Revolutionary Cancer Treatment Improves Quality of Life

 Israel may have developed a revolutionary cancer treatment. 

Turning a terminal illness into a chronic one is brilliant. 

When all other treatments have failed to destroy the cancer, 

this treatment might be the answer to saving people’s lives.

Rashida Tlaib - Lies, Lies and more Lies

 Rashida Tlaib is constantly spreading lies about Israel

in the US Congress

. 

This time, Israeli Arab Yoseph Haddad had a great response.

Iranian involvement in Latest Gaza Operation

(With thanks to Alma Research & Education Center)

In recent years, Iran has been building proxy militia forces across the Middle East. In recent months, especially during Ramadan and the Iranian Quds Day (the last Friday of each Ramadan), Iran has aggressively marketed the narrative of the 'joint operations room' and the unity of arenas, involving all factions that fight against Israel.

The assessment that Israel will have to deal with a number of fronts has grown stronger.

Initial responses to the operation in Gaza from Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis, the Shi'ite militias, and the leadership of PIJ in Syria and Lebanon also included the 'unity of arenas' narrative.

However, as the hours passed by and the response by PIJ to the IDF's opening strike became delayed, it became clear that it is not so easy for Iran to implement its multi-front vision against Israel.

The sense of solidarity that Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah tried to push in his May 12 speech amounted to mere words. Clearly, he is not interested in threatening Israel with war for someone else's interests. It is worth recalling that last summer, Hezbollah threatened war if no agreement would be reached over the maritime border that would allow Lebanon to extract natural gas from the Mediterranean Sea.

The current escalation revealed that Iran's "multiple fronts" vision is not so easy to fulfill and that the Iranians will have to generate an interest for each player to harness it for war against Israel.

Following the elimination of PIJ's senior command by Israel (six senior operatives in total), the organization's leadership abroad took over the decision-making. This leadership, located mainly in Syria, is in close contact with Iran and is heavily influenced by it - and less influenced by the mediator - Egypt (PIJ is fully funded by Iran to the tune of tens of millions of dollars a year).

This time it was clear that PIJ operatives fighting in the field wanted to reach a ceasefire – But behind the scenes, as the hours went by, Iranians exerted heavy pressure to continue launching rockets into Israel.

  As has always been said – the Iranians will fight against Israel until the last Palestinian.  They have no real interest in promoting the Palestinian issue or caring for Palestinians. 

Drone Swarms Threaten Israel

 This underground Iranian UAV base carved into the mountains

around Shiraz threatens the entire Middle East at any given moment.

Interesting Analysis of Current Protests

 The following analysis of the present noise surrounding the governments plan to review the judicial system is interesting. Written by Amit Segal

Three times in the last generation, crowds from the center-left took to the streets in an attempt to change the direction of the country. 

 After (PM) Rabin's murder it was the Candlelight Youth. The spontaneous gatherings turned into an organized movement, which failed to change the path of political history that went to the right. The peace flag was lowered to half-mast, and the left camp collapsed. 

 In 2011, the country was swept by an unusual protest in its scope, which for a moment seemed as if it would bring down the Netanyahu coalition and lead to a change in the agenda. It died within a few months, not before sending two of its leaders to the Knesset, and absurdly because it was too large: the many demonstrators were unable to focus on one message and change the discourse from security to economic and economic-capitalist towards social democracy. 

 The 2023 protest is the most effective so far: the protesters have stopped the legislative train of a fresh and homogeneous government which has just been elected with a clear majority. The flag of democracy succeeds in annexing to it a public that, according to every poll, exceeds half of the people. 

 The elections, despite the frequent polls, are still far away. Even if they had taken place tomorrow, and even if the results had been in line with the predictions, there would not have been a government with the purity of the protesting camp. A protest that has adopted the Israeli flag as its trademark will have difficulty forming a government with non-Zionist Arab parties. A protest which focuses on equal burden and recruitment for all will pay a heavy price if you base yourself on parties whose voters have never mobilized, not because of evasion but because of opposition on a national basis. 

 It is possible to try to establish another shaky coalition, which will follow the path of its predecessor, the Lapid-Bennett government. So what's going on here? 

 Here are two more unusual phenomena that will lead us to the answer. One is that while the opposition is getting stronger according to every poll by 13 to 18 seats and hundreds of thousands of right-wing supporters are moving to the center, the main opposition party is NOT only NOT getting stronger, but is getting significantly weaker in the polls.

The other phenomenon: the support for changes in the judicial system - admittedly limited, and in conversation - remains cross-campus in all polls. There are moments, which can only be noticed in retrospect, when a controversial issue enters into a consensus: capitalism in the 1990s (prior to which Israel was much more socialist), opposition to withdrawals (from the “territories”) in the last decade, LGBT rights in recent years. There was a debate, and here it is no more. 

 A year or two will pass, a government or two, but there WILL be changes in the judicial system and they won't even be in the headlines. Netanyahu and Lapid are stepping back precisely because the protest is successful: the public that decides the fate of Israel is the center-right camp. The one that in 2021 transferred its votes to Saar and Bennett and overthrew Netanyahu, and a year later fed up with the government with Meretz and Ra’am (Arab party) and gave 64 mandates to the right. 

 The fall of the right does not absolutely mean the rise of the left, but of a political movement called "the third way" a quarter of a century ago. The phenomenon of the last generation was the collapse of Labor and the center-left parties that grew on its ruins - the most prominent of which is Yesh Atid. 

 The phenomenon of the current generation, which began with (former MK) Kahlon, is center-right parties that will grow at the expense of the Likud. At the moment it is Gantz who enjoys these votes, but it is better not to take a mortgage based on this theoretical gain just yet. 

 These are half a million voters, supporters of changes in the judicial system but in consultation, those who seek Judaism but not ultra-Orthodox, supporters of a heavy security hand and not threats on the radio. Their line is a center-right government that relies on 75 mandates from Religious Zionism (party) to (MK) Gantz, without buying support of anyone but at the nominal, not exorbitant, price: no finance minister with seven mandates, no prime minister with six, no national agenda set by two (currently 16% of the parliament) ultra-Orthodox parties. Currently there is a lot of noise which mainly confuses the supporters of the government.

Are the USA Really Serious about Solving the Conflict with the Palestinians?

 

It is quite clear that the US administration is not in love with the Netanyahu government but I believe the feeling is mutual.

Blinken recently gave one of the most scorching denunciations of Israel in recent memory. While he condemning the terror attacks there was no mention of the antisemitism or the intent to destroy Israel, embedded in all aspects of life in Palestinian society.

Blinken expressed pure moral equivalence by saying, “A rising tide of violence has led to the loss of innocent life on both sides. All sides must take steps to prevent further escalation in violence and to restore calm.”

Blinken thinks that Israel needs to adopt a policy of denying civil and property rights to Jews in Judea and Samaria while providing unlimited rights to Palestinians to illegal settlements they build.

In other words, the Biden administration thinks that permitting Jews to lawfully build and buy homes and communities, to buy land or lease government land in Judea, Samaria or unified Jerusalem is unacceptable.

Another step the U.S. opposes, Blinken said is “disruption to the historical status quo in Jerusalem’s holy sites.” Here, Blinken sides with the Palestinians in insisting that Jews should not be permitted to freely access–much less pray at–the Temple Mount, Judaism’s most sacred site.

Then Blinken continued that the U.S. opposes “demolitions and evictions.” But he wasn’t referring to demolitions and evictions of Jews—that’s fine. He was referring to demolition of illegal Palestinian construction and eviction of Palestinian squatters from state land and from apartments and buildings owned by Israeli Jews.

In short, Blinken set out a policy of antisemitic discrimination and demanded that Israel abide by it on behalf of a society organized around the demonization and dehumanization of Jews and the delegitimization and aspiration to annihilate the Jewish state of Israel. The was no reference to the PLO or Hamas charters.

Blinken did say, in the end, that the United States opposes “incitement and acquiescence to violence.” But, as he made clear in his next sentence, he was obviously joking.

Blinken announced that the U.S. is giving an additional $50 million to UNRWA, the U.N. agency most responsible for prolonging the Palestinian conflict with Israel by among other things, inciting and acquiescing to violence. UNRWA schools indoctrinate Palestinian children to hate Jews and aspire to become terrorists and destroy Israel. Hamas and other terror groups use UNRWA installations as missile launching grounds.

Those $50 million are just a drop in the bucket. Blinken bragged that since Biden entered office two years ago, the U.S. has provided $950 million in aid to the Palestinians overall.

The Biden administration doesn’t oppose Palestinian incitement and acquiescence to violence. The administration is funding it.

As Caroline Glick wrote in a recent article “It’s hard to know how the Palestinian conflict with Israel will end. But two things are certain. First, demanding institutional discrimination and the denial of civil rights to Jews will not lead to a solution. And second, we’ll know we’re moving in the right direction if the U.S., the E.U. and the U.N. stop discriminating against Jews and end their support for a Palestinian society organized around the dehumanization and demonization and aspiration to destroy the Jewish state [as stated in the charters].”

More BBC Lies about Israel

 

The 10pm News on BBC One TV on 15 April had a piece about the celebration of Orthodox Christian Easter in Jerusalem. (And here on BBC News website). Much of it – by Yolande Knell – concerned the alleged persecution of Christians in Jerusalem by Jews.  Central to her allegation was the restriction imposed by Israeli Police on the number of Christian worshippers allowed into the Church of the Holy Sepulchre to celebrate Orthodox Easter.

But this is yet more demonisation of Israel by the BBC! Israeli Police were simply carrying out the request of the Church itself!

Knell also suggested that attacks by extremist Jews were causing Christians to leave Jerusalem. Let’s look at the facts. Christians are thriving in Israel, the only country in the Middle East where they are free to worship and the only one where their numbers are growing. 84% of them are happy with their lives in Israel.

Of course Christians in Judea and Samaria – controlled by the Palestinian Authority  – are not so happy and their numbers have shrunk sharply.  But you won’t hear about this from the BBC –or indeed from most Christian leaders  – like the Archbishop of Canterbury.  Guess they’re scared of being called ‘Islamophobic’….

An utterly disgraceful misrepresentation of the facts. But hey it’s the BBC and hey …it’s Israel ….