Netanyahu stresses Israel will not allow Iran and its proxies to take over areas vacated by ISIS.

By Nitsan Keidar, INN

Israel will not allow Iran and its proxies to take over areas vacated by the Islamic State (ISIS) group, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu made clear on Sunday.

“Today we received a review from the head of the Mossad about the security challenges we face. I will give summarize it on one sentence – ISIS out, Iran in. We are talking mainly about Syria,” Netanyahu said in Ashdod, referring to Mossad Director Yossi Cohen’s assessmentthat the Iranian regime is expanding its control across the Middle East through proxy forces in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, and Yemen.

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Aug 13th, 2017 10:40 am
By Joshua Caplan , GATEWAY PUNDIT

The White House issued a new statement on behalf of President Trump concerning the deadly Charlottesville protests. President Trump condemned “white supremacists, KKK Neo-Nazi and all extremist groups.”

“The President said very strongly in his statement yesterday that he condemns all forms of violence, bigotry, and hatred and of course that includes white supremacists, KKK Neo-Nazi and all extremist groups. He called for national unity and bringing all Americans together.”

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By Deborah Danan, BREITBART

TEL AVIV – Support from Iraq amid Arab turmoil over the Temple Mount has continued to pour into Israel, the Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday. 
Yonatan Gonen, head of Arabic-language digital diplomacy at the Foreign Ministry, said that the ministry’s social media accounts have been “flooded with pictures and messages of sympathy, support and even a desire to establish relations between the two countries,” Ynet news reported.

An Arabic-language website and several new Facebook pages have recently been created with the goal of bringing Israelis and Iraqis together, the report said.

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By Judi McLeod, CFP

This is the story the progressive left and mainstream media would have everyone believe: Donald Trump got elected president and brought in with him the return of wanton White Nationalism.

“White Nationalism”, aka the Fake News-created “alt-right”, was kept in sleep mode for the past seven months but suddenly returned in vengeance in a rage of stunning violence yesterday in Charlottesville, Virginia.

So-called ‘White nationalists’ bearing torches, some of them decked out in KKK costume who brought about violence will find zero tolerance from civil society.  Ditto for so-called ‘anti-fascists’ who insist that only black lives matter.

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By E.W. Jackson, AMERICAN THINKER

President Trump is being attacked by a hostile liberal media, undermined by a Deep State full of Obama/Clinton holdovers and betrayed by some GOP “Never-Trumpers” who never will accept him as President.

The commander in chief is undaunted, and determined to do what he promised during the campaign. He seated a solidly conservative Supreme Court justice. He has reduced regulations and increased jobs – another 209,000 in July; caused a dramatic drop in the number of illegal immigrants entering our country and taking jobs from Americans. Criminal illegal aliens like MS-13 members and convicted felons are being hunted down and thrown out.

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Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel not bound by international agreements with Tehran.

BY JPOST

The head of Israel’s spy agency, the Mossad, briefed members of the Israeli cabinet Sunday morning on recent developments in the Middle East. His main message to the ministers was that Iran, which in the past has threatened to wipe Israel off the map, has been steadily encroaching on more and more territory in the region, either directly or by proxy, using affiliated organizations in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Yemen.

“Iran is acting to encroach on any territory relinquished by ISIS,” Mossad Chief Yossi Cohen told the ministers.

Cohen further added that the Islamic Republic has not given up its ambition to be a threshold nuclear state and that the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, also known as the Iran Nuclear Agreement, signed between Tehran and world powers in 2015, only strengthened its desire to reach that goal and increased it belligerency in the region.

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DEBKA

The transformation of a small, strategic wedge of land between the Syrian, Israeli, Jordanian and Iraqi borders is going forward apace without arousing much interest – even in Israel, where it should cause the most concern, DEBKAfile reports.

On Wednesday, Aug. 8, two Russian army companies of Ingushet troops from the northern Caucasus set up a command post in the Syrian village of Tal al-Shahm, 13km from Israel’s Golan border. Its commander, Col. Alexei Kozin, has thus taken charge of Syria’s border with Israel. As DEBKAfile reported last month, his task is to set up 10 control checkpoints along that border.
This border area was designated as one of four de-escalation zones agreed on between Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin at their meeting in Hamburg on July 7.

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“Teachers are pulling things off the Internet, and a lot of it is fine, but a lot of it not”

By Rachel Frommer, FREE BEACON

A monograph published late last month of anti-Israel curriculum used in Newton, Mass., public high schools has led to revelations of similar materials in circulation at other school districts in the country, the report’s researcher told the Washington Free Beacon on Thursday.

Steven Stotsky of the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) said that since the release of his findings in “Indoctrinating Our Youth: How a U.S. Public School Curriculum Skews the Arab-Israeli Conflict and Islam,” he has received phone calls alerting him to disquieting curricula being used in Michigan and California.

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Higgins memo warns of Marxist, Deep State subversion

By Bill Gertz, FREE BEACON

A White House National Security Council official has charged that leftist opponents of President Trump are engaged in political warfare operations designed to subvert his presidency and drive him from office.

Rich Higgins, until recently director of strategic planning at the NSC, revealed the program in a seven-page memorandum produced in May that warns of a concerted information warfare campaign by the Marxist left, Islamists, and political leaders and government officials opposed to the populist president.

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By Ted Belman

Chemi Shalev, writing in Haaretz, under the title Trump’s Clash With North Korea: Good for Putin, Bad for Netanyahu presented a different scenario to the one I have embraced. He charged that Trump’s fiery speech which he doubled down on and which McMaster supported, wasn’t vetted first. I find that hard to believe. he called the speech “dangerous nonsense” and “irresponsible rhetoric”. But many anti-Trump people did the same.

But what he suggests that is novel, at least to my ears, is the idea that this battle is very bad for Israel.

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By Judi McLeod, CFP

Posting front page pictures of a finger-pointing President Donald Trump with a “Locked and Loaded” cutline doesn’t help the POTUS and all that he is doing to Make America Great Again, but only helps spread his latest smear as “WARMONGER”.

Having his back, does.

On dealing with North Korea, President Trump must rely on the millions who voted for him. as there no backing for his strong and reasoned stand on North Korea from the Pentagon.

The Pentagon’s top official at the end of the Obama administration, Christine Wormuth’s quote in today’s New York Times article under the “Locked and Loaded” photo says it all:

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T. Belman. Gen McInerney makes the point I made yesterday.
what we do to NK we must also do in Iran. Regime change for both.

By Peter Barry Chowka, AMERICAN THINKER

China is the real power behind the “animal” it has bred – North Korea – in the view of Retired Air Force Lieutenant General Thomas G. McInerney. And if necessary, the United States should be prepared to use nuclear weapons to neutralize the threat that North Korea represents to the United States.

With the crisis situation involving North Korea leading the news on Thursday, one of the more interesting, provocative, and sobering analyses I heard was offered by Gen. McInerney, who retired in 1994 after a distinguished 35 year career in the military that began after he graduated from West Point in 1959. During the Vietnam War, McInerney flew over 400 combat missions and then served in a variety of high level command positions around the world. In recent years, he has been a contributor to Fox News and he appears often in the media. On September 6, 2016, along with 88 other retired US generals and admirals, McInerney endorsed Donald Trump for the presidency.

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Geert Wilders: Thanks Dr. Bob for the introduction.

I feel flattered. But we are here tonight to honor you, not me.

Dear Dr. Bob, dear friends and family of Dr. Bob, fellow freedom fighters, we are happy to have Dr. Bob’s family in our midst today and I propose we give them a huge applause.

I know that I speak on behalf of everyone in this room when I say that it is an enormous pleasure to be here in Newport Beach to honor one of the great American freedom fighters, visionaries and philanthropists, our dear friend Dr. Bob Shillman.

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T. Belman. Apparently NK has bombs and the ability to miniaturize them but not the missiles to deliver them. They must be stopped before they can deliver them.

But there are also lessons learned here. Clinton’s deal with NK is not much different that Obama’s with Iran. The US must do its utmost to prevent Iran from getting the bomb or the ability to deliver them. We can not take their word for it. Agreements are useless, worse than useless. They tie our hands.

The US must abandon the non agreement and do what is necessary to achieve regime change even if that means a shock and awe campaign. Such a war will also end their influence in Lebanon and Syria. If Hezbollah doesn’t attack Israel, they should be left alone as they are nothing without Iran. The sunni states and Israel will support such pre-emptive action.

By Jonah Jeremy Bob, JPOST

While most of the focus in the ongoing war of words between the Trump administration and North Korea is on whether it will lead to war between the US and Pyongyang, how might it impact Israel? Might it bring nuclear conflict or war closer to Israel’s borders?

First, it is important to understand what is unique about the current competition between Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong- Un over who can sound more bellicose.

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