Smart Senator gets up and Rips Ilhan Omar to Shreds  

I HATE IT WHEN PEOPLE RAIL AGAINST “ISLAMAPHOBIA” GIVEN WHAT ISLAM PREACHES. WE HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO FEAR ISLAM JUST AS WE DO, THE NAZIS. ISLAM SHOULD NOT GET A PASS JUST BECAUSE IT IS A RELIGION. NO RELIGION IS ENTITLED TO CALL FOR THE SUBJUGATION OF OTHERS. WE HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO BAN ISLAM AND MUSLIMS BECAUSE THEY ARE THREATS TO OUR SOCIETIES.

March 17, 2019 | 11:28 am | 1 Comment »

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THE RED MAGA HAT DID IT  

By Valerie Sobel

The killings of 49 innocent people in a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, on Friday sent shockwaves through anyone with a heart. To a normal human being it made no difference whether the victims were Muslim, Christian, Jewish, white, brown or polka-dot. But not to the Media!

The liberal Media couldn’t wait to wave its politically correct index finger at the white man’s collective guilt and scream “Islamophobia!”. With victims all Muslim, all MSM needed was a non-Muslim killer. Their hope of erasing more than 31,000 acts of lethal terror by Muslims across the world since 9/11 would certainly be realized by this singular act of derangement, as long as the bad guy was white-skinned.
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March 17, 2019 | 10:29 am | 7 Comments »

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Turkey Is Lying About Fighting ISIS  

Erdogan promises to finish America’s fight against the Islamic State, but it’s the Kurds that he’s out to destroy.<

By Steven a Cook, FOREIGN POLICY

Turkish-backed Syrian fighters train in a camp in the Aleppo countryside, northern Syria, on Dec. 16, 2018. (Aref Tammawi/AFP/Getty Images)

Last summer I wrote a piece for Foreign Policy called “Trump Is the First President to Get Turkey Right.” Some of my colleagues and friends thought I’d gone quite mad as the U.S. president brought his ferocious Twitter feed to bear on Turkish officials and Turkey’s economy. It was not, of course, the intemperate tweets that I was applauding, but the willingness of the Trump administration to bring public pressure on Ankara over a variety of issues—whether the arrest and unjust imprisonment of American citizens, the targeting of journalists, the intention to buy advanced weapons from Russia, or the threats at U.S. soldiers serving in Syria. When Andrew Brunson, a North Carolina pastor who had been in Turkish custody for two years, was released in October, it confirmed for me that playing hardball with Turkey was superior to the intensive private diplomacy that previous administrations had tried with Ankara.
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March 16, 2019 | 8:21 pm | Comments »

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Let’s Get Serious About What Constitutes a National Emergency  

By Linda Goudsmit, PUNDICITY

Let’s get serious. If hundreds of thousands of unvetted illegal aliens storming our southern border is not a national emergency what is?

Leftists don’t consider open borders a national emergency because they welcome illegal hordes into America to overwhelm the welfare system, collapse the economy, and vote illegally to insure one-party Democrat dominance. It is their preferred road to destroying America from within and imposing socialism.

Sharia compliant Muslims do not consider it a national emergency because hundreds of thousands of their sharia compliant Muslim Brotherhood brethren are pouring in determined to replace our Constitution with sharia law and establish an Islamic caliphate on United States soil.

Drug dealers do not consider open borders a national emergency because their product can be brought into the country easily without fear of incarceration.
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March 16, 2019 | 7:30 pm | 1 Comment »

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Pompeo Heads to Israel Ahead of Contested Election  

In talks with Israelis, Arab leaders Pompeo aims to bring fight to Hezbollah

By Adam Kredo, FREE BEACON

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is scheduled to head to Israel next week ahead of a contested Israeli election that is seen as no guarantee for longtime Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The timing of Pompeo’s trip has generated much speculation about whether he is throwing the Trump administration’s support behind Netanyahu as he is locked in the race of his political career, an election being followed closely across the Middle East as it could reshape the Jewish state’s government at a critical juncture in the United States’s regional fight to thwart Iran and its terrorist proxies.

Pompeo, State Department officials said, has no plan to wade into Israel’s election, with sources saying his talks with Netanyahu and other senior Israeli diplomats will focus on the destabilizing role Hezbollah plays in Lebanon, another country Pompeo is slated to visit while in the region.
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March 16, 2019 | 3:14 pm | 1 Comment »

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OK, I’m Angry…I’m Tired of The Stupid Left!  

By Ray DiLorenzo, STAND UP AMERICA

I am sick and tired of the Left in this country. They are a bunch of cry babies with the intelligence of a gnat. They preach love and tolerance and hate everyone.

I am sick and tired of secular liberal college professors, who couldn’t survive 24 hours in the real world, telling me how to live. They say they teach higher education when, in reality, it’s lower education than my grade school. They are so dumb that they haven’t even figured out that in a world they would create, they would be the first eliminated.

I am sick and tired of being told we are all going to die in 12 years if we don’t do exactly what the Left says…give up electricity, air conditioning, flying, and the cars in my garage…especially by people who don’t know squat about the subject matter. Many of the so-called climatologists that have signed on to the insanity just want to keep their funding.
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March 16, 2019 | 11:11 am | 6 Comments »

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AS I SEE IT: The British in the wilderness as Brexit Crises Explodes  

The Brexit debacle has crucial lessons for the rest of the West, as well as for Israel and Diaspora Jews.

BY MELANIE PHILLIPS, JPOST

What in the name of heaven, you may well ask, is going on in Britain? Why is the Brexit issue causing a political nervous breakdown? And should any of this matter to anyone else?

In answer to the last question, yes it should. The Brexit debacle has crucial lessons for the rest of the West, as well as for Israel and Diaspora Jews.

Given the pace of unprecedented shocks at Westminster, by the time you read this the Brexit crisis may have veered off in yet another direction. At time of writing, however, the situation is this:

In 2016, the British voted in a referendum to leave the European Union. The withdrawal deal subsequently struck with the EU by UK Prime Minister Theresa May was widely considered so atrocious it was massively defeated in Parliament.
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March 15, 2019 | 10:51 pm | 3 Comments »

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RUSSIAN PIPE DREAMS: THE GEOPOLITICS OF NATURAL GAS  

What Is Putin’s Game?: Jed Babbin, The American Spectator, December 10, 2018 – Between America’s most dangerous adversaries — Russia and China — it’s a toss-up which is the single most dangerous.
Russia’s Pipe Dreams Are Europe’s Nightmare:  Dimitar Bechev, Foreign Policy, Mar. 12, 2019 — In the ongoing showdown between Russia and the West, Russia has a trump card: natural gas exports.
Local and Geopolitics Intrude in Israel’s Attempt to Supply Europe With Gas:  Joseph Dana.Euractiv.com, Mar. 12, 2019 — Usually positioned on the margins of the Middle East’s complex energy politics, Israel now is a legitimate player in its own right.
Russia’s Perpetual Quest for Military Modernization:  Emil Avdaliani, BESA, February 26, 2019 — When we consider the remaining years of the 2010s and look forward into the 2020s, we can clearly see that Russia’s decline in terms of technology, the knowledge economy, and the economy, in general, will continue to be the dominant trend.

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March 15, 2019 | 6:25 pm | Comments »

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Why the USA Should Recognize the Golan Heights as Part of Israel  

On March 12, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) announced that he, along with his colleague Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), will lobby the Trump administration to recognize the Golan Heights as sovereign Israeli territory “now and forever.”  In response, Martin Indyk, the former ambassador to Israel under President Clinton and special Middle East envoy under President Obama, stated that “like it or not, the Golan Heights are Syrian territory.”

Indyk is wrong.  The United States should adopt Graham’s view and recognize the Golan Heights as part of Israel.  Israel has a stronger claim to the Golan than Syria does.  The Golan is of essential strategic value to Israel and the free world.  And given increased threats, that value has only appreciated.

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March 15, 2019 | 6:21 pm | 3 Comments »

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The Deceiver’s Disciple,  

by Tabitha Korol

Muslims lie not because they are liars by nature but by choice. Systematic lying as a religious policy is deadly, and if our politicians do not understand this, thousands could die. – Don Boys, Ph.D.

The mission of the jihadi/jihada (one who engages in holy “war with non-Muslims to establish the religion”) is to bring Islamic law, sharia, to the world, whether through peaceful or violent means, and Ilhan Omar has dutifully begun her vocation for Allah, who is described in the Quran as the greatest deceiver of them all.  It goes on to say that ALL deception belongs completely to Allah, that Allah actually raises wicked individuals to deceive and scheme, and commands people to do evil so that he may then have reason to destroy them – for Islamic supremacy.  Mohammed led by example when he broke promises and treaties with three Jewish tribes, Banu Qaynuqa (624), Banu Nadir (625) and Banu Qurayza (627), and subsequently beheaded all the men, captured and enslaved the women and children, and enriched himself and his troops with the towns’ bounties.  We must therefore recognize that Omar is mandated by religious doctrine to emulate Mohammed’s deception, using any means possible against her victims to advance the Islamic ideology.  “When hate crimes against [her] and [her] followers don’t exist, they have to be invented,” to deflect attention from the jihadi onto the Muslims as victims.

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March 15, 2019 | 9:44 am | 6 Comments »

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UN appoints the fox (Iran) to guard the henhouse (woman’s rights)  

UN WATCH BRIEFING
Exposed by UN Watch: Iran appointed to UN committee that judges women’s rights violations
March 15, 2019 | 9:24 am | Comments »

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“Israel is the nation-state of the Jewish people”  

Bibi and Rotem

Thanks to Rotem Sela, an Israeli actress, model, and TV personality, we can learn a lesson about Zionism, nationalism, racism, and the Israeli and American Jewish Left.

Here is what happened: Miri Regev, Likud loyalist and Minister of Culture and Sport, noted that if Netanyahu’s main opponent, Benny Gantz, were to form a government, he would have to include anti-Zionist Arab parties in his coalition. Sela, on her Instagram page (because that is how actresses, models, and TV personalities communicate), said, in part (Hebrew link, my translation):

My God, there are also Arab citizens in this country! When the hell will someone in this government broadcast to the public that Israel is a state of all of its citizens? Every person was born equal. Even Arabs, God save us, are people.

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March 15, 2019 | 9:01 am | 13 Comments »

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Analysis: Netanyahu Outfoxed Russia, Iran and ISIS With His Cynical, Ruthless Syria Policy  

If Netanyahu has one valid claim to remaining in office, it’s his Syria policy and the fact he was one of the first world leaders to recognize the threat of ISIS

March 14, 2019 | 8:08 pm | Comments »

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Global Cooling: The Real Climate Threat  

By Vijay Jayaraj, AMERICAN THINKER

Climate alarmists constantly warn us that man-made global warming is making our world less habitable and that climate doomsday is fast approaching.  But a closer look at our climate reveals a surprising climate discovery that our mainstream media have conveniently ignored for decades: the role of the sun in determining Earth’s climate.

For the first time in humanity’s history, our leaders could be actively devising policies — based on their defiant and biased obsession with global warming — that will render us highly vulnerable to even the slightest cooling in our climatic system.

“We are causing irreversible damage to our environment,” “We are headed for a climate doomsday due to excessive warming,” “Climate change may wipe out humanity” — these are our everyday news headlines.

As a climate scientist, I find these headlines, and the stories they introduce, vague and full of hasty generalizations.  The repeated, one-dimensional doomsday cry about carbon dioxide’s role in global temperature blinds the public to other causes.
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March 14, 2019 | 6:06 pm | 3 Comments »

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In First, U.S. Drops ‘Occupied’ From Report on West Bank, Gaza and Golan Heights  

After scrapping ‘occupied territories’ from human rights report headline in 2018, State Department drops ‘occupied’ from entire text

Noa Landau, HAARETZ

U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Republican Senator Lindsey Graham visiting the Golan heights, March 11, 2019.

Gil Eliyahu

WASHINGTON — The U.S. State Department referred to the Golan Heights as “Israeli-controlled territory” in its annual human rights report for 2018, released Wednesday. This is a change compared to the language used by previous administrations, which referred to the area as “occupied territory.”

A separate section on the West Bank and Gaza Strip — areas that Israel captured along with the Golan Heights during the Six-Day War in 1967 — also did not refer to those territories as being “occupied” or under “occupation.”
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March 14, 2019 | 3:30 pm | Comments »

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DEAR JEWISH-AMERICAN LEFTISTS: IT’S TIME FOR A TALK  

By Valerie Sobel, FPM | March 13, 2019

YOU HAVE THE POWER TO DETERMINE HOW HISTORY AND ALL OUR CHILDREN JUDGE US…..

From one Jew to another. From one parent/grandparent to another. From one who utters “Never Again!” to another, from one witnessing the vile anti-Semitic floats in Belgian parades to another. From one in horror watching the U.K. descend into 100 monthly anti-Semitic incidents to another. And from one seeing, in disbelief, the rise of anti-Semitism in the U.S. to another. We may not agree on much else, but this outrage we have in common.

You are the resounding 72-74% majority of the 5.4 Million American Jewry who have backed the Democratic Party since the sun has risen in the East. We get it; you’re for minority rights because you will forever identify as a minority. You’re forever for JFK, even though his brand of liberalism is long gone and has actually morphed into modern conservatism. You’re forever for FDR, even though it was the Republican Ronald Reagan who delivered approximately 3,000,000 Soviet Jews from bondage of Anti-Semitic leftist oppression.
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March 14, 2019 | 10:51 am | 34 Comments »

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UAE, Saudi Arabia, Egypt Reject Text Opposing Normalization with Israel at Inter-Arab Forum  

TheTower.org Staff 

The United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt rejected on March 4 a clause in a statement by the Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union (APU), which called for a stop to normalization with Israel, laying bare a growing divide between Arab governments and individual parliamentarians in their approach to the Jewish State.

The speaker of the Kuwaiti National Assembly, Marzouq Al-Ghanim, had urged the group to include in its final statement at the 29th Conference of the APU, which kicked off on March 2 in the Jordanian capital Amman, a clause that rejects normalization between Israel and the Arab world.

Al-Ghanim slammed rapprochement with Israel as a “political taboo” and emphasized that Arab states must stand united against “our enemy [Israel)” in support of the Palestinians.
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March 13, 2019 | 11:16 pm | Comments »

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ANALYSIS: What’s Behind the Crisis Over the Temple Mount?  

By Yochanan Visser, ISRAEL TODAY

On Tuesday, Israeli police finally decided to close the Temple Mount in Jerusalem after a Muslim terrorist threw a firebomb at a station of the Border Police near the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

One police officer was seriously wounded by the firebomb while Muslim worshippers engaged in a violent confrontation after police tried to arrest the perpetrator of the attack.

Tensions over full Muslim control of the Temple Mount exacerbated last week when an Israeli court in Jerusalem ordered the closure of the Mount and summoned the Wakf for an explanation about its bellicose policies.

Needless to say, the Wakf refused to comply with the court order and said Israel has no jurisdiction over the Haram al-Sharif, the Arab name for the Mount.
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March 13, 2019 | 4:38 pm | 6 Comments »

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Israel warns against religious war on Temple Mount  

Palestinians attack police post there, riot ensures

BY KHALED ABU TOAMEH, TOVAH LAZAROFF, JPOST

Israel warns against religious war on Temple Mount
Riots on Temple Mount, Palestinians throw explosive device at police, March 12, 2019 (Courtesy Waqf)

Israel accused the Palestinian Authority of inciting a religious war on the Temple Mount after a Palestinian Molotov cocktail attack on an Israeli police station on the holy site sparked an afternoon riot.

Police closed the al-Aqsa compound for the remainder of the day but are expected to fully reopen it Wednesday.

“Abu Mazen [PA President Mahmoud Abbas] continued to lie and incite violence together with the terror organizations of Murabitoun and Hamas, in an attempt to ignite a fire and cause a religious war on the Temple Mount,” Public Safety Minister Gilad Erdan said.
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March 13, 2019 | 10:40 am | 1 Comment »

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