By Douglas Feith and Lewis Libby , BESA    July 15, 2020

T. Belman. This says everything you need to know.  Remember, I kept telling you to ignore Trump’s Plan.  Now you know why. “A notable feature of the plan is the warning that, if the Palestinians continue to reject peace unreasonably, the US will not block Israel from advancing its own claims to areas that, in the administration’s view, realistic peace talks would leave to Israel.”

The US has now “tried” to get a deal. Having failed, Israel is free to do what it wants without an American block. I expect sovereignty to be extended next week. The Trump Plan is dead.

Mideast Security and Policy Studies Paper #175

President Donald Trump unveils his peace plan for Israel and the Palestinians, Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The Trump peace plan tells the Palestinians that the sensible question is not whether a deal provides everything you think you are entitled to, but whether it is the best deal available. If their demands for “justice” include Israel’s destruction, it says, the United States will not support them and will not fight to preserve the status quo for their benefit. A notable feature of the plan is the warning that, if the Palestinians continue to reject peace unreasonably, the US will not block Israel from advancing its own claims to areas that, in the administration’s view, realistic peace talks would leave to Israel.

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BY CHRISTINE DOUGLASS-WILLIAMS, JIHAD WATCH 32 COMMENTS

The National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM) was originally named CAIR-CAN, that is, the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Canada. Its record can be seen HERE.

The NCCM advises the Trudeau Liberal Government of Canada on issues of “racism” and “Islamophobia,” including on matters related to a 23-million-dollar followup plan to the anti-Islamophobia M-103. The plan stipulates that Canadians will be “monitored for compliance,” and that law enforcement will be trained to investigate online and offline “hate.”

The NCCM also sent a formal letter to the Trudeau government complaining about my writings for Jihad Watch while I was an appointee to the Canadian Race Relations Foundation. I was subsequently fired.

The National Council of Canadian Muslims also expressed concerns and sent a formal letter to the government in October. Executive director Ihsaan Gardee said Douglass-Williams’ removal is an “appropriate corrective measure taken by government to address (her) disturbing public record.”

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By Jay Schalin, AMERICAN THINKER

Recently, President Trump tweeted about his intention to use federal funding as a lever to stop that extreme politicization in our schools. The tweets were:

Too Many Universities and School Systems are about Radical Left Indoctrination, not Education. Therefore, I am telling the Department of Education to re-examine their tax-exempt status…

And/or Funding, which will be taken away if this Propaganda or Act Against Public Policy continues. Our children must be Educated, not Indoctrinated!

Immediately, education experts were contacted by reporters for verification that the president really can’t do that. The Associated Press cited Terry Hartle, “the senior vice president of the American Council on Education (ACE), which represents university presidents.” Hartle suggested that the president cannot revoke schools’ tax-exempt status because “ideology is not on the IRS’s list” of matters for which that action can be taken.

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By Michael J. Mueller, AMERICAN THINKER

The most virulent scourge affecting the United States today is not the Wuhan coronavirus; rather, it’s the politicization of the pandemic by leftist Democrats to remove a duly elected President.  History has never witnessed a more concerted effort to negate the will of the American electorate.  Donald J. Trump has endured this unprecedented onslaught of vitriol, hate, and falsehoods perpetrated by leftist Democrat politicians, mainstream propagandists, and liberal progressives.  Consequently, the government has been at a virtual standstill as Democrats inflict one manufactured crisis after another on the American people with the goal of removing the President.

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Dear A.G.,

It is with sadness that I write to tell you that I am resigning from The New York Times.

I joined the paper with gratitude and optimism three years ago. I was hired with the goal of bringing in voices that would not otherwise appear in your pages: first-time writers, centrists, conservatives and others who would not naturally think of The Times as their home. The reason for this effort was clear: The paper’s failure to anticipate the outcome of the 2016 election meant that it didn’t have a firm grasp of the country it covers. Dean Baquet and others have admitted as much on various occasions. The priority in Opinion was to help redress that critical shortcoming.

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Historical and Legal Milestones that Make the Case

By Amb. Alan Baker, JCPA     July 13, 2020

Participants in the San Remo Conference after adoption of the April 25, 1920 resolution, which incorporated the Balfour Declaration of 1917. Pictured from left to right: Japan’s Ambassador Keishiro Matsui, British Prime Minister Lloyd George, British Secretary of State Lord Curzon, French diplomat Philippe Berthelot, French President Alexandre Millerand, Italian Vittorio Scialoja, and Italian Prime Minister Francesco Saverio Nitti. (Wikipedia)The subject of the rights of the Jewish People and the State of Israel under international law, in the West Bank areas of Judea and Samaria, involves a complex and extensive web of historical, legal, military, and political issues.

The Jewish People Have Historical Claims in Judea and Samaria

Israel’s claims to sovereignty regarding the West Bank areas of Judea and Samaria did not originate with Israel’s attaining control of the area following the 1967 Six-Day War.

Israel’s rights are based on the indigenous and historical claims of the Jewish people in the area as a whole, virtually from time immemorial.

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BY AMIL IMANI / 14 JULY 2020

Islam is akin to violence. Violence is the core of Islam, and it has been ever since the time of Muhammad in Medina by Muhammad’s own edict and conducts. Without violence of all kinds, Islamic ideology would undergo a slow death. Violence is the lifeblood of Islam.

Take away violence, and you shut down the blood supply from the body of this nefarious cult.

We need to realize Islam is violent, not only against non-Muslims, but it is also violent against its own numerous sects and offshoots. Even within every sect and offshoot violence in the most savage ways is practiced. Just to name some examples: public lashing, cutting off hands for stealing even a morsel of bread, blinding convicts or hanging them, stoning the so-called adulterers, castrating sexual offenders, and hanging of homosexuals. That is Islam in a nutshell.
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By Dr. Emmanuel Karagiannis, BESA

Suleymaniye Mosque at sunset, Istanbul, Turkey, image via pickpik

BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,647, July 16, 2020

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The Turkey we once knew no longer exists. Despite NATO objections and US warnings, Ankara acquired the advanced S-400 anti-aircraft system from Russia. In response, Washington canceled Turkish participation in the F-35 program. In the latest episode of this saga, a Turkish court sentenced a US Consulate employee to almost nine years in prison for aiding the Gülen movement. President Erdo?an has behaved like a bully toward the EU, weaponizing Muslim refugees and migrants. He has also issued direct threats to Greece and regularly antagonizes Israel.  

The US political elite has long suffered from “Who lost that country?” syndrome. It started with the Truman administration, which failed to prevent the communist takeover of China in 1949. Then President Kennedy was blamed for the victory of Fidel Castro in Cuba in 1959. The Nixon administration saw the collapse of South Vietnam in 1975, and President Carter could not save the Shah from the Iranian revolution. Despite this historical background, many American policymakers—Republicans and Democrats alike—refuse to accept the obvious: Turkey is swinging away from the West. Here are five reasons why.

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T. Belman. Its in israel’s interest to make this move independent of the Deal of the Century and without Trump’s support.  That way she won’t embroil herself in the commitment to negotiate a Palestinian state.

There is no way that Trump would force Israel to recind, especially with the Nov 3 elections coming up soon.  He can’t afford to allienate his Evangelical base.

If sovereignty over the Jordan Valley is vital, we must establish it whether the Trump administration publicly endorses the move or not.

By Avi Bareli, ISRAEL HAYOM

Many in Israel and around the world believe that the government’s plan to extend sovereignty to the Jordan Valley is a matter of seizing an opportunity, but that is not the case, as this move serves an imperative Israeli security interest.

This issue first emerged in 2001, when the Palestinians responded to the peace proposal put forth by then-Prime Minister Ehud Barak by launching a wave of terrorist attacks. Between 2005 and 2016, the Palestinians went on to refuse peace offers presented by prime ministers Ariel Sharon and Ehud Olmert, as well as US Secretary of State John Kerry and US President Barack Obama.

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Recent strikes on Iran carried out by stealth missiles undetectable by radars, have hit 4 Iranian NUCLEAR sites;

one an underground warehouse for radioactive uranium,

followed by 7 more sites of Iran’s nuclear program

Also, ongoing atrikes on Iran’s military sites in IRAQ

At least 7 ships catch fire at port in Iran — report

Iranian news agency doesn’t say what started the blaze in Bushehr, the province housing the Islamic Republic’s only nuclear plant

By TOI STAFF  Today, 4:35 pm

A screenshot from video of a fire on a ship at the Bushehr port in southern Iran, July 15, 2020. (Screen capture: Twitter)

At least seven ships caught fire Wednesday at the Persian Gulf port of Bushehr in Iran, the Tasnim news agency reported.

The news agency didn’t say what started the blaze. There were no reports of injuries.

A local official quoted by the official IRNA news agency said authorities were working to bring the fires under control.

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by Barry Shaw via theviewfromisrael.com

Has nobody noticed how racially exploitative the Black Lies Matter Momentum organization is?

Why has nobody stopped to question how and why this organization has adopted a hashtag and used it to raise a fortune, estimated to be in excess of $1.5 Billion and funneled it, not into improving the living conditions of African-Americans in squalid Democrat-controlled inner cities, but through a slush fund operation called ACT BLUE – not Act Black, but Act Blue, as in blue for the Democratic Party.
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Settler leaders protest after report of comments by Knesset Speaker Yariv Levin, a member of the mapping committee. ‘No need to wait for anyone,’ says Yesha Council

By Jacob Magid, TOI

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The White House has said repeatedly that it is up to Israel to decide on annexation, but has yet to give a definitive answer as to whether it is prepared to support and recognize the unilateral annexation now of part or all of the 30% of the West Bank allocated to Israel in its peace plan.

While similar comments have been made in recent weeks by Likud officials who have acknowledged that the spiraling pandemic has forced the attention of world leaders to turn to other issues, Levin is one of only a handful of Israeli officials who have been deeply involved in talks with American officials regarding the Trump plan’s implementation and ramifications. Read more…

By Dr. James M. Dorsey, BESA

BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,645, July 15, 2020

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Europe is being progressively sucked into the Middle East and North Africa’s myriad conflicts. As if wars on its doorstep in Libya and Syria were not enough, UAE support for an Eastern Mediterranean pipeline that could hurt Qatar economically—combined with Greek, Cypriot, and French opposition to Turkish moves—leaves Europe with few, if any, options but to get involved.

Europe’s headaches just got worse. Its efforts to contain wars on its doorstep in Libya and Syria have failed at a moment when Europe is struggling to control a pandemic and reverse its economic fallout.

Proxy wars that pit the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt against Qatar and Turkey have spilled out of Libya and Syria and into the Eastern Mediterranean as a whole.

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From Laurie Cardoza Moore,Founder of PJNT

I had the tremendous opportunity this weekend to talk to a national audience about the crisis in American education on the Fox News Network and if you missed it, I hope you will watch my Saturday morning interview on “Fox & Friends” with host Pete Hegseth here:

The White House announced Tuesday that President Donald Trump plans to appoint former White House adviser Sebastian Gorka to be a member of the National Security Education Board.