Muslim Brotherhood Operates to Establish Global Caliphate  

By Edwin Morris, BREITBART

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There is significant Islamist ideological overlap between the worldwide Muslim Brotherhood (MB) and some of the globe’s most murderous jihadi groups — the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) and al-Qaeda, Breitbart News learned from the Counter Extremism Project (CEP).

All three groups maintain a shared goal of establishing an Islamic global caliphate. However, MB has the advantage of being “one of the oldest and broadest-reaching Islamist organizations in modern times,” the non-governmental organization (NGO) noted in its Muslim Brotherhood profile, citing data from various governments and news reports.
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May 3, 2019 | 12:04 pm | Comments »

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Why was Netanyahu Elected to an Unprecedented Fifth Term in Israel?  

An Interview with Mordechai Nisan

by Jerry Gordon and Rod Reuven Dovid Bryant (May 2019)


Israeli Supporters of PM Netanyahu at Likud Party Headquarters, Tel Aviv, April 9, 2019 (Reuters)

The April 9, 2019 Knesset election results granted long term Israeli Likud Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu an unprecedented fifth term. His election was backed by a mandate of 65 seats held by a mix of right-wing nationalist and religious parties. The race pitted him against a center-left Blue – White Alliance headed by former IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz, a former Netanyahu Minister of Defense Moshe Ya’alon and secularist Yair Lapid of the Yesh Atid party. 39 parties competed for 120 Knesset seats. The actual vote tally between the Blue – White alliance and Likud was one vote, in favor of Netanyahu; 36 to 35. Netanyahu faces the daunting task of assembling a ruling coalition. Then there is the looming matter of outstanding indictments brought against him on bribery and fraud charges by his appointed Attorney General Yishai Mandeblit following Israeli Police investigations
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May 3, 2019 | 11:53 am | 1 Comment »

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Jew Hatred Goes Mainstream  

by Steve Kramer

“The term anti-Semitism was coined in 1879 by the German agitator [and Jew hater] Wilhelm Marr to designate the anti-Jewish campaigns under way in central Europe at that time. Although the term now has wide currency, it is a misnomer, since it implies a discrimination against all Semites. Arabs and other peoples are also Semites, and yet they are not the targets of anti-Semitism as it is usually understood.” britannica.com

There’s anti-Semitism, antisemitism, and Jew hatred – whatever you call it, it’s increasing every day and is now taken for granted by many. I’m beginning to use the expression “Jew hatred” for a few reasons, including its more crude but descriptive flavor.
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May 2, 2019 | 7:55 pm | 4 Comments »

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INTO THE FRAY: Let the PA collapse  

By MARTIN SHERMAN

Despite possible short term difficulties, Israel should seize on the impending collapse of the Palestinian Authority as an opportunity to extricate itself from the deadly cul-de-sac, into which the Oslo process has lured it

It is all or nothing. We will not take any money if they do not give all of it—even if it means the collapse of the Palestinian Authority and an unequivocal declaration that the Oslo Accords are dead.—Ashraf al-Ajami, former Palestinian Authority (PA) minister for Prisoners Affairs, on Israel’s decision to deduct the sums paid to convicted terrorists and/or their families from the tax revenue that Israel collects for the PA, Galei Israel, April 19, 2019.

If the existential goal of the PA—according Ashraf Ajami as well as according to Abu Mazen—is to persist in paying salaries to terrorists, because if it does not pay salaries to terrorists, it breaks up, then perhaps we need to ask what we signed the Oslo Agreement for, if all we did was establish an Authority whose function is to promote terror –Brig-Gen. (res) Yossi Kuperwasser, former Director-General of the Ministry of Strategic Affairs, Galei Israel, April 19, 2019. Read more…

May 2, 2019 | 6:45 pm | 12 Comments »

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Two-state solution: U.S. Jews won’t budge. Will it cost them their relationship with Israel?  

By Allison Kaplan Sommer, HAARETZ

Supporting two states was not always a given for American Jews. But once it became the preferred solution, while Israelis grew increasingly skeptical, it drove the two biggest Jewish communities in the world apart
A Jewish protester demonstrating against the occupation.

When it comes to the two-state solution and the American Jewish community, the old joke about “two Jews, three synagogues” simply doesn’t apply.

The alphabet soup of organizations comprising the so-called American Jewish establishment – from the muscular pro-Israel AIPAC to the “pro-Israel, pro-peace” J Street, through the Anti-Defamation League, American Jewish Committee, the policy arms of the Reform and Conservative movements, the Jewish Federations of North America and the rest – are all in lockstep agreement that a two-state solution is a declared goal to securing a Jewish and democratic state.
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May 2, 2019 | 2:42 pm | 18 Comments »

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Cartoons, “criticism of Israel,” and Jew-hatred  

By Victor Rosenthal

The publication in the International Edition of the New York Times of a classically antisemitic cartoon ignited a firestorm of criticism (see also here) against the paper. The ADL, American Jewish Committee, Israeli Ambassador to the US, US Ambassador to Germany, Israeli Foreign Ministry, Mike Pence, and President Donald Trump joined in. Even Rabbi Rick Jacobs of the Union for Reform Judaism, whom I suspect rarely met an anti-Israel article in the Times that he didn’t like, criticized the Times on the URJ’s Facebook page (although at this writing, J Street has had no comment).

The cartoon is an example of a genre going back at as far as the Middle Ages, through the Dreyfus affair and Nazi period, and common today. Ask the Internet. Ugly, hook-nosed Jews look back at you, grinning as they drain blood from their victims, ravish blonde women, hoard gold coins, entrap the world in octopus tentacles or spider webs, enslave world leaders, exploit the poor, and – more recently – dress in Nazi uniforms and eat Palestinian children.
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May 2, 2019 | 12:44 pm | 1 Comment »

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The Democrat Party Is Dead  

By Will Alexander, TownHall.com

The Democrat Party is so unrecognizable today because it’s gone.  The name is still there.  Some of the old faces are there.  But the party of John Kennedy, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Barbara Jordan and Zell Miller is dead. 

Today’s Democrat Party is hollowed out by a chronic addiction to hyper-partisan controversies that mimic the feeling of being alive. Controversy gives Dems a constant drip of political dopamine they could never find in solving real problems. And they’re hooked now.

So, we’re witnessing a case of shared psychotic disorder that’s driving the party to self-medicate. Drug of choice? Donald Trump. Democrats are so impaired by their craving to “get Trump” that they imbibe day-in and day-out despite the deadly consequences to their party and to the country.
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May 2, 2019 | 11:19 am | 5 Comments »

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EU accepts Israeli request to aid PA  

T. Belman. What, if anything, did Israel promise them?

EU foreign policy chief says EU will provide €22 million in humanitarian assistance to PA.

By Nitsan Keidar, INN

The European Union’s foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini criticized Israel on Tuesday as she participated in a conference in Brussels of the International Donor Group for Palestine.

25 years after the Oslo Accords, said Mogherini, “the very possibility of two states is being dismantled. Settlement expansion continues while international mechanisms that protect the Palestinians in occupied territory are forcefully removed. Ongoing Palestinian divisions continue to harm Palestinian unity and democracy. The political dialogue between the two parties is simply non-existent at the moment, while in both societies, both in Palestine and in Israel, we see that the space for faith in the possibility of peace and security and a two-state solution is shrinking.”
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May 1, 2019 | 7:50 pm | 5 Comments »

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The forgotten death march of Chelm  

The story of how the Nazis rounded up the Jewish men and boys of Chelm, Poland, and marched them miles in the dead of winter, only to shoot most of them, has been lost. The descendants of the few survivors have made it the mission to make sure that people know what happened.

by  Hanan Greenwood, ISRAEL HAYOM

The forgotten death march of Chelm

The Nazis shot the strongest men and community leaders who survived the first part of the march

On Dec. 1, 1939, thousands of Jews were led out of the Polish town of Chelm in what would become the first death march of the Holocaust, and which has been almost totally forgotten.

Most researchers have not defined the Chelm event as a “death march” because people generally think of the death marches as having taken place toward the end of the war, out of the major concentration camps. The Chelm march was a sort of trial by the Nazis to test – among other things – whether the mass murder of Jews would be acceptable to the local population and international opinion.
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May 1, 2019 | 7:42 pm | 2 Comments »

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FLEISHER: The Clash Of American Liberal Jewry And Israeli Nationalism  

By Yishai Fleisher, WIRE

The recent landslide election of Benjamin Netanyahu and the ascendancy of the Israeli Right has deepened the rift between Israeli and American Jews — the latter of whom disproportionately identify with the political Left.

Days after the Israeli election, nine leading American liberal Jewish groups sent a letter to the American president they hate so much and worked so hard to prevent his becoming a president. In it, they urged Trump to preserve the “two-state solution” in the face of a pledge by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to annex the so-called “West Bank” territory, also known as Judea and Samaria.

Four ostensibly pro-Israel Jewish Democrats — Reps. Eliot Engel and Nita Lowey of New York, Ted Deutch of Florida, and Brad Schneider of Illinois — released a similar letter warning Israel not to annex parts of Judea and Samaria because, yet again, such a move would endanger the two-state solution.
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Saudi Arabia offered Abbas $10 B to accept Trump’s peace plan (alledgedly)  

T. Belman. Two reports are referred to in this article and they are in conflict with each other. Which to believe? Neither. While each contains a bit of truth they are far from the whole truth. But this is true “what’s left of the West Bank will become cantons under Jordan’s administrative rule and Israel’s security control” This is what I have been reporting all along.

A senior Palestinian official in Ramallah refused to comment on the report.

By Khaled Abu Toameh, JPOST

Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud walks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has offered Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas $10 billion if he accepts US President Donald Trump’s plan for peace in the Middle East, also known as the “deal of the century,” the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar reported on Tuesday.

A senior Palestinian official in Ramallah refused to comment on the report.

Referring to meetings between the Saudi crown prince and Abbas, the newspaper said that “according to information obtained by Al-Akhbar, Salman briefed Abbas about the details of the deal of the century and asked him to accept it. According to the information, Salman asked Abbas: What is the annual budget of your entourage? Abbas replied: I’m not a prince to have my own entourage.”
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May 1, 2019 | 9:41 am | 17 Comments »

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US to designate the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization  

T. Belman. I have been expecting this because when Mudar Zahran will take over Jordan one of the first things he will do is bann the Muslim Brotherhood who have their headquaters in Jordan. Egypt, Saudi Arabia and UAE have all banned them also. The US is now just catching up.

Trump administration planning to designate Muslim Brotherhood a foreign terrorist organization.

By Elad Benari,, INN

The Trump administration is planning to designate the Muslim Brotherhood a foreign terrorist organization, an effort that is “working its way through the internal process,” White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Tuesday, according to CNN.

Sanders was responding to a New York Timesreport which cited officials familiar with the matter and which said the administration was working to make the designation. The move would impose “wide-ranging economic and travel sanctions” on entities that do business with the group.

The Times said that following a White House visit earlier this month by Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, the administration “directed national security and diplomatic officials to find a way to place sanctions on the group.”
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Madame Secretary, “At this point it makes a very big difference.”  

by Linda Goudsmit, PUNDICITY

During a January 23, 2013, Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing Hillary Clinton was questioned about the September 11, 2012 bombing of the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. The Benghazi anniversary attack occurred while Clinton was Obama’s Secretary of State during the final months of Romney’s presidential bid to unseat Obama and just two months before the November presidential elections.

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee was conducting a review of the Benghazi attack that killed four Americans including U.S. Ambassador J. Chris Stevens. During questioning by Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI), Hillary Clinton famously said, “At this point what difference does it make?” Let’s find out.

The transcript of the hearing recorded on C-SPAN shows Sen. Johnson repeatedly asking Clinton about the story coming out of Obama’s White House that the Benghazi attack was a response to protests outside the Consulate and an anti-Islam video posted on YouTube.

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April 30, 2019 | 5:58 pm | 1 Comment »

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German Intelligence Issues Taboo-Breaking Report on Muslim Antisemitism  

By Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld, BESA

BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,158, April 30, 2019

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The German Agency for Domestic Security recently published a report on Muslim antisemitism in the country – a development that is unprecedented not only for Germany but for all of Europe. The report makes clear that Muslim antisemitism is a major problem in Germany. At long last, Muslim antisemitism in Germany has been officially detailed for the public.

The German Agency for Domestic Security (Bundesamt fuer Verfassungsschutz) recently published a 40-page report entitled “Antisemitism in Islamism.” Never before has any European intelligence agency published a report on Muslim antisemitism. This report is a major break with the German past. It is the first official publication by a national body that exposes in reasonable detail the antisemitism originating in parts of the country’s Muslim community.

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April 30, 2019 | 5:36 pm | 2 Comments »

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Will Trump expose the UN fraud on former Palestine boundaries?  

The UN published a propaganda study filled with selective information in 1978, this in order to cast doubt on Israel’s legality.

By David Singer, INN<

President Trump appears set to expose more than forty  years of deceptive and misleading information disseminated by the United Nations (UN)  in relation to the boundaries of former Palestine.

This welcome development comes with President Trump’s Special U.S Envoy Jason D. Greenblatt telling Sky News in Arabic on 19 April:

“There is no reason to use the term ‘two-state solution,” the reason being that, “every side sees it differently.”

The UN must take responsibility for creating such confusion by perpetuating intellectual and political fraud originating with its 1978  publication: “The Origins and Evolution of the Palestinian problem“(Study)
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April 30, 2019 | 7:30 am | 1 Comment »

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Global Warming Going the way of Russia Collusion  

By Brian C. Joondeph, AMERICAN THINKER

The last thing we expect mid-spring is snow.  Yet that’s just what we have. As the Weather Channel reports, “It may be late April, but Winter Storm Xyler will make you forget that it is spring in the Midwest this weekend as it is expected to bring some unusually heavy late season snowfall.”

Snow is heading to New York as well, despite the state’s all-out effort to combat global warming by attempting to ban plastic straws and now hot dogs. From the New York Post, “Upstate NY may get up to 3 inches of snow this weekend.”

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Biden Funneled $1.8 Billion To Ukraine While Son Bagged ‘Sweetheart’ Government Deal: Report  

By Tyler Durden, ZERO HEDGE

Joe Biden allegedly directed $1.8 billion in aid money to Ukraine as Vice President while his son Hunter received millions of dollars from Ukrainian energy giant Burisma Holdings, according to Peter Schweizer, president of the Government Accountability Institute and senior Breitbart editor-at-large.

As The Hill‘s John Solomon reported Monday, Hunter Biden was paid upwards of $166,000 per month to sit on the board of Burisma from spring 2014 through fall 2015.

“We’ve talked before about the deals he procured with the government for China, Schweizer said Tuesday night on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight. “The other place [Joe Biden’s] son, Hunter Biden, procured a big deal was in Ukraine.In Ukraine, it involved an energy company called Burisma, which is a very corrupt organization headed by an oligarch named Mykola Zlochevsky who is very close to Viktor Yanukovich, the pro-Russian leader.”
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April 29, 2019 | 10:47 am | 1 Comment »

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Why the Democratic Party treats Jews with contempt. Why Pelosi thinks we are a pushover.  

By Shirley Lewis

5,000,000 Jews in the US.  An anti antisemitism in Congress petition did not get 500,000 signatures.  Not even close.  Less than 238,000.

The petition to have anti-Semitic Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar removed from the House Foreign Affairs Committee was not even as strong a petition as it should have been.  A more powerful petition would have urged that Rep. Omar lose all her committee assignments (just as Rep. King did based on an uncorroborated NY Times report), and that the DNC and the DCCC withhold all financial and political support for her re-election.

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April 29, 2019 | 10:36 am | 4 Comments »

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