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.

by: Morton A. Klein and Elizabeth A. Berney, Esq., ZOA

It is painful and frightening that Anti-Defamation League (ADL) head Jonathan Greenblatt (a former Obama administration official) joined with the Obama administration and Palestinian Arab terrorists to harshly condemn Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for accurately and appropriately condemning Palestinian Authority’s leaders’ stated goal to “ethnically cleanse”  Jews from any future Palestinian State. Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas has repeatedly insisted that a Palestinian state “would not see the presence of a single Israeli — civilian or soldier — on our lands.”  (Abbas pledges: There will be no Israelis in Palestine,’ Times of Israel, July 30, 2013).  That is ethnic cleansing of Jews.
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By MARTIN SHERMAN

Netanyahu is right to excoriate Palestinians demand to purge Jews as ethnic cleansing, but what are the perils entailed in them dropping that demand?

the Palestinian leadership actually demands a Palestinian state with one precondition: no Jews! There’s a phrase for that. It’s called ethnic cleansing. And this demand is outrageous.  What is even more outrageous is that the world doesn’t find this outrageous. Some otherwise enlightened countries even promote this outrage.

   – Benjamin Netanyahu, September 9, 2016

Late last Friday, the Prime Minister’s office—for no immediately obvious reason—released a video, in which Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the frequently raised demand by the Palestinians, that any future state of theirs must be devoid of Jews, as “Ethnic Cleansing”.
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By J.E. Dyer, LIBERTY UNYIELDING

Donald Trump is coming under a lot of fire for speaking with apparent admiration of Vladimir Putin.  Trump’s seeming affinity for a KGB thug with a trail of bodies in his wake is understandably troubling for many.

But there’s certainly one fellow who would have no room to criticize, if it occurred to him to do so.  That fellow is John Kerry.

Since at least early summer, Kerry has been working on a deal with the Russians in Syria that would so effectively hobble U.S. activities there that we would be of little use even to the Russians and Assad, much less to ourselves.
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T. Belman. Stephens certainly didn’t convince me. Stephens argues that we shouldn’t be voting for a policy menu. What? Instead “My fundamental objection to Mr. Trump is that he is unfit, as a person, to be president.” And Hillary is more fit?

By Bret Stephens, WSJ

Q: How can you call yourself a conservative columnist when you’re rooting for Hillary Clinton in this election?

A: Because Donald Trump is anti-conservative, un-American, immoral and dangerous.

Q: And Hillary Clinton is a conservative who personifies all that we hold dear as Americans and has a terrific record in government?

A: Not at all. She’s conventionally liberal, politically opportunistic and ethically challenged.
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On his latest trip, a former senior U.S. official finds a new attitude in Riyadh. But will it stick?

By Zalmay Khalilzad, POLITICO

On my most recent trip to Saudi Arabia, I was greeted with a startling confession. In the past, when we raised the issue of funding Islamic extremists with the Saudis, all we got were denials. This time, in the course of meetings with King Salman, Crown Prince Nayef, Deputy Crown Mohammad Bin Salman and several ministers, one top Saudi official admitted to me, “We misled you.” He explained that Saudi support for Islamic extremism started in the early 1960s as a counter to Nasserism—the socialist political ideology that came out of the thinking of Egypt’s Gamal Abdel Nasser—which threatened Saudi Arabia and led to war between the two countries along the Yemen border. This tactic allowed them to successfully contain Nasserism, and the Saudis concluded that Islamism could be a powerful tool with broader utility.
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technopeasant
Based on the polls that came in yesterday and Trump’s overall momentum over the past 4 days, political prognosticators (and myself) have come to these conclusions as we presently stand with respect to Trump and where he stands today in the electoral college:
Trump will win all of the Romney 2012 states including NC———-206
Florida (2 polls show DT ahead)———————————————-29
Ohio (2 polls show DT ahead)————————————————18
Iowa (DT has had the lead consistently)————————————6
NV (Monmouth poll yesterday)————————————————6
Maine district #2( 2 polls show DT ahead)———————————1
Total——————————————————————————-266
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T. Belman. This is what the GOP platform provides and what Israel wants. Equally important Trump has said that Israel should build in Judea and Samaria.

David Friedman claims Trump not ‘for or against per say a two-state solution,’ but will leave it up to the Israelis

BY TAMAR PILEGGI, TOI

Donald Trump will not propose a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict if elected US president this November, a senior adviser to the Republican presidential nominee said Wednesday on Israeli television.

But Trump will back Israel in any path it chooses, said David Friedman who advises Trump on Israel-American affairs.

“He is not for or against per say a two-state solution,” Friedman told Channel 10 on Wednesday.
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DEBKA

The estimated eight shells spilling in as many days from the Syrian war onto the Golan – and the three Israeli air strikes in reprisal against Syrian army targets – are beginning to sound ominously like Israel’s longstanding automatic tit-for-tat-air-for-rockets relations with the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip – never mind who fires them.
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“The coin is exceptional because this is the first time that a coin of this kind has turned up in Jerusalem in a scientific dig.”

By DANIEL K. EISENBUD, JPOST

A rare well preserved rare coin in struck in 56-57 CE, bearing the image of Roman Emperor Nero, was found by archeologists from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte during a recent excavation on Jerusalem’s Mount Zion, just outside the Old City, it was announced Wednesday.

Described as an “emperor, theater actor, poet,” Nero, a flamboyant ruler who took the throne at age 17, was perhaps best known for killing his mother, who married his great uncle Claudius.
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— at a rally in North Carolina.

Gary Bauer is the President of American Values. I read his daily email every day and he reads mine.

By Paul Bremmer, WND

WASHINGTON – As a Customs and Border Protection officer, Philip Haney knew the Obama administration was growing close to leaders of several Muslim Brotherhood front groups in the United States.

He knew that in January 2010 Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano met with several American Muslim leaders, including leaders of two Muslim Brotherhood front groups and another known Muslim Brotherhood affiliate.
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The same people and organizations that are subverting America are subverting Israel.

Surprisingly, the overwhelming majority of potential Zehut voters were not religious-Zionist like Feiglin.

By Gil Hoffman, JPOST

Netanyahu’s Likud Party’s recent free fall in the polls could create an opportunity for former Likud MK Moshe Feiglin’s new party, Zehut, Feiglin told The Jerusalem Post Tuesday.

Three polls broadcast over the past two weeks have found that if elections were held now, former finance minister Yair Lapid’s Yesh Atid would surpass Likud as the largest party in the next Knesset. Feiglin said he hopes that as the voters get to know Zehut, they will see it as a more logical fit.
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Maybe, considering America’s own not insignificant budgetary considerations, this was the best deal to be had. No one will really ever know for sure.

By Herb Keinon, JPOST

Now that the long drawn out negotiations between Israel and the United States over the 10-year military aid agreement has ended, the carping in Israel will begin.

“Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could have received much more had he negotiated with US President Barack Obama before the Iran deal,” some of his opponents will say.
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by CONRAD BLACK, NATIONAL REVIEW September 13, 2016

He is the clear choice for conservatives.

As I suggested when I gave readers a rest from me five weeks ago, the Republican convention successfully celebrated the complete rejection of the post-Reagan Republican party: The Bushes, McCain, and Romney weren’t present or mentioned, or much missed. Cruz, as I wrote in my last piece here, and the otherwise amiable John Kasich made asses of themselves, and opinion has moved on. (It was not entirely sane for Kasich, who did not utter a negative word about any other Republican during the primaries, and on his one winning night advised his countrymen to “hug a stranger at the mall” — which advice, if followed, would have quintupled the number of assault charges in the country — and to “take a widow to dinner,” to stay away from the Republican convention in his home state, Ohio.)
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Editor’s Note: This is adapted from the author’s recently published article, “Israel’s Second War Doctrine,” [pdf] from the Institute for National Security Studies (Strategic Assessment; Vol. 19, No. 2, July 2016).

By Ron Tira, WAR ON THE ROCKS

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is renowned for its war doctrine: a succession of rapid decisive operations based on surprising combined arms offensives. In the Six-Day War and Yom Kippur War, Israeli tanks broke world records in tempo in terms of miles penetrated per day (depth of offensive). Yet the IDF operated in a manner inconsistent with its official doctrine over the course of its last six major campaigns: Operation Accountability (1993), Operation Grapes of Wrath (1996), the Second Lebanon War (2006), Operation Cast Lead (2008-2009), Operation Pillar of Defense (2012), and Operation Protective Edge (2014). I call these six campaigns “accountability-rationale campaigns” (see below table).

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