by RICHARD POLLOCK, Daily Caller News Foundation

A Daily Caller News Foundation investigation reveals that Bill and Hillary Clinton received at least $100 million from autocratic Persian Gulf states and their leaders, potentially undermining Democratic presidential candidate Hillary’s claim she can carry out independent Middle East policies.

As a presidential candidate, the amount of foreign cash the Clintons have amassed from the Persian Gulf states is “simply unprecedented,” says national security analyst Patrick Poole.

“These regimes are buying access. You’ve got the Saudis. You’ve got the Kuwaitis, Oman, Qatar and the UAE. There are massive conflicts of interest. It’s beyond comprehension,” Poole told TheDCNF in an interview.
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The PLO National Charter was redrafted in 1968 and, in many ways, became more radical and threatening than the original version.

By Barry Shaw, INN

The Israeli Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), of which I am a proud member and the Senior Associate for Public Diplomacy, is dedicated to presenting hard facts to politicians, diplomats, journalists, think tanks and the general public on issues relating to Israel and its dispute with the Arab world and the broader international community.

By addressing reality and truth, rather than attaching itself to current utopian fantasies in pursuit of peace, IISS presents clear-eyed analysis of problems and causes and, by doing so, lays bare the shallow proposals meant to solve the Israeli-Arab conflicts.

One such myth is the international desire to create a Palestinian state.
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By Yisrael Medad, INN

Everyone presumes the issue of a “status quo” as regards the Temple Mount began in June 1967 when Moshe Dayan and Chaim Herzog and David Farhi sat down with the Waqf officials and agreed that no overt Jewish act or symbol be permitted. No prayer, no archaeological excavations, no Rabbi Goren’s Yeshiva, no recitation of Lamentations of Tisha B’Av, etc.

It’s a bit more complicated as I once explained.

But to make it fairly simple, let’s use this summary from a British document at the end of 1928, following the “Waling Wall Incident” when a prayer partition was removed from the Western nWall courtyard, an act that eventually led to the 1929 murderous riots of August 1929.
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T. Belman. Lieberman’s demands that Likud rejects, show how Likud is not a right wing party.

The chances Zionist Union will join are low, the prime minister adds, even though Likud and Yisrael Beiteinu officials say his real goal is to bring in that center-left party.

By Jonathan Lis, HAARETZ

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday he plans to ask the right-wing Yisrael Beiteinu party to join the governing coalition, a move that would expand his parliamentary majority to eight seats from two.

Netanyahu, speaking at a meeting of Knesset leaders of the coalition parties, said he was optimistic about Yisrael Beiteinu joining and said the chance of center-left Zionist Union joining was low – at least for the time being.

“I intend to publicly call on Lieberman to join the government,” he said, referring to Yisrael Beiteinu chief Avigdor Lieberman. He said that in return he would try to improve the pension situation of Russian-speaking immigrants.
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T. Belman. This is an excellent discussion of Shaked’s initiative to apply Israeli law to the settlements.

Program’s initiator, in first statement since leaving army, says he never had politics in mind, was interested in making ‘more effective’ legal system

BY DOV LIEBER, TOI

When Israel’s Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked announced plans in early May to revive an initiative that would extend Israeli civil law to settlements in the West Bank, she set off a predictable firestorm. The arguments of the unlikely man who first proposed the idea, however, were absent from the debate.

Under current Israeli law, the West Bank (excluding areas within the municipal boundaries of Jerusalem) is not part of Israeli territory to which Israeli civil law applies.
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The Zionist Union’s leader’s motives are clear. But what changed in Netanyahu’s assessment that is now pushing him into Herzog’s arms? Or, in other words, what is he afraid of? Four options come to mind.

By Aluf Benn, HAARETZ

It is easy to understand why MK Isaac Herzog wants to join the Netanyahu government after a year of no achievements as head of the opposition, utterly crashing in the polls and facing the danger of being deposed from the party chairmanship.

But why is Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu so anxious to bring Zionist Union into the government, padding its entry with a wealth of ministerial portfolios and other posts, a little over a year after he rejected a possible deal with Herzog and preferred to build a right-wing coalition with Habayit Hayehudi chairman Education Minister Naftali Bennett?
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T. Belman. The BDS movement worries me, not so much because of the economic damage it does Israel, which at this time is minuscule, but because of the lies they tell the world about Israel and her policies. More and more people around the world believe these lies. These lies are delivered with passion, intimidation, certitude, bullying, screaming and dramatics. These tactics should not be present in the market place of ideas, as Dershowitz refers to it. No room is left for rational debate. Most pro-Israel voices are intimidated into silence. Many people are won over to their hate filled narrative because it is easier to believe it than to fight it. These tactics have been proven to be very successful for any movement wanting change. Look at the brownshirts in the thirties in Germany or the blackshirts in the thirties in Italy.

The West does not know how to deal with these tactics or are too intimidated to try. But try they must. If it needs new laws, pass them, If it needs determined enforcement of the law, increase the police force. If it needs greater penalties, pass them.

by Noah Beck, Special to IPT News

Anti-Semitic incidents seem to spring up each week on college campuses throughout the United States. According to a study, “The strongest predictor of anti-Jewish hostility on campus” is the presence of a Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel.

The greater the BDS activity, especially involving faculty members, the more likely anti-Semitic episodes become, said the study issued last month by the AMCHA Initiative, a non-profit organization dedicated to investigating, documenting, and combating anti-Semitism on U.S. campuses.
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T. Belman. I can attest to this.  Sherkos Abbas invited me to be a Director of the American Kurdish Friendship League over 10 years ago and I met him in Washingon. We have kept in touch since then.

The president of the Kurdistan National Assembly of Syria says Kurds want democracy, friendship with Christians & peace with Israel.

By Ryan Mauro, CLARION PROJECT

A Syrian Kurdish activist in America tells the Clarion Project that the U.S. should embrace the Kurds as an enemy of “radical Islam” and as a people who desire democracy in the Middle East, seek friendship with Assyrian Christians and want to be at peace with Israel.

Sherkoh Abbas, president of the Kurdistan National Assembly of Syria, argues that Kurds are ideological allies of the West, rather than partners of convenience. Abbas was born in Qamishli, Syria and came to the U.S. in the 1980s. He describes his faith as a “Kurdish Islam,” and Islamc that is democratic, tolerant and peaceful.

He is a founding member of the Syrian Democracy Council, the Kurdish National Congress, the America-Kurdistan Friendship League and the Center for Democracy in the Middle East, of which he is the director.
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In meeting last week, Jewish casino magnate reportedly promised unprecedented contribution as GOP front-runner stressed commitment to Jewish state

TOI STAFF

American Jewish billionaire Sheldon Adelson is reportedly set to give presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump a campaign donation that could exceed $100 million, making it the largest contribution the casino magnate would have given to a GOP candidate.

According to two Republicans with direct knowledge of the commitment to Trump who spoke to the New York Times, Adelson has told Trump “that he was willing to contribute more to help elect him than he has to any previous campaign, a sum that could exceed $100 million.”
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By Daniel Greenfield

A Muslim terrorist stabbed four people at a train station near Munich while screaming, “Allahu Akbar”. In between proclaiming the glory of Allah, he also shouted that his victims were all “unbelievers”. A woman heard him say, “Infidel, you must die”.

The German authorities came to the inescapable conclusion that the attack had nothing to do with Islam. Instead the stabber had been “mentally ill” and was probably not even fit to stand trial. The Koran wasn’t to blame. It was the fault of his psychological problems.
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KURDISTAN24

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan24) – It is impossible to solve the current situation in Syria and discuss the structure of future Syria without Kurdish participation, said a Russian official on Friday.

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister, Gennady Gatilov, told reporters in Moscow that Kurds possess strong political and military weight in Syria.
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T. Belman.  Tobin is right on, except for this,

“The French, President Obama and Netanyahu all ought to know that if the Palestinians were ever to accept peace on terms that end the conflict for all time, there is no Israeli leader that could successfully resist such a peace plan.”

The Palestinians must give up more than their fight to destroy Israel. They must accept Israel with defensible borders and they must accept that Israel’s claim to Judea and Samaria beats their claim to the same lands. Without this, how would we know that the conflict is over.

By Jonathan Tobin, COMMENTARY 

With the Middle East peace process lying dead in the water for two years, what harm could come from an effort led by France to revive talks between Israel and the Palestinians? The answer is that, whenever one thinks things can’t get worse, the reality of this conflict is always there to remind us that yes, things can always get worse. Moreover, they almost always do when even the best-intended people try to pretend that another conference or paper or the right negotiator can solve a problem that has nothing to do with forums, resolutions or even skillful diplomacy.
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By Ruthie Blum, ALGEMEINER

Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon has one of the most coveted portfolios in the government, but lately he seems to be vying for a different role – that which involves the upholding of the country’s morals.

This is pretty funny, considering that the Jewish state is under constant attack from regional enemies armed to the teeth and filled with hate, in addition to more geographically distant foes fighting a battle of delegitimization. But it is not the least bit amusing that he chose Memorial Day for fallen IDF soldiers and victims of Arab terrorism – at the gravesite of dead Jewish soldiers and civilians, no less — to reiterate his concern about the ethical character of the Israeli populace.
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T. Belman. Amidror is an insider and close to Netanyahu. He argues, as does Netanyahu,

Imposing Israeli sovereignty on Area C would be akin to a nonverbal declaration of a binational state, because should this move be pursued no one in the Palestinian side would be willing to negotiate with Israel. The bottom line here is that if a binational state is the endgame, it should be pursued openly and honestly.

And he warns,

Should that be the case, the international community would punish Israel mercilessly, and some are likely to push for statements, perhaps even sanctions, harsher than anything seen today, including a potential official boycott of Israel.

Instead, he argues, as does Netanyahu,

Israel should focus on improving the lives of the Palestinians, as well as on how to navigate the situation the day after Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ regime ends, as he has no heir apparent.

Obviously the international community and Netanyahu aren’t prepared to say “no” to a Palestinian state. Nor are they prepared to support a plan for compensated Arab emigration. In fact they support the opposite, namely, the Arab “right of return”.

By Yaakov Amidror, ISRAEL HAYOM

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With little optimism as to the future of the peace process, there is little wonder that many in Israel are feeling distressed. The prolonged stagnation, compounded by the inability to present any viable alternative that would lead to a comprehensive change, has bred suggestions meant to promote their proponents’ various worldviews, all under the guise of “partial steps seeking to meet current challenges.”

An in-depth study of these suggestions, however, reveals that they do not solve any of the problems at hand, as all they seek to do is promote the various parties’ interests. Worse, the majority of these suggestions include unilateral measures, which are harmful and cannot help the situation.
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By Ted Belman

There are worrying rumors of managerial dementia at the Jerusalem Post according to which the paper is about to discontinue the outstanding column, INTO THE FRAY by Dr. Martin Sherman. 

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By Martin Sherman, ISRAEL HAYOM

“Alchemy: a seemingly magical process of transformation, creation” (The Oxford Dictionary).

“I do not think there is a Palestinian nation at all. I think there is an Arab nation. I think it’s a colonialist invention — a Palestinian nation. When were there any Palestinians? Where did they come from? I think there is an Arab nation.” (Azmi Bashara, Channel 2, 1996).

“The Palestinian people are an integral part of the Arab nation. … The Palestinian people believe in Arab unity. In order to contribute their share toward the attainment of that objective, however, they must, at the present stage of their struggle, safeguard their Palestinian identity and develop their consciousness of that identity” (The Palestinian National Charter).
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….The ouster of Qaddafi left Libya a failed state and a terrorist haven.

By Jo Backer and Scott Shane,  New York Times.

This is an excellent video which summarized the long article below, prepared by New York Times investigators,  Jo Backer and Scott Shane:

Here are my Key notes of the long investigation report (below it) which show that Hillary Clinton was a KEY PERSON in the decision and in the planning of the war to remove  Gaddafi.
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By David P. Goldman, PJ MEDIA

A fit of high dudgeon has gripped many of my Republican friends, ex-friends, and soon-to-be-ex-friends now that Donald Trump has all but won the Republican nomination. My advice to them: get over it. This presidential race will look like Alien vs. Predator. I’m for Predator, without a second’s hesitation, because he’s our Predator. For all his faults Donald Trump would be (and I’m confident will be) an incomparably better president.
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by Vic Rosenthal, ABU YEHUDAH

On this 68th anniversary of the independence of the modern Jewish nation-state, my thoughts naturally turn to the question of how long we will be able to keep that independence, purchased at such great cost.

It’s not an issue that occupies citizens of most other states to the same degree. Although the US has major problems in several areas, I don’t hear Americans talking about losing their independence. They settled that back in the 18th century.
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