By John Eidson, AMERICAN THINKER

In comments that laid bare the hidden agenda behind global warming alarmism, Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the U.N.’s Framework Convention on Climate Change, let slip during a February 2015 press conference in Brussels that the U.N.’s real purpose in pushing climate hysteria is to end capitalism throughout the world:

This is the first time in human history that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally changing [getting rid of] the economic development model that has reigned since the Industrial Revolution.

The economic model to which she referred is free-market capitalism.  A year earlier, Figueres revealed what capitalism must be replaced with when she complained that America’s two-party constitutional system is hampering the U.N.’s climate objectives.  She went on to cite China’s communist system as the kind of government America must have if the U.N. is to impose its environmental will on the world’s most free and prosperous capitalist nation.  In other words, for the U.N. to have its way, America must somehow be transformed into a communist nation.
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By Ted Belman

David Singer’s latest article, Jordan-“West Bank’ reconciliation is in the air”, includes the following:

“Jordan’s retirement from the West Bank moved Abu Iyad – PLO-leader Yassar Arafat’s deputy – to declare on 15 December 1989:

“I say that on the day immediately following the establishment of the Palestinian State, we will begin unity with Abu Iyad, 1989: You cannot make a distinction between a Jordanian and a Palestinian.

“We will begin unity with Jordan. I am not concerned what kind of unity this may be, because we are one people and have the same history. You cannot make a distinction between a Jordanian and a Palestinian. It is true that we encourage unity between Arab peoples, but the relation between Jordan and Palestine in particular is clearly distinctive; all those who tried in the past and are still trying to create divisions between the Jordanian and Palestinian people have failed. We indeed constitute one people… when the Palestinian state and unity is established … The Jordanian will be a Palestinian and the Palestinian a Jordanian”

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By Alex VanNess, CLARION PROJECT

The Islamic Center of Detroit conference will damage the Michigan Muslim community by giving the stage to a panel pro-extremist speakers. The Islamic Center of Detroit (ICD) recently announced their first Muslim Revival Conference 2018: Reconnect. The stated goal of the conference is “to inspire positive change within the Michigan Muslim community.”

The ICD has strong Muslim Brotherhood connections.  The mosque has co-hosted events with Muslim Brotherhood affiliated groups, such as the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), and American Muslims for Palestine (AMP).  AMP has a history of employing terrorist financiers, with at least five AMP officials previously served with the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood’s pro-Hamas Palestine Committee and CAIR was identified as a Muslim Brotherhood entity from evidence presented at the Holy Land Foundation trial.
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The Islamic republic’s persistent calls for Israel’s annihilation mean “Iran cannot be an ally at this time, neither in the fight against terrorism nor as an oil supplier or trade partner,” argues article in Bild, Germany’s most-read daily newspaper.

Israel HAYOM

A top German newspaper on Tuesday called on the government in Berlin to suspend all trade ties with Iran over its terrorism and its repeated called for Israel’s annihilation.

In an article in Germany’s most widely read daily newspaper Bild, Julian Roepcke, the paper’s foreign news editor, argued that Iran’s missile strikes in Syria this weekend “under the auspices of the ‘war on terror’ might sound good, but the opposite is true. The missiles themselves are a message of terror, because they carry inscriptions reading ‘Death to Israel and ‘Death to the USA’ – and that is deadly serious for the mullahs.”
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By Victor Sharpe – September 30, 2018

President Trump at his most recent press conference was asked if he favored a two-state or a one-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict. He was open, he said, to what the parties agree to, but then said, “I like the two-state solution. That’s what I think works best.”

But where would the so-called Palestinian state be located? To create yet another Arab state, this one torn out of Judea and Samaria – the tiny Biblical and ancestral Jewish heartland west of the River Jordan (known also as the West Bank) – would be a monumental travesty of both Biblical and post-Biblical reality and history. It would also be an existential threat to Israel’s very survival.
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T. Belman. Heitner is getting it but still doesn’t know that there is a partner for this solution.

By Uri Heitner, ISRAEL HAYOM

There is entirely insufficient evidence to prove even one of the terrible allegations against President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee.

By David French, NATIONAL REVIEW

A very strange thing happened over the weekend: If you follow Twitter closely, you’ll notice that the debate over Brett Kavanaugh moved significantly from the central question of last Thursday’s hearing — did he commit sexual assault? — to a raging debate over whether he lied about high-school slang, college drinking, and inside jokes, and whether he was just too “angry” to be a Supreme Court judge.

This torrent of commentary (most of it silly, including competing, furious arguments about how people described anal sex in 1982) obscures an important development: The sexual-assault claims against Kavanaugh are in a state of collapse.
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The rebranded Nafta deal has little impact, according to JPMorgan’s John Normand, and HSBC’s Janet Henry.

By Jenny Leonard, Josh Wingrove, Jennifer Jacobs,  and Andrew Mayeda, BLOOMBERG

Trump has put America in a position of strength by withdrawing from the JCPOA and re-imposing sanctions.

by Dr. Eric R Mandel, MEPIN

A couple watches the fighting in Syria from Tel Saqi. The Syrian regime and its Russian backers launched numerous artillery and air strikes on ISIS positions 2018. (photo credit: SETH J. FRANTZMAN)

According to Steven Cook of the Council for Foreign Relations, “the Syrian war is over and America lost… Washington has proved either unable or unwilling to shape events in the Middle East… which is to say, it has abdicated its own influence.”

But is it too late or still in American interests to influence the endgame in Syria and beyond?

American foreign policy in Syria since 2014 has prioritized the defeat of ISIS, choosing to sideline the more important and challenging confrontation with Iran over its permanent entrenchment and expansionism in the region. Syria is just one theater of operation among many interconnected pieces of the jigsaw puzzle which includes Iraq and Lebanon, where all roads lead to a malevolent Iran.
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The bloodiest day in Gaza for two months appears to stem from a decision by the group, one that follows an organized plan of action to rein in the violence at least until it rules that the time for a confrontation has come

By Amos Harel, HAARETZ

A Palestinian woman waving a national flag near burning tires during clashes along the border with Israel, September 28, 2018.AFP

Friday’s bloodshed in the Gaza Strip – seven Palestinians killed by Israeli fire, including two boys 12 and 14, and dozens wounded – was the worst in almost two months. The level of violence appears to be a direct result of a decision by Hamas.

The organization’s leaders in Gaza have been threatening for weeks to escalate the clashes with Israel along the border due to the impasse in talks on a plan to rebuild the enclave. During this period, the frequency of the Palestinians’ violent demonstrations has increased to almost every day, and the same goes for attempts to break through the border fence. On Friday, dozens of demonstrators managed to get through the fence, until soldiers drove them off.

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By Evelyn Gordon

National Security Advisor John Bolton’s verbal assault on the International Criminal Court earlier this month raised a predictable outcry. But anyone who cares about justice should be cheering him on. There are many reasons for this, but here’s one: In its treatment of one country in particular, the court has already violated fundamental principles of justice and demonstrated blatant bias.

The ICC has considered or is considering several complaints against Israel. Though none has yet resulted in charges, judges from the pretrial chamber—who normally become involved only after charges are filed—have already intervened twice. In both cases, they violated standard rules of procedure in an effort to tip the scales against Israel.
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By Doree Lewak, NY POST

As an officer in the Israel Defense Forces, Ofir Dayan served in hostile territory in Gaza and Lebanon. But, the undergrad told The Post, nothing prepared her for life at Columbia University.

Ofir, the 24-year-old daughter of Israel Consul General in New York Dani Dayan, said she is harassed and threatened over her background by the group Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), and that the school is failing to protect her.

“SJP is violent,” she said. “I’m worried about my personal safety.”
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