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President Barack Obama resolved earlier this month, much to the surprise of Washington insiders, to open a third anti-terror front in Libya to eradicate the Islamic Front’s tightening grip on the country.

While collaborating with Russia in the Syrian arena, and with the Iranians and the Iraqi army and Sunnis in Iraq, Obama took his close aides by surprise by another decision – to lead the Libya campaign again in conjunction with Russia, as well as with concerned Western Europe allies.

The first step in this campaign took place this weekend: A group of US, Russian, French and Italian Special Forces quietly landed at a point south of Tobruk near the Libyan-Egyptian frontier. Standing by after preparing the ground were some 1,000 British SAS troops.
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Restoring the indigenous population to their land

Native Americans: Native Americans lived in the United States for millennia before Europeans discovered the land. Within a few hundred years, the Europeans overwhelmed the native population and effectively banished them from their lands and homes. To add insult to the injury, the invaders forced new religions onto the remaining tribes.

In the 20^th century, Americans began to slowly reverse course and offered more rights to the Native Americans, including American citizenship in 1924. At present, the United States recognizes several hundred Native American tribes and gives them some degree of autonomy in lands of their own.
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The 4 Minute speech that will change your entire perspective on peace in the Middle East

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Not only are a large majority of American Jews in favour of preventing Jews from building in Judea and Samaria, they support Obama’s willingness to expel Jews from the contemplated Palestinian state.

The whole issue of “Settlements” in Judea and Samaria is not about demography or peace. It’s about civil rights. Anyone who tells you otherwise, is simply distorting the facts. What are the liberal values that are being advanced by another Jew-free Arab Muslim country?

By Evelyn Gordon, COMMENTARY

The global firestorm that has erupted over Israel’s “NGO transparency bill” can’t be understood without knowing one crucial fact: Israel’s leading left-wing “nongovernmental” organizations are actually wholly-owned subsidiaries of the European Union and its member states. This fact, which was incontrovertibly demonstrated by a new NGO Monitor study, explains both why the bill is so important and why it is so fiercely opposed by the organizations themselves and their European funders.
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By Yoram Ettinger, ISRAEL HAYOM

US Ambassador to Israel, Dan Shapiro believes in “Land for Peace” and echoes the US Administration pressure on Israel to retreat to the pre-1967 ceasefire lines: an 8-15 mile sliver along the Mediterranean, towered over by the mountain ridges of Judea & Samaria. Thus, the US Administration – unlike the US public and Congress – ignores the centrality of Judea & Samaria in Jewish history, religion, culture and nationalism, and provides another victory to wishful-thinking over the 1,400-year-old reality of inherent Mideast/Arab violence, unpredictability, tyranny, doublespeak and hate-education.

If Israel would have caved under US pressure to retreat from the Golan Heights – a site of Jewish battles against the Roman Empire – ISIS and other terrorists would be there, overlooking the Sea of Galilee, traumatizing northern Israel and beyond.
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By Lazar Berman, JCPA

• Iran has made deep inroads in the Kurdish region that the United States, Israel and allied countries see as a nascent ally, pro-Western and largely democratic.
• While some details of the Iran-Kurdistan relationship remain vague, it is clear that Iran has positioned itself as a reliable military backer of Iraqi Kurdish forces, filling a vacuum the West has left as a result of its tepid support.
• Iranian motivation is based on its goals of exporting its revolution and challenging the West.
• Iranian penetration of Kurdistan allows Tehran to render it less likely that its major adversaries, including Israel and the United States, will gain a secure foothold in a region that has a 400-mile border with Iran.
• The expectations of Kurdistan becoming an ally of Israel, America, and Europe may be in danger if the West continues to prioritize Iraqi and Turkish interests over those of the Kurds.
• As Kurds continue to be disappointed by Western military and political support, Iran has found numerous opportunities to expand its political, economic, and military influence in Iraqi Kurdistan.

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By Ben Ariel, ARUTZ SHEVA

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Saturday admitted that anti-Semitism is “more widespread” in Germany than some believe.

Speaking in her weekly podcast and quoted by Haaretz, Merkel called for action to “deal with [anti-Semitism] – especially among young people… from countries where hatred of Israel and the hatred of Jews is widespread.”

Anti-Semitism, she stressed, is more “widespread than we imagine, and that’s why we have to make intensive efforts against it.” The Chancellor noted the negative effects of anti-Semitic propaganda online and attempts to combat it.
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BY Rena Bassist, JPOST

“First we must separate between Israelis and Palestinians, this is what all efforts must be focusing on; a separation that will be accompanied by security and economic measures, in a way that will bring about calm on the ground.’’

Isaac Herzog met on Friday at the Elysée Palace with French President François Hollande and Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, presenting his new diplomatic plan of separation from Palestinian villages surrounding Jerusalem.

The meeting lasted more than an hour and was described by a source close to Herzog as warm and friendly.

Apart from discussing the diplomatic situation in the Middle East, the three spoke also at length about the French-Jewish community.
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By Leon Kushner, THE WORLD IS UPSIDE DOWN

I’ve often written that we need to keep our eyes on the ball. Focus on the important issues and not get tangled up in academic arguments.

I’ve stated that the # 1 problem facing humanity currently is radical Islam and all of its supporters which are many. Newsflash: It isn’t global warming. Helping a terrorist state like Iran obtain nuclear weapons is perhaps the greatest existential threat to not only Israel but the world at large. Likewise is Islam’s conquest of the West by immigration.
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by Philip Carl Salzman, The Daily Caller
January 20, 2016

Anthropologists invented cultural relativism. Founding figures of American anthropology, Franz Boas and Ruth Benedict, the latter in her famous pre-war book Patterns of Culture, argued that you can only understand other peoples’ lives if you consider their cultures and their actions from their own points of view.
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T. Belman. This is worth reading though I disagree with the emphases. Kramer Suggests that if Bibi renounced the TSS, the West would also. I think it is the other way around. The West is focussed on wresting control of Area C from our hands so that they will ultimate arrive at the TSS. The West decided a year ago, to abandon the “peace process” because it  gave Israel and the Arabs a veto. Instead they are acting unilaterally to arrive at the same place.

by Steve Kramer

Since 1947, the 2-state solution (an Arab State alongside the State of Israel) has been the holy grail of Western diplomats. Notice that I said Western; most Muslim countries have never subscribed to that concept. The proof of Muslim antipathy to the Jewish State is the continuous incitement and hostile acts against it, plus the fact that only Egypt and Jordan enjoy peace treaties with Israel, 67 years after Israel’s independence.

Part of the reason for the current upheaval in the Maghreb and Levant (North African/Eastern Mediterranean countries respectively) is the shallow roots of the existing Arab states. Prior to the post-WWI era, there were no Arab “countries” except for Egypt, which existed for thousands of years and gained independence from Britain in 1922. It was the Europeans, particularly the British and the French, who set arbitrary boundaries for the new Arab states in 1916. Before that, Arabs had been colonized by the Europeans and the Turks. (The Ottoman Empire stretched throughout the Balkans and the Levant for many centuries, until it effectively dissolved during WWI.)
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There is little colloquy left in academia for Israeli advocates.

By Barry Shaw, JPOST

The doctrine of unreasoned hate pervades the atmosphere in seats of higher learning and research as campaigners for an end to Israel make dangerous inroads into the once hallowed hallways of British academia.

The beginning of 2016 saw the nadir of freedom of speech at King’s College London, a once proud bastion of open debate and intellectual honesty.
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By Earl Cox, JPOST

In his celebrated but tardy, prime time television announcement, President Obama told the world that America is on the right side of history. Wrong, Mr. President. We are living in the wake of terror in America and fearful of more to come. The population is now living in a state of concern when going to a shopping mall, convention center or sports arena – any place where there is a large public gathering. Welcome to the world in which Israelis have been living for decades. The terror which Israelis confront on a daily basis will soon be mirrored on American streets. The proverbial handwriting is on the wall. Those who shout “Death to Israel and Death to America” mean exactly what they say.
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By David M Weinberg, ISRAEL HAYOM

The biting criticism of Israel’s policies in Judea and Samaria expressed this week by U.S. Ambassador Daniel Shapiro is not a bolt from the blue. It is a planned and purposeful escalation of American pressure on Israel, meant to force Israel into withdrawal, without peace diplomacy or Palestinian commitments.

Surprise at Shapiro’s tough comments could only be expressed by those who have not been paying attention. Shapiro’s remarks echoed recent statements made by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry at the Saban Forum in Washington on Dec. 5, and by U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power at the Haaretz-New Israel Fund conference in New York on Dec. 14. Shapiro added some icy icing of his own.
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T. Belman. This is an excellent review of what’s going on but it misses an overview. Negotiations are dead. No once including the US, the EU or the UN is trying to restart them. But that doesn’t mean they are giving up. In stead they have shifted gears and are now through words and deeds are trying to separate Israel from the territories. As Curtis reported “the ministers finally agreed on a joint statement on the degree to which they should stress a distinction between the country, Israel, and its occupied territories.”

If you look carefully at what the Obama Administration is doing you will learn that the US supports all the EU policies and statements in this regard. Furthermore the EU with the blessing of the US are encouraging the Arabs to violate the Oslo Accords by illegally building in Area C and are financing all such construction. Similarly the US has come out in opposition to Israeli draft legislation that would require all NGO’s in Israel who receive more than half their budget from foreign governments to disclose the same. And don’t forget the Obama imposed freeze on all Jewish construction east of the ’67 cease fire lines, is fundamental to this strategy.

These policies and statements are intended to separate Israel from the territories in light of the fact that the negotiations, now ended, couldn’t do it.

By Michael Curtis, AMERICAN THINKER

On October 10, 2015, a bill was introduced in the U.S. Congress to counter the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel. By the U.S.-Israel Trade and Commercial Enhancement Act, U.S. trade negotiators are instructed to discourage potential trade partners from engaging in economic discrimination or participating in or promoting acts of BDS against Israel. The bill seeks to eliminate the politically motivated boycott and barriers on Israeli goods, services, and other commerce imposed on the State of Israel.
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By Moshe Feiglin, JEWISH LEADERSHIP

The problem with Israel’s security perception is that Bennett, who said that Defense Minister Ya’alon and the entire military suffer from conceptual fixation, is right. And so is Ya’alon, who accused Bennett of political pandering.

True, the most sophisticated weapons will not work if the military is plagued with conceptual fixation. But when the person who makes that claim suggests no alternatives other than to “accept reality, get out of there once and for all and open new horizons for the Arabs with security oversight” – in other words, a contradictory and glossed over version of the very same conceptual fixation – then Ya’alon is also right and Bennett’s word are nothing more than cynical politics and childish whims bereft of loyalty and integrity.
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Since last September when the Palestinians began their current terrorist onslaught, killers like Adais have been characterized as lone wolves.

By Caroline S Glick, JPOST

“I’m proud of him.”

That’s what the father of Dafna Meir’s murderer said when the Palestinian media asked him what he thinks of his cold-blooded son Murad Adais.

On Sunday afternoon, Adais butchered Meir in her home, in front of her children.
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Move ordered by the Defense Ministry enrages various right-wing politicians and lawmakers; Ya’alon: ‘I will not compromise the law.’

By NOAM AMIR/MAARIV HASHAVUA, JPOST.COM STAFF, TOVAH LAZAROFF

The Defense Ministry on Friday morning ordered security forces to remove dozens of Jews from a pair of Hebron buildings said to have been abandoned and then purchased legally from their original Palestinian owner.

The Jewish settlers initially refused to voluntarily evacuate the premises, and security forces began to forcibly remove them, according to Channel 2.

So far, no violent clashes have broken out between the residents and security forces.
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Name a single country, faced with threats comparable to those faced by Israel, with a better record in human rights and compliance with the rule of law. – Prof. Alan Dershowitz

By Martin Sherman, JPOST

… we believe that Israel must develop stronger and more credible responses to questions about the rule of law in the West Bank… Too much Israeli vigilantism in the West Bank goes unchecked… at times it seems Israel has two standards of adherence to the rule of law in the West Bank – one for Israelis and one for Palestinians. – US Ambassador Dan Shapiro, January 18, 2016
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BY Ari Abramowitz & Jeremy Gimpel, JEWISH PRESS

Get ready for a deeply spiritual and penetrating analysis from Rabbis Ari Abramowitz and Jeremy Gimpel into one of the most perplexing questions of our times.

Reports are now surfacing that Europe is systematically covering up the violent crimes Islamic immigrants are committing across the continent.

Only decades ago, these same European governments collaborated with Adolf Hitler and assisted him in deporting six million Jews to Nazi gas chambers.

Today, as they embrace Islam and cover up their crimes, Europeans consistently condemn Israel while seeking to isolate her politically and economically.

Can we glean from the millennia of wisdom and insight to make sense of this today?

About the Author: Rabbis Ari Abramowitz & Jeremy Gimpel are the founder of The Land of Israel.com & the hosts of “Israel Inspired” radio and TV. – See more at: http://thelandofisrael.com/