The do-or-die-line has been drawn. Pray that our President, Donald J. Trump will Do It. Pray for our Country. Amen

By Fredy Lowe, CFP

But, as many of you, I am beyond infuriated. America, once the shinning beacon of freedom and liberty, is on the threshold of being overthrown by the overzealous Democrats, who facetiously believe they have a mandate to remove President Trump from office as they will again have the majority in the House of Representatives on January 3, 2019.

For the first time prosecutors in New York have linked President Trump to a federal crime of campaign finance violations, which is a felony, regardless of the facts that any such payment happened in 2014, and that he self-funded his own campaign, which began in 2015. But, to perpetrate their ruse, they may not necessarily need to make any arrest(s) or go to federal court, as long as they can control the ‘court of public opinion’, for their far more important planned impeachment process.
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By Dr. Aviad Bakshi , ISRAEL HAYOM

A dramatic ruling handed down this week by Supreme Court Justice Alex Stein wasn’t picked up by the public’s radar. After dozens of years of a mindset that everything can be taken to court, the Supreme Court has once again recognized the limits of its authority to intervene in government policy.

A group of Israelis from communities adjacent to Gaza petitioned the High Court, asking that it instruct the government not to give Hamas money donated by Qatar. For political reasons, the government decided to allow the transfer of funds to the Hamas leadership. It was a controversial decision and there is cause to wonder whether the policy will improve Israel’s diplomatic and security situation or worsen it. The decision also raises questions of principle. But as has been accepted practice here for a generation already, an issue of policy was brought before the Supreme Court.
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Netanyahu had reportedly asked Pompeo to put pressure on Lebanon to take responsibility for violating the terms of an agreement signed after the Second Lebanon War

By Yaniv Kubovich, HAARETZ

The United States has rebuffed Israel’s request to impose sanctions on Lebanon and the Lebanese army so they would take responsibility for Hezbollah digging tunnels into Israel and violating UN Resolution 1701.

Meanwhile, the Israel Defense Forces announced Tuesday that it had located another cross-border tunnel originating in Lebanon – the third tunnel whose discovery the army has made public.
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By David Gauthier-Villars, WSJ Dec. 12, 2018

ISTANBUL—Turkey is set to launch a military intervention in northeastern Syria to combat U.S.-backed Kurdish rebels it regards as terrorists, heralding a possible confrontation between Washington and Ankara, two members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.“We will start our operation in a few days to liberate areas east of the Euphrates River from terrorist organizations,”

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday in a speech at the presidential palace in Ankara.Mr. Erdogan didn’t give details on the nature or scope of the new military plan.

Ankara has used a mix of airstrikes and ground troops in previous Syrian interventions.
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Marcelito Pomoy sings The Prayer Celine Dion Andrea Bocelli

By Alexander G. Markovsky, AMERICAN THINKER

American-Russian relations are characterized by irreconcilable contradictions and the aloofness of history.  The American official position is that Crimea-related sanctions will remain in place until Russia returns control of the peninsula to Ukraine.  Moscow’s position is that Crimea has been “returned” – back to Russia.

The Crimea and Eastern Ukrainian conflicts are two of many ethnic conflicts that have become common in the post-Cold War period.  In many countries arbitrarily created after the Second World War the unifying principle was the power of the state that forced citizens to tolerate a plethora of incompatibilities.  Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, and Ukraine are prime products of this geopolitical engineering.

The collapse of the Soviet Union and the subsequent demise of the so-called “socialist camp” resulted in weakening or overthrowing the authoritarian regimes.  The absence of enforcement gave rise to nationalistic aspirations that challenge the cohesiveness of the established order, in some instances, to the point of no order at all.
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by Steven Shamrak

When the term “population transfer”, as a resolution to unprecedented terror which Israel continuously has been facing since its independence, is mentioned most people, especially Jews, don’t want to hear about it and become quite vocal and even aggressive! They are not aware or just disinterested to know that population transfer has been reasonably successfully used to resolve many conflicts throughout the world before its adoption and also after, often with the blessings and participation of the League of Nations and the United Nations!

In 1923, close to 2 million people, Greek Orthodox and Muslims, most of them were forcibly removed and transferred from their homelands. Although the politically correct term is used now is “population exchange”!
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T. Belman. This Migration Pact is getting a lot of spin in the media. But what is the truth? If this Pact is non-binding, why is it needed. If it is non binding then all signatories can ignore it and do what they want. If it is non-binding why does it stipulate that the signers “commit” to doing certain things. If it is non binding why must the UN get involved? Will the nations who rejected it be required to abide by it. Once the UN passes it, all member states will be bound by it.

The nonbinding pact, aimed at fostering cooperation on migration and streamlining legal cases, backed by 164 countries at Morocco conference • Israel declined to join pact, fearing it would be forced to grant all migrants the same rights as refugees.

Reuters and Israel Hayom Staff

African migrants in Tel Aviv  Photo: Gideon Markowicz

U.N. members on Monday adopted a deal aiming to improve the way countries cope with the rising rate of migration, but almost 30 countries, including Israel, refused to endorse it over fears it would interfere with their immigration policies.
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By Dr. Ofir Haivry, ISRAEL HAYOM

Here is a true story. Some 20 years ago, my family and I lived in a small rental unit that belonged to a senior official in the State Attorney’s Office. At the time, she was a department head and she was responsible for publishing a controversial report on the outposts in Judea and Samaria. In short, she was a senior member of a group often referred to as the “gatekeepers” or “watchdogs of democracy”

We owned a young female dog at the time, and this attracted many male dogs to our apartment and our landlord’s home. One day, one of those male dogs attacked and killed our landlord’s dog.

About a day later, she sent us a letter blaming me for the loss of her small dog. The letter demanded that my family and I immediately vacate the housing unit we were renting from her and threatened us with a lawsuit.
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Jews in Europe unsurprised by results of grim survey that found some 90% of the local community sense increasing levels of hatred toward them

By Cnaan Lipshiz, TOI

AMSTERDAM (JTA) — The last time that a stranger directed an anti-Semitic insult at me, I was carrying supplies for my son’s birthday party.

It was on a Sunday afternoon on Dam Square. Carrying Star of David party decorations in a see-through bag, I paused to snap some pictures on my cellphone of an anti-Israel rally.

I was busy sending them to a friend who had inquired about such events in the Netherlands when a bearded man sporting a Moroccan accent said loudly in my direction: “Cancer Jew. You’re all made up, you’re fake. You’re fake dogs.”
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T. Belman.  Buchanan is all over the place in this article and only partially answers the question posed. To fully answer this question we must first define democracy.  It seems to me that pure democracy means majority rule. Such a democracy has been rejected by most democracies. For them democracy embraces minority rights.

American democracy is under great stress over the issue and the anti-Trumpers are breaking every rule in the book. They are supported in every way by the MSM who have abandoned their role of fair reporting.

In Israel, the battle is raging. The right wants the supremacy of Knesset (majority rules) and the left wants to neuter the Knesset by upholding liberal democracy (minority rights). They do this through the High court and academia.

The Globalists try to disenfranchise the majority by demanding that countries defer to rule by Multilateral institutions like the UN, the EU, the ICC and so on.

It seems everyone is turning away from democracy.

By Patrick J Buchanan, AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE

If Donald Trump told Michael Cohen to pay hush money to Stormy Daniels about a one-night stand a decade ago, that, says Jerome Nadler, incoming chair of the House Judiciary Committee, would be an “impeachable offense.”
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By Saul Jay Singer, JEWISH PRESS

Displayed above is the Broadway Theatre Playbill from 1946 for “A Flag Is Born,” signed on the cover by Sidney Lumet, Celia and Luther Adler (“the first family of the Yiddish theater”) and George David Baxter.

The creation of “A Flag is Born” began in 1939 when leading screenwriter Ben Hecht used his newspaper column to challenge Jewish readers to become more openly Jewish. That article drew a response from “Peter Bergson” – who was actually Hillel Kook, an Irgun leader working undercover in America – and who, urging Hecht to take a leading role in spreading early news of the Holocaust and winning American support for militant Zionists, convinced him to write the play.

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Does public opinion influence Israel’s decisions? Shouldn’t it make a difference in a democracy”

By Prof. Paul Eidelberg, INN