[Amid outrage, NY Times issues correction to Barghouti op-ed]

Will a Palestinian hunger strike rain on Trump’s peace plans?

By Amos Harel, HAARETZ

The hunger strike that nearly 1,200 Palestinian security prisoners in Israel began on Monday is expected to ratchet up the tensions between Israel and the Palestinians in the coming days. If complications occur and the strike lasts for an extended time, it is liable to take over the security and diplomatic agenda at a time when U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is declaring its intention to restart the peace process.

However, like another crisis that escalated in recent days over the supply of electricity to the Gaza Strip, it appears that the background to the strike has to do with intra-Palestinian power struggles as much as it has to do with the struggle against Israel.
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BY Reza Shafiee,  AMERICAN THINKER

The Trump administration sanctioned Iran’s prison system “for torturous interrogations, forced interrogations, and widespread mistreatment of inmates,” on April 15. It may seem a tiny step in the way of stopping Iranian regime’s human rights abuses against its own citizens but it certainly is significant as a change. It also deals a major blow to the perpetrators. The mullah regime’s survival strategy – from its first day – revolves around total suppression at home coupled with spreading Islamic fundamentalism abroad which simply translates into exporting terrorism to neighboring countries and beyond.
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UK, US, Russia were aware of millions killed by Nazi Germany, but took little action to take in refugees or halt slaughter, new book says

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Recently released documents show that the Allied forces were aware of the scale of the Holocaust some two years earlier than is widely assumed, but did little to stop the deaths or rescue the victims.

These United Nations files show that the US, UK and Russia knew already in December 1942 that two million Jews had been massacred and millions more were at risk of being killed, Britain’s Independent newspaper reported on Tuesday.
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T. Belman. When you compare the parole restrictions on Pollard with the prison liberties extended to Barghouti especially when you consider the potential to do harm of both of them, you have to wonder.  Israel must change their liberal prisoner policies. Bargoughti should be in isolation just as Pollard was for many years.

Deputy Foreign Minister Hotovely says NY Times’ decision to publish Barghouti’s article ‘seriously undermines’ their credibility.

By DFM Tzipi H0toveley, INN

Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely (Likud) responded on Monday night to the publication of Marwan Barghouti’s article in The New York Times:

“Barghouti is not [an ordinary] prisoner,” Hotovely said. “He is a convicted murderer and a terrorist.”

“The New York Times has provided a platform to a terrorist without noting the fact that he planned and carried out the cold blooded murder of Jews simply for having been Jews.

“This is not a matter of freedom of speech. It is anarchy. When a major newspaper with a reputation for responsible journalism becomes a platform for murderers, it provides legitimacy for terrorism. This is a very disappointing decision by the editors which seriously undermines the credibility of The New York Times.”
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In a White House marked by infighting, top economic aide Gary Cohn, a Democrat and former Goldman Sachs banker, is muscling aside some of President Donald Trump’s hard-right advisers to push more moderate, business-friendly economic policies.

Cohn, 56, did not work on Republican Trump’s campaign and only got to know him after the November election, but he has emerged as one of the administration’s most powerful players in an ascent that rankles conservatives.
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By Virginia Hale, BREITBART

Declaring that Germany is in desperate need of migrants, the head of the umbrella group for employers’ associations has demanded the nation loosen border controls and recognise itself to be an “immigration country”.
“Germany is an immigration country. And Germany has to be made aware of this situation,” said Ingo Kramer, president of the Confederation of German Employers’ Associations (BDA).

According to the German Press Agency, Kramer said the nation will be ‘missing’ six million people of working age by the year 2030, and argued that politicians ‘must quickly realise that the country needs immigration”.
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By Daniel Greenfield

Livonia, Michigan is known as Little Palestine. The Detroit suburb is famous for its anti-Israel meetings. You could go hear Mustafa Barghouthi, Omar Barghouti and Ali Abunimah without taking a long drive.

It’s also known for its shady doctors.

Dr. Murtaza Hussain was busted for letting unlicensed employees diagnose patients and write prescriptions. Dr. Waseem Alam and Dr. Hatem Ataya pleaded guilty in the nation’s largest Medicare fraud case totaling $712 million in false billings centering on Shahid Tahir, Muhammad Tariq and Manavar Javed’s Livonia medical firms. But what was going on at one Livonia clinic was far worse than the theft of millions. Anyone passing by at the right time could hear the screams of little girls.
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Republican People’s Party says irregularities in voting process require Erdogan victory be overturned; leaders set to extend nation’s state of emergency

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Turkey’s main opposition party on Monday called on the electoral board to cancel the results of a referendum that greatly expanded the powers of the Turkish president, citing irregularities in the voting process.

The deputy leader of the Republican People’s Party (CHP) Bulent Tezcan said “There is only one decision to ease the situation in the context of the law — the Supreme Election Board (YSK) should annul the election,” according to the Dogan news agency.
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In light of the international sanctions imposed on the Lebanese terrorist organization, Hezbollah has turned to Facebook to raise money for its terrorist activities. Hezbollah instructs its supporters to come to Beirut in order to donate the money in person or use Western Union in order to transfer the money from outside of Lebanon.
Hezbollah has found a way to use social media not just for spreading propaganda but for building up its terrorist infrastructure. In an attempt to bypass the economic sanctions imposed in recent years on banks used by the terrorist organization, Hezbollah is taking advantage of Facebook by advertising a donations hotline number without the number of a bank account. A Shurat HaDin investigator looked into this method in order to understand how it works.
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By David Israel, JEWISH PRESS

The US congress will amend the 2015 HR2297, Hezbollah Financing Prevention Act (HIFPA), aimed at preventing Hezbollah and associated entities from gaining access to international financial and other institutions, According to a US-based source who spoke to the Lebanese daily Annahar. The new amendments are the latest attempt to tighten the noose on Iran’s proxy terror group, as part of a Trump Administration “broader strategy” targeting Tehran and its satellites.

“The amendments expand the list of entities that may face sanctions for providing support for Hezbollah and significantly bolsters reporting on the financial activities of the party’s affiliated entities and even political allies,” according to a draft copy of the 2017 act obtained by Annahar, the improved HIFPA will be based on a report from the Secretary of the Treasury assessing the net worth of Hezbollah members. The report describes “how funds of each individual were acquired and how such funds have been used or employed,” and includes Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri’s Amal Movement and “other associated entities that the Secretary determines to be appropriate.”
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By Sherwin Pomerantz

It is nothing short of amazing that a small, young country with just over 8 million people in existence for only 69 years can rank so high on so many international comparative indices.  Talk about punching above one’s weight, Israel is a prime example.

For example, the World Economic Forum’s 2016-2017 Global Competitiveness Report ranked Israel as the 2nd best place for innovation in the world after Switzerland.

A recent ranking of universities worldwide by MIT, found that Israel’s Technion-Israel Institute of Technology is #1 in the world among universities that support innovation.
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By WENDY M. WILLIAMS and STEPHEN J. CECI, NYT

The talk that the political scientist Charles Murray attempted to deliver last month at Middlebury College in Vermont must have been quite provocative — perhaps even offensive or an instance of hate speech. How else to explain the vehement opposition to it?

Before Mr. Murray’s arrival on campus, an open letter to the college from several hundred alumni protested that his scholarly opinions were “deceptive statistics masking unfounded bigotry.” And when it came time for Mr. Murray to give his speech, which was based on his 2012 book, “Coming Apart,” an analysis of the predicament of the white working class in the United States, he was shouted down by student and faculty protesters. In chants they accused him of being a racist and a white supremacist. Some of the protesters became unruly and physically violent, forcing Mr. Murray to flee.
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The Democrats have committed to overthrowing our government.

By Daniel Greenfield, FPM

What does #Resistance really mean? It means the overthrow of our government.

In this century, Democrats rejected the outcomes of two presidential elections won by Republicans. After Bush won, they settled for accusing him of being a thief, an idiot, a liar, a draft dodger and a mass murderer. They fantasized about his assassination and there was talk of impeachment. But elected officials gritted their teeth and tried to get things done.

This time around it’s “radically” different.
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There will be no PA UNRWA peace education curriculum.

By David Bedien,

In February 2011, producers of the Center For Near East Policy Research’s short film, “FOR THE SAKE OF NAKBA, which exposed UNRWA incitement the UNRWA school system in the Palestinian Authority, presented that movie for a synagogue in Chicago.

Only a few weeks later,  UNRWA dispatched a speaker to that same synagogue to raise funds for a new UNRWA holocaust curriculum that UNRWA announced it was about to implement.

This news of an UNRWA holocaust curriculum seemed rather odd to Arab and Jewish journalists  who had covered UNRWA for many years, because they had never heard of any such thing in UNRWA.  However, as news spread of the initiative, US Jewish groups showered praise on UNRWA for its reported desire to sensitize Arab youth to the holocaust. Israeli intelligence also praised UNRWA for the same reason.
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‘You have to go after them big league’

By GARTH KANT, WND

WASHINGTON – Many of President Trump’s supporters are wary, some even critical, of the cruise-missile strikes against Syria because he had so severely criticized previous U.S. foreign interventions, particularly in the Mideast.

However, candidate Trump actually gave a warning half-a-year ago that the use of chemical weapons would be a red line for him.

In an interview with Sara Carter of Circa News in September, the candidate said an ISIS mustard-gas attack on U.S. troops at a training facility in northern Iraq that had just happened was intolerable.
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