Monthly Archives: March 2023

What if Democrats were to condition aid to Palestinians based on their willingness to recognize a Jewish state rather than swearing to destroy it. Nah.

ALGEMEINER Democratic Senators Mull Legislation Conditioning US Aid to Israel Andrew Bernard March 17, 2023 US Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) on Thursday said that he believes the US should condition aid to Israel based on the country’s support for a … Continue reading

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Survey just released: Only 27% of Palestinians support the so-called “Two-State solution”

JPOST Ben-Gvir orders closure of Voice of Palestine radio offices in Jerusalem Tzvi Joffre March 20, 2023 National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir ordered the closure of the Voice of Palestine radio station’s operations in Israeli territory on Monday. The order … Continue reading

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MK Simcha Rothman, Chair of the Constitution, Law and Justice Knesset committee, explains need for judicial reform

On Sunday, March 5th, Benjamin Anthony, Co-Founder of The MirYam Institute, sat down to interview Simcha Rothman in the Knesset in front of a group of 23 active officers of the U.S. Army, brought to Israel on the annual MirYam … Continue reading

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How an Israeli whistleblower has been arrested, facing indictment for providing DOJ information about Biden family corruption

JNS Gal Luft’s distressing predicament Caroline Glick March 16, 2023 On Feb. 16, Israel Defense Forces Lt. Col. (retired) Dr. Gal Luft was arrested at the airport in Cyprus as he was about to board a flight home. Three days … Continue reading

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YouTube profiling New York’s Hasidic community took six months and a team of five to film and produce

NY JEWISH WEEK YouTuber Drew Binsky makes a travel video about Hasidic Brooklyn Julia Gergely March 17, 2023 For eight years now, vlogger Drew Binsky has made a living traveling the world, creating content that aims to lift the curtains … Continue reading

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The question of the day: Can you explain what’s going on in Israel?

COMMENTARY The Mess in Israel Editor’s Commentary John Podhoretz April 2023 In November 2022, for the first time in a nearly a decade, an election in Israel had a decisive outcome. The government that emerged from that election two months … Continue reading

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VDH: “Nowhere is it foreordained that America has a birthright to remain the world’s preeminent civilization”

REAL CLEAR POLITCS Are We the Byzantines? Victor Davis Hanson March 16, 2023 When Constantinople finally fell to the Ottomans on Tuesday, May 29, 1453, the Byzantine Empire and its capital had up to that point survived for 1,000 years … Continue reading

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Representatives of Israel’s government issue joint statement opposing Herzog’s proposal, while Itamar Ben-Gvir slammed it in his own comments.

JNS Netanyahu: Herzog’s judicial reform proposal perpetuates imbalance of power March 15, 2023 …Netanyahu: “Only four months ago, we held elections. The government I head received a clear mandate from the citizens of Israel. The fact that for two whole … Continue reading

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Bills include override clause, which would permit Knesset to re-legislate laws struck down by the Supreme Court as “unconstitutional”

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS) Knesset advances first batch of judicial reform bills Amir Ettinger March 14, 2023 The Knesset Tuesday passed the first reading of major bills pertaining to the judicial reform, including the highly contested override clause. … Continue reading

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A year after the IDF launched the massive counter-terror effort in Judea and Samaria, Israel still grappling with Palestinian terror wave, but many innocent lives have been saved, says IDF officer

JNS ‘Hundreds of Israeli lives saved by Operation Break the Wave’ Yaakov Lappin March 16, 2023 A little over a year ago, on April 7, 2022, a Palestinian gunman who infiltrated Israel from Jenin shot and killed three Israeli civilians … Continue reading

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