A letter being <a href="https://jewishinsider.com/2020/06/four-progressive-congresswomen-circulate-letter-threatening-to-condition-aid-to-israel-over-annexation/">circulated</a> in the House of Representatives, by four members of Congress, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), calls for the Israeli government to stop all considerations regarding the “annexation” of the Jordan Valley.
The letter itself has gained significant momentum as Representatives Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Raul Grijalva (D-AZ), André Carson (D-IN), Nydia Velázquez (D-PR), Bobby Rush (D-IL), Jesús Garcia (D-IL), and Danny Davis (D-IL), as well as Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), have <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/30/ocasio-cortez-aipac-israel-aid-annexation-345287">added their signatures</a>.
Whether you support or condemn Israel’s decision to extend sovereignty over the Jordan Valley, there are 4 things you should know about the letter.
First, the letter repeatedly and erroneously uses the term: Annexation. 
The term <a href="https://www.jns.org/netanyahu-vows-to-annex-all-settlements-after-election-starting-with-jordan-valley/">annexation</a> refers to a state’s decision to impose its legal authority over a territory that was forcibly acquired from another state with the use of force or aggression. As International Human Rights Lawyer, Arsen Ostrovsky and Colonel Richard Kemp <a href="https://www.jns.org/opinion/annexation-vs-sovereignty-words-matter/">note</a>:
<blockquote>“First, all apply to territory acquired by force or in an offensive war. The Six-Day War, in which Israel was compelled to defend itself from neighboring Arab armies seeking the Jewish state’s destruction, was defensive. Second, in 1967, there was no ‘state of Palestine,’ nor does such an entity exist today under international law.”</blockquote>
With a total disregard for international law, the letter’s vocabulary not only, and wrongly, insinuates that history witnessed the existence of a sovereign ‘Palestine,” but it ignores Israel’s indigenous and legal claims to the territory as established by the 1920 San Remo <a href="https://www.cfr.org/israel/san-remo-resolution/p15248">Resolution</a>.
Secondly, the letter, dubiously, <a href="https://jewishinsider.com/2020/06/four-progressive-congresswomen-circulate-letter-threatening-to-condition-aid-to-israel-over-annexation/">speculates</a> that annexing parts of the West Bank will “perpetuate” and “entrench” human rights violations against Palestinians.
The signatories of this letter might benefit from carrying out a comparative analysis, in regard to standards of living, of Palestinians pre-1967 and Palestinians post-1967.
According to Ephraim Karsh’s, Director of the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, and author of Arafat’s War, explains:
<blockquote>“The number of Palestinians working in Israel rose from zero in 1967 to 66,000 in 1975 and 109,000 by 1986, accounting for 35 percent of the employed population of the West Bank and 45 percent in Gaza.”</blockquote>
Karsh also adds:
<blockquote>“By 1986, 92.8 percent of the population in the West Bank and Gaza had electricity around the clock, as compared to 20.5 percent in 1967; 85 percent had running water in dwellings, as compared to 16 percent in 1967; 84 percent had electric gas ranges for cooking, as compared to 4 percent in 1967&#8230;”</blockquote>
And in regards to Palestinian access to education, Karsh details:
<blockquote>“At the onset of the Israeli occupation in Gaza and the West Bank, not a single university existed in these territories. By the early 1990s, there were seven such institutions, boasting some 16,500 students as compared with six in Israel or seven in the Irish Republic.”</blockquote>
The statement on this letter ignores an indisputable truth – Israel has done more for the Palestinian people than their own leadership has. If the signatories truly cared about human rights violations against Palestinians, they would note that the Palestinian leadership regards homosexuality and the sale of property to Jews as crimes; it continues to indoctrinate children with antisemitism and senseless hatred; it has invested millions of dollars in foreign aid to <a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/where-does-the-palestinian-aid-money-go">fund</a> terrorist activities rather than social welfare programs, and it has repeatedly turned down generous offers for peace that would have granted the Palestinian people independence.
Thirdly, the letter threatens to “pursue conditions” on the $3.8 billion in US military funding to Israel if the Israeli government moves forward with “annexing” Jordan Valley. Such a move could have devastating impacts for Israelis, Palestinians, and American citizens.
A significant portion of the $3.8 billion received by Israel for military funding is <a href="https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/09/14/fact-sheet-memorandum-understanding-reached-israel">allocated</a> for defensive weapons systems such as the Iron Dome, David’s Sling, and Arrow-3. If Israel were unable to defend her skies from the thousands of indiscriminate rockets fired from Hamas-held Gaza, it would possibly be forced to adopt more offensive tactics to protect her citizens. Such tactics could result in the tragic loss of Palestinian and Israeli civilian lives.
Moreover, the cut in funding would harm Americans during a devastating pandemic. According to the <a href="http://www.thetower.org/article/israel-gives-much-more-to-the-u-s-economy-than-you-imagined/">US Department of Commerce</a>, in between 2009-2014, 254,562 jobs were directly supported by the US-Israel Free Trade Agreement. Every state in the US enjoys its own economic ties with the State of Israel. In 2014, at the very <a href="http://www.thetower.org/article/israel-gives-much-more-to-the-u-s-economy-than-you-imagined/">lowest</a>, is Alaska which accumulated nearly $300,000 in trade with Israel. In the same year and at its <a href="http://www.thetower.org/article/israel-gives-much-more-to-the-u-s-economy-than-you-imagined/">highest</a>, is New York, which accumulated $6.3 billion in trade with Israel. The impacts of reducing aid to Israel would only add to the hardships that many American families are already experiencing.
Lastly, the letter makes the claim that under Article 2(4) of the UN Charter, “annexation” is illegal, such a move would constitute a violation of international law by Israel.
To set the record straight on the letter&#8217;s faulty nomenclature, Israel does not propose annexing any territory; rather it is considering extending sovereignty over the Jordan Valley. It appears that the signatories of this letter are unfamiliar with the uti possidetis iuris doctrine. Put aptly, when new countries emerge from old ones, or from colonial empires, the last official international borders constitute the new boundary lines.
Professor Eugene Kontorovich, of the Antonin Scalia School of Law, <a href="https://en.kohelet.org.il/publication/crimea-international-law-and-the-west-bank?fbclid=IwAR0nNtEkTXFprRQQaXXOwHaju4nlCuD_q2l-QZ8rVfS_kghgETaNnpn_c2U">explains</a> how this doctrine applies in Israel&#8217;s case:
<blockquote>“In 1922, the League of Nations established a new “country” to serve as the Jewish national home. This was the Mandate for Palestine. Under certain provisions of the Mandate, Palestine was partitioned at the Jordan River to create the country of Transjordan (now called Jordan) on its eastern bank. After that, the international frontiers of Mandatory Palestine ran from the river to the sea. The League of Nations Mandate for Palestine provides the legal basis not only for Israel’s borders, but for those of Jordan as well, and indeed for Jordan’s entire existence.”</blockquote>
Whether you support Israel’s decision to extend sovereignty or not, it is imperative to recognize the fallacies of this letter. Not only do the signatories wrongly accuse Israel of, potentially, violating international law, but it paints a misleading image to the majority of Americans who remain committed to the US-Israel alliance.
Yoni Michanie is a Middle East analyst, Israel advocate, and former IDF Paratrooper. He can be reached on Twitter, @<a href="http://twitter.com/yonimichanie">YoniMichanie</a>.
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House Votes On Stimulus Package To Counter Coronavirus Economic Impacts

MICHANIE: Four Things To Know About Ocasio-Cortez’s Letter Placing Conditions On Aid To Israel

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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On Wednesday, protesters identifying with the Black Lives Matter movement marched from the Lincoln Memorial to the Capitol building reportedly to demonstrate the ties between BLM and the BDS movement that targets Israel. As they marched, the demonstrators chanted, &#8220;Israel, we know you, you murder children, too.&#8221;
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It was only a matter of time before the DC protests turned anti-Semitic. <a href="https://t.co/YTbwwGuOYh">pic.twitter.com/YTbwwGuOYh</a>
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The march was led by Harvard University student Christian Tabash, accompanied by roughly 200 people, some of whom brandished signs that celebrated either the Palestinian Liberation Organization or Black Lives Matter. Tabash read poetry that listed alleged crimes of Israel against Palestinians, the <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/intrinsically-tied-to-black-lives-matter-harvard-student-leads-anti-israel-march-on-capitol">Washington Examiner</a> reported, including one making a conspiratorial suggestion referring to Israel as the &#8220;puppet master of continents.”
The Examiner noted, “While Tabash walked out in front of the marchers, he paused several times to say that the Palestinian movement is ‘intrinsically tied to Black Lives Matter.’” He shouted, &#8216;American capitalism&#8217; and Israel were built on the ‘repression of minorities … And that&#8217;s why we say police from Palestine to Mexico to the United States — police as a whole — need to go!'&#8221;
<a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/black-lives-matter-protesters-chant-in-dc-israel-we-know-you-you-murder-children-too?fbclid=IwAR2YWx2FKjdAomnd4lKEdsmJHcojBdkt3nvkbvGULBzarHi84PL4Tfk0pWc">The Blaze</a> noted, “The anti-Israel chant by BLM protesters comes days after Black Lives Matter U.K. <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8468059/Black-Lives-Matters-UK-twitter-account-sparks-outrage-Free-Palestine-message.html">sparked outrage</a> by publicly declaring on Twitter, ‘As Israel moves forward with the annexation of the West Bank, and mainstream British politics is gagged of the right to critique Zionism, and Israel&#8217;s settler colonial pursuits, we loudly and clearly stand by our Palestinian comrades. FREE PALESTINE.’”
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As Israel moves forward with the annexation of the West Bank, and mainstream British politics is gagged of the right to critique Zionism, and Israel’s settler colonial pursuits, we loudly and clearly stand beside our Palestinian comrades. 
FREE PALESTINE.
&mdash; #BlackLivesMatterUK (@ukblm) <a href="https://twitter.com/ukblm/status/1277177624884850689?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 28, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) <a href="https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/jewish-watchdog-calls-out-black-lives-matter-for-anti-israel-tweets-633146">fired back</a>, “The Black Lives Matter movement should embrace solidarity from Jews. There have been calls for violence against us from prominent BLM supporters with no official condemnation. Now from the official UK BLM account, we hear the lie that fighting antisemitism has ‘gagged’ legitimate debate. Zionism is the movement for the self-determination of Jews. The right to the ‘self-determination of peoples’ is universal and enshrined in Article 1 of the UN charter. So-called ‘anti-Zionism’ exclusively denies Jews that universal right and is therefore antisemitic.”
They continued, “BLM should aspire to be a movement against racism that unifies people and achieves lasting change, not a movement that spreads hatred and achieves lasting division. Educate yourselves. You cannot fight prejudice with prejudice.”
In 2016, an alliance of groups affiliated with the Black Lives Matter movement released a <a href="https://policy.m4bl.org/">40,000-word manifesto</a> accusing Israel of waging “genocide” against Palestinian Arabs.
Noted attorney Alan Dershowitz <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/columns/2016/08/12/black-lives-matter-must-rescind-anti-israel-declaration/EHDYV3gNLwrTTwfp0JA8QN/story.html">blasted the manifesto</a>, noting that it singled out Israel, writing:
<blockquote>No, it wasn’t the Syrian government, which has killed tens of thousands of innocent people with barrel bombs, chemicals, and gas. Nor was it Saudi Arabia, which openly practices gender and religious apartheid. It wasn’t Iran, which hangs gays and murders dissidents. It wasn’t China, which has occupied Tibet for more than half a century. And it wasn’t Turkey, which has imprisoned journalists, judges, and academics. Finally, it wasn’t any of the many countries, such as Venezuela or Mexico, where police abuses against innocent people run rampant and largely unchecked. Nor was it the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, where the police are a law unto themselves who act as judge, jury and executioner of those whose politics or religious practices they disapprove …
In defending its citizens against terrorism since before its establishment as a state in 1948, Israel has killed fewer Palestinians than did Jordan and Syria in two much shorter wars. The relatively low number of civilian deaths caused by Israeli self-defense measures over the past 68 years compares favorably to the number of civilian deaths in other conflicts. This is because, as Colonel Richard Kemp, former commander of British Forces in Afghanistan, put it: There has been “no time in the history of warfare when an Army has made more efforts to reduce civilian casualties&#8230;than [the Israel Defense Forces].” Though Kemp was specifically referring to the wars in the Gaza Strip — which are also the apparent focus of the Black Lives Matter Platform — his conclusion is applicable to all wars Israel has fought.</blockquote>
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Black Lives Matter

WATCH: Black Lives Matter Protesters Shout ‘Israel, We Know You, You Murder Children, Too’

On Wednesday, leftists discovered that the website for former Vice President Joe Biden’s campaign took a  stand against the virulently anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, and they could barely control their fury.
The website states that Biden will “firmly reject the BDS movement, which singles out Israel — home to millions of Jews — and too often veers into anti-Semitism, while letting Palestinians off the hook for their choices.” 
Despite the fact that the website also takes aim at President Trump, stating Biden would “reverse the Trump Administration’s destructive cutoff of diplomatic ties with the Palestinian Authority (PA). the opposition to the BDS movement triggered leftists. Some examples:
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I really don&#39;t know what to say about this. Holy shit. <a href="https://t.co/wNAaUIqttn">pic.twitter.com/wNAaUIqttn</a>
&mdash; jordan (@JordanUhl) <a href="https://twitter.com/JordanUhl/status/1263234146337525762?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
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He’s going to run a militarist, pro-imperialist, jingoistic, xenophobic campaign — because that’s what his whole career has been and what the Democratic Party is — and anyone who notes this is a privileged fascist.
&mdash; Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) <a href="https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1263235838852452353?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Biden is gonna be so bad on Israel. Not as bad as Trump. But bad nevertheless. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/depressing?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#depressing</a> <a href="https://t.co/iS2hcpYoZn">https://t.co/iS2hcpYoZn</a>
&mdash; Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) <a href="https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/1263248941241503744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Oh my god. Is this real? <a href="https://t.co/uWjlczUlb0">https://t.co/uWjlczUlb0</a>
&mdash; Leila Molana-Allen (@Leila_MA) <a href="https://twitter.com/Leila_MA/status/1263440871170740224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 21, 2020</a></blockquote>
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In July 2019, the House overwhelmingly passed a non-binding resolution stating the House&#8217;s opposition to the BDS movement, 398-17. Among those opposing the resolution were anti-Israel Congresswomen Ilhan Omar (D-MN) Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY).
Ocasio-Cortez hinted that passage of the resolution would foment Palestinian terrorism against Israel, saying, “My concern with being overly punitive on nonviolent forms of protest is that it forces people into other channels and I would hate to be a part of, you know, paving that kind of path.”
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Ocasio-Cortez, on BDS resolution: “My concern with being overly punitive on nonviolent forms of protest is that it forces people into other channels and I would hate to be a part of, you know, paving that kind of path.” <a href="https://t.co/7Sgdu00Og8">https://t.co/7Sgdu00Og8</a>
&mdash; Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) <a href="https://twitter.com/HotlineJosh/status/1153817705918525440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 24, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Ed Morrissey of HotAir <a href="https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2020/05/21/biden-blasts-bds-progressives-stop-targeting-israel-letting-palestinians-off-hook-choices/">pointed out</a>:
<blockquote>The emergence of a BDS caucus among House Democrats isn’t an accident or coincidence, though. It comes from an increased strain of anti-Israel sentiment among hard-Left progressives, the Bernie Sanders wing of the party. AOC in particular has claimed to represent those progressives in the party when it comes to uniting behind Biden in the election. She has already expressed some reservations about Biden’s commitment to the progressive agenda; this won’t help her retain her credibility with that wing if she ignores this language on Biden’s platform.</blockquote>
Biden does seem to want it both ways; in the <a href="https://joebiden.com/muslimamerica/">appeal to Muslim-Americans</a> on Biden’s website, it states that Biden will actively oppose Israel’s right to the Biblical lands of Judea and Samaria and seemingly legitimize Palestinian sovereignty in East Jerusalem, as it states, “He will continue to oppose Israeli settlement expansion and has spoken out against annexation in the West Bank. He will reopen the U.S. Consulate in East Jerusalem, and restore economic and humanitarian assistance to the Palestinians.”
In 1982 Biden reportedly banged on a desk and berated Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin that if Israel continued building settlements in Judea and Samaria, the U.S. would cut off financial aid. Begin fired back:
<blockquote>Don’t threaten us with cutting off your aid. It will not work. I am not a Jew with trembling knees. I am a proud Jew with 3,700 years of civilized history. Nobody came to our aid when we were dying in the gas chambers and ovens. Nobody came to our aid when we were striving to create our country. We paid for it. We fought for it. We died for it. We will stand by our principles. We will defend them. And, when necessary, we will die for them again, with or without your aid.</blockquote>
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US Vice President Joe Biden Meets With Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas

Biden Campaign Website: He’ll Oppose BDS. Leftists Ignore Biden’s Other Anti-Israel Stances.

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On Tuesday, Iran’s Supreme Leader, the Ayatollah Khameini, issued a Twitter thread in which he vilified Israel, calling it a “cancerous tumor,” saying it was built on “lies, deception, bloodshed, massacre, and trampling human rights,” and called for arming all of the Palestinians living in Judea and Samaria. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, a staunch defender of the Jewish state, fired back that Khameini “denies the Holocaust, sends money and weapons to anti-Israel terrorists, and now has invoked the Nazi call for the Final Solution, concluding, “Is this someone who can be trusted with deadly weapons?&#8221;
Khameini’s rhetoric began with him tweeting, “The Zionist regime was built based on oppression, lies, deception, bloodshed, massacre, and trampling human rights. Over the past few decades, the occupying Zionist regime has lived and survived using suppression, killing, encroachment &amp; attacking innocent people.”
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The Zionist regime was built based on oppression, lies, deception, bloodshed, massacre, and trampling human rights. Over the past few decades, the occupying Zionist regime has lived and survived using suppression, killing, encroachment &amp; attacking innocent people.
&mdash; Khamenei.ir (@khamenei_ir) <a href="https://twitter.com/khamenei_ir/status/1262507418359074816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 18, 2020</a></blockquote>
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He continued, “The West Bank must be armed, just as Gaza. The only thing that can reduce the Palestinians’ hardships is the hand of power. Otherwise, compromise won’t reduce a bit of the cruelty of this usurping, evil, wolf-like entity.”
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The West Bank must be armed, just as Gaza. The only thing that can reduce the Palestinians’ hardships is the hand of power. Otherwise, compromise won’t reduce a bit of the cruelty of this usurping, evil, wolf-like entity.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FlyTheFlag?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#FlyTheFlag</a>
&mdash; Khamenei.ir (@khamenei_ir) <a href="https://twitter.com/khamenei_ir/status/1262513122532896771?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 18, 2020</a></blockquote>
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He concluded, “The Zionist regime is the most evidence example of state terrorism. Ever since Britain’s anti-Islamic, antihuman policies put the Zionists to rule in #Palestine, they have been acting like a cancerous tumor, furthering their goals by massacring children, women.”
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The Zionist regime is the most evident example of state terrorism. Ever since Britain’s anti-Islamic, antihuman policies put the Zionists to rule in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Palestine?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Palestine</a>, they have been acting like a cancerous tumor, furthering their goals by massacring children, women and men.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/FlyTheFlag?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#FlyTheFlag</a>
&mdash; Khamenei.ir (@khamenei_ir) <a href="https://twitter.com/khamenei_ir/status/1262835308242092038?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 19, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Pompeo fired back, “The United States condemns Supreme Leader Khamenei&#8217;s disgusting and hateful anti-Semitic remarks. They have no place on Twitter or on any other social media platform. We know Khamenei’s vile rhetoric does not represent the Iranian people’s tradition of tolerance.”
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The United States condemns Supreme Leader Khamenei&#39;s disgusting and hateful anti-Semitic remarks. They have no place on Twitter or on any other social media platform. We know Khamenei’s vile rhetoric does not represent the Iranian people’s tradition of tolerance. <a href="https://t.co/cfBhyOfFa9">pic.twitter.com/cfBhyOfFa9</a>
&mdash; Secretary Pompeo (@SecPompeo) <a href="https://twitter.com/SecPompeo/status/1263090899619328000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Pompeo then implicitly pointed out the absurdity of the infamous Iran nuclear deal embraced by the Obama administration, which President Trump jettisoned: “The leader of the world’s top sponsor of terrorism and anti-Semitism denies the Holocaust, sends money and weapons to anti-Israel terrorists, and now has invoked the Nazi call for the Final Solution. I ask all nations: Is this someone who can be trusted with deadly weapons?”
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The leader of the world’s top sponsor of terrorism and anti-Semitism denies the Holocaust, sends money and weapons to anti-Israel terrorists, and now has invoked the Nazi call for the Final Solution. I ask all nations: Is this someone who can be trusted with deadly weapons?
&mdash; Secretary Pompeo (@SecPompeo) <a href="https://twitter.com/SecPompeo/status/1263090902106587136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 20, 2020</a></blockquote>
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At the end of April, Pompeo <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/trump-is-committed-to-use-every-tool-we-have-to-prevent-iran-from-getting-more-conventional-arms-pompeo">spoke with Fox News</a> about preventing Iran from buying weapons systems, which they would be able to do in October. He stated:
<blockquote>We&#8217;ve seen their bad behavior. That was nuts. That&#8217;s why we got out of the deal; that’s why we left it. Now our task is to do our best to make sure those arms can&#8217;t be sold. We’re working with our British, our French partners, our friends saying, ‘You all know this doesn&#8217;t make sense, either.’ I think they agree with us on that. We hope the Russians and the Chinese will see it that way, too. But make no mistake about it: we’[re going to use every tool we can in our diplomatic capability to ensure that that prohibition on arms sales to Iran doesn’t expire in just a handful of months.</blockquote>
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President Trump Meets With His Cabinet At The White House

Iran Supreme Leader Calls For Arming All Palestinians, Calls Israel ‘Cancerous Tumor.’ Pompeo Blasts Him.

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Sometimes even in the politically correct and intellectually stifling world of academia, a refreshing breeze of sanity reminds us that this is still America.
Professor Nicholas Damask of Scottsdale Community College posted three questions on a quiz about the inferential relationship between radical Islam and Islamic religious writings.
The section was on radical Islamic terrorism, and the questions were totally within the purview of the course and the instructor’s area of expertise, having written a doctoral dissertation decades ago on the subject of terrorism.
By way of disclosure, I was a member of Professor Damask’s doctoral committee back in the day. Even as a graduate student, he showed a remarkable capacity for scholarship, and the idea that he would use his talent to inflame passions about Islam, or any other religion, is simply wrong.
It should also be noted that while everyone should take professor ratings on the Internet with a huge grain of salt and a glass of Alka- Seltzer, for the two and a half decades Professor Damask has been teaching, he has received outstanding ratings and comments. An overwhelming majority of students indicated that they would take another course from him.
One student in the class took exception to the questions on the quiz and posted them on social media without any context. Predictably, they drew a lot of hateful comments, including death threats toward Professor Damask and his entire family.
Clearly, the purveyors of these threats no more represented traditional Islam than did Professor Damask’s questions.
If the professor’s questions could be seen as opining that Islam was not a religion of peace, the hateful responses ironically served as confirmation by embracing the worst stereotypes about Islam.
Social media is a representative sample of nothing, but the satire was inescapable nonetheless.
We might make allowances for the passions of the immature and uneducated, especially since social media does not always bring out the best in people.  What was difficult to comprehend was the reaction of Professor Damask’s superiors, who rushed to judgment, denied him any form of due process, issued an apology in his name without his permission, and then proposed that he become an acolyte of some unnamed imam who would school him in the true nature of the relationship between radical Islam and terrorism.
This assumes that there is one universally accepted understanding of that relationship. Indeed, one can almost hear Islamic religious leaders parsing the differences between the greater and lesser jihad, noting that traditional Islam has been hijacked by groups who kill in the name of Islam and whose victims are primarily Muslims.
It is Muslims who stand in the path and fight against the radical jihadists.
Of course, the bureaucrats at SCC probably understood none of that. Their rush to judgment was based on what they saw as a public relations and political correctness problem.
As some on social media were rushing to extinguish Professor Damask, his superiors were rushing to extinguish his First Amendment and due process rights – a pattern of behavior that, compared to radical Islam, is far more threatening to our democracy.
But in the midst of this brouhaha, voices of sanity emerged – and they are to be commended. Maricopa County Community College District Interim Chancellor, <a href="https://news.maricopa.edu/news-articles/mcccd-statement-academic-freedom" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://news.maricopa.edu/news-articles/mcccd-statement-academic-freedom&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1589834453304000&amp;usg=AFQjCNG3CKontcHSBZkXlm1XzySdA0kj7w">Dr. Steven R. Gonzales</a>, rose to remind the community of the purpose of an education and his abhorrence that Professor Damask’s due process and First Amendment rights had been trampled in a rush to judgment.  “The questions were taken out of context from a unit examining violent political and social movements, and the subject they addressed – the reliance of certain violent groups on religious texts as a justification for their actions – was within the scope of the course,” said Dr. Gonzales, adding that the individuals posting the objections were not even involved in the class.
<a href="https://arizonadailyindependent.com/2020/05/10/arizona-professor-receives-death-threats-for-connecting-islam-to-terrorism/" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://arizonadailyindependent.com/2020/05/10/arizona-professor-receives-death-threats-for-connecting-islam-to-terrorism/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1589834453304000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEAOE19q0AyRkPBRpSR6-mE8Uru5Q">Kathleen Winn</a>, governing board member of Maricopa County Community College District, noted the sheer hypocrisy and selectivity in the application of standards of offense. The showing, by another professor in the same district, of a pornographic movie denigrating Jesus had been defended on the grounds of academic freedom. The destruction of a Trump balloon covered in swastikas had been defended on similar grounds.
Only, a misperceived attack on Islam had drawn the ire of academic administrators and a rush to judgment unworthy of the positions they hold.
Amid the continuing caricature of itself that academia frequently presents, such sobering voices, reflective of our traditional values, inspire hope that America is still America.
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On Wednesday, Senator Ted Cruz introduced a bill in the Senate that would lessen American dependence on China for life-saving medications and treatments and turn toward cooperation with Israel instead.
The bill, which was offered by a bipartisan group of senators including Chris Coons (D-DE), Martha McSally (R-AZ), Jacky Rosen (D-NV), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Tom Cotton (R-AR), and Ron Wyden (D-OR), is titled the ‘‘Expanding Medical Partnerships with Israel to Lessen Dependence on China Act.’’ It <a href="https://www.cruz.senate.gov/files/documents/Bills/2020.05.12%20-%20Expanding%20Medical%20Partnerships%20with%20Israel%20to%20Lessen%20Dependence%20on%20China%20Act.pdf">states</a> it would “authorize funding for a bilateral cooperative program with Israel for the development of health technologies with a focus on combating COVID-19.”
This week, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, in a brief eight-hours in Israel, told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, “You’re a great partner. You share your information, unlike some other countries that try and obfuscate and hide information. And we’ll talk about that country, too,” as <a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/us-senate-legislation-would-expand-covid-19-projects-with-israel-628117">The Jerusalem Post</a> reported.
A senior State Department official asserted China is “not a reliable partner,” adding, “I think COVID sort of highlights the dangers of dealing with states that are not transparent, that don’t have fair trade practices, that really leverage and torque their trade to leverage certain things out of their trade partners … I think it’s important for us as allies, strategic partners to be able to discuss the type of threats and the types of ways to mitigate those kind of threats.”
Cruz stated: “Our dependence on China for life-saving medications and treatments is deeply problematic. We’re now seeing leaders of the Chinese Communist Party – in the midst of a public health crisis they allowed to go global and endanger millions – threaten to withhold live-saving medical supplies and medications from the United States. By expanding partnerships with Israel – an ally and a global leader in medicine – to develop coronavirus treatments, this legislation is a common sense step to address that threat.”
<a href="https://www.collins.senate.gov/newsroom/collins-joins-bipartisan-group-introducing-bill-enhance-medical-partnerships-israel-lessen">Collins</a> echoed:
<blockquote>The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the significant risk of overreliance on any one country for lifesaving medical products. We should redouble our efforts to work with friendly nations to diversify our medical supply chains.  This bipartisan bill would strengthen our partnership with our ally Israel and combine our research and manufacturing efforts to develop new medications and medical products that will help fight COVID-19.</blockquote>
The bill states:
<blockquote>There is authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of Health and Human Services $4,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2021 through 2023 for a bilateral cooperative program with the Government of Israel for awarding grants for the development of health technologies, including such technologies described in subsection (b), subject to subsection (c), with an emphasis on collaboratively advancing the use of technology, personalized medicine, and data in relation to COVID-19.
The health technologies described in this subsection shall include technologies such as artificial intelligence, sensors, monitoring devices, drugs and vaccinations, respiratory assist devices, diagnostic tests, telemedicine, and remote monitoring.
The funding under subsection (a) is subject to a matching contribution from the Government of Israel.</blockquote>
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Cruz, Cotton, Introduce Bill To Turn Away From China And Toward Israel To Fight Virus

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On Thursday, The New York Times published a piece by Jerusalem Bureau Chief David Halbfinger titled: “Israeli Army’s Idea Lab Aims at a New Target: Saving Lives.”
The <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/07/world/middleeast/coronavirus-israel.html?smid=tw-nytimes&amp;smtyp=cur">piece</a> delves into how Israel and its Defense Ministry have marshaled considerable resources to aid in the fight against COVID-19.
“Red tape, institutional rivalries and <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/us/jared-kushner-fema-coronavirus.html">cronyism</a> can stand in the way of a unified, rapid response to a crisis. But Israel quickly set up a national task force and dozens of teams with hundreds of scientists, engineers, doctors, executives, government officials and military officers all working toward the same goals,” Halbfinger writes.
The New York Times sent out a tweet promoting the piece, writing: “The Israeli Defense Ministry’s research-and-development arm is best known for pioneering cutting-edge ways to kill people and blow things up. Now it is turning to saving lives.”
This language is taken almost verbatim from the first paragraph of the article itself.
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The Israeli Defense Ministry’s research-and-development arm is best known for pioneering cutting-edge ways to kill people and blow things up. Now it is turning to saving lives. <a href="https://t.co/uxIvDLf4nB">https://t.co/uxIvDLf4nB</a>
— The New York Times (@nytimes) <a href="https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1258688092195733504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 8, 2020</a></blockquote>
Despite 310 retweets and more than 1,000 “likes,” the tweet has been ratioed with over 1,800 comments as of publication.
On Friday, Ricki Hollander and Gilead Ini of the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA), which “is a media-monitoring, research and membership organization devoted to promoting accurate and balanced coverage of Israel and the Middle East,” according to the organization’s website, <a href="https://www.camera.org/article/ny-times-frames-iron-dome-researchers-as-killers-and-destroyers/">penned a response</a> to the Times&#8217; piece.
Hollander and Ini write:
<blockquote>Killing what people? Blowing what things up? Without specifying the “things” and “people” being targeted, Halbfinger, like Israel’s enemies, portrays the IDF’s research and development team as bloodthirsty demons seeking new ways to carry out a nefarious plan of murder and destruction.</blockquote>
After explaining the ways in which the IDF’s research and development are used to protect the nation from various enemies and attacks, including “rockets, mortars, and artillery shell aimed at Israeli civilians,” the piece linked to two notable responses to The New York Times’ tweet.
Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt tweeted:
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">
This tweet is sensationalist. It is irresponsible that the <a href="https://twitter.com/nytimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@nytimes</a> buried the important story about Israel&#8217;s military developing innovative responses to <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/COVID19?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#COVID19</a> beneath demonizing language that seems to question Israel&#8217;s legitimate security needs. They should do better. <a href="https://t.co/PM38RKKu4O">pic.twitter.com/PM38RKKu4O</a>
— Jonathan Greenblatt (@JGreenblattADL) <a href="https://twitter.com/JGreenblattADL/status/1258778507762696192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 8, 2020</a></blockquote>
American Jewish Committee CEO David Harris <a href="https://mobile.twitter.com/DavidHarrisAJC/status/1258734251098464256">tweeted</a>: “What a vile <a href="https://mobile.twitter.com/nytimes">@nytimes</a> statement! And on 75th anniv. of end of WW2 &amp; Holocaust, no less.” Harris then offered a new title for the piece that reflects Israel’s position under siege.
Retired IDF soldier Peter Lerner responded to Halbfinger’s tweet-out of the article, and the two engaged in a <a href="https://twitter.com/LTCPeterLerner/status/1258479668606504960">brief exchange</a>.
<blockquote>LERNER: David. Another great story although “cutting-edge ways to kill people.” The defense establishment has been developing weaponry for the defense of the island of Israel that hasn’t had a day of peace since it was established. More accurate wording needed like: kill militant enemies.
HALBFINGER: Enemies are people, too. You&#8217;d have to be predisposed to think Israel kills indiscriminately – or weary of such accusations – to read it that way. All armies are trained and equipped to kill, not just Israel&#8217;s. The point here is to contrast with the mission of saving lives. Thank you, though.</blockquote>
Lerner later replied: “Thanks for your response. Unfortunately too many people are predisposed and don’t read beyond the first paragraph. This would reinforce that predisposition. Israel would much rather invest all of its innovation, wisdom and budget in advancing human kind.”
Israel’s Ambassador to the United States Ron Dermer heavily criticized the NYT piece as well:
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The <a href="https://twitter.com/nytimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@nytimes</a>, which buried the Holocaust, Is best known for pioneering ways to libel and demonize the Jewish State. Now it is doing the same. <a href="https://t.co/S8tMGFzkRv">https://t.co/S8tMGFzkRv</a>
— Amb. Ron Dermer (@AmbDermer) <a href="https://twitter.com/AmbDermer/status/1258770775282274305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 8, 2020</a></blockquote>
In a response piece published on Friday, Jewish Journal’s David Suissa noted that while he’s not a “New York Times hater,” he was <a href="https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/opinion/315501/why-would-the-new-york-times-overlook-the-idf-mission-to-defend-lives/">troubled</a> by the paper’s tweet, as well as the content of the article’s first paragraph.
Ini, co-author of the CAMERA response piece, also offered his own response to Halbfinger’s tweet to Lerner:
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This is a puzzling reply.
1. Yes, enemies are people. But the former is obviously far more precise, and precision ensures clarity. To say &#8220;Obama tried to kill people&#8221; is clearly different, and uglier, than &#8220;Obama tries to kill al Qaeda militants.&#8221;
— Gilead Ini (@GileadIni) <a href="https://twitter.com/GileadIni/status/1258483128773103618?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 7, 2020</a></blockquote>
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3. You know as much as anyone that there&#8217;s a campaign, often by those opposed to Israel&#8217;s right to exist, to cast Israel as indiscriminate in its use of force. In light of that, isn&#8217;t it worth using more precise and clearer wording?
— Gilead Ini (@GileadIni) <a href="https://twitter.com/GileadIni/status/1258483605975728134?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 7, 2020</a></blockquote>
As of publication, The New York Times has not deleted or reworded the tweet, nor has the first paragraph of Harbfinger’s piece been revised.
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NYT Tweet: Israel’s Defense Ministry ‘Known For Pioneering … Ways To Kill People’ Now Helping In Fight Against COVID-19

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Speaking to the <a href="https://www.jta.org/2020/05/06/politics/biden-it-is-a-priority-to-press-israel-not-to-make-the-2-state-solution-impossible">Jewish Telegraphic Agency</a>, former Vice President Joe Biden said that if he were elected president, he would start sending financial aid to the Palestinian Arabs, reversing the Trump administration’s policy of revoking the aid because it had been used to finance terrorism.
Biden stated, “A priority now for the cause of Israeli-Palestinian peace should be resuming our dialogue with the Palestinians and pressing Israel not to take actions that make a two-state solution impossible. I will reopen the U.S. consulate in East Jerusalem, find a way to reopen the PLO’s diplomatic mission in Washington, and resume the decades-long economic and security assistance efforts to the Palestinians that the Trump Administration stopped.”
On March 23, 2018, President Trump signed into law the Taylor Force Act, which was named for a U.S. citizen murdered by a Palestinian terrorist in a March 2016 attack in Jaffa. <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/your-taxes-are-funding-terrorists-demand-that-this-stops">Fox News</a> noted, “Taylor Force was a former U.S. Army officer and West Point graduate who had served honorably in Afghanistan and Iraq, heroically risking his life in defense of America … The Taylor Force Act directs the State Department to certify that the Palestinian Authority has ceased payments to terrorists and their families and to report to Congress any violations. Congress is then legally required to <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/1697">withhold funds</a> until the egregious violations are corrected.”
In 1982 Biden reportedly banged on a desk and berated Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin that if Israel continued building settlements in Judea and Samaria, the U.S. would cut off financial aid. Begin fired back:
<blockquote>Don’t threaten us with cutting off your aid. It will not work. I am not a Jew with trembling knees. I am a proud Jew with 3,700 years of civilized history. Nobody came to our aid when we were dying in the gas chambers and ovens. Nobody came to our aid when we were striving to create our country. We paid for it. We fought for it. We died for it. We will stand by our principles. We will defend them. And, when necessary, we will die for them again, with or without your aid.</blockquote>
Begin added:
<blockquote> This desk is designed for writing, not for fists. Don’t threaten us with slashing aid. Do you think that because the U.S. lends us money it is entitled to impose on us what we must do? We are grateful for the assistance we have received, but we are not to be threatened. I am a proud Jew. Three thousand years of culture are behind me, and you will not frighten me with threats. Take note: we do not want a single soldier of yours to die for us.</blockquote>
In November 2019, Biden was asked if he would reverse President Trump’s decision to move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem. He <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/watch-our-interview-with-joe-biden">replied,</a>“Not now. I wouldn’t reverse it. I wouldn’t have done it in the first place.”
Biden’s embrace of the Palestinians stands in line with pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel organizations like J Street, which organized a <a href="https://jstreet.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/5eb0460ec5b614b5c49b4ea6.pdf">letter</a> from 30 former top national security officials in Democratic administrations stating:
<blockquote>The actions of the Trump administration have upended decades of bipartisan U.S. support for a negotiated two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In his &#8220;Deal of the Century,&#8221; President Trump has provided the Israeli government with a green light to annex all West Bank settlements and the Jordan Valley and maintain its occupation in perpetuity, making a sovereign, independent and contiguous Palestinian state impossible.</blockquote>
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Israel&#8217;s Ministry of Defense released new details on a &#8220;groundbreaking&#8221; discovery that Israeli scientists have made in finding an antidote to the coronavirus that came from China.
&#8220;In the past two days, the Israel Institute for Biological Research (IIBR), has completed a groundbreaking scientific development, determining an antibody that neutralizes the corona virus (SARS-COV-2),&#8221; Israel&#8217;s Ministry of Defense said in a statement. &#8220;Based on comprehensive scientific publications from around the globe, it appears that the IIBR is the first institution to achieve a scientific breakthrough that meets all three of the aforementioned parameters simultaneously.&#8221;
The statement listed the following &#8220;3 key parameters&#8221; on the scientific discovery:
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<li>The antibody is monoclonal, new and refined, and contains an exceptionally low proportion of harmful proteins</li>
<li>The antibody is able to neutralize the corona virus</li>
<li>The antibody was specifically tested on the aggressive corona virus</li>
</ol>
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The announcement was originally made yesterday after Defense Minister Naftali Bennett visited the IIBR labs where he was reportedly shown an “antibody which attacks the virus in a monoclonal way and can neutralize it within the bodies of those ill,” according to a <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/defense-minister-claims-israels-biological-institute-developed-virus-vaccine/">statement</a> from his office.
“I am proud of the Biological Institute staff, who have made a major breakthrough,” Bennett <a href="https://www.jpost.com/health-science/iibr-completes-development-phase-of-covid-19-vaccine-626913">said</a>. “The Jewish creativity and ingenuity brought about this amazing achievement.”
Officials <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-lab-confirms-breakthrough-with-virus-antibody-but-says-months-till-cure/">cautioned</a> that Israel&#8217;s discovery would go toward developing therapeutics but not a vaccine and that they were still a few months away from having a medication ready for people to take.
The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/05/world/middleeast/coronavirus-israel-antibody-testing.html">reported</a> on Tuesday that Israel &#8220;is readying a nationwide serological test of 100,000 citizens to see how widely the virus has spread across its population and how vulnerable it may be to a new wave of the contagion.&#8221;
&#8220;The survey, to be conducted at clinics run by Israeli H.M.O.s beginning in a week or two, is one of the largest efforts yet to determine the prevalence of antibodies to Covid-19,&#8221; the Times added. &#8220;The results could aid in deciding how quickly businesses and schools should be allowed to return to normal operations.&#8221;
Recent numbers published by a Johns Hopkins University &amp; Medicine coronavirus tracker showed that Israel had over 16,000 confirmed cases and 238 deaths.
The Netherlands have also reportedly made scientific progress in the fight against the coronavirus.
The Guardian <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/05/israel-netherlands-studies-claim-progress-in-covid-19-antibody-trials">reported</a>:
<blockquote>The research, published in the Nature Communications journal on Monday, looked at antibodies developed to combat the 2002-04 Sars outbreak, also caused by a coronavirus. It said it identified one antibody that was also effective against the current virus, officially called Sars-CoV-2.
Scientists at Utrecht University, Erasmus Medical Center and the global biopharmaceutical company, Harbour BioMed (HBM), described it as “an initial step towards developing a fully human antibody to treat or prevent” Covid-19.</blockquote>
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Iran, the world&#8217;s leading state sponsor of terrorism, has reportedly had to cancel its annual anti-Israel al-Quds Day rally due to the nation&#8217;s continued struggle with the coronavirus pandemic, which originated in China.
&#8220;Iran stages the annual demonstrations out of solidarity with the Palestinians every year on al-Quds Day, the last Friday of the fasting month of Ramadan, which this year falls on May 22,&#8221; Haaretz <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/iran/.premium-iran-cancels-annual-al-quds-day-anti-israel-protests-amid-pandemic-1.8816992">reported</a>. &#8220;Al-Quds is the Arabic name for Jerusalem, the city claimed by both Israelis and Palestinians as their capital. Iran does not recognize Israel and regards it as the source of all regional problems.&#8221;
A spokesperson for Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which is a designated terrorist organization, told a semi-official Iranian news agency over the weekend, &#8220;The fact is that we are not in a normal situation because of the coronavirus and therefore cannot organize the al-Quds rallies as in previous years.&#8221;
Iran, which was one of the first countries to be hit by the pandemic, is widely believed to be lying about the true extent of the pandemic in their nation.
State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus <a href="https://freebeacon.com/national-security/iran-lying-about-coronavirus-statistics-state-department-says/">told</a> The Free Beacon at the end of March, &#8220;The regime has imprisoned dozens of Iranians for sharing statistics and forced hospital officials across Iran to falsify the number of cases and deaths.&#8221;
According to a Johns Hopkins University &amp; Medicine Coronavirus tracker, Iran has at least 98,647 reported coronavirus cases and at least 6,277 reported deaths.
However, the real figures are likely far greater as a World Health Organization official indicated in mid-March that Iran&#8217;s real numbers were likely at least five times higher than what was being reported.
The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/w-h-o-doctor-paints-grim-picture-of-coronavirus-outbreak-in-iran">reported</a> in mid-March:
<blockquote>Iranian officials identified the central city of Qom as the center of an outbreak that was announced on Feb. 19, but refused to quarantine the city, calling such measures relics of the era before World War I.
After the virus spread to other cities, the government kept the roads open to the northern part of the country, despite pleas from local officials there to restrict traffic, though it has urged Iranians not to travel and has canceled large gatherings such as Friday prayers.</blockquote>
Iran&#8217;s outbreak was so bad that The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/iran-coronavirus-outbreak-graves/">obtained</a> satellite images that showed mass graves being dug:
<blockquote>Two days after Iran declared its first cases of the novel coronavirus — in what would become one of the largest outbreaks of the illness outside of China — evidence of unusual activity appeared at a cemetery near where the infections emerged.
At the Behesht-e Masoumeh complex in Qom, about 80 miles south of Tehran, the excavation of a new section of the graveyard began as early as Feb. 21, satellite images show, and then rapidly expanded as the virus spread. By the end of the month, two large trenches — their lengths totaling 100 yards — were visible at the site from space.
According to expert analysis, video testimony and official statements, the graves were dug to accommodate the rising number of virus victims in Qom.</blockquote>
In mid-March, a British journalist reported that a doctor that she spoke to in Iran said that they were losing &#8220;20 or 30 patients a day&#8221; at just one hospital and that it was &#8220;worse than a war.&#8221;
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Tonight <a href="https://twitter.com/Channel4News?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Channel4News</a> I’m reporting on <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/coronavirus?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#coronavirus</a> spreading in Iran, including audio of a desperate doctor who says his hospital is losing 20 or 30 patients a day. “It’s a disaster. It’s worse than the war.” A few days after the recording he also died.
&mdash; Lindsey Hilsum (@lindseyhilsum) <a href="https://twitter.com/lindseyhilsum/status/1238514679997255688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 13, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Nearly a month later, Iranian officials were lashing out at China for lying to the world about the extent of their outbreak, saying that it was obvious based on what they were experiencing that China was not telling the truth.
A doctor on Iran&#8217;s coroanvirus task force, epidemiologist Dr. Hamid Souri, also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/iran-hits-at-ally-china-chinas-coronavirus-numbers-a-bitter-joke-not-trustworthy">took a shot</a> at China’s reported numbers.
“The evidence shows us that what happened is worse than what the Chinese reported,” Souri said. “We could not make any judgements at first because our country had no experience [with coronavirus] to compare the results.”
“Wrong data leads to wrong results and incorrect policies which in turn lead to in an increase in the number of victims,” Souri continued. “Italy is now experiencing a slowing trend [in infections and deaths] but we have unfortunately not got there yet.”
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How Bad Is Iran’s Coronavirus Outbreak? They Just Canceled Their Anti-Israel ‘Quds Day’ Rally

Israel&#8217;s main biological research lab has reportedly made a &#8220;significant breakthrough&#8221; in the fight against the coronavirus as it has isolated a key antibody that will go toward potential treatments for the virus.
Defense Minister Naftali Bennett visited the Israel Institute for Biological Research (IIBR) labs where he was reportedly shown an “antibody which attacks the virus in a monoclonal way and can neutralize it within the bodies of those ill,” according to a <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/defense-minister-claims-israels-biological-institute-developed-virus-vaccine/">statement</a> from his office.
“I am proud of the Biological Institute staff, who have made a major breakthrough,” Bennett <a href="https://www.jpost.com/health-science/iibr-completes-development-phase-of-covid-19-vaccine-626913">said</a>. “The Jewish creativity and ingenuity brought about this amazing achievement.”
IIBR Director Shmuel Shapira reportedly indicated that the antibody formula was being patented so that it could quickly move to mass production.
&#8220;Antibodies in such samples &#8211; immune-system proteins that are residues of successfully overcoming the coronavirus &#8211; are widely seen as a key to developing a possible cure,&#8221; Reuters <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2020/05/04/world/middleeast/04reuters-health-coronavirus-israel-treatment.html">reported</a>. &#8220;The antibody reported as having been isolated at the IIBR is monoclonal, meaning it was derived from a single recovered cell and is thus potentially of more potent value in yielding a treatment.&#8221;
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More: According to the Institute&#39;s researchers: &quot;The antibody development phase is over. A goal for international companies to produce the antibody in commercial quantities &quot;
&mdash; Amichai Stein (@AmichaiStein1) <a href="https://twitter.com/AmichaiStein1/status/1257401385538240513?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 4, 2020</a></blockquote>
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U.S. officials believe that the coronavirus, which originated in Wuhan, China, accidentally leaked out a lab in Wuhan and that an infected individual then <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-fox-news-reports-u-s-officials-have-high-confidence-coronavirus-came-from-lab">visited</a> a wet market in Wuhan where the coronavirus began to rapidly spread.
“COVID-19 originated in a Wuhan laboratory not as a bioweapon, but as part of China’s effort to demonstrate that its efforts to identify and combat viruses are equal to or greater than the capabilities of the United States, multiple sources who have been briefed on the details of early actions by China’s government and seen relevant materials tell Fox News,” Fox News <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-china-blamed-wet-market-to-deflect-blame-from-lab-destroyed-evidence-fox-news-reports">reported</a>. “The sources believe the initial transmission of the virus was bat-to-human, and that ‘patient zero’ worked at the laboratory, then went into the population in Wuhan.”
“Documents detail early efforts by doctors at the lab and early efforts at containment. The Wuhan wet market initially identified as a possible point of origin never sold bats, and the sources tell Fox News that blaming the wet market was an effort by China to deflect blame from the laboratory, along with the country’s propaganda efforts targeting the U.S. and Italy,” Fox News continued. “China ‘100 percent’ suppressed data and changed data, the sources tell Fox News. Samples were destroyed, contaminated areas scrubbed, some early reports erased, and academic articles stifled.”
Fox News Chief White House Correspondent John Roberts reported on Saturday that a senior intelligence official told him that “most” of America’s 17 intelligence agencies believe that the coronavirus originated in a lab in Wuhan, China.
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A Senior Intelligence Source tells me there is agreement among most of the 17 Intelligence agencies that COVID-19 originated in the Wuhan lab. The source stressed that the release is believed to be a MISTAKE, and was not intentional.
&mdash; John Roberts (@johnrobertsFox) <a href="https://twitter.com/johnrobertsFox/status/1256576858923073539?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 2, 2020</a></blockquote>
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A new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-s-intel-report-suggests-china-intentionally-concealed-the-severity-of-pandemic-to-hoard-supplies">report</a> that was leaked to The Associated Press over the weekend indicated that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) lied to the world about the extent of the outbreak and how deadly and contagious the coronavirus was in order to buy themselves to hoard medical equipment from around the world.
“The analysis states that, while downplaying the severity of the coronavirus, China increased imports and decreased exports of medical supplies,” The Associated Press reported. “It attempted to cover up doing so by ‘denying there were export restrictions and obfuscating and delaying provision of its trade data,’ the analysis states.”
The AP added, “The report also says China held off informing the World Health Organization that the coronavirus ‘was a contagion’ for much of January so it could order medical supplies from abroad — and that its imports of face masks and surgical gowns and gloves increased sharply.”
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Israel Makes ‘Significant Breakthrough’ In Developing Coronavirus Antidote

The German government has <a href="https://www.dw.com/en/german-government-bans-hezbollah-interior-ministry/a-53287126">pulled the plug</a> on Hezbollah, labeling it a terrorist organization – its political “wing” as well as its military “wing” – and banning its activity on German soil; associated organizations will also be outlawed. What took so long? Surely there was no benefit to Germany in the relationship, except perhaps, to irritate Israel.
Or was there?
Some German politicians claimed relations with Hezbollah were necessary to maintain relations with Lebanon, where the party leads the government. A Foreign Ministry official had called it a “<a href="https://www.dw.com/en/germany-will-not-list-iran-allied-hezbollah-as-terrorist-minister/a-47832535">relevant factor</a> in Lebanese society and part of the complex political landscape in the country.” But with the Beirut government <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-30/defaulted-lebanon-approves-rescue-plan-to-lay-ground-for-bailout?utm_source=google&amp;utm_medium=bd&amp;cmpId=google">in default </a>on its debts and facing revolution in the streets, allowing terrorist cells to operate in Germany seems unduly sympathetic.
But Hezbollah is a subsidiary of Iran, and through a different prism, Germany’s decision may be the reordering of its relationship with Tehran under the stresses of U.S.-led sanctions, plus the Russia-Saudi oil price war, the Wuhan virus, and the not-often-mentioned rebellion that has been going on in the Islamic Republic since late 2017. In other words, through the prism of money and a distinct unconcern for the people who suffer under tyrannical rule.
The 2015 “Iran deal” made Germany Iran’s primary European trading partner and primary political defender. In 2016, according to the German government, Germany sold Iran <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/germany-economy-iran/german-exports-to-iran-soared-by-26-percent-in-2016-dihk-says-idUSL5N1H44PC">2.9 billion euros</a> worth of machinery and equipment, cars, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and medical products. Iran sold Germany 300 million euros worth of dried fruits, pistachios, rugs, and industrial raw materials. “Machinery and equipment” for fruit. Sounds safe.
In 2017, trade amounted to <a href="https://financialtribune.com/articles/domestic-economy/79434/german-exports-to-iran-growing">3.6 billion euros</a>. But in December of that year, according to the Iranian Chamber of Commerce, <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/01/3700-arrested-protests-iran-mp-180109100528230.html">33 percent of Iranians</a> lived below the poverty line, and the gap between the rich and poor was deepening. That month a widespread rebellion began.
Early protests were registered in <a href="https://www.economist.com/leaders/2018/01/06/iranians-demand-and-deserve-a-less-oppressive-regime">70 towns and cities</a>, with at least <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/01/3700-arrested-protests-iran-mp-180109100528230.html">22 people killed and 3,700 arrested</a> in the first three weeks. Strikes continued around the country, with demonstrators in Ahvaz chanting, “<a href="https://www.radiofarda.com/a/iran_ahwaz_workers_steel_factory/29636678.html">Palestine and Syria are not our problem</a>” and “Not for Gaza, not for Syria, my life only for Iran.” The women of “White Wednesday” continued their protest even after Shaparak Shajarizadeh, the iconic woman who stood on a utility box and waved her headscarf, was sentenced to <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iran-woman-hijab-protest-arrest-jailed-prison-shapark-shajarizadeh-headscarf-white-wednesdays-a8439816.html">20 years in prison</a>, and Nasrin Sotoudeh, a lawyer who defended women in court, was sentenced to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/she-defended-iranian-women-who-removed-their-hijabs-now-shes-been-given-38-years-in-prison/2019/03/17/b1720fea-45b1-11e9-aaf8-4512a6fe3439_story.html?utm_term=.f0f8f3f313b0">38 years and 148 lashes</a>.
By the end of 2018, Amnesty International – notoriously uninterested in the Middle East except for Israel – said Iran had arrested <a href="https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2019/01/irans-year-of-shame-more-than-7000-arrested-in-chilling-crackdown-on-dissent-during-2018/">more than 7,000 people</a>.
The Trump administration <a href="https://www.dw.com/en/how-trumps-sanctions-are-crippling-irans-economy/a-49335908">re-imposed sanctions in late 2018</a>, striking the oil, shipping, and financial sectors. A report from the German Chambers of Industry and Commerce in mid-2019, German exports to Iran <a href="https://www.dw.com/en/german-iranian-trade-dwindles-to-a-trickle/a-49373454">declined by 50 percent</a> in the first quarter compared to the same the same period in 2018, although the products were nearly the same: machinery, mechanical devices, pharmaceuticals and electrical products, the volume amounted to 339 million euros for the first three months, while importing 60 million euros worth of Iranian pistachios, carpets, and what the report called “a limited amount” of steel and fuels. (Germany imports <a href="https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-dependence-imported-fossil-fuels">more than 50 percent of its energy needs</a>, but from Russia, the UK, and The Netherlands, not Iran.) At that time, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-iran-germany-trade/germany-iran-trade-collapses-under-us-sanctions-report-idUSKCN1TT040">more than 60 German companies</a> were still operating in Iran.
In the Spring of 2019, Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif was concerned enough about his country’s status <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/full-interview-javad-zarif-on-face-the-nation/">to appear on American television</a> to “show the Iranian people that the U.S. is not worthy of being a negotiating partner,” and the Trump administration as “squeezing the Iranian people, not the government.” He added, “When the Iranian people are pressured, they do not respond with submission, they respond with resistance. They want us to represent them.”
However, there was another burst of <a href="https://www.jewishpolicycenter.org/2019/11/18/has-the-iranian-empire-overreached/">widespread upheaval</a> in Iran in November 2019, along with demonstrations in Lebanon and Iraq against the Islamic Republic.
The Russia-Saudi oil price war and the Wuhan Virus showed up in 2020. The former has added to Iran’s cash-crunch and the latter has exposed its inability to care for its people or tell the truth in public. Iran’s response has been largely to <a href="https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Iran-News/Iranian-army-acquires-combat-capable-drones-with-930-mile-range-625030">threaten Israel</a> and <a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/04/22/840955446/trump-instructs-u-s-navy-to-fire-on-iranian-boats-if-harassed">harass the U.S. Navy</a> in the Persian Gulf.
Five years after it assumed the role of Iran’s partner, it may be that without the lure of profits and after many more than five years of watching the Iranian – and Lebanese – people suffer at the hands of terrorist leadership, Germany has decided to change course, first by dumping Hezbollah.
If so, it’s about damned time. And what’s next?

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BRYEN: Germany Ends Its Relationship With Hezbollah Proving Money Matters

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An Israeli NGO that focuses on getting remuneration from terror groups will file a class action lawsuit against China for its negligence regarding the coronavirus, according to <a href="https://www.mako.co.il/news-world/2020_q2/Article-4d4d25e44e19171026.htm?Partner=rss&amp;utm_source=mivzakimnet&amp;utm_medium=popular&amp;utm_campaign=mivzakimnet">N12. </a>
The Jerusalem Post <a href="https://www.jpost.com/HEALTH-SCIENCE/Israel-US-law-firms-sue-China-for-trillions-of-dollars-over-coronavirus-625128">reported</a>, “Shurat HaDin usually focuses on terror groups, yet according to Aviel Leitner, husband of Shurat Hadin director Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, just as states cannot commit acts of terror and claim immunity due to their being sovereign agents, China should not be able to avoid its own alleged failure in containing the virus.”
&#8220;Over 15 years, Shurat HaDin has won about $2 billion in judgments, has frozen more than $600 million in terror assets and collected about $300 million. Operating solely on donations, it provides services to victims for free and is reimbursed only for expenses in cases it wins,&#8221; the <a href="https://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/news/local_news/former-cleveland-lawyer-uses-legal-background-to-fight-terrorism/article_69a01630-c9be-11e9-bef2-e76ba1a15797.html">Cleveland Jewish News</a> reported in August 2019.
Nitsana Darshan-Leitner recently secured a ruling holding the Palestinian Authority liable for civil damages for terrorist attacks launched during the Second Intifada. The damages could amount to 1 billion shekels.
Attorney Rachel Weiser, who works for Shirat HaDin, said in August 2019, “We also, behind the scenes, helped to push forward a law that was passed just two or three months ago that said if the Palestinian Authority accepts aid from the United States at all, they also have to accept jurisdiction of our courts. About two or three months ago, the Palestinian Authority said, ‘We’re not accepting aid from the United States.’ That’s why. And that’s okay, because anything we can do to stop the flow of money, it’s been proven time and time again, it slows down the flow of terror.”
The Israeli NGO is not alone in filing a lawsuit against China. “At least four federal class-action lawsuits have been filed against the Chinese government that aim to recover trillions of dollars in damages for what plaintiffs allege is China&#8217;s failure to contain the coronavirus outbreak and notify the international community about its dangers,” <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/china-class-action-lawsuits-covid-19-1498400">Newsweek</a> noted.
But Chimène Keitner, a professor of international law at the University of California, Hastings College of Law, cautioned that the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976 (FSIA) gives foreign governments blanket immunity from most lawsuits filed in the United States. She asserted, &#8220;The Chinese government, when it is acting in China, does not have any affirmative duties under United States law,&#8221; adding, &#8220;There&#8217;s no doubt China bears a huge deal of blame in the moral sense, and responsibility in the international sense, for not containing this outbreak sooner. But U.S. courts are not in a position to provide individual redress to those harmed here.&#8221;
Consrvative lawyer Larry Klayman countered to Newsweek, &#8220;The reason China has no immunity is because we allege they violated international conventions and treaties in terms of creating what is, in effect, a biological terrorist weapon… The American people should not have to pay for the damage. Communist China should have to pay for the damage.&#8221;
Matthew T. Moore, an attorney who represents the class-action lawsuit from Florida, told Newsweek, &#8220;Case law since the FSIA was enacted in 1976 has provided enhancements to the FSIA exemptions, where a foreign state has acted egregiously against the precepts of humanity, and failed to warn about a known danger. The intolerable and direct impacts of COVID-19 on U.S. citizens and businesses are unprecedented, and we know China failed to warn anyone and silenced those who tried. There is a clear path to jurisdiction here.&#8221;
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Israeli NGO That Fights Terror Files Suit Against China Over Coronavirus

Analysis of novel coronavirus-related international graphs and comparisons suggests stay-at-home orders and lockdowns do not have an effect on the shelf-life of  COVID-19, which is about eight weeks, professor and Israel Space Agency chairman Isaac Ben-Israel explained Monday.
In light of his findings, the highly-regarded PhD has urged Israel to start re-opening the economy immediately and be back to full capacity by the end of April, arguing that Israel &#8220;will pay with more human lives with our health system in the current state.&#8221;
According to Ben-Israel, the nation is &#8220;already in the final stages of the coronavirus epidemic,&#8221; an <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/278658">Israeli National News</a> report detailed Monday.
&#8220;The incidence of patients was greater by the day,&#8221; explained the professor. &#8220;This was during the first four weeks after the epidemic was discovered in Israel. As of the sixth week, the increase in the number of patients has been moderate, peaking in the sixth week at 700 patients per day. Since then it has been declining, and today there are only 300 new patients. In two weeks it will reach zero and there will be no more new patients.&#8221;
&#8220;This is how it is all over the world. Both in countries where they have taken closure steps like Italy and in countries that have not had closures like Taiwan or Singapore,&#8221; Ben-Israel emphasized. &#8220;In such and such countries there is an increase until the fourth to sixth week, and immediately thereafter moderation until during the eighth week it disappears.&#8221;
Ben-Israel has based his analysis off &#8220;various graphical studies to his colleagues, Prof. Ziegler of the Technion and Ronnie Yefarah, who helped him formulate his encouraging position,&#8221; Israeli National News noted. The data is &#8220;based entirely on past data without attempting to guess what will happen in the future,&#8221; according to the professor, the report said.
&#8220;This is happening both in countries that have closed down like us and in those that have not closed until today like Sweden, every country no matter its response. The decline and rise occur according to the same timeline,&#8221; Ben-Israel continued. &#8220;It&#8217;s clear to us how the epidemic is starting and what is causing the increase. What is causing the moderation is unclear.&#8221;
&#8220;I propose that we end the closures immediately after the current week,&#8221; he urged Israel. &#8220;We will start increasing the workforce from 15 percent to fifty percent and in two weeks we will reach 100 percent.&#8221;
The professor said good hygiene practices should continue, as well as mask-wearing, and the banning of excessively large crowds, claiming such action is prudent and will minimally hurt the economy.
&#8220;What bothers me is the damage to the economy,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We are paying NIS 100 billion a month because of this closure. This also has implications for health. We will pay with more human lives with our health system in the current state.&#8221;
Israel currently has <a href="https://www.bing.com/covid/local/israel">9,781</a> active cases and a total of 116 fatalities.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/early-antibody-testing-in-chicago-30-50-of-those-tested-for-covid-19-already-have-antibodies-report-says">Early Antibody Testing In Chicago: 30-50% Of Those Tested For COVID-19 Already Have Antibodies, Report Says</a>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/epidemiologist-warns-of-unintended-consequences-from-lockdowns">Epidemiologist Warns Of Unintended Consequences From Lockdowns</a>

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Israeli Study Suggests Lockdown Has No Effect On Coronavirus Timeline, Says Israeli Space Agency Chair

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The founder of the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement said on Sunday that if Israel creates a vaccine of the coronavirus, which originated in China, that BDS supporters can take it.
BDS founder Omar Barghouti made the remarks during a Facebook video titled: “BDS and Anti-normalization: The most important strategies to fight against the deal of the century, even in the time of COVID-19.”
“If you use medical equipment from Israel – it’s not a problem. Cooperating with Israel against the virus – to begin with, we didn’t consider it normalization,&#8221; Barghouti <a href="https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/BDS-founder-No-need-to-boycott-Israeli-developed-coronavirus-drugs-623759">said</a>, according to The Jerusalem Post. “The BDS announced normalization criteria long ago. If Israel finds a cure for cancer, for example, or any other virus, then there is no problem in cooperating with Israel to save millions of lives.”
“Up until now, we have not been in a situation where we need Israel urgently and no one else can save us but Israel,&#8221; Barghouti continued. &#8220;If that will happen, saving lives is more important than anything else.”
In late February, scientists in Israel announced that they were weeks away from having developed the first vaccine to combat the coronavirus.
“Congratulations to MIGAL [The Galilee Research Institute] on this exciting breakthrough,” Science and Technology Minister Ofir Akunis <a href="https://www.jpost.com/HEALTH-SCIENCE/Israeli-scientists-In-three-weeks-we-will-have-coronavirus-vaccine-619101">said</a>, according to The Jerusalem Post. “I am confident there will be further rapid progress, enabling us to provide a needed response to the grave global COVID-19 threat.”
“Our basic concept was to develop the technology and not specifically a vaccine for this kind or that kind of virus,” said Dr. Chen Katz, MIGAL’s biotechnology group leader. “The scientific framework for the vaccine is based on a new protein expression vector, which forms and secretes a chimeric soluble protein that delivers the viral antigen into mucosal tissues by self-activated endocytosis, causing the body to form antibodies against the virus.”
“Let’s call it pure luck,” Katz said. “We decided to choose coronavirus as a model for our system just as a proof of concept for our technology.”
At the start of the month, The Jerusalem Post <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-israel-team-days-away-from-creating-active-component-of-coronavirus-vaccine">reported</a> that the scientists were only days away from &#8220;finishing production of the active component of a coronavirus vaccine. Additionally, the researchers say their work could be tested on humans by June 1.&#8221;
The coronavirus broke out in Wuhan, China, late last year with the first reported case being recorded on November 17.
The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/04/02/chinas-deadly-coronavirus-lie-co-conspirator-the-world-health-organization/">reported</a>:
<blockquote>The fog of war obscures much about the novel coronavirus pandemic. But two facts seem absolutely certain. First, China’s Communist authorities have lied, concealed and misled about the origins of the epidemic and the toll of the virus in China. Second, the World Health Organization has acted as Beijing’s handmaid.
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Independent Chinese journalists have detailed the Wuhan cover-up: They report that a Chinese lab isolated and identified the strange new virus last December — but that the authorities ­ordered it to stop its work, get rid of its specimens and keep quiet. It took almost another month for the government to acknowledge that a SARS-like contagion, spread by human contact, was exploding in Hubei province.
When the late Dr. Li Wenliang, the heroic whistleblower, tried to warn the public about the coronavirus, he was detained, charged with “spreading false rumors” and accused of “seriously disrupting social order.” All discussion about the virus is now censored.</blockquote>
U.S. intelligence officials <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-u-s-intelligence-tells-trump-that-china-intentionally-lied-about-coronavirus-outbreak-report-says">told</a> Bloomberg News last week that China has lied about the extent of the outbreak in their country and an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/washington-post-evidence-coming-out-of-wuhan-suggests-real-death-toll-over-40000">analysis</a> from The Washington Post estimated that the official death count from the coronavirus was 16 times higher in Wuhan than the communist government reported.

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BDS Founder Changes Tune Now That Israel Working On Coronavirus Vaccine

On Wednesday, <a href="https://www.jpost.com/HEALTH-SCIENCE/Israeli-scientists-Active-component-of-coronavirus-vaccine-days-away-623228">The Jerusalem Post</a> reported that a team of Israeli scientists assert they are only days away from finishing production of the active component of a coronavirus vaccine. Additionally, the researchers say their work could be tested on humans by June 1.
Dr. Chen Katz, group leader of MIGAL’s biotechnology group, which is partially funded by Israel’s Science and Technology Ministry, stated, “We are in the final stages and within a few days we will hold the proteins – the active component of the vaccine.”
The Post noted, “Researchers at MIGAL scientists have been developing a vaccine against infectious bronchitis virus (IBV), which causes a bronchial disease affecting poultry. The effectiveness of the vaccine has been proven in preclinical trials carried out at the Veterinary Institute.”
Katz added, “Our basic concept was to develop the technology and not specifically a vaccine for this kind or that kind of virus. The scientific framework for the vaccine is based on a new protein expression vector, which forms and secretes a chimeric soluble protein that delivers the viral antigen into mucosal tissues by self-activated endocytosis, causing the body to form antibodies against the virus.”
Katz acknowledged, “Let’s call it pure luck. We decided to choose coronavirus as a model for our system just as a proof of concept for our technology.”
MIGAL researchers analyzed the DNA of the novel coronavirus it and discovered the poultry coronavirus has tremendous genetic similarity and uses the same infection mechanism. Katz said that fact makes an effective human vaccine possible much more quickly.
Katz said, “The quality of this kind of vaccine should be closer to food regulations than pharma regulations or somewhere in between. We hope that we will not need to go through the complete purification process like in the drug industry, because that could delay us … technology wise, people wise we have all we need in Israel.”
Israel’s government has been pushing hard for to find a vaccine; as early as February, Science and Technology Minister Ofer Akunis  told  his ministry’s director-general to fast-track all approval processes.
The Israel Institute for Biological Research, an Israeli government defense research institute whose work is normally quite secretive, is collaborating with other entities to create a vaccine. Israel Institute for Biological Research chief innovation officer Eran Zahavy, who rarely makes public comments, stated, &#8220;We are trying as much as we can to collaborate and have other ideas of other people. But the facility of the lab is very crowded and very busy and very dangerous, so it has to be very slow and very cautious … It&#8217;s not enough only to detect neutralizing antibodies in the animal. You really want to see them getting sick and getting better by this vaccine.”
The IIBR <a href="https://iibr.gov.il/Pages/Who-We-are.aspx">website</a> states, “IIBR scientists contributed to the  development of a vaccine for polio (1959); developed kits for  the detection of explosive materials (1980); developed of a brand name drug against Sjogren syndrome (1984) marketed all over the world and is one of four brand name drugs developed in Israel.”

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Report: Israel Team Days Away From Creating Active Component Of Coronavirus Vaccine

American-British-Israeli biophysicist Nobel Prize winner Michael Levitt, who accurately predicted the coronavirus (COVID-19) slowdown in China, said Wednesday that Italy is nearing its own slowdown in infection rates and predicted Israel will have no more than ten deaths from the virus.
&#8220;Italy is already half way through the disease,&#8221; the biophysicist said during a radio interview Wednesday, <a href="https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Nobel-laureate-Israel-will-have-no-more-than-ten-coronavirus-deaths-621407">The Jerusalem Post</a> reported. &#8220;There has been a decrease in growth in the number of deaths in Italy in the past 2-3 days.&#8221;
Levitt noted that coronavirus tests in South Korea &#8220;are 10 times more sensitive than in Italy.&#8221;
&#8220;If Italy measured cases like Korea, there would have been 10 times more cases,&#8221; he said, suggesting Italy&#8217;s fatality rate is likely lower than reported.
&#8220;South Korea is already in the slow-down phase, he said, and Italy is nearing the same point,&#8221; the Nobel Prize winner explained, according to The Jerusalem Post.
&#8220;To put things in proportion, the number of deaths of coronavirus in Italy is 10% of the number of deaths of influenza in the country between 2016-2017,&#8221; Levitt added.
With regard to Israel, Levitt endorsed precautions being taken against the virus, but noted said there is still &#8220;unjustified panic.&#8221;
&#8220;There is a lot of unjustified panic in Israel. I don&#8217;t believe the numbers here, everything is politics, not math,&#8221; he said, adding: &#8220;I will be surprised if number of deaths in Israel surpasses ten, and even five now with the restrictions.&#8221;
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Levitt noted that the numbers regarding coronavirus testing are not &#8220;made up,&#8221; &#8220;but because the definition of a case in Israel keeps changing and it&#8217;s hard to evaluate the numbers that way.&#8221;
Speaking to <a href="https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3800632,00.html">Calcalist</a> on Friday, Levitt suggested the virus is not as contagious as some have contended, highlighting the infection rate on the jam-packed Diamond Princess cruise ship (emphasis added):
<blockquote>The Diamond Princess was the worst case scenario, according to Levitt. “If you compare the ship to a country—we are talking 250,000 people crowded into one square kilometer, which is horribly crowded. It is four times the crowding in Hong Kong. It is as if the entire Isaeli population was crammed into 30 square kilometers.” Furthermore, he said, the ship had a central air conditioning and heating system and a communal dining room. “Those are extremely comfortable conditions for the virus and still, only 20% were infected. It is a lot, but pretty similar to the infection rate of the common flu.”</blockquote>
“It is a known fact that the flu mostly kills the elderly—around three-quarters of flu mortalities are people over 65,&#8221; Levitt told Calcalist.
The biophysicist noted of Italy&#8217;s older population as a contributing factor to their coronavirus fatalities, adding: &#8220;Italian culture is very warm, and Italians have a very rich social life. For these reasons, it is important to keep people apart and prevent sick people from coming into contact with healthy people.”
Levitt stressed that the world should resist panicking by outlining past severe flu seasons in the United States, while also stressing the need for precautions.
&#8220;[T]here are years when flu is raging, like in the U.S. in 2017, when there were three times the regular number of mortalities,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And still, we did not panic. That is my message: you need to think of corona like a severe flu. It is four to eight times as strong as a common flu, and yet, most people will remain healthy and humanity will survive.”
“Currently, I am most worried about the U.S. It must isolate as many people as possible to buy time for preparations,&#8221; Levitt said. &#8220;Otherwise, it can end up in a situation where 20,000 infected people will descend on the nearest hospital at the same time and the healthcare system will collapse.”

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On Tuesday, Hollywood actress, Trump-hater and now apparent vicious anti-Semite Rosanna Arquette issued a tweet (later deleted) insinuating a Jewish conspiracy behind the ravaging of the world by the coronavirus, ranting, “I’m still confused, so Israel has been working on a corona virus vaccine for a year already ? (so they knew )Vaccines take a long time to know if they are safe and KUSHNER OSCAR is the major investor in the new vaccine that is supposedly coming here. lives at risk for profit.”
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Arquette’s vicious anti-Semitism drew immediate condemnation:
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Great, we&#39;re now at the &quot;Hollywood celebrities are blaming the Jews&quot; phase of Coronavirus. <a href="https://t.co/vItXNIzQJp">https://t.co/vItXNIzQJp</a>
&mdash; Esoteric Jeff (@EsotericCD) <a href="https://twitter.com/EsotericCD/status/1239931956776906752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 17, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Incidentally, because Arquette is too emptyheaded to realize this, there are TONS of coronaviruses out there. They&#39;re not a new thing. This particular strain, COVID-19, is new.
&mdash; Esoteric Jeff (@EsotericCD) <a href="https://twitter.com/EsotericCD/status/1239932268182933504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 17, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The Goebbels Gap: the amount of time between something bad happening in the world and someone figuring out a way to blame the Jews for it <a href="https://t.co/XXwmuvTmu9">https://t.co/XXwmuvTmu9</a>
&mdash; (((Yair Rosenberg))) (@Yair_Rosenberg) <a href="https://twitter.com/Yair_Rosenberg/status/1234146046453911553?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 1, 2020</a></blockquote>
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More conspiracy theories from Branch Bernardians aimed at the Jewish state. No sources, incorrect opinions, and a malevolent conclusion to fit your narrative.
Enough is enough! <a href="https://t.co/l38xyyUCqC">https://t.co/l38xyyUCqC</a>
&mdash; Claire Voltaire (@Claire_Voltaire) <a href="https://twitter.com/Claire_Voltaire/status/1239936810446282752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 17, 2020</a></blockquote>
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This person doesn&#39;t understand biology or chemistry in any capacity. Coronavirus is a class of viruses. Covid-19 is a variant, so yes they could have been working on this class of virus before this particular strain got people sick. <a href="https://t.co/ygiHejuPet">https://t.co/ygiHejuPet</a>
&mdash; אלכס ק וויינר (@alexcweiner) <a href="https://twitter.com/alexcweiner/status/1239934302441353218?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 17, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Hey, <a href="https://twitter.com/RoArquette?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RoArquette</a>, you really need to stop tweeting right after reading Der Sturmer with your morning coffee. <a href="https://t.co/oi8PAqENXw">https://t.co/oi8PAqENXw</a>
&mdash; Elder Of Ziyon ҉ (@elderofziyon) <a href="https://twitter.com/elderofziyon/status/1239938458119999488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 17, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Fuck you. Can&#39;t say it any clearer. <a href="https://t.co/TkGeOESLDw">https://t.co/TkGeOESLDw</a>
&mdash; Ami Kaufman (@AmiKaufman) <a href="https://twitter.com/AmiKaufman/status/1239919760516800517?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 17, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Speaking to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/may/18/rosanna-arquette-this-much-i-know">The Guardian</a> last May, Arquette boasted, “I’m a ‘take no sh**’ kind of person. I’ve never kept my mouth shut, especially as my industry is so misogynistic. I’ve got a reputation as a troublemaker.”
Last August Arquette pronounced her verdict regarding President Trump, tweeting, “The president of the United States of America incites racist violence. The end.”
In February 2020, Arquette <a href="https://www.instyle.com/celebrity/rosanna-arquette-activism-and-women">boasted</a>, &#8220;Growing up in a family of activists and artists, I was taught at an early age to speak up for myself and for others. As a young girl, I accompanied my mother, Mardi Arquette, while she marched for civil rights alongside Martin Luther King Jr. Her grassroots approach and bohemian lifestyle shaped my worldview and motivated me to use my voice not only to cultivate the life I wanted but also to become a change-maker.&#8221;
The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs has pointed out Israel&#8217;s consistent efforts to help others:
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<blockquote>Israel has a heightened sense of humanitarian awareness and responsibility. With aid teams poised to respond in the wake of natural or man-made disasters anywhere in the world, Israel&#8217;s <a href="https://mfa.gov.il/MFA/ForeignPolicy/Aid/Pages/Israeli_aid_arrives_Haiti_17-Jan-2010.aspx">200-strong relief team was the first on the scene in January 2010 after the earthquake hit Haiti</a>. Israel helped save thousands of lives. In <a href="https://mfa.gov.il/MFA/ForeignPolicy/Aid/Pages/Israel_sends_aid_to_Japan_25-Mar-2011.aspx">March 2011 following the devastating earthquakes in Japan</a>, Israel was one of the first countries to send aid according to the needs and request of the Japanese government, and one of the first states to send a medical team and set up a field clinic. By tragic circumstance, Israel is a world leader in handling mass casualties. No other country can dispatch search and rescue teams and field hospitals as fast and effectively. Israeli efforts also include relief to New Orleans after <a href="https://mfa.gov.il/MFA/PressRoom/2005/Pages/Israeli%20aid%20to%20Hurricane%20Katrina%20victims%205-Sep-2005.aspx">Hurricane Katrina</a>, and first response aid in the wake of the <a href="https://mfa.gov.il/MFA/ForeignPolicy/Aid/Pages/Tsunami%20Crisis%20Relief%20for%20Sri%20Lanka%20-%20January%202005.aspx">2004 tsunami</a> with 60 tons of international aid to Indonesia, and 82 tons of relief to Sri Lanka alone.
Since 1959, Israeli doctors have been offering eye camps to treat ocular diseases to people throughout the developing world &#8230; Since 1995 Israeli doctors acting through <a href="http://www.saveachildsheart.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Save a Child&#8217;s Heart</a> have been giving kids from around the world, including from the Palestinian Authority (PA), Iraq, Jordan and other Arab nations free life-saving heart operations. Since the organization first started 2,300 children have been treated, and almost half are from the PA, Jordan and Iraq.</blockquote>
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On Sunday, <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-coronavirus-vaccine-israel-biological-research-institute-develope-1.8665074">Haaretz</a> reported on the work Israeli scientists have done:
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Scientists at Israel’s Institute for Biological Research are expected to announce in the coming days that they have completed development of a vaccine for the new coronavirus COVID-19. According to medical sources, the scientists have recently had a significant breakthrough in understanding the biological mechanism and qualities of <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/misc/tags/TAG-Coronavirus-1.8614206">the virus</a>, including better diagnostic capability, production of antibodies for those who already have the virus and development of a vaccine. The development process requires a series of tests and experiments that may last many months before the vaccination is deemed effective or safe to use.
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<a href="https://www.jpost.com/HEALTH-SCIENCE/Israeli-scientists-In-three-weeks-we-will-have-coronavirus-vaccine-619101">The Jerusalem Post</a> noted:
<blockquote>Israeli scientists are on the cusp of developing the first vaccine against the novel <a href="https://www.jpost.com/Tags/coronavirus" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">coronavirus</a>, according to Science and Technology Minister Ofir Akunis. If all goes as planned, the vaccine could be ready within a few weeks and available in 90 days, according to a release.</blockquote>
Akunis stated, “Congratulations to MIGAL [The Galilee Research Institute] on this exciting breakthrough. I am confident there will be further rapid progress, enabling us to provide a needed response to the grave global COVID-19 threat.&#8221;

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Israeli scientists are reportedly only a few weeks away from having developed the first vaccine to combat the coronavirus, which originated in China, and could have the vaccine available 90 days after that.
“Congratulations to MIGAL [The Galilee Research Institute] on this exciting breakthrough,” Science and Technology Minister Ofir Akunis <a href="https://www.jpost.com/HEALTH-SCIENCE/Israeli-scientists-In-three-weeks-we-will-have-coronavirus-vaccine-619101">said</a>, according to The Jerusalem Post. “I am confident there will be further rapid progress, enabling us to provide a needed response to the grave global COVID-19 threat,” Akunis said, referring to the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.
A team of scientists at MIGAL had been working for years on a vaccine against an infectious bronchitis virus (IBV).
“Our basic concept was to develop the technology and not specifically a vaccine for this kind or that kind of virus,” said Dr. Chen Katz, MIGAL’s biotechnology group leader. “The scientific framework for the vaccine is based on a new protein expression vector, which forms and secretes a chimeric soluble protein that delivers the viral antigen into mucosal tissues by self-activated endocytosis, causing the body to form antibodies against the virus.”
“Let’s call it pure luck,” Katz said. “We decided to choose coronavirus as a model for our system just as a proof of concept for our technology.”
The Jerusalem Post reported:
<blockquote>But after scientists sequenced the DNA of the novel coronavirus causing the current worldwide outbreak, the MIGAL researchers examined it and found that the poultry coronavirus has high genetic similarity to the human one, and that it uses the same infection mechanism, which increases the likelihood of achieving an effective human vaccine in a very short period of time.</blockquote>
“All we need to do is adjust the system to the new sequence,” Katz said. “We are in the middle of this process, and hopefully in a few weeks we will have the vaccine in our hands. Yes, in a few weeks, if it all works, we would have a vaccine to prevent coronavirus.”
The CEO of MIGAL said that the company is moving as fast as it can to make the vaccine available to the public in the form of a highly accessible oral vaccination.
Online, pro-Israel voices quickly mocked those who support the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement, which seeks to destroy the state of Israel.
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BDS this <a href="https://t.co/fmd0we8kPk">https://t.co/fmd0we8kPk</a>
&mdash; Jonathan Schanzer (@JSchanzer) <a href="https://twitter.com/JSchanzer/status/1233178268473479168?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 27, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Vox: The Zionist Plot To Brainwash People Through Vaccines, Explained <a href="https://t.co/iferuw64Yd">https://t.co/iferuw64Yd</a>
&mdash; Seth Mandel (@SethAMandel) <a href="https://twitter.com/SethAMandel/status/1233212626206969858?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 28, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Last month, The Jerusalem Post reported that Israeli scientists announced that they may have found a cure for cancer.
The Jerusalem Post <a href="https://www.jpost.com/HEALTH-SCIENCE/A-cure-for-cancer-Israeli-scientists-say-they-think-they-found-one-578939">reported</a>:
<blockquote>“We believe we will offer in a year’s time a complete cure for cancer,” said Dan Aridor, of a new treatment being developed by his company, Accelerated Evolution Biotechnologies Ltd. (AEBi), which was founded in 2000 in the ITEK incubator. AEBi developed the SoAP platform, which provides functional leads to very difficult targets.
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The potentially game-changing anti-cancer drug is based on SoAP technology, which belongs to the phage display group of technologies. It involves the introduction of DNA coding for a protein, such as an antibody, into a bacteriophage – a virus that infects bacteria. That protein is then displayed on the surface of the phage. Researchers can use these protein-displaying phages to screen for interactions with other proteins, DNA sequences and small molecules.</blockquote>
“Our cancer cure will be effective from day one, will last a duration of a few weeks and will have no or minimal side-effects at a much lower cost than most other treatments on the market,” Aridor said. “Our solution will be both generic and personal.”
This report has been updated to include additional information.

‘BDS THIS’: Israel Makes ‘Exciting Breakthrough’ In Race For Coronavirus Vaccine

The tide has turned back toward Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as two new polls show his Likud party taking back the lead from leading opponent Benny Gantz’s Blue and White Party.
According to <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/276390">Israel National News</a>, “A Channel 12 poll conducted by a sample institute and published this evening (Sunday) shows the Likud leading the Blue and White Party for the first time since a third round of Knesset elections was announced. If elections were to be held today, Netanyahu&#8217;s party would come in with 34 seats while Blue and White would receive 33 seats, the Joint Arab list 13, and the Labor -Gesher-Meretz would come in with ten. Shas and United Torah Jewry would each receive eight seats, Yamina would end up with seven, and Lieberman&#8217;s Yisrael Beytenu seven seats.&#8221;
A Kan News poll found that Likud would gain 35 seats, the Blue and White Party 34, the Joint List 14, Labor-Gesher-Meretz nine, Shas 8 seats, while UTJ and Yisrael Beytenu would each collect seven.
The <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/week-to-election-likud-pulls-ahead-of-blue-and-white-for-first-time-polls/">Times of Israel</a> noted, “It shows that despite Likud’s slight bump, the pro-Benjamin Netanyahu coalition of Likud, Yamina and Haredi factions Shas and UTJ still garner just 57 seats, four short of a 61-seat parliamentary majority needed for an outright victory by the right. Blue and White’s allies also do not have a majority, with its most likely coalition partners of Labor-Gesher-Meretz and Yisrael Beytenu bringing it to just 50 seats.
Channel 12 asked respondents whom they preferred as prime minister; Netanyahu led Gantz 43% to 33%.
On Monday, <a href="https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Netanyahu-and-US-Ambassador-Friedman-tour-West-Bank-Ariel-settlement-618607">The Jerusalem Post</a> reported that Netanyahu stated that the US-Israeli mapping process to mark territory in Judea and Samaria for the application of Israeli sovereignty has begun. Speaking in Ariel, the fourth largest settlement in Judea and Samaria, Netanyahu said:
<blockquote>The joint mapping process of the Israeli team and the American team is underway here in Ariel. This is a major mission. The area has an 800-km. perimeter. There is serious work, but we will work as quickly as possible to get it done. There is no artificial impediment. For the mapping process, one must consider every valley, every section, every nook and every line. This is serious. We are determining here lines that have historic implications.</blockquote>
The Post continued that the mapping process would “allow for the application of Israeli law [sovereignty] on these areas and later American recognition as well,” according to Netanyahu, who added that after the work is done, “sovereignty can happen immediately.”
The Post noted, “Under US President Donald Trump’s peace plan, Israel can annex 30% of Area C of the West Bank, including all the settlements, once the mapping process is completed.”
Ariel Mayor Eli Shaviro asserted, “The sovereignty ship is under way. As I have said in the past, I believe that the prime minister will advance the ‘Deal of the Century’ with President Trump and US officials. I believe that the application of Israeli law in the Jordan Valley and in the communities of Judea and Samaria is closer than ever.”

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