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When do the Mothers of ISIS Speak?

July 28, 2016

When do the Mothers of ISIS Speak? Front Page Magazine, Ann Coulter, July 28, 2016

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However half-heartedly, Hillary claims to oppose cop-killing, so why is she using her convention to promote the biggest lie in the pantheon of anti-cop lies, and to celebrate a man whose most famous act was to violently assault a police officer? 

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Whatever questionable choices were made at the Republican National Convention last week, I didn’t hear of a single speaker whose sole accomplishment was raising a delinquent who attacked a cop.

But as the country reels from the cold-blooded murder of five policemen in Dallas and three in Baton Rouge, Lezley McSpadden, mother of Mike Brown, America’s most famous cop-assaulting criminal, appeared on stage at the Democratic National Convention.

Welcome to Hillary’s convention, celebrating the anti-police group Black Lives Matter!

The whole raison d’etre of BLM is the belief that cops are wantonly killing “black bodies.” But only four of the dead black kids being honored were even killed by cops. Two were murdered by black gang members.

Of the four deaths that involved the police, all the victims were fighting the cops when they died.

In this regard, I notice that six of the nine “Mothers of the Movement” have different last names from their snowflakes. The children with the same names as their mothers were the two who were gunned down by black gangs, as well as one schizophrenic, who, unfortunately, had grabbed an officer’s baton and was hitting him with it when he got himself shot.

After massive, enormously expensive investigations, only one officer in any of these four cases was convicted of any offense: involuntary manslaughter for the 2009 shooting by a BART police officer of Oscar Grant — who was in the process of being arrested for an enormous public brawl when he was shot.

Contrast his death with the deaths of 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton and 16-year-old Blair Holt. Hadiya was shot in the back by black gang members, while in a Chicago park with her friends — who were mistaken for members of a rival gang. Blair was riding a school bus when a black gang member boarded the bus and began shooting.

The police are trying to get these criminal gangs off the street! And their job would be a lot easier without thugs like Mike Brown violently attacking them.

It would be a lot easier if they weren’t being constantly harassed by BLM and their lunatic accusations of racist policing.

It would be a lot easier if they were not being targeted for assassination and mass murders by homicidal nuts ginned up by BLM. (Shooting deaths of police are up 78 percent so far this year.)

And it would be a lot easier without a group — officially supported by the Democrats — leading marches down city streets, chanting, “What do we want? DEAD COPS! When do we want it? NOW!”

Why does the Democratic platform endorse Black Lives Matter? And, most importantly, why was Mike Brown’s mother on stage at the Democratic National Convention?

As absurd as BLM’s other cases are, none have been so authoritatively disproved as the yarn about “gentle giant” Brown begging for his life from Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson before being shot in the street like a dog.

Within a few weeks of the “hands up, don’t shoot” narrative being broadcast as fact from every media outlet, we saw the video of the “gentle giant” robbing a store and roughing up the clerk shortly before his encounter with Officer Wilson.

This was followed by extensive investigations by both a grand jury and a Department of Justice led by the most racist, anti-police attorney general we’ve ever had, Eric Holder. But even Holder’s Justice Department had to concede the whole “hands up don’t shoot” story was a bald-faced lie.

Officer Wilson was completely cleared in the shooting of Mike Brown. As the investigations proved, Big Mike had violently assaulted Wilson, grabbed for his gun, and was charging the officer when Wilson shot and killed this raging behemoth.

However half-heartedly, Hillary claims to oppose cop-killing, so why is she using her convention to promote the biggest lie in the pantheon of anti-cop lies, and to celebrate a man whose most famous act was to violently assault a police officer?

Because of the despicable lies put out by BLM agitators, Wilson had to give up his career, move his family and will be forced to live in fear for the rest of his life. The town of Ferguson was destroyed, businesses burned to the ground, police officers attacked, people injured, the National Guard called in, and massive taxpayer money expended to contain the riots.

But at the Democratic Convention, Lezley McSpadden (mother of Mike Brown) was wildly cheered.

Eric Holder said Brown tried to kill a cop. Are Democrats insane?

If Brown’s mother had done something noteworthy, apart from raising a hoodlum — perhaps pioneering a cardiac stent that will save people’s lives — then one could understand her being a “headliner” at the Democrats’ convention. But, as I understand it, her sole claim to fame is giving birth to, and then carefully nurturing, a violent, cop-assaulting criminal.

Donald Trump, along with every other Republican ever to run for president, is required to repeatedly “disavow” David Duke — someone he’s never met, never mentioned, never thought of— and certainly didn’t invite to speak at his convention.

But Hillary invites to her convention the mother of a man whose criminality destroyed a police officer’s life, tore the country apart and gave birth to a murderous cop-hating movement. Will a single reporter ask Hillary to disavow that?

South Sudan: Soldiers Rape UN Camp Girls by the Dozen While Peacekeepers Watch

July 28, 2016

South Sudan: Soldiers Rape UN Camp Girls by the Dozen While Peacekeepers Watch

Source: South Sudan: Soldiers Rape UN Camp Girls by the Dozen While Peacekeepers Watch – Breitbart

And Israel should accept and trust on UN protection ,?

We know what the UN is, a complete useless bunch , nasser kick them out the Sinai, they where also useless in the Golan . !

An Associated Press report cites numerous witnesses as stating that a mass rape of women and girls in a United Nations camp for the displaced occurred last week in full view of UN peacekeepers, who did nothing to prevent the attacks.

“They were seeing it. Everyone was seeing it. The woman was seriously screaming, quarreling and crying also, but there was no help. She was crying for help,” said one unnamed eyewitness to the gang rape of a woman in public. Another eyewitness said she saw four females — two underaged girls — gang raped by ten soldiers per person, and one of the girls died as a result of the rape.

The rapes appear to be racially motivated: the soldiers belong to the ruling Dinka ethnic group, while most victims are ethnic Nuers. Neither army spokespeople nor UN representatives denied the rapes to the AP. Army spokesman Lul Ruai Koang told the AP they had not received any formal complaints about the rapes, therefore could not do anything to punish the perpetrators.

The AP adds that the number of rapes occurring in and around the UN camps is unclear but estimates all reach into the dozens of victims.

South Sudanese government soldiers raped dozens of ethnic Nuer women and girls last week just outside a United Nations camp where they had sought protection from renewed fighting, and at least two died from their injuries, witnesses and civilian leaders said. UN representatives estimated between 27 and 70 gang rapes in the past week. The camp in question houses 30,000 internally displaced people, who have been forced to flee their homes by the ongoing civil war that has continued since South Sudan became a sovereign state in 2011 with the blessing of the Obama White House. Two million people have been displaced by the violence nationwide.

The violence inflicted on Nuer civilians by the soldiers of South Sudanese president Salva Kiir, himself of Dinka ethnicity, is not limited to rape, though rape has certainly become a key instrument of terror against the Nuers. A report in The Nation last year quotes one woman who described rape as “just a normal thing” that all females in the country must endure as part of being South Sudanese.

Some months after the publication of the Nation report, an investigation found that the violence inflicted on civilians extended to horrific scenarios encompassing far more than rape. The African Union report accused South Sudanese soldiers of “extreme cruelty exercised through mutilation of bodies, burning of bodies, draining human blood from people who had just been killed and forcing others from one ethnic community to drink the blood or eat burnt human flesh.”

The rape incidents described by the African Union report “involved maiming and dismemberment of limbs.”

The report was published shortly after Kiir and Nuer leader Riek Machar announced an official ceasefire, which appears to have never taken place in practice.

This July, President Obama announced that he had deployed 47 troops to South Sudan to protect American interests there.

The formation of South Sudan in July 2011 was heralded as a hallmark diplomatic achievement for President Obama and his chief diplomat, Hillary Clinton. “As we move ahead, the United States and the world will be there as South Sudan lays the foundation for its future,” Clinton wrote in an editorial for the Washington Post celebrating the nation’s independence that year.

The United States funneled millions into Salva Kiir’s administration to stabilize the country, despite reports of the rampant use of child soldiers. An Intercept expose published in June shows Clinton had a hand in writing waivers that allowed the United States to send Kiir money in violation of the 2008 Child Soldiers Prevention Act. In welcoming Salva Kiir to Washington in 2011, she said:

“I’m betting on South Sudan, and I don’t like to lose bets,” she said at the International Engagement Conference for South Sudan, which was held in 2011 in Washington, D.C. It was, she said, her honor to welcome President Kiir to America. “We have a chance to raise up the first generation of South Sudanese who have not known and, God willing, never will know war.”

The State Department recommends to President Obama which nations should receive waivers from the law.

A report published this week reveals that, during her tenure as Secretary of State, Kiir’s government “doled out nearly $2 million to Washington, D.C. public relations and lobbying firms with ties to Hillary Clinton.”

 

Right Angle: The DNC Drinking Game

July 28, 2016

Right Angle: The DNC Drinking Game, Bill Whittle.com via YouTube, July 27, 2016

Who Is Putin’s Real Ally?

July 28, 2016

Who Is Putin’s Real Ally? PJ MediaRoger L Simon, July 27, 2016

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There’s money in them thar reset buttons!

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Oh, the vapors, the vapors!  Donald Trump has done it again. He has a gone a bridge too far for the 150th time, but on this occasion taken us all the way across the Bering Straits to the very edge of the Gulag Archipelago. He has urged Vladimir Putin to reveal the contents of Hillary Clinton’s gazillion missing emails the FBI somehow couldn’t find.

Traitor!  Traitor!  yell the well-intentioned, like former SecDef Leon Panetta. This selfish yellow-haired plutocrat must be disqualified from the presidency!

Never mind that Putin would need no encouragement whatsoever from any outsider to hack the wide-open server of the former secretary of state, nor would the intelligence services of at least a dozen other first-world countries (they all do it—we were listening to Merkel’s cell phone ourselves, it will be recalled), not to mention the who-knows-how-many non-state actors and twelve-year-old high-tech whippersnappers with the skill to do this.

Never mind that Trump was undoubtedly far less interested in making friends with Putin than in calling attention to the obvious relationship between Hillary’s home-brew server and the similarly wide-open server of the DNC that Mrs. Clinton claimed to know nothing about. Her media lackeys on 60 Minutes made sure no one paid attention (hello, Scott Pelley!).

Meanwhile, discussion is curiously mute on a far more substantive alliance with Putin by, yes, the Clintons themselves that could actually change the balance of power in the world in a way far more dangerous than Trump mouthing off about Vladimir.  It probably already has.

But don’t believe me. I’m biased. Believe that center of the “great right-wing conspiracy,” The New York Times, which ran the article “Cash Flowed to Clinton Foundation Amid Russian Uranium Deal” on April 23, 2015.

The headline on the website Pravda trumpeted President Vladimir V. Putin’s latest coup, its nationalistic fervor recalling an era when its precursor served as the official mouthpiece of the Kremlin: “Russian Nuclear Energy Conquers the World.”

The article, in January 2013, detailed how the Russian atomic energy agency, Rosatom, had taken over a Canadian company with uranium-mining stakes stretching from Central Asia to the American West. The deal made Rosatom one of the world’s largest uranium producers and brought Mr. Putin closer to his goal of controlling much of the global uranium supply chain.

But the untold story behind that story is one that involves not just the Russian president, but also a former American president and a woman who would like to be the next one.

At the heart of the tale are several men, leaders of the Canadian mining industry, who have been major donors to the charitable endeavors of former President Bill Clinton and his family. Members of that group built, financed and eventually sold off to the Russians a company that would become known as Uranium One.

Beyond mines in Kazakhstan that are among the most lucrative in the world, the sale gave the Russians control of one-fifth of all uranium production capacity in the United States. Since uranium is considered a strategic asset, with implications for national security, the deal had to be approved by a committee composed of representatives from a number of United States government agencies. Among the agencies that eventually signed off was the State Department, then headed by Mr. Clinton’s wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Wait a minute.  According to the sainted Times, one-fifth of U.S. uranium production now belongs to the Russians thanks to Ma and Pa Clinton?! If you wanted to talk treason, wouldn’t that be the textbook definition?  Do the folks at the Democratic National Convention know about this?

If I had to, I would guess at best three-to-five percent do and they’re certainly not telling the others. Neither are the media, so hell-bent are they on defeating Donald Trump.  I mean he’s uncouth and makes fun of people. That’s worse than a few measly atom bombs, isn’t it?…  Okay, perhaps more than a few…. Well, isn’t it?

Nasty business, huh? You could put it another way: There’s money in them thar reset buttons!

Yes, we live in an era of true evil when disinformation and distraction is king.

Nevertheless, some of the truth is out there. Two movies have opened and are doing quite well—Clinton Cash and Dinesh D’Souza’s Hillary’s America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party.  I have seen Dinesh’s movie and can recommend it.  I plan on seeing Clinton Cash soon.  See them both and try to bring your liberal and independent friends.  They’re the ones who should be there.  Just bring some ibuprofen for them.

German police raid Islamic ‘hotbed’ as 15yo detained for allegedly planning terror attack

July 28, 2016

German police raid Islamic ‘hotbed’ as 15yo detained for allegedly planning terror attack

Published time: 28 Jul, 2016 13:34

Source: German police raid Islamic ‘hotbed’ as 15yo detained for allegedly planning terror attack — RT News

Members of German federal police Bundespolizei demonstrate their skills during a presentation of the new unit for arrests and securing evidence (BFE) in Ahrensfelde near Berlin, Germany. © Hannibal Hanschke / Reuters

Around 400 German police conducted raids at a mosque and eight apartments in a “hotbed” of radical Islam near Hannover. It came as police near Stuttgart arrested a 15-year-old who they believe was planning a mass shooting.

The raids took place in Hildesheim, a town which Lower Saxony Interior Minister Boris Pistorius described as “a hotbed of radical Salafist” activity. He said that up to 400 police and special forces took part in the operations, though no figures were released regarding how many arrests were made.

“The German-speaking Islamic circle (DIK) in Hildesheim is a nationwide hot-spot of the radical Salafist scene that Lower Saxony security authorities have been monitoring for a long time,” the state official said, as quoted by Reuters.

He said he wants to ban the DIK, which he blames for radicalizing German Muslims and influencing some to want to travel to the Middle East to join up with terrorist organizations such as Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL).

Pistorius said the raid followed months of planning, as the DIK had established Hildesheim as their main base in Lower Saxony. He also said the radical Islamists were guilty of giving speeches calling for “hate against non-believers.”

“We will not put up with Salafist associations and their backers flouting our rules and bringing our rule of law into question and convincing young people that they want to join the so-called IS,” Pistorius said.

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The special operations came as police in the south of the country confirmed on Wednesday evening that they had arrested a 15-year-old boy near Stuttgart. The teenager, who hails from Ludwigsburg, had allegedly been in contact with Ali David Sonboly, who killed nine people during a shooting spree in Munich on July 22.

Police said they found “a large number of small-caliber weapons, several knives and daggers” in the 15-year-old’s possession. Authorities initially said they believed the boy was planning to carry out a shooting spree at his school, but later retracted that statement, Deutsche Welle reported.

Law enforcement officers were given a tip off about the teenager after a private individual who had been carrying out research on the 15-year-old published photos and drawings that suggested that he could have been planning an attack.

Police say they found “extensive evidence, including a larger number of small-caliber cartridges, several knives and daggers, evacuation plans of his school, and a large amount of chemicals, materials and instructions for making explosives,” according to The Local.

The boy has been admitted to a psychiatric facility, and police have seized his computers for further analysis.

Germany has been rocked by a string of recent attacks. On Sunday, a 27-year-old Syrian refugee who was facing deportation to Bulgaria blew himself up after being refused access to a music festival. The explosion injured 15 passersby, but did not cause any deaths.

That same day, a 21-year-old Syrian refugee was arrested after killing a pregnant woman and wounding two people with a machete in the city of Reutlingen, near Stuttgart.

On Friday, an 18-year-old German-Iranian gunman killed nine people in Munich after going on a shooting spree in an attack he had planned for a year. Meanwhile, a 17-year-old who had sought asylum in Germany was shot dead by police last week after wounding five people with an ax near Wurzburg.

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Members of the fire brigade attend the scene near the Olympia shopping mall, in Munich, Germany July 23, 2016. © Michael Dalder

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has cut short her holiday to address the problems, which critics say have been caused by her open-door policy which saw over a million refugees – mainly from Syria and Iraq – arrive in Germany in 2015. She has rejected calls to change the policy.

“The terrorists want to make us lose sight of what is important to us, break down our cohesion and sense of community as well as inhibiting our way of life, our openness and our willingness take in people who are in need,” she said, as quoted by Reuters.

“They see hatred and fear between cultures and they see hatred and fear between religions. We stand decisively against that,” she added.

However, Willy Wimmer, former state secretary of the German Christian Democratic Party (CDU), told RT that Merkel must take the blame for wanting to “destroy our country” by allowing unchecked mass immigration.  

“She [Merkel] has an obligation to defend our borders and defend our people. That is the main obligation she has. Therefore, what was the reason last year to open our borders? There is no country worldwide that did similar things,” Wimmer said.

‘Obama increased aid to Arab countries, but not to Israel’

July 28, 2016

Obama increased aid to Arab countries, but not to Israel’ GOP Senator Lindsey Graham reveals White House shot down aid package requested by Israel.

David Rosenberg, 28/07/16 14:42

Source: ‘Obama increased aid to Arab countries, but not to Israel’ – Defense/Security – News –

UAE Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahayan, Barack Obama

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South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham blasted President Obama this week, condemning his refusal to increase American aid to Israel, as well as his efforts to bar Israel from spending the aid money within the Jewish state.

Speaking to Haaretz, Graham revealed that Israel had previously requested an increased aid package from the White House, with $4 billion a year for regular military funding, plus $600 million towards Israel’s missile defense network.

But, Graham said, the administration rejected the request, despite similar increases to Arab states, such as Jordan.

“I made a decision, given the deterioration in the region, that Israel needs more funding,” said Graham. “In the last three years, we increased funding to Jordan by $275 million outside of the MoU, because Jordan was under siege.”

“The administration didn’t object to that increase, but they are objecting to the increase to Israel for 2017.”

In 2015 the White House announced plans to raise the amount of aid to Jordan by more than 50%, topping $1 billion per year.

Despite Obama’s rejection of Israel’s aid request, Graham noted, Congress is under no obligations to abide by any agreements the White House makes with Israel.

“I am not bound by the MoU as a member of Congress. Congress is not a party to the MoU and the MoU can’t bind Congress. Everybody in Congress wants to be generous to Israel like we did with Jordan.”

Graham added that Congress overwhelmingly backed not only an increase in funding for Israel, but opposed the president’s goal of ending the convertibility of a portion of the aid package to shekels, allowing Israel to use the money to pay for fuel or purchase arms from domestic producers.

While Israel is currently allowed to spend a portion of the aid money in Israel, Obama has sought to gradually end the practice, requiring that the aid be spent entirely within the US.

“Eighty-three senators signed a letter to the president that we be generous towards Israel. It is my belief that there are not even 10 members of Senate who object to allowing the IDF to buy fuel from U.S. aid money or [object] that the money be used to boost Israeli defense industries. I have never heard one member of Congress concerned about this.”

In voicing his support for elevated levels of military aid to the Jewish state, Graham noted the increased geostrategic threats facing Israel.

“Netanyahu told me Hezbollah received from Iran precision-guided missiles that are military game-changers,” he said. “According to the prime minister and his team, these missiles present a greater threat than presented previously.”

“I want Iran to see that Israel gets more support from the U.S. and not less. I want to send a signal to Iran that while they get stronger, our allies in the region also get stronger. I don’t think it is an American interest for Iran to think we are negotiating a deal with Israel that is less generous.”

Hamas ready to pounce on weak Fatah in local elections, experts say

July 28, 2016

Hamas ready to pounce on weak Fatah in local elections, experts say Gaza-ruling terror group now says it will take part in vote set for October; after all, it has won the only two major elections in which it ever competed

By Dov Lieber

July 28, 2016, 2:52 pm

Source: Hamas ready to pounce on weak Fatah in local elections, experts say | The Times of Israel

The Hamas terror group in control of the Gaza Strip is poised to make a power play using one of its most potent weapons — the ballot box.

In 2012, the hardline Islamist group boycotted municipal elections over allegations of intimidation and corruption in the West Bank by its political rival Fatah, which dominates the Palestinian Authority. Since then, the two major Palestinian parties have remained in a state of cold war.

 Despite these ongoing tensions, Hamas surprised many by agreeing recently to participate in municipal elections across the Palestinian territories slated for October 8.

Experts told The Times of Israel that Hamas likely ended its boycott of the vote because the group sees an opportunity to gain legitimacy by beating a weak opponent — the aging and unpopular Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and his divided Fatah party.

Hamas is also in a state of political isolation after losing the support of its important Sunni state backers, Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, and to some extent Turkey after Ankara and Jerusalem recently mended relations. The ballot box, one Israeli expert argued, is a way the group can take control of its own destiny, while a well-known Palestinian scholar hypothesized secret and unprecedented coordination between the Islamists and Fatah.

Palestinian security officers wait to cast their early votes during local elections at a polling station in the West Bank town of Jenin on Thursday. Members of Palestinian security forces cast an early vote ahead of local elections, which are taking place Saturday, in the first such polls since 2006.(photo credit: AP Photo/Mohammed Ballas)

Palestinian security officers wait to cast their early votes during local elections at a polling station in the West Bank town of Jenin on Thursday. Members of Palestinian security forces cast an early vote ahead of local elections, which are taking place Saturday, in the first such polls since 2006. (AP Photo/Mohammed Ballas)

Hamas has won the only two elections it ever ran in — the 2005 municipal elections and the 2006 legislative elections, which resulted in a war between Hamas and Fatah. But since Hamas’s last democratic victory, 10 years have passed.

“It’s almost obvious why Hamas decided to participate in the upcoming elections,” Prof. Shaul Mishal, head of the Middle East program at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya (IDC), told The Times of Israel.

“If you look back at what happened during the election in 2006, Hamas believes that’s the best way to gain status and strength within the Palestinian population of the West Bank. They want to extend their influence to where the heart of the Palestinian issue is,” he said.

In 2006, Hamas won nearly all the electoral districts in the West Bank and in Gaza.

Mishal believes Hamas sees an opportunity to take advantage of Abbas’s current weakness. The PA leader is 81-years-old and is reportedly not in good health. Polls show a majority of Palestinians want him to resign.

Prof. Shaul Mishal (Courtesy)

Prof. Shaul Mishal (Courtesy)

“This is Hamas’s opportunity to ensure they will be part and parcel of any future political process,” Mishal said.

He added that Hamas has reached such a point of political isolation that “the only way to strengthen their position with the public is to run in this election.” He argues Hamas’s success in the past and its likely success in the upcoming election has much to do with its nature as an Islamist movement.

“Hamas is a party of the people, putting its efforts into working with the communities on the ground… first and foremost, they are an Islamist social group: they focus on social services, social welfare and working with the needy, especially in places where the central government might not reach,” Mishal said.

In an indication of Hamas’s likely victory in the upcoming elections, the Islamist movement has for the past two years won the contest considered the best barometer of Palestinian public opinion — student elections at Birzeit University. Birzeit is the oldest Palestinian university, considered a liberal outpost and a historic stronghold for Fatah and the PA.

“The young generation is more pro-Hamas. From experience, the student elections tend to be quite accurate,” Mishal said.

Palestinian students who support the Hamas movement take part in an election campaign rally for the student council at Birzeit University, near the West Bank city of Ramallah on April 26, 2016 (AFP/Abbas Momani)

Palestinian students who support the Hamas movement take part in an election campaign rally for the student council at Birzeit University, near the West Bank city of Ramallah on April 26, 2016 (AFP/Abbas Momani)

With the odds stacked against it, the Israeli professor believes Fatah may try to wiggle out of having the elections.

“It all depends on one man: Abu Mazen (Abbas). He can find ways to bypass the declaration. He may substitute it with something more dramatic, such as negotiations over the Arab Peace Initiative,” he said, referring to the 2002 offer to the Jewish state for full diplomatic ties with 57 Arab and Muslim countries after cementing a peace accord with the Palestinians.

The Arab Peace Initiative has come to the forefront in the past few months, with both Arab and Israeli statesmen discussing the plan.

Khalil Shikaki, the Director of the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research at his office in Ramallah, June 14, 2011 (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Khalil Shikaki, the Director of the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research at his office in Ramallah, June 14, 2011 (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

“My guess,” said Dr. Khalil Shikaki, a Palestinian political scientist and well-regarded pollster, “is that Hamas has agreed [to the elections] because Abbas, without publicly admitting it, has agreed that local elections in the Gaza Strip can take place fully under Hamas’s security and administrative control.”

Shikaki called the possible coordination “the most visible PA acknowledgment of the legitimacy of Hamas’s control in the Gaza Strip since Hamas’s takeover in June 2007.”

“At this stage,” Shikaki continued, “Hamas seems to care more about maintaining control over the Strip than extending its influence into the West Bank.”

The Palestinian political scientist did, however, offer a second theory similar to Mishal’s.

“Hamas might think that given Fatah’s fragmentation, particularly in the Gaza Strip, the outcome of elections will demonstrate the Islamist group’s ascendance and popularity despite the blockade and siege imposed by Israel and Egypt, thus strengthening further its legitimacy,” Shikaki said.

Israel imposed a land and sea blockade on the Strip, designed to prevent the terror group from importing weapons, after Hamas seized power there in a bloody 2007 coup, which saw Abbas’s Fatah movement ousted from Gaza.

The upcoming elections are slated to be held in 416 townships and village councils; 25 are located in Gaza and the other 391 in the West Bank. If the election does take place, it will be the largest municipal elections held by the Palestinians in their history.

Krauthammer: Trump’s Russia reference set a trap for Clinton

July 28, 2016

Krauthammer: Trump’s Russia reference set a trap for Clinton, Fox News via YouTube, July 27, 2016

Obama Compares Donald Trump to Jihadists: ‘They Will Always Fail in the End’

July 28, 2016

Obama Compares Donald Trump to Jihadists: ‘They Will Always Fail in the End’

by Charlie Spiering

27 Jul 2016

Source: Obama Compares Donald Trump to Jihadists: ‘They Will Always Fail in the End’ – Breitbart

President Barack Obama compared Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump to terrorists, lumping him and his supporters with the worst elements of society, during his speech at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia Wednesday.

During his speech, Obama spoke about the greatness of democracy and the American people, before insisting that Trump would fail.

“That’s why anyone who threatens our values, whether fascists or communists or jihadis or home-grown demagogues will always fail in the end,” he said.

The president painted Trump as a “self-declared” dictator who preyed on people’s fears and tried to divide the country.

“Our power doesn’t come from some self-declared savior promising that he alone can restore order as long as we do things his way,” he said. “We don’t look to be ruled.”

He also argued that America was still great, after two terms of his presidency.

“America is already great. America is already strong,” Obama said, adding that America’s greatness “does not depend on Donald Trump.”

Obama insisted that Trump had turned the Republican party into something else entirely, insisting that the party convention last week wasn’t Republican and “sure wasn’t conservative.”

Citing illegal immigration, Obama appeared to excuse illegals for flouting immigration laws to come to America.

“The American Dream is something no wall will ever contain,” he said.

The president also dismissed the idea that race relations between African-Americans and police officers were getting worse, citing “festered” problems that had gone on for decades.

He urged Americans to ignore Trump’s message, calling the upcoming election a serious choice.

“This is a more fundamental choice of who we are as a people,” he said.

Obama’s voice was slightly raspy as he spoke about the achievements of his two terms as president, after taking the stage to his old campaign song “City of Blinding Lights” by U2, as delegates shouted “Yes We Can!” recalling when thousands of Democrats chose him over Hillary Clinton in 2008.

He acknowledged that he beat Clinton in 2008 even though she was “doing everything that I was doing, but just like Ginger Rogers, it was backwards, and in heels.”

“I was worn out,” he admitted, pointing out that Clinton kept fighting back throughout the divisive primary.

On foreign policy, Obama admitted that the fight against Islamic State terrorism wasn’t finished, and that Clinton would take over his unfinished work.

“I know Hillary won’t relent until ISIL is destroyed,” he said. “She will finish the job and she will do it without resorting to torture or banning entire religions from entering our country.”

Obama recalled his 2004 speech that catapulted his national rise to power, saying that he was “filled with faith” in the American people.

He championed his legacy, insisting that he had saved the American economy and successfully passed health care reform, and he bragged once again that he killed Osama Bin Laden. Obama also praised his own achievement of the nuclear deal with Iran and opening up relations with Cuba.

Amid chants of “Yes we can!” and “Four more years!” from the Democratic audience, Obama urged them to “carry Hillary to victory.”

“I’m ready to pass the baton and do my part as a private citizen, so this year in this election,” he said, “I’m asking you to join me to reject cynicism and reject fear and to summon what is best in us to elect Hillary Clinton as the next president of the United States,” he concluded.

Warren: If Trump Would Just Disappear, ‘I’d Be The Happiest Girl On The Face Of This Earth’

July 28, 2016

Warren: If Trump Would Just Disappear, ‘I’d Be The Happiest Girl On The Face Of This Earth’

by Pam Key

27 Jul 2016

Source: Warren: If Trump Would Just Disappear, ‘I’d Be The Happiest Girl On The Face Of This Earth’ – Breitbart

I have bin in this kind of political climate before , with the same rhetoric.
It ended up by murdering our for sure new president.

She is doing the same , she is creating a climate that it will be normal to kill Trump.

This is very dangerous rhetoric .

Wednesday on MSNBC at the Democratic National convention in Philadelphia, PA, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) said if Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump “would just disappear” and “take down his Twitter account, drop out of the race,” she would “be the happiest girl on the face of this earth.”

Reacting to Trump’s comments about Russia hacking Hillary Clinton she said, “Donald Trump would be a danger to the United States. This man should never be allowed to come within miles of the White House, and that’s got to be our job.”