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Standing up to the elitist mobs
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by Caroline B. Glick
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ACLU Attacks Border Wall and Kate’s Law
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{frontpagemag.com} ~ The preface of the official government report, 9/11 and  Terrorist Travel began with the following paragraph... It is perhaps obvious to state that terrorists cannot plan and carry out attacks in the United States if they are unable to enter the country. Yet prior to September 11, while there were efforts to enhance border security, no agency of the U.S. government thought of border security as a tool in the counterterrorism arsenal. Indeed, even after 19 hijackers demonstrated the relative ease of obtaining a U.S. visa and gaining admission into the United States, border security still is not considered a cornerstone of national security policy. We believe, for reasons we discuss in the following pages, that it must be made one. That report was authored by the federal agents and attorneys who were assigned to the 9/11 Commission.  The 9/11 Commission was created and tasked with conducting an exhaustive investigation into how the 9/11 terrorists were able to carry out the most deadly terror attack in the history of the United States. Indeed, the 19 hijacker-terrorists slaughtered more innocent victims on September 11, 2001 than did the Japanese fleet at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 and the death toll continues to rise as still more people, including valiant first responders succumb to illness directly attributable to the toxins they were exposed to when the World Trade Center Complex was reduced to rubble. Today more than 10,000 people are being treated for illnesses directly related to those terror attacks. The mission for the 9/11 Commission was not simply to document that which had transpired on that horrific day, but to identify the vulnerabilities that enabled those attacks to be carried out so that remedial measures could be implemented to prevent future attacks...
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Putin-Rouhani cut deal to ensure Iran evades 
US sanctions, Israel said to warn
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{timesofisrael.com} ~ Russia and Iran have agreed on a mechanism to spare Iran the impact of what are intended by the US to be crippling sanctions on its oil industry from next month... an Israeli Foreign Ministry document reportedly warns. The mechanism provides for Iran to export crude oil to Russia across the Caspian Sea. The oil will then be refined at Russian refineries, and from there it will be exported worldwide, the “secret” Israeli document states, according to a report on Hadashot TV news on Sunday. In return, Moscow will provide Iran with unspecified trade and service benefits.The goal of the mechanism, the reported Israeli document makes clear, is to enable Iran to bypass the US sanctions on its oil industry that are set to come into force on November 4...  https://www.timesofisrael.com/putin-rouhani-deal-will-ensure-iran-avoids-us-oil-sanctions-israel-said-to-warn/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2018-10-15&utm_medium=email
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Newt Gingrich: dirty cop-Mueller's fatal mistake
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by Newt Gingrich  
{foxnews.com } ~ There is now no excuse for Special Counsel dirty cop-Robert Mueller to ask to interview President Trump... In fact, it is now clear the investigators have been given so much information about the president’s actions and had such remarkably open access, they should just close shop and write their final report. They no longer have any grounds for going to court to get a subpoena to compel the president to testify. dirty cop-Mueller’s fatal mistake was revealed Saturday in The New York Times story titled, “White House Counsel, Don McGahn, Has Cooperated Extensively in dirty cop-Mueller Inquiry.” Michael Schmidt and Maggie Haberman reported that there were at least 30 hours of interviews between the dirty cop-Mueller team and the White House Counsel. Don McGahn asserted throughout the interviews that “he never saw Mr. Trump go beyond his legal authorities.” McGahn’s cooperation is historically unique because President Trump waived both executive privilege and attorney-client privilege. President Trump was so confident of his innocence that he waived both of these protections to allow the Special Counsel to thoroughly question the White House attorney...  https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/newt-gingrich-muellers-fatal-mistake
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FBI: McCabe was investigated for media leak in 2017
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{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe was under investigation by the bureau in March 2017 for an alleged unauthorized leak to the media... about former national security adviser Michael Flynn and President Trump. The alleged leak, which has not been publicly revealed, involved a “statement overheard in early February 2017,” according to documents released by the FBI on Monday. The FBI’s Office of Public Affairs received the complaint about the alleged leak, and an investigation appears to have been opened on March 20, 2017.The new revelation was included in a batch of documents released Monday related to an internal investigation of McCabe. It is unclear what information McCabe allegedly leaked, or what the FBI determined and thus recommended in the situation. McCabe was fired from the FBI in March after Justice Department’s inspector general determined that he misled investigators about the role he had in leaking information to the Wall Street Journal in October 2016 about the investigation into the liar-Clinton Foundation...  https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/fbi-says-andrew-mccabe-was-investigated-for-unauthorized-media-leak-in-2017?utm_source=WEX_Breaking%20News%20Alert_10/15/2018&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_Breaking%20News
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Stacey Abrams: ‘Blue Wave’ Is ‘Comprised of Those 
Who Are Documented and Undocumented’
by Paul Crookston

{freebeacon.com} ~ Georgia’s dummycrats-Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams said Tuesday the dummycrats-Democrats’ "blue wave" in November would be comprised... of those who are "documented and undocumented." Abrams was speaking with supporters at the Clayton County campaign office during an event with Sen. Elizabeth dinky-Warren (D., Mass.). She touted the diversity of the coming "blue wave" that she thinks will sweep dummycrats-Democrats into office nationwide. "The thing of it is, the blue wave is African American. It is white. It is Latino. It is Asian-Pacific Islander," she said, going through a diverse list of groups. "It is made up of those who've been told that they are not worthy of being here. It is comprised of those who are documented and undocumented," she said...
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Standing up to the elitist mobs
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by Caroline B. Glick

{jewishworldreview.com} ~ US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley’s sudden resignation this week distressed a lot of Israelis. On the face of things, the widely felt concern makes little sense. After all, Haley wasn’t a lone wolf in the Trump administration.

Then-president Barack scumbag/liar-nObama’s anti-Israel UN ambassadors Susan Rice and Samantha Power weren’t free agents when they took hostile actions and made hostile statements about Israel. They were speaking and acting as representatives of their boss,  
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Just so, in defending Israel by word and deed, Haley was a loyal representative of the policies of her boss, President Donald Trump.

So why did her decision to resign make so many Israelis anxious?

Because while Haley was a loyal representative of the administration, she was more than a mouthpiece. She was a leader.

Leading in a place like the UN means speaking truth to the most powerful sort of mob – the elite mob.

The UN’s mob mentality doesn’t manifest itself in book burnings and mass rallies. Rather, it expresses itself in a thousand ways – often passive-aggressive – every day in UN institutions.

It isn’t just that Haley was forced to cast the lone nay vote last December, when the other 14 Security Council members including Britain and France voted in a favor of a resolution demanding that the US reverse its sovereign decision to move its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, and recognize that Jerusalem is Israel’s capital city.

Every day, the UN shows its mob mentality in its obsessive-compulsive bias against the Jewish state.

Wednesday, for instance, UNESCO passed yet another resolution that pretends the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron and Rachel’s Tomb are Palestinian world heritage sites.

Disgusted by UNESCO’s out-of-control antisemitism, last year the Trump administration announced it would leave the organization at the end of 2018.

Citing UNESCO’s moves in Hebron from last year as the impetus for the US action, Haley said at the time that UNESCO’s politicization was a “chronic embarrassment.”

“Just as we said in 1985 when President Reagan withdrew from UNESCO, US taxpayers should no longer be on the hook to pay for policies that are hostile to our values and make a mockery of justice and common sense, ” she said.

Haley was a leader at the UN because she used her bully pulpit to stand up to the braying mob every day. She put a mirror to the faces of ambassadors from allied and enemy nations alike and told them to be ashamed of themselves for joining, and sometimes leading the mob.

Like all mobs – elite and common – the UN mob rejects facts. They reject rationality and reason in favor of passions and prejudices. The herd mentality of the UN protects tyrannies and renders free nations – first and foremost Israel – perpetually vulnerable. It rejects sovereignty and insists on uniformity of actions that invariably assists the causes of tyrants while harming the interests of free nations – again, first and foremost, Israel – as well as the US.

Haley’s leadership was critical because one of the most overlooked truths in public discourse, whether at the UN or anywhere else, is that telling inconvenient truths to mobs is a vital undertaking. Without people willing to stand up forcefully, and even sometimes brutally, to powerful mobs that uphold falsehoods as truth, the mobs will never change. They will never accept reality, even if it blows up in their faces.

One of the places where a powerful leader like Haley is desperately needed is among Israel’s foreign policy and security elites.

Much has been said over the past several years about the uniformity of the views of Israel’s legal fraternity. State prosecutors and Supreme Court justices have for years been criticized, often bitterly, for their uniform left-wing bias. This bias has made a mockery of the rule of law in Israel where Israeli residents in Judea and Samaria, free market politicians, the IDF and rabbinical authorities know that they will be subjected to biased treatment at the hands of the legal fraternity.

Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked’s recruitment of conservative justices to the Supreme Court is rightly upheld as one of her major achievements in office. But arguably, an equally important accomplishment has been her willingness to speak bluntly to Israel’s legal establishment about their institutional bias and the deleterious impact their bias has had on the Israeli democratic system of governance and the rule of law. Until Shaked came along, no one in a position of real authority was willing to stand before Supreme Court justices and tell them to be ashamed of themselves for their constant assaults on the very foundations of Israeli democracy.

Unfortunately, Israel’s legal fraternity isn’t the only old boys’ mob where people whose views are out of step with the ruling elite are permanently shut out. Israel’s national security fraternity suffers from the same problem.

We see this most dramatically in relation to the Palestinians, although the institutional bias of Israel’s national security community is brought to bear along a spectrum of issues.

The Oslo peace process with the PLO was initiated 25 years ago. It was predicated on the “land for peace paradigm” long championed by the radical left. It failed incontrovertibly 18 years ago when the PLO rejected statehood and peace, instead initiating a massive terror war against Israel in conjunction with Hamas and Islamic Jihad.

Since then, virtually not a day has gone by without another Palestinian terror attack against Israelis. Rather than reach the appropriate conclusion 18 years ago – that the land for peace paradigm was wrong – the security establishment writ large, maintained faith with it. Instead of abandoning the paradigm, they, like the political left, simply updated their marketing practices. Talk of “peace” was out. First it was replaced by “separation.” Then “demography.” Then “democracy.” Then “disengagement.” Then “consolidation.”

We got “long term security arrangements.”

We got “settlement blocs vs. isolated settlements.”

And then we started getting “separation again.”

But the idea was always the same: land for peace.

As for the Palestinians, year in and year out we hear the same things, even as they are repackaged as being pathbreaking.

We are told that we have to “strengthen” Palestinian Authority chief, terror financier and virulent Jew hater Mahmoud Abbas.

Why?

Because he’s a moderate.

We need to invest in the kleptocratic wholly corrupt Palestinian economy.

Why?

Because it’s the way to make the Palestinian people feel a “peace dividend.”

THE FACT that more than $10 billion in international aid and billions more in Israeli aid have been invested in developing the Palestinian economy for 25 years and we’ve never seen a peace dividend, is no reason to stop paying them off.

All that the likes of Saudi Arabia need, to stand at Israel’s side and be part of a “regional solution,” is proof of Israel’s peaceful intentions. So Israel, we are told by the apolitical security experts, needs to make clear that it is leaving Judea and Samaria in whole or part.

The fact that the Arabs never agreed to be part of a regional solution – and wouldn’t even embrace Israel publicly when it was actively engaged in giving land to the PLO – makes no difference to Israel’s national security-experts mob.

The fact that the Arab world is plagued by political instability, which makes it impossible to bank on long-term relations with any Arab regime is also immaterial. Israel needs to give the Palestinians land to convince the Arabs to support us. And they will. We just know they will.

Politically, Israel also needs to act on behalf of the PA. We need to help strengthen it. The fact that 25 years of Israeli and international efforts to “build institutions” in the PA have brought no results beyond instilling Nazi-like Jew hatred in the hearts and minds of the Palestinian public is entirely beside the point.

And then there are the Palestinian security forces. The Israeli security brass says they are the greatest. We need to strengthen them and cooperate even more with them. The fact that dozens of Palestinian security force members have engaged in terrorist attacks against Israel is immaterial. Indeed, it’s irrelevant. So is the fact that Hamas, which those forces fight, constitutes a greater threat to those security services than it does to Israel.

Every few months, these positions are repackaged and presented to the public by a group of retired generals. They tell us to trust them because they were generals in the IDF or senior commanders in the Mossad and Shin Bet. They are professionals. They are apolitical. Zionism is their only agenda.

All criticism against these unbiased, entirely professional, apolitical experts is castigated as politically motivated. Their critics are dismissed as fanatics, or messianics, or right-wing extremists.

LAST WEEK, we saw this process unfold yet again with the launch of yet another “groundbreaking” report about the way “forward” with the Palestinians, produced by Tel Aviv University’s elite Institute for National Security Studies, staffed by retired senior security brass.

The INSS report titled, “A Political-Security Framework for the Israeli-Palestinian Arena” was, we are told, the result of two years of work.

Led by Maj.-Gen. (res.) Amos Yadlin, the INSS’s professional, apolitical researchers met with Americans, Europeans, Palestinians – and Arabs from states without peace with Israel – to talk about the way to move forward with the Palestinians.

And, surprise, surprise, they came up with the same failed “land for peace” plan that the Left has come up with for the last 25 years.

The INSS’s “pathbreaking” report contains no reconsideration of any consistently failed strategic assumptions.

Which brings us back to Haley and the Trump administration she so ably represented.

The INSS “experts” claim that Israel needs to seize the opportunity that the friendly Trump administration affords us to set a new agenda with the Palestinians.

But while this assertion is true enough, the INSS report – like all the reports of security “experts” that preceded it – does no such thing. Instead, the INSS’s wise men and women, with their vast national security experience, tell us that we should use Trump’s time in office to convince the friendliest US administration in history to embrace the policies of the most unfriendly US administrations in the history of US-Israel ties. They advocate convincing Trump to embrace the same policies they have advocated, which have failed consistently for a generation.

Haley’s replacement will likely share her positions on Israel and her criticisms of the UN’s institutional antisemitism, since her successor will also be representing the Trump administration. But it is hard to imagine her replacement will replicate the extraordinary moral leadership she exercised.

This is not because he or she will be less moral, but because, as the mob mentality of Israel’s security brass shows, leaders like Haley – who can effectively stand up to braying mobs of well-heeled elitists – don’t grow on trees.

 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1018/glick101218.php3
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  • Bonnie

    That is so true we need to act now or...

  • oh yeah all of the issues are now in the open

    OUR SCHOOLS ARE NOT SCHOOLS ANYMORE THEY ARE LEFT WING INDOCTRINATION CENTERS START HOMESCHOOLING

    OUR POLITICIANS MOST OF THEM ARE ALL IN IT FOR THEMSELVES TIME TO VOTE THEM OUT IS NOW

    THE DEMS ARE NOW AT A FEVER PITCH THEY WON'T STOP TIL AMERICA IS TOTALLY DESTROYED AND THEY CREATE THEIR COMMIE WELFARE STATE THEY ARE BRINGING IN THOUSANDS OF ILLEGALS TO VOTE IN THEIR FAVOR GOD HOW WRONG IS THAT IT HAS TO END 

    EMAIL THE WH AND CALL YOUR CONGRESSMAN THE INVASION HAS TO STOP WE ARE BEING OVERRUN W/3RD WORLD ILLEGALS LOOK AT THEM WHAT DANGER DO THEY POSE AND WE CANNOT HAVE OUR SOVEREIGNTY TRAMPLED ON 

    TIME IS NOW OR NEVER WE HAVE THAT CHANCE AND IT HAS TO BE NOW 

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