Why the Women’s March co-head hates Jews while adoring Farrakhan, Sharpton, and Sarsour.

By Rabbi Prof. Dov Fischer, INN

My introduction to Tamika Mallory, the other half of the Jew-hating duo who most prominently co-head the “Women’s March,” came when she rabidly attacked the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) for supposedly being racist against “Black and Brown people.”  That lie projected this Jew-hater of the Left overnight among the nation’s foremost bigots.

Ironically, within the American Jewish community a fierce debate has been raging over the ADL’s abandonment of its historic mission, dating back to the 1915 Leo Frank lynching, to counter all forms of bigotry, with a particular focus on anti-Semitism. In recent years, since ADL hired an Obama White House insider to run the organization, the group has become associated increasingly with the Democrat Left and has focused inordinately on attacking President Trump and his Administration.
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T. Belman. Langfan is a little too flippant for my taste but at least he is thinking out of the box.

Trump is cleverly seeing to it that Russia needs Israel to keep Iran at bay – or lose Syria to the Iranian octopus. He is also sending other messages to the Middle East Arab countries.

By Mark Langfan, INN

While many pundits have gone hysterical over President Trump’s Syrian pullout, President Trump really had no choice but to employ his own “Samson Option,” one in which he knocked over everyone’s toys and theories.

Firstly, President Trump isn’t “gifting” Putin a “Christmas present,” but rather is hanging a deadly Syrian Albatross on Putin’s neck.  Without American forces east of the Euphrates and American dollars helping Syrian reconstruction, Putin faces an Iranian victory in Syria, and a Russian loss.  In fact, Russian rapprochement with Israel is a direct result of American withdrawal.  Now, Russia has only Israel to help keep Iran’s gobbling up of Syria in check.  If Putin looks to Turkey to check Iran, the unacceptably high payment will be Turkish ownership of Northern Syria.

Putin is now hopelessly up a Syrian creek without a paddle.
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T. Belman. What bothers me the most about the Trump statements is that no mention was made of protecting the Kurds or pushing back Iran.  What does this mean?

It was obvious to observers that Trump traded Turkey for the Kurds. It was more important for the US to be on good terms with Turkey than it was to create. an independent Kurdistan. I am hoping that the People’s Protection Units (YPG) will not be massacred and that the Kurds will accept a place at the negotiating table for drawing up a new constitution for all of Syria. Such constitution should give them some kind of autonomy as part of Syria. Erdogan has often said that he rejects an independent Kurdish state. Hopefully he will accept an autonomous Kurdish region as part of Syria.

That leaves the push back against Iran. I do not believe that Trump has abandoned that goal.

Just hours after Netanyahu dubbed Erdogan ‘anti-Semitic dictator, President Trump says Turkish leader the right man for the job in Syria.

By David Rosenberg, INN

Turkey will fill the void left in Syria by America’s impending departure, President Donald Trump announced Monday morning, praising Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan after a discussion with Erdogan on the future fight against ISIS in the war-torn country.
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Caroline Glick tweeted,

Mattis:
1. Opposed moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem.
2. Opposed cancelling the Iran nuclear deal.
3. Insisted on arming and training the Hezbollah-controlled Lebanese military.
4. Opposed using US forces in Syria vs. Iran and partners.
5. Said Tel Aviv is Israel’s capital.

Dec 20

T. Belman.  To suggest that what we see in history is a turn to authoritariansim is wrong. What I see is a return to nationalism and a shunning of globalism. People have a hunger for national identity and independence and oppose the destruction of their identity and culture which the left strives for.

The arc of history has bent toward authoritarianism.

By Ben Judah, The Atlantic  DEC 18, 2018

The arc of history was not supposed to look like this, I thought, as I followed Matteo Salvini, the most powerful man in Italy, through the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem. Another day, another world leader was in Israel to meet Benjamin Netanyahu, known to most here simply as “Bibi.” And just like Donald Trump, Narendra Modi, Rodrigo Duterte, and Jair Bolsonaro before him, Italy’s populist interior minister was not coming to scold the Israeli prime minister. Here was another strongman both happy to be in Jerusalem and ready to work with Bibi.

That night, as Salvini relaxed on his market walkabout and shared a beer with his Israeli handlers, he smiled for the cameras in order to show how safe he felt in the hands of such an expert counterterror force. “I love the people,” he said, telling me how much he was looking forward to working with Bibi. I felt a crushing weight on my shoulders: the feeling of having been wrong.
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T. Belman. It would appear that Trump did not announce his troop withdrawal before getting Turkey’s agreement not to cross the Euphrates and a commitment from Russia that it would continue to work with Israel. Also, The US and Iraq are in advanced negotiations for the deployment to the Iraqi-Syria border of the Iraqi Special Operations Forces (ISOF).It will stand in the path of Iranian and Iraqi Shiite militias crossings into Syria. Iraq has consented to the US building a military base in Iraq near to syria that would protect these forces.

Works for me.

DEBKA  Dec 22, 2018 @ 12:10

Following the backlash from President Trump’s decision to withdraw US troops from NE Syria, senior administration officials Friday night, Dec. 21 offered Mid East leaders clarifications for allaying their concerns. DEBKAfile’s sources reveal those messages’ high points:

1. 1. US troops will leave eastern and northern Syria, but America is not deserting this part of the country, said the officials, without revealing the nature of its continuing presence.
   2. The Trump administration has not abandoned the Kurds or “stabbed them in the back” as widely reported, “and the Kurds know this,” it was authoritatively said. And, indeed, despite their loud cries of dismay, not a single Syrian Kurdish militiaman has deserted the lines they hold against ISIS in eastern Syria.

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By Dogan Akman

British Prime Minister Theresa May personally blocked asylum for alleged blasphemer Asia Bibi. Convicted of blasphemy, she was subsequently acquitted by the Supreme Court of Pakistan, after having been incarcerated for eight years. Upon her release, she went into hiding from the angry mobs that are looking for her.

The Prime Minister did that, despite the objections of her Home Secretary Sajid Javid, for fear of arousing the anger of the Muslims at home and abroad.

This is the same Primer Minister who just this month, signed the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GC), commonly referred to as U.N’s global refugee plan, pursuant to which the signatory countries will take in refugees and migrants, who are expected to originate mostly from the Middle East and the sub-Saharan Africa.
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By Michael Derfler

According to transgender activists, people may choose to identify with a gender that does not match their biology. This idea has practical consequences like which locker-room a person should use and who can compete in women’s athletic events and beauty pageants. Some would go so far as to create laws to compel others to use “transgender pronouns.” This issue is consistently in the headlines. Why is it important?

The Talmud (Shabbat 67b) mentions a practice in which a man would call his wife by his name and she would call him by her name. In a sense they exchanged genders. The Talmud includes this practice in the “ways of the Amorite,” which are forbidden. What is the underlying philosophy, or worldview that this practice expresses and does it fit a worldview that is popular today?

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By Evelyn Gordon

For the second time in two months, a major study has shown that anti-Semitism in Europe is surging, and the far-right isn’t primarily to blame. Yet American Jewish leaders remain fixated on the idea that right-wing anti-Semitism is the principal threat to Jewish life.

Last month’s study by the Joint Distribution Committee surveyed 893 Jewish leaders and professionals from throughout Europe. Inter alia, it found that Jews felt safer in right-wing Eastern Europe than the liberal West by a 20-point margin.

The new study, by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, surveyed almost 16,500 Jews in the 12 E.U. states where most European Jews live. Overall, 89 percent of respondents said anti-Semitism had worsened in their country in the last five years, 85 percent considered anti-Semitism a “very” or “fairly” big problem, and 38 percent have considered emigrating because of it. Additionally, 28 percent always or frequently avoid “wearing, carrying or displaying” anything identifiably Jewish, and 43 percent sometimes do.
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by Tabitha Korol

“A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within. ” — Ariel Durant, Russian-born American researcher and writer, co-author of The Story of Civilization, Pulitzer Prize winner for general non-fiction. (1898-1981)

While the United Nations agreed to flood Western nations with thousands of strong, able-bodied young men to overwhelm our security forces, our healthcare system, and our finances to feed, clothe and house them, there is yet another way to reduce our ability to deal with the invasion.  The system began some time ago, and although we cannot be certain that this was their end game, it is certainly another method of realizing the left’s aspiration of globalism.   It is time to gather the many components.

The Women’s movement began with the right to vote in the 19^th and 20^th centuries, evolving into every facet of their lives in the ‘60s,– sexuality, family, and work.  The National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA), established in 1977, focused on social transformation,  rethinking gender, bio-politics of humanity, post-capitalism, revolutions and utopian projects, environmental justice, climate change, and more.  Often repackaged, we see these concepts increasingly governing our schools today, disturbing trends for today’s students.

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T. Belman. Upon hearing of Trump’s withdrawal, I tried my best to leave open the possibility that he was doing a good thing. This article expresses what I always thought and now think.  I am now hoping that he will be dissuaded from following through.

By Rovvy Lepor, AMERICAN THINKER

President Trump, without consultation with Republican leaders in Congress, announced his planned immediate withdrawal from Syria.  If President Trump follows through on his planned withdrawal, it will translate into one of the biggest national security blunders in recent history, will embolden our most dangerous enemies, and will endanger the security of the United States and our allies.  A withdrawal from Syria is a betrayal to the forces of good and a great gift to the forces of evil, and it must not happen.

President Trump issued a surprise announcement on December 19 that the U.S. would immediately begin pulling out all 2,000 U.S. troops stationed in Syria.  President Trump stated that since the U.S. has defeated ISIS in Syria and he does not wish to leave troops in harm’s way, it is time to immediately withdraw for their benefit and safety.  However, if one is a student of history and is attuned to current events, it is abundantly clear that a U.S. withdrawal from Syria will almost certainly require a later return of a much larger U.S. military presence and a major war in the Middle East.  This war will almost certainly claim many lives in the Middle East, including a high number of U.S. troops. Read more…

Trump’s decision lets the Turks take over more Kurdish areas, while Russia and Iran can breathe a sigh of relief and go ahead with their own plans

By Zvi Bar’el, HAARETZ

Lockheed Martin, the maker of the F-35 stealth fighter, is biting its nails. Will Turkey’s multibillion-dollar purchase of 100 planes go through, or will Congress block it?

The main obstacle is Turkey’s plan to buy the S-400 anti-aircraft system from Russia. The Pentagon fears that this will damage strategic coordination among NATO countries, and more importantly, that the F-35’s classified technology might wind up in Russia, which could use it to improve its air defense systems.

Washington’s decision is complicated because Turkey was a partner in the plane’s development and invested $1.25 billion in it. Moreover, 10 Turkish companies have been trained to make parts for the planes.

Thus if Turkey is ousted from the project, it could lose around $12 billion in orders for parts. But American companies would lose the mammoth deal for the purchase of the jets.

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T. Belman.  First of all, I am surprised that AT published this article considering how pro-Israel they are. He argues “There are plenty of other countries in that region who can constrain Iran.”

Israel never expected America to do the fighting for them. In a way, a by-product of this withdrawal will be to cement the alliance of anti-Iran countries such as Israel, Saudi Arabia and UAE. I expect that King Abdullah will fall in the next 2 or 3 weeks and then Jordan will join this group. Israel will take the lead of this group. Won’t that be rich.

Finally, Algeria wants Syria’s Assad invited to Arab League summit in Tunisia. Remember when the Syria war started, it was the sunni Arabs that tried to bring down Assad. No doubt they are trying to win Syria away from Iran which is neither Arab nor sunni.

Arab Parliament urges Arab League to reinstate Syria, Egypt’s news agency said a week ago.

By Peter Skurkiss, AMERICAN THINKER

An uproar has arisen over President Trump’s decision to pull U.S. military forces out of Syria. But note, it isn’t the American people who are protesting this decision. Rather, it’s those who propose perpetual war — the ivory tower think-tankers, the TV talking heads, and a whole gaggle of Beltway insiders. The cloud of dust they have created distracts from the fact that the Syria is at best a minimal national security interest to the U.S.

One of the arguments the pro-war crowd makes for keeping the U.S. military in Syria indefinitely is to constrain Iran. But this is bogus. There are plenty of other countries in that region who can do that. But why should they bother if Uncle Sam is willing to do the dirty work for them? The bottom line is that America should not be doing everything for everybody.

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T. Belman. I have posted a number of articles on Trump’s decision. from which we can derive a better understanding of why Trump did this. There is more to be discovered.

American president rejected advice of top aides and agreed to pull out troops in a phone call with Turkey’s Erdogan, say officials

The Associated Press
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T. Belman. Remember that the author, Walt, was a co-author of The Israel Lobby.  Though he points out that the withdrawal is at odds with Trump’s otherwise anti-Iran stance, he does not specifically deal with the land corridor that such policy is meant to prevent,

BY STEPHEN M. WALT, FOREIGN POLICY DEC 21, 2018,

President Donald Trump’s sudden decision Wednesday to withdraw the roughly 2,000 U.S. troops stationed in Syria has set off an all-too-predictable debate between those who believe he is abandoning the sacred mantle of U.S. global leadership and those who believe that Syria is not a vital interest and that U.S. power should be deployed elsewhere or preserved for future contingencies. Hard-line hawks such as Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham and neoconservatives such as Max Boot were quick to denounce Trump’s decision, along with other establishment figures (and Trump critics) such as former CIA Director John Brennan. By contrast, libertarians on the right and non-interventionists on the left have embraced the move, despite their deep aversion to Trump himself and their concerns about most of his other policies.
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T. Belman.  The article below was written during the Trump transition period.  Apparently Mattis wasn’t a shoe in for Defense Minister. Mattis is known for his staunch anti-Russian stance. Less so for his pro-Israel credentials.

Maybe the real reason Mattis resigned was that he disagreed with Trump’s readiness to work with Russia signalled by this withdrawal.

Though ZOA has voiced opposition to Trump’s defense chief pick, most everyone else is enthusiastically on board, leaving Jewish Democrats incredulous

By RON KAMPEAS, TOI

WASHINGTON (JTA) — US president-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for defense secretary is on the record decrying the burdens that Israel places on the United States and warning that the Jewish state could be headed toward apartheid. And with one notable exception, the right-wing pro-Israel community is enthusiastically on board.

In 2013, Gen. James Mattis, then recently retired as the top American commander in the Middle East, said he paid a “military security price every day” for US support of Israel. The Republican Jewish Coalition and the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, despite waging a fierce battle four years ago against an Obama defense pick deemed too critical toward Israel, are now defending Mattis, who is slated to be formally nominated by Trump on Tuesday evening.

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By Edwin Mora, BREITBART

U.S.-allied Syrian Kurds, in the wake of America’s decision this week to withdraw its military forces from Syria, are faced with the prospects of making a pact with the Iranian and Russian-backed regime of Bashar al-Assad to repel a prospective attack by Turkish forces.

Vowing to ultimately clear U.S.-allied Kurdish groups from Syria, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday said his country would postpone a military operation into territory held by Syrian Kurdish fighters in northeastern Syria, Al Jazeera reported.
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