Decision to stop some services in Israel met with strong opposition

By Adam Kredo, FREE BEACON

he recent decision by Airbnb to stop its services for Jews living in the West Bank of Israel is being met with criticism by the Trump administration and pro-Israel leaders on Capitol Hill, according to sources who spoke to the Washington Free Beacon about the company’s choice to join the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, or BDS, which aims to wage economic warfare on the Jewish state.

Airbnb, a growing tech company that allows travelers to rent lodging across the globe, announced that it removed some 200 Jewish-owned rental homes in the West Bank, sparking fury in pro-Israel circles.
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By Evelyn Gordon, COMMENTARY

The narrative adopted by many American Jews these days is that rightist governments enable anti-Semitism, while liberal governments allow Jewish communities to flourish. A corollary of this thesis is that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s open friendship with rightist governments in Eastern Europe has enabled anti-Semitism. Thanks to a poll of European Jews published last week, we now have some facts by which to judge this thesis. And the facts appear to belie it.
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Iranian Atomic Energy Organization head Ali Akbar Salehi says Iran has not yet seen “any tangible results” from European promises to help Iran trade despite U.S. sanctions • He says Iran could ramp up uranium enrichment if 2015 nuclear deal unravels.

Reuters and Israel Hayom Staff

Iranian patience is running out on the European Union’s pledges to keep up oil trade despite U.S. sanctions and Iran would be warning the EU’s top diplomat of this, Iran’s nuclear chief said on Tuesday.

Ali Akbar Salehi, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, said his country could resume enriching uranium to 20% purity – considered well above the level needed to fuel civilian power plants – if it fails to see the economic benefits of the 2015 international nuclear deal, which curbed its nuclear program.

“If we cannot sell our oil and we don’t enjoy financial transactions, then I don’t think keeping the deal will benefit us anymore,” Salehi said ahead of a meeting with EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini in Brussels on Tuesday.
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After decades of almost no interaction, relations between the two nations grow increasingly warmer and closer. There’s plenty of good news—and, for Israel, plenty of risk.

By Arthur Herman, MOSAIC

In March 2017, President Xi Jinping of China hosted two important visitors from the Middle East. The first was King Salman of Saudi Arabia, whose country’s oil supplies are crucial to China’s energy and economic outlook. The second was Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Unlike Saudi Arabia—or Iran, or Iraq—Israel is one Middle Eastern country with no oil to offer China. Nor does it count China among the many customers for Israeli arms exports; to that prospectively lucrative arrangement, a 2005 dispute with the United States closed the door. Nor is there a large expatriate Chinese population in Israel clamoring for good relations with Beijing. Nor, in China itself, is there a Jewish community of any size whose interests an Israeli prime minister might deem a fit topic to bring up with his Chinese counterpart.
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The old European dormant anti-Jewish mood has been rejuvenated by the diabolical poison known as anti-Zionism.

By Giulio Meotti, INN

“More than a quarter of Europeans polled believe Jews have too much influence in business and finance. Nearly one in four said Jews have too much influence in conflict and wars across the world”.

Those are among the key findings of a survey carried out for CNN. In another poll, 43 percent of Dutch Jews take active steps to hide their Jewish identity, such as wearing a hat over their kippah or hiding Star of David pendants. Anti-Semitism is destroying Europe from within. About 180 million Europeans hate the Jews, again.

The pattern is very clear: Israel is the “aggressor”, Israel is the state of the Jews, hence the Jews are the aggressors. This new European anti-Semitism, in fact, has been fueled by the global hate for Israel and the rise of radical Islam. The old European dormant anti-Jewish mood has been rejuvenated by the diabolical poison known as anti-Zionism.
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ABSOLUTE MUST WATCH

By Monica Showalter, AMERICAN THINKER

You often see it at the bottom of news stories or in less prominently placed news stories, from the more serious local news outlets near the scene of the Tijuana caravan encampment:

Migrants are taking a look at the lay of the land and deciding to pack up and go home.

By Ksenia Svetlova, JPOST

Now try to answer this question: Should Israel, the state that rose from the ashes of Holocaust recognize and acknowledge a genocide when it happens to other people?

DESTROYED BUILDINGS in the city of Sinjar. There has been no reconstruction of Yazidi communities.. (photo credit: REUTERS)

Mass graves where unidentified men, women and children are lying together are being discovered near Mosul, Kirkuk and Sinjar mountain. The horrific discoveries of these nameless victims remind us all of what have happened in Iraq four years ago, when the world was looking the other way.

Back in 2014, the ancient Yazidi community that survived Persian, Arab and Ottoman empires was brutally attacked by the terrorists of Da’esh (ISIS). Their houses were burned with their inhabitants inside, small children were slaughtered with horrific sadism, men were shot and thrown to mass graves and women were turned into sex slaves. All that just for being Yazidi.
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Shortsighted politics prevent genocide recognition

By Seth J. Frantzman, JPOST

I saw the mass graves of Yazidis murdered by ISIS. It was a genocide and Israel should recognize it.

In December 2015, almost three years ago, I made the long drive into the killing fields of Sinjar in northern Iraq, where Islamic State committed genocide against the Yazidi minority. It was night by the time we got there, to the desolate areas around Sinjar mountain, called Shingal by locals. This was the place where members of the Yazidi minority had fled attacks by ISIS in August 2014.

Scenes of tens of thousands of people huddling, starving and dehydrated, galvanized the US to begin air strikes on ISIS. Yet just beyond where I slept on one of those cold nights in December, ISIS had machine-gunned men and elderly women and buried them in mass graves.
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By Dr Haim Shine, ISRAEL HAYOM

I was personally excited when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with the latest crop of Armored Corps recruits this week. Exactly 50 years ago, in November, I myself arrived at the induction base, having persuaded myself that I absolutely must serve in the Armored Corps. Even before I enlisted, I could recite entire passages from the canonical book “Exposed in the Turret,” about the Israeli Armored Corps, from memory. The book, which has been translated into 14 languages, described the corps’ battles in Sinai and in the Golan Heights during the 1967 Six-Day War. In my graduating high school class in Tel Aviv that year, only a handful of us enlisted to serve in combat units.
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T. Belman. America is partnering with the Kurds to destroy ISIS. Also the Kurds have secured the land east of the Euphrates, with American help and presence.  This possession is of enormous importance to America’s ability to negotiate the future of Syria with Russia and Syria and to preventing Iran from establishing a land bridge to the Mediterranean.  So why is America letting Turkey attack the Kurds east of the Euphrates?  At a minimum America must protect the interest of  the Kurds and other residents of the land east of the Euphrates in any deal that is negotiated.

Watchdog says more than 200 rebel fighters and civilians killed since Friday rampage by terror group near Iraq border

By Rouba El Husseini, TOI

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AFP) — US-backed fighters in Syria suffered record fatalities in an assault by the Islamic State terror group, a war monitor said Monday, as holdout jihadists kept up a fierce defense of their last Syrian redoubt.

It said a total of more than 200 people have been killed since around 500 IS fighters burst out of the fog shrouding the area in eastern Syria near the border with Iraq to launch their deadly assault on Friday. Read more…

Officials say president’s top adviser ordered numbers exaggerated to reach $115 billion sum; Pentagon says only $14.5 billion in deals with Riyadh actually in the works

By TOI STAFF

Senior White House adviser Jared Kushner in 2017 exaggerated the amount of US arms sales to Saudi Arabia in a bid to solidify the Trump administration’s alliance with the kingdom, ABC news reported Monday.

The report said Kushner, who is son-in-law to President Donald Trump, directed the State Department and Pentagon to inflate the amount of arms exchanges between the two countries to $110 billion, a figure that current and former US officials said included potential deals. Actual sales have amounted to only $15 billion.
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How Israel-bashers in the media purposefully and malevolently build up hatred for Israel. So does Arab countries, the UN amd EU

By Steve Apfel, INN

Part 3 of a three part series. Parts 1 and 2 can be read by clicking  here and here. 

Dirty Play

Reaching deep into the box of tricks we fish out high voltage devices of news heads and writers who hate with a passion. We’re led to hate with them. Some devices carry an open warning, others when the wrapper is peeled back, take the brain by stealth.

The melting pot device
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From Qatar to Iran, none of the countries participating in the MED2018 conference seemed really interested in the Palestinians. Normalization with Israel, on the other hand, was all the rage: ‘It’s a total change in paradigm’

By Anshel Pfeffer, HAARETZ

Iraq’s President Barham Salih speaks at the Mediterranean dialogues conference in Rome, Thursday, Nov. 22, 2018.Alessandra Tarantino/AP

ROME — Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, deputy prime minister and foreign minister of Qatar, listed the Middle East’s main problems at the MED 2018 conference in Rome last Thursday. Naturally, at the top of the list he put Saudi Arabia’s ongoing blockade of his family’s little kingdom. Next were the bloody wars in Yemen and Syria, the chaos in Libya and the political unrest in Lebanon. That was it.

Missing was another regional conflict in which the Qataris have been deeply involved: the Palestinian issue, and more specifically the question of Gaza’s future, in which the Emirate is now investing $15 million a month, in cash.
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News of effort to normalize relations with Manama comes after reports that Israel is eyeing ties with Sudan, as Chadian leader makes historic visit to Israel

By TOI STAFF

Israel is working to normalize ties with Bahrain, as Jerusalem ramps up its drive to forge more open relations with the Arab world amid shifting alliances in the Middle East driven by shared concerns over Iran, Hebrew-language news sites reported late Sunday.

The reports, sourced to an unnamed senior official, did not detail Israel’s efforts to get closer to Manama, but came hours after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hinted he would soon travel to unspecified Arab states, during a press conference with visiting Chadian leader Idriss Déby Sunday.
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By Raymond Ibrahim, JPOST

How can a fundamentally weak Muslim world be a threat to an economically and militarily superior West?

One of the least explored answers to this conundrum revolves around an antithesis – namely, how the West portrays Islam today, compared to its actual historic experiences with Islam.

In fact, from Islam’s first contact with Western civilization and for more than a millennium thereafter, Muslims behaved not unlike the Islamic State and on the same conviction: that Islam commands war on – and the enslavement or slaughter of – non-Muslims.
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Scholars studied the Koran to show it opposes ISIS-type actions, but discovered that the origin and source of terrorism is indeed the core doctrine of the religion of Islam. No ‘religion of peace’ there.

By Ashraf Ramelah, INN

Egyptian “democracy” is an endless comedy – if you’re not suffering at the hands of it, that is.  Last month, Amr Hamroush, a graduate of Al-Ahzar Institute and a member of the Egyptian Parliament as well as secretary of the Committee of Religious Affairs and Endowments, introduced a resolution to criminalize the act of “insulting historic figures.” Hamroush’s resolution is written in vague terms and lacks definition for “historic figures and symbols.”

Using the term “mockers” for those who criticize and “insult,” the bill’s author says the issue will not be up for public debate, as that would have a negative and dangerous effect on Egyptians. The parliamentary bill was under review for the entire month of October and is now up for discussion in the fall session.
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By Rabbi Aryeh Spero, SPECTATOR

Over the last month, President Trump has been assailed by shrieking critics within the U.S. and overseas by French President Macron regarding Mr. Trump’s enthusiastic endorsement of the concept of American Nationalism. Many NeverTrumpers and neocons are charging that nationalism in America equals white supremacy, a forerunner to Nazism. Nothing is further from the truth. Their hysterical assertion is extremely misguided or a deliberate attempt to once again besmirch Mr. Trump, in the same way as when they blamed him for anti-Semitism and the massacre at a Pittsburgh synagogue despite the fact that the shooter was anti-Trump and the President has been the most pro-Israel and genuinely Jewish-friendly president we have ever witnessed.

Loving America is a good thing inasmuch as America is a good country. As with any institution, including marriage and family, nothing is perfect; but America was founded on highly moral and workable principles and has consistently provided more fair pay, opportunity, and decency than any country in the history of the world. America is the first choice for those around the world seeking a haven or place to find work and dignity, and deserves to be loved. It is a badge of honor to identify with America as a nation.

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