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Promise Kept — Jerusalem Embassy
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US Embassy in Jerusalem Opens Amid Violence
{ libertyheadlines.com } ~ Donald Trump said it would be ‘a great day for Israel’ on Monday as the U.S. embassy prepared to open in Israel... ‘We extend a hand in friendship to Israel, the Palestinians and to all of their neighbors,’ Trump said in a video address. Neither Trump nor Vice President Mike Pence were there see the realization of their campaign promise that they would relocate the embassy from Tel Aviv and recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Pence is headlining a celebratory event at the Israeli embassy in Washington, instead. Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, both White House advisers, were part of a delegation of senior officials that included Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin that made the trip. The group arrived Sunday evening in Jerusalem to mass protests over the U.S. foreign policy shift....
The Haspel Pick Breaks the Model
by Ishmael Jones
{ americanthinker.com } ~ Gina Haspel, the President’s nominee for CIA chief, is a CIA bureaucrat with 33 years of service... She is widely respected. She'll not be chewed up by the bureaucracy. Democrats who accuse her of torturing terrorists are working from a playbook out of the 1970s. They believe in the efficiency of government and see the CIA as too aggressive, a toppler of leftist dictatorships. That's a historical optic which has little basis in fact. Gina never tortured anyone. The challenge facing the CIA is that it is not aggressive enough and has too many sitting, do-nothing bureaucrats located in the Washington D.C. area. Gina may have done a great deal of sitting, but she did some of it in foreign countries. She showed an early interest in espionage in foreign lands, and has had multiple, successful foreign assignments. She has shown respect for acquiring foreign languages and skills... https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/05/the_haspel_pick_breaks_the_model.html .
EU Whines About US Embassy Opening In Jerusalem
by Jeff Dunetz
{ lidblog.com } ~ Many European nations are avoiding the celebration for the U.S. moving the embassy to Jerusalem... After all Palestinian terrorism was nursed on EU appeasement, so why should they stop now. They’re even skipping the big gala. Dozens of foreign diplomats are expected to attend, though many ambassadors of European nations who oppose the move will skip it, that includes our ‘allies,” including those from the United Kingdom, France, and Germany. That’s not all, according to Axios, our EU ‘buddies’ tried to pass a resolution that would embarrass President Trump for moving the U.S. embassy... https://lidblog.com/eu-whines/ .
Corey Lewandowski joining Pence team,
will focus on midterms and then 2020
by Howard Kurtz
{ foxnews.com } ~ Corey Lewandowski, who helped Donald Trump win the Republican nomination, is getting back in the campaign game... He is joining Vice President Pence’s political action committee, which will enable him to travel with the VP and puts him firmly back in the president’s 2020 reelection orbit, say sources familiar with the move. Lewandowski discussed the move with Trump before accepting the offer and is taking the job with the president’s blessing, these sources say. By hiring such a high-profile Trump adviser, Pence is also sending a signal that there’s no daylight between him and his boss, despite some media chatter that the PAC could help further his own ambitions if Trump winds up not running again... http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/05/14/corey-lewandowski-joining-pence-team-will-focus-on-midterms-and-then-2020.html.
Darrell Issa Discusses FBI and
DOJ Administrative Stonewalling of Congress
by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Congressman Darrell Issa appears on Sunday Morning with Maria Bartiromo... to discuss the ongoing issues with FBI and DOJ officials stonewalling congressional oversight. One of the interesting aspects noted by Issa is the people underneath the top-tier of justice management, the careerists, who are the ones actually running the operation, defending the administrative state, and protecting the previous conduct of their organizational embeds..
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Promise Kept — Jerusalem Embassy Opens for Business
by Nate Jackson: The U.S. embassy in Jerusalem officially opened today, coinciding with the 70th anniversary of the creation of the modern state of Israel and one day after “Jerusalem Day,” the 51st anniversary of Israel annexing east Jerusalem, which is home to holy sites for Jews, Christians and Muslims. President Donald Trump followed through on a promise first made by the U.S. in 1995. President after president signed waivers citing security concerns over moving the embassy from Tel Aviv, succumbing to fear that the Palestinians would respond with violence, thus undermining an already fictitious “peace” process. Why does the embassy’s location matter? Fox News explains, “Although Trump has said his declaration does not set the final borders of the city, his recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital has been perceived by both Israel and the Palestinians as taking Israel’s side in the most sensitive issue in their conflict. The Palestinians claim east Jerusalem as the capital of a future state.” Most of the world does not recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital as a result.
Not surprisingly, the Palestinians did respond with violence. Terrorists have denied Israel’s right to exist from the moment it was formed. And radical Muslims have been slaughtering Jews for centuries. Unfortunately, the violence today resulted in at least 41 Palestinians killed, including what the Israelis called three “armed terrorists” aiming to plant a bomb near the Gaza border fence. Tens of thousands of protesters mobbed the fence, some in an attempt to cross, and Israeli soldiers fired on them.
Meanwhile, just a couple of weeks after French President Emmanuel Macron was glad-handing Trump at a White House state dinner, he was busy leading the charge to issue an official European Union statement criticizing the U.S. embassy relocation. Hungary, the Czech Republic and Romania blocked it — the latter two are looking to move their embassies to Jerusalem, as well. We suppose the statement was Macron’s way of blowing raspberries at Trump for shredding the Iran deal Macron had tried to save.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pronounced that recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital is “the right thing to do.” He’s right. As for the future of the peace process, our own Brian Mark Weber said in December, “Peace will be illusory until Israel’s enemies accept its right to exist.” ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/55941
Comments
Bonnie
I stand with you on this
pres trump is a winner
he does that is him congress does nothing that is them
we need to be on the side of the pres i applaud him for moving the embassy to jerusalem as for DOJ yes there are careerists and anti trumpers that is why we know the mueller witch hunt is a sham.
the pres will win out b/c of the man he is i pray to God for that. America cannot loose now