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Hillary Clinton has had a very rocky start to her general election push. After she was publicly humiliated by an FBI investigation, almost 20,000 Democratic National Committee emails were leaked showing that high-level DNC staff had rigged the Democratic primary process in her favor.

In yet another blast from the past, a Chinese billionaire who allegedly made illegal contributions to Bill Clinton in the 1990s may soon be testifying before Congress.

The U.K. Daily Mail reported that Ng Lap Seng, 68, has avoided testifying before Congress for years, but now he is being held in New York on an unrelated bribery charge and many congressional officials see an opportunity to interview him.
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By Ben Caspit, al MONITOR

On July 26, Israeli history was made in Dallas, Texas, when “Israeli” fighter aircraft model F-35, “Stealth,” took off on its maiden flight and successfully passed an examination of its overall system. The traditional rollout ceremony of the aircraft had been held June 22 with the participation of Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman. The arrival of the first planes to Israel is planned for December.

The Israeli air force will be the first air force outside the United States with an operational Stealth squadron. In the United States, the Navy has already made the F-35 serviceable and announced its Initial Operating Capability status. The US Air Force will reach this same milestone in the near future.
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The Fragmented West Bank: The Whole Is Less than the Sum of Its Parts

By Pinhas Inbari, JCPA

Introduction

The Palestinian Authority is failing to control extensive parts of the West Bank. As a result, some districts of the West Bank are developing in different directions, thereby accelerating the process of the PA’s disintegration.

In Hebron, for instance, the large clans of Mount Hebron have linked up with each other, reestablished the Tribal Council of Mount Hebron, and sent a delegation to Amman to express loyalty to the king of Jordan under the Jordanian flag.

al Monitor

Russia appears to be the main beneficiary of the July 15 attempted coup in Turkey. Moscow clearly sees a strategic opportunity for itself given the sharp increase in anti-American and anti-European sentiments in Turkey, which are being fanned by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Erdogan supporters, and many Turks opposed to Erdogan, are convinced of a US finger in the attempt to topple Erdogan. The fact that Fethullah Gulen — the Islamic cleric accused of masterminding the coup — resides freely in Pennsylvania, and the belief that the United States is dragging its feet over Ankara’s demand for Gulen’s extradition, has raised anti-American feelings among Turks to a fever pitch.
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T. Belman. The real story here has nothing to do with Trump. Clinton/Obama are in bed with the Muslim Brotherhood. When people started to dig for info, Kahn scrubbed his profession site of all its content. Panic Mode: Khizr Khan Deletes Law Firm Website that Specialized in Muslim Immigration Clinton will probably lie and say she had no idea what he believes it. It is a hallmark of the Obama/Clinton administration to embrace the MB and introduce them to all departments of the US Administration and to positions of power in the ME.

By Paul Sperry, BREITBART

Notwithstanding his war-hero son’s genuinely patriotic example, Khizr M. Khan has published papers supporting the supremacy of Islamic law over “man-made” Western law — including the very Constitution he championed in his Democratic National Convention speech attacking GOP presidential nod Donald Trump.

In 1983, for example, Khan wrote a glowing review of a book compiled from a seminar held in Kuwait called “Human Rights In Islam” in which he singles out for praise the keynote address of fellow Pakistani Allah K. Brohi, a pro-jihad Islamic jurist who was one of the closest advisers to late Pakistani dictator Gen. Zia ul-Haq, the father of the Taliban movement.
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In the 31st July 16 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:

• Europe and the US have approved innovative Israeli compact MRI scanners.
• The IDF’s new Chief Medical Officer is a Druze Arab.
• Israeli students used an Israeli satellite to take a selfie from space.
• Israeli drip irrigation is revolutionizing mushroom farming.
• An Israeli security surveillance system will protect Uruguay.
• The first Israeli woman to win a European championship athletics medal.
• Mosaics depicting Biblical scenes were found at a 1600-year-old Galilee Synagogue.

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Bodies like AIPAC must begin demonstrating to their Democratic members that the Democratic Party is facing a determined campaign from internal elements hostile or indifferent to Israel.

By Isi Liebler, JPOST

The American presidential elections have created an unprecedented climate of political chaos.

Both candidates are reviled by the bulk of the electorate, many of whom intimate that they intend to abstain from voting. The polls originally predicted that Hillary Clinton would win by a landslide, but the odds have now dramatically narrowed and in this explosive environment, Donald Trump may well be elected.
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The West should further weaken Islamic State, but not destroy it. A weak but functioning IS can undermine the appeal of the caliphate among radical Muslims; keep bad actors focused on one another rather than on Western targets; and hamper Iran.

Prof. Efraim Inbar, INN

US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter recently gathered defense ministers from allied nations to plan what officials hope will be the decisive stage in the campaign to eradicate the Islamic State (IS) organization. This is a strategic mistake.

IS, a radical Islamist group, has killed thousands of people since it declared an Islamic caliphate in June 2014, with the Syrian city of Raqqa as its de facto capital. It captured tremendous international attention by swiftly conquering large swaths of land and by releasing gruesome pictures of beheadings and other means of execution.
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Obama administration insists there was no quid pro quo, but critics charge payment amounted to ransom

If it was so innocent, then why all the secrecy?

By JAY SOLOMON and CAROL E. LEE, WSJ

WASHINGTON—The Obama administration secretly organized an airlift of $400 million worth of cash to Iran that coincided with the January release of four Americans detained in Tehran, according to U.S. and European officials and congressional staff briefed on the operation afterward.

Wooden pallets stacked with euros, Swiss francs and other currencies were flown into Iran on an unmarked cargo plane, according to these officials. The U.S. procured the money from the central banks of the Netherlands and Switzerland, they said.

The money represented the first installment of a $1.7 billion settlement the Obama administration reached with Iran to resolve a decades-old dispute over a failed arms deal signed just before the 1979 fall of Iran’s last monarch, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
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[Andrew McCarthy covered this story and added a great deal to it at National Review.]

By James  Barrett, DAILY WIRE

Fresh off of throwing the Democratic National Convention into turmoil after proving that party officials had conspired to sabotage Bernie Sanders’ campaign, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange announced that he has some even more damaging material in his trove of hacked emails — this time involving Hillary Clinton pushing to arm jihadists in Syria, including ISIS.

As Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft notes, in her testimony in January 2013 during the congressional Benghazi hearings, Clinton denied under oath having any knowledge of the weapons trade program with Syrian rebels that took place a year before the Benghazi attack. Now Assange says that in the collection of hacked emails his group has procured, 17,000 are “about Libya alone,” and among them is proof that Clinton “pushed” for weapons to be sent to “jihadists within Syria, including ISIS.”
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By Yoram Ettinger, ISRAEL HAYOM

Israel’s apparent desire to conclude, as soon as possible, a generous, 10-year defense aid package with the United States — to enhance short and medium-term economic and national security certainty — could result in severe short- and long-term injuries to Israel’s ties with the U.S. and Israel’s national security.

Should Israel accept President Barack Obama’s terms for the deal, as reported by the media, then the new 10-year defense package could be dramatically different from the previous one, concluded in 2007.
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By Efraim Inbar, BESA

Executive Summary
The United States is retreating from the Middle East. The adverse implications of this policy shift are manifold, including: the acceleration of Tehran’s drive to regional hegemony, the palpable risk of regional nuclear proliferation following the JCPOA, the spread of jihadist Islam, and Russia’s growing penetration of the region. Manifest US weakness is also bound to have ripple effects far beyond the Middle East, as global players question the value of partnership with an irresolute Washington.
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DEBKA
aUG 2/16 10:00 aM

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s revived bid to bring opposition leader, Labor’s Yitzhak Herzog, into his coalition government as foreign minister is not acknowledged by either side – the latest exchange of messages took place Sunday night, Aug 1. But its undercurrents are sending squalls to the surface of apparently unrelated issues.

Such issues include the government’s move to postpone public broadcasting reform; the row over how the Hamas terror tunnels were handled in the run-up to the Gaza war; vague media suggestions that Netanyahu may be under investigation for financial irregularities; and the boos aimed at Herzog before he gained his party’s approval for postponing Labor’s leadership contest for a year.
DEBKAfile’s political sources analyze the motives behind these outbursts of contention:
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By Mathew Boyle, BREITBART

Mainstream media figures from the New York Times to the Huffington Post to CNN are apoplectic Monday as their latest attack on Donald J. Trump, the Republican nominee for president, has crumbled yet again under the slightest bit of scrutiny.

Specifically, the newest line of attack to fall apart is the criticism of Trump over Khizr Khan, the Muslim Gold Star father who spoke at the Democratic National Convention last week.
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I have a PERSONAL message for the Muslim father whose son was killed in Iraq

By Allen West

Everyone’s talking about the speech delivered by Mr. Khizr Khan, accompanied by his wife Ghazala at the DNC that focused on the loss of his son, U.S. Army Captain Humayan Khan.

It appears things have devolved into such a level of immaturity relating to the speech that I believe there’s a need for a clear analysis of Mr. Khan’s address, and what he should have presented.
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By Ruthie Blum, ALGEMEINER

Egypt-Israel ties have been strengthening in the three years since the military coup that ousted former President Mohamed Morsi, a Cairo-based political analyst wrote on Friday.

In an op-ed published by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy’s Arabic-English website Fikra Forum, Mohamed Soliman said that this flourishing relationship – which sprouted in the immediate aftermath of the toppling of the Muslim Brotherhood-led government – has been a two-way street.

“Shortly after the July 3 [2013] military intervention, Israel began unequivocally backing the new regime,” he wrote, continuing,
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T. Belman. I have taken the position that Bibi really wants to cut a deal very close to the API. This article suggests he has no intention of doing so. You decide, but please note the author of this article, the EU and the Obama Administration all believe that there is only one deal on offer. Thus they want assurances that Bibi is willing to accept it. The game is rigged, nothing to discuss, take it or we will ram it down your throat..

As Israel and various Arab states cosy up, anti-normalization looks like ancient history. Can the Palestinians really be sidelined so easily and comprehensively?

By Daniel Levy, HAARETZ

Appearing before a meeting of the Knesset State Control Committee on the Foreign Ministry and Israel’s public diplomacy last week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed that Israel’s international standing is on an upward trajectory. For understandable reasons the Prime Minister may have been somewhat embellishing his track record, but his claims should not be too quickly dismissed or belittled.
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By Michael N. Mattia, AMERICAN THINKER

Now that Hillary Rodham Clinton is the Democrats’ candidate for President of the United States, prepare for the most fraudulent, corrupt and dishonest if not outright criminal election process in the history of this country. That has to be the takeaway from all the recent revelations regarding the Clintons and the DNC coronation of Clinton. Significantly aiding this criminality are Obama and the Democratic Party itself.

Obama has co-opted every federal agency tasked with providing honest oversight of the election process. From the Federal Election Commission to the FBI and ultimately the Justice Department itself, the Clintons and the Democrats know that there will be no negative consequences to any and all law breaking that they undertake to steal the election. Voter intimidation by gangs of Clinton thugs will be given the response that the situation will be “investigated.” In modern day Government usage “investigation” is simply a euphemism for “we intend to do nothing.”
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By Bruce Walker, AMERICAN THINKER

Donald Trump has the right idea about Vladimir Putin and Russia.  Trump is a realist and a nationalist.

The Russian Republic is not the Soviet Union.  During the Cold War, the Kremlin described America as the “Main Enemy,” and Soviet agents as well as communist sympathizers in America colluded against our nation as part of an ideological jihad against us.

Today that Soviet Empire has lost its satellites in the Warsaw Pact nations as well as the old Marxist states of Yugoslavia and Albania, a loss to the old Soviet Empire of about 125 million people.  The disintegration of the Soviet Union itself into twelve nations means that the Russian Republic has 117 million fewer people than the old Soviet Union.  The Russian Republic has only 37% of the population of the old communist empire, which stretched from the Elbe River to Sakhalin.  Read more…