By Peter Skjurkiss, AMERICAN THINKER

The United States is importing people with a religious and cultural propensity to commit horrific acts of hatred and revenge against Western Civilization. This is madness rooted in politics.

On November 28, Abdul Razak Ali Artan, a Somali-born Muslim inspired by ISIS, went on a rampage at Ohio State University. He injured 11 when he rammed his car into a group of students with murderous intent and then immediately went on a knife attack before campus security shot him dead.

No soon had this fanatic’s body reached room temperature then Stephanie Clemons Thompson, employed as something called an “assistant director of resident life a Ohio State,” started calling for sympathy and compassion for Artan and lamented that he was taken out so quickly. In her Facebook posing, Thompson refers to Artan as a “BUCKEYE, a member of our family.”
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Education Minister Naftali Bennett(Jewish Home) shocked that journalists recorded army officers, convinced Regulation Package the best move

By Ido ben Porat, INN

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Bennett related that he had held meetings with leading Religious Zionist rabbis in order to update them about the details of the ‘Regulation Package’ in Judea and Samaria. “We have scored a historic achievement which we have not had since the beginning of the establishment of communities in Judea and Samaria. In one fell swoop 500,000 residents of Judea and Samaria will be called local residents from the moment the law passes and this will have implications for everything – their ability to build, receive mortgages, on building a special room for Yehuda HaYisraeli in Ofra and on the automatic dismissal of hundreds of superfluous Peace Now petitions to the High Court.
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Lindsey Graham tells the ‘Post’ that Netanyahu offended him by signing military aid package with Obama.

By Yaakov Katz, JPOST

Whether Israel likes it or not, the United States Senate will aggressively promote legislation next month aimed at cutting funding to two key allies of the Jewish state – the Palestinian Authority and Egypt, Sen. Lindsey Graham told The Jerusalem Post.

A longtime and vocal supporter of Israel, former US presidential candidate Graham told the Post that as chairman of the Senate’s Foreign Operations Subcommittee, he will work to cut US aid to the PA for continuing to pay stipends to imprisoned Palestinian terrorists and to Egypt for its recent legislative crackdown on NGOs.
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Woe to the journalist or correspondent who haphazardly uses the term “private Palestinian land” without being up-front and honest about the complex nature of the land in question.

By Ari Briggs, JPOST

It shouln’t have surprised anyone to hear Zionist Union leader Isaac Herzog state forcefully on a radio program recently that anyone inhabiting “private Palestinian land” should be removed.

Just as use of the term “West Bank,” a term invented by the Jordanians in 1950 to justify their occupation, is used to undermine the historical fact that Judea and Samaria have always been clearly accepted and understood to be the cradle of Jewish history and civilization, the use of the term “private Palestinian land” is an abuse of the facts and does huge damage to Israel’s credibility and standing.
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The Trump adviser talks about the winning campaign and says the political attacks against him and Breitbart News are ‘just nonsense.’

By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL, WSJ NOV 18/16

It’s hard to think of Steve Bannon as a low-profile guy. He has garnered about as many headlines over the past week as Donald Trump—no small feat. He is the executive chairman of the hard-right Breitbart News, among the most aggressive voices online, its website an attack machine against Democrats and “establishment” conservatives. President-elect Trump chose Mr. Bannon this week as his chief strategist and senior counselor, a slot usually filed by someone eager to play a presidential surrogate on TV.

Yet Mr. Bannon—who joined the Trump campaign in mid-August to propel its thunderbolt victory—professes no interest in being the story. “It’s not important to be known,” he says in a telephone interview Thursday night, among his first public comments since the election. “It was Lao Tzu who said that with the best leaders, when the work is accomplished, the people will say ‘We have done this ourselves.’ That’s how I’ve led.”
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T. Belman.  Many would be satisfied with half measures, i.e., stop Iran from getting the bomb. But to have a US administration dedicated to undoing the Iranian revolution where it all began, is beyond our wildest dreams.

With Mattis and Flynn at his side, Trump intends to bring down the Iranian regime as a first step toward securing an unconditional victory in the war against radical Islam.

By Caroline Glick, JPOST

In the US and around the World, people are anxiously awaiting US President-elect Donald Trump’s announcement of his choice to serve as secretary of state. There is no doubt that Trump’s choice for the position will tell us a great deal about the direction his foreign policy is likely to take.

But the fact is that we already have sufficient information to understand what his greatest focus will be.

Trump’s announcement last week that he has selected Marine General James Mattis to serve as his defense secretary is a key piece of the puzzle.
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DEBKAfile

The failure of the US-backed Iraqi army offensive to liberate Mosul – nine weeks after it began – could no longer be denied when a delegation of ISIS chiefs arrived there Sunday, Dec. 4, traveling unhindered from Raqqa, Syria.

DEBKAfile’s military and intelligence sources report that they arrived to discuss how to synchronize the operations of the two jihadist strongholds, after the Islamist leaders occupying Mosul changed course about leaving the city and decided to stay put.
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By Tyler O’neil, PJ MEDIA

A five-year study of growing and shrinking churches in Canada revealed that theology is critical for church survival, and even for attracting younger people. Beliefs based on a literal interpretation of the Bible, the importance of converting people to Christianity, and the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ are strongest in growing churches, and weakest in churches on the decline.

“If we are talking solely about what belief system is more likely to lead to numerical growth among Protestant churches, the evidence suggests conservative Protestant theology is the clear winner,” David Haskell, lead researcher in the study “Theology Matters: Comparing the Traits of Growing and Declining Mainline Protestant Church Attendees and Clergy,” told Britain’s The Guardian. This declaration is powerful, but the numbers are even more striking.
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Justice Minister hails deal to pass Regulation Law, but concedes Amona residents will pay a price.

By Ruet Hadar, ARUTZ SHEVA

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked (Jewish Home) responded on Monday to the deal worked out between Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Education Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home) on Sunday to pass the RegulationLlaw and resolve issue of Amona.

“We think that the Regulation Law is an extraordinary historic achievement, even without the Amona clause,” Shaked told Army Radio on Monday. “The residents of Amona are paying a very heavy price, but this price isn’t being paid for nothing; we’re getting in return normalization for the entire [Jewish] settlement [enterprise] in Judea and Samaria.”
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Amona residents blast Jewish Home over deal to relocate community, abandon demands to retroactively apply Regulation Law.

Why can’t it be retroactive to protect Amona?

By David Rosenberg, ARUTZ SHEVA

Amona residents and their supporters expressed dismay Monday morning at the deal worked out between Jewish Home chairman Naftali Bennett and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu which would pass the Regulation Law – but without a critical clause necessary to save Amona.

The tentative agreement, worked out Sunday evening, would ensure the passage of the Regulation Law, normalizing Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria and protecting them from land ownership disputes.
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It is Israel, not Kerry, who must decide what’s in her best interests.

By David Rosenberg, ARUTZ SHEVA

Secretary of State John Kerry made a foray into internal Israeli politics on Sunday night, slamming the Israeli cabinet and singling out Education Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home) by name, saying that Bennett’s recent statements on the future of Judea and Samaria were “profoundly disturbing”.

Kerry spoke Sunday evening at the annual Saban Forum, hosted by the left-leaning Brookings Institute, one of whose overseas branches is in Qatar.
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Italy’s Renzi vows to resign after crushing referendum defeat

By Crispian Balmer and Gavin Jones, REUTERS

Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi vowed to resign after suffering a crushing defeat on Sunday in a referendum on constitutional reform, tipping the euro zone’s third-largest economy into political turmoil.

His decision to quit after just two and a half years in office deals a blow to the European Union, already reeling from multiple crises and struggling to overcome anti-establishment forces that have battered the Western world this year.

The euro fell to 20-month lows against the dollar, with markets worried that instability in the euro zone’s third largest economy could reignite a dormant financial crisis and deal a hammer blow to Italy’s fragile banking sector.
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T. Belman. I agree with the author that America can’t compete. This is the one thing in Trump’s platform that I felt that he couldn’t deliver on.  The author suggests he can, but gives no hint on how he can do it.

By Alex Markovsky

About a month ago 370 economists published an open letter in The Wall Street Journal denouncing Trump’s economic policies including his approach to free trade. To enhance the credibility of their arguments, some of them had been touting their Nobel laureate status.

Given the Nobel Committee’s political pedigree, if Karl Marx were alive today, he would be a Nobel laureate in economics many times over. And, as to add some extra flourish, he was recently awarded the Nobel Prize posthumously for his book Das Kapital. Thus, if history is any guide, the status speaks more about the Nobel Committee’s agenda than the quality of the laureates’ ideas.
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By Lynne Lechter, AMERICAN THINKER

Founded in 1985, the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) has grown from a visionary handful to over 40,000 dedicated members.  While predominantly Jewish, the RJC also has many illustrative Christian members.  Headquartered in D.C., with regional offices in N.Y., Pennsylvania, Illinois, Florida, and California, the RJC is a grassroots and lobbying organization with two core missions: providing a bridge and unparalleled access between the Jewish community and Republican political leaders and unequivocally, unabashedly supporting Conservative Israeli governments.

Throughout the presidential campaign, it was bruited about that the RJC had “dumped Trump.”  It was also asserted that Jews would vote against Trump in record numbers.  Both predictions proved false.
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THE TELEGRAPH

Austrian presidential candidate Norbert Hofer 

Austria will provide a new gauge of the populist wave sweeping Western democracies on Sunday, as the divided country holds an election that could deliver the first freely elected far-right head of state in Europe since World War Two.

The knife-edge presidential run-off is all the more dramatic for being a re-run of an election held six months ago – before Britain chose to leave the European Union and Americans elected Donald Trump as president – offering an indication of whether popular anger at the political establishment has grown.
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Iran’s president urges Obama urged to veto bill that would extend penalties for 10 years, as Tehran simmers over Senate passage of measure

BY AP AND TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF

TEHRAN, Iran – Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani demanded Sunday that US President Barack Obama not sign an extension of US sanctions, saying the bill is a violation of a landmark nuclear deal between Iran and world powers.

On Thursday, the US Senate voted to extend the Iran Sanctions Act by 10 years.

Speaking in an open session of Iran’s parliament Sunday, Rouhani said Obama is “obliged” to let the sanctions expire.
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GATEWAY PUNDIT

To hell with Free Speech, to hell with the American People and to hell with Trump. 

Charles Johnson at GotNews.com reports that Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has made an agreement with Obama and Democratic Senator Harry Reid to give control of the FCC to the Democrats.

Multiple DC sources have confirmed to GotNews that an effort to give Democrats control of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for months into Trump’s presidency is actually being led by Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell himself.

McConnell has reached an agreement with President Barack Obama and Democratic Senator Harry Reid to trade away control of the FCC for in exchange for confirmation of his own staffer, Neil Chatterjee, to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)….
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T. Belman, The GOP and the Trump administration is more pro-Israel than AIPAC, ADL, J Street and Con Bd of Presidents has ever been. Unless they move to the right of the Admin, which is highly unlikely, they can only harm.

BY RICHARD BAEHR, ISRAEL HAYOM

On January 20, the Republican Party will control the White House, both houses of Congress, at least 33 governors’ offices, and over two-thirds of state legislative bodies, including 25 states where the governor is a Republican and the GOP is the majority party in both branches of the state legislature. The Democrats will have similar control in four states. The other states will have mixed party governance. One would need to go back to the 1920s to find a time of similar dominance by the Republican Party. In but eight years, the Democrats have lost a dozen Senate seats, 66 House seats, near 1,000 state legislative seats, 13 governors’ offices, and the presidency.
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In the 4th Dec 16 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:

• Israeli micro robots can help avoid brain surgery.
• Israeli startups won the top 3 prizes at an international medical trade fair.
• Israeli NGOs helped wheelchair users hike across the Negev desert.
• Israel’s new Ambassador has arrived in Turkey.
• Israeli recycled paper is the eco-friendliest in the world.
• An Israeli automobile 3D vision system can see even in thick fog.
• Top businesswomen led Israel Day at the NY Stock Exchange.
• Nov & Dec highlights include two Ethiopian-Jewish festivals.

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