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By David Harsanyi, FEDERALIST November 14, 2018

Ilhan Omar, one of the first of two Muslim women to be elected to Congress, is a new kind of politician. She’s telegenic. Ideologically progressive. Widely celebrated by a media that’s obsessed with identity politics. She’s the kind of politician who can openly side with Hamas against Israel or spread “Protocols of Zion”-style conspiracies on Twitter, claiming that Jews possess the supernatural ability to hypnotize the world as they unfurl their “evil.”

It’s not surprising, then, that Omar also supports the “boycott, divestment and sanctions” movement (BDS). In a statement to the website Muslim Girl (later confirmed elsewhere), someone on Omar’s staff explains that, yes, “Ilhan believes in and supports the BDS movement, and has fought to make sure people’s right to support it isn’t criminalized. She does however, have reservations on the effectiveness of the movement in accomplishing a lasting solution.”
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By Alex Alexiev, AMERICAN THINKER

Two seemingly unrelated events in Europe over the past 20 days point to what cannot be described other than as the slow suicide of  European civilization. On November 9, Chancellor Merkel gave a speech in Berlin commemorating the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht (lately renamed  Pogromnacht). This 1938 event, which led to the willful destruction of 1400 synagogues, thousands of Jewish stores and the deportation of more than 30,000 Jews to the concentration camps, is widely considered the beginning of the Holocaust. For those familiar with Nazi history, though, the writing had been on the wall long before that.

What Hitler had in mind for the Jews is described in detail in his Mein Kampf and put in practice at the latest by the Nuremberg Laws of September 1935, which excluded Jews from German society, prohibited them from holding public office and marrying Germans and made them, in effect, stateless outcasts in their own country. As if to make sure that modern Holocaust doubters and anti-Semites, like labor leader Jeremy Corbin of the UK, have no place to hide, Hitler explained in detail his plans to annihilate the Jews to his military commanders in his Obersalzberg speech of August 22, 1939. “Who, after all,” said he, “speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians.”
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T. Belman. On top of all that, here is some more bad news for Trump:

1. Fox News to back CNN in its lawsuit against Trump.
2. KELLYANNE’S HUSBAND LAUNCHES ANTI-TRUMP GROUP FOR CONSERVATIVE ATTORNEYS
3. SINCE ELECTION DAY: Democrats Pick Off Over a Dozen GOP House Seats and 2 Senate Seats… And They’re Going for More
4. They’re Here!!! Caravan Migrants Reach US Border at San Diego, Climb Fence
5. Robinson was not granted a visa to come to America to speak to Republican law-makers this week.

AP

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is weighing an administration-wide shakeup as he looks to prepare his White House for divided government, but it is unclear who is going and who is staying.

Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was thought to be out as soon as this week, according to two people with knowledge of the issue, but she is now likely to remain in the post for a longer period because there is no obvious successor in place.

Trump has soured on Nielsen and White House chief of staff John Kelly, in part over frustration that his administration is not doing more to address what he has called a crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border, according to the people. But the scope of the contemplated changes is far broader, as Trump gears up for a wave of Democratic oversight requests and to devote more effort to his own re-election campaign.
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 By Shmuel Sackett, ZEHUT

I am typing these words as Hamas rockets rain down on Israel. Millions of Jews are in danger. Schools in southern Israel have been cancelled and most businesses are closed as well. Unfortunately, this is nothing new. This is a rerun of a rerun of a rerun… You thought you were tired of watching Rocky 6? Try living Gaza 43.

A little background: I was born and raised in New York but my family was very Zionistic. Israel was always at the center of our lives. We followed the news very closely – especially during the 6 Day War and near tragic Yom Kippur War. We were eager to find out what was happening, which was not so easy in the 60’s and 70’s when news reports about Israel were limited. There was no cable television, no internet and no social media.
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CENTER FOR SECURITY POLICY

CAROLINE GLICK, Center for Security Policy’s Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Affairs, Senior Contributing Editor at The Jerusalem Post, Contributor at Breitbart News:

• Implications of the aftermath of the Khashoggi Affair
• Origins of Saudi’s fight against Sunni Jihad

(PART TWO):

• The strategic reason why the US should not take action against the Saudis
• Trump’s Middle East policy
• Why the US must designate the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization

(PART THREE):

• President Trump’s maximum pressure campaign against Iran
• How Turkey and Iran are operating with each other to defeat a common enemy

(PART FOUR):

• The weaknesses of King Abdullah’s regime
• Why anti-Zionism is a form of antisemitism

This is the third year in a row that such attacks have increased, FBI’s annual Hate Crime Statistics report shows • 7,175 hate crimes reported in 2017, up from 6,121 in 2016 • Attorney general: Hate crimes are “despicable violations” of American values.

Reuters and Israel Hayom Staff

The data was compiled from reports voluntarily submitted by 16,149 law enforcement agencies 

Antisemitic crimes surged 44% from 2014 to 2016, says Campaign Against Anti-Semitism NGO . The trend has worsened in first half of 2017 . “Hate crime of any type is not acceptable. Everyone in this country has the right to be safe,” says home secretary.

By Erez Frisch, News Agencies and Israel Hayom Staff

Protesters march against antisemitism in London [Illustrative] 

Antisemitic crime in the United Kingdom has escalated for the third year running to reach the worst level on record in 2016, a new report by the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism warned Sunday.

Oman’s Foreign Minister: I am going to say something that I say for the first time. Israel is a state that is present in this region….but…Israel is not being treated by the other countries as it is treating the other countries.

By David Singer, INN

Oman has broken ranks with the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) by endorsing President Trump’s efforts to resolve the Arab-Jewish conflict.

The PLO has made it crystal-clear on many occasions that it wanted nothing to do with Trump’s upcoming proposals. The PLO Central Council also threatened on 30 October to suspend its recognition of the State of Israel and halt security coordination with Israel.
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T. Belman. Bennett is demanding the Defense portfolio. Bibi is refusing.

By resigning now, Lieberman is sticking the failure of Gaza on Netanyahu and signaling Israel’s election campaign has begun

By Anshel Pfeffer, HAARETZ

Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s announcement Wednesday that he is resigning and his Yisrael Beiteinu party is leaving Israel’s ruling coalition, in the wake of the cease-fire agreements with Hamas, will almost certainly spell elections in early 2019 – at least six months earlier than their scheduled date.

It will force Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to defend his unpopular decisions on Gaza during the election campaign, which is exactly what the prime minister had hoped to avoid. In his surprise press conference in the Knesset, Lieberman avoided blaming the prime minister directly as part of his long list of disagreements with the government’s defense policies, but it was clear who Lieberman was gunning for. Nonetheless, his statements were a blanket accusation against all the other cabinet minsters – his political rivals in the looming election.

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by Tabitha Korol

Rebecca Ratcliffe’s article in the Guardian, (Women in Paradise face violence and political exclusion, campaigner tells UN, Oct. 26), concerned Randa Siniora, director of the Women’s Centre for Legal Aid and Counseling, and her recent address to the UN Security Council.  Siniora presented multi-faceted accusations against Israel, with scant background or context.  She referred to Israel as an occupying power despite the UN’s declaration of Israel’s sovereignty as a state in 1948 over territory that had been Jewish-occupied for 3,000+ years, and never ruled or developed by Muslims.

The brief “occupation” of Gaza by Israel, won in a defensive battle against five attacking Islamic armies, was voluntarily relinquished in 2005; Gaza has since been ruled by the Palestinian Authority and Hamas, a terrorist organization.  Siniora’s address represents Islam’s perpetual jihad.  To Islam, the entire world falls into two kinds of “houses” – The House of Peace, Dar al-Islam, the land that Islam as already conquered, and the House of War or Chaos, Dar al-Harb, literally the rest of the world that is targeted for conquest for Allah (8:40).  There are no other designations.
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A cease-fire in Gaza fits in perfectly with Netanyahu’s strategy: Bullying the Palestinians until they give up, then pushing them off the political agenda

By Anshel Pfeffer , HAARETZ

An Israeli soldier stands next to an armored personnel carriers in a field in southern Israel, near the border with Gaza, November 13, 2018.\ AMIR COHEN/ REUTERS

The real target of the Israeli operation in Gaza on Sunday night is unlikely to be revealed for decades to come. Hindsight speculation on whether or not it was wise to launch the operation at the very moment that a long-term cease-fire in Gaza seemed to be finally materializing is largely pointless.

Here’s what we can say almost for certain: When this operation was brought to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s desk at one of the routine meetings with the heads of the security establishment in which cross-border activity is authorized by the prime minister, Netanyahu gave the green light based on the assumption that like a thousand previous operations, this one would be over by morning and no one in Israel and Gaza beyond a small circle of secret partners would be any wiser.
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Palestinian terror groups in the Strip say they will abide by Egyptian-brokered ceasefire if IDF does too

By JUDAH ARI GROSS, TOI Today, 6:36 pm

A ball of fire above the building housing the Hamas-run television station al-Aqsa TV in the Gaza Strip during an Israeli air strike, November 12, 2018. (MAHMUD HAMS/AFP)

Palestinian terrorist groups in the Gaza Strip announced that Egypt brokered a ceasefire agreement between them and Israel on Tuesday evening, after over 460 rockets and mortar shells were fired at southern Israel over the course of 25 hours.

A senior Israeli diplomatic official appeared to confirm the reported armistice. First reports said the decision to accept a ceasefire agreement with Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and other terror groups in Gaza was taken by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Tuesday’s seven-hour meeting of the security cabinet without being put to a vote. Four ministers quickly said they opposed it.
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By Steven A. Cook
November 13, 2018—“While Turkey remains formally a NATO ally, it is not a partner of the United States,” writes Steven A. Cook in the Council Special Report, Neither Friend nor Foe: The Future of U.S.-Turkey Relations. “Unlike in previous eras, Washington and Ankara no longer share overarching threats or interests that bind them together,” Cook notes.

“[President Recep Tayyip] Erdogan’s consolidation of power and corresponding suppression of journalists, academics, civil society organizations, and minorities” contradicts the underlying principles of American society and Turkey’s own North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) membership, Cook writes. Diverging policies and perspectives—such as Turkey’s incursion into northern Syria, its intention to purchase an advanced air defense system from Russia, and the arrest of more than a dozen Americans and three Turks employed by the U.S. embassy—have further widened the chasm between the United States and Turkey.
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BY CILLIAN ZEAL, CONSERVATIVE TRIBUNE
NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Video: Military’s ‘Active Denial System’ Can Hit Illegals at 700 Yards, Instantly Turn Them Back

Could the Active Denial System be the answer for possible border problems? Conservative commentator Glenn Beck thinks so.

You may not have heard of the ADS, which has been a topic of debate for over a decade now. The non-lethal deterrent system been labeled by both military personnel and press alike as a “pain ray” — which, I suppose, is a catchier way to refer to it than ADS.

The U.K. Telegraph, describing the system back in 2010, said that military officials described it as a “non-lethal, directed-energy, counter-personnel weapon.”
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Adviser says Tehran is under ‘significant pressure,’ declares Trump administration will ‘significantly increase the enforcement of sanctions’

By AFP

SINGAPORE, Singapore — US National Security Adviser John Bolton vowed Tuesday to “squeeze” Iran “until the pips squeak,” a week after a tough new round of sanctions came into force.

US President Donald Trump has dramatically increased pressure on Tehran, withdrawing from an international agreement aimed at ending its nuclear program and introducing several rounds of unilateral US sanctions.

The latest tranche of measures have been touted as the toughest yet, and aim to significantly reduce Iran’s vital oil exports and cut off its banks from international finance.
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By Whitt Flora, CFP

T. Belman. Hamas has 20,000 rockets. What does that say about the effectiveness of our bloickade. Israel is giving warnings and striking empty buildings. Gazans voted for Hamas.  There is no reason for Israel to avoid casualties. This is war. Apparently we are deterred from attacking them in a serious way but they are not deterred from attacking us.

What is clear is that Israel doesn’t want a full scale war at this time and that Iran who ordered the violence does.

DEBKA

Nov 13, 2018 @ 1:05

Israel’s deterrent strength is on the line after the Palestinian Hamas fired more than 400 rockets in 5 and-a-half hours on Monday, Nov. 12. After their massive barrage, Hamas and its terrorist allies threatened to expand their targets beyond the South if the Israel air force on missions in Gaza Monday night goes beyond its routine tit-for-tat reprisals against empty buildings in the Gaza Strip.
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