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If the genius Germans are not worried why should we worry? (See 1 below.)
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Democrats thought they could buy off Iran and now is Trump trying to do the same regarding black voters and Palestinians?. After all they are all using your tax dollars.
: https://www.americanthinker.
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I remain conflicted by Trump's actions vis a vis Iran. Either he showed restraint and compassion or has no properly thought out foreign policy. Time will tell. (2 and 2a)
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A relative recently returned from an extensive trip to Israel and came back and told me how the Palestinians are thriving. He said the border barrier military guards have
been replaced and now the entry time is no more than a regular commute and the Palestinian workers coming into Israel are actively working, drawing good salaries and entire contemporary towns and cities are being erected in the West Bank. He was very impressed by this practical solution that reduced anguish both to an acceptable degree of mild inconvenience, maintains security and allows both Israeli industry and the Palestinian territories to benefit.
Once again, the basis of Trump's proposed Peace Plan seems to be predicated on an attempt to buy off Palestinians as was Obama's Iran Deal. Time will tell. (See 3 and 3a below.)
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1) A German's view of Islam
“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” Martin Luther King
A German’s View on Islam – worth reading.
Hard to argue with this:
This is one of the best explanations of the Muslim terrorist situation I have ever read. His references to past history are accurate and clear.
Not long, easy to understand, and well worth the read.
The author of this email is Dr. Emanuel Tanya, a well-known and well-respected psychiatrist. A man, whose family was German aristocracy prior to World War II, owned a number of large industries and estates. When asked how many German people were true Nazis, the answer he gave can guide our attitude toward fanaticism.
“Very few people were true Nazis,” he said, “but many enjoyed the return of German pride, and many more were too busy to care. I was one of those who just thought the Nazis were a bunch of fools. So, the majority just sat back and let it all happen. Then, before we knew it, they owned us, and we had lost control, and the end of the world had come. My family lost everything. I ended up in a concentration camp and the Allies destroyed my factories.”
“We are told again and again by “experts” and “talking heads” that Islam is a religion of peace and that the vast majority of Muslims just want to live in peace.
“Although this unqualified assertion may be true, it is entirely irrelevant. It is meaningless fluff meant to make us feel better, and meant to somehow diminish the specter of fanatics rampaging across the globe in the name of Islam.”
“The fact is that the fanatics rule Islam at this moment in history. It is the fanatics who march. It is the fanatics who wage any one of 50 shooting wars worldwide.
It is the fanatics who systematically slaughter Christian or tribal groups throughout Africa and are gradually taking over the entire continent in an Islamic wave. It is the fanatics who bomb, behead, murder, or honor-kill. It is the fanatics who take over mosque after mosque. It is the fanatics who zealously spread the stoning and hanging of rape victims and homosexuals. It is the fanatics who teach their young to kill and to become suicide bombers.”
“The hard quantifiable fact is that the peaceful majority, the “silent majority,” is cowed and extraneous.”
“Communist Russia was comprised of Russians who just wanted to live in peace, yet the Russian Communists were responsible for the murder of about 20 million people. The peaceful majority were irrelevant.”
“China’s huge population was peaceful as well, but Chinese Communists managed to kill a staggering 70 million people.”
“The average Japanese individual prior to World War II was not a warmongering sadist. Yet, Japan murdered and slaughtered its way across South East Asia in an orgy of killing that included the systematic murder of 12 million Chinese civilians; most killed by sword, shovel, and bayonet.”
And who can forget Rwanda, which collapsed into butchery? Could it not be said that the majority of Rwandans were “peace loving?”
“History lessons are often incredibly simple and blunt, yet for all our powers of reason, we often miss the most basic and uncomplicated of points: peace-loving Muslims have been made irrelevant by their silence. Peace-loving Muslims will become our Enemy if they don’t speak up. Like my friend from Germany, they will awaken one day and find that the fanatics own them and the end of their world will have begun.”
“Peace-loving Germans, Japanese, Chinese, Russians, Rwandans, Serbs, Afghans, Iraqis, Palestinians, Somalis, Nigerians, Algerians, and many others have died because the peaceful majority did not speak up until it was too late.”
“Now Islamic prayers have been introduced in Toronto and other public schools in Ontario, and, yes, in Ottawa, too, while the Lord’s Prayer was removed (due to being so offensive? The Islamic way may be peaceful for the time being in our country until the fanatics move in.”
“In Australia, and indeed in many countries around the world, many of the most commonly consumed food items have the halal emblem on them. Just look at the back of some of the most popular chocolate bars, and at other food items in your local supermarket. Food on aircraft have the halal emblem just to appease the privileged minority who are now rapidly expanding within the nation’s shores.”
“In the U.K, the Muslim communities refuse to integrate and there are now dozens of “no-go” zones within major cities across the country that the police force dare not intrude upon. Sharia law prevails there, because the Muslim community in those areas refuse to acknowledge British law.”
“As for us who watch it all unfold, we must pay attention to the only group that counts - the fanatics who threaten our way of life.”
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2) Iranian Brinkmanship Creates Mounting Dilemma for Trump Administration
The Iranian destruction of an RQ-4A Global Hawk intelligence-gathering drone over the Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday represents the continuation of a clear, consistent and calculated Iranian strategy of brinkmanship, which began in May.
Iran said it used a domestically produced surface-to-air missile system to bring down the advanced drone, scoring a valuable propaganda victory against the United States.
It appears as if Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, have assessed that the Trump administration has a fairly high tolerance level to Iranian provocations, and this assessment is forming the basis for a string of Iranian attacks throughout the region.
This policy has seen the IRGC conduct sabotage attacks on international oil tankers docked at a United Arab Emirates’ port, launch mine attacks on oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman, and previously attempt to shoot down an American drone in the Persian Gulf.
The Iranian policy also saw cruise-missile and explosive drone attacks against sensitive Saudi Arabian targets by the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen. “Anonymous” rocket attacks on Israel and the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad fit this pattern as well.
Iran is signaling to America and the region that it will not give in to economic pressure, and that the sanctions imposed on the Islamic Republic will only serve to destabilize the Middle East.
The location where the U.S. Navy RQ-4 was downed by a surface-to-air missile fired by Iran, according to U.S. military officials.
In doing so, the Iranians have used high-risk brinkmanship to create a serious dilemma for the Trump administration. Washington must choose between containment, which could be interpreted by Iran as a green light for further attacks, or retaliation, which the Iranians appear confident enough to absorb.
Either way, Iran is not complying with Trump’s demands to reopen the 2015 nuclear deal, and its posture is designed to tell the international community that economic sanctions will fail as a means to influence its behavior.
This comes as The New York Times reported Thursday night that President Trump ordered an airstrike on Iran in retaliation for the downing of the drone, only to be pulled back from the launch shortly afterwards. The report quoted U.S. officials saying that the president had initially approved attacks on a handful of Iranian targets, like radar and missile batteries.
An RQ-4 Global Hawk surveillance drone on its first flight from Palmdale, Calif., to Edwards Air Force Base.
Given this, the White House will now have to decide whether to refrain from retaliating for the Iranian escalation — a decision that could cost it in terms of deterrence—or launch a pinpoint retaliation, which could develop into a wider conflict.
Either way, no diplomatic breakthrough is on the horizon, and the situation in the region continues to escalate.
‘Prepared for any scenario’
Israel, which is threatened by Iranian proxies from Lebanon, Syria and Gaza, and which is engaged in a lengthy, defensive shadow war against Iranian forces in Syria, could with some ease find itself dragged into any Iranian-American flare-up.
In what appears to be a reflection of that fact, the Israeli cabinet reportedly held two sessions recently, according to the Ynet news site. Ministers have apparently been banned from giving interviews about the meetings, although one senior Israeli official told Ynet that “when there is tension with Iran, we certainly need to be concerned and to be prepared for any scenario.”
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu warned Israel’s enemies on Thursday that the IDF has “very big destructive power.” He spoke at the end of a large-scale IDF war exercise in a statement designed to energize Israel’s deterrent posture.
The IDF’s exercise, held in northern Israel and the Jordan Valley, simulated combat against the Iranian-backed terrorist army of Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Troops practiced “urban-warfare capabilities while facing a hidden enemy who is entrenched underground and equipped with advanced weaponry,” the IDF said in a statement. It described it as the most extensive war drill since a previous exercise in 2017, adding that the exercise included “newly developed IDF capabilities,” without detailing what these were.
At the same time, the Israeli Air Force held its annual exercise, involving hundreds of aircraft from IAF squadrons. These were joined by helicopters and transport planes, which flew through the day and night, simulating war missions.
“The exercise, which simulated multi-front warfare, aimed to improve the IAF’s readiness in simultaneously facing combat scenarios in several arenas,” the IDF said.
The Israeli Navy joined in as well, with missile ships, submarines and coastal security vessels practicing scenarios in the northern region.
“This exercise continued to improve the IDF’s preparedness for war,” said the Commanding Officer of the Ground Forces National Training Center, Brig. Gen. Nadav Lotan.
After all, little boosts Israeli deterrence more effectively than such a display of war readiness.
2a) Bolton in Israel: Iran can never have nuclear weapons
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
US National Security Advisor John Bolton met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday, amid ongoing tensions with Iran.
Netanyahu delivered his remarks, saying that the US has no better ally than Israel and vice-versa, and added that Bolton's visit will only strengthen the relations between the countries to discuss ongoing threats in the Middle East.
"Those who believe that Iran's aggression commenced just now is living in a different dimension, we have been countering Iran's attempt to establish itself in Syria and assist Hezbollah," Netanyahu claimed.
Bolton thanked Netanyahu for his leadership and friendship and promised that the US sanctions on Iran will only grow, claiming that "Iran can never have nuclear weapons."
Bolton also revealed that US President Donald Trump is looking forward to discussing the issues in the Middle East with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the upcoming G20 summit.
Netanyahu delivered his remarks, saying that the US has no better ally than Israel and vice-versa, and added that Bolton's visit will only strengthen the relations between the countries to discuss ongoing threats in the Middle East.
"Those who believe that Iran's aggression commenced just now is living in a different dimension, we have been countering Iran's attempt to establish itself in Syria and assist Hezbollah," Netanyahu claimed.
Bolton thanked Netanyahu for his leadership and friendship and promised that the US sanctions on Iran will only grow, claiming that "Iran can never have nuclear weapons."
Bolton also revealed that US President Donald Trump is looking forward to discussing the issues in the Middle East with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the upcoming G20 summit.
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3)
Trump’s Deal: Rail, Highway Connecting Gaza and PA, $50 Billion in Economic Projects
David Israel
3a)Danger of the Century
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