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Dangers --- and opportunities 
by Caroline B. Glick
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Friday Top Headlines 
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by Media Editors:  Trump gears up to strip more clearances from officials tied to Russia investigation (The Washington Post)
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$1.5 trillion in corporate cash is coming to America (Bloomberg)
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Pentagon postpones Trump’s military parade after cost estimate of $92 million was $80 million more initially thought (CNBC)
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New Mexico compound mysteriously destroyed by authorities (NBC News)
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ISIS fighter wanted for murder posed as a refugee to get into the U.S. (Townhall)
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Nearly 20 illegal immigrant juveniles skip deportation hearings, disappear into shadows each day (The Washington Times)
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Trump administration cracking down on production of prescription opioids (The Hill)
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Federal judge orders Trump to reinstate scumbag/liar-nObama’s Waters of the U.S. rule (Washington Examiner)
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Pope Francis breaks silence on Pennsylvania Catholic church sex-abuse scandal(Washington Examiner)
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Satanic Temple statue unveiled at the Arkansas State Capitol (ABC Little Rock)
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Good news: Hero groom strips off and leaps into the sea during his beach wedding to save drowning teen (Daily Mail)
 
Humor: dummycrats-Dems: We have to enact socialism so we can find out what it is (The Babylon Bee)
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Policy: Ben Carson makes the right move rolling back scumbag/liar-nObama-era housing policy (Manhattan Institute)
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Policy: Sen. dinky-Warren’s plan to “fix” capitalism would destroy trillions in market value (Investor’s Business Daily
 
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Trump revokes security clearance for
former CIA director scumbag/commie-John Brennan 
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by Brooke Singman
{ foxnews.com } ~ President Trump has revoked the security clearance for former CIA director scumbag/commie-John Brennan, the White House announced Wednesday... in the first decision to come from a review of access for several top scumbag/liar-nObama-era intelligence and law enforcement officials. White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders read a statement on behalf of the president during the start of the press briefing, saying scumbag/commie- Brennan “has a history that calls his credibility into question.” The statement also said that scumbag/commie- Brennan had been "leveraging" the clearance to make "wild outbursts" and claims against the Trump administration. “The president has a constitutional responsibility to protect classified information and who has access to it, and that’s what he’s doing is fulfilling that responsibility in this action,” Sanders said Wednesday...  http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/08/15/trump-revokes-security-clearance-for-former-cia-director-john-brennan.html
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Prosecution blasts Paul Manafort's 'lies'
in closing remarks to federal jury
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{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team hammered away at Paul Manafort and his “lies” on Wednesday... as the case against the former campaign chairman in a suburb of Washington, D.C., nears its conclusion. Prosecutor Greg Andres outlined the federal government’s case against Manafort in closing arguments to the jury that spanned nearly two hours. Manafort’s defense will have two hours maximum to give their argument, and Andres is allowed a 17-minute rebuttal. “This is a case about Mr. Manafort and his lies — his lies on his tax returns and his lies to bank after bank after bank,” Andres told the jury of six men and six women. “When you follow the money, the trail is littered with lies.” He added: “Mr. Manafort lied to keep more money when he had it and he lied to get more money when he didn’t.” Andres walked through the government’s case against Manafort, who is facing 18 counts of tax and bank fraud in the Eastern District of Virginia...Lies, the dummycrats-dems are good at that.
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30,000 ISIS Fighters is Not Defeat
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{ founderscode.com } ~ “In Iraq, operations continue to secure areas across the country, as Iraq security forces locate, identify and destroying ISIS remnants,” Ryan said... “Last week alone… operations across Iraq have resulted in the arrest of more than 50 suspected terrorists and the removal of 500 pounds of improvised explosive devices.” Iraqi forces are moving in Anbar province, in the Hamrin Mountains and Samarra. Reconstruction efforts are ongoing with roads reopening in the north. Iraqi engineers “cleaned the main road between Salahuddin and Samarra of IEDs, making travel safer between the two cities,” he said. In the Baghdad area, the ISF established central service coordination cells, a program designed to use military resources to enable local communities to restore basic infrastructure and services. “Initial efforts by the coordination cells include trash collection, road openings, maintenance of water facilities,” Ryan said. Syrian Democratic Forces are preparing for the final assault on ISIS in the Middle Euphrates River Valley. The SDF is reinforcing checkpoints and refining blocking positions ahead of clearance operations in Hajin, Ryan said. In Syria, too, reconstruction efforts go hand in hand with military operations. “In Raqqa, the internal security forces have destroyed more than 30 caches containing 500 pounds of explosives discovered during the clearance operations in the past weeks,” the colonel said. ISIS remains a concern in both countries, the colonel said. “Make no mistake: The coalition is not talking victory or taking our foot off the gas in working with our partners,” he said. Defeating ISIS, he said, will require a long-term effort...
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‘Shame on You’: Judge Rips Newspaper
for Publishing Redacted Info on Nikolas Cruz 
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{ lawandcrime.com } ~ The judge in the Nikolas Cruz case lashed out at a newspaper’s attorney Wednesday after the outlet published information... on the defendant’s educational background. “Your actions are shameful,” said Broward Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer. The Broward County School Board had filed a motion against the Sun-Sentinel because the outlet published details about Cruz’s education background. These details were intended to be redacted to protect the defendant’s privacy, but could still be read because of an unexpected technical glitch. The blacked out parts became visible when pasted to another computer file. Now the board wants the outlet and reporters Paula McMahon and Brittany Wallman to face contempt proceedings. They argue that publishing the details violated court orders. Things started off on the proverbial bad foot. Scherer was visibly annoyed at learning that neither McMahon and Wallman weren’t at court Wednesday. The Sun-Sentinel‘s attorney said they weren’t aware that the court ordered their appearance...  https://lawandcrime.com/crime/shame-on-you-judge-rips-newspaper-for-publishing-redacted-info-on-nikolas-cruz-watch/.
Whitewashing Far-Right Parties in the Middle East
by SETH FRANTZMAN

{ meforum.org } ~ When France went to the polls in 2017, CNN described an interview with the “far-right candidate Marine Le Pen.”... In March, France24 reported on Italy’s elections as a choice between “the populist Five Star Movement, three-time former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi’s right-wing coalition and the ruling center-left dummycrats-Democratic Party.” Hungary voted in national elections in April and The Guardian wrote about “Gergely Karacsony, the leading left-wing candidate.” Pakistan went to the polls last week and Imran Khan’s Tehreek-e-Insaf came in first. France24 reported that prior to his win there had been a “rotating leadership between the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and the Pakistan People’s Party.” The Guardian reported that the PML-N had complained about the vote. CNN noted that the “Pakistan Muslim League came in second with 64 seats and the Pakistan People’s Party won 43.” Notice the difference. In Pakistan there is no “right” and “left” or “far right.” The closest most Western media came to apply the labels they apply throughout the West to Pakistan was France24 describing the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam as “religious.” Only Al-Jazeera labeled some of the parties in Pakistan’s elections as “far right” and others as “religious supremacists.” The absence of political spectrum terms “right” and “left” affects every country from Morocco to Pakistan, except for Israel. In Israel elections, major media describes a political spectrum spanning far left to far right. Even though India and Pakistan share similar histories, The Independent described “far-right populism” in India, but not “far-right populism” in Pakistan. If there isn’t “far-right” populism in Pakistan, perhaps there is “far-left populism?” Nope. Neither that. It is as if the greater Middle East exists in an apolitical universe. There are left- and right-wing parties in South America, in sub-Saharan Africa, and in East Asia and Australia...  https://www.meforum.org/articles/2018/whitewashing-far-right-parties-in-the-middle-east?utm_source=Middle+East+Forum&utm_campaign=5db27c95ca-FRANTZMAN_CAMPAIGN_2018_08_13_03_10&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_086cfd423c-5db27c95ca-33703665&goal=0_086cfd423c-5db27c95ca-33703665 
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Dangers --- and opportunities 
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by Caroline B. Glick

{ jewishworldreview.com } ~ The international pro-Israel community -- Jews and gentiles alike -- must not deny the present nor ignore implications for the future

If the current violence between Israel and the Hamas terrorist regime in Gaza escalates into a full-scale war, one thing is certain. The main thoroughfares of the West’s great cities will be filled with thousands of protesters marching in support for Hamas and its strategic goal of annihilating Israel.

The anti-Israel demonstrations this time around will dwarf all those that preceded them.

We also know with mathematical certainty that Jewish institutions and Jews will be violently assaulted from London to Melbourne, Paris to San Francisco.

Every public demonstration in support of Israel, indeed, every public demonstration of Judaism, including Jewish people walking to synagogue on Shabbat – will become a focal point for attacks.

We also know with absolute certainly that just as the violent assaults against Jews in the West during Operation Protective Edge in 2014 dwarfed the attacks from earlier wars, so the violence directed against Jews and Jewish institutions in Europe and the US in the next war will dwarf all that preceded it.

We know that the anti-Israel demonstrations will be bigger and violence against Jews more widespread now than in the past because over the past four years, leftist antisemitism has grown in scope and extremism throughout the Western world.

Hatred of Jews, based in a rejection of Israel’s right to exist and expressed first and foremost through the demonization of Israel’s supporters as racists, has become more widespread. Its expressions have become more extreme and more violent.

Consider the situation in Britain. Last month, US President Donald Trump paid a visit to the US’s closest ally. The Red-Green alliance of the Left and the Muslims was beside itself. Its queer, feminist, jihadist and animal rights members banded together to organize a major demonstration against Trump in London.

As British Jewish writer and activist David Collier documented on his website, two aspects of the demonstrations stood out. First the marchers weren’t against Trump. They were anti-American.

As far as they were concerned, Trump is just a manifestation of America’s inherent evilness. His predecessor Barack scumbag/liar-nObama was also terrible.

The second notable aspect of the supposedly anti-Trump, Red-Green rally in London was the prevalence of anti-Israel messages. Collier posted videos of crowds at every corner happily shouting out chants calling for Israel to be destroyed, “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free,” and supporting Hamas, “From Palestine to Mexico, racist walls have got to go!”.

It’s worth asking how the protesters at an antiTrump rally naturally gravitated towards anti-American and antisemitic messages.

Why did the people who supposedly hate Trump snap up “Free Gaza” stickers like hotcakes? What possesses British feminists to support a jihadist regime that routinely attacks Israel for no reason and treats women like property? The answer is simple enough. They aren’t thinking. They are following.

And over the past 15 to 20 years, hatred of Israel and support for its enemies, including Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah, has moved from the margins of the Left to become its signature foreign policy. What was once the cause célèbre of the Left’s radical fringes has now become the default position of politicians and activists associated with the Left throughout the Western world.

Take for example Sen. scumbag-Cory Booker’s recent participation at the annual Netroots Nation conference, which took place last weekend in New Orleans. The conference, first convened during Barack scumbag/liar-nObama’s presidency, bills itself as “a political convention for American progressive political activists.” It has become a key tool for fundraising and political organizing for dummycrats-Democratic politicians. Would-be presidential candidates cannot afford to miss it.

Given its “progressive” pedigree, the only foreign policy position the participating groups advocated on behalf of was abandoning US support for Israel and replacing that support with support for the Palestinians. To this end, the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, (USCPR) was a major participant in the conference.

Booker’s political roots are in the pro-Israel community.

And until scumbag/liar-nObama concluded the nuclear deal with Iran three years ago, scumbag-Booker was one of the most outspoken supporters of Israel in the dummycrats-Democratic party.

scumbag-Booker smiled broadly in the picture he took with the USCPR members. In the photo, scumbag-Booker happily clutches a sign which reads, “From Palestine to Mexico, all the walls have got to go.”

When asked about the photo by reporters, scumbag-Booker’s spokesman insisted that scumbag-Booker hadn’t read the sign.

But USCPR activists dispute his position. They told The Intercept that they spoke to him before snapping the photo. One of the members in the photo is wearing a t-shirt that says, “Palestine is a queer, feminist, refugee, racial justice issue.”

If he didn’t read the sign, he should have been able to guess it wasn’t an ad for a kosher deli.

THIS BRINGS us back to Britain.

Two weeks ago, in an unprecedented move, Britain’s three national Jewish newspapers closed ranks and jointly published the same front-page editorial.

The editorial dealt with the growing prospect of a Labour government under the leadership of Labour Party chairman Jeremy Corbyn. The papers referred to that possibility as “an existential threat to Jewish life in this country.”

According to the joint editorial, “With the government in Brexit disarray, there is a clear and present danger that a man with a default blindness to the Jewish community’s fears, a man who has a problem seeing that hateful rhetoric aimed at Israel can easily step into antisemitism, could be our next prime minister.”

The Jewish newspapers were driven to publish the joint warning by the Labour Party’s refusal to adopt the same definition of antisemitism as the British government, 130 local governments and dozens of other countries have adopted. The definition, which was drafted by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, (IHRA) enumerates eleven examples of antisemitism to enable authorities to properly identify anti-Jewish discrimination.

Included in the examples is the allegation that Israel is inherently racist and comparisons of Israel to Nazi Germany. Labour based its rejection of the IHRA definition on the presence of those examples.

As far as Corbyn’s Labour party is concerned, it is not necessarily antisemitic to argue that Israel is inherently racist and therefore has no right to exist or to compare Israel to Nazi Germany.

Labour’s refusal to accept IHRA’s definition on these grounds is not merely a testament to the fact that the view that Israel the illegitimate, modern incarnation of Nazi Germany is commonplace in the party today. Indeed, Corbyn and his close advisors have been repeatedly documented voicing such views.

It is also a declaration of intent for the future.

By refusing to say that it is antisemitic to claim that Israel is inherently racist, Labour is justifying, and to a degree, inviting open discrimination and persecution of Jews.

If Corbyn becomes Britain’s prime minister, Labour’s position will open the door to institutional discrimination against Jews. Due to their Zionism – that is, their “racism” – British Jews are liable to find themselves boycotted, fired, socially, academically and professionally shunned and sued. After all, if they are Zionists, they are evil.

British Jews aren’t the only ones who need to be alarmed by Corbyn’s rise, and the Left’s ever-growing embrace of antisemitism. Israel also needs to be deeply concerned.

Not long ago, Corbyn referred to terrorists from Hamas and Hezbollah as “my friends.” If he becomes British prime minister, not only can Israel expect his government to suspend all security cooperation. Israel can reasonably expect Britain to start funding – and transferring strategically significant information – to Corbyn’s “friends.”

And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. 

The main threat Corbyn poses to Israel stems from Britain’s alliance with the US.

In the century that preceded Trump’s presidency, the British used their close relationship with Washington to diminish US support for Israel. In the immediate aftermath of the September 11 attacks for instance, then British prime minister Tony Blair convinced then-president George W. Bush to limit the scope of his anti-terror campaign to terror groups that didn’t primarily attack Israeli Jews. Due directly to Blair’s intervention, in his September 20, 2001 speech before the joint houses of Congress, Bush declared war on terror organizations “with global reach.”

Thanks to Blair, given the “local” nature of their terror war against Israel, Palestinian terrorists received ever expanding political, military and financial support from the Bush administration.

Indeed, two months after Sept. 11, then secretary of state Colin Powell became the first senior US official to officially express support for Palestinian statehood.

IF CORBYN rises to power while Trump is still in the White House, he will speed up the ongoing radicalization and legitimize the antisemitic trajectory of the dummycrats-Democratic Party. But his immediate effect on US policy towards Israel will be limited.

If, on the other hand, Corbyn serves in parallel to a dummycrats-
Democratic president, given the radicalization of the dummycrats-Democratic Party, a Corbyn government will have a poisonous effect on US-Israel relations.

In light of the stakes, Israel needs to work on three levels simultaneously.

First, Israel needs to fight for British Jewry. The Foreign Ministry, and national institutions like the United Israel Appeal, and even regular Israelis on vacation in Britain – need to be as outspoken in criticism of Corbyn as the Jews of Britain are.

There is no point in being diplomatic. If Corbyn forms a government, diplomatic niceties will get us nowhere.

British Jews now courageously fighting Corbyn with everything they have are not being alarmist.

As the three papers noted, until recently, the Labour Party “was the natural home for our community,” but “Corbynite contempt for Jews and Israel,” has eroded “its values and integrity.”

Second, Israel needs to prepare for the day after Corbyn wins the next general election. Any longterm strategic projects Israel may have with Britain should be wound down now. New projects should not be initiated.

Israel-based anti-Israel NGOs with ties to the Labour party should be followed very, very closely.

As far as the US is concerned, given the ongoing radicalization of the dummycrats-Democratic party and its ties with Britain’s Labour Party, Israel’s continued strategic dependence on US military aid is looking less and less responsible.

Israel should use Trump’s tenure in office as an opportunity to transform our military dependence into a military partnership. We should exchange aid for US investments in joint weapons research and development projects. By transforming our relationship into a partnership, Israel will minimize the chance that the next dummycrats-Democratic president will feel comfortable walking away from Jerusalem in lockstep the party’s radical grassroots and his or her British counterpart Corbyn.

The growth and escalation of antisemitism in the Western Left is a strategic threat to both Israel and the Jewish communities in Western nations. For the future of Western Jewry and of Israel, we need to recognize the threat and take action to limit its consequences.
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