The Politics of Delusion  

By Alex Markovsky

It would require a fierce liberal skeptic to deny that Islam, which is in the process of constructing an intrinsically genocidal caliphate, poses both internal and external threats to this country on the scale of Nazism and Imperial Japan in terms of potential mass death and destruction. Islam is conducting a war against the Western democracies with religious zeal and fanatical determination, using all resources available—from engaging in open warfare to spreading terrorism across the globe; from sponsoring radical ideology within Muslim communities to indoctrinating schoolchildren to hate Western values.
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October 4, 2016 | 4:07 pm | 5 Comments »

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Why a Well Read Woman with an Earned Doctorate Will Vote for Trump  

By Janice Shaw Crouse, AMERICAN THINKER

Pundits, increasingly, are saying that both major party candidates are targeting college-educated white women, but Hillary is ahead in that demographic. Some conservative elites are asking how any intelligent person can vote for Trump. I see those responses as emotional, rather than rational, logical decisions. I’m a white woman with a Ph.D. and I’m voting for Trump because of my experience in D.C., my training in logic, and my appreciation for those who can “get the job done.”
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October 4, 2016 | 10:10 am | 2 Comments »

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Hillary is an enemy of Israel  

By Ted Belman

Hillary Clinton is not a friend of Israel. As Secretary of State, she was the architect of the policy of the most anti-Israel president since the rebirth of Israel in 1948. She helped Barack Obama craft his anti-Israel positions. Obama reoriented America’s Middle East policy in favor of the ayatollahs and the Muslem Brotherhood, to make Iran the regional superpower, disadvantaging America’s traditional allies: Israel, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the other Sunni Arab monarchies. Clinton shared the same flawed vision of the world as Obama.
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October 4, 2016 | 9:18 am | 4 Comments »

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Trump Does The Unthinkable  

By Liz Crokin, TOWNHALL, July 10, 2016

Donald Trump is a racist, bigot, sexist, xenophobe, anti-Semitic and Islamophobe — did I miss anything? The left and the media launch these hideous kinds of attacks at Trump every day; yet, nothing could be further from the truth about the real estate mogul. As an entertainment journalist, I’ve had the opportunity to cover Trump for over a decade, and in all my years covering him I’ve never heard anything negative about the man until he announced he was running for president.

Keep in mind, I got paid a lot of money to dig up dirt on celebrities like Trump for a living so a scandalous story on the famous billionaire could’ve potentially sold a lot of magazines and would’ve been a “yuge” feather in my cap. Instead, I found that he doesn’t drink alcohol or do drugs, he’s a hardworking businessman and totally devoted to his beloved wife and children. On top of that, he’s one of the most generous celebrities in the world with a heart filled with more gold than his $100 million New York penthouse.
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October 3, 2016 | 12:10 am | 5 Comments »

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Congress Must Act to Prevent Unilateral Move to Create Palestinian State  

By Clifford Smith, American Spectator

President Obama is rumored to be considering a major reversal of decades-long U.S. policy toward Israel by supporting a UN Security Council resolution that unilaterally recognizes a Palestinian state before a peace agreement is negotiated between Israel and the Palestinians. Congress must act to counter this bold and reckless move that endangers Israel’s security and America’s strategic interests. Read more…

October 2, 2016 | 2:46 pm | 12 Comments »

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Yesh Atid shows 5-seat lead over Likud in latest poll  

But Netanyahu garnered most votes for Prime Minister. Coalition parties would have 64 seats compared to present 68.

By David Rosenberg,, INN

Yair Lapid

Thirty-three percent of Israelis approve of Binyamin Netanyahu’s service as Prime Minister, a new Panels Politics poll indicates, while 59% of Israelis disapprove of Mr. Netanyahu.

According to the poll, published Sunday morning by Maariv, Prime Minister Netanyahu still retains leads over possible challengers to the premiership – but his Likud party would nevertheless likely lose to former Finance Minister Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid party.
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October 2, 2016 | 2:32 pm | Comments »

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The Palestinian Authority is losing its authority  

By Ron Jager, American Thinker

In recent days, the head of the Palestinian Authority (PA), Mahmoud Abbas, spoke at the General Assembly of the United Nations basing his remarks on three basic Palestinian beliefs that reflect the Palestinians’ inability to be partners towards a peaceful solution with Israel. Abbas, spoke of the Palestinian refusal to recognize Israel’s right to exist as the Homeland of the Jewish People, he refused to end the PA’s incitement of Palestinians to commit terror against Jews, and reaffirmed the Palestinian’s “right of return” which means nothing less than the end of Israel as a Jewish State.
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October 2, 2016 | 9:15 am | Comments »

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Questions  

Bennett. “I could not understand why Israelis stood in line to shake hands with Abbas (at the funeral), who encourages the murder of Israelis and who pays pensions to the families of terrorist murderers. Let him stop funerals before coming to a funeral,” Bennett.

Belman. Why do we say “radical Islamic terrorists” when “Islamic terrorists” would suffice. In fact its more accurate.

Belman. Why does America have VP nominees debate? In both cases they will be defending the head of their ticket.

Belman. Was Adelson correct in saying, ‘Acceptance and assimilation have turned around to kill us’? Of course he was. 68% of secular American Jews are marrying out.

Belman. If the US had bombed the shit out of Syria when the war began, instead of tip toeing through the tulips, just as Russia is doing now, wouldn’t it have saved hundreds of thousands of lives? To say nothing about destroying Iran’s vital ally and preventing Russia from gaining a foothold in the eastern Mediterranean.

Belman. If the US defeated Assad what would they do afterwards? She wouldn’t know what to do with it as she didn’t in Iraq . All she could hope for is replacing the Assad regime with a Sunni one but she wouldn’t be able to prevent it from becoming Islamist.

October 2, 2016 | 8:52 am | 13 Comments »

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Why I’m Voting for Donald Trump  

By Lynne Kessler Lechter, HADASSAH MAGAZINE

The United Kingdom’s recent decision to leave the European Union was predicated on its citizens’ choice between self-government and the continuation of anonymous rule by bureaucrats in Brussels. The British polls, pundits and politicos didn’t accurately predict the outcome of the vote. Donald Trump did, and he did because sovereignty—the authority of a person, group or state to govern itself—has always been the consistent subtext of his messaging.

We Americans are blessed with a Constitution and jurisprudence (based in large measure on laws set forth in the Torah) that honor individual life, dignity and self-determination. In this system, government’s main purpose is to protect us from internal and external harm. In exchange, we abdicate vigilantism and agree to abide by the government’s laws. Power flows to and from the citizens and the state.
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October 1, 2016 | 5:10 am | 32 Comments »

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Separation is not the Answer  

By Maj. Gen. (res.) Gershon Hacohen, BESA, September 30, 2016

idfBESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 368

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Contrary to the accepted wisdom regarding the effectiveness of barriers, there is no substitute for troops on the ground and for civilian settlements that anchor a dominant presence. Israel needs a flexible, dynamic form of security in full friction with the resident populations. An Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank would therefore be ill-advised, and a Palestinian state would in any case inherently undermine Israel’s security. The best hope for both parties is coexistence within the same geographical space.
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September 30, 2016 | 10:58 am | 4 Comments »

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As I See It: Israel, not the West, stands for international law  

The West maintains that Israel occupies Palestinian territory in the “West Bank.” This is untrue. There has never been any “Palestinian territory.”

By Melanie Phillips, JPOST

Mahmoud Abbas

After the death of Shimon Peres, BBC radio’s flagship current affairs show Today interviewed Israel’s ambassador to the UK, Mark Regev.

The presenter persistently suggested to him that Peres’s record as a peacemaker ran contrary to Israel’s subsequent record of failure to make peace with the Palestinians, and that the absence of a two-state solution was all the fault of Benjamin Netanyahu.
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September 30, 2016 | 10:39 am | 16 Comments »

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Column One: The New Middle East  

So Obama let Syria burn. He let Iran and Hezbollah transform the country into their colony. And he let Putin transform the Mediterranean into a Russian lake.

By Caroline B Glick, JPOST

Aleppo

A new Syria is emerging and with it, a new Middle East and world are presenting themselves. Our new world is not a peaceful or stable one. It is a harsh place.

The new Syria is being born in the rubble of Aleppo.

The eastern side of the city, which has been under the control of US-supported rebel groups since 2012, is being bombed into the Stone Age by Russian and Syrian aircraft.
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September 30, 2016 | 9:51 am | 3 Comments »

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How Israel’s Iron Grip Makes a Third Intifada Brutally Difficult  

By David Wainer, BLOOMBERG

It was well past midnight late in August as a convoy of Israeli armored vehicles raced through the winding streets of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank. Arriving at a city center mansion, soldiers broke the front gate and detained a middle-aged Palestinian couple in night clothes. In the basement, they seized weapon-making machinery, arms and ammunition.

Roman Goffman, the Israeli commander who oversaw the operation, called it one of the more serious recent weapons finds. But in many ways it was a typical night in the West Bank, and helps explain why a year after Palestinian youths began a campaign of stabbing Israelis, widespread predictions that the latest wave of violence would evolve into a third Palestinian uprising have not materialized.
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September 30, 2016 | 7:46 am | 3 Comments »

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