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Hopefully I have learned how to include videos in my memos in addition to photos and cartoons. Perhaps this old dog can learn new tricks. Stay tuned.
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My friend and fellow memo reader had many roles in his career, mainly in protection. Therefore, he is concerned: and has a solid basis for same:
"After 12 weeks of hobbling around on one leg, I progressed to a cane. Now I need to strengthen the right leg and supporting muscle groups. Dr. wants me to wait another month to play tennis again.
Arabs: "Palestinians Repeat the Same Mistakes"
by Khaled Abu Toameh, September 21, 2020
At this pace, Palestinians might wake up one morning to discover that they no longer have any friends in the Arab countries at all.
"The Palestinians failed to establish their state. They failed because they did not want to establish a state. Here I mean the political leaders, some of whom still insist on repeating revolutionary phrases. The establishment of a Palestinian state will be a burden on the Palestinian leaders and will prevent them from practicing corruption.... The Palestinian Authority is no longer suitable to represent the Palestinian people." — Iraqi writer Farouk Youssef, Al-Arabiya, September 19, 2020.
"Israel did not destroy Syria; Israel did not burn Libya; Israel did not displace the people of Egypt; Israel did not destroy Libya, and Israel did not tear up Lebanon. Before you Arabs blame Israel, take a look at yourselves in the mirror. The problem is in you." — UAE Islamic cleric Wassem Yousef, Twitter, September 16, 2020.
"Palestinian leaders failed to invest in opportunities. They failed to take strategic decisions and chose [instead] to forge an alliance with Iran." — Saudi writer Yusef al-Qabalan, Al-Riyadh, September 18, 2020.
The biggest losers, of course, are again the Palestinians -- who are quickly losing the sympathy of a growing number of Arabs.
The Palestinians have recalled their ambassadors to the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain in protest of the signing of the peace deals between the two Gulf states and Israel. The Palestinians are now threatening to withdraw their envoys from any Arab country that follows suits and establishes relations with Israel.
In addition, several Palestinian factions have urged the Palestinian leadership to withdraw from the Arab League to protest the refusal of the Arab countries to condemn normalization with Israel. Earlier this month, the Arab League foreign ministers refused to endorse a Palestinian draft resolution condemning the UAE for its decision to make peace with Israel.
"The resolutions of the Arab League are mortgaged to the Zionist American administration," the factions said in a statement. "Normalization [with Israel] is a huge betrayal of the Palestinian issue and a stab to the sacrifices and pain of the Palestinians and Arabs."
The threats to pull out from the Arab League and withdraw Palestinian ambassadors from Arab countries that establish relations with Israel have sparked mockery and a flurry of critical comments in the Arab world, particularly the Gulf states. The main theme of the criticism: The Palestinian do not learn from their mistakes.
The Arab criticism, directed mostly against the leaders of the Palestinians, is yet another indication of the growing antagonism between the Palestinians and the Arab world. At this pace, Palestinians might wake up one morning to discover that they no longer have any friends in the Arab countries at all.
Many Arabs are outraged by the Palestinian threats, as well as the daily attacks on the UAE and Bahrain. These include accusations that the two Gulf states have "betrayed Al-Aqsa Mosque, Jerusalem and the Palestinian issue" by agreeing to establish relations with Israel. The Arabs are also reminding the Palestinians of the many opportunities they missed when they rejected a number of peace initiatives and plans.
Lebanese journalist Khairallah Khairallah expressed outrage over the Palestinians' labelling of the signing ceremony of the Israel-UAE-Bahrain deals at the White House as a "black day."
Khairallah pointed out that the Palestinians refer to their expulsion from Jordan in the early 1970s as "Black September." At the time, he said, a Palestinian breakaway faction by that name tried to establish a state-within-a-state in Jordan and murder Jordan's King Hussein. The king, after his defeat in the 1967 Six Day War, had allowed the PLO to establish military bases in his kingdom, presumably to attack Israel. When the Palestinians, however, tried to overthrow the Jordanian government, he expelled them to Lebanon. There, they participated in the Lebanese civil war that began in 1975 and continued launching terror attacks against Israel. In 1982, after Israel led an invasion into Lebanon, the Palestinians were again expelled -- to Tunisia.
"Fifty years after 'Black September,' or call it whatever you like, nothing has changed," Khairallah wrote.
"The Palestinian leaders are refusing to learn from past experiences. The Palestinian armed organizations have repeated Jordan's experience in Lebanon. They played a role in destroying Lebanon [during the civil war]. Would the Palestinian issue have benefited had the Palestinian organizations managed in 1970 to overthrow King Hussein?"
Khairallah noted that that former PLO leader Yasser Arafat made a "huge mistake" in 1990 when he took a stance in support of Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait, which had peacefully been hosting nearly half a million Palestinian workers. After Kuwait was liberated by the US-led coalition in 1991, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, regarded as disloyal, were deported from Kuwait and other Gulf states.
"Yasser Arafat did not learn from the experiences of Jordan and Lebanon," he added.
"It was expected that Abu Mazen [Mahmoud Abbas] would have learned from the mistakes of Yasser Arafat and from the mistakes of the experiences of Jordan and Lebanon, but he took the worst of Yasser Arafat. Half a century after what Palestinians call 'Black September,' nothing has changed. The Palestinians still have the ability to make the same mistakes." (Al-Arab, September 20, 2020)
Saudi political analyst Sami al-Morshid pointed out that the Palestinian leadership has in the past rejected several peace initiatives and treaties. Each time the Palestinians do this, al-Morshid said, "they lose."
"Unfortunately, Palestinian leaders, repeat the same mistakes. They rejected the Egyptian and Jordan peace initiatives [with Israel], and they rejected US President Bill Clinton's peace initiative [at the 2000 Camp David summit]. These days, they reject President Donald Trump's peace initiative and, finally, they reject the peace initiatives of the UAE and Bahrain."
Iraqi writer Farouk Youssef said that the Palestinians' problem is that their leaders do not want a Palestinian state. "The Palestinians failed to establish their state," Youssef remarked.
'They failed because they did not want to establish a state. Here I mean the political leaders, some of whom still insist on repeating revolutionary phrases. The establishment of a Palestinian state will be a burden on the Palestinian leaders and will prevent them from practicing corruption. The Palestinians need to realize that the others were tired. The Authority is no longer suitable to represent the Palestinian people." (Al-Arabiya, September 19, 2020)
Egyptian journalist Imad Adeeb wrote that if he were the Palestinian leadership, he would have distanced himself from Qatar, Turkey and Iran. Adeeb also advised the Palestinian leaders to avoid using the language of insults and slander against Arabs:
"If I were one of the Palestinian leaders, I would have abandoned the policy intransigence and the use of the language of insult, slander, and incitement... If I were the Palestinian leadership, I would have taken advantage of the UAE peace initiative. If I were from the Palestinian leadership, I would not have played the game of Qatar, Turkey and Iran against the moderate Arab states." (Al-Watan, September 8, 2020)
Saudi writer Yusef al-Qabalan also accused Palestinian leaders of repeatedly rejecting peace initiatives over the past few decades. Noting that the Palestinians had failed to take advantage of the Arab Peace Initiative, adopted in 2002 by the Arab leaders, al-Qabalan wrote:
"The realistic choice for the Palestinian leaders was to activate that Arab initiative in all political ways at the international level. What happened? The Palestinian leaders met the peace initiatives with rhetoric of betrayal and slogans that do not achieve anything on the ground. The Palestinian leaders turned to the traffickers of their issue, such as Iran, Turkey and Qatar and lost their strongest card, which is national unity. Palestinian leaders failed to invest in opportunities. They failed to take strategic decisions and chose [instead] to forge an alliance with Iran." (Al-Riyadh, September 18, 2020)
UAE Islamic cleric Wassem Yousef, addressing the Palestinians and other Arabs who reject peace with Israel, wrote on Twitter:
"Israel did not destroy Syria; Israel did not burn Libya; Israel did not displace the people of Egypt; Israel did not destroy Libya, and Israel did not tear up Lebanon. Before you Arabs blame Israel, take a look at yourselves in the mirror. The problem is in you."
Palestinian leaders, meanwhile, are ignoring the messages and advice from their Arab brothers. The Palestinian leaders in the West Bank and Hamas in the Gaza Strip do not like to be reminded of their mistakes. Moreover, they are unwilling to accept any advice, even when it comes from Arab states that used to pour billions of dollars on them. The biggest losers, of course, are again the Palestinians -- who are quickly losing the sympathy of a growing number of Arabs.
Khaled Abu Toameh, an award-winning journalist based in Jerusalem, is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at Gatestone Institute.
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In the last four years we have learned/experienced several extremely important things that go to the very survival of our republic:
a) Unelected Bureaucrats run the government and can successfully thwart any president, particularly if they are holdovers hired by previous presidents. Why? Because the government is cavernous, they generally cannot be dismissed and thus, their employment transcends most presidential terms.
They can slow walk requests for documents and do as we have learned, they can destroy documents and do as we have learned and they often can implement their own interpretations of legislation and we have found that to be the case, all too often. They are nameless and are buried in the vast bureaucracy
b) The Democrat Party has become radicalized and, though this may not be new news, their contempt for our constitution has increased. Why? because their goal for our nation is to implement their progressive ideas that often have no relationship to what our Founding Father's intended.
How do they accomplish this? Through the Supreme Court and Justices who become legislators rather than interpreters.
c) Far too many former political figures, after leaving government, make their subsequent livings from connections causing them to engage in actions that are antithetical to our national interests.
d) The level of ethics has declined among those who serve in government, most particularly in the Oval Office, because they feel no obligation to the president who employed them if there is an opportunity to enrich themselves in an untimely manner.
e) Finally, raw politics allowed Democrats to play havoc with a duly elected president even to the extent that they spied on him with the intent to cast doubt upon his ability to perform his sworn duties and carry out his constitutional obligations.
f) Perhaps the worst event of all that has happened is the linkage of technology billionaires whose money impacts our free speech, funds district attorneys who do not enforce laws and now, in the case of former Mayor Bloomberg, seeks to buy the entire state of Florida for Biden along with getting large numbers of released former inmates solvent so they, presumably, can vote for Biden.
Not all of the above is in reaction to those who hate Trump. These events have been building for decades but Obama accelerated their occurrence along with an assortment of radicals who have imbedded themselves into the flanks of the Democrat Party.
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Michigan GREEN LIGHTS Ballot Harvesting, Allowing Strangers To Deposit Ballots
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Took almost 4 years for Judicial Watch to get this information from our State Department.
Judicial Watch: Obama State Department Official Notes Russians’ Trolling of Joe Biden on Hunter Biden Corruption Allegations
Judicial Watch announced recently that it received three pages of records from the State Department that include a January 17, 2017, email from George Kent, the Obama administration’s deputy assistant secretary of state in charge of Ukraine policy, which was copied to then-U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, highlighting Russia-linked media “trolling” Joe Biden over “his son’s business.”
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