The majority of the world sees the settlement issue to be a war crime, the ICC not in a rush to investigate Israel.

By Yonah Jeremy Bob, JPOST

A report by the International Criminal Court Prosecution explaining its methodology for prioritizing which cases to push forward with the fastest indicates that it is unlikely to take action against Israel in the near future, but that settlements as war crimes may eventually be center-stage.

Since January 2015, ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda has been preliminarily examining Israel and “Palestine” for alleged war crimes violations relating to the 2014 Gaza war.
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By James P Pinkerton, BREITBART

There’s something happening here. And what it is, well, it’s perfectly clear: There’s a peaceful revolution rumbling through the country. On one side of the metaphorical barricade: Donald Trump and his “deplorables.” On the other side: Hillary Clinton and her close allies, the Mainstream Media.

Trump raised the stakes Friday night in Miami. As Breitbart News headlined, “Trump Makes Entrance to ‘Do You Hear the People Sing?’ with ‘Les Deplorablés’ Banner.” The lyrics heard were these:
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Under a Trump administration, the level of strategic and tactical cooperation between the two countries will be of an unprecedented,” David Friedman says • Republican Senator Lindsey Graham vows to push Congress to increase U.S. defense aid to Israel.

By Erez Linn, News Agencies, ISRAEL HAYOM

An adviser with Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s campaign said Saturday that a Trump administration would work to increase defense aid to Israel beyond the most recent deal signed between Washington and Jerusalem.

Israel and the U.S. signed a landmark, $38 billion defense aid package Wednesday, giving Israel $3.8 billion a year between 2018 and 2028.
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T. Belman. I hear that the IDF has been given orders to shoot to kill.

Reservist moderately wounded after terrorist stabs him in Judean community of Efrat • Terrorist attacks riddle weekend, all terrorists killed by security forces • IDF bolsters deployment across Judea and Samaria, warns of violence through High Holidays.

By  Lilach Shoval, Efrat Forsher, Mati Tuchfeld, Shlomo Cesana, Daniel Siryoti, Yori Yalon, ISRAEL HAYOM

Israeli security forces at the scene of a stabbing attack near Tel Rumeida, Hebron | Photo credit: Reuters

An IDF officer was moderately wounded Sunday after being stabbed by a Palestinian terrorist near the Judean community of Efrat, south of Jerusalem. Another soldier shot the terrorist, who sustained critical wounds and died in hospital. The attack came after a weekend of terrorist attacks in Judea and Samaria and in and around Jerusalem.

The officer, a reservist company commander, was rushed to Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem for treatment.
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‘The administration is working in collusion with BDS activists… I really feel bad for the Jewish student body’

BY GABE FRIEDMAN

JTA — When Milan Chatterjee arrived at UCLA’s law school in 2014, Middle East politics wasn’t one of his core interests. He describes himself as an Indian American interested in corporate law who has strong connections to his South Asian and Hindu heritage. He has played the Indian tabla drums on multiple recordings with prominent Indian musicians.

But now Chatterjee, who was the Graduate Student Association president at UCLA, has chosen to leave the school before completing his degree in the wake of a nearly yearlong battle with activists of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel.
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Moscow estimates death toll at 62, but monitoring group counts 83; US ‘relayed our regret’ to Damascus through Russia

AFP

The Pentagon admitted the US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State (IS) group in Syria may have struck Syrian military positions inside the country on Saturday after Russia accused it of killing at least 62 Syrian troops.

“Coalition forces believed they were striking a Daesh fighting position,” Central Command, known as Centcom, said in a statement, using an alternate term for the IS group. “The coalition air strike was halted immediately when coalition officials were informed by Russian officials that it was possible the personnel and vehicles targeted were part of the Syrian military.”
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Dr. Ben Carson scored a rim shot  in responding to Hillary’s slander:

In a very telling moment, Hillary Clinton maligned me and millions of other Americans as racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic and Islamophobic ‘deplorables.’

“I’m so tired of this line of attack that normally taunts conservatives. Well, let me be very specific in my response. I believe in expanding opportunity, not welfare; that’s not racist.

“I believe every life is worth protecting, particularly the unborn; that doesn’t make me sexist.

“I believe marriage is between one man and one woman; that’s not homophobic.

“I believe in borders, the rule of law and our sovereign right to decide who to let into our country; that’s not xenophobic.

“I believe radical Islam is a mortal threat to America and Western civilization; that is common sense, not Islamophobia.”

DEBKA

The Pentagon and US army are not following the orders of their Commander-in-Chief Barack Obama in the execution of the military cooperation accord in Syria concluded by US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Geneva on Sept. 12.

Five days after the truce they agreed would go into effect Monday, fighting was still raging Saturday, Sept. 17.
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HUMAN RIGHTS VOICES NEWSLETTER – SEPTEMBER 17, 2016

ALL JEWS OUT OF PALESTINE IS NOT A PEACE PLAN
ANTI-SEMITISM, BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE UNITED NATIONS
UN SECRETARY-GENERAL CALLS NETANYAHU ETHNIC CLEANSING STATEMENT “OUTRAGEOUS” (BUT JEW-FREE PALESTINE OK)
UNITED NATIONS MUST END HAMAS AND PLO STRANGLEHOLD ON POWER
WILL OBAMA MAKE NETANYAHU PAY FOR HISTORIC AID DEAL AT THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL?
UNRWA’s chief offers a litany of lies and slander to keep agency afloat

T. Belman. This article attempts to answer the question raised today by me. Why did Bibi sign? The author suggests that Netanyahu is afraid of what a Trump presidency would mean for Israel. I don’t buy it . Remember, Newsweek is not a friend of Israel/

BY MARC SCHULMAN, NEWSWEEK ,

They say revenge is a dish best served cold.

It’s clear that President Obama got his revenge on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week. Netanyahu was forced to hail the new memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed between Washington and Jerusalem as a historic achievement for Israel.

It is nominally the largest commitment of aid that the United States has ever given to any country. Politically, Netanyahu can’t afford to admit that the agreement is far from perfect, and his spokesman constantly repeated what an excellent agreement it is.
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State Department purged emails about $300,000 grant to anti-Netanyahu group

By Adam Kredo, FREE BEACON

Congress on Friday launched a wide-ranging probe into a secret Obama administration-funded campaign to unseat Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to information exclusively obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

The probe comes on the heels of an internal government report determining that the State Department provided hundreds of thousands to an organization that plotted to unseat Netanyahu in the country’s 2015 election.
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By Ted Belman

I have been against this deal ever since the details have been coming out:-

– The increase in the amount didn’t cover 10 years inflation
– It also didn’t include an increase promised by Obama to protect Israel from the Iran deal.
– It included the yearly money that Israel got separately from Congress.
– It phased out Israel’s right to spend 25% in Israel thereby crippling Israel’s defense Industry.
– It barred Israel from getting more money from Congress and said if Congress gave her money she would have to apply it to the $38 billion.

The left in Israel found reason to criticize Netanyahu.
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T. Belman. A military analyst and ISRAPUNDIT reader, when transmitting to me this article, also sent me a progress note on a study in process: “Tracking sources of international funding for terror operations.”

The information contained in this progress note, while in the public domain, is not widely known. I have verified the information and am reproducing it to further inform the readers of ISRAPUNDIT.

Military Analyst. The process of preparing and vetting the unclassified report [Tracking sources of international funding for terror operations ] is proving to be a more complex, time-consuming project that originally anticipated.
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By Norman A. Bailey, ACD

Not nearly enough attention is being paid to a social phenomenon that is sweeping through Europe and the US. Great swaths of the population are becoming, or more accurately have already become totally alienated from the political, economic and social structures of the societies to which they belong. Furthermore, they know whom to blame – namely the political and economic elites of those countries, who they see as being not just part of the problem, but the cause of the problem.
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Simultaneous Polling Shifts – Media Switching to “Likely Voters”…
Posted on September 15, 2016 by sundance
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As we noted in the Bloomberg poll a few days ago (they were first – and we could tell something was up), the pollsters are shifting their methodology. Almost every poll release in the past 72 hours has been using “Likely Voters” instead of “Registered Voters“.

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When the methodology changes, so too does the result. Multiple polls are now presenting Donald Trump as the lead candidate. Actually, far more than the graphic above.
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T. Belman. When Donald Trump first proposed a temporary ban on Muslim immigration, many argued that we must prevent ISIS terrorists from entering the county, as a security measure.  I thought that we must ban them as a national threat and I didn’t mean a terrorist threat. Trump when expanding on his idea he went on to argue that any person permitted to immigrate must show allegiance to America and its constitution and must like us. He called for “extreme vetting”. Muslims who want to support sharia law and avoid assimilation must be excluded. That makes me Islamophobic and thus a deplorable. I will wear that label proudly.

Korol explains the threat. Bill Warner PhD did the same in his video Hijra, Islamic Migration . Don’t miss it.

by Tabitha Korol

The Children of Abraham of the Southern Tier, an interfaith organization in Johnson City, has taken offense at the 9/11 memorial raised in the nearby Town of Owego, New York. This association of misguided multiculturalists and Muslim moderates allege that identifying the perpetrators of the worst individual act of aggression on American soil would encourage Muslim hatred, never once excoriating the very act that resulted in the death and injury to more than 3,000 American victims and 453 responders and boundless grief for their families and for all Americans.
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By Gary Gambil, THE NATIONAL INTEREST

With Black Lives Matter movement’s adoption of a formal manifesto charging Israel with genocide, militant anti-Zionists are threatening to sabotage yet another progressive cause.

Obsessed with spreading demonization of the Jewish state across the Western world by any means necessary and at any cost, time and again anti-Israel campaigners have fought tooth and nail to insert defamatory anti-Israel language into resolutions and bylaws of unions, NGOs, political parties and other institutions advancing unrelated progressive agendas. Time and again, this hijacking has driven more enlightened activists out of the host movement, contributing to its decline.
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It is hard to know how Israel will be affected by the dramatic enfeeblement of the American Jewish community that we are now witnessing.

By Carline B Glick, JPOST

This week marked the fifteenth anniversary of the September 11 attacks on America. Most of us didn’t realize it at the time, but those attacks also marked the beginning of the end of the golden age of American Jewry – on both sides of the ideological divide.

Most American Jews make their home on the political Left, and together with black Americans they comprise the most loyal Democratic voting bloc. American Jews have clung to the Democratic Party despite the fact that over the past decade and a half, their position in the party has become increasingly precarious.

After the September 11 attacks, the American anti-war movement rose as a force in the party. The movement was quick to conflate its anti-Americanism with hostility for Israel. Jewish anti-war activists were forced to choose between Zionism and pacifism.
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By Ted Belman

From time to time I am interviewed on a US based radio station by William J Wolf, who is the host of Middle East Radio Forum.

It is broadcast live from Phoenix every Sunday at noon KKNT 960 AM and available worldwide on the Internet at www.960thepatriot.com. Listeners’ comments and questions are welcome at 602-508-0960 and Toll-Free at 1-888-960-9696.

This Sunday at 12:00 PM MST, (10:00 PM Israel time), I will be interviewed again on the subject of the prospect of a Donald Trump Presidency. It is my contention that President Trump would be good for America and good for Israel.

In particular I will address his Israel policies and his immigration policies. In addition his defense of the US constitution, his promotion of law and order, his rejection of political correctness and whatever else we have time for.