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1. Cyber Defense

“Security Aces: The Israeli startup that’s taking Europe by storm,” by Daniel Gal, Israel Hayom, June 7, 2023:

Israel’s startup scene is constantly moving forward and crossing new borders where innovative and revolutionary developments are concerned, with one of the country’s prominent strengths being the security field. The world has always looked to Israel for groundbreaking defense and security solutions, with the main emphasis being on cyber defense developments.

One of the newest and most promising players in cyber defense is startup company GlobeKeeper. The company, founded in 2016, aims to deal with one of the most complicated challenges in the world of secure communications – the older generation of communication systems, which are not protected from cyberattacks – and has developed an advanced multichannel communications app for security entities, specialized to meet their needs and offering maximum security.

The Israeli success story of young entrepreneurs Dan Peleg and Shai Slobodov begins with their first acquaintance, at the IDF’s elite Unit 81. “I came from Moshav Shilat and my partner Shai came from Lehavim. We’re two moshavniks who enlisted to the Intelligence Corps with no background or financial backing, we met there and today we’re marketing the system we’ve developed ourselves to Europe’s largest law enforcement agencies. At the end of the day, if that kind of entities are using products developed in Israel, that’s an Israeli success”.

Q: What advantages does the app have?

GlobeKeeper’s app is installed on smartphones and replaces the old-school radios used by cops, security guards and other security officials”, explains Dan Peleg. “It enables them to access all communication channels under one Virtual Command Platform (VCP): multidirectional communication, live streaming video, location sharing, chat, notifications and transferring files, images and videos. The system allows users to monitor, manage, operate and integrate all equipment in real time. Unlike WhatsApp, the communication is secure and cyber-protected using some of the strongest and strictest measures available”.

https://theettingerreport.com/

This website challenges Western conventional wisdom on critical aspects of US-Israel relations, Jewish-Arab demography, Iran, the Palestinian issue and Middle East affairs, in general.

This website highlights:

*Israel’s contribution to the US taxpayer exceeds US foreign aid to Israel.
*Israel: from a misperceived burden to a force and dollar multiplier for the US.
*The 400-year-old roots of the unique US-Israel nexus.
*The debunked myth of the Arab demographic time bomb, while exposing Israel’s Jewish demographic momentum.
*The gap between Middle East reality and Western conventional wisdom.
*The inherent flaws of the US diplomatic option toward Iran’s Ayatollahs.
*Is the Palestinian issue the crux of the Arab-Israel conflict, a core cause of Middle East turbulence and a crown-jewel of Arab policy making?
*The proposed Palestinian state – advancing or undermining US interests?

The content of this website is based on my 50-year-experience in the areas of Middle East affairs, US-Israel relations and US policy in the Middle East in my capacity as a researcher, diplomat (Ambassador), writer, lecturer, media commentator and consultant to US and Israeli legislators.  

Hopefully, this website adds value for your own endeavors.

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/372627

A military historian and author recently asked me for comment on Israel and the “Kissinger era” (as he put it) for an essay he was working on marking the occasion of Henry Kissinger’s 100th birthday—he had read several of my op-eds about Kissinger.

I believe my response to him is worth sharing with a wider audience.The “Kissinger Era” in Middle East diplomacy refers to the years when the secretary of state brokered agreements based on the idea that Israel should give up tangible assets in exchange for something less than actual peace. Thus in 1975 he pressured Israel into surrendering the Mitla and Giddi passes in the Sinai and the Abu Rodeis oil fields there in exchange for a brief “non-belligerency” pledge from Egypt.

After Kissinger left office, the dynamics of Arab-Israeli diplomacy changed, in ways that Kissinger–for all his reputed brilliance–never expected. Egypt’s Sadat realized the only way to get back the entire Sinai was to sign a peace treaty with Israel, and so he did. Yasser Arafat realized the only way to get an almost-sovereign territory and a de-facto army was to sign a peace agreement with Israel, so he did. Jordan, and then more recently several Gulf kingdoms, decided it was more advantageous to them to sign peace treaties with Israel, so they did.

But two essential problems haunt both the Kissinger Era agreements and the post Kissinger agreements. The first is that a treaty signed with a dictator can be tossed out at any moment, for any reason. That happened during the brief rise to power of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. It also happened when Israel agreed to give Gaza to the PA, and then shortly afterwards Hamas took over.

But the second, and also a very serious problem, is that not a single of the aforementioned Arab regimes has undertaken genuine peace education. They have not taught their citizens to embrace peace and coexistence with Israel. They have likewise made no effort to teach their children in this regard. So anti-Semitic and pro-terrorist hatred still simmers just below the surface among the Arab masses in all of those countries, ready to explode. Thus the extraordinary concessions Israel made for each of those treaties, in the end, secured for the Jewish State what are little more than ceasefire agreements.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/19715/un-jihad-against-israel

The UN, ostensibly dedicated to protecting human rights, and has, in fact, devolved into hurling bogus, tabloid-style allegations as it joins other blood-libel false charges by considering the addition of Israel to its list of blacklisted entities in its 2023 Children and Armed Conflict (CAAC) Report.

The UN resolution draft bizarrely, with no evidence, “…accuses Israel of recruiting three Palestinian minors as human shields and combatants,” among other offenses….

One of the leaders, in the zeal unjustly to add Israel to the UN blacklist, is World Vision International. It circulated an open letter — with 18 co-signatory NGOs — addressed to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, repeating the phony and libelous charges against Israel regarding child recruitment.

In addition to this evangelical missionary organization’s own anti-Israel history — which features comparing Israel to Hitler’s army and falselyaccuses it of funding Hamas — World Vision International’s list of co-signers features a “Who’s Who” of anti-Israel organizations, including Human Rights Watch, authors of the notorious report accusing Israel of “apartheid” and “crimes against humanity”.

Importantly, Israel is recommended for blacklisting while Palestinian and Iranian armed groups are distinctly not.

The Palestinian Authority disassociates itself, when it is convenient, from its armed wing, Fatah, and other terror groups while “unofficially” inciting them to violence and even genocide. This is the Palestinian Authority we are talking about — dominated by the ruling Fatah faction headed by Mahmoud Abbas – not Hamas or Islamic Jihad,

Furthermore, “the IDF repeatedly conveyed warnings to the hospital staff, Palestinian officials, and international aid organizations, including the World Health Organization, requesting that they act in order to stop the hospital from being used for military purposes.” [https://embassies.gov.il/UnGeneva/NewsAndEvents/Pages/Hamas-uses-hospitals-and-ambulances-for-military-terrorist-purposes.aspx]

[T]he early childhood indoctrination to terrorism by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad is so well documented that it is beyond dispute. The same brainwashing administered by Mahmoud Abbas’s Palestinian Authority is only slightly more discreet, but has consistently been presented as the supposedly moderate face of the Palestinian struggle, as if the organization concerns itself more with legal and diplomatic warfare.

Unfortunately, Abbas’s statements to his constituents on official PA television –as opposed to the general English-speaking medialeave a dramatically different impression: “We salute every drop of blood spilled for the sake of Jerusalem….shed for the sake of Allah, Allah willing. Every martyr will be placed in Paradise, and all the wounded will be rewarded by Allah.”

With the astronomical sum of pooled international donations that flood into Palestinian control every year through countless NGOs and humanitarian organizations, it is inconceivable that the poverty among so many Palestinians, especially in the refugee camps, is anything but a desired and designed effect: the result of, shall we say, “questionable” governance. The combination of intense early childhood indoctrination to hatred and terror with hopeless deprivation are a deliberate recipe for terrorism.

Photos of these dead children fuel sympathy donations, funds flow in the billions, and Palestinian officials, their families, and their friends enjoy the high-life at the expense of their own people – all in the name of “the Palestinian cause” and the fight against Israel.

The [Defense of Children International – Palestine’s] website regularly features standard-looking photos of adolescents such as 17-year-old Mahmoud Majed al-Aydi and claim them as victims of Israeli aggression. Eventually, the not-so-innocent photos emerge of this same teen toting an automatic weapon.

None of these supposed child-welfare organizations seriously takes Palestinian groups to task for terrorizing children in Israel, for rocket strikes on kindergartens. None of them gives aid to expand the availability of rocket shelters in Israeli playgrounds or barricades to defend against car-rammings , or to offer trauma counseling to children terrorized across Israel by both rocket and terror attacks.

The question needs to be asked: Is it actually “child welfare” that is at issue here, or is it the demonization of Israel, the only democratic country in the area, and one that actually implements human rights, thereby threatening the repressive dictatorships around it that is at the heart of the matter?

“One cannot consider the cynical exploitation of Palestinian children by the Palestinian nationalist movement without recognizing that international NGOs that claim to act on the behalf of the welfare of children often encourage this exploitation by refusing to criticize this practice.” — Ahron Shapiro, senior policy analyst, aijac.org.au, May 30, 2018

“Nowhere is this more evident than in the case of the NGO Defence of Children International-Palestine, which has been identified by NGO Monitor as having close ties with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine…. [E]ngaging in violent activity, must be addressed with the same vigour as allegations of mistreatment at the hands of Israelis.” — Ahron Shapiro, senior policy analyst, aijac.org.au, May 30, 2018

Instead of waging Jihad (holy war) on Israel, the UN might start paying attention to the human rights violations and massive child abuse committed by Palestinian and Arab leaders against their own people as well as against Jews.

The United Nations has adopted the nasty habit of many Palestinians: throwing everything at Israel but the kitchen sink. Accusations against Israel have ranged from fabricated claims not merely of “apartheid,” but climate apartheid, water apartheid, violating women’s rights (the only country accused of that in the midst of a sea of crushing Islamic fundamentalist regimes!), to kidnapping and murdering Palestinian children to harvest their organs.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/19703/israel-public-opinion

The results of the survey indicate that the Israeli public has far greater trust in the Knesset — by dozens of percentage points — than it does in Israel’s judiciary, from the Supreme Court down to the legal advisors and counselors who answer to the Supreme Court.

As almost always, the different answers are the result of differences built into the questions. The wording of the question posed in the Israel Democracy Institute survey referred to the “level of trust in the Knesset” while the “Direct Polls Trust Index” survey examined trust “in the members of the Knesset you elected.”

[T]he purposefully phrased IDI survey was crafted to justify weakening the powers of the legislative branch and granting excessive powers to the judicial branch.

The way [the IDI’s] question was worded regarding the public’s trust in the Knesset ensured that the results would create the totally false impression that the public does not trust the members of the Knesset and favors the judges of the Supreme Court.

The relevant question, which is more closely reflected in the wording of the Direct Polls survey, is the level of the public’s trust in the members of the Knesset chosen by them, and the results show that an absolute majority of the public trusts its elected representatives — a fact that points to an extremely healthy parliamentary democracy.

These campaigns to undemocratically overturn the result of a free and fair election would surely have caught the eye of George Orwell — especially as they were all conducted under the rallying cry of “protecting democracy.”

Both George Orwell and Mark Twain would have demanded that we take notice.

The results of a recent “trust index” survey, conducted in Israel, revealed far more than just the dry numbers they report — although of course they are important. Even more important are issues concerning public trust — the very core of democracy.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/19700/palestinians-prefer-terrorist-candidates

For the 87-year-old Abbas and his Fatah faction, the victory of the Hamas supporters was not only humiliating, but also a reminder that when it comes to dealing with Israel, many Palestinians prefer terrorism over diplomacy.

The Hamas-affiliated students also condemned the Fatah-dominated Palestinian Authority for conducting security coordination with Israeli security forces in the West Bank. Any form of cooperation with Israel, they argued, is tantamount to treason.

The underlying message the Hamas-affiliated lists sent to the thousands of students at the two campuses was: Vote for us because we explicitly and unreservedly uphold the armed struggle against Israel and promise to continue the Jihad (holy war) to murder Jews and replace Israel with a genocidal Islamist state, free of non-Muslims.

It also would not be a particularly good idea to hold general elections in the West Bank and Gaza Strip at a time when a majority of Palestinians are voicing support for an “armed intifada” (uprising) against Israel.

Article 13 of the Hamas covenant urges Muslims to wage Jihad on Israel and reject any peace initiatives: “There is no solution for the Palestinian issue expect through Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time and vain endeavors.”

The victory of the Hamas-affiliated lists at the two Palestinian universities in the West Bank should serve as a warning not only to Mahmoud Abbas, but also to the international community, especially the Biden administration, whose representatives continue to promote the delusional and dangerous idea of a “two-state solution” between the Palestinians and Israel.

The university students who voted for Hamas have endorsed Hamas’s call for Jihad and terrorism against Israel. They have endorsed Hamas’s argument that Israel has no right to exist. They have also endorsed the argument that no Palestinian or Arab leader is entitled to make any concessions to Israel.

The officials in the Biden administration, European Union and United Nations who continue to talk about the need for a “two-state solution” are actually advocating the creation of another Hamas-led state, like ISIS, this time in the West Bank and east Jerusalem. A similar state already exists in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, used a launching pad to fire rockets into Israel.

By voting for Hamas once again, Palestinians… are also sending a warning to Abbas and other Palestinian leaders not to make peace with Israel or work with it in any way, or else they will be treated as traitors — further proof, as if it were needed, that the Palestinians have yet again chosen violence, terrorism and misery rather than a bright, promising future, a better economy, and prosperity for their young.

Palestinians have once again shown that their real heroes, sadly, are those who carry out terrorist attacks against Jews and seek the elimination of Israel.

www.verygoodnewsisrael.blogspot.com 

Yesterday, June 4th,  I went to see the Israel Day Parade on Fifth Avenue in New York City. It was inspiring and cheering to see so many young people-secular as well as orthodox marching and waving Israeli flags. Mayor Eric Adams speaking without a script heralded Israel’s enormous contribution to the health and welfare of the world.

Best of all is the news that Israeli citizens rank among the world’s happiest populations. Despite the media’s obsessions with negative reports about Israel’s fractious politics and defense issues, Israel at 75 has all the vigor and optimism of a teen-ager in a free-wheeling democracy where the future has no boundaries.

Michael Ordman details all Israeli research and development of medicine, agriculture, inclusivity and outreach and succor to victims of famine, war, and natural disasters throughout the world.

Happy tomorrows Israel and God bless America the best corner of the Diaspora. rsk

ISRAEL’S MEDICAL ACHIEVEMENTS
 
Please can we join your trial. Following the 100% success of Israel’s Alpha TAU’s last clinical trial of Alpha DaRT on recurring skin cancer (see here previously) medical institutes around the world are clamoring to participate in the upcoming pivotal trials. Alpha TAU has also begun clinical trials for pancreatic cancer.
https://nocamels.com/2023/05/new-cancer-radiation-therapy-kills-tumors-from-the-inside/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbhntcM-Oic
 
Weighty cancer discovery. Researchers at Israel’s Weizmann Institute have analyzed the build-up of ammonia that impairs immune cells in 50% of cancer patients. It blocks the protein regulator HNF4-alpha, causing weight loss and tumor growth. In lab tests, restoring HNF4-alpha production stops weight loss and shrinks the tumors.
https://www.israel21c.org/why-cancer-patients-suffer-weight-loss-and-how-to-stop-it/
https://aacrjournals.org/cancerdiscovery/article/doi/10.1158/2159-8290.CD-22-1062/718964/Early-infiltration-of-innate-immune-cells-to-the
 
A remedy for alcohol addiction. Israel’s Clearmind Medicine has been granted permission to begin trials at Sheba Medical Center of MEAI (5-methoxy-2-aminoindane) – a synthetic compound developed in Canada to treat alcoholics. Clearmind spent years making the MEAI-based oral capsules conform to medical standards.
https://nocamels.com/2023/05/biotech-firm-using-psychedelics-to-treat-alcohol-addiction/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RQikn6O3qw  https://www.clearmindmedicine.com/
 
Link between Nitric Oxide and Autism. Hebrew University researchers have discovered in lab tests that autism indicators increase as Nitric Oxide increases in the brain. Conversely, inhibiting production of NO increased “social” behavior, and interest in new objects while reducing repetitiveness and anxiety.
https://www.jpost.com/health-and-wellness/mind-and-spirit/article-743947
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/371790 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/advs.202205783
 
Restore hair in one hour. Israel’s Hairstetics has developed an injector to implant multiple strands of hair to the scalp, under local anesthetic, to instantly restore hair to women struggling with baldness. Women suffering from androgenic alopecia receive non-allergenic synthetic hair to match their own hair color.
https://nocamels.com/2023/05/instant-implants-give-balding-women-their-hair-back/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ace-qdakjs  https://hairstetics.com/
 
AstraZeneca pilots Israeli heart disease detection AI. (TY OurCrowd) AstraZeneca and the Bellvitge University Hospital in Spain are launching the first pilot program of the HearO™ app developed by Israel’s  Cordio Medical (see here previously) which can detect heart disease when the patient speaks on a smartphone.
https://www.einnews.com/pr_news/634340933/astrazeneca-bellvitge-university-hospital-begin-pilot-of-cordio-medical-s-app-that-monitors-heart-failure-by-voice
 
Extending burns wound treatment to children. (TY Atid-EDI) The US Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) has awarded $10 million to Israel’s MediWound (see here previously). Part of the funding will be used to extend its NexoBrid license to pediatric burns – 30% of the total burn population.
https://ir.mediwound.com/news-releases/news-release-details/mediwound-announces-additional-10-million-award-barda-0
 
Elderly Jewish Ukrainian woman rescued. Volunteers from emergency NGO United Hatzalah in Ukraine brought a sick, elderly Jewish woman from Mykolaiv to Israel for life-saving treatment. She was taken in a UH ambulance by ferry across the Black Sea to Bucharest and then flown by El Al in a medical cabin to Israel.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/371822
 
 

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/06/trumps_abraham_accords_proceed_into_cyberspace.html

One of the president’s most significant foreign policy achievements just got even better.

The Abraham Accords were a series of agreements brokered by the Trump administration in 2020, aimed at normalizing diplomatic relations between Israel and several Arab nations. The main participants in the accords were Israel, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Bahrain.

The primary objective of the Abraham Accords was to establish formal diplomatic ties, including the exchange of ambassadors, opening embassies, and fostering cooperation in various fields.  The agreements encompassed several areas such as trade, tourism, investment, security, technology, and cultural exchanges.

Prior to the Abraham Accords, Israel had formal diplomatic relations with only two Arab nations: Egypt and Jordan.  The accords marked a significant shift in the region’s dynamics, with Arab countries openly recognizing and establishing diplomatic ties with Israel.

From Israel’s perspective, the accords provided an opportunity to expand its diplomatic reach, enhance regional stability, and foster economic cooperation.  The participating Arab countries sought to strengthen their relations with Israel, potentially benefiting from increased trade and economic opportunities, security cooperation, and access to advanced technology and innovation.

The Abraham Accords are considered a notable achievement of the Trump administration’s Middle East policy, aiming to foster peace and stability in the region through diplomatic initiatives.

Now, years after their creation, the groundbreaking cooperative is expanding, as a bipartisan group of U.S. senators have unveiled a new proposal known as the Abraham Accords Cybersecurity Cooperation Act of 2023.

The bill, which is co-sponsored by members of the Abraham Accords Committee in the Senate, Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), and James Lankford (R-Okla.), follows a Department of Homeland Security announcement from earlier this year that noted that expanded cyber-cooperation among the Abraham Accord countries was in the works.

The act will enhance the current partnerships between America and the Abraham Accords countries as they seek to strengthen their individual and collective defense against cyber-attacks from countries like Iran, Indonesia, and others that continually target critical infrastructure and wage all forms of cyber-warfare.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/19682/abbas-two-palestinian-states

The “right of return” is not actually a “right,” especially if you are the party who started the war and then lost it, as took place in 1948.

The “right of return” is, rather, a demand: that all the Palestinians who fled their homes during the war of 1948 – and all their descendants – be allowed to return to what is currently the State of Israel.

Thousands of wealthy Arabs left their homes in anticipation of a war, thousands more responded to Arab leaders’ calls to get out of the way of the advancing Arab armies. A handful were expelled, but most simply fled to avoid being caught in the crossfire as the Arabs waged war in response to the establishment of Israel.

“There is a limit to how far Abbas should go to appease Israel.” — Saudi commentator, mepc.org, 2012.

[A]n extensive letter to Abbas, signed by 78 Palestinian organizations, contained a semi-veiled death threat.

It has now become clear that when Abbas says he supports the two-state solution, he is actually talking about one Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem, and another one that would replace Israel.

In Israel, there are currently about seven million Jews and two million Arabs. An influx of untold millions of Palestinians would mean, literally, the end of Israel. This appears to be exactly what Abbas and other Palestinians are hoping to achieve.

In pursuing this hardline push for the “right of return,” Abbas desires a two-state solution: two Palestinian states, one in the West Bank and Gaza, and the other in all of Israel.

[Abbas’s] time is running out and his people are thoroughly angered and disappointed by his lack of tangible results, either in displacing Israel or in bettering their lives.

Addressing Abbas, the comment reads: “We, the Palestinian people, Mahmoud Abbas, want all of Palestine… 67 and 48, all the land, water, sky, air… and the Jews do not exist with us…. Let history write your name. You admitted that the negotiations with the Zionists were a mistake and a sin… Mr. President. Safed is home and you want to go back to your country…Palestine has tens of millions of owners of the land, and you have been repeating the same mistake for 20 years. The Palestinian people, are tens of millions. We will return. We will expel them [Jews] and displace them. Even their graves, Mr. President, will not remain under our soil… we will kill them.”