By AHMAD SAMIH KHALIDI, NYT

LONDON — LAST week, President Obama virtually declared war on the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. But it is hard to reconcile the seemingly urgent need to confront the threat posed by this organization with the chosen means of doing so.

By opting to support the “moderate” Syrian opposition and running the risk of an open confrontation with President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, the West appears to be primarily appeasing Arab Persian Gulf allies that have turned the overthrow of Mr. Assad into a policy fetish that runs against any rational calculation of how to defeat Islamist terrorism. Read more…

Philanthropist Kenneth Abramowitz says UN has been taken over by dictatorships and should be closed.

By Gil Ronen

Philanthropist Kenneth S. Abramowitz has issued a call to “save western civilization from itself” by shutting down the United Nations, among other measures.

As part of a general effort to fight the false narratives and terminology propagated by the left wing, Abramowitz says that the UN should no longer be portrayed as an important advance for world peace. In fact, he states, it has been taken over by dictatorships and should be closed.

Abramowitz says that the rational citizens of the West must cease using the enemy’s terms – like “Second Intifada” for the terror war unleashed against Israel in the wake of the Oslo Accords, or “occupation” and “West Bank” for the Jewish liberation of the Biblical heartland of Judea and Samaria.
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https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=881491725194515

This is the clearest statement that I have read or heard confirming that ISIS is Islamic.

And further that Islam is the problem and must be identified as the enemy.

By Jeff Dunitz, THE LID

At the end of Sunday’s Tom Harkin Iowa Steak Fry, Bill Clinton was recorded bashing Bibi Netanyahu, agreeing that the prime minister was “not the man” to make peace with Palestinians. At the very end of the 3 Hour 15 minute C-Span coverage, the former President had an impromptu conversation with pro-Palestinian activists.

If we don’t force him to have peace, we won’t have peace … Netanyahu is not the guy,” the activist told the ex-president. I agree with that,” Bubba clearly replied, apparently unaware his remarks were being recorded. Then he bragged about getting Ehud Barack to give Arafat everything he wanted including Jerusalem.

Bill Clinton’s anti-Bibi comments were in line with his wife’s actions as Secretary of State who presided over the foreign policy of the most anti-Israel administration in history. Actually with the possible exception of the time from her first campaign New York’s Senate seat in 2000 to her resignation from the Senate to become Secretary of State in January 2009, except for the time she needed New York’s Jewish voting bloc, Hillary Clinton has never been pro-Israel. It seems that after years of getting rich from Arab money…husband Bill agrees.

by Pilar Rahola 

Why don’t we see demonstrations against Islamic dictatorships in London, Paris , Barcelona?

Or demonstrations against the Burmese dictatorship?

Why aren’t there demonstrations against the enslavement of millions of women who live without any legal protection?

Why aren’t there demonstrations against the use of children as human bombs where there is conflict with Islam?

Why has there been no leadership in support of the victims of Islamic dictatorship in Sudan ?

Why is there never any outrage against the acts of terrorism committed against Israel ?

Why is there no outcry by the European left against Islamic fanaticism?
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Arutz Sheva

In what may establish a groundbreaking legal precedence, the United States Court of Appeals is scheduled to hear the case of American biologist Alan Bauer, who filed suit in 2011 in the Federal court in Manhattan seeking to impound 14 vessels which were outfitted to be used in the 2010 Mavi Marmara Flotilla – which set off from Turkey in order to break the Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip – on the grounds that the funding for the ships was raised illegally in the United States.

Dr. Bauer, who was seriously wounded with his son in a 2002 Palestinian suicide bombing attack in Jerusalem, explained that “when the US Chief Prosecutor refused to pursue the matter on his own, I decided to invoke my right as an American citizen to seize the flotilla.”
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By David Goldman, PJ MEDIA

I had to read the penultimate paragraph of Ross Douthat’s New York Times piece on “friendless Middle East Christians” before the enormity of it sunk in. Douthat wrote:

If Cruz felt that he couldn’t address an audience of persecuted Arab Christians without including a florid, “no greater ally” preamble about Israel, he could have withdrawn from the event. The fact that he preferred to do it this way says a lot–none of it good–about his priorities and instincts.

In so many words: Jew-hatred among Middle Eastern Christians is so rampant that it should be ignored in the interests of saving this oppressed minority. Never mind that it is impossible to conceive of any strategic configuration on the Middle East that might help Middle Eastern Christians without including Israel; never mind that Israel’s supporters in the United States are among the first to urge America to act on their behalf; and, above all, never mind that Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Christians can practice their religion in security and safety, and that Israel is the only country in the Middle East with a growing Christian population.

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ISRAEL HAYOM

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon has ordered IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz to deal with the soldiers who urged insubordination in the Intelligence Corps’ Unit 8200 “as if they were common criminals,” Channel 10 reported Monday.

Speaking at the Fourth International Cybersecurity Conference at Tel Aviv University, Ya’alon said, “Using military service, be it by regular troops or the reserves, for political purposes in unacceptable. It is a felony.”

He deemed the letter published Friday by a group of 43 soldiers as “politically motivated disobedience. I will not allow the military to be used this way,” he said.

Meanwhile, 10 times as many soldiers and commanders from the IDF Intelligence Corps’ Unit 8200 have signed a letter denouncing the claims made by the soldiers, who stated they would refuse to continue serving in their current roles.
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By Ted Belman

I have long been an advocate of unilateral action reasoning that the agreements we get from Palestinians aren’t worth the paper they are written on and the cost of getting such worthless agreements is much too high.

Amos Yadlin Amos is the director of the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) in Tel Aviv. He formerly served as chief of military intelligence for the Israel Defense Forces. He makes The Case for Unilateral Withdrawal

He proposes that:

A generous offer should be made to Palestinians, the outlines of which are by now quite familiar, having been repeatedly put on the table by successive Israeli prime ministers. If, once again, the offer is rejected out of hand or meets with impossible and non-negotiable demands like the wholesale return of Palestinian refugees and their descendants, or sovereignty over the Temple Mount, Israel on its own should continue to pursue a two-state reality.

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By Lee Kaplan, INN

In dealing with US supporters of Israel, it is a fact that unless one talks about the mythical peace of a “two-state-solution” for the Israel-Arab conflict, even pro-Israel Jews will attack, or “shoot the messenger “.

After having the last twelve years doing analysis and writing about the Middle East and US foreign policy vis-à-vis Israel as well as anti-Semitism, I have looked into the future  and it’s not bright. We can sing Bashanah Habaah (“Things will improve next year” – a popular Israeli song, ed.) but events are not going to get any better unless Israel changes its way of dealing with the Arabs, the Iranians and the United States.

In 2006, I wrote about all the hoopla going on about the Iranians getting the bomb and talk of Israel and the US attacking Iran to stop this. I said it would never happen and I was right.

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Reid says the failure to condemn Hamas as one would condemn the Islamic State is “stunning hypocrisy.”

By Ben Ariel, INN

In a recent speech, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) condemned Hamas and noted that it was no better than the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) group.

Reid’s speech to the Senate was made last Thursday but excerpts were published Sunday by JNS.

According to the report, Reid affirmed U.S. support for Israel, calling the failure to condemn Hamas as one would condemn the Islamic State group “stunning hypocrisy.”

“Hamas and IS are both vicious, corrupt, hateful, evil groups. And both are extreme. Yet, for some reason, Hamas’ brutality doesn’t elicit the same horror from the international community as ISIS. How can that be?” Reid wondered as he addressed the Senate.

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What follows is a damning letter to the Editor of Jewish Journal for printing false accusations against Israel. It was written by an expert on such matters whom I know. Ted Belman

I don’t want to play one-man truth squad for the Jewish Journal. HOWEVER, RESPONSIBLE EDITORSHIP WOULD REQUIRE YOU TO REVIEW THE FACTS BEFORE PLACING UNSUBSTANTIATED ACCUSATIONS AGAINST THE IDF BEFORE YOU READERS. If the past is an example, then 90% or more of the accusations will prove to be false. By that time the rotten taint that you helped spread will be accepted as fact by your readers.

Responding to the article: “The first is the horrific July 16 killing of four Palestinian boys, all cousins, playing on the beach in Gaza, right beneath a hotel where dozens of journalists were staying…..” Previously, the Israelis shelled that beach because Hamas was firing from close to the hotel using it as a shield. When figures were seen on the beach near where the original firing had taken place, it is legitimate to assume that they are the firing crew preparing for a 2nd mission. No one asked why any parent would allow his child to play in an area that had previously been used to launch rockets from.
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DAILY CALLER

INTERVIEW OF NIGEL FARAGE.

Although Democrats often play to their base, modern Republicans seem ashamed of the 40% of registered voters who support the tea party. Likewise, similar constituencies felt ignored in the United Kingdom — until Nigel Farage and the UK Independence Party (UKIP) entered the political realm.

Faragehas been a Member of the European Parliament since 1999 and his party is now showing surprising growth as middle-class Britons rebel against the EU, open borders and an oppressive government.To put it simply, Farage wants to take his country back!

In an exclusive 24 minute video interview filmed on September 4 in Washington, D.C., Farage exudes self assurance, spunk and principle as a leader unafraid of  the European Union “the emperor has no clothes.” From reading the tea leaves in Europe, Farage believes fewer people are enamored with the growing, centralized, bureaucratized state based out of Brussels.

By: JoeSettler

It’s estimated that the direct and indirect economic cost to Israel for the 51 day Gaza war was in the area of $3 billion dollars. It’s broken up between military costs, and economic damage.

I only mention that number because of an interesting article I read in Makor Rishon this weekend.

Assaf Gibor interviewed some young men (in their 20s and 30s) in Gaza who wanted to leave. They want to move to Europe, to start new lives and families there, away from Gaza, Hamas and war.

One man gave broke down the costs. He needed $12,000 to make a new life.
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All Sunnis are supporting ISIS in their fight to bring down Assad.Turkey, Saudi Arabia and QATAR are supporting them too. They may even want to reestablish Sunni dominance in Iraq and Lebanon too. Anything to curtail Iranian influence. That’s why the US can’t find allies. She wants the Sunnis to fight Sunnis.  Of coarse SA is worried that the monster they have created will ultimately attack them too. SA has made it clear she sees the MB as an enemy.  So does Egypt. America’s best course of action is to back the Kurds and the Jews. Ted Belman

By Patrick Poole, PJ MEDIA

Obama’s hope to do anything of substance in Syria took another severe blow yesterday as the U.S.-backed and armed Syrian Revolutionaries Front (SRF) struck a peace deal with ISIS, according to both Arabic and English language news reports.

The SRF had only a few months ago been deemed by the U.S. foreign policy establishment as “the West’s best fighting chance against Syria’s Islamist armies.”

Now AFP reports:

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By Ted Belman

Min Ariel announced today that “5,000 Palestinian Workers approved by the Socioeconomic Cabinet” for construction jobs west of the greenline.  He also announced that Israel is making moves to bring in more foreign workers and to train 2000 Israelis.

About construction in J&S, of late, he has said nothing. In the spring he was very vocal. Has he and his party been silenced?

For the second time I am suggesting that the illegal aliens be allowed to work in construction for a period of 3 years providing that they first sign a paper agreeing to leave voluntarily or be deported, at the end of the period. If part of their wages can legally held as security for their agreement, then that too should be done.

Thus we would be making a dent in the housing problem and the alien problem at the same time.

President Obama’s response to ISIS is another example of how our ruling class couples their illusions with whatever they find it convenient to do.

Angelo Codevilla, The Fedralist

President Obama’s promise “to degrade and ultimately destroy ISIL” may or may not end up causing problems for the Islamic State. Surely however, it further degraded our security by further engaging us in the combination of fantasy and half measures that has earned America a reputation for un-seriousness and opened hunting season on Americans everywhere.

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