The killing in Har Adar, the Kurds and the Israelis  

How interesting to see how the world treats the PA’s bid for a state and the Kurdish struggle.

By Giulio Meotti, INN

It is a a type of hypnosis: killing Israelis, whatever it costs. The terrorist who struck the Jewish community of Har Adar, murdering 3 soldiers and security personnel, had a work permit, a privilege for Palestinian Authority residents (to get one of these you need to have no terrorist connections, not even a cousin involved in terrorism). But that hypnosis is stronger than the need to work.

It seems that Palestinian Arabs are attracted to the death of Israelis more than to preserving their own lives. These terrorists know that their house will be destroyed and their relatives arrested. They know their mother will lose the family home, their children will have no more means of livelihood and they will never be able to work in Israel, but they also know that they will be backed by the money that their “authority” of kleptocratic murderers will devote them to the rest of their lives.
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October 2, 2017 | 8:43 am | Comments »

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Tension over Kurdistan  

The referendum is highly important for both sides, those for and those against.

By Mordechai Kedar, INN

This past Monday close to 7 million Kurdish citizens of Iraq, cast their votes in a referendum consisting of one question only: Do you support a declaration of independence on the part of the Kurds in Iraq? The voting was widespread, with 80% of eligible voters going to the polls. It is clear that the question is seen as vital to a large majority of Kurds, leading them to go out to vote.

From a practical point of view, the Kurds have been trying to advance their independence for 25 years, ever since the world forbade Saddam Hussein’s air force from flying over their territory. They have developed a legitimate, democratic, organized and fair government over the past two and a half decades, as well as a disciplined top level army that proved its mettle against ISIS in Mosul. They have responsible media which portray both sides of the controversy and in general are a tranquil society with no internal violence, a successful economy based on oil and related products.
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October 2, 2017 | 8:32 am | Comments »

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US Jewry at the crossroads: Liberalism or the Jewish State  

There is no US political party that espouses both. A choice must be made.

By Thomas Mountain, INN

The American Jewish community has reached a great divide, one that will likely lead to a permanent schism within a community which for over a century has been steadfastly cohesive.

On one side are the pro-Trump, pro-Republican, pro-Israel Jews. And on the other are the liberal Jews still loyal to the increasingly anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian Democrat Party.

The 2016 Election was the watershed year for American Jewry, whether they realize it or not. The gauntlet was thrown in. The choice was clear. Trump or Clinton. Israel or liberalism.

If Trump won Israel would win since he would scrap the Iran nuclear deal that the Democrats wrought. If Clinton won Israel would lose since she’d continue the Iran nuclear deal that would threaten the very survival of the Jewish State.
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October 2, 2017 | 7:33 am | Comments »

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Change in Jordan, Easy, Cheap and Good for Everyone  

By Mudar Zahran, JEWISH PRESS

Despite Israel’s desire to protect the Hashemite regime, and stay out of messy Arab internal politics, it is now public knowledge that the Israeli intelligence establishment believes that Jordan’s king’s fall is imminent, and Israeli officials have been whispering that in private for a while, desperately discussing ways to save king and keep him in power. Nonetheless, a well-calculated, carefully-ushered and engineered change in Jordan could pose a huge opportunity for US, Israel, our Jordanian people, and all of those who want peace.

No, we’re not seeking a total regime change in Jordan, in which the state itself is turned into nothingness, leaving a gap for Islamists to jump in and take over. That was Obama’s style at best, because Obama did not know better, or at worst, because he wanted the Islamists to take over.
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October 1, 2017 | 10:15 pm | 3 Comments »

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Turkey accuses Kurds of collaborating with Israeli Mossad  

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says waving of Israeli flags at rallies celebrating Kurdish vote in favor of independence proof of Mossad’s involvement • Erdogan to Iraqi Kurdish leaders: “Are you aware of what you are doing? Only Israel supports you.”

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused the Israeli Mossad intelligence agency of playing a role in last Monday’s overwhelming “yes” vote in a referendum on Kurdish independence.

In a televised speech Saturday, Erdogan said the waving of Israeli flags during celebrations of the vote was proof of the Mossad’s involvement.

“This shows one thing, that this administration [in northern Iraq] has a history with Mossad, they are hand-in-hand together,” he said.
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October 1, 2017 | 6:51 pm | 2 Comments »

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World View: Steve Bannon and Henry Kissinger Form Project to Sound Alarm on China  

By John Jay Xanakis, BREITBART

According to an interview in Bloomberg Businessweek, Steve Bannon and Henry Kissinger have had several meetings and are preparing a project to sound the alarm about what Bannon views as the primary economic threat to America:

If we don’t get our situation sorted with China, we’ll be destroyed economically. The forced technology transfer of American innovation to China is the single biggest economic and business issue of our time. Until we sort that out, they will continue to appropriate our innovation to their own system and leave us as a colony — our Jamestown to their Great Britain, a tributary state.

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October 1, 2017 | 11:31 am | 2 Comments »

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Abdullah’s abuses  

By Rachel Avraham, ISRAEL HAYOM

According to The Jordan Times, the Political Affairs Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe unanimously approved a report praising Jordan’s King Abdullah for preserving security and stability in the region, as well as implementing internal reforms.

This report could not be further from the truth. Contrary to what the report claims, the Hashemite monarch’s violations of international law, including human rights abuses, impede security and stability in the Middle East.

Abdullah has been inciting violence against Israel, greatly contributing to tension in the Middle East. The Jordanian regime routinely describes terrorist attacks against Israelis as “heroic operations.” Jordanian media has called upon the Palestinians to wage terrorist attacks against Israelis, and the king considers it is his duty to “defend Al-Aqsa” while alleging Israeli violations of the status quo, helping to fuel the myth that Al-Aqsa is in danger.
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October 1, 2017 | 10:17 am | Comments »

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Mueller’s Move To Indict Donald Trump Is Imminent | Roger Stone  

AND MANY MORE BREAKING NEWS STORIES


ROGER SAYS THAT THE GENERALS AND THE PENTAGON ENGINEERED NIXON’S REMOVAL BECAUSE NIXON WAS A PEACE MAKER. HE ENDED THE VIETNAM WAR, HE OPENED THE DOOR TO CHINA AND HE NEGOTIATED AN ARMS CONTROL AGREEMENT WITH RUSSIA , ALL OF WHICH THE GENERALS WERE AGAINST.

SIMILARLY, TRUMP IS A MAN OF PEACE.. HE DIDN’T WANT TO GO TO WAR OVER SYRIA, HE WANTS TO NEGOTIATE WITH PUTIN TO AVOID WAR AND HE WAS AGAINST EXPANDING THE PROXY WAR AGAINST SYRIA, ALL OF WHICH THE GENERALS WERE AGAINST. BUT THE GENERALS GOT THEIR WAY IN AFGHANISTAN SO FAR.

October 1, 2017 | 6:42 am | 2 Comments »

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ANTIFA PLANS “CIVIL WAR” TO OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT  

Violent far-left group demands Trump “regime be removed from power”

Far-left militants plan to “gather in the streets and public squares of cities and towns across this country” in the hope of building momentum for civil unrest that leads to nothing less than domestic regime change.

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October 1, 2017 | 6:05 am | 2 Comments »

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The Policy paper issued by the Jordan Opposition Coalition headed by Mudar Zahran  

The Jordanian Opposition Coalition Position Papers

Released to the Media – 2nd August 2015
The Jordanian Opposition Coalition’s (JOC) Mission  

The JOC consists of Jordanian leaders and civilians from all walks of life who are seeking to replace the Hashemite King and his regime through the establishment of a peaceful government that will promote and enhance civil the political rights of everyone in the country, while promoting peace and stability for the region. The purpose of this new government is to secure, define, promote and implement democratic institutions that ensure secularism, expanded human rights, peaceful coexistence and economic prosperity in Jordan, for the good of the people of Jordan and the region.
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October 1, 2017 | 5:11 am | 2 Comments »

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Another Jordanian-made knife in the back of Israel  

By Mordechai Kedar, MAARIV [Google Translation]

In Israel, many wonder why the UN Human Rights Council has placed Israel at the center of its goal – why is this bias so prominent in the council’s decisions against Israel?

“The UN warns blacklisting companies that some of them will leave Israel,” Ha’aretz reported on the same day in its headline: “The Human Rights Commissioner has begun sending warnings to about 150 companies. An Israeli official: The fear is realized, foreign companies do not differentiate between Israel and the West Bank and stop operating in Israel. ”

Barak Ravid writes: The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Jordanian Prince Zaid bin Ra’id (Al-Hussein), began issuing warning letters two weeks ago … ”
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Israel Is Going to War in Syria to Fight Iran  

Israeli officials aren’t shying from confronting Tehran’s forces — since no one else will.

By Jonathan Spyer, FOREIGN POLICY

Israeli soldiers manuever Merkava tanks and Namer armored personnel carriers (APCs) during the last day of a military exercise in the northern part of the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights on September 13, 2017.
Israel’s military began in September 2017 a massive exercise simulating conflict with Hezbollah, the largest drill in nearly two decades. / AFP PHOTO / JALAA MAREY (Photo credit should read JALAA MAREY/AFP/Getty Images)

JERUSALEM – Israeli officials believe that Iran is winning its bid for dominance in the Middle East, and they are mobilizing to counter the regional realignment that threatens to follow. The focus of Israel’s military and diplomatic campaign is Syria. Israeli jets have struck Hezbollah and Syrian regime facilities and convoys dozens of times during Syria’s civil war, with the goal of preventing the transfer of weapons systems from Iran to Hezbollah. In an apparent broadening of the scope of this air campaign, on Sept. 7 Israeli jets struck a Syrian weapons facility near Masyaf responsible for the production of chemical weapons and the storing of surface-to-surface missiles.
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September 30, 2017 | 9:30 pm | 4 Comments »

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Switzerland’s legislature has voted to ban the foreign funding of mosques  

T. Belman. The US should do the same. 80% of the mosques in the US are funded by Saudi Arabia who also insists that Wahhabist Imans are in charge.Read How Saudi Arabia dangerously undermines the United States and EXPERT: SAUDIS HAVE RADICALIZED 80% OF US MOSQUES

.. including from Saudi Arabia, as well as to force mosques to use local languages instead of Arabic or other foreign tongues.

By Liam Deacon,BREITBART

The Swiss National Council, the parliament’s lower house, voted by a narrow majority to ban the financing of mosques from abroad and for generally increasing the transparency of how mosques are funded.

If the law passes the Senate, individual mosques will need to declare who they are backed by as well as preach in one of Switzerland’s official languages, namely German, French, Italian, or Romansch, Neue Zuercher Zeitung reports.
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September 30, 2017 | 9:11 pm | Comments »

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Is Trump another Truman? The Upcoming Challenge of Kurdish Independence  

By Norman Berdichevsky, NEW ENGLISH REVIEW October 2017

The future of Kurdistan, a potentially valuable Muslim ally, friendly to both the United States and Israel, poses a major challenge for President Trump. Is he another Harry Truman, ready to defy the additional ingrained resistance and deep objections of traditionalists in the State Department and the army chiefs of staff on this question? Their views only solidified under eight years of the Obama administration.

What the president has already said about the Kurds claims to value them as decisive and true allies in the campaign against ISIS and authentic friends of the United States. Soon, however, he will be forced to put up or shut up on what is certain to become a major foreign policy issue, and like so much else, admit that running the country as president is completely different from his stump campaign speeches.
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September 30, 2017 | 9:10 pm | 4 Comments »

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Mort Klein – There Is No Israeli ‘Occupation’: It’s Not Arab Land and 98 Percent of Palestinian-Arabs Live Under Arab Rule  

T. Belman. Pres Trump forwarded this article to a mutual friend who forwarded it to me. What does that say about Pres Trump?

By Mort Klein, BREITBART

The U.S. Ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, recently made headlines for using the term “alleged occupation” during an interviewwith the Jerusalem Post. Palestinian Authority (“PA”) dictator and Holocaust denier Mahmoud Abbas condemned the term “alleged occupation” and then falsely proclaimed that there is an Israeli “occupation of the territory of the state of Palestine” and variations of the same line some 27 times during his speech to the United Nations General Assembly last week.

However, an honest examination of the facts and actual international law reveal that Ambassador Friedman’s words were correct: In fact, the presence of Israel and Israeli Jews in Judea/Samaria (“West Bank”) and the old city of Jerusalem is not an “Israeli occupation.”

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September 30, 2017 | 9:07 pm | Comments »

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OBAMACARE: The Best Deal Trump Didn’t Make  

By Alexander G. Markovsky

There is an adage in business that “sometimes the best deal is the one you didn’t make.” The latest failure to repeal and replace Obamacare is such a deal for President Trump.

Had the hastily assembled legislation passed the Senate, the President risked being sucked into the agonizing process of a reconciliation in which he would be facing an ideologically incompatible but nevertheless united front of opposition. Trump, who has already spent enormous effort, time and political capital, would have had to spend even more on an uncertain outcome.

But what is certain is that the country, at least for now, has avoided a looming social turmoil that was about to emanate from the corrupt ideology of the contemporary Democratic Party.
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September 30, 2017 | 9:06 pm | Comments »

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Revisionist History, Fascism, and Holocaust Survivor Eva Moses Kor  

By Dr. Ileana Johnson Paugh, CFP

As the socialist teachers in the halls of academia around the country continue the indoctrination of American children into the utopian society of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Ceausescu, Castro, the rocket man of North Korea, and other dictators around the world, the Che Guevara t-shirt wearing young Americans have made their way into West Point and Main Street USA, protesting as paid mobs of racist BLM anarchists, fascist ANTI-FA anarchists, and other seasoned communist agitators.

Newspapers of note and the main stream media continue to rehabilitate communism and paint it in a positive light, spinning its non-existent egalitarian and social justice qualities, while hiding communism’s death toll of 100 million people.
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September 30, 2017 | 9:03 pm | Comments »

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