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Pro-Trump supporters discover that hate does in fact have a home here in Highland Park: “The hate, the foul language, the physical abuse of senior citizens was inexcusable.”

HIGHLAND PARK NEWS Despite some heated moments between demonstrators, Labor Day pro-Trump rally in Highland Park a peaceful one: City officials by James T. Norman September 12, 2020 Highland Park police estimated that more than 300 people attended a pro-President … Continue reading

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Heard in #AbuDhabi: “The younger generation in the Middle East has much to gain from abandoning extremism and fostering ties with Israel”

JERUSALEM POST Netanyahu gave Israel a place among the nations in a new Middle East by Lahav Harkov September 4, 2020 …It clearly was not just Israelis who were excited about this new development. The Emiratis pulled out all the … Continue reading

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“The top three states from which people seek to make aliyah are New York, California and New Jersey”

JNS Aliyah to Israel on the rise, despite COVID-19 and bureaucracy bottlenecks by Israel Kasnett September 9, 2020 Israel is seeing a spike in aliyah (immigration to Israel) this year, with a higher number of people interested in moving to … Continue reading

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“King Salman of Saudi Arabia informs US President Donald Trump that he will not pursue a peace deal with Israel until a “fair and permanent solution” is reached on the Palestinian issue”

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS) Saudi king links normalization with Israel with Palestinian statehood by Reuters and ILH staff September 7, 2020 King Salman of Saudi Arabia has informed US President Donald Trump there would be no normalizations with … Continue reading

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“The antisemitism eminent in attacks on Israel and on Zionist Jews like Ritch is evident to all except the most intentionally hateful or obtuse”

JEWISH JOURNAL Rose Ritch Is a Clarion Call to End Jew Hatred on College Campuses by Micha Danzig September 8, 2020 …What happened to [Rose] Ritch epitomizes the “new anti-Semitism.” Rabbi Jonathan Sacks explains that “Anti-Semitism is not an ideology … Continue reading

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Biden takes a Kenosha meeting with Jacob Blake Sr., whose online posts includes: “A cracker jew can do whatever to a white woman for years but let a jig try it”

JERUSALEM POST Biden criticized by Jewish community for meeting with Farrakhan supporter by Donna Rachel Edmunds September 6, 2020 A meeting between Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and the father of a black man who was shot by Wisconsin police … Continue reading

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“The fate of the Palestinians is no longer an overriding political concern for most Arab regimes”

JNS The End of the Arab-Israeli Conflict by Gary C. Gambill September 6, 2020 …The Israel-UAE agreement and regional reaction to it underscores that the fate of the Palestinians is no longer an overriding political concern for most Arab regimes. … Continue reading

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“Only about one-hundredth of 1 percent of in-person votes are rejected, whereas rejection rates of 1 percent are common with mail-in votes, and many states exceeded that during their primaries this year”

POLITICO Democrats Should Curb Their Enthusiasm for Mail-in Voting by Rich Lowry September 2, 2020 There’s a giant scheme afoot to disenfranchise voters in November—it’s called mail-in balloting. Mail-in voting has, like many things in our politics, taken on the … Continue reading

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“A Polish ex-Communist taught me a hard-earned lesson in the difference between bad and worse”

WALL STREET JOURNAL Vote for the Czar, It’s Important by Ruth Wisse August 31, 2020 …There were three parts to the lesson—two that she spelled out for me, and a third that I have since added on my own.The first … Continue reading

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Kosovo will establish an embassy in Jerusalem, making it the first Muslim-majority country to do so

JERUSALEM POST Kosovo, Serbia to formalize ties with Israel, open JLM embassy by Tovah Lazaroff September 6, 2020 Kosovo intends to establish diplomatic ties with Israel and both that Balkan-Muslim majority nation as well as Serbia plan to open embassies … Continue reading

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