I don't approve of political jokes. I've seen too many of them get elected.
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My friend Toameh writes about Fatah. (See 1 below.)
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The graphic story of the Obama years. (See 2 below.)
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Europe prefers doing business with the enemy and when Iraneventually bites their hand they will call on America to apply the bandage. Has Europe become a sanctuary continent? (See 3 below.)
And:
In my last memo I posted an op ed depicting why America's trade with China is vastly one sided, allows China to pick our intellectual property brains and even many Chinese officials believe they are unfair. The problem is the Chinese do not wish to give up the leverage their trade activity affords them so they will continue their fight to maintain their privileged position.
The American mass media hates Trump and therefore are more than ready to blame him for trying to right the ship and, of course, Schumer adds his weight because China's actions are putting pressure on Trump's economic allies/voters. In essence, both the mass media and Senator Schumer have positioned as an ally of China against our nation.
Talk about collusion, talk about treacherous behaviour, talk about disloyalty, talk about sleeping with the enemy all because they hate our president and are upset at having lost the presidency. How despicable.
This is the message Trump should be driving home when he ,justifiably, attacks the mass media for their lack of support, their total bias, their lack of basic patriotism as well as Schumer's Democrat lackeys who would rather win an election than defend our country which is their sworn duty and obligation.. Yes, beyond disgusting.
Finally:
I posted a link, in a recent memo, to a movie entitled "The End of a Nation." I challenge all to see it.
In essence what the movie proves is that The Democrat Party was the party of racism and segregation. There were 150 Dixiecrats in Congress, two were Republicans, Rep. Watson and Sen. Thurmond. The other 148 were affiliated with the Democrat Party.
I also have pointed out Democrats have been effective at blaming others for what they do and are. The "big switch" occurred when Democrats branded Nixon a racist because in the '60's he supported and ran a campaign supporting law and order and against drugs. Democrats branded/ morphed Nixon's campaign as racist yet, when he became president he passed the law entitled "Affirmative Action."
Go see this movie and watch a factual rendition of the truth. Then throw up for having swallowed decades of Democrat poison.
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I heard an interesting interview of Mona Sharon who just wrote a book entitled;" Sex Matters."
The author deals in facts and pointed out water freezes at 32 degrees. That is a scientific fact. When it comes to sex, feminists, not Suffragists, created gender identity and thus turned truths into subjective reality. Though feminists admit the anatomical reality of sex, everything else pertaining to sex becomes subjective. The author discussed the tragic harm feminists are causing . She attacks their support of abortion as defying the biological connection of mothering and says one day we will be embarrassed for supporting abortion.
She also attacks feminism for what it has done to masculinity. Men are different and are strong and sexually oriented. The key is to teach young males to channel their masculinity into positive behaviour just as young girls, who the author claims, use cutting words, need to have their behaviour re-channeled.
Men and women are different and efforts to argue they are not, and attempts to sell gender identity has been as destructive as PC'ism.
I have not read the book but it is one I believe I will.
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Today's voting sets the tone regarding turn out. This is what Mid Year Elections are basically about. If Republicans do not turn out and support Trump they will live to regret it and deserve all the backlash that will occur.
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1)FATAH WARNS HAMAS AGAINST REACHING TRUCE ACCORD WITH ISRAEL
The warning came amid unconfirmed reports that Israel and Hamas were close to reaching a long-term truce agreement.
The ruling Palestinian Fatah faction on Saturday warned Hamas against reaching a cease-fire agreement with Israel in return for humanitarian and economic aid to the Gaza Strip and said such a deal would be a “free gift to Israel.”
The warning came amid unconfirmed reports that Israel and Hamas were close to reaching a long-term truce agreement.
Fatah spokesman Osama Qawasmeh warned Hamas against striking such a deal with Israel “at the expense of national unity.”
He said such a deal would be considered a “free gift to Israel and another coup against the Palestinian people and their homeland.” He was referring to Hamas’s violent takeover of the Gaza Strip in 2007.
Qawasmeh said the No. 1 priority should be achieving Palestinian unity on the basis of previous agreements signed between Hamas and Fatah, and not a truce with Israel in return for humanitarian aid.
The Fatah spokesman expressed fear that the US and Israel would take advantage of a deal between Hamas and Israel to separate Gaza from the West Bank and impose US President Donald Trump's yet-to-be-announced plan for peace in the Middle East, which he charged, “is aimed at liquidating the Palestinian cause.”
In Jerusalem, the security cabinet is scheduled to meet on Sunday to discuss the mediation efforts.
Commenting on the reports about a possible truce between Hamas and Israel, senior PLO official Ahmed Majdalani said the purported deal was “incompatible with the size of the sacrifices” made by the Palestinians in Gaza.
Majdalani told the Palestinian Authority’s Voice of Palestine radio station that it could have been possible to lift the blockade on Gaza and achieve a ceasefire with Israel “without all these losses by achieving national unity” and ending the dispute between Hamas and Fatah.
The PLO official expressed fear that any deal between Hamas and Israel would come as a substitute for ending the Hamas-Fatah rivalry.
According to a report in the Hezbollah- affiliated Al-Akhbar
In the first stage, which it said would begin in a week, Palestinians would end “provocations” along the border between Gaza and Israel, including the launching of arson kites and incendiary balloons toward Israel, as well as halting Palestinian infiltrations into the country. In return, the report said, the Kerem Shalom border crossing with Israel and the Rafah border crossing with Egypt would be reopened permanently.
The next phase of the proposed truce agreement envisages improving the living conditions of Palestinians, lifting the blockade on Gaza and allowing all goods into the coastal enclave, as well as increasing the power supply, the report claimed.
The third phase would see the UN carry out various humanitarian projects in the Strip, it added.
The newspaper claimed that Hamas has agreed in principle to the idea of a truce, but has also asked for additional time for consultations among its top brass.
In a related development, PA Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah on Saturday renewed his call to Hamas to allow the PA government to assume its responsibilities in Gaza.
Hamdallah’s appeal came amid increased pressure from Egypt on Hamas and Fatah to end their differences and agree to the formation of a Palestinian unity government.
Hamdallah denied that his government was imposing economic sanctions on Gaza. “The Palestinian government spent $96 million in the Gaza Strip last month,” he disclosed.
Hamdallah said the “measures” the PA government took against 35,000 civil servants were “temporary,” adding: “All their rights are preserved.”
He was referring to the PA government’s decision to halt salaries to thousands of civil servants in the Gaza Strip and force thousands others into early retirement.
In response, Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said Hamdallah’s talk about “temporary” measures against civil servants was an “official confirmation” of his government’s “involvement in the blockade on the Gaza Strip.”
The PA prime minister called on all Palestinians to rally behind the Palestinian leadership headed by Mahmoud Abbas, “to face the challenges threatening our cause and national project, especially the so-called deal of the century” – a reference to Trump’s unseen peace plan.
The warning came amid unconfirmed reports that Israel and Hamas were close to reaching a long-term truce agreement.
Fatah spokesman Osama Qawasmeh warned Hamas against striking such a deal with Israel “at the expense of national unity.”
He said such a deal would be considered a “free gift to Israel and another coup against the Palestinian people and their homeland.” He was referring to Hamas’s violent takeover of the Gaza Strip in 2007.
Qawasmeh said the No. 1 priority should be achieving Palestinian unity on the basis of previous agreements signed between Hamas and Fatah, and not a truce with Israel in return for humanitarian aid.
The Fatah spokesman expressed fear that the US and Israel would take advantage of a deal between Hamas and Israel to separate Gaza from the West Bank and impose US President Donald Trump's yet-to-be-announced plan for peace in the Middle East, which he charged, “is aimed at liquidating the Palestinian cause.”
In Jerusalem, the security cabinet is scheduled to meet on Sunday to discuss the mediation efforts.
Commenting on the reports about a possible truce between Hamas and Israel, senior PLO official Ahmed Majdalani said the purported deal was “incompatible with the size of the sacrifices” made by the Palestinians in Gaza.
Majdalani told the Palestinian Authority’s Voice of Palestine radio station that it could have been possible to lift the blockade on Gaza and achieve a ceasefire with Israel “without all these losses by achieving national unity” and ending the dispute between Hamas and Fatah.
The PLO official expressed fear that any deal between Hamas and Israel would come as a substitute for ending the Hamas-Fatah rivalry.
According to a report in the Hezbollah- affiliated Al-Akhbar
In the first stage, which it said would begin in a week, Palestinians would end “provocations” along the border between Gaza and Israel, including the launching of arson kites and incendiary balloons toward Israel, as well as halting Palestinian infiltrations into the country. In return, the report said, the Kerem Shalom border crossing with Israel and the Rafah border crossing with Egypt would be reopened permanently.
The next phase of the proposed truce agreement envisages improving the living conditions of Palestinians, lifting the blockade on Gaza and allowing all goods into the coastal enclave, as well as increasing the power supply, the report claimed.
The third phase would see the UN carry out various humanitarian projects in the Strip, it added.
The newspaper claimed that Hamas has agreed in principle to the idea of a truce, but has also asked for additional time for consultations among its top brass.
In a related development, PA Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah on Saturday renewed his call to Hamas to allow the PA government to assume its responsibilities in Gaza.
Hamdallah’s appeal came amid increased pressure from Egypt on Hamas and Fatah to end their differences and agree to the formation of a Palestinian unity government.
Hamdallah denied that his government was imposing economic sanctions on Gaza. “The Palestinian government spent $96 million in the Gaza Strip last month,” he disclosed.
Hamdallah said the “measures” the PA government took against 35,000 civil servants were “temporary,” adding: “All their rights are preserved.”
He was referring to the PA government’s decision to halt salaries to thousands of civil servants in the Gaza Strip and force thousands others into early retirement.
In response, Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said Hamdallah’s talk about “temporary” measures against civil servants was an “official confirmation” of his government’s “involvement in the blockade on the Gaza Strip.”
The PA prime minister called on all Palestinians to rally behind the Palestinian leadership headed by Mahmoud Abbas, “to face the challenges threatening our cause and national project, especially the so-called deal of the century” – a reference to Trump’s unseen peace plan.
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Has Europe become an Iranian tool to circumvent U.S. sanctions?
One could not be faulted for assuming that the leaders of a self-defined progressive continent, on which the worst genocide in modern history was perpetrated only decades ago, would be more predisposed to siding with the United States, the world's foremost purveyor and guarantor of freedom, than with Iran, the world's foremost state sponsor of terrorism which repeatedly has vowed to finish off Hitler's work by eradicating the lone Jewish state.But one would nevertheless be wrong.
On Monday, European Union foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini, in conjunction with the top diplomats of Britain, France and, for that matter, Germany, released a joint statement expressing "deep regret" over the re-imposition of American sanctions on the Islamic Republic.
"We are determined to protect European economic operators engaged in legitimate business with Iran," the politicians wrote. "This is why the European Union’s updated Blocking Statute enters into force on 7 August to protect EU companies…from the impact of US extra-territorial sanctions."
The “blocking statute”—a law enacted in one jurisdiction to obstruct the application of a law enacted in another jurisdiction—essentially prohibits EU firms from complying with US sanctions and provides mechanisms that allow businesses to recover any resulting damages while negating potential foreign court rulings against them.
For good measure, the EU committed to the "preservation and maintenance of effective financial channels with Iran, and the continuation of Iran's export of oil and gas."
The EU transformed itself into an Iranian tool after the Trump administration rejected its calls to receive exemptions from the new financial penalties; which, in turn, followed months of EU groveling to Tehran in the form of a "negotiating process" aimed at devising a sufficiently large bribe to entice the Islamic Republic to remain in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, more commonly known as the Iran nuclear deal.
All of this was precipitated when President Donald Trump in May defied the international community by withdrawing Washington from the atomic pact and vowed to reimpose sanctions on the Iranian regime. The first batch was set to come into effect at midnight Eastern Standard Time, barring Iran’s purchase of American dollars as well as its trade in gold and precious metals, among other things. A second installment targeting Tehran’s crucial energy and shipping sectors will take effect in November.
Since President Trump nixed the nuclear accord, Iran's currency, the rial, has lost half of its value, a major reason for growing civil unrest in the country. Moreover, despite Brussels' capitulation, European businesses have left the Iranian market en masse, placing tremendous stress on an already fragile economy.
And things are about to get worse for the regime, which continues to sow death and destruction via its proxies in Syria—where the Revolutionary Guard Corps has directed Bashar Assad's annihilation of his own people—as well as in Iraq and Yemen. Iran is already the effective sovereign in what is known as Lebanon, projecting its rule through its Hezbollah underling that controls the government and armed forces.
While Iran has been on the march since agreeing to the 2015 nuclear accord—for which it received a windfall of about $100 billion—its situation has become increasingly precarious since President Trump assumed office. Now, with protests erupting nationwide and as its economy teeters on the verge of collapse, Tehran reportedly has been conducting back-channel negotiations with the White House through intermediaries in Oman.
On Sunday, Israeli media reported that President Trump may even meet his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani next month on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.
In other words, Iran's back is up against the wall—precisely where it was before the Obama administration and the Europeans threw the mullahs a lifeline in the form of a grossly inadequate agreement that completely ignored Tehran's past atomic activities and failed to rein in its regional expansionism and illicit ballistic missile program.
And just when the rogue nation is starting to feel the pain again, Europe is once more doing its utmost to bypass the U.S. and prop up the Mullahs.
Essentially, the EU has taken the side of Russia, China and North Korea, and for what?
Iran obviously is a big marketplace and the EU has destroyed its own financial clout through the implementation of socialist policies; but there is no question that the bloc can weather the storm, as was the case when sanctions previously were leveled against the Islamic Republic.
Perhaps, then, the EU fears that turning a blind eye for thirty years to the activities of Hezbollah on its soil may come back to haunt it. Indeed, it became evident last month that Iran's malignancy has spread across the bloc, when an Iranian diplomat based in Austria was arrested for plotting a terror attack in France.
An equally persuasive argument, though, is that the EU is simply acting out of spite, out of great disdain for President Trump. There is no love-lost between Brussels and Washington, and the American leader has not held back from criticizing traditional U.S. allies.
But acting out of malice when the fate of millions of lives are at stake is the very definition of reckless.
Whereas Europe clearly has not learned the lessons of its past, at least today the U.S.' moral compass seems intact. For its part, the Jewish people is again at the intersection of the boundaries of good and evil.
This time, it may be Israel that reminds Europe where the line is drawn.
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