Senior officials say US likely to officially recognize Israel’s annexation of Golan Heights – possibly as early as next week.

By David Rosenberg, INN

The White House may be preparing to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, say senior Israeli officials, suggesting that an announcement regarding recognition could come as early as next week.

According to a report Thursday morning by Israel’s Channel 13, senior Israeli officials believe the Trump administration is preparing to formally recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights – ending a decades-long US policy of non-recognition of Israel’s annexation of the strategic plateau.

The officials cited by the report say the US could announce plans to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Golan as early as next week, coinciding with Israeli premier Binyamin Netanyahu’s meeting with President Donald Trump in Washington, during the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference.
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By Valerie Sobel

Not even two weeks after the dismal failure of Democrats to come up with enough votes to pass a categorical resolution to condemn antisemitism, Democratic Presidental hopeful Beto O’Rourke on his campaign trail in New Hampshire charges: “We have a prime minister in Israel who has openly sided with racists.”

Bam! Just like that, another Democrat comes out of the closet.

How many more to follow?

Good old antisemitism, always a loyal sidekick to the ideological left, is right back in fashion. Little by little, trope by Omqr trope, one democrat after another is queuing up to turn Israel into the pariah they know their base wants. And if tiny Israel is the pariah, Islam, which surrounds Israel, is surely the victim.
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The key in the Orthodox Jewish understanding of the book is that Mordechai wanted to circulate it throughout the empire, but he knew it had to get past the King and his censors.

By Rabbi Prof. Dov Fischer, INN

To avoid getting into a whole megillah, this brief summary, which includes selections from the midrash, assumes some basic acquaintance with the Biblical Book of Esther (Megillat Esther). The key in the Orthodox Jewish understanding of the book is that Mordechai wanted to circulate it throughout the empire, but he knew it had to get past the King and his censors.

Any offending word or implication in the text not only might condemn the book to be barred, but it might also get him killed by royal decree. Therefore, Mordechai wrote it in a way that much of the narrative is implied “between the lines” but not explicitly stated. The Talmudic traditions therefore fill in the missing parts of the story.

Key points:
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by Linda Goudsmit, PUNDICITY

The familiar acronym KISS, “keep it simple stupid,” began as a design principle noted by the U.S. Navy in the 1960s according to Wikipedia. “The KISS principle states that most systems work best if they are kept simple rather than made complicated; therefore, simplicity should be a key goal in design, and unnecessary complexity should be avoided.

The current maelstrom created by Fox News suspending Judge Jeanine Pirro over a question she posed concerning the symbolism of Rep. Ilhan Omar’s hijab can best be understood using the KISS principle.

Mohammed, the 7th century prophet and founder of Islam, believed himself to be the messenger of the one and only god Allah. Mohammed believed that all people should honor Allah and only Allah. This was and continues to be the foundational premise of Islamic expansionism and its desire to establish a worldwide caliphate to make the whole world Muslim – including the United States. Islam is a replacement theology.
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By Jonathan S. Tobin, ISRAEL HAYOM

IMRA

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Then there are those who have not only thrown away all sense of morals and justice and steadfastly refused to help their fellow Jew, but have actively joined his oppressors, in the delusion that this will somehow ingratiate
them to their political masters.

As the son of a former Irgun member, who was born in Yerushalayim, Rahm Emanuel ought to have been one of the loudest voices calling for justice in the heart-wrenching saga of Jonathan Pollard.

Emanuel was surely aware that the median sentence for the crime Pollard committed — passing classified information to an ally — was two to four years. No one else in the history of the United States has received anything
close to the life sentence that Pollard received for this offense.
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In effect she is saying that the New Right is pushing democracy not fascism as claimed by the left.

By Robert Kraychik, BREITBART

Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Joel Pollak dismantled the lie that President Donald Trump described white supremacists and neo-Nazis as “very fine people” following 2017’s demonstrations and riots in Charlottesville, VA. He offered his analysis during an introductory monologue on Monday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with co-host Rebecca Mansour.

Pollak began, “First we have to acknowledge that the terror attacks in Christchurch, New Zealand, were absolutely horrific independent of whatever political or philosophical arguments we might be getting into about them, now, especially with the media coverage. I thought it would be appropriate to quote George Orwell who wrote in Looking Back on the Spanish War, an essay of 1942: ‘Unfortunately, the truth about atrocities is far worse than that they are lied about and made into propaganda. The truth is that they happen.’ And that’s the thing above all that we are still very upset about, that this would happen at all.”
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The bottom line: Not good.

By Gilead Ini, COMMENTARY

On the first day of 2018, the publisher of the New York Times wrote a letter to his readers. Quoth A.G. Sulzberger: “The Times will hold itself to the highest standards of independence, rigor and fairness—because we believe trust is the most precious asset we have.” Fairness and accuracy would be paramount, he promised, “and in the inevitable moments we fall short, we will continue to own up to our mistakes, and we’ll strive to do better.”

The date of the letter suggests it would be only fair to look closely at the 12 months of journalism that followed and judge whether the Times delivered on Sulzberger’s promise of impartial, accurate reporting. That is what the media-monitoring organization CAMERA did when producing a timeline assessing a year’s worth of the newspaper’s coverage of the Arab–Israeli conflict. The timeline, alas, makes clear that the Times fell far short of those promised standards when it came to its coverage of Israel and its opponents.
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As reported by Breibart:

A CNN poll released Monday shows an overwhelming majority of Americans believe the economy is doing well during President’s Donald Trump’s presidency.

Seventy-one percent of Americans now believe that the economy is in good shape, according to the poll. Only 27 percent rated the economic conditions as poor.

CNN reports that the number is the highest positive number since February 2001 and the best of Trump’s presidency.

It’s no wonder that the economy is doing so well with a president who has done so much.

The mainstream media has tried to claim that the POTUS is lazy, but this would just further the logic that it would make him seem even MORE INCREDIBLE than he already has been.

If he’s lazy, no one would want to see him when he’s productive!

Just look at the growing list of his accomplishments, provided (and fully documented!) by MagaPill:

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By Jack Davis, WESTERN JOURNAL

During a CNN interview in which the host wanted to talk about President Donald Trump’s potential connections to last week’s New Zealand mosque massacre, a Muslim physician noted that Trump is “beloved” in the Muslim world.

Qanta Ahmed, a doctor and an associate professor of medicine at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, appeared on CNN Saturday as the network reacted to Friday’s terrorist attack in Christchurch, New Zealand.

During her interview, CNN host Fredericka Whitfield played video of Trump on Friday using the word “invasion” in connection with the issue of illegal immigration on the southern border. The word was also used in a manifesto issued by the suspected gunman in the attack. Trump was also mentioned in the document.
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Founded by former AIPAC officials, Pro-Israel America seeks to be more explicitly political than the powerful lobby

By ERIC CORTELLESSA, TOI

WASHINGTON — A new group was launched Tuesday to bolster pro-Israel candidates running for Congress.

Following the 2018 midterms and the elevation of House members more sympathetic to the Palestinian cause, such as New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib and Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, former staffers at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) have created an organization to send more traditionally pro-Israel candidates to Capitol Hill.

Founded by Jeff Mendelsohn and Jonathan Missner, Pro-Israel America endorsed 27 members of Congress — 14 Democrats and 13 Republicans — as it announced its own establishment.
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Justice minister promises immediate ‘legal upheaval’ if she remains in office, with the Knesset to approve judges, and also empowered to overrule court’s striking down of laws

By Raoul Wootliff, TOI

The Israeli right’s response to the Supreme Court’s decision to bar an ultranationalist candidate from running in April’s election emerged in full force on Monday, as lawmakers seeking reelection intensified both rhetoric against the court and efforts to drastically limit its powers.

Just hours after the court on Sunday night disqualified Union of Right-Wing Parties (URWP) candidate Michael Ben Ari over his anti-Arab ideology and incitement, several parties on the right of Israel’s political map floated wide-reaching measures ranging from a bill to reverse the decision to a full-blown overhaul of the country’s highest legal authority. Rhetoric against the court also sharpened.
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NEWTON RESIDENTS SUE CITY’S SCHOOL COMMITTEE, SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS, PRINCIPALS AND TEACHERS FOR DISCRIMINATION AND INDOCTRINATION

Allege School Officials and Teachers Guilty of Dereliction of Duty

NEWTON, MASSACHUSETTS – On March 12, 2019, a group of Newton taxpayers filed a lawsuit against the Newton School Committee, Superintendent of Schools David Fleishman, the principals of the Newton high schools, and certain high school history teachers to compel them to stop discriminating against and indoctrinating students with anti-Semitism, bigotry against Israel, and Islamist religious dogma as part of the high- school history curriculum.

The taxpayers claim that Newton Public Schools (NPS) has deliberately failed and refused to comply with the Equal Rights Amendment of the Massachusetts Constitution, with the Massachusetts Student Anti-Discrimination Act, and with civil rights regulations that require schools, through their curricula, to encourage respect for the human and civil rights of all individuals regardless of race, identity, religion, color, sex, and national origin.
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T. Belman. What the hell is with MEFORUM? In 2002 Daniel Pipes mistakenly opined that ““Radical Islam is the problem, moderate Islam is the solution”. He was wrong then and he is wrong now.

At the beginning of this video, Oren Litwin states “What I mean by Islamists is not Muslims, becasuse we have nothing against the Muslim religion, Islam, but what we are against is the political ideology called Islamism which actually has its roots in twentieth century totalitarianism.” WHAT?

If you ask Muslims themselves, they will say there is only Islam. Robert Spencer would agree.

by Oren Litwin, MEFORUM

Islamists have been attempting for years to gain influence within the US political system. They align themselves with the left wing of the Democratic Party not because they support LGBT rights or abortion, but to gain power through the progressive agenda of intersectionality and multiculturalism.

Recently Islamists have begun electing their own candidates, who presented moderate views while campaigning, but after being elected champion left-wing causes. And in private, Islamist activists often say that when they have enough power, they will turn on their progressive allies and implement their own priorities.

Stats from more than two decades of academic research shows that ‘well educated’ members of the community have a weaker attachment to their Jewish identity

By James Martin, JEWISH NEWS DAILY

Limmud whirl

Data from 20-plus years of institute for Jewish Policy Research surveys shows the “very well educated”, defined as those in the Anglo-Jewish community with at least an MA, have weaker attachment to Jewish identity, religious behaviour, marriage choices and perceptions of Israel than the less well educated, defined as those without a degree. That was the conclusion drawn from the recent piece of research by Jewish community sociologist Prof. Stephen Miller, of City University
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If I’m shut out of all platforms over the next few days, you’ll know why.

By Robert Spencer, FPM

My friends, it could be time for me to be saying goodbye. Leftist and Islamic groups have been trying for years to silence all criticism of jihad terror and Sharia oppression of women and others, and in the New Zealand massacre they see the best chance in a long time to move in for the kill. I (along with other foes of jihad terror) could be banned from everything and rendered a non-person, a la Alex Jones, any day now.

This is no exaggeration. Meeting in Istanbul, the International Union for Muslim Scholars (IUMS) has called on non-Muslim countries to ban “Islamophobia,” which means criticism of Islam, including analysis of the motivating ideology fueling jihad terror. IUMS President Ahmed al-Raisouni said Friday: “IUMS calls on non-Muslim countries to ban the spread of hatred against Islam and Muslims.”
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By Valerie Sobel, THE NEW BLITZ

Violin Concerto in D, Op. 77, by Johannes Brahms; a prolific artistic feat the great composer dedicated to his friend, distinguished Hungarian violinist, Joseph Joachim.

With time, Brahms grew somewhat disillusioned with the concerto, conceding the idea he will never hear what he put down on staff paper and what he hears in his head. Disappointed and frustrated, Brahms generally avoided all performances of his masterpiece. The composer almost caved to pressure at the relentless insistence of Viennese composer, Johann Strauss, to hear just one more performance of the concerto. In the end, Brahms politely declined the invitation, citing his limits with the oversaturation of mediocre playing at the hands of diamond dozen vaunted musicians.

But swelling curiosity had its own designs on Brahms just as a 13 year-old soloist was about to pick up the bow for Johannes’ mammoth composition. Only human, Brahms yields at the last possible moment, and unbeknownst to Strauss or anyone else, proceeds to take the last open seat in the remote balcony section of the concert hall.
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