Turkish officials are preparing for the worst case scenario as talks in Ankara made clear that Moscow doesn’t want a new deal

By Ragip Soylu, MIDDLE EAST EYE

Smoke billows from the villages of Jabal al-Zawiya region in the northwest province of Idlib following shelling by pro-Syrian government forces on 15 September 2020 (AFP)

After years of air strikes, clashes, blood and agony, Syria’s last opposition-held province, Idlib, has been enjoying some relative peace for the last six months.

For the first time, activists and civilians were not living under the constant fear of attacks by the forces of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his Russian allies.But the situation changed last week during high-level diplomatic talks in Ankara between Russian and Turkish officials.
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MSNBC’s Donny Deutsch castigated Jews who support Trump for not looking back at Jewish history. We looked and saw something else.

By Mark Langfan, INN

I’m a second generation Jewish-American, and I don’t just like President Donald J. Trump. I LOVE President Trump.

The self-proclaimed “Hitler-epithet-gatekeeper” MSNBC’s Donny Deutsch has taken to the TV airways and declared of American Jews supporting President Trump, “How dare you? How dare you, with what our people have gone through in history, and you see a man who is a dictator. And once you give a man absolute power, he is possible of anything. And if you are a Jew in this country and you are supporting Donald Trump, you are not looking back at our history. And you are blind and you are walking like a lemming off a cliff. It is time to wake up.!”

Dear Mr. Deutsch, just because you repeat a pathetic lie over and over, it doesn’t make that lie true. It just proves that you, Mr. Deutsch, are a liar. I love President Trump for scores of real and practical reasons, both non-Jewish and Jewish reasons.

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BEHIND THE LINES: Parallel to the campaign of harassment, the Russians are seeking to slowly and incrementally draw the Kurdish ruling authorities in this area back under their political patronage.

By JONATHAN SPYER, JPOST       SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

THE MODEST beefing up of the US force in Syria over the last week suggests that no immediate withdrawal is in the offing.

The United States this week reinforced its military presence in northeastern Syria. Six Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicles were deployed to the area, and around 100 troops were added to the roughly 500 that are already present in Syria east of the Euphrates River. The US also continues to maintain a separate presence west of the Euphrates in the area around the base at al-Tanf, on the Syrian-Jordanian border.

The beefing-up of the US military presence appears to be a response to the increasing tempo of Russian attempts to harass US forces, and to expand Moscow’s presence in Syria east of the Euphrates. On August 26, four US troops were wounded when the vehicle in which they were traveling collided with a Russian military vehicle.

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T. Belman.  This is a great article.  I would add that internationalism emasculated the US and served as an albatross around her neck.  The stronger and more independent the US became, the weaker the internationalists became. And the weaker they get, the more cooperative they will be.

Trump weakens his opponent before entering negotiations with them.  One way to do so is to strengthen their enemies. He made sure to strengthen Israel while weakening the PA and Iran.  He also signaled withdrawal from the Middle East thereby leaving the Gulf States to look to Israel for security rather than the US.

Trump’s policies have weakened the European globalists to irrelevance. Their continued continued support of the PA and the JCPOA is their last dying breath.

Just as Kissinger aligned with China to weaken the USSR, I believe that in his second term, America will make Russia an ally which will serve to weaken China and Iran. It will also force the EU to knuckle under.

By J.B. Shurk, AM THINKER

A key feature of Donald Trump’s presidency has been his application of business strategy to foreign affairs.  The administration has benched the traditional diplomatic operatives of the State Department in favor of a strike force of men and women with lifetimes of experience at securing tough business deals.  The president believes that it makes no sense for America’s interests to be negotiated by career bureaucrats from Foggy Bottom while the expertise of American business titans sits untapped.
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T. Belman. What a masterstroke. Trump is stealing the Democrat’s base. With this plan there will be a massive shift in the black vote even more than has occurred thus far. His trade policies are winning the blue collar workers and their Unions. His law and order policies are winning over the police and their Unions and suburban women. His strengthening of the military and fixing the Veterans Act have endeared him to the military. His anti-war policies have attracted the Independents and the libertarians. I could go on.

By Jack Davis, WJ

On Friday, President Donald Trump unveiled a nearly $500 billion plan for his second term — a proposal that he called a “Platinum Plan” for black communities.

The Trump campaign said the plan will increase access to capital in black communities by almost $500 billion, create 500,000 new black-owned businesses and bring three million new jobs for the black community.

Opportunity, security, prosperity and fairness are the four pillars of the plan, Fox News reported.
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By REBECCA MANSOUR and JAMES P. PINKERTON, BREITBART

25 Sep 2020

• Use the pandemic to push for a nation-wide vote-by-mail scheme.
• Enlist all the messengers at your disposal (Hollywood, Corporate Media, Big Tech, Pro Sports) to push for vote-by-mail.
• Get millions of questionable mail-in ballots into the system.
• Send Democratic lawyers into key districts to fight for every challenged ballot. Use the courts and progressive election officials to keep the count going as long as possible with as little verification as possible.
• Set expectations that the election will not be decided on November 3. Plan for mass protests in the streets. Scare people into believing that Trump won’t leave office (should he attempt to challenge the results).
• Challenge the results in court with the help of election officials and district attorneys that George Soros has spent years getting elected.
• Let Chief Justice John Roberts (or the new Justice?) pick the next president. Or let Nancy Pelosi do it.

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Key progressive policies actually embody Marxist, Socialist, Communist, authoritarian, atheist and anarchist ideas that have consistently failed wherever they have been tried.

By Ken Abramowitz, JNS

Progressives claim to represent the forces of change, reform and social justice. They say they care for the well-being of the voters. They allege that those who believe in the Constitution and Bill of Rights are cruel, and call them dangerous racists.

Yet they forget some of the most important words in the Declaration of Independence that framed our national mission:

“We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.”

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By Pamela Geller, AM THINKER

Allum Bokhari, the senior technology correspondent at Breitbart News, has performed an extraordinarily valuable service by giving us his new book #Deleted: Big Tech’s Battle to Erase the Trump Movement and Steal the Election. While the social media giants’ efforts to suppress all dissent from their far-left, anti-American agenda have been going on for years, few people are aware of the full depth and breadth of this sinister initiative, or of how it is much more than just a bias toward the left, but a carefully planned and coordinated endeavor that, if left unchecked, will do nothing less than relegate our First Amendment right of freedom of speech to the dustbin of history.

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By Thomas Lifson, AM THINKER

Is an unexpected October Surprise on the way?

They think it’s a bad thing, but I give The Nation credit for reportorial digging.  The hard-left magazine has discovered that federal law enforcement agencies (though not the FBI) have been tracing whom the mobs in Portland have been communicating with.  The apparent lead role in utilizing hi tech and classified electronic means is being played by the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A), while the U.S. Marshals Service is dispatching street-level personnel.  This bypasses the FBI, whose director, Christopher Wray, is on the record in sworn testimony, dismissing any such superstructure:
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T. Belman. Trump has been defunding the PA from day one.  Defunding will continue until they collapse.  The EU will also start to defund them because they are a lost cause and Europe doesn’t want to go it alone.

Their financial situation deteriorated amid the coronavirus pandemic, but also during a period when normalization agreements were being negotiated between several Gulf states and Israel.

By SARAH CHEMLA  JPOST SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY President Mahmoud Abbas gestures during a meeting to discuss the UAE’S deal with Israel to normalize relations, in Ramallah last month.

Palestinian officials have a feeling that the recent normalization agreements between Gulf states and Israel have led to a sudden decrease in funding from Arab states to the Palestinian Authority.

According to The New Arab and data from the Palestinian Finance Ministry service, Ramallah has received no aid from Arab countries since March, in addition to a 50% decrease in foreign aid.

Ramallah’s total revenues dropped by about 70% this year.

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T. Belman. As an example of Trump’s brilliance, he aligned with the Kurds in eastern Syria to get them to defeat ISIS and control the 30% of Syria east of the Euphrates R where most of Syria’s oil is to be found. He did this with less than 10,000 US troops.  By threatening to withdraw more troops from the ME and by strengthening Israel by recognizing her sovereignty over the Golan and Jerusalem and recognizing her right to annex the Jordan Valley, he forced the Gulf States into the arms of Israel for protection. His lack of ambivalence towards Israel drove the point home. The arabs had no choice but to embrace Israel.

He will now turn his attention on Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq.  I predict that these countries will all become part of the emerging alliance.  Russia will become an ally in order to preserve her influence in the New Syria and Iran will be forced to capitulate.  That’s the New Middle East.

By Michael Doran, HUDSON INSTITUTE

When President Donald Trump presided over the signing ceremony for the Abraham Accords between Israel, the UAE, and Bahrain last week on the South Lawn of the White House, his critics cast the event as a real-life enactment of “The Emperor’s New Clothes” in which Trump played a minimal role in a meaningless accord involving two tiny Arab nations that had never made war on the Jewish state. “The Emperor’s New Clothes” is indeed an apt analogy, but it was Trump’s critics—not the president—who were shown to be naked.

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