June 8/20

DACA Decision Is Final Straw for Trump; POTUS Issues Unheard of SCOTUS Statement

By C. Douglas Golden, WESTERN JOURNAL

On Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled against the current president’s attempts to undo the prior president’s fiat.

In a 5-4 decision, the nation’s highest court ruled against the Trump administration’s efforts to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, an initiative that offered individuals who came to the United States as children legal protections against removal and allowed them to work in the country.

According to The Wall Street Journal, the decision, authored by Chief Justice John Roberts, claimed the Trump administration moved arbitrarily to end the program, saying it didn’t offer adequate justification for winding it down. Roberts was joined by the four liberal justices on the court: Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor.

“The dispute before the Court is not whether [the Department of Homeland Security] may rescind DACA. All parties agree that it may. The dispute is instead primarily about the procedure the agency followed in doing so,” Roberts’ ruling read.

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T. Belman.  While the total focus is on white colonialism and white privilege, No one mentions Islamic colonialism and Muslim privilege. As you know, Mohammed roared out of the Arabian Peninsala in the Seventh Century and conquered by brutal force and suppression, many countries which are today Islamic.  You can just imagine how they suppressed dissent and enforced conformity.  Even today, no one is allowed to leave the faith, on pain of death. Both the people of the Book (Christians and Jews) and the infidels (all others) are treated as second class citizens (dhimmis).

Any criticism of the white world today can be applied to the Islamic world ten times over.  I don’t buy this white guilt shit.

Any white privilege we have is due to our superior culture, philosophy and values.  They must be preserved and protected at all costs.

By Melanie Phillips

The experience of being an immigrant group and living as a minority in an often hostile culture is, of course, one that diaspora Jews know only too well.

There are obviously huge differences, though, between the Jewish and black experience. Yet one of the most important is overlooked.

In Britain and America, as we have seen over the past few weeks, a movement is under way to rewrite American and British history with the aim of changing the culture. The charge is that white society is endemically racist.

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In virtual briefings, Abdullah also tells congressional leaders that he has been attempting to convince the Palestinians to restart peace talks with Israel

By Eric Cortellessa, TOI

Jordanian King Abdullah II delivers a speech at the European Parliament on January 15, 2020 in Strasbourg, eastern France. (Frederick Florin/AFP)

WASHINGTON — Jordan’s king is warning congressional leaders that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to annex parts of the West Bank would strengthen Hamas and damage Israel’s ability to normalize relations with the rest of the region, according to a source familiar with the discussions.

King Abdullah II has been leading a lobbying campaign against Israeli plans to begin annexing West Bank settlements and the entire Jordan Valley under the Trump administration’s peace proposal, taking his case to US lawmakers in multiple teleconference meetings this week.

“He urged members to understand that annexation would affect the daily lives of Palestinians and that he feared that it would radicalize Palestinians and empower violent extremists. Hamas would benefit from annexation,” the Washington-based source told The Times of Israel.

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PA leader understands his people have no appetite for another intifada, and so is focusing his efforts on the global arena, hoping for statehood recognition

By AVI ISSACHAROFF, TOI Today, 9:26 am

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas puts on a face mask as he heads a leadership meeting at his headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah on May 19, 2020. (Alaa Badarneh/Pool Photo via AP)

Though Israel’s planned annexation of parts of the West Bank hasn’t happened yet, on the ground its tremors are already being felt.

The first victim of the fracas around annexation is the security coordination between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, halted last month. Though there are still some phone conversations between the parties, these are occurring less and less frequently.

The good news on this front is that the PA continues to work to thwart terror attacks, and isn’t attempting to block activities such as Jewish prayers at Joseph’s Tomb near Nablus.
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The Supreme Court endorses a double regulatory standard.

WSJ

Sometimes getting to the right policy via the wrong process does more harm than good. We fear that will be the case with Thursday’s unfortunate 5-4 Supreme Court decision to block President Trump’s rescission of Barack Obama’s order for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, widely known as Daca.

The decision in DHS v. University of California is being cheered because it offers a reprieve to the so-called Dreamers who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children. We support legalization for these 700,000 or so immigrants, as a matter of fairness and as contributors to American life. But this is an issue for Congress. The Court’s ruling on administrative-law grounds reads like a desired policy outcome in search of justifying legal logic, and it is likely to do long-term harm to the Constitution’s separation of powers and maybe to immigration reform.

Chief Justice John Roberts joined the four liberals, as he so often has, in ruling that the Trump Administration hadn’t properly followed the Administrative Procedure Act (APA). The Court remanded the rescission back to DHS to rewrite with a formal rule-making with notice and comment period.
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By Michael E. Hammond, AMERICAN THINKER

Remember the heady days of June 2016, when Hillary Clinton led Donald Trump in every one of twelve major polls — by a margin of 10 points, according to ABC and the Washington Post?

Or August 2016, after the Khan imbroglio, when Clinton was beating Trump by 7 points, according to USA Today/Suffolk?  It was hardly an outlier.

Or October 2016, after the exposition of the “Billy Bush tapes,” when, coming up on the election, Clinton was beating Trump in virtually every poll?  Of the 78 polls started after September 21, 2016, 73 had Clinton winning, four had Trump winning, and one was a tie.

At the time, I said, in two articles that Trump would be the 45th president of the United States.  I explained why.

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Congress must discover what forces worked behind the scenes to incite, organize, support, even fund this violent seditious anarchy.

By Ken Abramowitz and John Sutz, INN 19/06/20 09:30

On May 25, 2020, George Floyd, an unarmed black man, was stopped by police in Minneapolis, MN because he allegedly attempted to use counterfeit money and appeared intoxicated.

Videos show that Mr. Floyd did not resist the arrest — yet he was brutally killed by a white police officer who held him down, with a knee to his neck for almost nine minutes, as he desperately pleaded, “I can’t breathe.”

The video of Mr. Floyd’s senseless killing went viral, and huge protests broke out shortly afterwards in numerous cites by outraged citizens. Initially, the protests were peaceful, They were depicted by participants as a reaction not just to the murder of Mr. Floyd, but also, to allegations of American police officers using excessive, unjustified violence against alleged criminals — especially black people — for many years.

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By Kurt Schlichter, TOWNHALL

It’s certainly frustrating to watch a pack of reeking leftist scumbags declare a portion of an American city an “autonomous zone” – what is it with Democrats and their secession fetish? – but do not get frustrated because Donald Trump has not sent the 101st Airborne in to powerwash the human grunge from Seattle’s feces-bedecked streets.That’s what the Democrats want. And Trump – a better strategic thinker than all the media geniuses, hack politicians, and Afghan War-losing generals who cry about him – is not only not going to give them the victory they crave. He’s going to jam their cheesy plan down their throats.

The libs’ plan to win in November corresponds to Trump’s plan to crush them yet again. Skeptical? Consider this. In the five years since he rode down that escalator bringin’ hell with him, how many times have they come at Trump and won? Zero. He’s spent half a decade on the edge of doom and he’s still here. Why would you think that the walls are suddenly closing in now? You shouldn’t.

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Lone-wolf terrorists are cogs in an orchestrated attack, and action must also be taken against the states and organizations that support them.

By  Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, ISRAEL HAYOM

In recent weeks, various defense officials have raised their concerns over an apocalyptic scenario whereby applying sovereignty in parts of Judea and Samaria and the Jordan Valley will trigger hundreds of stabbing and vehicular attacks by lone-wolf terrorists. The reference is to those terrorists who act independently, spontaneously, uncontrollably. Last week, the federal court of appeals in Washington D.C. issued an unprecedented ruling on the wave of stabbing attacks against Israelis in recent years, which sheds new light on the manner in which we can approach the term “lone-terrorist” and the way the phenomenon should be fought.

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New research based on thousands of documents from the German Foreign Ministry archives demonstrates that the West German government’s fear of Palestinian terrorist attacks, romantic Orientalism, and entrenched anti-Semitism led it to wave a white flag.

By Eldad Beck, ISRAEL HAYOM 06-17-2020 08:55

A member of the Palestinian terrorist group at the Munich Olympic Village | Photo: AP/Kurt Strumpf

On Tuesday, Feb. 10, 1970, an El Al flight took off from Israel, headed for London. The plane was carrying 52 passengers and 11 crew members. Passengers included actress Hannah Meron and actor Assi Dayan, the son of then-Defense Minister Moshe Dayan. Meron and Dayan were going to audition for “Fiddler on the Roof.”

At 12:30 the plane stopped in Munich for a connection, and 34 passengers got off. After a short wait in the terminal, the rest of the passengers got on a bus that would take them back to the aircraft. All of a sudden three Arab terrorists boarded the bus, armed with grenades and guns. They tried to hijack the vehicle. Captain Uri Cohen took down one of them, and the grenade the terrorist was holding exploded and blew off his hand. The German bus driver ignored the shouts not to allow the terrorist to board the bus. He opened the doors, and some of the passengers managed to get off, but then one of the terrorists threw a grenade inside the bus. Arie Katzenstein, 32, threw himself on the grenade – saving everyone else, but losing his own life. A total of 11 passengers were wounded, including Meron, who lost her left leg.

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By Victor Rosenthal

Yes, as through this world I’ve wandered
I’ve seen lots of funny men;
Some will rob you with a six-gun,
And some with a fountain pen. – Woody Guthrie

On 23 December 2016, lame-duck President Barack Obama struck back at Israel for her insouciant refusal to acquiesce to the empowerment of her deadly enemy, Iran; and at the same time at least partly kept his promises to pro-Palestinian activists, who had been disappointed by what they saw as his insufficient firmness toward Israel.

On that day, the US abstained on a vote and allowed the UN Security Council to pass resolution 2334, which declared all “settlements” outside of the pre-1967 lines – including eastern Jerusalem – “illegal under international law,” and “call[ed] upon all States … to distinguish, in their relevant dealings, between the territory of the State of Israel and the territories occupied since 1967,” a provision which has been used to justify discriminatory labeling and boycotts of Jewish products from the territories. The resolution asserted that Israel was in violation of the 4^th Geneva Convention and demanded that she “immediately and completely cease all settlement activities…”
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By Neil Munro, BREITBART

Twice as may Americans back the “All Lives Matter” slogan over the “Black Lives Matter” slogan, says a new Rasmussen survey of 1,000 likely voters.

Among blacks, a 47 percent plurality picked “All Lives Matter” over the 44 percent who picked “Black Lives Matter.”

The June 15-16 poll asked respondents: “Which statement is closest to your own?”

“Black Lives Matter” was picked by 30 percent of voters, including 35 percent of voters under age 40, and 63 percent of liberals.

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By Damian Max, AMERICAN THINKER

The Woke are everywhere.  They’re in our schools, in government, and at our places of work.  More importantly, the Woke are on the move.  They are coming for you, for me, and for anyone else who does not subscribe to their quasi-religion.  Don’t fool yourself — you are not safe.  The Woke are at war with anyone who opposes them, and it does not matter if you just want to be left alone.  You will have to bend the knee or fight.

Here are a dozen strategies that you can start using right now

1. Adopt the right mindset and take action.  As mentioned, we are in a cultural and political war, whether we want to be or not.  So adopt an appropriate mindset.  Get mentally tough.  Get ready for battle.  Remember that the Woke are not your friends.  They despise you.  Realize that they will lie about you, not play fair, and try to crush you into submission.  Accept that family and friends may turn on you once you show your opposition to the Woke agenda.  And understand that some of your own “leaders” and “allies” will happily betray you to virtue-signal to the Woke.  So watch your back and take action yourself, for it is action that matters, not words.
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The International Criminal Court is not a court at all, but a political action agency of the United Nations whose goal is to defame countries it views as enemies.

By James Sinkinson, ISRAEL HAYOM

Last week, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order authorizing sanctions and additional visa restrictions against any individuals who “have directly engaged in any effort by the ICC to investigate, arrest, detain, or prosecute any United States personnel without the consent of the United States” or have attempted to do the same against a US ally.

Once again, we see the interests of the United States and Israel align uniquely – this time because the ICC chooses to function not as an enforcer of international law, but as a political tool of our common enemies.

The ICC’s recent actions with regard to both Israel and the United States only reinforce the wisdom – indeed, the necessity – of these countries pursuing justice independently of international bodies like the United Nations and ICC, and of continuing to support each other as steadfast allies.

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The journalist’s citizenship was withdrawn in December with no reason given.

By TZVI JOFFRE, JPOST

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attends the Gulf Cooperation Council’s (GCC) 40th Summit in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia December 10, 2019

Pro-Israel Saudi journalist Hamid Al-Ghabin claims that he has been stripped of his citizenship, according to Al-Araby Al-Jadeed.

Ghabin warned in a tweet on Tuesday that his “life is in danger” after he was accused of espionage and smuggling large amounts of money out of the Kingdom, among other claims in a letter to the interior minister.

“I hope that soon I will be able to send a message to my master Mohammed bin Salman and His Excellency the Attorney General to provide protection for me,” tweeted Ghabin. “My record is very clean in State Security and General Intelligence, and they know me completely, whether in Saudi Arabia or when I was in Kuwait or London. I do not need to answer to any security apparatus.”
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By Mike Konrad, AMERICAN THINKER

Politics make strange bedfellows and none could be more oddly paired than the present coordination of Black and Arab sympathizers, as is evinced in this photo of a mural of George Floyd on the Palestinian side of Israel’s security wall.

For some time now, black American and Palestinian sympathizers have tried to make common cause with each other. The most famous example would be that of Marc Lamont Hill, a former CNN commentator, and the words he delivered to the United Nations:

“We have an opportunity to not just offer solidarity in words but to commit to political action, grass-roots action, local action and international action that will give us what justice requires and that is a free Palestine from the river to the sea,” — YouTube

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