Wednesday PM ~ The Front Page Cover

The Front Page Cover
 2016             The turth is the gold of today 
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Featuring:
Terrorism pays: 
How to flummox the White House, 
the EU --- and defeat the 'Palestinians'
Caroline B. Glick
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 Cause and (Ferguson) Effect? 
Crime data released by the FBI last week show that murders increased by 6.2% in the first six months of last year. The increase seemingly validates a speech made by FBI director James Comey at the University of Chicago Law School on Oct. 23. "Far more people are being killed in America's cities this year than in many years," Comey stated. "And let's be clear: Far more people of color are being killed in America's cities this year. And it's not the cops doing the killing." The cause? "Comey has suggested the increase may be partly due to what police officials call the 'Ferguson effect' — a greater reluctance on the part of police officers to engage with suspects for fear of being criticized for alleged abuse or discrimination," explains The Wall Street Journal.
          The so-called Ferguson effect refers to the shooting of Michael Brown by then-Ferguson, Missouri, police officer Darren Wilson, and the subsequent rioting that followed. The ongoing unrest was engendered in large part by an utterly irresponsible mainstream media that enshrined the "hands up, don't shoot" lie thoroughly debunked by a grand juryand a subsequent Justice Department civil rights investigation led by former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. Both exonerated Wilson, but the lie itself lives on.
          Comey was not the only nObama administration official taking that stance. Last November, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) chief Chuck Rosenberg said Comey's assessment was "spot on." "I've heard the same things," Rosenberg said. "I think it's worth talking about. I don't know if it will turn out to be right or wrong. That's why Comey called for better data. The data that we have is limited. It just is."
          Not any more. According to released figures, murder has increased 9.9% in the Midwest, 8.6% in the South, and 1.3% and 1.6% in the Northeast and West, respectively. Nonetheless, the Justice Department pushed back, with spokesman Patrick Rodenbush insisting "it is too early to draw any long-term conclusions," further noting the overall violent crime rate remains historically low.  -The Patriot Post
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 Perry endorses Cruz, joins him on the campaign  trail -  Politico: “Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry is endorsing Ted Cruz in the Republican presidential primary, Perry told POLITICO in an interview  Sunday night…Perry, who is famously skilled at retail politics, will campaign with Cruz Tuesday across Iowa, and will join Iowa GOP Rep. Steve King to stump for Cruz again Wednesday. Perry and King will both join Cruz at a Des Moines rally Wednesday night.”  -Fox News
 HILLY SAYS SHE’LL WIN DEM NOD, NO NEED  FOR BLOOMIE   Time: “Despite a tightening race, Hilly Clinton said Sunday she’s confident she’ll secure the Democratic nomination, dismissing speculation that former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is seeking an independent bid for the White House. ‘He’s a good friend of mine,’ Clinton said. ‘The way I read what he said is if I didn’t get the nomination, he might consider it. Well, I’m going to relieve him of that and get the nomination so he doesn’t have to.’ With only 8 days until the Iowa caucuses, Clinton said she feels ‘great’ about her ground game in the state, which is working to ensure enthusiasm is ‘not just here today, gone tomorrow.’”   -Fox News
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Is There Enough Evidence to 
Indict Hilly Clinton?
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{townhall.com} ~ As both Ed and Katie noted this morning, the New York Post is reporting that the Federal Bureau of Investigation's ongoing, expanded probe into Hilly Clinton's potential crimes has turned to the question of how extremely sensitive classified information "migrated" from secure government servers to Hilly's improper, unsecure private server... This prohibited crossover is "specifically forbidden," according to a former CIA official who recently weighed in on the controversy, who added that there is "zero ambiguity" on this point. At this point, we know that federal investigators are looking into habitual, serious mishandling of classified information -- including intelligence that rose to the levels of secret, top secret and 'beyond top secret' (SAP). One by one, Hilly and her allies have erected excuses for her willful, national security-endangering scheme; one by one, those excuseshave crashed and burned under scrutiny. We also know that the feds are exploringwhether Team Hilly obstructed justice to cover up her conduct, and whether she violated anti-corruption laws in her capacity at the State Department. Those 30,000-plus "personal" emails she unilaterally ordered deleted may come into play on those fronts. The FBI has reportedly recovered the contents of those messages, several of which have already been exposed as work-related. But where does all of this lead, from a legal perspective? Katie touched on it in her piece, but it's worth taking a closer look at analysis from former federal judge and US Attorney General Michael Mukasey, who penned a compelling op/ed in the Wall Street Journal over the weekend.  He makes the case that based on publicly-known details alone, criminal charges are in order:
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Earth's Geodynamo: An Energy Crisis
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{crev.info} ~ A new theory to maintain Earth’s magnetic field looks like a case of special pleading to rescue a dogma... Keeping Earth’s magnetic field going for billions of years is a major problem, because its strength is steadily decaying. Geophysicists know this but rarely mention it, because they already “know” in their hearts that the earth is billions of years old. A new paper by Caltech scientists O’Rourke and Stevenson appeared in Nature trying to patch up the age problem with what looks like an ad hoc theory rescue device. It involves adding magnesium at the core-mantle boundary so that it precipitates into the core. Bruce Buffett explains this new idea in his summary, “Another energy source for the geodynamo,” also in Nature. The details of the new theory are not as interesting as the admissions in both articles about how inadequate the received wisdom is.        http://crev.info/2016/01/earths-geodynamo-energy-crisis/
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Cruz Has Been Right All Along
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{wnd.com} ~ I believe Donald Trump’s meteoric and sustained rise is a direct result of nObama’s largely successful campaign to fundamentally transform America and the establishment Republicans’ unwillingness to fight back... Grass-roots conservatives have wanted someone to stand up to nObama and stand up for our nation – and they are sick and tired of Beltway politicians and pundits alike patronizingly assuring them that nothing extraordinary is occurring and to calm down. “We’ll take care of it after we’re re-elected.” Sure. Yes, some of these establishment, moderate or, if you prefer, unexcitable types have finally come around, belatedly acknowledging nObama’s intentions but failing to admit they were slow on the uptake, much less that they’re sorry for branding the rest of us who caught on years before they did as mean-spirited, extremist or kooky.        http://www.wnd.com/2016/01/cruz-has-been-right-all-along/
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Islamic Rage Erupts Over Christian March
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A mob of Muslim men swarmed a “Christian patrol” organized by the political group Britain First 
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{wnd.com} ~ A mob of Muslim men swarmed a group of Christian activists on British streets and said they were “taking over” the country...  Members of the political party Britain First held what it claims is the first “Christian patrol” through the streets of Bury Park, Luton. A video posted to YouTube on Saturday shows a swarm of Muslim men converge on the group of 20 cross-carrying Christians. “You’re jealous that we’re taking over,” a shop owner says at the start of the video. (Scroll down to watch the video) “We f–king hate you!” and “Muslims will take over! Watch!” two others scream as cops descend on the scene. The British government gave them the right to come to UK and this is what they get in return. Hope this doesn't happen in the USA.        http://www.wnd.com/2016/01/islamic-rage-erupts-over-christian-march/
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American hero: 
nObama's military a 'girly man outfit'
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{wnd.com} ~ One of America’s greatest heroes is charging the commander in chief with deliberate sabotage of the nation’s armed forces... The serious accusation leveled against Barack nObama comes from retired Army Maj. Gen. Patrick Brady, a recipient of the Medal of Honor, who told WND bluntly, “nObama loathes the military.” “His goal is to reduce the military to impotence,” Brady said in an interview. “That way, during his reign, which, thank God, is almost over, he could point to an emasculated military and say he didn’t have the capability to do anything about it. If it came to a confrontation, I don’t think he would fight.”        http://www.wnd.com/2016/01/american-hero-obamas-military-a-girly-man-outfit/
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Clinton Email Delay Fought by Reporter
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{truthrevolt.org} ~ A court will decide this week whether the State Department can act as part of the Hilly Clinton campaign and delay the release of thousands of pages of emails from Clinton's time as Secretary of State... The emails were ordered released by the end of January until officials stopped the release of thousands of pages saying they need another month in order to consult. If allowed to stand, the delay would make sure early state voters know nothing of the email contents and possible controversies. Clinton's emails, run through a personal rather than government email account and routed through a personal server, have been the focus of much attention over the last year. So far it has been revealed that Clinton told her daughter that Benghazi was a terrorist attack even as she was telling the American people it was all due to a video. There are possible violations of the law found within the emails and classified information was put at risk of being hacked.        http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/clinton-email-delay-fought-reporter
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How to Resist the End of Europe
DANIEL JOHNSON
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{mosaicmagazine.com} ~ I am deeply honored that my essay, “Does Have Europe Have a Future?,” elicited such substantial responses from four distinguished writers... All four have not only entered fair and useful comments on the essay but also contributed their own answers to the question posed in my title. Peter Berkowitz  and Wilfred McClay agree with me that the nation-state is not the source of Europe’s ills. And I agree with Berkowitz, following Alexis de Tocqueville, that European nations need to recover their tradition of freedom, just as I agree with McClay that such liberty must be limited by law, human or divine. It is refreshing to hear Americans encouraging Europeans to take pride in their patriotism and their national identities; in this respect, McClay rightly contrasts the grand traditions of European civilization, which gave birth to the United States and to so much else, with a European Union that is anything but united. On this point, I part company with Claire Berlinski even as I’m grateful for her superb tour d’horizon and the weight she properly gives to the threat posed to Europe by Vladimir Putin’s Russia. To her, the only answer to the external threats menacing Europe is a single foreign and defense policy, which means strengthening and indeed uniting the European Union. I beg to differ: however much some European leaders may dream otherwise, the EU is not a military alliance. Nor do I recognize her description of German, French, and other EU military officers “eager” to “unleash” their forces against Europe’s enemies. That was not the case even during the cold war, much less now.
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ISIS Has Whole Fake 
Passport 'Industry,' Official Says
BRIAN ROSS, MICHELE MCPHEE 
and LEE FERRAN
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{abcnews.go.com} ~ The terror group ISIS has created a whole “industry” out of the production of fake passports, a high-level French official said today... French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve told reporters that through ISIS’s operations in Syria, Iraq and Libya, the group has acquired blank passports and has now set up a “real fake document industry.” Cazeneuve made the statement following a meeting with top European officials where he proposed setting up a new task force to help nab people attempting to come into the European Union with fake papers. Last month ABC News reported that U.S. intelligence suspected ISIS had acquired thousands of blank Syrian passports and at least one passport printing machine after taking over government offices in Syria. Officials from Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) said in a 17-page report that the terror group has likely been able to print legitimate-looking Syrian passports since at least last summer – and raised the possibility that people using the forged documents have snuck into America.        http://abcnews.go.com/International/isis-fake-passport-industry-official/story?id=36505984
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Bombshell Video: New Hilly Email
Revelation-Outed by State Dept Staffer
Jeff Dunetz
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{lidblog.com} ~ On Fox News’ “Special Report with Bret Baier,” Ed Henry uncovered a bombshell new video that shows top State Department employee Wendy Sherman bragging about the use of Blackberries to send and receive classified material... Despite the fact that in 2009 the Assistant Secretary for Diplomatic Security Eric Boswell, Boswell strongly advised that blackberry devices not be allowed, especially for top state department staff. In the 2013 video, Sherman gives a 2011 example of Secretary Hilly Clinton emailing during a U.N. General Assembly meeting, while carrying on sensitive Middle East negotiations, and she received on her Blackberry the email below which as you can see was redacted for classified information. In the video embedded below, Wendy Sherman accidentally outs her boss:
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Commentary: The consequences of 
our secret elections
John Dunbar
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{publicintegrity.org} ~ It was six years ago this week that the U.S. Supreme Court dramatically altered the American political landscape with its landmark ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission... essentially deciding that corporations and labor unions can spend millions of dollars getting candidates elected to federal office. As long as the funds didn’t go directly to the candidate, or were not spent in coordination with the candidate, there would be no law broken. Corporate and union donations to the campaigns were still illegal. As a result of the ruling, super PACs were born, giant pools of money that act as shadow campaign committees, often run by people with close ties to the campaigns themselves. The organizers of these PACs must report all their donors and expenditures. They’re also — in theory, anyway — prohibited from “coordinating” with the candidate. But in politics, it seems, there’s always a way to dodge the rules and obfuscate what’s really happening. http://www.publicintegrity.org/2016/01/22/19179/commentary-consequences-our-secret-elections?utm_source=email&utm_campaign=watchdog&utm_medium=publici-email&goal=0_ffd1d0160d-26df709a87-100318285&mc_cid=26df709a87&mc_eid=19f9d76dda
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Terrorism pays: 
How to flummox the White House, 
the EU --- and defeat the 'Palestinians'
Caroline B. Glick
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{jewishworldreview.com} ~ I’m proud of him.”
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That’s what the father of Dafna Meir’s murderer said when the Palestinian media asked him what he thinks of his cold-blooded son Murad Adais.
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On Sunday afternoon, Adais butchered Meir in her home, in front of her children.
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Whether Adais Sr. is really happy that his son will rot in prison is less important than the fact that he said what he said to his home crowd.
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He knows that his audience thinks his son is a hero. And so he played to his audience.
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Since last September when the Palestinians began their current terrorist onslaught, killers like Adais have been characterized as lone wolves. But a study published last November in Mosaic online journal by Shalem College’s Daniel Polisar shows that this characterization is both wrong and unhelpful.
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Polisar studied Palestinian public opinion data from surveys conducted by four independent research groups over the past 25 years. His data exposed three key aspects to Palestinian positions about Israel that all bear directly on the current Palestinian terrorist offensive.
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His first finding is that throughout most of the past quarter-century a solid majority of Palestinians have supported terrorism against Israelis.
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Moreover, the more murderous an attack, the more it is supported.
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Polisar’s second finding was that the vast majority of Palestinians hate Israelis and believe that Jews have no right to the Land of Israel, and therefore our state has no right to exist.
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Taken together, these first two insights lead to one clear conclusion about the nature of the current Palestinian terrorism campaign against Israelis. As Polisar explained, they show that this campaign is not being carried out by “lone wolves,” who have been incited by Palestinian Authority propaganda. Rather, that propaganda reflects the murderous hatred that the vast majority of Palestinians feel toward Israelis and Israel.
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Adais and his comrades may or may not be members of terrorist groups. But they are the loyal representatives of their terrorism-supporting society.
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Obviously, any talk of a peace process in this climate is utter folly. The most Israel can aspire to is to deter the hate-soaked Palestinians from attacking us.
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This brings us to the third insight of Polisar’s study. Twenty-five years of survey data make clear that most Palestinians believe that terrorism pays.
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And the plain fact is that they are right. For the past generation, the Palestinians have only benefited from killing Israelis through terrorism.
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The fact that Israeli concessions to the Palestinians have strengthened their conviction that terrorism pays rather than convinced them to make peace shows that all concessions in the face of terrorism are dangerous.
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While the majority of Israelis have learned this lesson and so elected governments that oppose appeasement, the Palestinians have learned that the Israeli public does not have the final word on whether or not they will be rewarded for their crimes against humanity.
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The Palestinians believe that Israel is dependent on Western goodwill. So to the extent that the West pressures Israel surrender to Palestinian demands, the US and the EU work hand in glove with Palestinian terrorists and prove that they are right to murder mothers in their homes in front of their children.
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This week US Ambassador Dan Shapiro proved the Palestinians right, yet again.
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At the outset of his speech before the Institute of National Security Studies on Monday, Shapiro issued a pro forma condemnation of “barbaric acts of terrorism” against Israelis at the outset of his remarks.
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But that was just clearing his throat. In his substantive remarks, Shapiro accused Israel of institutional racism in Judea and Samaria.
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Shapiro’s slanderous accusation channeled and escalated his boss Secretary of State John hanoi-Kerry’s anti-Israel libel from two years ago. In early 2014, hanoi-Kerry alleged that if Israel didn’t cough up Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem soon, it risked becoming a criminal apartheid state in the future.
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By falsely alleging that Israel uses one lenient law against Israelis and another iron fisted law against Palestinians, Shapiro gave substance to hanoi-Kerry’s two-year-old assault. And in claiming that this state of affairs exists today, he transformed hanoi-Kerry’s incendiary claim of an apartheid future into a defamatory rap sheet for current imaginary offenses.
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The timing of Shapiro’s blood libel was significant for two reasons. First, the day after a Palestinian murdered Meir, and hours after another Palestinian stabbed another Jewish mother in the late stages of pregnancy, the US ambassador told the Palestinians that America blames Israel for their barbarism.
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Shapiro maligned Israel just as the Council of Europe announced it was firming up its rules for labeling Jewish-made products from Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem and published a document on its plans for handling a unicorn called “the Middle East Peace Process.”
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Both the EU’s announcement about labeling Jewish products and its document about the nonexistent “Middle East Peace Process” were notable for two reasons. First, they made no mention whatsoever of terrorism. As far as the Europeans are concerned, the only side preventing peace is Israel. And to bring peace, the EU calls for the Jewish state to be treated like Jews in Europe – that is, singled out for discrimination, abuse and insults.
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The near simultaneity of Shapiro’s slander and the EU’s latest discriminatory steps against Israel tells the Palestinians that they should keep up their attacks. Israel will be hard pressed to launch an effective counterattack with the Americans and Europeans breathing down its neck demanding concessions.
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The message these statements communicate to Israel is actually worse than that. The simultaneity of these remarks was not coincidental.
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Neither was State Department spokesman James Kirby’s condemnation of Israel’s lawful land policies in the Jordan Valley, which was followed immediately by a similar condemnation by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and a call by the PA for a UN Security Council resolution against Israel. Taken together they show that we are in the midst of a coordinated US-led political offensive against Israel.
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How is Israel supposed to defend itself against this coordinated terrorist-diplomatic onslaught? How can Israel keep the Americans and Europeans at bay and deter the Palestinians from murdering its citizens? Beyond the counterterror measures that are already being carried out, Israel needs to act on three levels.
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On the diplomatic front, the government needs to change the focus of its public diplomacy.
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The government currently accepts the false claim that the Palestinian terrorist onslaught is being carried out by lone wolves. Its public diplomacy is limited as a consequence to condemning official Palestinian Authority incitement.
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This line is wrong and counterproductive.
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It lends credence to the false conclusion that the assault is limited and can therefore be overlooked by Westerners eager to attack Israel.
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In their public pronouncements, our officials should direct their remarks against Palestinian society as a whole. So too the government should attack the radical Left in Israel and in the West that supports a society that seeks to annihilate Israel, applauds barbarism and kills anyone who wishes to live at peace with Israel.
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Wednesday, a storm erupted in England following The Sun’s publication of the findings of an undercover investigation of so-called human rights groups broadcast on Channel 2’s investigative news magazine two weeks ago. That investigation showed senior “human rights” activists Ezra Nawi from Ta’ayush and Nasser Nawaja from B’Tselem plotting to turn over to the Palestinian security forces a Palestinian who wished to sell land to Jews. Nawajah and Nawi acted with the full knowledge that he would be tortured and killed. In a heated debate in the British Parliament, lawmakers demanded to know why the government was funding B’Tselem with taxpayer funds. In other words, the lawmakers showed that a policy of exposing the barbarism of Palestinian society and the fanaticism of its Western supporters is effective.
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The second area where the government must act is in its settlement policies. Although it will be difficult for Israel to face down the nObama administration and respect Jewish property rights in Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem in the coming year, nothing is stopping it from destroying illegal EU-financed Palestinian construction in Area C.
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The government should act forcefully to remove all of the EU-constructed illegal Palestinian settlements in Area C of Judea and Samaria. The place the government should begin demolition is at the illegal Palestinian settlement outside the national heritage site of Sussiya, just kilometers from where Dafna Meir was murdered. The dual purpose of that specific EU-financed illegal building project is to threaten the Israeli communities of Sussiya and Mitzpe Yair and to deny the historic significance of the ancient Jewish city of Sussiya.
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Destroying the squatter community will send a potent message to the Palestinians and their Western abettors.
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At the same time, the government should speed up the pace of building new Israeli communities across the armistice line from Sussiya in the northern Negev around Arad in state lands being threatened by the EU-supported Beduin who are working in coordination with the Palestinian squatters in the South Hebron Hills.
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The final thing that Israel needs to do in the face of the Palestinian terrorism supported by Western political warfare is to rub the EU bureaucrats’ faces in the fact that Israel is succeeding where their governments are failing. It isn’t enough for Israel to call for the Jews of France and the rest of Western Europe to make aliya. Over the past two years, aliya from Western Europe has reached all-time highs. As the governments that single out the Jewish state for abuse prove on a daily basis that they cannot protect their Jewish citizens, more and more European Jews are heeding the call and moving to Israel.
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But over the past several months, it has become apparent that for all our goodwill, Israel has not figured out how to absorb its newest citizens. Dentists, pharmacists and other professionals are chewed up and spit out by a bureaucracy of professional guilds whose protectionist licensing requirements are convincing many people to turn around and go back to Europe. The government must make it an urgent priority to break the guilds. It is far more important to enable Jewish professionals from France to work in their fields in Israel than to protect the antiquated licensing requirements of hidebound professional cliques.
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Israel is under a coordinated assault by the Palestinians who hate us and the Europeans and Americans who are hostile to us.
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Our options for dealing with this assault are not optimal. But they are formidable. If we make judicious use of them, we can flummox the White House and the EU, and at a minimum, we can begin to prove to the Palestinians that their faith in terrorism is no longer justified.
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