Brexit, the day after: Demand for 2nd go at EU referendum gains momentum, with tens of thousands signing by the hour

BY TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF, AFP AND AP June 25, 2016, 11:17 am Updated: June 25, 2016,

An online petition to the British parliament demanding a second UK referendum on whether to remain in the European Union received a surge of support over the weekend, nearing 1 million signatures within a day of being set up.

The petition was gaining tens of thousands of new signatures by the hour.
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T. Belman. One of the reasons the EU hates Israel is because Israel is nationalist as opposed to universalist. Now that Europe and the US is trending nationalist, that augers well for Israel.

Special Relationship II*
By Sol W. Sanders, AMERICAN CENTER FOR DEMOCRACY

Brexit’ Aftershocks: More Rifts in Europe, and in Britain, Too
By STEVEN ERLANGER, NYT

A Magna Carta Moment Emerges in the Brexit As U.S. Election Nears
By LAWRENCE KUDLOW, NEW YORK SUN

Brexit: The Nationalist-Popular Rebellions Continue
BREITBART

Brexit: Why The Globalists Lost
BREITBART

By Ruthie Blum, ALGEMEINER

The reason that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s response to the Orlando massacre was met with an unprecedented response on social media for a statement made by a politician was his “tone of voice,” wrote a prominent columnist in the Financial Times on Monday.
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Anne Bayefsky, HUMAN RIGHTS VOICES, speaks to the UN “Human Rights” Council, June 22, 2016,

By EVELYN GORDON, COMMENTARY

Hats off to the British. Aside from all the other reasons to applaud Britain’s decision to leave the European Union (i.e. democracy, national sovereignty), it has voted to secede from an enabler of Palestinian terror and hate education. And if that accusation sounds harsh, consider what transpired in the EU Parliament on the very day of the Brexit referendum.
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By Ruthie Blum, ISRAEL HAYOM

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas lies about Israel not only as a matter of course but as one of policy. It was no surprise, then, when he stood up at the European Parliament on Thursday and regurgitated a claim made this week that rabbinical figures in the Jewish state had urged the government to poison Palestinian wells.

Abbas knew that this classically anti-Semitic blood libel was as false as a similar one, spread last week, that claimed Israel forced Palestinians from a certain village to flee by drying up their water supply during Ramadan. In fact, a pipe had burst, and it was immediately repaired. But not — as media watchdog HonestReporting pointed out — before the “water apartheid” lie, first “reported” by Al Jazeera, was picked up by The Independent, the International Business Times, Radio New Zealand and The Times of London.
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By Bill Wilson, KIN Senior Analyst

WASH—Jun 21—KIN ?The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the FBI are among the latest in the President’s administration to use the names “Allah” and “God” interchangeably. This is a disgrace. While there are minor differences between reputable Jewish and Christian scholars on the true name of the one true God, it is not Allah. Yet Presidents H.W. Bush, Clinton, G.W. Bush, and Obama all say they are the same.

Now the FBI and the Department of Justice are saying that God (YHWH) and Allah are one and the same. This is blasphemy, and should be offensive to every Christian and Jew. The FBI re-released a redacted transcript of the Orlando terrorist attack, restating references to Islamic State, but changing references of “Allah” to “God.”
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“In a sense, the result of this referendum is a victory for Trumpism the world over.”

By Simon Shuster, TIME

In a stunning victory for the anti-establishment forces that have upended mainstream politics across the Western world, British voters chose on Thursday to pull their country out of the European Union, sending global markets into a tailspin and encouraging anti-E.U. forces across the continent to push for their own referenda on whether to break away.

“The E.U. is failing, the E.U. is dying,” declared the leader of the U.K. Independence Party, Nigel Farage, one of the leaders of the campaign for the British exit, or Brexit, from the union formed from the ruins of Europe after World War II. “It’s a victory against big business…against big politics,” he told reporters early on Friday morning, as the results showed 52% of the votes had been cast in favor of leaving and 48% against.
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By Moshe Feiglin, JEWISH LEADERSHIP BLOG

Everyone is talking about the two-state solution, brought to us directly from the ideological study hall of the Left. So is Netanyahu. And Netanyahu is not only talking about it – he is literally begging Herzog to join his government, so that he can rid himself of Bennett and do exactly what the Left wants.

He even enlisted the Egyptian president to give it another small push to make it happen. And to convince the still skeptical Left, he sent his right hand man, Natan Eshel, to detail his plans in the most explicit and detailed manner in the radical leftist Ha’aretz newspaper.
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by Daniel Pipes

Moncef Marzouki, the president of Tunisia from 2011 to 2014, has penned an analysis predicting, as I have, the demise of Islamism. I quote from a MiddleEastEye.net abridgement and translation of the original Arabic version that appeared at Aljazeera.net.

Marzouki, a liberal human rights activist who returned from exile after a popular revolt brought down dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, became president under a power-sharing agreement following Tunisia’s first free parliamentary elections in October 2011, heading a government dominated by the Islamist Ennahda party. “We do not have the same point of view on women’s rights, human rights, and so forth,” he lamented to Time magazine in 2012.
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By Evelyn Gordon, COMMENTARY

Writing in the Jerusalem Post on Monday, historian Efraim Karsh made a point I’ve made many times before: Contrary to the popular notion that Israel’s “occupation” spurs Palestinian terror, the numbers inarguably prove that terror increases whenever Palestinians gain control of territory and drops whenever Israel reasserts control. In fact, Karsh said, Israel’s average annual death toll from post-Oslo terror (dating to 1993) is roughly triple the level pre-Oslo. But while he correctly cites the absence of Israel’s military as a major reason for this increase, another factor is no less important: By giving the Palestinian Authority control over schools and airwaves, Israel enabled it to launch a campaign of hate education that has significantly boosted the motivation for anti-Israel terror.
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As of 7:00 AM :

The UK has voted by 52% to 48% to leave the European Union after 43 years in an historic referendum, a BBC forecast suggests.

Not all votes counted but enough top call the vote.

By Martin Sherman

Rather than an indictment of the ruling coalition, Barak’s recent “fire and brimstone” address was a harsh condemnation of the Israeli electorate for its infuriatingly stubborn refusal to disregard past experience

“People who live in glass houses should not throw stones”

–A proverb on prudence (or the lack thereof) and hypocrisy; origins traced back to Geoffrey Chaucer (1385)

Note to readers: I have taken a break from the multi-part critique (Imbecility Squared) of the so-called plan put forward by the organization that goes by the name of  “Commanders for Israel’s Security” (CIS), to analyze and rebuff Ehud Barak’s outrageous attack on the intelligence of the Israeli people, which he delivered at the end of last week. I felt his unfair and unfounded onslaught could not go unanswered. I will continue with my analysis of the CIS proposal—which Barak seems to endorse—in coming weeks – MS
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By Vic Rosenthal, ABU YEHUDA

This happened on Tuesday: Palestinian terrorists spilled oil on highway 443 between Jerusalem and Modi’in and threw rocks and firebombs at passing vehicles, as they do on a regular basis. The IDF responded and opened fire at what they thought were the terrorists, killing one Palestinian teenager and wounding two others. Although all the facts aren’t available as I write this, it appears that the soldiers were mistaken about their target, and the people they shot were innocent.

Palestinians are understandably enraged, but it’s also understandable that an Israeli might ask, “what do they expect?” Every day they try and sometimes succeed to kill Jews with their rocks and firebombs, their cars and knives, and sometimes their guns and explosives. Of course we are going to fight back, and mistakes happen.
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By Caroline B Glick, JPOST

This week MK Michael Oren stood up to his boss in the Kulanu party, Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon, to the political Left, including hundreds of retired security brass, and to the IDF General Staff. The former ambassador to Washington urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to sign the multi-year security assistance deal that US President Barack Obama demands Israel accept.

The problem isn’t the money. By all accounts, Obama’s multi-year military assistance package is generous.

The problem is that in exchange for the expanded military aid, Obama is demanding that Israel surrender its diplomatic and military independence to the White House.
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Ted Belman. I prefaced this article Netanyahu tries to turn Arab Peace Initiative on its head, posted on June 2/16, with:

“I am in the process of writing an article in which I suggest the same thing. Presently the API says that after Israel cuts a deal with the Palestinians then the Arab League will “consider” establishing normalized relations. But now the Arab League don’t want to wait for the recalcitrant Palestinians. Instead they want to secure a regional arrangement and will do so without Palestinian consent.

“If the Arab League agreed to different parameters than those demanded by the Palestinians, the Palestinian strategy would be greatly undercut.”

By Pinhas Inbari, JCPA

The murderous bombing attack by the ISIS organization against a Jordanian outpost at the junction of Jordan’s borders with Iraq and Syria reinforces Jordan’s new needs in dealing with the Palestinian problem. The closing of the borders with Syria and Iraq illustrates Jordan’s inability to agree to a hostile border with the Palestinians, hence the need to preserve the IDF as the friendly neighbor along the length of the Jordan River and not replace the IDF with Palestinian militias.
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At rollout ceremony for Israel’s first cutting edge F-35 stealth fighter, Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman says jets will “safeguard Israel’s aerial superiority” • IAF chief of staff says F-35 flight simulator was like “holding the future in my hands.”

By Yoav Limor, ISRAEL HAYOM

Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman poses inside Israel’s first F-35 fighter jet at the Lockheed Martin plant in Fort Worth, Texas Wednesday | Photo credit: Defense Ministry

“The State of Israel is proud to be the first in our region to receive and operate the plane,” Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman remarked as Israel’s first cutting edge F-35 fighter jet was unveiled at a festive rollout ceremony at the Lockheed Martin plant in Fort Worth, Texas on Wednesday.
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T. Belman. The EU and the US keep trying to make the case that the Arab/Israel conflict is disrupting the ME and the World and must be solved as a priority. Is there any credibility to this claim?

Union snaps back after attack by Foreign Ministry official, says absence of peace agreement has global repercussions

BY RAPHAEL AHREN, TOI

The European Union on Wednesday dismissed strident criticism by an Israeli official — who, among other things, had accused the organization of “colonialism” — as “offensive, inaccurate and inappropriate.”

On Tuesday, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Emmanuel Nahshon told The Times of Israel that the EU’s policies vis-a-vis the Israeli-Palestinian conflict feel like the “ghosts of a colonial European past coming back to life.”
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By Shoshana Bryen, AMERICAN THINKER

Congress has passed a $576 billion Defense Appropriations bill for 2016 with a wide and bipartisan majority: 282-138, according to Defense News. The Obama administration takes issue with various parts of the bill, including presenting a six-page memo specifically calling for the elimination of Congress’s allocation of $635 million for Israel.

The money for Israel includes $268.7 million in R&D for U.S.-Israel cooperative missile defense programs; $72 million for the procurement of Iron Dome; $150 million for the procurement of David’s Sling; $120 million for procurement of Arrow III; and $42.7 million for U.S.-Israel anti-tunnel cooperation.
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By Sierra Rayne, AMERICAN THINKER

In contrast to the “pants on fire” claims by liberal and faux conservative journalists, there hasn’t been a single poll in recent weeks before the firing of Corey Lewandowski that, once corrected for known bias, shows anything other than a Trump-Clinton tie, or even a Trump lead.

Polling data last week were staged by the uni-party so the GOPe could use the data as leverage to take control – at least partially – of Trump’s campaign. This required the apparent use – if we believe the “sourced” rumor mill – of bad polling data to justify Corey Lewandowski’s unceremonious firing. This was a campaign coup d’état on trumped up charges – nothing more, nothing less.

More evidence of the actual position Trump’s campaign was in as of Monday comes from two new polls.
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