Following alleged Israeli airstrike, Moscow said to tell Assad regime and Hezbollah to hold back and ‘concentrate on the bigger picture’

By Alexander Fulbright, TOI

Russia has reportedly reassured Israel that it will not allow Iran and its Hezbollah proxy to threaten the Jewish state from Syria, where Moscow is fighting alongside Tehran and the Lebanese terror group on behalf of Syrian President Bashar Assad.

Israel has of late repeatedly warned of Iran’s ambitions to establish a military foothold in Syria that would threaten Israel. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Russian President Vladimir Putin last month in order to stress the threat posed by Iran’s presence on Israel’s northern border.

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By Trevor Thomas, AMERICAN THINKER

The Never-Trumpers of every stripe still don’t get it. Ten months after his historic defeat of Hillary Clinton, those opposed to Donald Trump — whether from the political right, left, or middle — have yet to grasp why so many Americans — especially evangelical Americans — have embraced, or at least tolerate, the politics of the Man from Manhattan. As my wife (and chief editor) pointed out when I began this piece, “It’s really a no-brainer. There was no other option.” But nevertheless, to those dulled by their disdain for Mr. Trump, let me explain again our continued support for him.

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Review of ‘City on a Hilltop’ By Sara Yael Hirschhorn

By Evelyn Gordon

Sara Yael Hirschhorn’s City on a Hilltop starts with two eminently reasonable premises. First: If you want to understand the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, you must understand Israeli settlers, since they’re one of the players. Second: If you want to understand the settlers, you must move beyond the popular caricature of them as ultra-nationalist, ultra-religious fanatics, since most are neither.

Hirschhorn’s book is an attempt to do exactly that, which is all the more admirable given her own political views: She characterizes any Jewish presence beyond the 1949 armistice lines—including the large Jewish neighborhoods of east Jerusalem, whose tens of thousands of residents she also labels “settlers” (in a footnote)—as an illegitimate colonialist occupation. Yet despite the obvious sincerity of her effort, her inability to rise above her own biases ends up undermining the final product.

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By Cliff Kincaid, CFP

President Trump has made a deal with Democrats over the debt ceiling and disaster aid. And he’s apparently promised to make a deal to legalize the illegal aliens covered by DACA. On global policy, he has kept Obama’s Iran nuclear deal while depending on the communist-front United Nations to do something about the Communist North Korean nuclear weapons program. Trump is now reportedly asking the U.N. for permission to inspect ships going to North Korea.

The Communist Party spin-off known as the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism is claiming that Trump is “triangulating” and isolating the “hard right” of the Republican Party by forging an alliance with Congressional Democrats.

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By Aaron Klein, BREITBART

NEW YORK — On the sixteenth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, Islamic terrorist attacks, President Donald Trump did not once mention the terms “radical Islam” or “Islamic terrorism” during a commemoration ceremony at the Pentagon.

Those phrases were also not mentioned in speeches today by other Trump administration senior officials, including Vice President Mike Pence, Defense Secretary James Mattis, and Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

Instead of naming the enemy, Trump seemingly went out of his way to use other descriptors in his speech, including “terrorists who attacked us,” “barbaric forces of evil and destruction,” “horrible, horrible enemies,” “enemies of all civilized people,” and “enemies like we’ve never seen before.”

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By Morton A. Klein, ZOA

I am a child of Holocaust survivors, born in a displaced persons camp in Germany, and lost most of my aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents to the evil horror of the Nazis. I’ve spent decades fighting against anti-Semites and Israel-haters of every stripe, from Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan to Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke to Palestinian Arab terrorist leaders Yasser Arafat, Mahmoud Abbas and Ismail Haniyeh. I’ve won battles against Israel bashers who were nominated to or held U.S. government posts, including Joe Zogby, Salaam Al Marayati, Strobe Talbott and Charles Freeman. I know a Jew hater, a Nazi or an Israel hater when I see one.

I also know when someone is a friend of Israel and the Jewish people.

Which brings me to the sad and alarming problem that those of us who care about the Jewish people’s survival must combat today.

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By Stephen Dinan,The Washington Times – Monday, September 11, 2017

ANNAPOLIS — A Maryland judge ordered the state bar to open an investigation Monday into the three lawyers who helped former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to delete her private emails.

Circuit Judge Paul F. Harris Jr. said the complaints lodged against David E. Kendall, Cheryl Mills and Heather Samuelson were “egregious” and said the state bar couldn’t brush them aside by calling them “frivolous.”

“There are allegations of destroying evidence,” Judge Harris said at a hearing Monday morning, where he said the state’s rules require the bar to conduct investigations no matter who raises the complaint, and can’t brush accusations aside.

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The story of Malki Roth’s cold-blooded murder at the Sbarro pizza corner and the Israeli betrayal and US stalling that followed it.

By Frimet Roth, INN

Malki Roth was murdered in what is called the Sbarro restaurant suicide bombing 16 years ago. Her parents are fighting to see that her terrorist murderer, against whom the US has issued an extradition request, is brought to justice. The family hopes the US presses for extradition, is disappointed that Jordan does not honor its legal obligations to the US, and blames Israeli government figures for not caring about families of terror victims.

Arnold and Frimet Roth, the parents of Malki Hy”D, murdered in the Sbarro restaurant suicide bombing attack 16 years ago, were carefully optimistic on the day after the Purim holiday this year.

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Texas Senator, Israeli Dep. Foreign Minister look to end perpetual refugee status of Palestinian Arabs.

By David Rosenberg, INN

Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely (Likud) headed to Washington DC Monday morning for meetings with Trump administration officials and members of Congress, in part to promote the Foreign Ministry’s efforts to end the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) and the special status it has extended to generations of Arabs living across the Middle East.

While most refugees supported by the United Nations are aided through the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), aid to Palestinian Arabs claiming refugee status has been administered by UNRWA.

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T. Belman. Israel always needs resupply in a major war. Plus she needs American support to bomb the nuclear facilities.

Asked by Defense Minister Lieberman to lay out Israel’s national security policy for the US, former deputy IDF chief Yair Golan tells Americans in Washington Israel able to handle ‘primitive’ ISIS, but insists Iran, with its ‘good scientists and talented young people,’ cannot be ‘coped with alone.’

By Korin Elbaz Alush, YNET  

The IDF’s former deputy chief of staff, Maj.-Gen. Yair Golan told a security conference in Washington DC Friday Israel will not be able to fight against Iran without US assistance, according to reports on the website DefenseNews.

In order to achieve victory over Iran in any possible future military showdown, American help would be essential, he reportedly said during his speech at the Washington Institute.

“We cannot fight Iran alone,” Golan was reported as saying in the online publication. “They can affect us; we can affect them. It’s all about attrition. But if you want to gain something which is deeper, we cannot do it alone. This is a fact of life. It’s better to admit that.”

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The billionaire’s agenda is to destroy the Jewish state

By Abraham H. Miller, THE OBSERVER

The recent hack of George Soros’ “charitable” giving revealed nothing new. The man who told journalist Steve Kroft in a televised interview that roaming the streets of Budapest with his faux godfather to confiscate the property of his fellow Jews for the Nazis was the most exhilarating time of his life has long had a problem with both his Jewish roots and the creation of a Jewish state.

Most revealing in the interview was Soros’ comment that he felt no guilt about what he had done during the war years—not even survivor’s guilt, common among those who live through a catastrophe, troubled him.

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Ayelet Shaked speaks to the ‘Post’ about a law that could alter how Israel’s legislation applies to Judea and Samaria, but its critics say it’s unconstitutional and tantamount to annexation.

By Tova Lazaroff, JPOST

The Settlements Regulations Law revolutionizes Israel’s perception of how the country’s laws relate to Judea and Samaria, Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked (Bayit Yehudi) told The Jerusalem Post in an interview late last week.

“We want to revolutionize our [legal] perception,” she said. “Foremost is that it is possible for [the Knesset] to legislate [for Judea and Samaria] and in addition that we don’t solve one injustice with another.”

Shaked spoke in advance of the expected submission to the High Court of Justice, possibly as early as Sunday, of a Knesset legal opinion with regard to the legality of the Settlements Regulation Law.

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T. Belman. What follows is a google translation of an Arabic article published on Aug 3/17. This article is in response to
CONFERENCE: The Jordan Option – The Ultimate Alternate Solution It is written by a prominant Arab writer in a UK publication.

A conference in Jerusalem to study the implementation of the Jordanian option with the participation of Mudar Zahran and Samer Abu Libda is organized by the extreme right-wing Israeli who believes that Jordan is Palestine

by Zuhair Andraus:

Israel, especially the right-wing and far-right forces, continue to put forward the Jordanian option, in the sense that the Palestinian state will be in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. In this context, the Begin Heritage Center announced the organization of a conference on the 17th of October to discuss the Jordanian option at various levels. According to the commercial advertisements published in the Hebrew media, many programs will discuss the option of solving the Palestinian issue at the expense of Jordan .

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By Hillel Fendel and Chaim Siberbertein,
JP

Knesset Member Nurit Koren (Likud) is most famous for her efforts to expose the truth regarding the kidnapped Yemenite children in the early 1950s, but two weeks ago she had a chance to see a different, more positive aspect of Israel’s Yemenite-Jewish heritage.

Koren, who heads a special Knesset committee on the missing Yemenite children, was among several MKs and thousands of others who took part in a festive Torah scroll ceremony at the renovated ancient synagogue in the Yemenite Village in eastern Jerusalem. The synagogue stands in the Kfar Shiloach (Silwan) neighborhood just outside the Old City walls, below the Temple Mount.

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Michael Finch. Please see the article below by Matthew Vadum at this morning’s FrontPageMag.com.  What vile anti Semitic filth spewed by these Islamo Nazis at the University of Illinois. U. of I. is a State publicly funded school, so where is the outcry from Governor Rauner, Speaker Madigan and the rest of the corrupt crew in Springfield?  All the moral preening about “hate speech” these past months and here you have student activists advocating actual violence and all we hear from the University and State leaders is the sound of crickets.  SJP needs to be defunded.

Students advocate violence as the “only option” against Zionists and other “fascists.”

By Matthew Vadum, FPM

The radical Students for Justice in Palestine organized a “Smash Fascism” rally this week at the University of Illinois to attack Zionism and the fiercely democratic State of Israel as a supposedly white-supremacist, fascist country.

George Orwell’s observation in the essay, “Politics and the English Language,” that “The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies ‘something not desirable,’” is as true today as the day he wrote it.

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