Now, Don’t Be Offended

by Gerald A. Honigman

Ann Coulter was recently in the news again. This time it was for accusing Asians and Jews of wanting to be blackshttps://www.newsweek.com/ann-coulter-twitter-tirade-ice-official-1322680.

Hey, don’t pick on Ann. She’s a truly loving soul.

In fact, she’s freely shared her very Christian love with many others over the years–including her late conservative Jewish actor friend, Ron Silver (a truly good guy), who brought her much joy by eating the host of the Christian communion at Sunday services with her. I heard that selfless Ann tried real hard to save Ron’s soul from eternal damnation by encouraging his conversion to Christianity on his deathbed from cancer about a decade ago. As a Jew (or Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim, Sikh,  etc.), Ron could not get through the Pearly Gates in official Christian beliefs (“no gettin’ to the Father except through the Son,” etc.). I don’t know what Ron’s final decision was, but you can’t say that Saint Ann didn’t try https://www.wnd.com/2009/03/92155/
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by Tabitha Korol

It was brought to my attention that Westmount Temple Emanu-el Beth Shalom in Montreal hosted a Muslim-Awareness Interfaith Shabbat Dinner on January 25, 2019, to pay homage to the six dead and nineteen wounded from a lone attack on a Montreal mosque two years previously.  Such well-meaning, but naïve, efforts were hijacked by Muslim apologists to promote their false victimhood status to garner sympathy from others.

One might wonder why there was no outreach from Jews or Muslims for the desecration attack in March 2018 on a synagogue in Thornhill, and no homage paid for the October, 2018 massacre of eleven congregants of the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, inasmuch as Canada and the US are connected in many ways.  Neither was there any form of condolence or apology offered when a small Canadian Arab newspaper, Al Saraha, published an antisemitic article that posited why Hitler killed the Jews, stated that the number of six million Jews killed during the Holocaust was severely inflated, and asserted that Jews are to blame for Germany’s economic collapse, sexuality and promiscuity.  Read more…

By Raymond Ibrahim, AMERICAN THINKER

At the height of Western dominance over Islam in the early twentieth century, the European historian Hilaire Belloc (b. 1870) made a remarkably prescient observation that may have seemed exaggerated at the time:

Millions of modern people of the white civilization — that is, the civilization of Europe and America — have forgotten all about Islam. They have never come in contact with it. They take for granted that it is decaying, and that, anyway, it is just a foreign religion which will not concern them. It is, as a fact, the most formidable and persistent enemy which our civilization has had, and may at any moment become as large a menace in the future as it has been in the past” (from Belloc’s The Great Heresies, emphasis added).

Anyone who doubts that Islam has been “the most formidable and persistent enemy which our civilization has had,” should familiarize themselves with that civilization’s long militant history vis-à-vis the West.
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How to defeat Hamas without firing a shot  By David Bedein, INN

Cut off their funding.

The people who organize and participate in current riots on the Gaza fences, are UNRWA employees – 20,000 proud members of Hamas who control the UNRWA workers association and the UNRWA teachers association since 1999, all of whom incite for a mass invasion of Israel under the slogan of the “right of return by force of arms”.

By Hezki Baruch, INN

David Bedein, the head of the Center for Near East Policy Research, spoke to Arutz Sheva about the late Arizona Senator John McCain, who passed away on Saturday after a year-long battle with brain cancer, and of the US administration’s rejection of the so-called ‘Palestinian right of return.’
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Between 2012-2014, the EU financed the building of more than 400 illegal structures in Area C identified by an affixed EU flag. The EU claimed diplomatic immunity and refused to appear in court when sued for illegal construction.

By Janet Levy, INN

More than 70 years after the Holocaust, the European Union has been involved in demonizing and delegitimizing the Jewish State through actions inimical to Israel’s existence. They include indirect funding of terrorist activities, refusals to examine this misdirection of funds, assistance to build illegal Palestinian communities within Israel’s boundaries, and criticism of Israel’s attitudes towards Palestinians as “ethnic cleansing.”  These EU activities have gone on for the past 25 years, and represent a persistent undermining of the Jewish State under the guise of European humanitarianism.

Since the beginning of the Oslo process in 1992, the EU has backed the Palestinian Authority, becoming one of its main financial supporters.  Since 1993, the EU and its member states have given over four billion euros to the PA and a variety of Palestinian NGOs. Ostensibly, these funds were meant to develop democratic institutions as well as promote education and prosperity among Palestinians.  In actual practice, a substantial portion of the European funding has fueled corruption and terrorism.
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BY Rachel Frazin, THE HILL

President Donald Trump’s senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner will return to the Middle East and reveal part of his plan for peace, Politico reports.

Kushner will discuss the economic portion of the plan, which he has been working on for about two years.

“Jared is going to present the economic plan to the region. The economic plan only works if the region supports it,” a senior administration official told Politico on Tuesday. “We understand that if the political aspect of it is not solid, the economic aspect is meaningless. But at the same time the political aspect will not succeed without a proper economic plan.”
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White House senior adviser will reportedly share update about Israel-PA peace plan during Warsaw Middle East conference.

By Elad Benari, INN

White House senior adviser Jared Kushner is expected to share an update about the Trump administration’s Middle East peace plan during a public session at the Warsaw Middle East conference next Thursday, Channel 13 News ’Barak Ravid reported on Tuesday.

A White House official said Kushner will be participating in a discussion hosted by former Norwegian foreign minister Borge Brende on efforts to end the Israeli-Palestinian Arab conflict.

This would be the first time Kushner will speak publicly and answer questions about the long-awaited peace plan. Ravid noted that Kushner is not expected to give details about the parameters of the plan, but will most likely provide an update on its status and how the administration wants to reveal and launch it in the next few months after the April 9 elections in Israel.

The Israel-PA peace process has been frozen since 2014, when PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas breached conditions of talks that were ongoing at the time by unilaterally joining international treaties and conventions.

By MItzi Alvin

It is unfortunate that the group, IfNotNow, which claims to support Jewish liberal causes, is trying to portray Michigan congresswoman Rashida Tlaib as the fair-minded, equitable representative of a Jewish liberal constituency. Setting aside her foul-mouthed description of the President, she has aligned herself with virulent anti-Semite, Louis Farrakhan, with Hezballah supporter, Abbas Hamideh, a man who praises the murder of Jewish children, and she has suggested that those in congress who support Israel (read Jews or those subject to Jewish pressure) have forgotten “what country they represent.” Considering that she celebrated her electoral victory by wrapping herself in a Palestinian flag, she has shown herself to be not only an anti-Semite, but a hypocrite of the first order.
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By Russ Vaughn, AMERICAN THINKER

Let me preface the following praise by saying I have a tough time listening to our president.  His style of speech and mannerisms tend to drive me up the wall in spite of the fact I am in near total agreement with his political agenda and actions as president.  Tonight, my wife had to call me away repeatedly from this computer to get me to come listen to the State of the Union speech.  After the introduction of the WWII vets, I, reluctantly, and grumbling that I really didn’t want to do this, got up and went in to join Miz Poe in watching the speech.
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By tying political fortunes to the president—complete with campaign posters featuring the two—embattled Israeli premier hopes to solidify base and woo undecided voters, even as possible indictments loom

Felicia Schwartz, WSJ

TEL AVIV—Embattled Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is putting President Trump at the center of his re-election campaign, aiming to leverage close ties with Washington as he faces pressure from political rivals and a possible indictment on corruption charges.By tying his political fortunes to Mr. Trump, Mr. Netanyahu isn’t only seeking to solidify his base but also to woo undecided voters at a critical juncture of Israel’s election season—and a perilous moment for his tenure as Israel’s prime minister.

Mr. Netanyahu’s Likud party has erected two large posters on the sides of buildings in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, spanning several stories. They show Messrs. Trump and Netanyahu shaking hands with the campaign slogan: “Netanyahu. In Another League.”
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Figures from West Bank Jewish Population group: Jewish population in settlements grew 3.3% in 2018, compared to Israel’s overall population growth of 1.9% • Settlers praise policies of Trump administration • PA: US support for settlements doomed to fail.

Associated Press and Israel Hayom Staff

A new housing project is underway in the settlement Naale, near Modiin 

The number of people living in Israeli settlements surged at a much faster rate than the overall Israeli population last year and predicted even more rapid growth, the West Bank Jewish Population Stats group reported Tuesday.

Director Baruch Gordon said the current U.S. administration has created a much friendlier environment for the settlers, clearing the way for a surge in construction in the coming years.
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White House is proudly supportive of Israel, senior official says, dismissing need for equivalency as a ‘vestige of talking points from decades ago’

By Raphael Ahren, TOI

The White House is not interested in being considered an “honest broker” in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a senior US official said this week, rejecting the notion that some sort of “equivalency” between the two sides was required to successfully mediate a peace deal.

Rather, the administration is proudly supportive of Israel and does not feel the need to try to counterbalance any pro-Israel statement with some carrots for the Palestinians, or to add a line about Palestinian grievances every time it laments Israeli victims of terror attacks, according to the senior official.
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