Speech delivered at my conference on the Jordan Option in Jerusalem, October 17, 2017

By Salim Mansur

The history of the fall out from the Balfour Declaration through to our time that has witnessed the barbarity of al Qaeda and the Islamic State is pretty well known and there is no need for me to repeat it. I want to make three points as they relate to the theme of this conference. I preface these points by the following observation that we all know, but we need reminding especially when it comes to Arabs and Muslims.

In the summer of 1914 the Ottoman Empire, greatly reduced from what it once was at its peak and ailing as were the other European empires, in particular the Austro-Hungarian and the Czarist Russian empires, was still a token ally of Britain and France as it had been through much of the nineteenth century. The fateful decision of the Ottoman Turks to join forces with Germany and Austro-Hungary, precipitated by the Churchill “folly” of sequestering two Turkish naval vessels in English shipyards, brought about a chain of events that were unforeseen.

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T. Belman. Not to worry. The legislature path is coming to life. To date the problem has been that thew Governors have refused to call the Legislatures into session so that a vote to certify could be taken. That’s aside from the reluctance and reticents of the legislators to stand up to be counted. No longer.

It seems that a majority of legislators in each of the swing states can meet in a field, or anywhere without being called into session, in order to retake back their plenary authority to select the electors. Currently each of the 6 swing states have a majority willing to do so and these meetings are being set up. That means that before Jan 6, 2021 at 1:00 pm, they will have done so, thereby enabling Pence to count the votes. Either Trump will win decisively, assuming all states select his electors, or no one will have 270 electoral votes, if some simply cancel Biden’s certification. In that case it goes to the House of Reps to decide based on one vote per state, in which case Trump wins.

BY PETR SVAB, EPOCH TIMES — December 29, 2020
News Analysis

At 1 p.m. local time on Jan. 6, members of Congress will gather in the chamber of the House of Representatives to observe the formal certification of Electoral College votes for president of the United States.

While it’s usually a formality, nothing has been usual so far about this year’s election amid numerous allegations of voter fraud in key swing states.
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Are Jews staying in the west participating in their own suicide? Are those Israelis who feel the country should give more land to Arabs doing the same?

Howard Rotberg, INN

“They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs.”– Mahatma Gandhi, suggesting that mass suicide should have been the preferred Jewish response to the Holocaust, as opposed to fighting back or seeking refuge elsewhere.

Throughout the West various leftists and pacifists still worship the passive resistance legacy of Gandhi. This worship or virtue-signalling, however, does not impress me, especially because my father was a slave labourer in Auschwitz and his parents and then 8 year old sister were murdered in the gas chambers there.

We should also examine myths surrounding lemmings jumping off cliffs, as Gandhi seems to infer that is moral, as quoted above.
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By Steven Kessler, AMERICAN THINKER

Many on both ends of the political spectrum are aware of the fact that social justice is simply Marxism, masquerading as a new ideological movement.  Like Marxism, social justice’s goal is to make the world a more balanced and equitable place.

As Marx phrased it in Das Kapital, “[i]n order to establish equality, we must first establish inequality” (1).  By finding the inequalities of the world, the Marxist can then begin eliminating the obstacles that impede equality.  The more of these sources of inequality the Marxist eliminates, the closer we move to an equitable socialist utopia.  This is why Marx was so adamant about abolishing certain fixtures of society.
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By Anthony J. DeBlasi, AMERICAN THINKER

It escapes too many observers that the remedy for the highly visible deficit in social progress is not government.  Government deals with the facts of life and reality; it does not alter or reinvent them. The curative is not the heart, too easily played on by manipulators of emotion.  And it is not the mind, which is in place to adapt to reality, not replace it. If the “enlightenment” claimed by progressives has proved anything, it is that the misappropriation of reason and science by people playing god for more than two centuries has produced a mockery of social justice and wellbeing.

One must be blind, asleep, bribed, drugged, or possessed not to notice the absurdity of “men having babies,” boys becoming girls, girls becoming boys, babies killed for convenience before, during, and after birth, “mother” and “father” branded as obsolete concepts, and expressions of truth denounced as “hate speech” . . . to mention a few products of “progress” that expose a mental pathology that dismisses any profession of enlightenment and claim to authority.
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TEA PARTY

(Tea Party 247) – The Chinese are dominating the continent of Africa, and hardly anyone seems to be talking about it.

While Europe once dominated the continent by force, the Chinese are doing it the same way they are attempting to spread their influence elsewhere around the world: by importing people and businesses.

They’re building giant, self-sustaining cities right in the middle of the most strategic locations on the continent, populated with some of the three million Chinese that already populate Africa. Read more…

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=elephant+painting

From Waze to cancer-busting nano-ghost cells and 3-D printed hearts, The Times of Israel takes a dive into tech that helps us get where we’re going and keeps us safe and healthy

By SHOSHANNA SOLOMON, TOI

The Beresheet selfie during landing, April 11, 2019. (YouTube screenshot)< As we enter 2020, The Times of Israel has taken a look at some of the coolest Israeli technologies and inventions of the past 10 years — those that are already hugely impacting the way we live and those that have the potential of changing our lives and health. The list is of course purely subjective, and there are so many other Israeli technologies and startups out there that are making a difference to our world.

Driving with your personal navigator: Waze
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By Eric Utter, AMERICAN THINKER

There was once an Age of Reason.  Today, we appear to be living in the Age of Unreason.  Or insanity.

As I’ve noted in previous posts, it is exceedingly difficult today for a sane person to believe what he observes on a daily basis, whether it be Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stating that the world will end in 12 years, Nancy Pelosi demanding that Republicans in the Senate put on a “fair” trial, pundits and talking heads blithely comparing President Trump to Hitler or the devil, people being threatened with fines or job loss for “misgendering” someone, or the pronouncements that men are having their own babies…to name but a few of the absurdities now passed off as news.  Additionally, nearly every progressive policy prescription is utterly, demonstrably devoid of reason and logic.
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DEBKA

Israeli law prohibits an interim government, such as the one headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, from applying Israeli sovereignty to the Jordan Valley or any part of the West Bank.

By TOVAH LAZAROFF, JPOST
DECEMBER 31, 2019 21:45

IDF SOLDIERS KEEP guard in the Jordan Valley earlier this year. (photo credit: AMMAR AWAD / REUTERS)

T. Belman.  I think so.  Bibi is in conflict with Trump on some things and Trump is losing confidence in his leadership.  I think he prefers Bennett and Shaked.

Pompeo’s rise as a central figure in the US-Israel relationship comes as US President Donald Trump seems to be distancing himself from Netanyahu.

By Lahav Harkov, JPOST

When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wanted to discuss the US airstrike on Iran-affiliated terrorists Kataib Hezbollah in Iraq and Syria on Monday he spoke with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

It wasn’t the State Department that ordered the airstrike. But the call, which the sides said was about the strike and Iranian threats more broadly, is just one of a number of examples of how Pompeo has become the point person for the Trump administration on Israel matters.

And Pompeo’s rise as a central figure in the US-Israel relationship comes as US President Donald Trump seems to be distancing himself from Netanyahu. Read more…

America hits Ktaib Hezbollah, one of Tehran’s most effective militias.

By Jonathan Spyer, WSJ

Ktaib Hezbollah fighters in Anbar province, Iraq. Photo: Jonathan Spyer

The U.S. killed at least 25 Ktaib Hezbollah fighters on Sunday night in its first counterstrike in a decade against an Iran-aligned Iraqi Shia militia. U.S. F-15E aircraft struck three sites in Iraq and two in Syria in retaliation for Ktaib’s Friday rocket attack, which killed an American contractor and wounded four U.S. service personnel.

The war against Islamic State in Iraq looks likely to be overshadowed by a growing confrontation between Iranian proxies and the roughly 5,200 U.S. troops in the country.
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THESE GUYS ARE NOT ARMED WHICH THEY SHOULD BE. VERY DANGEROUS TO MAKE YOURSELF A TARGET.

Hannukah Surprise from IDF soldiers on a train in Jerusalem.