Globalism: The existential enemy of sovereignty security and prosperity  

By Linda Goudsmit, PUNDICITY

President Trump’s 9.19.17 speech at the UN was powerfully clear – the three foundational missions of the United Nations are the three foundational missions of the United States and every member nation: to protect their sovereignty, preserve their security, and promote their prosperity.

Sovereignty security and prosperity are the three pillars that support world peace. The United Nation’s stated mission relies on the nationalism of cooperating sovereign nation states to preserve security, promote prosperity, and make the world a safer place. Here is the problem. Globalism is antithetical to nationalism. President Trump is surrounded by globalist advisors and the United Nations has become an advocate of globalism.

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September 20, 2017 | 4:19 pm | 1 Comment »

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ISRAEL AND THE AMERICAN JEWISH CRISIS  

The demographic decline of American Jewry is disastrous — and so is the state of communal leadership.

By Caroline Glick

The same cannot be said for the Jews of the Diaspora. In Western Europe, Jewish communities that just a generation ago were considered safe and prosperous are now besieged. Synagogues and Jewish schools look like army barracks. And the severe security cordons Jews need to pass through to pray and study are entirely justified. For where they are absent, as they were at the Hyper Cacher Jewish supermarket in Paris in 2015, assailants strike.

Western European Jewry’s crisis is exogenous to the Jewish communities. It isn’t the Jews who caused the crisis, which may in time cause the wholesale exodus of the Jews from Europe. The crisis is a function of growing levels of popular antisemitism spurred by mass immigration from the Islamic world and the resurgence of indigenous European Jew-hatred, particularly on the far Left.

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September 20, 2017 | 2:20 pm | Comments »

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Did Obama Spy on America to Protect Islamists?  

By Daniel Greenfield, SULTAN KNISH

After months of denials, the pretext for Susan Rice’s eavesdropping on Trump officials has finally been made public. It had been widely known that Obama’s former National Security Adviser had contrived to unmask the names of top Trump officials who had been spied on by the administration. And the same media that still treats Watergate as the Great American Scandal had claimed that there was nothing “improper” in an Obama loyalist eavesdropping on members of the opposition party.

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September 20, 2017 | 2:07 pm | 4 Comments »

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In Defense of the ‘Jordan Is Palestine’ Proposal  

By David Haivri, TOI

For many years I had been very skeptical of the Jordan is Palestine idea for number of reasons. Of course we cannot simply dismiss the Zeev Jabotinsky ideology which called for two banks of the Jordan river this one is mine and so is the other.

Of course many Zionists and particularly Betar youth grew up with the idea of the greater land of Israel that extended to both sides of the Jordan River within the framework of the historical British Mandate for Palestine. Regardless to the fact that the Israeli political parties who are descendants to the Jabotinsky movement and particularly the leading we could party abandoned this concept years ago. And in fact the State of Israel signed a peace treaty with the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan recognizing the sovereignty of the State of Jordan to the east of the Jordan River.

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September 20, 2017 | 1:48 pm | 5 Comments »

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Gorka Discusses How the ‘Permanent State’ Is Undermining Trump  

By Christina Wong, BREITBART

President Trump is battling an entrenched “Permanent State” — unelected bureaucratic workers entrenched throughout the echelons of government who are unaccountable to the American people and even the president, Sebastian Gorka, Trump’s former deputy assistant, said Friday at a panel that conservative government watchdog group Judicial Watch hosted.

Referred to derisively as the “Deep State,” Gorka said a more accurate name for the officials who have filled government bureaucracies in Washington is the “Permanent State” because they are neither hidden nor covert.

“It was in our faces. It was arrogant. It was right there in the surface of our policy discussions at the highest level of the White House. … It’s overt,” he said during the panel, which was called Exposing the Deep State.
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September 19, 2017 | 7:26 pm | 4 Comments »

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Trump at UN: He’s back.  

THIS IS THE SPEECH ITSELF

PRESIDENT TRUMP: Mr. Secretary General, Mr. President, world leaders, and distinguished delegates: Welcome to New York. It is a profound honor to stand here in my home city, as a representative of the American people, to address the people of the world.

As millions of our citizens continue to suffer the effects of the devastating hurricanes that have struck our country, I want to begin by expressing my appreciation to every leader in this room who has offered assistance and aid. The American people are strong and resilient, and they will emerge from these hardships more determined than ever before.

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September 19, 2017 | 4:33 pm | 2 Comments »

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With Ballistic Missile Radar, U.S. Opens First Permanent Military Base in Israel  

Air defense base is located within Israel Air Force base in the Negev

By Amos Harel, HAARETZ

U.S. X-band radar of the type stationed in Israel

The first permanent U.S. military base in Israel was dedicated on Monday.

A few dozen American soldiers will live and work on the base, situated inside the school of the Aerial Defense Division of the Israel Air Force, in the Negev. High-ranking U.S. officers attended the dedication ceremony.

Brig. Gen. Zvi Haimovich, the commander of the division, said the new base reflects the close military cooperation between Israel and the United States. He declined to elaborate on the exact activities of the American soldiers, but said, “The base is here to stay. It involved a significant allocation of resources, in the understanding that this was right and necessary and part of the United States’ assets in Israel.”

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September 19, 2017 | 2:06 pm | 1 Comment »

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MK Oren Hazan has agreed to debate Alsaud at Conference  

T. Belman. MK Oren Hazan MK has agreed to debate Jordanian lawmaker Yahya Mohammad Alsaud at the The Jordan Option-The Ultimate Alternate Solution. Alsaud has been invited. Should be interesting.

By LAHAV HARKOV, JPOST

Despite taunting on social media, the planned fight between scandal- plagued Likud MK Oren Hazan and trouble-making Jordanian lawmaker Yahya Mohammad Alsaud at the Allenby Bridge border crossing did not take place on Wednesday after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu intervened.

The drama began when Hazan commented on the heightened tensions between Israel and Jordan after a guard at the Israeli Embassy shot two Jordanians, one of whom tried to stab him with a screwdriver, last month. Israel is investigating the incident.

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September 19, 2017 | 11:47 am | 3 Comments »

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Trump Soft-Soaps the U.N. Of Course, It Was Only Day 1  

By PETER BAKER and SOMINI SENGUPTA, NYT

UNITED NATIONS — The polished and protocol-obsessed diplomats of the United Nations hardly knew what to expect when President Trump arrived at their citadel along the East River on Monday for the first time since taking office. But this was not it.

Instead of a tiger, they got a tabby. Mr. Trump, the apostle of America First who has heaped scorn on global institutions, ripped up international agreements and quarreled even with allies, offered a subdued and largely friendly performance on the opening day of his inaugural visit to the United Nations.

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September 19, 2017 | 9:49 am | Comments »

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Ending the War in Syria Could Be a Disaster for Europe  

By Mordechai Kedar

Blinded by the smokescreen of the war against ISIS, the world failed to notice that Tehran was taking over considerable parts of Syria — particularly in the sparsely populated center and east of the country.

This Iranian takeover is being implemented by Shiite, Iraqi, Afghani and Iranian militias — but primarily by Lebanese Hezbollah. That group has been given a free hand to do whatever its leader, Hassan Nasrallah, pleases in western Syria, which is the more fertile part of the country and home to most of the population.

As ISIS and the opposition groups weaken, Bashar Assad is gaining strength. The brutality of the Russian intervention and the cruelty of the Shiite militias have overcome his opponents. The tide turned in 2015 when the Russians forced Ankara to stop supporting the rebels and ISIS; and while Turkey’s Erdo?an had no choice but to go along with the Russians, the Alawite Assad still sees him — justifiably — as an Islamist enemy.

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September 19, 2017 | 9:24 am | Comments »

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Why the US chose to oppose the Kurdish independence referendum  

The US now finds itself in the awkward position of being on the same side as Iran.

BY SETH J. FRANTZMAN, JPOST

Iraqi Vice President Nuri al-Maliki joined the chorus opposing a Kurdistan independence referendum.

“We will not allow the creation of a second Israel in the north of Iraq,” he said on Sunday.

Maliki’s allies in Iran have also threatened the Kurdistan Regional Government in northern Iraq, pressuring it to cancel the September 25 referendum.

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September 19, 2017 | 8:08 am | 1 Comment »

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Leftism, not the neo-Nazis, is what we should worry about  

The leftist war on values is threatening the pillars holding up American

By Dr H Sacks, INN

A fine and honorable Rabbi I heard on the East Coast recently is very worried about Nazis in America.  He and many other Jewish clergy and lay people, particularly in the Reform and Conservative movement see them as a clear and present danger in America and associate them with President Trump and Republicans in general.  Putting aside calumny and falsehoods directed at our President and Republicans, I am as much worried about Nazi’s in America as I am the Army of the Dead from Game of Thrones.

I am, however, very worried about the statist/leftist/progressive, whatever label you wish, invading  and terribly harming America.  Nasty accusations hurled at a duly elected President accomplishing a lot of middle of the road American things under incredible attack, reminded me of the Civil War we are in, the intense cultural war in which we find ourselves between American and Leftist values.  The war is threatening the pillars holding up American civilization.

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September 19, 2017 | 7:48 am | 1 Comment »

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Israel Courts Shield Hamas Officials from Consequences  

By Evelyn Gordon, COMMENTARY

When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, he’ll undoubtedly devote part of his speech to the need to fight terrorist organizations. What he probably won’t mention is that in Israel, the fight is often hamstrung by the Supreme Court’s out-of-control judicial activism, as evidenced by last week’s mind-boggling ruling denying the government the right to revoke the Israeli residency of people serving in the Palestinian legislature or cabinet on behalf of Hamas.In 2006, three Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem were elected to the Palestinian parliament on behalf of the Hamas-affiliated Change and Reform party, while a fourth was appointed to the Palestinian cabinet on behalf of that party. Israel responded by revoking their Israeli residency rights.

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September 19, 2017 | 7:22 am | Comments »

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What Has Trump Done For America? LOTS  

Ray Schneider, PhD,K Associate Professor Emeritus, Bridgewater College

President Trump’s biggest achievement has been to keep the incompetent, dishonest, greedy, corrupt scofflaw, Crooked Hillary, out of the White House.

1. Supreme Court Judge Gorsuch
2. 59 missiles dropped in Syria
3. He took us out of TPP
4. Illegal immigration is now down 70% (the lowest in 17 years)
5. Consumer confidence highest since 2000 at index 125.6
6. Mortgage applications for new homes rise to a seven year high
7. Arranged from 7% to 24% Tariff on lumber from Canada

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September 19, 2017 | 6:49 am | 1 Comment »

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McMaster Bashes Steve Bannon, Says He Had ‘Narrow’ Agenda Different from Trump  

T. Belman. The simple fact is that McMaster is anti-Israel and Bannon in pro-Israel.  Also Bannon wanted to support Trump’s agenda. Bannon considered the election results a mandate for Trump’s agenda. McMaster wanted to ignore the results and relitigate the agenda so he brought in all kinds of  counter arguments and removed people who supported Trump’s Israel policies.

In the Wallace interview, there was no discussion about Israel or what’s happening in Syria.

By Christina Wong, BREITBART

National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster bashed President Trump’s presidential campaign chief executive and former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon on Sunday, accusing him of advancing his own “narrow” agenda.

When asked by Fox News’ Chris Wallace if he was trying to say that Bannon was “trying to work around and advance his own agenda,” McMaster responded: “There were some who try to operate outside of that process for their own narrow agendas, and that didn’t serve the president well.”

Breitbart News Senior Editor at Large Joel B. Pollak responded: “Bannon’s only agenda was Trump’s campaign promises on his whiteboard.”

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September 18, 2017 | 7:56 am | 1 Comment »

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LIBERMAN: West Bank Settlements are Necessary for Israel’s Defense  

The Palestinians have insisted that settlement activity is a stumbling bloc to peace and the US has frowned on such building.

By Tova LazarofF, JPOST


West Bank settlements ensure Israel’s security even in the era when Israel is under threat from missile and cyber attacks, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman said on Sunday evening.

“From my perspective its clear, that the settlements in Judea and Samaria and those here in the area of Jericho and the Dead Sea, are the State of Israel’s true defensive wall,” Liberman said.
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September 18, 2017 | 7:17 am | 1 Comment »

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