By Isi Leibler

Unless the US is willing to bite the bullet and finally confront Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority, the mission to the region by US representatives Jared Kushner and Jason Greenblatt to “restart the peace process” on behalf of President Donald Trump may prove to be highly counterproductive.

Abbas is coming to the end of his reign. A brutal and corrupt dictator, he is determined that his legacy be that of an embattled “freedom fighter” committed to reversal of the “Nakba,” his ultimate objective being the restoration of Arab hegemony from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea. His means to achieve this necessitate the dismemberment of the Jewish state in stages through terrorism and international pressure. Read more…

By Daniel Pipes, WASHINGTON TIMES

Ruthless modernizers: Iran’s Reza Shah (L) visited Atatürk in 1934.

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 the 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? Read more…

Iran threatens to annihilate Israel, it arms terrorist groups and sponsors global terrorism, PM Netanyahu says in meeting with Russian President Putin • Netanyahu: Iran’s accelerated efforts to gain a military foothold in Syria reflect its aggression.

By Shlomo Cesana and Eli Leon, TOI

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu embarked on a short visit to Russia on Wednesday, where he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The two leaders, who met at the Black Sea resort town of Sochi, discussed regional security issues, mainly Iran’s increased presence in Syria and Lebanon, Israel’s neighbors to the north.

Several senior defense officials joined Netanyahu’s trip, including Mossad Director Yossi Cohen, Director of Military Intelligence Maj. Gen. Herzl Halevi and newly appointed National Security Adviser Meir Ben-Shabbat. Environmental Protection Minister Zeev Elkin is part of the delegation, as well.

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T. Belman. Obama also with held aid. Didn’t Trump just say in his Afghanistan speech, “”We are a partner and a friend, but we will not dictate to the Afghan people how to live or how to govern their own complex society,”” and ““we are not nation building again. We are killing terrorists.”

So why is his Egypt policy meddling in how to govern? To maintain power in the ME, you have to be ruthless, not democratic.

United States to deny Egypt $95.7 million in aid and delay a further $195 million due to concern over its human rights record.

By Elad Benari, INN

The United States has decided to deny Egypt $95.7 million in aid and to delay a further $195 million, two sources familiar with the matter said on Tuesday, according to Reuters.

The reason for the decision is Egypt’s failure to make progress on respecting human rights and democratic norms, the report said.

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[Shocking!! I wonder how many Muslims in the sample.]

Number of those not opposed to white supremacist ideology rises to 17% among Trump supporters, says Washington Post/ABC survey

BY TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF

New poll indicates that nearly one in ten Americans believe that neo-Nazi and white supremacist ideology is “acceptable.”

The survey, which was published Monday by ABC News/Washington Post, was conducted in the wake of the violent white nationalist rally earlier this month in Charlottesville, Virginia, in which a woman was killed when a white supremacist drove into a group of counter-protesters.

According to the poll of 1,014 respondents, 9 percent of people said that neo-Nazi views are okay to hold, while 83% said such ideology is “unacceptable” and 8% had no opinion.

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By Adam Kredo, FREE BEACON

The State Department’s recent hosting of an American Muslim organization known for its anti-Israel stance and support of boycotts of the Jewish state has sparked concern from those close to the Trump administration that these advocacy groups are seeking to drive a wedge into the United States’ relationship with Israel, which has hit speed bumps since Rex Tillerson assumed control of America’s chief diplomatic agency, according to multiple sources who spoke to the Washington Free Beacon.

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T. Belman Why would Israel tell Russia what it plans to do. Its enough to draw the red lines.

By Herb Keinon, JPOST

Former National Security Council Advisor Yaakov Amidror says Netanyahu’s visit to Sochi is important so that the Russians have an understanding of how Israel will act if its hand is forced.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s primary objective during his upcoming talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin will not be to try to convince the Russians to prevent an Iranian permanent presence in Syria, but rather to let them know what Israel plans to do if Tehran tries to set up such a presence, former National Security Council Advisor Yaakov Amidror said on Tuesday.

Netanyahu is scheduled to fly to Sochi on the Black Sea for a meeting with Putin on Wednesday, returning home the same day. This will be his fourth trip to Moscow in the last 16 months.

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DEBKA

Israel’s northern borders with Syria and Lebanon were on edge this week, as Prime Minister Binyamin prepared to raise Israel’s concerns about southern Syria at a critical meeting with President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, Aug. 23, at the Black Sea resort of Sochi.

The Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem noted that he would be accompanied by Mossad Director Yossie Cohen. He has just returned from a failed attempt in Washington to draw the Trump Administration’s attention to the deteriorating security situation on Israel’s northern borders, where Russian Muslim troops are already in position.

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LT Col Howard writes to Rob Eshman,

While those who have clearly demonstrated their hostility to Israel such as Robert Malley still have their security clearances and their influence.

There is a effort underway to clear out the White House staff of all Pro-Israel staffers

You, Adam Schiff, Jonathan Greenblatt and others from certain wings of the American Jewish community have been calling people such as Sebastian Gorka who have been very firm in their support of Israel , “Nazi supporters”.

Remember, Adam Schiff ,with your support gave, Iran an unrestricted path to nuclear weapons and guided missiles which threaten to destroy Israel and are capable of causing severe damage to western Europe and the United States. Both of you supported an administration which has given Iran the resources to wage war against Israel through Hezbollah and Hamas and to operate terror operations throughout the world.

The Nazis and the Antifa both shout similar slogans and have identical objectives. Attacking Jews everywhere.

Since you have been so full throated in attacking Donald Trump for his “failure” to immediately condemn only the right wing in Charlottesville….. I challenge you:

WHERE IS YOUR OUTRAGE [At the effort underway to clear out the White House staff of all Pro-Israel staffers]?

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A stark warning for “allies” who harbor terrorists.

By Lloyd Billingsley, FPM

Before President Donald Trump’s speech Monday the establishment media were telling anybody who would listen that the president would be committing 4,000 additional troops to Afghanistan. That turned out to be fake news but the president left no doubt on his strategy.

Speaking from Fort Myer, Virginia, the president thanked “every member of the U.S. military,” for their service. The special class of heroes, unmatched in human history, “deserve to return to a country not at war with itself.” He held up the U.S. military, composed of all races, colors and creeds, as an example for the nation, sacrificing together in perfect cohesion, bound together by one shared mission.

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The leading edge of the Islamic Movement’s Final Stage in the United States is upon us.  The violence is now beginning in earnest.

Understanding the Threat

One day in the future, history will record with great astonishment how military leaders, politicians on both sides of the aisle, intelligence professionals, and others were catastrophically unprofessional for 16 years after 9/11/2001, thus putting the American people in grave peril.

Understanding the Threat’s (UTT) has trained thousands of local, state and federal officers/agents on the Islamic threat (sharia and the jihadi network in the US), the hard-left Marxist/Socialist/Communist threat, and how these Movements work together to bring down the U.S. government.

The response to UTT’s training is always the same:  (1) none of those in attendance, including FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force agents/officers, have ever heard the information presented, and (2) they all agree it is critical to protecting their communities.  See some comments here.

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By Adan Shaw, BREITBART

Author and radio host Michael Savage scolded President Trump and left-wing “Antifa” protesters in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News Sunday  — accusing President Trump of having “buckled to the mob” in Boston and warning that if Trump keeps kowtowing to Antifa and other leftist groups, “it’s all over.”

Savage was referring to a tweet from Trump sent Saturday, in which the president said he “applauds” the Antifa counter-protesters who showed up in the thousands to protest a free speech march of a few hundred people. The left-wing protesters are reported to have thrown rocks, and Boston police requested they not throw bottles of urine at officers.

Yet Trump took a radically different tone from the one he had taken just days earlier when he had reminded a furious media that the so-called “anti-fascist” protesters were also responsible for violence:

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By Michael J Totten, MEFORUM

Next month, on September 25, the Kurdistan Regional Government in Erbil will hold a binding referendum on whether or not to secede from Iraq. It will almost certainly pass. More than a decade ago, the Kurds held a non-binding referendum that passed with 99.8 percent of the vote.

No one knows what’s going to happen. Iraq is the kind of place where just about anything can happen and eventually does.

Kurdish secession could go as smoothly as a Scottish secession from the United Kingdom (were that to actually happen) or a Quebecois secession from Canada, were that to actually happen. It could unfold like Kosovo’s secession from Serbia, where some countries recognize it and others don’t while the Serbs are left to stew in their own juices more or less peaceably.

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By Scott Greer, DC

Thousands of people protested against an alleged “white supremacist” rally in Boston on Saturday.

Multiple outlets, journalists, politicians and other public figures declared that the event that drew an estimated 40,000 people to protest against was racist in nature.

ThinkProgress covered the rally with this headline, “White supremacist rally fizzles, overtaken by massive anti-racism march.” The story mocked the idea that it was a “free speech” rally, stated that there it would draw “attendees from the same white supremacist groups that marched on Charlottesville last weekend,” and that some Klansmen had announced they would attend the rally.

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By Ted Belman

A rally was held in Boston by few hundred people who supported free speech.  20,000 protesters showed up to protest free speech. A crowd of that size had to be organized by Antifa and their backers. Many of these protesters came to to rally intending to be violent. The police ended the rally earlier than planned. There were just too many counter protesters..

Boston Commissioner William Evans said that 27 arrests were made on Saturday — mostly for disorderly conduct, but including some for assaulting police officers. Protesters threw bottles, urine and rocks at police officers in the late afternoon, according to police.

Notice in this MSM report the violent protesters are not identified to to what side they were on. When that happens you know they were on the left.

To stand up for free speech ie the First Amendment is a noble thing. But the left has conflated this with hate speech ie “Free Speech enables “hate speech”. Therefore they frame their protest as protesting hate speech and the media do nothing to clarify this but in fact is joining the left in doing so.

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Its obvious that Evanka and Jared are New York liberals and as such answer to their fellow travelers rather than the Trump base.

Extent of animosity between ousted strategist and president’s son-in-law Jared Kushner is steadily emerging in US media reports

By Tamar Pileggi, TOI

Days after his ouster from the White House, the extent of the animosity between divisive strategist Steve Bannon and the president’s son-in-law Jared Kushner was steadily emerging in US media reports.

Bannon, a hero of the so-called “alt right” whose presence in the West Wing was controversial from the start, had become the nucleus of one of several competing power centers in a chaotic White House.

During his six-month tenure as Trump’s chief strategist, Bannon and Kushner had clashed on numerous policy issues, including the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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