It is time to acknowledge that it was the alt-left the American voter was responding to when he or she cast a ballot for Trump, not the alt-right.

By Ruthie Blum, JPOST

The term “alt-right” which nobody had heard of until the unexpected emergence and rise of Donald Trump in the US presidential election campaign, has become all the rage, literally and figuratively. Indeed, it is now the angry go-to explanation in every analysis of the Republican candidate’s ostensibly miraculous victory on November 8. And it is the key buzzword of the fever-pitched brouhaha surrounding Trump’s appointment of Breitbart publisher Steve Bannon as his chief strategist.
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By Rabbi Aryeh Spero, AMERICAN THINKER

The Alt-Left is at it again. This time they are using their internet and media echo chamber to malign Steve Bannon, concocting a narrative that is false but endlessly repeated by their soldiers in the never ending campaign to malign conservatives and members of the Trump campaign. Playing the race card has become the modus operandi of the liberal/left political world.

Mr. Bannon, who has been appointed Chief White House Advisor and political strategist for Mr. Trump, has been a staunch and reliable friend of Israel and has hired a host of Jewish journalists during his leadership at the conservative Breitbart news magazine. He has been an ardent supporter of the Jewish state at the very moment many liberal Jewish organizations were condemning Israel and spouting fashionable anti-Israel criticisms emanating from the Left.
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By Rabbi Fishel Jacobs, AMERICAN THINKER

It was shocking when it first appeared. It had fatal consequences when it remained. It had calamitous potential on a national level.

The so-called Two State proposal was the most racist, venomous idea of the last generation.

For years it was kept alive by artificial respiration, in the minds of its proponents. Now, with President-elect Trump’s victory, it’s finally dead. No one will be saying kaddish.
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Congressman Mike Pompeo joins President-elect Donald Trump’s list of nominees against outgoing President Barack Obama’s foreign policy • Trump meets with 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, fueling rumors of secretary of state nomination.

Yoni Hersch, Reuters and Israel Hayom Staff

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for CIA chief, Congressman Mike Pompeo on Thursday promised to work to cancel the Iran nuclear deal.

A known critic of outgoing U.S. President Barack Obama’s foreign policy, and of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Pompeo tweeted on Thursday: “I look forward to rolling back this disastrous deal with the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism.”

Pompeo joins General Mike Flynn, national security adviser nominee, on Trump’s list of appointees. Flynn, too, has been overtly critical of Obama’s foreign policy, accusing him of failing to fight an aggressive war against terrorism.

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Plan being discussed to set up arbitration committee to resolve land ownership issues in Judea and Samaria

By Shlomo Pyutrikovsky, INN

Army Radio this morning reported that Professor Joe Wheeler, an international lawyer from the United States, has been hired by the Israeli government to help it promote the “Cyprus Solution” to land ownership issues in Judea and Samaria.

According to the plan, an arbitration committee will be appointed to decide on issues of land belonging to private owners and whether and how much compensation to give in these cases.
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by Michael Wolff, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

“I’m not a white nationalist, I’m a nationalist. I’m an economic nationalist,” Bannon tells THR media columnist Michael Wolff as the controversial Breitbart News chief turned White House advisor unleashes on Hillary Clinton, Fox News and his critics.

In late summer when I went up to see Steve Bannon, then recently named CEO of the Donald Trump presidential campaign, in his office at Trump Tower in New York, he outlined a preposterous-sounding scenario. Trump, he said, would do surprisingly well among women, Hispanics and African-Americans, in addition to working men, and hence take Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Michigan — and therefore the election. On Nov. 15, when I went back to Trump Tower, Bannon, promoted by the president-elect to chief strategist for the incoming administration, and by the media as the official symbol of all things hateful and virulent about the coming Trump presidency, said, as matter-of-factly as when he first sketched it out for me, “I told you so.”
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By Sarah N. Stern, AMERICAN THINKER

If anything could be said about America in the week following the election, it is that we are a deeply divided nation. Many streets in our cities have been filled with demonstrators holding signs such as “He’s Not My President”.

However, as with so much, the Jewish community in America is this, but in much sharper contrast. There are rabbis in the United States who have instructed their communities to “sit shiva because they are mourning for the loss of America”. (Shiva is the seven-day period after losing a close relative where one is not permitted to leave the house).
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A month into Mosul push, Iraqi and Kurdish leaders offer differing views of who will control city after its recapture.

AL JAZEERA

Clear divisions have emerged between Iraqi and Kurdish leaders over territorial control after the recapture of Mosul, even though the battle for ISIL’s last stronghold in Iraq is far from over as it enters its second month.

Backed by US-led coalition air strikes, Iraqi forces launched a massive operationto retake the northern city on October 17, with Kurdish Peshmerga fighters also playing a major role in the offensive.
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By Isabel Coles, REUTERS

U.S.-backed Iraqi troops expanded their foothold on the eastern side of Islamic State’s stronghold of Mosul on Friday, as the group pledged to mount more suicide attacks on their offensive to take the city.

The elite Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS) stormed the Tahrir district on the northeastern edge of Mosul, the last major city under control of the Sunni hard-line group in Iraq.

A Reuters correspondent reporting from the CTS-held line in Tahrir saw civilians streaming out of the nearby Aden district where fighting blazed, pushing trolleys containing their belongings and carrying home-made white flags.
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The Democratic Party’s move toward antisemitism, a move made apparent through Ellison’s rise, is one movement the Jews mustn’t lead.

By Caroline Glick, JPOST

The Democratic Party stands at a crossroads today. And so do the Jewish Democrats.

Out of power in the White House and both houses of Congress, the Democrats must decide what sort of party they will be in the post-Obama world.

They have two basic options.
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Pompeo pick garners high praise from congressional sources, policy experts

By Adam Kredo, NEW BEACON

President-elect Donald Trump’s selection of Rep. Mike Pompeo (R., Kan.) to serve as the next CIA director is garnering early praise from senior congressional insiders and foreign policy experts, who told the Washington Free Beacon on Friday that the lawmaker has won plaudits for taking a tough line on Iranian intransigence and investigating the Obama administration’s secret negotiations with Tehran.
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Senator rumored as possible choice for defense secretary

By Morgan Chalfant, NEW BEACON

Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) said Thursday that the United States should not improve relations with Russia unless Russian President Vladimir Putin adopts “a new set of boundaries.”

Cotton made the remarks at a national security summit hosted by Defense One after Republican President-elect Donald Trump expressed a desire to have a “strong and enduring relationship” with Moscow during a phone call with Putin.

“To improve our relations with Russia, what needs to happen foremost is Vladimir Putin needs to have a new set of boundaries,” Cotton told an audience in Washington, D.C., on Thursday when asked whether he would be in favor of improving relations with Russia or lifting sanctions on Moscow imposed in response to its annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in 2014.
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Column: And happy days are here again for Republicans

By Matthew Continetti, FREE BEACON

The liberal hysteria over Donald Trump’s election as president extends to coverage of his transition. “Firings and Discord Put Trump Transition Team in a State of Disarray,” says the New York Times. “Intraparty fratricide looms over the GOP,” says a columnist for the Washington Post. “The GOP Civil War Is Just Beginning,” says a writer for Slate.

They couldn’t be more wrong. While hardly anyone—including the campaign of President-elect Trump—expected this outcome to the 2016 election, the Republicans I’ve spoken to over the last week are unified, enthusiastic, and eager to pursue Trump’s agenda. Giddiness is the attitude toward the prospect of GOP control of the White House, the Congress, and the courts. Republicans are ecstatic as they look at House Democrats in turmoil, 13 red-state Senate Democrats up for reelection in 2018, a state and local Democratic Party in ruins, and liberal elites urging the party to double-down on the identity politics that have brought them to this ominous point.
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By David Israel, JEWISH PRESS

President Elect Donald Trump’s associates are enraged over a statement Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman made this week, suggesting Israel must cool its heels over Trump’s election and approach him with modest proposals regarding settlement construction. Speaking to political reporters on Wednesday, Liberman said, “If we receive confirmation of the Bush-Sharon understandings, we should grab it with both hands.”

The Bush-Sharon understandings recognized the need for construction to support the growth of the existing population in Judea and Samaria inside the settlement blocks — but no launching of new settlements.
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DEBKAfile Special Report

Google and Facebook announced separately on Monday, November 14, that they are taking steps against sites that spread fake news and against social media pages that publish misleading content.

These measures open up some serious questions about freedom of expression.
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By Norman A. Bailey, ASIA TIMES

With the world’s attention fixed on the astonishing victory of Donald Trump in the American presidential election, grossly insufficient attention is being paid to another and potentially very dangerous development.

Trump may end up being a disaster of continental proportions or he may be just what the doctor ordered for a country that has been drowning in debt and political correctness, as brilliantly set forth in these pages by David Goldman. But halfway around the world a crafty master of negotiation, propaganda, subversion, and military display is making huge strides towards the achievement of his immediate and long-term goals.

Vladimir Putin is playing a difficult hand masterfully. The Russian economy is weak and getting worse as the market for its principal mainstays, oil and gas, is increasingly unstable. This explains why the preceding list of the elements of statecraft used by Putin does not include economic strategies. Despite this and a serious demographic meltdown, Russia is expanding its power and influence in every direction.
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A briefing by Anna Borshchevskaya, ME FORUM

Moscow’s military intervention in Syria has not only made it a key factor in that country’s civil war but has also boosted its regional standing, netted it a major naval outlet in the Eastern Mediterranean, and exacerbated Europe’s domestic problems by accelerating the refugee outpour into the Continent.

While minimizing the Middle East’s sectarian divide and portraying its intervention as support for the Syrian government’s legitimate fight against terrorists, Moscow has effectively backed a Shiite, anti-Sunni bloc by aligning itself with Tehran – a historic-enemy-turned-ally in opposition to Western regional interests.
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By Gary Gambil and Teri Blumenfeld, THE SPECTATOR

Although Hillary Clinton lost her bid for the White House in part because of lingering public resentment over the 2012 terror attack that left four Americans dead in Benghazi, history will judge her even more harshly for her decisive role in the preceding U.S.-led military intervention in Libya.

In fact, then-Secretary of State Clinton was instrumental at three critical junctures in convincing President Obama to green-light and escalate the war to oust Libyan leader Moammar Qaddafi.
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By MARTIN SHERMAN

Israel must credibly convey that support for unilateral Palestinian statehood will not be a cost-free decision for whoever acts to effect it – or fails to foil it

Obama’s final months in power are a unique opportunity to correct the record, and, more important, score an achievement that his successors could scarcely undo.– Nathan Thrall, “Obama & Palestine: The Last Chance”, New York Review of Books, September 10, 2016.

Israel’s most urgent diplomatic mission today is to develop and implement a strategy that will outflank President Barack Obama in his final eight weeks in power. – Caroline Glick, “Checkmating Obama”, October 27, 2016.

The US elections are over. The die is cast.  The American people—more deeply divided than ever before—have made their choice. As the virtual monopoly that the US electoral process had over the media begins to wane, other issues begin to dominate the discourse.
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