by Giulio Meotti, GAESTONE INSTITUTE  •  July 12, 2020

• “Would you have enjoyed it so much if a mosque at the center of Europe was converted into a church?” — Ertugrul Özkök, Hurriyet, March 8, 2014.
• Turkey, however, also apparently wanted to inflict a humiliation on the West. By turning Hagia Sophia into a mosque, Erdogan has been able to embarrass Washington, mock Brussels and defy Moscow.
• For Erdogan and the Islamists, Hagia Sophia is the prime symbol of Christianity’s subjugation to Islam.
• “Hagia Sophia is the symbol of conquest. It belongs to us”. — Yunus Genç, head of the Istanbul branch of the Anatolian Youth Association, Le Figaro, October 7, 2020.
• When cartoons of Mohammed appeared in Danish and French newspapers in 2005, the Muslim world erupted in violence…. Now that Turkey is turning its formerly most important Christian monument into a mosque, there is no protest, only silence and mumbling, which are nothing but the soundtrack of the West’s submission to Islam.

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T. Belman.  At least, Erdogan is not tearing it down, yet. The practice of wiping out the past is a fundamental tool of the Muslim world as it proceeds to conquer the world.  The red/green alliance in America is doing likewise with their desecretion of historical and religious monuments.

Opening it up to Muslim prayer is part of the Islamic conquest. Erdogan has his eyes on the Temple Mount.  He wants to make it more Islamic than it is today.

Defying the international community, Turkish president changes status of the legendary 6th-century site, which has been a symbol of ecumenical relations for centuries. “Like all our mosques, the doors of Hagia Sophia will be open to all, locals and foreigners, Muslims and non-Muslims,” he pledges. Scholars express concern about the fate of unique medieval mosaics inside the colossal landmark.

By Dean Shmuel Elmas, ISRAEL HAYOM

Muslims offer their evening prayers outside the Byzantine-era Hagia Sophia, one of Istanbul’s main tourist attractions in the historic Sultanahmet district of Istanbul | Photo: AP/Emrah Gurel

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T. Belman.  Not mentioned here is their enormous opposition to Trump’s Muslim Ban. The Jews could care less that Muslims are the most antisemetic people on earth.  I submit that one of the main reasons for the great spike in antisemetism is the significant increase in the Muslim population in Canada and the US.

By Eileen F. Toplansky, AMERICAN THINKER

Jews are now commemorating what is known as the Three Weeks.  It is when Jews express grief for the destruction of the Holy Temple in ancient Israel.  The Temple was breached by the Romans in 69 C.E.  The mourning period concludes with a fast to remember when both Holy Temples were set aflame.  Thus, Tisha B’Av (Ninth of Av) is the saddest day of the Jewish calendar.

These calamitous events, among others, came from outside the Jewish world but have impacted it for centuries.  What is happening today in America and abroad is that Jews are deliberately working against themselves.  Why are so many Jews joining forces with a known antisemitic group such as the Black Lives Matter?

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T. Belman. In 1973, his father, PM Pierre Trudeau, made an historic visit to China, the year after Pres Nixon did.  But Pierre was first to open up diplomatic relationships. Pierre had a fascination with communism and was best buds with  Castro.

The apple didn’t fall far from the tree.

By Andrea Widburg, AMERICAN THINKER
Monopolies aren’t bad just because they seal a market from competition, driving prices up and quality down. In an internet era, tech monopolies are truly malevolent because they foreclose the marketplace of ideas. Amazon just provided more proof of this fact by banning both paper and e-book sales of Ezra Levan’s China Virus. Teddy Roosevelt would have known what to do. It’s questionable whether anyone in today’s Washington has TR’s principles or courage.

Ezra Levant, a Canadian conservative, has spent years battling the censors in Canada, a country that lacks a First Amendment. His speech can be inflammatory but, before Friday, he was able to say freely in America what Canadian laws repeatedly tried to censor. Amazon changed that.
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www.verygoodnewsisrael.blogspot.com

In the 12th July 20 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:

• New Israeli high-sensitivity tests for Covid-19 infections and antibodies.
• Thousands of Israeli mobile X-ray devices have been distributed worldwide.
• Israel has appointed its first Arab Bedouin ambassador.
• Israeli scientists are making hand sanitizer from vegetable waste.
• Investment in Israeli startups has surged in the last 3 months.
• More Israeli security for ports in European and (Muslim) African countries.
• A UK Tour de France champion is to lead an Israeli cycling team.
• Another orthodox Israeli woman has qualified to advise on matters of Jewish law.
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VERY DYNAMIC AND VERY ENTERTAINING

DONALD JABS. HILLARY BOBS AND WEAVES.
DONALD MAKES SENSE. HILLARY MAKES NONSENSE.
HILLARY KEEPS REFERRING TO OTHERS WHO SAY SHE’S GREAT RATHER THAN TO MAKE THE CASE HERSELF

Business owners, supporters, protest COVID-19 restrictions in Tel Aviv. ‘We’re not afraid of coronavirus, we’re afraid gov’t will kill us.’

Arutz Sheva Staff , 11/07/20 21:51

Thousands of people protested Saturday night at Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square.

The protest was organized by business owners who suffered losses due to the coronavirus restrictions.

“We call on the politicians to avoid coming to the Square this evening,” the organizers said. “They had enough time to work for us. The protest beginning this evening is not that of polticians – not from the right and not from the left – it is a protest of the people.”

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Trump has a 4 point lead in all swing states.

Blast at centrifuge assembly facility may have set back development by 2 years, experts tell the NY Times, with series of strikes causing ‘extreme internal and external pressure’

By TOI STAFF 10 July 2020, 10:02 pm

The explosion at a health clinic in Tehran, Iran, on June 30, 2020. (Screen capture: Twitter)

An alleged Israeli attack on an advanced centrifuge development and assembly plant at Iran’s Natanz uranium enrichment facility exhibited the complexity of the Stuxnet virus that sabotaged Iranian enrichment centrifuges a decade ago, experts and analysts said in a new report Friday.

Officials with knowledge of the blast at Natanz last week told The New York Times that it was most likely the result of a bomb planted at the facility, potentially at a strategic gas line, but that it was not out of the question that a cyberattack was used to cause a malfunction that led to the explosion.

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Phone call transcripts confirm Netanyahu lobbied both Kremlin and incoming Trump administration to curb initiative perceived as incompatible with Israel’s long-term security needs

i24NEWS| 06.18.20 ,

The Jerusalem Post reported Thursday that phone conversations between U.S. President Donald Trump’s former adviser Michael Flynn and former Russian UN Ambassador Sergey Kislyak confirm that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lobbied both the Kremlin and the incoming Trump administration to curb the initiative he perceived as incompatible with Israel’s long-term security needs.

Israel, it appears, learned of the planned move while working against the Obama administration-coordinated UNSC Resolution 2334, the first resolution since 1979 to condemn Israel over its settlement policy. Memorably, the U.S. abstained from voting, enabling the resolution’s passage, in one of Obama’s last acts as president.
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T. Belman. Flipping the school system from indoctination to education, is a challenge Trump is up to.

By Ellie Bufkin, TOWNHALL

President Trump had harsh words for the American public education system on Friday. In a tweet admonishing public educators for being leftist indoctrinators, not educators, the president said he was looking into the tax-exempt status and federal funding of schools and universities.

“Too many Universities and School Systems are about Radical Left Indoctrination, not Education,” he said in a Friday afternoon tweet. “Therefore, I am telling the Treasury Department to re-examine their Tax-Exempt Status ontinues. Our children must be Educated, not Indoctrinated!”

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T. Belman.  For years I didn’t understand why Britain tolerated Muslim grooming gangs.  I still don’t.

by Raymond Ibrahim, GATESTONE INSTITUTE  •  July 11, 2020

According to Sarah Champion, a UK Labor politician and MP for Rotherham (the epicenter of sex grooming gangs), “We need to understand racially and religiously aggravated crime if we are going to prevent it and protect people from it and if we are going to prosecute correctly for it.” (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

• “[W]e are neglecting to properly address the religious and racist aspects of grooming gang crimes…. It’s telling them that it’s OK to hate white people.” — Sarah Champion, British Labour MP, YorkshireLive, April 29, 2020.

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“Democrats are comfortable with backing a Marxist revolutionary group that funnels its financing through an organization headed, in part, by an unrepentant terrorist. Democrats therefore have no moral high ground from which to complain about Trump’s decision to commute Stone’s sentence.”

By Andrea Widburg, AMERICAN THINKER

On Friday, President Trump commuted Roger Stone’s sentence on the ground that Stone was an unfortunate victim of the Democrats’ Russia hoax. Democrats and other leftists responded with the usual outrage.

This outrage seems absurd when one considers the recent report that one of the leading Black Lives Matter fundraisers is Susan Rosenberg, a convicted domestic terrorist who was once on the FBI’s most-wanted list. Rosenberg is relevant to a discussion about Stone because Bill Clinton, on the last day of his presidency, commuted her 58-year-prison sentence after only 16 years.
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This video starts at 20 min. These very smart women all have senior positions in the Trump reelection campaign. They are joined by Leo Terrell to discuss indoctrination in US education system, school choice and school openings.

What the world is witnessing right now is someone hitting Iranian nuclear and conventional weapons and IRGC facilities practically at will.

By Yonah Jeremy Bob, JPOST   JULY 10, 2020

A handout satellite image shows a general view of the Natanz nuclear facility after a fire, in Natanz, Iran July 8, 2020

Iran is facing a total intelligence breakdown.

With another explosion on Thursday night, reportedly at an Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps facility, the question is not only how anyone has pulled up to seven attacks off in around two weeks, but how has the Islamic Republic repeatedly failed to stop them.

From 2010-2013, the regime succeeded in cracking a CIA cell and eliminated many CIA operatives.

Even when the US and Israel, according to foreign reports, breached Iran’s security for its nuclear program with the Stuxnet virus in 2009-2010, they had to use assets of Dutch intelligence.

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Even though the peer reviewed data proves there is no systemic racism in the treatment of Blacks by the police, you are not allowed to use the data in order to undermine the BLM narrative.

By Andrea Widburg, AMERICAN THINKER

In 2019, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (“PNAS”), a peer-reviewed journal, published a study from two psychologists showing that American police were not shooting blacks as disparate rates compared to other races. In the most recent issue of PNAS, the psychologists withdrew the study, not because it was wrong, but because they objected that conservatives were using the study to challenge the Black Lives Matter narrative.

The psychologists, Joseph Cesario of Michigan State and David Johnson of the University of Maryland, studied 917 instances, from 2015 through 2019, in which police fatally shot civilians. They were trying to determine whether race could be a factor in predicting shootings. They found that it could not.

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T. Belman.  I submit it is too late.  Besides Res 242 applied to “every state in the area”.  That included Jordan but not a future state of Palestine.  For many reasons both historical and legal, Israel is entitled to keep all of the land west of the Jordan. This land constitutes only 10% of the conquered land and R242 never demanded that Israel withdraw from all of the land.  It is well within the intent of the resolution that Israel keep 10% of the land. Besides Israel has the only legal claim to these lands.

Israel has waited long enough to redeem promises by the UN. Israel is now entitled to begin process of securing its border.

By Shoshana Bryen

(JNS) As Israel considers how and when to apply sovereignty to parts of Judea and Samaria—drawing its map in cooperation with the United States and leaving a chair at the table for the Palestinian Authority—American Democrats, the European community, parts of the international Jewish community and to an apparently lesser degree the Gulf Arab countries have been busy pronouncing themselves “troubled” by the whole process. The silent party has been the Palestinian Authority.

Until now.
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MAY 2019

Hanson speaks even more clearly than he writes, if that is possible.