McCabe and Comey - Bad Dudes. Unsavory Omar. Boobus Bernie.

 
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+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Ever so true. (See 1 below.) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Democrat Rep.Omar has unsavory ties. (See 2 and 2a  below.) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/259281 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Bernie is in and if elected we will eventually look like Venezuela. (See 3 below.) In order to appeal to the Democrat Party's current structure upon announcing he was running he immediately attacked Trump calling him every name under the sun. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dick ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1)  Andrew McCabe and James Comey Both Make the FBI’s Job Harder Every time James Comey and Andrew McCabe speak, they just confirm for many that the top of the FBI was riddled with partisan hacks who hated Donald Trump, presumed the worst about him, and acted accordingly. McCabe is out to sell books and in order to get the best sales numbers possible, he has to be as salacious as possible. That has already caught up to him once with his 25th amendment remarks. But he continues to turn casual conversations into sinister affairs and he also puts his coworkers and Department of Justice staff in...  Read More... ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2) Ilhan Omar to speak at terror-linked banquet By ILANIT CHERNICK Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is slated to speak at a benefit for the terror-linked Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) next month. The event, scheduled for March 23 in Los Angeles, is entitled “Advancing Justice, empowering Valley Muslims.” CAIR has a long history of affiliation with the terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah. It  was also reportedly a co-conspirator in the largest terrorist financing case in US history,  which went unindicted. CAIR members have often defended the actions of Hamas in Gaza. She will be keynoting with Hassan Shibly, the executive director of CAIR-Florida, who is vehemently anti-Israel, believes that Hezbollah and Hamas are not terrorist organizations  and is known for openly discriminating against LGBTs. In 2014, Shibly claimed that the Hamas terror tunnels uncovered in Operation Protective  Edge in the northern Gaza Strip were “being used in the defense of Palestine.” At the time, he wrote that “to Israel, every tunnel – be it one that brings food into an impoverished Gaza Strip where over half of the population depends on food aid, or one  that delivers sheep to a Khan Yunis farmer who lost his other farm animals to a prior  Israeli incursion – is a “terror tunnel.” The Conservative Review reported that director of CAIR-Los Angeles Hussam Ayloush has suggested that the US is “partly responsible” for the San Bernardino terrorist attacks. Following the attacks in 2015, Ayloush suggested that the US was “partly responsible” for  the ISIS-led attack on innocents in California. “Let’s not forget that some of our own foreign policy – as Americans, as the West – has  fueled that extremism,” he added. Ayloush has in the past described US military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan as part of a campaign to instill “fear of the Muslims.” The revelation of Omar’s upcoming address comes after a major Twitter storm in which  she accused the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) of paying American politicians to be pro-Israel. Omar received heavy backlash for the comments and was accused of antisemitism, with leaders on both the Right and Left condemning her remarks. Just a few days later, she was also caught up in a controversy over whether or not she  would be speaking alongside an official known for his antisemitic comments at an  emergency gala dinner for Yemen on February 23 in Tampa, Florida. It was revealed that she would give the keynote address at an Islamic Relief USA dinner alongside Yousef Abdallah, who has advocated for violence against Jews and expressed antisemitic sentiments on his social media pages. Omar's PR team pushed back and the  event’s marketing materials and online invitations were changed.   They claimed that it was a clerical error and that she was never set to speak alongside Abdallah in the first place. 2a)Omar, AIPAC and the Jews  Minneapolis leaders have had enough of Ilhan Omar’s  insincere apologies and anti-Semitism. An Aish.com exclusive. “Jews use financial influence to control society… Jews have dual loyalty… Jews are conspiring to take over the world… Jews are hypnotizing humanity…” These anti-Semitic tropes have been at the core of some of humanity’s worst atrocities –  Crusades, Inquisition, pogroms, Holocaust. And now, Cong. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota is bringing this rhetoric to the hallowed halls of the  U.S. Capitol. “It’s all about the Benjamins baby,” she tweeted, referring to the influence of  Jewish money (“Benjamins” a slang reference to $100 bills), then singling out pro-Israel AIPAC  for the corrupt buying of politicians. Omar’s contention is unacceptable on many levels. Not only does it evoke harsh anti-Semitic  myths of Jews controlling the world via money, it is factually wrong: AIPAC pays no money to politicians, nor contributes to their candidacy. As for Omar’s implication that a pro-Israel policy is bad for America, perhaps she is unaware  that Israel is America's most trusted and reliable ally in the Middle East, a beacon of democracy standing on the frontline of the war against terror. When Omar faced backlash and semi-apologized for these dangerous words, many in the Jewish community excused her ignorance, saying she was “previously unaware” and is now “educated.” Yet Minnesota State Senator Ron Latz (D) is having none of this. “Rep. Omar has shown a pattern over the years of using anti-Israel and anti-Semitic tropes or themes in her communications,” Latz, told Aish.com. Latz would know. Last year, he led a group of local leaders in Minneapolis who invited Omar to  an educational discussion about issues of sensitivity to the Jewish community. In a two-hour meeting at Latz's home, Jewish leaders respectfully explained to Omar that criticism of Israel  must not include anti-Semitic stereotypes. Most attendees came away troubled by Omar’s response, Latz says, yet hopeful her attitude would change. As it happens, things are worse. Omar deceived the Jewish community about her support of the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement that uses double standards to delegitimize  and demonize Israel as the world’s pariah. BDS has been called "terrorists in suits" for its aim  of destroying the Jewish state.  Prior to the election, when asked at a synagogue to specify her stance, Omar said that BDS was “not helpful in getting that two-state solution” – as if to denounce the movement that she now openly supports. This is deception. “Evil Israel” Recently, when asked how the U.S. should work productively toward peace between Israelis and Palestinians, Omar first criticized Israel’s very identity “as a Jewish state,” then said: “If we see that in any other society we would criticize it. We would call it out. We do that to Iran.” Omar falsely suggests that the idea of a state religion is somehow fanatical, racist, and anti-democratic – effectively denying Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state. Does Omar not know  about Western democracies like England, Spain, Denmark, Greece, Costa Rica and 35 other countries who are officially Christian nations? Does Omar not know that 30 countries identify  Islam as their official religion? Yet it is the world’s sole Jewish state – where freedom of religion for all is enshrined into Israeli  law – that aggravates Omar. This double standard is called anti-Semitism. As for the other part of Omar’s tweet – comparing Israel to Iran: Does she not know that Iran is  a radical theocracy, the world’s largest state-sponsor of terror, that routinely vilifies the United States, and that operates terror bases in Syria, Yemen, Lebanon, Iraq and Lebanon – including sponsorship of Hezbollah that murdered 241 U.S. Marines? Is this what Omar compares to Israel, our ally that votes in concert with the U.S. at the United Nations – more than any country in the world including major U.S. allies like Great Britain,  France and Canada? Does Rep. Omar truly require more re-education – or is something more sinister operating here? The Apartheid Canard "Evil apartheid"? Doesn't Omar know that Israel upholds Muslims' freedom of the press,  freedom of speech, freedom of association and freedom of religion – more freedom and rights  to Muslim citizens than any Arab nation, and more religious freedom than the "progressive"  nations of Switzerland, Holland, Belgium and France? Doesn’t Omar know that the first country in the Middle East to grant Arab women the right to  vote was not Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, or one of other 23 Arab states – but Israel? Doesn’t Omar know that in Israel today, 10 percent of Israeli parliament (Knesset) members  are Arab; that 30 percent of students at Hebrew University in Jerusalem are Arab; that one- third of the staff at Israel's Hadassah Hospital – arguably the leading hospital in the Middle  East – are Arabs? Yet on all this, Omar is silent. Nor does she utter a word about gender apartheid in Saudi  Arabia, where women have been arrested for driving a car, and make up just 5 percent of the workforce – the lowest proportion in the world. Does Omar not know about the Saudi Arabian smartphone APP allowing men to monitor their wives and daughters – who have no independent right to leave the country? Why does Omar not criticize the horrific discrimination against Jews throughout the Middle  East, where 74% of Muslims believe anti-Semitic stereotypes (ADL survey), and where entry to Israelis is almost universally denied? Why does Omar not criticize the Palestinian Authority’s apartheid policies which regard selling  land to Jews as punishable by death, and its longstanding vow that should Palestine ever  become a state, not a single Jew will be permitted to live there? Anti-Semitism on the Rise With the rise of anti-Semitism around the world – ADL reports a rise of 56% in anti-Semitic incidents from 2016 to 2017 – we cannot afford to give a free pass to those spreading anti- Semitic ideas. When such statements become part of mainstream discourse, it emboldens anti-Semites.  Though Jews are 2 percent of the US population, FBI data consistently shows that anti-Semitism accounts for the majority of U.S. hate crimes due to religious bias. Whether the crime is  swastikas painted in Jewish cemeteries, or the yeshiva set on fire by neo-Nazis this month in upstate New York, or the horrific murder of 11 Jews at a Pittsburgh synagogue – we must be vigilant. We need to call out the hypocrisy of a former U.S. President taking the stage with radical anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan (“Jews are termites”). And to call out the Women’s March for tolerating  co-founder Tamika Mallory’s praise of Farrakhan as GOAT – the Greatest of All Time. If we don’t call this out, we are enabling anti-Semitism to normalize in “accepted conversation.” The current British experience gives an inkling into this dangerous process: When “critics of Israel” in the UK Labour Party began employing anti-Semitic tropes, that trend went unchecked long enough that today, Jeremy Corbyn – UK Labour’s BDS-supporting leader – may soon  become prime minister. With Ilhan Omar now wielding international influence on the House Foreign Affairs Committee,  it's time to stop pretending she doesn't know her statements are anti-Semitic tropes and dog whistles. To stop pretending that BDS is anything but a bludgeon to delegitimatize and destroy  the Jewish state. To ensure that these vile views do not gain ascendance in the US Congress. It's time for all of us to stop the kid-glove treatment of making excuses for Omar, State Senator Latz tells Aish.com. "She should have learned by now. It is time to hold her accountable for what she says." 1b)Witness for Peace is now led by a group of radical board members who have taken positions against America, Israel, democracy, and capitalism. Members of the board include activists who have called for efforts to "dismantle U.S. militarism," accused Israel of inflicting "institutionalized racism that equates to modern day apartheid," and pro-Maduro activists who write "dear comrade" letters calling for war against capitalism. One board member has ties to a group founded by a Palestinian activist who called for the "eradication of Israel." Upon her election to Congress, Omar received a wave of glowing media coverage as the first Somali-American Muslim legislator. Since, she has come out in favor of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement against Israel, and has called Israel "evil," and accused the only democracy in the Middle East of "hypnotizing the world." This week Omar received widespread condemnation for again making anti-Semitic remarks on Twitter, and was forced to apologize. Her views on several issues align with the group Witness for Peace, whose campaigns include calls to "stop ICE raids," issuing a "solidarity statement" with migrant caravans, and calling for the return of the "illegally occupied Guantanamo Naval Base to the Cuban people!" The group facilitates travel to Cuba, and attacks the Trump administration as "regressing us toward the old unjust, counterproductive Cold War posture of past decades." Witness for Peace highlighted one trip taken by Mercy Carpenter, a community organizer, artist, and farmer, who said the people of Cuba face "oppression resulting in evidence of white supremacy, patriarchy, and capitalism." Cuba is a communist country. Carpenter said she "felt right at home," though she said "every space we visited echoed that their work is committed to inspiring daily transformations against Transphobia, Homophobia, Racism, Ageism, Sexism, Ableism and Colorism." Nevertheless, she felt "honored to have visited a country" with free healthcare, where "housing and food are provided for all." Witness for Peace lists three board members on its English-version website, including Eunice Escobar, Atrayus O. Goode, and Maricelly Malave. Escobar, the group's treasurer, also works for the Afro-Colombian Solidarity Network, and is a board member of the Chicago Religious Leadership Network on Latin America. The mission of the Chicago Religious Leadership Network on Latin America (CRLN) is to "dismantle U.S. militarism, neoliberal economic and immigration policy, and other forms of state and institutional violence." Like Omar, CRLN has called America's recognition of Juan Guaidó as the president of Venezuela a "right-wing" "attempted coup against" socialist Maduro. Atrayus O. Goode, another board member, is the chair of Movement of Youth, Inc., and a vocal critic of Israel. Goode gave a sermon in 2017 after traveling to the Middle East, accusing Israel of "modern day apartheid." "The Israeli military occupation and illegal Jewish settlements at the heart of the city have forced thousands of Palestinian residents to leave their homes," he said. "Thousands of Palestinians were systematically uprooted and dispossessed from their land at the hands of the Israeli government in order for a few hundred Jewish settlers to walk around that land free." Goode continued: "This type of structural violence enacted by the Israeli government on everyday Palestinian citizens is nothing more than a regime of systemic and institutionalized racism that equates to modern day apartheid." Goode accuses Israel of "stealing land and displacing Palestinians by any means necessary," and compared Israel to America as governments of "white supremacy." "If you change the word Israeli Jew to white and Palestinian to black, depending on the time period, you would think I was talking about America," he said. "America's sin was this country being founded as a white society on the stolen land of Native Americans and on the enslavement of Africans. It was whiteness being written into legislation in the late 1600s, it was all the subsequent laws and policies that reinforce white supremacy even up until this day." Witness for Peace has an expanded list of its board of directors on its less frequently updated Spanish-version of its website. Goode and Escobar are still listed, along with other anti-Israel activists, including Phyllis Albritton, who was identified as a "Gaza donor." Albritton was listed in a to Friends of Sabeel newsletter in 2012 as a "Gaza donor" for giving between $500 and $999 to the organization. The same newsletter announced the group's "new faith-based boycott campaign" against SodaStream, the Israel-based company. "All Israeli settlements in occupied Palestine are illegal by international law and are also against U.S. policy as obstacles to peace," the newsletter states. "Yet settler products are sold in the U.S. If we buy them, we contribute to settlement funding and prolong the suffering they cause." Friends of Sabeel supports the BDS movement, and advocates for being a "moral voice" against "Israel's periodic offensives on Gaza and exponential encroachment in the West Bank." Albritton volunteered her email address to the comments on a Code Pink petition to "stop the abuse of Palestinian children," and has called for imposing sanctions on Israel. "Living with hope that this will happen," Albritton commented on an article, entitled, "Will Obama Impose Sanctions Against Israel?" "How long, O Lord, how long? How about sanctions AND cutting WAY back on the military aid we give to Israel," she wrote. "Proud of my Jewish heritage, I am not against Israel's right to exist but NOT beyond the 1967 border!!" Albritton also signed onto a letter calling for peace with Iran. One of Omar's top donors sponsored a "No war on Iran" campaign, which advocated for Israel to give up its nuclear weapons. Also on the board of directors is Jeanette Charles, who worked for the Witness for Peace Southwest division. She is a member of the Chiapas Support Committee, a pro-Maduro group that blames the United States and Israel for a "coup attempt" against Maduro. Charles participated in an event at Scripps College on "Charting Radical Futures with Black Lives Matter," which explored ending "anti-black state sanctioned violence." She also has given talks pro-Venezuelan regime talks at Scripps, according to the College Fix, including one where she called Hugo Chávez "god-like." Charles believes socialism in Venezuela is "our greatest hope against war and capitalism." "Dear comrades in the U.S. and the world," Charles wrote in 2017. Charles said Venezuela is "leading the struggle against U.S. hegemony," praising its socialist regime, which has resulted in hyperinflation, shortages, imprisonment of political prisoners, and starvation. Charles supports Chávez's socialist programs as "political and spiritual transformations," praised its "reparations model," while denouncing America's "laws drafted by a white slave-owning elite class." "As Venezuelans struggle to overcome great challenges, our role is not to join the chorus of attacks that seek to dismantle the revolution, but rather, it is to stand with Venezuelans' right to self-determination in defining, shaping and practicing a 21st century socialism that offers our greatest hope against war and capitalism," Charles wrote. Charles has written several other articles as a "Solidarity Correspondent" to the socialist regime, claiming in August 2018 Venezuela is at the "forefront of a global vision for justice, liberation and building another world." "In twenty or fifty years, today and tomorrow's decisions will hopefully bring Venezuela closer to the socialist society that leaders like Comandante Chávez and the comunerxs (communards) envision," she wrote. "However, much of the nation’s success is contingent on its ability (and of those in solidarity) to fight against US efforts to destabilize Venezuela as well as the region politically and economically." In September 2018 she praised "Chávez's vision of a multipolar world and an inclusive society radically rooted in the people’s determination to lead happy, healthy and fulfilling lives." Another board member is Bette "Rainbow" Hoover, a Quaker and anti-war activist who founded CASA de Maryland, a left-wing group that supports illegal immigrants. Accuracy in Media identified CASA as a radical group with ties to Code Pink. Hoover told the Capital Research Center the group aided illegal aliens who were communist guerrillas who fought in El Salvador's civil war. The group was involved in creating a brochure "explaining how illegal aliens can protect themselves during immigration raids and arrest." Hoover claimed the Maryland State Police mistakenly labeled her a terrorist in 2009. Board member Paul Magno is an anti-nuclear weapons activist with Nonviolence International, which was founded by Palestinian activist Mubarak Awad in 1989. Awad called for the "eradication of Israel as a Jewish state," according to an editorial written by the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting published in the Washington Post in 1988. "The PLO wants the entire Palestine and I agree," Awad said. "Palestine for me is the Galilee, Akko, Ashdod, everything. This is Palestine for me." Magno is a "Plowshares" activist who "uses hammers and blood to convey its message" for eliminating nuclear weapons. He was arrested in the 1980s and served 20 months in prison for breaking into a military plant and damaged missile equipment in Florida. Gail Phares is listed as a board member working for Witness for Peace Southeast. Phares is anti-military activist who began protesting anti-communist interventions in the 1960s. "We all need to be radicalized," she said in an interview with Indy Week, a progressive newspaper in North Carolina. "For me, it was seeing the economic power and the military power of the U.S. government," Phares said about her early activism in Nicaragua. "I was appalled." "And I came home, so angry that I didn't read body language back then," she said. "My dad thought I was a communist."++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 3)Yesterday, we mentioned that a Bernie Sanders campaign announcement  was imminent. Today he he made it official. The socialist candidate is officially running for president in 2020. According to Fox News: Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., announced Tuesday he will make another bid for president by entering the already crowded 2020 race, as he tries to rekindle  the grassroots energy from his 2016 primary run against Hillary Clinton. Sanders made the announcement in an interview with Vermont Public Radio, followed by a web video and email to supporters. "Together, you and I and our 2016 campaign began the political revolution. Now,  it is time to complete that revolution and implement the vision that we fought for,"  he told supporters. While blasting President Trump as a "pathological liar," Sanders said in the radio interview he's running to pursue policies like universal health care and a $15 minimum wage. His challenge this time, however, will be standing out in a field of candidates who largely have adopted the big-government policies he championed three years ago. Sanders is 77 which adds a new twist to his candidacy along with scandals involving his 2016 campaign which include sexual harassment and mistreatment of staff. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++