The Ministry of Tourism wished tourists from #China visiting #Israel a pleasant new year, in honor of the year of the #rat. [_link]

— The Jerusalem Post (@Jerusalem_Post) January 24, 2020

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#Bethlehem Meeting with President of Palestine Mahmoud Abbas: Russian-Palestinian relations, Arab-Israeli settlement [_link] pic.twitter.com/NMpiKM0FHi

— President of Russia (@KremlinRussia_E) January 23, 2020

#Putin replaces dropped cap of Palestinian honour guard#Russia #Palestine pic.twitter.com/55ZjmTiKQy

— Press TV (@PressTV) January 24, 2020

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Some 25 years after the historic peace agreement between #Israel and #Jordan was signed the time has come to restart the strategic relationship between the states and fuse the written words with real substance.[_link]

— The Jerusalem Post (@Jerusalem_Post) January 24, 2020

Several Palestinians injured as Israeli forces storm Al-Aqsa #Mosque#AlAqsa #Palestine #Israel [_link]

— Press TV (@PressTV) January 24, 2020

Jordan Reclaims Land Israelis Used Under `94 Peace Accord | NY Times |

Jordan-Israel Peace Treaty Under Threat - Jordanian Parliament Speaker | JPost |

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"Former BBC executives criticise Orla Guerin's Holocaust report." Dumbfounding that UK Israel Lobby is offended at BBC rpt glancingly noting that Israelis, despite suffering they cause Palestinians, justify it because of the Jewish suffering in Holocaust. [_link]

— Tikun Olam (@richards1052) January 25, 2020

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Read our hero and client JB Brager's first comment since being fired: "I am particularly concerned about the conflation of antisemitism with anti-Zionism, effectively shutting down real conversations about Palestinian rights and Israeli ethnonationalism." [_link]

— Palestine Legal (@pal_legal) January 24, 2020

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Netanyahu now petrified Jewish Home-Jewish Power will fail to enter next Knesset, costing his bloc 1-2 seats and making a majority even less likely. A wonderful irony since it's all a result of his endless machinations to force the religious-right to join with the Neo-Kahanists >

— Anshel Pfeffer (@AnshelPfeffer) January 14, 2020

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The Prisoner Revolt at Auschwitz - Oct. 1944

Reminder: The #Holocaust did not begin with #Auschwitz. That is where the road of life for Jews ended.

Rather, it began with words & singling out and dehumanizing an entire group of people, while so many looked the other way. #WeRemember #NeverAgain #HolocaustRemembranceDay pic.twitter.com/jqw58dbZJB

— Arsen Ostrovsky (@Ostrov_A) January 27, 2020

Malvina Schwartz: An Auschwitz Survivor's Oral History | Tikun Olam |

Genocide can happen again! Stop dehumanizing Human kind, fellow men and women.

STOP ALL WAR -- STOP TRUMP AND AGGRESSION

Stop Xenophobia and Islamophobia - Save the planet

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PM Netanyahu reportedly could boycott Knesset deliberations on his immunity request | Times of Israel |

Netanyahu: "If Edelstein convenes the plenum, I won't let it happen silently."

Son Yair deleted tweet: "The Knesset speaker's father-in-law, oligarch Leonid Nevzlin, is wanted on wanted on murder charges in Russia, owns Ha'aretz and keeps it alive."

All out war: Yair Netanyahu accuses Knesset Speaker Edelstein of conspiring to oust daddy in a putsch. "His wife's dad is oligarch Leonid Nevzlin, fugitive from Russian murder charges & Ha'aretz owner. Its only thanks to his vast transfer of money that the paper isn't bankrupt" pic.twitter.com/bsCkz7oqr9

— Noga Tarnopolsky (@NTarnopolsky) January 19, 2020

Knesset schedules immunity hearings for Netanyahu | JTA |

Trump plan said to give Israel sovereignty throughout Jerusalem, all settlements [_link]

— Israel News (@IsraelNewsNow) January 23, 2020

Exiled from Putin's Russia, now living in Israel ...

Nevzlin to be international chair of annual General Assembly | JTA - 2009 |

Related reading ...

New Russia should be able to do without the oligarchs | Irish Times - 2004 |

Meeting a friend and close business associate of Mikhail Khodorkovsky in Dublin for lunch.

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In recording, Parnas and Fruman compare Trump to messiah [_link]

— Israel News (@IsraelNewsNow) January 26, 2020

New Post: Trump as Messiah. Trump sycophant, Lev Fruman, tells the Big Guy that the numerical value of letters of his name equal those of "Messiah son of David." To which he replies: "It can't hurt!" [_link]

— Tikun Olam (@richards1052) January 26, 2020

....like he's the King of Israel. They love him like he is the second coming of God...But American Jews don't know him or like him. They don't even know what they're doing or saying anymore. It makes no sense! But that's OK, if he keeps doing what he's doing, he's good for.....

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 21, 2019

Trump Declares Himself "King of Israel," The "Second Coming of G*d" | Vanity Fair - Aug. 2019 |

Drought, Destruction, and a Promise of Future Salvation

(Jeremiah 14:1 False prophets)

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The FBI has asked #PrinceAndrew for an interview in connection with an investigation into the activities and death of #JeffreyEpstein. [_link]

— The Jerusalem Post (@Jerusalem_Post) January 27, 2020

Major development in the #PrinceAndrew #Epstein case. Buckingham Palace has always maintained, on Andrew's behalf, that he would cooperate fully with any US investigation. [_link]

— Rebecca English (@RE_DailyMail) January 27, 2020

British police have blocked a legal bid to trace Prince Andrew's bodyguards' movements on the night he allegedly first had sex with a Jeffrey Epstein accuser. pic.twitter.com/d5iL1PtakW

— sue#NHSLove (@SueSuezep) January 20, 2020

Ghislaine Maxwell's secret e-mails hacked by cyber criminals | The Independent |

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How ex-@commentisfree contributor Seth Freedman stalked and threatened @carolecadwalla on behalf of Israeli dirty-ops firm, Black Cube. Great piece by @peterjukes [_link]

— Tikun Olam (@richards1052) January 27, 2020

Seth Freedman columnist @TheGuardian

Harvey Weinstein, Ronan Farrow, Seth Freedman and Me | Tikun Olam |

As Weinstein's trial begin, @thesundaytimes in truly spectacular act of commissioning chooses to tell the story of the Black Cube operative who spied on his alleged victims - inc @rosemcgowan - & threatened journalists - inc me. Not even an interview; a totally unchallenged op-ed pic.twitter.com/8MK8K9WuaY

— Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) January 6, 2020

Related reading ...

Carole Cadwalla to counter-sue Arron Banks who bankrolled Brexit | Daily Beast - July 2019 |

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Instead of a delusional "Deal of the Century"--which will be D.O.A.--self-described "champions of democracy" would do better to accept Iran's democratic solution proposed by Ayatollah @khamenei_ir:

A referendum whereby ALL Palestinians--Muslim, Jew or Christian--decide their future.

— Javad Zarif (@JZarif) January 27, 2020

Trump's delusional 'deal if century' will be dead on arrival | PressTV |

"Once there's a peace deal...I think the integration of Israel into the regional context is very much on the table."

Saudi Arabia's foreign minister tells @NicRobertsonCNN he supports U.S. efforts for a peace deal between the Israelis and Palestinians in exclusive interview. pic.twitter.com/5qG5MQskjN

— Connect the World (@CNNConnect) January 27, 2020

Fayez reiterates Kingdom's firm stance in defence of Palestinians #amman #jordan[_link] pic.twitter.com/HG5JtNt4F3

— The Jordan Times (@jordantimes) January 26, 2020

Trump's Middle East 'peace deal', what next? | Jordan Times |

Israeli passport holderd unable to enter Saudi Arabia: Peace Deal | Gulf News |

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A Jewish Voice from London: "G*d bless Putin." ... a strange world!

🕯 On #Auschwitz75, I was honoured to join others laying wreaths by the Soviet War Memorial at @I_W_M to remember the sacrifice of the camps' Red Army liberators.#HolocaustMemorialDay pic.twitter.com/ctxMhfByr2

— Mark Regev (@MarkRegev) January 27, 2020

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No celebrations for Trump's Peace Deal! Using weapons and war to suppress any opposition.

Defense Minister @naftalibennett has instructed #IDF troops to prepare for an immediate escalation of violence following the release of the #DealOfTheCentury.
Report by @AAhronheim [_link]

— The Jerusalem Post (@Jerusalem_Post) January 28, 2020

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A US President facing impeachment and an Israeli Prime Minister indicted for corruption, leading an interim minority government, are about to announce a plan to solve the conflict with the Palestinians, without any Palestinian present. Unbelievable farce.

— Anshel Pfeffer (@AnshelPfeffer) January 28, 2020

annotated remarks at The Plan summit

Wealthy Royals of Arab States Incorporated to Wealth of New York and London to Meet Hunger for More :: Dubai 2020 and Saudi Vision 2030 - One Trillion $$ Investment Opportunity. US Friends of Saudi Arabia through the decades: Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Donald Trump. Barack Obama and opening to Iran with Nuclear Deal - support for MB States Qatar, Egyot's Morsi, Erdogan's Turkey fell flat on his face. Opportunity to ease tensions in the Persian Gulf wasted in the 21st Century. Next Stop the Existential Crisis of Planet Earth.

Trump's Israel-Palestine "peace plan" is a con [_link]

— Tikun Olam (@richards1052) January 28, 2020

 

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'Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital irreversible Jordanian stance' [_link] pic.twitter.com/vrmNVrRJFN

— The Jordan Times (@jordantimes) January 29, 2020

Hashemite clan ruled over the parts of Hijaz region of Arabia from 967CE to 1925CE

Jordan lambasts Israeli minister's call to change status-quo at Al-Aqsa

Presidential candidates Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders were quick to reject Trump's proposal [_link]

— Middle East Eye (@MiddleEastEye) January 29, 2020

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Pakistan backs Palestinian state with pre-1967 borders, Jerusalem as capital [_link]

— Dawn.com (@dawn_com) January 29, 2020

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New Post: Trump-Netanyahu Hoax of the Century. Don't be fooled into believing this was a serious attempt at solving the Israel-Palestine conflict. It was a desperate attempt by two ultimate narcissists attempting to save their political skins.

— Tikun Olam (@richards1052) January 29, 2020

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Trump's one-sided plan is a recipe for even deeper division and undermines efforts to achieve a viable and sustainable two-state solution that supports the legitimate rights and aspirations of both Israelis and Palestinians.

Our Senate letter to President Trump: pic.twitter.com/pvoGj6wJT8

— Senator Chris Van Hollen (@ChrisVanHollen) January 28, 2020

For reference, 1947 before the UN involvement shows how much land belonged to the Palestinians. 1947 UN map would provide the Gaza Strip more room to live and more space to fish. I hope the UN provides better equality. #HumanRights pic.twitter.com/pGjK7xVolP

— PeoplesParty (@themainepain) January 29, 2020

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The white supremacist, colonialist "just" asks of it's victims to forget their history, their trauma, their righteous fight for justice and equality. [_link]

— Yoav Litvin (@nookyelur) January 30, 2020

Was that Jared's opening sentence when he met Bibi Netanyahu to discuss the "Hoax of the Century Peace Plan".

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Annexation, stalled: How @realDonaldTrump and @netanyahu fell out of step on a core part of the peace plan. My analysis: [_link] via @timesofisrael

— Raphael Ahren (@RaphaelAhren) January 30, 2020

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At Sundance, 'The Dissident' shows Saudis murdered Khashoggi with Israeli NSO Group's Malware, Pegasus. [_link]

— Tikun Olam (@richards1052) January 31, 2020

UN report: NSO Group spyware used in Bezos hack | Fortune |

Israel Defence Ministry hired controversial spy firm Black Cube

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"Scholars urge transparency to restore Yad Vashem credibility after Putin fiasco." How Yad Vashem sold its soul and reputation to Putin and Moshe Cantor for a fistful of Russian rubles. Shameful. [_link] via @timesofisrael

— Tikun Olam (@richards1052) February 7, 2020

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