Revisiting one of the unintended consequences of the Protestant Reformation.

By Raymond Ibraham. FRONT PAGE MAG

Five-hundred years ago yesterday, on October 31, 1517, a Catholic monk named Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the door of a German church, thereby launching what would come to be known as the Protestant Reformation.  Whatever else can be said of him, Luther unwittingly initiated something else that is often overlooked.  “The Reformation produced one logical if unexpected result,” explains European historian Franco Cardini: “a definite boost to the positive evaluation of Islam, and therefore to the birth and development of an often conventional and mannered pro-Islamic stance” in the West.
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By Dore Gold, JCPA

• On July 24, 1922, the British pledge to help build the Jewish National Home was explicitly incorporated into the text of the League of Nations Mandate, which called for “putting into effect” its terms. The Balfour Declaration thus was transformed into a binding obligation under international law. Moreover, it was approved unanimously by the Council of the League of Nations, made up of 51 member states.
• The Balfour Declaration is important because it recognizes the historical bond of the Jewish People to the Holy Land, a bond which existed long before the declaration. What was significant was its public and formal recognition and its incorporation into international law.

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By Gary Gindler, AMERICAN THINKER

On November 2, 1917, exactly 100 years ago, British foreign secretary Lord Arthur Balfour sent a private letter to Lord Walter Rothschild, the second Baron Rothschild.  The letter was written not by Balfour, but by other ministers in Lloyd George’s Cabinet – Lord Alfred Milner and Leopold Amery.  In history, this letter became known as the Balfour Declaration.

Both Balfour and Milner were true Britons.  Rothschild was proud of being a Jew.  Amery was a Jew who carefully concealed his Jewish origins.  What united this quartet?

All of them were, of course, to some degree, Zionists, but only to the extent that such was in the interests of the British Empire.  Otherwise, the Declaration would never have happened.

The main thing is that they were all members of the Conservative Party of the United Kingdom.
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By Évariste, GAUCHE REPUBLICAIN

The former Czechoslovakia split up. The former Yugoslavia broke up into many new É States. New balkanization requests are made again in the new E states. Is it better today? Ukraine is today divided even if it is not acted on by other countries. Great Britain, Italy, France, Spain, Belgium are subject to “desires for independence”. What to think?

First, let us note that the process of self-determination of peoples was first conceived in cases of colonialism or refusal to apply the universal principles of the dominant. Today, these are richer regions that no longer want to “pay for the poorest”, such as Catalonia, Northern Italy and Flanders, for example. Should we accept this without debating it? Or regions run by a corrupt political class who wish to no longer be controlled by a central power just as corrupt? Or a clash between two nationalisms? Should we accept this as an exoticism symp athique? How not to notice that the independence of all stripes are trying to tell the European Union that they will be more docile than their Ecurrent nation-states! The directions of the regions that demand independence are those that are neo- liberal XXL!Read more…

By Barbara Diamond

How exciting to discover that President Macron of France has lost patience with political correctness! France has been constantly under a “state of emergency” after repeated terror attacks by Islamic Fundamentalists. The previous President Holland called the Islamic fundamentalist attacks “An act of war” and imposed a “State of Emergency.” The laws under that edict were renewed time and time again… but the war is still waging and the temporary measures were not sufficient.
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By Arlene Kushner

It is a given that the UN is a cesspool of anti-Israel sentiment, an institution that has betrayed the vision of its founders. But even accepting this, every now and then the UN takes action that requires particular notice:

The United Nations Development Assistance Framework and the Palestinian Authority have signed a “strategic programming framework” for 2018-2022. It projects a budget of close to $1.3 billion to support the PA with a wide variety of political and social service programs (all described in a 73 page document).

Sixteen UN agencies (including UNRWA and UNESCO have signed on to this document. They are committed to holding Israel accountable for alleged violations in international law and to documenting purported abuses.

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by Victor Sharpe

On November 2, 2017, it will be 100 years since Lord Arthur Balfour, the British Foreign Secretary, issued the famous Balfour Declaration. Balfour was a Christian Zionist and looked with great sympathy upon Jewish aspirations and Zionism, which simply put is the Jewish people’s national liberation movement. Put in Biblical terms, it is the return from exile of the Jews to Zion – to that very special land promised by God to the first Jew, Abraham, and through his descendants, Isaac and Jacob, to the Jewish people forever.

The Hebrew Scriptures equate Zion with the holiest city in Judaism, Israel’s capital of Jerusalem. You can read numerous references in the Bible and the Psalms to the word Zion, such as in Psalm 135:21, II Samuel 5:7 and Isaiah 24:23. The Biblical yearning of the Jews to return to their ancestral homeland is mirrored in the modern political usage of the term Zionism, first employed in 1890 by the Jewish author and poet, Nathan Birnbaum.
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Public security minister blames Arab MKs for not doing enough to combat crime • Arab Israelis implicated in over half of the murders, attempted murders, arsons in Israel, study finds • Number of Arab Muslim police officers almost doubles in 2017.

By Anne Bayefsky, PJ MEDIA

The United Nations has made a deal with the Palestinians to fund a 65 million dollar legal pogrom directed at Israel. The party on the Palestinian side was referred to as the “Government of the State of Palestine.”

More specifically, the “United Nations System in the occupied Palestinian territory” plans to pay eight UN bodies $64,838,510 between the years of 2018 and 2022 to hunt down individual Israelis and smear Israel as a criminal state.
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T. Belman. Bennett is totally right. Bennett for Min of Defense.

“We must not apologize for our success in eliminating terrorists,” Bennett, a member of the security cabinet, tweeted.

BY Lahav Harkov, JPOST

The IDF was wrong to apologize for killing terrorists, Education Minister Naftali Bennett said on Tuesday morning, drawing sharp criticism from Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman.

“We must not apologize for our success in eliminating terrorists,” Bennett, a member of the security cabinet, tweeted.

“I will clarify: These are terrorists who were digging a tunnel of death – in Israeli territory – which was meant to kill Israeli women and children.”
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T. Belman. I disagree with the Campaign Against Antisemitism who called the remarks “deplorable”. Everything Farage said here is true but there is nothing wrong in acknowledging that we punch above our weight. But he was wrong to respond to the caller who thought “the pro-Israel lobby in the United States was as dangerous as alleged Russian interference” by saying that was a reasonable point. Its not dangerous at all. In fact there is no comparison. The Israel Lobby, such as it is, consists of Americans whereas Russian interference is foreign. But the truth of the matter is that the Israel Lobby is not near as strong as it is alleged to be, not that it matters. The Saudi Lobby is far more powerful, and richer and foreign. It is financed by the Saudis who are far richer than the Jews. Israel does not finance the Israel Lobby. The problem is that antisemites have smeared the Israel Lobby. An American lobby is entitled to be as effective as it can be within the law. Everyone ignores the Saudi Lobby.

Right-wing ex-pol in Britain responds to anti-Semitic questioner by saying Jews have disproportionate power relative to their numbers.

JTA

The former leader of a nationalist political party in Britain said that American Jews have a disproportionate influence over politics.

Nigel Farage, the ex-head of the Independence Party and now a talk show host on the LBC radio station, made the remarks Monday on while discussing whether Russian influence had aided Trump’s election in the wake of the first charges being brought against Trump administration officials.
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T. Belman. Israel should be building in Area C and the Arabs should be prevented from building there. I am dissappointed in Frisch because he feels we have to justify building there by saying we do it to punish the Arabs. No, we should build because it is our land and our right to building regardless of provocation.

By Professor Hillel Frisch, JISS

Israeli settlement in Judea and Samaria must be renewed as a means of imposing costs on the Palestinian Authority for trying to delegitimize Israel, and in response to strategically-placed Palestinian settlement expansion. Israel’s present conflict management approach, which has succeeded in reducing Palestinian terrorism to manageable proportions, is an insufficient response to the dangers of Palestinian territorial expansionism.

For the first time in the one-hundred year old conflict, the Palestinians are beating Israel in the domain it excelled best had had always shown its ingenuity – strategic building and expansion of settlements. This is no longer true. This article makes the case for renewed Israeli settlement in Jerusalem and in strategic areas in Judea and Samaria as the most effective means of imposing costs on the Palestinian Authority for trying to delegitimize Israel, inciting to violence, honoring terrorists and supporting their families. Most of all, renewed Israeli settlement is necessary as a response to strategically-placed Palestinian settlement expansion whose aim is to create political facts on the ground in the Palestinians’ favor rather than entering into negotiations with Israel.
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