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The Jerusalem Suburbs Forum sent a letter this morning to Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan after discovering that UN resources are being used to support illegal encroachment on state-owned land.

In their letter, the residents explain start off, “We, the residents of Kfar Adumim, Alon, Nofei Prat, Mitzpe Yericho, Maale Michmas and Mitzpe Dani, live on Route 1, south of Jerusalem. For over a decade we have been facing encroachment by the Palestinian Authority on this important national throughway. In response, we created a joint committee, named the ‘Jerusalem Suburbs Forum’ to fight the illegal encroachment on state-owned land and Area C.”

They also asked Ambassador Gil Erdan to use all tools at his disposal to stop the illegal activity.

The United Nations continues to violate Israel’s sovereignty as it enables the law to be broken time and again. We applaud the residents for forming the Jerusalem Suburbs Forum to fight for their rights on legally owned Jewish land. This is Zionism in action.

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Jerusalem-area residents press UN to stop supporting Bedouin outpost, by Israel National News, March 24, 2022

Last week it was reported that Biden is considering removing terrorist organization designation on the Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Under the proposed deal, it would also remove terrorism sanctions.

Defense Minister Benny Gantz on Monday joined the call to keep Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps on the United States’ list of terrorist organizations, all while calling for further cooperation with Washington.

His comments came days after Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, issued a joint statement, lamenting Washington’s plans to remove the IRGC from its notorious list as part of a series of concessions meant to revive the tattered 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran.

Bennett and Lapid stated, ” The IRGC is a terrorist organization that has murdered thousands of people, including Americans. We refuse to believe that the United States would remove its designation as a terrorist organization.”

The fact that Biden and his team are pushing as hard as they can to get the Iran nuclear deal signed and sealed should be proof enough for Lapid to believe that the US would be foolish enough to remove the IRGC from its list of designated terrorists. The safety and security of the entire world will be affected if the deal goes through. In his interview on Life Liberty & Levin last night, former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated the bottom line on Iran, “…They can take the entire world hostage.”

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Gantz urges U.S. to keep Iran’s Revolutionary Guard on terror list, by Yossi Yehoshua/Ynetnews.com, March 21, 2022

Joint announcement from PM Bennett and FM Lapid, by Ministry of Foreign Affairs Press Release, March 18, 2022

Netanyahu warns Iran could ‘take the entire world hostage’ if West approves new nuke deal, by Charles Creitz/Fox News, March 20, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

Acting on orders from the government led by Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, hundreds of policemen raided the Binyamin area early on Monday morning and destroyed over 20 illegal structures built by Israelis, including two synagogues.

The massive forces removed the families living in the structures and then destroyed them. Eight families, including 20 children, lost their homes. Resisting the destruction, several residents were arrested.

“A government that destroys the Jews and builds for the Arabs needs to be replaced,” said Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan.

In a separate, but equally concerning news report Member of Knesset Mansour Abbas, head of the Islamist Ra’am party, will serve as Knesset Speaker when Speaker Mickey Levy is abroad for two weeks starting Tuesday. This means Abbas will assume significant powers and influence as Knesset Speaker. If President Isaac Herzog is incapacitated for any reason, the Knesset speaker becomes acting president.

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s government has truly become anti-Jewish and anti-Zionist. Its leadership is blind with no foresight on the immeasurable – and potentially long-term damage that could affect Israel. Have they forgotten why the State of Israel was founded in the first place?

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Bennett govt destroys synagogues, 20 Israeli structures in Binyamin region, by Aryeh Savir, Tazpit Press Service (via World Israel News), March 21, 2022

Islamist MK will serve as Knesset Speaker, by Tazpit Press Service, March 21, 2021

 

 

 

 

 

Only a whole Israel (Yisrael Shlayma) can be accepted now.

Rational minded politicians and groups are protesting an American bill awaiting Joe Biden’s signature that hides support for a Palestinian state among various allocations of monies that include substantial aid to Israel.

Judy Freedman Kadish, Director, Americans For A Safe Israel/AFSI, issued a statement. The full context is below and excerpts appear in the World Israel News article.

We are concerned about the contents of a bill that was passed this weekend by the US Senate by a vote of 68-31 as part of a bipartisan funding agreement.

The funding agreement and summary of the Israel Relations Normalization Act is pleasant on the outside. But the actual text of the bill Section 3 paragraph 5 calls for the reinstatement of the implausible, unworkable two-state (dis)solution. Not only does Israel have the legal, historical, and biblical right to the entire State, but creating a State within Israel for the corrupt and irresponsible PA is an idea whose time has certainly passed and would only invite more terror into the Land.

The Abraham Accords themselves point to the fact that Arab states are accepting of Israel’s indigeneity in the land of Israel. They also show that “Palestinian rights” hold little sway now (if they ever actually did).

Why does the US insist on trying to revive the dead? Sovereignty is the movement of today and it is time that the world understands that.

We hope that the Israeli government stands strong on this. It is an existential matter that cannot be put aside. Only a whole Israel (Yisrael Shlayma) can be accepted now.

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Support for Palestinian state hidden in US budget bill passed by Senate, by Batya Jerenberg/World Israel News, March 15, 2022

Internal Security Minister Omer Barlev believes that the ascent of Knesset members to the Temple Mount during the month of Ramadan––which coincides with April 2 this year––is sure to produce a flare-up that must be prevented. Last Thursday, Barlev sent down a directive to Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai decreeing that any MK who wants to visit the holy site during Ramadan must request the police district commander’s approval as well as the commissioner’s approval.

But on Monday, Attorney-General Gali Baharav-Miara sent Barlev a scathing and poignant letter, which News12 revealed Tuesday night, making clear there was no security justification for his draconian move, at least not according to the security services.

The AG wrote: “Restricting an MK’s access to any place other than a private domain is possible only when there is a reasonable basis to expect harm to state security or for the purpose of preventing the disclosure of a military secret. The criteria you specified deviate from the criteria outlined in the relevant section of the law.”

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AG Slams Barlev: ‘You Have No Authority to Ban MKs from Temple Mount’, by David Israel/Jewish Press, March 16, 2022

 

 

 

 

The IDF set up a new checkpoint Tuesday on the way to the Homesh Yeshiva. Soldiers are blocking Jews from entering the yeshiva and the area has been declared a closed military zone.

Only a limited number of students are allowed entry to Homesh, those written on a list of names held by the checkpoint commander. All others are stopped and denied entry. Yeshiva students who stood at the checkpoint and asked the soldiers to let them pass were violently arrested by the soldiers.

The Homesh Yeshiva called on ‘right-wingers’ in the government “to wake up and stop this madness. The Homesh Yeshiva will continue to hold out on the mountain, study Torah under any circumstances, and display our love of our land. No one can stop this great spirit of ours.”

As the government continues its destructive path with rewards to terrorism, the residents of Homesh are sending a clear message that they will not tolerate another expulsion of a Jewish community.

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Jews blocked from entering Homesh, by Israel National News, March 15, 2022

 

 

 

 

 

The Biden administration is offering nearly $1 million for groups to investigate alleged human rights abuses in Israel, the “West Bank,” and the Gaza Strip.

The State Department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) is soliciting nonprofit groups to apply for grant money up to $987,654 to “strengthen accountability and human rights in Israel and the West Bank and Gaza,” according to a grant notice first posted online in mid-February.

Groups applying for the grant money will investigate alleged crimes inside Israel and these territories and “collect, archive, and maintain human rights documentation to support justice and accountability and civil society-led advocacy efforts, which may include documentation of legal or security sector violations and housing, land, and property rights,” according to the State Department.

Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) summed it up best: “This is disgraceful. The Biden administration wants to use American taxpayer money to subsidize the international NGO campaign to demonize and isolate Israel, which then serves as a basis for anti-Semitic efforts to boycott and wage economic warfare against Israeli Jews.”

This program is clearly an effort that will delegitimize Israel. We hang on to hope that the State Department has the good enough sense to cancel this program immediately.

We may conclude that either it is a great initiative or another political game of the USA, like those high stakes ones in real money casinos USA. Time will tell.

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How the Biden Administration Is Funding the Effort To Delegitimize Israel, by Adam Kredo/The Jewish Voice, March 12, 2022

State Dept. Offers Funding to Investigate Human Rights Violations in Israel, ‘West Bank’ and Gaza, by Hana Levi Julian/Jewish Press, March 13, 2022

 

 

 

The Israeli Supreme Court issued a conditional order Sunday night in the most recent round of the Khan al-Ahmar case.

Sunday’s order, giving the government 120 days to explain its failure to fulfill the three-year old commitment to enforce the law “in the near future,” follows the government’s most recent request for an additional postponement

Regavim, at the forefront of this ongoing battle, issued a statement: “The fact that we have been forced to petition the High Court of Justice again and again in order to compel the government to enforce the law is bad enough. Even worse is the government repeatedly giving a commitment to the High Court that it will enforce the law- and then failing to do so. It is not the job of the judicial branch to bail the executive branch out of the mess it’s made.”

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Supreme Court orders state to explain itself in Khan al Ahmar case, by Israel National News, March 13, 2022

 

Parties trying to revive the horrendously dangerous Iran nuclear deal scrambled on Wednesday to resolve last-minute Russian demands that threaten to break negotiations, diplomats said. It appears that the United States is unwilling to engage with Russia on the matter.

Western powers on Tuesday warned Russia against wrecking an almost completed deal that would bring the United States and Iran back into compliance with the 2015 accord on terms more favorable to Iran than ever before.

Diplomats now have to contend with the possibility that Russia may try to upend the deal altogether or to use the talks as a bargaining chip to exact concessions from the West on sanctions related to Ukraine.

Russia may also now have no interest in remaining in a revived deal that would benefit the United States and its Western allies but would potentially damage Russian interests by bringing oil prices down, said Karim Sadjadpour, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Iran would be able to sell its oil on the open market again, which could ease tight global supplies and bring prices down by as much as 10 percent.

Just as international mediators appeared poised to announce a breakthrough, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is throwing into doubt efforts to revive the nuclear deal with Iran. We cannot condone the devastating invasion initiated by Russia in Ukraine. However, if Russia becomes the reason the current round of Iran deal talks fail, we would celebrate watching these disastrous negotiations fall through. With talks now in their third week, we pray this ticking time bomb diffuses quickly.

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Iran nuclear talks stumble over unresolved Russian demands, by John Irish and Francois Murphy/Reuters, March 9, 2022

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine threatens to derail Iran nuclear talks, by Liz Sly/Washington Post, March 7, 2022

 

The Commander-in-Chief of the Central Judea Command Yehuda Fuchs has cut down the number of Judea and Samaria residents who are permitted to carry personal weapons, Hakol Hayehudi reported today.

The excuse for the decision that was provided by the IDF was an incident a week ago, when an Arab worker who was alone in a home in Neve Daniel in Gush Etzion, stole an M16 rifle that was stashed there. So, clearly, if the Jews of Judea and Samaria are allowed to carry weapons, those weapons will inevitably end up in Arab hands.

So, instead of preventing Arabs from entering the communities or tightening the supervision of the Arab workers––many who roam unsupervised, the IDF decided that the solution is to collect the weapons from the residents. Some of the Jewish residents who were required to turn in their weapons are reservist battalion commanders and their deputies.

This is a disgrace and leaves Jewish residents in Judea and Samaria vulnerable and unable to defend themselves. It also demonstrates this government’s ongoing appeasement of Arabs at the expense of the Jewish people.

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IDF Collects Weapons from Judea and Samaria Jews, by David Israel/Jewish Press, March 10, 2022