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US to finally recognize
Jerusalem as Israel's capital
by David Nakamura, Loveday Morris & Anne Gearan
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Lewis: Grandstanding Trumps Civil Rights
by Political Editors: Representatives John Lewis (D-GA) and Bennie Thompson (D-MS) made it clear that they would not attend the grand opening ceremony for the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum over the weekend. Why? Well, because Donald Trump will also be attending the opening — just as the president should, given the historic significance of the event. Lewis explained, “I think his presence would make a mockery of everything that people tried to do to redeem the soul of America and to make this country better.” Ironic that an icon of the civil rights movement would willingly disassociate himself from such a historic moment due to his personal animus toward Trump. Then again, this is the same John Lewis who staged an anti-Second Amendment congressional sit-in to deny civil rights.
by Political Editors: Representatives John Lewis (D-GA) and Bennie Thompson (D-MS) made it clear that they would not attend the grand opening ceremony for the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum over the weekend. Why? Well, because Donald Trump will also be attending the opening — just as the president should, given the historic significance of the event. Lewis explained, “I think his presence would make a mockery of everything that people tried to do to redeem the soul of America and to make this country better.” Ironic that an icon of the civil rights movement would willingly disassociate himself from such a historic moment due to his personal animus toward Trump. Then again, this is the same John Lewis who staged an anti-Second Amendment congressional sit-in to deny civil rights. White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders responded to Lewis’ and Thompson’s decision, stating that it was “unfortunate that these members of Congress wouldn’t join the President in honoring the incredible sacrifice civil rights leaders made to right the injustices in our history.” Highlighting the need to strive for commonality rather than promote discord, Sanders further wrote, “The President hopes others will join him in recognizing that the movement was about removing barriers and unifying Americans of all backgrounds.”
To put it bluntly, this stunt is designed as a no-win situation for Trump. He’s damned if he does or damned if he doesn’t. Trump’s visit is being used as an opportunity by Lewis and Thompson to grandstand and label Trump a racist, because he’s a Republican. However, if Trump were to decide not to attend, then they would be excoriating him for failing to recognize and show the proper respect for the sacrifices made by those Civil Rights-era individuals in their fight for equal rights. Once again, Democrats make the mistake of viewing the man as bigger than the office.
~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/52834
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Pope Falsely Connects Weather Events
To Warming In Push For Global Communism
by rickwells.us
{rickwells.us} ~ Pope Francis is once again distorting the reality of weather into a justification for global government and an Islamic caliphate... lying in the name of his own pretend religion of earth worship. Pope Bergoglio is promoting the latest in the never-ending series of takeover through the weather meetings, this one in the notorious “climate communism” plotting center of Paris. He addressed the non-issue from the Vatican on Sunday. Francis said, “Two years after the adoption of the Paris climate agreement,” the UN exploiters who rule the world’s future slave populations are meeting again in a summit to renew their commitment and to “consolidate a shared strategy to counter the worrisome phenomenon of climate change.”...Like I mention before, he should stick with the Word of God and stay out of politics.. https://rickwells.us/pope-weather-global-communism/.
Dems Changing Party Rules to Keep
liar-Hillary from EVER Running Again
by V SAXENA
{conservativetribune.com} ~ Disgruntled Democrats who believe liar-Hillary Clinton unethically earned — or stole... the Democrat presidential nomination last year just received some terrific news. The Associated Press reported Friday that Democrats are considering moving forward with a plan that would limit the influence of “superdelegates,” i.e., party leaders and elected officials who during the primaries voted overwhelmingly in liar-Clinton’s favor despite a groundswell of support for her challenger, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. “But under the new rules, those superdelegates would have to tie their votes on the convention’s first ballot to the outcome of primaries and caucuses,” the AP reported. “In 2016, all superdelegates were allowed to support either candidate.”... https://conservativetribune.com/dems-changing-party-rules/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=patriottribune&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=libertyalliance.
CIA veterans: Spooks
know names of DNC leakers
by ALICIA POWE{wnd.com} ~ The Central Intelligence Agency knows the identities of the people who leaked DNC emails to the whistleblower organization WikiLeaks... during the heat of the 2016 presidential campaign, a former CIA officer contends. Fred Rustmann, who served as an operations officer in the CIA’s National Clandestine Service for 24 years and was a member of the agency’s elite Senior Intelligence Service, said in an interview with WND that WikiLeaks’ ongoing release of classified information is “disgusting.” But he said it’s likely the CIA knows who the leakers are. “WikiLeaks says they want to protect their sources – Julian Assange said that he wouldn’t reveal his sources, but he would say that it wasn’t the Russians,” Rustmann said...
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As Immigration Arrests Increase Under Trump,
So Do Border Crossings by Unaccompanied Minors
by Fred Lucas
{dailysignal.com} ~ The Trump administration counts the overall successes in curbing illegal immigration as “another success,”... but since May there has been an increase of families and unaccompanied children illegally coming across the border. Some experts attribute this to the talk of amnesty for so-called “Dreamers,” or illegal immigrants brought into the country as minors. The Department of Homeland Security released its final numbers for fiscal year 2017 that spanned the final months of Barack liar-nObama’s presidency and the first nine months of Donald Trump’s presidency, October 1, 2016 through Sept. 30, 2017. The federal government arrested almost 40 percent more illegal immigrants inside the country in the past fiscal year... http:///2017/12/10/immigration-arrests-increase-trump-unaccompanied-minors-border-crossings/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell%22&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTVdRMVpUQXlaRFl4WldRMyIsInQiOiIwTUlheUw5ZW9RR1NkaDJleW1EZThIZ2ZTTDNkMDhDK0xQU3phcythQXV0RXRIdkpON01mc1dOcFNQYmoyaDMrM0VzWWhGN2h4SUVsZDFWNTBiaitERnZYOUZubW5MZzQ5eno4VVFIcmhjVFlQaDdIUmtEWGN4VHNrcHhXMXVZeCJ9.
Sweden’s Palestinian Problem – Mob
Calls For Death To Jews And Terrorist Attacks
by rickwells.us
{rickwells.us} ~ There’s no way the EU leadership or Angela Merkel could have possibly anticipated... that importing radical Islamists wouldn’t immediately cast aside their lifelong indoctrination and hate and work fervently to integrate with the civilized world. They’re fervent, alright, but it’s got nothing to do with integrating and everything to do with killing Jews. They’ve declared themselves to be leading a new intifada from their new homeland of Sweden, which, like much of Europe, will never be the same again. What set the unassimilated, relocated terrorists and enablers off this time was the decision by President Trump to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. The Islamists are big supporters of peace and religious freedom. As long as everyone else submits to them there will be peace. Freedom of religion means the freedom for them to practice Islam and for others to convert... https://rickwells.us/sweden-palestinian-mob-jews/.
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US to finally recognize
Jerusalem as Israel's capital
by David Nakamura, Loveday Morris & Anne Gearan
{jewishworldreview.com} ~ President Donald Trump today plans to upend decades of U.S. policy by formally recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and ordering the relocation of the U.S. Embassy to that city, senior aides said, a decision that could derail the White House's peace efforts and spark regional unrest.
Trump will make his pronouncement in a midday speech after months of deliberation within his administration and consultations with governments in the Middle East. But in a sign of the complexities of such a shift, White House aides emphasized that Trump will sign another six-month waiver maintaining the embassy's current location in Tel Aviv because the process of moving it will take at least three or four years.
Without the waiver, which has been signed by every U.S. president for more than two decades, crucial State Department funding to the embassy would be cut off.
The president began informing his counterparts in the region of his decision Tuesday, prompting warnings from several countries that the move would inflame Muslims and disrupt progress toward a peace deal between the Israelis and the Palestinians. U.S. allies in Europe, including France, also have opposed such a change in policy, and the State Department sent a classified memo to embassies in the Middle East late last month warning of potential anti-American protests.
"Our president said, 'You don't have anything that would make up for this on Jerusalem,' " said Nabil Shaath, an adviser to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas who said Abbas had personally briefed him on the call. Abbas told Trump that he would "not accept it" and warned that the president was "playing into the hands of extremism."
But Trump "just went on saying he had to do it," Shaath said.
In Riyadh, the Saudi Press Agency, using the Arabic name for Jerusalem, said King Salman bin Abdul Aziz warned Trump "that such a dangerous step of relocation or recognition of Al-Quds as the capital of Israel would constitute a flagrant provocation of Muslims, all over the world."
The backlash from other Middle East nations mounted Tuesday.
Speaking to the Turkish parliament, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said American recognition of Jerusalem would be a "red line" for Muslims, possibly forcing Turkey to cut diplomatic ties with Israel that were recently renewed after a six-year hiatus.
Senior White House officials described Trump's decision as the fulfillment of a key campaign promise that has broad bipartisan support in Congress. They emphasized that the move will not fundamentally change other aspects of U.S. policy. For example, they said, Trump remains supportive of a two-state solution, if that's what the parties agree to, and the administration is maintaining the status quo on Jerusalem's holy sites.
The officials said Trump is simply recognizing the reality that Jerusalem has historically been Israel's capital and that most of the nation's government - including the prime minister's office, the Supreme Court and the legislature - is based there.
"For a long time, the U.S. position held ambiguity or a lack of acknowledgment in hopes of advancing the process of peace," said one senior administration official, who along with two others spoke on the condition of anonymity at a briefing for reporters at the White House on Tuesday. "It might have been reasonable under certain circumstances and times. Certainly, it's been tried. But . . . it seems clear now that the physical location of the American embassy is not material to a peace deal."
Another U.S. official said after the briefing that while Trump will reiterate his commitment to the peace process during his speech, the White House recognizes that "some parties" might react negatively.
"We are still working on our plan, which is not yet ready," said this official, who was not authorized to speak on the record. "We have time to get it right and see how people feel after this news is processed over the next period of time."
No other countries have their embassies in Jerusalem, with a long-standing international consensus that the city's status should be decided in a peace deal between the Israelis and the Palestinians.
Palestinian factions jointly announced three "days of rage," beginning Wednesday, to protest the potential U.S. Embassy move and recognition of Jerusalem. In a statement, they called on supporters around the world to gather in city centers and at Israeli embassies and consulates to voice their anger.
In a statement late Tuesday, the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem urged American citizens in Israel to avoid large crowds or areas where security had been increased, and ordered its staff members and their families to avoid Jerusalem's Old City and the West Bank except for "essential" business.
Israel annexed east Jerusalem, which contains most of the important holy sites for Jews, Muslims and Christians, after the Jewish state was attacked in a 1967 war with Arab powers. Palestinians claim east Jerusalem as the capital of a future state, while many Israelis and some in the United States consider the city sector to be already and irrevocably under Israeli administration. Some of Trump's prominent Jewish backers appear to hold that view, although he has said he wants to honor Palestinian sovereignty through a mutual settlement.
U.S. officials did not identify any prospective location for the new embassy, and said it will take years to plan and build to meet security concerns for the roughly 1,000 diplomats currently headquartered in Tel Aviv. But the officials emphasized that the move will not prejudice Palestinians' claims to east Jerusalem, strongly implying that only sites on the western side of the pre-1967 Green Line will be considered.
"This doesn't speak to final-status issues," a third administration official said, referring to the thorniest disputes in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - those that are assumed to be in limbo until completion of a final peace settlement.
The officials said the decision was made with the support of Trump's envoys seeking a long-elusive peace deal, an assertion meant to counter warnings that the change would unleash fresh Arab violence. They offered no specifics to support the claim that the move would not spoil the peace initiative headed by presidential son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner.
The aides said, however, that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and other State Department officials were closely involved in the deliberations.
The White House said a call was also scheduled with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. A spokesman for his office declined to comment.
Other advocates of recognizing Jerusalem as the Israeli capital have pointed to Russia as an example. Moscow declared west Jerusalem to be the Israeli capital earlier this year, and the announcement produced no wave of violence or diplomatic backlash.
The U.S. position is more charged, however, because of Washington's historic role as a peace broker.
Jordan's King Abdullah II said the move would undermine U.S. efforts to resume the peace process, according to news reports.
The Egyptian government said President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, in his conversation with Trump on Tuesday, "reiterated Egypt's unwavering position with regard to maintaining the legal status of Jerusalem within the framework of international references and relevant U.N. resolutions."
{jewishworldreview.com} ~ President Donald Trump today plans to upend decades of U.S. policy by formally recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and ordering the relocation of the U.S. Embassy to that city, senior aides said, a decision that could derail the White House's peace efforts and spark regional unrest.
Trump will make his pronouncement in a midday speech after months of deliberation within his administration and consultations with governments in the Middle East. But in a sign of the complexities of such a shift, White House aides emphasized that Trump will sign another six-month waiver maintaining the embassy's current location in Tel Aviv because the process of moving it will take at least three or four years.
Without the waiver, which has been signed by every U.S. president for more than two decades, crucial State Department funding to the embassy would be cut off.
The president began informing his counterparts in the region of his decision Tuesday, prompting warnings from several countries that the move would inflame Muslims and disrupt progress toward a peace deal between the Israelis and the Palestinians. U.S. allies in Europe, including France, also have opposed such a change in policy, and the State Department sent a classified memo to embassies in the Middle East late last month warning of potential anti-American protests.
"Our president said, 'You don't have anything that would make up for this on Jerusalem,' " said Nabil Shaath, an adviser to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas who said Abbas had personally briefed him on the call. Abbas told Trump that he would "not accept it" and warned that the president was "playing into the hands of extremism."
But Trump "just went on saying he had to do it," Shaath said.
In Riyadh, the Saudi Press Agency, using the Arabic name for Jerusalem, said King Salman bin Abdul Aziz warned Trump "that such a dangerous step of relocation or recognition of Al-Quds as the capital of Israel would constitute a flagrant provocation of Muslims, all over the world."
The backlash from other Middle East nations mounted Tuesday.
Speaking to the Turkish parliament, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said American recognition of Jerusalem would be a "red line" for Muslims, possibly forcing Turkey to cut diplomatic ties with Israel that were recently renewed after a six-year hiatus.
Senior White House officials described Trump's decision as the fulfillment of a key campaign promise that has broad bipartisan support in Congress. They emphasized that the move will not fundamentally change other aspects of U.S. policy. For example, they said, Trump remains supportive of a two-state solution, if that's what the parties agree to, and the administration is maintaining the status quo on Jerusalem's holy sites.
The officials said Trump is simply recognizing the reality that Jerusalem has historically been Israel's capital and that most of the nation's government - including the prime minister's office, the Supreme Court and the legislature - is based there.
"For a long time, the U.S. position held ambiguity or a lack of acknowledgment in hopes of advancing the process of peace," said one senior administration official, who along with two others spoke on the condition of anonymity at a briefing for reporters at the White House on Tuesday. "It might have been reasonable under certain circumstances and times. Certainly, it's been tried. But . . . it seems clear now that the physical location of the American embassy is not material to a peace deal."
Another U.S. official said after the briefing that while Trump will reiterate his commitment to the peace process during his speech, the White House recognizes that "some parties" might react negatively.
"We are still working on our plan, which is not yet ready," said this official, who was not authorized to speak on the record. "We have time to get it right and see how people feel after this news is processed over the next period of time."
No other countries have their embassies in Jerusalem, with a long-standing international consensus that the city's status should be decided in a peace deal between the Israelis and the Palestinians.
Palestinian factions jointly announced three "days of rage," beginning Wednesday, to protest the potential U.S. Embassy move and recognition of Jerusalem. In a statement, they called on supporters around the world to gather in city centers and at Israeli embassies and consulates to voice their anger.
In a statement late Tuesday, the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem urged American citizens in Israel to avoid large crowds or areas where security had been increased, and ordered its staff members and their families to avoid Jerusalem's Old City and the West Bank except for "essential" business.
Israel annexed east Jerusalem, which contains most of the important holy sites for Jews, Muslims and Christians, after the Jewish state was attacked in a 1967 war with Arab powers. Palestinians claim east Jerusalem as the capital of a future state, while many Israelis and some in the United States consider the city sector to be already and irrevocably under Israeli administration. Some of Trump's prominent Jewish backers appear to hold that view, although he has said he wants to honor Palestinian sovereignty through a mutual settlement.
U.S. officials did not identify any prospective location for the new embassy, and said it will take years to plan and build to meet security concerns for the roughly 1,000 diplomats currently headquartered in Tel Aviv. But the officials emphasized that the move will not prejudice Palestinians' claims to east Jerusalem, strongly implying that only sites on the western side of the pre-1967 Green Line will be considered.
"This doesn't speak to final-status issues," a third administration official said, referring to the thorniest disputes in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict - those that are assumed to be in limbo until completion of a final peace settlement.
The officials said the decision was made with the support of Trump's envoys seeking a long-elusive peace deal, an assertion meant to counter warnings that the change would unleash fresh Arab violence. They offered no specifics to support the claim that the move would not spoil the peace initiative headed by presidential son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner.
The aides said, however, that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and other State Department officials were closely involved in the deliberations.
The White House said a call was also scheduled with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. A spokesman for his office declined to comment.
Other advocates of recognizing Jerusalem as the Israeli capital have pointed to Russia as an example. Moscow declared west Jerusalem to be the Israeli capital earlier this year, and the announcement produced no wave of violence or diplomatic backlash.
The U.S. position is more charged, however, because of Washington's historic role as a peace broker.
Jordan's King Abdullah II said the move would undermine U.S. efforts to resume the peace process, according to news reports.
The Egyptian government said President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, in his conversation with Trump on Tuesday, "reiterated Egypt's unwavering position with regard to maintaining the legal status of Jerusalem within the framework of international references and relevant U.N. resolutions."
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