Has Israel become so “open-minded” that its collective brains have fallen out?  

By MARTIN SHERMAN 

B’tselem is not a human rights organization but a politically partisan group for which “human rights” are a pretext for advancing its radical political agenda—Israeli withdrawal 

Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad

– Ancient proverb, misattributed to Euripides.

Q: What is the difference between the State of Israel and a lunatic asylum? 
A: In a lunatic asylum, at least the management is supposed to be sane.

– A popular joke

I admit that until this week I was living in a state of blissful ignorance. But this week the bubble burst—and I was left struggling to wrap my mind around the staggering, outrageous, infuriating truth.
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By Kenneth R. Timmerman, THE HILL

Elections are about power: who has it, who doesn’t.

Until this year, we were told that the candidate with the most money would win. Why? Because money buys negative ads to influence an uninformed electorate.

Who keeps the electorate uninformed? The national media.
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By Ben Shapiro, DAILY WIRE

Last night’s debate was a demonstration that nominating two absolutely unfit candidates for president may not have been a wise decision for America. There were rock ‘em, sock ‘em moments; there were attack angles from both candidates. But neither candidate was able to provide a comprehensive vision of America’s future, neither had a basic grasp of policy issues, both ignored looming crises like entitlements collapsing, and both demonstrated their penchant for lies and corruption.

Here are some takeaways.

1. Hillary Clinton Is Insanely Corrupt. Hillary breaks out the Nightmare Clown Grin™ every time she has no answer – and she broke it out an insane amount last night. She had no answers for why she took money from regimes that harm gays and women. She had no answers on her emails. She had no answers on why she told a Brazilian firm that she wanted open borders. She had no answers on the material in her Wikileaks. She had no answers on the Clinton Foundation corruption with the State Department. Hillary has no answers on her corruption because she’s ridiculously corrupt.
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technopeasant • 2 hours ago

Rasmussen daily tracking poll:
Trump: 43% (+1)
Clinton: 40% (-2)
Johnson: 6% (-1)
Stein: 3% (+2)
Others: 3% (0)
Und: 6% (0)
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DT: +3 (was tied at 42-42 yesterday)
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Independents: DC +6
Males: DT+ 14
Females: HC+ 8
Trump commands 82% of GOP members and 14% of Dems while HC has 77% of Dems & 9% of GOP support.

technopeasant • 3 hours ago
IBD/TIPP daily tracking poll:
Trump: 41.2% (-0.1)
Clinton: 40.2% (+0.2)
Johnson: 7.3% (-0.3)
Stein: 4.8% (-0.7)
Other: 1.7% (+0.6)
Und: 4.8% (+0.3)
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DT+ 1.0 (was DT+ 1.3 yesterday)
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T. Belman. Just because the MSM jumped on Trump’s remarks, doesn’t mean they are right. Of course, if there is nothing untoward, Trump will accept the results. But should there be substantial fraud affecting the results, Trump is signalling that he may contest. Of course Trump will wait for the election before announcing whether he accepts the results. Its only prudent. Had he replied, “Barring no fraud, of course I will accept the results.”, he would not have been subject to the same attack. But it means the same thing.

GOP senators, Republican National Committee scramble after candidate’s comments, promise to ‘respect the will of the people’

BY JONATHAN LEMIRE AND BILL BARROW, TOI

Donald Trump’s allies struggled late Wednesday to defend his refusal at the final presidential debate to say he will honor the results of the November election should he lose, with condemnation arriving from both Republicans and Democrats alike.
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Last month, Palestinians were left wondering, as a Saudi newspaper took Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s side in a dispute with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.

By Ben Lynfield, JPOST

An unprecedented call by a Saudi lobbyist in Washington for a “collaborative alliance” between Israel and Saudi Arabia has prompted an angry response from fellow Saudis.

Writing last week in the Washington, DC publication The Hill, Salman al-Ansari, founder and president of the Saudi America Public Relations Affairs Committee, invoked history, economics and strategic reasons in support of why the two countries should forge a strong alliance.
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Some African capitals have been signaling to Israeli officials a desire to deepen ties for several years, and are frustrated that Jerusalem has not responded faster.

By Jeremy Sharon, JPOST

African nations are willing and ready to develop and expand their diplomatic and business relations with Israel, a spokesman for the ruling political party in the Ivory Coast said on Wednesday.

Joel N’guessan, an official in the Rally of the Republicans party, headed by Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara, said in Jerusalem on Wednesday that the historical cause of the rupture in relations between Israel and African states was a result of political pressure imposed on them by Arab countries who dominated the Islamic world in the 20th century.
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By Jerome Hudson, BREITBART

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton said during the third presidential debate, “We at the Clinton Foundation spend ninety percent — ninety percent — of all the money that is donated on behalf of programs of people around the world and in our own country.”

Fact-Check: FALSE

Indeed, Clinton’s “ninety percent” claim is false according to her troubled charity’s own tax filings.
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technopeasant • 2 hours ago
All tied up:
Rasmussen daily tracking poll:
Trump: 42% (+1)
Clinton: 42% (0)
Johnson: 7% (0)
Stein: 1% (-1)
Other: 3% (0)
Und: 6%

Clinton is supported by 80% of Dems; Trump by 79% of GOP members. This is what PPD is showing as well.
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technopeasant • 8 hours ago
LA Times daily tracking poll (Oct 19):
Trump: 44.1% (-0.8)
Clinton: 43.9% (+0.6)
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DT+ 0.2 (was DT+ 1.6 yesterday)

By Jim Hoft, GATEWAY PUNDIT

Despite the constant drubbing by the corrupt media betting markets are predicting a Trump victory in November.

The Independent reported:

It is news that will strike fear into the hearts of perhaps half of America and large chunks of the world outside of it.

Despite a calamitous week of campaigning, betting markets on the US election are almost a mirror image of those on Britain’s EU referendum at this stage. And they could be pointing to a victory for Donald Trump.
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By Jim Hoft, Gateway Pundit Oct 18th, 2016 10:02 am

Ann Coulter warned in her book Slander in 2003 that the far left main stream media always uses polls to push their agenda. Polls can be skewed by selecting an unreasonable sample size, by asking lead up questions or by selecting more of a sample population of one side of an issue to achieve a desired result.
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Biting the hand that feeds you

MEMRI
By: N. Mozes*

Introduction

In recent weeks there has been severe tension between Egypt and Saudi Arabia due to disagreements on the Syrian crisis. These disagreements, which are long-standing, recently deepened and became public, especially after on October 8, 2016, Egypt voted at the UN Security Council in favor of a Russian draft resolution on the situation in Aleppo, a draft resolution that Saudi Arabia opposed.[1]
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As promised, James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas has released the second video in the “Rigging The Election” series, an exposé they’ve described as a “multi-part series which exposes the dark secrets at the highest levels of the DNC and Clinton presidential campaign.”
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THIS WAS POSTED YESTERDAY. GONE VIRAL. ALREADY 2.4 MILLION VIEWERS

Posted Oct 17/16

technopeasant • 7 minutes ago
LA Times poll today: DT+ 1.6

T. Belman. Surprisingly 46% to 41% support federation with Jordan and only 13% would vote for Hamas in J&S or Gaza.

Survey of 1,362 people in Gaza and West Bank finds most oppose a Palestinian state based on 1967 borders, and 74% believe Palestinians should stop pursuing Oslo Accords • Britain seen as responsible for Palestinian “catastrophe.”

Israel Hayom Staff

Almost 60% of Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip oppose a future Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders as a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict., a survey conducted last week by An-Najah University in Nablus found.

The survey, which questioned 1,362 people in the two areas, found that 59.4% oppose the idea as a solution to the conflict.
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T. Belman. The indented quote is quite telling not just for western reaction to this resolution but to all efforts by the west to live in peace with Islam and Muslims. It is removing all potential conflict by adopting the Islamic narrative.

By Dr Ephraim Harrera, ISRAEL HAYOM

“they swept under the rug anything that could interfere with conflict-free teaching of the history of Islamic culture, in a manner bordering on servility — all in the service of dogmatic praise for a shared life.”

Last week, Western countries, led by France and Spain, abstained from voting on the wretched UNESCO resolution denying the Jewish people’s ties to Jerusalem, the Temple Mount and the Western Wall. Muslim countries, including Algeria, Lebanon, Iran and even Egypt and Morocco, all voted in favor of the decision.

DEBKA

Sunday night, Oct. 16, Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi, supported by a bevy of generals, announced that the military operation to recapture Mosul from its two-year occupation by the Islamic State had begun.

Three formally approved participants are taking part in the operation, DEBKAfile’s military sources report:
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