Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was scheduled to land in Moscow for a meeting with  Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday afternoon. The situation in southern Syria, where Iranian commandos are leading Shi’ite militias participating in an ongoing offensive against beleaguered rebel groups, is reported to be high on the agenda for the meeting, along with several other regional issues of mutual importance to the two countries. Ali Akbar Velayati, a senior advisor to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, will also be meeting with Putin on Wednesday.

Emerging from his 10th session of questioning by the Lahav 433 unit of the Israeli Police Tuesday afternoon, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flatly declared that “Case 4000 never happened” while his office released a statement that no new evidence had been presented by police during their five hours of questioning the Prime Minister. The statement also pointed out that during the period leading up to the 2015 elections when Netanyahu’s aides are alleged to have attempted to garner positive news coverage on the Bezeq-owned Walla news site in exchange for political and judicial favors, the coverage of Netanyahu and his Likud Party by that news site was extremely hostile.

Sheikh Muhammad Hussein, the Palestinian mufti of Jerusalem, issued a “fatwa” religious ruling on Tuesday that Moslems are forbidden from “facilitating the transfer of ownership of any part of Jerusalem or the land of Palestine to the enemies.” Violators of the fatwa, Hussein explained, “will be considered an infidel, apostate and a traitor to God, Islam and his homeland.”

Israel’s Labor Party announced on Tuesday that it is breaking with the Socialist International organization over its endorsement of the movement to Boycott, Divest and Sanction (BDS) the Jewish State. “Needless to say, the Declaration on the Palestinian Question is biased, blind to facts or reality, and partially anti-semitic,” Labor’s international secretary, MK Hilik Bar, wrote in an open letter to the leadership of the Socialist International explaining the decision.

Israeli health officials are urging citizens to get vaccinated against measles amidst one of the largest outbreaks of the infectious disease in many years. Dozens of cases have been reported since the outbreak first became apparent on 1 June, with the majority of cases in the Galilee region.

Despite replacing its leaders with each election campaign, Labor has never made a comeback to govern Israel. Because it is identified with Ramallah’s demands in any future settlement, Labor has suffered electoral punishment.

The Iranian project to create an atomic bomb and the parallel fight by Sunni ISIS to dominate Christians, Jews, and infidel Muslims appears to many as political fiction. This new book by Fiamma Nirenstein sheds light on the siege that Shiite and Sunni extremist ideologies have placed upon our world, and the reasons why they will not give up unless we defeat them.

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