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Hundreds of religious Zionist youth and families, joined by several coalition MKs, encamped earlier this week overnight at an area in Samaria that previous governments had promised to recognize. Evyatar residents said the proper answer to the terrorist murders at Eli is to re-establish the community.

Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan said in a statement, “The return to Evyatar is the proper Zionist response to the barbaric murder of four beloved sons of this nation. Anyone who tries to kick us off our land will get a thousand Evyatars. The noble families of Evyatar have waited long enough. Neither [U.S. President Joe] Biden, the EU, nor the terrorist Palestinian Authority will distance us from our land. We’re here to stay.”

With that said, more than 1,000 Israelis have been reported to have made their way to Evyatar. Unlike previous attempts to repopulate the village, security forces have allowed the residents to enter the village itself, take up residence in the buildings, and conduct community activities there. Channel 13 News reports that the move to repopulate Evyatar was done with the knowledge and consent of Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Gallant.

The pioneering spirit of the residents of Evyatar is inspiring and AFSI stands with them every step of the way!

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‘We’ve returned home to Evyatar’: Hundreds camp out in evacuated Samaria settlement, demanding to rebuild, by Batya Jerenberg/World Israel News, June 21, 2023

Netanyahu ordered Jewish Samaria village repopulated after attack, by Israel National News, June 22, 2023

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reiterated a warning Sunday that Israel will do whatever it must to defend its people from Iranian aggression, regardless of whatever agreements are signed between Tehran and other nations — including the United States.

Speaking Sunday during a visit to Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), the prime minister said, “We are determined to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons. We have also made it clear to our American friends that more limited agreements are also unacceptable to us.”

In his speech, Netanyahu firmly reiterated, “We will do whatever we need to do in order to defend ourselves, with our own forces, against any threat.”

While Netanyahu remains firm on his stance against any deal with Iran, Ariel Kahana in his Israel Hayom piece yesterday points out the prime minister’s deafening silence in calling out the US on this, as he has in the past. In the past, Israel’s ” vigorous opposition to returning to the original nuclear agreement contributed to the American decision not to do so.” Why has Netanyahu not yet confronted the US this time around?

Last week we commented that the US is playing nice hoping for an agreement that will never come and if it does it won’t be worth the paper it’s written on. We don’t know what the outcome will be of the recent and clearly desperate negotiations with Iran that the US keeps pushing, hoping to keep the two state delusion viable. We remain concerned about any deal that may be signed. Americans for a Safe Israel/AFSI says, “The Best Deal With Iran is NO Deal!!”

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Netanyahu: Limited US-Iran Nuke Deal Not Acceptable, Either, by Hana Levi Julian/Jewish Press, June 18, 2023

As Biden moves forward with Iran, PM’s relative silence is deafening, by Ariel Kahana/Israel Hayom, June 18, 2023

US Permanent Representative to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield rightly condemned in a recent speech Palestinian Authority President Mahmood Abbas’ anti-Semitic Statement that equated Israelis to the Nazis.

With no sense of the irony, she then called for foreign aid to the very same PA he continues to lead, 18 years into his four-year term.

An even more distressing irony: President Joe Biden recently launched a first-ever National Strategy To Counter Anti-Semitism amid a spike in Jew-hatred, yet at the same time — in defiance of Congress’ intent — his team continues to provide material support for the PA, even as it not only spouts ant-Semitic speech but funds anti-Jewish terrorism through its “pay-for-slay” program.

This New York Post article sourced here is extremely important because it highlights the disgraceful, weak, and pathetic Biden administration’s actions regarding the horrific and ongoing PA pay-to-slay program. His UN ambassador talks nice at the United Nations while Biden continues to stab Israel in the back.

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Biden & Co. keep funding Palestinian terror — in defiance of Congress, by Sander Gerber/New York Post, June 16, 2023

 

 

 

 

 

 

Members of the Knesset Land of Israel Caucus toured the Binyamin Region last Thursday. Their mission was a fact-finding tour to survey recent government action to remedy years of damage to the environment by local Arabs.

MK Simcha Rothman said after the tour: “All of us had an opportunity to see the void of governance in real-time today. Illegal garbage dumps and illegal incinerators are polluting the environment we all share. Enforcement of environmental protection laws in Judea and Samaria is non-existent, and the fact is that what lies behind these ‘random incidents’ is a systematic, well-planned Palestinian Authority program to annex more and more of the territory of Judea and Samaria, to squash the Jewish communities and make life unlivable for Jews in this region, and to harm our ability to provide equal services and rights to all citizens.”

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is committed to improving law enforcement and moving forward with building new Jewish communities. Let’s not forget that Sovereignty is the only way to fully stop illegal Arab land grabs. When Sovereignty is applied throughout Judea and Samaria, building up the land advances the region.

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Knesset Eretz Israel Caucus in Binyamin: Environmental Damage Means Failure to Govern, by David Israel/Jewish Press, June 16, 2023

 

 

The Knesset on Wednesday voted to approve opposition Yesh Atid MK Karine Elharrar to the Judicial Selections Committee. With 58 votes in favor and 56 votes against, Elharrar’s win marks a triumph for the opposition, which had hinged the continuation of judicial overhaul talks on the selection of its candidate to the committee.

Though Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tried to use a legal technicality to delay the vote by 30 days, it backfired.

Noted Israeli writer Rabbi Chaim Navon posted a comment on his Facebook page about the state of the judicial reforms. “For now, we are left with a broken judicial system. Tomorrow the court can announce that it is canceling a law, or a basic law, or the Declaration of Independence itself, because that is what it feels like doing. We must not give up the ambition to correct this, and the other weaknesses of the system. But it may be worth using the only tactic that managed to bring about a certain correction in the system – the tactic that Levin’s associates often underestimated,” Navon wrote.

Navon also praised the success of the former Minister of Justice, Ayelet Shaked. “The subtle and sophisticated way of Ayelet Shaked; the only one who managed to appoint many conservative judges and start some necessary reforms, without having a quarrel with the heads of the system.

Comparing the success of Shaked with the current state of the judicial reforms process is like night and day. It also goes to show how badly the process is being threatened and undermined by those who seek to bring down Israel’s current right-wing government. While the negotiations are worse than a tug of war, and despite this, judicial reforms can, must, and will advance.

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Netanyahu’s plan backfires: Opposition candidate wins spot on judicial selection panel, by World Israel News Staff and JNS, June 14, 2023

Rabbi Chaim Navon: We lost this judicial reform fight, not the end of the world, by Rabbi Chaim Navon/Israel National News, June 15, 2023

 

In May, Maj. Gen. Yehuda Fuchs, head of the IDF Central Command, signed an order allowing Israelis to reenter Homesh under a directive from Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.

The Homesh Yeshiva is the only permanent structure currently in Homesh which was moved a short while ago down the hill to undisputed Israeli land. They now have 5 structures, electricity and running water. What luxury!! Now they are looking for sources to fund what they had to take the opportunity to accomplish.

The Yeshiva was established in 2006 by former Homesh residents and others from Jewish communities in the area, looking to undo what they felt was an unjust government decision taken the previous year. For years a small group of them lugged tables, chairs, and books to the caves of Homesh to keep Jewish learning alive in the town.

Rabbi Menachem Ben Shachar of the Yeshiva said, “We are calling on the government to make this area 100% official, to pave roads, and go back to the way it was before the expulsion. “If the Jewish nation does what it should do, build in the Land of Israel, learn Torah, things will be good. We must proceed with confidence and not stammer, even it doesn’t please the other nations of the world.”

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Homesh Yeshivah foresees a full return to the once-abandoned community, by Josh Hasten/JNS, June 14, 2023

 

Shai Glick, the CEO of the B’Tslamo rights group, wrote a letter on Wednesday to the Kan Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation urging it to have its journalists stop using the term “West Bank” for Judea and Samaria.

In the letter to Kan CEO Golan Yochpaz, Glick noted that the official term in Israel for the land captured in the Six-Day War is Judea and Samaria.

“The term ‘West Bank’ damages public diplomacy since it connects the region to the Jordanian kingdom and does not reflect the ancient connection of the Jewish people with Judea and Samaria,” Glick added.

Glick demanded in his letter that Kan “clarify procedures so that Kan in English will only use the official term that is used in the State of Israel: Judea and Samaria.”

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Israeli rights group urges public broadcaster to stop referring to ‘West Bank’, by JNS Update Desk, June 15, 2023

 

A pro-Palestinian activist who brutally beat a Jewish man on a New York street and bragged afterwards that he’d “do it again” was sentenced to 18 months in jail on Tuesday.

In May 2021, Waseem Awawdeh, 25, and four other men targeted Joey Borgen, who was identifiably Jewish due to the kippah he was wearing, as he walked to a pro-Israel rally in Manhattan. The assault on Joey was an assault on the whole Jewish community and the community came out repeatedly to sit in court with him, showing solidarity tinged with anger at the way this despicable hate crime was being handled.

Awawdeh was reportedly originally offered a lenient plea deal to serve six months in jail by liberal Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg, but that agreement was rescinded after widespread outrage from Jewish advocacy groups. In his impact statement, Borgen emphasized the fact that Awawdeh showed no remorse; in fact, indicated he might very well repeat this type of heinous offense.

Another participant in the attack, Faisal Elezzi, was sentenced to three years of probation and mandatory “anti-bias training” in April 2023. Three other men are currently awaiting trial for their roles in the assault on Borgen.

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Pro-Palestinian attacker of NY Jewish man sentenced to 18 months in jail, by Lauren Marcus/World Israel News, June 14, 2023

Jewish man who was savagely beaten in hate crime mob attack slams Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg for giving assailant a plea deal with 18-month sentence: ‘I wanted to see full justice’, by Keith Griffith/Daily Mail, June 15, 2023

Channel 14’s political correspondent Motti Kastel on Sunday night revealed messages from a secret WhatsApp group whose members are the founders of the anarchist groups “Crime Minister,” the Balfour Street protests in Jerusalem, and the Kaplan Street protests in Tel Aviv. The closed group includes senior officials, former chiefs of staff, and former heads of government, who are all looking for ways to revive the dwindling protests and are planning, among other things, to block Ben Gurion International Airport. The goal is the same as always: overthrow the Right-wing government led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The WhatsApp conversations shed light on the reason behind the recent belligerent attacks by Ehud Barak that include calls for a civil war. This is a limited, emergency group whose members are former Prime Ministers Ehud Barak and Ehud Olmert, former Chiefs of Staff Dan Halutz and Bogie Ya’alon, Crime Minister founder Yishai Hadas, and Black Flags founders Roy Neuman, Shikma Bressler, and Eyal Schwarzman.

As reports of protest numbers are dwindling, the above-named doers of disruption and anarchy use the protests to take down the government in order to try to find meaning and relevance in their own lives. We’re glad they’ve been exposed for what they really are: SORE LOSERS.

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Exposed: As Protest Numbers Dwindle, Anarchist Leadership Pushing for Violence, by David Israel/Jewish Press, June 12, 2023

 

A senior Israeli official said on Monday that Iran is well aware that if it manages to enrich uranium to the 90-percent level, it will face an Israeli strike.

Iran’s stockpiles of enriched uranium are now more than 23 times the limit set out in 2015.

These statements come at a time when reports suggest the potential for an agreement between Iran and Western countries, over the Iranian nuclear program. The official told Israel Hayom that the United States, as well as other Western nations, are also well aware that 90-percent enriched uranium – the threshold necessary for the production of a nuclear bomb – constitutes a “red line” for Israel.

Nothing is stopping Iran from building nuclear weapons. The International Atomic Energy Agency’s recent decision to end its probe into a nuclear facility in Marivan is a surrender to Iran. Just today, a diplomatic official in Tehran confirmed that Iran is holding indirect nuclear talks with the United States through the Sultanate of Oman. Also, Iraq has agreed to pay about $2.76 billion in gas and electricity debt to Iran after receiving a sanctions waiver from the United States, a senior Iraqi foreign ministry official said.

The US is playing nice hoping for an agreement that will never come and if it does it won’t be worth the paper it’s written on. Logic only goes to follow that Israel must remain vigilant over Iran since this #1 State Sponsor of Terror continues to be a ticking time bomb – one we pray will never explode.

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Israel will strike Iran ‘if uranium enrichment reaches 90%’ – report, by i24NEWS, June 12, 2023

Iran confirms indirect nuclear deal talks with the United States, by Itamar Eichner/Ynetnews, June 12, 2023

Iraq to pay $2.76 billion in gas and electricity debt to Iran, by i24NEWS and Agencies, June 12, 2023