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How to sell a suicide-bomber subsidy to Congress
by Eli Lake
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Top Headlines
Optimism of small-business owners at highest level in decade. (The Washington Free Beacon)
AG: Classified leak referrals in past six months equal past three years combined. (CNS News)
Former DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson on leaks: "I've never seen it this bad." (Washington Examiner)
Dershowitz: Mueller chose DC for his grand jury knowing jurors are likely to be anti-Trump. (Hot Air)
Trump's deals in Russia once encouraged even by liar-Clintons now under scrutiny. (The Washington Times)
Wassermann Schultz says laptop she sought to keep from police was IT aide's, not hers. (The Daily Signal)
DOJ releases 400-plus pages of Lynch/liar-Clinton meeting emails — after Comey's FBI said no records existed. (CNS News)
California Dems to recall their own assembly speaker for being insufficiently liberal. (Hot Air)
Chicago to sue DOJ over sanctuary cities policy. (Fox News)
"Barack liar-nObama Day" is official holiday in Illinois. (Washington Examiner)
Policy: Jeff Sessions is right about the gang threat. (American Enterprise Institute)
Policy: When it comes to helping people, facts don't care about your intentions. (The Daily Signal) ~The Patriot Post
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Bobble-Head SCHIFF Calls TRUMP
Patriots RUSSIANS, Uses MCMASTER As “Proof”
by rickwells.us
{rickwells.us} ~ Jake Tapper can’t bring himself to use the word “Patriot” to describe President Trump’s supporters, instead preferring to use the demeaning term of “nationalist wing.”... We’re all nationalists, in support of this nation and in defiance of your globalist subversion, Tapper. Your self-serving attempts to discredit the millions who elected President Trump are woefully transparent; we see you for the enemy you are. He uses that terminology to note the rise in the ranks of Trump supporters who are fed up with some of the trash that he continues to surround himself with and are making a concerted effort to let him know of our displeasure. H R McMaster is emblematic of those concerns as he attempts to solidify his globalist control over the NSC. The hashtag #firemcmaster is little more than a means of communicating shared discontent at his actions and his being in that position. On their end, it’s being used to perversely link and falsely cast American patriots as Russian sympathizers... http://rickwells.us/bobble-head-schiff-trump-patriots-russians-mcmaster-proof/
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Healthcare in Canada:
It's not free, and it doesn't work
by Chris Woodward
{onenewsnow.com} ~ While some Americans, including politicians, continue to push for single-payer healthcare, a Canadian is helping people in his country get care in America... because the healthcare system where he lives, he says, "simply does not work." As many people know, Canada has single-payer healthcare. That means the government runs and controls the delivery of all healthcare. Under that system, people wanting plastic surgery – for example – would foot the bill; but procedures, including cardiac bypass, can be done, albeit not always in a timely manner. "People in Canada are dying on waiting lists," says Richard Baker of Timely Medical Alternatives. "They might be on a waiting list for six months to a year for cardiac bypass. And during that time their condition might worsen – and by the time they go in for their surgery, it may be too late."... https://www.onenewsnow.com/culture/2017/08/07/healthcare-in-canada-its-not-free-and-it-doesnt-work?utm_source=OneNewsNow&utm_medium=email&utm_term=16787952&utm_content=565493864984&utm_campaign=30606
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MSNBC Accidentally Proves
that the Democrat Party is Toast
by Onan Coca
{constitution.com} ~ In a very interesting segment on MSNBC’s Morning Joe the gathered minds made something very clear, the Democrat Party is in trouble... In a normal political situation, 2018 should prove to be a very good year for the Democrat Party. The only problem is that America in 2018 is anything but “normal.” The Democrat Party has been decimated during the liar-nObama era. Today, the GOP holds more concentrated power than it has at any time in the last 100 years... http://constitution.com/msnbc-accidentally-proves-democrat-party-toast/
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Paul Ryan catches heat in home district
by gopusa.com
{gopusa.com} ~ With a dysfunctional Congress on recess, House Speaker Paul Ryan has turned his focus back home, touring flood-damaged areas and visiting local businesses in Wisconsin... But he can’t escape the questions about why Republicans in charge of Washington aren’t delivering. And though he’s won re-election easily for years, Ryan faces the prospect of challenges from left and right and an energized Democratic base in next year’s midterm elections. “We have a majority in the House and Senate and it feels like nothing’s getting done,” 32-year-old James Hulsey said just before Ryan recently toured his workplace... http://www.gopusa.com/?p=28306?omhide=true
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by Eli Lake
{jewishworldreview.com} ~ Husam Zomlot does not have an easy job. He is the Palestinian Liberation Organization's representative in Donald Trump's Washington. And despite Trump's early promise to seek the ultimate deal to bring peace to the Holy Land, his administration is focused on more pressing matters.
Zomlot's biggest problem these days is a piece of legislation named for Taylor Force, a former U.S. army officer who was stabbed to death in 2016 when he was in Tel Aviv on tour with his fellow Vanderbilt University graduate students.
When Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, learned that the murderer's family would be receiving a lifetime stipend as part of a Palestinian program to pay the families of so-called martyrs and inmates in Israeli prisons, he drafted legislation to end U.S. economic assistance to the Palestinian Authority until the payments ended.
The bill is now winding its way through the legislative process and, in some form, will likely end up on the president's desk. While the Trump administration has yet to take a position on it, Zomlot has had the unlucky task of defending the martyr payments to Congress.
In an interview last week, he gave me his argument for why the Palestinian Authority has budgeted more than $300 million for its next fiscal year to pay the families of terrorists and other prisoners. "This is a program that is used is for the victims of the occupation," he said. "It's a program to give the families a dignified life, they are provided for, so they and their kids can lead a different future."
He said the money goes to pay for laptop computers and college tuition for children who otherwise would be facing a bleak future, and families who may have their homes razed by the Israelis as punishment for spawning a terrorist.
Zomlot says this gives no incentive for terrorism. Indeed, he assured me that some graduates of "the program" include high-ranking Palestinian security officials that have cooperated with the Israel Defense Forces. The PLO has administered these martyr payments in some form since 1965. What's more, he said, if the Palestinian Authority doesn't pay the families of prisoners, more radical groups likely will fill the void.
All of this raises an obvious question. If the Palestinian Authority wants to give laptops and college tuition to poor children, why not just do that? Why create a special allowance for only the children and families of Palestinians who kill Jews?
And here Zomlot gets to the heart of the matter. "Many of the U.S. officials and lawmakers judge us as if we are in a post-conflict scenario, as we have to behave like a social welfare state, we are not," he told me. "This is a conflict situation."
Indeed it is. One needs no further proof of this than the clashes in the last two weeks over Israeli security measures at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem after three Israeli Arabs launched a shooting spree from the compound that hosts the Al Aqsa Mosque, the third-holiest site in Islam.
Add to this the occupation itself. Palestinians living in the West Bank accused of crimes are given Israeli military trials and almost always convicted. Many of those prisoners have committed ghoulish acts, but many have not, Zomlot said. In this respect, he believes Congress should increase the aid it doles out to the Palestinian Authority, because despite all of this, the Palestinian security forces have helped keep order in the West Bank. And that is true.
But it's also true that the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, has in recent years encouraged a resistance to the occupation that is measured in Jewish blood. His Palestinian Authority honors murderers by naming streets and parks after them. When Israel released violent prisoners in 2013 as an inducement to restart peace negotiations, there were official celebrations in Gaza and the West Bank. Two of
those released, the cousins Mohammed and Hosni Sawalha, were arrested as teenagers after they entered a bus and began stabbing commuters. Another releasee was Al-Haaj Othman Amar Mustafa, who along with two other assailants posed for a picture outside of the settlement of Ariel with Frederick Steven Rosenfeld, a U.S. Marine who had emigrated to Israel. They confessed to stabbing Rosenfeld and leaving him for dead.
When these prisoners were released in 2013, Abbas personally met them and kissed them on the cheek. "We congratulate ourselves and our families for our brothers who left the darkness of the prisons for the light of the sun of freedom," Abbas said at the time.
Abbas probably has to say things like this in order to survive. Palestinians have been celebrating such "martyrs" for decades. To speak honestly about Mustafa and the Sawalhas would be seen as betrayal. But Graham and his supporters are under no such constraints. They see Mustafa and the Sawalhas for what they are: murderers.
How to sell a suicide-bomber subsidy to Congress
{jewishworldreview.com} ~ Husam Zomlot does not have an easy job. He is the Palestinian Liberation Organization's representative in Donald Trump's Washington. And despite Trump's early promise to seek the ultimate deal to bring peace to the Holy Land, his administration is focused on more pressing matters.
Zomlot's biggest problem these days is a piece of legislation named for Taylor Force, a former U.S. army officer who was stabbed to death in 2016 when he was in Tel Aviv on tour with his fellow Vanderbilt University graduate students.
When Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, learned that the murderer's family would be receiving a lifetime stipend as part of a Palestinian program to pay the families of so-called martyrs and inmates in Israeli prisons, he drafted legislation to end U.S. economic assistance to the Palestinian Authority until the payments ended.
The bill is now winding its way through the legislative process and, in some form, will likely end up on the president's desk. While the Trump administration has yet to take a position on it, Zomlot has had the unlucky task of defending the martyr payments to Congress.
In an interview last week, he gave me his argument for why the Palestinian Authority has budgeted more than $300 million for its next fiscal year to pay the families of terrorists and other prisoners. "This is a program that is used is for the victims of the occupation," he said. "It's a program to give the families a dignified life, they are provided for, so they and their kids can lead a different future."
He said the money goes to pay for laptop computers and college tuition for children who otherwise would be facing a bleak future, and families who may have their homes razed by the Israelis as punishment for spawning a terrorist.
Zomlot says this gives no incentive for terrorism. Indeed, he assured me that some graduates of "the program" include high-ranking Palestinian security officials that have cooperated with the Israel Defense Forces. The PLO has administered these martyr payments in some form since 1965. What's more, he said, if the Palestinian Authority doesn't pay the families of prisoners, more radical groups likely will fill the void.
All of this raises an obvious question. If the Palestinian Authority wants to give laptops and college tuition to poor children, why not just do that? Why create a special allowance for only the children and families of Palestinians who kill Jews?
And here Zomlot gets to the heart of the matter. "Many of the U.S. officials and lawmakers judge us as if we are in a post-conflict scenario, as we have to behave like a social welfare state, we are not," he told me. "This is a conflict situation."
Indeed it is. One needs no further proof of this than the clashes in the last two weeks over Israeli security measures at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem after three Israeli Arabs launched a shooting spree from the compound that hosts the Al Aqsa Mosque, the third-holiest site in Islam.
Add to this the occupation itself. Palestinians living in the West Bank accused of crimes are given Israeli military trials and almost always convicted. Many of those prisoners have committed ghoulish acts, but many have not, Zomlot said. In this respect, he believes Congress should increase the aid it doles out to the Palestinian Authority, because despite all of this, the Palestinian security forces have helped keep order in the West Bank. And that is true.
But it's also true that the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, has in recent years encouraged a resistance to the occupation that is measured in Jewish blood. His Palestinian Authority honors murderers by naming streets and parks after them. When Israel released violent prisoners in 2013 as an inducement to restart peace negotiations, there were official celebrations in Gaza and the West Bank. Two of
those released, the cousins Mohammed and Hosni Sawalha, were arrested as teenagers after they entered a bus and began stabbing commuters. Another releasee was Al-Haaj Othman Amar Mustafa, who along with two other assailants posed for a picture outside of the settlement of Ariel with Frederick Steven Rosenfeld, a U.S. Marine who had emigrated to Israel. They confessed to stabbing Rosenfeld and leaving him for dead.
When these prisoners were released in 2013, Abbas personally met them and kissed them on the cheek. "We congratulate ourselves and our families for our brothers who left the darkness of the prisons for the light of the sun of freedom," Abbas said at the time.
Abbas probably has to say things like this in order to survive. Palestinians have been celebrating such "martyrs" for decades. To speak honestly about Mustafa and the Sawalhas would be seen as betrayal. But Graham and his supporters are under no such constraints. They see Mustafa and the Sawalhas for what they are: murderers.
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