T. Belman. In the fifties and sixties, antisemitism was the word and spelling. Then over the years it was replaced by “anti-Semitism” This really rankled me for the reasons herein set out. In most cases I would take the trouble to correct the mispelling and inserting in its place “antisemitism”.

Regularly spelled with a hyphen in American English but without in academia, some experts claim the punctuation mark slashes the word’s potency

By Matt Lebovic, TOI

In April of 2015, Microsoft received an unusual memo. Crafted on behalf of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, a group of scholars issued a “Memo on Spelling of Antisemitism,” urging a change to the mammoth hi-tech company’s auto-correct spelling policy. Until then, a hyphen had been perfunctorily added between “anti” and “Semitism” in the word commonly used for hatred and prejudice against Jews.

Far from being an innocuous debate over semantics, the IHRA claimed that a hyphened “anti-Semitism” gave credence to discredited Nazi racial theories, wherein humanity was divided into superior and inferior subcategories. Additionally, claimed the scholars, a hyphen dilutes and distorts the term’s meaning by implying that groups other than Jews are included within the supposed “Semites” being opposed.
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U.S. President Donald Trump will only unveil an “agenda for peace” at the U.N. General Assembly meeting next month, due to difficulties encountered by his peace team in recent months and the president’s current legal troubles, a source tells Israel Hayom.

By Ariel Kahana and Israel Hayom Staff

Only the first phase of the Trump administration’s Middle East peace plan will be presented at the United Nations General Assembly, a source close to the White House told Israel Hayom on Thursday.

Previous reports claimed U.S. President Donald Trump would unveil his so-called “deal of the ?century” during the U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York next month. Trump is set to address the assembly on Sept. 25.

The source said the president would only present a partial outline of the overall peace initiative the White House has been drafting, describing it more as an “agenda for peace.”
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Center for Democracy and Human Rights in Saudi Arabia, CDHR, Washington DC

August 21, 2018

CDHR’s Analysis and Commentaries

Dead Yemeni Children: the Price of Saudi/Iranian Imperialisms

CDHR Commentary: According to the UN, International Red Cross, Doctors Without Borders and other human rights groups’ eyewitness testimonies, investigations and reports, more than 500 thousand Yemeni children have died from the Saudi-led Coalition’s airstrikes, starvation and endemic diseases. The widely publicized killing of 40 school children on August 9, 2018, by the Saudi-led Coalition airstrike was justified as legal. The spokesman for the Coalition, Colonel Turki AlMalki “stated that the targeting today in Sa’dah (the Houthis’ region) Governorate is a legitimate military action, conducted in conformity with the International Humanitarian Law and its Customary Rules.” He continued to say that the airstrike was aimed at the Iranian-supported Houthi rebels, with whom the Saudi-led Coalition has been engaged in a destructive three-year war that is pulverizing most of Yemen’s antiquated infrastructure and starving most of its 26 million defenseless people.  Read full analysis: www.cdhr.info

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UN political chief says she is deeply concerned over the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, warns of war.

By Ben Ariel, INN

The United Nations has run out of funding to pay for fuel needed for hospitals, water plants and other critical facilities in Gaza, the UN political chief said Wednesday, according to AFP.

Rosemary Di Carlo also told the Security Council that recent violent escalations between Israel and Gaza-based terrorist groups “threatened to plunge Gaza into war.”

The comments came at the monthly meeting of the Security Council on the Israeli-Palestinian Arab conflict. The meeting was held as the United Nations was working with Egypt to address the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and halt the violence.
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By Prof. Paul Eidelberg

Who are the “LIERs“?

The LIERs represent a consortium of Libertarians, Internationalists, Egalitarians, and Relativists.

The LIERs dominate the news and other opinion–making media.

A favorite pastime of the LIERs is Israel-bashing.  Media bias against Israel assumes obscene proportions whenever Israel retaliates against Arab terrorists—be it Hamas in Gaza, Fatah in Jenin, or Hezbollah in Lebanon.
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T. Belman. I was surprised that Liberman raised his swap idea again. I thought that Israel wouldn’t have the right to remove the citizenship from these people or dprevent them from returning to live in Israel.  In any event Israel is going for all the land west of the Jordan and thus the only place to send them to will be Jordan.

In rare statement indicating acknowledgement of a future Palestinian state, defense minister says scenes of over 1,000 Palestinians glorifying a terrorist as a ‘martyr’ at his funeral proves why a plan he said he publicized years ago advocating land and population swaps should have been implemented; adds lone wolf terror attacks can never fully be prevented.

By Ahiya Raved, YNET

Defense Minister Lieberman (Photo: Avihu Shapira)

Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Tuesday that the Arab city of Umm al-Fahm had to be “part of Palestine”, in what was a rare acknowledgement of a future Palestinian state that would include land swaps by the right-wing Yisrael Beytenu leader.Speaking at a press conference after viewing a military exercise in the Golan Heights, Lieberman addressed events that took place in the city located 20 kilometres northwest of Jenin in the Haifa District of Israel during the funeral of Ahmad Muhammad Mahamid from Umm al-Fahm, who on Friday attempted to stab a policeman in Jerusalem before being shot dead.

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By Daniel Siryotim ISRAEL HAYOM

Those who assumed that the Umm al-Fahm funeral of Arab Israeli Ahmed Mohammed Hamid, killed while attempting to stab an Israeli police officer in Jerusalem, would adhere to the restrictions set by the Israel Police and not turn into a festival of incitement, were incredibly naive.

Much like the funeral of other terrorists who came from the northern Israeli town, Hamid’s funeral was led by members of the Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement, who incited the 1,000-strong crowd to riot.

Outlawed in 2015, the Northern Branch and its proxies continue to operate unhindered throughout Israel, and they have made Umm al-Fahm the center of their operations. There, the municipality and residents give them all the support they need to disseminate their anti-Israel hatred and propaganda.
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by Tarek Fatah, Toronto Sun 
https://www.meforum.org/articles/2018/mosque-sermon-calls-on-allah-to-slay-non-muslims-‘

The Prime Minister finally found time after his vacation to visit Toronto on the Danforth and place a bouquet of flowers at the makeshift memorial for 18-year-old Reese Fallon and 10-year-old Julianna Kozis, who died in the mass shooting July 22 by Faisal Hussain.

For some reason Justin Trudeau could not condemn the actions of the Pakistani-Canadian who spread terror in our city. Instead the P.M. called for “a time of compassion” among all of us.

Compassion? For whom? For the dead? The dead don’t need compassion; they need justice and the truth.

So was Trudeau calling for “compassion” towards mass murderer Faisal Hussain? Is it possible he was influenced by the spin doctoring of those promoting the theory the killer’s actions were exclusively the result of mental illness?
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Bolton’s comments following Trump’s remarks that Israel will pay a high price in talks for Jerusalem recognition.

BY HERB KEINON, JPOST

President Donald Trump’s comments in West Virginia Tuesday that Israel would have to pay a high price in negotiations with the Palestinians for the move of the US embassy to Jerusalem does not represent a change of American policy, US National Security Advisor John Bolton said Wednesday.

Bolton, speaking at a press conference at the King David Hotel, said that Trump is a “deal maker,” and that he and anyone else would expect the Palestinians to say after the embassy move, “So, we didn’t get that one, we’ll get something else.”

The “fundamental point,” Bolton said, “is that ultimately this is something the parties are going to have to agree on. One of the most cogent things I’ve ever heard about the Middle East was something that Secretary of State Jim Baker said during the George H.W. Bush administration: ‘We can’t want peace more than the parties themselves’.”
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By Ted Belman

Arutz Sheva reported,

U.S. President Donald Trump said during a rally in West Virginia on Tuesday that Israel will have to pay a “high price” in its negotiations with the Palestinian Authority (PA) in return for his decision to move the American embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.

Trump added that the PA will “get something very good” in return for the embassy move “because it’s their turn next.”

He did not offer any details on what the Palestinian Arabs will get in return for the embassy move.

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Walid Sadi’s politically-charged and highly-significant article claiming that Jordan never ceded sovereignty ‘West Bank’ could only have been published with the knowledge and approval of Jordan’s King Abdullah.

By David Singer, INN

Jordan-Israel negotiations based on President Trump’s long-awaited peace plan seem increasingly likely to happen – following retired Jordanian Ambassador and former editor of the Jordan Times – Walid Sadi – flagging Jordan’s legal and sovereignty claims in the ‘West Bank’ (Judea and Samaria) and East Jerusalem (“disputed territories”).

Sadi – in an op-ed article in the Jordan Times on 12 August – has forcefully argued that Jordan’s decision to cut off all legal and administrative relations with the disputed territories in July 1988 did not amount to Jordan ceding its claims to sovereignty for the following reasons:

“First of all, the unity of the West Bank with the East Bank was officially and constitutionally adopted on 24 of April 1950. No one disputes this fact. The Constitution of the country at the time was the 1952 Constitution, which stipulated in no uncertain terms that no part of the Kingdom shall be ceded, period. This provision makes the 1988 decision to cut off all legal and administrative relations between the two banks stopping short of ceding the West Bank to any side whatsoever. Any other interpretation of the 1988 political decision is absolutely untenable constitutionally.”
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American president plans to unveil the much-anticipated “deal of the century” during his Sept. 25 address before the General Assembly, Palestinian media says • U.S. official says Trump believes that if his plan fails, no other peace plan will be able to work.

ISRAEL HAYOM

U.S. President Donald Trump plans to introduce his Middle East peace plan, dubbed the “deal of the century,” during the U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York next month, the Palestinian daily Al-?Quds reported Monday.

The 73rd General Assembly session will be held from Sept. 18 to Oct. 5 and will feature speeches from prominent world leaders, including Trump, who is set to address the assembly on Sept. 25.

The United States has, in the past, warned that if Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas remains adamant in his refusal to engage the U.S. as a mediator in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, Washington will introduce its regional peace plan regardless of his reservations.
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by Seth Frantzman, JPOST

https://www.meforum.org/articles/2018/after-isis-how-the-won-even-though-they-were-defe

Maj.-Gen. Majid Al-Tamimi died in August 2014 trying to pilot his Iraqi helicopter to rescue Yazidis who were fleeing Islamic State.

Today there is a new monument in northern Iraq’s Sinjar region to his heroism. In the dark days of that year as ISIS seemed unstoppable, there were just a few bright spots that showed through. Four years later, the situation in Sinjar is bleak. The area, also called Shingal by locals, was devastated by ISIS and more than 300,000 Yazidi residents have yet to return home.

It is a testament to the lasting effect of ISIS that most of those areas destroyed during the war and the communities ISIS singled out for genocide and ethnic cleansing – including Shi’ites, Yazidis and Christians – have not returned to their pre-2014 lives. This is one outcome of genocide, that communities targeted by groups like the Nazis often cannot recover. Jewish communities in many parts of Europe vanished and will never return.
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THAT’S WHY THE KING HAS TO GO

Marwan Muasher warns that the White House plan will hurt Jordan, noting that Amman can block the plan by ending security coordination with Israel ? Former Israeli official: Muasher’s statement is ‘sad but not surprising’