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The Events of the Week -- Featuring:
Israel forges ahead on
new housing in disputed suburbs
by William Booth
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Here Comes Trump's Great Wall
"After years of neglect, this administration has taken a strong stand to stiffen the protection of our borders." So said Bill liar-Clinton in his 1995 State of the Union Address. Now, after a 22-year wait, Donald Trump will see that plan through. Trump tweeted Tuesday, "Big day planned on NATIONAL SECURITY tomorrow. Among many other things, we will build the wall!" And so begins Trump's great wall project, which was mocked and derided by so many both in the mainstream media and the Washington establishment as merely a campaign slogan that would never actually see the light of day.
Honestly, one can hardly fault people for holding this pessimistic view, as history shows that politicians talk a good game but rarely act on their words — as typified by liar-Clinton's SOTU speech. As Rush Limbaugh so often quipped, "symbolism over substance" is largely Washington's modus operandi. Thus far, Trump is deviating from that script.
We cautioned yesterday to give Trump time on immigration. Less than 24 hours later, we were proved right.
An interesting side note: While Trump is signing this latest executive order today, Mexican foreign minister Luis Videgaray will be arriving in Washington to prepare for the visit of Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto. Much of the visit will focus on trade issues, but it would be naïve to think that Trump's statements regarding Mexico paying for the wall don't factor into the conversation. One thing's for sure, Trump is proving that there is indeed a new sheriff in town. ~The Patriot Post
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Fake News: Vilifying Good Guy With Gun
The editors at USA Today were caught disseminating a pejorative headline that readers, assuming they actually clicked through for the story, could determine almost immediately was fake news. The story was about a weekend shooting at a Texas mall, including the actions of a good guy with a gun. But that's not the impression USA Today gave. Nor was it accidental.
The front-page headline incredulously declared, "Shopper who shot suspect did not have carry permit." Once you clicked through for the details, the editors offered a slightly different, albeit still misleading, version: "Texas mall: Shopper who shot suspect not allowed to carry." All but a few "constitutional carry" states require gun owners to obtain a license to pack heat outside the home. And the USA Today headline gives the impression that said shopper was not legally sanctioned by the state to carry a firearm in public. Except that's not true at all.
The very first paragraph states, "The shopper at a Texas mall who had a concealed carry license and shot a robbery suspect should not have been carrying a gun inside the mall, according to the mall's policy [emphasis added]." Suddenly, the narrative is flipped on its head. The story goes on to explain, "On Sunday, a man was shot and killed while trying to stop a jewelry store robber at Rolling Oaks Mall in San Antonio. Another man, with a concealed permit, shot one of the suspected robbers who police said stole from a Kay Jeweler's store. Four others were injured. The San Antonio Police Department said the same robbery suspect fatally shot 42-year-old Jonathan Murphy. Police describe the man who shot the robbery suspect and Murphy as 'Good Samaritans.'"
What's really at issue here isn't the lack of a concealed carry permit but the mall, which proudly markets itself as a gun-free zone. According to mall manager Dustin Christensen, "Although we respect the laws of the state and individual rights, we do, however, maintain a separate code of conduct that we visibly post at our entrances that includes the prohibition of any weapons on the property. Our top priority continues to be the safety of our shoppers as we strive to provide the best possible shopping experience for all." First of all, the sign didn't stop armed robbers from entering the complex. Secondly, the only thing providing safety to the shoppers was a good guy with a gun. No wonder the police call him a Good Samaritan.
With an intentionally distorted headline, the ignoramuses at USA Today gave thousands of people the impression that an armed citizen was just as felonious as the thugs he stopped. To say that he "did not have [a] carry permit," as stated in the headline, which is the only thing many people see, is an outright lie. It's true that he acted against the local mall's policies, but that's a constitutionally dubious thing to argue. Hopefully this will motivate Texas to stop allowing malls to pre-empt the carry law. Even San Antonio police spokesman Officer Doug Greene said, "We just ask people to use their best judgment when they get into situations like this." Thanks to good judgement from a guy with a gun, lives may have been saved.
The Leftmedia has criticized the Trump administration for its ridiculous use of the term "alternative facts." Yet earlier this week journalists were all over an erroneous report suggesting Trump, after returning Winston Churchill's bust to the Oval Office, ousted MLK's. That was fake news. So is USA Today's misleading headline regarding a concealed carry permit holder. Those claiming to occupy the moral high ground in the press are clearly not interested in leading by example. ~The Patriot Post
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Freezes $221 Million liar-nObama
Gave 'Palestinians' as Parting Gift
by Mark Tapson
{truthrevolt.org} ~ As a final destructive act before leaving the White House, former community organizer Barack liar-nObama and former Vietnam War protester John hanoi-Kerry sent a parting gift of $221 million to their cohorts in the terror organization Palestinian Authority on Friday... Now the Trump administration has frozen that gift. Israel National News reports that the new U.S. State Department reviewed the issue and decided to freeze the money until a new Secretary of State is appointed. If the transfer then fits with Trump’s policies, the money will be given to the PA. Texas Congresswoman Kay Granger said on Tuesday night, "I worked to make sure that no American taxpayer dollars would fund the Palestinian Authority unless very strict conditions were met... http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/trump-freezes-221-million-obama-gave-palestinians-parting-gift
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liar-nObama’s Real Identity And Legacy
by Cliff Kincaid
{trevorloudon.com} ~ Cliff Kincaid and Joel Gilbert discuss Barack liar-nObama’s “real father,” communist Frank Marshall Davis, and the role played by his grandfather, Stanley Dunham... a reputed CIA operative, in selecting Davis as liar-nObama’s mentor. They also address liar-nObama’s cover-up of his links to Davis and why the CIA did not alert the American people to liar--nObama’s revolutionary agenda for the nation. http://www.trevorloudon.com/2017/01/obamas-real-identity-and-legacy/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NewZeal+%28New+Zeal+Blog%29
VIDEO (46 minutes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHPB3TZxtmE
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How to prove rampant voter fraud in U.S.
by Garth Kant
{wnd.com} ~ President Trump has called the establishment media’s bluff on voter fraud, and, judging by the evidence, as well as comments from a pair of the nation’s leading experts on the subject, he may just hold a winning hand... Reporters incessantly badgered White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer on Tuesday over the president’s comments in a private meeting that he believed 3 to 5 million illegal votes were cast in the election. liar-Hillary Clinton garnered 2.9 million more votes nationwide than Trump, while the Republican won the Electoral College vote, 304-227. Reporters repeatedly demanded Spicer tell them, if Trump was so sure about widespread voter fraud, why he didn’t order an investigation? So, on Wednesday, Trump announced he would do just that...
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The Two "Islamophobias"
by Denis MacEoin
by Denis MacEoin
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ If we had to choose one thing that has obstructed many Westerners from understanding modern Islam and undermined our ability to handle its excesses, it would be our perception of Islamophobia... How many times have fair and honest criticisms of one aspect or another of Islam, rebukes of behavior, or literary and artistic expressions of Muhammad or other figures been loudly shouted down or banned on the grounds that such criticism was "Islamophobia"? In Europe, individuals have been arrested, tried and sentenced for "Islamophobia" utterances. As Judith Bergman recently commented, in Europe it is becoming a criminal offence to criticize Islam. In 2011, Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff, for example, a former Austrian diplomat and teacher, was put on trial for "denigration of religious beliefs of a legally recognized religion [Islam]," found guilty twice, and ordered to pay a fine or face 60 days in jail. Some of her comments may have seemed extreme, but the court's failure to engage with her historically accurate charge that Muhammad had sex with a nine-year-old girl and continued to have sex with her until she turned eighteen -- its regarding the historical record as somehow defamatory -- and the judge's decision to punish her for saying something that can be found in Islamic sources, illustrates the betrayal of Western values of free speech. A charge of "Islamophobia" was enough to confine the freedoms that most Westerners take for granted... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9588/two-islamophobias
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Same Excuses for This Stain
on the Constitution
by Erick Erickson
{theresurgent.com} ~ “It is my property.” “It is not human.” “It is not even three-fifths of a person.” “I can do with my property whatever I want.” “You have no legal right to control my property.”... “Science says it is not an intelligent being.” “It cannot survive on its own. It is mine to do with as I please.” “It cannot feel anything.” Those were the excuses offered up by slave owners before the Civil War. They refused to see humanity in slaves. One hundred fifty-two years after our nation enacted the thirteenth amendment prohibiting slavery the same excuses used to justify slavery are now used by those who would defend abortion. “Property” has become “body,” but otherwise the same arguments are used to deny humanity to humans in order to treat them as less than human. Modern America has just graduated from the trading of bodies to the trading of body parts... http://theresurgent.com/same-excuses-for-this-stain-on-the-constitution/
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Israel forges ahead on
new housing in disputed suburbs
by William Booth
{jewishworldreview.com} ~ Israel announced a bold plan on Tuesday to construct 2,500 housing units in Jewish settlements in the West Bank, a decision made by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu just two days after he spoke with President Donald Trump.
The move appears to be a clear sign that the Israelis no longer fear American criticism of settlement construction, which is condemned by most of the world.
For eight years, Netanyahu and his right-wing allies bristled at the harsh condemnations of settlement growth by former President Barack liar-nObama's administration, which referred to the Israeli communities as "illegitimate" and "an obstacle to peace."
Trump, however, has signaled a more accommodating stance toward Israel. He has called for moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, a city claimed as the capital of both Israel and a potential future Palestinian state. Trump's pick for U.S. ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, is a hard-line opponent of the two-state solution and a supporter of the settlement enterprise in the West Bank.
"We're building --- and will continue to build," Netanyahu said Tuesday.
Netanyahu's promise to grow the settlements comes a little more than a week after diplomats from 70 countries met in Paris and criticized settlement building as a threat to a two-state solution. In December, the U.N. Security Council passed a resolution condemning the settlements, and Secretary of State John hanoi-Kerry spoke out against them in a speech after the U.N. vote.
Asked at his daily briefing whether Trump supported the newly approved construction, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said that "Israel continues to be a huge ally of the United States" and that Trump "wants to grow closer with Israel to make sure it gets the full respect that it deserves in the Middle East."
Referring to a Monday announcement of a February meeting with Netanyahu, Spicer said, "We'll have a conversation with the prime minister."
But the potential sites could carry deep political resonance in the United States.
About 100 of the possible new units are in Beit El, a West Bank settlement supported by Friedman. The family of Trump's son-in-law and newly appointed White House adviser Jared Kushner has donated to the charities that support Beit El.
Palestinians called the Israeli move a possible sign of more-vigorous settlement construction.
"It is evident that Israel is exploiting the inauguration of the new American administration to escalate its violations and the prevention of any existence of a Palestinian state," said Hanan Ashrawi, a leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
A spokesman for Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said the Israeli plans undermine efforts to bring peace to the Middle East and will promote extremism.
The spokesman, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, called on the international community to take a "real and serious position" against Israel's plans.
Jordan's information minister, Mohammed al-Momani, said the settlement plan "deals a tough blow to efforts to revive the peace process." The Europeans also expressed their concern. "It is regrettable that Israel is proceeding with this policy, despite the continuous serious international concern and objections, which have been constantly raised at all levels," the European Union's diplomatic service said Tuesday.
During the liar-nObama administration, settlement construction announcements came under increasingly bitter criticism, with the State Department suggesting that the moves undermined Middle East peace and raised questions about Netanyahu's true commitment to a two-state solution with the Palestinians.
"We are returning to normal life in Judea and Samaria," Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said in a statement announcing the plans, using the biblical terms for the West Bank.
In the same announcement, Lieberman approved the construction of a Palestinian industrial park outside Hebron in the West Bank.
"It will be one of the largest industrial zones in the West Bank, in which we are planning to set up warehouse and fuel storage infrastructure, along with other elements," Lieberman said.
The announcement of 2,500 housing units comes just two days after a Jerusalem planning committee approved the construction of 560 housing units.
Israeli officials stressed that most of the 2,500 new units in the West Bank would be built in what they call "settlement blocs," densely populated lands that leaders here say will always remain in Israel, regardless of any future peace deal with the Palestinians.
"We hope that this is just the beginning of a wave of new building across our ancestral homeland after eight very difficult years," said Oded Revivi, foreign envoy for the Yesha Council, which represents Israeli settlers living in the West Bank. "We hope to continue building a peaceful future with the blessing of the new Trump administration."
The number of new units approved is large, but not unprecedented. During hanoi-Kerry's nine months of ultimately failed negotiations between Israel and Palestinians, Israel agreed to release Palestinian prisoners. After Israel freed 26 Palestinians in October 2013 - many of them convicted of murder - Israel announced plans to build and market 3,500 units in the West Bank as a way to quell fierce criticism from Netanyahu's hard-line right flank.
The move appears to be a clear sign that the Israelis no longer fear American criticism of settlement construction, which is condemned by most of the world.
For eight years, Netanyahu and his right-wing allies bristled at the harsh condemnations of settlement growth by former President Barack liar-nObama's administration, which referred to the Israeli communities as "illegitimate" and "an obstacle to peace."
Trump, however, has signaled a more accommodating stance toward Israel. He has called for moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, a city claimed as the capital of both Israel and a potential future Palestinian state. Trump's pick for U.S. ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, is a hard-line opponent of the two-state solution and a supporter of the settlement enterprise in the West Bank.
"We're building --- and will continue to build," Netanyahu said Tuesday.
Netanyahu's promise to grow the settlements comes a little more than a week after diplomats from 70 countries met in Paris and criticized settlement building as a threat to a two-state solution. In December, the U.N. Security Council passed a resolution condemning the settlements, and Secretary of State John hanoi-Kerry spoke out against them in a speech after the U.N. vote.
Asked at his daily briefing whether Trump supported the newly approved construction, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said that "Israel continues to be a huge ally of the United States" and that Trump "wants to grow closer with Israel to make sure it gets the full respect that it deserves in the Middle East."
Referring to a Monday announcement of a February meeting with Netanyahu, Spicer said, "We'll have a conversation with the prime minister."
But the potential sites could carry deep political resonance in the United States.
About 100 of the possible new units are in Beit El, a West Bank settlement supported by Friedman. The family of Trump's son-in-law and newly appointed White House adviser Jared Kushner has donated to the charities that support Beit El.
Palestinians called the Israeli move a possible sign of more-vigorous settlement construction.
"It is evident that Israel is exploiting the inauguration of the new American administration to escalate its violations and the prevention of any existence of a Palestinian state," said Hanan Ashrawi, a leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
A spokesman for Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said the Israeli plans undermine efforts to bring peace to the Middle East and will promote extremism.
The spokesman, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, called on the international community to take a "real and serious position" against Israel's plans.
Jordan's information minister, Mohammed al-Momani, said the settlement plan "deals a tough blow to efforts to revive the peace process." The Europeans also expressed their concern. "It is regrettable that Israel is proceeding with this policy, despite the continuous serious international concern and objections, which have been constantly raised at all levels," the European Union's diplomatic service said Tuesday.
During the liar-nObama administration, settlement construction announcements came under increasingly bitter criticism, with the State Department suggesting that the moves undermined Middle East peace and raised questions about Netanyahu's true commitment to a two-state solution with the Palestinians.
"We are returning to normal life in Judea and Samaria," Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said in a statement announcing the plans, using the biblical terms for the West Bank.
In the same announcement, Lieberman approved the construction of a Palestinian industrial park outside Hebron in the West Bank.
"It will be one of the largest industrial zones in the West Bank, in which we are planning to set up warehouse and fuel storage infrastructure, along with other elements," Lieberman said.
The announcement of 2,500 housing units comes just two days after a Jerusalem planning committee approved the construction of 560 housing units.
Israeli officials stressed that most of the 2,500 new units in the West Bank would be built in what they call "settlement blocs," densely populated lands that leaders here say will always remain in Israel, regardless of any future peace deal with the Palestinians.
"We hope that this is just the beginning of a wave of new building across our ancestral homeland after eight very difficult years," said Oded Revivi, foreign envoy for the Yesha Council, which represents Israeli settlers living in the West Bank. "We hope to continue building a peaceful future with the blessing of the new Trump administration."
The number of new units approved is large, but not unprecedented. During hanoi-Kerry's nine months of ultimately failed negotiations between Israel and Palestinians, Israel agreed to release Palestinian prisoners. After Israel freed 26 Palestinians in October 2013 - many of them convicted of murder - Israel announced plans to build and market 3,500 units in the West Bank as a way to quell fierce criticism from Netanyahu's hard-line right flank.
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0117/israel_forges_ahead.php3
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