T. Belman. Kedar points out that the Shiite/Sunni conflict is a life and death struggle. If you lose, you die.

“they act according to the behavioral code of the Middle East, where only the strong survive. The weakling? – too bad for him. Here conflicts are not resolved, they are won, and they go on until one side does not exist anymore. Disputes are solved when one side gives in, surrenders or is eliminated.”

He suggests that Israel must adopt this code of ruthlessness or perish. Soon, Israel will be flanked by Shiite controlled Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen lead by Iran and supported by Russia.

What is needed is for Israel to adopt the imperative of “kill or be killed” backed in their ruthlessness by a Trump led US.  Didn’t he say a year ago that he would “bomb the shit out of ISIS”?

The Shiites are watching their dreams come true, as the Sunnis find themselves caught in a nightmare. This, dear readers, is the way of the Middle East.

By Mordechai Kedar, ARUTZ SHEVA

The struggle for succession began in the year 632 CE, from the minute the Prophet Mohammed closed his eyes for eternity. His cousin Ali ibn Abi Talib, who became Mohammed’s son in law when he married the prophet’s daughter Fatimah, claimed that he deserved to inherit the leadership of Islam since Mohammed had promised it to him

His rivals pushed him to the sidelines, brushing off his story, so that it took 24 years of bitter struggles for Ali to be crowned the fourth Caliph and even then he had no time for resting on his laurels, because the governor of Damascus, Muawiyah ibn Abi Sufian, rebelled against him forthwith. In 661, six years after becoming Caliph, Ali was murdered and Muawiyah became the fifth Caliph. Ali’s sons continued to fight, but the new Caliph showed them no mercy: Hussein ibn Ali was beheaded in 680 and his head displayed in Damascus.
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T. Belman. Yesterday, I reminded the Trump Campaign that Hillary Clinton promoted a U.N. resolution favored by the 57-nation Organization of Islamic Conference, which is run by leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood which effectively criminalized criticism of Islam.

Also, in a Dec. 14, 2011, speech, Clinton said the resolution “marks a step forward in creating a safe, global environment for practicing and expressing one’s beliefs.”

By Michael Bargo, Jr., AMERICAN THINKER

The concept that language and actions should be censored or banned outright by public schools and public spaces because some persons may be offended violates the U.S. Constitution in many ways.

One, the most obvious one, is that it allows a tiny group of people to say they are offended and thereby censor the language of others. The First Amendment does not say that the freedom of speech can be infringed by somebody claiming to be offended by the exercise of someone else’s speech. This standard of personal feeling is not written anywhere into any right protected by the Constitution. Feelings are not relevant — they simply are not mentioned as variables that influence legislation. If they were, people should have the power to shut down government regulations because they were offended by them. But, curiously, those who promote using the concept of personal offense never speak of limiting government, only limiting the people.
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T. Belman. This analysis has a decidedly left wing slant. True that Liberman has endorse the carrot and stick approach but I haven’t read more than that.

From the defense minister’s seat on the fifteenth floor of the Kiriya Military Headquarters in Tel Aviv, Gaza looks different.

By NOAM AMIR/MAARIV, JPOST

It appears that Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman has completed his orientation at the Defense Ministry. The interview that he gave over the weekend to the newspaper Al-Quds, the most-read daily in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, shows that Liberman understands well the correct equation between Israel and the Palestinians in regard to management and security. He no longer speaks politically, but rather he is speaking in military language.
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By Tova Lazaroff, JPOST

A Knesset bill designed to halt European Union support for illegal Palestinian construction in Area C of the West Bank was filed on Wednesday by MK Oded Forer (Yisrael Beytenu).

If passed by the Knesset, it would strip diplomats of immunity in activities relating to terror, human trafficking and illegal construction, and would hold European Union diplomats liable for helping Palestinians build illegally in Area C of the West Bank.
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JOINT STATEMENT FROM JASON DOV GREENBLATT AND DAVID FRIEDMAN, CO-CHAIRMEN OF THE ISRAEL ADVISORY COMMITTEE TO DONALD J. TRUMP

Approximately seven months ago, we were blessed to have been tapped by Donald J. Trump to be his top advisors with respect to the State of Israel…. Each of these positions has been discussed with Mr. Trump and the Trump campaign, and most have been stated, in one form or another, by Mr. Trump in various interviews or speeches given by him or on his social media accounts.

For those of you who are true friends of the State of Israel, and for those of you who believe that the State of Israel and the United States of America have an unbreakable friendship, we urge you to read the below….We would also like to express our gratitude to our friend, a great friend of the State of Israel, Donald J. Trump, who gave us the tremendous opportunity to serve in this capacity. May God bless the United States of America and the State of Israel.
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TRUMP STARTS AT 25 MINUTES

SO IS HILLARY.

Will the American Jewish community continue to stand by her?

By Tiffany Gabbay, TRUTH REVOLT

Its no secret that the majority of American Jews identify as Democrat and are heartily embracing Hillary Clinton as their pick for president. Many members of the Jewish-Democrat community mistakenly believe that, unlike President Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton is actually a friend to Israel, but newly released emails prove what critics of the former Sec. of State have known for quite some time — that she’s anything but.

A new column penned by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach sheds light on the anti-Israel bent of Clinton’s top advisers, thus begging the question: Why would someone supportive of Israel surround herself with such people? From Sid Blumenthal to former US Ambassador to Israel Thomas Pickering, Clinton’s aides have proven, through the written word, how they really feel about the Jewish State:
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By Noah Beck, ALGEMIENER

Israeli human rights group B’Tselem recently appeared before a special session of the United Nations Security Council, excoriating Israel and pleading with the body to act against Israel’s settlements.

In 1975, the UN famously declared that “Zionism is racism” and, four decades later, the organization continues to hound Israel. In each of the last four years, as the Syrian bloodbath claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, there were at least five times as many resolutions condemning Israel as those rebuking the rest of the world.
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T. Belman. The author fails to mention that such immigration skews the population in favour of the Democratic Party. Surely the US has the right to preserve the political status quo in determining how many immigrants to absorb. Perhaps legislating that only people who have been citizens for over 5 years can vote, will alleviate the situation. Immigration policy should be based on what is in the interests of the American people rather than on some non-existent duty to accommodate foreigners who wish to come to America.

by Jeff Dunetz, THE LID

Per the Center for Immigration Studies, (CIS)the number of total immigrants entering the country is sky-rocketing. New data collected by the Census Bureau shows that 3.1 million new immigrants (legal and illegal) settled in the country in the two-year period of 2014 and 2015, or more than 1.5 million annually.
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AN INSIDE LOOK AT THE COUNTERCOUP. WHEN TRUMP SAYS THAT THE SYSTEM IS RIGGED HE IS RELAYING WHAT HE HAS BEEN TOLD BY GEN FLYNN WHO IS VERY MUCH INVOLVED WITH THIS COUNTERCOUP.

HILLARY HAS PARKINSONS

BEFORE OBAMA WAS ELECTED HE WAS A CIA AGENT

IF HILLARY GETS ELECTED, TRUMP WILL NOT CONCEDE AND WILL ARGUE THE ELECTION WAS RIGGED. AMERICANS SHOULD DEMONSTRATE TO PREVENT HER INAUGURATION.

NYPD Blows Whistle on New Hillary Emails: Money Laundering, Sex Crimes with Children, Child Exploitation, Pay to Play, Perjury

TRUEPUNDIT.COM

New York Police Department detectives and prosecutors working an alleged underage sexting case against former Congressman Anthony Weiner have turned over a newly-found laptop he shared with wife Huma Abedin to the FBI with enough evidence “to put Hillary (Clinton) and her crew away for life,” NYPD sources told True Pundit.

NYPD sources said Clinton’s “crew” also included several unnamed yet implicated members of Congress in addition to her aides and insiders.
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Arizona:
Trump 47 (+4)
Clinton 43

Georgia:
Trump 51 (+9)
Clinton 42
Stein 3

Missouri:
Trump 52 (+15)
Clinton 37
Johnson 5

#Michigan,
New Strategic National (R) Poll:

Clinton 45 (+1)
Trump 44
Johnson 5

By Troy Anderson, CHARISMA NEWS

At a time when Israel is facing the threat of nuclear annihilation and many believe the world is nearing the midnight hour on God’s prophetic clock, millions of evangelical Christians are rallying to support Israel. Even the Jewish community—long suspicious of conservative, Bible-believing Christians—is beginning to notice.

The support comes in many forms, from increased travel to Israel to thousands journeying to Washington, D.C., for a festive “Night to Honor Israel” event as a part of Christians United for Israel’s annual summit—and staying the next day to lobby on Capitol Hill and ensure the United States remains a strong ally to Israel.

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T. Belman. I disagree with both DEBKA and BBC in their summations of of the policies of both Trump and Clinton, in some respects, and for what is the best policy prescription. I will give you my views on Sunday.

By Barbara Plett Usher, BBC News

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Who the Americans put in the White House makes a big difference to the world because US presidents have considerable power to shape foreign policy.

Think Lyndon Johnson and Vietnam; Richard Nixon and the opening to China; George Bushes Senior and Junior and their Iraq wars.
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DON’T MISS THIS. THE US INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY HAVE BEEN SUPPLYING WIKILEAKS WITH MATERIAL FOR DISCLOSURE IN ORDER TO PREVENT THE ELECTION OR PARDON OF HILLARY CLINTON.

DEBKA

Whoever is elected US president on Nov. 8, he or she will land in the middle of a foreign policy shambles and face a pressing need to rebuild America’s fences in most parts of the world, including the war-ridden, messy Middle East. The Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton and her Republican rival Donald Trump, whose approaches are so different in every respect, will both find it impossible to isolate America from the Middle East
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