They know better than the experts they revered just months ago. Wed Sep 23, 2020

By Georgi Boorman, FPM

It’s nothing new for political religions to produce radicals that develop their own sects or cults. This time around, rigid devotion to enforcing mask compliance has produced runaway fanaticism based on nothing but blind faith that more mask-wearing is always better. Even the public health experts, whom these followers all promoted as great prophets just months ago, can’t tame their fervor.

That’s a problem, because a return to normalcy will require subduing radical factions that agitate for oppression. Restrictions such as mask mandates are like oxygen to followers of radical fundamentalist Covidianism — the abiding belief that only lockdowns, social distancing, and masks can deliver us from the deadly pandemic. The longer mandates stay in place and experts continue promoting mask use — “My mask protects you! Your mask protects me!” — the stronger and more widespread the extremism will grow, and the less influence experts will have over their behavior.

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From March to August 389 Palestinian-owned structures in the West Bank, on average 65 per month, were razed.

By TOVAH LAZAROFF,  JPOST  SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Civil Administration demolishes illegal Palestinian structures in the West Bank, September 23, 2020 (photo credit: COGAT)

The IDF targeted illegal Palestinian building in a special West Bank operation on Wednesday, as the United Nations warned against a four-fold spike in such demolitions despite the COVID-19 pandemic.

The IDF’s Civil Administration said that six illegal uninhabited structures were removed in Samaria and in the South Hebron Hills, including an events hall, as well as illegal electrical power lines.
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How has the “liberal” media managed to turn successful leaders into unscrupulous monsters in the eyes of millions of people? Op-ed.

By Alexander Maistrovoy, INN  23/09/20

Balfour St. demonstrations

The creators of the progressive Agitprop had good mentors. We know who said ‘if you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth’.

My youth in the Soviet Union was haunted by one question: how and why the masses of educated people were ready to follow madmen like Lenin and Hitler?

By that time Soviet propaganda (like the Soviet leaders) was a self-parody and could not address this question. I was able to find the answer later in Israel, while witnessing what is happening nowadays here and in the United States.

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With normalization deals being signed and regional dynamics in flux, Jordan is trying to adapt to what it fears is faltering Arab support for the Palestinian issue and a two-state solution.

By Osama Al Sharif, AL MONITOR  Sep 23, 2020

 Demonstrators, mask-clad due to the COVID-19 pandemic, attend a protest against the United Arab Emirates’ and Bahrain’s decisions to normalize relations with Israel, in Gaza City, on Sept. 15, 2020. Photo by MOHAMMED ABED/AFP via Getty Images.

Jordan has been watching moves to normalize ties between Gulf states and Israel with concern as the Arab consensus has crumbled around conditioning the recognition of Israel to its withdrawal from Palestinian territories occupied in 1967 and the creation of a Palestinian state.

US President Donald Trump has stated that “seven or eight” states may soon follow suit in normalizing ties with Israel. Jordan declined a White House invitation to attend the Sept. 15 ceremony in which the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain signed historic agreements recognizing Israel.

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By Bob Ehrlich, WESTERN JOURNAL

Scott Olson / Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump speaks to supporters during a rally at Central Wisconsin Airport on Sept. 17, 2020, in Mosinee, Wisconsin. (Scott Olson / Getty Images)

Voters are being called to “reimagine” an awful lot these days, but one major development is profound and occurring in real time.

I refer to the ongoing realignments within both of our major political parties.

Think about it. Big business has been a stalwart GOP ally for decades. Indeed, many congressional Democrats correctly viewed the U.S. Chamber of Commerce as nothing more than a wing of the Republican party.

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By Morton A. Klein, ZOA National President

(SEPTEMBER 17, 2020 / The Forward) In the 1960s, I went to Mississippi to register Black voters. It was only natural for me; I had been a regular participant in sit-ins for Black housing rights and protest marches for civil rights. Having grown up in an all-Black neighborhood, I, like many other Jews at the time, thought it was horrifying that Black Americans were being denied their inalienable right to vote. I wanted to do my part. While in Mississippi, I was arrested by the local police, who held me in custody for hours, hurling disgusting insults at me the entire time. I was scared for my life.

I’m telling you this because some recent attacks against me have mischaracterized me. In Op-Ed after Op-Ed in these and other pages, people have disparaged me as racist for my criticism of the Black Lives Matter movement. Nothing could be further from the truth.

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The Saudi king has often said he will only pursue rapprochement with Israel after peace is reached with the Palestinians. But Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has signaled he sees no reason to wait.

AP and ILH Staff

PM Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, US President Donald Trump, Bahrain Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa and United Arab Emirates FM Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan after signing the Abraham Accords, Sept. 15, 2020 | Photo: AP/Alex Brandon

Saudi Arabia, the most powerful Arab nation and home to Islam’s holiest sites, has made its official position on the region’s longest-running conflict clear: Full ties between the kingdom and Israel can only happen when peace is reached with the Palestinians.

Yet state-backed Saudi media and clerics are signaling change is already underway with Israel – something that can only happen under the directives of the country’s powerful heir, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

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By Andrea Widburg, AM THINKER

A month ago, few had heard of Kimberly Klacik, a young black woman trying to be Baltimore’s representative in Congress. That all changed when she released a stunning campaign video showing her in a red dress and high heels, striding through Baltimore’s derelict streets, and explaining her conservative plans for bringing Baltimore back to its former glory. It would be hard to improve on her first video, but Klacik’s done it. Her latest is even better than her first, and by a wide margin.

Democrats have such a tight hold on Baltimore that it’s not clear whether Klacik can beat Rep. Kweisi Mfume. She already lost to him in the spring when there was a special election to replace the late Rep. Elijah Cummings. Nevertheless, Klacik’s got star power and that matters. Thanks to her first campaign video, Klacik was one of the speakers at the Republican convention:
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By Andrea Widburg, AM THINKER

Last week, President Trump banned Critical Race Theory (“CRT”) in federal agencies, and he meant it. When the CDC tried to ignore the ban, the Trump administration squashed it. Yesterday, Trump expanded the ban from federal agencies to the military, government contractors, and grantees. What the reference to “grantees” means is that academia, which birthed this racist theory, has a choice: Federal money or continued CRT training.

CRT holds that there is a specific race that is inherently inferior and seeks to destroy innocent lives. Anything associated with that toxic, including the values it advances, needs to be rejected. Reduced to its essentials, CRT is indistinguishable from what the Nazis claimed about the Jews or the Democrats, through the KKK and Jim Crow, claimed about blacks.

Except for a few pathetic and disgusting fringe groups, Nazis and the KKK are in the past. Unfortunately, CRT is in the here and now, and it lies at the heart of the modern Democrat party.
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By Peter Zeihan    September 16, 2020

Last week the American ambassador to China, Terry Branstad, attempted to publish an op-ed with his assessment of American-Chinese relations. The Chinese Communist Part summarily squashed it, banning the op-ed in all Chinese publications. This Monday, September 14, Branstad submitted his resignation from his post. (He will continue to serve in a caretaker capacity until his as-yet-unnamed replacement can step in in October.)

I hardly have the ambassador’s ear on this topic, but it is fairly clear from the op-ed that Branstad sees no hope for an improvement in the bilateral relationship and that the fault lies with Beijing. The op-ed neither has the tone of someone who is mourning what could have been, or someone ready for a fight. Instead it sounds like someone who after years–decades–of engagement is admitting the obvious: relations are not working and have not been working for sometime. Read more…

by Chris Farrell, GATESTONE INSTITUTE  •  September 23, 2020

Mueller testifies before the House Intelligence Committee on July 24, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

• Are we truly supposed to believe that all of these phones just happened to erase themselves?
• You will remember that these very same attorneys and investigators sought to imprison George Papadopoulos for 20 years simply for switching cell phones and deactivating his Facebook account. The government argued that Papadopoulos knowingly committed obstruction per 18 US Code section 1519, with the intent of impeding or otherwise influencing a federal investigation.

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IMRA  22 September 2020

Naftali Bennett: These are the actions I would have taken this evening as
Prime Minister of Israel:

1. Inform everyone tonight that until the end of the closure that there are no demonstrations and no prayer services.
Crush the plague.
There is no special consideration for any sector.

2. Already tomorrow (via Zoom) convene a national coalition of the Chief Rabbi of Israel, the Chief Kadi, the leaders of the left, the leaders of the
right, the leaders of the ultra-Orthodox, the leaders of the Arabs, all the news editors in Israel, all influencers of public opinion with a clear
national demand: everyone wears masks all the time and no gatherings.
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Media & Deep State Collusion Leading to Growth in Corona Deaths

In several cases, European funding has facilitated meetings between the ICC Prosecutor and Palestinian “human rights” organizations.

Arutz Sheva Staff ,

The International Criminal Court building at The Hague

According to new research made available by NGO Monitor, several Palestinian organizations portraying themselves as independent promoters of human rights are being openly funded by European states, some of which categorize their support as “legal aid” in the full knowledge that this legal aid is being used to fund lawsuits against Israel in the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague.

A report in Wednesday’s edition of Yisrael Hayom singles out Switzerland, Sweden, The Netherlands, Denmark, and Ireland for their support of Palestinian organizations, prominent among which is one that titles itself “The Palestinian Center for Human Rights” (PCHR). According to NGO Monitor, PCHR was funded by Switzerland to the amount of $700,000 between 2018 and 2020, money that went directly to fund lawsuits opened at The Hague. PCHR’s contract with the Swiss government contained the stipulation that the organization would be required to “communicate with the General Prosecutor’s Office of the Tribunal … send documents, communicate with the Tribunal, and submit cases in international forums.”

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By Heather Mac Donald, WSJ June 2020

A demonstrator kneels before a police line in Washington, May 31.

George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis has revived the Obama-era narrative that law enforcement is endemically racist. On Friday, Barack Obama tweeted that for millions of black Americans, being treated differently by the criminal justice system on account of race is “tragically, painfully, maddeningly ‘normal.’ ” Mr. Obama called on the police and the public to create a “new normal,” in which bigotry no longer “infects our institutions and our hearts.”

Joe Biden released a video the same day in which he asserted that all African-Americans fear for their safety from “bad police” and black children must be instructed to tolerate police abuse just so they can “make it home.” That echoed a claim Mr. Obama made after the ambush murder of five Dallas officers in July 2016. During their memorial service, the president said African-American parents were right to fear that their children may be killed by police officers whenever they go outside.

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The MEMRI Daily: September 22, 2020

• Editor Of Saudi Daily: Normalization With Israel Is The Arabs’ Only Option

• Dr. Saud Al-Kateb, Former Saudi Deputy Minister For Public Diplomacy: Saudi Arabia Is Our #1, #2, #10 Cause; The Palestinian Cause Comes Later; Palestinians Must Stop Viewing KSA As A Mere Faucet Streaming Support For Them

• Bahraini Ambassador To Russia Ahmed Al-Saati: We Will Reap The Fruits Of Peace With Israel; Mahmoud Abbas Should Calm Down; Iran Will Pay A Heavy Price If It Fails To Lean Towards Peace

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