Remember when Obama wouldn’t condemn Black Lives Matter after 5 cops were murdered?
What would we find, specifically, if we examined how America’s most influential media outlets used their news pages ? as distinguished from their opinion pages ? to report on how Presidents Trump and Obama, respectively, responded to homicides that occurred in racially charged circumstances?
The Coverage of Trump
Earlier this month, on August 12, a group of white nationalists held a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, ostensibly to protest the proposed removal of a statue of the Confederate General Robert E. Lee from a local park. Those demonstrators clashed with a leftist group of counter-demonstrators, many of whom represented the Marxist/anarchist movement known as Antifa, and one woman was killed when a young white nationalist rammed his car into a crowd of counter-protesters.
If local authorities won’t do it, the Federal government must.
Freedom of Assembly is the first and most important right of the Bill of Rights. Today it is being denied in cities like Berkeley and Portland where local left-wing governments have contrived to deny rally permits while giving the masked thugs of their leftist Antifa allies a blank check to assault those whose views they oppose.
In Berkley, Boston and San Francisco, the First Amendment doesn’t exist anymore.
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By Andrew Thomas, AMERICAN THINKER
In my younger years, studying world and American history in school, I used to wonder how people of those past times could have been so stupid. How could people actually believe that Hitler was a righteous man? How could they be convinced that Jews were evil and Nazism was good? Germans and Japanese at that time must have been crazy.
Didn’t Americans understand that a civil war between states could lead to incredible bloodshed? How could people who shared the same heritage and culture go at each other’s throats so readily? It seemed like fantasy to me. People must have been completely different back then, much more gullible and ignorant.
Less than a week after Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu warned Vladimir Putin in Sochi that Israel had red lines against a permanent Iranian military presence in Syria – certainly near its borders, Moscow put the prime minister’s warning to the test.
DEBKAfile reports exclusively from its military and intelligence sources that on Saturday and Sunday, (Aug.26-27) ,Russian forces installed Iranian Revolutionary Guards and Hizballah officers at a joint “administration center” they had set up in the town of Quneitra.
Initiatives to push Israel to abandon Samaria will be met with increased building, Netanyahu said.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised that Israel would remain in the West Bank forever — including in the Samaria region — and that radical Islam would never create a base on its hilltops.
“Samaria is a strategic asset for the State of Israel. It is the cradle of our people and the key to its future,” said Netanyahu on Monday.
He spoke at a ceremony celebrating 50 years of Jewish settlement in Judea and Samaria.
“This is the land we inherited from our forefathers. This is our land. We have returned here to remain for eternity. There will not be any more uprooting of settlements in the Land of Israel,” Netanyahu said. “It has been proved that uprooting settlements does not foster peace,” he added.
By Seth Franzman, JPOST
On August 27, the mountains of Qalamoun fell quiet as a cease-fire between Hezbollah, the Lebanese army, the Syrian army and the Islamic State went into effect.
A week before, Hezbollah, the Syrians and the Lebanese army had been striking ISIS from both sides of the border in a coordinated assault. The coordination in the battle and the cease-fire that followed is another piece of evidence how closely Hezbollah is entangled within the Lebanese state and Syria.
T. Belman. I have reached out to them to discuss my solution.
TEL AVIV – A top U.S. Congressman said after a visit to Israel this week that it’s time to find new ways of solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict besides the two-state solution.
Chairman of the powerful House Armed Services Committee Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) told the Jerusalem Post that “there is a sense in Congress that it is maybe time to look a little broader outside the box” at other resolutions to the conflict.
Thornberry was part of a delegation of five congressmen and one senator in Israel last week on an educational tour organized by the Christian group the U.S. Israel Education Association. The delegation was taken to the settlements, a move that is forbidden on official government trips.
PM Netanyahu, President Rivlin meet with U.N. chief Antonio Guterres in Jerusalem, urge end to anti-Israel bias in U.N. bodies • PM shares intelligence showing Iran entrenching itself militarily in Syria, Lebanon, says Israel, the U.N. cannot allow it.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met Monday with United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres, who arrived in Israel on Sunday on a three-day visit. This is Guterres’ first visit to the Jewish state since taking office in January.
The meeting focused largely on Iran’s efforts to entrench itself militarily in Syria and Hezbollah’s armament efforts in Lebanon.
Netanyahu presented the U.N. chief with intelligence illustrating Iran’s accelerated moves in the region, which Israel believes could drag the entire Middle East into war. Read more…
News that Iran’s and Turkey’s governments reached an accord on Idlib, a Syrian town now the focus of American interests, brings relations between two of the largest and most influential states in the Middle East momentarily out of the shadows.
Their rivalry goes back a half-millennium, included eleven wars, and now remains, in the words of the Washington Institute’s Soner Cagaptay, the region’s “oldest power game.” What does the recent accord signify and how will their competition influence the region’s future
Iranian and Turkish parallels are noteworthy. Both countries have populations of 80 million. (Egypt, the region’s third large country, has 96 million.) Both boast ancient civilizations, long imperial histories, tensions with Russia, and a successful avoidance of European colonialism. In modern times, each came under the rule of a ruthless modernizer after World War I, followed more recently by an even more repressive Islamist.
T. Belman. Did Israel collaborate with the Gulf States before issuing this warning. this warning given with the agreement of the Gulfs states. Sounds like it.
What about bombing Iran’s troops and proxies in Syria?
Israel warned Russia of dire consequences if Iran is allowed to continue on its current path in Syria.
By Yasser Okbi/ Maariv Hashavua, JPOST.COM STAFF
A senior Israeli official warned the Russian government that if Iran continues to extend its reach in Syria, Israel will bomb Syrian President Bashar Assad’s palace in Damascus, according to reports in Arab media.
Israel also warned that if serious changes do not happen in the region, Israel will make sure the ceasefire deal, reached by the United States and Russia in Astana, Kazakhstan, will be nullified.
WHAT THE HELL!! THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A FACT FINDING COMMISSION, NOT AN EXERCISE IN POLITICAL WHITEWASHING.
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights was quick to condemn the white supremacists involved in the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, but they voted down a proposal to also condemn violence from the the far-left group Antifa.
In a vote to include Antifa in the official commission statement, four Democratic commissioners voted “no.” The Republican who proposed it, Gail Heriot, and the Republican who seconded the proposal, Peter Kirsanow, were the only two who voted “yes.”
By Michael Derfler
In Are People Born Good, Dennis Prager asks the question, “Are people basically good?” He states that your answer to this question “will shape just about all of your moral, social, and political views.” On this point I agree. However, in regard to Mr. Prager’s opinion on the conservative, the leftist, and the Jewish answers to this question, I think he is mistaken.
My disagreement stems not from a personal opinion, but from traditional Jewish thought and from conservative (political) thought. First I will give the Jewish view on humanity as a moral actor, followed by the conservative view. Then I will address the facts Mr. Prager uses to support his position.
There is a long term plan at work here aimed at destroying the West and it can work.
Iran and Russia plan to destroy Western Europe, the US and Canada by means of a new wave of millions of Syrian Sunnis fleeing to the West to escape the Shiite takeover of Syria.
In my weekly column two months ago, I claimed that Iran is the real victor in the Syrian civil war. Using the war against ISIS as a smokescreen, it is taking over large swathes of Syrian territory, mainly in the scarcely populated middle and eastern parts of the country. In the more fertile and densely populated west of Syria, there are Iraqi, Afghan, and Iranian Shiite militias augmenting Lebanese Hezbollah fighters who were given carte blanche to do whatever Hassan Nasrallah decides to do there.
First, National Economic Council (NEC) director Gary Cohn—the former number two banker at Goldman Sachs and a top Democrat who joined the Trump administration after the president’s election—bashed the president in an on-record interview with the Financial Times.
Taking hard line, Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely says Jerusalem will ‘no longer tolerate’ international body’s slant against Jewish state
Israel is to tell UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres during his first visit to the country this week it will “no longer tolerate anti-Israel bias” at the international body, Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely said Sunday.
Dear Mr. President,
I am sending the current swamp report card for your review.
Most sincerely,
Linda Goudsmit
Navy Admiral James “Ace” Lyons shocked the nation with his candid remarks at the Center for Security Policy “Defeat Jihad Summit” held in January, 2015. Admiral Lyons calmly and plainly stated that Obama was deliberately and unilaterally disarming the military. The Admiral further warned that the Muslim Brotherhood has already penetrated every one of our national security security agencies including our intelligence agencies.
In effort to revive peace talks, US asks PA to halt diplomatic offensive against Israel
PA President Abbas, seeking U.S. President Trump’s personal commitment to the two-state vision, agrees in principle to halt diplomatic initiatives against Israel for four months • Abbas demands U.S. outline a detailed peace plan within this time frame.
Daniel Siryoti, Erez Lin, News Agencies and Israel Hayom Staff
U.S. President Donald Trump’s senior adviser Jared Kushner asked Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas during their meeting in Ramallah on Thursday to freeze diplomatic initiatives against Israel for a period of some four months, in exchange for an American commitment to submit a comprehensive diplomatic plan within that time frame to kick-start the moribund peace process, a senior Palestinian official told Israel Hayom over the weekend.
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 570, August 26, 2017
By Yaakov Lappin
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Creating deterrence was Israel’s goal in the last three conflicts it fought against Hamas, but that objective has been cast aside. Any future armed clash with Gaza’s Islamist rulers will be guided by a new Israeli objective: that of achieving a crystal clear victory over the enemy.
In past models of conflict, Israel responded to Hamas aggression through the use of force in a way that was designed to punish Hamas and convince it to return to a state of calm. Systematically destroying Hamas’s military capabilities was not an Israeli objective.
Today, while Israel hopes to avoid war, it is preparing for the possibility of a new conflict. War could erupt again in Gaza for a wide range of reasons.
