Officials in Netanyahu’s office confident US president will make declaration ahead of September vote, shoring up right-wing support for premier

By SHALOM YERUSHALMI, TOI

US President Donald Trump smiles at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, after signing a proclamation formally recognizing Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights, in the Diplomatic Reception Room at the White House, in Washington, DC, on March 25, 2019. (AP/Susan Walsh)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seeking a public declaration from US President Donald Trump ahead of the September elections backing an Israeli move to extend its sovereignty over Jewish settlements in the West Bank, officials in the Prime Minister’s Office told Zman Yisrael, The Times of Israel’s Hebrew-language site, on Sunday.

While Netanyahu cannot himself take the far-reaching diplomatic step of extending Israeli sovereignty to the settlements while he is leading the current caretaker government, the Prime Minister’s Office is lobbying for public support from Trump for such a move. This would enable Netanyahu to credibly assure right-wing voters that he can and will move quickly to apply sovereignty to the settlements if he is again elected premier.
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By  Andrew Stein, THE HILL, 9/7/19

Donald Trump is no racist. I have known him since 1973 and have never seen any indication or any form of racism. In fact, quite the contrary.

When I was Manhattan Borough president and president of the New York City Council, I asked him numerous times to help black or Hispanic groups, and he always came through, many times without publicity. When a hurricane ravished Puerto Rico in the mid 1980s, I asked many big companies to give various forms of assistance — but the problem was how to get all of this aid down to Puerto Rico. I called Donald Trump, and he provided us with a 727 jet to take all of the donated material down to the island, and he didn’t ask for any publicity for that generous act.

My friend, Rev. Floyd Flake, the minister of the largest black church in Queens, asked for some help for his senior center. Again, I called Donald Trump and he wrote a big check.

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Even rightist Israeli governments used to subconsciously regard them as potentially temporary, settler leaders say. Now, they claim, that’s all changed. Next stop: Full integration

By David Horowitz, TOI

SHILOH, West Bank — On the road leading to Shiloh stands a large sculpture, Dovecote, erected at the time that the settlement was founded in 1978. The work of Igael Tumarkin, it was implanted by Peace Now activists to symbolize their contention that the settlement enterprise in general, and Shiloh in particular, were obstacles to any hope of Israeli-Palestinian peace. An inhospitable concrete and metal structure, the sculpture looks like anything but a home for the doves that symbolize reconciliation and harmony.

As we drove past Dovecote last week in the company of Yigal Dilmoni, the CEO of the Yesha (Settlements) Council, he pointed it out with an indulgent chuckle. Rather than the towering reprimand it was intended to constitute, it is regarded by the Jews of modern Shiloh, he indicated, as a symbol of their endurance and maybe even their triumph. Dovecote is still here. But so, too, is Shiloh. Established by a handful of families and a few hundred yeshiva students 41 years ago, the settlement today has a population of about 4,000.
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Media Desperate To Cover Up The Answer

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(Tea Party 247) – The Democrats had their preferred narrative about the El Paso and Dayton shootings all picked out for them before they even knew the facts.

So they most certainly could not be bothered to revise that narrative once the facts came out.

And God forbid that they measure their narrative up against actual data and statistics about say, mass shootings or white supremacy.

That would just be far too honest!
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By Prof. Hillel Frisch, BESA

BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 884, July 5, 2018

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Israel must halt the reconsolidation of the Syrian regime, especially in the country’s south. Russia helped to bolster the regime through airpower. In response to the resulting and growing threat, Israel must now unleash the might of the IAF.

Ever since the 1982 Lebanon war, the Israeli leadership has repeated the mantra that non-involvement in foreign battlefields is better than engagement.

That spell continues to affect Israeli policies towards Syria despite the occasional aerial strikes leveled against Syrian and Iranian installations and forces.

No rule applies to all situations. In the case of Israeli involvement in Syria, minimal involvement is now downright dangerous.

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The cancer of anti-Semitism takes firm root in the Democratic Party.

By Ari Lieberman, FPM

Trump says that if Omar and Tlaib want to boycott Israel, ‘then Israel should boycott them.’

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US President Donald Trump told advisers that Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu should ban Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) from entering Israel through its anti-BDS laws, an Axios report said on Saturday night.

Trump said that if Omar and Tlaib want to boycott Israel, “then Israel should boycott them.”

Trump said he disagreed with Israeli Ambassador Ron Dermer’s explanation of why Israel is allowing Omar and Tlaib in. “Out of respect for the US Congress and the great alliance between Israel and America, we would not deny entry to any member of Congress into Israel,” Dermer said last month.
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With the country’s economy—and his popularity—faltering, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan takes steps to start returning some of the millions who fled their war-torn nation

By David Gauthier-Villars in Istanbul and Nazih Osseiran in Beirut, WSJ

Turkey is taking steps to stem a backlash against the nearly four million displaced people from war-ravaged Syria, whose presence and a badly faltering economy have stoked anger at President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Police in Istanbul, where the candidate from the president’s ruling Justice and Development Party, or AKP, was trounced in July’s mayoral election, are conducting more identity checks in a bid to lower the number of Syrian refugees living in the country’s economic hub who were registered elsewhere.

“We aim to accelerate the return of Syrian refugees to their homes,” Mr. Erdogan told Turkish ambassadors in Ankara on Tuesday.
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By Mordechai Goldman, AL MONITOR

A public high school ethnic studies curriculum is receiving criticism for one-sided presentations of facts

By ELIZABETH CASTILLO, MERCURY NEWS |

T. Belman. This article is brimming with hatred of Trump. Unfortunately it is standard fare in the liberal Jewish world.  I am so disgusted with it.  I support Trump’s agenda including building a wall  and preserving western culture. Not for a moment would I call him a racist or a bigot.

Republished from San Diego Jewish World

By  Dr. Alon Ben-Meir, JEWISH WEB SITE August 9, 2019

This time, however, something far more sinister and profoundly troubling is at play. Race, guns, and immigration were so artfully combined by a racist president who is sworn not to pass meaningful gun control laws to please his base, promotes racism to divide the country, and calls Hispanic immigrants “invaders” to make them targets. During the past few months, Trump spent over a million dollars on Facebook ads with the word “invasion” in big letters to spread fear among his constituents and create an atmosphere ripe for violence against people of color.
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T. Belman.  I found this report alarming. But I wanted to understand how they defined “white supremacists” in order to understand the report.  The report cited a number of mass killings including “deadly white supremacist shooting rampages in Parkland, Pittsburgh, Poway and El Paso, ” So I looked into these incidents and found that the purpetrators were haters. They hated Jews and blacks and immigrants, generally speaking. Who would accuse the Spuad as being white supremacists because they are haters.

In another ADL report, “White Supremacists Continue to Spread Hate on American Campuses” dated June 2019, the ADL conflated nationalists with white supremacists. Thus if you promote Nationalism over Globalism or American workers first, you are a white supremacist. If you are for a restricted immigration policy, you are a white supremacist. If you want to maintain our culture, you are a white supremacist.

I don’t trust the ADL one iota.

Rise in far-right violence, racist propaganda over past two years tied to Virginia rally, says report, which traces fallout among extremists

By MARCY OSTER, TOI 9 August 2019,

JTA — White supremacists have committed at least 73 murders since the far-right rally two summers ago in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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