By Z. Harel, MEMRI

Introduction

In recent months, King ‘Abdallah II of Jordan has been facing growing criticism within the country and calls to limit his powers, from both popular elements and political circles. On October 6, 2018, the “National Follow-Up Committee,” a group of 143 politicians and military veterans, issued a statement in which they harshly protested what they called the dire condition of the country, the king’s disregard of demands for reform, and the abuse of the powers conferred upon the king and his court, and called to curtail these powers. Since its initial release, the statement has been signed by over 1,000 people.

The wave of criticism has been growing since the unrest in the spring of 2018 protesting the dire economic situation in Jordan. These protests included strikes and mass demonstrations throughout the kingdom at which calls against the king were occasionally heard, holding him responsible for the crisis. Even after these protests died down and a new government was formed in June 2018, calls for reform and in particular for limiting the king’s powers persisted, voiced by social media users and small grassroots protest movements, but also by members of parliament. For example, a parliamentary faction comprising mainly of Muslim Brotherhood (MB) members demanded the transfer of some of the King’s powers to the government. In addition, two MPs criticized Queen Rania’s intervention in matters of state, saying she has no authority to do so. The tense atmosphere was exacerbated by the king’s long and unexplained absence from Jordan in July 2018, which sparked criticism on social media and malicious rumors that he is in ill health or has changed his position on the Palestinian issue.
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By Daniel John Sobieski, AMERICAN THINKER

In the normal course of events, one could understand the hundreds of “I don’t knows” and “I don’t recalls” former FBI Director James Comey during Friday’s testimony. Most FBI investigations are handled out of the field office in which the illegality allegedly occurred with the FBI Director not privy to all the details. But it was Comey who decided to run the whole Trump collusion and obstruction investigation out of FBI headquarters. He should have known and remembered every detail of his actions and those under him. He did.

Don’t count the “I can’t recalls” Just counting the contradictions and the lies would make quite a drinking game, starting the case which started it all — Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn’s “process lie” about his legitimate contacts with his Russian counterparts as a national security adviser designate:
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By Eileen F. Toplansky, AMERICANTHINKER

White privilege is a crime, according to Leftists. Consequently, young people are drilled into believing that they are criminal because of their melanin levels.  On the “Teaching Tolerance” site, students are told by author Cory Collins that they “can imagine [white privilege]  as something of a whiteness water cycle, wherein racism is the rain. That rain populates the earth, giving some areas more access to life and resources than others. The evaporation is white privilege — an invisible phenomenon that is both a result of the rain and the reason it keeps going.”

But if white privilege is so awful, wouldn’t it be hypocritical to come to a country that is predominantly white and then partake of the wealth and power that white privilege provides?  After all, benefiting from an evil system does not seem ethical.  And leftists always claim the moral high ground — don’t they?

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Controversial law already allows communities of up to 400 homes to screen potential residents, amendment would expand that to communities of up to 550 homes • Critics say law essentially allows Jewish towns to reject Arab applicants as “unsuited.”

By Yair Altman, ISRAEL HAYOM

The Ministerial Committee on Legislation on Sunday voted in favor of a bill that would allow large Jewish communities to reject home seekers who are “socially and culturally unsuitable.”

The bill is an amendment to a law passed in 2011 allowing communities of 400 or fewer homes to have admission committees screen potential home seekers to see whether they meet certain social and cultural criteria. The bill aims to expand the benchmark to communities of up to 550 homes.
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On Sunday, their representatives in an organization hoping to improve agriculture production in Africa arrived in Israel for a four-day seminar.

BY Herb Keinon, JPOST

On Thursday, Nigeria and Zambia voted against an anti-Hamas resolution at the UN, helping to ensure that it would not be adopted. On Sunday, their representatives in an organization hoping to improve agriculture production in Africa arrived in Israel for a four-day seminar.

The Ghanaian and Nigerian representatives to the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), joined together with representatives from Rwanda, Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, Zambia and Burkina Faso for a seminar through the Volcani Center in Beit Dagan, Israel’s leading agricultural research organization, to explore new technologies regarding food production, increasing crop yields and food safety.
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Europe is dying. It has cast off the possibility of recovery and awaits the inevitable.

By Giulio Meotti, INN

“Where are all the children ”, asked the Washington Post this week in a report from Greece on its post-financial crisis. The Greek economy no longer falls on Europe as a danger to the euro, but the country is starting to struggle with the next phase: demographic suicide as it faces the smallest post-war generation in Greece.

The European Statistical Office estimates that the Greek population of 10.7 million will decrease by 32 percent. “By 2080 the population of the country could fall to 7.2 million”. In 2017 in Italy, 458,151 new children were registered. That is over 15 thousand less than in 2016. Over a period of 3 years (from 2014 to 2017), births decreased by about 45 thousand, while they were almost 120 thousand less than 2008.
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PM instructs Diapora Affairs Minister Bennett to formulate plan to increase immigration among Jews from France.

Arutz Sheva Staff

Naftali Bennett, Minister of Education and Diaspora Affairs, presented activities of the Ministry of Diaspora Affairs and challenges in the connection with world Jewry at the weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday.

Minister Bennett told the ministers, “There is a historic missed opportunity on the part of the Israeli governments over the past few years in the issue of immigration from France. There are 200,000 Jews in France who want to immigrate here, and all the state systems are simply unprepared for this. These are Zionist, ethical people, lovers of the people of Israel and the Land of Israel – and it is our moral duty to throw down the gauntlet and help them. Two weeks ago, I launched a program for informal education among immigrants from France, but it is not enough and a comprehensive process is needed, led by the government.”
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By Evelyn Gordon,

Three weeks ago, attention in Israel was riveted on two dramatic events that ultimately changed nothing—a rocket barrage from Gaza that didn’t lead to war and a cabinet resignation that didn’t bring down the government. These dramas overshadowed a truly significant event that occurred that same week: The government stopped being the only entity in Israel deprived of the basic right to defend its positions in court.

To anyone unfamiliar with Israel’s legal system, that probably sounds ridiculous. But it has been reality for the past quarter-century. And the fact that three Supreme Court justices finally rebelled against it indicates that Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked’s efforts to foment a judicial counterrevolution are bearing fruit.
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The rebellion against new German Empire seen throughout the EU, including Brexit, is merely Act Three in the century-long war between nationalists and imperialists

By Lawrence Solomon, FINANCIAL POST

German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Germany has recreated its empire under the name of the European Union, attempting through economic means what it failed to achieve through military action.Michael Sohn, Pool/AP Photo

Nationalists — upstarts all — started the First World War.

Before the First World War, the world was mostly ruled by five monarchies, mostly in a comfortable arrangement that saw fighting at their peripheries but rarely at their capitals.

The Russian tsars ruled from sea to sea to sea to sea, from the Baltic states on the Atlantic, to Pacific territories in the east, from indigenous lands in the Arctic, to Azerbaijan on the Caspian Sea to the south. Some 200 ethnic peoples paid obeisance to Mother Russia.
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By Rick Moran, AMERICAN THINKER

By Sajad Abedi, MODERN DIPLOMACY

Although it is still difficult to imagine a future for Syria in general, the existence of an autonomous Kurdish region on the northern border of this country, which is increasing its autonomy every day, has become a reality. The borders of the Syrian Kurdistan (Rojava) have remained vague so far and may be different from what was officially announced by the PYD of the Kurdish Democratic Party of Syria. So far, the group’s growing efforts to expand its cantons have made it a firm and lasting commitment to mobilize Syrian Kurds in a small, economically sustainable state that extends its borders to the Mediterranean Sea, annoyingly, it can also develop the goals of its Paternal Organization in Kyrgyzstan, the PKK-Kurdistan Workers Party. Thus, the only possible alternative exists to establish a western connection with Aleppo and the Syrian government-controlled area, in which PYD needs to accelerate its timetable to, create a link to the territory with Afrin and Kobani.
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Theresa May’s Conservative government is at odds with Parliament. The majority of MPs want Britain to remain in the European Union and so are at odds with their Brexit-majority voters.

By Melanie Phillips, JPOST

The West is convulsing as a new world order struggles to be born. Nowhere is that convulsion currently proving more agonizing and potentially catastrophic than in the United Kingdom.

The fundamental division is between, on the one hand, nationalists who want to defend the nation and its core values and, on the other, those who believe these must be superseded by trans-national institutions and laws.

In the first camp are millions of ordinary people throughout the West in revolt against the steady undermining of their countries and cultures, alongside the nations of Eastern Europe, Israel, and Donald Trump’s America.
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AS MORE AND MORE VOTERS WANT FREE STUFF, THEY WILL WIN ALL ELECTIONS. THEY WILL MOOCH OFF THE PRODUCERS. THIS WILL LEAD TO CIVIL WAR IN WHICH THE PRODUCERS (RIGHT) HAVE MOST OF THE GUNS.

A Canadian movement rises against globalist Trudeau.

December 7, 2018
Christine Williams, FPM

The UN Migration Pact represents a catastrophic dismantling of key components of democratic institutions by the United Nations, a body that has increasingly allied with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). The Pact — officially named the “Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration” — indicates that it “offers a 360-degree vision of international migration and recognizes that a comprehensive approach is needed to optimize the overall benefits of migration, while addressing risks and challenges for individuals and communities in countries of origin, transit and destination.” It also states that “No country can address the challenges and opportunities of this global phenomenon on its own.”
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If U.S. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert is confirmed by the Senate, she will be a leading voice on foreign policy for the president • Nauert, who just 18 months ago was a Fox News anchor, is viewed within the administration as “a team player.”

News Agencies and Israel Hayom Staff

U.S. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert

U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to announce he will nominate State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert to be the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, officials familiar with the plans said Thursday.

Two administration officials confirmed Trump’s plans. A Republican congressional aide said the president was expected to announce his decision by tweet on Friday morning. The officials were not authorized to speak publicly before Trump’s announcement.
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