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Trump, the Pistol and Holy Branch
by Caroline Glick
 
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 Some Women Are More Equal Than Others 
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By Allyne Caan: On Saturday, gaggles of anti-Trump feminists will descend on Washington to protest The Donald's presidency. The Women's March on Washington claims to "stand together in solidarity with our partners and children for the protection of our rights, our safety, our health, and our families — recognizing that our vibrant and diverse communities are the strength of our country."
          How curious, then, that march organizers disqualified from sponsoring the event a feminist organization whose founder is on record calling Donald Trump "a greedy, narcissistic, misogynistic, adulterer; a corporate mogul (who brags about not being able to be bought, but conveniently leaves out that he's usually the one buying); a Godless, brainless reality TV star."
          Why the rejection? Turns out the organization in question — New Wave Feminists (NWF) — is pro-life, and we all know that's an unforgiveable sin on the Left. So when rabid pro-abortionists got wind that NWF was listed among event sponsors, they did what ultra-Leftist women do best: throw a fit. As one woman hysterically tweeted, "Intersectional feminism does not include a pro-life agenda. That's not how it works! [Insert pouty face and foot-stomping here.] The right to choose is a fundamental part of feminism." Unless you choose to be pro-life, that is.
          Apparently, solidarity applies only if you support dismembering live babies and selling their body parts for profit. And diversity can go no further than choosing between D&E or suction abortions.
          Quickly backtracking from any semblance of open-mindedness, the Women's March issued a statement apologizing for the "error" and confirming that unless you favor killing babies, your diverse feminism is simply not identical enough to Planned Parenthood's to be welcome. No free thinkers allowed. After all, the march takes place the day before the anniversary of Roe v. Wade.
          Responding to the rejection, NWF founder Destiny Herndon-De La Rosa stated, "It appears that the [Women's March on Washington] only wants to include a 'diverse' array of women who think exactly like them. That's unfortunate, but we will not be deterred." Despite being removed as a sponsor, the group will still march.
          As will And Then There Were None (ATTWN), another pro-life group that received a similar rejection after first being approved as an event sponsor. You may recognize ATTWN founder Abby Johnson as the former Planned Parenthood director who left the abortion industry in 2009. Johnson shares on Facebook that after ATTWN applied to be an event partner, she received a phone call from a woman informing her that the application was rejected because all partners "must be supportive of women's reproductive rights." Johnson explains: "I told her that wasn't a problem because we absolutely support reproductive rights, as long as they don't infringe on the rights of individual human beings in the womb. I guess she didn't like that, so she just repeated that we could not be a partner. ... I finally asked, 'So is this a pro-abortion March now?' She hung up."
          Oddly, later that day ATTWN was approved and listed as an event sponsor — only to be disqualified once again later.
          Of course, this hardly comes as a surprise. Groups like Planned Parenthood and NARAL have hijacked the word "feminism" — and are even trying to hijack the word "women" — to advance their infant-dismemberment business. As The Federalist's Joy Pullman notes, "[Feminist Susan B.] Anthony's legacy has become largely a cover for people who profit from killing other humans and selling their dissected body parts for profit. So much for human rights. ... [T]he decline in women identifying themselves as feminists has directly coincided with leading feminists' defenestration of pro-life women to obsess almost exclusively over abortion. Making abortion the core of the women's rights movement isn't helping."
          Indeed, nearly 40% of women believe abortion should be illegal in all or most cases, according to the Pew Research Center. With 40% of women unwelcome, Saturday's event can hardly be called a "Women's March."
          Turns out that to abortion-fixated females, equality looks good on paper. But when it comes to reality, they believe some women are more equal than others. ~The Patriot Post
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President Trump Will Sign Executive Order Sunday to Defund International Planned Parenthood
by Steven Ertelt
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{lifenews.com} ~ A new report out today indicates President Donald Trump will sign an executive order to defund International Planned Parenthood... Most pro-life Americans are anxiously awaiting Congress to pass a bill to defund the Planned Parenthood abortion business. While that defunding legislation concerns the domestic-based Planned Parenthood abortion corporation, president Trump has the ability to put in place an executive order that would revoke funding for its International affiliate. When pro-abortion former President Barack liar-nObama took office, liar-nObama overturned a policy that prevented funding of groups that promote or perform abortions overseas. The Mexico City Policy covered over $400 million in federal funds, part of which flowed to the abortion businesses International Planned Parenthood and Marie Stopes International for their foreign efforts...
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27 Jewish Centers Across the U.S.
Face Hit With Bomb Threats
by Mark Tapson
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{truthrevolt.org} ~ The JCC Association of North America reported that bomb threats Wednesday caused 27 Jewish community centers across 17 states to be evacuated and to "quickly engage in security protocols to ensure the safety of their participants and facilities."... Federal agents had already been investigating a series of threats last week that came via robocalls (and one live caller) to 16 Jewish centers across nine states, located in the South, mid-Atlantic region, and Northeast. David Posner, director of strategic performance for the JCC, said many leaders of community centers took part in a webinar including the Department of Homeland Security "to address concerns and procedures" after the first wave of threats:...This is America and this got to stop.  http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/27-jewish-centers-across-us-face-hit-bomb-threats
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Trump hits liar-nObamacare on 1st hours in office
by Bob Unruh
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{wnd.com} ~ President Trump on Friday, during his first hours in office, targeted liar-nObamacare with an executive order that instructs federal officials “shall” grant exemptions to any “fiscal burden” or “fee” pending under the federal health-care takeover law... Trump, during his campaign, had promised to repeal and replace the massive federal bureaucracy liar-nObama created with support only from Democrats, a system that dictates what insurance every individual American must buy, including what must be covered. Trump also promised to attack liar-nObamacare on his first day in office. He kept that promise, even though the entire law cannot removed by executive order...
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The "Fake News" Censorship Industry
by Robbie Travers
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{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ Name a single person or organization you trust to control your speech. Whom would you trust to control what you can read, or make decisions on what is true and what is false for you?... Whom do you trust to police what you think? The German government thinks it knows exactly who should be the arbiter of truth and what articles you should be allowed to post. Itself! After a bill was proposed by German lawmakers, which threatened fines of up to 500,000 euros ($522,000) for publishing "fake news," Facebook decided to use an organization called Correctiv, described as a German fact-checking non-profit organization, to decide whether reported stories are "real" or "fake."...
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The Strange Anti-Trump Ignorance of PolitiFact
by Hans Bader
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{lidblog.com} ~ It would be difficult to think of any principle more basic than that criminal defendants can’t be convicted except by proof beyond a reasonable doubt... But left-leaning “fact-checker” PolitiFact doesn’t even know it. In an error-filled January 19 “fact-check,” PolitiFact’s Anna Orso writes about “the ‘clear and convincing’ standard used in criminal trials.”  The clear and convincing evidence standard is not used in criminal trials. Even my 9-year old daughter knows that the correct standard is “beyond a reasonable doubt.” The Supreme Court has made this clear many times. For example, in its decision in In re Winship (1970), the Supreme Court ruled that “the Due Process clause protects the accused against conviction except upon proof beyond a reasonable doubt.”...  http://{/ignorance-politifact/
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Trump, the Pistol and Holy Branch
by Caroline Glick
{truthrevolt.org} ~ With a gun on his hip, on November 13, 1974, PLO chief Yasser Arafat stood before the UN General Assembly and made the West an offer that it didn’t refuse.

At the end of a long speech in which he rewrote history to erase all connection between the Jewish people and the Land of Israel and criminalized the very notion of Jewish freedom, Arafat declared, “Today I have come bearing an olive branch and a freedom fighter’s gun. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand. I repeat: Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.”

Arafat’s offer has served since that time as the foundation of European relations with the Palestinians and the wider Islamic world. It has also been the basis of US-PLO relations for the better part of the past four decades.

His trade was simple and clear.

If you stand with the PLO in its war to annihilate Israel and deny Jewish freedom, then PLO terrorists and our Arab state supporters will leave you alone.

If you refuse to join our war against the Jewish state, we will kill you.

Today, Arafat’s successor, Mahmoud Abbas, is reiterating Arafat’s offer.

Speaking Saturday at the Vatican after the Holy See decided to recognize “Palestine,” Abbas said that if US President-elect Donald Trump goes ahead with his plan to move the US Embassy to Jerusalem, it will “fuel extremism in our region, as well as worldwide.”

Abbas’s spokesman was more explicit. Saturday night, Osama Qawasmeh, spokesman for Abbas’s Fatah PLO faction and member of Fatah’s Revolutionary Council, said that if the US moves its embassy to Israel’s capital city, “The gates of hell will be opened in the region and the world.”

Abbas and Qawasmeh also said that the PLO expects that members of the international community will make Trump see the light and abandon his plan.

French President Francois Hollande’s “peace conference” on Sunday was the international community’s way of fulfilling Abbas’s demand.

As multiple commentators have noted, the conference’s purpose wasn’t to promote the prospects for peace. It was to constrain Trump’s policy options for handling the Palestinian war against Israel.

By bringing together representatives of some 70 countries to insist that Israeli homeowners are the moral equivalent of Palestinian terrorists, Hollande and his comrades hoped to box Trump into their PLO-compliant policy.

Spelling out the demand Trump is required to accept, French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc-Ayrault parroted the Palestinian threats.

Asked by the French media Sunday if moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem would provoke the Palestinians, Ayrault said, “Of course.”

He then demeaned Trump’s plan to move the embassy as nothing but the regular bluster of American politicians.

In his words, “I think he [Trump] would not be able to do it. It would have extremely serious consequences and it’s not the first time that it’s on the agenda of a US president, but none has let himself make that decision.”

Ayrault is correct about Trump’s predecessors.

To one degree or another, since the early 1970s, successive US administrations have joined the Europeans in selling Israel down the river to prevent Arafat’s minions from pointing their guns at the American people.

Like the Europeans, the Americans have upheld their side of this bargain even when the PLO failed to uphold its end. For instance, in 1973 Arafat ordered his terrorists to storm the Saudi Embassy in Khartoum and take US ambassador Cleo Noel, his deputy, George Curtis Moore, and Belgian diplomat Guy Eid hostage. Arafat then ordered his henchmen to murder the diplomats after then president Richard Nixon rejected his demand to release Robert F. Kennedy’s Palestinian murderer, Sirhan Sirhan, from prison.

Instead of responding to the execution of US diplomats by siding with Israel against the PLO, the US covered up and denied the PLO’s responsibility for the attack for the next 33 years.

The US is still covering up for the PLO’s murder of US embassy personnel in Gaza in 2003. At the same time, it is providing the PLO with nearly three quarters of a billion dollars in direct and indirect annual aid, including the training and provision of its security forces.

The Europeans for their part have egged the US along throughout the years. France has generally led European efforts to convince the Americans to side with Palestinian as well as Hezbollah terrorists in their war against Israel in the name of “peace.”

Sunday morning, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed the Paris conference as a “futile” relic of a period that is about to end.

Netanyahu said that the conference’s goal of boxing Israel into an untenable framework for dealing the Palestinians was nothing more than the “final palpitations of a yesterday’s world.”

“Tomorrow,” he intoned, “will look a lot different. And tomorrow is very close.”

Trump will take office on Friday. Since he was elected, he has given every reason to believe that Abbas and his deputies and their European and American enablers will have to either put up or shut up.

Speaking of the president-elect, Henry Kissinger said that Trump is the first man in recent memory who doesn’t owe anybody anything for his victory.

The only people he is answerable to are the voters who elected him.

Trump’s electoral victory owes to his success in tapping into the deep reservoir of popular disaffection with the elitist culture and policies that have governed post-Cold War West. He has used the mandate he received from American voters to revisit the basic assumptions that have driven US policies for the past generation.

His skepticism at NATO and the EU are examples of his refusal to simply accept the received wisdom of his predecessors. Just this weekend he told Germany’s Bild magazine that he continues to question the purpose of NATO, which is a drag on US taxpayers and doesn’t fight terrorism.

He similarly restated his ambivalence toward the EU and that its open border policy has been a “catastrophic failure,” and he expects more countries to follow Britain’s lead and exit the EU.

Trump’s position on the PLO and the Palestinian war on Israel is of a piece with his wider rejection of the common wisdom of Western elites. Just as he didn’t hesitate to say that the EU mainly serves as an instrument for Germany to dominate the European market, so he has made no mystery of his rejection of the moral equivalence between Israel and Palestinian terrorists which forms the basis of the twostate formula.

Not only won’t Trump join the liar-nObama administration and the French in criminalizing Israeli homeowners, Trump is celebrating them. He has invited the leaders of Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria – that is, the so-called “settlements” – to attend his inauguration.

And he appears dead serious about moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem.

Under these circumstances, Israel has the opportunity and the obligation to end the PLO’s ability to threaten the US, not to mention itself. It is Israel’s duty to ensure that the next time the PLO tries to exact a price in blood for America’s refusal to abide by the terms of Arafat’s blackmail, his terrorist group is finally destroyed.

Similarly, Israel is now obliged to take the lead and abandon the PLO-friendly two-state policy, which blames Israel for Palestinian terrorism, and adopt a strategy that works in its place.

Netanyahu has refused to consider any alternative until after Barack liar-nObama is out of office.

Consultations must be scheduled for Saturday night.

http://www.truthrevolt.org/commentary/glick-trump-pistol-and-holy-branch

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