‘Muslims are Killing Muslims in Droves, But Israel is the One Being Condemned’: Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid said 29 June 2016, after the terror attack in Istanbul that killed 41 people, that it was time for the world to wake up. "Twelve million Muslims have been killed by other Muslims since 1948," Lapid said. "The number of people killed during the Arab-Israeli conflict is 0.3 percent of this." Lapid said that while even this number is too high, most of those killed were part of Arab armies that tried to invade Israeli territory, or terrorists who tried to harm innocent Israeli citizens. "However, still, the UN, international organizations and the world continue to unhaltingly condemn Israel and are extra careful about any condemnation of Islamic violence," he added. "They are careful like it's fire, until the fire burns them." Lapid sent his condolences to the families of those killed. (J.Post)

Holocaust Survivor and Nobel Peace Prize Winner, Elie Wiesel, Has Died

David Lazarus, www.IsraelToday.co.il

Nobel Prize laureate Elie Wiesel, the Holocaust survivor whose sad eyed face became a piercing, reminder of humanity’s ongoing agony, has died at age 87 on July 2, 2016.

For more than a half-century, Wiesel gave voice to the pain of our people to influential leaders, cele-brities and audiences around the world. He wrote more than 40 books, and was best known for "Night," a retelling of his experiences as a 15-year-old boy in Auschwitz.

The best way we can all remember Mr. Wiesel is to listen closely to a man who lost his mother, father and sister in a Nazi death camp, tattooed with the number A-7713 on his arm, as he stands before the world, telling his story upon receiving the Noble Peace Prize.

"I remember: it happened yesterday or eternities ago. A young Jewish boy discovered the kingdom of night. I remember his bewilderment, I remember his anguish. It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.

I remember: he asked his father: "Can this be true?" This is the twentieth century, not the Middle Ages. Who would allow such crimes to be committed? How could the world remain silent?

And now the boy is turning to me: "Tell me," he asks. "What have you done with my future? What have you done with your life?"

And I tell him that I have tried. That I have tried to keep memory alive, that I have tried to fight those who would forget. Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices.

And then I explained to him how naive we were, that the world did know and remain silent. And that is why I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Wherever men or women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must – at that moment – become the center of the universe. We must not allow our past to become our children’s future."

In 1985, when Wiesel received a Congressional Gold Medal from President Ronald Reagan, he stood before the gath-ering, and as the president looked on, asked him to cancel a planned trip to a cemetery in Germany that contained graves of Hitler's SS guards.

"May I, Mr. President, if it's possible at all, implore you to do something else, to find a way, to find another way, another site. That place, Mr. President, is not your place. Your place is with the victims."

http://www.politifact.com/barbary/

Most Americans are unaware of the fact that over two hundred years ago, the United States had declared war on Islam, and Thomas Jefferson led the charge!

At the height of the 18^th century, Muslim pirates were the terror of the Mediterranean and a large area of the North Atlantic. They attacked every ship in sight, and held the crews for exorbitant ransoms. Those taken hostage were subjected to barbaric treatment and wrote heart breaking letters home, begging their government and family members to pay whatever their Mohammedan captors demanded.

These extortionists of the high seas represented the Islamic nations of Trili, Tunis, Morocco, and Algiers, collectively referred to as the Barbary Coast and presented a dangerous and unprovoked threat to the new American Republic.

Before the Revolutionary War, U.S. merchant ships had been under the protection of Great Britain. When the U.S. declared its independence and entered into war, the ships of the United States were protected by France. However, once the war was won, America had to protect its own fleets. Thus, the birth of the U.S. Navy.

Allah was the name of the ancient Arabic Moon God, one of 360 gods. Mohammed came along and decreed that his followers would only worship Allah, the Moon God. The crescent moon remains the symbol of Islam to this day.

Beginning in 1784, seven-teen years before he would become president, Thomas Jefferson became Americas Minister to France. That same year, the U.S. Congress sought to appease its Muslim adversaries by following in the footsteps of European nations who paid bribes to the Barbary States, rather than engaging them in war.

In July of 1785, Algerian pirates captured American ships, and the Day of Algiers demanded an unheard-of ransom of $60,000. It was a plain and simple case of extortion, and Thomas Jefferson was vehemently opposed to any further payments. Instead, he proposed to Congress the formation of a coalition of allied nations who together could force the Islamic states into peace. A disinterested Congress decided to pay the ransom.

In 1786, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams met with Tripoli's ambassador to Great Britain to ask by what right his nation attacked American ships and enslaved American citizens, and why Muslims held so much hostility towards America.

The two future presidents reported that Ambassador Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja had answered that Islam "was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Quran, that all nations who have not acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners, and that every Musselman (Muslim) who should be slain in Battle was sure to go to Paradise."

Despite this stunning ad-mission of premeditated violence on non-Muslim nations, as well as the objections of many notable American leaders, including George Washington, who warned that caving in was both wrong and would only further embolden the enemy, for the following fifteen years, the American government paid the Muslims millions of dollars for the safe passage of American ships or the return of American hostages.

The payments in ransom and tribute amounted to over twenty percent of the United States government annual revenues in 1800. Jefferson was disgusted. Shortly after his being sworn in as the third President of the United States in 1801, the Pasha of Tripoli sent him a note demanding the immediate pay-ment of $225,000 plus $25,000 a year for every year forthcoming. That changed everything.

Jefferson let the Pasha know, in no uncertain terms, what he could do with his demand. The Pasha responded by cutting down the flagpole at the American consulate and declared war on the United States. Tunis, Morocco, and Algiers immediately followed suit.

Jefferson, until now, had been against America raising a naval force for anything beyond coastal defense, but having watched his nation be cowed by Islamic thuggery for long enough, decided that it was finally time to meet force with force. He dispatched a squadron of frigates to the Mediterranean and taught the Muslim of the Barbary Coast a lesson he hoped they would never forget.

Congress authorized Jefferson to empower U.S. ships to seize all vessels and goods of the Pasha of Tripoli and to cause to be done all other acts of precaution or hostility as the state of war would justify. When Algiers and Tunis, who were both accustomed to American cowardice and acquiescence, saw the newly independent United States had both the will and might to strike back, they quickly abandoned their allegiance to Tripoli.

The war with Tripoli lasted for 4 more years, and raged up again in 1815. The bravery of the U.S. Marine Corps in these wars led to the line to the shores of Tripoli in the Marine Hymn, They would forever be known as "leathernecks" for the leather collars of their uniforms, designed to prevent their heads from being cut off by the Muslim scimitars when boarding enemy ships.

Islam, and what its Barbary followers justified, doing in the name of their prophet and their god, disturbed Jefferson quite deeply. America had a tradition of religious tolerance. In fact, Jefferson himself, had co-authored the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, but funda-mentalist Islam was like no other religion the world had ever seen.

A religion based on supremacy, whose holy book not only condoned but mandated violence against unbelievers was unacceptable to him. His greatest fear was that someday this brand of Islam would return and pose an even greater threat to the United States.

This should bother every American and Canadian. That the Islamic "religion" has brought about women-only classes and swimming times at taxpayer-funded universities and public pools; that Christians, Jews, and Hindus have been banned from serving on juries where Muslim defendants are being judged, Piggy banks have been banned from workplaces because they offend Islamist sensibilities.

Ice cream has been discontinued at certain Burger King locations because the picture on the wrapper looked similar to the Arabic script for Allah. It's death by a thousand cuts, or inch-by-inch as some refer to it, and most Americans and Canadians have no idea that this battle is being waged every day across America and Canada. By not fighting back, by allowing groups to obfuscate what is really happening, and not insisting that the Islamists adapt to our own culture, the United States and Canada are cutting their own throat with the politically correctness knife, and helping to further the Islamic / Muslim agenda. Sadly, it appears that today North America would rather be politically correct than victorious.

Any doubts regarding this history lesson, just Google Thomas Jefferson vs the Muslim World or click on this link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Barbary_War

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it! Also remember Muslims are ordered to "lie, cheat, steal and murder or do anything that advances the takeover of the world by the Muslims." Let that sink in as every day we see more and more Muslims showing up and taking high level positions in our state and federal government. What happened to common sense?

Confirmation links:

www.history.com/this-day-in-history/to-the-shores-of-tripoli

History of the Muslim Brotherhood Penetration of the U.S. Government:

www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3672/muslim-brotherhood-us-government

Jurors: www.nationalreview.com/corner/342749

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Tunnel Used by Jews in Lithuania to Escape Was Uncovered:  A tunnel in Lithuania used by Jews to escape the Nazis during World War II has been uncovered by an international research team. The Israel Antiquities Authority announced the discovery last week. The tunnel used by the prisoners of Ponar to escape from the Nazis was located using the new technology Electric Resistivity Tomography. Some 100,00 people, of whom 70,000 were Jews from Vilna and the surrounding area, were massacred and thrown into pits in the Ponar forest near the Lithuanian capital during World War II. With the retreat of the German forces on the eastern front and the advance of the Red Army, a special unit was formed in 1943 with the task of covering up the evidence of the genocide. In Ponar this task was assigned to a group of 80 prisoners from the Stutthof concentration camp.

At night the prisoners, whose legs were shackled, were held in a deep pit, previously used for the execution of Vilna’s Jews, while during the day they worked to hide the mass graves and burn the corpses. The prisoners knew that once they finished their task, they too would be killed. Some of the workers decided to escape by digging a tunnel from the pit that was their prison. For three months they dug the tunnel using only spoons and their hands. On the night of 15 April 1944, the prisoners cut their leg shackles with a nail file, and 40 of them crawled through the narrow tunnel. They were quickly discovered by the guards and many were shot. Some 15 managed to cut the fence of the camp and escape into the forest. Eleven reached the partisan forces and survived the war. After World War II the location of the tunnel was lost, and several unsuccessful attempts were made to find it. NOVA is planning to screen a documentary on the history of the Jews of Vilna and the discovery of the tunnel in 2017. (JTA)

Editor's Note: Over 90% of the Jews of Lithuania were murdered by the Nazis and their non-German collaborators during World War II. Prior to World War II, the city of Vilna in Lithuania was considered the "Jerusalem" of Europe because of the large number of Jewish scholars. RAC

The Real Terror Threat in America is Homegrown, Peter Bergen, CNN, 7/5/2016

Note: "Peter Bergen is CNN's national security analyst, a vice president at New America and a professor of practice at Arizona State University."

Every lethal terrorist attack in the United States in the past decade and a half has been carried out by American citizens or legal permanent residents, operating either as lone wolves or in pairs, who have no formal connections or training from terrorist organizations such as al Qaeda or ISIS.

Because 9/11 was carried out by 19 Arab foreign-born terrorists, many Americans may think that terrorist attacks in the United States are carried out by foreigners, rather than by U.S. citizens. But Omar Mateen, who carried out the deadliest terrorist attack in the United States since 9/11, is an American citizen who was born in New York to parents who immigrated to the United States from Afghanistan.

In fact, since 9/11, a plot which was directed by al Qaeda from Afghanistan and involved only foreign operatives, the real terror threat in the United States has been American citizens or legal permanent residents such as the Tsarnaev brothers, who carried out the Boston Marathon bombings in 2013, and Nidal Hasan, the U.S. Army major who killed 13 at Fort Hood, Texas, four years earlier.

In other ways, Mateen is also typical of jihadist terrorists in the States. He was on the radar of the FBI as a possible militant, just as Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was investigated by the bureau because of a tip from the Russian government in 2011 that he might be a militant. Similarly, Nidal Hasan came to the attention of the FBI a year before he carried out the massacre at Fort Hood because he was in frequent email contact with a militant cleric in Yemen.

Mateen was investigated by the FBI in 2013 for inflammatory comments he made to co-workers and a year later because of his connections to Moner Abu Salha, an al Qaeda recruit who grew up in Vero Beach, Florida, and who died in a suicide attack in Syria in 2014 on behalf of the Nusra Front, al Qaeda's Syrian affiliate.

But in the end, the FBI did not pursue cases against Mateen, Tsarnaev or Hasan.  ...

Editor's Note: While it is true that all of the above terrorists were either US citizens legal residents of the USA, it should be noted that all of them were also Muslims. It should be also noted that most Muslims are not terrorists, although most terrorists are indeed Muslims.

Love and Jihad in Kindergarten: The writer is the son of Richard Lakin, who was murdered by Palestinian terrorists in Jerusalem in October 2015: “Here is a picture from my daughter's nursery school graduation in Tel Aviv this week. In the background is a mural depicting children of various cultures. The Hebrew caption reads: ‘Children all around the world hold hands.’ My daughter and her friends are holding traditional Arab drums called Darbuka and demonstrating how they learned to count in Arabic. We are educating our children in the core values of diversity, pluralism, love, and mutual respect. The second picture is from a kindergarten play in Gaza. Two boys point guns at the head of a third child who kneels on the ground, his hat adorned with a blue and white Star of David. Tragically, this is a typical Palestinian elementary school. They are teaching their children to hate and to kill. As long as radical Islamists continue to teach this to their children, terror will continue to spread throughout the Western world.

“My late father taught me that every child is a precious that should be nurtured, not poisoned. Have a look again at the mural on the wall in my daughter’s school: you will notice iconic images of London, Paris, New York, Rome and Mumbai. For us, these are centers of culture and history. For the ISIS, Al Qaida, Boko Haram, Hezbollah, Hamas and all other Jihadists, these are targets. If we want to stop the terror, we must demand that all of our Muslim brothers teach their children the core values of freedom, love, and mutual respect. And we must hold accountable those who fail to do so. (Times of Israel)

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Undivided Jerusalem”: Gop Platform Reworded To Be Unashamedly Pro-Israel by Sean Savage

The Republican Party has reportedly reinstated language endorsing an “undivided” Jerusalem into the party’s platform ahead of its national convention in Cleveland later this month. According to CNN, which cited a first draft of the party platform that it obtained, the Republicans would reinstate a reference to an “undivided” Jerusalem while removing a reference to “Palestine” in support for a two-state solution.

Obama Admin. Sent Taxpayer Money To Campaign To Oust Netanyahu by Stephen Dinan

The State Department paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxpayers grants to an Israeli group that used the money to build a campaign to oust Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in last year’s Israeli parliamentary elections, a congressional investigation concluded Tuesday.

Messianic Organization Awarded in Israeli Knesset   by David Lazarus

www.IsraelToday.co.il (a Messianic magazine)

Messianic Organization awarded in Knesset

Be’ad Chaim, a Messianic pro-life and women’s health organization has received an award from the Israeli government for their “significant contribution to the protection of mothers and children.” What began as a small Messianic prayer group, has blossomed into a nationally recognized women’s health organization.

It began back in the 1980’s, when Messianic Pastor Tony Sperandeo, together with other local believers, initiated a fight against what they called “the shedding of innocent blood” in Israel. They started a regular prayer meeting, lectured in congregations across the land, and passed out fliers on street corners teaching people that abortion is a sin against God, and against our own people.

Today the organization is having a significant impact for change in Israeli society as social workers, welfare officials and needy families around the country refer mothers with unborn children and crisis pregnancies to one of Be’ad Chaim’s 12 offices.

“It is very significant in our short history that a Messianic Jewish organization is now recognized as a well-known, humanitarian organization in Israel,” Sandy Shoshani (pictured, left), director of Be’ad Chaim, told Israel Today upon receiving the award. “I am humbled, honored and appreciate all those who went before me.”

Editor's Note: Those wishing to contribute to this worthy cause of saving Israeli babies can send their contributions to:

Be'ad Chaim, P.O. Box 2623, Jerusalem 91026-01, ISRAEL www.beadchaim.com

Christian Refugees In Germany
Report High Levels Of Religious
Violence, KATE SHELLINE
GATESTONE INSTITUTE, July 13, 2016

Sharing resettlement centers with Muslims can be dangerous for Christian asylum-seekers, Open Doors reports. As the million-plus refugees who fled to Germany last year settle into packed group homes and culture-clashed neighborhoods, Christian migrants face ongoing harassment from the Muslims they live alongside.

Open Doors Germany reported Monday that three-quarters of resettled Christian refugees—as many as 40,000 people—had experienced repeated attacks due to their faith.

The ministry surveyed 230 refugees, most of them men in their 20s who converted to Christianity from Islam in their home countries. Respondents told of insults, threats, violence, and sexual abuse; 86 said they had suffered bodily harm from fellow refugees and staff at the resettlement centers. “These figures are just the tip of the iceberg,” stated Open Doors, which conducted the survey with several partnering organizations in the country.

Germany’s refugees bring their religious tensions with them. Christians make up a small percentage of asylum-seekers from countries like Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Surrounded by Muslims and their religious practices—including the daily prayers, announced across the centers—Christians stick out as the exception, becoming easy targets for mockery and worse offenses.

Open Doors and its partners are lobbying for separate resettlement areas to protect Christians and other religious minorities, like Yazidis, and better training for security staff to help keep the peace. Germany, though, does not currently register refugees’ religious affiliation ...

The Arabs' Historic Mistakes
FRED MAROUN, gatestoneinstitute.org, July 2016

· We Arabs managed our relationship with Israel atrociously, but the worst of all is the ongoing situation of the Palestinians. Our worst mistake was in not accepting the United Nations partition plan of 1947.

· Perhaps one should not launch wars if one is not prepared for the results of possibly losing them.

· The Jews are not keeping the Arabs in refugee camps, we are.

· Jordan integrated some refugees, but not all. We could have proven that we Arabs are a great and noble people, but instead we showed the world, as we continue to do, that our hatred towards each other and towards Jews is far greater than any concept of purported Arab solidarity....

Pakistan: Arms Chopped Off for Not Embracing Islam

Kaleem Dean www.clarionproject.org

Daily, in Pakistan, horrific incidents of persecution of Christians occur. Most are not reported; the few that are get picked up by local media. Christian human rights organizations try to support the victims and publicize the atrocities. Here are two recent incidents that were publicized:

A young Christian man had his arms chopped off in Pakistan for refusing to convert to Islam. Aqeel Masih was working at a gas station in Lahore. Masih had been continually subjected to pressure by his Muslim co-workers – including senior management -- to leave his faith and convert to Islam.

Frustrated that Masih insisted on refusing to convert, the workers kidnapped him and held in a secret location increasing their tactics. In a rage due to Masih’s steadfast refusal to accept Islam, 3 to 4 Islamist extremists chopped off both of his arms and left him in the road to bleed to death.

Masih was discovered by a group of people who, unaware that he had been attacked because of his refusal to convert of Islam, took him to the hospital where he remained recovering for the next three weeks.

When he was released from the hospital, Masih, along with family members went to the police. By that time, newspaper reporters had heard of the atrocity and were already at the police station trying to get information on the incident. However, the police prevented them from asking Masih any questions.

Noting the seriousness of the case, the police dutifully registered the complaint against the owner and employees of the gas station. However, to date, no arrests have been made. The police have forbidden Masih to talk the press.

Although the incident was not reported in the national media, it has been picked up by local Christian media and human rights groups.

In another case, Jhura Masih, a Christian father of 10 children was working for a Muslim landlord Muhammad Naveed from whom he took a loan of equaling $540. After six months, when the load was due, Masih was only able to pay back a little over half of the loan.

After requesting a week’s extension on the due date for the balance, which Naveed refused, Masih returned home to discuss the situation with family members. That same evening, Naveed appeared with a group of men armed with guns. After destroying his house, torching his donkey cart and other belongings, they started firing. The gunmen targeted Masih’s son, who survived unharmed, but Masih sustained a serious bullet wound in his hand.

The angry mob tried to lynch Masih’s daughters, but local villagers protected the girls. When Masih reported the incident to the police, they refused to register the complaint telling Masih to first heal his hand and then settle the debt.

However, because of the seriousness of a gunshot wound, the police were forced to register the case. However, as is all too common when Christians are attacked in Pakistan, no arrests have been made.

Kaleem Dean is human rights activist and journalist from Pakistan. He currently lives in the UK. Write to him at Kaleem.Dean@mail.com

New British PM Theresa May Has History of Strong Support for Israel, Jewish Community - Thursday, 14 July 2016 | British Prime Minister Theresa May, who rose to her office on Wednesday after the resignation of David Cameron, has a long history of support for Israel and other Jewish causes, forecasting continued warm relations between Israel and the United Kingdom. May served as Home Secretary (responsible for immigration, security, and the justice system) for six years, and showed herself to be “a long-standing friend of Israel and the Jewish community,” former Israeli Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Daniel Taub, told The Jerusalem Post. May was a strong supporter of “efforts to deepen British-Israel ties in the area of homeland security, and also very receptive to the concerns of the Jewish community regarding anti-Semitism and violent extremism,” Taub said. Source: BridgesforPeace.com

Pro-Israel Boris Johnson Appointed Britain’s New Foreign Secretary:  Former London Mayor Boris Johnson was on 13 July 2016, appointed as Britain’s new Foreign Secretary in PM Theresa May's cabinet. Johnson will represent Britain abroad on the world stage. Johnson is known for his pro-Israel stances. In late 2015, he visited Tel Aviv, where he blasted boycotters of Israel. "The supporters of this so-called boycott are a bunch of corduroy-jacketed lefty academics," he said at the time. "I cannot think of anything more foolish than to say that you want to have any kind of divestment or sanctions or boycott, against a country that is the only democracy in the region, the only place that has a pluralist open society," added Johnson. In 2012, Johnson expressed his support for a moment of silence at the London Olympics to remember the Munich Massacre of 12 Israeli athletes, even after the International Olympic Committee rejected the idea. And, several months ago, he rapidly acted at the request of MK Yair Lapid, to remove an anti-Israel campaign targeting London's underground system. (Arutz-7) Source: www.visionforisrael.com

Muslim Leader Welcomes Building of 3^rd Temple Israel Today News 7/8/16

Mr. Adnan Oktar, a prominent Muslim opinion leader from Turkey, welcomed a delegation of rabbis and politicians from Israel for the iftar dinner he hosted in Istanbul on June 22, 2016.  Mr. Oktar's guests from Israel also appeared on his live program on the A9 television channel, and applauded Mr. Oktar's unwavering efforts to end anti-Jewish sentiment in Turkey.

The program saw important statements on relations between Israel and Turkey, peace in the region and the world, and in particular on the friendship between Muslims and Jews. Mr. Adnan Oktar explained that the days when the Prophet Solomons Masjid and Palace (Solomons Temple) will be rebuilt in an atmosphere of global peace and tranquility are at hand. Rabbi Ben Abrahamson, who is a historian and consultant to the Sanhedrin regarding issues related to Islam, emphasized that the rebuilding of the Temple is a very good development for all mankind. 

Mr. Oktar said that Muslims, Jews and Christians share many common values and the current opposition was a ploy of Satan. He said people of reason who are full of love should come together and enourage peace and love. Lets pray more Muslim leaders speak like Mr Oktar.

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Terror Attack in Nice: First They Came for the Jews: Best-selling novelist Jack Engelhard writes a regular column for the Israel daily, Arutz Sheva. Engelhard said in the aftermath of the latest terrorist attack in Nice, France on Bastille Day (July 14): “It is fanatical Islam that has got the entire civilized world in retreat and it all began in Israel. From one Palestinian Arab terrorist attack to another, going back decades, the “international community” kept telling the Israelis that they must not answer with force, but rather they must respond with appeasement. Go forth, said the UN and the USA State Department - reason with those people who have so many complaints. Yet every peace gesture was met with more demands and more terror and the world refused to figure it out, that it has nothing to do with land, only to commit bloodshed for the sake of bloodshed. There is no reasoning with people who have grievances against EVERYBODY.

“The civilized world sat back comfortably thinking that the problem was Israel’s problem, so let the Jews worry. But now the French are worried. The Germans are worried. The British are worried. The entire planet is worried upon one final realization: That the problem was never about Israel, after all. Israel was merely a laboratory for Radical Islam. From the hands of Hamas or Fatah or Hezbollah or whatever they call themselves, they are Radical Muslims and over the years they murdered thousands of Israeli civilians by use of the gun, the knife, the suicide belt; any explosive would do, and now it’s the automobile. At this time French President Hollande is addressing the nation and the world.

He says something must be done about the borders. Something must be done to keep the savages (my term) from coming in. (Trump’s message from the start.) Yet it was this same French President who last week called for a summit that would bring Israel and the Palestinians Arabs to the “peace table.” Is he calling for a peace summit with whoever came to Nice to mow down hundreds of celebrants? Hollande and the rest of the EU (minus the UK) keep insisting on a two-state solution – for Israel and only Israel. Will Hollande be willing to divide France after what just happened? Has he figured out how to reason with savages?” (Arutz-7)

Teens Encouraged to Aim For 'Martyrdom' Honor Roll:  Schools have honor rolls that list students who reach certain grade levels or achievements, cities sometimes even acknowledge the accomplishments of their local star performers. So does the Palestinian Authority, which cites those who achieve martyrdom. “Sixteen succeeded the martyrdom (shahada) of the homeland and withstood its difficult tests, for death as a martyr is the path to excellence and greatness, and the path of those who know how to reach the great victory,” said WAFA, the official PA news agency. The encouragement to students was cited by the Palestinian Media Watch as well as the Middle East Media Research Institute.

PMW’s Itamar Marcus wrote, “Since fear of death is a natural inhibiting factor to participating in violence and terror, to mitigate this fear, the Palestinian Authority educates its children that death as a martyr should not be feared. Martyrdom, the PA teaches, is the highest achievement and is more valuable and more rewarded than life itself.” PMW noted that Palestinian terrorists over 2015 and 2016 murdered 40 and injured more than 500. But it pointed out that the teens who died mostly died while attempting violence unsuccessfully. (WND)

Source: Vision for Israel, P.O. Box 7265
Jerusalem, 9107301, Israel

www.visionforisrael.com

French Lawmakers Told How Bataclan Terrorists Tortured, Disemboweled Victims:  A French government committee has heard testimony, suppressed by the French government at the time and not published until this week, that the killers in the Bataclan terrorist attack tortured their victims on the second floor of the night club. The chief police witness in Parliament said that an investigating officer, tears streaming down his face, rushed out of the Bataclan and vomited in front of him just after seeing the disfigured bodies. According to this testimony, terrorists gouged out eyes, castrated victims, and shoved their testicles in their mouths. They also reportedly disemboweled some poor souls. Women were stabbed in the genitals – and the torture was, victims told police, filmed for ISIS propaganda. For that reason, medics did not release the bodies of torture victims to the families, investigators said. (Fox) 

Yes, The Saudi Government Helped the 9/11 Terrorists: The missing 28 pages on 9/11, recently disclosed, were kept under lock and key for 15 years: They show the hijackers got help across America from Saudi diplomats and spies in the run-up to the attacks. A CIA memorandum dated 2 July 2002, stated unequivocally that the connections found between the hijackers, the Saudi embassy in Washington and Saudi consulate in Los Angeles are “incontrovertible evidence that there is support for these terrorists within the Saudi government.” Numerous FBI files also fingered two Saudi government employees who assisted the 9/11 hijackers as “Saudi intelligence officers,” the documents reveal. They also show the Saudi government’s ties to the hijackers and other al Qaeda suspects were so extensive that the FBI’s Washington field office created a special squad to investigate the Saudi angle.

But this special focus on Saudi Arabia occurred belatedly, only after the 9/11 attacks, “due to Saudi Arabia’s status as an American ‘ally.’” The explosive information was locked up in a top-secret, highly secured room in the basement of the USA Capitol for the past 15 years, ostensibly to protect the Kingdom from embarrassment. That means for 15 years, 9/11 victims and their families have been denied by their own government critical evidence they’ve sought to sue the Saudi government for responsibility in the death of their loved ones. It also means Washington has misled the American people about foreign sponsorship of 9/11. We were led to believe that 15 Saudi nationals who barely spoke English received no help while in America; that they operated in isolation. It was all a monstrous lie. (NY Post)

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Transgender Ban Lifted: The final barriers against LGBT? individuals serving in the US military are being lifted by Defense Secretary Ashton Carter. The Pentagon will now allow transgender people to serve openly in the US military. Officials will be issuing new rules regarding restrooms, showers, physical fitness requirements, etc. There are already thousands of transgender individuals serving in the military. They will be offered hormone therapy and gender-reassignment surgery, paid for by the US taxpayers. (The Week, July 15, 2016, p.7.)

Editor's Comment: That last item is really offensive. Taxpayers should not be forced to pay for "gender-reassignment surgery" to transform a man into a woman or a woman into a man. This isn't even possible. Our military is being used as a laboratory for social experimentation. I'm not sure this is good for our defenses.

Israel Passes Law to Protect

Christians in IDF  David Lazarus

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The Knesset passed a bill in July designed to protect Arab Christians who enlist in the Israeli army. The law became necessary in the face of stiff opposition and violent attacks against the Christian soldiers.

There are over 130,000 Christian Arab citizens in Israel, a potential source of significant recruitment for the IDF (Israel Defense Forces). However, Arab Christian enlistment has been severely limited due largely to the threats and incitement against young Christians wanting to join the army. That appears to be changing as unprecedented numbers of Christians are enlisting.

Father Gabriel Naddaf, a Greek Orthodox priest who has advocated for a strong connection to Israel and IDF service for Christian Arabs, has also been threatened with violence, and even death. His 17-year-old son was attacked in Nazareth. The attacker was identified as an activist from the Arab Hadash party in Israel’s Knesset. Other Arab MKs have also condemned Naddaf, calling him “an agent of Zionism who seeks to divide Arabs.” 

It was a bold and dangerous decision by the Israeli government to encourage Arab Christians to enlist in the IDF. Now that the government has passed a bill putting into law protections for the Arab Christians who want to serve in the army, a clear message has been sent to the rabble-rousers stirring up violence between Jews and Arabs in the country;  they will be punished. 

Our prayer is that this bold message will contribute to greater integration and cooperation between the many Jews and Arabs who want to live together, and serve together, in Israel

Various governments around the world are busy trying to prevent something called Islamophobia. Whenever there is an Islamic terror attack against innocent civilians, the big fear is that this attack might provoke Islamophobia.

I do believe that it is wrong to mistreat anybody based on their race, religion, or ethnicity. However, the primary emphasis today seems to be Islamophobia. The media discuss the rising number of incidents committed against Muslims. And yes, it is wrong to attack innocent Muslims.

Most Muslims are peaceful, law-abiding citizens, and should be allowed to live their lives in peace and harmony with those around them. However, it should also be noted that most terrorists today happen to be Radical Islamists of the most dangerous kind.

Much more should be said about the rising levels of attacks against those of other religions and ethnicities. There has been a rapid rise in anti-Semitism and attacks against Jews in recent years. In the USA, far more Jews than Muslims have been attacked. And who is attacking Jewish people? Most of these attacks have come from the Muslim community. Only 1% of the US population is Muslim, yet this religious community is committing most of the acts of anti-Semitism.

The government of President Barack Obama refuses to even recognize that there is such a thing as Islamic terrorism. Words such as "Islamic terrorism" and "Jihad" have been totally expunged from the government vocabulary. The mass killings at Fort Hood and San Bernardino are called "workplace violence."

We have it pretty good compared to many other countries around the world. After Israel became a nation in 1948, over one million Jewish refugees living in Islamic nations were forced from their homes with little more than the shirts on their backs. Many went to Europe, but far more went to Israel. Israel enabled them to become productive parts of Israeli society, despite the extreme poverty and threats of war and terrorism that Israel experienced at that time.

Contrast that with Palestinian "refugees." Israel begged the Arab inhabitants of Israel to remain as peaceful citizens of the new nation of Israel. However, Arab armies demanded that the Arabs leave, so that the invading Arab armies could kill all the Jews without collateral damage to any Arabs. These Arabs could then return after the defeat of Israel, and take over the properties of the dead Jews. Hundreds of thousands of Arabs did just that. However, Israel won her war of independence, despite astronomical odds against such a victory. The Arabs who left, and their descendants, are the Palestinian "refugees" of today, kept in refugee camps as bargaining chips against Israel.

In more recent years, we have seen an Islamic genocide against people of other faiths, particularly Christians and Yazidis. These unfortunate people have been suffering horrendously at the hands of the Islamists, often being tortured to death, crucified, or forced into sex slavery and forced marriages with their persecutors.

Muslims, of course, can't even get along with each other, as we have seen with the bloodbaths between Sunnis and Shiites, as well as ISIS and other terror organizations. Millions of Islamic females have suffered the crime of female genital mutilation, as well as "honor killings." Homosexuals in Islamic countries are hung, shot, or dropped from the tops of tall buildings.

While the primary emphasis is on Islamophobia, Europe is now suffering epidemics of crime, rape, terror attacks, and various other assaults from Muslims who were welcomed into the various countries of Europe as refugees and economic migrants. They have a funny way of showing gratitude. We certainly do not want this happening in the USA.

While it might be wrong to exclude all Muslims seeking to come to the USA, we should at minimum exclude Muslims who carry their ancient hatreds of Christians and Jews. Any Muslim who want to spread his faith by violent jihad should be kept out. Any Muslim who wants Sharia law should be allowed to have it by being sent on a plane to a country that already has Sharia law. Any Muslim that celebrates Islamic terrorism should not be allowed to continue to live in this country. I'm not sure of the legality if these happen to be US citizens. However, if special laws or new constitutional amendments are required for such procedures, then perhaps it is time to start before the problems become more dangerous than they are today. Locking the henhouse after the fox has already entered would be ineffective.

Finally, we need a president who isn't afraid to mention terms like Islamic terror and jihad. When the world went to war against Nazi Germany, people weren't afraid to identify the enemy. We didn't simply go to war against terror. We identified the source of that terror.

~ Richard 'Aharon' Chaimberlin

Clinton V.P. Tapped Pro-Terror Muslim Leader For Immigration Seat: Virginia Senator Tim Kaine is the Democratic Party’s Vice Presidential nominee. The pick has drawn fire from the pro-Israel community due in part to Kaine’s robust support for the Iran nuclear deal, his boycott of Israeli Prime Minister's Netanyahu’s address to Congress in 2015, and his ties to a left-wing NGO. Now, a controversial appointment made during his tenure as Governor of Virginia has raised new questions about this self-described “strongly pro-Israel Democrat.”

In 2007, then-Governor Kaine appointed Esam Omeish, a Libyan-born physician and then-president of the Muslim American Society, to Virginia’s Immigration Commission. This came despite Omeish’s history of ties and expressions of support for radical Islam and Jihadist terrorism. Omeish is a long-time member of the Board of Directors of the Dar Al Hijrah mosque, which two of the 19 terrorists responsible for the 9/11 terror attacks attended, as friends of the mosque’s imam. That imam was Anwar al-Awlaki, the radical Salafist cleric who later fled the USA and joined Al-Qaeda, after settling in Yemen.

But Omeish was not merely a congregant at the Dar Al Hijrah mosque in 2000, he was vice president of the mosque and was responsible for hiring the radical cleric as the mosque’s imam. The Muslim American Society, then headed by Omeish, had close ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. In addition to Omeish’s ties to radical Islam, his recorded comments prior to the 2007 appointment by Governor Kaine made his support for Jihadist terror even more explicit.

During a 22 December 2000 speech at a Jerusalem Day Rally in Washington D.C., Omeish praised “the Jihad way” to “liberate your land.” "We, the Muslims of the Washington metropolitan area, are here today in subfreezing temperatures to tell our brothers and sisters in Palestine, that you have learned that the Jihad way is the way to liberate your land. And we, by standing here today, despite the weather, and despite anything else, are saying we are with you, we are supporting you, and we will do everything we can to help your cause."

In 2004, Omeish explicitly praised Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. Governor Kaine’s selection of Omeish was highly criticized by state Republicans, who said the governor had failed to properly vet the appointee. Kaine and his administration initially brushed off the criticism as mere Islamophobia. Presumptive Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine was also one of only 17 senators in April 2016 not to sign a letter urging President Obama to increase the USA military aid package to Israel. (Arutz-7)

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Marion Le Pen: 'Either We Kill Islamism or It Will Kill Us'

by Raheem Kassam www.meforum.org

French MP Marion Le Pen, the niece of France's Front National leader Marine Le Pen, has been a relentless critic of Islamism. Marion Maréchal Le Pen, the 26-year-old niece of France's Front National leader Marine Le Pen has urged her fellow countrymen to join the military in a series of tweets following the beheading of a priest in Normandy on 26 July 2017.

Reacting to the incident, Ms. Le Pen took to her Twitter account to double down on her message from just a few days before, and just after the attacks in Nice. She said on Sunday: "Either we kill Islamism or it will kill us... You are with us and against Islamism, or you are against us and for Islamism... Those who choose the status quo become complicit with our enemies."

Her comments herald yet another ramping up of her party's action against Islamism and the threat faced by ordinary French people. She said: "Faced with the threat that weighs on the France, I decided to join the military reserve. I invite all the young patriots to do the same," followed by: "In the West as in the East, Christians must stand up to resist Islam!"

She added: "They kill our children, murdering our policemen and slaughter our priests. Wake up!" Marine Le Pen's approval ratings rose after the Nice attacks, though the media chose instead to focus on how the current President who faces an election next year, Francois Hollande, remained popular.

Marion Le Pen, who is a deputy (Member of Parliament) in the Vaucluse region, has become an increasingly important figure in her party and in French politics lately. In an interview with the Telegraph, she said radical Islam is implacably opposed to the French secular way of life, stating: "We have a heritage of faith linked to secularity, and I would always defend that. It's quite opposite to the radical Islamic faith, which seeks to impose itself more and more on public life."

She continued: "The attacks that took place in France at the Bataclan [in Paris last November] were carried out by terrorists who infiltrated their way into the flood of immigrants arriving from Greece. "Free movement of goods and people is a way of feeding terrorism. France's migration policy has contributed to the explosion of radical Islam here and to the genesis of those terrorists who are born in France."

A devout Catholic, she defends comments made some time ago in which she said that "Islam should not have the same public space as Catholicism. "We have traditions, cultural influences that are Christian. France is not an Islamic country, and Islam should not have the same place in public life." ...