By Dogan Akman

I read with considerable interest the three views expressed in  Canada’s position on the the Arab-Israeli conflict does much harm and no good, and, if I may be so permitted, I would like to make a number of points by way of facts and comments to those expressed in the exchange..

The first point is the focus of “Canada”.

Under the Conservative government headed by Stephen Harper, the Canadian government treated Israel with respect and strongly supported its position in the conflict. While the website of the Department of External Affairs indicated Canada’s support for the two-state solution, Prime Minister Harper, refused to entertain the fake complaints, accusations and the jeremiads of the Palestinian Authority and its supporters until the P.A. stopped behaving the way it does.
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FBI Hell: Agent caught saying:

“Trump’s supporters are all poor to middle class, uneducated, lazy POS that think he will magically grant them jobs for doing nothing. They probably didn’t watch the debates, aren’t fully educated on his policies, and are stupidly wrapped up in his unmerited enthusiasm.”

By Cillian Zeal, CONSERVATIVE TRIBUNE

I’m not sure what the darkest day in FBI history was, but Thursday had to be up there. That’s when Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz released his 500-odd page report on the Clinton email investigation and the Bureau’s handling of it. And, as it turns out, it’s pretty much the best long-form argument for conservatism since “The Fountainhead,” if only inadvertently.

There was plenty of meat to chomp on, particularly when it came to James Comey, Peter Strzok and Lisa Page. However, James Comey was quick to say that the report had been a vindication of his tenure at the FBI.
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By Dave Boyer, WASH TIMES– Friday, June 15, 2018

President Trump said Friday that he’s looking to meet sometime this summer with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and that the U.S. should move beyond its objections to Moscow’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 because then-President Barack Obama failed to stop it.

“It’s possible that we’ll meet, yeah,” Mr. Trump told reporters at the White House.

Noting that he has proposed for the Group of Seven nations to readmit Russia, which was kicked out of the coalition over the illegal taking of Crimea from Ukraine, Mr. Trump said, “I think it’s better to have Russia in, than to have Russia out.”
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T. Belman.  I have great difficulty with this article even though I agree with the premise that “All serious cognition and all honest moral judgments involve discrimination”. In fact all choices involve discrimination. Nevertheless the west generally defines descrimination as “the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex.” The problem lies in what is considered unjust or prejudicial.  Let us assume that in considering whether to allow a person, who is a Muslim to immigrate, is it unjust to reject him because the vast majority of Muslims are antisemitic? Or better still, if he is antisemitic or a believer in Islam and Sharia.  Unfortunately political correctness prevents us from considering such things. This is unfair.

But I have another axe to grind. Walker writes,

“In fact, as anyone with an open mind and a modest knowledge of modern history knows, the Holocaust was the direct consequence of the de-Christianization of Germany.  This was generally accepted by Jews in the West as well, and the “racialism” upon which Nazi hatred of Jews grew was rejected by Christians throughout virtually all history.  Germany, in which Christianity was almost dead by 1914, provided naturally the most fertile soil for the evil precepts of racialism, which is why Nazism took root only in Germany.. ”

History says otherwise. I make the case in my article, The Holocaust was Caused by the Church, not Just Hitler. You decide.

By Bruce Walker, AMERICAN THINKER

The left has created a macabre myth that runs counter to the whole experience of mankind.  The left has persuaded the gullible masses of America, including, sadly, most conservatives, that “discrimination” by individuals and businesses is wrong and that it violates the Constitution.

Precisely the opposite is true.  All serious cognition and all honest moral judgments involve discrimination.  When individuals and businesses are not free to discriminate, then the power to determine what is true and false and good and bad becomes the sole property of the state – or that even more odious creature, that lobotomized Frankenstein monster, “society.”

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In lockstep with a refusal to acknowledge that Islamic religious fanaticism is Islamic, anti-Semitism is once more openly stalking Britain and Europe.

By Melanie Phillips, JNS

Once again, Hezbollah flags flew in London last weekend at the Iran-supporting “Al Quds” march in Britain’s capital city.

Hezbollah, the proxy army of the Iranian regime, is responsible for numerous murderous attacks around the world against Jews, Americans and other Western interests.

No matter. The march—an annual London fixture, no less—featured calls for Israel to be wiped from the map, and was led by a man who previously made the deranged claim that “Zionists” were behind an appalling London apartment block fire last year in which more than 70 people died.

In Germany last week, a Jewish teen, 14-year-old Susanna Maria Feldman, was raped and murdered. A failed Iraqi asylum-seeker with a long police record was subsequently arrested by Kurdish authorities in northern Iraq at the request of the German police.
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T. Belman. On Feb 16/16, Alexander Maistrovoy and I authored Contemplating a US-Russia Alliance. In it, we suggested the same thing and more. Langfan also sees Russia as a potential ally.

Putin is hinting at a Syrian Euphrates partition – and beyond. This is a positive plan that the USA should join.

By Mark Langfan, INN

On February 17, 2018, in my article, “Putin: Grand Deal Now, or Syrian Bust,” I outlined a simple formula for a Grand Bargain between the United States and Russia.

The terms were simple,

1) partition of Syria based on the Euphrates River, Russian/Assad to the West, American/Kurdish/Sunni to the East, and

2) Russia’s formal acquisition of Crimea/Eastern Ukraine with a extraterritorial link to Transnistria with Russia’s formal agreement that this is the “dessert and not an appetizer.”

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By Itamar Fleishman, ISRAEL HAYOM

Israel has targeted Iranian-backed Shiite militias from Afghanistan and Pakistan, brought in to Syria to attack Israel and “convert” Syria’s Sunni majority, PM Benjamin Netanyahu says, warning of “endless upheaval and terrorism in many, many countries.”

Reuters and Israel Hayom Staff

Israel has attacked Iranian-backed Shiite Muslim militias in Syria, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday, casting such actions as potentially helping to stem a Syrian Sunni Muslim refugee exodus to Europe.

Israeli officials have previously disclosed scores of airstrikes in Syria to prevent suspected arms transfers to Lebanon’s Shiite Hezbollah fighters or to Iranian military deployments, who have been helping the Syrian  regime beat back the seven-year-long rebellion.

But Israel has rarely provided official details on the operations, or described non-Lebanese militiamen as having been targeted.
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By Adam Dalgliesh

My thesis in all my comments to Martin Sherman’s articles on compensated emigration has been that Dr. Sherman’s proposal is morally justified, and would certainly ease Israel’s security problems if it could be implemented—but that it cannot be implemented and will not be implemented for the foreseeable future. My attempts to elicit a response to my critique from Dr. Sherman have gone nowhere. On the other hand, Dr. Sherman’s columns have certainly stimulated my thinking about the important issues he has raised, and have challenged me to try to come up with my own proposed “solution” to Israel’s security and demographic problems.

Before getting into my own proposals, I will explain why I think Dr. Sherman’s won’t work, at least not in the foreseeable future. He writes that

All we need now is leadership with sufficient political will, intellectual daring, and ideological commitment to undertake what must be undertaken.

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Breitbart, 2 Jun 2018

George Soros is considered one of the main drivers of mass migration by Hungarian leader Viktor Orbán, with the billionaire financier accused of lobbying the European Union to open its borders and funding ‘civil society’ organisations which help illegal migrants to infiltrate the bloc.

“The new ‘Stop Soros’ legislative package puts forth a more rigorous response by declaring illegal immigration a grave threat to Hungary’s national security,” announced government spokesman Zoltán Kovács.

“Anyone involved in aiding or abetting illegal migration would be committing a criminal offence.”

Professor Claims Soros ‘Missionaries’ Bragged About Toppling Governments in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East
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By Jonathan S Tobin, JNS

In The New Yorker, an investigation of efforts by Israel and the Gulf state to outmaneuver Obama ignores why they succeeded.

The search for explanations and scapegoats for the rejection of President Obama’s worldview in the 2016 election continues. In The New Yorker’s latest contribution to this genre — “Donald Trump’s New World Order: How the President, Israel, and the Gulf States plan to fight Iran and leave the Palestinians and the Obama years behind” — the author, Adam Entous, doesn’t label as collusion the efforts by Israel and the Gulf states to undermine Obama-administration policies and influence the Trump campaign. But the underlying theme of the massive report is that those efforts are disreputable, if not as shady as forms of intervention practiced by the Russians.
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Jordanian citizens say latest aid pledge by Gulf states will not achieve social justice or solve unemployment.

by Farah Najjar, Al Jazeera, 11 Jun 2018

Protesters in Jordan insist on a long-term fiscal plan and more transparency [Anadolu]

• Qatar pledges $500m in economic aid to Jordan today
• Will Gulf aid package help resolve Jordan’s economic crisis? yesterday

 T. Belman.  Credit should also go to Dennis Rodman and Chairman Kim Jong Un

Dear Mr. President:

Thank you and congratulations for outstanding negotiations at the Summit held in Singapore on June 12, 2018 with North Korean Chairman Kim Jong Un. What you were able to accomplish in one day with the leader of the DPRK was far more than any American President had done since President John F. Kennedy. Because I was able to provide JFK with the analytic reports that had revealed the clandestine deployment of Soviet nuclear missiles to Pinar del Rio Province at least a year before the Cuban Missile Crisis, they have given me a special advantage for being able to compliment you about your extraordinary merit, which is worthy of far more than a Nobel Peace Prize honor because you, just as did President Kennedy, had prevented a thermonuclear war.

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After US amendment censuring Hamas is rejected on procedural grounds, 120 countries vote in favor of resolution calling for ‘protection’ for Palestinian civilians

By Raphael Ahren, TOI 

Palestinian Ambassador to the United Nations Riyad Mansour (white hair) passes by US Ambassador Nikki Haley (seated) during voting, to condemn Israeli actions in Gaza, in the General Assembly June 13, 2018 in New York. (AFP PHOTO / Don EMMERT)

With a huge majority, the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday passed a resolution condemning Israel for using “excessive, disproportionate and indiscriminate” force during the recent clashes at the Gaza border and calling for an “international protection mechanism” for Palestinian civilians.

The dramatic, down to the wire session saw the United States attempt to add a paragraph condemning Hamas, which was ultimately rejected on procedural grounds though most member states supported it. The resolution, proposed by Algeria and Turkey, then passed with 120 “yes” votes, 8 “no” votes and 45 abstentions.
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T. Belman. If you read one thing today, this should be it. I will be meeting with the author soon.

By Tapan Kumar Ghosh, Jerusalem herald

Tapan Ghosh (Image credit: Vijeta Uniyal) 

The recent spate of attacks on Israel using burning kites and multitudes of rockets, destroying Jewish neighborhoods, reminds me of the horrors that the people of Israel have to live with every day. Even from faraway India, we can feel the pain.

But this antisemitism is not limited just to Israel alone; rather, it is a manifestation of a narrative shared by Islamists and communists across the globe. The manifestations may be in Israel, but those perpetrating the attacks in Gaza draw both moral and financial support from those adhering to a similar ideology globally.

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