By Andrea Widburg, AM THINKER

Biden’s choice of Kamala Harris to be his running mate shows the shallowness of the Democrat’s talent pool. Biden handicapped himself by explicitly pledging to ignore men and then implicitly bowing to the demand that his female choice be black. However, it’s still somewhat shocking that, out of all the black, female, Democrat politicians in America, the best he could do was Kamala.

What’s most striking about Kamala is that, like Barack Obama, she has nothing in common with the American black experience. Despite her slamming the race card on the table, the only thing she shares with the generic “black vote” is skin color.
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T. Belman. Notwithstanding her Jewish credentials, she will be powerless to help Israel. If, god-forbid, Biden and Harris win the upcoming election, it is very bad news for Israel.

Democratic senator from California has a Jewish husband, carried a JNF blue tin as a child, is a fan of Israel’s Supreme Court building

By Ron Kampeas, TOI

Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., talks to reporters about the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

WASHINGTON (JTA) — White House hopeful Joe Biden named Kamala Harris, a high-profile Black senator from California, as his vice presidential choice Tuesday, capping a months-long search for a Democratic partner to challenge US President Donald Trump in November.

“I have the great honor to announce that I’ve picked @KamalaHarris — a fearless fighter for the little guy, and one of the country’s finest public servants — as my running mate,” Biden, 77, said on Twitter.

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By Victor Sharpe, AM GREATNESS

Something fundamentally disquieting, like some noxious alien plant, has been allowed to take hideous root in our beloved America. Going back to 2016, when Donald Trump won the presidency, we have witnessed increasing hysteria on the Left, but also within what passes as the Establishment. After all Trump has never been a part of the establishment elites and so we now have a President who answers directly to the people and not to the Washington insider crowd.

A perfect storm has arrived – the Chinese virus – or what we are told must be called Covid-19 in order to be politically correct and not upset the Communist Chinese government. Thanks also to Dr. Fauci we have become the locked down nation, morphed into mass helplessness and forced to wear masks. Many in the medical profession consider him a hero while others have a more jaundiced opinion.

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The Democratic Party is now committed to a far more radical socialist platform than has ever been remotely hinted at by a serious American national party.

By Conrad Black, AM GREATNESS• August 10, 2020

This has been a year of such astonishing and unforeseeable events that it seems to be taking some time for the full impact of what has tumbled onto the daily and political life of the United States to be assimilated. The year has been building steadily towards its November 3 climax like a Wagnerian opera, through the worst medical pandemic in 100 years, which is playing a role in the fierce combat zone of American politics.

As the primary season unfolded, the Democrats were faced with the selection of an outright Marxist, though a sincere Democrat, and the powers that be in that party intervened to assure the nomination of a presidential candidate who is unique for other reasons.

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The ex-US ambassador to the UN is one of the few Trump officials to leave on good terms and has diligently built up a national profile

By Daniel Strauss, GUARDIAN

Nikki Haley has kept busy since leaving her post in the Trump administration as United States ambassador to the United Nations.

A former governor of South Carolina, Haley is often mentioned as a potential Republican presidential candidate for either 2024 or 2028 – depending on whether Donald Trump wins re-election in November.

There has even been speculation that Trump might switch out Vice-President Mike Pence for Haley as his running mate in the hopes of boosting his lagging approval numbers among the broader electorate, though there has been no strong evidence that that will happen.

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AUG 11, 2020 7:30 AM BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS3 COMMENTS

In October 2015, right after Justin Trudeau won the Federal elections, Robert Spencer wrote an article: “JUSTIN TRUDEAU: CANADA’S OBAMA.” This turned out to be correct. Justin Trudeau has been a mimic of Obama, as Canada has seen a proliferation of Islamic supremacist entryism in the Trudeau government, as well the entry of Islamic supremacists into every layer of Canadian society as well.

Below is an overview, listing some of the worrying trends in Canada as summarized by Gary Gambill of the Middle East Forum, and taken from my briefing to the MEF.

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T. Belman. This is too far fetched to believe. The US has been undermining the PA from day one.

PA reportedly agrees to renew ties with US after receiving assurances there will be no Israeli sovereignty in Judea and Samaria.

Arutz Sheva Staff , 11/08/20 18:28

The Palestinian Authority (PA) has received a promise from the United States that Israel will not unilaterally apply its sovereignty over any part of Judea and Samaria, Channel 12 News commentator Ehud Yaari reported.

According to the report, the PA agreed to renew ties with the US after receiving the promise.

MK Ayelet Shaked reacted with anger to the reports that the US was now officially against the application of Israeli sovereignty.

“There is no sovereignty and we knew from the first moment that the left-wing government was formed under Netanyahu and Gantz that this would not happen. Netanyahu missed a historic opportunity to change the crooked reality of the Middle East,” Shaked said.

Netanyahu is right that Trump is busy with other matters, with his reelection campaign and his coronavirus response clearly foremost on the agenda.

By LAHAV HARKOV, JPOST   AUGUST 11, 2020 20:32

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JUST GIVE HIM one more chance. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Donald Trump at the White House this week. 

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu publicly admitted something on Monday night that The Jerusalem Post has been reporting for over a month: The Trump administration has yet to give Israel a green light to apply sovereignty to settlements in Judea and Samaria.

US President Donald “Trump is now busy with other things and [sovereignty] is not top on his mind,” Netanyahu told Channel 20.

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The Lebanese Armed Forces have denied the existence of tunnels.

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN, JPOST  AUGUST 11, 2020

A member of the army is seen at the site of Tuesday’s blast in Beirut’s port area, Lebanon August 8, 2020. (photo credit: REUTERS / HANNAH MCKAY)

Videos circulating online, as well as rumors and reports, indicate that “tunnels” have been found in the wake of the Beirut explosions. Some have asserted that this is evidence of Hezbollah “tunnels” storing weapons at the Port of Beirut, while others think they were used for human trafficking. Both SkyNews and Russia’s Sputnik News claimed there was a “labyrinth network of tunnels.”

The Lebanese Armed Forces have denied the existence of tunnels, just as Hezbollah has denied doing anything at Beirut Port. It’s unclear how the army could refute the claims without investigating the images and videos already circulating online. Nevertheless, the army denied the existence of tunnels.

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by Bassam Tawil, GATESTONE INSTITUTE  •  August 11, 2020

Palestinian leaders seem more worried about an Israeli plan to install an elevator for disabled people at the Tomb of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs in Hebron than about a Palestinian upsurge in violent crime. Pictured: People exit the Tomb of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs in Hebron on August 7, 2020. (Photo by Hazem Bader / AFP via Getty Images)

• “Every person, irrespective of whether or not they are disabled, should have the opportunity to visit the tomb, which is an important Jewish heritage site… The tomb belongs to us after Abraham bought it with his own money 3,800 years ago.” — Former Israeli Defense Minister Naftali Bennett.

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By Andrea Widburg,  AMER THINKER

Two weeks ago, I wrote that the social media giants are refusing to allow people to publish anything about the Wuhan virus that contradicts information from the World Health Organization. This censorship hit close to home on Monday when Facebook banned an American Thinker reader from posting William Sullivan’s post about Sweden’s successful decision not to implement lockdowns.

Nobody questions the fact that the social media giants – Twitter, Facebook, and Google / YouTube – have way too much control over American discourse. Americans believe that they’re participating in a free exchange of ideas, but they’re learning that they’re actually communicating within a censorious, controlling environment that takes its marching orders from the Democrats and, even more worrisomely, from China (at least indirectly):

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The U.S.-Israeli relationship already has many of the characteristics of a formal alliance.

by Gary C. Gambill, MEFORUM   August 10, 2020

Michael Makovsky, president of the Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA), spoke to participants in a June 1 Middle East Forum webinar (video) about the merits of a U.S.-Israel Mutual Defense Pact.

Although the relationship between Israel and the United States has many of the characteristics of a formal alliance – intelligence sharing, regular joint exercises, prepositioned weapons and so forth – the two countries have opted not to sign a traditional mutual defense pact because of Israel’s determination to defend itself by itself and maintain freedom of action in conducting military operations, and because of American reluctance to be dragged into Middle East conflicts.
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The court’s ruling on young illegals is an abomination that must not stand.

By Matthew Vadum, FPM  August 10, 2020

President Donald Trump is quietly turning a stinging defeat at the Supreme Court over an illegal amnesty for hundreds of thousands of young illegal aliens into what could end up being a victory for the Constitution and the rule of law.

The Supreme Court, of course, has no authority to tell the president of the United States that he cannot rescind an illegal executive amnesty ordered by his predecessor in the same manner it was instituted.
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By William Sullivan, AMER THINKER

In life, we encounter things which may work in theory, but not in practice.  Communism is famously one of those things.  Time travel is another.  With any luck, Americans will soon come to realize that strict social distancing, economic lockdowns, and mask-wearing all belong in that category of supposedly sound ideas that simply don’t work in reality.

For evidence, let’s look to Sweden.  As Dr. Malcolm Kendrick, an ER doctor at a hospital in Stockholm, writes on his blog, “COVID is over in Sweden.  People have gone back to their normal lives and barely anyone is getting infected anymore.”

Unlike so many other countries, “Sweden never went into complete lockdown,” Dr. Kendrick writes.  Non-essential businesses remained open, people continued frequenting restaurants, the kids stayed in school, and “very few people have bothered with face masks.”

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By Gordon G. Chang, GATESTONE INSTITUTE  •  August 10, 2020

Pictured: The entrance to the headquarters of ByteDance in Beijing. (Photo by Noel Celis / AFP via Getty Images)

President Donald Trump has issued an executive order that just might save America’s democracy. The order will prohibit Americans from any transaction with ByteDance Ltd., a Chinese company that owns the TikTok video-sharing mobile app.

• At the moment, ByteDance is in negotiations with Microsoft and Twitter to sell TikTok. Yet a sale will not by itself end the threat. Any new owner will have to go over line after line of code to insulate TikTok from Chinese interference.
• Even an exhaustive review may not be sufficient, because Beijing will still know the general architecture of the software, thereby facilitating further manipulation of the app. As Dabrowa told Gatestone, “My team discovered that a foreign actor may come in the backdoor and change the feed.”

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More than 100 organizations pen letter to Mark Zuckerberg, calling for the adoption of the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism.

ARUTZ SHEVA


Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg More than 100 organizations around the world penned a letter to CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, calling for the adoption of the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism.The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, headed by former director general of the Foreign Ministry Dr. Dore Gold, joined the initiative of more than 100 leading Jewish organizations from around the world in an effort to prevent the spread of anti-Semitism on social media.

The initiative comes in the wake of Facebook’s latest update regarding its hate policy and “Fake News” recently announced by Mark Zuckerberg.

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Hezbollah missiles tipped with ammonium nitrate were supposed to rain on Haifa. Opiinion.

By Rabbi Lazer Brody, INN

Iranian missiles (illustrative) Reuters

Because of the preoccupation with the Coronavirus, the blast in Beirut on Tuesday, August 4th got much less attention than it deserved. Sure, the world looked at the explosion in superficial 21st Century style but failed to understand the ramifications of the blast, which are far more important to Israel and the Jewish People than Coronavirus.

While Coronavirus is a pandemic, the Beirut blast wasn’t planned to be in Beirut. It was planned to be a Hiroshima holocaust to level the city of Haifa, all of the Haifa Bay area and kill a million Jews, Heaven forbid. Hashem prevented that just as King David said he would.

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By David M. Weinberg, JISS        

According to critics, application of Israeli law to security and settlement zones in Judea and Samaria will ruin everything. It will undermine the “peace process” (as if there was one), and wreck Israel’s international reputation (as if everybody loved Israel nowadays).

These myths do not stand up to scrutiny.

• Myth 1: “Annexation” would be a violation of international law.

• Fact: “International law” is a malleable concept, and neither the government nor the Supreme Court of Israel ever have accepted the view that Jewish settlement over the Green Line is a violation of international law. Nor can Israel’s assertion of sovereignty in Judea and Samaria be considered “annexation” because the land never “belonged” to the Palestinians. The “Pompeo Declaration” and the “Trump Plan” explicitly accept the historical right of the Jewish People to settle in their biblical homeland (and consequently the US government already has recognized Israeli sovereignty over united Jerusalem and the Golan Heights).

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