The persecution Christians experienced at the hands of Muslims in just one month – August.

By  Raymond Ibrahim, FPM

The following are among the abuses Muslims inflicted on Christians throughout the month of August, 2020:

The Slaughter of Christians

Philippines: On August 24, 15 people were killed in twin suicide bombings, carried out by the widows of two terrorists, and targeting a cathedral in the Muslim majority city of Jolo; about 80 others were injured in the blasts.  Abu Sayyaf, a jihadi terror group, claimed responsibility.  “There were two bombers. A suicide bomber was involved in the first explosion,” a military spokesman confirmed. “The second suicide bomber blew herself up after she was arrested after the first explosion.”  “They have died as martyrs witnessing to their Christian faith,” said local Bishop Charlie Inzon of those who died, “as they braved to stay in Jolo despite constant intimidation and risks….  [I]t was treacherous, inhuman and an evil act of violence” “This crime,” added Church in Need, a human rights group, “is even rendered more unconscionable because of the hardships our people are going through during the Covid-19 pandemic.”
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T. Belman. Like I said, if no immediate extension of sovereignty, no freeze.

Some 2,929 housing units are slated for construction in the Beitar Illit bloc in Gush Etzion. Overall, 2,476 homes will be built across the regional councils in Judea and Samaria, and 21 homes will be constructed in communities in south Mount Hebron.

By  Ariel Kahana, ISRAEL HAYOM

Construction near Jerusalem | File photo: Yonatan Sindel

The Israeli government on Thursday announced it would be pushing wide-scale construction in Judea and Samaria, after nine months in which no such plan was discussed.

On Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s instructions, the Judea and Samaria Zoning Committee is scheduled to convene on Oct. 12 to approve the construction of 5,400 homes across the settlement enterprise.

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By Grant Baker, AM THINKER

In Tuesday’s presidential debate, moderator Chris Wallace tried to corner President Trump: “Are you willing tonight to condemn white supremacists and militia groups and to say that they need to stand down and not add to the violence in a number of these cities as we saw in Kenosha and as we saw in Portland?” “Sure.” responded Trump, before noting that all the violence he saw was the fault of ANTIFA and other left-wing groups. Both Wallace and Biden then implied that white supremacists and Proud Boys were responsible for the violence in Kenosha and Portland, which Trump rebutted by referring to ANTIFA. “ANTIFA is an idea, not an organization.” Biden responded.

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By Alexander G. Markovsky, AM THINKER

If a visitor from Mars observed press coverage of President Donald Trump Middle East peace negotiations, he would have heard an amazing tale about Donald Trump’s incompetence and futility of his efforts.

The most experienced negotiator, John Kerry, declared in 2016 “There will be no separate peace between Israel and the Arab world…. No. No, no, and no.”

 In April 2016 Harvard Business Review wrote, “The Donald Trump approach to negotiation would be not only ineffective but also disastrous.”

In October 2019 The Atlantic posted an article “Trump’s Middle East Policy Is a Fraud.”
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By Khaled Abu Toameh, GATESTONE INSTITUTE  •  October 2, 2020

Pictured: Abbas (left) and Erdogan in 2015. (Photo by Thaer Ghanaim/PPO via Getty Images)

• What we are witnessing is an Arab autocrat (Abbas) seeking the help of a Muslim autocrat (Erdogan) in holding “free and fair” elections. Abbas, it seems, is confident that Erdogan’s observers would rubber-stamp the results of any Palestinian election to ensure that the PA president emerges victorious

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Americans once understood that although one side of a dispute might be correct and another might be wrong, both sides could mean well.Op-ed.

By Rabbi Prof. Dov Fischer, INN

Protocols of the Elders of Zion

I have read Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf and Karl Marx’s Das Kapital, both for college political science classes in a time before microaggressions, trigger warnings, safe spaces, comfort dogs, and play-doh and cocoa rooms for upset 20-year-olds on campus.

Yet I must admit that I never have read the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion. That last thing is some anti-Jewish piece of garbage that was fabricated around 1903 in Russia, purporting to be the clandestine minutes of a meeting of a secret cabal of International Jews who supposedly control the world. Yeah, while they are controlling the world, I still need to wait a month for my doctor’s next appointment and still can’t use a normal sink-faucet aerator because this is California.

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T. Belman. Pollak said the petition  “says nothing about Antifa or about extremists in the Black Lives Matter movement,” I find this wanting. Why not refer to “Antifa and Black Lives Matter”? Furthermore by doing so, he equated the harm done by white supremacy groups which is miniscule, with that done by these movements which has been estimated between one and two billion dollars. There is no comparison. He should have said so.  He also should have mentioned that over 700 police have been injured in the BLM “peaceful protests”. He also should have called out Democrats, including Jews, and the mainstream media for encouraging the riots and running cover for them by calling them “peaceful protests”.

The left constantly plays the white supremacy card in order to change the subject from the real problem (Antifa and BLM).

By Joel Pollak, BREITBART

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is circulating a petition among Jewish organizations urging them to criticize President Donald Trump for failing to denounce white supremacy during the first presidential debate on Tuesday — though he did so then, and has done so, often, before.

The petition, which was leaked to Breitbart News, states (original emphasis, links removed):

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VERY INTERESTING ADDRESS. ENDS AT 40 MINUTES. THE REST IS QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.

Melanie Phillips is brilliant in her dissertation. She ends at 12:11.

TRUMP WAS FLYING HIGH.

US imposes sanctions on 13 entities and six individuals, including the governor of the Central Bank of Syria.

By Reuters and ILH Staff

Syrian President Bashar Assad | Photo: AP via the Russian Foreign Ministry

The United States on Wednesday blacklisted what it called “key enablers” of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government, reinforcing efforts to push Damascus back to United Nations-led negotiations to end Syria’s nearly decade-long civil war.

The United States imposed sanctions on 13 entities and six individuals, including the governor of the Central Bank of Syria, in a fresh round of sanctions aimed at cutting off revenue for Assad’s government.

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By Monica Showalter, AM THINKER

Joe Biden was in some kind of foul, putrid mode at the debate last night.

Many people have cited memorable lines from the contentious political slugfest, but the lines that stand out are the grotesquely disrespectful ad hominem insults Biden directed at the president of the United States.

The Rev.com transcript shows tons of them:
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Trump Denounces White Supremacists

THE TRUTH PROVIDER

Biden and the Democrats repeat a lie almost daily that President Trump has never condemned white supremacists. Biden lied about it yesterday during the debate. Trump refuses to denounce racism is parroted by Trump haters again and again ad nausea.

The truth is of course the opposite, Trump has condemned all the extreme right groups, including White Supremacists again and again and again.  Here is one of several such condemnations by the President:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCvwARherKI
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-40929627
https://time.com/4899810/donald-trump-charlottesville/
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by Douglas J. Feith and Lewis Libby, MEF
Middle East Quarterly

President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan transforms longstanding official U.S. ideas about peace diplomacy and about the U.S. role in the region. In the past, U.S. peacemaking efforts aimed directly at a Palestinian-Israeli deal. The Trump peace plan, however, stresses that fundamental changes are required on the Palestinian side before such a deal can become realistic. The plan does not hold out the promise of a quick peace settlement. Rather, it has a more limited aim: to improve chances that peace will one day be possible.

A Warning

The plan’s most original element is a warning: If the Palestinian side continues to support terrorism and reject peace, its cause will suffer. For decades, Palestinian leaders, while refusing peace offers seen as reasonable by top U.S. officials, incited violence and demanded that the status quo in the territories be frozen pending a peace deal. The Palestinians are now being told that, if they continue on this path, Washington will not block Israel from advancing its own claims to areas in the West Bank that, in the administration’s view, would be left to Israel in realistic peace talks. Those areas, according to the peace plan’s “Conceptual Map,” include not just the major settlement blocs but also the Jordan Valley.
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 Your primer on the far-right group Trump told to ‘stand back and stand by’

BY BEN SALES , JTA  SEPTEMBER 29, 2020 11:59 PM

Far-rightists from the Proud Boys wait to get into vehicles after marching across the Hawthorne Bridge in Portland, Ore., Aug. 17, 2019. (Alex Milan Tracy/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

(JTA) — Who are the Proud Boys, the far-right group that Donald Trump name-checked at the first presidential debate? And do they hate Jews?

The answer to the second question: Some of them — including their founder — certainly do.

Let’s back up: At the debate Tuesday night, moderator Chris Wallace asked Trump whether he would condemn white supremacists from the debate stage. He did not. What he did say, amid denunciations of the far-left Antifa, was this:

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