Nikki Haley What We Have Needed. Erdogan The Islamist's Putin. Remember Lt. Calley? David,s Sling and Hezbollah.

Being Jewish, I am particularly sensitive to the anti-Semitism that constantly spews out of the U.N. Thus I have been particularly pleased by the comments of Nikki Haley and the obvious support and encouragement she has received from her boss.

The U.N's hypocrisy should not be funded by American tax dollars and if this organization moved to a city where the food was bad its relevance would quickly decline.  (See 1 below.)

Trump can save billions by cutting out waste and money spent on needless policies,
overlapping entitlements, tax payer funding of special projects that benefit some politicians If he is serious about being a responsive guardian the time to begin is now. (See 2 below.)
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Obama considered Erdogan his closest friend.  Now this Turkish thug, the Islamic equivalent of Putin, is at war with the West. (See 3 below.)
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If this official is for real will he be tried and if found guilty sent to jail as the law dictates? I sincerely doubt it. Remember only Lt. Calley went to jail and everyone else went Scott Free.

I believe most government agencies were politicized by Obama and the intelligence community was among them.  We know the IRS, Justice Department and EPA were and soon, I believe, we will learn how deep it spread within the intelligence community.

What Obama did to America is far more destructive and dangerous than what Putin has done and Iran and N Korea will eventually. (See 4 below.)
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Another component of Israel's defensive shield now installed. (See 5 below.)

Meanwhile, Hezbollah threat to Israel being ignored by international community. (See 5a below.)
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1)Nikki Haley is kicking anti-Semites in the UN to the curb

By Andrea Peyser

Nikki Haley, the “new sheriff in town,’’ is taking no guff from anti-Semites disguised as Israel-haters infesting the United Nations, that den of obscene bigots and butcher-lovers that sits, like a giant middle finger pointing at America, on the East Side of Manhattan.

After years of being shuttled to the back of the proverbial bus, folks in the Jewish community, plus all who value freedom and decency, are breathing sighs of sweet relief. Say what you will about the administration of President Trump, its insiders have the Jewish state’s back.

With Haley’s ascent to the top of this country’s diplomatic heap, high-ranking UN officials and ambassadors are shaking in their Italian loafers.

Malcolm Hoenlein, CEO of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, told me, “They are taking threats to cut funding very seriously.’’

For Haley to “go into that arena of hostility, having someone stand up for Israel — it’s most reassuring to people everywhere,’’ enthused Rabbi Joseph Potasnik, executive vice president of the New York Board of Rabbis.

The married mother of two, 45, was confirmed by the Senate in January as the United States ambassador to the UN, whose headquarters sits uneasily on an “international’’ no-man’s-land that isn’t considered American soil.

Yet freeloading diplos show little gratitude toward US taxpayers for financing the party venue’s operational and peacekeeping budgets to the tune of more than $3.5 billion this year, by far the largest share paid by any member nation.

I have suggested that UN headquarters would be put to better use as luxury condos, perhaps with affordable units sprinkled in.

But suddenly, everything has changed.

Haley burst into the American Israel Public Affairs Committee Policy Conference in Washington, DC, Monday, kicking butt and taking names.

To Potasnik, she was a “rock star.’’

“The days of Israel-bashing are over,” she declared to enthusiastic applause.

“For anyone who says you can’t get anything done at the UN, they need to know there is a new sheriff in town”

She said, “I wear heels. It’s not for a fashion statement, it’s because if I see something wrong, we’re gonna kick ’em every time.’’ And so, she ushered in a new era of support for Israel, this country’s great ally in the Middle East. It’s the only democracy in the region and the only place there in which LGBT types live and love freely without fear of persecution or murder, women enjoy equal rights, and all people are free to worship, or not, as they choose.

And yet, many political progressives and naysayers, here and abroad, malign Israel to the point of wishing the country wiped from the map.

It makes zero sense.

Haley, the daughter of Indian Sikh immigrants, converted to Christianity and served as the Republican governor of South Carolina, finding her mojo as a defender of civil and human rights. She pushed for and won the removal of the Confederate battle flag, seen by many as a symbol of racism, from the grounds of the State House in 2015.

The same year, she became the first chief executive officer in the nation to sign a law banning her state’s government from doing business with any company participating in the anti-Israel boycott, divestment and sanctions movement — BDS — or with any firm discriminating “based on race, color, religion, gender or national origin of the targeted person or entity.”

The relationship between Israel and the administration of former President Barack Obama was strained, to put it mildly, culminating in the US joining in the Israel-threatening nuclear deal with Iran, and this country’s abstention from December’s UN Security Council vote condemning Israeli settlements. Haley described the move at AIPAC as “embarrassing” and “hurtful.”

Yet pro-Israel reps would not blame Obama entirely for the bad blood. “This hostility long preceded President Obama,’’ said Hoenlein.

This month, Haley demanded that a UN commission withdraw a report that described Israel as an “apartheid state’’ — trashing it for the self-defensive treatment of Palestinians. The fracas, and demands for retraction from the UN secretary-general, prompted Rima Khalaf, then-executive secretary of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, to resign her post. Good.

The report was yanked from the commission’s website.

Peace in the Middle East can only be achieved if both sides come together at the bargaining table, and the Palestinian side has refused to sit back down with the Israelis.

Haley understands that healing differences is as simple as that.

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EDITORIALS

The Runaway Entitlement Train

• Debtor Nation: In its latest long-term budget outlook, the Congressional Budget Office warns that our budget is seriously out of whack and endangers our nation's future. While the report will likely be ignored in Washington by politicians who like spending your money, American taxpayers would be wise to heed its message.
• The CBO has its issues as a prognosticator, especially when it comes to "scoring" congressional bills. But its long-term forecast for the budget is the equivalent of a horn sounding on a faraway train coming down the track: If you're on the track, you ignore the sound of that horn at your own peril.
• In recent years, we have engaged in often-bitter political debates over what in budget terms is small change, without addressing the bigger issue that we've built an unsustainable mess of a budget.
• The CBO's numbers are persuasive — and more than a little scary.
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• Right now, debt held by the public is about 77% of GDP. By 2047, if current trends hold, that will grow to 150% of GDP. Imagine having credit card debt more than 50% larger than your income. How would you pay it? That's where we'll be.
• We're being driven toward a kind of national bankruptcy, in which tax revenues over the next 30 years will rise from 17.8% of the economy to roughly 19.6%, while spending will soar from about 20.7% of GDP to a shocking 29.4%, leaving massive budget deficits of nearly 10% of GDP and soaring debts that will be difficult for an aging population with a shrinking workforce to pay off.
• From about $14 trillion now, our public debt would grow to over $90 trillion. Repeat: $90 trillion.
• What's driving this budget insanity? Entitlements. Social Security, Medicare, Disability, and interest on our growing debt. Those things together will grow from roughly 12% of GDP this year to almost 22% of GDP in 2047.
• So 75 cents of every dollar the government collects will go to those three programs. That doesn't leave much room for stuff like defense, infrastructure and all the other things government now does. And our national politics will turn into a long, vicious battle between those who get checks from the government, and those who don't. It won't be pretty.
• Is that how our government should work?
• As the CBO notes, if we wait even 10 years to address runaway spending, the tax increases or spending cuts required will have to be 50% larger than today to get the same results. As always seems to be the case, Congress has other, more-pressing priorities than entitlements right now. But the train's horn is blaring, and we're all sitting on the track. It's time to move.
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3) Erdogan's War on the West

by Burak Bekdil  Gatestone Institute

In 2005, the Turkish prime minister at the time, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, along with his Spanish 

counterpart, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, became the co-chairs of a United Nations-sponsored global effort that went by the fancy name "Alliance of Civilizations." Twelve years later, Zapatero is a retired politician, the Western world faces different flavors of Islamist-to-jihadist threats and Erdogan is at war with Western civilization.

Erdogan, who was labeled as the most virulent anti-Israeli leader in the world, once likened Israel's operations in Gaza to Hitler's: ("Those who condemn Hitler day and night have surpassed Hitler in barbarism.") Recently, Erdogan said that today's German practices -- presumably Germany's blocking Turkish politicians speaking at German rallies to support Erdogan's upcoming referendum in Turkey -- are "not different from the Nazi practices of the past." In another speech, he complained that "Nazism is alive in the West." For Erdogan, the Dutch are "spineless and ignoble" and "remnants of the Nazi past and fascists;" and the Netherlands, which lost more than 200,000 of its citizens during the German occupation in WWII, is a "banana republic."

To the European Union, which Turkey theoretically aspires to join, he said: "If there are any Nazis, it is you who are the Nazis."

Ironically, the Turkish ire against the West, in a recent row between several European capitals and Ankara (over Erdogan's ambitions to hold political rallies across Europe to address millions of Turkish expats), reveals the unmistakable and deep-rooted anti-Semitism among Erdogan's fans. Hundreds of Turkish protesters in the Dutch port city of Rotterdam hurled stones at the police and shouted "Allahu akbar" -- Arabic for "Allah is the greatest." Then, some in the crowd, in a protest that was exclusively a dispute between Turkey and the Netherlands, shouted "cancer Jews."

"We saw again that the word 'Jew' and 'homo' are curse words in these groups," said Esther Voet, the editor-in-chief of the Nieuw Israelietisch Weekblad.

Someone tweeted an embarrassing curse at François Hollande, the French president, mistaking his name for his nationality.

A gangster, who shot at a night club, defended himself by saying that he actually wanted to shoot at the Dutch consulate building.

For the lighter side of the Turkish ire, in another Dutch protest, Erdogan's fans cut, skewered and squeezed oranges -- orange is the color of the Dutch royal family. The Turkish Association of Red Meat Producers "deported" 40 Dutch Holstein cows back to Holland. In a similar move, a member of a district city council in Istanbul said that he would butcher a cow that came from the Netherlands in retaliation against the Dutch.

One could simply laugh and ignore the way the Turks express their anger at the Dutch, who deported an uninvited Turkish minister who intended to make a speech to the Turkish community in the Netherlands.

The official rhetoric in Ankara, however, unveils the irreversible incompatibility between the democratic cultures of Europe and Turkey. For Erdogan, "the spirit of fascism is running wild" in Europe. According to his foreign minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, Europe is "heading toward an abyss." And it is not just the rhetoric.

Not quite knowing where best to direct its anti-Western campaign Turkey blocked some military training and other work with NATO-partner countries, thereby obstructing NATO's 2017 rolling program of cooperation with non-EU countries. "This is childishly hostile," said one NATO state diplomat in Ankara.

Meanwhile, Turkey, instead of embracing Europe as an ally and future partner, seems to think that it can tame Europe by blackmailing it. Erdogan threatened to terminate a controversial agreement with the EU, sealed in March 2016 to stem the flow of tens of thousands of refugees from Turkey to Europe in return for financial aid and visa-free travel for Turks. The EU could "forget about the deal," Erdogan said half a year ago. Echoing Erdogan's threat, his interior minister, Suleyman Soylu, threatened the EU that the rich club would be shocked "if Ankara were to send 15,000 refugees to it every month. Minister Soylu said that he would "blow the minds" of EU leaders by sparking a fresh refugee crisis.

It was not without a reason that Turkey's Foreign Minister Cavusoglu did not talk about a "dispute," or a "diplomatic crisis," or "negotiations for a solution." He did talk about "religious wars."Part of the inflammatory anti-Western Turkish rhetoric and exploits may be aiming at luring an increasingly isolated and nationalistic voter base ahead of a critical referendum on April 16 that aims significantly to broaden Erdogan's presidential powers. But it is also about the fact that Erdogan views and portrays himself as the global champion of an opaque "Muslim cause," under Turkish [read: Erdogan's] caliphate-like leadership against the "hostile" West. As Islamists know that they cannot defeat the West by using hard power, it is about "soft jihad."

Erdogan has the answer: He urged Muslims across Europe to have big families to "fight the injustices of the West." And not just that:"Soon religious wars will break out in Europe," he said. "That's the way it's going." But how do Turkish (and other) Islamists think they can win future religious wars? How do they think their primary warfare instrument, soft power, would work for an ultimate Islamic victory over an "infidel" civilization?

Go live in better neighbourhoods. Drive the best cars. Live in the best houses. Make not three, but five children. Because you are the future of Europe. That will be the best response to the injustices against you.

Islamists like Erdogan do not dream of "conquering" infidel lands with fighter jets and tanks and bombs. In this "war of religion" their primary weaponry is demographic change in favor of Muslims.

It is time to recall the poem Erdogan recited at a public rally back in 1999: "The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers."

Burak Bekdil is an Ankara-based political analyst and a fellow at the Middle East Forum.

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Intelligence official who 'unmasked' Trump associates is 'very high up,' source says

By Malia Zimmerman, Adam Housley

The U.S. intelligence official who “unmasked,” or exposed, the names of multiple private citizens affiliated with the Trump team is someone “very well known, very high up, very senior in the intelligence world,” a source told Fox News on Friday. 

Intelligence and House sources with direct knowledge of the disclosure of classified names told Fox News that House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., now knows who is responsible -- and that person is not in the FBI.

For a private citizen to be “unmasked,” or named, in an intelligence report is extremely rare. Typically, the American is a suspect in a crime, is in danger or has to be named to explain the context of the report.

“The main issue in this case, is not only the unmasking of these names of private citizens, but the spreading of these names for political purposes that have nothing to do with national security or an investigation into Russia’s interference in the U.S. election,” a congressional source close to the investigation told Fox News. 

The unmasking of Americans whose communications apparently were caught up in surveillance under the Obama administration is a key part of an investigation being led by Nunes, who has come under fire from Democrats for focusing on that aspect. 

Nunes has known about the unmasking controversy since January, when two sources in the intelligence community approached him. The sources told Nunes who was responsible and at least one of the Trump team names that was unmasked. They also gave him serial numbers of reports that documented the activity.

This was long before Trump sent out his now-infamous March 4 tweets claiming then-President Barack Obama “wiretapped” Trump Tower during the 2016 election.

Nunes had asked intelligence agencies to see the reports in question, but was stonewalled.

He eventually was able to view them, but there was only one safe place to see the documents without compromising the sources’ identities -- the old executive office building on White House grounds, which has a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) required to view classified or top secret reports. The White House did not tell Nunes about the existence of the intelligence reports, but did help him gain access to the documents at his request, the source said.

The White House, meanwhile, is urging Nunes and his colleagues to keep pursuing what improper surveillance and leaks may have occurred before Trump took office. They’ve been emboldened in the wake of March 2 comments from former Obama administration official Evelyn Farkas, who on MSNBC suggested her former colleagues tried to gather material on Trump team contacts with Russia.

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said Friday her comments and other reports raise “serious” concerns about whether there was an “organized and widespread effort by the Obama administration to use and leak highly sensitive intelligence information for political purposes.”

“Dr. Farkas’ admissions alone are devastating,” he said.

Farkas parted ways with the White House in 2015 and defended herself on Twitter, saying she didn’t personally “give anybody anything except advice” on Russia information and wanted Congress to ask for facts. 

The communications collected from Trump team associates apparently were picked up during surveillance of foreign targets. But an intelligence source familiar with those targets said they were spied on long before Trump became the GOP presidential nominee in mid-July.

In addition, citizens affiliated with Trump’s team who were unmasked were not associated with any intelligence about Russia or other foreign intelligence, sources confirmed. The initial unmasking led to other surveillance, which led to other private citizens being wrongly unmasked, sources said.

"Unmasking is not unprecedented, but unmasking for political purposes ... specifically of Trump transition team members ... is highly suspect and questionable,” an intelligence source told Fox News. “Opposition by some in the intelligence agencies who were very connected to the Obama and Clinton teams was strong. After Trump was elected, they decided they were going to ruin his presidency by picking them off one by one."

Nunes first revealed on March 22 in a press conference that the U.S. intelligence community “incidentally collected” information on Trump’s transition team, putting the information and names into various intelligence reports. His committee had been investigating whether Russia interfered in the U.S. election as well as how names of private citizens from these reports were leaked. 

House Intelligence Ranking Member Adam Schiff, D-Calif., criticized Nunes for his handling of the investigation, claiming he should never have briefed Trump. Nunes apologized the following day, but said he briefed the president because the information he found was not related to Russia.

The minority members on the House Intelligence Committee were expected to visit a National Security Agency facility on Friday to view the same reports Nunes has seen, an intelligence source told Fox News.

Malia Zimmerman is an award-winning investigative reporter focusing on crime, homeland security, illegal immigration crime, terrorism and political corruption. Follow her on twitter at @MaliaMZimmerman

Adam Housley joined Fox News Channel (FNC) in 2001 and currently serves as a Los Angeles-based senior correspondent.

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DAVID'S SLING COMES ON LINE AS LATEST COMPONENT TO ISRAEL’S AIR DEFENSE SHIELD

BYANNA AHRONHEIM

Israel's medium-to-long-range missile interceptor is due to become fully operational on Sunday afternoon.

David’s Sling, the final piece of Israel’s air defense shield, came online Sunday afternoon.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman, Air Force Commander Maj.-Gen. Amir Eshel, Brig.-Gen. Zvika Haimovich, commander of the Aerial Defense Division and head of the US Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Navy Vice Admiral James D. Syring attended the launching ceremony.

Speaking ahead of the ceremony, Netanyahu said that "this afternoon we are going to make the anti-missile defense system David's Sling fully operational. It is important news, all of Israel's civilians have experienced the important achievement of the Iron Dome systems against strategic short-range missiles in the last campaign against Gaza."

"David's Sling is a system that covers the ranges in between, it has immense significance [when it comes to] Israel's security, and I would like to praise the people of the Defense Ministry, the IDF, research and development and all the other elements that acted to enable this system to be operational. We are defending the homefront,” he added.

In his speech he said that "David's Sling is cutting-edge technology that allows for us to protect the home front against our enemies. Those who threaten us put their own lives at risk."

Netanyahu added that just as King David protected us 3,000 year ago, we will continue to follow in his footsteps.

Netanyahu said today was a celebration not only for the air force to receive the new system but for the entire country.

Liberman: "When I look around the world there are 58 Arab countries with millions of people and I keep asking myself how do we deal with them. In 2016 alone Middle Eastern countries spent billions of dollars on military technology and so I tell myself that there is only one way to deal with this threat, with defense."

He added that while the financial costs of the project were extreme, "we have technology you cant find anywhere else in the world. Thanks to this system, we now have an answer to all of our enemies, to all those who threaten us."

Addressing Navy Vice Admiral James D. Syring, Netanyahu said that Israel is facing increasingly dangerous threats but together we can meet these challenges better than we can alone.

Syring, addressing the crowd, said that the delivery of this system was due to years of hard work and heralds a "new tier of aerial defense. It is an impressive day for an already impressive year," referring to projects and developments of several different systems.

"Israeli missile defenses have never been stronger and are poised to project Israeli citizens and the myriad of threats they face," Syring added.

Maj.-Gen. Amir Eshel stated during his speech that "we will continue to grow in our capabilities and defense abilities in a turbulent Middle East. From the ground to the sky the air force has grown and the new technology we received will bring the air force to a whole new level of defense for the State of Israel."

Eshel's speech however was cut short due to electrical outage. Prior to leaving the stage he jokingly added that "while the power might be out, these technologies will work, they will defend the State of Israel."

Israel’s air defenses currently include the Iron Dome, designed to shoot down short-range rockets and the Arrow system which intercepts ballistic missiles outside of the Earth’s atmosphere. The David’s Sling missile defense system is designed to intercept tactical ballistic missiles, medium- to-long-range rockets, as well as cruise missiles fired at ranges between 40 to 300km.

Together the systems will provide Israel will a comprehensive protective umbrella able to counter threats posed by both short and mid-range missiles used by terror groups in Gaza and Hezbollah as well as the threat posed by more sophisticated long-range Iranian ballistic missiles.

Netanyahu, referring to both US financial support for David's Sling and other areas, expressed gratitude for US support during "times when budgets are tight." 

"Today we are adding an additional system to Israel aerial defenses which will protect Israel and all its citizens."

The system comes online as tensions have risen along both the northern and Gaza border.

Hamas has threatened to retaliate against Israel following the assassination of a senior operative and Syria has threatened to fire Scud rockets towards Israel should the Jewish state continue striking targets in the war-torn country.

Hezbollah is known to have various long and medium-range missile systems, including the Iranian-made Fajr-5, the M-600 rockets, Zeizal-2, and the shorter-range M75 and Katyushas. But according to a senior IDF officer in the IAF’s Air Defense Division, the terror group is continuously working and acquiring missiles with larger warheads and longer range.

It is believed that in the next war with the Lebanese terror group Israel will be bombarded by thousands of rockets possessed by Hezbollah.

David’s Sling is a joint Israeli-US project, with Israel’s Rafael Advanced Defense Systems collaborating with American defense contractor Raytheon, which also produces the Patriot missile system. Other components of the system were developed by Elta- a subdivision of Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI)- which developed the system's radar, and the Elisra subdivision of Elbit Systems, which developed the command and control mechanisms.

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Col. Kemp: International community ignoring Hezbollah threat to Israel

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN

Former British commander with Friends of Israel Initiative says UK should consider preventing return of citizens who joined Islamic State. Countries that maintain relations with Iran and Lebanon need to focus on the threat of Tehran-directed Hezbollah attacking Israel, rather than wait for war to come and then point fingers, Col. (ret.) Richard Kemp, a former commander of British forces in Afghanistan, says.

“The purpose really [of my visit to Israel last year was] to determine what the current threat is and see how Israel can counter that threat,” he says. “We want to highlight to the international community that unless something is done to prevent Hezbollah under direction of Iran from attacking Israel – and Israel will respond, and there will be civilian casualties and Israel will be condemned by the international community – [this could happen, and we need] to give notice to the international community that this could happen, and that when it does happen the casualties are not Israel’s fault but Hezbollah’s.”

Last year, while Kemp was touring the Wingate Institute for Physical Education and Sports, south of Netanya, he came across an oil painting of the institute’s namesake, Orde Wingate. Wingate was a former British major-general who helped lead the pre-state Special Night Squads that played a role in training Jews who went on to found the Israeli army. Kemp decided the painting deserved better and paid to have it restored. In late March, after a visit to Israel as part of the Friends of Israel Initiative, he stopped by the institute to see the finished product.

Now back in England, he wants to emphasize how important it is that the world keep an eye on Hezbollah’s threats and Islamist terrorism.

He points to the UN resolution after the Second Lebanon War that has sought to end the militarization of southern Lebanon.

Security Council Resolution 1701 of 2006 sought to have the Lebanese army exercise full sovereignty and make it so that there would be no other weapons without the consent of the government on Lebanese territory, keeping the area “free of any armed personnel, assets and weapons other than those of the government of Lebanon.”

But this is being “completely ignored,” says Kemp. Pressure should be put on Lebanon to end Hezbollah’s arms buildup.

“No one seems to be even paying attention to the 100,000 missiles pointing at Israel’s civilian population.” He also argues that the international community should pressure Tehran, which supports Hezbollah, and points to the Iran nuclear deal that has resulted in billions of dollars being released to the Islamic Republic that empowers it and Hezbollah.

Kemp thinks the decision to leave the EU will make the UK more secure. This is especially true in light of the recent London terrorist attack, the first since 2013 and the most serious since the July 2005 bombings.

“The current estimate is that there are 3,000 active jihadists considered to be a threat by MI5 [Britain’s domestic counter-intelligence and security agency]; that same threat extends across the whole of Europe in France, Belgium and elsewhere, and the thing is complicated, one of the reasons the threat is there is because Islamic State has been allowed to continue to exist – its existence and defiance have inspired terrorists to act,” says the colonel.

The threat of lone-wolf terrorism, such as that carried out by London attacker Khalid Masood outside Parliament on March 22, will be minimized once the UK reestablishes its borders with the EU. “Currently we can’t control jihadists coming in from other EU countries; we have border controls, but if we know someone is an active jihadist then we can’t stop him coming here, so it gives our security services a problem monitoring those who travel.”

The future he envisions might entail a change in the law allowing the UK to stop those who volunteered for ISIS or other jihadist organizations from returning. “Does it make sense to allow them to come back into country after actively fighting with one of the most horrific terrorist organizations? Allowing them back puts their rights above the safety of other British citizens.”

He acknowledges that preventing UK citizens from returning, or interning them when they do, would be problematic and result in criticism abroad. “Would we rather have our people chopped up?” he asks, referring to the murder of British Army soldier Lee Rigby in London in 2013 by two Islamists who hacked him to death.

Kemp also thinks that Brexit will lead to better relations with Israel, since the UK will be searching for additional markets for trade. That is already happening, he points out. The British mission to the UN harshly criticized the UN Human Rights Council in late March for its 34th session that focused disproportionately on Israel. The UK has warned it may vote no on resolutions in the future unless the council deals with other pressing human rights issues.

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