T. Belman. This investigation should not be taking place. It is only political pressure on the independent ICC that is causing it. To get a full understanding of the law, visit Israel, the International Criminal Court & Universal Jurisdiction

ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda’s office has requested a visit in the context of a preliminary inquiry into Palestinian complaints about the 2014 Gaza war and settlement building, Israeli officials say.

By Barak Ravid, HAARETZ

Israel is weighing the possibility of permitting representatives of the prosecution of the International Criminal Court to visit Israel and the Palestinian Authority in the coming weeks, senior officials in Jerusalem told Haaretz.

The visit would be in the context of a preliminary inquiry into Palestinian complaints against Israel’s 2014 Operation Protective Edge in Gaza, and settlement construction in the West Bank, according to the officials, who requested anonymity due to the issue’s sensitivity.
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Calling Tel Aviv the capital of Israel means much more than meets the eye.

A small, unimportant-looking article appeared in an obscure spot on one of the inner pages of a weekly newspaper this week, reporting the fact that the Czech Republic, having decided that Tel Aviv is the capital of Israel, will be presenting it as such in its history texts and atlases. The impetus for the change, the article further added, was pressure from the Palestinian Arab envoy in Prague. Israel’s Foreign Ministry is working to change the decision.

The Czech decision follows a similar one by UNESCO which claimed in April of this year that the Temple Mount belongs to Muslims – and only Muslims – and that its name is the El Aqsa Mosque.
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Donald Trump is challenging a fundamental notion at the core of American identity – the role of the U.S. as an unchallenged global leader able to intervene anywhere in the world in the name of democracy.

By Andrei Tsygankov, RUSSIA DIRECT

The American debate about Russia and its role in the U.S. elections is about more than a single event – the purported hacking of Democratic National Committee servers by Russian intelligence services. And the debate goes beyond the traditional narrative of “Russian aggression” encountered in past U.S. elections. Increasingly, the debate reflects a growing debate over American identity and the future of the country’s foreign policy.
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WORLD TRIBUNE

Advocacy groups supported by the United Nations are condoning terrorism and promoting the “destruction of Israel,” a report said.

“Bigots, anti-Semites, and terrorist advocates” within the UN are “spreading hatred and inciting violence,” according to a report issued by Human Rights Voices, a group that monitors bias at the UN, and the Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust.

“Most striking for an organization founded on the ashes of the Holocaust, the UN enables its accredited NGOs [non-governmental organizations] to play a central role in promoting modern anti-Semitism,” the report states.
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The consequences of a failed Palestinian Authority.Get set for the PA October 8th elections, unless Abbas finds a way to cancel them.

By Barry Shaw, INN

A month ago I wrote an article entitled ‘The Failed State of the Two-State Solution.’ In it, I wrote that “by the ballot or by the ballot Hamas will head any Palestinian state as they did when Israel withdrew from the Gaza Strip in 2005.”

So what has happened in the short time since I released that article?

In Nablus, on August 27, an estimated 120,000 protesters demonstrated against the Palestinian Authority after an Arab was beaten to death by PA security men. Many called for an international investigation into the murder as the Palestinian Authority threatened to arrest some of the leaders of the protest march. The town of Nablus has been described as being in “total anarchy.”
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By David P Goldman, PJ MEDIA

In the current issue of Commentary my friend Rabbi Meir Soloveichik discusses J.R.R. Tolkien’s fascination with the Jews, who are of course the Dwarves in theHobbit and The Lord of the Rings, as Tolkien himself stated in a 1971 BBC interview. Tolkien was no anti-Semite (not, at least, according to the canonical definition, namely someone who hates the Jews more than is absolutely necessary). His views in The Hobbit were typical of the philo-Semites of the 1930s: the Jews/Dwarves are “calculating folk with a great idea of the value of money; some are tricky and treacherous and pretty bad lots; some are not, but are decent enough people…if you don’t expect too much.”
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T. Belman.  Eidelberg wants to annex all the land but rejects the solutions offered by Glick and Sherman as “not viable”.  Instead he wants to entice more Jews to Israel and to offer them cheap land in J&S if they settle there. Rather than spend $300 billion to compensate Arabs to leave, spend a fraction of it to induce Jews to come. Making Israel more Jewish will result in a steady emigration of Arabs.

To accomplish this he recommends that Israel adopt a presidential system as in the US.

By Prof Paul Eidelberg

I. Since the nostrums of political analysts like Martin Sherman and Caroline Glick do not provide a viable method of ridding Israel of its permanent internal enemy, the Muslim-Arabs west of the Jordan, I am here updating the “Jewish Solution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict” which I proposed on Israel National Radio on November 16, 2009.

II. Israel has been ruled by timid, bogus “realists” since her stunning victory in the 1967 Six Day War. As a result of that war, Israel repossessed Judea and Samaria, which had (and still has) a large Muslim-Arab population. Since this hostile population was permitted to remain on Jewish land, and since its expulsion was not, and is not, in the cards, the Government does not know what to do with these Jew-killing disciples of Mohammad.
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On August 4, during the course of a press conference, Obama gave his interim assessment of his nuclear agreement with Iran. “It worked,” he insisted.

By Caroline b. Glick, JPOST

The time for complaining about President Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran has passed. The time has come to overcome the damage enormous damage his signature foreign policy accomplishment has caused.

To understand why this is the case, it is important to understand the breadth and depth of Obama’s failure.
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The loss of the Amos-6 satellite in Florida is ‘a very severe blow which could place the future of the industry in doubt’, said chairman of Israel Space Agency; next satellite —if there is a next one—three years away.

YNET NEWS

The loss of an Israeli communications satellite in a blast in Florida in which a SpaceX launcher exploded on Thursday, was a major blow to the Israeli communications satellite industry, Israel’s leading space official said.

The Amos-6 satellite, owned by Space Communications , was destroyed when an explosion destroyed a Falcon 9 rocket belonging to Elon Musk’s SpaceX during routine test firing at Cape Canaveral in Florida, two days before it had been due to blast off and place the satellite in orbit.
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T. Belman. This is Part XII of the series, ISLAM, Our Deadliest Enemy: Time is Running Out. I have been posting one Part every day for the last week. These articles written by VIPs and renowned scholars devastate Islam more comprehensively than anything in print. It is intended that this series come to the attention of Trump’s committee to Study Islamic Terrorism, when formed.

ISLAM, Our Deadliest Enemy: Time is Running Out

By  Prof. Paul Eidelberg, President, Israel-America Renaissance Institute, Jerusalem and Philadelphia

CONTENTS
Part I. Introduction
Part II. Identifying the Enemy
Part III. A Former Muslim Shows How to Combat the Enemy
Part IV. An Insider’s View of ‘Moderate’ Muslims
Part V. Beyond Multicultural Relativism
Part VI. The Theological Basis of Today’s Crisis
Part VII. Islamophobia: Facts and Fictions
Part VIII. Islamic Bellicosity and Blood Lust
Part IX. Blood Lust (cont’d)
Part X. Iran and Necrophelia
Part XI. Islamic Imperialism
Part XII. Islam: A Cult of Hatred, Especially of Jews

Part XII. Islam: A Cult of Hatred, Especially of Jews
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T. Belman. Liberman worries me. What has “all the world” got to do with it in any event? After the State Department criticized us for announcing a few building plans, I raised the question of whether they had any rights to say what we should be doing east of the greenline.

Of course, they wrongfully claim that settlements are illegal. Or dubiously claim we agreed with them to cease settlement construction, but they have no legal authority to impose their will on us. The same goes for the UN whose only mandate is to keep the peace. Also the UN Charter pledges to maintain “the sovereign equality of all its Members,”

“It can’t be that all the world will come with one request for settlers in Amona and with a totally different request for those living in [Palestinian] Sussiya,” Liberman says.

By Tova Lazarov, JPOST

Defense Minister Avigdor Lberman linked the fate of the West Bank illegal Palestinian herding village of Sussiya with that of the settler outpost of Amona, when he visited the South Hebron Hills on the first day of school Thursday.

“Those who care about the rule of law have to respect our legal system,” he told middle school pupils in the Sussiya settlement.
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T. Belman. When an IDF soldier killed a neutralized terrorist, for which he is now on trial for manslaughter, some IDF brass and MK’s said doing so is not in accordance with our values. I said “If so, it is time to change our values” and a large majority of Israelis agreed. Our laws and our values are only appropriate in normal times but when there is a threat to our civilization or an insurgency, it is time to man the barricades. Pres Lincoln suspended Habeus Corpus, PM Pierre Trudeau invoked martial law. During the cold war the Communist Party was banned.

Democracy is not a suicide pact.

Only a Pres Trump is prepared to do what is necessary. First things first.

Daniel Greenfield agrees. Why the Burkini Ban is Right

By Selwyn Duyke, AMERICAN THINKER

It can be a good thing to be idealistic. But you’d better make sure you have the right ideals. As to this, the modern West is quickly becoming something non-Western — precisely because our ideals are now far less than ideal.

It has often been noted that some among us use our freedoms to destroy our freedoms. George Soros, a real-life James Bond villain, comes to mind; other leftist entities such as the ACLU and Southern Poverty Law Center also qualify, as they sue Americans into shedding Americanism. Another example is a group they aid and abet: Muslim conquerors bent on winning the West for Dar al-Islam. And since this is not just an American phenomenon but a Western one, it has recently been addressed by a French academic — in strikingly blunt language.
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By Isi Liebler, WORD FROM JERUSALEM

Haaretz, Israel’s oldest Hebrew daily newspaper, was established in 1918 by a group of left-leaning businessmen. In 1937, Salman Schocken bought the newspaper and it was edited by his son Gershom until his death in 1990.

Although its circulation was never high when compared to the tabloids Maariv and Yedioth Ahronoth, it has for many years been regarded as the most influential intellectual newspaper in Israel with its readership including leading political and economic elites. It was considered a liberal newspaper although its economic section was conservative, and it published many outstanding feature articles.
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The move is part of Avigdor Lieberman’s ‘carrot and stick’ strategy for the West Bank, but forces further to the right consider it an unwise concession.

By Yotam Berger, HAARETZ

Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman has approved the establishment of a children’s hospital for Palestinians in the Bethlehem area, drawing the ire of forces further to the right who fear Israel will make concessions on land.

The defense minister’s office added that the move was part of the hard-liner’s “carrot and stick” program for fighting terrorism announced earlier this month.

Israel’s Civil Administration in the West Bank said the plan, which has been delayed for around eight years, still needed its approval. This means the plan must go through the regular planning process, but Lieberman’s announcement is designed to get this process going.
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By BENJAMIN WEISER, NYT AUG. 31, 2016

A federal appeals court in New York has thrown out a $655.5 million verdict rendered last year that had held the Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization liable for their roles in supporting terrorist attacks in Israel that claimed American lives.

In reversing the verdict on Wednesday in the case, which drew the attention of the Obama administration, the appeals court did not minimize the impact of the six terrorist attacks, which occurred from 2002 to 2004, but it held that the Federal District Court in Manhattan had lacked the jurisdiction to hear the case.

“The terror machine-gun attacks and suicide bombings that triggered this suit and victimized these plaintiffs were unquestionably horrific,” said a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in Manhattan.

“But the federal courts cannot exercise jurisdiction in a civil case beyond the limits prescribed by the due process clause of the Constitution,” the court added, “no matter how horrendous the underlying attacks or morally compelling the plaintiffs’ claims.”
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Ted Belman

Aside from publishing Ground-breaking report on incitement to terror, antisemitism by UN NGOs , I took the trouble to view Human Rights Voices and noticed a page on Israel, the International Criminal Court & Universal Jurisdiction

CONTENTS

The Statute of the ICC

Israel and the ICC

News, Articles and Commentary

Universal Jurisdiction

Comparative Allegations of War Crimes

By Ted Belman

UN Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs): Inciting Hatred, Antisemitism and Violence from the World Stage

This ground-breaking report, by Human Rights Voices and the Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust, exposes the shocking antisemitism and incitement to violence that is occurring at the United Nations by means of UN-accredited non-governmental organizations (NGOs). The UN is enabling groups to spread hatred, encourage terrorism, and promote the destruction of the Jewish state from the world stage.

it is so important to get this information out. The report – to be officially released today – documents incitement, antisemitism and the promotion of terror going on at the United Nations via UN-accredited NGOs.
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T. Belman. This is Part XI of the series, ISLAM, Our Deadliest Enemy: Time is Running Out. I have been posting one Part every day for the last week and will continue for the next week til done. These articles written by VIPs and renowned scholars devastate Islam more comprehensively than anything in print. It is intended that this series come to the attention of Trump’s committee to Study Islamic Terrorism, when formed.

ISLAM, Our Deadliest Enemy: Time is Running Out

By  Prof. Paul Eidelberg, President, Israel-America Renaissance Institute, Jerusalem and Philadelphia

CONTENTS
Part I. Introduction
Part II. Identifying the Enemy
Part III. A Former Muslim Shows How to Combat the Enemy
Part IV. An Insider’s View of ‘Moderate’ Muslims
Part V. Beyond Multicultural Relativism
Part VI. The Theological Basis of Today’s Crisis
Part VII. Islamophobia: Facts and Fictions
Part VIII. Islamic Bellicosity and Blood Lust
Part IX. Blood Lust (cont’d)
Part X. Iran and Necrophelia
Part XI. Islamic Imperialism
Part XII. Islam: A Cult of Hatred, Especially of Jews

Part XI. Islamic Imperialism
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