Trump administration still looking to approve sovereignty moves this month, despite COVID-related delays.

By TOVAH LAZAROFF and OMRI NAHMIAS, JPOST JULY 14, 2020

A European Union flag flies outside the European Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, December 19, 2019.

The European Union, Denmark and the Palestinian Authority signed an agreement on Tuesday to build 16 infrastructure projects for the Palestinians in Area C. The EU reaffirmed its opposition to Israel extending its sovereignty in that area.

Area C is the part of the West Bank under Israeli control, according to the Oslo Accords. Any construction, including structures built for Palestinians, must be approved by the IDF, which governs it.

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Why did we hold an elaborate and expensive Nuremberg trial of the Nazis after WWII? We could have just asked for their apologies.Op-ed.

By Alan Bergstein,INN  15/07/20 06:39

PLO flag waved at Black Lives Matter rally in Paris

A genetic malady afflicts most of our current Jewish leaders, characterized by the lack of a backbone at birth, bears the common names of “coward-itis,” and “appease-itis” but in reality, it’s simply stupidity –

“Who is wise? He that can predict the future.(Ethics of the Fathers),” referring to a future that is a predictable result of present behavior.

Amidst the Jew hating that has simmered within the black community for years, hatred that has now blossomed into everyday, suddenly acceptable behavior, our spokespeople are either supportive of this open anti-Semitism or mumbling words of shameless apology that merely energize our haters to ramp up their violence against us.
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By Katie Pavlich, TOWNHALL

During an exclusive interview with Townhall from the White House Tuesday morning, President Trump warned his administration will take action if Democratic mayors and governors can’t get crime under control.

It is wrong to overlook the Judeo-phobic bigotry that pollutes the worldview of Black Lives Matter and its political allies.

By Ted Lipkin, JPOST

People hold up a banner during a Black Lives Matter protest outside City Hall in Manhattan, New York (photo credit: REUTERS)

If there’s anything the Jews have learned from their blood-soaked history, it’s when someone says they mean to harm you, take them at their word. So to those who suggest that we should excuse the excesses of Black Lives Matter (BLM) for the sake of a greater good, my answer is simple: No.

I say no because opposition to one form of racism does not confer immunity to criticism over other forms of ethnic bigotry. Per this fair and uniform standard, the BLM movement stands condemned by the antisemitic words and deeds of its leaders and activists.
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By Tabitha Korol  July 13, 2020

This is my fifth review of a children’s propagandist library book. “Tasting the Sky” described Barakat’s children. “Balcony on the Moon” covers her high school years and her ongoing pursuit for Palestine.

Ramallah-born Ibtisam Barakat, a kind, intelligent child, has become a thoughtful, accomplished young woman. She excelled in her studies and defied Islamic custom by breaking free of an early arranged marriage to pursue her education.

In her book Balcony on the Moon, she explains that she was born in “Palestine,” but questions why it appears nowhere on a map. Except for the nineteen years of Jordan’s rule over its “West Bank,” it was historically Judea (from which is derived “Jew”) and Samaria. The name Palestine was a Roman-contrived insult to the Jews, a taunt of their ancient Cretan enemies, the Philistines.
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From northwest Iraq to Tripoli on Libya’s African coast, Turkey is flexing its muscles – without the slightest nod to the supposedly ‘pro-Western’ and ‘pro-NATO’ orientation that Turkey’s Western apologists like to recall.

By Dr. Jonathan Spyer, JISS

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan holds a map showing the evolution of Israel and Palestinian state from 1947 as he addresses the general debate of the 74th session of the General Assembly of the United Nations at United Nations Headquarters in New York, 2019 | File photo: EPA/Jason Szenes

Turkish forces are at the present time bolstering newly constructed outposts in Iraqi Kurdistan. The Turks have established five new positions on mountainous terrain near the villages of Sharanish and Banka, in the Zakho area adjoining the border with Turkey, since commencing operation in the area in mid-June. Troops have been transported in by helicopter to man the new positions.
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The “intellectual” signatories seem to learn nothing—not even from even the recent past.

By Conrad Black, AM GREATNESS • July 13, 2020

The recent letter “on justice and open debate,” published in Harper’s magazine on July 7 and signed by some 150 self-nominated intellectuals, will stand as one of the conspicuous fatuities of this intense American election year.

The intellectuals begin with the portentous assertion that “Our cultural institutions are facing a moment of trial.” It is then explained that forces that have all long demanded “police reform and greater equality and inclusion across our society,” goals whose championship these signatories claim throughout for themselves, are now being threatened. They have “intensified a new set of moral attitudes and political commitments that tend to weaken our norms of open debate and toleration of differences in favor of ideological conformity.”
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by Khaled Abu Toameh, GATESTONE INSTITUTE  •  July 14, 2020

• By courting Hamas, Abbas and Fatah are emboldening an Islamist movement that seeks to extend its control from the Gaza Strip to the West Bank. Hamas’s declared goal is to replace Israel with an Iranian-style Islamist state.
• Abbas may also be using his renewed ties with Hamas as a way of pressuring the international community into providing him with more financial aid.
• Hamas evidently wants to use the West Bank as a launching pad for carrying out terrorist attacks against Israel.
• Hamas also does not appear to be headed towards recognizing Israel’s right to exist. As such, Abbas seems to be handing Hamas the noose that eventually will be tied around his own neck.

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T. Belman.  loved the trip down memory lane

By Ruth King, AMERICAN THINKER

Broadway has been depressingly dark for months, so Disney produced Hamilton on TV for a large and grateful audience. However, the PC monitors, who never rest, criticized the play for portraying principals who were slaveowners.

When the lights go on again, will they come for the theater?

Could Driving Miss Daisy ever be performed again? It is a heartwarming tale by Alfred Uhry about the relationship of an elderly Southern Jewish woman, Daisy Werthan, and her black chauffeur, Hoke Coleborn. It enjoyed wide praise in various iterations on stage and in a movie, but today it would raise the hackles of political correctness officers.

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US isn’t open to talks on sovereignty plan at this time, says top Israeli official, and Netanyahu won’t apply sovereignty without US backing

By David Rosenberg, INN  14/07/20

Netanyahu proposes sovereignty plan September 10th 2019

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s plan to apply sovereignty over parts of Judea and Samaria has been frozen for the time being, a senior Israeli official said Tuesday morning.

Yariv Levin (Likud), the Knesset Speaker and chief of the Israeli delegation negotiating with the White House on the implementation of the sovereignty plan, said in closed talks that talks with the US on the plan were not progressing at this time, adding that American officials were open to discussion on the subject at this time, Galei Tzahal‘s Moriah Asraf Wolberg reported Tuesday on ‘Good Morning Israel‘ with Efi Triger.

Levin, a key Netanyahu ally, also said that Prime Minister Netanyahu would not move forward with the sovereignty plan without support from the US.

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By Yehudit Katsover and Nadia Matar

One hundred years of practical Zionism and more than seventy years of statehood have proven that Zionism embodies a tremendous economic stimulus for the Jewish people. A government choice to continue the Zionist strategy that characterized the Jewish people over recent decades will constitute the basis for continued economic development that will steadily intensify in the future.

Even without citing the prophetic verses of redemption, one can certainly assert that the Land of Israel has warmly welcomed the returning Jewish people. The land’s warm welcome is manifest in agriculture, industry, hi-tech, medicine, and countless other areas. If only we continue to adopt the ways of the Zionist return of the people to its land, we will receive an exponentially greater return from the yield of the land and from the yield of the ingathering of the exiles to it. We will see how, “always the eyes of the Lord your God are upon the land of Israel, from the beginning of the year until the end of the year” (Deuteronomy 11:13).

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By Col. (res.) Dr. Eran Lerman and Prof. Efraim Inbar, JISS

Executive Summary

The American peace plan provides a historic opportunity to break the futile paradigm based on the 1967 lines and ensure Israeli national security for the long term. It can extricate Israel (and the Palestinians) from false hopes engendered by the current peace paradigm – the “conventional wisdom” about an Israeli-Palestinian deal involving the expectation of Israeli withdrawal to the 1967 borders (with slight modifications), the uprooting of settlements, and a partition of Jerusalem. Again, this old paradigm is a recipe for continued deadlock.

In terms of security – protecting Israel, stabilizing Jordan, and preventing a terrorist takeover of a future Palestinian entity, and given the supreme importance of national cohesion, it is imperative to focus on the Jordan Valley and the Jerusalem envelope (which dominates the road to the Jordan Valley). There is a broad national consensus regarding the need to retain these regions. Moreover, this paradigm is consistent with Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s strategic legacy (as expressed in his last major diplomatic address to the Knesset in 1995).
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But how will this mashup of movies end this time?

By Bruce Thornton

Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and first term have been a weird mashup of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. The difference is we won’t know until November 3 how this show will end.

Like the naïve appointed senator Jefferson Smith, Trump is a complete outsider to the bipartisan political guild that has run the country since 1945, lacking as he does the Ivy League credentials and/or government “service” required of our postwar presidents. And just as the populist Smith ended up exposing the corruption festering in DC, the populist Trump has kept his promise to “drain” the bipartisan “swamp” of incestuous government agencies and political offices that have exploited their power to enrich themselves and dominate their political rivals, rather than serve the interests of ordinary citizens.
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President Trump is enabling Jared Kushner to drive his chariot dangerously close to the sun. And if Kushner crashes, he will take Trump’s administration with him.

By Pedro Gonzalez, AM GREATNESS

It is a grand thing to rise in the world,” said Anthony Trollope, an English novelist of the Victorian era. “The ambition to do so is the very salt of the earth.” But sometimes ambition is the mother of monsters.

A recent article in The Hill cited “multiple reports” and two mega-donor Koch network groups—Americans for Prosperity and the LIBRE Initiative—as evidence to paint Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior advisor, as an immigration hawk. It was a portrait to make him look as if he were about to swoop down and pluck worker visas from the leafage.

Jared Kushner is many things, but “immigration hawk” is not one of them.
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Under 25 year agreement reportedly finalized, Beijing and Tehran to increase military cooperation, including weapons development and intel sharing; China getting discount oil

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Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, greets Iranian President Hassan Rouhani at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit in Qingdao in eastern China’s Shandong Province on June 10, 2018. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Negotiations between Iran and China over the creation of a 25-year strategic accord appear to have concluded, with The New York Times on Sunday publishing excerpts from an 18-page agreement labeled “final version” that could see Beijing invest $400 billion over the next 25 years in exchange for discount oil.

The document — which The Times said was dated June 2020 and has yet to be approved by the Majles, Iran’s parliament — detailed how Beijing would receive Iranian oil at a sharply reduced price for the next quarter century in exchange expanding its economic involvement in a variety of fields, including banking and infrastructure, such as telecommunications and transport.

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by Gordon G. Chang, GATESTONE INSTITUTE  •  July 13, 2020

• China was malicious, and there is plenty of evidence of planning.
• “Whether WHO can reform effectively is directly tied to the accountability issue,” wrote Dr. Xiaoxu Sean Lin, former lab director of the viral disease branch of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, to Gatestone. The structure of the organization defeats accountability he argues, because its leaders report to many member states and therefore to no one. As a result, unacceptable conduct goes unpunished.
• To make matters worse, the WHO is a UN body, and the UN is composed of some of the world’s most malign actors. Accountability in such an organization is extremely unlikely as long as China, for instance, is considered a legitimate participant in issues of global concern, such as public health.

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By Jack Davis, WESTERN JOURNAL

Scott Olson / Getty Images; Win McNamee / Getty ImagesMinnesota Gov. Tim Walz wants U.S. taxpayers to help fund repairs for damage to Minneapolis from riots, but President Donald Trump’s Federal Emergency Management Agency isn’t going along. (Scott Olson / Getty Images; Win McNamee / Getty Images)

The Trump administration has rejected Minnesota’s request for federal aid to repair damage inflicted on Minneapolis and St. Paul after the death of George Floyd.

Gov.  Tim Walz,  a member of the state’s Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, announced earlier this month that he was asking the Federal Emergency Management Agency for the funds.

Walz noted in a release that “nearly 1,500 Twin Cities businesses were damaged by vandalism, fire, or looting” that took place during violent protests that followed Floyd’s death.

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