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Arab citizens back Israel, slam Hamas over Gaza border protests</div>
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Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Arabic social media outlets, usually brimming with comments criticizing Israel over their treatment of Palestinians, is flooded with remarks by citizens of Arab countries exhibiting aversion of Hamas over its 'exploitation' of Gaza and its residents in Friday's border riots.</div>
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Aside from the usual clamor flooding the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Arabic social media outlets denouncing Israel for its treatment of the Palestinian populace, a surprisingly large number of people voiced their support of the state following Friday's Hamas-led <a class="bluelink" href="https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5221844,00.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: blue; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">protest</a> on the Gaza border, in which nine people were killed.</div>
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The ministry's Facebook and Twitter pages were brimming with comments from residents of Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Jordan and other Arab countries, who backed Israel's side of the conflict and lambasted Hamas for its exploitation of the inhabitants of Gaza, who they rule.</div>
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This is the land (of Israel), and who are you?" wrote one commentator addressing the <a class="bluelink" href="https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5210084,00.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: blue; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Great March of Return</a> protesters, questioning their right of return to territories that are now Israel. "My heart is with my Jewish cousins. There is no escaping the fact that Hamas' Palestinian terrorism will inevitably end," he added.<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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"We hope that our Palestinian brothers will not be dragged by Hamas' terror plots, which will only harm the Palestinians," Ahmad from Basra in Iraq wrote. "We must act for peace between the State of Israel and the Palestinians."<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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A picture of a Palestinian baby photographed alongside tires intended to be torched in the "<a class="bluelink" href="https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5221724,00.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: blue; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Friday of Tires</a>" riots sparked great uproar among commentators.<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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"Gazan children need clean air, not air that has been <a class="bluelink" href="https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5220575,00.html" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: blue; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">contaminated</a> with the burning of tires of hatred," a Jordanian citizen wrote, chiding Hamas over their initiative. He added that Gaza needs fresh leadership that can move it forward "from the age of conflict and hunger to the light of humanity, knowledge and love."<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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He then claimed that the leaders of Hamas were drawing their ideas from Hitler and Iran. "The time has come to throw them into the dustbin of history, along with their hate tires," he concluded.<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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"Mercy and humanity have faded from your hearts, Hamas leaders," wrote Omar. Another referenced the picture of the baby, writing, "Your tiny body will be used by them (Hamas). They will trade in your blood, my children; they will trade in your pure soul. My dear Palestinians—they will trade in your story."</div>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px !important; min-height: 24px;"><span style="font-size: large;">When the Arab criminals occupying YESHA cannot control their thirst for Jewish blood, Israel should use the strongest possible methods to put an end to their criminal behavior</span><span style="font-size: 14px;"> </span><i style="font-size: 14px;">.mfbsr</i></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 24px;">This week the violent incidents initiated by the Arabs, mainly Hamas, continued along the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel. The climax was on Friday, May 4, 2018, when dozens of Arab rioters broke into the Palestinian side of the Kerem Shalom border crossing, which serves as the Gazans’ lifeline, damaging equipment and gas and fuel storage facilities.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 24px;">The organizers of the marches are preparing for this Friday’s events (May 11, 2018), and at the same time are preparing for the climax of the events in mid-May: <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">May 14</span> (the transfer of the US Embassy to Jerusalem) and <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">May 15</span> (Nakba Day). <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">The intention is to organize a large mob (tens or hundreds of thousands) that will break into Israeli territory.</span> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">This will be accompanied by violent events, even at the cost of many losses </span>(which will increase the international media impact of the event).</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 24px;">Hamas media <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">repeatedly calls on residents of Judea and Samaria </span>to join the marches and <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">invent new fighting tactics to be used against the settlements</span> (such as the Molotov kites). In practice, <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">the relative calm in Judea and Samaria </span>and among Israeli Arabs continues, but <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">this is liable to change </span>due to the accumulation of events in mid-May.</li>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">“The Great Return March:” increasing violence on the fifth Friday of the demonstrations</span></h5>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px !important; min-height: 24px;">The acts of violence of the “Great Return March” continued on Friday, May 4, 2018, the sixth Friday since the violent demonstrations began on March 30, 2018. <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Around 10,000 demonstrators </span>(similar to the number of participants last week) <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">participated in the Friday demonstrations in six locations </span>near the security fence on the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 10.5px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">[1]</span>. During the demonstrations, <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">the violent incidents continued:</span> burning tires, throwing stones and IEDs, attempting to sabotage the security fence, and sending Molotov kites into Israeli territory (IDF Spokesperson’s Office, May 5, 2018). During the demonstrations, a hand grenade was thrown at an IDF force near the Karni crossing (northern Gaza Strip). In addition, two attempts by Palestinians to sabotage the security fence and cross over into Israeli territory were thwarted. According to reports by the Health Ministry in the Gaza Strip, there were no fatalities during Friday’s events and 1,143 people were injured (mainly from smoke inhalation, in the ITIC’s assessment).</li>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px !important; min-height: 24px;">The climax of the violent events was when <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">dozens of rioters broke into the Palestinian side of the Kerem Shalom crossing, damaging equipment and gas and fuel storage facilities.</span> The Kerem Shalom border crossing is a <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">critical lifeline</span> used for the passage of goods, gasoline, diesel fuel and gas intended for <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">residents of the Gaza Strip</span>.</li>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; text-align: justify;">Friday’s events included extensive use of Molotov kites.</span><span style="text-align: justify;"> This is because the organizers of the events, led by Hamas, fully understood the media impact and the considerable material damage caused to Israel by the use of Molotov kites. Before the start of the demonstrations on Friday, May 4, 2018, </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; text-align: justify;">Hamas called on the demonstrators to make extensive use of kites.</span><span style="text-align: justify;"> The Quds News Network posted a video on its Facebook page showing a group of youngsters calling themselves the “kite unit” (Quds News Network, May 4, 2018)</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 10.5px; line-height: 0; position: relative; text-align: justify; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">[2]</span><span style="text-align: justify;">.</span></div>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px !important; min-height: 24px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Ziyad al-Nakhaleh, the Deputy Secretary General of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ)</span>, said that the marches opened the door to “<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">new methods of struggle against Israel</span>,” through which the Palestinian people expresses its objection to the “siege” imposed on it (Al-Quds, May 5, 2018). Senior PIJ figure <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Ahmed Mudallal </span>praised the young Palestinians in the Gaza Strip <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">and called for similar marches in Judea and Samaria and in Israeli territory.</span> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Mudallal also called </span>on Palestinians in Judea and Samaria to <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">“storm the settlements en masse”</span> and invent new combat tactics against them, such as the kites in the Gaza Strip (Al-Aqsa, May 5, 2018).</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px !important; min-height: 24px;">The organizers of the “Great Return March” <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">again called on all Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and Jerusalem, and on Israeli Arabs and refugee camp residents to take part in the activities this Friday </span>(“Friday of preparation and a warning signal”). In addition, they <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">called for preparations for a larger-scale event on May 14 </span>(the day of the transfer of the US Embassy to Jerusalem) (Great Return March Facebook page, May 7, 2018). <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Hamas Spokesman Abdel Latif al-Qanua said that an unprecedented large-scale march would take place in mid-May, </span>which, according to him, would be a “decisive day in the history of the Palestinian people” (Abdel Latif al-Qanua’s Twitter account, May 7, 2018).</li>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px !important; min-height: 24px;"> On May 6, 2018, Israeli security forces at the Kalandia checkpoint stopped a 47-year-old Palestinian resident of Al-Eizariya. A search of her bag revealed <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">a knife.</span> She was arrested and taken for questioning (Israel Police Spokesperson’s Office, May 6, 2018).</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px !important; min-height: 24px;">On May 1, 2018, Border Police soldiers arrested two Palestinian youths who had come to the <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Salem Military Court</span> (northern Samaria). The two youths had <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">three pipe bombs hidden in their clothing </span>and cigarette lighters were also found in their possession. In the past year, there have been a number of cases in which young Palestinians came to the military court with IEDs.</li>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">On March 7, 2018, Israeli security forces arrested </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; text-align: justify;">Omar Kiswani</span><span style="text-align: justify;">, 24, a resident of Beit Iksa (northwest of Jerusalem), who served as chairman of the Student Union and head of the Islamic Bloc cell (the Hamas faction) at the Birzeit University. Kiswani was arrested on suspicion of involvement in terrorist activity. His arrest, which took place at the university, led to a series of condemnations by the Palestinian Authority and Palestinian organizations calling for international intervention.</span></div>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px !important; min-height: 24px;">His interrogation revealed that <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Kiswani had contacted Yassin Rabi’a, a Hamas operative in the Gaza Strip, as well as Hamas operatives in Turkey. He had received money from them to promote Hamas activity at the university.</span> Kiswani received <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">the sum of EUR 150,000</span>, which was hidden in a number of hiding places throughout Judea and Samaria. The money that he received was used to promote Hamas activity (Israeli press, May 3, 2018).</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: 0px !important; min-height: 24px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Yassin Rabi’a, </span>who was contacted by Kiswani, was born in 1971. He lives in the village of Al-Mazraa al-Qabaliya in the Ramallah area (Hamas website, May 7, 2018). <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Yassin Rabi’a is a Hamas operative who was arrested in 2005 and sentenced to two cumulative life sentences and another 20 years in prison </span>(WAFA News Agency, April 13, 2005). He was convicted of intentional manslaughter, military training, attempted murder, and shooting at people. <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Rabi’a was released in the Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange deal and deported to the Gaza Strip. </span>He is currently in charge of the Islamic Bloc (Hamas faction) at the universities in Judea and Samaria (Al-Resalah Net, November 12, 2016).</li>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08911005916622454687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31138568.post-82126220364083531802018-05-13T08:42:00.000-06:002018-05-13T08:51:07.476-06:00Benjamin Netanyahu called Barzilai "wonderful," and told her she "charmed the whole world." <span style="background-color: white; color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px;">Eurovision 2018 was </span><a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/israel-s-netta-wins-2018-eurovision-song-contest-with-toy-1.6077083" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; color: #045973; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration-line: none;">winner Netta Barzilai</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px;">’s finest hour, and moment of national pride for all of Israel. (Jerusalem Post)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px;">Prime Minister Benjamin </span><a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/netanyahu-congratulates-eurovision-winner-then-auto-translate-kicked-1.6077485" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; color: #045973; font-family: Georgia, Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration-line: none;">Netanyahu praised her on his social network accounts</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #2d2d2d; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px;">, and spoke to Barzilai on the phone during the broadcast. The premier called Barzilai "wonderful," and told her she "charmed the whole world." He concluded by saying she was Israel's greatest ambassador.</span><br />
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Being odds-on favorite of winning Eurovision song contest, Israel's entrant Netta Barzilai targeted by BDS campaign; campaign shows Barzilai in uniform, calls to give Israel 'zero points'; 'Gunboat crews whom Barzilai sent off with her songs played a part in Gaza carnage,' campaign accuses; brushing off campaign, Barzilai says she 'feels ready for semifinal, hopes to make all of Europe dance.'</div>
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<span style="color: #5f5f5f; font-size: 20px;">Barzilai's performance of "Toy" got rave reviews both inside and outside Israel.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #5f5f5f; font-size: 20px;">Fania Oz-Salzberger, a professor and the daughter of famed author Amos Oz, tweeted that she "unashamedly" loves the song "Toy." </span><br />
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<span style="color: #5f5f5f; font-size: 20px;">"It's bold, fun, female, and chutzpah," she wrote. "What's more, she stands for my kind of Israel."</span><br />
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For the last week of his life, the scuttlebutt about the Palestinian movement’s centrifugal force concerned whether his impending demise was driven by AIDS, likely contracted, according to leaked foreign-intelligence reports, by his omnivorous, orgiastic sexual appetite. This as if, after three quarters of a century’s worth of megalo-sadism, additional indicia of Yasser Arafat’s throbbing depravity were somehow necessary. And so, evidently, they were. Thus is reflection on his life, a signal emblem of the late 20th century’s triumph of terror and fraud over security and reason, as instructive about our times as it is about him.<br />
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A THUG'S LIFE<br />
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About him, while there is much to say, there is little to glean. He was a thug. One of the most cunning of all time for sure, but quite simply a ruthless, thoroughly corrupt, will-to-power thug.<br />
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As is often the case in the modern information age, just about everything in his life is known and almost nothing in his proffered legend is true. The man airbrushed in Thursday-morning encomiums from Kofi Annan and Jacques Chirac (among others) as the courageous symbol of Palestinian nationalism was not really named Yasser Arafat, was not a native Palestinian, and tended to sit out warfare with Israel whenever conventional fighting was involved.<br />
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Although he occasionally claimed to have hailed from what are now the Palestinian territories, Muhammad Abdel Rahman Abdel Rauf al-Qudwa al-Husseini was actually born in Egypt in 1929, the fifth child of a well-to-do merchant. He was educated in Cairo, although, after his mother's death when he was four, he lived at least part of the time with an uncle in Jerusalem.<br />
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Jerusalem was then the heart of the territory known as Mandatory Palestine, which chafed under British rule as a result of a 1918 League of Nations mandate. The era, to put it kindly, was not the Crown's finest hour. Sowing seeds for recriminations that persist to this day, the Brits appeared during WWI to promise some or all of the territory alternatively to Arabs and to Jews, only to exacerbate matters by keeping Palestine themselves for three decades.<br />
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Arafat's formative years were thus spent in a milieu of sectarian violence, annealed in a hatred for Jews that, far from ever subsiding, propelled him. As an engineering student in Cairo during World War II, he was powerfully influenced by Haj Amin el-Husseini, the Islamic mufti of Jerusalem who was closely aligned with Hitler and schemed from Berlin to import the Fuhrer's genocidal program to Palestine. Indeed, as the New York Sun observed in an editorial last week, one of el-Husseini's biographers relates that Arafat was a blood relative of the mufti, who preferred him to another up-and-comer, George Habash (al-Hakim), among the fiercest of Israel's Nasserite enemies who eventually founded the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a frequent Arafat ally.<br />
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Nevertheless, though he may have been a local gun-runner, the 19-year-old Arafat refrained from combat in 1948, when, upon Israel's declaration of independence, it was attacked by the Arab League (Egypt, Syria, Transjordan, Lebanon, and Iraq), which was defeated in the war still regarded by Palestinians and other Arabs as "al-Nakba" (the Catastrophe). Nor did he partake in the 1956 Suez War, although, as recounted last week by the Wall Street Journal's Bret Stephens, he later claimed to have done so.<br />
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RAISING TERROR<br />
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While Arafat's mantel as the "Father of Palestine" is dubious given that he is singularly responsible for the failure of a Palestinian nation to emerge, his credentials as the "Father of Modern Terrorism" are solid. In the late 1950's, he co-founded Fatah, the "Movement for the National Liberation of Palestine." His métier, and thus Fatah's, was the sneak attack on soft Israeli targets, the better to maximize carnage and fear. The first efforts were ham-handed: failed attempts in 1965 to bomb the national water carrier and the railroad. But the organization soon hit its stride, successfully attacking villages and civilian infrastructure. By 1969, Arafat was the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, the umbrella group he never ceased to dominate after merging Fatah into it a year earlier. The PLO had a single purpose: the destruction of Israel.<br />
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Actually, make that two purposes. The PLO was also a fabulously profitable criminal enterprise. Though Arafat purported to have made it big in the engineering business in Kuwait, British investigators, as Stephens reported, concluded after a searching probe that his wealth stemmed from sidelines his organization maintained in "extortion, payoffs, illegal arms-dealing, drug trafficking, money laundering and fraud" that yielded billions. Throughout his career, moreover, Arafat proved a master at culling funds — whether from levies on strapped Palestinian workers or gushing subsidies from starry-eyed European and American governments. From these, he skimmed millions and stashed them throughout the world — including in Israeli banks — keeping his wife on a lavish $100,000-per-month allowance in Paris while his people starved, and, of course, blamed Israel for their troubles.<br />
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By the late 1960s, the PLO had set up shop in Jordan, wreaking havoc in the kingdom. Arafat and his affiliates soon became innovators in a tactic later refined by al Qaeda: the civilian airliner as terror weapon. On February 21, 1970, the PFLP — by then also under the PLO arch — bombed SwissAir Flight 330 enroute to Tel Aviv, murdering 47 passengers and crew. Eight months later, on September 6, they attempted a spectacular atrocity: a quadruple hijack, which now appears an eerie harbinger of the tectonic bin Laden operation on another September day 31 years later.<br />
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As recalled in the riveting account of "Black September" by hostage David Raab, all the hijacked flights were bound from Europe to the United States. One, a Pan-Am 747, was taken to Cairo, where it was blown up on the tarmac just after the passengers were allowed to exit. A second, targeting an El-Al aircraft, was foiled in flight by Israeli sky marshals. But a TWA 707 and a SwissAir DC-8, with a combined 310 passengers and crew, were hijacked to a Jordanian dessert. The terrorists segregated Israeli, American, Swiss, and West German passengers for captivity — releasing the others — and threatened to kill the hostages and blow up the planes unless jailed militants were released. Under international pressure, King Hussein resolved to reassert control. War broke out on September 13. By the time it ended two weeks later, the hostages had been released, but over 2,000 people had been killed as Arafat and his terrorist band were driven out of the country.<br />
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In the first of his many rises from the ashes, Arafat relocated to Lebanon. Staging from there, the PLO embarked, almost exactly a year to the day later, on another of the late 20th century's most infamous murder sprees. On September 5, in the midst of the Munich Summer Olympic Games of 1972, eight PLO operatives (a wing of Arafat's Fatah group known as the "Black September" brigade) carried out a plan that enabled five of them to steal into the Olympic village, quickly murder two members of the Israeli team (the wrestling coach and a weightlifter), and take nine other Israeli athletes hostage. The terrorists demanded the release of 200 Arab prisoners and safe passage back to the Middle East. German authorities lured them, with their captives, to the airport, but a rescue attempt was badly botched. In the resulting battle, the Palestinians killed all nine Israeli athletes by grenade and gunfire, as well as murdering a German policeman. Five of the terrorists were killed in the struggle, but German authorities managed to capture the remaining three. True to form, Arafat's organization responded the following month by hijacking a Lufthansa jet and taking the passengers hostage. The Germans capitulated, releasing the killers.<br />
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Arafat, meanwhile, also kept Israel's support network, the U.S., in his sights. On March 1, 1973, another eight-member Black September cell raided the Saudi embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, taking as captives two American government officials, Ambassador Cleo Noel and the Charge d'Affaires George Curtis Moore, as well as a Belgian diplomat named Guy Eid. The terrorists demanded the release of Sirhan Sirhan in California (jailed for the 1968 slaying of Robert F. Kennedy), of Palestinians imprisoned in Jordan (including Black September's own Abu Daoud, who later claimed to be the master-planner of the Munich Olympics massacre), and of Palestinian women jailed in Israel. When they were rebuffed, the terrorists murdered Noel, Moore, and Eid, and then anxiously surrendered to the Sudanese authorities.<br />
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These murders, theoretically an act of war against the U.S., were never "solved" in the sense of convicting the man ultimately responsible. The FBI was reported to have reopened an investigation of them earlier this year, and at least one State Department spokesman has strangely claimed the link between Arafat and Black September was never conclusively established — even as he acknowledged Black September's membership in Arafat's own Fatah faction.<br />
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Nonetheless, a number of Israeli and American intelligence officials have long maintained that Arafat personally ordered the killings by issuing a radio message, to wit: "Why are you waiting? The people's blood in the Cold River cries for vengeance" — Cold River reportedly being a predetermined code directing the executions. Furthermore, in the kangaroo court that passed for a Sudanese prosecution, one of the terrorists, Salim Rizak, testified: "We carried out this operation on the orders of the Palestine Liberation Organization"; while another witness, the Sudanese official who conducted interrogations, reported that the killers had taken their cues from radio messages emanating from Fatah headquarters in Beirut. Thus abound dark suspicions, not to mention an explicit allegation by former NSA official James J. Welsh, that Arafat's complicity was shunted aside for what was perversely perceived as the greater good of diplomatically cultivating him. Meanwhile, of the eight surrendering Black September terrorists, two were released immediately by the Sudanese due to purportedly insufficient evidence, while the remaining six were convicted, sentenced to life-imprisonment, and...released the very next day to the open arms of the PLO.<br />
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From his Lebanese perch, Arafat's rampage of Israel continued apace. On April 11, 1974, the PLO slaughtered eighteen residents of Kiryat Shmona in their apartment building. A month later, on May 15, Palestinian terrorists attacked a school in Ma'alot, murdering 26 Israelis, including several children. Then, in June, the PLO — through the "Palestinian National Council" — endorsed what it called a "phased plan" to obliterate Israel.<br />
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WEAK-KNEAD APPEASEMENT<br />
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Seven years earlier, of course, Egypt, joined by Syria and Jordan, had foolishly launched yet another war of aggression against Israel. They were routed in the Six Day War of June 1967, at the end of which Israel's territorial holdings had drastically swelled to include the West Bank and East Jerusalem (taken from Jordan), the Suez and Gaza (from Egypt), and the Golan Heights (from Syria). It was understood that this expansion would not be permanent — in accordance with U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, Israel agreed eventually to withdraw from some undetermined portion of these territories in exchange for peace treaties that settled borders and acknowledged Israel's right to exist. In Arafat's 1974 phased plan, however, the PLO reaffirmed its rejection of Resolution 242 and committed itself to establish, in any ceded territory, a Palestinian state that would work toward Israel's destruction.<br />
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Adumbrating the global strategy for dealing with terror that would reign supreme through the quarter century leading up to the 9/11 attacks, the world reacted to Arafat's contemptuous belligerence with weak-kneed appeasement. The PLO was rewarded with observer status in the U.N., and on November 13, 1974, a triumphant and utterly unrepentant Arafat, holster strapped to his hip, addressed the General Assembly in New York City. By 1980, the European Economic Community recognized him as the "sole legitimate representative" of the Palestinian people.<br />
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Not that there weren't setbacks. In 1979, Israel had struck a historic peace deal with Egypt in which it agreed to a phased pull-out from the Sinai (completed in 1982) and acknowledged that there should eventually be some form of autonomy for the Palestinian enclaves of the West Bank and Gaza. With its southern flank calmed, Israel wearied of continuing missile attacks and other sorties launched against its northern communities from the PLO's Lebanese stronghold. Israel invaded in 1982, inducing Arafat to flee to Tunis.<br />
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FROM KILLING KLINGHOFFER TO "NOBEL" STAR<br />
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The PLO's bloodlust did not abate. In 1985, a cell identifying itself as the Palestine Liberation Front, led by Mohammed Abu al-Abbas, hijacked the Italian cruise ship, Achille Lauro. As his horrified wife looked on, the terrorists viciously shot a 69-year-old, wheelchair-bound Jew named Leon Klinghoffer, then tossed him overboard to die in the sea. Despite indications that the PLF was acting on instructions from PLO headquarters in Tunis, a State Department spokesman incredibly contended as late as 2002 that the PLF had been a renegade group broken off from the PFLP, and that Arafat was probably blameless in the Achille Lauro operation. But, aside from the fact that the PLO's website (for its U.N. mission) listed the PLF as one of its constituents, Abbas had actually been a member of Arafat's own PLO Executive Committee. More to the point, when Abbas died last year in Iraq (where he had been harbored by Arafat's staunch ally, Saddam Hussein), Arafat issued an official statement lavishly praising him as a "martyr leader" and "a distinguished fighter and a national leader who devoted his life to serve his own people and his homeland."<br />
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Not long after Achille Lauro, Arafat began in 1987 to blaze the path that, by the mid-1990's, sickeningly transformed him into a regular White House guest and a Nobel Laureate. As was his Orwellian wont, he started on the road to faux respectability with a terrorist barrage that became known as the First Intifada. (With Arafat, it had to be the First Intifada because there would, of course, be a Second.)<br />
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The siege was ignited by two unconnected events in the powder keg of Gaza: the December 6 murder of an Israeli, followed quickly by the tragic December 10 death of four Palestinians in a car accident which was falsely, but unrelentingly, hyped as a revenge killing. Skirmishes quickly broke out in Gaza, and careened through the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The violence, a roller-coaster of lulls and explosions, lasted over six years. In the first four years — that is, the period before the ebb that marked the onset of the 1991 Gulf War — Israeli defense forces responded to more than 3,600 Molotov cocktail attacks, 100 hand grenade attacks, and 600 assaults with guns or explosives, all of which killed 27 and wounded over 3000. Although the PLO was rivaled in the operation by militant Islamic groups such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad, Arafat's group dominated the so-called "Unified Leadership of the Intifada," using leaflets to direct the days and targets of attacks.<br />
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Israelis were not alone among the terror casualties. Arafat unleashed PLO death squads to kill numerous Arabs who were deemed to be collaborating with the enemy. In 1990, the Arabic publication Al-Mussawar reported Arafat's defense of the tactic: "We have studied the files of those who were executed, and found that only two of the 118 who were executed were innocent." As for those putative innocents, Arafat sloughed them off as "martyrs of the Palestinian revolution."<br />
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Even as the violence hummed, Arafat assumed his statesman's face for the West, to great effect. As the body count mounted in 1988, the U.N. granted the PLO's observer mission the right to participate, though not vote, in General Assembly sessions. In addition, the administration of George H. W. Bush held open the possibility of direct dialogue if Arafat would renounce terrorism and agree to be bound by Resolution 242. This he purported to do on December 16, 1988, claiming to acknowledge "the right of all parties concerned in the Middle East conflict to exist in peace and security...including the state of Palestine and Israel and other neighbors according to the Resolutions 242 and 338"; and asserting: "As for terrorism...I repeat for the record that we totally and absolutely renounce all forms of terrorism, including individual, group and state terrorism." Like the Europeans, the U.S. officially recognized Arafat as the legitimate leader of the Palestinians.<br />
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The bankruptcy of these claims was revealed as the Intifada ensued and Arafat blundered by publicly aligning with Saddam both after the invasion of Kuwait and throughout Iraq's scud missile attacks on Israel. But just as it seemed he might finally fade away, the strongman caught a lifeline when Gulf War victory failed to carry the first President Bush to re-election. Bush's successor, President Bill Clinton, saw in the intractable Israeli/Palestinian conflict the chance for an enduring legacy, and saw in Arafat a viable "peace partner."<br />
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With Clinton as determined midwife, Arafat and the government of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin signed the ballyhooed Oslo Accords of 1993. The Palestinian Authority was created, Arafat was appointed its chief executive, and a plan for eventual self-government by Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza was set in motion. But euphoria over this seeming breakthrough blurred appreciation of both Arafat's innate mendacity and Oslo's patent failure to resolve key contentious issues, including final borders, the status of East Jerusalem, and the rights of Israeli settlers and Palestinian refugees — under the delusion that Arafat would work in good faith toward a peaceful, comprehensive settlement with Israel over a five-year period.<br />
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The mega-murderer was suddenly statesman, star, and, in 1994, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize — a once-coveted honor now, by his attainment of it, reduced to a joke best listed among his countless victims. Thanks to this peace partner, it soon became clear that Oslo was a charade, a case of a credulous American president choosing his honey over his lying eyes.<br />
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The Palestinian Authority reneged on its promises of democratic reform and establishment of the rule of law — holding elections exactly once and never again after Arafat was overwhelmingly elected. Arafat also failed to honor, despite incessant pleading by Clinton administration figures, a commitment that the Palestinian National Charter would be amended to remove clauses calling for the destruction of Israel. The PA made a show of appearing to comply, disingenuously noting the provisions purportedly slated for nullification and calling for a new draft of the Charter to be produced. No revised Charter, however, was ever forthcoming. Meanwhile, what education system existed in the territories, much like Arafat's public statements in Arabic (always far more menacing than the English he spoke to the Western world), continued to instill hatred for Jews and calls for the demise of their state. Naturally, the terrorist activity also proceeded, with the PA ineffectual in halting it — when not encouraging it outright.<br />
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There should have been surprise in none of this. As Stephens reports, in 1996, Arafat brayed to an Arab audience in Stockholm, "We plan to eliminate the State of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion.... We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem." Asked about his plans on Egyptian television in 1998, Arafat explained that strategic pause was a venerable Islamic strategy, referring specifically to the "Khudaibiya agreement" in which the Prophet Mohammed made a ten-year treaty with the Arabian tribe of Koreish, but broke it after two years — during which his forces used the security of the pact to marshal their strength — and then conquered the Koreish tribe.<br />
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Such machinations were certainly no secret to the governments and media in the U.S., Europe and Israel itself. They knew precisely who Yasser Arafat was. But politically and culturally, hopeful hearts and good intentions were for them more essential than results on the ground — the "process" always took precedence over the "peace." Thus, in the Wye River Accords of 1998, the Clinton administration and Israel, now led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, took the terrorist at his word when he promised, yet again, to crack down on terror, this time in exchange for a pull back of Israeli forces (which had entered the territories in response to terror attacks), the ceding of additional territory to PA control, and even the release hundreds of Palestinian prisoners — many of whom had been incarcerated for terrorism offenses.<br />
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14 9/11s<br />
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The violence never stopped. Yet, with his presidency winding down in 2000 and desperate for an accomplishment that might balance a record besmirched by scandal, President Clinton boldly sought a final time to forge a comprehensive settlement. He brought Arafat and yet another new Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Barak, to Camp David. Under intense U.S. pressure, Israel offered the creation of a Palestinian state over 90 percent of the West Bank and all of Gaza, with its capital to be in East Jerusalem. In a move comprehensible only if one accepts that Arafat was incorrigibly devoted to Israel's extermination — in which case, it was entirely comprehensible — Arafat rejected this stunning offer, with poison-pill insistence that millions of Palestinians be accorded a right of return to Israel.<br />
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The breakdown of negotiations resulted, like night followed day with Arafat, in a new round of terror: the Second Intifada, which continues to this day. This program has been pursued mostly by suicide bombings — often including explosives strapped to children encouraged by the culture of shahada, or martyrdom, which thrived under Arafat's corrupt and dysfunctional leadership. In the main, attacks have willfully targeted civilians in busses, restaurants, shopping centers, synagogues, hotels and other public centers. Since 2000, approximately 900 Israelis, three quarters of whom were civilians, have been murdered. To extrapolate to American proportions, for a country the size of Israel this is the rough equivalent of over 40,000 dead — or, as the Hudson Institute's Anne Bayefsky has calculated, about 14 9/11s.<br />
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Arafat's world, like everyone else's, radically changed on September 11, 2001. The Bush Doctrine, announcing a commitment to eradicate terrorists and terror supporting governments, did not immediately spell the end for the Palestinian strongman. He was, however, gradually marginalized and reduced to pariah status — but for the markedly less frequent, and ineffectual, paeans from Europe, the Islamic world and the U.N.<br />
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The magic began to fail even his most trusted old tricks. For example, on December 16, 2001, with American forces suppressing terrorists in Afghanistan, an ostensibly chastened Arafat appeared on PA-controlled Palestinian television to warn Hamas and Islamic Jihad against "all military activities" against Israel, and to purportedly "renew" his "call to completely halt any activities, especially suicide attacks, which we have condemned and always condemned." This time, the ploy fell flat — undercut, no doubt, after the Nobel laureate characteristically followed it up only two days later with a speech at a Ramallah rally — the kind of red meat always conveniently ignored in the halcyon pre-9/11 days. "With God's help," he boasted:<br />
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next time we will meet in Jerusalem, because we are fighting to bring victory to our prophets, every baby, every kid, every man, every woman and every old person and all the young people, we will all sacrifice ourselves for our holy places and we will strengthen our hold of them and we are willing to give 70 of our martyrs for every one of theirs in this campaign, because this is our holy land. We will continue to fight for this blessed land and I call on you to stand strong.<br />
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The jig was up. Arafat's celebrity might be a product of the "international community" but his relevance was strictly made-in-the-USA, and America was no longer buying. The administration of President George W. Bush let it be known that Arafat would no longer be dealt with. When the president eventually proposed his "roadmap" to resume negotiations toward an eventual Palestinian state, he snubbed Arafat and made unconditional cessation of all Palestinian terrorism a nonnegotiable prerequisite. Critically, the administration also eased the restraints that had for decades compelled Israel to accord its sworn enemy so wide a berth.<br />
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Now under Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Israel responded forcefully to the terror onslaught, including through high-profile "targeted assassinations" of Hamas leaders. Its forces tightened the noose around Arafat. Unable to leave his squalid Ramallah compound with any assurance that he'd either survive or be permitted to return, the "president" of what was more a racket than a government — and decidedly not a nation — remained holed up there for over two years until his evacuation to Paris, in extremis, in late October. There he died on Wednesday, one of history's most repulsive conmen and killers.<br />
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"The power of bad men," Burke famously observed, "is no indifferent thing." The power of this evil man informed an age — the age of terrorism. The Israelis and Palestinians may never coexist peacefully, but as long as Yasser Arafat lived they didn't even have a chance.<br />
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— Andrew C. McCarthy, who led the 1995 terrorism prosecution against Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman and eleven others, is a senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.<br />
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trump is not just incredibly stupid.<br />
He is immoral and mentally ill.<br />
You will never hear anyone say he is smart.<br />
Now, in his typically ignorant twitter rant, he is threatening the foundation of our constitutional form of government.<br />
<i>mfbsr</i><br />
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In the history of our country, there has never been a more chaotic and corrupt presidency than what we are enduring under Donald Trump. More than 50 senior-level officials have left this administration. They include Michael Flynn; Reince Priebus; Sean Spicer; Steve Bannon; Omarosa Manigault; and the recently departed Hope Hicks and Gary Cohn. These departures are more than double the usual casualties of an administration in office just over a year. Trump claims that “Everybody wants to work in the White House.” This is delusional grandeur amid a national nightmare.<br />
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Guided solely by emotional impulse -- people in the White House described him as “angry” and “unglued” -- Trump decided to impose tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum without regard to possible retaliation. The 28-member European Union exports more steel to the United States than any single country, including Canada, and has announced a list of U.S. products that could be hit with retaliatory tariffs. How dare the Europeans put Europe first?<br />
<i><b><br /></b></i> <i><b>Trump brags about his great accomplishments, but the only thing he has going for himself is the continuation of the Obama economic recovery.</b></i><br />
Trade wars won’t help him, no matter how “good” they are “and easy to win.”<br />
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Presidential historians generally consider the administrations of Presidents Ulysses S. Grant, Warren Harding and Richard Nixon the most corrupt in history. Trump is putting them all to shame in his race to the bottom. During the presidential campaign, Trump touted himself as too rich to be corrupted, yet all he has done is line his pockets and those of his family to the disservice of the American people. Trump International Hotel has become the favorite watering hole for foreign officials in our nation’s capital. He doubled the annual membership fee at his Mar-a-Lago Resort in Florida from $100,000 to $200,000. He visits his for-profit club virtually every weekend so that his clients can get their money’s worth.<br />
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Consider for a moment the case of Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, who paid way too much for a property at 666 Fifth Ave. in Manhattan. He has a $1.2 billion balloon payment staring him in the face come January next year. Oh, what to do?<br />
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Kushner, being a senior adviser to Trump and in charge of all things domestic and foreign, apparently thought, Why not negotiate a half-billion-dollar loan with two companies seeking to curry favor with the White House? And why not dispatch his father, a convicted felon, to seek a loan from foreign ally oil-rich Qatar? Since that gambit failed, why not bring down the wrath of the U.S. on that country, home of the largest U.S. military presence in the Middle East fighting against ISIS?<br />
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Trump often points out that his son-in-law does not receive a paycheck. Who needs a paycheck when he can negotiate multi-hundred-million-dollar loans from his position in the White House? One might believe that Trump should have had enough of people working for free. Think Paul Manafort and Rick Gates. Both are likely on their way to prison. Kushner might not be far behind. There is an old axiom: You get what you pay for. Kushner’s portfolio includes prison reform. All things considered, that makes sense.<br />
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If Trump’s claim that “everybody wants to work in the White House” and that “everybody wants a piece of the Oval Office” were true, they wouldn’t keep looking for the exits. Other administrations didn’t have this problem. Working there brings with it a sense of doing something important and perhaps long-lasting. It is also a great line on a resumé. But the viper pit and land of chaos that is the Trump White House is just not that appealing.<br />
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Trump ran on the pledge that he was going to "drain the swamp” and restore integrity to the White House, as if it had gone missing. Newt Gingrich, a staunch apologist, has said that promise won’t be kept. Indeed, Trump has repopulated the swamp with even more lizards, snakes and alligators. Imagine how apoplectic the so-called Christian, so-called family-values crowd would be if Barack Obama was being sued by a porn star. Talk about hypocrisy!<br />
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Theotis Robinson Jr., Columnist Published 8:00 a.m. ET March 11, 2018<br />
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Theotis Robinson Jr. is a freelance writer, former Knoxville City Council member and retired vice president of equity and diversity of the University of Tennessee. He may be reached at thewriteone7@comcast.net.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08911005916622454687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31138568.post-65388859787497913402018-05-01T18:48:00.001-06:002018-05-01T18:48:47.222-06:00Amazing Scientific Breakthrough, We can Now Hear the Little Voice in trump's HeadThis is amazing. This scientific breakthrough can record the little voice in trump's head.,<br />
As you might expect, the voice is stupid, confused and sef-centered., like trump.<br />
Incredible!<br />
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It's ironic that those who object to Michelle Wolf's comedy are the same ones who praise trump's name calling and lack of class. Michelle Wolf has appeared on the scene as a unique and hilarious comedian who just gained a whole new group of fans with her edgy and on target humor.. <i>mfbsr</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>Wolf’s stand-up set, which has received criticism from media elites, gave voice to people ‘who aren’t in a symbiotic relationship with Trumpian chaos.’</i></span></h2>
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The White House Correspondents’ Association dinner is a celebration of the role of the press in upholding American democracy. The day after the dinner, however, has evolved to be a celebration of a different sort: a circle jerk of self-serious bad comedy opinions, and an annual reminder that the political press is, collectively, a gaggle of unfunny dorks who should probably be forced to watch somebody smarter than they are make fun of them more often.</div>
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There’s been <a class="TrackingLink LinkWrapper" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/michelle-wolf-fires-back-at-new-york-times-reporter-maggie-haberman-over-whcd-criticism" style="background-color: transparent; transition: color 0.15s ease;">a lot of whining since Saturday</a>. Some observers have whined that the night’s headliner, <a class="TrackingLink LinkWrapper" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/michelle-wolf-is-the-future-of-stand-up-comedy" style="background-color: transparent; transition: color 0.15s ease;"><em>Daily Show</em> correspondent Michelle Wolf</a>, was “mean” to White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders by saying that her makeup was made of lies, that she was like Uncle Tom (but for women who disappoint other white women), that she was softball coach-like.</div>
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Sanders earned that and <a class="TrackingLink LinkWrapper" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/michelle-wolf-destroys-kellyanne-conway-sarah-huckabee-sanders-to-their-faces-at-whcd" style="background-color: transparent; transition: color 0.15s ease;">every joke aimed at her last night</a>. She’s an adult with a very important job. She can handle it. To treat her with kid gloves because she’s a wife and mother would be condescending and sexist. And all the sucking up from people who could stand to gain professionally from sucking up to her is a unique brand of Washington tiresome. (Furthermore, I’m sick of having everything that matters to me as a feminist ridiculed and discounted by centrists and conservatives who nonetheless expect people like me to defend conservative women when somebody makes a benign joke at their expense, but I digress).</div>
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No, we shouldn’t “unite” around Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ imaginary hurt feelings about her goddamn eye makeup. We should <a class="TrackingLink LinkWrapper" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/comedians-defend-whcd-speech-fck-the-niceties-michelle-wolf-was-brilliant" style="background-color: transparent; transition: color 0.15s ease;">be cheering Michelle Wolf</a>, because she perfectly eclipsed the speech Trump was giving at the same time. And <b><i>unlike a Sarah Huckabee Sanders-helmed press conference, Wolf’s set at the Correspondents’ Dinner contained no lies.</i></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #02141f; font-family: georgia, cambria, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 17px;">I suspect that much of the umbrage over Wolf’s treatment of Sanders was actually a smokescreen for issues observers had with the uncomfortable truths Wolf said to a room full of people complicit in and profiting from the current awful state of American politics. For example, Wolf noted that </span><a class="TrackingLink LinkWrapper" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/snl-hilariously-mocks-morning-joe-co-hosts-joe-scarborough-and-mika-brzezinskis-relationship" style="font-family: georgia, cambria, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 17px; transition: 0.15s ease;">Brzezinski’s relationship with her co-host Joe Scarborough</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #02141f; font-family: georgia, cambria, "times new roman", times, serif; font-size: 17px;"> was “like when a #MeToo works out.” Mean, but true.</span><br />
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Wolf pointed out that cable news was oversaturated with Trump. Also not a lie. And that every show involves “a panel of four people who remind you why you don’t go home for Thanksgiving.” Also not a lie. (Full disclosure: I frequently appear on cable news panel shows, and do not go home for Thanksgiving. Make what you will of that.)</div>
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Wolf was right about there being no clean water in Flint, that Fox News has been a haven for sexual misconduct, that Megyn Kelly is a little embarrassing, Ivanka Trump is full of shit, that Donald Trump seems like a guy who is bad in bed. True, true, true, true, and gross but true.</div>
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Additionally, criticism of Wolf’s set makes it clear that most in the political class don’t really watch much comedy at all beyond <a class="TrackingLink LinkWrapper" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/snl-robert-de-niros-robert-mueller-interrogates-ben-stillers-michael-cohen" style="background-color: transparent; transition: color 0.15s ease;">the cold open of <em>Saturday Night Live</em></a>.</div>
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In her regular sets, Wolf tells jokes that are much meaner than the ones she told Saturday night, and it’s not as though she’s some underground comic. She’s got an HBO special. She’s on <em>The Daily Show</em>. She’s got a Netflix series coming out. She’s around.</div>
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An average roast contains jokes that are much crueler than anything unleashed last night, and nobody follows those up with conversation about how amazing it is that the joke’s foil didn’t get up and storm out of the room.</div>
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Nor did observers seem familiar with the content of jokes these days. Cillizza had big issues with Wolf’s “don’t knock it till you try it” bit about abortion. “Does anybody think this joke is funny?” Cillizza wrote. “Does anyone celebrate abortion—even jokingly?” (My dude, every female comic working in New York and L.A. right now has at least a tight five on abortion. Watch some comedy. Any comedy. Actually, better yet, stay the hell away from comedy.)</div>
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The pearl-clutching over Michelle Wolf’s set at the WHCD this year, once again, exposed the gap between what the political press thinks they represent to America and what they really represent to America. Wolf’s set gave voice to the anger of people from outside of the beltway—people who pay attention to politics, but who aren’t in a symbiotic relationship with Trumpian chaos. All of the things she said last night, those people outside of the ballroom knew. The people in the ballroom think they are fooling people outside, the people like Wolf. They aren’t. They know exactly how those in the ballroom fucked up, and they’re pissed off.</div>
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Michelle Wolf is the sort of acid honesty that America needs right now. And if the group that fancies itself the guardians of the republic is so weak that they can’t handle a roast from a stand-up comedian, then we’re in even more trouble than I thought.</div>
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In March, Cartes’s government said the country would relocate the embassy if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu came to visit. Last September, Netanyahu became Israel’s first acting prime minister <a href="https://unitedwithisrael.org/israel-and-paraguay-celebrate-close-ties-express-desire-for-more/" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted; color: #025f8f; text-decoration-line: none;">to visit Latin America</a>, though he did not stop in Paraguay.</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">This refusal to accept reality can be labeled Palestinian Derangement Syndrome. As long as Palestinian leaders continue to embrace it, they will not agree to a fair and realistic peace deal acceptable to any Israeli government. And as a result, ordinary Palestinians will suffer.</span></div>
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Every time the U.S. makes demands of the Palestinians – to end terrorism, to stop paying terrorists in Israeli jails, to end efforts to circumvent negotiations by seeking U.N. recognition of a Palestinian state – the delusional Palestinian leaders threaten to stop talking to U.S. officials.</div>
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Sure enough, the Palestinians did it again when they announced that President Mahmoud Abbas would not hold a scheduled meeting with Vice President Mike Pence after President Trump announced U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. </div>
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Most Palestinians are good people who would like to have normal lives – go to work, educate their children, live in peace. They would no doubt be happy if Israel disappeared tomorrow, but they’ve reconciled themselves to living with Israelis.</div>
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So if it were up to them, the majority of Palestinians would probably agree to a compromise peace plan with Israel. But unfortunately, the Palestinian Authority is a dictatorship run by Abbas without public support and with little regard for his people.</div>
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A <a href="http://www.pcpsr.org/en/node/709" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(167, 198, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #003366; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background, 0.25s, ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">recent poll</a> in the West Bank and Gaza – conducted by an independent Palestinian think tank – found that 67 percent of Palestinians want Abbas to resign. </div>
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In reality, Palestinians have no choice but to make concessions or live under current conditions. Israelis do not want to maintain the status quo, but they can do so if given no choice by the Palestinians.</div>
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It’s true that the Palestinian people suffer deprivations because of Israel’s policies and actions – but these problems are self-inflicted, because some Palestinians engage in terror that provokes Israeli countermeasures necessary to protect the safety its people. In the same way, the United States and many other nations have beefed up security after terrorist attacks.</div>
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Meanwhile, Abbas has prevented elections for a decade and denies his people most civil and political rights. Palestinians lack freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, women’s rights and gay rights. Arabs in Israel have far more rights and freedoms that Arabs living in the West Bank and Gaza.</div>
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Sadly, no one cares. The international community, the U.N., human rights groups, and pro-Palestinian advocates are silent when it comes to Palestinian abuses inflicted on their own people. They only care about Palestinians if some alleged abuse can be blamed on Israel.</div>
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President Obama was sympathetic to the Palestinian cause. Yet Abbas ignored Obama administration entreaties not to go to the U.N. with Palestinian grievances. And Abbas refused to negotiate with Israel based on Obama administration initiatives.</div>
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Palestinians also continue to make demands upon Israel as if they are the dominant power in the relationship. They delude themselves when they act as though Israel has any reason to accept such unrealistic demands.</div>
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In reality, Palestinians have no choice but to make concessions or live under current conditions. Israelis do not want to maintain the status quo, but they can do so if given no choice by the Palestinians.</div>
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The belief that the international community will force Israel to surrender to Palestinian demands is the latest manifestation of Palestinian Derangement Syndrome.</div>
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For decades, Palestinians have harbored the delusion that the Arab states cared about their cause and would drive the Jews into the sea on their behalf. But in truth, Arab leaders were interested in divvying up lands Palestinians claimed and for many years wanted to destroy Israel.</div>
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Fortunately, Arab armies were unable to defeat Israel in battle, though they tried repeatedly by attacking the Jewish State in war after war. And today Arab states are moving closer to Israel, as they recognize their mutual enemy is Iran and conclude that the Palestinian issue is irrelevant to their national interests.</div>
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As a result, following President Trump’s announcement accepting the reality that Jerusalem is Israel’s capital, Arab leaders made perfunctory statements condemning the decision but did nothing. Muslims around the world did not answer Abbas’s call for three days of rage. In fact, few Palestinians paid attention.</div>
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The Palestinians turned to terror many years ago in the delusional belief that they could bomb the Jews out of their homeland. But hijackings, suicide bombings, intifadas and ongoing attacks have not and will not succeed in improving the plight of the Palestinians. The violence has only made things worse for them.</div>
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The entire Israeli public shifted rightward after the Israeli evacuation of Gaza – giving Palestinians control – because the Palestinians destroyed the land-for-peace formula by bombarding Israel with rockets. Most Israelis now demand concrete security guarantees before they withdraw from another inch of disputed land. Any nation in the world would demand such guarantees.</div>
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Perhaps the most dangerous aspect of Palestinian Derangement Syndrome is that Palestinians have convinced themselves that they do not have to compromise with Israel, because time is on their side.</div>
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The fertility rate of Jews is now higher than that of Palestinians; nevertheless, some Palestinians believe they will eventually outnumber Israeli Jews and somehow swallow up Israel.</div>
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Alternatively, some Palestinians hope that one or more countries in the region will obtain nuclear weapons and destroy Israel. The Iranians are the most likely to get a bomb, but if the nightmare of a successful nuclear attack on Israel ever became a reality, there’s no question that many Palestinians as well as Israeli Jews would die.</div>
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The best hope for a cure for Palestinian Derangement Syndrome is a change in Palestinian leadership. Abbas represents the last of the old guard, which psychologically cannot give up the dream of liberating <i style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">all </i>of “occupied Palestine” – meaning all of Israel, not just that lands Israel captured after it was attacked by Arab armies in the Six Day War in 1967. </div>
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If the Palestinians want to achieve independence, they will have to elect leaders committed to ending their suffering and to ending Palestinian Derangement Syndrome. This will require:</div>
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· Providing basic civil rights to the Palestinians under their authority.</div>
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· Entering face-to-face negotiations with Israel with realistic expectations.</div>
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· Demonstrating that they are willing to live in peace beside the Jewish State.</div>
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· Recognizing that the 1949 armistice line that set the newly independent State of Israel’s border after it defeated invading Arab armies will not be the border going forward.</div>
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· Accepting that Israel will never give up its ancient capital of Jerusalem.</div>
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· Understanding that Israel will not accept the Palestinian dream of a “right of return” for more than a fraction of the Palestinian refugees who fled Israel in the 1940s and their descendants born elsewhere in the last 70 years.</div>
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· Accepting that Israel will never withdraw from major settlement blocs in the West Bank.</div>
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· Giving up the idea that Israel can be pressured to accept their demands by outside parties through boycotts, U.N. resolutions or any other threats.</div>
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Ending Palestinian Derangement Syndrome will be not be easy. The delusions of the syndrome are older than most Palestinians alive today, taught to them since childhood. But at some point, Palestinians will have to accept reality if they truly wish to reach a mutually beneficial peace agreement with Israel.</div>
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Dr. Mitchell Bard is executive director of the American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise and author/editor of 24 books including <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Arab-Lobby-Invisible-Undermines-Interests/dp/B005DI8K42/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1352231338&sr=1-5&keywords=mitchell+bard" style="background: rgb(237, 246, 255); border-bottom-color: rgb(167, 198, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #003366; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background, 0.25s, ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">”The Arab Lobby”</a> and the novel <a href="https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=%22After+Anatevka%3A+Tevye+in+Palestine%22" style="background: rgb(237, 246, 255); border-bottom-color: rgb(167, 198, 229); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 2px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #003366; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: background, 0.25s, ease-in-out; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">“After Anatevka: Tevye in Palestine.”</a></div>
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<em>Traditionally, Palestinian has meant Jewish, Palestine referring, geographically to Eretz Israel.</em><br />
<em>After a series of failed attempts by Arabs to exterminate the indigenous people of Israel, i.e.Jews, the Arabs switched tactics, believing they could destroy Israel through deception.</em><br />
<em>At long last the U.S. is correcting the PC lies of the Islamic dictatorships and the hard left by correctly referring to the "West Bank" as Judea and Samaria, the correct, historic names for this region.</em></div>
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The corrupt "Palestinian" Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday condemned the US State Department for dropping the term “occupied territories” when referring to the <a href="https://unitedwithisrael.org/us-ambassador-to-israel-judea-and-samaria-part-of-israel/" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted; color: #025f8f; text-decoration-line: none;">Judea and Samaria region</a> in its annual human rights report.</div>
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The ministry, laughably said in a statement that “this act is another one in a long list of US actions and policies targeting Palestine and the Palestinian people”.<br />
Most readers know that the worst enemy of the Arabs that like to call themselves "Palestinians", is Hamas and Fatah, criminal terrorist gangs.</div>
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“The current administration of US President Donald Trump has abandoned its respect for international law and has actually taken steps that violate this law by implementing illegitimate and illegal positions on Palestine and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict,” the Palestinians charged.<br />
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(Yeah, as if Arabs have SO MUCH respect for International Law.)</div>
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While the term “occupied” had been used in such reports since the Carter administration, the 2017 version drops this term, which is used pejoratively to criticize Israeli policy following military victories through which the Jewish state acquired control of various territories.</div>
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The term “occupied” is considered by many to be a loaded phrase intended to demonize Israel with regard to its activities in disputed areas.</div>
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In response to the State Department’s change in terminology, Israel’s Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman tweeted over the weekend, “the <a href="https://unitedwithisrael.org/watch-canadian-aboriginal-says-jews-are-indigenous-to-judea-and-samaria/" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted; color: #025f8f; text-decoration-line: none;">lie of the occupied Palestinian territories</a> begins to be revealed. They say that a lie repeated often enough becomes true, but the truth is forever stronger. The State Department report is proof of that.”<br />
<em>By: Zamir Etzioni With United with Israel Staff</em><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08911005916622454687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31138568.post-20539597175432074892018-04-25T06:45:00.003-06:002018-04-25T06:45:54.509-06:00America Needs A Real President<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Donald Trump sits in the Oval Office, when he’s not golfing. He lives in the White House, at least in theory with his family. But he is not the president of the United States.</div>
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When <a class="TrackingLink LinkWrapper" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/this-is-who-the-american-people-elected-white-house-grapples-with-un-presidential-trump-after-school-shooting" style="background-color: transparent; transition: color 0.15s ease;">Trump addressed the nation</a> in the wake of the Parkland massacre, my team and I looked at the TV but the words coming from his mouth had no effect. They neither resonated nor moved a single person in the room. It truly didn’t matter what he said, particularly after he tweeted out blame for the carnage at the neighbors and classmates of the killer. Trump is as hollow a vessel as there has ever been in the White House. His rule lacks even a shred of moral authority.</div>
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Meanwhile, an <a class="TrackingLink LinkWrapper" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/mueller-indicts-russian-groups-first-revealed-by-daily-beast" style="background-color: transparent; transition: color 0.15s ease;">indictment of 13 Russian nationals</a> by the Robert Mueller grand jury on Friday reinforced what we already know, Vladimir Putin’s cronies launched a widespread, aggressive, and ultimately successful influence operation aimed at the U.S. presidential election of 2016 with the goal of dragging down Hillary Clinton and electing Trump. The campaign included encouraging Bernie Sanders voters and minorities to stay home or vote for General Michael Flynn’s fellow American dinner guest of RT and Putin at that now-infamous paid dinner, Jill Stein, but its intent was clear: Support Trump by every available means.</div>
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<b><i>Trump is Russia’s creature, not ours. </i></b>He serves their interests, genuflects before their president, and has remained steadfast in leaving the door wide open for them to interfere in our election on behalf of himself and his desiccated political party again.</div>
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The influence operation aimed at Trump is at least years, and perhaps decades old. Trump’s affinity for Russia dates back at least to the late 1980s, during the time of the Soviet Union, and it intensified <b><i>after his financial empire collapsed. Rescue came in the form of Russian money likely laundered through Trump’s otherwise failing real estate empire, during the time Vladimir Putin was still with the KGB. </i></b>Now, Trump shares with Putin and his oligarchic kleptocracy a hatred of non-white immigrants, the cultivation of Christian extremists to the detriment of Muslims and gays, a sneering disregard for NATO and global trade, a fetish for the bloody NRA, a disdain for non-sycophant media and an affinity for dictatorial regimes. He is leading a political party that today is more Putinite than American; more like the party of Marine Le Pen than of Abraham Lincoln.</div>
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We have entered an age of unreason; an American dark age. A major political party has fallen into decay, seized full on by extremists and overrun by racism, tribalism, greed, xenophobia, and demographic panic. It is no longer a question of whether their president can ever be our president, and speak to the nation with moral authority. He can’t. His legitimacy is too much in doubt and his character too absent. <b><i>The only question is whether the majority can hang onto its collective outrage long enough to drive the neo-Nazis, anti-modernists, haters, and fear-mongers who have organized under the Trump banner back into the shadows.</i></b></div>
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This week we learned more about Trump’s lurid sex life than any of us ever wanted to know. And really, who cares, other than the fact that it appears that his lawless antics leading up to the election included conspiring to pay off the women he was sleeping with while Melania was at home caring for their young son. Trump’s aggressive sexuality, which has veered from consensual affairs to alleged unwanted sexual advances and assaults, is just the latest outrage to be tucked under the rug by so-called white evangelicals in America as they grasp for whatever lucre falls off the money changer in chief’s table. Surely, Jesus would shudder in their presence.</div>
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This November, the American majority has the chance to build a wall around Trumpism, by sending to Washington a Democratic congress willing to insist Russian sanctions be implemented, to hold the Trump White House to account rather than canoodling with them as Devin Nunes has done, and to wave the credible threat of impeachment in front of this benighted president; willing to pass common sense immigration reform and gun safety reform and to shun the bloodthirsty gun lobby and relegate them to the margins of history where they belong.</div>
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<b><i> Despite the daily horror of Donald Trump, people all over America are continuing to speak out, to organize, to march, and to withhold their silence and consent.</i></b></div>
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we can now celebrate the waves of candidates standing for office all over this country who are bringing a youthful energy and future focus to the campaign trail. We could see a wave of new leaders in America next year—women and people of color, LGBT Americans, and believers in <a class="TrackingLink LinkWrapper" href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/category/science" style="background-color: transparent; transition: color 0.15s ease;">science</a> and pluralism who can yet give America a future worth cheering, while we await a president who’s actually fit to lead us.</div>
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I've noticed that heroes never boast about themselves. This young man saved many lives today, and may have inspired others in a similar situation to emulate him. What can you say about a young American like this? Thank you James Shaw Jr.! <i> mfbr</i></div>
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The man who wrestled the gun away from a Waffle House shooting suspect in Tennessee said Sunday if he were going to die, the gunman would "have to work to kill me."</div>
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Police are calling James Shaw Jr. a hero for saving lives in the busy restaurant, but the 29-year-old Nashville resident said he only made a split-second decision to do all he could to challenge the shooter and save himself from being killed.</div>
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Shaw said at a news conference Sunday he had spent an evening out at a nightclub and entered the restaurant minutes ahead of the gunman's arrival. He said he and another friend were seated at a high counter when he heard gunshots. Shaw said he had just seen restaurant workers stacking up freshly washed plates and thought at first that plates had crashed down.</div>
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Then, he said, restaurant workers scattered and he turned and saw a body near the front door as the gunman burst in. It was then he realized he had heard gunshots.</div>
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"I looked back and I saw a person lying on the ground right at the entrance of the door, then I jumped and slid ... I went behind a push door — a swivel door," Shaw said. "He shot through that door; I'm pretty sure he grazed my arm. At that time I made up my mind ... that he was going to have to work to kill me. When the gun jammed or whatever happened, I hit him with the swivel door."</div>
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Shaw said it was then that they began wrestling, ignoring his own pain as he grabbed the hot barrel of the gun: "He was kind of cussing while we were wrestling around. When I finally got the gun he was cussing like I was in the wrong ... it wasn't any kind of talking between us; I just knew I just had to get that away from him."</div>
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Of the gun, he added: "I grabbed it from him and threw it over the countertop and I just took him with me out the entrance." Shaw said after getting the man out of the Waffle House, he then ran one way and saw the suspect jogging or trotting another way.</div>
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Shaw's right hand was bandaged at the news conference from the struggle. He also said he had an apparent bullet graze on one elbow and fell and hit his knee as he escaped and skinned up some fingers.</div>
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He added he didn't see himself as a hero, adding he's certain he wouldn't be alive if he hadn't succeeded in his mission.</div>
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"I didn't really fight that man to save everyone else. That may not be a popular thing," Shaw said. "I took the gun so I could get myself out" of the situation.</div>
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Tears welled in his eyes at the news conference as law enforcement agents called him a hero. He said he was glad he ended up saving other lives.</div>
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Waffle House CEO Walter Ehmer also thanked Shaw at the news conference for his bravery.</div>
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"You don't get to meet too many heroes in life," Ehmer said before addressing Shaw, who dabbed at his eyes. "We are forever in your debt." —(AP)</div>
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<em style="font-weight: 600;"><span style="font-size: large;">More than 70 years after the Holocaust, the worldwide Jewish population has yet to be fully restored. What could those missing Jews have contributed to the world had the Nazis been defeated earlier?</span></em></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">According to Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics, the world’s Jewish population reached </span><a href="https://unitedwithisrael.org/on-70th-birthday-israel-boasts-tenfold-population-growth-since-1948/" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted; color: #025f8f; font-size: x-large;">14.5 million at the end of 2017</a><span style="font-size: large;">. That is approximately 2 million below the level prior to World War II.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the aftermath of this year’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, it is heartbreaking to reflect on our community’s decimation, and how, more than 70 years later, our community has yet to be fully restored. We must pay homage to those we lost, but we should also contemplate what our world would look like had there been no Holocaust.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">How large would our families be today? What would those Jews have accomplished given our community’s significant (and disproportionate) contributions to society? Would Israel be far more secure with a Jewish population exponentially higher than it is today ?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">That would mean 12 to 18 million more Jews with mothers and fathers pushing them to acquire knowledge, to excel, to be productive members of society, to give charity (“tzedakah”), and to live their lives fulfilling the Jewish obligation to “repair the world,” a commandment called “tikun olam.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There can be no doubt that among those millions would have been individuals who found cures for numerous diseases plaguing mankind, invented and commercialized a wide variety of products and technologies and contributed important works to the arts and literature.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is not ethnocentric vanity; <a href="https://unitedwithisrael.org/watch-israeli-nobel-prize-winner-tells-youth-how-to-become-good-scientists/" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted; color: #025f8f; text-decoration-line: none;">22 percent of all Nobel Prize winners</a> have been Jewish. It is not beyond the realm of probability that the Jewish prioritization of education and community improvement would have led to a better, healthier standard of living for all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We Jews were cheated out of grandparents, parents, brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, and not a day should pass without remembrance and melancholy. But the world at large has also paid a monumental price for the lost Jewish generations, something they would be wise to reflect upon before prioritizing short-term interests over the imperative of safeguarding the Jews and their homeland.</span></div>
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FULL TEXT: French Declassified Intelligence Report Claiming Assad Behind Syria Gas Attacks<br />
Here is the full declassified national assessment provided by the French foreign ministry in English<br />
Reuters Apr 14, 2018 1:40 PM<br />
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France concluded after technical analysis of open sources and "reliable intelligence" that a chemical attack on Douma on April 7 was carried out by Syrian government forces, a declassified intelligence report showed on Saturday.<br />
Here is the full declassified national assessment provided by the French foreign ministry in English: I. SEVERAL LETHAL CHEMICAL ATTACKS TOOK PLACE IN THE TOWN OF DOUMA IN THE LATE AFTERNOON OF SATURDAY,7 APRIL 2018, AND WE ASSESS WITH A HIGH DEGREE OF CONFIDENCE THAT THEY WERE CARRIED OUT BY THE SYRIAN REGIME.<br />
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Following the Syrian regime’s resumption of its military offensive, as well as high levels of air force activity over the town of Douma in Eastern Ghouta, two new cases of toxic agents employment were spontaneously reported by civil society and local and international media from the late afternoon of 7 April.<br />
Non-governmental medical organizations active in Ghouta (the Syrian American Medical Society and the Union of Medical Care and Relief Organizations), whose information is generally reliable, publicly stated that strikes had targeted in particular local medical infrastructure on 6 and 7 April.<br />
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A massive influx of patients in health centres in Eastern Ghouta (at the very least 100 people) presenting symptoms consistent with exposure to a chemical agent was observed and documented during the early evening. In total, several dozen people, more than forty according to several sources, are thought to have died from exposure to a chemical substance.<br />
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The information collected by France forms a body of evidence that is sufficient to attribute responsibility for the chemical attacks of 7 April to theSyrian regime. 1. – Several chemical attacks took place at Douma on 7 April 2018.<br />
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The French services analysed the testimonies, photos and videos that spontaneously appeared on specialized websites, in the press and on social media in the hours and days following the attack.<br />
Testimonies obtained by theFrench services were also analysed. After examining the videos and images of victims published online, they were able to conclude with a high degree of confidence that the vast majority are recent and not fabricated. The spontaneous circulation of these images across all social networks confirms that they were not video montages or recycled images. Lastly, some of the entities that published this information are generally considered reliable.<br />
French experts analysed the symptoms identifiable in the images and videos that were made public. These images and videos were taken either in enclosed areas in a building where around 15 people died, or in local hospitals that received contaminated patients. These symptoms can be described as follows:<br />
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- Suffocation, asphyxia or breathing difficulties, - Mentions of a strong chlorine odour and presence of green smoke in affected areas, - Hypersalivation and hypersecretions (particularly oral and nasal), - Cyanosis, - Skin burns and corneal burns. No deaths from mechanical injuries were visible. All of these symptoms are characteristic of a chemical weapons attack, particularly choking agents and organophosphorus agents or hydrocyanic acid. Furthermore, the apparent use of bronchodilators by the medical services observed in videos reinforces the hypothesis of intoxication by choking agents. 2. – Given in particular ongoing military operations in Eastern Ghouta around 7 April, we assess witha high degree of confidence that the Syrian regime holds responsibility. Reliable intelligence indicates that Syrian military officials have coordinated what appears to be the use of chemical weapons containing chlorine on Douma, on April 7.<br />
The attack of 7 April 2018 took place as part of a wider military offensive carried out by the regime on the Eastern Ghouta region. Launched in February 2018, this offensive has now enabled Damascus to regain control of the entire enclave.<br />
As a reminder, the Russian military forces active in Syria enable the regime to enjoy unquestionable air superiority, giving it the total military freedom of action it needs for its indiscriminate offensives on urban areas.<br />
The tactic adopted by pro-regime forces involved separating the various groups (Ahrar al-Sham, Faylaq al-Rahman, and Jaysh al-Islam) in order to focus their efforts and obtain negotiated surrender agreements. The three main armed groups therefore began separate negotiations with the regime and Russia. The first two groups (Ahrar al-Sham and Faylaq al-Rahman) concluded agreements that resulted in the evacuation of nearly 15,000 fighters and their families.<br />
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During this first phase, the Syrian regime’s political and military strategy consisted in alternating indiscriminate military offensives against local populations, which sometimes included the use of chlorine, and pauses in operations for negotiations.<br />
Negotiations with Jaysh al-Islam began in March but were not fully conclusive. On 4 April, part of the Jaysh al-Islam group (around one quarter of the group according to estimates) accepted the surrender agreement and fighters and their families were sent to Idlib (approximately 4,000 people, with families).<br />
However, between 4,500 and 5,500 Jaysh al-Islam fighters, mostly located in Douma, refused the terms of negotiation. As a result, from 6 April onwards, the Syrian regime, with support from Russian forces, resumed its intensive bombing of the area, ending a pause in ground and aerial operations that had been observed since negotiations began in mid-March. This was the context for the chemical strikes analysed in this document.<br />
Given this context, the Syrian regime’s use of chemical weapons makes sense from both the military and strategic points of view:<br />
Tactically speaking, this type of ammunition is used to flush out enemy fighters sheltering in homes and engage in urban combat in conditions that are more favourable to the regime. It accelerates victory and has a multiplier effect that helps speed up the capitulation of the last bastion of armed groups.<br />
Strategically speaking, chemical weapons and particularly chlorine, documented in Eastern Ghouta since early 2018, are especially used to punish civilian populations present in zones held by fighters opposed to the Syrian regime and to create a climate of terror and panic that encourages them to surrender.<br />
As the war is not over for the regime, it uses these indiscriminate strikes to show that resistance is futile and pave the way for capturing these last pockets of armed resistance.<br />
Since 2012, the Syrian forces have repeatedly used the same pattern of military tactics: toxic chemicals are mainly used during wider urban offensives, as was the case in late 2016 during the recapture of Aleppo, where chlorine weapons were regularly used in conjunction with traditional weapons. The zones targeted, such as Eastern Ghouta, are all major military objectives for Damascus. 3 - The French services have no information to support the theory whereby the armed groups in Ghouta would have sought to acquire or have possessed chemical weapons.<br />
The French services also assess that a manipulation of the images circulated massively from Saturday, 7 April is not credible, in part because the groups present in Ghouta do not have the resources to carry out a communications operation on such a scale.<br />
II. SINCE APRIL 2017,THE SYRIAN REGIME HAS USED CHEMICAL WEAPONS AND TOXIC AGENTS IN ITS MILITARY OPERATIONS INCREASINGLY OFTEN. 4. –The Syrian regime has conserved a clandestine chemical weapons programme since 2013.<br />
The French services assess that Syria did not declare all of its stockpiles and capacities to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) during its late, half-hearted accession to the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) in October 2013.<br />
Syria omitted, notably,to declare many of the activities of itsScientific Studies and Research Centre (SSRC). Only recently has it accepted to declare certain SSRC activities under the Chemical Weapons Convention(CWC), but not, however, all of them. Initially, it also failed to declare the sites at Barzeh and Jemraya, eventually doing so in 2018.<br />
The French services assess that four questions asked of the Syrian regime by the OPCW and which have remained unanswered require particular attention, particularly in the context of these latest cases of the use of chemical weapons in Syria:<br />
- possible remaining stocks of yperite (mustard gas) and DF (a sarin precursor);<br />
- undeclared chemical weapons of small calibre which may have been used on several occasions, including during the attack on Khan Sheikhoun in April2017;<br />
- signs of the presence of VX and sarin on production and loading sites;<br />
- signs of the presence of chemical agents that have never been declared, including nitrogen mustard, lewisite, soman and VX.<br />
Since 2014, the OPCW Fact-Finding Mission (FFM) has published several reports confirming the use of chemical weapons against civilians inSyria. The UN-OPCW Joint Investigation Mechanism(JIM) on chemical weapons attacks has investigated nine occasions when they have allegedly been used.<br />
In its August and October 2016 reports, the JIM attributed three cases of the use of chlorine to the Damascus regime and one case of the use of yperite to Daesh, but none to any Syrian armed group. 5. – A series of chemical attacks has taken place in Syria since 4 April 2017<br />
A French national assessment published on 26 April 2017 following the Khan Sheikhoun attack listed all the chemical attacks in Syria since 2012, along with the assessment of their probability according to French services.<br />
This attack,carried out in two phases, at Latamneh on 30 March, and then at Khan Sheikhoun with sarin gas on 4 April,led to the death of more than 80 civilians.<br />
The French authorities considered at the time that it was very likely that the Syrian armed and security forces held responsibility for the attack.<br />
The French services have identified 44 allegations of the use of chemical weapons and toxic agents since 4 April 2017, the date of the sarin attack on Khan Sheikhoun. Of these 44 allegations, the French services consider that the evidence collected around 11 of the attacks gave reason to assessthey were of a chemical nature.<br />
Chlorine is believed to have been used in most cases, while the services also believe a neurotoxic agent was used at Harasta on 18 November 2017.<br />
In this context, a considerable rise in cases of use can be noted since the non-renewal of the mechanism of the UN-OPCW Joint Investigation Mechanism (JIM) in November 2017 because of Russia’s veto at the UN Security Council. A considerable increase in chlorine attacks since the beginning of the offensive on Eastern Ghouta has also been clearly observed and proven.<br />
A series of attacks precededthe major attack of 7 April2018, as part of a wider offensive (at least 8 chlorine attacks in Douma, Shayfounia and Hamouria).<br />
These facts need to be considered in the light of a chemical warfare modus operandi of the Syrian regime that has been well documented since the attacks on Eastern Ghouta on 21 August 2013 and on Khan Sheikhoun on 4 April 2017.<br />
As part of a continuous increase in violence employed against civilians in enclaves refusing the regime’s authority, and in violation of its international obligations despite clear warnings from UN Security Council and OPCW members, Damascus seeks to seize a tactical military advantage locally, and above all to terrorize populations in order to break down all remaining resistance. It can be noted that, since the attacks of 7 April 2018, the group Jaysh al-Islam has negotiated its departure from Douma with the regime and Russia, demonstrating the success of this tactic.<br />
On the basis of this overall assessment and on the intelligence collected by our services, and in the absence to date of chemical samples analysed by our own laboratories, France therefore considers (i) that, beyond possible doubt, a chemical attack was carried out against civilians at Douma on 7 April 2018; and (ii) that there is no plausible scenario other than that of an attack by Syrian armed forces as part of a wider offensive in the Eastern Ghouta enclave.<br />
The Syrian armed and security forces are also considered to be responsible for other actions in the region as part of this same offensive in 2017 and 2018. Russia has undeniably provided active military support to the operations to seize back Ghouta.<br />
It has, moreover, provided constant political cover to the Syrian regime over the employment of chemical weapons, both at the UN Security Council and at the OPCW, despite conclusions to the contrary by the JIM.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">BARNSTABLE — Sean Gannon was a beloved figure in this Cape Cod town, from the town landfill where he would bring workers coffee to the schools where he visited with his police dog Nero.</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 18px;">“He was a bright spot in anybody’s day, and he was really good with little kids,” said Carol Woodbury, superintendent of the Dennis-Yarmouth Regional School District</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 18px;">Gannon, 32, had been a Yarmouth police officer for eight years when he was fatally shot Thursday afternoon while serving a warrant. On Friday, the local schools made counselors available to help children cope with his death.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 18px;">“He was very dedicated to his profession and to the community,” Woodbury said. “It’s just such a loss for us.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 18px;">At the police department, black and purple banners hung from the building. In the front lobby, a memorial featured a large photo of the smiling officer kneeling with Nero.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 18px;">“End Of Watch 4/12/18,” a message read.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 18px;">Bouquets, a candle, and framed photographs of Gannon with his wife and fellow officers lined the memorial. Outside, dozens of bouquets had been left at a stone edifice honoring the 13 other Yarmouth officers killed in the line of duty since 1952.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 18px;">Nearby, a Yarmouth police cruiser was covered in flowers, balloons, and messages of condolence. A wreath held a ribbon that said “In Honor of Officer Gannon".</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 18px;">“He’s so young,” Linhares said. “I heard he was trying to help out a lot of young kids who had problems . . . It’s so sad because he was going to do his job, and then this happened.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 18px;">Another visitor, Tracey Ellis, 59, said she was deeply shaken by Gannon’s killing.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 18px;">“This one really hits home,” said Ellis, a lifelong Yarmouth resident. “His poor family.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 18px;">On Friday morning, the students and faculty at Bishop Stang High School in North Dartmouth observed a moment of silence in honor of Gannon and his family.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 18px;">Gannon, who was originally from New Bedford, graduated from Bishop Stang in 2003. Peter Shaughnessy, the school’s principal, called the shooting “senseless.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 18px;">“It’s just an awful thing,” Shaughnessy said. “This is a really, really good guy.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 18px;">Shaughnessy recalled Gannon as an active student who played tennis, ran cross-country, and participated in a number of extracurricular activities.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 18px;">“We will always remember his sacrifice and service,” he said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">John Sinopoli cried and wiped a tear after he left off a bouquet of flowers on the cruiser belonging to slain officer Sean Gannon.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">Gannon attended college at Westfield State University, where he served as a resident assistant and studied abroad, university officials said. He received a bachelor of science degree in criminal justice in 2007.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 18px;">“We were deeply saddened to learn of the tragic passing of Westfield State alumnus Officer Sean Gannon,” Westfield State University president Ramon S. Torrecilha said in a statement. “Our faculty and staff are privileged to have had a role in preparing Officer Gannon for his service-focused career that tragically came to an end yesterday.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 18px;">Gannon was still in college when he began his career in law enforcement as a summer officer in Nantucket. He was assigned as a bike patrol officer, said police chief William J. Pittman.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 18px;">After graduating, Gannon joined the Stonehill College police department, where he worked for three years.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 18px;">“Well known and respected on campus, Sean was a talented and dedicated police officer who excelled during his three years at the college,” said Martin McGovern, a college spokesman. “His colleagues in the Stonehill College Police Department are heartbroken by his death as is everyone in the Stonehill community who knew him.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 18px;">Gannon began working for the Yarmouth Police Department eight years ago. His wife, Dara, works for the Cape Cod Foundation.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 18px;">Beth Marcus, the co-owner of Cape Cod Beer, a brewery in Hyannis, said Gannon and his wife had made an “incredible impact” on Cape Cod, leaving those who knew them in shock.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 18px;">“We’re devastated by this,” she said. “We’re super heartbroken for [Dara], her family, and his family.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 18px;">Marcus and her husband had planned a party Friday to celebrate the brewery’s 14th </span>anniversary,<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 18px;"> but decided to host the event as a fund-raiser in Gannon’s memory.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 18px;">In New Bedford, residents were mourning the loss of a native son. “Officer Gannon made the ultimate sacrifice while doing his job as a police officer, which is to keep his community safe,” Mayor Jon Mitchell said. “For that, we owe him our utmost gratitude.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 18px;">The Big Brothers Big Sisters of Cape Cod and the Islands, where Gannon volunteered, echoed those </span>sentiments,<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 18px;"> and posted a photo of Gannon on Facebook with a message of condolence.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 18px;">“We are heartbroken at the loss of our Big Brother and Yarmouth Police Dept. Officer Sean Gannon,” the Facebook post read. Our thoughts and prayers are with Sean’s family, his Little Brother, and the entire Cape Cod police community.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 18px;">At the memorial, Robert Eckert, 49, said he chatted with Gannon regularly when Gannon would visit his crew at the town landfill.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 18px;">“He’d check on us, see if we wanted coffee,” Eckert said. “If we wanted something, he would go down and get it.”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 18px;">Gannon was an upbeat, selfless person, he said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">By Travis Andersen and Emily Sweeney, Globe Staff</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.5px;"><i style="font-family: "times new roman";">The progressive movement has been tarred by a vocal minority that seeks to criticize Israel at every opportunity. It’s time for the progressive community to stand up and show its support for Israel.</i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.5px;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.5px;">Israel is a progressive’s dream: “Universal education, universal health care, equal rights, minority rights protections, strong activist courts, and gays and lesbians openly serving in the military.” As progressives, we should be outraged by the way the Arabs, including the Palestinians, treat women, gays </span>and<span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.5px;"> other minorities. We should be outraged that the Palestinians demand that no Jews should be allowed to live in the West Bank, even as over one million Palestinians live within pre-1967 Israel. We should be outraged by the beheadings and honor killings. Israel is not perfect, but Israel holds itself to its own standards, to progressive standards.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px;">Israel is accused by some of apartheid. Yet Arab Israelis “can be found on the Supreme Court, in the Knesset (parliament), in ambassadorial positions, as senior officers in the police and army, as mayors, as deputy-speakers of the Knesset and even as government ministers and deputy ministers. Prominent Arab Israelis can be found in almost every sphere of Israeli life, including in the medical fields, media and playing on Israel’s national soccer team.” Whatever an apartheid state is, it’s not Israel.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px;">That’s all well and good, but what about the “occupation”? What about ending the conflict between Israel and its neighbors? Progressives are on the side of peace. So is Israel. There would be no “occupation” if Jordan had not attacked Israel in 1967, and there would be no “occupation” if Palestinian leadership had accepted either of Israel’s offers in the last decade to withdraw from nearly all of Judea and Samaria (the West Bank).</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px;">If Palestinian leadership is so upset about the “occupation,” if Palestinian leadership is sincere about its concern for its people, why did it twice in the past decade reject the opportunity to establish a state on the West Bank?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px;">Israel’s entire history is an unending willingness to trade land for the hope of peace despite Arab intransigence and Arab unwillingness to partner with Israel for peace.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px;">When the United Nations recognized Israel’s independence, all of the West Bank and Jerusalem were outside Israel’s borders. Despite the historic, legal, and moral claims of the Jewish people to Jerusalem and to Judea and Samaria, Israel was willing to forgo the land in exchange for independence and peace.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px;">But the Arab world could not countenance a Jewish state in its midst. Several Arab armies attacked Israel. When the fighting stopped in 1949, Israel controlled half of Jerusalem (the half without the holy places) and none of the West Bank. Jordan proceeded to raze dozens of synagogues in the half of Jerusalem it controlled, with no international protests.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px;">In 1964, the Palestine Liberation Organization was formed — three years before Israel controlled any of the West Bank. It’s not hard to imagine what the “Palestine” was that the “organization” wanted to “liberate.” There were no settlements and there was no “occupation” in 1964.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px;">In 1967, Israel launched preemptive strikes against Egypt and Syria after they committed acts of war against Israel (Syria attacked kibbutzim from the Golan Heights while Egypt closed the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping, ordered UN peacekeepers to leave the Sinai, and massed troops on Israel’s border, threatening to “drive the Jews into the sea”). But Israel did not attack Jordan. Israel controls Jerusalem and the West Bank today only because Jordan attacked Israel during the Six Day War.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px;">Despite achieving the 2,000-year-old dream of Jewish sovereignty over its historic homeland, albeit in response to Arab aggression, Israel immediately indicated its willingness to trade land for peace, only to be rebuffed by the three no’s of Khartoum: no peace with Israel, no negotiations with Israel, no recognition of Israel.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px;">So it went until 1973, when on the holiest day of the Jewish year, Yom Kippur, Egypt and Syria attacked Israel. Yet when Egyptian President Sadat indicated a genuine desire to make peace with Israel, Israel traded the entire Sinai peninsula to Egypt in exchange for a promise of peace from a man who, if not a Nazi, was at least a Nazi sympathizer during World War II, and from a country that had waged unceasing war against Israel since its rebirth.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px;">Relinquishing the Sinai meant forcibly uprooting settlements (so much for the myth that settlements are the obstacle to peace) and giving up its energy independence, but Israel was willing to make those tangible sacrifices for the intangible promise of peace.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px;">In 2000, Israel offered Palestinian leadership 94-98% of the West Bank in exchange for peace, but Yasir Arafat — who could have gone down in history as another Sadat — rejected the offer. Had he accepted, there would today be an Arab Palestinian state.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px;">In 2000, Israel unilaterally withdrew from all of Lebanon in exchange for nothing, and that’s exactly what it got: nothing. Nothing except terrorism and rockets from Lebanon, ultimately resulting in the Lebanon War of 2006 and the evacuation of nearly one million Israelis from the north.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px;">In 2005, Israel unilaterally withdrew from all of Gaza in exchange for nothing, and that’s exactly what it got: nothing. Nothing except terrorism and rockets from Gaza. There is no “occupation” of Gaza; the only Israeli in Gaza is Gilad Shalit, the soldier held captive in violation of international law. Yet just last week, dozens of rockets were fired from Gaza into Israel.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px;">Israel withdrew from Lebanon and Gaza and was rewarded not with peace, but with violence. Israel learned from those experiences that ending the “occupation” is not enough. It’s not enough to unilaterally withdraw. Israel needs a partner for peace.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px;">But Israel did not give up hope. In 2008, Israel offered Palestinian President Abbas a state consisting of nearly all of the West Bank. But the Arabs said no, just as they said no to a state of their own in the West Bank in 2000. How is Israel supposed to end the “occupation” if the Palestinians won’t accept Israel’s offers to withdraw? How can Israel address Palestinian concerns about a final peace agreement if Abbas refuses to re-enter peace talks?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px;">If Palestinian leadership was serious about peace, they would accept Israel’s offer to talk peace with no preconditions. But more than that, they would start preparing their people for a two-state solution, which means stopping the incitement and publicly recognizing Israel’s permanent right to exist as a Jewish state. And they would recognize the moral and historic right of the Jewish people to live in Judea and Samaria — the key point is that by agreeing to cede the West Bank to a Palestinian state, Israel is making a major concession by relinquishing territory it not only won in a defensive war, but by relinquishing territory that represents the fulfillment of a 2,000 year-old dream. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px;">The concept of an Arab “Palestinian” people did not even exist 100 years ago. Israel’s security and moral concerns require a two-state solution, and one would think that if Palestinian leadership’s goal was a state of their own rather than the destruction of the Jewish state, Palestinian leadership and those sympathetic to the Palestinians’ demands would do all they could to create an atmosphere conducive to peace.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px;">Instead, as Rep. Steve Rothman (D-NJ) and Rep. Steve Austria (R-OH) note in their recent letter to President Obama, “Television programs run by the Palestinian Authority and textbooks in government schools continue to praise martyrdom and terrorists and call for armed struggle against the Israelis.”</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px;">Most Israelis believe that Israel cannot indefinitely remain Jewish and democratic while retaining the West Bank. Israel again and again has chosen peace over land, even land it has dreamt of regaining for centuries. Israel’s dream of peace in exchange for land will become reality as soon as the Arab world gives up its dream of destroying the world’s only Jewish state.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px;">Israel continues to strive for peace not because the Arab Palestinians have a better legal, historic, or moral claim to the land — after all, there has never been an Arab nation of Palestine and the concept of a unique Arab Palestinian people was unknown before the 20th century — but because trading land for peace is in Israel’s best interests, and Israel knows it.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px;">Peace can be achieved tomorrow if the Arab world accepts the permanent reality of a Jewish state of Israel today. The Palestinians could have had a state comprising nearly all of the West Bank if their leadership had accepted Israel’s offers in 2000 or 2008. Israel accepted several partitions of its national homeland before achieving independence in 1948, and Israel remains willing to cede parts of its national homeland because it values peace over land and an independent state over a state perpetually at war. It is time for Palestinian leadership to accept the same paradigm. It is time for Palestinian leadership to work toward a state for their children instead of working to deprive Israel’s children of their future.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px;">Peace is still within our grasp. All it takes is for Arab Palestinian leadership to place a higher priority on achieving a state of their own than on destroying Israel. Or as Golda Meir said, “we will have peace with the Arabs when they love their children more than they hate us.”</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.5px;">By Steve Sheffey</span></span><br />
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The nation’s intelligence chiefs had just finished briefing Donald Trump on Russia’s interference in the 2016 election when FBI Director James B. Comey stayed behind to discuss some especially sensitive material: a “widely circulated” intelligence dossier contained unconfirmed allegations that Russians had filmed Trump interacting with prostitutes in Moscow in 2013.<br />
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The president-elect quickly interrupted the FBI director. According to Comey’s account in a new memoir, Trump “strongly denied the allegations, asking — rhetorically, I assumed — whether he seemed like a guy who needed the service of prostitutes. He then began discussing cases where women had accused him of sexual assault, a subject I had not raised. He mentioned a number of women, and seemed to have memorized their allegations.”<br />
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The January 2017 conversation at Trump Tower in Manhattan “teetered toward disaster” — until “I pulled the tool from my bag: ‘We are not investigating you, sir.’ That seemed to quiet him,” Comey writes.<br />
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Trump did not stay quiet for long. Comey describes Trump as having been obsessed with the prostitutes portion of the infamous dossier compiled by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele, raising it at least four times with the FBI head. The document claimed that Trump had watched the prostitutes urinate on themselves in the same Moscow suite that President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama stayed in previously “as a way of soiling the bed,” Comey writes.<br />
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Trump offered varying explanations to convince Comey it was not true. “I’m a germaphobe,” Trump told him in a follow-up call on Jan. 11, 2017, according to Comey’s account. “There’s no way I would let people pee on each other around me. No way.” Later, the president asked what could be done to “lift the cloud” because it was so painful for first lady Melania Trump.<br />
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Then, on May 9, 2017, Trump fired Comey, leading to the Justice Department special counsel’s Russia investigation.<br />
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The discussions about the Steele dossier — which Comey recounts for the first time in his book — are among a number of explosive revelations in “A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies and Leadership,” a 304-page tell-all in which the former FBI director details his private interactions with Trump as well as his handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation.<br />
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The Washington Post obtained a copy of the book before its scheduled release on Tuesday.<br />
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In his memoir, Comey paints a devastating portrait of a president who built “a cocoon of alternative reality that he was busily wrapping around all of us.” Comey describes Trump as a congenital liar and unethical leader, devoid of human emotion and driven by personal ego.<br />
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FBI Director James B. Comey appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee on May 3, 2017. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post)<br />
Comey narrates in vivid detail, based on his contemporaneous notes, instances in which Trump violated the norms protecting the FBI’s independence in attempts to coerce Comey into being loyal to him — such as during a one-on-one dinner in the White House residence.<br />
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Interacting with Trump, Comey writes, gave him “flashbacks to my earlier career as a prosecutor against the Mob. The silent circle of assent. The boss in complete control. The loyalty oaths. The us-versus-them worldview. The lying about all things, large and small, in service to some code of loyalty that put the organization above morality and above the truth.”<br />
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The result, in Comey’s telling, is “the forest fire that is the Trump presidency.”<br />
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“What is happening now is not normal,” he writes. “It is not fake news. It is not okay.”<br />
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‘Surviving a bully’<br />
Comey describes a Feb. 14, 2017, meeting in the Oval Office where Trump asked Attorney General Jeff Sessions to clear the room so he could bring up the FBI investigation of former national security adviser Michael Flynn directly with Comey — a key event in special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of whether Trump sought to obstruct justice.<br />
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“I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go,” Trump said, according to Comey’s account of the meeting, some of which he first shared in Senate testimony last year. “He is a good guy. I hope you can let this go.”<br />
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Comey writes that he regrets not interrupting Trump to explain that his plea was wrong. He recalls later confronting Sessions, whom he describes as “both overwhelmed and overmatched by the job.”<br />
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“You can’t be kicked out of the room so he can talk to me alone,” Comey told Sessions, according to the book. “You have to be between me and the president.”<br />
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Comey also recounts new observations: “Sessions just cast his eyes down at the table, and they darted quickly back and forth, side to side. He said nothing. I read in his posture and face a message that he would not be able to help me.”<br />
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Then- FBI director James B. Comey appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee on May 3, 2017. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post)<br />
A lifelong Republican until recently, Comey delivers an indirect but unmistakable rebuke of the GOP’s congressional leaders as well: “It is also wrong to stand idly by, or worse, to stay silent when you know better, while a president brazenly seeks to undermine public confidence in law enforcement institutions that were established to keep our leaders in check.”<br />
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Comey stops short of outlining a legal case against the president, explaining that because he does not know all the evidence he cannot determine whether Trump intended to obstruct justice by firing him and by asking him to back off the FBI’s investigation of former national security adviser Michael Flynn.<br />
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“I have one perspective on the behavior I saw, which while disturbing and violating basic norms of ethical leadership, may fall short of being illegal,” he writes.<br />
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Still, the book is an indictment of Trump’s presidency as well as of his character. Each chapter can be interpreted as an elaborate trolling of Trump, starting with the title, “A Higher Loyalty,” a subtle reference to the loyalty pledge that Trump sought and did not receive from Comey.<br />
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Comey describes being bullied as a child growing up in Allendale, N.J. — taunted, body slammed into lockers and given “wedgies.” Bullies, he writes, “threaten the weak to feed some insecurity that rages inside them . . . Surviving a bully requires constant learning and adaptation. Which is why bullies are so powerful, because it’s so much easier to be a follower, to go with the crowd, to just blend in.”<br />
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Comey also ruminates on the psychology of liars in an apparent nod to the current occupant of the Oval Office.<br />
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“They lose the ability to distinguish between what’s true and what’s not,” Comey writes. “They surround themselves with other liars . . . Perks and access are given to those willing to lie and tolerate lies. This creates a culture, which becomes an entire way of life.”<br />
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‘Trying to do the right thing’<br />
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Comey defends his handling of the Clinton email investigation and for the first time details a private assurance he received from President Obama following Clinton’s defeat. Many Democrats blame Comey for announcing less than two weeks before the election that the FBI was examining a new trove of Clinton emails for possible classified material.<br />
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Comey writes that Obama sat alone with him in the Oval Office in late November and told him, “I picked you to be FBI director because of your integrity and your ability. I want you to know that nothing — nothing — has happened in the last year to change my view.”<br />
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On the verge of tears, Comey told Obama, “Boy, were those words I needed to hear . . . I’m just trying to do the right thing.”<br />
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“I know,” Obama said. “I know.”<br />
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Comey also writes that in a post-election briefing for senators, then-Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) confronted him about “what you did to Hillary Clinton.” Comey responded, “I did my best with the facts before me.” A teary-eyed Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) grabbed him by the hand afterward and said, “I know you. You were in an impossible position,” Comey writes.<br />
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Clinton wrote in her campaign memoir, “What Happened,” that she felt “shivved” by Comey. Two days before the election, Comey announced that the FBI had reviewed the new emails and found nothing to change its view that Clinton should not be prosecuted. But in Clinton’s assessment, the damage already had been done.<br />
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Comey, who says his wife and daughters voted for Clinton, includes a message in his book to the would-be first female president: “I have read she has felt anger toward me personally, and I’m sorry for that. I’m sorry that I couldn’t do a better job explaining to her and her supporters why I made the decisions I made.”<br />
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Comey is critical of then-Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch, saying she had a “tortured half-out, half-in approach” to the Clinton investigation and that he considered calling for the appointment of a special prosecutor.<br />
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One day shortly before the election, Lynch and Comey met privately. Comey writes that the attorney general wrapped her arms around him and implied that she thought he had done the right thing.<br />
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But as their meeting ended, Comey writes, “She said, with just the slightest hint of a smile, ‘Try to look beat up.’ She had told somebody she was going to chew me out for what I had done. What a world.”<br />
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‘I need loyalty’<br />
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The first time Comey met Trump was at the pre-inauguration intelligence briefing. Comey, who is 6’8” tall, writes that the 6’3” president-elect looked shorter than he did on television. “His face appeared slightly orange,” Comey writes, “with bright white half-moons under his eyes where I assumed he placed small tanning goggles, and impressively coifed, bright blond hair, which upon close inspection looked to be all his.”<br />
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“As he extended his hand,” Comey adds, “I made a mental note to check its size. It was smaller than mine, but did not seem unusually so.”<br />
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Trump was accompanied at the Trump Tower session by his national security team, as well as by political aides Reince Priebus and Sean Spicer, who were slated to become White House chief of staff and press secretary respectively. Trump asked only one question, Comey writes: “You found there was no impact on the result, right?”<br />
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James R. Clapper Jr., then the director of national intelligence, replied that the intelligence community did no such analysis.<br />
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Comey recalls being struck that neither Trump nor his advisers asked about the future Russian threat, nor how the United States might prepare to meet it. Rather, he writes, they focused on “how they could spin what we’d just told them.”<br />
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With Clapper and then-CIA Director John O. Brennan — both Obama appointees — still in the room, Priebus and other Trump aides strategized for political advantage, Comey writes. The Trump team decided they would emphasize that Russian interference had no impact on the vote — which, Clapper reminded them, the intelligence community had not determined.<br />
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When the meeting ended, Comey stayed behind with Trump to discuss the salacious dossier. The day before, as Clapper and Comey briefed Obama about Russian interference, the president asked who planned to tell Trump about the Moscow prostitute allegations. Clapper replied that Comey would.<br />
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Obama “turned his head to his left and looked directly at me,” Comey recalls. “He raised and lowered both of his eyebrows with emphasis, and then looked away . . . To my mind his Groucho Marx eyebrow raise was both subtle humor and an expression of concern. It was almost as if he were saying, ‘Good luck with that.’”<br />
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A week after the Trump Tower meeting, on Jan. 11, Comey writes that Trump called him and said he was concerned about the dossier being made public and was fixated on the prostitutes allegation. The president-elect argued that it could not be true because he had not stayed overnight in Moscow but had only used the hotel room to change his clothes. And after Trump explained that he would never allow people to urinate near him, Comey recalls laughing.<br />
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“I decided not to tell him that the activity alleged did not seem to require either an overnight stay or even being in proximity to the participants,” Comey writes. “In fact, though I didn’t know for sure, I imagined the presidential suite of the Ritz-Carlton in Moscow was large enough for a germaphobe to be at a safe distance from the activity.”<br />
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After one week as president, Trump invited Comey to dinner. Comey describes the scene on Jan. 27: The table in the Green Room was set for two. The president marveled at the fancy handwriting on the four-course menu placards and seemed unaware of the term calligrapher. White House stewards served salad, shrimp scampi, chicken Parmesan with pasta and vanilla ice cream.<br />
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Comey writes that he believed Trump was trying “to establish a patronage relationship,” and that he said: “I need loyalty. I expect loyalty.”<br />
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“I was determined not to give the president any hint of assent to this demand, so I gave silence instead,” Comey writes. “I stared at the soft white pouches under his expressionless blue eyes. I remember thinking in that moment that the president doesn’t understand the FBI’s role in American life.”<br />
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Trump broke the standoff by turning to other topics, Comey writes, speaking in torrents, “like an oral jigsaw puzzle,” about the size of his inauguration crowd, his free media coverage and the viciousness of the campaign. He talked about the Clinton email investigation as in three phases, as if it were a television series: “Comey One,” “Comey Two” and “Comey Three.” Trump also tried to convince Comey that he had not mocked disabled New York Times reporter Serge Kovaleski at a campaign rally, and then turned to the detailed allegations of sexual assault against him.<br />
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“There was no way he groped that lady sitting next to him on the airplane, he insisted,” Comey writes. “And the idea that he grabbed a porn star and offered her money to come to his room was preposterous.”<br />
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And then Trump brought up “the golden showers thing,” Comey writes. The president told him that “it bothered him if there was ‘even a one percent chance’ his wife, Melania, thought it was true.” Comey writes that Trump told him to consider having the FBI investigate the prostitute's allegation to “prove it was a lie.”<br />
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As the dinner concluded, Trump returned to the issue of loyalty.<br />
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“I need loyalty,” Trump tells Comey, according to the book.<br />
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“You will always get honesty from me,” Comey replies.<br />
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“That’s what I want, honest loyalty,” Trump said, reaching what Comey writes was “some sort of ‘deal’ in which we were both winners.”<br />
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Trump says firing Comey was ‘the right thing’<br />
President Trump on April 9 said he did “the right thing” when he fired James B. Comey as FBI director last year. (The Washington Post)<br />
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‘Lift the cloud’<br />
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The two men were back together at the White House a couple weeks later. Comey had dropped by the chief of staff’s office to explain to Priebus — who he describes as “both confused and irritated” — the appropriate way for the White House to interact with the FBI. When they finished, Priebus asked if Comey wanted to say hello to Trump — an ironic gesture, Comey recalls, considering he was just explaining the importance of the bureau’s independence.<br />
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Comey demurred, but Priebus insisted and brought him to the Oval Office, where Trump was stationed behind the Resolute Desk. The president, Comey recalls, “launched into one of his rapid-fire, stream-of-consciousness monologues” — this time about a recent Super Bowl interview with then-Fox News Channel personality Bill O’Reilly in which Trump complimented Russian President Vladimir Putin.<br />
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“But he’s a killer,” O’Reilly told Trump.<br />
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The president’s reply: “There are a ton of killers. We’ve got a lot of killers. What do you think? Our country’s so innocent?”<br />
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Trump fumed to Comey about the media criticism he received.<br />
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“I gave a good answer,” Trump said, according to Comey. “Really, it was a great answer. I gave a really great answer.”<br />
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Trump sought validation: “You think it was a great answer, right?”<br />
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Comey replied, “We aren’t the kind of killers that Putin is.”<br />
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Trump apparently did not take the correction well. Comey writes that the president’s eyes changed and his jaw tightened, and Priebus escorted him out.<br />
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The next month, Trump called Comey to complain about the Russia investigation as a “cloud” that was impairing his presidency and, again, brought up the Moscow prostitutes allegation.<br />
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“For about the fourth time, he argued that the golden showers thing wasn’t true, asking yet again, ‘Can you imagine me, hookers?’” Comey writes of their March 30, 2017, call. “In an apparent play for my sympathy, he added that he has a beautiful wife and the whole thing has been very painful for her. He asked what we could do to ‘lift the cloud.’”<br />
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Comey recalls telling the president the FBI was investigating it as quickly as possible, and that he had told Congress Trump was not personally under investigation, to which the president repeatedly told him, “We need to get that fact out.”<br />
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Two weeks later, on April 11, Trump called Comey again to check on his request to “get out” that he is not under investigation, Comey writes.<br />
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“I have been very loyal to you, very loyal. We had that thing, you know,” Trump told him, according to the book, apparently referring to the loyalty dinner.<br />
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That was the last time the two men spoke. On May 9, as Comey was talking with FBI employees in the Los Angeles field office, he peered at a television screen and saw a news alert: “COMEY FIRED.”<br />
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Comey describes soon receiving an “emotional call” from Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly.<br />
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“He said he was sick about my firing and that he intended to quit in protest,” Comey writes. “He said he didn’t want to work for dishonorable people who would treat someone like me in such a manner. I urged Kelly not to do that, arguing that the country needed principled people around this president. Especially this president.”<br />
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Kelly did not resign. Two and a half months later, he was named White House chief of staff.<br />
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Philip Rucker is the White House bureau chief for The Washington Post.<br />
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United States Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley had strong words for top Palestinian Negotiator Saeb Erekat on Monday: "I will not shut up."<br />
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Her remarks, made at a meeting of the UN Security Council in New York, were a firm response to comments made by Erekat earlier this month, in which he called her "impudent" and told her to "shut up" regarding her criticisms of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.<br />
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"But I will decline the advice I was recently given by your top negotiator, Saeb Erekat. I will not shut up," she said. "Rather, I will respectfully speak some hard truths."<br />
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Haley also disparaged the repetitive nature of the meeting's rhetoric, opening her statement by saying, "this session on the Middle East has been taking place each month for many many years, its focus has been almost entirely on issues facing Israelis and Palestinians, and we have heard many of the same arguments and ideas over and over again, we have already heard them again this morning. It is as if saying the same things repeatedly, without actually doing the hard work and making the necessary compromises, will achieve anything. "<br />
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Haley again remarked on the UN's preoccupation with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, saying that serious security and humanitarian challenges in Syria and other areas of the Middle East should be the topic of discussion, rather than to "sit here, month after month, and use the most democratic country in the Middle East as a scapegoat for the region's problems... but here we go again."<br />
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Haley said the administration "stands ready" to work with the Palestinian leadership. "Our negotiators are sitting behind me," she said. "But we will not chase after you."<br />
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"You don't have to like that decision," she said, of Trump's Jerusalem move. "You don't have to praise it. You don't even have to accept this. But know this: That decision will not change."<br />
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Haley said that Abbas faced two paths: one of anger toward the Americans and incitement of Palestinians to violence against Israelis, or one of direct negotiations with both.<br />
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Of the first, she warned: "I assure you that path will get the Palestinian people exactly <span style="color: #5f5f5f; font-size: 20px;">nowhere toward the achievement of their aspiration".</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08911005916622454687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31138568.post-44026587043397648252018-04-08T10:16:00.000-06:002018-04-08T10:16:26.473-06:00trump on Fox news "Is it too late to Impeach Obama?"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Obviously, Fox has zero credibility as a news source, but they love trump because he does what they tell him to do.<br />
Larry Kudlow, the president's economic, advisor was on Fox this morning defending trump's chaos vis a vis the economy. He seemed drunk.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08911005916622454687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31138568.post-30405494596600569652018-04-05T19:16:00.000-06:002018-04-05T19:16:00.155-06:00Please, Mr. Trump, We aren't criminals, drug dealers or Rapists! We just Want to Eat and not be Killed!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The "liberals" want you to get all emotional and think about things like right and wrong, Morality and corruption, they want you to feel "compassion" for them<i><b>, </b></i><i><b class="">illegals </b></i>. These kids got the wrong idea. They think they have the right to eat, and not get shot at, and not be jailed, or raped or assaulted.<br />
Well, wake up kids, You are heading into Trump Country, also known as The Twilight Zone.<br />
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<i><b>Be afraid.</b></i><br />
<i><b> Be very afraid.</b></i>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08911005916622454687noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31138568.post-5740794566394051642018-04-04T16:59:00.001-06:002018-04-04T16:59:43.655-06:00Young People Put trumptards to Shame<div style="background-color: #fafafa; border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Source Serif Pro", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18.5px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.25em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<b><i>A majority of young people believe President Donald Trump is racist, dishonest and “mentally unfit” for office, according to a new survey that finds the nation’s youngest potential voters are more concerned about the Republican’s performance in the White House than older Americans,who just seem confused, especially the trump followers.</i></b></div>
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The poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research and MTV found that just 33 percent of Americans between the ages of 15 and 34 approve of Trump’s job performance.</div>
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That’s 9 points lower than all adults, who were asked the same question on a separate AP-NORC survey taken this month.</div>
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“Trump doesn’t care about us,” said 27-year-old Nicole Martin, an African-American graduate student in Missoula, Montana. “I’m not going to say he’s unfit like he has schizophrenia. I do kind of think he’s twisted in the head. He just comes off as disgusting to me.”</div>
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The survey is the first in a series of polls designed to highlight the voices of the youngest generation of voters. The respondents, all of whom will be old enough to vote when Trump seeks re-election in 2020, represent the most diverse generation in American history.</div>
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They would occupy the largest share of the electorate — if they vote at the same rate as older Americans. But history suggests they are also the least likely to vote this fall. In the 2014 midterm elections, for example, only about 20 percent of 18-29 year-olds cast ballots.</div>
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Asked if she will vote this fall, when the president’s party, but not the president himself, will be on the ballot, Martin said: “I haven’t really thought about it.”</div>
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Still, there are signs that seven months before the midterm elections, young people appear to be more engaged in politics. Nearly half of younger Americans, 47 percent, say they’re personally paying closer attention to politics since Trump’s election; 2 in 10 say they’re engaging in political activism more than before.</div>
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High school students led massive protests nationwide last weekend that called for gun control in the wake of the recent school shooting in Parkland, Florida, that left 17 dead, and the poll found that young people are more focused about guns than any other issue. Twenty-one percent say the nation’s gun laws are their top concern, while 15 percent cited the economy and 8 percent said social inequality. <span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-align: center;">There is widespread agreement among young people about Trump, with more than 7 in 10 saying he “doesn’t reflect my personal values.”</span></div>
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The new poll finds that 60 percent describe Trump as “mentally unfit,” 62 percent call him “generally dishonest,” and 63 percent say he “is a racist.” In a mid-February AP-NORC poll, 57 percent of all adults in the U.S. said they believe Trump is racist.“He doesn’t seem to be really for women. He doesn’t seem to be for Black Lives Matter. He doesn’t seem to be for DACA,” said Meghan Carnes, 23, of New York City, referring to a program to allow young immigrants to stay in this country. “He doesn’t seem to be for the kids worried about guns. It’s extremely disappointing to have a president who doesn’t seem to care.”</div>
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Spencer Buettgenbach, 23, of Topeka, Kansas, said the Republican president has emboldened attitudes about racism, sexism and homophobia by “normalizing abusive talk.”</div>
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“Especially living in Kansas — for me as a gay man — it’s kind of scary,” he said. “He’s like the world’s worst boogeyman.”</div>
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The poll also found that young people overwhelmingly support watching out for minorities: 69 percent favor a pathway to legal status for immigrants brought to the country illegally as children, 59 percent favor protecting the rights of LGBT citizens, and 58 percent say the same for Muslims.</div>
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“My whole life I’ve been greedy, greedy, greedy,” declared Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign. “I’ve grabbed all the money I could get. I’m so greedy. But now I want to be greedy for the United States.” To the extent that Trump’s candidacy offered any positive appeal, as opposed to simple loathing for his opponent, this was it. He was a brilliant businessman, or at least starred in a television show as one, and he would set aside his lifelong pursuit of wealth to selflessly serve the greater good. This was the promise that pried just enough Obama voters away from Hillary Clinton in just enough upper-Midwest states to clinch the Electoral College.</div>
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Since Trump took office, his pledge to ignore his own interests has been almost forgotten, lost in a disorienting hurricane of endless news. It is not just a morbid joke but a legitimate problem for the opposition that all the bad news about Trump keeps getting obscured by other bad news about Trump. Perhaps the extraordinary civic unrest his presidency has provoked will be enough to give Democrats a historic win in the midterms this fall, but it is easy to be worried.<br />
<a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/03/why-are-trump-approval-ratings-on-the-rise.html" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1782a9; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">Trump’s approval rating hovers in the low 40s</a>: lower than the average of any other president, yes, but seemingly impervious to an onslaught of scandals that would have sunk any other president, and within spitting range of reelectability.</div>
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As the races pick up in earnest, some kind of narrative focus is going to be necessary to frame the case against Trump. Here, what appears to be an embarrassment of riches for Democrats may in fact be a collection of distractions. It is depressingly likely that several of Trump’s most outrageous characteristics will fail to move the needle in the states and districts where the needle needs moving. His racism and misogyny motivate the Democratic base, but both were perfectly apparent in 2016 and did not dissuade enough voters to abandon him.<br />
The <a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/03/republicans-just-want-trump-to-be-a-better-liar.html" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1782a9; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">Russia scandal</a> is substantively important, but it is also convoluted and abstract and removed from any immediate impact on voters’ lived experience. The reports of <a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/03/what-we-learned-from-the-stormy-daniels-60-minutes-interview.html" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1782a9; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">Trump’s affair with Stormy Daniels</a>, even the possibility of hired goons to keep her quiet, is not exactly a disillusioning experience for voters who <span style="letter-spacing: 0.1px;">“My whole life I’ve been greedy, greedy, greedy,” declared Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign. “I’ve grabbed all the money I could get. I’m so greedy. But now I want to be greedy for the United States.” To the extent that Trump’s candidacy offered any positive appeal, as opposed to simple loathing for his opponent, this was it. He was a brilliant businessman, or at least starred in a television show as one, and he would set aside his lifelong pursuit of wealth to selflessly serve the greater good. This was the promise that pried just enough Obama voters away from Hillary Clinton in just enough upper-Midwest states to clinch the Electoral College.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1px;">harbored few illusions </span>to<span style="letter-spacing: 0.1px;"> begin with.</span></div>
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But they did harbor one. Trump’s core proposition to the public was a business deal: If he became president, he would work to make them rich. Of course, the fact that Trump was able to reduce the presidency to such a crass exchange, forsaking such niceties as simple decency and respect for the rule of law, exposed terrifying weaknesses in the fabric of American democracy. But the shortest path to resolving this crisis is first to remove Trump’s party — and it <em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">is</em> Trump’s party — from full </div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.1px;">control of the government in 2018, and then to remove Trump from the White House in 2020. The clearest way to do that is to demonstrate that Trump is failing to uphold his end of the deal. After all, the students at Trump University once constituted some of the biggest Trump fans in America. Until they realized Trump had conned them. Then </span><a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/03/the-trump-university-settlement-is-final.html" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1782a9; letter-spacing: 0.1px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">they sued to get their money back</a><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1px;">.</span></div>
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Historically, corruption — specifically, the use of power for personal gain — has played a central and even dominant role in American political discourse. In the 1870s, revelations that public officials were caught lining their pockets with millions of dollars from alcohol taxes (the Whiskey Ring) and inflated railroad costs (Crédit Mobilier) exploded into spectacular scandals. One of the triumphs of the Progressive Era was establishing rules and norms of professionalism in government so that public officials would not be tempted to sell their favors. The far more petty corruption cases of the 20th century still roused public rage. Harry Truman was famously scorned in his time, owing to penny-ante scandals, one of which involved an aide’s acceptance of some freezers. Dwight Eisenhower’s chief of staff had to resign after he accepted a vicuña coat; George H.W. Bush’s chief of staff, John Sununu, resigned in disgrace after using military aircraft for personal and political trips. There is a reason Trump labeled his opponent “Crooked Hillary,” and it stems from a law of American politics Democrats would be wise to remember: To be out for yourself is probably the single most disqualifying flaw a politician can have.</div>
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<strong style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">“Why shouldn’t</strong> the president surround himself with successful people?” argued Larry Kudlow, now Trump’s primary economic adviser, in 2016. “Wealthy folks have no need to steal or engage in corruption.” The administration seems to have set out to refute this generous assumption. The sheer breadth of direct self-enrichment Trump has unleashed in office defies the most cynical predictions. It may not be a surprise that he continues to hold on to his business empire and uses his power in office to direct profits its way, from overseas building deals down to printing the presidential seal on golf markers at the course near Mar-a-Lago. It is certainly not a surprise that Trump has refused to disclose his tax returns. What’s truly shocking is how much petty graft has sprung up across his administration. Trump’s Cabinet members and other senior officials have been living in style at taxpayer expense, indulging in lavish travel for personal reasons (including a <a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/02/the-misadventures-of-steven-mnuchin-and-louise-linton.html" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1782a9; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">trip to Fort Knox to witness the solar eclipse</a>) and designing their offices with <a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/03/carson-has-terrible-excuse-for-buying-expensive-dining-set.html" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1782a9; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">$31,000 dining sets</a> and <a href="https://www.thecut.com/2018/03/interior-secretary-ryan-zinke-door-spending.html" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1782a9; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">$139,000 doors</a>. Not since the Harding administration, and probably the Gilded Age, has the presidency conducted itself in so venal a fashion.</div>
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It is hardly a coincidence that so many greedy people have filled the administration’s ranks. Trump’s ostentatious crudeness and misogyny are a kind of human-resources strategy. Radiating personal and professional sleaze lets him quickly and easily identify individuals who have any kind of public ethics and to sort them out. (James Comey’s accounts of his interactions with the president depict Trump probing for some vein of corruptibility in the FBI director; when he came up empty, he fired him.) Trump is legitimately excellent at cultivating an inner circle unburdened by legal or moral scruples. These are the only kind of people who want to work for Trump, and the only kind Trump wants to work for him.</div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.1px;">It should take very little work — and be a very big priority — for Democratic candidates to stitch all the administration’s misdeeds together into a tale of unchecked greed. For all the mystery still surrounding the Russia investigation, for instance, it is already clear that the narrative revolves around a lust (and desperation) for money. Having burned enough American banks throughout his career that he could not obtain capital through conventional, legitimate channels, Trump turned to Russian sources, who typically have an ulterior political motive. Just what these various sources got in return for their investment in Trump is a matter for Robert Mueller’s investigators to determine. But Trump’s interest in them is perfectly obvious.</span></div>
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Trump’s campaign followed his patented human-resources strategy, filling its ranks with other rapacious and financially precarious men. Paul Manafort was deeply in debt to a Russian oligarch when he popped up on Trump’s doorstep. Michael Flynn was selling his credentials to Russian and Turkish dictators while advising Trump. Jared Kushner was flailing about in an effort to make good on a massive loan he took out on a white-elephant Manhattan building and seems to have used his access to Trump to leverage potential investors who might bail him out. Even as he has wielded enormous influence, Kushner has been unable to obtain a top-secret security clearance, because he may be vulnerable to foreign influence.</div>
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The virtue of bribery is a subject of genuine conviction for Trump, whose entrée to politics came via transactional relationships with New York politicians as well as Mafia figures. Trump once called the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which bars American corporations from engaging in bribery, a “ridiculous” and “horrible” law. Enforcement of this law has plummeted under his administration.</div>
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An easy fatalism about all this corruption has gained wide circulation. It was known about Trump all along and his voters signed up for it anyway, so nothing matters, right? In fact, Trump’s behavior runs directly contrary to his most important promises. “Draining the swamp” was not supposed to mean simply kicking out Democrats and competent public officials. He made speeches promising good-government reforms: a ban on lobbying by former members of Congress and stricter rules on what lobbying meant; campaign-finance reform to prevent foreign companies from raising money for American candidates; a ban on lobbying by former senior government officials on behalf of foreign governments.</div>
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Not only has Trump made no effort to raise ethical standards but he and his administration have flamboyantly violated the existing guidelines. Lobbyists are seeded in every agency, “regulating” their former employers and designing rules that favor bosses over employees and business owners over consumers. The problem of former government officials’ being paid by foreign governments has been superseded by the far larger problem of current government officials’ being paid by foreign governments.</div>
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Small episodes of corruption can play an outsize role in American politics, since the human scale of petty self-dealing is often easy to understand. And in Trump’s case, the smaller and larger scandals reinforce each other. Why is Trump giving rich people and corporations a <a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/03/trump-has-a-fever-and-the-only-prescription-is-more-tax-cut.html" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1782a9; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">huge tax cut</a>? Why has he been threatening to take away your health insurance? Why is he letting Wall Street and Big Oil write their own rules? Above all, if Trump supposedly believed that “if I become president, I couldn’t care less about my company — it’s peanuts,” why are his children still running it? For the same reason he has let his Cabinet secretaries run up large travel expenses, and why <a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/02/mueller-eyes-kushners-pursuit-of-foreign-financing-report.html" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: inherit; color: #1782a9; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;">his son-in-law met</a> with oligarchs in China and the Gulf States whose money he was trying to get his hands on.</div>
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Even the strong economy does not mean Democrats have no way to attack Trump’s economic management. After all, the reason public opinion about the economy improved almost immediately after his election is that the Republican message machine stopped bad-mouthing the recovery and instead rebranded the same conditions as a fabulous new era of prosperity. Rather than sit back and allow Trump to take credit for a recovery he inherited, Democrats can press the point that he and his allies are doing little more than skimming off the top of it.</div>
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Somebody persuaded corporations, fattened by a trillion-dollar tax windfall, to publicize the same raises and bonuses they had been handing out for years as a special dividend of the Trump tax cuts. If Democrats win control of a chamber of Congress and thus the ability to hold hearings, they should investigate whatever coordination yielded this nexus of self-interest. A Democratic House or Senate could also compel disclosure of Trump’s tax returns, and both the documents themselves and any drama surrounding them would attract more attention to the administration’s commitment to self-enrichment.</div>
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But that can happen only if the Democrats win the midterms, and the best way to do that is to tell a very simple story. Trump represented himself as a rich man feared by the business elite. He had spent much of his life buying off politicians and exploiting the system, so he knew how the system worked and could exploit that knowledge on behalf of the people. In fact, his experiences with bribery opened his eyes to what further extortion might be possible. Trump was never looking to blow up the system. He was simply casing the joint.</div>
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16 Muslim terrorists were eliminated and 1,200 more were wounded by IDF gunfire, as 45,000 Gazans riot, throw rocks and attack IDF forces in multiple locations along the border, as part of the so-called ‘great march of return’ called by Hamas, the terror group which rules Gaza.</div>
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The IDF has declared the area around the security border fence with Gaza a closed military zone.</div>
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IDF troops are responding with riot dispersal methods, including firing at key instigators.</div>
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A 7 year-old girl was sent by Hamas to confront soldiers across the border, endangering her life.</div>
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“When the IDF troops realized it was a girl, they picked her up and made sure that she could get back to her parents safely,” the army says.</div>
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“Hamas cynically uses women and children, send them to the fence and endangering their lives,” the army says.</div>
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IDF Southern Command Maj.-Gen.Eyal Zamir: “We’re identifying attempts to carry out terror attacks under the disguise of riots. We urge Gazans to stay away and warn the Hamas terror organization.”</div>
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The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says that over 1,000 terrorists were injured in the violent riots, mostly from tear gas and rubber bullets. A small number were also said wounded by live fire.</div>
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Hamas terrorist wing Izz ad-Din al Qassam, is instructing its terrorists to urgently donate blood to hospitals in northern Gaza.</div>
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The Hamas movement and other organizations called for protests, calling it “The march of return”, said IDF spokesperson Avichay Adraee while speaking in Arabic to Reuters, ”however, as events are taking place on the ground, it is the march of chaos.”</div>
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Siding with the Muslim terrorists and wannabe infiltrators, ultra-leftist groups and Meretz party’s new leader questioned the usage of IDF snipers during the riots.</div>
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BREAKING: 16 Muslim terrorists eliminated, 1500 injured as part of Hamas sponsored so-called 'march of return'–in a coffin. All hospitals in Gaza are appealing for blood donations while Hamas leaders themselves, are hiding in underground bunkers beneath the very same hospitals.</div>
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On previous Land Days, where arabs whine about being defeated by Jews<br />
after several arab attempts at genocide, pro-Palestinian terrorists have called for a “global march to Jerusalem” from the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan and Syria. During Land Day demonstrations in 2011, anti-Israel activists surged across the Lebanon and Syria frontiers, drawing deadly gunfire from Israeli troops.</div>
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The IDF doubled its deployment along the fence ahead of the march, KAN reported. Infantry troops, including special forces, are taking up positions inside towns in immediate proximity to the fence.</div>
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The Palestinian Authority has not called in its official channels on Palestinians in the West Bank to participate in Land Day events,</div>
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The IDF said at least 17,000 arabs were rioting in six locations in the Gaza Strip and the troops</div>
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began “firing towards main instigators.” Protesters were “rolling burning tires and<br />
hurling stones at the security fence and at IDF troops,” the IDF said.</div>
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“The troops have been given clear orders on opening fire,” Brigadier Gen. Ronen Manelis,</div>
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the IDF spokesman, said in an interview Thursday with the Israel Broadcasting Corp., or </div>
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KAN, about the March of Return in the Hamas-controlled enclave. </div>
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“Whoever tries to interfere with the </div>
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security infrastructure or compromise the fence for a mass crossing into Israel, </div>
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we will prevent this action.”</div>
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The march is organized on Land Day – a date that Israeli Arabs began</div>
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observing in 1976 in which they protested what they regarded as .</div>
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On previous Land Days, pro-Palestinian activists have called for </div>
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a “global march to Jerusalem” from the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan</div>
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and Syria. During Land Day demonstrations in 2011, anti-Israel activists surged across</div>
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the Lebanon and Syria frontiers, drawing deadly gunfire from Israeli troops.</div>
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The IDF doubled its deployment along the fence ahead of the march, KAN reported. </div>
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Infantry troops, including special forces, are taking up positions inside towns in immediate</div>
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proximity to the fence.</div>
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