By BENNY AVNI, NY SUN | September 11, 2020

No sooner has the Arab-Israel Spring started to blossom than the Leftists are up in arms. Gulf capitals now formalizing relations with Jerusalem are, they complain, ruled by non-democratic bad guys. Exhibit a: Bahrain, where a Sunni minority, backed by Saudi Arabia, rules over restive Shiite population.

Bahrain has just announced that it will join the United Arab Emirates Tuesday at a White House ceremony, where President Trump and his top Mideast aide and son in law, Jared Kushner, are scheduled to host Prime Minister Netanyahu and the U.A.E.’s foreign minister, Abdullah bin Zaid. In the event, the first peace agreement between (now two) Arab countries and the Jewish state in a quarter century will be sealed with hand shakes.

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T. Belman. When Trump talks about voter fraud, I get the feeling he is not really worried about it. Perhaps he is confidant about his upcoming reelection. Why shouldn’t he be. Everything is coming up roses. Historic peace treaty soon to be signed. Nominated for two Nobel peace prizes. Pandemic is over now and deaths are greatly reduced. Economy is roaring back. Blacks and Latinos are supporting him in increasing numbers. Enjoying huge enthusiasm gap. And he is just getting started.

By Ebony Bowden, NY POST

Donald Trump  AFP via Getty Images

WASHINGTON — President Trump’s campaign and the Republican National Committee passed an enormous milestone this week — making contact with their 100 millionth voter through door knocking and phone banking.

The RNC says it has knocked on the doors of 12 million potential voters in battleground states since mid-June — that’s around 1 million a week — while the Biden campaign has knocked on zero.

The wildly different door-to-door strategies could make all the difference in races up and down the ballot in states like New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Michigan, which were won by razor-thin margins in 2016.
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By Ty & Charlene Bollinger  September 3, 2020

On 29 August 2020, our good friend and brother in the fight for freedom, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whom we affectionately call “Bobby,” spoke to hundreds of thousands of freedom-loving people in Berlin, Germany.

This amazing event happened 57 years after Bobby’s uncle, President John F. Kennedy, delivered his famous “Ich bin ein Berliner” speech in West Berlin.

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Kingdom’s FM will join Tuesday’s Israel-UAE signing ceremony, sign ‘Declaration of Peace’; Netanyahu hails accord, says ‘there will be more’; Manama also urges Palestinian peace

By JACOB MAGID and RAPHAEL AHREN, TOI

Photo collage: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) at a press conference about the Israeli-UAE peace accords, in Jerusalem on August 30, 2020. US President Donald Trump arrive on the South Lawn of the White House on September 11, 2020. Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa at the Royal Windsor Horse Show in Windsor, England on May 10, 2019. (Andrew Matthews, Andrew Harnik, Debbie Hill/AP)

US President Donald Trump announced Friday that Bahrain has agreed to establish full diplomatic relations with Israel, making it the second Gulf country to do so in less than a month.

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Why Marxist revolutionaries are able to sow as much destruction as they do today.

By Jamie Glazov, FPM

Editors’ note: As we witness the Marxist revolution currently transpiring in America, alongside the surreal totalitarian lockdowns, a vital question confronts us: how did the Left achieve so much power to be able to now so effectively damage America and its democracy? What allowed the Left to gain so much control and influence?

This is, without doubt, one of the most pertinent questions of our time. Frontpage Mag editors have therefore deemed it vital to run, below, an excerpt from Jamie Glazov’s book, Jihadist Psychopath: How He is Charming, Seducing, and Devouring Us. The excerpt, which is the third chapter, titled “The Virus in Power,” explores how the Left took power in America — and why it had such an easy time doing so. This equips us with the understanding of why Marxists and Lockdown-Enforcers are now able to sow as much destruction as they do today.
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Official says explosions set off by electrical short circuit at ammunition storage facility; no reports of casualties

By AFP  

Screenshot from a video said to show a large explosion at a Jordanian army base near the capital, Amman, September 11, 2020. (Screenshot/Twitter)

AMMAN, Jordan — A huge blast rocked a Jordanian military munitions depot early Friday, sparking a large fire, but there were no reports of casualties at the base situated in an uninhabited area.

“An explosion occurred in the early hours of Friday… in a warehouse containing unusable mortar bombs belonging to the armed forces,” a government spokesman said in a statement.

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By Dmitri Shufutinsky, BESA

Border crossing at the Green Line in Nicosia, Northern Cyprus section, photo via Wikipedia

BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,740, September 10, 2020

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: In order to counter Ankara’s aggression in the eastern Mediterranean and disrupt its plans to dominate Cyprus, the US should make a peace deal on the island a top regional priority for 2021.

It has been 16 years since the last serious peace proposal for the Mediterranean island of Cyprus was put forward. The island, which was colonized by Britain and then ethnically divided in 1974 through a Turkish military intervention and Greek-inspired coup, has fallen victim to Russian and Turkish exploitation. Its economy has been unable to function properly since at least the Great Recession, a crisis that has only been exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic. The recent signing of deals with Egypt, Italy, Israel, and Greece to export its natural gas to members of the EU could help the Cyprus economy stabilize and grow, but Turkey has vowed to thwart those plans under the guise of a failed peace process.

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Adherents of both pursue ideological purity, refuse to engage in debate and demand submission.

By Ayaan Hirsi Ali, WSJ

A leftist demonstrator protesting President Trump steps on a burning American flag outside the U.S. Embassy in Buenos Aires, January 20, 2017.

There were many American heroes on 9/11, but the greatest were the passengers and crew of Flight 93. Not only did they avert what al Qaeda planned—a direct hit on the White House—but they also embodied Patrick Henry’s credo “Give me liberty, or give me death!”

Do those words still have a meaning in the America of 2020? For two decades, I have opposed the fanatical illiberalism of those strands of Islam that gave rise to al Qaeda. I broke with my Somali family and ultimately with their faith because I believed that it is human freedom that should be sacrosanct, not antiquated doctrines that demand submission by the individual.

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Race-obsessed diversity training and pushing of ‘white privilege’ theory by gov’t agencies are dangerous to Jews and other minorities. Op-ed

By Jonathan S. Tobin, jns

Black Lives Matter protest BLM

(JNS) – We are in a moment in history when, as one CNN anchor put it, “2020 is being defined in part by this long-overdue reckoning about race.” So when President Donald Trump decided to issue an order banning sensitivity and diversity training based on “critical race theory” and “white privilege,” this was widely denounced as one more example of the administration seeking to both Americans along racial lines. It was also seen as insensitive in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests that have been going on over the past three months since the death of George Floyd.

Many Jews, including the majority who identify as political liberals, believe the move to be an affront to their belief in social justice and the need to work for a society that expunges racism.
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By Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld     September 9, 2020

BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,738,

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: For five years, the Israeli Ministry of Strategic Affairs and Public Diplomacy has been trying to combat the large number of international delegitimization and boycott campaigns against the Jewish State. Its options to combat international antisemitism are limited, and it is doubtful whether it has properly prioritized the issues at stake. Israel urgently needs a separate anti-propaganda agency, something the Strategic Affairs Ministry should have recommended long ago.

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THIS IS A FABULOUS EXPOSITION

T. Belman.  Even more outrageous is the fact that the EU is financing illegal Arab construction in Area C.  They are also financing many NGO’s to challenge Israel policies in the Courts. This amounts to thousands of lawsuits. Not to mention their support of the JCPOA and IRAN.

Functionaries in Brussels are trying to force their anti-Israel position on Kosovo and Serbia, even though those countries are not even member nations.

By Eldad Beck, ISRAEL HAYOM

There is no longer any point in denying reality. All the attempts to paint the situation in the best light, to ignore it, to continue on as if nothing has happened, have been ineffective. The opposite: they only made the European Union’s negative attitude toward Israel worse. Therefore, we need to say it plainly: the European Union’s blatant and ongoing hostility toward Israel, which is now expressed as an ultimatum to Serbia and Kosovo about their decision to relocate their embassies to Jerusalem, has made it into an enemy, and it should be treated as such.

While the US administration is creating a historic precedent by linking a peace process that is not happening in the Middle East to the recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and finally allowing Israel to normalize with Kosovo, the EU shows up and makes it clear to Kosovo and Serbia – which are still not member nations – that if they want to be, they must give up their plans to open embassies in Jerusalem, immediately.
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By Jonathan Hoffman

On 1 May CAABU published a letter to the Prime Minister and the Foreign Secretary demanding that they tell the government of Israel that the ‘annexation’ of any part of Judea and Samaria ‘will have severe consequences including sanctions’.  I wrote about it here.  UK Media Watch covered it here.

Recently a Labour MP, Siobhain Ann McDonagh, has gathered signatures for a letter to the Chinese Ambassador expressing outrage about China’s attempt at ethnic cleansing of the Uighur Muslims.

Israel postponed the application of Israeli law to part of Judea and Samaria as part of the peace agreement with the UAE.  But there is nothing illegal about Israel’s presence in Judea/Samaria. The San Remo Conference (1920) drew up rules for the British Mandate. Article 6 charged Britain with the duty to facilitate Jewish immigration and close settlement by Jews in the territory which then included Transjordan. It has never been revoked so remains valid today.
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The threat is real, and it’s coming. Big time.

By Kenneth R. Timmerman, FPM

Options traders who specialize in hedging against risk get it. According to a recent report from FoxBusiness, “the options markets are signaling the very real possibility that neither President Trump nor Joe Biden will be the clear-cut winner on Election Day, Nov. 3.”

Instead of a clear-cut victor there will be chaos. So-called “peaceful” protests. Media outrage. Riots.

And the chaos will all be aimed at one goal: changing the outcome of the election, which otherwise the Democrats are sure to lose.

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by Gordon G. Chang, GATESTONE INSTITUTE  •  September 10, 2020 at 5:00 am

• China’s Communist Party publicly talking about an American default is… essentially a declaration of intent to destroy the American economy. Washington should fight back.
• No amount of persuading, cajoling or badgering has worked to convince China to accept agreements and norms.

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The group also wants to prevent undergraduate admissions from being based on SAT/ACT scores.

By Sam Dorman | Fox News

Dozens of Cornell University faculty, staff, students, and alumni signed onto a letter attacking “colorblind” practices, insisting that the university institute racial quotas and recruit “clusters” of non-White individuals.

The letter, published Monday, launches into a long list of immediate and long-term demands after accusing the Ivy League university of “symbolic” efforts in response to racism.

“As an institution Cornell aspires to the highest principles of civic duty,” the letter reads. “Yet every ‘colorblind’ event, mechanism, and process at the university — from new faculty orientations to selection of endowed positions — perpetuates racial disparities and reinforces an unjust status quo.”

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