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Terrorism Persists Because It Works
by Alan M. Dershowitz
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Top Headlines
Pope Francis and Donald Trump meet at the Vatican. (The New York Times)
WH budget director: liar-nObama administration spent too much on climate change "and not very efficiently." (CNS News)
FISA court: liar-nObama's NSA record of spying. (Circa)
CIA sought FBI probe into Russian targeting of Trump campaign. (The Washington Free Beacon)
Fox News retracts story that fanned conspiracy theories of DNC staffer Seth Rich's murder. (Washington Examiner)
Theresa May upgrades terrorist threat level to "critical" and puts soldiers on streets. (UK Independent)
The 22-year-old Brit who stopped the global cyberattack is donating his $10,000 reward to charity. (Business Insider)
The European Union plans to censor hate speech on social media. (Reason)
IRS official tells Congress the agency needs more money to improve customer service. (The Washington Times)
Hump Day Humor: liar-Clinton receives 400,000 honorary degrees for college commencement speech. (The Onion)
Policy: The world is too comfortable with terror. (National Review)
Policy: Trump’s no-apology tour. (Washington Times)
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U.S. Senate Panel Says It Will Subpoena
Michael Flynn Businesses
by newsmax.com
{newsmax.com} ~ The leaders of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee said on Tuesday they would subpoena two of former national security adviser Michael Flynn's businesses... after Flynn declined to comply with a subpoena for documents in the panel's Russia probe. "While we disagree with General Flynn's lawyers' interpretation of taking the Fifth ... it's even more clear that a business does not have a right to take the Fifth," the panel's vice chairman, Democratic Senator Mark Warner, told reporters, referring to Flynn's decision to invoke his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination...Why didn't they subpoena liar-Hillary business and her associates which does have ties to Russia? http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/senate-subpoena-flynn-businesses/2017/05/23/id/791950/?ns_mail_uid=29878495&ns_mail_job=1732670_05242017&s=al&dkt_nbr=uklvv2jm.
Remember When liar-nObama Gifted U.S.
Intelligence to Cuban Spies?
by Humberto Fontova
{frontpagemag.com} ~ The deepest and most damaging penetration of the U.S. Defense Department by an enemy agent in recent history was pulled off by a spy working for the terror-sponsoring, drug-smuggling Castro regime... The spy’s name is Ana Belen Montes, known as "Castro’s Queen Jewel" in the intelligence community. In 2002 she was convicted of the same crimes as Ethel and Julius Rosenberg and today she serves a 25-year sentence in Federal prison. Well, back in January shortly before liar-nObama vacated the White House, this very Gustavo Machin was invited by the liar-nObama team to personally participate in U.S. security brainstorming session involving the U.S. Southern Command, which serves as our nation’s command center on the war on drugs.” You see, amigos: In one of his closing acts as President, liar-nObama ordered U.S. intelligence agencies to “share” information with the terror-sponsoring, drug-smuggling Castro regime. Here’s how the AP described the executive orders:...Boy, the lib dems don't remember this, but are welling to go after Trump for sharing intelligents with the Russians on ISIS. http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/266778/remember-when-obama-gifted-us-intelligence-cuban-humberto-fontova
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Brennan Testimony Undercuts
Left’s Collusion Narrative
by Joseph Klein
{frontpagemag.com} ~ Like Ahab, the obsessive sea captain who sought revenge on the great white whale Moby Dick, the left and their cohorts in the mainstream media continue their obsessive quest for “evidence” to bring down their nemesis, President Trump... Unfortunately for the destroy-Trump crowd, their Russia conspiracy narrative has been undercut by none other than the anti-Trump former CIA Director, John Brennan. Mr. Brennan has just delivered his first public remarks on the alleged ties between Russia and the Trump campaign since he left office last January. Mr. Brennan admitted, during his congressional testimony before the House Intelligence Committee on Tuesday, that he could not say whether there was any evidence pointing to alleged “collusion” between the Trump campaign and Russia... http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/266794/brennan-testimony-undercuts-lefts-collusion-joseph-klein
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Comey Admits Trump
Never Pressured him to End Probe
{patrioticviralnews.com} ~ Did James Comey commit perjury? That’s the question this telling clip raises as Comey quite clearly states under oath to a Congressional committee that a president has never attempted to hinder an FBI investigation for political purposes during his reign... This contradicts what he apparently wrote in a memo that was reported on May 16, alleging that the president had asked him if he was going to stop investigating former National Security Advisor Mike Flynn, and asking if he, the president was himself under investigation. Years ago, Comey was supposed to be one of the most nonpartisan, objective candidates to head the FBI in recent history. But, after a tumultuous past two years, Comey’s loyalties and allegiances have been questioned numerous times after he declared the investigation into liar-Hillary Clinton’s private email server opened, then closed, then re-opened and then closed again once more... http://patrioticviralnews.com/articles/comey-admits-trump-never-pressured-him-to-end-probe/
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TUCKER: With Katie Hopkins on UK Terror: If They Can't Protect Children, "What's the Point of Having a Government?"
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Brad Thor: Western Society Needs to "Think Like Israel" on Terrorism
VIDEO: http://video.insider.foxnews.com/v/5445645694001
VIDEO: http://video.insider.foxnews.com/v/5445645694001
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ABC News Worried About Potential ‘Anti-Islamic Backlash’ After Manchester Terror Attack
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Mollie Hemingway: Media's Cartoonish Hostility To Trump Causes People To Tune Out, Not Take Their News Seriously
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MUST WATCH TUCKER: "If You Care About US, You Won't Let It Become Europe"
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Terrorism Persists Because It Works
by Alan M. Dershowitz
{jewishworldreview.com} ~ Every time a horrendous terrorist attack victimizes innocent victims we wring our hands and promise to increase security and take other necessary preventive measures. But we fail to recognize how friends and allies play such an important role in encouraging, incentivizing, and inciting terrorism.
If we are to have any chance of reducing terrorism, we must get to its root cause. It is not poverty, disenfranchisement, despair or any of the other abuse excuses offered to explain, if not to justify, terrorism as an act of desperation. It is anything but. Many terrorists, such as those who participated in the 9/11 attacks, were educated, well-off, mobile and even successful. They made a rational cost-benefit decision to murder innocent civilians for one simple reason: they believe that terrorism works.
And tragically they are right. The international community has rewarded terrorism while punishing those who try to fight it by reasonable means. It all began with a decision by Yasser Arafat and other Palestinian terrorist groups to employ the tactic of terrorism as a primary means of bringing the Palestinian issue to the forefront of world concern. Based on the merits and demerits of the Palestinian case, it does not deserve this stature. The treatment of the Tibetans by China, the Kurds by most of the Arab world, and the people of Chechen by Russia has been or at least as bad. But their response to grievances has been largely ignored by the international community and the media because they mostly sought remedies within the law rather than through terrorism.
The Palestinian situation has been different. The hijacking of airplanes, the murders of Olympic athletes at Munich, the killing of Israeli children at Ma'alot, and the many other terrorist atrocities perpetrated by Palestinian terrorists has elevated their cause above all other causes in the human rights community. Although the Palestinians have not yet gotten a state - because they twice rejected generous offers of statehood - their cause still dominates the United Nations and numerous human rights groups.
Other groups with grievances have learned from the success of Palestinian terrorism and have emulated the use of that barbaric tactic. Even today, when the Palestinian authority claims to reject terrorism, they reward the families of suicide bombers and other terrorists by large compensation packages that increase with the number of innocent victims. If the perpetrator of the Manchester massacre had been Palestinian and if the massacre had taken place in an Israeli auditorium, the Palestinian authority would have paid his family a small fortune for murdering so many children. There is a name for people and organizations that pay other people for killing innocent civilians: it's called accessory to murder. If the Mafia offered bounties to kill its opponents, no one would sympathize with those who made the offer. Yet the Palestinian leadership that does the same thing is welcomed and honored throughout the world.
The Palestinian authority also glorifies terrorists by naming parks, stadiums, streets and other public places after the mass murderers of children. Our "ally" Qatar finances Hamas which the United States has correctly declared to be a terrorist organization. Our enemy Iran, also finances, facilitates and encourages terrorism against the United States, Israel and other western democracies, without suffering any real consequences. The United Nations glorifies terrorism by placing countries that support terrorism in high positions of authority and honor and by welcoming with open arms the promoters of terrorism.
On the other hand Israel, which has led the world in efforts to combat terrorism by reasonable and lawful means, gets attacked by the international community more than any other country in the world. Promoters of terrorism are treated better at the United Nations than opponents of terrorism. The boycott divestment tactic (BDS) is directed only against Israel and not against the many nations that support terrorism.
Terrorism will continue as long as it continues to bear fruits. The fruits may be different for different causes. Sometimes it is simply publicity. Sometimes it is a recruitment tool. Sometimes it brings about concessions as it did in many European countries. Some European countries that have now been plagued by terrorism even released captured Palestinian terrorists. England, France, Italy and Germany were among the countries that released Palestinian terrorists in the hope of preventing terrorist attacks on their soil. Their selfish and immoral tactic backfired: it only caused them to become even more inviting targets for the murderous terrorists.
But no matter how terrorism works, the reality that it does, will make it difficult if not impossible to stem its malignant spread around the world. To make it not work, the entire world must unite in never rewarding terrorism and always punishing those who facilitate it.
{jewishworldreview.com} ~ Every time a horrendous terrorist attack victimizes innocent victims we wring our hands and promise to increase security and take other necessary preventive measures. But we fail to recognize how friends and allies play such an important role in encouraging, incentivizing, and inciting terrorism.
If we are to have any chance of reducing terrorism, we must get to its root cause. It is not poverty, disenfranchisement, despair or any of the other abuse excuses offered to explain, if not to justify, terrorism as an act of desperation. It is anything but. Many terrorists, such as those who participated in the 9/11 attacks, were educated, well-off, mobile and even successful. They made a rational cost-benefit decision to murder innocent civilians for one simple reason: they believe that terrorism works.
And tragically they are right. The international community has rewarded terrorism while punishing those who try to fight it by reasonable means. It all began with a decision by Yasser Arafat and other Palestinian terrorist groups to employ the tactic of terrorism as a primary means of bringing the Palestinian issue to the forefront of world concern. Based on the merits and demerits of the Palestinian case, it does not deserve this stature. The treatment of the Tibetans by China, the Kurds by most of the Arab world, and the people of Chechen by Russia has been or at least as bad. But their response to grievances has been largely ignored by the international community and the media because they mostly sought remedies within the law rather than through terrorism.
The Palestinian situation has been different. The hijacking of airplanes, the murders of Olympic athletes at Munich, the killing of Israeli children at Ma'alot, and the many other terrorist atrocities perpetrated by Palestinian terrorists has elevated their cause above all other causes in the human rights community. Although the Palestinians have not yet gotten a state - because they twice rejected generous offers of statehood - their cause still dominates the United Nations and numerous human rights groups.
Other groups with grievances have learned from the success of Palestinian terrorism and have emulated the use of that barbaric tactic. Even today, when the Palestinian authority claims to reject terrorism, they reward the families of suicide bombers and other terrorists by large compensation packages that increase with the number of innocent victims. If the perpetrator of the Manchester massacre had been Palestinian and if the massacre had taken place in an Israeli auditorium, the Palestinian authority would have paid his family a small fortune for murdering so many children. There is a name for people and organizations that pay other people for killing innocent civilians: it's called accessory to murder. If the Mafia offered bounties to kill its opponents, no one would sympathize with those who made the offer. Yet the Palestinian leadership that does the same thing is welcomed and honored throughout the world.
The Palestinian authority also glorifies terrorists by naming parks, stadiums, streets and other public places after the mass murderers of children. Our "ally" Qatar finances Hamas which the United States has correctly declared to be a terrorist organization. Our enemy Iran, also finances, facilitates and encourages terrorism against the United States, Israel and other western democracies, without suffering any real consequences. The United Nations glorifies terrorism by placing countries that support terrorism in high positions of authority and honor and by welcoming with open arms the promoters of terrorism.
On the other hand Israel, which has led the world in efforts to combat terrorism by reasonable and lawful means, gets attacked by the international community more than any other country in the world. Promoters of terrorism are treated better at the United Nations than opponents of terrorism. The boycott divestment tactic (BDS) is directed only against Israel and not against the many nations that support terrorism.
Terrorism will continue as long as it continues to bear fruits. The fruits may be different for different causes. Sometimes it is simply publicity. Sometimes it is a recruitment tool. Sometimes it brings about concessions as it did in many European countries. Some European countries that have now been plagued by terrorism even released captured Palestinian terrorists. England, France, Italy and Germany were among the countries that released Palestinian terrorists in the hope of preventing terrorist attacks on their soil. Their selfish and immoral tactic backfired: it only caused them to become even more inviting targets for the murderous terrorists.
But no matter how terrorism works, the reality that it does, will make it difficult if not impossible to stem its malignant spread around the world. To make it not work, the entire world must unite in never rewarding terrorism and always punishing those who facilitate it.
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