BREAKING NEWS: Israel Aligns with NATO as Alliance Frays at the Seams

Israel is celebrating its opening of a permanent mission to NATO.  The role was n question until Turley and Israel patched their differences up and renewed diplomatic ties.  

“Israel attributes great importance to its relations with NATO. The opening of a permanent office reflects Israel’s role in promoting peace and stability in the region,” Leshno-Yaar, Israel’s ambassador to the EU said in the statement.

Despite the positive development that took years to achieve, the strategic landscape across the world is drastically different from just a few years ago.  NATO is not what it used to be.  This is due both to a reassertive Russia as well as major differences in NATO’s use of an intervention force.

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With NATO having overstepped its bounds in many areas from Eastern Europe to North Africa a growing chorus of anti-interventionists have begun to push back and openly question NATO’s purpose and mission in a world vastly different that even the post-cold war period.

 

With this in mind it begs the question of why Israel needs to be part or even tacitly connected to the alliance. The answer is it doesn’t.

The only reason why Israel is pushing ahead with its NATO mission is ensure that remains on more than friendly terms with NATO.  A receding NATOis just as interventionist as always, but just a bit weaker. In a volatile world Israel wants to make sure it keeps its foot in the west as it continues to court Russia and China.

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BREAKING NEWS: North Korea Ready to Attack the South

Kim Jong Un declared that North Korea is ready to launch a fresh attack on the South against ‘US provocations.’ North Korea has grown increasingly braisen as the world has gone on edge following the North’s latest nuclear test.

North Korea detonated its most powerful nuclear test to date this month. After the test it stated it had mastered the ability to mount a warhead on a ballistic missile.  If such an advancement was true, the US and its Asian allies have what to be worried about.

South Korea said the North was ready to set off another test at anytime.

OCTOBER SURPRISE? Tensions with North Korea Rising as Nuclear Capable Bomber Flies Over South Korea

The news is buzzing with the US’s attempt to rattle North Korea.

Most observers would assume this is just saber rattling from the Obama administration, but this sort of act can have dire consequences for all sides and Obama knows this.  With Hillary taking a dive (literally) the campaign needs a serious reset.  Is Obama gambling with global safety with the above sort of actions?

Truthfully, North Korea has to be dealt with, but the timing of such an action is highly suspect. In a world which is increasingly getting out of control, flying nuclear capable bombers as a show of force may actually trigger the sort of war everyone wants to avoid.

Is a war with North Korea or even China the October surprise?

BREAKING NEWS: Jerusalem Synagogue Defaced with Crosses

It was reported that black crosses had been spray painted on an Iranian synagogue Koresh in the Katamon neighborhood of Jerusalem.

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Vandalism against Jewish institutions is not suprising in Jerusalem’s seamline neighborhoods where Jews lives near Arabs.  This attack is a bit of a shock, because Katamon is fairly central.  The use of crosses is either a ploy by Arab vandals or a troubling development within the broader Christian Israeli community.

Jerusalem police have opened an investigation into the incident and are searching for suspects.

 

Trump Advisor: “The State Department Should Be Ashamed”

In an interview with Haaretz, Trump’s Israel affairs advisor David Friedman agreed with Bibi Netanyahu’s assertion that the removal of Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, a demand the PA and State Department make amounts to ethnic cleansing.

Below are Friedman’s comments:

“Prime Minister Netanyahu makes exactly the right point. The Palestinians want Israel to absorb countless ‘refugees’ – people who never lived in Israel and whose ancestors were never forced to leave Israel – while their so-called ‘state’ is required to be, as the Nazis said, judenrein (devoid of Jews). It is an entirely racist and anti-Semitic position.”

“Arabs live and work side by side with Israelis in the State of Israel. They attend universities, enjoy the strongest human and civil rights (including women’s rights) in the region, and have access to world class health care. There is no better place for Arabs to live in the Middle East than in the State of Israel. With this background in mind, the Prime Minister of Israel correctly observes that the Palestinian demand to remove all Jews from their ancestral homeland in Judea and Samaria is nothing short of an attempt at ethnic cleansing. The State Department should be ashamed of their misguided reaction to Mr. Netanyahu’s remarks.”

“The United States frequently refers to the ‘two state solution’ as two states for two peoples. The Palestinian response – which the U.S. State Department refuses to challenge – is ‘one state for two peoples (Israel) and a second state just for Palestinian Arabs.’ It is no wonder that the State Department under Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have lost credibility in the region.”

Hillary Faints, Donald Trump Surging, and 9-11

If Donald Trump ends up as the next US President, pundits will look back at today’s September 11th memorial as the turning point in the race. The even that shifted and cemented The Donald’s surge was the video below, showing a weak knead Hillary Clinton, collapsing on her way into her van.

Yet, 9-11 of 2016 is much more than the seeming turnaround of Donald Trump’s campaign. The date serves as a reminder that the world we all live in is vastly different from the one that existed 15 years previous. Our world is intrinsically intertwined by online movements and behaviours. The developing world is rapidly closing in on a frail and lost West. The Middle East is in complete chaos as the USA recedes to the other side of the Atlantic.

Somehow, Americans have been fed a stream of news on an almost minute by minute basis creating a cacophony of noise that is neither meaningful or meaningless, but rather leaves those who have yet to break free lost and confused. Today they achieved clarity.  The script was broken and this time for good.

This was supposed to be Hillary’s coronation.  A country transformed from the cowboy of Bush to the community organizer of Obama.  Hillary was supposed to bring it all together, but age and stress have taken their toll and now a real estate mogul turned reality TV star is approaching the unthinkable, the Presidency.

The World stands on the crossroads and once again 9-11  is the date which it all happened.

Shabbat Prayers By Building Collapse Site Show Jewish Unity

After five days of searching the final body buried underneath the collapsed building in Tel Aviv was found by Zaka and the army. Zaka is the Israeli organization that works to uncover the dead, whether they are religious or secular Jews as well as non-Jewish Israelis.

Zaka continued to work through Shabbat according Jewish law.  Below is a powerful expression of Jewish unity through the celebration of Shabbat at the collapse site.

קידוש ליל שבת חוצה מגזרים!

בערב שבת בין החיפושים באתר החניון שקרס בתל אביב נערך קידוש על פי המסורת היהודית.

פשוט מרגש לראות שעם ישראל מתאחד כשצריך!

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Three of the six victims have been named as Oleg Yakubov (60) from Tel Aviv, Dennis Diatzniko (28), a foreign worker from Ukraine, and Ihad Ajhaj (34), a Palestinian from Bayt Rima, northwest of Ramallah.

J Street’s New Mission: Destroy Regavim and Israel at all Costs

It has been revealed that Jeremy Ben-Ami head of J-Street, the anti-Israel organization based in America, sent an email out to the group’s supporters notifying them that he is personally applying pressure to the Obama administration in order to force the government to remove Regavim’s 501(3)(c) status in order to cripple the group’s fundraising power in the USA.

This threat is serious, but what is more serious are the implications of Ben Ami’s actions. Regavim’s goal has always been to pressure the government to enforce the already determined law or ruling by the Knesset or Supreme Court. By J-Street going after Regavim in such a public and base way, Ben Ami is essentially denying the legitimacy of Israel’s own governing institutions.

Taking down a group like Regavim will not only harm the Israeli right, but all corners of Israeli society as Israel’s government will be rendered ineffective.

 

Ben Ami’s tirade against organizations like Regavim who he claims uses US donations to destroy the “Arab village at Susiya” is ironic, since it is in fact J-Street itself that uses donations to prop up and create illegal facts on the ground in contravention of Israel’s own sovereign laws.

With the stakes high and during the presidential election, Ben Ami is rolling the dice to see if Hillary and Obama would risk alienating moderate Jewish Democrats precisely when they need them the most.  Yet, that could be Ben Ami’s core strategy.  J-Street has always sought tocreate fissures and divisions in the American Jewish community.

So far he is succeeding.

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Russia: Israel and “Palestinian” Arabs will Come for Talks

Russian spokeswoman Maria Zakharova announced Thursday that the Russian government has recieved word from both the Palestinian Authority and the Israeli government that Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Netanyahu agreed to meet in Moscow for direct talks. A date for the direct meeting has yet to be determined.

The last time the two men met was in 2015 for a brief handshake.

Russia is quickly becoming the only real player in the Levant region as Ameica’s role in the region continues to contract and recede.  No one expects peace to come from the meeting, but Putin wants to go ahead with it to show that he is the future arbiter of regional disputes.

The only question for the Russian leader is whether he can hold himself back from pursuing the peace pipe dream of the Western world and instead build real regional stability.

Israel is praying he keeps composure.