We Do Not Fear Them But Fear For Them

MEMRI

Following the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Taliban’s rise to power there, religious scholar Dr. Attia ‘Adlan, a  former Egyptian MP and current member of the International Union Of Muslims Scholars (IUMS), which is supported by Qatar and Turkey, published an article on the IUMS website in which he defended the Taliban against its detractors.

Forcefully rejecting the fears expressed by many in the Muslim world regarding the Taliban’s rise to power in Afghanistan, ‘Adlan claimed its members are “admirable people,” graduates of excellent shari’a schools who adhere to the tradition and avoid sin, and who are renowned for their jihad and steadfastness.  Moreover, upon the withdrawal of the U.S. forces they did not seek revenge but immediately extended their hand to the Afghan people in forgiveness, he said. ‘Adlan stressed that, if the Taliban indeed made a deal with the Americans in order to affect their withdrawal, there is no shame in this.

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The Sassoon Family Continuation Trust will create three different funds to secure the economic growth of Israel and fight antisemitism.

By James Spiro, CTech

The Sassoon Family Continuation Trust, established in 1485 during the Spanish Inquisition, has recently announced that it will commit $50 billion across three funds to “fulfill a mandate to ensure the economic growth and market impact for Israel.”

$100 billion of financial assets are currently being relocated to the U.S from Switzerland, half of which will end up in Israel.

“There’s a vacuum here, and someone needs to fill it,” David Sassoon told CTech. As a direct descendant of Sassoon trust and its sole beneficiary, he is now the executive chairman of J. Sassoon Group, a Washington, DC-based private equity and investment banking firm and oversees its ventures across the world.

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T. Belman. When Europe falls to Islam, how will Israel survive?

Kedar: It’s time to wake up, understand and take the necessary steps, before it’s too late. Op-ed.

By Giulio Meotti?,  INN       Sep 01 , 2021 7:54 PM

Vatican, Rome

Mordechai Kedar was part of the IDF intelligence unit for twenty-five years. Researcher at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, internationally known scholar, columnist and lecturer, Kedar talked with me about Kabul’s fall.

“Kabul is pumping new blood into the arteries of the jihad and the results are seen all over the world. We must understand that the Islamic mentality is a ‘zero sum game’. When Islam wins, Christianity loses and the ‘crusaders’ lose. They always see a connection between what happened in the 10th century and what happens in the 21st century.

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T. Belman. This is humiliating. It is not so much that Israel is under pressure but that Israel put up virtually no resistance .  Hamas ,the aggressor, is demanding contrition and capitulation. Why is Israel agreeing to improve the economic measures as a first step?  Hamas brought the restrictions on itself. But the worst thing is that we are asked to build trust.  What bullshit.  It’s Hamas that needs to build trust, not Israel. Israel is being brought to its knees.

By Dalit Halevi , INN,       Sep 02 , 2021 5:06 AM

Riots near Gaza border

Senior Palestinian Arab and Egyptian officials said on Wednesday that Egypt is exerting heavy pressure to complete the exchange deal between Israel and Hamas, which would see release of security prisoners in exchange for the return of Israeli missing persons and IDF casualties as part of a comprehensive agreement on a long-term ceasefire.

The Palestinian Arab newspaper Al-Quds reported that Israel’s recent series of relief measures for the Gaza Strip are directly linked to the pressure being exerted on Israel by the United States, Egypt and other countries to improve the economic situation in the Gaza Strip as a first step in advancing the exchange deal.

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The Taliban, like most Jihadis, are players in someone else’s chess game.

By Daniel Greenfield, FPM      Wed Sep 1, 2021

On September 27, 1996, the State Department was very surprised when the Taliban took Kabul.

All of the official reports stated that the Taliban were not likely to take the capital. A lone memo, which never reached Bill Clinton’s Secretary of State, warned it could happen, but was mostly ignored until nine days later when the Taliban “unexpectedly” marched into the city. Read more…

PM distanced himself from defense minister’s meeting with PA chief, but they seem to be OK with each taking a different approach to satisfy coalition’s rightist and leftist bases

By SHALOM YERUSHALMI , TOI
 

Prime Minister Nafatali Bennett (L) and Defense Minister Benny Gantz at a graduation ceremony for Israeli Air Force pilots at the Hatzerim airbase in southern Israel, June 24, 2021. (Jack Guez/AFP)

As of now, Israel’s 36th government seems to be divided into two distinct camps with contradictory approaches to the peace process with the Palestinians. Each is advancing its own agenda, but both appear to be okay and even comfortable with the situation.

The right-wing camp is led by Prime Minister Naftali Bennett; the left-wing one by Defense Minister Benny Gantz. Nevertheless, the two leaders have a good relationship, despite the occasional tensions.

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T. Belman. This article is a warning. Unless the IDF is as motivated to defeat Hamas as Hamas is to defeat it, its superiority of arms will not suffice.  To put it another way, Hamas must be utterly defeated and expelled if Israel is to survive.  Wars should be fought to win, utterly, and should not be undermined with the desire not to offend the Arabs or the international community.

When referring to the “national cause”, I am sure he is not referring to the survival of Israel as the state of all its citizens  but to the embrace of  the Torah of Israel, the land of Israel (Eretz Yisroel) and the people of Israel (Um Yisroel).

Israel could start by referring to the IDF as the IVF (Israel Victory Force).

By Desk Blitz August 29, 2021

The American defeat in Afghanistan will have a direct impact on Israel. Like the pseudo-government foisted by the Americans on Kabul, which, despite massive investment, proved a broken reed, the PA and its security mechanisms will collapse in time against its Islamist adversaries, notably Hamas. For all its overwhelming material and technological superiority, the IDF stands no chance of defeating Israel’s Islamist enemies unless its soldiers are driven by a relentless belief in the national cause. Writes Maj. Gen. (res.) Gershon Hacohen

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By John Green, AM THINKER

Protests against Critical Race Theory (CRT) are breaking out all over America.  It may even be shaping up as a major election issue next year.  Parents are protesting against CRT at school board meetings and with their local school administrations.  It has become such a heated issue that even state and local governments are getting involved — and they’re not coming down on the side of CRT.

But CRT supporters are telling opponents that they simply don’t understand what it is.  They claim they’re fighting racism by giving  children a complete and well-rounded picture of the issue.  They assert that opponents are denying the reality of history by not supporting CRT.  But is that really the case?  Are opponents just a bunch of ignorant rubes that don’t get it?
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Afghanistan has been reinvented as the best-equipped terrorist nation in the world, basking in the prestige of humiliating the world’s superpower.\\

By Victor Davis Hanson, AM GREATNESS

Joe Biden’s scripted or no-questions press conferences, and the clean-up afterward by Antony Blinken, Jake Sullivan, and Jen Psaki, have been some of the most misleading episodes in modern presidential history—mostly in what was not said rather than was exaggerated, warped, and misrepresented.

Biden as Commander-in-Chief

The more Joe Biden mutters “The buck stops here” or “I take full responsibility,” the more we know he will not—and not just because of his now reduced mental state, but because 1) he repeats the same opportunist messaging that he has for the last 50 years of his political career, and 2) the only true thing he could say was “I ordered a withdrawal in the most reckless manner in U.S. military history.”
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Liberal excoriation of fellow Jews is appropriated by antisemites for moral justification, while the myth of Jewish racism is often perpetuated by nonobservant critics who claim their rejection by the Orthodox is a form of bigotry.

By Matthew M. Hausman , Aug 30 , 2021

For generations, antisemites have justified their hatred by blaming Jews for bringing it upon themselves. In medieval Europe, blood libel and host desecration accusations precipitated crusades and massacres while in the Muslim world charges of blasphemy and undue influence instigated persecution and slaughter.

With the Enlightenment came claims of Jewish particularism, global control, and economic deviancy, which further demonized Jews and paved the way for mass extermination. And since 1948, Israel has been blamed for enabling Jew-hatred, a sentiment seemingly reinforced by Foreign Minister Yair Lapid’s recent comments implicating Israeli public relations failures under former PM Netanyahu for the current spike in global antisemitism and diminishing its singularity by comparison to other hatreds.

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ARUTZ SHEVA

Construction materials allowed into Gaza: ‘It pays to kill a soldier’

Gaza fishing zone expanded to up to 15 nautical miles

‘Israel to lend the PA NIS 500 million without demanding end to actions against Israel at Hague or incitement.

Shurat Hadin head says “loan will end up in hands of terrorists”

Bennett kowtows to Biden and jettisons Trump and himself

Bennett articulated Israel’s national interests in Area C when presenting his Israel Stability Initiative, February 2012.

‘There is a de facto building freeze in Judea and Samaria’

Bennett effectively freezing construction in Judea, Samaria and abandoning Area C to Arab land grabs

Tierney’s Real News (8/31/21)

Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s continuous suppression of Chinese tech giants is signaling a change of heart. He wants to return to the Mao Zedong Era. The era of cultural revolution and bloodshed through political struggle. This is a recent move to curb the privatization and in turn, any chance of political deviation. It’s also a chance for Xi Jinping to rein in more power.

But will other officials in the Chinese Communist Party agree to march down this path? Today, I spoke with Gregory Copley, president of the International Strategic Studies Association and author of the book, The new total war of the 21st century and the Trigger of the Fear Pandemic. His most recent commentary suggests a new civil war is brewing in China.

By  Michelle Edwards, UNCOVERDC

As COVID-19 vaccines—including Moderna and Pfizer-NBioTech’s mRNA “gene-therapy” jabs—continue to be promoted and mandated as the primary “treatment” against SARS-CoV-2, other alternative therapies have been around for just as long as the vaccines but have been heavily censored by government agencies. With substantial funding from the U.S. Defense Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) since 2011, mRNA vaccine technology took center stage as a treatment for COVID, with both mRNA “vaccines” receiving Emergency Use Authorization (EUA). Still, one element missing from the emerging treatment was clinical proof of its effectiveness. 

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