Americans once understood that although one side of a dispute might be correct and another might be wrong, both sides could mean well.Op-ed.

By Rabbi Prof. Dov Fischer, INN

Protocols of the Elders of Zion

I have read Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf and Karl Marx’s Das Kapital, both for college political science classes in a time before microaggressions, trigger warnings, safe spaces, comfort dogs, and play-doh and cocoa rooms for upset 20-year-olds on campus.

Yet I must admit that I never have read the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. That last thing is some anti-Jewish piece of garbage that was fabricated around 1903 in Russia, purporting to be the clandestine minutes of a meeting of a secret cabal of International Jews who supposedly control the world. Yeah, while they are controlling the world, I still need to wait a month for my doctor’s next appointment and still can’t use a normal sink-faucet aerator because this is California.

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T. Belman. Pollak said the petition  “says nothing about Antifa or about extremists in the Black Lives Matter movement,” I find this wanting. Why not refer to “Antifa and Black Lives Matter”? Furthermore by doing so, he equated the harm done by white supremacy groups which is miniscule, with that done by these movements which has been estimated between one and two billion dollars. There is no comparison. He should have said so.  He also should have mentioned that over 700 police have been injured in the BLM “peaceful protests”. He also should have called out Democrats, including Jews, and the mainstream media for encouraging the riots and running cover for them by calling them “peaceful protests”.

The left constantly plays the white supremacy card in order to change the subject from the real problem (Antifa and BLM).

By Joel Pollak, BREITBART

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is circulating a petition among Jewish organizations urging them to criticize President Donald Trump for failing to denounce white supremacy during the first presidential debate on Tuesday — though he did so then, and has done so, often, before.

The petition, which was leaked to Breitbart News, states (original emphasis, links removed):

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VERY INTERESTING ADDRESS. ENDS AT 40 MINUTES. THE REST IS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.

Melanie Phillips is brilliant in her dissertation. She ends at 12:11.

TRUMP WAS FLYING HIGH.

US imposes sanctions on 13 entities and six individuals, including the governor of the Central Bank of Syria.

By Reuters and ILH Staff

Syrian President Bashar Assad | Photo: AP via the Russian Foreign Ministry

The United States on Wednesday blacklisted what it called “key enablers” of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government, reinforcing efforts to push Damascus back to United Nations-led negotiations to end Syria’s nearly decade-long civil war.

The United States imposed sanctions on 13 entities and six individuals, including the governor of the Central Bank of Syria, in a fresh round of sanctions aimed at cutting off revenue for Assad’s government.

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By Monica Showalter, AM THINKER

Joe Biden was in some kind of foul, putrid mode at the debate last night.

Many people have cited memorable lines from the contentious political slugfest, but the lines that stand out are the grotesquely disrespectful ad hominem insults Biden directed at the president of the United States.

The Rev.com transcript shows tons of them:
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Trump Denounces White Supremacists

THE TRUTH PROVIDER

Biden and the Democrats repeat a lie almost daily that President Trump has never condemned white supremacists. Biden lied about it yesterday during the debate. Trump refuses to denounce racism is parroted by Trump haters again and again ad nausea.

The truth is of course the opposite, Trump has condemned all the extreme right groups, including White Supremacists again and again and again.  Here is one of several such condemnations by the President:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCvwARherKI
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-40929627
https://time.com/4899810/donald-trump-charlottesville/
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by Douglas J. Feith and Lewis Libby, MEF
Middle East Quarterly

President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan transforms longstanding official U.S. ideas about peace diplomacy and about the U.S. role in the region. In the past, U.S. peacemaking efforts aimed directly at a Palestinian-Israeli deal. The Trump peace plan, however, stresses that fundamental changes are required on the Palestinian side before such a deal can become realistic. The plan does not hold out the promise of a quick peace settlement. Rather, it has a more limited aim: to improve chances that peace will one day be possible.

A Warning

The plan’s most original element is a warning: If the Palestinian side continues to support terrorism and reject peace, its cause will suffer. For decades, Palestinian leaders, while refusing peace offers seen as reasonable by top U.S. officials, incited violence and demanded that the status quo in the territories be frozen pending a peace deal. The Palestinians are now being told that, if they continue on this path, Washington will not block Israel from advancing its own claims to areas in the West Bank that, in the administration’s view, would be left to Israel in realistic peace talks. Those areas, according to the peace plan’s “Conceptual Map,” include not just the major settlement blocs but also the Jordan Valley.
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 Your primer on the far-right group Trump told to ‘stand back and stand by’

BY BEN SALES , JTA  SEPTEMBER 29, 2020 11:59 PM

Far-rightists from the Proud Boys wait to get into vehicles after marching across the Hawthorne Bridge in Portland, Ore., Aug. 17, 2019. (Alex Milan Tracy/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

(JTA) — Who are the Proud Boys, the far-right group that Donald Trump name-checked at the first presidential debate? And do they hate Jews?

The answer to the second question: Some of them — including their founder — certainly do.

Let’s back up: At the debate Tuesday night, moderator Chris Wallace asked Trump whether he would condemn white supremacists from the debate stage. He did not. What he did say, amid denunciations of the far-left Antifa, was this:

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by Marilyn Stern, Middle East Forum Webinar

Alejandro Macarrón, a Spanish demographer, spoke to participants in a July 27 Middle East Forum Webinar (video) regarding the future ramifications of the West’s declining fertility rates.

Throughout the West, fertility rates (the average number of children born to a woman over her lifetime) have dropped well below 2.1, the level needed to avoid net population decline. According to Macarrón, there are three main consequences of having more deaths than births among the native population.

First, “the demographic weight of the West in the world” has been declining. The percentage of the global population comprised by the U.S. and Canada has shrunk from 6.8% to 4.7% since 1950. Europe has declined from close to 22% of the global population to less than 10% today.

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National Cyber Directorate personnel spend every waking hour warding off the wide array of cyberattacks launched at Israel on all levels by terrorist groups, hackers, and malicious state actors. NCD chief Yigal Unna: Cyber threats to Israel only expected to grow.

By  Yoav Limor, ISRAEL HAYOM

National Cyber Directorate Head Yigal Unna | Photo: Oded Karni

Walking into the Tel Aviv office of Israel National Cyber Directorate Head Yigal Unna, you immediately notice a very specific memento – a weighted plaque with a golden plate that he was awarded by his counterparts in the United Arab Emirates. Unna was part of the historic delegation that traveled to Abu Dhabi last month after the landmark peace deal between Israel and the UAE was announced, and the plaque sheds light on the deep cyber and technological ties between the two countries.

“The potential vis-à-vis the UAE is endless,” he told Israel Hayom. “We have the knowledge, tools, and capabilities that can offer the issues they’re dealing with the best solutions in the world. In terms of cybersecurity, Israel is one of the most protected countries in the world. We want them to be as protected as we are.”

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A new Center for American Greatness survey finds President Trump leading Joe Biden in battleground Nevada.

By Chris Buskirk, AMER GREATNESS

Joe Biden has a problem. Actually, he has a few problems. Recent polling shows that Donald Trump is running much stronger with Hispanics and black voters than he did in 2016. Those are demographic groups that Biden needs to win big if he has any hope of winning the election. If Trump’s strength with these voters continues, it will doom Biden and lead to a second Trump term.

In Florida, an NBC/Marist poll conducted earlier this month showed President Trump with 50 percent of the Hispanic vote to Biden’s 46 percent. In 2016, Clinton won 62 percent of Hispanics compared to 35 percent for Trump. Trump is also outperforming 2016 with black Floridians. The same poll shows him with 11 percent support compared to 8 percent in the last election. If those numbers hold, Florida is simply unwinnable for Biden.

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[Black Appraisals of Black Lives Matter – Part I]

Black Lives Matter: “We Are Trained Marxists” – Part I

Black Lives Matter: “We Will Burn Down This System” – Part II

A Brief History of Antifa: Part I

A Brief History of Antifa: Part II

by Soeren Kern  •  September 30, 2020

• “BLM are basically, in my opinion, profiteers. They are profiting on trying to give a narrative, a false narrative, that is: ‘white racist cops are destroying the black community.’ No BLM presence walking through Chicago protesting black-on-black crime. You know why? Because it is not profitable. There is no money to be made.” — Leo Terrell, civil rights attorney and lifelong Democrat.
• “Black Lives Matter does not support the critical civil rights issue of this day… educational freedom. How many young black kids are relegated to failing public schools in failing neighborhoods? Where does BLM stand on that issue? They stand with the progressive socialist left and the teachers unions. Ask yourself, has BLM ever condemned the action of Barack Obama in April 2009 to cancel the DC school voucher program?” — Allen West, former U.S. Congressman for Florida and retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel.
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By Prof. Hillel Frisch, BESA  September 30, 2020

IDF Caterpillar D9 bulldozer demolishing home of terrorist, image via Wikimedia Commons

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The skewed reporting of housing demolitions in the West Bank is yet another tool with which the EU engages in blatant discrimination against Israel. But does it help the Palestinians? Readily available information on such demolitions suggests that the EU’s bias hurts them more than it benefits them.

Entering the phrase “housing demolitions” in the EU’s official site yields a shocking result: 18 of the first documents to appear concern Israeli demolitions of Palestinian homes in the West Bank. In other words, 80% of the EU’s reports on this worldwide phenomenon involve a population and an area less that one-tenth of 1% of the world’s population or landmass.

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T. Belman. “By any interpretation, if our right to extend sovereignty immediately is suspended so should our obligation to freeze construction for 4 years and enter negotiations. But no one has mentioned this. In fact, Israel thinks it is still bound by the freeze even though the right to immediately extend sovereignty has been suspended.”

But not to worry, the plan and suspension will be overtaken by events long before the year is up.

By Ted Belman

Speaking with Efi Triger on Galei Tzahal Wednesday morning, Ambassador David Friedman said the sovereignty plan has been suspended for at least one year – possibly longer – but emphasized that it has not been taken off the table.

“The words that we chose was to suspend the declaration of sovereignty,”

“It means temporarily. It could take a year or two or more before we are back to that issue.”

“It just means that for the time being, it’s on pause. For this year, it’s not going to move forward, but later on, we’ll see – it’s not off the table.”

“It was decided now with the Israeli government to use all available means to expand Israel’s diplomatic profile in the region. That means normalization with Gulf states and efforts to move more embassies to Jerusalem.”

I read the plan when it was released and came up with this understanding
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