By Lee Smith, WEEKLY STANDARD

The American foreign policy community is up in arms because Donald Trump told the New York Times he is disdainful of NATO. They’re right to be upset, but where were they when Barack Obama helped put Russia on NATO’s Turkish border with his Syria policy?

The split looks partisan—Democrats criticize Trump on NATO and give the sitting Democratic president a pass—but just last week members of the foreign policy establishment on the left and right were giddy with excitement that the president of Turkey might be toppled in a coup, thereby throwing a NATO country into chaos.
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Jewish students targeted ‘for harm’

By Adam Kredo, FREE BEACON

Anti-Semitism surged on college campuses across the United States during the first part of 2016, according to a new study that found Jewish students supportive of Israel are being targeted “for harm.”

Nearly 100 more anti-Semitic incidents were recorded on U.S. college campuses during the first six months of 2016 compared with the same period in 2015, according to the report, published by the AMCHA Initiative, a group that works to combat discrimination against Jews.
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By Michael Rubin, COMMENTARY

There are four common myths or misconceptions that infuse U.S. and European peace process diplomacy when it comes to the Israel-Palestinian conflict. The first is that there are millions of Palestinian refugees. This number is arbitrary, the result of UN sleight-of-hand. After all, the United Nations uses a different definition with regard to Palestinians than it does everywhere else in the world. The late University of Illinois Professor Fred M. Gottheil tackled this issue a decade ago in Middle Eastern Studies.
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By Evelyn Gordon, COMMENTARY

Reading the Israeli headlines lately, one can see why many American Jews are convinced that ultra-Orthodox extremism is getting worse. On Monday, the Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) parties got the coalition to pass legislation barring non-Orthodox converts from using state-run ritual baths; earlier this month, the Haredi-dominated rabbinical courts refused to recognize conversions by an esteemed American Orthodox rabbi, Haskel Lookstein; and for months now, the Haredi parties have blocked implementation of Natan Sharansky’s sensible compromise on non-Orthodox worship at the Western Wall. Yet to look only at these headlines is to miss a crucial part of the story: Younger Haredim, while remaining passionately committed to Orthodox Judaism, are increasingly rejecting their rabbinic leadership’s hardline positions on numerous issues, including work, army service, academic study, and communal isolation.
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A civilization that believes in nothing will ultimately submit to anything.

By Bret Stephens, WSJ

At last count, members of the European Union spent more than $200 billion a year on defense, fielded more than 2,000 jet fighters and 500 naval ships, and employed some 1.4 million military personnel. More than a million police officers also walk Europe’s streets. Yet in the face of an Islamist menace the Continent seems helpless. Is it?

Was France helpless in May 1940?

Let’s stipulate that a van barreling down a seaside promenade isn’t a Panzer division, and that a few thousand ISIS fighters scattered from Mosul to Marseilles aren’t another Wehrmacht. But as in France in 1940, Europe today displays the same combination of doctrinal rigidity and loss of will that allowed an Allied army of 144 divisions to be routed by the Germans in six weeks. The Maginot Line of “European values” won’t prevail over people who recognize none of those values.
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The goal of jihad is to bring about the complete subjugation of the continent of Europe and of the West in general.

By David Semple, JMA

‘Jihad with mind, money and weapons’

During the closing weeks of June 2013, there was a meeting of seventy Muslim clerics at a Syrian solidarity conference in Cairo, wherein Sunni preachers called upon their fellow jihadists to “pursue all forms of jihad” against the Syrian government. At that stage in the Syrian civil war, Islamic State had not emerged as the new caliphate which would subsequently go on to conquer large tracts of both Syria and Iraq.
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By Dr. Eric R. Mandel, JPOST

Friday night’s failed coup was Turkey’s last hope to stop the Islamization of its government…Reflexively, Western leaders rushed to condemn a coup attempt they refused to understand. Their reward will be a toxic Islamist regime at the gates of Europe.’ – US Army Lt. Col. (ret.) Ralph Peters

The mainstream account of American foreign policy in the Middle East over the past seven years is that the Obama administration has taken a hands-off, more isolationist approach, extricating America from its misguided entanglements in Iraq and Afghanistan.

In reality the president chartered a well thought-out agenda to profoundly reshape the whole Middle East, realigning relationships, redefining American interests, while endangering the fragile balance between Arab and non-Arab Muslims, Sunnis and Shi’ites. To most observers, American influence and interests have been undermined and weakened in the region.
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Maj. Gen. Gershon Hacohen says Israel should wean itself off US military aid, as government seeks to sign new Memorandum of Understanding.

By Ari Soffer, INN

As Israel’s acting National Security Council chief Yaakov Nagel heads to Washington to push for the signing of a new memorandum of understanding (MOU), one senior former Israeli general has spoken out against American aid to Israel.

Maj. Gen. (Res) Gershon Hacohen, former commander of the IDF’s Northern Command and head of the army’s war colleges, told Defense News Monday that military aid actually harms Israel more than it helps the Jewish state.

Hacohen, who has been outspoken on this issue before, called for a gradual reduction in Israeli reliance on US military aid, which “harms and corrupts us.”
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T. Belman. I never thought I would post an article by Michael Moore but here goes.

by Michael Moore 

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By Daniel Pipes, ISRAEL HAYOM

Exactly 20 years ago, a newly elected Israeli prime minister — Benjamin Netanyahu — dramatically announced the following to a joint session of Congress:

“We are deeply grateful for all we have received from the United States, for all that we have received from this chamber, from this body. But I believe there can be no greater tribute to America’s long-standing economic aid to Israel than for us to be able to say: ‘We are going to achieve economic independence. We are going to do it. In the next four years, we will begin the long-term process of gradually reducing the level of your generous economic assistance to Israel.’ I am convinced that our economic policies will lay the foundation for total self-reliance and great economic strength.”

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T. Belman. This is a shocker. The Right in Israel wants to stress our legal rights to the land starting with the Balfour Declaration. But Netanyahu shows no sign of doing so. You would think that Abbas is happy that he doesn’t do so. Yet, here is Abbas, thinking that the PA gains by attacking the Balfour Declaration rather keeping silent on what the Right think of as our trump suit.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas conveys intent to sue U.K. over Balfour Declaration that expressed sympathy for the Zionist cause

By Daniel Siryoti, Shlomo Cesana, AP and Israel Hayom Staff

Israel blamed the Palestinian Authority of being “delusional” Monday after it said it would take the United Kingdom to court over the Balfour Declaration — a document from Nov. 2, 1917 expressing the U.K.’s support for a Jewish national home in “Palestine.”
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By Moshe Feiglin, JEWISH LEADERSHIP BLOG

We are used to thinking that the goal of the State of Israel is to achieve peace and that the problems our state faces are security, demographics, Palestinian nationalism, international pressure and economics.

But “peace” cannot be the defined goal of a state. Peace is the result of the proper definition and achievement of the goal. If peace were the goal, it would be easier to achieve it in another place, by surrendering our sovereignty, or by assimilation.
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Lt. Col. (ret.) Michael Segall, JCPA

Iran’s Ethnic Diversity (U.S. Institute of Peace)

• Since June 2016, Iran has been enduring terror attacks and assassinations by ethnic-opposition elements operating within its territory and adjacent to it.
• Attacks on Iranian petroleum infrastructure in Ahvaz are a reaction to Iran’s ongoing repressive policy against the Arab minority in Ahvaz, including the ongoing arrests, trials, executions, and expulsions of young people in that area.
• There are currently six to seven million Kurds living in Iran. Although they are part of the Iranian state, they may be distinguished from the Shiite minority by language and religion (most Kurds are Sunnis).

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The Munich Shooter’s Facebook Including His Family Background Shows He Is NOT Iranian But A Syrian Islamist Pro Turkey

They initially introduced his name as a western name “David S”. Then his name changed to Ali David Sonboly (which sounds western) when his real name is Ali Daud Sonboly/Sunbuli which is an Arabic name (better pronounced Sunbuli) and has an exclusively Arabic meaning: ‘from the wheat kernel’.

Sonboly is no Iranian. He is Syrian. His Facebook page showed that he is pro Turkey’s Islamists. That, plus he had a record with the Interpol and was being watched. He is also not a teenager as they show us, but an adult as videos showed. What the reader should conclude after reading is this: why is the eye witnesses account (which is substantiated by material evidence) contradicts media reports (which provide zero evidence that we can verify, just government claim). Let me shred the media’s narrative piece by piece.

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Former Pentagon official: “Erdogan Engineered His Own Coup”. Watch Erdogan’s ‘Hitler Youth’ Before The Supposed Coup, Reveal Erdogan’s Master Plan To Take Over Turkey And The Entire Muslim World

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is a “megalomaniac” and could have manufactured the coup attempt to rehabilitated his domestic power and image, Harold Rhode, a former longtime Pentagon official and Turkey specialist, told The Jerusalem Post.

“Giving into the Russians and Israelis in order to repair relations with them was humiliating” for him in the eyes of many Turks and people in the Middle East, said Rhode in an interview on Sunday.

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By Ben Shapiro, The Daily Wire, 

Donald Trump becomes president, Hillary Clinton will have only herself to blame. The latest CNN/ORC poll shows Trump jumping to a five-point lead against her in a four-way race, with Trump at 44 percent and Hillary at 39 percent. Trump is now ahead among independents, 46 percent to 28 percent; before the convention, he was behind 34 percent to 31 percent. Hillary has a 44 percent to 39 percent advantage against Trump among college voters, but he’s ahead among non-college educated white voters by a stunning 62 percent to 23 percent margin. 46 percent of Americans now have a positive view of Trump, an increase of seven points; 52 percent say Trump is running for the good of the country rather than personal gain, as opposed to 44 percent for Hillary; 43 percent say that Trump is honest and trustworthy, and most importantly, 46 percent of Americans say that Trump understands the problems they face in their daily lives.
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By Barak Ravid, HAARETZ

Acting National Security Adviser Jacob Nagel is expected to take part in a decisive round of talks in Washington this week on a military aid deal with the United States. Haaretz has learned that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is leaning toward giving in on a good many of his demands and accepting most of the American terms. These include a gradual phasing out of Israel’s spending of one-fourth of the American aid on purchases from Israeli defense contractors.
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By Giulio Meotti, INN

The Wall Street Journal just published a shocking article revealing what Patrick Calvar, France’s director general of intelligence, has in mind.

“The confrontation is inevitable,” said Mr. Calvar. There are an estimated 15,000 Salafists among France’s seven million Muslims, “whose radical-fundamentalist creed dominates many of the predominantly Muslim housing projects at the edges of cities such as Paris, Nice or Lyon. Their preachers call for a civil war, with all Muslims tasked to wipe out the miscreants down the street”.

Yes, France is heading toward the “inevitable confrontation”. 84 adults and children have just been tortured to death in Nice by a truck whose driver told a guard he was bringing ice creams to celebrants of the French holiday of egalitarian values. An apparent gesture of mortuary hysteria, but in fact a spectacular horrendous massacre celebrated by the international Jihad and by many European Muslims.
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T. Belman. Tuvia Tanenboim in his very popular book, Catch the Jew, identified Germany as the worst offender in supporting anti-Israel activities in Judea and Samaria. German support for this anti-Israel activity comes from both the Government and the churches.

Netanyahu Tells Knesset Panel: We Have Defeated the BDS Movement

NGO Monitor says 42% of 4 million euros donated by Berlin to Israeli nongovernmental organizations has found its way to groups promoting anti-Israeli agenda • German Embassy in Israel: Germany opposes any boycott of Israel, including BDS activities.

By Yair Altman, ISRAEL HAYOM

A new report revealed Sunday that despite statements to the contrary, the German government has been donating millions of euros to groups promoting boycott, divestment, and sanctions against Israel.

NGO Monitor, a watchdog group that promoted greater transparency among foreign-funded Israeli nongovernmental organizations, has found that between 2012 and 2015, Germany funneled at least 4 million euros ($4.4 million) to some 15 Israeli organizations , and 42% of donations went to groups supporting an international boycott against Israel and policies negating Israel’s existence as a Jewish state.
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