Peace with Islam: The disquieting truth  

By Victor Sharpe, RENEW AMERICA

“Even if Israel shrank to one downtown city block in Tel Aviv, the Arab and Muslim world would still not truly recognize a Jewish state or agree to live with it in peace and harmony.”

“Much of the Islamic world now feels empowered, as perhaps never before, to seek global domination. This is the tangible and growing threat to the world; not man-made global warming.”

“What we have witnessed for far too long are Israeli and some world leaders constantly making endless concessions to the deceitful leaders of the terrorist crime family known as the Palestinian Authority.”

“Wherever the Muslim foot has once trod triumphal, that territory is forever regarded by them as Islamic. If such territory is lost to Muslims, then Allah has been diminished and the land must be retaken, however long it takes. Peace, then, is merely a mirage in the desert sands.”
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September 2, 2019 | 10:48 am | 2 Comments »

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Jewish liberal guide to picking a president in 2020  

Satirical, of course.

By Valerie Sobel

Tie following is an instructional guide for liberal American Jewry on how to pick the perfect President in 2020:

1. Select from a field of Democratic candidates only. This ensures your toothless grandma’s ideas about the world will shape your children’s future and provide you with a sense of compassion for all ethnic & minority causes.  Your shtetl-raised aunt Esther and her Mahjong ladies will be proud you’re still voting for their beloved Kennedys.

2. Appearances are everything.  Check that the candidate appears presidential.  Specifically, he/she should look good and be duly approved by the groupthink masses.  Being aided, abetted and  financially supported by the mainstream media is paramount.  He/she should sound polished and scripted, be politically correct,  and above all – make consistent use of the tele-prompter.
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The New York Times Has a Jewish Problem (Part 2)  

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Under-reporting by the New York Times on Nazi antisemitism, and the deliberate placement of such abridged stories deep inside the paper, had terrible consequences for the Jews of Europe. First, American Jews who relied on the Times for their information, in that pre-television era, had no clear idea of the extent of the antisemitic horrors being perpetrated, and how, as the Nazi war machine extended German rule over much of Europe, Jews trapped in those occupied lands were being systematically slaughtered – gassed in camps or mobile vans, shot, burned alive, worked deliberately to death — in the Endlosung, or Final Solution to the “Jewish problem.” Had they been better informed, and in a timelier fashion, American Jews — properly alarmed — would have made much greater efforts to rescue their relatives, and other Jews, too. They would have sent money, and money given to bribe the right rat in the right office might mean that life-saving visas could be acquired, both for exit and entrance. That money could also pay for transportation out of Nazi-occupied Europe, and for the services of passeurs who could smuggle Jews into such safe havens as Switzerland or Spain or Turkey. Such sums from America could prove useful for desperate Jews, too, in other ways — to pay for lodging, food, and transport – if they were on the run. Read more…

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Palestinian Authority Decides to End Division of West Bank Into Areas Set by Oslo Accords  

T. BELMAN. HAARETZ DOESN’T TAKE THE TROUBLE TO ADVISE THAT TO DO SO, THE PA WOULD BE VIOLATING A FOUNDATIONAL AGREEMENT WITH ISRAEL.  THIS THEY HAVE NO RIGHT TO DO AND SUCH A MOVE WOULD BE ILLEGAL.

The accords, signed in 1993 and in 1995, divided the West Bank into areas A, B and C ? It remains unclear what steps Palestinians will take to implement this decision

Jack Khoury, HAARETZ

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on a visit to Germany earlier this week.AFP

The Palestinian Authority announced over the weekend that it has decided to cancel the division of the West Bank into Area A, B and C according to the Oslo Accords the Palestinian Liberation Organization had signed with Israel in 1993 and 1995.

From now on, the PA will treat all West Bank territories as Palestinian territories under its sovereignty. It remains unclear what practical steps will be taken in light of this decision, and whether the PA will actually implement this move.
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September 1, 2019 | 2:28 pm | 2 Comments »

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Can Democracy Survive without Nationalism?  

By Ewa Thompson, AMERICAN THINKER

In modern English, nationalism has become a dirty word.  It is lumped together with racismxenophobia,chauvinism, and intolerance.  To accuse someone of harboring nationalistic views is a formula for exclusion.  Few scholars can survive carrying such charges in their professional luggage.  Accusations of nationalism are directed at politicians as well, with predictable results.  In academia and the press, attempts to discredit and condemn nationalism are numerous.  A recent example is “An Open LetterAgainst the New Nationalism” published August 19, 2019 in the Commonweal magazine.

It has to be emphasized that aggressiveness toward neighbors and attempts to destroy them for the sake of one’s own Lebensraum are not nationalism.  They are a pathology prompted by greed and arrogance.  One of the shortcomings of the aforementioned Letter is unjustified attribution of aggressiveness to what I call defensive nationalism, bent on preservation of identity and history.
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Netanyahu says he will extend ‘Jewish sovereignty’ to all West Bank settlements  

T. Belman. Why is Bibi settling for the settlements only. I thought that we were going to annex all of Area C. Under his leadership he has effective given away Area C.

As school year starts, PM vows to kids in Elkana there will be ‘no more displacements,’ echoing previous campaign pledges; top Arab MK Odeh: Premier is pushing for ‘war crime’

By MICHAEL BACHNER and TOI STAFF

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meeting schoolkids in the West Bank settlement of Elkana on the first day of school, September 1, 2019. (Courtesy)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meeting schoolkids in the West Bank settlement of Elkana on the first day of school, September 1, 2019. (Courtesy)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday vowed to extend “Jewish sovereignty” to all settlements in the West Bank — a move tantamount to annexation — seeking to shore up right-wing support some two weeks ahead of the September 17 Knesset elections.

Speaking to elementary school students in the settlement of Elkana on the first day of the school year, Netanyahu was echoing a pledge he made days before the previous national vote in April.

The premier said that no more settlements will be evacuated, as happened in 2005 when the entire Israeli civilian presence in the Gaza Strip — known collectively as Gush Katif — was removed.
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September 1, 2019 | 1:42 pm | 5 Comments »

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Palestinians begin process of issuing building permits for Area C – report  

WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?
Move comes after PA premier announced Ramallah would begin to treat all of the West Bank as if it were under its control

By TOI STAFF

This picture taken July 22, 2019, shows Israeli security forces preparing to raze a Palestinian building still under construction in the Wadi al-Hummus area adjacent to the Palestinian village of Sur Baher in East Jerusalem. (Hazem Bader/AFP)
This picture taken July 22, 2019, shows Israeli security forces preparing to raze a Palestinian building still under construction in the Wadi al-Hummus area adjacent to the Palestinian village of Sur Baher in East Jerusalem. (Hazem Bader/AFP)

The Palestinian Authority has reportedly begun the process of issuing building permits to all areas of the West Bank — even those where Israel maintains security and administrative control.

PA Local Governance Minister Majdi al-Saleh has instructed officials and regional managers in his office to expand the plans of Palestinian towns to include surrounding areas as well, Haaretz reported Saturday night. The report quoted him as saying the move was part of the PA decision to do away with the distinction between the various parts of the West Bank.

That decision was announced in early August by PA Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh during a meeting in Ramallah that was attended by Saleh and Jerusalem Affairs Minister Fadi al-Hadami, among others.
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Congress’ lone truthteller on Islamic antisemitism – Rep. Mo Brooks  

Mo Brooks Agonistes, during an August 21, 2019 interview, became the only House Representative to openly decry the doctrinal Islamic Antisemitism animating the grotesque Antisemitic exploits of Muslim Congresswomen Tlaib and Omar.

Dr. Andrew G. Bostom, INN

Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) stands alone, tragically, amongst all his Congressional colleagues from either party, in speaking with gimlet-eyed candor on the doctrinal jihadist bigotry of mainstream Islam. Shortly after the jihad carnage wrought by jihadist (“call me mujahideen”) Omar Mateen on the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando Florida, June 12, 2016—which targeted homosexuals—Brooks provided the following informed, unbowdlerized observations (during a live interview, and in a follow-up press release):

“The root cause of the [jihad] terrorism that we have been seeing over the last 15- or so years has been Islam. There are provisions in the Koran, there are provisions in the hadith [traditions of Muhammad] and sira [earliest pious Muslim biographies of Muhammad]  that if you follow them it instruct Muslims to kill certain types of people [i.e.,wage jihad against them, to impose the Sharia] and homosexuals [Koranhadith] are right up there at the top. It’s pretty clear that Islamic doctrine says you are to kill homosexuals where you find them…[Y]ou are instructed as a Muslim to kill non-believers…The motivation to kill is found in the Koran and various other learned scriptures in the Islamic religion…in the principles that are taught by Islam”
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Israel ignoring illegal takeover of planned industrial zone  

Construction of new industrial zone in Samaria being held up by illegal Arab construction on State land.

Arutz Sheva Staff, 

Economy Minister Eli Cohen with Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan
Economy Minister Eli Cohen with Samaria Regional Council head Yossi Dagan

Arabs from Samaria have built illegal buildings in areas designated for a new industrial zone in Samaria. The State has to date refused to demolish the illegal structures even though they have been built on land under full Israeli control.

Palestinian Arabs are also expected to work in the “Bustanei Hefetz” industrial zone, which will be built on 980 dunams (242 acres) between the city of Taibe and the two of Avnei Hefetz.

There will be over 100 factories and commercial complexes that will employ thousands of workers.
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The Humanitarian Hoax of the New World Order: Killing America With Kindness – hoax 45  

by Linda Goudsmit, PUNDICITY

The Humanitarian Hoax is a deliberate and deceitful tactic of presenting a destructive policy as altruistic. The humanitarian huckster presents himself as a compassionate advocate when in fact he is the disguised enemy.

Every natural force on Earth from fire to nuclear energy has the potential for construction or destruction. This inherent duality presents man with moral choices between construction and destruction. Traditional Judeo-Christian morality deems construction good and destruction bad. What happens when the accepted foundational morality of society is challenged by a competing narrative that insists construction is bad and destruction is good? Let’s find out.

Societies as small as families and as large as nation states are organized by accepted principles codified into written or unwritten laws accepted by member units. When societies abide by the accepted rules they are considered to be at homeostasis – they are at peace and in balance. When a competing narrative intrudes, the society becomes destabilized and must either accept or reject the competing ideology to regain balance, peace, and homeostasis.
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The New York Times Minimizes the Threat of Islamism Again:  

A Strange Story about Sweden’s Populist Response

by Howard Rotberg

The New York Times Has a Jewish Problem. Part 1

And here is a recent essay of mine carrying forward the story of the NYT’s incompetence and malice towards Jews in its attempts to minimize the threat of Islamism compared to  white supremacy/nationalism – and its absurd favoritism for genocidal Arabs over the one small nation state of the Jews.

Is there much doubt that many Muslims, even those who migrate to the West, agree that Sharia Law is preferred to western constitutional law? Do we tolerate the risks from those who advocate really barbaric practices anathema to Western civilization, such as beating wives who are disobedient , female genital mutilation, honour killings, polygamy, marrying underage females, taking sexual slaves, and raping non-Muslims? In my book, Tolerism: The Ideology Revealed, I discuss the essence of western toleration of conduct which is said to be protected by freedom of religion, but which stems from an ideology using a religion, which ideology is simply evil and barbaric and threatens our constitutionally enshrined freedoms. The Islamists prevent the reform of the religion that must occur to make it compatible with western values.
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The New York Times Has a Jewish Problem. Part 1  

by Hugh Fitzgerald, JIHAD WATCH

An editor at the New York Times has recently apologized for having written several anti-Semitic and racist tweets. Tom Wright-Piersanti is a senior staff editor at the Times. In the years 2008-2010, Wright-Piersanti wrote several offensive tweets, which were uncovered  by the website Breitbart.

On New Years’ Day 2010, Wright-Piersanti tweeted, “I was going to say ‘Crappy Jew Year,’ but one of my resolutions is to be less anti-Semitic. So… HAPPY Jew Year. You Jews.”

The previous month, during the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, Wright-Piersanti shared a picture of a car with a lit menorah on its roof and wrote, “Who called the Jew-police?”

“I have deleted tweets from a decade ago that are offensive,” Wright-Piersanti tweeted  after the Breitbart article was published. “I am deeply sorry.”

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Pompeo: Israel can rely on diplomatic, legal, military support in any war with Iran  

US secretary of state says he has “every confidence” that President Trump, “who moved our embassy and who made clear Israel’s rights in the Golan Heights will do all that is necessary to ensure that our great partner, Israel, will be protected.”

ISRAEL HAYOM

Iran to Pompeo: You are not invited to Tehran

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo | Photo: AP/Jacquelyn Martin

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo stated on Thursday that Israel can rely on diplomatic, legal and military assistance from Washington in the event of a war with Iran, however long.

In an interview with syndicated radio host Hugh Hewitt, Pompeo pledged that Israel can rely on the United States for aid if the growing tensions with the Islamic republic escalate into a full-fledged war.

Pompeo stressed that the Trump administration has been “incredibly supportive each time Israel has been forced to take actions to defend itself.”
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Why do elected officials embrace the same Islam that wants to destroy them?  

By Amil Imani, AMERICAN THINKER

I am truly puzzled by what is going on in this increasingly dark world.  On the one hand, all kinds of Islamic associations and groups in places such as Europe, the United States, Canada, Australia, and Sweden demand not only to be treated like everyone else, which they are, but granted special privileges — such as application of sharia law.  Yet Muslim governments — even in those semi-moderate countries such as Turkey and Egypt — systematically discriminate against non-Muslims. I fail to see the justice of this in the 21st century…or are we still wallowing in the Dark Ages?

The solemn duty of all majorities, all people in power, is to serve as protectors of all minorities and the powerless.  The list of people who need fair treatment and are entitled to it is indeed long and is not limited to religious minorities.  Women, even to this day, are among the most disenfranchised groups in the world — sadly, most shamefully, in Islamic lands.
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Boris Johnson shows the steel and U.K.’s Tories soar in the polls  

By Monica Showalter, AMERICAN THINKER

Not too long ago, Britain’s Tories were in the loo, poll-wise.

In a July 21 story headlined, “As Brexit looms, the U.K. Tories fight for survival,” NBC News reported:

After almost 10 years in power and 185 years in existence, its voters and members are leaving in droves to support the upstart Brexit Party. A fractious leadership battle has been defined by who can talk the toughest on Europe — a union Britain has been part of for half a century.

And don’t think this wasn’t the conventional wisdom on all sides – as these storieshere and here signal. As wildly opposed as those organs’ political lines are, the stories they all put out could have been written by the same person.The Economist put it, quite Britishily, this way, last June 13: “The question is not who will lead the Conservative Party, but whether it will survive.”
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Zehut: Israel’s Security and Diplomatic Plan  

T. Belman. This is an excellent plan. The Jordan Option does not conflict with it but in fact makes it easier to facilitate. While Martin Sherman pushes the policy of Compensated Emigration, he goes no farther and doesn’t deal with anything else. The Jordan option improves on Sherman’s idea by providing a friendly Jordan as a receptical for emigrants. Feiglin’s Plan is a stand alone plan that will benefit from Sherman’s ideas and the Jordan Option.

In fact Both Feiglin and Sherman aren’t close to having their ideas implemented. Thus the Jordan Option will give a boost to both.

Zehut’s Peace Plan

As a background to the plan, we must examine the process that the State of Israel has undergone since the signing of the Oslo Accords. Ostensibly, the purpose of these agreements was to end the conflict by establishing a Palestinian state, thereby achieving peace. But this goal has not been achieved. Rather, the opposite is true: the number of people killed in terrorist attacks increased fivefold (1552 between 1994 and 2015, compared with 357 between 1977 and 1994). More and more cities in Israel began to be bombarded with missiles and Israeli citizens were expelled from their homes (during the Disengagement in 2005). In addition, the Oslo Accords were supposed to bring economic well-being as a result of the anticipated cut in defense spending, but in fact the state paid more than NIS 1 billion for implementing the agreements.

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Opinion: Israel Cannot be a Party to Legitimizing its Own Destruction  

For Israel to deny entry to advocates of its own dissolution should be as uncontroversial as denying entry to neo-Nazis. And it’s deeply worrying that even Israel’s genuine friends in America evidently think otherwise.

By Evelyn Gordon, JNS.org

When Israel barred two US Congresswomen from entering the country earlier this month, I initially thought it was a stupid decision. But after hearing the reactions from both American politicians and American Jews, I’ve started to think it may have been necessary.

This isn’t to deny the substantial damage it has caused. Pro-Israel Democrats felt betrayed, and even some pro-Israel Republicans were outraged. Most of the organized Jewish community was horrified. And the BDS movement received media exposure it could never have gained on its own.

But nobody would have felt outraged or betrayed had Israel barred, say, white-supremacist politicians. Thus the underlying message of these reactions was that unlike white supremacism, advocating Israel’s destruction is a legitimate opinion, entitled to the same respectful treatment as the view that Israel should continue to exist. Yet no country can or should treat its own erasure as a legitimate option.

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Israeli Mossad hero, Eli Cohen  

By Moshe Phillips, National Director of Herut North America’s U.S. division; Herut is an international movement for Zionist pride and education and is dedicated to the ideals of pre-World War Two Zionist leader Ze’ev Jabotinsky.

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Netflix’s The Spy is a six-episode series about real-life Israeli Mossad hero Eli Cohen. The Spy stars Sacha Baron Cohen, most famous for his 2006 adult oriented comedy movie Borat, as the legendary Mossad agent. Will Netflix make a joke out of Eli Cohen? We will know when The Spy debuts on September 6.

When Eli Cohen was publicly executed by the government of Syria on May 18, 1965, it was clear to Israelis and Syrians that he had succeeded in becoming a friend of the president of Syria, and had penetrated the innermost Syrian government circles. What was not yet known, however, was that he had gathered the intelligence that would later save the state of Israel from being destroyed.

More than any other one man, Eli Cohen, an Egyptian-born Jew, earned the Mossad its reputation as one of the best intelligence services in the world, and paved the way for Israel to win on the Golan front in the Six-Day War in June 1967.
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The U.S. Presence in Syria Blocks Iranian, Russian, and Turkish Gains  

by Seth Frantzman, The Daily Beast, 

U.S.-backed Kurdish militiamen celebrate their capture of Raqqa from ISIS in October 2017.

Eastern Syria sits at the crossroads of critical policy decisions in Washington. The region is at the center of an escalating crisis in U.S.-Turkey relations, while maintaining America’s presence there blocks Iranian and Russian gains in Syria. It also is key to keeping ISIS defeated. Washington should see eastern Syria as one of the most important strategic pieces of “real estate” to emerge out of the last half-decade of conflict in the Middle East.

The area of northeast Syria where the U.S. today plays a critical role, roughly the size of West Virginia, is now a kind of Gordian Knot. While American adversaries, such as Russia or Iran, have a clear goal in Syria, keeping the Bashar al-Assad regime in power and entrenching their influence, the U.S. policy goal is less clear.
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