By Ann Coulter 

By Jerry Gordon, Iconoclast

As I watched  the US Senate and House Foreign Affairs hearings on President Obama’s request for limited authority  to strike  Syria’s Assad for the sin of gassing 1,500 of his own people, I remarked to myself how soon we forget what happened to another group in the Middle East. I am referring to the Kurds, a non-Arab ethnic group split across four countries: Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria who number in excess of 40 million. The Kurds were denied sovereignty promised at the Versailles Peace discussions when the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923 established the Republic of Turkey and the secret Sykes Picot agreement of 1915 was implemented with French and British Mandates decreed at San Remo in 1920. What became the modern nation of Iraq under Hashemite King Faisal was designed by noted British Arabist Gertrude Bell and became a reality in 1926.  The modern nation of Syria was created out of the French mandate in 1938, while Lebanon, a province became an independent country in 1944.   As a result of  geo political map making of the modern Middle East , the Kurds were split asunder.
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The Millennial Generation Is Abandoning Liberalism

By  Chriss Street,  AMERICAN THINKER 

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On Election Day in 2008, 37.4% of incoming freshman women and 30.5% men identified themselves as liberals or leftists, the most in 35 years. This corresponded four years later to 33% of Millennials describing themselves on Election Day 2012 as liberals. Given that Barack Obama lost a majority of the over 29 year old vote by 50% to 48%, it was his 61% to 36% support among 18-29 year olds that swung the election in his favor. The media proclaimed that Obama’s reelection was proof the Millennials would power liberalism to dominate American politics for the many decades.

Support for Obama has fallen by 9% since Election Day, but it is the 15% collapse in support by Millennials that is driving Obama’s fall. Furthermore, first-year college students self-identifying as liberals has also dropped by five points to 26.4% for men and 32.4% for women. Read more…

By Eileen Toplansky, AMERICAN THINKER

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by David P. Goldman
PJ Media

http://www.meforum.org/3602/us-intelligence

One in five applicants for jobs at the Central Intelligence Agency have ties to Muslim terrorist organizations, according to the latest round of Snowden leaks. And Israel is a major target of American counterintelligence. Washington is insane.

Three years ago, the Washington Post sketched the elephantiasis in the U.S. intelligence establishment without, of course, access to the detailed numbers leaked by Edward Snowden last week. It doesn’t matter how much money you spend if you can’t hire people you can trust. If you spend $52 billion in the “black budget,” you create so many conflicting bureaucratic interest groups as to cancel out any possible signal with a wave of noise.
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“My Administration is Proud to be

Your Partner”, Obama Tells

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By David Goldman, PJ MEDIA

President Obama stopped Israel from launching an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities a year ago, according to the then head of Israel’s National Security Council, Gen. Giora Eiland. Gen. Eiland spoke with Israeli journalist Rotem Sella, a former former senior writer for the daily Ma’ariv, at the Daily Capitalist blog on the “Mida” online news site. Some quickly-translated extracts from Sella’s report are below:

Exclusive: Prime – Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was about to order an attack on Iran in September 2012, but canceled the operation in response to U.S. pressure, the former head of Israel’s National Security Council said last month. Gen. Giora Eiland (retired) added that Israel “has a real ability to destroy Iran’s nuclear program,” and that it is possible that the American veto was related to the presidential election then in progress.
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There is nothing new here for Israpundit readers. I, and most commenters here, have been saying as much for the last 4.5 years. Ted Belman

Turning Point: Obama and Israel, The Next Three Years

By Barry Rubin

It is not every day that one can announce a shift in world history, but this day is today. And we are now in a new era in the Middle East and the world. This is not a joke–definitely not a joke–and as you will see, it is not an exaggeration.

Let me explain. For the last seven weeks I have been in the United States, mostly in Washington D.C. I have spoken and listened to many people. As a result, I am in a position to describe for you with a high degree of accuracy what the policy will be for the next 3.5 years, and perhaps for many more.

The administration has crossed a line to, in simple terms, backing the “‘bad guys.”
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By NIV ELIS, JPOST

Visiting Chinese trade reps tout Israel’s “world-class products.” 

JOHNSON LIU, deputy director-general of the China Foreign Trade Center, addresses Israelis in TA Photo: Shlomi Mizrachi

The ubiquitous “Made in China” stamp that for years could be found on cheap manufactured goods in Israel and around the world is gradually giving way to a new economic reality.

On Monday, representatives from Canton Fair, China’s largest trade exhibition, met in Tel Aviv’s David Intercontinental Hotel and urged Israeli businesses to join the event in mid-October. But for the first time, they were not courting just importers to distribute Chinese goods to Israel; instead, they laid out the case for Israeli businesses to sell to China. Read more…

By P. David Hornik, FPM

As Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish New Year) approaches on Thursday this week, the mood here in Israel has been oddly “schizoid.” On one hand, the usual rush on apples, honey, pomegranates and the like for the holiday; on the other, a rush on gas masks as Syria and Iran threaten “retaliation” against Israel for a possible U.S. strike on Syria.

This week there was more news on the grim side of the ledger. It turned out Israel’s Shin Bet (internal security service) had arrested five Hamas operatives who were planning a terror attack on a Jerusalem mall—timed for, and exploiting, the holiday season (reports here and here).

The leader of the cell was 22-year-old Hamdi Romana of Ramallah in the West Bank. He recruited two other West Bankers to make the explosives—and two East Jerusalem residents with Israeli ID cards, who worked as maintenance men in the mall, to plant the bomb.
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Ted Belman. Remember Boaz Albert, the farmer in Yitzhar and the guy who got tasered before his children. Well he isn’t taking his persecution or prosecution lying down. In this article he explains his case and the powers of the Civil Administration in J&S. He is convinced that justice is on his side and so am I.

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It is my desire to explain what drives me in this struggle and focus on two points: the injustice of the order and the misconception of why we are here in the Land of Israel.

The injustice of the order:

I’d like to provide some background for those who are not well versed in the differences between the ordinary criminal justice system and the Civil Administratipm system, that which is in force in Judea and Samaria.

The State of Israel is a country of enlightened laws which protect the rights of the individual, including the rights of a suspected criminal. The fundamental principle of the law is that a person is “innocent until proven guilty,” and this is even in the extreme case that the person admits to the charges against him or when the crime was photographed and publicized. So long as the legal process against him has not ended, the person is only a “suspect.”
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Elliott Abrams has done us a great service in highlighting what Obama said both before and after his inauguration.  He sheds great light on what drives Obama’s foreign policy. Ted Belman

Elliott Abrams — COMMENTARY September 2013

In 2007, early in the improbable presidential candidacy of Barack Obama, the young first-term senator began a series of foreign-policy speeches that seemed too general to provide a guide to what he might do if elected. Aside from making it clear he was not George W. Bush and would get out of Iraq, the rest read like liberal boilerplate: “We have seen the consequences of a foreign policy based on a flawed ideology….The conventional thinking today is just as entrenched as it was in 2002….This is the conventional thinking that has turned against the war, but not against the habits that got us into the war in the first place.”

In 2008, he visited Berlin and told an enraptured crowd: “Tonight, I speak to you not as a candidate for president, but as a citizen—a proud citizen of the United States, and a fellow citizen of the world…the burdens of global citizenship continue to bind us together.”
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TO THE ISRAPUNDIT COMMUNITY, I WISH YOU ALL GOOD HEALTH AND GREAT HAPPINESS IN THE COMING YEAR.

TO ISRAEL I WISH YOU GREAT STRENGTH AND GREATER INDEPENDENCE

MAY THE COMING YEAR BE BETTER THAN THE LAST YEAR.

By Stuart Winer, TIMES OF ISRAEL

The Palestinians are negotiating statehood with Israel on the basis of the pre-1967 lines, and the talks are making headway, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas told officials from his Fatah party, according to an Israel Radio report Monday.

Abbas said he agreed to July’s resumption of talks “only once he’d received an official US guarantee that negotiations would be on a two-state solution based on the pre-1967 lines,” the report said. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had emphatically refused Abbas’s demand, ahead of the talks, to publicly state that negotiations for a Palestinian state would be based on the pre-’67 lines, and the United States has not made public any assurances it may have made on the issue to Abbas.
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My very good friend from Toronto, Salomon Benzimra, wrote THE JEWS: A PEOPLE, A NATION, A STATE in 2006. Specifically he highlighted the ingredients of nationhood and the requirements of citizenship within the democratic model. A brilliant essay and a must read. Ted Belman

Being a citizen of the Jewish State of Israel is not a right to which its entire population is entitled: it is a privilege that should only be bestowed to those who accept the responsibilities inherent to citizenship.

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On the other hand, the state must also embrace democratic principles not only because democracy is the widely accepted norm or advanced societies but because the democratic principles of equality, liberty and justice are embedded in Jewish thought. However, there is a difference between the people and the population. The people in a democratic nation-state are all citizens, as sharing in the sovereign power. For the Arab population to share sovereign power in the state, they must first become citizens, that is embrace the common goals and spiritual principles of the founding nation. If not, this segment of the population is reduced to subjects or residents living under the laws of the state but deprived of any sovereign power. The question of democracy is therefore closely linked to the criteria of citizenship.
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By ABDULATEEF AL-MULHIM, ARAB NEWS

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Yet I have always maintained that the Arab Spring was dead on arrival although I have the highest respect for people’s demands for better living standards, social equality, freedom to think and ask questions and to eradicate corruption.

I also have no fond sentiment for Tunisia’s Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak and his sons, Yemen’s Ali Abdullah Saleh, Libya’s Muammar Qaddafi and Syria’s Bashar Assad, but I wasn’t optimistic about the outcome of their departure.

The Arab and Western media welcomed the changes, but apparently, many analysts don’t know the complexity of the Arab world.
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If this is true, it was no accident as alleged. Saudi Arabia wanted these deaths to occur so as to pressure the US to enter the war.

So far this report has not been corroborated. Ted Belman

IN FACT THIS STORY IS PROPAGANDA,

Militants tell AP reporter they mishandled Saudi-supplied chemical weapons, causing accident

Paul Joseph Watson, Infowars.com

Syrian rebels in the Damascus suburb of Ghouta have admitted to Associated Press correspondent Dale Gavlak that they were responsible for last week’s chemical weapons incident which western powers have blamed on Bashar Al-Assad’s forces, revealing that the casualties were the result of an accident caused by rebels mishandling chemical weapons provided to them by Saudi Arabia.

“From numerous interviews with doctors, Ghouta residents, rebel fighters and their families….many believe that certain rebels received chemical weapons via the Saudi intelligence chief, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, and were responsible for carrying out the (deadly) gas attack,” writes Gavlak. (back up version here).
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Has anyone noticed? Israeli media wrote about it this past weekend, having just woken up to the implications of educating Americans to hate Israel as occurred in Europe. West saw it right away.

Diana West, INN

“Al-Jazeera America”: The very name gives me the heebie-jeebies. What does Al-Jazeera have to do with America?

Everything, if the cheers and happy talk of the American press corps are any measure. Entranced, media critics have greeted the rollout of “AJA” as that of just another news company, not the propaganda arm of monied Qatari despots. But no matter how many American journalists “anchor” Al-Jazeera America’s news desks, a 24/7 Muslim Brotherhood channel is now beaming into living rooms across the country. There is no changing the fact that Al-Jazeera’s leading personality is the Muslim Brotherhood cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi.
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By YAAKOV LAPPIN, YONAH JEREMY BOB, JPOST

Attacks were to take place at Mamilla mall during High Holidays; security forces uncover explosives lab at suspect’s home.