Zionism—that the Jews need a state because they need a refuge. That argument launched the Zionist movement in the 19th century, and it remains valid to this day.
The affirmative reasons relate to Jewish civilization. They boil down to the conviction that Jewish culture is an invaluable inheritance that only in the Land of Israel, in a state with a Jewish majority, can be developed fully and perpetuated reliably.
My father was a Holocaust survivor; his family lived in the Austrian part of Poland. The Nazis killed his parents and seven of his eight siblings. If Israel had existed at the time, my grandparents and aunts and uncles would have had a place to escape to. Naturally, as a child, the humanitarian reasons to be a Zionist predominated with me.
My father was not much for books, but one that impressed him since he was a boy was “Auto-Emancipation,” a Zionist manifesto written in 1882 by a Russian Jew named Leo Pinsker. At my dad’s urging, I read it when I was young. I remember being struck by Pinsker’s observation that no people bleeds for foreigners, and so the stateless Jew seeking hospitality is like a beggar and a refugee. “And what beggar is welcome?” asks Pinsker, and “Where is the refugee to whom a refuge may not be refused?”
As an adult, I came to appreciate the positive reasons to be a Zionist. Israel is not just a refuge and bastion. For the Jews as a people, it is the “organic center.”
I use that term because George Eliot used it in her novel “Daniel Deronda,” published in 1876. A Jewish character in the novel named Mordecai calls on his people to found “a new Jewish polity,” which would recreate their “organic centre,” revitalizing their civilization. Mordecai declares, “Let there be another great migration, another choosing of Israel to be a nationality.”
Mordecai argues: “Who says that the history and literature of our race are dead? Are they not as living as the history and literature of Greece and Rome, which have inspired revolutions? … These were an inheritance dug from the tomb. Ours is an inheritance that has never ceased to quiver in millions of human frames.”
These words often come to my mind. Eliot, a non-Jew whose real name was Mary Ann Evans, penned them 20 years before Theodor Herzl wrote “The Jewish State.”
Her proto-Zionism does not lie in a tomb. It remains alive. I feel, as it were, that it quivers within me. I don’t think anyone in the last century-and-a-half has crystalized with greater force or elegance the affirmative reasons to be a Zionist.
* * *
To be a Zionist is to revel in the ways Israel has integrated Jewish principles and traditions into the daily life of a large modern democratic society. Though liberal and secular, Israel is a Jewish state. What does that mean?
It means that the Jews are in the majority. Their collective interests prevail, so they enjoy the dignity of self-reliance and self-defense. Hebrew is the main language. Jewish history inspires the geographical names. Jewish subjects have a special place in the schools. The Jewish religious calendar influences the rhythm of life. Every Friday afternoon, even in nonreligious neighborhoods, one can hear the hush of Sabbath descend. Britain, Sweden and other democracies have crosses on their flags, while Israel has a Star of David. And the interests of Jewry as such are a primary concern of the national government.
None of this is so in any other country in the world.
On the way in which democracy and ethnicity relate to each other, a brief comment:
America’s Founders did not create our republic for the purpose of protecting a particular people’s existence and culture. In general, though Christmas is a national holiday, the American political tradition is averse to official privileges for particular ethnicities or faiths.
So, it’s understandable that an American may question how Israel can be both democratic and Jewish.
The short answer is that the way Americans practice democracy is not the only way. It helps to consider that most liberal, democratic countries were founded on an ethnic basis. Most give special consideration to the majority population’s cultural interests. Many favor a particular language. Some have a state church. A number, including Ireland and Japan, have laws of return that favor expatriates of the majority people. As democracies go, Israel, being ethnically based, is ordinary. It is the United States that is exceptional.
The compatibility of Zionism and democracy relates to the issue of dual loyalty, which poses the question of whether those American Jews who are Zionists should be viewed as having divided loyalties. The question has been of personal interest to me, of course, because of my government work. Some of my more rabid critics have accused me of divided loyalties.
First of all, the frame of mind that produces such accusations is the same that argued for opposing John F. Kennedy’s presidential campaign on the grounds that, as a Roman Catholic, Kennedy would subordinate his oath of office to his loyalty to the pope. It’s simplistic and erroneous—and it violates the American democratic principles that it claims to uphold.
This matter was addressed nicely by American Jewish judge, and later, justice, Louis Brandeis.
“Let no American imagine that Zionism is inconsistent with patriotism,” Brandeis said in a speech in 1915, soon before he joined the Supreme Court. “Multiple loyalties are objectionable only if they are inconsistent. A man is a better citizen of the United States for being also a loyal citizen of his state, and of his city; for being loyal to his family, and to his profession or trade. … Every Irish American who contributed towards advancing home rule was a better man and a better American for the sacrifice he made. Every American Jew who aids in advancing the Jewish settlement in Palestine, though he feels that neither he nor his descendants will ever live there, will likewise be a better man and a better American for doing so.”
I say “Amen” to Justice Brandeis. Americans — Jewish or not — can easily square their support for Zionism with their sacred duties, in and out of the government, as American citizens.
My final comment is that there’s something miraculous about the Jews’ attachment to the Land of Israel. Benjamin Disraeli captured the magic in his 1847 novel “Tancred.” “The vineyards of Israel have ceased to exist, but the eternal law enjoins the children of Israel still to celebrate the vintage,” he wrote, referring to the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles. “A race that persist in celebrating their vintage, although they have no fruits to gather, will regain their vineyards. What sublime inexorability in the law! But what indomitable spirit in the people!”
So that’s why I’m a Zionist.
Douglas J. Feith, a senior fellow at Hudson Institute, served as Under Secretary of Defense for Policy from July 2001 until August 2005 in the George W. Bush administration.
Editor’s Note: This essay was adapted from remarks at a panel discussion titled “Why Am I a Zionist?” at the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School in Rockville, Md., on Jan. 11, 2021. It first appeared in National Review.
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If Israel had existed at the time, my grandparents and aunts and uncles would have had a place to escape to. Naturally, as a child, the humanitarian reasons to be a Zionist predominated with me.\nMy father was not much for books, but one that impressed him since he was a boy was “Auto-Emancipation,” a Zionist manifesto written in 1882 by a Russian Jew named Leo Pinsker. At my dad’s urging, I read it when I was young. I remember being struck by Pinsker’s observation that no people bleeds for foreigners, and so the stateless Jew seeking hospitality is like a beggar and a refugee. “And what beggar is welcome?” asks Pinsker, and “Where is the refugee to whom a refuge may not be refused?”\nAs an adult, I came to appreciate the positive reasons to be a Zionist. Israel is not just a refuge and bastion. For the Jews as a people, it is the “organic center.”\nI use that term because George Eliot used it in her novel “Daniel Deronda,” published in 1876. A Jewish character in the novel named Mordecai calls on his people to found “a new Jewish polity,” which would recreate their “organic centre,” revitalizing their civilization. Mordecai declares, “Let there be another great migration, another choosing of Israel to be a nationality.”\nMordecai argues: “Who says that the history and literature of our race are dead? Are they not as living as the history and literature of Greece and Rome, which have inspired revolutions? … These were an inheritance dug from the tomb. Ours is an inheritance that has never ceased to quiver in millions of human frames.”\nThese words often come to my mind. Eliot, a non-Jew whose real name was Mary Ann Evans, penned them 20 years before Theodor Herzl wrote “The Jewish State.”\nHer proto-Zionism does not lie in a tomb. It remains alive. I feel, as it were, that it quivers within me. I don’t think anyone in the last century-and-a-half has crystalized with greater force or elegance the affirmative reasons to be a Zionist.\n* * *\nTo be a Zionist is to revel in the ways Israel has integrated Jewish principles and traditions into the daily life of a large modern democratic society. Though liberal and secular, Israel is a Jewish state. What does that mean?\nIt means that the Jews are in the majority. Their collective interests prevail, so they enjoy the dignity of self-reliance and self-defense. Hebrew is the main language. Jewish history inspires the geographical names. Jewish subjects have a special place in the schools. The Jewish religious calendar influences the rhythm of life. Every Friday afternoon, even in nonreligious neighborhoods, one can hear the hush of Sabbath descend. Britain, Sweden and other democracies have crosses on their flags, while Israel has a Star of David. And the interests of Jewry as such are a primary concern of the national government.\nNone of this is so in any other country in the world.\nOn the way in which democracy and ethnicity relate to each other, a brief comment:\nAmerica’s Founders did not create our republic for the purpose of protecting a particular people’s existence and culture. In general, though Christmas is a national holiday, the American political tradition is averse to official privileges for particular ethnicities or faiths.\nSo, it’s understandable that an American may question how Israel can be both democratic and Jewish.\nThe short answer is that the way Americans practice democracy is not the only way. It helps to consider that most liberal, democratic countries were founded on an ethnic basis. Most give special consideration to the majority population’s cultural interests. Many favor a particular language. Some have a state church. A number, including Ireland and Japan, have laws of return that favor expatriates of the majority people. As democracies go, Israel, being ethnically based, is ordinary. It is the United States that is exceptional.\nThe compatibility of Zionism and democracy relates to the issue of dual loyalty, which poses the question of whether those American Jews who are Zionists should be viewed as having divided loyalties. The question has been of personal interest to me, of course, because of my government work. Some of my more rabid critics have accused me of divided loyalties.\nFirst of all, the frame of mind that produces such accusations is the same that argued for opposing John F. Kennedy’s presidential campaign on the grounds that, as a Roman Catholic, Kennedy would subordinate his oath of office to his loyalty to the pope. It’s simplistic and erroneous—and it violates the American democratic principles that it claims to uphold.\nThis matter was addressed nicely by American Jewish judge, and later, justice, Louis Brandeis.\n“Let no American imagine that Zionism is inconsistent with patriotism,” Brandeis said in a speech in 1915, soon before he joined the Supreme Court. “Multiple loyalties are objectionable only if they are inconsistent. A man is a better citizen of the United States for being also a loyal citizen of his state, and of his city; for being loyal to his family, and to his profession or trade. … Every Irish American who contributed towards advancing home rule was a better man and a better American for the sacrifice he made. Every American Jew who aids in advancing the Jewish settlement in Palestine, though he feels that neither he nor his descendants will ever live there, will likewise be a better man and a better American for doing so.”\nI say “Amen” to Justice Brandeis. Americans — Jewish or not — can easily square their support for Zionism with their sacred duties, in and out of the government, as American citizens.\nMy final comment is that there’s something miraculous about the Jews’ attachment to the Land of Israel. Benjamin Disraeli captured the magic in his 1847 novel “Tancred.” “The vineyards of Israel have ceased to exist, but the eternal law enjoins the children of Israel still to celebrate the vintage,” he wrote, referring to the Jewish Feast of Tabernacles. “A race that persist in celebrating their vintage, although they have no fruits to gather, will regain their vineyards. What sublime inexorability in the law! But what indomitable spirit in the people!”\nSo that’s why I’m a Zionist.\nDouglas J. Feith, a senior fellow at Hudson Institute, served as Under Secretary of Defense for Policy from July 2001 until August 2005 in the George W. Bush administration.\nEditor’s Note: This essay was adapted from remarks at a panel discussion titled “Why Am I a Zionist?” at the Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School in Rockville, Md., on Jan. 11, 2021. It first appeared in National Review.",
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Abdulhadi was released on bail but cannot leave the country until the conclusion of the investigation.
By David Isaac, World Israel News
A world-renowned Palestinian DJ Sama Abdulhadi, was released from custody on Sunday by the Palestinian Authority. She had been arrested in the wake of public outrage over a party for which she provided music at a mosque near Jericho.
She was released on bail amounting to 2,000 Jordanian dinars, Israel’s Kan public broadcaster reported. She will have to report to the police on a weekly basis until the end of the investigation. She is also barred from leaving the country.
Sama Abdulhadi is an anomaly in the Palestinian Authority, a female DJ artist who has achieved international recognition.
However, Abdulhadi stepped into hot water with local authorities when she DJ’d at the Nebi Musa mosque on the night of Dec. 26. The mosque appears to be largely abandoned but Palestinians say it’s the burial site of Moses – a claim which contradicts the biblical account.
When word got out about the party, the largely Muslim religious population of the PA expressed anger and Abdulhadi was arrested on Dec. 28.
She had been accused of desecrating the Muslim faith.
After the party, dozens of Palestinians arrived to pray at the site.
“What happened there at Nabi Musa is obscene. We will not remain quiet and will prosecute anyone who took part in it,” said Hussam Abu al-Rub, PA deputy minister for religious affairs.
The party reportedly featured alcohol and the co-mingling of men and women — both of which are forbidden by Islamic religious guidelines.
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The U.S. shares Israel’s view of the International Criminal Court as a platform for anti-Israel/anti-U.S. activism.
By World Israel News Staff
Israel is expected to seek cooperation from the new administration of President Joe Biden in blocking the International Criminal Court’s ongoing anti-Israel actions, Israel Hayom reported Sunday.
The first step will be to request in the coming weeks that the White House give its support in the selection process of the new chief prosecutor for the court located in the Dutch city of The Hague.
The outgoing Chief Prosecutor of the ICC, Fatou Bensouda, is leaving next month after nine years on the job marked by questionable rulings accusing both Israel and United States of war crimes, despite neither country being a signatory to the treaty that set up the court and thus not subject to its jurisdiction.
During the Trump administration, Bensouda and the ICC were the target of American sanctions following her decision to investigate both countries for war crimes. Trump’s executive order imposing the sanctions stated the move was also aimed at protecting Israel.
Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Bensouda and another court official were sanctioned over the court’s “illegitimate attempts to subject Americans to its jurisdiction.”
Biden was vice president during the Obama administration, when the U.S. refused to join the court because of the threats to prosecute members of the American armed forces.
Unlike her predecessors at the ICC who largely investigated war crimes in the developing world, Bensouda has said all crimes against humanity must be investigated and has looked into war crimes allegedly perpetrated by American and British soldiers.
One observer describes the court as nothing more than another tool in the anti-Israel crusade by the Palestinians.
“The ICC is an extension of the Palestinian leadership political-warfare strategy,” said Dan Diker of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. “It is a tool of war. Period.”
Despite the Palestinians not being a full member of the United Nations, a necessary qualification to join the court, Bensouda ruled that the Palestinians had standing, while at the same time rejecting all claims informally submitted by Israel, the report said.
The Biden administration has not yet commented on what its policy will be towards the ICC.
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Twitter’s stock tumbles 6.4% as it bans over 70,000 accounts questioning US election results
“Misleading and false information surrounding the 2020 US presidential election has been the basis for incitement to violence around the country,” Twitter said.
By Josh Plank, World Israel News
Twitter announced on Monday that it has suspended more than 70,000 accounts since Friday following last week’s protest over the certification of election results in Washington, D.C.
Twitter’s actions, which came in the wake of the Jan. 6 breach of the Capitol building by Trump supporters, have shifted the conversation from the riots themselves to issues of censorship and free speech for at least part of America’s electorate.
Wall Street may have been expressing its disapproval with Twitter’s actions as the company’s stock fell as much as 6.4% on Monday.
In a post on the company’s official blog, Twitter said the actions were taken “to protect the conversation on our service from attempts to incite violence, organize attacks, and share deliberately misleading information about the election outcome.”
“Now that the results of the election have been officially certified by Congress, we updated our Civic Integrity policy on Friday to aggressively increase our enforcement action on these claims,” the statement said.
Twitter’s Civic Integrity policy now prohibits “misleading information” about election outcomes “intended to undermine public confidence in an election or other civic process.”
Such information includes but is not limited to “disputed claims that could undermine faith in the process itself” and “misleading claims” about election results that “could lead to interference with the implementation of the results.”
“Ultimately, repeated violations of this policy can result in permanent suspension,” Twitter said.
Twitter said it’s no longer allowing any tweets labeled for violations of its Civic Integrity policy to be replied to, liked, or retweeted.
They stole an election. Now they want to silence anyone who questions the fraud. — Jim Hoft (@gatewaypundit) January 11, 2021
The company also said it is blocking certain keywords from trending and appearing in search results.
Twitter said that accounts that have tweeted or retweeted unapproved content will be subject to “limited visibility across search, replies, and on timelines,” a process commonly known as “shadow banning.”
Twitter announced the permanent suspension of President Donald Trump on Friday, “due to the risk of further incitement of violence.”
Similarly, on Monday Facebook announced that it’s removing all content containing the phrase “stop the steal” from Facebook and Instagram. Facebook banned President Trump from its platform indefinitely on Thursday.
Social media’s turn against Trump has caused his supporters to seek alternative social media platforms like Parler and Gab. Prominent conservative pundits have announced they are leaving Twitter in protest. Rush Limbaugh’s Twitter account has already been deactivated.
Apple and Google have both removed the Parler app from their app stores, while Amazon booted Parler from its web-hosting service on Sunday night, citing inadequate content-moderation as its reason.
“There is the possibility Parler will be unavailable on the internet for up to a week as we rebuild from scratch,” said Parler CEO John Matze.
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"Twitter’s stock tumbles 6.4% as it bans over 70,000 accounts questioning US election results\n“Misleading and false information surrounding the 2020 US presidential election has been the basis for incitement to violence around the country,” Twitter said.\nBy Josh Plank, World Israel News\nTwitter announced on Monday that it has suspended more than 70,000 accounts since Friday following last week’s protest over the certification of election results in Washington, D.C.\nTwitter’s actions, which came in the wake of the Jan. 6 breach of the Capitol building by Trump supporters, have shifted the conversation from the riots themselves to issues of censorship and free speech for at least part of America’s electorate.\nWall Street may have been expressing its disapproval with Twitter’s actions as the company’s stock fell as much as 6.4% on Monday.\nIn a post on the company’s official blog, Twitter said the actions were taken “to protect the conversation on our service from attempts to incite violence, organize attacks, and share deliberately misleading information about the election outcome.”\n“Now that the results of the election have been officially certified by Congress, we updated our Civic Integrity policy on Friday to aggressively increase our enforcement action on these claims,” the statement said.\nTwitter’s Civic Integrity policy now prohibits “misleading information” about election outcomes “intended to undermine public confidence in an election or other civic process.”\nSuch information includes but is not limited to “disputed claims that could undermine faith in the process itself” and “misleading claims” about election results that “could lead to interference with the implementation of the results.”\n“Ultimately, repeated violations of this policy can result in permanent suspension,” Twitter said.\nTwitter said it’s no longer allowing any tweets labeled for violations of its Civic Integrity policy to be replied to, liked, or retweeted.\nThey stole an election. Now they want to silence anyone who questions the fraud. — Jim Hoft (@gatewaypundit) January 11, 2021\nThe company also said it is blocking certain keywords from trending and appearing in search results.\nTwitter said that accounts that have tweeted or retweeted unapproved content will be subject to “limited visibility across search, replies, and on timelines,” a process commonly known as “shadow banning.”\nTwitter announced the permanent suspension of President Donald Trump on Friday, “due to the risk of further incitement of violence.”\nSimilarly, on Monday Facebook announced that it’s removing all content containing the phrase “stop the steal” from Facebook and Instagram. Facebook banned President Trump from its platform indefinitely on Thursday.\nSocial media’s turn against Trump has caused his supporters to seek alternative social media platforms like Parler and Gab. Prominent conservative pundits have announced they are leaving Twitter in protest. Rush Limbaugh’s Twitter account has already been deactivated.\nApple and Google have both removed the Parler app from their app stores, while Amazon booted Parler from its web-hosting service on Sunday night, citing inadequate content-moderation as its reason.\n“There is the possibility Parler will be unavailable on the internet for up to a week as we rebuild from scratch,” said Parler CEO John Matze.",
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“Democrats claim to want to unify the country but impeaching a former president, a private citizen, is the antithesis of unity,” said Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Tuesday. Forty five Republicans voted against holding a trial.
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The Israel Antiquities Authority, the Israeli police and Israel’s tax authority seized thousands of archaeological artifacts on Monday.
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A series of large swastikas were daubed in black paint on the doors of Congregation Shaar Hashomayim, a 160-year-old Modern Orthodox synagogue.
By The Algemeiner
A Montreal synagogue that was attended by legendary poet and singer Leonard Cohen during his life was targeted by anti-Semitic vandals on Wednesday.
A series of large swastikas were daubed in black paint on the doors of Congregation Shaar Hashomayim, a 160-year-old Modern Orthodox synagogue that performed Cohen’s funeral when the performer passed away in 2016.
Police were summoned to the scene at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday and arrested a 28-year-old man they said would be evaluated for mental health problems, according to local news reports.
The defacing of the synagogue was forthrightly condemned by Jewish groups and Canadian politicians across the spectrum.
“The Jewish community is outraged by today’s vile assault on Congregation Shaar Hashomayim in Westmount,” the Montreal Jewish Federation declared in a statement. “This attack targets the entire community and all those who embrace civility and tolerance.”
The mayor of the Montreal district of Westmount, where the synagogue is located, denounced what she called “this antisemitic act.”
“I want to assure members of the congregation and the entire Jewish community that we are committed to working with them to combat hatred and to build bridges of understanding and solidarity between neighbors of all backgrounds,” Mayor Christina Smith said.
Canada’s Minister for International Development, Karina Gould, said that the “hateful, antisemitic act is completely abhorrent and unacceptable.”
“We all have an obligation to stand against hatred in all of its forms and to protect all Canadians from violent behavior like this,” Gould stated on Twitter. “I stand with all Jewish Canadians against this vile act of hatred.”
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Balad is an anti-Zionist, anti-Jewish State party that is nevertheless permitted to serve in Israel’s parliament.
By David Isaac, World Israel News
Sami Abu Shehadeh, 45, a resident of Jaffa, was elected the new head of the Arab party Balad on Saturday night by a vote of 230-159 in the party’s primaries. He replaces former leader Mtanes Shihadeh.
Balad may fairly be described as an anti-Israel party that serves in Israel’s parliament. It opposes Zionism and a Jewish State, couching its opposition as support for a “state for all its citizens.”
In October, the Arab parties in the Knesset voted against the UAE-Israel peace deal.
Abu Shehadeh, the newly elected leader of Balad, said then: “This is one of the largest arms deals that Israel has made in recent years… If this is Israeli peace – we do not want it.”
“As part of the Palestinian people, we are fighting for peace, justice and equality for all citizens,” he said.
Balad is part of the Joint List, a group of four Arab parties that won 15 seats in the last election, making it the third-largest faction in Israel’s parliament. However, it looks like the Joint List is disintegrating ahead of the March 23 elections as one of the parties, Ra’am, or the United Arab List, was reported to be pulling out.
Israel’s Supreme Court has overturned numerous decisions to ban the Balad party or its individual members. Most recently, the court overturned a ban on MK Heba Yazbak by the Central Elections Committee for, among other things, praising a particularly vicious terrorist as a “martyred warrior.”
In March 2020, Yazbak introduced her plan to divest Israel of its “Jewish and Zionist existence” in two Arabic interviews, Arutz 7 reports.
The Supreme Court also overturned a ban against Balad in 2003 by Israel’s Central Elections Committee, and in 2002, the court cancelled a trial against the party’s founder, Azmi Bishara, charged and indicted for supporting terror organizations.
The party has not let up on its incitement and support for terrorists. In June, the party commemorated the 90th anniversary of the execution of three terrorists who massacred Jews in Mandate-era Palestine via a post on its official Facebook page, referring to them as the “martyrs of the Al-Buraq revolution.”
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Funeral workers in a room for people who died from coronavirus at the Sanhedriya Cemetery in Jerusalem, Jan. 25, 2021. (Flash90/Yonatan Sindel)
Top officials caution Ben Gurion Airport may need closure until mid-February, Israel could see a fourth national lockdown as British mutation spreads.
By Paul Shindman, World Israel news
Two of Israel’s top health officials warned Monday that with new mutations of the coronavirus spreading in the country, it is possible the total closure on passenger air travel in and out of Israel may have to be extended and there is no guarantee a fourth national lockdown won’t happen.
The head of the Health Ministry’s public health service, Dr. Sharon Alroy-Preis, told a Knesset committee that the six-day closure of Ben Gurion Airport would not be enough.
“We will have to extend the closure by at least a few weeks to buy time for the vaccination campaign,” Alroy-Preis said, adding that despite a drop in infections from the national lockdown, the numbers were still too high.
“We are in a problematic situation in terms of morbidity. Although the infection rate is declining, we are still under a great deal of pressure,” Alroy-Preis said. “We arrived at this [situation] because of the British mutation.”
Health officials last week identified several Israelis who arrived from abroad infected with the mutated coronavirus that is rapidly spreading, as well as some cases with the highly contagious South African mutation of the virus.
The head of Israel’s national coronavirus task force, Prof. Nachman Ash, told Radio FM103 in Tel Aviv that up to 50% of new infections are now being caused by British mutation and that unless checked, Israel could face a fourth national lockdown.
Asked if the current lockdown would be Israel’s last, the former head of medicine in the IDF said he wasn’t so sure.
“When I was asked two or three weeks ago, I probably said yes,” Ash said. “Today I am much more careful. The various variants and especially the spread of the British variant require us to leave this lockdown very carefully.”
Alroy-Preis cautioned that while the rapidly spreading British mutation has hit the ultra-Orthodox sector, the mutation is not yet common in the Arab sector, “which means that the rise in morbidity is still ahead of us.”
“The [Pfizer] vaccine works against the British mutation but the virus rate is much faster than the vaccination rate,” Alroy-Preis said, adding that it was hard for her to believe that the country would be able to get out of the lockdown next Monday as the government had planned.
Health Ministry statistics Monday showed another 4,869 Israelis tested positive for coronavirus in the past day, with the number of current active cases dropping to 70,859 after peaking at just over 82,000 last week.
Of the 1,861 Israelis currently hospitalized with the virus, 1,180 were listed in serious or critical condition, down from a high of 1,237, but the number of Israelis in critical condition connected to respirators rose to a new high of 369.
As of Monday, 2.6 million of Israel’s 9.3 million citizens had received at least one shot of the American Pfizer vaccine, with 1.1 million being fully vaccinated with the second shot.
The death toll continues to accelerate with over 1,000 Israelis already succumbing to the disease this month, almost one quarter of the entire 4,437 who have died since the beginning of the pandemic.
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The report, extraordinary for its distortions, ignored the integration of Arab-Israelis into Israeli society.
By David Isaac, World Israel News
A radical anti-Israel NGO, B’Tselem, which has been mischaracterized as a “leading Israeli human rights group” by Associated Press, described Israel and its control of the Palestinian territories as a single “apartheid” regime.
In a report released Tuesday, B’Tselem says that while Palestinians live under different forms of Israeli control in Judea and Samaria, Gaza, eastern Jerusalem and within Israel itself, they have fewer rights than Jews in the entire area between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River.
“One of the key points in our analysis is that this is a single geopolitical area ruled by one government,” said B’Tselem director Hagai El-Ad. “This is not democracy plus occupation. This is apartheid between the river and the sea.”
The report, extraordinary for its distortions, ignores facts that contradict its premise, but which are evident to anyone conducting even a cursory analysis of Arabs’ place in Israeli society, where an Arab party, the Joint List is the third-largest faction in the Knesset with 15 seats. Israeli Arabs serve on Israel’s Supreme Court and last year, Israel’s Foreign Ministry appointed its first Bedouin ambassador, who represents the country in Eritrea.
Recently, the Israel Defense Forces was surprised by the number of Israeli Arabs who responded to an online manpower initiative. “As a result, we opened a recruitment bureau in the Galilee, where volunteers can study to improve their Hebrew. This branch will be able to recruit a total of up to 2,500 people a year,” the IDF’s Manpower Directorate told Ynet.
B’Tselem also appeared to ignore the fact that the vast number of Palestinians in Judea and Samaria, some 1.5 million, are ruled by the Palestinian Authority and not Israel. The Gaza Strip with a population of some 700,000 is controlled by Hamas.
Eugene Kontorovich, director of international law at the Jerusalem-based Kohelet Policy Forum, says the fact that the Palestinians have their own government makes any talk of apartheid “inapplicable,” calling the B’Tselem report “shockingly weak, dishonest and misleading.”
Palestinian leaders agreed to the territorial divisions in the Oslo accords. That, Kontorovich says, is a far cry from the territories designated for Black South Africans under apartheid — known as bantustans — to which many Palestinians compare the areas governed by the PA.
Kontorovich said the use of the word “apartheid” was instead aimed at demonizing Israel in a way that “resonates with racial sensitivities and debates in America and the West.”
Itay Milner, a spokesman for Israel’s consulate general in New York, dismissed the B’Tselem report as “another tool for them to promote their political agenda,” which he said was based on a “distorted ideological view.”
B’Tselem is a marginal group in Israel with little public backing and which relies on foreign funding for its support. NGO Monitor says “donations from foreign countries comprised 64.7% of total donations from 2012-2016” for B’Tselem.
In Oct. 2018, B’Tselem’s leader El-Ad spoke before the UN Security Council where he also compared Israel to Apartheid-era South Africa.
His talk was roundly condemned by both sides of Israel’s political aisle. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called it a “disgrace.” Opposition MK Yair Lapid said El-Ad’s appearance was “the predictable mix of lies, distortions and propaganda. They represent no one but themselves.”
Then-US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley also criticized El-Ad’s talk, calling it “the sort of distorted and one-sided accounting” frequently seen at UN debates on the Israel-Palestinian conflict.
AP contributed to this report.
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"The report, extraordinary for its distortions, ignored the integration of Arab-Israelis into Israeli society.\nBy David Isaac, World Israel News\nA radical anti-Israel NGO, B’Tselem, which has been mischaracterized as a “leading Israeli human rights group” by Associated Press, described Israel and its control of the Palestinian territories as a single “apartheid” regime.\nIn a report released Tuesday, B’Tselem says that while Palestinians live under different forms of Israeli control in Judea and Samaria, Gaza, eastern Jerusalem and within Israel itself, they have fewer rights than Jews in the entire area between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River.\n“One of the key points in our analysis is that this is a single geopolitical area ruled by one government,” said B’Tselem director Hagai El-Ad. “This is not democracy plus occupation. This is apartheid between the river and the sea.”\nThe report, extraordinary for its distortions, ignores facts that contradict its premise, but which are evident to anyone conducting even a cursory analysis of Arabs’ place in Israeli society, where an Arab party, the Joint List is the third-largest faction in the Knesset with 15 seats. Israeli Arabs serve on Israel’s Supreme Court and last year, Israel’s Foreign Ministry appointed its first Bedouin ambassador, who represents the country in Eritrea.\nRecently, the Israel Defense Forces was surprised by the number of Israeli Arabs who responded to an online manpower initiative. “As a result, we opened a recruitment bureau in the Galilee, where volunteers can study to improve their Hebrew. This branch will be able to recruit a total of up to 2,500 people a year,” the IDF’s Manpower Directorate told Ynet.\nB’Tselem also appeared to ignore the fact that the vast number of Palestinians in Judea and Samaria, some 1.5 million, are ruled by the Palestinian Authority and not Israel. The Gaza Strip with a population of some 700,000 is controlled by Hamas.\nEugene Kontorovich, director of international law at the Jerusalem-based Kohelet Policy Forum, says the fact that the Palestinians have their own government makes any talk of apartheid “inapplicable,” calling the B’Tselem report “shockingly weak, dishonest and misleading.”\nPalestinian leaders agreed to the territorial divisions in the Oslo accords. That, Kontorovich says, is a far cry from the territories designated for Black South Africans under apartheid — known as bantustans — to which many Palestinians compare the areas governed by the PA.\nKontorovich said the use of the word “apartheid” was instead aimed at demonizing Israel in a way that “resonates with racial sensitivities and debates in America and the West.”\nItay Milner, a spokesman for Israel’s consulate general in New York, dismissed the B’Tselem report as “another tool for them to promote their political agenda,” which he said was based on a “distorted ideological view.”\nB’Tselem is a marginal group in Israel with little public backing and which relies on foreign funding for its support. NGO Monitor says “donations from foreign countries comprised 64.7% of total donations from 2012-2016” for B’Tselem.\nIn Oct. 2018, B’Tselem’s leader El-Ad spoke before the UN Security Council where he also compared Israel to Apartheid-era South Africa.\nHis talk was roundly condemned by both sides of Israel’s political aisle. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called it a “disgrace.” Opposition MK Yair Lapid said El-Ad’s appearance was “the predictable mix of lies, distortions and propaganda. They represent no one but themselves.”\nThen-US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley also criticized El-Ad’s talk, calling it “the sort of distorted and one-sided accounting” frequently seen at UN debates on the Israel-Palestinian conflict.\nAP contributed to this report.",
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“Sheldon was true to his family, his country, and all those that knew him,” Trump said.
By David Isaac, World Israel News
President Donald Trump mourned the death of billionaire casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, who died on Monday night at 87 from cancer at his home in Malibu, Calif.
“Sheldon lived the true American dream. Sheldon was true to his family, his country, and all those that knew him. The world has lost a great man. He will be missed,” Trump said on Monday.
Vice President Mike Pence also expressed his condolences. “Sheldon Adelson not only lived the American dream, he embodied it; a philanthropist whose generosity knew no bounds and helped shape countless worthy causes; and a businessman who changed an immeasurable number of lives,” Pence said.
Adelson started as the son of a cab driver and built an immense fortune in the casino and hotel business, with properties in Las Vegas, Macau and other places. His fortune was estimated at between $35-$40 billion.
He became a major donor to political causes, both in the U.S. and Israel. He was the “largest single donor” in 2012 and gave $25 million to help elect Trump, The New York Times reports.
However, politicians from both sides of the aisle praised him. Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Nevada Democrat, said “Few people have had such significant an impact on the hotel and gaming industry and on Nevada’s economy as Sheldon Adelson. He was instrumental in transforming Las Vegas into the iconic destination it is today.”
“Sheldon Adelson is a man who has served our community in many ways: he was a pioneer in the casino and convention industry, a skilled businessman, and a philanthropist who funded a school, medical research, and countless other causes,” said Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford, a Democrat.
“I am saddened to hear of the passing of Sheldon Adelson. As Jewish leaders, we also shared a deep concern for the rise in anti-Semitism and joined efforts to help combat hate.” said U.S. Sen. Jacky Rosen, a Nevada Democrat.
Adelson was a major contributor to Birthright Israel, which funded trips of young Jews from around the world to Israel to connect with their Jewish heritage. He owned two Hebrew newspapers – Israel Hayom, the country’s largest-circulation daily, and the weekly Makor Rishon.
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A number of photographs posted to social media showed rioters dressed in T-shirts bearing anti-Semitic slogans.
By Ben Cohen, Algemeiner
The storming of Capitol Hill on Wednesday afternoon by militant supporters of President Donald Trump featured several instances of anti-Semitic agitation, from a virulent Holocaust denier who helped ransack House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office to various individuals who displayed far-right and neo-Nazi slogans and symbols.
Shortly after the crowd broke into the Capitol Building at 1:00 p.m., Nick Fuentes — a notorious Holocaust denier and far-right propagandist who was booted from the YouTube platform in Feb. 2020 — as well as Tim Gionet, a neo-Nazi who goes by the moniker “Baked Alaska,” smashed their way into Pelosi’s office.
For the next 20 minutes, the two livestreamed footage of the assault on Capitol Hill, with Gionet ostentatiously making calls from the telephone on Pelosi’s desk.
Neither man was arrested by police officers yesterday, resulting in a stream of critical posts on social media. “Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes and neo-Nazi loser Baked Alaska both live-streamed from Pelosi’s office after storming the capitol,” tweeted one commenter. “@FBI, why have neither of them been arrested?”
Fuentes — a key figure in the infamous neo-Nazi “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville in 2017 — has a lengthy record of pushing anti-Semitic, anti-Muslim and openly racist rhetoric. A dossier of his outbursts prepared by anti-Semitism watchdog Canary Mission includes such remarks as comparing sex with a black man to sex with “my dog,” and the claim that the First Amendment does not apply to Muslims because of their “barbaric ideology.”
He has called Jewish neoconservatives “agents of the devil” and suggested that Jews could “stay here and we’ll tolerate you, but you kinda have your own country already.” Fuentes has also denied and mocked the Holocaust on several occasions, including a video he posted online in Oct. 2019 that questioned the scope of the slaughter by likening Jewish victims of the Nazis to cookies baked in an oven.
Gionet, another leading participant in the Charlottesville rally, was similarly banned from YouTube in Oct. 2020 for pushing hateful content. He frequently used his Twitter account to post the “14 words” — a mantra adopted by neo-Nazis for the preservation of the “white race” — and once posed the question, “Internet: Why do you want to gas the Jews?”
A number of photographs posted to social media showed rioters dressed in T-shirts bearing anti-Semitic slogans. One man wore a shirt with the words “Camp Auschwitz” printed above a skull and crossbones.
Among the terrorists invading Capitol today was a man (left) wearing a sweatshirt saying, “Camp Auschwitz”:@mikedebonis pic.twitter.com/NxhjdPqXBG — Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) January 7, 2021
Other T-shirts on display on Wednesday included one bearing the abbreviation “6MWE,” which stands for “six million wasn’t enough” — a reference to the number of Jews exterminated by the Nazis during WWII. The same shirt featured a wartime image associated with Italy’s fascist dictatorship.
In a disturbing incident that took place outside the Capitol Building, an Israeli television reporter engaged in a live broadcast was accosted by a pro-Trump demonstrator who showered him with anti-Semitic abuse. The demonstrator called the correspondent for Israel’s Channel 13 a “lying Israeli” and a “yid” as he ranted about U.S. aid to the State of Israel.
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The Biden-Harris administration will restore the failed Iran agreement, which “poses an existential threat to Israel,” Sen. Ted Cruz told Israel Hayom.
By David Isaac, World Israel News
Republican senator from Texas Ted Cruz warned that the Biden administration will rush to return to the Iran deal, creating a clear and present danger to the Jewish State. He made his remarks in an interview with Israel Hayom on Wednesday.
Cruz told the paper that U.S.-Israel relations will become especially fragile with Joe Biden in power, primarily because of his plans to reenter the Iran deal, which had been negotiated in 2015 during the Obama administration, in which Biden served as vice president.
“The Biden-Harris administration will set as their top foreign policy objective restoring that failed agreement. The single most important national security victory of the last four years was pulling out of that disastrous deal,” Cruz said.
“I fear we are headed into a dangerous chapter with the Biden-Harris administration, working actively to undermine the national security gains made in the last four years, and to reinvigorate the ayatollahs in Iran, which poses an existential threat to Israel,” he said.
During the election campaign, Biden promised to return to the deal. Underscoring his promise, he has brought in former Obama team members, in particular Wendy Sherman, lead negotiator on the Iran deal, whom he nominated for deputy secretary of state.
In a Tuesday op-ed on the nomination, JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin wrote of Sherman’s 2015 negotiating efforts, “By any objective standard, Sherman’s handiwork was a disaster. A government that was a merciless tyranny at home, a threat to the stability of neighboring Arab states and pledged to Israel’s destruction had been enriched and empowered.”
The 2015 Iran deal was sold as a success by Obama’s team, which said it prevented the Islamic Republic from obtaining nuclear weapons. As president, Donald Trump criticized what he called the deal’s “near total silence on Iran’s missile programs.” He pulled the U.S. out of the deal in May 2018.
The most prominent critic of the deal was Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who called it a “historic mistake” and made the need for stopping Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons his administration’s No. 1 priority.
U.S. conservatives like Cruz also joined in condemning the deal and urged Trump to abandon it.
Cruz told Israel Hayom, “There was a vigorous debate in the administration of whether to do so. Both the State Department and the Pentagon advocated staying in the deal. I argued vigorously multiple times that we should pull out of the deal, and President Trump agreed with me and overruled his own defense department and state department withdrawing from the deal.”
Cruz, who has been a staunch supporter of Israel in the Senate, told Israel Hayom, “I think the greatest national security threat to Israel that will be posed by the Biden-Harris administration will be their attempt to reestablish the disastrous Iran nuclear deal.”
“Under President Obama, the signature so-called foreign policy achievement of his second term was sending hundreds of billions of dollars to Ayatollah Khamenei, who regularly chants ‘Death to America’ and ‘Death to Israel,'” Cruz added.
In 2016, the Obama White House sent $400 million in cash as part of the deal to Iran, an event widely reported and which caused some embarrassment to the administration.
Netanyahu, in warning Obama against the deal, said, “In the coming decade, the deal will reward Iran, the terrorist regime in Tehran, with hundreds of billions of dollars. This cash bonanza will fuel Iran’s terrorism worldwide, its aggression in the region and its efforts to destroy Israel, which are ongoing.”
In 2019, then-Israeli ambassador to the UN Danny Danon, in a presentation at the UN Security Council, estimated that Iran had spent $7 billion on terror activities in the Middle East.
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Hollywood celebrity’s jewelry collection includes a ‘Blesslev’ necklace inspired by the followers of hasidic Rabbi Nachman of Breslov.
By World Israel News staff
American celebrity Kim Kardashian has discovered the power of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov, or at least she’s been captivated by a jewelry line inspired by the great hasidic rabbi who for the past 250 years has been motivating Jews around the world, The Forward reported this week.
Breslov, who encouraged his followers to sing and dance, is revered for his spirituality. Tens of thousands of Jews make pilgrimage to his grave in the Ukrainian city of Uman each year to gain inspiration during Rosh Hashana, the Jewish new year that starts the 10 days of repentance, culminating with Yom Kipur.
Several Jews scrolling through Kardashian’s Instagram account noticed she had a piece of jewelry story in the form of a pouch with the Hebrew phrase “na nach nachma nachman meouman” – which translates to Na Na Nachman from Uman, The Forward reported.
The amulet is the work of Los Angeles jewelry designer Jacquie Aiche, whose “Blesslev” line of jewelry appears to be inspired by the Breslov hasidim. Aiche uses Hebrew characters, some of them inverted, that match the shape of the English letters that spell out the word Blesslev.
“Branded as ‘a daily source of gratitude’ and ‘an amulet of protection,’ items from the collection retail for as much as $615 and look like something a village crone sewed to ward off the bubonic plague,” Forward correspondent Irene Katz Connelly noted. “With each purchase comes a printed version of the mantra with instructions to spend 15 minutes each day chanting it in ‘a quiet and comfortable place’.”
Kardashian herself is well-known to be inspired by the holiness of Israel. In 2015 she and husband, rapper Kanye West, brought their newborn daughter to Jerusalem to be baptized. The couple is reportedly getting a divorce.
Aiche, who is Jewish, collaborated with French mystic Sylvain Sellam, who follows Breslov teachings and offers spiritual consultations at Aiche’s Los Angeles workshop, according to the Forward. Each piece of Blesslev jewelry comes with “a gratitude list and mantra” with an explanation page that says the “na na nachman” mantra is “kabbalistic.”
While most customers might not know of Rabbi Nachman or associate the jewelry with Judaism, pop-star Madonna is a big believer in kabbalah – Jewish mysticism – and is known to have worn a red thread on her wrist, a kabbalistic talisman to ward off the evil eye.
The Forward wrote that while many Jews are familiar with the “na na nachman” chant, it was hard to understand what the mantra was doing on Kardashian’s social media feed.
Although Kardashian would not blink at the pricey Blesslev line, Katz Connelly suggested that those seeking Divine intervention to ward off evil spirits might opt for the Madonna route.
“To anyone tempted to spend their entire stimulus check on a Kardashian-certified talisman that vaguely piggybacks off Jewish tradition, we have one thing to say: save yourself $614 and buy one of the red string kabbalah bracelets, which carry the ringing endorsements of Madonna and Michael Cohen,” Katz Connelly wrote, noting that President Trump’s former lawyer wore a red string when he testified before Congress.
“If it protected them, it’ll protect you,” she added.
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“Joe Biden abused the power of the Office of the Vice President, enabling bribery and other high crimes and misdemeanors,” said Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.
By Josh Plank, World Israel News
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) announced Thursday that she has introduced articles of impeachment against President Joe Biden.
“President Joe Biden is unfit to hold the office of the presidency,” said Greene in a statement issued just one day after Biden’s inauguration.
I just filed Articles of Impeachment on President @JoeBiden. pic.twitter.com/mcwEEkKiHL — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) January 21, 2021
“His pattern of abuse of power as President Obama’s vice president is lengthy and disturbing. President Biden has demonstrated that he will do whatever it takes to bail out his son, Hunter, and line his family’s pockets with cash from corrupt foreign energy companies,” she said.
Greene called the case against Biden “vast and detailed,” and said that he had “gravely endangered the security of the United States.”
“Joe Biden abused the power of the Office of the Vice President, enabling bribery and other high crimes and misdemeanors, by allowing his son to influence the domestic policy of a foreign nation and accept various benefits—including financial compensation—from foreign nationals in exchange for certain favors,” she said.
Greene said that Hunter Biden had received millions of dollars from foreign sources, seemingly in exchange for access to his father.
“President Biden is even on tape admitting to a quid pro quo with the Ukrainian government threatening to withhold $1,000,000,000 in foreign aid if they did not do his bidding,” she said.
Greene was referring to a January 2018 meeting of the Council on Foreign Relations, in which Biden seems to brag about having used his power as vice president in 2016 to force Ukraine to fire its top anti-corruption prosecutor, Viktor Shokin.
At the time, Shokin had an active investigation against a company called Burisma, and Hunter Biden was serving on Burisma’s board of directors.
Greene posted the relevant portion of the video on Twitter.
I misspoke about the amount of money then-Vice President @JoeBiden threatened to withhold from Ukraine. Here are his own words: “You’re not getting the billion dollars. I said, you’re not getting the billion.” “If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money.” pic.twitter.com/xikZCirMlZ — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) January 17, 2021
“The evidence of widespread knowledge, corruption, and collusion on behalf of the Biden family with foreign nationals is clear and compelling,” she said.
“President Biden residing in the White House is a threat to national security and he must be immediately impeached,” said Greene.
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"GOP lawmaker initiates impeachment of Biden, calls him ‘a threat to national security’\n“Joe Biden abused the power of the Office of the Vice President, enabling bribery and other high crimes and misdemeanors,” said Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.\nBy Josh Plank, World Israel News\nRep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) announced Thursday that she has introduced articles of impeachment against President Joe Biden.\n“President Joe Biden is unfit to hold the office of the presidency,” said Greene in a statement issued just one day after Biden’s inauguration.\nI just filed Articles of Impeachment on President @JoeBiden. pic.twitter.com/mcwEEkKiHL — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) January 21, 2021\n“His pattern of abuse of power as President Obama’s vice president is lengthy and disturbing. President Biden has demonstrated that he will do whatever it takes to bail out his son, Hunter, and line his family’s pockets with cash from corrupt foreign energy companies,” she said.\nGreene called the case against Biden “vast and detailed,” and said that he had “gravely endangered the security of the United States.”\n“Joe Biden abused the power of the Office of the Vice President, enabling bribery and other high crimes and misdemeanors, by allowing his son to influence the domestic policy of a foreign nation and accept various benefits—including financial compensation—from foreign nationals in exchange for certain favors,” she said.\nGreene said that Hunter Biden had received millions of dollars from foreign sources, seemingly in exchange for access to his father.\n“President Biden is even on tape admitting to a quid pro quo with the Ukrainian government threatening to withhold $1,000,000,000 in foreign aid if they did not do his bidding,” she said.\nGreene was referring to a January 2018 meeting of the Council on Foreign Relations, in which Biden seems to brag about having used his power as vice president in 2016 to force Ukraine to fire its top anti-corruption prosecutor, Viktor Shokin.\nAt the time, Shokin had an active investigation against a company called Burisma, and Hunter Biden was serving on Burisma’s board of directors.\nGreene posted the relevant portion of the video on Twitter.\nI misspoke about the amount of money then-Vice President @JoeBiden threatened to withhold from Ukraine. Here are his own words: “You’re not getting the billion dollars. I said, you’re not getting the billion.” “If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money.” pic.twitter.com/xikZCirMlZ — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (@RepMTG) January 17, 2021\n“The evidence of widespread knowledge, corruption, and collusion on behalf of the Biden family with foreign nationals is clear and compelling,” she said.\n“President Biden residing in the White House is a threat to national security and he must be immediately impeached,” said Greene.",
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GOP passions appear to have cooled since the insurrection.
By Associated Press
As the House prepares to bring the impeachment charge against Donald Trump to the Senate for trial, a growing number of Republican senators say they are opposed to the proceeding, dimming the chances that the former president will be convicted on the charge that he incited a siege of the U.S. Capitol.
House Democrats will carry the sole impeachment charge of “incitement of insurrection” across the Capitol late Monday evening, a rare and ceremonial walk to the Senate by the prosecutors who will argue their case.
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.
But instead, GOP passions appear to have cooled since the insurrection. Now that Trump’s presidency is over, Republican senators who will serve as jurors in the trial are rallying to his legal defense, as they did during his first impeachment trial last year.
“I think the trial is stupid, I think it’s counterproductive,” said Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla.. He said that “the first chance I get to vote to end this trial, I’ll do it” because he believes it would be bad for the country and further inflame partisan divisions.
Trump is the first former president to face impeachment trial, and it will test his grip on the Republican Party as well as the legacy of his tenure, which came to a close as a mob of supporters stormed the Capitol despite being told by Trump to “peacefully” march to the building.
The proceedings will also force Democrats, who have a full sweep of party control of the White House and Congress, to balance their promise to hold the former president accountable while also rushing to deliver on Biden’s priorities.
Arguments in the Senate trial will begin the week of Feb. 8. Leaders in both parties agreed to the short delay to give Trump’s team and House prosecutors time to prepare and the Senate the chance to confirm some of Biden’s Cabinet nominees. Democrats say the extra days will allow for more evidence to come out about the rioting by Trump supporters, while Republicans hope to craft a unified defense for Trump.
Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., said in an interview with The Associated Press on Sunday that he hopes that evolving clarity on the details of what happened Jan. 6 “will make it clearer to my colleagues and the American people that we need some accountability.”
Coons questioned how his colleagues who were in the Capitol that day could see the insurrection as anything other than a “stunning violation” of tradition of peaceful transfers of power.
An early vote to dismiss the trial probably would not succeed, given that Democrats now control the Senate. Still, the mounting Republican opposition indicates that many GOP senators would eventually vote to acquit Trump. Democrats would need the support of 17 Republicans — a high bar — to convict him.
When the House impeached Trump on Jan. 13, exactly one week after the siege, Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., said he didn’t believe the Senate had the constitutional authority to convict Trump after he had left office. On Sunday, Cotton said “the more I talk to other Republican senators, the more they’re beginning to line up” behind that argument.
“I think a lot of Americans are going to think it’s strange that the Senate is spending its time trying to convict and remove from office a man who left office a week ago,” Cotton said.
Democrats reject that argument, pointing to a 1876 impeachment of a secretary of war who had already resigned. Democrats also say that a reckoning of the first invasion of the Capitol since the War of 1812, perpetrated by rioters against election results that were being counted at the time, is necessary so the country can move forward and ensure such a siege never happens again.
A few GOP senators have agreed with Democrats, though not close to the number that will be needed to convict Trump.
Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, said he believes there is a “preponderance of opinion” that an impeachment trial is appropriate after someone leaves office.
“I believe that what is being alleged and what we saw, which is incitement to insurrection, is an impeachable offense,” Romney said. “If not, what is?”
But Romney, the lone Republican to vote to convict Trump when the Senate acquitted the then-president in last year’s trial, appears to be an outlier.
Sen. Mike Rounds, R-South Dakota, said he believes a trial is a “moot point” after a president’s term is over, “and I think it’s one that they would have a very difficult time in trying to get done within the Senate.”
On Friday, GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a close Trump ally who has been helping him build a legal team, urged the Senate to reject the idea of a post-presidency trial — potentially with a vote to dismiss the charge — and suggested Republicans will scrutinize whether Trump’s words on Jan. 6 were legally “incitement.”
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, who said last week that Trump “provoked” his supporters before the riot, has not said how he will vote or argued any legal strategies. The Kentucky senator has told his GOP colleagues that it will be a vote of conscience.
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"GOP passions appear to have cooled since the insurrection.\nBy Associated Press\nAs the House prepares to bring the impeachment charge against Donald Trump to the Senate for trial, a growing number of Republican senators say they are opposed to the proceeding, dimming the chances that the former president will be convicted on the charge that he incited a siege of the U.S. Capitol.\nHouse Democrats will carry the sole impeachment charge of “incitement of insurrection” across the Capitol late Monday evening, a rare and ceremonial walk to the Senate by the prosecutors who will argue their case.\nThey 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.\nBut instead, GOP passions appear to have cooled since the insurrection. Now that Trump’s presidency is over, Republican senators who will serve as jurors in the trial are rallying to his legal defense, as they did during his first impeachment trial last year.\n“I think the trial is stupid, I think it’s counterproductive,” said Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla.. He said that “the first chance I get to vote to end this trial, I’ll do it” because he believes it would be bad for the country and further inflame partisan divisions.\nTrump is the first former president to face impeachment trial, and it will test his grip on the Republican Party as well as the legacy of his tenure, which came to a close as a mob of supporters stormed the Capitol despite being told by Trump to “peacefully” march to the building.\nThe proceedings will also force Democrats, who have a full sweep of party control of the White House and Congress, to balance their promise to hold the former president accountable while also rushing to deliver on Biden’s priorities.\nArguments in the Senate trial will begin the week of Feb. 8. Leaders in both parties agreed to the short delay to give Trump’s team and House prosecutors time to prepare and the Senate the chance to confirm some of Biden’s Cabinet nominees. Democrats say the extra days will allow for more evidence to come out about the rioting by Trump supporters, while Republicans hope to craft a unified defense for Trump.\nSen. Chris Coons, D-Del., said in an interview with The Associated Press on Sunday that he hopes that evolving clarity on the details of what happened Jan. 6 “will make it clearer to my colleagues and the American people that we need some accountability.”\nCoons questioned how his colleagues who were in the Capitol that day could see the insurrection as anything other than a “stunning violation” of tradition of peaceful transfers of power.\nAn early vote to dismiss the trial probably would not succeed, given that Democrats now control the Senate. Still, the mounting Republican opposition indicates that many GOP senators would eventually vote to acquit Trump. Democrats would need the support of 17 Republicans — a high bar — to convict him.\nWhen the House impeached Trump on Jan. 13, exactly one week after the siege, Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., said he didn’t believe the Senate had the constitutional authority to convict Trump after he had left office. On Sunday, Cotton said “the more I talk to other Republican senators, the more they’re beginning to line up” behind that argument.\n“I think a lot of Americans are going to think it’s strange that the Senate is spending its time trying to convict and remove from office a man who left office a week ago,” Cotton said.\nDemocrats reject that argument, pointing to a 1876 impeachment of a secretary of war who had already resigned. Democrats also say that a reckoning of the first invasion of the Capitol since the War of 1812, perpetrated by rioters against election results that were being counted at the time, is necessary so the country can move forward and ensure such a siege never happens again.\nA few GOP senators have agreed with Democrats, though not close to the number that will be needed to convict Trump.\nSen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, said he believes there is a “preponderance of opinion” that an impeachment trial is appropriate after someone leaves office.\n“I believe that what is being alleged and what we saw, which is incitement to insurrection, is an impeachable offense,” Romney said. “If not, what is?”\nBut Romney, the lone Republican to vote to convict Trump when the Senate acquitted the then-president in last year’s trial, appears to be an outlier.\nSen. Mike Rounds, R-South Dakota, said he believes a trial is a “moot point” after a president’s term is over, “and I think it’s one that they would have a very difficult time in trying to get done within the Senate.”\nOn Friday, GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a close Trump ally who has been helping him build a legal team, urged the Senate to reject the idea of a post-presidency trial — potentially with a vote to dismiss the charge — and suggested Republicans will scrutinize whether Trump’s words on Jan. 6 were legally “incitement.”\nSenate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, who said last week that Trump “provoked” his supporters before the riot, has not said how he will vote or argued any legal strategies. The Kentucky senator has told his GOP colleagues that it will be a vote of conscience.",
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Trump, chastened, says there will be an ‘orderly transition on January 20’
Trump acknowledged defeat in the Nov. 3 election for the first time, after a day of chaos and destruction on Capitol Hill.
By Associated Press
President Donald Trump said there would be an “orderly transition on January 20th” after Congress concluded the electoral vote count early Thursday certifying President-elect Joe Biden’s victory hours after he appeared to excuse the violent occupation of the U.S. Capitol by his supporters.
Trump acknowledged defeat in the Nov. 3 election for the first time, after a day of chaos and destruction on Capitol Hill perpetrated in his name by supporters that halted business in Congress for more than six hours.
“Even though I totally disagree with the outcome of the election, and the facts bear me out, nevertheless there will be an orderly transition on January 20th,” Trump said in a statement posted to Twitter by aides. His personal account was locked by the social media company for posting messages that appeared to justify the assault on the seat of the nation’s democracy.
Trump added, “While this represents the end of the greatest first term in presidential history, it’s only the beginning of our fight to Make America Great Again!”
Trump on Wednesday had encouraged his supporters to march on the Capitol to protest lawmakers’ actions, expressed empathy for the mob, which violently forced its way inside, clashed with police and forced lawmakers into hiding.
Election still stolen, he says
“These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly & unfairly treated for so long,” Trump wrote in a message that was later deleted by Twitter. He added, “Go home with love & in peace. Remember this day forever!”
In an earlier video he had praised the protesters as “special” people and said he understood their pain. Twitter later locked his account for the first time as it demanded he remove the tweets and threatened “permanent suspension.”
Trump’s response to the violence underscored his monthslong obsession with trying to overturn the results of the election, spending the final days of his presidency angrily stewing and lashing out at Republicans for perceived disloyalty.
Trump spent much of Wednesday afternoon watching the insurrection on television from his private dining room off the Oval Office. But aside from sparing appeals for calm issued at the insistence of his staff, he was largely disengaged as the nation’s capital descended into unprecedented scenes of chaos as a mob of thousands tried to halt the peaceful transition of power.
Instead, a White House official said, most of Trump’s attention was consumed by his ire at Vice President Mike Pence, who said he would not overturn the will of voters in the congressional electoral count. The official was not authorized to discuss the matter and spoke only on the condition of anonymity.
The violence, coupled with the president’s tepid response, appeared to drive many Republicans to the breaking point after years of allegiance to Trump. In a sign of growing frustration, a number of White House aides were discussing a potential mass resignation, according to people familiar with the conversation, although some harbored concerns about what Trump might do in his final two weeks in office if they were not there to serve as guardrails when so few remain.
After four years with no shortage of fraught moments, Wednesday’s events quickly emerged as the nadir of morale in the Trump White House, as aides looked on in horror at the chaos at the Capitol fomented by Trump.
Stephanie Grisham, the first lady’s chief of staff and a former White House press secretary, submitted her resignation Wednesday, but declined to say what has prompted her move. Deputy national security adviser Matt Pottinger, White House social secretary Rickie Niceta and deputy press secretary Sarah Matthews also resigned, according to officials.
More departures were expected in the coming days, officials said. But other aides indicated they were staying to help smooth the transition to President-elect Biden’s administration.
Trump has been single-mindedly focused on his electoral defeat since Election Day, aides said, at the expense of the other responsibilities of his office, including the fight against the raging coronavirus. Indeed, it was Pence, not Trump, who spoke with the acting defense secretary to discuss mobilizing the D.C National Guard on Wednesday afternoon.
Trump only reluctantly issued the tweets and taped a video encouraging an end to the violence. The posts came at the insistence of staff and amid mounting criticism from Republican lawmakers urging him to condemn the violence being perpetrated in his name, according to the official.
“I know your pain. I know your hurt. But you have to go home now,” he said in a video posted more than 90 minutes after lawmakers were evacuated from the House and Senate chambers. “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.”
Trump accounts suspended
In a sign of the extraordinary events that had unfolded over the previous 24 hours, Trump’s statement acknowledging that he would leave office on Jan. 20 could not be posted on the president’s Twitter or Facebook feeds because both accounts have been suspended by the companies. Instead, it was released via the Twitter account of Trump’s social media director, Dan Scavino, who frequently tweets on his behalf.
Hours earlier, Trump had appeared at a massive rally near the White House, where he continued to urge supporters to fight the election results and encouraged them to march to the Capitol in remarks that were peppered with incendiary language and rife with violent undertones. At one point, he even suggested he might join them — a prospect that was discussed by the White House but eventually abandoned.
“We’re going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue … and we’re going to the Capitol … we’re going to try and give our Republicans … the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country,” he said.
Earlier in the rally, his lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, had advocated what he had called “trial by combat.”
Trump’s tweets and video also drew the attention of the social media giants he has frequently maligned. The video was removed by Facebook, “because on balance we believe it contributes to rather than diminishes the risk of ongoing violence,” said the site’s head of integrity, Guy Rosen.
Twitter took a more punitive approach, locking Trump’s account and warning, “Future violations of the Twitter Rules, including our Civic Integrity or Violent Threats policies, will result in permanent suspension of the @realDonaldTrump account.”
Before Trump released the video, Republican lawmakers and former administration officials had begged the president to intervene as the violence spiraled.
“I called him. I think we need to make a statement, make sure that we can calm individuals down,” House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy of California told Fox News.
A Senate ally, Republican Marco Rubio of Florida, appealed directly to the president in a tweet: “Mr. President @realDonaldTrump the men & women of law enforcement are under assault. It is crucial you help restore order by sending resources to assist the police and ask those doing this to stand down.”
Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., posted a video message urging Trump to “call it off.”
“This is banana republic crap that we’re watching right now,” said Gallagher, who had spoken out against objections from fellow Republicans to certifying the Electoral College vote that Biden won.
Former White House staff also issued pleas.
“Condemn this now, @realDonaldTrump — you are the only one they will listen to,” tweeted former White House communications director Alyssa Farah.
Added his former chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney: “The best thing @realDonaldTrump could do right now is to address the nation from the Oval Office and condemn the riots. A peaceful transition of power is essential to the country and needs to take place on 1/20.”
Pence, who was ushered out of the Senate chamber to a secure location as protesters breached the building, also called for protesters to disperse.
“The violence and destruction taking place at the US Capitol Must Stop and it Must Stop Now,” he tweeted. “Anyone involved must respect Law Enforcement officers and immediately leave the building.”
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"Trump, chastened, says there will be an ‘orderly transition on January 20’\nTrump acknowledged defeat in the Nov. 3 election for the first time, after a day of chaos and destruction on Capitol Hill.\nBy Associated Press\nPresident Donald Trump said there would be an “orderly transition on January 20th” after Congress concluded the electoral vote count early Thursday certifying President-elect Joe Biden’s victory hours after he appeared to excuse the violent occupation of the U.S. Capitol by his supporters.\nTrump acknowledged defeat in the Nov. 3 election for the first time, after a day of chaos and destruction on Capitol Hill perpetrated in his name by supporters that halted business in Congress for more than six hours.\n“Even though I totally disagree with the outcome of the election, and the facts bear me out, nevertheless there will be an orderly transition on January 20th,” Trump said in a statement posted to Twitter by aides. His personal account was locked by the social media company for posting messages that appeared to justify the assault on the seat of the nation’s democracy.\nTrump added, “While this represents the end of the greatest first term in presidential history, it’s only the beginning of our fight to Make America Great Again!”\nTrump on Wednesday had encouraged his supporters to march on the Capitol to protest lawmakers’ actions, expressed empathy for the mob, which violently forced its way inside, clashed with police and forced lawmakers into hiding.\nElection still stolen, he says\n“These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly & unfairly treated for so long,” Trump wrote in a message that was later deleted by Twitter. He added, “Go home with love & in peace. Remember this day forever!”\nIn an earlier video he had praised the protesters as “special” people and said he understood their pain. Twitter later locked his account for the first time as it demanded he remove the tweets and threatened “permanent suspension.”\nTrump’s response to the violence underscored his monthslong obsession with trying to overturn the results of the election, spending the final days of his presidency angrily stewing and lashing out at Republicans for perceived disloyalty.\nTrump spent much of Wednesday afternoon watching the insurrection on television from his private dining room off the Oval Office. But aside from sparing appeals for calm issued at the insistence of his staff, he was largely disengaged as the nation’s capital descended into unprecedented scenes of chaos as a mob of thousands tried to halt the peaceful transition of power.\nInstead, a White House official said, most of Trump’s attention was consumed by his ire at Vice President Mike Pence, who said he would not overturn the will of voters in the congressional electoral count. The official was not authorized to discuss the matter and spoke only on the condition of anonymity.\nThe violence, coupled with the president’s tepid response, appeared to drive many Republicans to the breaking point after years of allegiance to Trump. In a sign of growing frustration, a number of White House aides were discussing a potential mass resignation, according to people familiar with the conversation, although some harbored concerns about what Trump might do in his final two weeks in office if they were not there to serve as guardrails when so few remain.\nAfter four years with no shortage of fraught moments, Wednesday’s events quickly emerged as the nadir of morale in the Trump White House, as aides looked on in horror at the chaos at the Capitol fomented by Trump.\nStephanie Grisham, the first lady’s chief of staff and a former White House press secretary, submitted her resignation Wednesday, but declined to say what has prompted her move. Deputy national security adviser Matt Pottinger, White House social secretary Rickie Niceta and deputy press secretary Sarah Matthews also resigned, according to officials.\nMore departures were expected in the coming days, officials said. But other aides indicated they were staying to help smooth the transition to President-elect Biden’s administration.\nTrump has been single-mindedly focused on his electoral defeat since Election Day, aides said, at the expense of the other responsibilities of his office, including the fight against the raging coronavirus. Indeed, it was Pence, not Trump, who spoke with the acting defense secretary to discuss mobilizing the D.C National Guard on Wednesday afternoon.\nTrump only reluctantly issued the tweets and taped a video encouraging an end to the violence. The posts came at the insistence of staff and amid mounting criticism from Republican lawmakers urging him to condemn the violence being perpetrated in his name, according to the official.\n“I know your pain. I know your hurt. But you have to go home now,” he said in a video posted more than 90 minutes after lawmakers were evacuated from the House and Senate chambers. “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.”\nTrump accounts suspended\nIn a sign of the extraordinary events that had unfolded over the previous 24 hours, Trump’s statement acknowledging that he would leave office on Jan. 20 could not be posted on the president’s Twitter or Facebook feeds because both accounts have been suspended by the companies. Instead, it was released via the Twitter account of Trump’s social media director, Dan Scavino, who frequently tweets on his behalf.\nHours earlier, Trump had appeared at a massive rally near the White House, where he continued to urge supporters to fight the election results and encouraged them to march to the Capitol in remarks that were peppered with incendiary language and rife with violent undertones. At one point, he even suggested he might join them — a prospect that was discussed by the White House but eventually abandoned.\n“We’re going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue … and we’re going to the Capitol … we’re going to try and give our Republicans … the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country,” he said.\nEarlier in the rally, his lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, had advocated what he had called “trial by combat.”\nTrump’s tweets and video also drew the attention of the social media giants he has frequently maligned. The video was removed by Facebook, “because on balance we believe it contributes to rather than diminishes the risk of ongoing violence,” said the site’s head of integrity, Guy Rosen.\nTwitter took a more punitive approach, locking Trump’s account and warning, “Future violations of the Twitter Rules, including our Civic Integrity or Violent Threats policies, will result in permanent suspension of the @realDonaldTrump account.”\nBefore Trump released the video, Republican lawmakers and former administration officials had begged the president to intervene as the violence spiraled.\n“I called him. I think we need to make a statement, make sure that we can calm individuals down,” House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy of California told Fox News.\nA Senate ally, Republican Marco Rubio of Florida, appealed directly to the president in a tweet: “Mr. President @realDonaldTrump the men & women of law enforcement are under assault. It is crucial you help restore order by sending resources to assist the police and ask those doing this to stand down.”\nRep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., posted a video message urging Trump to “call it off.”\n“This is banana republic crap that we’re watching right now,” said Gallagher, who had spoken out against objections from fellow Republicans to certifying the Electoral College vote that Biden won.\nFormer White House staff also issued pleas.\n“Condemn this now, @realDonaldTrump — you are the only one they will listen to,” tweeted former White House communications director Alyssa Farah.\nAdded his former chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney: “The best thing @realDonaldTrump could do right now is to address the nation from the Oval Office and condemn the riots. A peaceful transition of power is essential to the country and needs to take place on 1/20.”\nPence, who was ushered out of the Senate chamber to a secure location as protesters breached the building, also called for protesters to disperse.\n“The violence and destruction taking place at the US Capitol Must Stop and it Must Stop Now,” he tweeted. “Anyone involved must respect Law Enforcement officers and immediately leave the building.”",
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More Americans are being taught about the Shoah, though that doesn’t seem to be doing much to stop anti-Semitism. Maybe the problem is what they’re being taught and why.
By Jonathan S. Tobin, JNS
There seems to be a consensus from right to left that anti-Semitism is on the rise both in the United States and around the globe. That will be the theme of many remarks by politicians, rabbis and Jewish organization leaders during International Holocaust Remembrance Day this week. Part of the exhortations we will hear will involve a dedication to promoting education about the Holocaust, which is something that seemingly all decent people now agree is a necessary antidote to anti-Semitism and other examples of prejudice. Those involved in promoting Holocaust-education programs, which now includes the federal and many state governments, will call for more funding for these efforts.
But what if the emphasis on teaching about the Shoah is a mistake with respect to the Jewish community’s priorities, in addition to the assumption that it will combat anti-Semitism?
It hasn’t even occurred to most Jewish leaders to pose those questions, let alone to answer them in the negative. Yet that is what Professor Ruth Wisse did recently in an important essay in National Affairs magazine that should be mandatory reading for those who care about the appropriate response to the Holocaust by both Jews and non-Jews. In discussing what she termed, “The Dark Side of Holocaust Education,” Wisse has presented a challenge to conventional wisdom about the subject, as well as to many of the misguided pieties about the uses of history that all too many Jews have foolishly embraced.
The problem is not just the usual glaring contrast between the sympathy that is expressed for the victims of the Holocaust and the indifference, if not hostility, often directed towards the struggle of the living, breathing Jews of Israel to defend themselves against a variety of threats. In the court of international public opinion, dead Jews always seem more popular than live ones.
The troubling aspect of Holocaust education is that not only does it not do what its well-intended Jewish and non-Jewish boosters want it to, but creates other problems as well.
At issue here is not the obligation to remember the Shoah and its victims. That’s a sacred duty—and one that has become integrated into the calendar of the Jewish people in a variety of ways and in important institutions like Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. As Wisse notes, Jews have never forgotten the victims of the Roman destruction of Jewish life 2,000 years ago. The murder of one out of every three Jews who were alive prior to World War II only 80 years ago is a singular crime that will remain forever burned into Jewish memory.
Making the Holocaust a Symbol
But Holocaust education as it evolved over the years, as a subject attracting more secular interest, isn’t really about the Jewish victims or teaching about anti-Semitism. It’s about making the Holocaust a symbol of all terrible crimes against humanity.
Recalling the work of the late great Jewish historian Lucy Dawidowicz, whose equally important 1990 essay “How They Teach the Holocaust” in Commentary magazine, Wisse points out that such teaching is a mistake.
At the heart of the failures of Holocaust education is that it is not taught as history. That was bad enough 30 years ago, but it’s worse now when the teaching of history is even rarer in secondary schools. Instead, the Holocaust is part of a universal lesson about the evils of prejudice. As Dawidowicz put it, prejudice is treated as a “mental health problem.” Students are not instructed about the specifics of two millennia of Jew-hatred and how they produced the circumstances that allowed Germany—a nation known for its devotion to science and the arts—to invest vast resources on a war aimed at exterminating the Jewish people. Instead, they are taught about the irrationality of arbitrary biases against all groups.
There is some value to any sort of moral education. However, it doesn’t seem to have occurred to most people to ponder why it is that after so much has been done to promote knowledge of the Holocaust in schools and popular culture, why all this information and instruction hasn’t had the intended effect with respect to anti-Semitism. Those responsible for these programs have few answers as to why it has not curbed the growth of Jew-hatred other than pouring more money into the same idea.
Making the story of the murder of Six Million Jews the way children learn not to murder or discriminate against Jews or any people has it backwards. In virtually every other effort at moral education, it’s understood that the main focus must be on positive examples. We don’t teach people to be good by telling tales of murderers, rapists and thieves. We do it by speaking of those who exemplify the best in humanity. People of faith use sacred texts to teach us about the goodness and mercy of our Creator, and of the benefits of Divinely given and inspired teachings and law. So why should we be surprised that Holocaust curricula that do the opposite haven’t done much to improve humanity?
At the start of the movement towards popularizing Holocaust education, many Jews thought that the only way they could mobilize support for memorials and museums to honor the memory of the Six Million was via universalizing the lessons of the Holocaust. They were right that Jews are not only the only victims of prejudice and that genocide has been practiced elsewhere by others against other populations. But anti-Semitism is not an abstract idea of prejudice.
As Wisse teaches, though it can take on many of the characteristics of a psychological ailment, anti-Semitism is something far more dangerous. It is a political ideology and a way to weaponize grievances against Jews in order to achieve and maintain power. That was true prior to the Shoah and just as true after it. The only way to understand how the Holocaust happened is to place it in the context of the history of hatred against Jews, both prior to the start of Nazi rule and after it—something that most Holocaust education curricula fail to do.
Builders, Creators, and Innovators
Equally as important is the image of Jewry that the emphasis on the Holocaust has had on American Jews. Most students are now being introduced to Jews primarily as victims. Among those is the growing percentage of Jewish kids who have had no Jewish education. This is wrong not least because as Wisse wrote:
“Historically speaking, Jews are demonstrably the opposite of victims—they are builders, creators, innovators, facilitators, perpetually adaptive, the model of entrepreneurial resilience under circumstances beyond imagining. … Any true “Never Again” project would trace this unprecedented historical example of self-emancipation. Instead, it tells half the story and distorts the half that it tells. It does violence to the Jewish people and to moral education, which must include the assumption of responsibility for self-protection.”
Because the universalization of the Holocaust avoids teaching about the history of anti-Semitism and its role as a political movement that has attached itself to a variety of ideologies, such as fascism, Nazism, communism and, in our day, Islamism, it “conceals rather than confronts anti-Jewish aggression” and distorts our understanding of “the nature of anti-Jewish politics.”
In this way, one among many unintended consequences of this effort is to assist those who libel the State of Israel—the only truly meaningful memorial to the Holocaust because it protects Jewish life and rights in a way that was sorely lacking prior to its founding—and falsely claim that it is a successor to the Nazis. Some feared that without treating it as a moral lesson for all, the Holocaust would become marooned in history. But the universalizers have helped strip it of its meaning in a way that allows today’s anti-Semites to use it as a cudgel against Israel, which refuses to be a nation of victims.
We must never let the world forget about 6 million Jews that were systematically murdered. Part of that involves telling the story of the Jews of Europe to children of all faiths. But programs that primarily use the Holocaust as a way to teach morality have become a hindrance to our ability to properly understand anti-Semitism, and why people hate and attack Jews. It’s time to stop treating programs that do that as panaceas and to begin the work of rethinking how we teach the Holocaust.
Jonathan S. Tobin is editor in chief of JNS—Jewish News Syndicate. Follow him on Twitter at: @jonathans_tobin.
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Those involved in promoting Holocaust-education programs, which now includes the federal and many state governments, will call for more funding for these efforts.\nBut what if the emphasis on teaching about the Shoah is a mistake with respect to the Jewish community’s priorities, in addition to the assumption that it will combat anti-Semitism?\nIt hasn’t even occurred to most Jewish leaders to pose those questions, let alone to answer them in the negative. Yet that is what Professor Ruth Wisse did recently in an important essay in National Affairs magazine that should be mandatory reading for those who care about the appropriate response to the Holocaust by both Jews and non-Jews. In discussing what she termed, “The Dark Side of Holocaust Education,” Wisse has presented a challenge to conventional wisdom about the subject, as well as to many of the misguided pieties about the uses of history that all too many Jews have foolishly embraced.\nThe problem is not just the usual glaring contrast between the sympathy that is expressed for the victims of the Holocaust and the indifference, if not hostility, often directed towards the struggle of the living, breathing Jews of Israel to defend themselves against a variety of threats. In the court of international public opinion, dead Jews always seem more popular than live ones.\nThe troubling aspect of Holocaust education is that not only does it not do what its well-intended Jewish and non-Jewish boosters want it to, but creates other problems as well.\nAt issue here is not the obligation to remember the Shoah and its victims. That’s a sacred duty—and one that has become integrated into the calendar of the Jewish people in a variety of ways and in important institutions like Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. As Wisse notes, Jews have never forgotten the victims of the Roman destruction of Jewish life 2,000 years ago. The murder of one out of every three Jews who were alive prior to World War II only 80 years ago is a singular crime that will remain forever burned into Jewish memory.\nMaking the Holocaust a Symbol\nBut Holocaust education as it evolved over the years, as a subject attracting more secular interest, isn’t really about the Jewish victims or teaching about anti-Semitism. It’s about making the Holocaust a symbol of all terrible crimes against humanity.\nRecalling the work of the late great Jewish historian Lucy Dawidowicz, whose equally important 1990 essay “How They Teach the Holocaust” in Commentary magazine, Wisse points out that such teaching is a mistake.\nAt the heart of the failures of Holocaust education is that it is not taught as history. That was bad enough 30 years ago, but it’s worse now when the teaching of history is even rarer in secondary schools. Instead, the Holocaust is part of a universal lesson about the evils of prejudice. As Dawidowicz put it, prejudice is treated as a “mental health problem.” Students are not instructed about the specifics of two millennia of Jew-hatred and how they produced the circumstances that allowed Germany—a nation known for its devotion to science and the arts—to invest vast resources on a war aimed at exterminating the Jewish people. Instead, they are taught about the irrationality of arbitrary biases against all groups.\nThere is some value to any sort of moral education. However, it doesn’t seem to have occurred to most people to ponder why it is that after so much has been done to promote knowledge of the Holocaust in schools and popular culture, why all this information and instruction hasn’t had the intended effect with respect to anti-Semitism. Those responsible for these programs have few answers as to why it has not curbed the growth of Jew-hatred other than pouring more money into the same idea.\nMaking the story of the murder of Six Million Jews the way children learn not to murder or discriminate against Jews or any people has it backwards. In virtually every other effort at moral education, it’s understood that the main focus must be on positive examples. We don’t teach people to be good by telling tales of murderers, rapists and thieves. We do it by speaking of those who exemplify the best in humanity. People of faith use sacred texts to teach us about the goodness and mercy of our Creator, and of the benefits of Divinely given and inspired teachings and law. So why should we be surprised that Holocaust curricula that do the opposite haven’t done much to improve humanity?\nAt the start of the movement towards popularizing Holocaust education, many Jews thought that the only way they could mobilize support for memorials and museums to honor the memory of the Six Million was via universalizing the lessons of the Holocaust. They were right that Jews are not only the only victims of prejudice and that genocide has been practiced elsewhere by others against other populations. But anti-Semitism is not an abstract idea of prejudice.\nAs Wisse teaches, though it can take on many of the characteristics of a psychological ailment, anti-Semitism is something far more dangerous. It is a political ideology and a way to weaponize grievances against Jews in order to achieve and maintain power. That was true prior to the Shoah and just as true after it. The only way to understand how the Holocaust happened is to place it in the context of the history of hatred against Jews, both prior to the start of Nazi rule and after it—something that most Holocaust education curricula fail to do.\nBuilders, Creators, and Innovators\nEqually as important is the image of Jewry that the emphasis on the Holocaust has had on American Jews. Most students are now being introduced to Jews primarily as victims. Among those is the growing percentage of Jewish kids who have had no Jewish education. This is wrong not least because as Wisse wrote:\n“Historically speaking, Jews are demonstrably the opposite of victims—they are builders, creators, innovators, facilitators, perpetually adaptive, the model of entrepreneurial resilience under circumstances beyond imagining. … Any true “Never Again” project would trace this unprecedented historical example of self-emancipation. Instead, it tells half the story and distorts the half that it tells. It does violence to the Jewish people and to moral education, which must include the assumption of responsibility for self-protection.”\nBecause the universalization of the Holocaust avoids teaching about the history of anti-Semitism and its role as a political movement that has attached itself to a variety of ideologies, such as fascism, Nazism, communism and, in our day, Islamism, it “conceals rather than confronts anti-Jewish aggression” and distorts our understanding of “the nature of anti-Jewish politics.”\nIn this way, one among many unintended consequences of this effort is to assist those who libel the State of Israel—the only truly meaningful memorial to the Holocaust because it protects Jewish life and rights in a way that was sorely lacking prior to its founding—and falsely claim that it is a successor to the Nazis. Some feared that without treating it as a moral lesson for all, the Holocaust would become marooned in history. But the universalizers have helped strip it of its meaning in a way that allows today’s anti-Semites to use it as a cudgel against Israel, which refuses to be a nation of victims.\nWe must never let the world forget about 6 million Jews that were systematically murdered. Part of that involves telling the story of the Jews of Europe to children of all faiths. But programs that primarily use the Holocaust as a way to teach morality have become a hindrance to our ability to properly understand anti-Semitism, and why people hate and attack Jews. It’s time to stop treating programs that do that as panaceas and to begin the work of rethinking how we teach the Holocaust.\nJonathan S. Tobin is editor in chief of JNS—Jewish News Syndicate. Follow him on Twitter at: @jonathans_tobin.",
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Iran warns Biden: Return to old nuclear deal if you want ‘a seat at the table’
“The window of opportunity for the new U.S. administration will not be open forever,” said Iran’s foreign minister.
By Josh Plank, World Israel News
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif laid out Iran’s conditions for America’s reentry into the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), commonly known as the Iran nuclear deal, in a Foreign Affairs op-ed on Friday.
“U.S. President Joe Biden can choose a better path by ending Trump’s failed policy of ‘maximum pressure’ and returning to the deal his predecessor abandoned,” said Zarif.
“If he does, Iran will likewise return to full implementation of our commitments under the nuclear deal. But if Washington instead insists on extracting concessions, then this opportunity will be lost,” he said.
Zarif said that the Biden administration must begin by unconditionally removing all sanctions imposed, reimposed, or relabeled since Trump took office.
Then and only then would the remaining signatories to the deal “decide whether the United States should be allowed to reclaim the seat at the table that it abandoned in 2018,” Zarif said.
“That return to the table will be jeopardized if Washington or its EU allies demand new terms for a deal that was already carefully constructed through years of negotiations,” he said.
Zarif said the Biden administration has a fundamental choice to make and the window of opportunity will not be open forever.
He said that Biden’s removal of sanctions against Iran and agreement to abide by the unaltered terms of the JCPOA will “open new possibilities for peace and stability in our region.”
Iran’s terms appear to directly counter recent statements by the Biden administration, which has suggested that Iran should be the first to comply and that the terms of the JCPOA may be subject to some degree of renegotiation.
In the administration’s first White House press briefing on Jan. 20, Press Secretary Jen Psaki said that the U.S. would seek to “lengthen and strengthen nuclear constraints on Iran and address other issues of concern.”
“Iran must resume compliance with significant nuclear constraints under the deal in order for that to proceed,” she said.
Biden’s Secretary of State nominee Antony Blinken said at a Senate confirmation hearing on Jan. 19, “The president-elect believes that if Iran comes back into compliance, we would too.”
Blinken also said that the U.S. would seek a “longer and stronger agreement.”
In a Sept. 2020 CNN op-ed, Biden said, “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,” he said.
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Israeli officers won’t face charges as riots continue in case of Jewish teen killed in police chase
Israelis protest over the death of Ahuvia Sandak in a car crash during a police chase, near Mahash, the Police Internal Investigations Department, in Jerusalem. Jan. 2, 2021. (Flash90/Olivier Fitoussi)
Some 24 demonstrators were arrested and 15 officers were injured.
By Lauren Marcus, World Israel News
The four police officers who engaged in a high-speed police chase which led to the death of 16-year-old Bat Ayin resident Ahuvia Sandak will not face criminal charges, Channel 12 News reported Saturday evening.
The announcement came as demonstrators, calling for an independent investigation into Sandak’s death, violently clashed with officers during a protest in Jerusalem.
Some 24 demonstrators were arrested and 15 officers were injured. Protesters reportedly blocked roads and public transportation, set garbage bins on fire, threw rocks at officers and a police bus, and chanted: “A Jew does not kill another Jew.”
Officers on horseback attempted to break up the protest. The police eventually used water cannons to disperse the protesters.
Saturday night’s skirmishes marked the latest in a series of protests over Sandak’s death that have rocked the Jewish state. In protests last week, scores of demonstrators were arrested after allegedly attacking a car with an Arab family that was driving near the protest.
Footage has also emerged of police officers beating and roughly handling protesters, with one cell phone video showing a police officer hurling a youth into the road, where he narrowly escaped being hit by a moving car.
A senior security officer complained to Kan News that MKs and rabbis were not publicly speaking out against the demonstrations. “They should act responsibly but they do nothing,” he said.
“These are not demonstrations – these are violent riots,” he added. He explained that the police are working hard to “stop the anarchy, but nothing can be done beyond spot arrests.”
He said that most protesters picked up by the police are released after a few hours, without charges filed against them.
Channel 12 News reported that the other youths present in the vehicle with Sandak will be indicted in the coming days, which may spark another round of protests.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently called Sandak’s parents to offer his condolences, inviting them to visit his Jerusalem office. Sandak’s parents allegedly turned down the invitation and asked Netanyahu to come to their home in Bat Ayin instead.
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Why Israel is worried about the South African corona mutation
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Research shows the new mutation of the coronavirus is more stubborn and dangerous, and appears to be resistant to antibodies from the original virus.
By Paul Shindman, World Israel News
There is growing concern in Israel and the world that the South African mutation of the coronavirus could get past the immune systems even of people with coronavirus antibodies, meaning even people who are vaccinated or have recovered from Covid-19 may be at risk of reinfection, Walla! News reported Thursday.
While the risk of reinfection to Covid-19 is not fully understood, it’s accepted that people who’ve developed antibodies generally have immunity. However, that might not be the case with the South African mutation, which scientists surmise has developed specific mutations that affect its spike proteins, which enable it to dodge antibodies.
The spike protein is what the vaccines focus on, and they are also what enable the virus to enter human cells. The most powerful antibodies scientists have identified from recovered corona patients also work by targeting the spike protein. They have been developed in plasmas given to patients to help in recovery.
The National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) in South Africa collected blood plasma of 44 people who recovered from Covid-19. When that plasma was used to treat people suffering from the new mutation, just under half of them did not respond to treatment with the plasma.
“The blood samples from half the people we tested showed that all neutralizing activity was lost. This suggests that they may no longer be protected from reinfection,” the NICD said on their website. “In the other half, the levels of antibodies were reduced and so the risk of reinfection is not known.”
Israel’s national coronavirus task force is waiting for definitive answers if the Pfizer vaccine in Israel is effective against the South African mutation.
“We do not have an answer yet but we are expecting an answer very soon,” task force member Professor Salim Abdul Karim said in a statement. “We want to see actual data, but it is not yet available.”
Other international experts chimed in with their concerns, saying the NICD report appeared to be credible.
“It is a very thorough study that examines the impact of specific mutations in the spike gene of 501Y.V2 and how these affect the binding of neutralizing antibodies,” said Professor Lawrence Young, a virologist and professor of molecular oncology at the Warwick School of Medicine. The South African variant is designated 501Y.V2.
“Similarities between the mutations in 501Y.V2 spike and the variant recently found in Brazil suggest that this Brazilian variant will also exhibit significant levels of neutralization resistance,” Young said.
“This study suggests that previously infected individuals may be susceptible to reinfection with virus variants – something which has already been reported in two cases in Brazil. It also has important implications for the effectiveness of current SARS-CoV-2 vaccines which are all based on the original spike gene,” Young added.
The NICD warned that the implications are that nobody can let their guard down, even those who have recovered from the coronavirus.
“It is therefore important that people who have previously had Covid-19 continue to adhere to public health measures,” the NICD said. “Protecting ourselves through masks, regular washing or sanitizing of hands, cleaning of surfaces, and social distancing remain the best defense against all SARS-CoV-2 viruses, including the new lineage.”
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Netanyahu greeted a planeload of coronavirus vaccines and said the target is to vaccinate all Israeli adults before the end of March.
By Paul Shindman, World Israel News
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israel would push the pace of coronavirus vaccination shots to about one million a week and would have Israel’s adult population inoculated by March.
“This is a great day for the State of Israel with a huge shipment that has arrived in the framework of Operation Back to Life, a plane full of shots of encouragement,” Netanyahu said as he and Health Minister Yuli Edelstein met a cargo plane at Ben-Gurion Airport carrying hundreds of thousands of doses of coronavirus vaccine manufactured by the American company Pfizer.
Netanyahu said 72% of those over the age of 60 have already received their first of two shots of the Pfizer vaccine and another planeload of vaccine will arrive on Sunday. The Health Ministry target is to vaccinate 170,000 a day, giving a pace of roughly 1 million people vaccinated per week with the prime minister calling it a “world record.”
The premier said his attention will now turn to the economy where he would attack Israel’s pandemic economic crisis “as I attacked the vaccines with more aid, help and grants … we will be the first country in the world to emerge from the corona health and economic [crises].”
Health Ministry statistics released Monday morning showed that 1.8 million Israelis had been vaccinated so far in the program by which Pfizer will provide millions of doses of vaccine to make Israel the first to inoculate its population. In return Israel will share the data with the pharmaceutical company and the World Health Organization to study how the administration of the vaccine works on an entire country .
The Pfizer vaccine requires two shots of the same vaccine three weeks apart and Netanyahu and Edelstein received their second dose on national television Saturday night to encourage Israelis to get vaccinated.
Hospitals and HMOs are administering the shots starting with medical workers who were the first to receive the vaccine last month.
The Health Ministry announced that starting Tuesday Israelis aged 55 and over as well as teachers and workers in the education system can get their first vaccination.
Monday’s numbers showed that the national lockdown that began last week has not yet started to have an effect as the positive test rate of 7.4% was not slowing. There were 6,706 confirmed new cases in the past day and the number of Israelis currently sick with the virus reached almost 69,861.
Of those infected, 1,715 are hospitalized with 1,044 of them in serious condition and 293 listed in critical condition.
Since the beginning of the pandemic the virus has claimed 3,671 lives in Israel.
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Painted on the wall was a swastika and an SS symbol.
By David Isaac, World Israel News
The Auschwitz Memorial’s official Twitter account reported on Sunday that an exterior wall of the Auschwitz Jewish cemetery was vandalized.
Painted on the wall was a swastika and an SS symbol standing for the Schutzstaffel. There were two SS units – the Allgemeine SS and the Waffen SS. The Allgemeine SS was responsible for enforcing Germany’s racial purity laws.
The tweets from the Auschwitz memorial said, “The exterior wall of the Oświęcim Jewish cemetery – a remnant and memorial of the destroyed community – has been vandalized with Nazi symbols. Seeing them just 3 km from the Memorial, at the town that suffered so much during the German occupation, is painful.
A second tweet continued: “This cemetery is well taken care of by the Auschwitz Jewish Center & local community. The wall was cleaned immediately, but together we need to keep fighting against all forms of hatred. The Polish law prosecutes such acts. We hope the Police will identify people responsible.”
The exterior wall of the Oświęcim Jewish cemetery – a remnant and memorial of the destroyed community – has been vandalized with Nazi symbols. Seeing them just 3 km from the Memorial, at the town that suffered so much during the German occupation, is painful…. 1/2 pic.twitter.com/FSrGznYDy0 — Auschwitz Memorial (@AuschwitzMuseum) January 10, 2021
The Auschwitz Memorial preserves the site of the former German Nazi Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp.
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The Palestinian Authority called the UAE’s purchase of goods from Judea and Samaria “a flagrant violation of international law.”
By Josh Plank, World Israel News
Despite condemnation from the Palestinian Authority, the historic Abraham Accords continue to bear fruit as Israeli wine and olive oil from Judea and Samaria make their way to customers in the UAE.
The economy ministry of the Palestinian Authority called the UAE’s purchase of goods from Judea and Samaria “a flagrant violation of international laws … and an attempt to legitimize settlements in occupied territory.”
“It breaks your heart to see your Muslim brothers in the UAE support your enemy at your expense,” Nizam Abdul Razzaq told Reuters.
“This is not logic, and it is not what God wants,” he said.
Razzaq, 57, is an olive and bee farmer from the Arab village of Yasouf in Samaria. The village is about two kilometers from Rehelim, home of the Tura Winery.
Tura signed an export agreement last month with FAM Holding, a UAE business conglomerate which plans to distribute Tura’s wine and olive oil in the UAE.
“It’s very exciting for [people in the UAE] to feel the peace process, to be a part of it,” Vered Ben Sa’adon, the winery’s owner, told Reuters.
“When you sit in a hotel in Abu Dhabi and drink a glass of Tura, it’s to be a part of history,” she said.
Tura’s wines proudly bear a label that reads, “Wine from the Land of Israel.”
“If you had asked me a year ago if I had dreamed such a thing could have happened, I would have told you no,” said Dr. Faisal Ali Mousa, chairman of FAM Holding, at the signing of the business agreement in December.
“We have achieved a great goal today. We have transformed the vision of our countries into practice,” he said.
“This is a statement to the world that we are real brothers, we are real friends, and we want to do business together and live in peace. We are changing the future,” said Ali Mousa.
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Iran launches major military exercise as US orders Nimitz to stay in region
Pentagon cancels order for aircraft carrier USS Nimitz to return home as tensions with Iran mount.
By Paul Shindman, World Israel News
Iran launched a large-scale drone combat exercise Tuesday as the United States reversed an order for one of its aircraft carriers to return home from the region.
The Iranian military said a major military exercise would involve hundreds of UAVs used by its ground, air and naval forces “in real combat conditions,” Iran’s Mehr news agency reported as tensions in the region remain high.
“The flight of naval drones from a vessel in southern waters of the country, long-range flight of pinpointing suicide drones to destroy sensitive and vital targets in depths of enemy’s land and territory will be one of the drone combat exercise plans,” said Deputy Chief of Operations, Admiral Mahmoud Mousavi.
In Washington, the Defense Department announced it was reversing a decision last week to bring the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz back to its home port at Naval Base Kitsap in Washington state near Seattle.
“Due to the recent threats issued by Iranian leaders against President Trump and other U.S. government officials, I have ordered the USS Nimitz to halt its routine redeployment,” said Acting Secretary of Defense Chris Miller.
“The USS Nimitz will now remain on station in the U.S. Central Command area of operations. No one should doubt the resolve of the United States of America,” Miller added.
A Defense Department official told the Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper that the Nimitz will take the lead in military drills “with its regional partners” in an area of the U.S. Fifth Fleet that is based in Bahrain. Regional partners usually refers to the Gulf Arab states close to Iran where the U.S. military operates ground, air and naval bases.
Iran and its allies marked the first anniversary Sunday of the assassination of top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani in a drone strike ordered by President Donald Trump.
Iran has repeatedly threatened that it would avenge Soleimani’s death at the time and place of its choosing.
On the weekend Iran also announced that it had broken its commitment to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal and was beginning to enrich uranium to a level of 20% purity, widely perceived as a step towards producing nuclear weapons.
In Jerusalem, Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi issued a statement late Monday condemning Iran and calling the enrichment “a wake-up call to all those who advocate for appeasement towards Iran.”
“I call on the international community not to tolerate Iran’s defiant acts and to view this step as a red line that requires a decisive and immediate response,” Ashkenazi said. “Israel will never allow Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon.”
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‘Fingers on the triggers’: Iran announces near weapons-grade uranium enrichment ‘as soon as possible’
“We are like soldiers and our fingers are on the triggers,” said the U.S.-educated head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran.
By World Israel News and AP
Iran said Saturday it plans to enrich uranium up to 20% at its underground Fordo nuclear facility “as soon as possible,” pushing its program a technical step away from weapons-grade levels as it increases pressure on the West over the tattered atomic deal.
The move comes amid heightened tensions between Iran and the U.S. in the waning days of the administration of President Donald Trump, who withdrew America from Tehran’s nuclear deal in 2018.
Trump called the Iran agreement the “worst deal ever negotiated,” deeming it “a disastrous one-sided deal that failed to end Iran’s nuclear program and the full range of the regime’s malign activity.”
Following that move, Iran continued to fund terror proxies in the Mideast that threaten American allies. In response, the U.S. launched a drone strike that killed a top Iranian general in Baghdad a year ago, an anniversary coming Sunday that has American officials now preparing possible retaliation by Iran.
Iran’s decision to begin enriching to 20% a decade ago nearly brought an Israeli strike targeting its nuclear facilities. A resumption of 20% enrichment could force Israel’s hand to take action.
According to Ali Akbar Salehi, the U.S.-educated head of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, a supposedly “civilian” body, “We are like soldiers and our fingers are on the triggers”
“The commander should command and we shoot. We are ready for this and will produce (20% enriched uranium) as soon as possible,” Salehi told Iranian state television.
The White House had no immediate comment. A spokesman for President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team declined to comment on Iran’s announcement.
Iran’s serves as pressure ahead of the inauguration of President-elect Biden, who has said he is willing to re-enter the nuclear deal.
The International Atomic Energy Agency acknowledged Iran had informed its inspectors of the decision by a letter after news leaked overnight Friday.
“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 … up to 20 percent at the Fordo Fuel Enrichment Plant,” the IAEA said in a statement.
The IAEA added Iran did not say when it planned to boost enrichment, though the agency claimed it “has inspectors present in Iran on a 24/7 basis and they have regular access to Fordo.” The parliamentary bill also called on Iran to expel those inspectors.
Salehi said Iran would need to switch out natural uranium in centrifuges at Fordo for material already enriched to 4% to begin the process of going to 20%.
“It should be done under IAEA supervision,” Salehi added.
Since the deal’s collapse, Iran has resumed enrichment at Fordo, near the Shiite holy city of Qom, some 90 kilometers (55 miles) southwest of Tehran.
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 20% enrichment.
Israel warned Tehran was building a 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 expose Iran’s nuclear program, offered no immediate comment Saturday.
As of now, Iran is enriching 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.
In 2018, Israel produced a trove evidence spirited out of Tehran by spies that disproved Iranian claims.
Iran separately has begun construction on a new site at Fordo, according to satellite photos obtained by The Associated Press in December.
Iran’s announcement coincides with the anniversary of the U.S. drone striking Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad last year. That attack later saw Iran retaliate by launching a ballistic missile strike injuring dozens of U.S. troops in Iraq. Tehran also shot down a Ukrainian passenger jet that night, killing all 176 people on board.
As the anniversary approached, the U.S. has sent B-52 bombers flying over the region and sent a nuclear-powered submarine into the Persian Gulf.
On Thursday, sailors discovered a limpet mine on a tanker in the Persian Gulf off Iraq near the Iranian border as it prepared to transfer fuel to another tanker owned by a company traded on the New York Stock Exchange. No one has claimed responsibility for the mine, though it comes after a series of similar attacks in 2019 that the U.S. Navy blamed on Iran.
Tehran denied being involved.
In November, an Iranian scientist who founded the country’s military nuclear program two decades earlier was killed in an attack Tehran blames on Israel.
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In response, the U.S. launched a drone strike that killed a top Iranian general in Baghdad a year ago, an anniversary coming Sunday that has American officials now preparing possible retaliation by Iran.\nIran’s decision to begin enriching to 20% a decade ago nearly brought an Israeli strike targeting its nuclear facilities. A resumption of 20% enrichment could force Israel’s hand to take action.\nAccording to Ali Akbar Salehi, the U.S.-educated head of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, a supposedly “civilian” body, “We are like soldiers and our fingers are on the triggers”\n“The commander should command and we shoot. We are ready for this and will produce (20% enriched uranium) as soon as possible,” Salehi told Iranian state television.\nThe White House had no immediate comment. A spokesman for President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team declined to comment on Iran’s announcement.\nIran’s serves as pressure ahead of the inauguration of President-elect Biden, who has said he is willing to re-enter the nuclear deal.\nThe International Atomic Energy Agency acknowledged Iran had informed its inspectors of the decision by a letter after news leaked overnight Friday.\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 … up to 20 percent at the Fordo Fuel Enrichment Plant,” the IAEA said in a statement.\nThe IAEA added Iran did not say when it planned to boost enrichment, though the agency claimed it “has inspectors present in Iran on a 24/7 basis and they have regular access to Fordo.” The parliamentary bill also called on Iran to expel those inspectors.\nSalehi said Iran would need to switch out natural uranium in centrifuges at Fordo for material already enriched to 4% to begin the process of going to 20%.\n“It should be done under IAEA supervision,” Salehi added.\nSince the deal’s collapse, Iran has resumed enrichment at Fordo, near the Shiite holy city of Qom, some 90 kilometers (55 miles) southwest of Tehran.\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 20% enrichment.\nIsrael warned Tehran was building a 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 expose Iran’s nuclear program, offered no immediate comment Saturday.\nAs of now, Iran is enriching 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.\nIn 2018, Israel produced a trove evidence spirited out of Tehran by spies that disproved Iranian claims.\nIran separately has begun construction on a new site at Fordo, according to satellite photos obtained by The Associated Press in December.\nIran’s announcement coincides with the anniversary of the U.S. drone striking Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad last year. That attack later saw Iran retaliate by launching a ballistic missile strike injuring dozens of U.S. troops in Iraq. Tehran also shot down a Ukrainian passenger jet that night, killing all 176 people on board.\nAs the anniversary approached, the U.S. has sent B-52 bombers flying over the region and sent a nuclear-powered submarine into the Persian Gulf.\nOn Thursday, sailors discovered a limpet mine on a tanker in the Persian Gulf off Iraq near the Iranian border as it prepared to transfer fuel to another tanker owned by a company traded on the New York Stock Exchange. No one has claimed responsibility for the mine, though it comes after a series of similar attacks in 2019 that the U.S. Navy blamed on Iran.\nTehran denied being involved.\nIn November, an Iranian scientist who founded the country’s military nuclear program two decades earlier was killed in an attack Tehran blames on Israel.",
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“For millions of women and girls across the country, this regressive legislation violates their basic right to equal access,” said Rabbi Ze’ev Smason.
By World Israel News Staff
The Coalition for Jewish Values (CJV), representing over 1500 traditional, Orthodox rabbis in matters of public policy, expressed grave concern on Tuesday regarding President Joe Biden’s Executive Order that requires federally funded schools to allow biological male students who identify as female to use women’s bathrooms and compete on women’s sports teams.
Titled “Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation,” the Executive Order contends that “Children should be able to learn without worrying about whether they will be denied access to the restroom, the locker room, or school sports.” The rabbinic group said in a press release that, to the contrary, children — and girls in particular — will now worry that they cannot privately and safely use their own bathrooms or locker rooms, and will be expected to undress in the presence of biological members of the opposite sex.
“It is a sad day indeed when the new administration, which entered office with the promise to unite, has commenced its activities by offending basic principles of privacy and decency, by endorsing the use of women’s changing rooms by biological males who claim to be females,” said Rabbi Avrohom Gordimer, Chairman of the CJV Rabbinic Circle.
“This Executive Order threatens the safety of all Americans, especially women and girls,” he said.
Biden’s order also effectively eliminates women-only sports teams, a key element of Title IX, the landmark federal law that guarantees equal opportunity for women. Women-only teams were created precisely because it is unreasonable — and unequal — to merely grant women access to men’s teams due to inherent biological differences. Women will now be denied both leadership and scholarship opportunities, and the CJV criticized the Administration’s attempt to discriminate against women while denying the realities of human physiology, the CJV stated.
“‘Science’ that denies the reality that is in front of our eyes is not ‘science’ at all, but an agenda-driven effort masquerading behind an illogical pretense,” said Rabbi Ze’ev Smason, Midwestern Regional Vice President of the CJV.
“For millions of women and girls across the country, this regressive legislation violates their basic right to equal access. Accommodating the needs of a small minority should never infringe on the rights, liberties and sensitivities of the vast majority,” he said.
The CJV, the largest rabbinic public policy organization in America, expressed hope that the president will issue a new Executive Order rescinding this “ill-advised change.”
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Freihofer’s video came a month after the Army warned about the use of social media.
By David Isaac, World Israel News
The U.S. Army has decided to remove an officer who made a Holocaust joke last year on TikTok.
Nathan Freihofer, a second lieutenant, was suspended from leadership duties and an investigation opened last September. In the joke posted in a 15-second video, Freihofer asks, what a “Jewish person’s favorite Pokemon character is.” The answer: “Ash.”
Freihofer then says in the video, “If you get offended, get the f*** out because it’s a joke.”
Lt. Gen. Michael “Erik” Kurilla, the commander of the Army’s XVIII Airborne Corps, who made the decision to eject Friehofer last week, found his statement “inconsistent with the values of Army service and inappropriate for anyone in a position of leadership over American Soldiers,” according to Army spokesman Col. Joseph Buccino.
“As a result, last month the Corps commander initiated the process of removing Freihofer from the Army,” Buccino said.
Task&Purpose, a news site focusing on the U.S. military, reports that Freihofer had a TikTok following of 3 million. It increased by another million since the joke.
“We demand EVERYONE within our formation represents the value of the Profession of Arms and lives in concert with our incredible legacy,” the Army corps tweeted at the time.
According to Task&Purpose, Freihofer’s video came a month after the Army warned about the use of social media. It suggested soldiers think, type and then post.
“‘Think’ about the message being communicated and who could potentially view it; ‘Type’ a communication that is consistent with Army values; and ‘Post’ only those messages that demonstrate dignity and respect for self and others,” according to the policy guidelines.
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“If we don’t take the most stringent action, in March we will be in the same situation as Italy last March,” Edelstein said.
By Lauren Marcus, World Israel News
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to call an emergency meeting of the coronavirus cabinet to tighten Israel’s national lockdown, as 8,300 Israelis were diagnosed with the virus on Monday.
He says tighter restrictions coupled with the massive, high-speed vaccination drive will be enough to rein in the pandemic/
“Thanks to the millions of vaccines, with a short, tight lockdown we will save many lives and we will be the first in the world to bring back the economy,” Netanyahu said.
Israel’s positive test rate is 7.6%. This is the highest daily number of new infections and percentage of positive tests since September 2020, when 9,000 cases were reported in one day.
The country is under a modified lockdown, in which commercial businesses are closed but schools and many workplaces remain open. Health Minister Yuli Edelstein has referred to the lockdown as a “Swiss cheese” and is pushing for tighter restrictions.
During a meeting of government officials, Edelstein reportedly said, “If we don’t take the most stringent action, in March we will be in the same situation as Italy last March.”
Yedioth Ahronot reported that 42% of the new infections occurred among teachers and students from kindergarten to high school.
Defense Minister Benny Gantz said he believes schools should remain open. “This is the most important thing in my eyes, and we will do everything to keep the education system open,” Gantz told Ynet.
“Most of the infections found among students did not occur inside the education system. If most of the infections are outside [of schools], then why sacrifice education?”
%Israel has so far vaccinated 1.37 million Israelis – some 15% of the overall population, and the highest per capita rate in the world – but Israeli hospital heads warned that morbidity rates are out of control.
Prof. Pierre Singer, head of intensive care at Beilinson Medical Center in Petah Tikva, told Channel 13 News that patients heading to the hospital are now “younger cases. We have patients who are 48, 32, 55. I see whole families infected. People have not understood this disease is infectious, dangerous, it’s not over.”
Salman Zarka, director of Tzfat’s Ziv Medical Center, said to Channel 13 that the virus is “hitting again, more than in previous waves. Patients are coming to the hospital in very serious condition… We still have a few months in which we must keep the rules.”
“It’s such a shame, so needless to get sick now, when we are seeing the light at the end of the tunnel.”
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Zar started the hunger strike on Jan. 4. He collapsed Wednesday.
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On Jan. 4, a group called the Young Settlements Forum started a hunger strike outside the prime minister’s office to protest the Israeli government’s failure to authorize a large number of outposts in Judea and Samaria. It nearly ended in tragedy for one on Wednesday.
Hunger striker Itai Zar collapsed and was rushed to the hospital. He was one of four participating in the hunger strike. Zar helped found the settlement of Havat Gilad together with his father Moshe Zar in Samaria in 2002. It was named after his brother, Gilad, who was murdered in a terrorist attack in 2001.
Zar collapsed a few days after new reached the protest encampment that Defense Minister Benny Gantz would not authorize 46 settlements seeking legalized status. Gantz’s decision was sharply criticized by settlement leaders.
It was a disappointing moment for the settlements as legalization would allow them to be connected to Israel’s water and electricity grid. The 46 settlements house some 25,000 men, women and children.
On Thursday, Zar was visited by Minister of Diaspora Affairs and Blue and White MK Omer Yankelevich along with Yossi Dagan, head of the Samaria Regional Council.
Zar told Yankelevich and Dagan of the poor conditions in the settlements. “The electricity is terrible. The water is terrible. We are tired. Enough! What has that got to do with politics? Left and right? I just want to live like a human being, I went to synagogue on Saturday night because there was no water. So why? Another 8 years we will suffer? Why? I am nothing, There are 25,000 people here. I know you are not to blame but because of petty politics. It could be arranged in a second to give us electricity and water.”
Yanelevich, who promised she’d do everything could for the settlements, urged Zar to allow the hospital to treat him so that he wouldn’t injure himself. Zar was given a transfusion.
Dagan said, “It is shocking to see how far the government has taken these pioneers who are simply asking for water, electricity and regulation – basic humanitarian needs. It is a shame that we have to go hungry to get what every resident of Israel, including foreign workers, including illegal workers, get as a matter of course.
“The only ones who have to beg for a connection to water and electricity are the pioneers of the settlement of 25,000 people, of whom 18,000 are children.”
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Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, wearing a mask to protect against COVID-19, Oct. 24, 2020. (AP/Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader)
In a televised speech, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei forbid the import of American and British vaccines.
By Associated Press
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Friday banned Iran from importing of American Pfizer-BioNTech and Britain’s Astrazeneca Covid-19 vaccines, a reflection of mistrust toward the West.
In a televised speech, he said the import of American and British vaccines were “forbidden,” referring to the surging death tolls from the virus in both countries.
“I really do not trust[them]” them, Khamenei said of those nations. “Sometimes they want to test” their vaccines on other countries, adding, “I am not optimistic (about) France,” either.
Iran has struggled to stem the worst virus outbreak in the Middle East.
Khamenei’s statement reflects decades of tense relations between Iran and the West which have not abated in the waning days of President Donald Trump’s presidency. Concerns ran especially high in the weeks leading up to the Jan. 3 one-year anniversary of the U.S. killing of a top Iranian general in Iraq.
A series of moves this week appeared aimed at increasing Iran’s leverage before Democrat Joseph Biden Jr. becomes president on Jan. 20.
On Monday, Iran began enriching uranium to levels unseen since its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers. Under Trump, the U.S. in 2018 withdrew from the deal and re-imposed sanctions on Iran.
Biden supported the deal with some reservations, and is expected to try to bring Iran back into compliance with it.
During his 50-minute speech Friday, Khamenei addressed the transition of power in the U.S. by mocking American politics after a violent mob loyal to Trump overran the Capitol building in Washington.
“This is their democracy; this is their elections’ situation,” Khamenei said, smirking, during his address. He suggested the U.S. was being paid back for inciting tensions in Iran in 2009, after its election.
Khamenei also said the West should bring the end to “hostile and traitorous” sanctions against Iran and supported Iran’s regional influence and missile program.
Also on Friday, Iran’s state TV showed underground tunnels and depots of missiles in south of the country near strategic Strait of Hormuz. Iran has long insisted its nuclear program is peaceful.
On the virus, Iranian officials have said previously that importing the Pfizer vaccine, which must be shipped and stored at minus 70 degrees Celsius (minus 94 degrees Fahrenheit), poses major logistical challenges for Iran.
Iran has struggled to stem the worst virus outbreak in the Middle East, which has infected nearly 1.3 million people and killed nearly 56,000.
However, Khamenei Friday okayed the import of vaccines from other “safe” places..
The county claimed it was testing its own vaccines on humans in December. The product is expected to hit the local market in spring.
Iran has been caught on a number of occasions lying about technological achievements.
Hardliners in Iran have longed opposed the U.S-made vaccines. Iran’s Revolutionary Guard in December rejected the use of foreign-made vaccines altogether. Gen. Mohammad Reza Naghdi said the Guard “does not recommend the injection of any foreign vaccine” candidates based on genetic material known as messenger RNA, which carries the instructions for cells to make proteins.
Authorities said then that U.S.-based benefactors plan to deploy scores of thousands of Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccines to Iran.
Iran retains routes to vaccines despite sanctions, including through its participation in COVAX. International banks and financial institutions refuse to deal with Iran for fear of American penalties based on Iran’s role bankrolling and training terror proxies in the Middle East whose tentacles reach South America.
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"Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, wearing a mask to protect against COVID-19, Oct. 24, 2020. (AP/Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader)\nIn a televised speech, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei forbid the import of American and British vaccines.\nBy Associated Press\nSupreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Friday banned Iran from importing of American Pfizer-BioNTech and Britain’s Astrazeneca Covid-19 vaccines, a reflection of mistrust toward the West.\nIn a televised speech, he said the import of American and British vaccines were “forbidden,” referring to the surging death tolls from the virus in both countries.\n“I really do not trust[them]” them, Khamenei said of those nations. “Sometimes they want to test” their vaccines on other countries, adding, “I am not optimistic (about) France,” either.\nIran has struggled to stem the worst virus outbreak in the Middle East.\nKhamenei’s statement reflects decades of tense relations between Iran and the West which have not abated in the waning days of President Donald Trump’s presidency. Concerns ran especially high in the weeks leading up to the Jan. 3 one-year anniversary of the U.S. killing of a top Iranian general in Iraq.\nA series of moves this week appeared aimed at increasing Iran’s leverage before Democrat Joseph Biden Jr. becomes president on Jan. 20.\nOn Monday, Iran began enriching uranium to levels unseen since its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers. Under Trump, the U.S. in 2018 withdrew from the deal and re-imposed sanctions on Iran.\nBiden supported the deal with some reservations, and is expected to try to bring Iran back into compliance with it.\nDuring his 50-minute speech Friday, Khamenei addressed the transition of power in the U.S. by mocking American politics after a violent mob loyal to Trump overran the Capitol building in Washington.\n“This is their democracy; this is their elections’ situation,” Khamenei said, smirking, during his address. He suggested the U.S. was being paid back for inciting tensions in Iran in 2009, after its election.\nKhamenei also said the West should bring the end to “hostile and traitorous” sanctions against Iran and supported Iran’s regional influence and missile program.\nAlso on Friday, Iran’s state TV showed underground tunnels and depots of missiles in south of the country near strategic Strait of Hormuz. Iran has long insisted its nuclear program is peaceful.\nOn the virus, Iranian officials have said previously that importing the Pfizer vaccine, which must be shipped and stored at minus 70 degrees Celsius (minus 94 degrees Fahrenheit), poses major logistical challenges for Iran.\nIran has struggled to stem the worst virus outbreak in the Middle East, which has infected nearly 1.3 million people and killed nearly 56,000.\nHowever, Khamenei Friday okayed the import of vaccines from other “safe” places..\nThe county claimed it was testing its own vaccines on humans in December. The product is expected to hit the local market in spring.\nIran has been caught on a number of occasions lying about technological achievements.\nHardliners in Iran have longed opposed the U.S-made vaccines. Iran’s Revolutionary Guard in December rejected the use of foreign-made vaccines altogether. Gen. Mohammad Reza Naghdi said the Guard “does not recommend the injection of any foreign vaccine” candidates based on genetic material known as messenger RNA, which carries the instructions for cells to make proteins.\nAuthorities said then that U.S.-based benefactors plan to deploy scores of thousands of Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccines to Iran.\nIran retains routes to vaccines despite sanctions, including through its participation in COVAX. International banks and financial institutions refuse to deal with Iran for fear of American penalties based on Iran’s role bankrolling and training terror proxies in the Middle East whose tentacles reach South America.",
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The crown prince has repeatedly warned about the Iranian threat.
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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said the region needed to unite and face challenges posed by Iran’s proxies and its nuclear and ballistic missile programs, at an annual summit of Gulf State leaders in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday.
Saudi Arabia considers Iran the gravest threat in the region. Its assessment is shared by the U.S. and Israel.
The crown prince has repeatedly warned about the Iranian threat. In 2018, he compared Ayatollah Khamenei to Hitler: “I believe the Iranian supreme leader makes Hitler look good. Hitler didn’t do what the supreme leader is trying to do. Hitler tried to conquer Europe. … The supreme leader is trying to conquer the world.”
The annual Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) summit met in the ancient desert city of Al-Ula.
On Monday night, the eve of the summit, the Saudis announced they would open the kingdom’s airspace and borders to Qatar, the first major step toward ending the diplomatic crisis that began in 2017, when the Trump administration was starting to raise pressure on Iran.
In a sign of burying the hatchet, bin Salman embraced Qatar’s emir upon his arrival at the summit.
Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan told reporters after the summit that diplomatic relations would be restored in full with Qatar, although no timeframe was given.
“We are extremely pleased with having been able to achieve this very important breakthrough that we believe will contribute very much to the stability and security of all our nations in the region,” Prince Faisal said.
Qatar and Saudi Arabia were divided, among other things, over Qatar’s relations with Iran.
At least publicly, Iran didn’t act as if the restoration of Saudi-Qatari relations was a threat. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif congratulated Qatar “for the success of its brave resistance to pressure & extortion.” He also said in a message to other Arab leaders that “Iran is neither an enemy nor threat — especially with your reckless patron on his way out,” referring to President Donald Trump.
This year’s GCC summit is the first since Washington brokered normalization deals between Israel and the UAE, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco in rapid succession, marking a major shift in regional alliances.
Trump adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner, who spearheaded those deals, was at the summit for the signing of the Gulf declaration.
The dispute had pitted regional U.S. allies against one another at a time when the Trump administration was working to pressure Iran.
The diplomatic breakthrough followed a final push by the outgoing Trump administration and Kuwait to mediate the dispute. It also came as Saudi Arabia seeks to unify Arab ranks ahead of the incoming administration of President-elect Joe Biden, which is expected to take a firmer stand toward the kingdom and re-engage with Iran.
Dania Thafer, executive director of Gulf International Forum, said Saudi Arabia is concerned about whether Biden will draw down the U.S. military presence in the Persian Gulf that had expanded under President Donald Trump and enter back into nuclear negotiations with Iran.
“If that is the case, then the (Arab) states need to respond with a regional solution to security. And I think resolving the Gulf crisis is one step forward towards that direction,” she said.
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The two former top generals discuss the US-Israel defense relationship and maintaining Israel’s qualitative military edge.
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Israel’s Defense Minister Benny Gantz spoke Thursday with his counterpart in Washington, newly sworn-in U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, for the first time since Austin was appointed to the post last week.
The two former generals discussed the U.S.-Israel defense relationship, renewing their connection that began when Gantz was chief-of-staff of the IDF and Austin was commander of the U.S. armed forces CENTCOM command for the Middle East.
“Enjoyed speaking with my longtime colleague, Secretary of Defense Austin, and sharing my warm wishes on his appointment,” Gantz tweeted. “We reaffirmed the strength of the US-Israel defense relationship & discussed our many shared priorities, including maintaining Israel’s QME [Qualitative Military Edge] & regional stability.”
Gantz traveled to the Pentagon in October to sign a new agreement to maintain Israel’s qualitative military edge in the region, paving the way for the sale of F-35 stealth fighters to the UAE that had previously worried Israeli leaders, as no Arab country has the advance jets.
The Biden administration this week put a hold on that sale, worth a reported $23 billion, pending a review as the deal was criticized by many Democratic members of Congress.
The F-35 sale was intended to help the UAE and other Arab Gulf allies confront the military threats posed by Iran.
“I emphasized the importance of confronting Iranian aggression and blocking its nuclear aspirations, as well as the centrality of our close coordination to regional security. Looking forward to working together again, Secretary Austin,” Gantz said.
Austin tweeted back his own short summary of their talk, adding that America would ensure Israel maintained its military advantage over other countries in the region.
“Great speaking with Israel’s Minister of Defense Benny Gantz this morning. The U.S. is committed to Israel’s Qualitative Military Edge and to enhancing our close bilateral cooperation,” Austin tweeted.
The two talked as the current commander of CENTCOM, U.S. Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr., was in Israel for a two-day visit with the IDF. McKenzie is the first senior American official to visit the Jewish State since President Joe Biden was sworn into office January 20.
“Military and strategic relations between the U.S.and Israel have, for many years, been a critical component in establishing Israel’s national security and its advantage over its enemies, wherever they are,” IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen Aviv Kochavi told his guest. “This partnership has a key role to play in dealing with our common threats, especially the Iranian threat.”
McKenzie’s visit is significant in that at the end of his term in office, President Donald Trump shifted Israel from the military jurisdiction of the European Command (EUCOM) to the Central Command. Israel had previously been part of Europe to avoid friction with America’s Arab allies in the region, but that changed following the Abraham Accords and Israel establishing diplomatic relations with Bahrain and United Arab Emirates – where CENTCOM has major bases.
Israeli officials had pushed for many years to move Israel under CENTCOM for strategic reasons, to allow for closer coordination and cooperation with a focus on Iran.
The IDF is strongly opposed to the Biden administration returning the U.S. to the Iran nuclear deal. Earlier this week, Kochavi said he sees such a move as a strategic mistake and announced he was preparing military operations against Iran’s nuclear facilities.
“A return to the nuclear agreement of 2015, even if it is a similar agreement with improvements, is a bad thing and not right. It is a bad thing operationally and it is a bad thing strategically,” Kochavi said. ” I have ordered the IDF to prepare a number of operational plans, in addition to the existing ones.”
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"The two former top generals discuss the US-Israel defense relationship and maintaining Israel’s qualitative military edge.\nBy Paul Shindman, World Israel News\nIsrael’s Defense Minister Benny Gantz spoke Thursday with his counterpart in Washington, newly sworn-in U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, for the first time since Austin was appointed to the post last week.\nThe two former generals discussed the U.S.-Israel defense relationship, renewing their connection that began when Gantz was chief-of-staff of the IDF and Austin was commander of the U.S. armed forces CENTCOM command for the Middle East.\n“Enjoyed speaking with my longtime colleague, Secretary of Defense Austin, and sharing my warm wishes on his appointment,” Gantz tweeted. “We reaffirmed the strength of the US-Israel defense relationship & discussed our many shared priorities, including maintaining Israel’s QME [Qualitative Military Edge] & regional stability.”\nGantz traveled to the Pentagon in October to sign a new agreement to maintain Israel’s qualitative military edge in the region, paving the way for the sale of F-35 stealth fighters to the UAE that had previously worried Israeli leaders, as no Arab country has the advance jets.\nThe Biden administration this week put a hold on that sale, worth a reported $23 billion, pending a review as the deal was criticized by many Democratic members of Congress.\nThe F-35 sale was intended to help the UAE and other Arab Gulf allies confront the military threats posed by Iran.\n“I emphasized the importance of confronting Iranian aggression and blocking its nuclear aspirations, as well as the centrality of our close coordination to regional security. Looking forward to working together again, Secretary Austin,” Gantz said.\nAustin tweeted back his own short summary of their talk, adding that America would ensure Israel maintained its military advantage over other countries in the region.\n“Great speaking with Israel’s Minister of Defense Benny Gantz this morning. The U.S. is committed to Israel’s Qualitative Military Edge and to enhancing our close bilateral cooperation,” Austin tweeted.\nThe two talked as the current commander of CENTCOM, U.S. Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr., was in Israel for a two-day visit with the IDF. McKenzie is the first senior American official to visit the Jewish State since President Joe Biden was sworn into office January 20.\n“Military and strategic relations between the U.S.and Israel have, for many years, been a critical component in establishing Israel’s national security and its advantage over its enemies, wherever they are,” IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen Aviv Kochavi told his guest. “This partnership has a key role to play in dealing with our common threats, especially the Iranian threat.”\nMcKenzie’s visit is significant in that at the end of his term in office, President Donald Trump shifted Israel from the military jurisdiction of the European Command (EUCOM) to the Central Command. Israel had previously been part of Europe to avoid friction with America’s Arab allies in the region, but that changed following the Abraham Accords and Israel establishing diplomatic relations with Bahrain and United Arab Emirates – where CENTCOM has major bases.\nIsraeli officials had pushed for many years to move Israel under CENTCOM for strategic reasons, to allow for closer coordination and cooperation with a focus on Iran.\nThe IDF is strongly opposed to the Biden administration returning the U.S. to the Iran nuclear deal. Earlier this week, Kochavi said he sees such a move as a strategic mistake and announced he was preparing military operations against Iran’s nuclear facilities.\n“A return to the nuclear agreement of 2015, even if it is a similar agreement with improvements, is a bad thing and not right. It is a bad thing operationally and it is a bad thing strategically,” Kochavi said. ” I have ordered the IDF to prepare a number of operational plans, in addition to the existing ones.”",
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Trying to throw off his anti-Arab image, Netanyahu calls on Arab voters to support his right-wing Likud Party.
By Paul Shindman, World Israel News
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a meeting of his right-wing Likud Party on Saturday that he is courting the Arab vote in the upcoming national election, Walla News reported Saturday.
At a meeting of the Likud Secretariat, Netanyahu appeared to throw off his past comments about Israeli Arabs and said “all citizens in the State of Israel should be given all the rights.”
“We turn to the Arab citizens – this time vote for us,” Netanyahu said, adding he had plans for investment in the Arab sector and would launch a plan to fight a growing crime rate that has rattled Arab society over the past year.
The comments came after visits to two coronavirus vaccination centers in the Arab sector at the end of last week. The Likud has conducted polling tests regarding what the reaction would be if the party reserved a top spot on its election list for an Arab candidate.
With support for Likud down, recent polls that show Netanyahu may not have enough support in the March 23 election to form a new coalition government. The party has its work cut out for it. The prime minister is still remembered for stating before the 2015 elections that “Arab voters are moving in huge numbers to the polls” in an effort to scare Jewish voters into countering the perceived threat.
The move also comes after warming relations between the Likud andthe Ra’am faction in the predominantly Arab Joint List, headed by MK Mansour Abbas, who in the past months refused to support a vote for new elections, raising the ire of the other three parties in the Joint List.
Veteran Arab MK Ahmad Tibi slammed Netanyahu’s outreach to the Arabs, recalling the 2015 comments and reminding his constituents that in the previous election Likud tried to have cameras installed in Arab polling stations as an intimidation tactic, saying “he who believes his [Netanyahu’s] lies deserves it.”
Yesh Atid Party leader Yair Lapid, part of the opposition, also attacked Netanyahu recalling that “an ancient Arab proverb says: If you are a liar, think carefully before you lie. If you are a liar, you must have a good memory, lest they expose your lie.”
“Our buses are ready to flock to the polls, but certainly not to vote for the big instigators against us,” said Mtanes Shihadehm, leader of the Balad faction of the Joint List.
Maariv newspaper’s Arab affairs analyst Shimrit Meir said Likud policy was changing because Netanyahu “has seen polls that show he has something to look for in the Arab electorate.”
“The issue of the four peace agreements, especially with the Emirates, is something that has created a wave of something in the Arab public, the numbers range from 60-50 percent of the Arab public who support the agreement, compared to 100 percent of their leaders who voted against,” Meir said.
“The Palestinian issue is still important to Arabs in Israel, but it is something that shows no indication that it is moving in any direction,” Meir added. “Not everyone would shun them [the Likud].”
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"Trying to throw off his anti-Arab image, Netanyahu calls on Arab voters to support his right-wing Likud Party.\nBy Paul Shindman, World Israel News\nPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a meeting of his right-wing Likud Party on Saturday that he is courting the Arab vote in the upcoming national election, Walla News reported Saturday.\nAt a meeting of the Likud Secretariat, Netanyahu appeared to throw off his past comments about Israeli Arabs and said “all citizens in the State of Israel should be given all the rights.”\n“We turn to the Arab citizens – this time vote for us,” Netanyahu said, adding he had plans for investment in the Arab sector and would launch a plan to fight a growing crime rate that has rattled Arab society over the past year.\nThe comments came after visits to two coronavirus vaccination centers in the Arab sector at the end of last week. The Likud has conducted polling tests regarding what the reaction would be if the party reserved a top spot on its election list for an Arab candidate.\nWith support for Likud down, recent polls that show Netanyahu may not have enough support in the March 23 election to form a new coalition government. The party has its work cut out for it. The prime minister is still remembered for stating before the 2015 elections that “Arab voters are moving in huge numbers to the polls” in an effort to scare Jewish voters into countering the perceived threat.\nThe move also comes after warming relations between the Likud andthe Ra’am faction in the predominantly Arab Joint List, headed by MK Mansour Abbas, who in the past months refused to support a vote for new elections, raising the ire of the other three parties in the Joint List.\nVeteran Arab MK Ahmad Tibi slammed Netanyahu’s outreach to the Arabs, recalling the 2015 comments and reminding his constituents that in the previous election Likud tried to have cameras installed in Arab polling stations as an intimidation tactic, saying “he who believes his [Netanyahu’s] lies deserves it.”\nYesh Atid Party leader Yair Lapid, part of the opposition, also attacked Netanyahu recalling that “an ancient Arab proverb says: If you are a liar, think carefully before you lie. If you are a liar, you must have a good memory, lest they expose your lie.”\n“Our buses are ready to flock to the polls, but certainly not to vote for the big instigators against us,” said Mtanes Shihadehm, leader of the Balad faction of the Joint List.\nMaariv newspaper’s Arab affairs analyst Shimrit Meir said Likud policy was changing because Netanyahu “has seen polls that show he has something to look for in the Arab electorate.”\n“The issue of the four peace agreements, especially with the Emirates, is something that has created a wave of something in the Arab public, the numbers range from 60-50 percent of the Arab public who support the agreement, compared to 100 percent of their leaders who voted against,” Meir said.\n“The Palestinian issue is still important to Arabs in Israel, but it is something that shows no indication that it is moving in any direction,” Meir added. “Not everyone would shun them [the Likud].”",
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Another giant explosion in Lebanon near Syrian border
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Another giant explosion in Lebanon near Syrian border
Social media video posts showed flames and after-explosions at the scene.
By World Israel News Staff
A huge explosion was reported in Lebanon near the Syrian border on Sunday.
Conflicting reports emerged as to the source of the blast. According to some reports, the warehouse which exploded was used by smugglers of gas and fuel from Syria to Lebanon.
Other say that the warehouse was connected to a family affiliated with the Hezbollah terrorist group.
Social media video posts showed flames and after-explosions at the scene
On August 4, 2020, Beirut was devastated by a massive explosion at the port sent shock waves across the Lebanese capital, resulting in 204 deaths, 6,500 injuries, $15 billion in property damage, and an estimated 300,000 people homeless.
“L’Apocalypse,” read the front page of Lebanon’s French L’Orient Le Jour newspaper. Another paper, al-Akhbar, had a photo of a destroyed port with the words: “The Great Collapse.”
The explosion was caused by a large amount of ammonium nitrate stored at the port of Beirut.
Many blamed Hezbollah for that blast. The terror group claimed it had nothing to do with it.
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In a video released on Wednesday, President Donald Trump “unequivocally” condemned the violence on Capitol Hill on Jan. 6. “No true supporter of mine could ever threaten or harass their fellow Americans,” he said.
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“Assassinate AOC,” Garret Miller of Texas allegedly tweeted.
By Josh Plank, World Israel News
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on Friday responded to the FBI’s arrest on Wednesday of Garret Miller of Texas, who has been charged with five counts related to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot including threatening to assassinate the progressive congresswoman.
According to the FBI’s criminal complaint filed in U.S. district court, Miller posted a photograph of himself inside the Capitol Building on Facebook along with the message, “Just wanted to incriminate myself a little lol.”
“Well, you did!” tweeted Ocasio-Cortez.
“On one hand you have to laugh, and on the other know that the reason they were this brazen is because they thought they were going to succeed,” she said.
“Just wanted to incriminate myself a little” Well, you did! https://t.co/Y0MbtHwsUr — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 22, 2021
The FBI also alleges that Miller engaged in interstate threats.
“Assassinate AOC,” said a Jan. 6 tweet from a now-suspended account appearing to belong to Miller, according to a screenshot provided with the criminal complaint.
Miller also allegedly threatened the Capitol Police officer who shot to death an unarmed woman, Ashli Babbitt, inside the Capitol Building on Jan. 6.
The complaint alleges that Miller stated on Jan. 10, “We going to get a hold of [the USCP officer] and hug his neck with a nice rope.”
Miller’s attorney, Clint Broden, said in a statement, “Mr. Miller regrets the acts he took in a misguided effort to show his support for former President Trump. He has the full support of his family and has always been a law-abiding citizen.”
“His social media comments reflect very ill-considered political hyperbole in very divided times and will certainly not be repeated in the future. He accepts responsibility for his actions,” Broden said.
On Friday, Ocasio-Cortez told CNN’s Chris Cuomo that she did not attend the Jan. 20 presidential inauguration due in part to “very real security concerns.”
“We still don’t yet feel safe around other members of Congress,” said Ocasio-Cortez.
She said, “A lot of members do not feel safe,” and claimed that one Republican lawmaker “just tried to bring a gun on the floor of the House today.”
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"“Assassinate AOC,” Garret Miller of Texas allegedly tweeted.\nBy Josh Plank, World Israel News\nRep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on Friday responded to the FBI’s arrest on Wednesday of Garret Miller of Texas, who has been charged with five counts related to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot including threatening to assassinate the progressive congresswoman.\nAccording to the FBI’s criminal complaint filed in U.S. district court, Miller posted a photograph of himself inside the Capitol Building on Facebook along with the message, “Just wanted to incriminate myself a little lol.”\n“Well, you did!” tweeted Ocasio-Cortez.\n“On one hand you have to laugh, and on the other know that the reason they were this brazen is because they thought they were going to succeed,” she said.\n“Just wanted to incriminate myself a little” Well, you did! https://t.co/Y0MbtHwsUr — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 22, 2021\nThe FBI also alleges that Miller engaged in interstate threats.\n“Assassinate AOC,” said a Jan. 6 tweet from a now-suspended account appearing to belong to Miller, according to a screenshot provided with the criminal complaint.\nMiller also allegedly threatened the Capitol Police officer who shot to death an unarmed woman, Ashli Babbitt, inside the Capitol Building on Jan. 6.\nThe complaint alleges that Miller stated on Jan. 10, “We going to get a hold of [the USCP officer] and hug his neck with a nice rope.”\nMiller’s attorney, Clint Broden, said in a statement, “Mr. Miller regrets the acts he took in a misguided effort to show his support for former President Trump. He has the full support of his family and has always been a law-abiding citizen.”\n“His social media comments reflect very ill-considered political hyperbole in very divided times and will certainly not be repeated in the future. He accepts responsibility for his actions,” Broden said.\nOn Friday, Ocasio-Cortez told CNN’s Chris Cuomo that she did not attend the Jan. 20 presidential inauguration due in part to “very real security concerns.”\n“We still don’t yet feel safe around other members of Congress,” said Ocasio-Cortez.\nShe said, “A lot of members do not feel safe,” and claimed that one Republican lawmaker “just tried to bring a gun on the floor of the House today.”",
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The driver, an Israeli woman, was struck in the head. (TPS)
The Israeli woman was badly injured and rushed to a hospital.
By World Israel News Staff
An 30-year-old Israeli woman was seriously injured in a rock-throwing attack on early Sunday afternoon, the IDF reports. She was on her way to get tested for the coronavirus, The Jerusalem Post reports.
IDF troops are searching the area to locate the suspects.
Initial reports say the Palestinian Arabs were throwing stones on Road 465 near the entrance to the town of Neve Tzuf, also known as Halamish, in the Binyamin region. One of the stones struck the driver in the face.
“A number of teenagers, terrorists, threw stones at her vehicle, hitting her in the head and seriously injur[ing] her,” Binyamin Regional Council head Israel Ganz said, the Post reports
She was treated by Magen David Adom medics and an IDF medical team before being rushed to Tel Hashomer Hospital in serious condition, according to the website. She was conscious.
Two weeks ago in the same area, terrorists threw stones at vehicles on Route 465, near the Arab village of Deir Nizam. 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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The report suggests that the mass vaccination campaign, coupled with an outbreak of the virus, may lead to the emergence of an Israeli vaccine-resistant strain.
By Lauren Marcus, World Israel News
A report from IDF Intelligence prepared for Coronavirus National Information and Knowledge Center released Saturday warned that the current outbreak, coupled with Israel’s mass vaccination campaign, may lead to a new Israeli strain of the virus.
“The mass vaccine campaign taking place parallel to the active outbreak in Israel may lead to ‘evolutionary pressure’ on the virus,” the report reads, going on to suggest that an Israeli vaccine-resistant strain of the virus may emerge.
In a Saturday evening TV interview, Prof. Ran Blitzer, a member of the Health Ministry’s coronavirus taskforce, said the British and South African mutations of the virus make up some 40 percent of active infections in Israel.
“When we leave the [current] lockdown, we will encounter a disease that is a little different from what we knew in the second lockdown, because the morbidity rate will be higher. The vaccination campaign needs to be accelerated,” said Blitzer.
“We need to remember that receiving the vaccine, also the second dose, is not a factor that makes us immune. There is no complete protection…At Ben Gurion Airport, much more needs to be done, and it should have been done a long time ago. Quarantine needs to be properly enforced,” he added.
Israeli government ministers are expected to vote Sunday to close Ben Gurion Airport for two weeks due to concerns over foreign strains of the virus.
Despite promises from the Israeli government that “green passport” holders – those who received two doses of the vaccine or recovered from the virus – would be exempt from quarantine requirements, the Military Intelligence report suggested that all travelers should be tested for the virus and enter quarantine upon returning to Israel from abroad.
Even those who are vaccinated, the report said, may spread new strains of the virus brought back from overseas.
The Military Intelligence report is in line with statements from Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, who said in a Dateline interview that the pharmaceutical giant “was not certain” that the vaccine prevents the spread of the virus. Rather, the vaccine has been proven to stop vaccinated people from developing symptoms.
“I think that’s something that needs to be examined,” Bourla said, referring to the vaccine’s effectiveness at stopping the spread of the virus among vaccinated people.
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"The report suggests that the mass vaccination campaign, coupled with an outbreak of the virus, may lead to the emergence of an Israeli vaccine-resistant strain.\nBy Lauren Marcus, World Israel News\nA report from IDF Intelligence prepared for Coronavirus National Information and Knowledge Center released Saturday warned that the current outbreak, coupled with Israel’s mass vaccination campaign, may lead to a new Israeli strain of the virus.\n“The mass vaccine campaign taking place parallel to the active outbreak in Israel may lead to ‘evolutionary pressure’ on the virus,” the report reads, going on to suggest that an Israeli vaccine-resistant strain of the virus may emerge.\nIn a Saturday evening TV interview, Prof. Ran Blitzer, a member of the Health Ministry’s coronavirus taskforce, said the British and South African mutations of the virus make up some 40 percent of active infections in Israel.\n“When we leave the [current] lockdown, we will encounter a disease that is a little different from what we knew in the second lockdown, because the morbidity rate will be higher. The vaccination campaign needs to be accelerated,” said Blitzer.\n“We need to remember that receiving the vaccine, also the second dose, is not a factor that makes us immune. There is no complete protection…At Ben Gurion Airport, much more needs to be done, and it should have been done a long time ago. Quarantine needs to be properly enforced,” he added.\nIsraeli government ministers are expected to vote Sunday to close Ben Gurion Airport for two weeks due to concerns over foreign strains of the virus.\nDespite promises from the Israeli government that “green passport” holders – those who received two doses of the vaccine or recovered from the virus – would be exempt from quarantine requirements, the Military Intelligence report suggested that all travelers should be tested for the virus and enter quarantine upon returning to Israel from abroad.\nEven those who are vaccinated, the report said, may spread new strains of the virus brought back from overseas.\nThe Military Intelligence report is in line with statements from Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla, who said in a Dateline interview that the pharmaceutical giant “was not certain” that the vaccine prevents the spread of the virus. Rather, the vaccine has been proven to stop vaccinated people from developing symptoms.\n“I think that’s something that needs to be examined,” Bourla said, referring to the vaccine’s effectiveness at stopping the spread of the virus among vaccinated people.",
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Knesset members thank Friedman for his achievements during his tenure with the Trump administration.
By David Isaac, World Israel News
The Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee held a special meeting on Monday to give MKs a chance to bid farewell and thank U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman.
Committee chairman Zvi Hauser of the Derech Eretz faction thanked Friedman for righting a historical wrong concerning Israel’s capital. “During your tenure, you have fulfilled the dreams of us all. During your shift, a historical distortion was corrected, and the traditional position of the United States realized in declaring Jerusalem as the capital of the state of the Jewish people.”
Speaker of the Knesset Yariv Lavin of Likud said: “It is right and proper that the Knesset acknowledge, in a formal and official manner, a deep and special thank you for Ambassador Friedman’s tremendous contribution to U.S.-Israel relations.”
Levin added, “These things did not happen by chance and are the result of your personal vision and investment in things that seemed almost impossible. We still do not really digest the impact and meaning of everything you have done.”
Friedman, who is leaving his post in nine days, said he can’t believe how quickly the four years flew. An Orthodox Jew, he said, “As in the Psalms it is said of God for whom a thousand years pass as a day, so for me the four years passed in the twinkling of an eye, which was fascinating and enjoyable to me.”
Friedman had the ear of the president throughout his tenure and is considered instrumental in bringing about important gains for Israel, including the moving of the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem and the recognition of Israeli sovereignty on the Golan Heights.
“We’ve had an extraordinary relationship, all of us, from the president of the United States with the prime minister to the cabinet secretaries of the United States to their counterparts in ministries here, to all the military and intelligence personnel who don’t appear in public but who’ve I had the privilege of sitting with,” Friedman said at the meeting.
Of all the accomplishments, Friedman listed the U.S. Embassy move as the most significant.
“I think that having the benefit of now four years of perspective, I do think the most important thing that we did was what we did early, which was recognizing the capital of Israel. That set the right tone, the right theme for our presidency,” Friedman said.
“That strengthened the president not just here but throughout the world. It strengthened him with Iran, with North Korea, because we took the position that America will stand with its friends. America will not flinch, be afraid of its enemies or those that challenge it. America will stand for the truth and do the right thing, and if there are consequences we’ll protect our friends and our allies and our citizens,” he added.
“Everybody thought that in the aftermath of the recognition [of Jerusalem] there would be an explosion. And they were right. But it was an explosion of peace, not an explosion of violence. From that moment forward we had set the right track in our relationship,” he said.
It may not be the last Israel sees of Friedman. He says he won’t pursue dual U.S.-Israeli citizenship in order to keep open the possibility of again serving in the U.S. government. “I’m going to stay American-only for at least four years.” he said. “I want to give myself every opportunity to return to government.”
His remarks, made in a Sunday interview with The New York Times, also indirectly hints at the possibility of a 2024 White House run by Donald Trump
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"Knesset members thank Friedman for his achievements during his tenure with the Trump administration.\nBy David Isaac, World Israel News\nThe Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee held a special meeting on Monday to give MKs a chance to bid farewell and thank U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman.\nCommittee chairman Zvi Hauser of the Derech Eretz faction thanked Friedman for righting a historical wrong concerning Israel’s capital. “During your tenure, you have fulfilled the dreams of us all. During your shift, a historical distortion was corrected, and the traditional position of the United States realized in declaring Jerusalem as the capital of the state of the Jewish people.”\nSpeaker of the Knesset Yariv Lavin of Likud said: “It is right and proper that the Knesset acknowledge, in a formal and official manner, a deep and special thank you for Ambassador Friedman’s tremendous contribution to U.S.-Israel relations.”\nLevin added, “These things did not happen by chance and are the result of your personal vision and investment in things that seemed almost impossible. We still do not really digest the impact and meaning of everything you have done.”\nFriedman, who is leaving his post in nine days, said he can’t believe how quickly the four years flew. An Orthodox Jew, he said, “As in the Psalms it is said of God for whom a thousand years pass as a day, so for me the four years passed in the twinkling of an eye, which was fascinating and enjoyable to me.”\nFriedman had the ear of the president throughout his tenure and is considered instrumental in bringing about important gains for Israel, including the moving of the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem and the recognition of Israeli sovereignty on the Golan Heights.\n“We’ve had an extraordinary relationship, all of us, from the president of the United States with the prime minister to the cabinet secretaries of the United States to their counterparts in ministries here, to all the military and intelligence personnel who don’t appear in public but who’ve I had the privilege of sitting with,” Friedman said at the meeting.\nOf all the accomplishments, Friedman listed the U.S. Embassy move as the most significant.\n“I think that having the benefit of now four years of perspective, I do think the most important thing that we did was what we did early, which was recognizing the capital of Israel. That set the right tone, the right theme for our presidency,” Friedman said.\n“That strengthened the president not just here but throughout the world. It strengthened him with Iran, with North Korea, because we took the position that America will stand with its friends. America will not flinch, be afraid of its enemies or those that challenge it. America will stand for the truth and do the right thing, and if there are consequences we’ll protect our friends and our allies and our citizens,” he added.\n“Everybody thought that in the aftermath of the recognition [of Jerusalem] there would be an explosion. And they were right. But it was an explosion of peace, not an explosion of violence. From that moment forward we had set the right track in our relationship,” he said.\nIt may not be the last Israel sees of Friedman. He says he won’t pursue dual U.S.-Israeli citizenship in order to keep open the possibility of again serving in the U.S. government. “I’m going to stay American-only for at least four years.” he said. “I want to give myself every opportunity to return to government.”\nHis remarks, made in a Sunday interview with The New York Times, also indirectly hints at the possibility of a 2024 White House run by Donald Trump",
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