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The NYT’s failure to rededicate itself to fairness  

The NYT, is an anti-Israel paper still read by so many Jews that it must share the blame for the decline in their support.for Israel. Op-ed.

By Howard Rotberg, INN

New York Times masthead

I have been arguing for some time that the New York Times has sunk into the Leftist-Islamist-Globalist alliance, a real threat to the Jewish people. Supposedly educated people have been reading it as factual in spite of overwhelming proof that it is just an arm of the Democratic Party, and the leftist progressive wing, at that.

This newspaper is read by a large number of Jews but it is so anti-Israel that it must share some of the blame that many Jewish liberals in America are less than supportive of Israel.

New York City and Tel Aviv are the two largest by population Jewish cities in the world. New York matters.
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July 24, 2020 | 5:07 pm | 1 Comment »

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Netanyahu losing ground, as Bennett and Lapid rise in the polls  

Yamina continued to rise in the polls, receiving 16 seats in the N13 poll and 15 in the N12 poll, more than twice their current amount

 

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is losing ground, according to new polls published by Channels 12 and 13 on Thursday night, making another election any time soon a lot less likely.

In the Channel 13 poll, Netanyahu’s Likud Party would receive only 31 seats were the elections held today, down from 36 (and 40 in recent polls). The Channel 12 poll saw the Likud Party fairing slightly better, winning 32 seats. Read more…

July 24, 2020 | 4:54 pm | 4 Comments »

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Enable Israel to Determine What Is In Its Own Best National Security Interests  

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After decades of thwarting multiple peace offers, the intent of the current Palestinian leadership is obvious: to continue on its rejectionist path, their desire to create not “two states for two peoples” but one Palestinian state from “the river to the sea” is evident.
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July 24, 2020 | 4:27 pm | 1 Comment »

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Answers to the five stated questions will determine the election outcome  

The Democratic Party’s platform consists of the exploitation of public COVID-19 hysteria, the creation of lawless urban chaos, Marxist economic redistribution, and the embrace of unlimited illegal immigration.

By Conrad Black, AM GREATNESS

The presidential election result is now down to five questions.

  • Can the president override the Democratic media’s thunderous campaign to terrorize the country over the coronavirus?
  • Can the president successfully connect Joe Biden’s campaign to the hooligans, anti-white racists, and urban guerrillas who effectively are being encouraged by the corrupt Democratic mayors of many of the nation’s largest cities?
  • Will the economic recovery and the decline in the unemployment generated by the COVID-19 shutdown continue at its recent pace and strengthen the economy as a pro-Trump electoral argument?

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July 24, 2020 | 4:05 pm | Comments »

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Betraying Jewish History watering down the Holocaust  

By Melanie Phillips

In my JNS column below, I refer to a talk given by Baroness Deech. Her text is reproduced below my own article.

The British baroness Ruth Deech, whose family were Jewish refugees from Nazism, recently delivered an impassioned address to the Oxford Jewish community about the way the Holocaust is being evacuated of meaning by memorials and museums in its name.

Her concern was prompted by the controversial plan to build a Holocaust memorial and learning center in London’s Victoria Tower Gardens, a small park near the Houses of Parliament.

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July 24, 2020 | 3:37 pm | Comments »

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With Declining Birth Rates, Is There Nothing For the First World But “Unlimited Mass Migration”?   

BY HUGH FITZGERALD, JIHAD WATCH  JUL 23, 2020

First world countries are suffering from a steady decrease in their fertility rates, and hence their populations. Some “experts” claim the only solution is for limitless immigration from Africa. The story is here.

First world countries must respond to a “jaw-dropping” crash in fertility by totally opening their borders to unlimited mass migration, according to “experts” interviewed by the BBC.
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July 23, 2020 | 4:37 pm | 2 Comments »

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The West Reckons With Beijing’s Neocommunism  

It’s more tech-based than Lenin’s model and more dangerous. The U.S. needs to treat it seriously.

By Walter Russell Mead, WSJ

A bicyclist rides past government propaganda in Beijing, April 20.

China’s rise is more than a problem. It’s a puzzle. Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, most Western analysts have assumed that China is a communist country in the way that France is a Catholic one. That is, there remain Marxist believers in China and practicing Catholics in France, but Beijing is as little guided by Marxist ideology as Emmanuel Macron is led by the precepts of Pius IX.

That turns out not to be true. While Xi Jinping likely spends little time reading Marx’s “Grundrisse” or debating the labor theory of value with his comrades, today’s China combines a Leninist party structure with state control (if not always ownership) of the means of production, a planned economy, an intolerant atheism and a ruthless determination to hold on to power at all costs. That Beijing incorporates market mechanisms into its communist system is not new; Lenin introduced the New Economic Policy in 1921 to speed recovery from the Russian Civil War. But the Chinese Communist Party—armed with information technology that lets it monitor and control economic activity on a scale Lenin could only dream of—has grafted market mechanisms onto a communist state structure with great success.
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July 23, 2020 | 4:24 pm | 2 Comments »

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Why does cancel culture never apply to antisemitism?  

The right may hold power, but it’s the hard left that’s making the culture laws we must live by – and they’re riddled with double standards

By Zoe Strimpel, TELEGRAPH UK

For years now, those made uneasy by the bullying, intellectually dishonest and manipulative tendencies of the illiberal and identity-obsessed left have been sneered at for raising their concerns.

Stop snivelling about free speech, they are told. You’re just part of a right-wing conspiracy, manipulating reality to wreak evil on oppressed minorities, they are told. And what are you complaining about anyway? Conservatives hold high political office. As the headline on the most recent offering from slippery social justice warrior-in-chief Owen Jones whined: ‘The right are in power everywhere, but they can’t stop playing the victim.’

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July 23, 2020 | 3:58 pm | 2 Comments »

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How The American People Will Defeat The Left And Re-elect President Trump  

By Maurice Richards, DAILY CALLER

President Trump Discusses National Security And The Southern Border

If anyone had a doubt about what is at stake in the November 2020 election, it was cleared up over the Fourth of July weekend. After President Trump’s two powerful speeches, the election has now come down to an elemental choice. Will America continue as a democratic republic which upholds the rule of law, equality of rights and opportunity for citizens of all races and religions, and the individual freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution? Or, will we erase our history and descend into a Marxist dystopia of violence, mob-rule, racial hatred and ethnic tribalism?

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July 23, 2020 | 2:45 pm | 8 Comments »

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Trump’s press conference hit it out of the park  

By Peter Friedman, AMERICAN THINKER

With any future plans of his signature rallies on indefinite hold and Biden’s Basement Blathers now in place of any public rallies for the former VP, President Trump’s solo press conference Tuesday was a welcome and needed event.

He also announced that this would be a frequent occurrence for the foreseeable future.  While it only lasted less than 30 minutes, there were some elements of note:

1. This was Trump, Trump and nothing but the Trump.  Gone (seemingly for the time being, anyway) are the days of Trump vs. the establishment doctors, including the now highly discredited after Dr. Anthony Fauci’s (or as I like to call him, “Dr. Fauxci”) as well as the recent fawning over Governor Andrew (“Adolf”) Cuomo’s handling of the coronavirus in the state of New York — one which lead to the death sentencing of thousands of nursing home patients.

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July 23, 2020 | 12:58 pm | 1 Comment »

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Power to illusions: Let me confuse you with the facts  

These facts about systemic racism in the USA will definitely confuse you, but not in the way you expect. Op-ed.

By Valerie Sobel, INN

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Historians of the future will have a hard time figuring out how so many organized groups of strident jackasses succeeded in leading us around by the nose and morally intimidating the majority into silence.”  Thomas Sowell

Except…no one is silent. They’re tripping over each other proclaiming America a racist country. And not because one George Floyd and19 violent, black criminals died (in 2019) at the hands of white-supremacists, the men in blue, who killed many more whites that year. And not because the mainstream media, social media, Hollywood, sports figures, kneeling congress Democrats, Biden, and every corporation touting the popular idea tells us so every hour on the hour.

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July 23, 2020 | 12:48 pm | Comments »

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The West is Lost  

By Victor Rosenthal

Western civilization is going down.

I predict a sudden drop in world population, a result of epidemics, hunger, environmental catastrophes, and perhaps wars, followed by a dark age that may last hundreds or thousands of years.

Although we have the technological tools to deal with epidemics and the ability to suppress the forces that drive us toward chaos, the West does not have the political intelligence or the will to take the appropriate actions.
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July 23, 2020 | 12:00 pm | 5 Comments »

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Greenblatt: Sovereignty tied to setting aside land for Palestinian state  

T. Belman. Notice that Greenblatt didn’t specify the commitment nor say for how long nor say how much land. Nor did he say, that, the sovereignty stood to be undone, if whatever.

Originally the deal was that Israel could extend sovereignty immediately, so long as they undertook to negotiate a palestinian state on the 70%. Also they were to agree to freeze developement of the rest of Area C for 4 years. After, no freeze.

Former envoy says as per US plan, sovereignty “comes with commitment to set aside a certain area for eventual, potential Palestinian state.”

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Jason Greenblatt, former US envoy, told Efi Triger on Galei Tzahal today, Thursday, that Israel declaring sovereignty over parts of Judea and Samaria was tied to “a commitment to set aside a certain area of land for the eventual, potential Palestinian state.”

Greenblatt asserted that the Trump peace plan was unique from previous peace plans in that it placed demands on the Palestinians.

“There’s a lot of criteria before the Palestinians become a state, if it ever happens. I think that’s what differentiates the plan we released from some of the past efforts. There are things that have to be solved before you begin a discussion on what a Palestinian state should look like.
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July 23, 2020 | 8:38 am | 30 Comments »

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The New War on Merit  

The left calls for racial quotas in the name of progress

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The American dream is that any citizen, regardless of sex, race, creed, or color, can rise on his determination and merit. History is littered with examples of the reformers who worked to realize that dream, pushing the most influential institutions in the country to prize talent and hard work over wealth and connections.

The introduction of standardized testing, accessible to all American teens, was part of that push. Harvard University began administering a standardized test to all applicants in 1905. Its effect was profound and immediate: historically a landing spot for the Protestant upper crust, the school began admitting far more public school kids, Catholics, and Jews.
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July 22, 2020 | 6:59 pm | 2 Comments »

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The “Maximum Pressure” on Iran’s Regime  

by Majid Rafizadeh, GATESTONE INSTITUTE  •  July 22, 2020 at 5:00 am

  • For almost four decades, Iran’s regime has been squandering the nation’s resources on terror and militia groups… It is estimated that the regime has spent more than $100 billion on its nuclear program.
  • Many employees of the government, including coal workers and railroad workers, have been protesting unpaid wages and salaries. One protester told Iran News Wire, “I wish I would get COVID-19. Many of us do. Committing suicide is hard but we wish for death every day. What we have is not a life.”
  • Some of Iran’s authorities have publicly announced that they also do not have money to pay their mercenaries abroad.
  • Iran’s mullahs have no one to blame but themselves for the country’s drastic economic situation. They simply need to start prioritizing their own people over sponsoring and funding terror and militia groups across the region.

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July 22, 2020 | 6:53 pm | 2 Comments »

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Leftist Destruction of our Culture:  

Tolerism and Virtue Signalling Transform Into Masochism

by Howard Rotberg, NER

Violence and looting, burning down stores, churches and small businesses, destroying statues and monuments, antagonism to the American Constitution and Bill of Rights, re-writing History and educational curricula to make America an immoral presence in world history, rather than one of the most successful syntheses of liberty, Justice and capitalism and constitutional checks and balances, people fired for saying “All Lives Matter” instead of just “Black Lives Matter, the sad adoption of anti-Semitism by Black groups and universities – these are the main elements of what we might initially have thought was just a tolerance gone crazy, but might now seem to be a way for “woke” progressives to signal their virtue. Moreover,, now we see these events as reflecting an increasing destruction of Good (and God) and a turning towards evil, in an orgy of masochism driving a Culture War.
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July 22, 2020 | 6:31 pm | 1 Comment »

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Black Lives Matter reveals a generation of damaged straight, white women  

By Andrea Widburg, AMERICAN INSTITUTE

The Black Lives Matter movement and the subsequent riots by Antifa, the Democrat party’s domestic terrorist arm, have shown Americans what leftism is — an ugly combination of social and government coercion, racism, violence, and anti-Americanism. It’s also revealed that the American left has been using American blacks as a vehicle for political power without any regard for actually improving black people’s lives. Instead, the left destroys their communities and doubles down on damaging policies.

What few have pointed out, though, is the way BLM protests have revealed the damage that decades of leftist messaging have visited on straight, young, white women. To set the stage, here are some videos of the hysterical, young, white women who keep showing up in the front row of the Black Lives Matter movement, whether screaming at police, arguing with black people, rioting, or groveling:

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July 22, 2020 | 6:11 pm | Comments »

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Woke Vs. Racist: What’s the Difference?  

By Derek Hunter, TOWNHALL

Woke Vs. Racist: What’s the Difference?

There’s a great comedy video that went viral this week pointing out the similarities between the woke set and racists. Like all good comedy, it’s funny because it’s true. If you watch any of these Black Lives Matter “protests” you notice one big thing: they’re mostly young white people. Yes, the leaders of the organization “Black Lives Matter” are black, they’re also rich, racist Marxists busy counting piles of money, but the people attacking police officers are mostly white. Listening to the rioters, pundits, politicians, and reporters you notice something odd: they all seem to believe black people are incapable of succeeding without their help. This used to be called the “white savior complex,” now it’s simply called “progressive.”President George W. Bush famously and correctly called what liberals were doing to minority students in education “the soft bigotry of low expectations.” He was right then; now the left has stepped up their game and fully hardened that bigotry.
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July 22, 2020 | 2:01 pm | Comments »

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The Dehumanization of Blacks  

By Dennis Prager

The Dehumanization of Blacks

If you take black and white left-wing rhetoric seriously, blacks are not human beings like members of other races. They are first and foremost black; they are human beings defined before anything else by their color — not their humanity, their personality, their character, their mind or their heart. So much so that, according to white and black leftists, if you dissent from this racist view, you are now labeled racist.

The idiocy and inhumanity (literally) of this, the “progressive” view of black people, is easily demonstrated. Do any blacks see themselves first as black? When a black man, let’s call him James, looks into the mirror, does he first see a black person, or does he see James? When a white woman, let’s call her Karen (I’m playing with the left here), looks into the mirror, does she first see a white person, or does she see Karen? Does any human being first see his or her color? Read more…

July 22, 2020 | 1:53 pm | 4 Comments »

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