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The difference between the Kurds and 'Palestinians'
by Eli Lake
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Conservatives Have a DREAM Act
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          Tillis and Lankford call SUCCEED “a fair and merit-based solution” that provides “undocumented children with the opportunity to earn and keep legal status if they meet specific requirements, pass an extensive criminal background check, and follow one or a combination of three merit-based tracks to demonstrate they are productive members of their communities.” The senators say it’s based on four core principles: compassion, merit, prevention and fairness.
          “This is not an amnesty bill,” Lankford insisted, in part because he says it will require companion legislation on border security. Unless one defines amnesty as “whatever lets illegals stay,” Lankford is correct, and the bill has some merit. But it also has the potential for numbers that will alarm some conservatives. Despite its stringent requirements, McClatchy reports  the bill could “provide a pathway to citizenship for as many as 2.5 million young undocumented immigrants.” Given that DACA only affected between 800,000 and one million, that’s a big deal.
          Republicans are bowing to what they perceive as political reality. Americans by and large are sympathetic toward these “children” (some of whom are as old as 36). This is by Democrat design. As we said last week, Democrats love to use broad brush strokes in painting an overly simplistic portrait of these Dreamers with the goal of including as many illegal aliens as possible in this protected class. Thus, vast majorities of Americans want to help “Dreamers,” though they also favor tightening border security and things like employer verification. Will enough Republicans see this as an improvement over the status quo to pass it?  ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/51498


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Stick A Fork In Corker, He’s Done – 
Judge Roy Moore Claims First Victim
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{rickwells.us} ~ Senator Bob Corker (RINO-TN) has seen what the people of Alabama have done to force their short-term establishment tool, Luther Strange... out of office and he knows the good folks of Tennessee and the nation have a lot more reasons to be coming after him in 2018. Corker’s crooked but he’s no idiot. He doesn’t need the exposure or the headache of trying to defend his sweetheart deals and complicity with the good old boys of DC and beyond. Even with President Trump’s help Luther Strange was doomed by his association with the corrupt establishment. Bob Corker is a fixture of that establishment, its definition, and would likely not be able to find enough money to buy another term in office. McConnell’s going to be spread pretty thin trying to keep his RINO network in place. Corker saw the writing on the wall. They still haven’t repealed liar-nObamacare, as he and his lying cronies repeatedly promised they would. He knows he’s not wanted and squatting in place only works for illegal aliens. It’s time for him to recognize the obvious, accept reality and move on... https://rickwells.us/fork-corker-moore-victim/
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Bill O’Reilly Stuns On Hannity: Leftists 
Don’t Want White People ‘Calling The Shots’
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by JUSTIN CARUSO 
{dailycaller.com} ~ Former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly appeared on “Hannity” Tuesday, addressing the beliefs of the far-left in America... “They’re after–they don’t want capitalism. They don’t want the electoral college. They don’t want white people…generally calling the shots. So they have to mobilize minority Americans to be angry,” O’Reilly told Sean Hannity. O’Reilly also claimed that far-left agents, which he believes to be “evil,” want to “destroy the Constitution” by changing it. “‘Who forged it? Slave owners — Thomas Jefferson, George Washington. We can’t have a Constitution that they made — we have to have a new one!’ That’s the end game,” O’Reilly said...  http://dailycaller.com/2017/09/26/bill-oreilly-stuns-on-hannity-leftists-dont-want-white-people-calling-the-shots/?utm_medium=email
VIDEO at the site.
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Awan Funneling ‘Massive’ Data Off Congressional
Server, Dems Claim It’s Child’s HOMEWORK
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by LUKE ROSIAK
{dailycaller.com} ~ Democratic congressional aides made unauthorized access to a House server 5,400 times and funneled “massive” amounts of data off of it... But there’s nothing to see here, Democrats told The Washington Post: They were just storing and then re-downloading homework assignments for Imran Awan’s elementary-school aged kids and family pictures. A congressional source with direct knowledge of the incident contradicted the Post’s account, saying that now-indicted IT aide Imran Awan and his associates “were moving terabytes off-site so they could quote ‘work on the files'” and that they desperately tried to hide what was on the server when caught, providing police with what law enforcement immediately recognized as falsified evidence and an indication of criminal intent...  http://dailycaller.com/2017/09/26/awan-funneling-massive-data-off-congressional-server-dems-claim-its-childs-homework/?utm_medium=email
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liar-Clinton Compares Trump to Putin: 'Hopefully He Hasn’t Ordered the Killing of People and Journalists'
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by Paul Crookston
{freebeacon.com} ~ liar-Hillary Clinton said Monday on Bloomberg News that President Donald Trump has "tendencies toward authoritarianism," adding that she hopes he has not "ordered the killing of people and journalists"... as Russian President Vladimir Putin has been accused of doing. The liar-Clinton family has a long trail of mysterious deaths that have followed liar-Bill and liar-Hillary all of their political careers. The tinfoil hats can go on incessantly about all the people who have died while serving or opposing the liar-Clinton regime. It is curious, however, that the very thing that she is accused of, she is quick to accuse Donald Trump of doing. It was a low shot and it is unclear if Charlie Rose was fishing for that response... http://freebeacon.com/politics/clinton-compares-trump-putin-hopefully-hasnt-ordered-killing/
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Patriotic Dem Tells NFL Owners – 
Demand Respect, Fans Stay Home ’til They Do
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{rickwells.us} ~ Patriot and Democrat are not words one often uses to describe the same individual. Then again, Joe Manchin (D-WV) is not the typical America-hating Democrat... In many ways he doesn’t fit into the Democrat mold at all. One of those is his position regarding the spoiled brats of the NFL disrespecting our nation, our anthem and our flag. Rather than mimicking the clownish antics of his fellow Democrats, such as puffer fish Sheila Jackson Lee, who is overwhelmingly motivated by her black supremacy beliefs, communism and her ignorance, Manchin takes a mature, America-first approach to the issue. The NFL is at fault for enabling this disrespect in the first place. It is up to the NFL to fix it, or take a serious financial hit from a disappearing fan base. He stated his opinion for the record in response to a question submitted by a high school student named Jason. Manchin said, “Jason, I prefer to stand. I’ve always done that and, you know, I learned that when I was a young person. It was just taught to me that was the right thing to do.”...  https://rickwells.us/patriotic-dem-nfl-respect-fans/
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The difference between the Kurds and 'Palestinians'
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by Eli Lake
{jewishworldreview.com} ~ Consider the plight of an ethnic group seeking self-determination in the Middle East.

Its leaders have renounced terrorism. Their militias fight alongside U.S. soldiers. While their neighbors built weapons of mass destruction, they built a parliament, universities and the infrastructure for an independent state. And they pursue independence through a recognized legal process, enshrined in their country's constitution.

I am, of course, talking about Iraq's Kurds. Today, they will vote in a referendum to endorse a state of their own.

One might think the U.S. government would see the Kurds as ideal candidates for statehood in a region where self-determination is often sought through violence. But the Trump administration so far has worked assiduously to dissuade the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq from giving its people the opportunity to vote for independence.

The U.S. arguments against the statehood referendum revolve mainly around timing, according to both U.S. and Kurdish officials. Next year, Iraqis themselves are supposed to have elections. A vote to break away from Iraq would weaken Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi at a moment when he has been helpful in keeping Iraq together and leading the fight against the Islamic State.

What's more, the Kurdish referendum will offer Iraqis in disputed areas like Sinjar, and most importantly the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, the opportunity to choose between Iraq and an independent Kurdish state. Asking citizens to vote for independence in areas that are already disputed within Iraq is a recipe for trouble, U.S. diplomats say. They want the Kurds to reconsider.

Michael Rubin, an expert on the Kurds at the American Enterprise Institute, told me the referendum "is being done for the wrong motives." He said the decision to apply the referendum to people in Kirkuk and other disputed areas "will guarantee conflict." "If they were to go independent, immediately Kurdistan would have a fight over its borders," he said.

These objections, however well intentioned, have not deterred the initiative. The Iraqi constitution promised such a vote, and Kurdish leaders have delayed it for years. It is time for Iraq's Kurds to at least formally convey what anyone who has followed this issue already knows: Kurds deserve their own country.

Aziz Ahmad, an adviser to Masrour Barzani, the national security adviser to the Kurdistan Regional Government, told me senior delegations who traveled to Washington and Baghdad asked the U.S. for some assurance in exchange for flexibility. "We told them, 'If you have disagreements on the timing, give us formal guarantees of when we should hold the referendum.' And they never did," he said.

Instead of treating this like a problem, President Donald Trump should see the Kurdish referendum as an opportunity. Here we have an ethnic minority that has done -- for the most part -- everything we ask of groups seeking statehood. Compare this to the Palestinians, who have squandered billions in aid and years of exquisite international attention, yet still lack the kind of functioning institutions the world takes for granted in Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan region.

"We hear daily statements about the two-state solution and the right of self determination for the Palestinians, by the same officials who tell us we cannot have a vote to express the will of Kurds to have their own country," Hoshyar Zebari, a former foreign minister for both the Kurdish region and Iraq, told me. "This is a double standard."

There are of course important differences between the Palestinian and Kurdish cases for independence. Because the Kurds are not Arabs, their cause never got strong support from Arab states in the region, like the Palestinian cause has. And Israel never committed the kinds of large-scale war crimes against Palestinians that Saddam Hussein and Turkish governments have against Kurds. Also Kurds make no claim to Baghdad, the way both Palestinians and Israelis makes claims to Jerusalem. There is also still considerable support within Israel for a two-state solution, whereas there is no such support for Kurdish independence among Iraqi Arabs.

But the most consequential difference between the Palestinians' case for statehood and the Kurds' may end up being U.S. national interests.

Ten years ago, the U.S. needed to at least support a peace process for Israel and the Palestinians as a way to persuade Arab allies like Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to join American efforts against Iran. The presidency of Barack liar-nObama and the emboldened predations of Iran changed all of that. Today, America's Arab allies in the region are frustrated at the lack of a more robust policy to counter Iran, peace process or not.

The Kurdistan regional government today is by no means perfect. Its politics are still dominated mainly by two families. They are three years past due for elections on a new government, though the region's president, Masoud Barzani, today says there will be new elections in November, and he has pledged he will not stand for office. Corruption, like in all Middle Eastern governments, remains a problem.

But compared with its neighbors, the Kurdistan regional government is Switzerland. Kurdish leaders do not name parks and streets after suicide bombers. Kurdish leaders have implored their citizens to fight alongside the U.S. against Iraq's common enemies. The Kurdish people do not burn American flags. Most of them are not gulled by Muslim fanatics. They have pursued statehood the way we hope the Palestinians would.

The Kurdish referendum this month closes a chapter that began 25 years ago, when President George H.W. Bush in the aftermath of the first Gulf War established a no-fly zone to protect Kurdish families driven into the mountains by Saddam Hussein's storm troopers.

In the last quarter century the Kurdish people have built a state worthy of independence, under the protection of the U.S. military. That should be a source of pride for all Americans. Our president shouldn't quibble over timing. The administration should welcome Kurdish independence.
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