By Vic Rosenthal, ABU YEHUDA

Advocating aliyah creates friction. Sometimes people think you are trying to display your moral superiority (“nyah, nyah, I moved to the Jewish state and you didn’t”). Sometimes they think you are trying to steal their children – my wife was a religious school teacher in the US, and some parents didn’t forgive her when their kids became lone soldiers here. Sometimes they hate you for reminding them of what they already believe, but haven’t acted on. Sometimes they think that you are a pest, because they are happy being Americans or French or British. And sometimes they dislike Israel itself, oppose nationalism of any kind, or feel sorry for the Palestinians.

I used to avoid doing it. But not anymore.

For those living in continental Europe or Britain, it’s simply a question of how much Jew-hatred you are prepared to tolerate in your daily life. Yes, you are a tough guy, no antisemite can force you to do anything, but do you really want to live in a place where a large proportion of your neighbors dislike or even hate you? You know it’s going to get worse over time, so unless you perversely enjoy conflict, you are probably already thinking of leaving.

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Israel, August 17, 2017. The Legal Grounds Campaign — largely sponsored and supported by ZOA and co-directed by ZOA’s Jeff Daube — is delighted with the ecstatic reactions (e.g., “brilliant,” “genius,” “hysterical”) to our irreverent new video, All About the Facts, a musical parody cleverly referencing the popular culture smash-hit All About that Bass. (The Meghan Trainor original had received more than 2 billion views in its day.) For widest possible viewing, including in the Knesset, the video is in English with Hebrew subtitles.

Just three days past its release, All About the Facts already has generated well over 300,000 views on Facebook and YouTube alone. Viewers also are visiting the complementary new section on the Legal Grounds website, which offers a summary of the most important facts getting short shrift because, as sings a clueless BDSer alongside Palestinian Minister of Uncontrollable Rage Tawil Fadiha, “Who cares ‘bout the facts, ‘bout the facts?”

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By Conrad Black, THE SUN

Almost everything about the Charlottesville riot was disgraceful except the conduct of the president. The move to take down the statue of General Robert E. Lee was nonsense. Lee has few rivals as the greatest general in American history (Grant, Sherman, MacArthur, and Eisenhower perhaps).

Lee opposed the secession of Virginia from the Union but, as was common in the South then (and has not entirely died out in any region of the United States today),believed he owed his first loyalty to his state over the United States. He was less dedicated to the virtues of slavery than was Charlottesville’s most famous son, Thomas Jefferson, founder of the University, neighbor at Monticello, and, of course, author of the self-evident truth “that all men are created equal.”

This terrible incident started as a reasonable civic demonstration by Southern traditionalists who were not hostile to African-Americans but object to the shamed renunciation of a great American heroic and folkloric figure from “Gone With the Wind,” to The Band’s “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down,” to “The Dukes of Hazzard.” Robert E. Lee was not a precursor of Bull Connor, Strom Thurmond, James Earl Ray, or the unreformed George C. Wallace.

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By Tova Lazaroff and Jonah Jeremy Bob, JPOST

The High Court of Justice has temporarily frozen the Settlements Law, which would retroactively legalize Jewish homes illegally built on private Palestinian property.

Right wing politicians immediately attacked the decision.

“This is a dangerous intervention by the court against Knesset legislation,” warned MK Bezalel Smotrich (Bayit Yehudi) who is a strong proponent of the legislation.
“Time after time the judiciary tramples on the decision of one governmental authority or another. This story must stop,” Smotrich said.

“As someone who often warns against the erosion of the State of Israel’s Jewish character, I am also worried today about the future of the state’s democratic character,” Smotrich said.

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By Baxter Dmitry

By JR Dunn, AMERICAN THINKER

Thanks to an alert AT reader, we now have photographic evidence that one of the organizations behind the threat of an Antifa “uprising” on November 4th was in fact active in the Charlottesville riot last weekend.

The photograph below was taken the afternoon of the Charlottesville disturbances, shortly after the confrontation with white supremacists gathering in a park near downtown.

Although slightly obscured by a fold, the banner at the center clearly reads “RefuseFascism.org.” This outfit has been acting as something of an umbrella group for organizing a nationwide disturbance intended to bring the U.S. to a halt for the purpose of overthrowing the Trump administration.

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By Katy Grimes, CFP

At anti-Trump protests during the election, protesters admitted they answered ads on Craigslist and were getting paid to protest Trump. The protests are largely paid for by George Soros, MoveOn.org, reclusive billionaire Jonathan Lewis, and pushed by David Brock at Media Matters for America.

I’ve been writing about this for several years.

At anti-Trump protests during the election, protesters admitted they answered ads on Craigslist and were getting paid to protest Trump. The protests are largely paid for by George Soros, MoveOn.org, reclusive billionaire Jonathan Lewis, and pushed by David Brock at Media Matters for America. I’ve been writing about this for several years.

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In first, former air force chief Amir Eshel confirms mass scale of strikes, says over 100 targets struck since 2012

TOI

Israel’s former air force chief said Wednesday that it has carried out dozens of airstrikes on weapons convoys destined for the Lebanese Hezbollah group over the past five years.

The remarks by Maj. Gen. Amir Eshel revealed for the first time the scale of the strikes, which are usually neither confirmed or denied by the IAF.

Eshel told the Haaretz newspaper that Israel hit weapons convoys destined for the Iran-backed Hezbollah, which is fighting alongside Syrian forces, almost 100 times since 2012.

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[Nikki Haley: Hezbollah weapons threaten ‘security and stability in the region’]

By Natalie Johnson, FREE BEACON

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley has ramped up pressure on Iran ahead of a trip to Vienna next week, where she will meet with international atomic watchdog officials concerning Tehran’s nuclear activities.

Haley on Tuesday rejected threats from Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, who warned the country could walk away from its nuclear agreement with world powers “within hours” if the United States continued to impose new sanctions.

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T. Belman. This is the one article I found today dealing with Charlottesvile that see clearly the truth. Most others and most Israeli leaders can’t overcome the pull of leftist propaganda. They all dump on Trump. Trump said all the right things. Yes he could have focussed on the Nazis but instead focussed on the violence. He could have taken one side and Obama always did but chose instead to indict both side and stress the need for the Nation to come together. I totally agree with his choices and his words.

The Deep State using intelligence agencies and Sorus thugs, on both the left and the right to fight each other and made certain of it by the actions or non-actions of the police. Then the MSM lead the discourse by constantly attacking Trump as a supremacist. Elites in both parties piled on as did many analists in Fox News. No one wanted to be seen with Trump. They shunned him.

Despite his controversial remarks on white supremacist rally, US president’s base still supports his agenda, doesn’t regret vote

By Matt Sedensky, TOI

NEW YORK (AP) — They wash their hands of neo-Nazis and wag their fingers at leftists. They denounce a press corps they see as biased and controversies they view as manufactured. But in the frenzied blame game over the deadly violence at a rally of white supremacists, Donald Trump’s loyal base is happy to absolve the president himself.

Even as Trump’s zig-zag response to the weekend bloodshed in Charlottesville, Virginia, has brought criticism from some Republican lawmakers, many men and women who helped put him in office remain unmoved by the latest uproar.

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DEBKA

Three major Israeli counter-terror operations in a week (Aug.10-16) are a measure of the intensity of terrorist plots for the commission of mass-casualty strikes in Jerusalem.

On Aug. 10, a combined effort of the Shin Bet, the police and the IDF, led to five Palestinians from Hebron being intercepted in the Palestinian Jerusalem neighborhood of El Azaria on their way to an attack. No details of this plot were released. But it was obvious that the five terrorists, armed with guns and explosives, were only stopped at the last minute from reaching the center of Jerusalem, just 15 minutes drive from El Azaria, and conducting a major attack.

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I’M WITH HANNITY AND TRUMP

IT IS OBVIOUS THAT THE MSM IS NOT OBJECTIVE BUT RATHER DOES EVERYTHING IT CAN TO DESTROY TRUMP.

What happenned in Charlottesville is pure Agit-Prop.

The violence was planned and orchestrated by organs of the Deep State in order to polarize society, to blame Trump as being a white supremacist and undermine his Presidency. It plans to delegitimate Trump so that when they move to replace him, the public supports them.

By John Hayward, BREITBART

Glick said the problem with McMaster is that “in key issue after key issue, particularly in relation to the Middle East,” he “opposes the things that the president ran on and that he was elected on.”

She quoted Ayaan Hirsi Ali, one of the world’s leading activists against Islamic supremacism,writing in theWall Street Journalthat “President Trump, during the campaign, insisted that it was necessary to go after the political ideology of radical Islam, and he’s just completely stopped.”

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By Adam Shaw, BREITBART

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), the oldest pro-Israel group in the U.S., upped its campaign against under-fire National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster Tuesday, alleging McMaster is backed by what it calls “left-wing Israel bashers.”

The ZOA has previously highlighted McMaster’s ties to such groups, as well as its concerns that McMaster is anti-Israel. On Monday it responded to a defense of McMaster by U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman by outlining its concerns and defending its call for McMaster’s firing

ZOA’s concerns about General McMaster stems from many issues including his firing Trump loyalists who support Israel and oppose the Iran Deal; his hiring many who oppose Trump’s policies especially on Israel and Iran; his refusal to acknowledge that the Western Wall is in Israel; his refusal to state that Israel’s response to the terrorist group Hamas’ rocket attacks against Israel was “ethical”: his refusal to acknowledge that Iran has violated the Iran Deal; his refusal to use the term “radical Islamic terrorism,” and much more.

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T. Belman. Shoval failed to address a bone of contention.  Yes. the Court can over turn laws which conflict with our Constitution (Basic Laws). This is the same in western democracies. What is different in Israel is the ability of the Court to interpret basic laws which are not explicit. In Many countries, the law is returned to the Parliament to make it more explicit. Or at least the principles of interpretation require the Court to look at the intention of the Government. In Israel, the Court takes it upon itself.

For instance, in the Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty, there is no definition of “human dignity”. This is very problematic as the Court has taken upon itself to interpret the words and by virtue of their interpretation have overruled many a law passed by the Knesset.

By Salman Shoval, ISRAEL HAYOM

It seems that not a day goes by without an opinion piece being published accusing the Israeli government, and the state in general, of being undemocratic. Every political or legal step involving Judaism, Zionism or patriotism earns this label.

Supreme Court Justice Yoram Danziger championed freedom of speech as a central test for democracy. Indeed, a single glance at a newspaper these days is proof enough that in Israel this freedom is upheld to the extreme. There are additional principles: majority rule, minority rights, rule of law, freedom of employment and the right to property. These principles come with restraints, such as how to ensure that freedom of expression does not result in “grave harm to the public’s wellbeing and safety,” as former Chief Justice Aharon Barak once said, or how to prevent the election process from distorting the true will of the people. And perhaps most importantly, how to prevent a protected minority from taking advantage of its status to extort the majority.

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Justice Ministry slammed for asking High Court to review its own jurisdiction on revoking laws • “Move indicates a fundamental misunderstanding of the workings of a democratic regime. It’s not for the court to decide on its authority,” says minister.

By Mati Tuchfeld, ISRAEL HAYOM

The Justice Ministry was harshly criticized Tuesday following its decision to ask the High Court of Justice to review and define its own jurisdiction when it comes to repealing legislation.

The ministry asked the court to hold an extended-panel discussion on the issue of better regulating the balance of power between the judicial and legislative authorities, especially on the court’s authority to effectively annul legislation passed by the Knesset. The move is rare, as it asks the court to debate a matter of principle that does not affect a specific case.

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