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How 'greater Israel' has reached
a crucial juncture
by Griff Witte
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liar-nObama's Failures Aren't His Fault?
Socialists love to centralize power in the hands of a few likeminded elites. In order to justify this unconstitutional usurping of the rightfully recognized sovereign governing authority of the states, a large national crisis is useful to convince the broad majority of the citizenry that only an organized centralized authority can effectively combat said crisis. The Left has been playing this power-grabbing game for a long time. After all, as Barack liar-nObama's chief of staff Rahm Emanuel famously said in 2008, "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste."
Mere days from leaving office, liar-nObama is still tirelessly working from that old play sheet, this time in the form of Vladimir Putin's Russia. Last Friday, after the intelligence community's report on Russian hacking, liar-nObama issued yet another executive order. He designated state and local voting systems as "pieces of critical infrastructure," effectively giving the Department of Homeland Security authority to "protect" them from hackers.
John Yoo, a law professor at UC Berkeley, was critical of this move, stating, "While the federal government has the general power to protect the nation's cyber infrastructure, it cannot intrude into areas of state sovereignty without clear constitutional mandate." When has that ever stopped liar-nObama?
Ironically, as liar-nObama has grabbed and centralized more power via his executive actions throughout his time in office, he has seen his party suffer massive defeats at the polls both nationally and at the state level. When questioned by ABC News' George Stephanopoulos about the level of his responsibility for those losses, liar-nObama responded, "I take some responsibility for that." But then he quickly pivoted, shook off any real culpability and blamed the circumstances at the time he took office. He declared, "Partly because my docket was really full here I couldn't be both chief organizer of the Democratic Party and function as commander in chief and president of the United States." If only there were two of him.
The real lesson here? The problem with centralizing too much power is that in the end it's impossible to actually meet the many demands. Individuals are better at recognizing and meeting their immediate needs than is some distant government bureaucracy with "big picture" goals. If liar-nObama's attention was divided, it was his own doing thanks to power grabs like the latest one on voting systems. ~The Patriot Post
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Post liar-nObama: Sailing Toward Military Strength
Barack liar-nObama recently reiterated what has become one of his favorite catch phrases: "[A]lmost every country on Earth sees America as stronger and more respected today than they did eight years ago." Juxtapose that assertion with this revelation (via The Washington Free Beacon): "Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi confirmed last week a recent report in the Wall Street Journal detailing some $10 billion in cash and assets provided to Iran since 2013, when the administration was engaging in sensitive diplomacy with Tehran aimed at securing the nuclear deal. Ghasemi disclosed that the $10 billion figure just scratches the surface of the total amount given to Iran by the United States over the past several years." The Iranians and every other foe certainly have a different view of America under liar-nObama's watch. But strength and respect aren't exactly apt descriptors. Capitulation is.
It's also rather difficult to argue in favor of American strength when our own military thinks otherwise. According to The Military Times, "More than half of troops surveyed in the latest Military Times/Institute for Veterans and Military Families poll said they have an unfavorable opinion of liar-nObama and his two-terms leading the military. About 36 percent said they approve of his job as commander in chief." The commander in chief's highest priority is defending America against enemies foreign and domestic. The average Joe isn't alone in seeing that liar-nObama's failed in that regard.
But there's good news. As we recently reported regarding liar-nObama's downgrades of the entire U.S. military force, "The Navy has declined to a ship total not seen since 1916 and has mismanaged its carrier force." According to the Associated Press, however, "With President-elect Donald Trump demanding more ships, the Navy is proposing the biggest shipbuilding boom since the end of the Cold War to meet threats from a resurgent Russia and saber-rattling China. The Navy's 355-ship proposal released last month is even larger than what the Republican Trump had promoted on the campaign trail." It's entirely within Donald Trump's power to change course on issues of national security. Things appear already to be heading in the right direction.
~The Patriot Post
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Who Was Behind CNN’s “Fake News” on Trump?
by Cliff Kincaid
{aim.org} ~ Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow’s January 3 show, “Let me tell you, you take on the Intelligence Community, they have six ways from Sunday to get back at you... So even for a practical, supposedly hard-nosed businessman, he is being really dumb to do this.” He was referring to President-elect Donald J. Trump’s criticism of the Intelligence Community. Asked what the Intelligence Community could or would do to Trump, Schumer said, “I don’t know. From what I am told, they are very upset with how he has treated them and talked about them.” On Tuesday, January 10, we saw the response. It was obvious, based on what this top Senate Democrat had said, that the CIA used CNN to air unsubstantiated charges against Trump. Demonstrating the sad state of ethical standards at CNN, Wolf Blitzer hyped the story into “breaking news,” when the allegations had been circulating for months, and Jake Tapper was brought on the air, “joining me with a major story we’re following right now.” Blitzer emphasized, “We’re breaking this story.” It was the beginning of CNN regurgitating what President-elect Trump called “fake news.”... http://www.aim.org/aim-column/who-was-behind-cnns-fake-news-on-trump/
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The American Left: We Hope He Fails!
by Lloyd Marcus
{trevorloudon.com} ~ Watching video on her phone, my wife Mary laughed hysterically at ridiculous answers to man-on-the-street questions. The young interviewees knew everything about the cast of Jersey Shore... They were clueless about who won the Civil War; who is our Vice President and who we fought to gain our independence. I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. Clearly, Leftists controlling America’s public education has successfully dumb-down our youths. America history, reading, writing and arithmetic have been placed on the back burner. First and foremost is teaching LGBT indoctrination http://bit.ly/2fss53D, how America is destroying the planet and hating ones self for their white privilege. Another top priority is teaching that Republicans are racist, sexist and homophobic. Now that the Left has created millions of brain-dead zombies incapable of reasoning or thinking for themselves, the Left can be hypocritical with impunity, knowing their followers will consume whatever excrement they feed them...I do hope these young generation will wake up or we are in trouble in the future. http://www.trevorloudon.com/2017/01/the-american-left-we-hope-he-fails/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NewZeal+%28New+Zeal+Blog%29
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French Ambassadors Declare War on Israel
by Yves Mamou
by Yves Mamou
Unhappy France-Israel diplomacy
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ Do not forget these names:... Yves Aubin de La Messuzière; Denis Bauchard; Philippe Coste; Bertrand Dufourcq; Christian Graeff; Pierre Hunt; Patrick Leclercq; Stanislas de Laboulaye; Jean-Louis Lucet; Gabriel Robin; Jacques-Alain de Sédouy and Alfred Siefer-Gaillardin. These men are retired French ambassadors. They are apparently well educated, very polite and aristocratic people and they regularly publish op-eds in Le Monde. However, they publish in Le Monde only to threaten Israel. Their most recent op-ed in Le Monde on January 9, 2017, was to explain how an international conference on the Middle East, the one which scheduled for January 15 in Paris, would be beneficial for the "security" of Israel. Their text is a discouraging enumeration of traditional clichés of France's hypocritical diplomacy...Well educated, but they have no knowledge of history. https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9754/france-ambassadors-israel.
Major legal victory against terror
by Tal Polon
{israelnationalnews.com} ~ A US court ruled this week that Iran and Syria must pay the parents of a baby murdered in a terror attack a sum of 178 million dollars... The terror attack in question happened in 2014 at a Jerusalem light rail station, when a Hamas terrorist rammed his car into the stroller of baby Chaya Zissel Braun Hy"d, who was then only three months old. She was murdered, as was another woman at the scene. Chaya’s father, Shmuel was badly wounded. Afterward, Chaya’s parents took it upon themselves to wage a legal battle against terror...I really doubt Iran and Syria will pay out. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/223176
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hanoi-Kerry Exits as Congenital Liar
and Traitor to America & Israel
by JOAN SWIRSKY
by JOAN SWIRSKY
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ Nothing could have surprised--indeed shocked--the national and international public more than learning through a Boston Globe article by Jennifer Anne Perez on February 2, 2003, that U.S. Senator John hanoi-Kerry... who presented himself as a born-to-the-purple "Boston Brahmin" of Irish-Catholic ancestry--was in fact the grandson of Czech Jews. Like another Democrat, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, hanoi-Kerry pretended to be shocked! shocked! to learn of his Jewish heritage. Only when he was outed did this poseur--more known for marrying heiresses then for any legislative accomplishments in his over 30 years as a U.S. senator--admit that, yes, his Eastern European ancestors, surnamed Kohn (a variation of Cohen) were Jews. But why, after he knew the truth, would he be one of the major architects of a policy to destroy the Jewish state of Israel, as he did with his genocidal speech in the State Department at the end of December?...Causes he is a traitor. http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/kerry-exits-as-congenital-liar-and-traitor-to-america-israel?f=must_reads
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How 'greater Israel' has reached
a crucial juncture
by Griff Witte
{jewishworldreview.com} ~ SHILOH --- Through eight years of escalating criticism from the world's most powerful leader, Israeli construction in these sacred, hills never stopped.
Thousands of homes were built. Miles of roadway. Restaurants. Shopping malls. A university.
And here in Shiloh, a tourist center went up, with a welcome video in which the biblical figure Joshua commands the Jewish people to settle the land promised to them by G0D.
Israeli settlements may be illegal in the eyes of the U.N. Security Council and a major obstacle to Middle East peace in the view of the liar-nObama administration.
But every day they become a more entrenched reality on land that Palestinians say should rightfully belong to them. As the parched beige hilltops fill with red-tiled homes, decades of international efforts to achieve a two-state solution are unraveling.
And global condemnations notwithstanding, the trend is poised to accelerate.
Already, Israel has a right-wing government that boasts it is more supportive of settlement construction than any in the country's short history. Within weeks, it will also have as an ally a U.S. president, Donald Trump, who has signaled he could make an extraordinary break with decades of U.S. policy and end American objections to the settlements.
The combination has delighted settlers here and across the West Bank who express hope for an unparalleled building boom that would kill off notions of a Palestinian state once and for all.
"If America interferes less, everything will be much easier," said Shivi Drori, 43, who runs a winery in a Jewish outpost deep in the West Bank that the Israeli government considers officially off-limits to building but has tacitly backed. "I'd like to see bigger settlements. Major cities."
Trump, Drori predicts, will help make that a reality simply by looking the other way.
"liar-nObama was very confrontational," Drori said. "The Trump administration seems much more sympathetic."
Israel's military conquered the West Bank in a matter of days 50 years ago this June in a defensive war against neighboring Arab states. But settling the land has been the work of generations, accomplished hilltop by hilltop as temporary encampments and caravans have given way to suburban-style homes rooted firmly in the bedrock.
All the while, much of the world has opposed the settlements as an illegal infringement on occupied land.
Today, some 400,000 Israelis live in roughly 150 settlements scattered across the West Bank. That's up from fewer than 300,000 when Barack liar-nObama was elected. An additional 200,000 Israelis live in East Jerusalem, which Palestinians want as their future capital.
Unable to halt settlement growth, a frustrated liar-nObama administration lashed out late last month with a twin-barreled diplomatic assault.
First, Washington abstained in a U.N. Security Council vote that demanded Israel end all settlement activity - enabling the resolution's passage. Days later, Secretary of State John hanoi-Kerry delivered an impassioned speech accusing Israel of putting the two-state solution "in serious jeopardy" by building "in the middle of what, by any reasonable definition, would be the future Palestinian state."
Rather than be chastened by the criticism from the nation that has long been its closest ally, Israel's government was furious. Settlers, meanwhile, brush it off as an irrelevance.
"There's no implication," said Oded Revivi, chief foreign envoy for the Yesha Council, which represents settlers.
hanoi-Kerry, Revivi said, is fixated on an idea that, because of decades of Palestinian violence and intransigence, can never become reality - two states for two peoples between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.
Revivi instead has his eyes fixed on the incoming Trump administration, which has signaled it will abandon U.S. attempts at evenhandedness in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and throw its weight squarely behind Israel.
"Stay strong Israel, January 20th is fast approaching!" Trump tweeted before the hanoi-Kerry speech.
Trump and his advisers "have learned from President liar-nObama's experience," Revivi said. "They're not going to go into a swamp just for the sake of saying they're in it."
Revivi, who is also mayor of Efrat, a settlement that is poised to grow from 10,000 to 16,000, has good reason to think so.
Trump's pick for ambassador to Israel, New York bankruptcy lawyer David Friedman, has expressed positions on the settlements that are further to the right even than those of Israel's hard-line prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
Friedman, for instance, has argued in favor of Israeli annexation of the West Bank, long a fringe position in Israeli politics but one now gaining currency as the political stars align against the two-state solution.
"Everyone who talks about a Palestinian state today knows it will not happen," said Naftali Bennett, Israel's education minister and leader of the right-wing Jewish Home party.
Instead, Bennett argues for unilateral Israeli annexation of "Area C" - the 60 percent of West Bank land where Israeli settlements are concentrated. The vast majority of the West Bank's 2.5 million Palestinians live in Areas A and B, where Bennett says they should be able to have autonomy but not a state.
"We have to say, 'This is what we want, and this is what we are going to do,' " he said. "You can't go on saying how the world is wrong, this is ours, and then at the end you forget to kick the ball into the net."
It's not clear whether Netanyahu will be willing to go as far as his education minister, an ally at times but a fierce rival at others. Netanyahu is still on record supporting a two-state solution, albeit grudgingly.
But the fact that annexation is being discussed at all shows how far Israeli public sentiment has shifted in the settlers' direction.
On the fast-shrinking left of Israeli politics, such ideas are regarded as a dangerous overreach that threatens Israel's core democratic and Jewish identities as the Palestinian population grows. "As a patriotic Israeli, I think it's in the crucial interest of the state of Israel to get out of the West Bank," said Talia Sasson, president of the New Israel Fund. "Otherwise we can't maintain our basic principles." Human rights advocates insist those principles have already been trampled by a decades-long policy designed to maximize land for Jewish settlement and make life as difficult as possible for Palestinians.
In Shiloh, a settler community of 3,200, residents mark the site of what they believe to be an ancient Jewish capital with a newly constructed archaeology museum and visitors center. Tens of thousands of people visit annually, including tourists from the United States.
Freshly built homes and restaurants dot thriving new neighborhoods catering to Israelis seeking to connect with the biblical lands of their ancestors - or maybe to just get a better quality of life at a cut-rate price.
Even the developments that are not entirely legal by Israeli standards, much less international ones, boast finely paved roads, soaring electricity pylons and reliable water supplies - all courtesy of the Israeli government. And at all times, of course, Israeli soldiers stand guard.
Life here is good, residents say, but it will be even better when Trump takes charge.
"It could have been two or three times as much" development had it not been for pressure from the liar-nObama administration, said Eliana Passentin, who raises her eight children atop a ridge with sweeping views from the river to the sea. "People want to come here and build homes and build companies and build schools. We've been restricted in expanding our community. Now we'll have more freedom."
Thousands of homes were built. Miles of roadway. Restaurants. Shopping malls. A university.
And here in Shiloh, a tourist center went up, with a welcome video in which the biblical figure Joshua commands the Jewish people to settle the land promised to them by G0D.
Israeli settlements may be illegal in the eyes of the U.N. Security Council and a major obstacle to Middle East peace in the view of the liar-nObama administration.
But every day they become a more entrenched reality on land that Palestinians say should rightfully belong to them. As the parched beige hilltops fill with red-tiled homes, decades of international efforts to achieve a two-state solution are unraveling.
And global condemnations notwithstanding, the trend is poised to accelerate.
Already, Israel has a right-wing government that boasts it is more supportive of settlement construction than any in the country's short history. Within weeks, it will also have as an ally a U.S. president, Donald Trump, who has signaled he could make an extraordinary break with decades of U.S. policy and end American objections to the settlements.
The combination has delighted settlers here and across the West Bank who express hope for an unparalleled building boom that would kill off notions of a Palestinian state once and for all.
"If America interferes less, everything will be much easier," said Shivi Drori, 43, who runs a winery in a Jewish outpost deep in the West Bank that the Israeli government considers officially off-limits to building but has tacitly backed. "I'd like to see bigger settlements. Major cities."
Trump, Drori predicts, will help make that a reality simply by looking the other way.
"liar-nObama was very confrontational," Drori said. "The Trump administration seems much more sympathetic."
Israel's military conquered the West Bank in a matter of days 50 years ago this June in a defensive war against neighboring Arab states. But settling the land has been the work of generations, accomplished hilltop by hilltop as temporary encampments and caravans have given way to suburban-style homes rooted firmly in the bedrock.
All the while, much of the world has opposed the settlements as an illegal infringement on occupied land.
Today, some 400,000 Israelis live in roughly 150 settlements scattered across the West Bank. That's up from fewer than 300,000 when Barack liar-nObama was elected. An additional 200,000 Israelis live in East Jerusalem, which Palestinians want as their future capital.
Unable to halt settlement growth, a frustrated liar-nObama administration lashed out late last month with a twin-barreled diplomatic assault.
First, Washington abstained in a U.N. Security Council vote that demanded Israel end all settlement activity - enabling the resolution's passage. Days later, Secretary of State John hanoi-Kerry delivered an impassioned speech accusing Israel of putting the two-state solution "in serious jeopardy" by building "in the middle of what, by any reasonable definition, would be the future Palestinian state."
Rather than be chastened by the criticism from the nation that has long been its closest ally, Israel's government was furious. Settlers, meanwhile, brush it off as an irrelevance.
"There's no implication," said Oded Revivi, chief foreign envoy for the Yesha Council, which represents settlers.
hanoi-Kerry, Revivi said, is fixated on an idea that, because of decades of Palestinian violence and intransigence, can never become reality - two states for two peoples between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.
Revivi instead has his eyes fixed on the incoming Trump administration, which has signaled it will abandon U.S. attempts at evenhandedness in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and throw its weight squarely behind Israel.
"Stay strong Israel, January 20th is fast approaching!" Trump tweeted before the hanoi-Kerry speech.
Trump and his advisers "have learned from President liar-nObama's experience," Revivi said. "They're not going to go into a swamp just for the sake of saying they're in it."
Revivi, who is also mayor of Efrat, a settlement that is poised to grow from 10,000 to 16,000, has good reason to think so.
Trump's pick for ambassador to Israel, New York bankruptcy lawyer David Friedman, has expressed positions on the settlements that are further to the right even than those of Israel's hard-line prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
Friedman, for instance, has argued in favor of Israeli annexation of the West Bank, long a fringe position in Israeli politics but one now gaining currency as the political stars align against the two-state solution.
"Everyone who talks about a Palestinian state today knows it will not happen," said Naftali Bennett, Israel's education minister and leader of the right-wing Jewish Home party.
Instead, Bennett argues for unilateral Israeli annexation of "Area C" - the 60 percent of West Bank land where Israeli settlements are concentrated. The vast majority of the West Bank's 2.5 million Palestinians live in Areas A and B, where Bennett says they should be able to have autonomy but not a state.
"We have to say, 'This is what we want, and this is what we are going to do,' " he said. "You can't go on saying how the world is wrong, this is ours, and then at the end you forget to kick the ball into the net."
It's not clear whether Netanyahu will be willing to go as far as his education minister, an ally at times but a fierce rival at others. Netanyahu is still on record supporting a two-state solution, albeit grudgingly.
But the fact that annexation is being discussed at all shows how far Israeli public sentiment has shifted in the settlers' direction.
On the fast-shrinking left of Israeli politics, such ideas are regarded as a dangerous overreach that threatens Israel's core democratic and Jewish identities as the Palestinian population grows. "As a patriotic Israeli, I think it's in the crucial interest of the state of Israel to get out of the West Bank," said Talia Sasson, president of the New Israel Fund. "Otherwise we can't maintain our basic principles." Human rights advocates insist those principles have already been trampled by a decades-long policy designed to maximize land for Jewish settlement and make life as difficult as possible for Palestinians.
In Shiloh, a settler community of 3,200, residents mark the site of what they believe to be an ancient Jewish capital with a newly constructed archaeology museum and visitors center. Tens of thousands of people visit annually, including tourists from the United States.
Freshly built homes and restaurants dot thriving new neighborhoods catering to Israelis seeking to connect with the biblical lands of their ancestors - or maybe to just get a better quality of life at a cut-rate price.
Even the developments that are not entirely legal by Israeli standards, much less international ones, boast finely paved roads, soaring electricity pylons and reliable water supplies - all courtesy of the Israeli government. And at all times, of course, Israeli soldiers stand guard.
Life here is good, residents say, but it will be even better when Trump takes charge.
"It could have been two or three times as much" development had it not been for pressure from the liar-nObama administration, said Eliana Passentin, who raises her eight children atop a ridge with sweeping views from the river to the sea. "People want to come here and build homes and build companies and build schools. We've been restricted in expanding our community. Now we'll have more freedom."
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