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Translating the Trump-Biden travesty into Hebrew Ruthie Blum

By on October 1st, 2020

https://www.jpost.com/opinion/translating-the-trump-biden-travesty-into-hebrew-644229

Israelis were both bemused and comforted by the display of raised voices and ill manners at Tuesday night’s debate.

Israelis geared up for the US presidential debate on Tuesday night almost much as Americans, but the seven-hour time difference forced those of the former to stay up – or wake up – at 4 a.m. to watch it live. Others waited until later in the morning to view the full 90-minute broadcast on YouTube or enjoy snippets of the spectacle on social media.

“And what a spectacle it was; on this there seems to be universal consensus. Pundits across the political spectrum, while in dispute about who the “winner” was, agree that the behavior exhibited at the event – cohosted by Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Clinic both in Ohio – was unbecoming. And that’s putting it mildly.

It was immediately obvious during the debate which sound bites would be highlighted in newspapers and on Twitter. In this respect, the rhetorical battle between the Republican incumbent and Democratic contender Joe Biden was like a lush tree with an abundance of low-hanging fruit.

Indeed, the proverbial clicking of keyboards could be heard around the globe when Biden said to Trump, “shut up, man,” and after Trump responded to moderator Chris Wallace’s question about whether he would condemn white supremacy with the curious retort: “Proud Boys, stand back and stand by.” That Wallace, a seasoned Fox News anchor and show host, ended up sounding like a cranky teacher in a rowdy classroom contributed to the cringe factor. His irritation – particularly with Trump – was as painful to witness as the Cheshire Cat-like grin that Biden flashed whenever challenged.

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WHO SPEAKS FOR ISRAEL AND ZIONISM TODAY? HERUT DOES

By on September 30th, 2020

You can see this for yourself by looking at the below links featuring Herut’s work in Israel, Canada, Mexico, Australia, and the United States:

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Herut in the fight against Leila Kahlid at San Francisco State University (SFSU)

https://israelbehindthenews.com/2020/09/24/unapologetic-zionist-unity-leads-to-victory-against-zooms-collaboration-with-terror-in-california/

This was Herut’s 2nd rally in California in September, here’s a news article about the first rally: https://jewishjournal.com/los_angeles/321396/end-jew-hatred-at-usc-protest-held-at-the-grove/ 

Herut Mexico is now on Twitter. This is our 2nd branch in Latin America joining Herut Argentina 

https://twitter.com/herut_mexico

— CAUSING CONVERSATION —

 

Karma Feinstein Cohen’s recent op-ed received attention from Professor Vershawn Ashanti Young in his op-ed published on multiple major international websites including The National Interest and Yahoo Canada:
https://theconversation.com/white-profs-admission-she-posed-as-black-raises-hard-questions-about-race-and-identity-146456

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/white-prof-admission-she-posed-115454964.html

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/why-did-white-professor-lie-and-claim-be-black-169378

— SPREADING UNAPOLOGETICALLY ZIONIST VIEWS —    

Herut letter in The Washington Times

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/sep/23/letters-to-the-editor-israel-syria-peace-unlikely/

https://twitter.com/HerutAmerica/status/1309617320495583233/photo/1

Karma Feinstein-Cohen’s op-ed about Seth Rogen was featured on the Canadian news website TheJ.ca

https://www.thej.ca/2020/09/23/i-have-had-my-fill-of-self-hating-jews-but-seth-rogen-is-in-a-category-all-his-own/

Herut op-ed on Arab Dictators featured in print and online by The Jewish Press 
https://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/opinions/we-should-believe-what-arab-dictators-say/2020/09/25/ 

Questions for American Jewish leaders about the Israel-UAE deal op-ed from Herut’s Joshua Goldstien

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/287256

Herut’s “Zionist History Book Of The Month” feature was published in the Rosh Hashanah issue of this leading Australian Jewish newspaper The Sydney Jewish Report
See page 20 here: https://issuu.com/thejewishreport/docs/btbjewish0920p-hires

Herut op-ed by chair Joshua Goldstein “Shofar sounds and Jewish unity” published in Florida
https://www.heritagefl.com/story/2020/09/18/opinions/shofar-sounds-and-jewish-unity/13813.html

The new website Israel365News featured a Herut op-ed by Moshe Phillips

https://www.israel365news.com/158565/we-should-believe-what-arab-dictators-say-opinion/

The Israel News website in Israel included a Herut op-ed by Moshe Phillips in German
https://www.israel-nachrichten.org/archive/48643

Herut op-ed on the Jewish Press website about the Israel-UAE/Bahrain agreement & Palestinian Arab extremists.

https://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/opinions/no-doesnt-mean-rejectionism-jewish-behavior-does-not-enable-palestinian-rejectionism/2020/09/22/

The Washtenaw Jewish News in Ann Arbor, MI published Herut’s tribute to the late Dr. Edward Alexander Z”L last week

https://washtenawjewishnews.org/PDFs/WJN-10-20-web.pdf see page 25

Herut op-ed on the World Israel News website about Arab Dictators
https://worldisraelnews.com/opinion-arab-dictators-and-the-israel-uae-bahrain-agreement/

A Herut op-ed was included by The Foundation for Defense of Democracies / FDD on their Overnight Brief
https://www.fdd.org/overnight-brief/september-21-2020/

Angela Van Der Pluym from Chicago is a part of the Young Leaders Cabinet of Herut North America and she has had four op-ed columns published in recent weeks:
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/288026

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/high-holy-day-wishes-from-president-trump-and-joe-biden-let-the-light-shine-through/

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/meet-republican-congressional-candidate-julie-hall/

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-threat-to-free-speech-by-rabbi-alan-sherman/

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Opinion: Why is Israel forcing frontline medical staff to stay home? September 30, 2020 Instead of battling back corona, they’re pushing strollers around the neighborhood. By David Isaac

By on September 30th, 2020

http://World Israel News: News From Israel worldisraelnews.com

Every day Israeli citizens are treated to worrying stories about the country’s health system straining under the weight of the pandemic. There aren’t enough doctors, nurses, beds – you name it – to go around.

These cries of woe have been met with sympathy thus far by the Israeli public. That sympathy will turn to irritation if more discover that desperately needed medical staff are stuck at home because they can’t find adequate child care for their kids.

Instead of battling back corona, they’re pushing strollers around the neighborhood and playing Hebrew Monopoly with the twins. As the coronavirus rages, Israel’s frontline fighters are playing nanny.

It shouldn’t be that hard to open a nursery at a hospital. In the States, they have nurseries at movie theaters. But instead of finding a solution to this problem, the government is begging doctors past their prime to come out of retirement and pulling paramedics into corona wards.

The problem wasn’t as serious during the first wave. Local solutions still existed. But Israel’s child care centers have shuttered as the pandemic caught up with them, like with so many businesses.

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Why There’s No Peace With the Palestinians A sobering look at the Palestinians’ ultimatum on the “Right of Return.” Joseph Puder

By on September 29th, 2020

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/09/why-theres-no-peace-palestinians-joseph-puder/

In the recent historic Abrahamic Peace Accords (August 13, 2020), which established full peace and diplomatic relations between Israel, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Bahrain, signed at the White House by U.S. President Donald Trump, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bahrain, Dr. Abdullatif bin Rashid Al-Zayani, and Minister of Foreign Affairs for the United Arab Emirates, Abdullah bin Zayed Al-Nahyani, the issue of “Right of Return” was not brought up.

One of the principle issues that prevents peace between Israel and the Palestinian-Arabs is the “Right of Return to Israel” of Palestinian refugees. The visionless Mahmoud Abbas, and his cohorts in the Palestinian Authority (PA), lack the vision and humanity to end the plight of the descendants of Palestinian refugees, by ending the illusion of the “Right of Return.” Now more than 72 years following the 1948 War of Independence for Israel, and “Nakba” for the Palestinians, most all of the original refugees have died. Still, the Palestinian Authority (PA) is demanding the return of their third or even fourth generation descendants to Israel. However, the refugees were not only on the Arab side. More Jews became refugees than Arab-Palestinians as a result of being kicked out of the Arab states, where they resided long before the Islamic invasion. Conversely, many of the Palestinian refugees were relative newcomers to Mandatory Palestine.  They migrated to Palestine for jobs Palestinian-Jews created during the Mandatory period. While the Jewish refugees from the Arab countries were fully assimilated into Israeli life, Arab refugees were deliberately relegated to refugee camps and left in miserable conditions. If Israel would agree to the “Right of Return,” Israeli Jews would become a minority in the Jewish state, defeating the very purpose of Israel, namely, a home for the Jewish people in their historic homeland. It would simply be a suicide pact for the Jewish state.

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The ‘Peace Processoriat’ Was Wrong for Many Reasons-Shoshana Bryen

By on September 25th, 2020

https://www.jewishpolicycenter.org/insight/

First, “land for peace” was never viable. The Palestinian goal was presumed to be “land” and Israel’s was “peace.” But “peace” is not a negotiable property.

When a key member of the professional Middle East peace processoriat acknowledges that his community might have, in fact, been wrong, it is worthwhile to read what he has to say. But in his article “Arab-Israeli progress seemed impossible. That’s because of old assumptions,” Aaron David Miller misses the mark.

In his view, “For decades, a core assumption of many, if not most American foreign policy thinkers has been that the Israel-Palestinian conflict was a veritable powder keg that could blow at any time, creating war and instability in the Arab world.” Therefore, Palestinians first; Arab states after. He explains how the current administration simply bypassed the Palestinians and, therefore, “This doesn’t mean the Arab-Israeli conflict is over or that Israel has untethered itself from a dispute with Palestinians that could profoundly shape its character, demography and security—the Israeli and Palestinian futures are inextricably linked.”

Perhaps. The Palestinians certainly should have a role in their own future when they are ready, but it isn’t wrong of the other regional players to move without them. The problems, though, are more (and bigger) than the order of events.

First, “land for peace” was never viable. The Palestinian goal was presumed to be “land” and Israel’s was “peace.” But “peace” is not a negotiable property; a historian called it, “The condition imposed by the winner on the loser of the last war.” The “peace” of Versailles contained the seeds of World War II; the “peace” of 1945 contained the seeds of a democratic Germany and Japan but consigned millions to almost a half-century of Soviet-dominated communism. Peace emerges, if at all, only after the resolution of competing claims, whether through negotiation or war. World War II ended when the allies were in Berlin and Hitler was dead in the bunker. The Cold War ended when Soviet satellites were freed from Moscow’s grip and communism died.

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Amid coronavirus, this year’s Yom Kippur is another kind of war Ruthie Blum

By on September 25th, 2020

https://www.jpost.com/opinion/amid-coronavirus-this-years-yom-kippur-is-another-kind-of-war-643482

Most of the country is focused on the current battle against the COVID-19 pandemic – or, rather, on the fever-pitch fighting within the government about how to curb the alarming rise in morbidity.
For the first time in decades, the Israeli press is not devoting the lead-up to the Day of Atonement with stories about and lessons learned from the 1973 Yom Kippur War. 

Instead, the bulk of the news and accompanying analysis is focused on the current battle against the COVID-19 pandemic – or, rather, on the fever-pitch fighting within the government about how to curb the alarming rise in morbidity and fatality rates.
Unlike other issues at the root of major rifts between politicians and the sectors that they supposedly represent, however, this one seems to have no clear camps. And, as Israelis are used to having actual enemies to confront – either with swords or pens – the debate over coronavirus closures has been causing great confusion. 

Indeed, though by this point there is wide consensus that the situation is dire, there has been little agreement, even among medical professionals, on how to reverse the worrisome trend. To make matters even more complicated, the same experts and lawmakers have shifted their positions. 

Much of the public responded to the flip-flops and arbitrary directives by ignoring them completely or by looking for loopholes. This triggered others to feel like patsies and follow suit.

Finally, after days of deliberations – following a semi-lockdown during the past week that was barely enforced – the coronavirus cabinet decided on a complete nationwide lockdown, to begin Friday and last at least until the end of the Jewish holidays in October.

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A ‘Safe Space’ for Terrorists at San Francisco State Toxicity under the cover of free speech. Richard L. Cravatts

By on September 24th, 2020

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/09/safe-space-terrorists-san-francisco-state-richard-l-cravatts/

If any area of the United States can be identified as the epicenter of anti-Israelism on campus, California, the nation’s most populous state, can certainly be said to have earned that dubious distinction. In fact, observers of out of control anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic activity on campuses consider California’s universities to be the veritable ground zero of such vitriol, with particularly troubling and persistent problems of radical student groups, venom-spewing guest speakers, annual hate-fests targeting Israel and Jewish students, entire academic units in the thrall of Israel hatred and anti-Zionism, and a pervasive mood on campuses in which Jewish students and other pro-Israel faculty and students regularly experience visceral and real “harassment, intimidation and discrimination,” as a 2004 Zionist Organization of America’s complaint to the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights described the situation on one California campus.

A particularly execrable record for radical anti-Israel, anti-Semitic campus activism is to be found at San Francisco State University, and specifically in the pseudo-academic machinations of Professor Rabab Abdulhadi, director of the school’s Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies (AMED) program. Abdulhadi, who, among other slurs, referred to Zionists as white nationalists during a 2019 UCLA lecture, is embroiled in controversy once again for the upcoming virtual speaking appearance, to be held on September 23rd, by Leila Khaled, a terrorist in the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, whose resume includes her role in the 1969 hijacking of an Israel-bound plane and her arrest the following year during a failed hijacking of an El Al flight. 

Promotional materials for the roundtable discussion with Khaled, entitled “Whose Narrative? Gender, Justice, & Resistance,” (and which included a photograph of Khaled proudly brandishing an AK-47, with which she no doubt intended to murder Jews), glowingly describe her as a “Palestinian feminist, militant, and leader,” someone who Abdulhadi has described as a “Palestinian feminist icon,” an “icon in liberations movements and . . . an icon for women’s liberation.”

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GOOD NEWS FROM AMAZING ISRAEL FROM MICHAEL ORDMAN

By on September 23rd, 2020

Lasting six years and one day, the Second World War started on 1 September 1939 with Hitler’s invasion of Poland and ended with the Japanese surrender on 2 September 1945. Six million Jews were killed in the Holocaust-that is one of every three Jews in the world.  Three years after the war, in spite of British duplicity and Arab terror the ancient state of Israel was reborn. Today Israel’s population constitutes 0.11% of the world. However, Israel’s outsize contributions in science, technology, agriculture, medicine and social services contribute to the welfare and quality of life of billions of people. This is the miracle of Jewish survival that we celebrate during the Holidays…. Best wishes to all and to Michael Ordman who compiles this wonderful list….rsk

www.verygoodnewsisrael.blogspot.com 

ISRAEL’S MEDICAL ACHIEVEMENTS
 
Know your enemy. (TY Hazel) Scientists at Israel’s Weizmann Institute and the Israel Institute for Biological Research have identified four new proteins and 19 peptides that Covid-19 infected patients produce. They believe that these may help the virus to replicate, so targeting them could lead to new treatments.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/new-coronavirus-proteins-found-by-israeli-lab-potentially-helping-drug-efforts/
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/profiling-covid-19-coronavirus
 
That 3D-printed heart. Back in 2019 there was much excitement when Tel Aviv University scientists 3D-printed the first heart produced from human tissue (reported here previously). What was not reported was that the technology itself was licensed to Tel Aviv University from award-winning Israeli biotech Matricelf.
https://www.bioworld.com/articles/431737-matricelf-wins-seed-award-with-3d-printing-heart-design
https://matricelf.com/
 
New allies in the fight against viruses. Scientists at Israel’s Weizmann Institute have discovered that bacteria contain viperins – enzymes that produce antiviral molecules.  These substances are undergoing testing that may lead to the development of highly effective antiviral treatments against influenza and COVID-19.
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/bacteria-could-provide-us-next-antivirals
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2762-2
 
Israel hosts Covid-19 conference. Israel hosted an online conference to discuss cooperation on fighting the coronavirus. It comprised science ministers of Argentina, Belarus, Brazil, Bulgaria, Colombia, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Germany, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, Italy, Peru, Poland, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden.
https://unitedwithisrael.org/israel-hosts-international-conference-for-18-ministers-on-fight-against-covid-19/
 
Bridge over troubled water. (TY UWI) This newsletter previously (here) featured the coronavirus sanitation bridging tunnel developed by Israel’s RD PACK. The video describes its key component – the disinfectant spray – comprised, amazingly, of electrolyzed water (no chemicals) developed at Israel’s Bar-Ilan University.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPsHGKQaJTI
 
Printing lungs & kidneys. Good article about Israel’s Collplant (reported here previously) and its technology that turns tobacco leaves into bio-ink for printing human organs. Collplant, together with United Therapeutics Corporation have already made lung parts and will now start working on printing replacement human kidneys.
https://unitedwithisrael.org/israelis-use-tobacco-plants-to-produce-3d-bioprinted-lungs-and-kidneys/
https://www.israelhayom.com/2020/09/21/us-firm-to-start-3d-printing-kidneys-using-israeli-technology/
 
Expanding digital health across USA. Israel’s DarioHealth (reported here previously) is partnering US giant HMC Healthworks to incorporate DarioHealth’s digital therapeutics solution into HMC’s comprehensive care management programs.  The platform will also be offered on a stand-alone basis.
https://www.prnewswire.com/il/news-releases/dariohealth-and-hmc-healthworks-announce-partnership-agreement-301134581.html
 
 

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The One and Only Enduring Palestinian Vision Dreaming of the destruction of the Jewish state. Joseph Puder

By on September 22nd, 2020

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/09/absence-palestinian-leadership-vision-joseph-puder/

James Zogby of the Zogby Research Service (ZRS) is not known to be a friend of Israel. In fact, he serves as an effective spokesperson for the Palestinians. An Arab-Palestinian himself, Zogby has been a harsh critic of Israel. Yet, in an opinion piece in Cairo’s Ahramonline (the online version of Egypt’s major outlet Al-Ahram, September 7, 2020) Zogby expressed disappointment with the Palestinian leadership lack of vision.  He expressed it in his piece titled Absent But Needed: A Palestinian Vision.

Zogby pointed out that, “what had gone wrong with the Palestinian cause then (and now) is “visionless leadership.” He elaborated, that they (the leadership) “Lost their spark and their way after repeated costly setbacks: Black September in Jordan, their use of horrific acts of terror against innocents, their expulsion from Beirut in 1982, and their foolish embrace of Saddam in 1990.” The latter actions were decisions Yasser Arafat took in provoking an Israeli response to repeated terror attacks by Palestinians commanded by Arafat, including the attempted assassination of Shlomo Argov, Israel’s ambassador to London, which led to the First Lebanon War.

It was Arafat’s decision in 1990 to support Saddam Hussein, Iraq’s dictator, brutal invasion of Kuwait. As a result of Arafat’s action, the Kuwaiti government expelled half a million Palestinians who lived in the oil rich sheikdom. What Zogby failed to mention was the fact that Arafat once again provoked the Second intifada which killed over 1,000 Israeli civilians and brought destruction and economic ruin to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Arafat, who gave Hamas a ‘green light,’ to execute suicide bombing against Israeli civilian targets was in total violation of the Oslo Accords. He hoped that it would weaken and demoralize Israel, then Israel would fall apart once the Palestinians launched a full-scale armed struggle.

Zogby suggested that more recently, the vehement reaction in Ramallah by the Palestinian Authority leadership to the Israel-United Arab Emirates peace deal, “By focusing their wrath on the recent UAE-Israel accord, the Palestinian leaders missed the mark. The UAE’s move to normalize in order to stop annexation is not the cause of Palestinian woes; it is a symptom of the state of affairs that has for too long plagued the noble cause of justice for the long-oppressed Palestinian people.” Clearly, the Palestinians have once again missed an opportunity to be part of a positive development brought about by the Trump administration’s “Peace of the Century” deal. It might not have satisfied all of the Palestinian aspirations, including the disappearance of the Jewish state, but it would have given the Palestinian people an economic stake that would have improved their lives, and that of their children.

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Amateur Jared Kushner vs. Pro John Kerry By Eugene Veklerov

By on September 22nd, 2020

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/09/amateur_jared_kushner_vs_pro_john_kerry.html

Donald Trump has outsourced his Middle East policy to his son-in-law Jared Kushner. At best, it would be a waste of time, as Kushner had no experience in foreign policy. At worst, he will use this opportunity to line his own pockets.

That was one of the many lines of attacks waged by the mainstream media on President Trump. Why is amateur Kushner in the White House at all, they asked indignantly? Then something unexpected happened: 

The United Arab Emirates and Bahrain announced peace deals with Israel. This good news for the world was bad news for the media. The news was reported, well, kind of, but no one acknowledged that miserable failure of the media’s gloomy predictions.

Here is how John Kerry, a seasoned professional, lectured his audience in a professorial tone of voice in 2016:

“There will be no separate peace between Israel and the Arab world,” Kerry began at a speaking engagement. “I want to make that very clear with all of you. I’ve heard several prominent politicians in Israel sometimes saying, ‘Well, the Arab world is in a different place now. We just have to reach out to them. We can work some things with the Arab world and we’ll deal with the Palestinians.’ No. No, no, and no.”

He continued, “I can tell you that, reaffirmed within the last week because I’ve talked to the leaders of the Arab community, there will be no advanced and separate peace with the Arab world without the Palestinian process and Palestinian peace. Everybody needs to understand that. That is a hard reality.”

Apparently, Kushner did not receive Kerry’s memo, and borrowing from “Star Trek,” he boldly went where no man has gone before. Those who “have not gone there before” included other experienced Secretaries of State, such as Colin Powell and Hillary Clinton. It took amateur Kushner to succeed and that was a bitter pill for CNN and the Washington Post to swallow.

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