Will Hillary Be Indicted? Is Wanton Recklessness and Arrogance Enough  

The real purpose and the real effect of Hillary Clinton’s scandalous email practice is not widely understood and for good reason

By Joel Golovensky MIDA

I spoke to a friend who was a high ranking official in the Bush administration to try and understand what is involved. He is not a fan of of Hillary’s, no doubt, but he is a highly respected, professional attorney who can analyze issues without succumbing to personal prejudice. He explained that the exposure of highly confidential documents is very serious but, in his view, this is only a part of the sordid behavior.. “Anyone who has ever worked at the higher rung of government understands the gravity of conducting all official business on a server not under government control. If one can analogize to how an office functioned before the electronic-email age, what Hillary did is akin to filing all her State Department documents and correspondence in her garage. The purpose was not just convenience at the expense of exposing the material to theft or unauthorized access, but rather the goal was for her alone to decide what documents and correspondence will be turned over to the government, what will not, and to thus shape the history and appraisal of her role.”
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June 27, 2016 | 10:23 am | 4 Comments »

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The ADL, HIAS and J-Street are beyond the pale  

By Tabitha Korol

“Everything is under control,” assured Anita Gray, director of the local office of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), about the infamous, anti-Semitic assistant professor Joy Karega.  “Oberlin’s president is coordinating efforts with us.”  Assuming there was nothing more to be done at this point, I asked about their involvement in the immigration process from the Middle East, about hijra, invasion by migration.  “There are a few, but not many,” she replied. When I asked for specifics, she answered, “No, but you can check the ADL website.”

I did so that evening, and emailed Gray the next day about the anti-Semitic comments on the site.  I asked who replies to them or if they’re just left on the site.  She wrote, “You can take a horse to water but you can’t make it drink.”   OK. I recalled having learned that bit of wisdom as a child, but she used it to evade my question.
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June 27, 2016 | 10:08 am | Comments »

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Netanyahu to Kerry: Turkey deal to have ‘immense’ impact on Israeli economy  

REUTERS

An agreement to normalize ties with Turkey after six years will have a positive impact on Israel’s economy, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday.

Speaking after meeting US Secretary of State John Kerry in Rome, Netanyahu said the agreement, announced by Israeli and Turkish officials on Sunday, was “an important step”.

“It has also immense implications for the Israeli economy, and I use that word advisedly,” he told reporters together with Kerry. Israeli officials have raised the prospect of lucrative Mediterranean gas deals once ties with Turkey were mended.
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June 27, 2016 | 9:50 am | 2 Comments »

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‘Why didn’t Israel demand compensation from Turkey?’  

Former senior Likud politician Gideon Saar slams Netanyahu’s deal with Turkey, says Israeli concessions won’t alter Ankara’s hostility.

By Shimon Cohen, INN

A former senior member of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s Likud party has blasted Israel’s upcoming reconciliation deal with Turkey, and questioned why the Israeli government didn’t attempt to extract concessions of its own.

Former Education Minister Gideon Saar said Israel should have demanded compensation for the Mavi Marmara incident, in which a Turkish Islamist flotilla attempted to violently break Israel’s blockade of Gaza.

In an interview with Israel’s Channel 2, Saar expressed his shock at the $21 million compensation package Israel will be granting to the families of the Al Qaeda-linked IHH terrorists killed aboard the ship – without demanding any compensation in return either for the injuries inflicted on IDF soldiers or the harm to Israel’s security.
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June 27, 2016 | 9:23 am | 3 Comments »

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Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly: Trump better for Israel than Obama  

‘US and Israel face exactly the same threat’, claims ‘America’s leadership directly affects every Israeli’.

ARUTZ SHEVA

Americans and Israelis face “exactly the same” threat from radical Islam, Fox News host Bill O’Reilly said on Sunday, arguing that presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump would do much more for American security – and Israel – than Barack Obama.

America’s most popular cable news host spoke with Israel’s Channel 10 Sunday evening, addressing the rising threat from ISIS and other Islamic terror groups, the upcoming American presidential elections, and political bias in the media’s coverage of candidates like Mr. Trump.
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June 27, 2016 | 9:17 am | 9 Comments »

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Giuliani: Trump is right, Obama is showing weakness  

Former New York Mayor backs Trump with regards to the fight against Islamic terrorism, criticizes Obama’s policies.

By Ido Ben Porat, INN

Former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, one of the many supporters of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, criticized President Barack Obama in an interview with the Israel Hayom newspaper on the weekend.

In the interview, Giuliani said he agreed with Trump’s stance that Obama shows weakness and warned that this weakness will lead to more terrorist attacks against America.

“The shooting in Orlando was an act of Islamic extremist terrorism. In this particular case it was focused on a gay club. The tape that we have now heard makes his motive clear. His motive was to act on behalf of the Islamic State,” he said.
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June 26, 2016 | 6:31 pm | 3 Comments »

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Sometimes crassness rather than gentility is needed to get the point across  

By Ted Belman

Just as the GOP convention to nominate a candidate for President looms, David Suissa, President  of the Jewish Journal, counselled, Republicans must dump TrumpAnd why?

“What we’re seeing now is Trump becoming more and more Trumpish, a man so hypnotized by his own success that he can’t see himself unraveling (with a 70 percent disapproval rating). He can hire and fire advisers, but it won’t help, because he can’t help himself.

“If Trump pulls off a miracle and wins the White House, we will have an unhinged leader of the free world, intoxicated by his greatness, prone to even more recklessness. “

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June 26, 2016 | 2:33 pm | 8 Comments »

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HOW BREXIT WILL CHANGE AMERICA AND THE WORLD  

Britain is free of global government. America can be next.

By Daniel Greenfield, FPM

Yesterday the British people stood up for their freedom. Today the world is a different place.

Celebrities and politicians swarmed television studios to plead with voters to stay in the EU. Anyone who wanted to leave was a fascist. Economists warned of total collapse if Britain left the European Union. Alarmist broadcasts threatened that every family would lose thousands of pounds a year if Brexit won.

Even Obama came out to warn Brits of the economic consequences of leaving behind the EU.
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June 26, 2016 | 2:27 pm | 3 Comments »

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How and Why Government Forces You to Finance Illegal Immigration  

By Michael Bargo, Jr., AMERICAN THINKER

As the Supreme Court rejects President Obama’s efforts to issue unconstitutional executive orders with regard to immigration law enforcement, the real issue for American voters is who pays for the benefits illegal immigrants receive. It’s an issue to consider this November.

Illegal immigration was not created by business. Businesses cannot give them drivers licenses, government benefits, or issue unconstitutional executive orders as President Obama has. Only government can get away with those actions. How it forces you to financially support illegal immigrants in the U.S. is the real story.
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June 26, 2016 | 2:11 pm | Comments »

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Brexit and Multiculturalism  

By Salimn Mansur, AMERICAN THINKER

The people of Britain made their decision by a slim majority of 52 per cent to 48 percent to Leave the EU. After months of heart-wrenching debates and all the leverage that the Remain side with the Prime Minister David Cameron and his opposite, the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, could apply, the people decided staying within the EU was not positive for Britain’s future.

The referendum’s outcome throws Britain into a period of economic and political uncertainties that the Remain side vigorously pushed as their main argument for staying within the EU. There will be a lot of soul-searching among the British elites in politics and business, in the media and in the universities, as to why the opponents of the EU prevailed. The referendum results will be minutely analyzed to understand why the British public was not sufficiently persuaded by their party leaders to back the status quo, and why on the other hand a majority of voters put aside their fear of uncertainty in favor of leaving the EU.
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June 26, 2016 | 10:38 am | 15 Comments »

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Time for Trump and GOP To Advance a Platform To Back Britain’s Gamble  

By SETH LIPSKY, From the New York Post | June 25, 2016

What a gift to the Republican Party. No sooner had Britons cast their historic vote for independence than Donald Trump — already in Scotland — declared that they have “taken their country back” and called it a “great thing.”

The next move ought to be for Mr. Trump to set a meeting with House Speaker Paul Ryan to talk about moving Britain to the front of the queue. They need to make sure Britons know that America will not be punishing them for their vote.

A clear message from the GOP leadership on this head would start to repair the damage of President Obama’s threat that if Britain voted to exit the European Union, it would land at the “back of the queue” for a trade deal with America.
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June 26, 2016 | 7:44 am | 11 Comments »

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BREXIT – An Israeli perspective  

By Garry Shaw

Money markets crashed as if some disaster had occurred. But what was seen by the unexpected “Leave the EU” vote is the beginning collapse of the EU, an unelected world of bureaucrats who regulate and control the lives of people in Europe.

At the moment the Brits were voting, I was having lunch with a group of Dutch men and women. They expressed their disgust about what is happening in their country and how the decision of their government is controlled by the gnomes of Brussels. They were adamant that their country would be better off away from the EU decision-makers who, they felt, were endangering the social fabric and security of their country over a wrong-headed immigration policy, a policy in chaos with the continuing wave of migrants washing on the shores of Europe from the Middle East and Africa. Many are finding their way to the Netherlands. They are frustrated with the feeling of losing control their country. Nationalism is being revived due to the utter failure of Europe to deal with the dual threats of the migrant crisis and the explosion of Islamic terror.
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June 26, 2016 | 5:21 am | Comments »

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Brexit – Backlash from mass migration and ISIS  

DEBKA

In a historic referendum, millions of British citizens voted Thursday, June 23, to leave the European Union after 43 years by a margin of 52 to 48 percent. Many were undoubtedly moved into approving this pivotal step by three seismic world events:

1. The mass migration flowing into Europe from the Middle East and Africa under the EU aegis. Forebodings in the UK were fueled by figures released a week before the referendum showing an influx of 330,000 migrants to Britain in 2015.
2. The war on the Islamic State which poses a peril which most Western governments avoid addressing by name as World War III in the making.
3. The inability of those governments, beyond empty words, to grapple with the war on ISIS or cope with the mass of migrants expected to beat on the gates of Western societies for many more hard years.

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June 25, 2016 | 9:28 pm | 1 Comment »

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Over 1 million sign petition for do-over of UK vote  

Brexit, the day after: Demand for 2nd go at EU referendum gains momentum, with tens of thousands signing by the hour

BY TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF, AFP AND AP June 25, 2016, 11:17 am Updated: June 25, 2016,

A non-British EU citizen, unable to vote in the EU referendum, poses wearing an EU-flag themed t-shirt outside the polling station at Greenwich Heritage Centre in London on June 23, 2016, as Britain holds a referendum to vote on whether to remain in, or to leave the European Union (EU). (AFP PHOTO / DANIEL SORABJI)

An online petition to the British parliament demanding a second UK referendum on whether to remain in the European Union received a surge of support over the weekend, nearing 1 million signatures within a day of being set up.

The petition was gaining tens of thousands of new signatures by the hour.
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June 25, 2016 | 7:27 pm | Comments »

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BREXIT AND ITS AFTERMATH  

T. Belman. One of the reasons the EU hates Israel is because Israel is nationalist as opposed to universalist. Now that Europe and the US is trending nationalist, that augers well for Israel.

Special Relationship II*
By Sol W. Sanders, AMERICAN CENTER FOR DEMOCRACY

Brexit’ Aftershocks: More Rifts in Europe, and in Britain, Too
By STEVEN ERLANGER, NYT

A Magna Carta Moment Emerges in the Brexit As U.S. Election Nears
By LAWRENCE KUDLOW, NEW YORK SUN

Brexit: The Nationalist-Popular Rebellions Continue
BREITBART

Brexit: Why The Globalists Lost
BREITBART

June 25, 2016 | 12:01 pm | Comments »

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The European Parliament Rewards Hate  

By EVELYN GORDON, COMMENTARY

European Union

Hats off to the British. Aside from all the other reasons to applaud Britain’s decision to leave the European Union (i.e. democracy, national sovereignty), it has voted to secede from an enabler of Palestinian terror and hate education. And if that accusation sounds harsh, consider what transpired in the EU Parliament on the very day of the Brexit referendum.
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June 25, 2016 | 9:13 am | Comments »

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How dare Europe applaud a blood-libeler?  

By Ruthie Blum, ISRAEL HAYOM

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas lies about Israel not only as a matter of course but as one of policy. It was no surprise, then, when he stood up at the European Parliament on Thursday and regurgitated a claim made this week that rabbinical figures in the Jewish state had urged the government to poison Palestinian wells.

Abbas knew that this classically anti-Semitic blood libel was as false as a similar one, spread last week, that claimed Israel forced Palestinians from a certain village to flee by drying up their water supply during Ramadan. In fact, a pipe had burst, and it was immediately repaired. But not — as media watchdog HonestReporting pointed out — before the “water apartheid” lie, first “reported” by Al Jazeera, was picked up by The Independent, the International Business Times, Radio New Zealand and The Times of London.
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June 25, 2016 | 2:19 am | 3 Comments »

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US Department of Justice and the FBI using the names ‘Allah’ and ‘God’ interchangeably  

By Bill Wilson, KIN Senior Analyst

WASH—Jun 21—KIN ?The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the FBI are among the latest in the President’s administration to use the names “Allah” and “God” interchangeably. This is a disgrace. While there are minor differences between reputable Jewish and Christian scholars on the true name of the one true God, it is not Allah. Yet Presidents H.W. Bush, Clinton, G.W. Bush, and Obama all say they are the same.

Now the FBI and the Department of Justice are saying that God (YHWH) and Allah are one and the same. This is blasphemy, and should be offensive to every Christian and Jew. The FBI re-released a redacted transcript of the Orlando terrorist attack, restating references to Islamic State, but changing references of “Allah” to “God.”
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June 25, 2016 | 2:18 am | 6 Comments »

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