TRUMP IS VERY IMPRESSIVE. HOW CAN YOU NOT LOVE HIM?
T. Belman. Pollak nailed Biden and the Democratic Party to the wall. They are dispicable to propagate lies and smears to advance their political agenda. Unfortunately there doesn’t appear to be any end in sight to this practice.
I am a Jew — an observant Jew, raised in Skokie, Illinois, a town that resisted neo-Nazi marchers and which, at the time, was home to the largest population of Holocaust survivors in the world outside Israel. Nazis murdered many of my grandfather’s relatives in Poland.
Today, former vice president Joe Biden trivialized the suffering of Jews and exploited the memory of the Holocaust for personal and political gain — and he used a lie to do it.
Biden suggested that President Donald Trump, and the nearly 63 million Americans who voted for him, support the rise of a new wave of antisemitism and white nationalism similar to Nazi Germany in the 1930s.
Biden claimed — falsely — that Trump called neo-Nazis who marched in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017 “very fine people” — when, in fact, Trump said the neo-Nazis “should be condemned totally,” as the transcript proves.
The narrow Palestinian Authority cabinet, recently cobbled together by PA President Mahmoud Abbas, appears ill-equipped to deal with its pressing political, diplomatic and economic troubles. There is major disunity among the Palestinians, Hamas and Fatah, which are nowhere near reconciliation, and the PA is losing money fast.
by Israel Kasnett, ISRAEL HAYOM
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas with PA Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh | Photo: Reuters
In a meeting with U.S. Senator Ron Wyden in Ramallah on Tuesday, newly appointed Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh blamed the Trump administration for “punishing” and “blackmailing” the Palestinians. He emphasized its recent cutting of U.S. aid to the Palestinians, recognition of the Golan Heights as Israeli territory and the U.S. embassy move from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem last spring as reasons for Palestinian fury. He may also have been referring to the much-anticipated Mideast peace plan expected to be revealed in June, after the month-long Muslim holiday of Ramadan.
The Palestinians have already made it clear that they will not accept it, sight unseen.
The narrow Palestinian cabinet, recently cobbled together by PA President Mahmoud Abbas, appears ill-equipped to deal with the PA’s pressing political, diplomatic and economic troubles. There is major disunity among the Palestinians, Hamas and Fatah, which are nowhere near reconciliation, and the PA is losing money fast.
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“But if that would’ve worked, we would’ve made peace a long time ago on that basis,” he said.
“Normally they start with a process and then hope that the process leads to a resolution for something to happen. What we’ve done is the opposite.
WASHINGTON – White House Senior Advisor Jared Kushner, discussed the upcoming “deal of the century” and said that “if people focus on the old traditional talking points, we will never make progress.”
In an interview at the 2019 TIME 100 Summit, Kushner mentioned the Arab peace initiative of 2002 and said: “I think [it was] a very good attempt. But if that would’ve worked, we would’ve made peace a long time ago on that basis,” and added that the current peace team decided to put out a different plan.
“Our focus is really on the bottom up, which is how do you make the lives of the Palestinian people better? What can you resolve to allow these areas to become more investable? We deal with all the core status issues because you have to do it, but we’ve also built a robust business plan for the whole region.”
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T. Belman. Boteach and others are finally getting it. Like I have been saying all the time, Trump is charting a new course and will succeed.
By Rabbi Shmuelly Boteach, BREITBART
For just about as long as there have been efforts to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, calls for a two-state solution have choked the global conversation. Many have come to believe that there’s no other way to achieve peace.
Suddenly, though, it seems those aren’t the only voices in the room.
First, Israelis heard Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vow days before a general election that Israel would be extending its sovereignty over all of Area C, which constitutes the bulk of Judea and Samaria (the “West Bank”), and which would serve to hold those lands firmly under Israeli security control.
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In May 2018, the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) announced CHF 2 million in “Support to Israeli and Palestinian HR/IHL CSOs” “as part of its engagement to contribute to a just and lasting peace and to the establishment of an independent, viable and democratic State of Palestine.” Per a March 2017 bill passed by the Swiss legislature, grants were supposed to be prohibited for “development cooperation projects carried out by NGOs involved in racist, antisemitic or hate incitement actions.”
However, as reported by the Israeli daily Israel Hayom on April 24, 2019, the contracts related to these grants detail activities previously carried out or planned by the NGOs that significantly differ from the claimed human rights and humanitarian ideals. These include campaigning for the release of convicted murderers, international and legal attacks against Israel, and promoting incitement that makes the stated objective of “lasting peace” less attainable.
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Trump administration is convinced Palestinian Authority is spreading ‘fake news’ in the Arab media about its plan, which could be released in June
The Trump administration and the Palestinian Authority are caught in a battle over how the Arab world will respond to the administration’s Middle East peace plan.
Both sides are trying to convince key Arab countries to accept their views on the plan, which could be released after the Muslim month of Ramadan ends in June, with the U.S. administration seeking to have a clear separation between the Palestinian reaction and that of the Arab world.
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COLOMBO (Reuters) – Details began to emerge in Sri Lanka on Wednesday of a band of nine, well-educated Islamist suicide bombers, including a woman, from well-to-do families who slaughtered 359 people in Easter Sunday bomb attacks.
The Islamic State militant group claimed responsibility for the coordinated attacks on three churches and four hotels. If that connection is confirmed, the attacks looks likely to be the deadliest ever linked to the group.
Both the Sri Lankan government and the United States said the scale and sophistication of the coordinated bombings suggested the involvement of an external group such as Islamic State.
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By Benjamin Arie, CONSERVATIVE TRIBUNE
The 2016 election may be mercifully behind us, but one of its biggest scandals is still haunting Hillary Clinton.
Clinton’s use of a private, inadequately secured email server during her time as secretary of state rocked her campaign for president, and continued to reverberate into the current political landscape.
The controversial decision by then-FBI Director James Comey to change the wording of Clinton’s actions from “grossly negligent” to softer words like ” extremely careless” may have kept the candidate out of prison, but it also sparked a power struggle within the Trump White House that is still impacting events today.
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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.”
A massive amount of air power and US naval assets were suddenly in the same place at the same time.
Two US aircraft carrier strike groups operated in the Mediterranean Sea this week. The USS Abraham Lincoln, on its way toward the Persian Gulf from Palma de Mallorca, crossed paths with the USS John C. Stennis which had come from the Gulf and had left the Suez Canal into the Mediterranean.
A massive amount of airpower and US naval assets were suddenly in the same place at the same time. As if that wasn’t enough, the Stennis had just carried out a joint pass exercise with France’s Charles de Gaulle Carrier Strike Group in the Red Sea. There were other navy ships in the area as well. The guided-missile destroyer USS McFaul, the guided-missile cruiser USS Mobile Bay, the Royal Danish Navy Frigate HDMS Niels Juel and the French air defense destroyer FS Forbin were in the area, Michael Landmark of Denmark pointed out online. The Defense Post reported the same information, noting that French Rafale aircraft and American F-18s conducted training together. The USS Stennis had already carried out weeks of training with France’s Marine Nationale defense destroyer FS Cassard in January.
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United Torah Judaism looks to bridge gap with Yisrael Beytenu on haredi draft law, offers to accept Liberman’s draft – with one change.
The United Torah Judaism faction has offered a compromise on what is widely expected to be one of the most difficult issues facing the 35th Government of Israel – passage of a new draft law governing exemptions for yeshiva students.
As talks for the formation of a governing coalition continue, lawmakers from the UTJ have proposed a compromise plan aimed at passing a new draft law acceptable to both the haredi public and the Yisrael Beytenu party.
Under the arrangement put forward by the UTJ, according to a report by Yisrael Hayom on Wednesday, the haredi faction would accept the draft of a bill proposed by Yisrael Beytenu in the previous government – with the addition of a new article.
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By ValerieSobel
Let’s begin our tour of the Cathedral slowly and gently, lest we offend too quickly. The inevitable crescendo of uncomfortable Notre Dame history is laid out herein by my politically incorrect pen.
Notre Dame’s genesis dates back to the 12th/13th century when a vast majority of the population was illiterate. As with most art, Notre Dame’s statues, elaborate friezes, and stained glass windows, first and foremost, served an educational purpose; to impart religious instruction to the masses with respect to right vs. wrong, correct Christian beliefs vs. heresy and blasphemy. Without the separation of Church and State for centuries, Notre Dame’s art & architecture was a political and social doctrine as much as the religious. Church teachings through these visuals formed culture and society itself.
So what exactly is France transfixed with restoring to the tune of close to a billion dollars? What is this structure – the beneficiary of internationally poured donations and collective adoration?
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At the Freedom Center’s recent West Coast Retreat at the Terranea Resort in Rancho Palos Verdes (April 5-7, 2019), U.K.’s freedom fighter Katie Hopkins discussed the price she has paid in her battle for freedom in the UK — and warns America not to become like Britain. Don’t miss the video and transcript of this dynamic speech below!
T. Belman. The Plan doesn’t depend on Palestinian acceptance. Israel will act in accordance with it and Trump will back them. He has already backed Israel’s annexation of both Jerusalem and Golan. Similarly when Israel annexes all lands west of the Jordan, Trump will back them.
For those who wonder about what will happen to Area A, They should know that Israel will be sovereign of those lands subject to Palestinian autonomy. Jordan will replace the PA as administrator.
It would be a mistake to think Trump’s deal of the century will be completely inconsequential: It could have far-reaching implications on the future of Israeli-Palestinian relations and more importantly, on the future of Israel itself.
by Prof. Eyal Zisser, ISRAEL HAYOM
This coming June, upon the conclusion of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, the Trump administration will supposedly unveil details of its so-called “deal of the century” to bring an end to the century-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Even before its birth, however, many have already been quick to bury it. After all, many of the relevant parties aren’t hiding their reservations, some openly declaring they will refuse to accept it.
The Palestinians are looking on forlornly as their dream of having all their demands of Israel delivered on a silver platter by the international community – rises in smoke. While it might seek to meet the Palestinians’ desires, the deal of the century is light years from the concessions that previous administrations, from Clinton to Obama, were willing to grant them. Trump’s proposal makes no mention of the creation of a Palestinian state, and also makes no demand of Israel to withdraw from all of Judea and Samaria to pre-1967 borders.
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China likely to keep getting Iran oil; Saudi response unclear
By Benoit Faucon and Summer Said, WSJ
Waivers granted to countries including China, India and Turkey that allowed imports of Iranian oil would end May 2, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said. The move, part of the Trump administration’s effort to drive Iran’s exports to zero, surprised buyers and others who had been told by State Department officials in recent weeks to expect a renewal of exceptions.
The U.S. had previously granted eight countries 180-day waivers, allowing them to continue buying Iranian crude despite the U.S. sanctions that began last November. The waivers stipulated that each country had to take steps to reduce purchases and move toward ending imports from Iran.
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A poster from 1927 for an Academy Award-winning picture whose story was written by Ben Hecht.
BEN HECHT
Fighting Words, Moving Pictures
By Adina Hoffman
THE NOTORIOUS BEN HECHT
Iconoclastic Writer and Militant Zionist
By Julien Gorbach
For understandable reasons, biographies about Ben Hecht have focused almost exclusively on his screenwriting career in Hollywood. And why wouldn’t they? Consider a few of his credits: “Underworld,” directed by Josef von Sternberg, for which Hecht won the first Academy Award. (Not his first Academy Award, the first Academy Award ever given for best story. The year was 1927.) “Scarface,” “The Front Page,” “Twentieth Century,” “Design for Living,” “Wuthering Heights,” “His Girl Friday,” “Spellbound,” “Notorious.” And that’s just films with his name on them. Uncredited, he script-doctored countless others, including “Stagecoach,” “Gone With the Wind,” “A Star Is Born” (1937) and “Roman Holiday.”
Across four decades, Hecht worked on about 200 movies. He helped establish the ground rules for entire genres, including the gangster film, the newspaper picture, the screwball comedy and postwar film noir. Jean-Luc Godard said “he invented 80 percent of what is used in Hollywood movies today.”
T. Belman. He got a lot of flak for making this case.
Israel has the moral right to annex all of the West Bank, for a plethora of reasons. Israel’s right to exist is non-negotiable and it has a right to unilaterally apply Israeli law over its nation-state.
The April 2019 election victory for Benjamin Netanyahu will see him serve a record fifth term as Israeli prime minister and form a new right-wing coalition government. It also brings the promise of a commitment Netanyahu made to the nation during his campaign: That he would annex Jewish settlements in occupied Palestinian territories.
Vowing to extend sovereignty without distinguishing between settlement blocks and the isolated settlements, Netanyahu promised not to transfer any sovereignty to the Palestinians. His victory in the elections will, hopefully, see the enactment of Netanyahu’s promise.
Israel has the moral right to annex all of the West Bank (even Area C) for a plethora of reasons.
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T. Belman. The only thing I disagree with is that he says Jews and Jewish money have power and influence in the US. 75% of Jews and Jewish money support the Democratic Party and the Jewish establishment both of whom are anti-ZionisT and anti-Israel. They do not influence the Trump regime. I also think that the future is predictable. Israel, with US backing, will dominate the ME
Soltan-Shahi was described by MEMRI in 2018 as secretary-general of the Organization for Aiding the Islamic Revolution of the Palestinian People in the Office of the Iranian Presidency.
Iran’s Tasnim news ran a long and important interview on Tuesday with a Palestinian named Ali Reza Soltan-Shahi. The interview is interesting because it gives a window not only into Palestinian thinking, but particularly because of the views conveyed to the Iranian regime via the interview.
Soltan-Shahi has appeared before at Iranian events. He was described by MEMRI in 2018 as secretary-general of the Organization for Aiding the Islamic Revolution of the Palestinian People in the Office of the Iranian Presidency. Tasnim describes him only as a former head of the Palestinian Center for Mental Health.
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