Netanyahu repeatedly declares commitment to develop settlements, yet no building permits in sight; Shomron threatens unprecedented protest.

By Mordechai Sones, INN

The heads of the local councils in Judea and Samaria are waiting expectantly for the fulfillment of a promise made by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in recent weeks that during the holidays plans will be approved to build thousands of housing units in Judea and Samaria.

In practice, it appears that the quiet settlement freeze in Judea and Samaria is continuing in a time when there is an American administration sympathetic to Israel.

The issues to be discussed by the Supreme Planning Council of the Civil Administration, where decisions are made regarding construction and development of the road system in Judea and Samaria, were to be published today,
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By Shahriar Kia, AMERICAN THINKER

During his first address to the UN General Assembly in September, President Donald Trump offered a perspective on the people and the regime of Iran that starkly differed from that of his predecessors. He accurately attested that “The entire world understands that the good people of Iran want to change.” He described the Iran nuclear deal as “an embarrassment,” called off the Iranian regime for its export of “violence, bloodshed, and chaos,” and underlined that “Iran’s people are what their leaders fear most.”

These remarks from the president of the United States are a positive signal after three decades of failed appeasement toward the mullahs ruling Iran. And the testament to the fact are the reactions of Iranian officials, which betray their fear and consternation.
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Hopes for greater autonomy within the framework of Syria’s border have regime’s implicit support. War over Iraqi Kurdistan would likely scramble this, however

By Sami Moubayed, ASIA TIMES

Kurdish fighters from the People’s Protection Units (YPG) extinguish a fire in a wheat field caused by clashes with Islamic State militants in Raqqa, Syria, on June 15, 2017. Photo: Reuters / Goran Tomasevic

As planned, three days before Iraqi Kurds went to the polls in a referendum over their own political future, elections for local Kurdish communes in northern Syria took place on September 22.

While the latter vote – in which an overwhelming 92% voted in favor of independence – sent shockwaves throughout the Middle East, the Syrian vote passed very smoothly, and Damascus did nothing of any consequence to prevent or obstruct it.
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In a first, Israeli minister criticizes Trump administration for preventing Jewish building in Judea and Samaria.

By Tzvi Lev, INN

Environmental Protection Minister Ze’ev Elkin (Likud) criticized the Trump administration over pressure it puts on Israel to cease building in Judea and Samaria.

Elkin told NRG that while the Trump administration was substantially better for Israel than former President Barack Obama, “the only thing that has not changed is the negative way it looks at Israeli construction in Judea and Samaria. On this issue, the administration continues the tradition of the Obama administration. ”

Elkin hinted that the Trump administration was pressuring Israel to halt its plans to build in Hevron, which enjoys wide approval in the coalition. “Even this current administration, as friendly to us as they are, need to be told that some things are a national interest, such as building in Hevron.”
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By Ephraim Inbar, ISRAEL HAYOM

Hopes in the West that Iran would become more moderate after the 2015 nuclear deal (the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action) between it and world powers in 2015 have gradually been replaced with fears about Iran’s worrying behavior. While Tehran is trying to be seen sticking to the nuclear deal, it limits the activities of the inspectors, continues nuclear research and development and devotes efforts to its long-range missile program.

As such, Iranian involvement in the region proves its hegemonic aspirations, based on Persian imperialistic interests, not to mention jihadist impulses. It already controls four Arab capitals: Baghdad, Beirut, Damascus and Sanaa. The Shiite militias and its envoys fight in Iraq, Syria and Yemen through ethnic cleansing. Iran is on the brink of securing a Shiite corridor from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean Sea.
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By Akiva Bigman, ISRAEL HAYOM

The more time passes, the clearer it seems that if the nation-state bill doesn’t pass in the Knesset, it will be a tragedy for future generations. The bill, which was designed to anchor as a basic law Israel’s status as a Jewish state as a way of balancing the human rights laws that were pushed through in the 1990s, will wind up missing its target twice over.

First, as seen by the proposal put forth Sunday by MK Roy Folkman (Kulanu) on minority rights, by the time the Knesset legislative process is completed, various human rights clauses will have been added to the bill that will establish the progressive ideas that have steered the High Court of Justice since the judicial revolution, snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
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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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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.”

ISRAEL HAYOM

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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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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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.

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