DEBKA

The “Santa Claus” shooting rampage one hour after midnight, killing 39 New Year revelers and injuring 69 at the Istanbul Reina nightclub, was the first terrorist event of 2017. It came on the heels of the assassination of the Russian ambassador Andrew Karlov in Ankara on Monday, Dec. 19, by a Turkish special forces officer, 22-year old Mevlit Mert Atlintas, shouting “This is for Syria!” on behalf of Al Qaeda’s Syrian arm, the Nusra Front.

That murder had the historic distinction of marking the opening of the floodgates for the Syrian war and its terrorist adjuncts to start surging across the border into Turkey.
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Resolution 2334 asserts that Israel has no right to any of the lands it took control over during the Six-Day War.

By Caroline B Glick, JPOST

UNSC Resolution 2334 was the first prong of outgoing President Barack Obama’s lame duck campaign against Israel.

US Secretary of State John Kerry’s speech on Wednesday was the second.

On January 15, stage 3 will commence in Paris.

At France’s lame duck President François Hollande’s international conference, the foreign ministers of some 50 states are expected to adopt as their own Kerry’s anti-Israel principles.
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T. Belman. No one knew the law as it pertains to the territories better than Howard Grief, now deceased. Essentially, Shamgar gave them away just as Moshe Dayan gave away the Temple Mount. Imbeciles.

(Attorney) Howard Grief

Israel is always unjustly condemned by the United Nations as an occupier of “Arab land” in regard to Judea, Samaria and Gaza.  This condemnation that has no basis in either fact or law. This pernicious myth has provided the UN with the necessary pretext to intervene constantly in the internal affairs of these Jewish lands.

Astonishing as it may seem, this myth was created by Israel’s own legal establishment: (1) the Supreme Court; (2) the Attorney-General’s Office; (3) the Ministry of Justice; (4) the International Law section of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), and (5) the Law faculties of Israel’s universities.
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Kerry believes that peace is what happens when the bad guys win.

By Daniel Greenfield, FPM

Before Obama decided to “abstain” from standing with Israel in a UN vote condemning the Jewish State, he had abstained from voting in defense of America in a UN resolution condemning the United States.

Obama, like Power and Kerry, have treated Israel just like they treated the United States.

John Forbes Kerry began his miserable career as a traitor seeking “peace” by pandering to the Communist leader negotiating on behalf of the Viet Cong. He concludes his miserable career in the Senate and as Secretary of State by going to war in the name of “peace” against the only democracy in the Middle East on behalf of a totalitarian Islamic ideology and its terrorist bands of killers.
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Attempts to present Jewish settlement in West Bank territory (ancient Judea and Samaria) as illegal and “colonial” in nature ignores the complexity of this issue, the history of the land, and the unique legal circumstances of this case.

Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs

The Historical Context
Jewish settlement in the territory of ancient Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) is often presented as merely a modern phenomenon. In fact, Jewish presence in this territory has existed for thousands of years and was recognized as legitimate in the Mandate for Palestine adopted by the League of Nations in 1922, which provided for the establishment of a Jewish state in the Jewish people’s ancient homeland.
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By Tshediso Mangope
[grew up under apartheid and believed that Israel had the same policies. But seeing the country for himself changed his perspective.]

As a black South African and member of the African National Congress (ANC), I have often heard the accusation that Israel is an apartheid state—and therefore a just solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has to be based on a single state of Palestine between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. I recently made a trip to Israel and the West Bank in order to understand the issues and the prospects for resolving the conflict.
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Brigitte Gabrielle is a good friend of mine. I met her over 12 years ago when we were both starting out. She went on to build ACT which is the biggest national security organization in America.

By Rafael Medoff/JNS.org

WASHINGTON—Several Jewish organizations and leaders are expressing alarm over former U.S. diplomat Martin Indyk’s role in the Obama administration’s recent Israel policy moves.

Indyk served as U.S. ambassador to Israel, and then assistant secretary of state, between 1995 and 2001, followed by a stint as President Barack Obama’s envoy for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations in 2013-2014.

Reliable Washington sources report that the maps and proposals Indyk and his aides formulated in recent years are still central to the Obama administration’s strategy for the Palestinian issue. Indyk also is said to have remained in contact with key U.S. policymakers even though he left the Obama administration and now serves as executive vice president of the Brookings Institution.
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Family Research Council

What does the State Department have to do with abortion and sexual behavior-based policies? Unfortunately, a whole lot. Over the last eight years, the State Department under Hillary Clinton and John Kerry has elevated the promotion of the Left’s view of human sexuality and abortion “rights” to the detriment of fundamental human rights like religious freedom.

Clinton made her intentions known early in her tenure that the administration would not only promote special rights based upon sexual behavior within the State Department but would use the State Department to export the LGBTQ agenda globally. These behavior based rights have consistently been a major emphasis of the Obama administration’s foreign policy.
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The NYTimes buried the Holocaust on its back pages during WWII. Today, its front section criticizes Israel in article after article.

By Prof Phyllis Chesler, INN

The New York Times has done it again! Just when I think they couldn’t possibly be any worse—they have the power to surprise and disgust me anew.

Six days ago, 14 nations on the UN Security Council (with America’s abstention), voted in Resolution 2334–and we know that Obama was behind this resolution, just stay tuned for “iron clad” evidence.

Yesterday, Obama’s Secretary of State, John Kerry, delivered his shameless lecture in which, as Israel’s “friend,” he demanded that it commit suicide by appeasing terrorism even further in the pointless, fruitless process known as the “two state solution.”
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By Odysseus, AMERICAN THINKER

American should not withdraw from the United Nations without first ensuring that the organization cannot retaliate.

“Upon this, one has to remark that men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge.”

–Niccolò Machiavelli

The recent actions of the Obama administration and the UN Security Council have renewed calls for the United States to withdraw from the United Nations.  The arguments for withdrawal are compelling and based on firm moral and practical considerations, but, so long as they leave the United Nations’ various organs intact, they will continue to wreak havoc in the world, unencumbered by our veto.  American withdrawal will not reduce the United Nations’ mischief, but unleash it.  Machiavelli addressed this when he wrote the passage quoted above, which can be summed up as, “never do an enemy a minor injury.”
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For 40 years, the U.S. was satisfied with pro forma condemnations of construction in Jerusalem, and the Israeli government built 12 new neighborhoods that became home to 200,000 Jews. Then U.S. President Barack Obama and his team came along.

By Nadav Shragai, ISRAEL HAYOM

In the spring of 2009, a winter frost was already on its way between U.S. President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The first meeting between the American president and the Israeli prime minister, which took place in May that year and was later described by associates of Netanyahu as “very difficult,” raised almost at once the differences of opinion that would characterize the relations between the two on two central issues: the Iranian nuclear program and construction in Jerusalem and the settlements.

The first red light for Israel came when Obama informed Netanyahu that the U.S. intended to announce a new regional peace plan. Netanyahu tried to sound him out for details. Obama refrained from providing any, but the answer came two months after the meeting.
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By Evelyn Gordon, COMMENTARY

There’s only one sensible way to relate to last week’s UN Security Council Resolution 2334–as a document, to quote its own language, which has “no legal validity” and “constitutes a flagrant violation under international law.” The resolution, which deemed every Israeli home in East Jerusalem and the West Bank in violation of international law and designated both areas in their entirety as “occupied Palestinian territory,” contradicts every previous binding international document on the Arab-Israeli conflict, including previous Security Council resolutions. So if those previous documents had legal validity, then this one is a flagrant violation of settled international law. And if they didn’t have legal validity, but merely expressed the international mood of the moment, then the same goes for this one, too.
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By MARTIN SHERMAN   

Despite being in power continuously for over a half- decade, Netanyahu has done virtually nothing to install effective mechanisms to contain and counter the pernicious effects of the White House’s predilections

 “If the aim of the Israeli government is to prevent a peace deal with the Palestinians, now or in the future, it’s close to realizing that goal…The Obama administration, with every justification, strongly condemned the…betrayal of the idea of a two-state solution in the Middle East. But Mr. Netanyahu obviously doesn’t care what Washington thinks, so it will be up to President Obama to find another way to preserve that option before he leaves office.”

               At the Boiling Point with Israel, The New York Times Editorial, October 6, 2016

For all the opprobrium and outrage one might feel for the egregious malevolence of the action –and inaction—of the Obama regime in the final throes of its incumbency, hard truths as to the part Israel itself played in facilitating these appalling and infuriating outbursts of vindictive pique cannot—and should not—be overlooked. Especially if there is to be any hope of avoiding such future fiascos…or of repairing the damage of past ones
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BE SURE TO LISTEN TO THE INTERVIEW. SARAH AT HER BEST.

By John Hayward, BREITBART

Listen http://www.breitbart.com/radio/2016/12/29/palin-trump-call-unshackling-political-bands-tying-us-u-n/

On Thursday’s Breitbart News Daily on SiriusXM, former Alaska Governor and 2008 vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin talked with Breitbart London Editor-in-Chief Raheem Kassam about the return of national sovereignty that began with Brexit and might lead to a United States withdrawal from the United Nations in the wake of its anti-Israel vote.
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Moscow, Ankara seek to broker deal that would leave Syrian President Assad in power until a less polarizing Alawite candidate emerges • Tehran remains unconvinced • Plan aims to cement narrative that Russia is regaining its mantle as a key Mideast player.

By Eli Leon, Daniel Siryoti, Reuters and Israel Hayom Staff