Kneeling for George Floyd is grotesque Western infantility - Giulio Meotti

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by Giulio Meotti

Being white has been turned into a form of original sin which the West has accepted, and it is madly engaging in a mass penance. Opinion.

Giulio Meotti                                                                                               Photo: Giulio Meotti

Kneeling is a central rite in Western culture. Kneeling for George Floyd is the expression of a grotesque Western infantility.

There, I said it, although I know that those who do not kneel are considered amoral monsters these days. Everyone kneels, the prime ministers, the journalists, the parliamentarians, the police...

When Londoners protested the Minneapolis incident, police guarding the Downing Street gates were told to "get down on their knees." Four policemen did it. Thousands of people in Britain went out on the streets, falling on their knees, as if hallucinating.

It is acceding to the claim that Western society as a whole is racist. It is a form of ideological hysteria that makes those who kneel belong to the "right side". In several videos, we have even seen American whites kissing the shoes of their black compatriots to apologize.

“Are you white? Feel guilty, you also killed George Floyd”. Being white has become a kind of original sin. If you do not do penance for being white, paying homage to mass immigration and multiculturalism, you will become a "white supremacist". The archbishop of Canterbury called on "white Christians" to "repent of our own prejudices". Time magazine: "Whites have inherited their white supremacy". Inherited!

American universities are full of courses on "white privilege" and if you look at academic calendars in France, there are conferences "forbidden to whites". In Paris you are not trendy enough if you don't write about la blanchité. At each massacre where the murderer is white, the global collective ritual of penance begins.

Utoya? White man. Christchurch? White man. Blacks that kill blacks? Not on the news. Muslims who kill Jews and Christians? Not on the news. Christians who kill Muslims? First pages. The white trade of black slaves? Everywhere. The Arab-Islamic trafficking of black slaves? Taboo.

The whole past is projected onto the current generation, colonialism, crusades, birth of America, Nazism, slavery, everything ends up in the same historical kneeler, everything is traced back to your white genes .

There is no aperitif - even that does not end without the great new truth echoing: White man is evil, by definition.

Giulio Meotti, an Italian journalist with Il Foglio, writes a twice-weekly column for Arutz Sheva. He is the author of the book "A New Shoah", that researched the personal stories of Israel's terror victims, published by Encounter and of "J'Accuse: the Vatican Against Israel" published by Mantua Books.. His writing has appeared in publications, such as the Wall Street Journal, Frontpage, Gatestone and Commentary.

Source: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/281429

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Black Americans Speak Out on George Floyd and the Riots - Elise Cooper

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by Elise Cooper

American Thinker interviewed black Americans for their feelings of what is happening in this country today.

George Floyd was killed by excessive force by a police officer in Minneapolis. Across the board, Americans were outraged. Peaceful protests arose, but with the protests came forces that initiated violence by killing innocents and police, burning buildings, destroying property, and stealing. American Thinker interviewed black Americans for their feelings of what is happening in this country today. The black Americans are all in agreement that they are horrified by what happened to George Floyd, but they are equally horrified by the violence and lack of law and order.

These black Americans feel dismayed by what happened. They recognize that there is legitimate anger over the tactics used by the Minneapolis police.

Stacy Washington is the co-chairperson of Project 21, founded after the 1992 Los Angeles riots to highlight black Americans' political diversity. She differentiates between a protester, someone who exercises his right under the 1st Amendment, and rioters who break the law. Kathy Barnette, who is running in the general election for Pennsylvania's 4th Congressional District, saw "the heart of a nation rise up in defense of George Floyd. No one tried to defend the indefensible acts of these officers. I was even more excited to see President Trump immediately have the Justice Department investigate and not sweep what happened under the rug."

All interviewed want to emphasize that it is inexcusable for many of the cities to have abdicated the rule of law. There are those who claim that the riots and destruction of property are understandable and excusable since it is not a life being destroyed. Stacy responds, "Property is a life. I agree buildings are not alive, but what happens inside of buildings enables people to live. It is their livelihood. Studies show there is a direct link between increases with poverty and suicide/homicide. People turn to crime when they are not able to be employed. In Ferguson, Missouri, after the riots, M1 Bank literally created investment vehicles. The neighborhood became integrated, and young couples, both black and white, could afford a house. Now things are getting burned down again. I am not sure the neighborhoods will be rebuilt."

Chris Arps, a Project 21 member, agrees with this Martin Luther King quote: "I feel that non-violence is really the only way that we can follow because violence is just so self-defeating. A riot ends up creating many more problems for the negro community than it solved. You can, through violence, burn down a building, but you can't establish justice. You can murder a murderer, but you can't murder through violence. You can murder a hater, but you can't murder hate."

Chris explains, "One of the main reasons the movement was so successful is that Martin Luther King understood non-violence creates goodwill. These rioter thugs are hurting black communities. I saw a video of a black businessman during the Rodney King riots. The man was angry and yelling at the rioters that they burned down his business. This is happening again today."

Unfortunately, police and innocents are being killed and injured. Chris points out how David Dorn, a 77-year-old retired St. Louis, Missouri police captain, was shot and killed by looters who broke into a pawn shop where he was working security. He was murdered in cold blood. "This is personal to me because he was the father-in-law of one of my good friends. I think those who are protesting peacefully would not want to be associated with these thugs."

Kathy tells of a black retired firefighter who invested all his money into a business that was completely demolished. They lost everything and did not have riot insurance. "When you pick up bricks or burn a building, you are no longer protesting peacefully. You have the right to be angry, but you do not have the right to loot, steal, or viciously beat someone who is trying to defend their store. We are a nation of law and order."

Attorney General Barr has said that Antifa, other extremist groups, and foreign actors have hijacked the protests. In her book, Nothing to Lose, Everything to Gain, Kathy writes about Antifa, the definition of a domestic terrorist group:

The so-called anti-fascist group we call Antifa likes to think of themselves as the protectors of free speech, even while they shut down the free expression of those they self-righteously deem unworthy to speak. Both Black Lives Matter and Antifa are similar in that they fancy themselves as the liberators of those who have been oppressed by the evil white and privileged class while they, themselves, forcibly suppress any opposition to their own views. Members of the Antifa movement wear black masks to cover up their shameful, illegal, and dastardly acts. Ku Klux Klansmen wore white hoods to hide their reprehensible deeds. Both groups have used terror to achieve their goal of controlling the thoughts and actions of those around them. Antifa members assault citizens for simply disagreeing with their views. What difference does it make when one is afraid to walk down their own street or to speak an opinion that may have been deemed "unpopular" for fear of getting hit across the head with a bike lock, or getting a face full of cement-laced mace, or having their business burned down to the ground?

Her point is that these extremists co-opted black Americans for their own agenda. "The goal is to make America ungovernable. Instead of this vengeance, we should have hope and opportunity. I grew up below the bottom line of the economic ladder on a pig farm in Alabama. My home had no insulation, no running water, a well on the side, and an outhouse in the back. I know what it feels to have the odds work against you. Yet today I am a veteran, talk show host, successful writer, a professor of corporate finance, and someone able to run for Congress."

Those interviewed do not just talk the talk, but also walk the walk with suggestions and solutions. Chris believes that the protests should be done only during the day. "Once nightfall comes, it is very hard to distinguish between the rioters and the protesters. When local officials set up curfews, the protesters still out there lose legitimacy once they are told to go home by the authorities. Project 21 has come up with a Blueprint that has 57 policy ideas to remove barriers blocking blacks from reaching their full potential. Last year, members, including myself, met with the mayor and city council members of Ferguson, Missouri to implement these policies. They are considering it, while the officials in Baltimore rejected it. I am hoping that all cities get rid of choke holds and knees on necks so that people will not be killed while in police custody."

Stacy agrees and is hoping "to have the National Guard and local law enforcement crush this insurrection. The police must implement the least use of force. If handcuffs could be used, then that should be used because it is less invasive than a choke hold. In Minneapolis, there were four police that were using too much force. It was not needed because there were four of them who had handcuffed and had George Floyd on the ground."

Kathy agrees: "If the black community wants better, they will have to vote not based on a party, but on the person. I have seen those in the black community having a very hard time getting over the fact that being black means voting Democratic. Just think of the recent Joe Biden quote: 'you ain't black' if you support President Trump's re-election. We have been Democrats' most loyal constituents for the past fifty years. What exactly have we received for that loyalty? What we have is some of the worst conditions."

Peter Kirsanow, a member of the Civil Rights Commission and a successful political thriller writer, wants "a proper training of the police. The individuals selected who go to the Police Academy and those that graduate should be psychologically profiled, supervisors should be assessing if the cadets have the right character/demeanor, and they should see if the cadets can handle stressful situations. I also think the police review boards and the police unions have too much clout that enable bad police to stay in their position. Think about it. It is extraordinary and unforgiveable that this policeman had no charges brought against him even though there were eighteen complaints."

Each summarized his feelings. Stacy says there should not be property set on fire and destroyed when inexcusable things happen. "We go to city council meetings, but we don't loot and beat up people. We prosecute the bad police and respect law and order." Chris sees the majority of people peacefully protesting. "But those that are killing or injuring innocents and police, burning down and destroying buildings are nothing more than thugs." Kathy, who has a black son, feels that "it is important to make sure we have a justice system that is blind and fair. I would have been out there with the protesters, but today the riots have little to do with memorializing George Floyd." Peter reminds people, "The First Amendment allows for peaceful assembly with the key word 'peaceful.' No one has the right to be deprived of property and life. There should be severe consequences for those rioters."

Elise Cooper writes for American Thinker. She has done book reviews and author interviews and has written a number of national security, political, and foreign policy articles.

Source: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/06/black_americans_speak_out_on_george_floyd_and_the_riots.html

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George Floyd’s Memorial - David Horowitz

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by David Horowitz

A travesty just like the protests in his behalf.

[David Horowitz is the author of Blitz: Trump Will Smash the Left and Win, which was released June 2 by Humanix Books: Order Here.]

In a twisted way it is fitting that the most destructive week for America in living memory should be topped off by a memorial featuring the nation’s chief racial arsonist Al Sharpton. The memorial remembered pieces of the life of George Floyd who was brutally killed by a policeman pressing his knee on Floyd’s neck until he shut off the handcuffed man’s air supply and he died. Not the least unexpectedly, the malevolent Sharpton used the platform the mourners provided to stoke the fires of racial hatred, attacking all of white America because black America’s problems and miseries stemmed from the fact that “for 401 years white America has had its knees on our necks” – or words to that effect.

Sharpton’s four-hundred and one years ago was actually 1619, when the creation of the United States of America was still 168 years in the future, but why quibble over arithmetic when you are intent on indicting a whole race of people so you can blame them for your problems? “Four-hundred years of slavery” of course has long been a common battle cry of the racial demagogues who 50 plus years ago overwhelmed and then corrupted the civil rights movement turning it into a racial shakedown operation after the death of Martin Luther King.

That American knee that Sharpton kept referring to , of course produced the revolutionary declaration that all men are created equal and have a God-given right to liberty, which ended 3,000 years of normalizing slavery – which still exists in Africa today. That American knee inspired 350,000 mainly white Union soldiers to lay down their lives to free African slaves, and through many years of struggle created a society in which American blacks have more rights, more power, more wealth, privilege and opportunity than blacks anywhere on earth including all the black nations in Africa which have been independent for 60 years and all those in the West Indies, which in the case of Haiti have been self-ruled for over 200 years.

The protests fueled by accusations of white racism and police brutality existing as a systemic American problem are based on easily disproven lies. As Heather MacDonald summarized the real world facts in a Wall Street Journal op-ed on June 4, “However sickening the video of Floyd’s arrest, it isn’t representative of the 375 million annual contacts that police officers have with civilians. A solid body of evidence finds no structural bias in the criminal-justice system with regard to arrests, prosecution or sentencing. Crime and suspect behavior, not race, determine most police actions.”

The real world statistics are these: “In 2019 police officers fatally shot 1,004 people, most of whom were armed or otherwise dangerous. African-Americans were about a quarter of those killed by cops last year (235), a ratio that has remained stable since 2015. That share of black victims is less than what the black crime rate would predict, since police shootings are a function of how often officers encounter armed and violent suspects.

“In 2018, the latest year for which such data have been published, African-Americans made up 53% of known homicide offenders in the U.S. and commit about 60% of robberies, though they are 13% of the population. The police fatally shot nine unarmed blacks and 19 unarmed whites in 2019, according to a Washington Post database, down from 38 and 32, respectively, in 2015. The Post defines “unarmed” broadly to include such cases as a suspect in Newark, N.J., who had a loaded handgun in his car during a police chase. In 2018 there were 7,407 black homicide victims. Assuming a comparable number of victims last year, those nine unarmed black victims of police shootings represent 0.1% of all African-Americans killed in 2019. By contrast, a police officer is 18½ times more likely to be killed by a black male than an unarmed black male is to be killed by a police officer.”

Where once black victims of racial violence were attacked by racist mobs, virtually every alleged black martyr in the last fifty years – including George Floyd - was either a criminal resisting arrest, like Eric Garner, or caught in the crossfire of some engagement involving criminal activities such as Breonna Taylor. This does not mean they deserved to die or that every cop involved was innocent. It just means that the victims were in a situation involving crime where the risks to life and limb were imminent and real.

Garner and Taylor are two of the names that were routinely brandished by “protesters” justifying their law-breaking violations of curfews or city ordinances not to block streets without permits, or defacing, destroying and torching local businesses. As someone who engaged in protests in his youth, I can tell you it’s not too difficult to distinguish crowds that are potentially dangerous to you and others, versus the kinds of protests that Martin Luther King led which threatened no one. In a year of democracy protests in Hong Kong not a single store was robbed or ransacked.

Nor is it difficult to see or understand that there was no rationale provided by the death of George Floyd to justify the menacing crowd that massed on the border of the White House night after night and eventually torched the church across the street. President Trump denounced the killing of George Floyd when it happened and called his family to extend his sympathies. The president had no power to affect the police forces at whom the protesters directed their anger. That power belonged to local Democrats and particularly progressive Democrats entirely. But there were no demonstrations holding the Democrat city councils, or the Democrat prosecutors and attorney generals accountable, yet these were the officials who administered and oversaw the Minneapolis police force as they did any of the municipal police forces in the cities burning across the country.

That this monstrous sham perpetrated on the American people and used as an excuse to burn American cities should be capped off by an incendiary racist diatribe at George Floyd’s memorial was as fitting as it is tragic.

David Horowitz

Source: https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/06/george-floyds-memorial-david-horowitz/

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Intellectuals versus Common Sense - Robert Curry

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by Robert Curry

[Y]ou and I need to put the pronouncements of public intellectuals to the test of common sense, always.

In his book Intellectuals and Society, Thomas Sowell takes America's "public intellectuals" on a well deserved trip to the woodshed. He makes many interesting claims, including this one: "The unarticulated cultural distillations of mass experience over the generations are often summarily dismissed as mere prejudices [by public intellectuals]."

"The unarticulated cultural distillations of mass experience over the generations." What is Sowell referring to? Why, common sense, of course. 

In fact, every book and every article Sowell has written is replete with common sense. Sowell is a true master of common sense. I have written two books with "common sense" in the titles, Common Sense Nation and Reclaiming Common Sense, and Sowell is one of the most important influences on the way of thinking found in those books. My grandparents got me going on the common sense good foot, C.S. Lewis revealed to me the depths of it, Thomas Sowell taught me the range of it, and the Scottish philosopher Thomas Reid articulated common sense in a way that brought clarity over its range and its depth.

I quote Samuel Taylor Coleridge on the epigraph page of Reclaiming: "Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom." My grandparents had that. Sowell has, and C.S. Lewis and Thomas Reid had, in addition to their common sense in an uncommon degree, an uncommon ability to articulate common sense. They made it possible for you and me to realize we rely on the wisdom gained over the generations in nearly everything we do — though we almost never notice that we are relying on it when we do!

Sowell was the rarest of the rare — a public intellectual not at war with common sense. Public intellectuals generally make a name for themselves by defying common sense. Here is Sowell again:

George Orwell said that some ideas are so foolish only an intellectual could believe them, for no ordinary man could be so foolish. The record of twentieth century intellectuals was especially appalling in this regard[.] ... Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and Hitler all had their admirers, defenders, and apologists among the intelligentsia in Western democratic nations[.]

We have seen plenty of that in recent years. Public intellectuals rallied around two of the most astonishingly foolish policies that can be imagined, one toward Iran and one toward Communist China. We were told endlessly that enriching these enemy states would make them more like us and therefore less of a threat to us. Obama's decision to underwrite the mullahs of Iran financially, and the Bush/Clinton/Bush/Obama policy of transferring America's industrial base to China was supported by a consensus of foreign policy "experts." 

We have been here before. Between WWI and WWII, public intellectuals kept up a steady drumbeat of opposition to national defense efforts. Here is Sowell again:

Intellectuals played a major role in creating the atmosphere of both military weakness and political irresolution within democratic nations, which made a war against those nations look winnable to the leaders of the Axis dictatorships. In addition to thus helping bring on the most devastating war in human history, intellectuals so impeded the buildup and modernizing of military forces in democratic nations in the years leading up to that war — demonizing military equipment suppliers as 'merchants of death,' being a classic example — that this insured that American and British armed forces would often be outgunned in battle[.]

How did those public intellectuals manage to create this dangerous state of affairs? They did not have to present analytic or empirical arguments to overcome common sense. They did it by means of what Sowell calls "verbal virtuosity." Phrases like "merchants of death" did the trick in the 1920s and 1930s. Promising that lavishing wealth on the mullahs and on the communist leadership in Beijing would bring these dictatorships into "the community of nations" to the benefit of all worked in recent years and is still heard today.

What you and I know by common sense is most of what we know and most of what we need to know to be a sovereign people, a people capable of ruling ourselves. We know by common sense that weakness invites aggression. Knowing that would have enabled us to see through the verbal virtuosity of the public intellectuals in the period leading up to WWII. Similarly, when has building up your enemies' strength on purpose ever been a good idea? That is even crazier than inviting aggression with weakness. 

My witty friend Bob Godwin gleefully mocks the folly of public intellectuals — he refers to them as "the tenured": "their whole mystique is based upon the essentially gnostic idea that they possess some special knowledge inaccessible to the restavus." If the tenured are going to dazzle and astonish us with their policy recommendations, they must go against common sense. That, it turns out, is the royal road to becoming a prominent public intellectual at the center of the controversies of the day, whether the topic is disarmament before WWII or global warming, the Trump/Russia brouhaha, the Wuhan flu, or abolishing the police these days.

By their steady drumbeat of bad ideas, public intellectuals define what we as a nation must do and what we cannot do, again and again to our detriment. Consequently, you and I need to put the pronouncements of public intellectuals to the test of common sense, always.


Robert Curry serves on the Board of Directors of the Claremont Institute. He is the author of Reclaiming Common Sense: Finding Truth in a Post-Truth World, and Common Sense Nation: Unlocking the Forgotten Power of the American Idea. Both are published by Encounter Books.

Source: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/06/intellectuals_versus_common_sense.html

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Palestinians Ramp Up Incitement to Murder Jews - Dr. Edy Cohen

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by Dr. Edy Cohen

In English, Palestinian leaders call stone-throwers “peaceful protestors.” In Arabic, they admit that stones can kill and encourage their people to use them for that purpose.

BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,599, June 7, 2020

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The Palestinians, always quick to adapt to new circumstances, are taking full advantage of the coronavirus crisis to incite the murder of Jews.

Ever since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, many influential Palestinians have maliciously spread the lie that Israel is using the virus as a biological weapon and is deliberately spreading it in the Palestinian areas.

These slanders start at the top. Palestinian PM Muhammad Shtayyeh launched a campaign pushing this incitement, and almost immediately thereafter, other senior Palestinian officials, including government spokesman Ibrahim Milhem, the health minister, and city mayors, all issued similar statements. They claimed Israel intentionally spread the virus through nearby infected Jewish residents and through infected Palestinian workers returning from work in Israel.

Palestinian political cartoonists quickly spread the smear with efforts like this:

A new trend in Palestinian political cartooning emerged with the stoning killing by a Palestinian of 21-year-old IDF soldier Amit Ben Yigal last month. A new campaign with the theme “If you don’t have a gun, kill an IDF soldier with a rock” was widely circulated on social networks. Many such cartoons appeared on Fatah’s official website and in the Palestinian press, including these:

In English, Palestinian leaders call stone-throwers “peaceful protestors.” In Arabic, they admit that stones can kill and encourage their people to use them for that purpose.

Inciting their people to hatred and violence is a major weapon for Palestinian organizations, including the Palestinian Authority and Hamas, in their fight against Israel.

The Palestinian public is force-fed this incitement from infancy. It is fed to them through the education system, the media, and the mosque. The goal of institutionalized incitement is to indoctrinate each new generation of Palestinians with an unquestioned idea—“Occupied Palestine”—and encourage them to carry out acts of violence against the “Zionist enemy.”

Incitement is also intended to prepare the people for future uprisings, when they will be expected to take to the streets and act with no holds barred. To encourage this behavior, the leadership indoctrinates the people into believing they are fighting for the noblest of causes. This strategy has proven very effective—so much so that even some Jewish organizations, in Israel and elsewhere, justify Palestinian violence against the “Israeli occupation.”

Senior Palestinian officials have used propaganda and incitement against Israel nonstop since the signing of the Oslo Accords in the 1990s. In contrast to the fluctuating intensity of the “armed struggle,” Palestinian incitement against Israel is continuous and adapts to current events. For example, the Palestinians used to routinely call IDF soldiers “Nazis” and the Israeli PM “Hitler.” Then, during the time of ISIS, they began calling Israeli soldiers “ISIS terrorists” and the PM “Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi” (the ISIS leader).

Generations of Palestinians have been brought up with this kind of brainwashing, and it makes peace with Israel impossible.

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Dr. Edy Cohen is a researcher at the BESA Center and author of the book The Holocaust in the Eyes of Mahmoud Abbas (Hebrew).

Source: https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/palestinians-incitement-murder/

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Black support for Trump as riots rage? What's going on? - Silvio Canto, Jr.

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by Silvio Canto, Jr.

These numbers must make some Democrats wonder.

We saw a lot of Trump-bashing last week. This is why I found these two reports rather interesting.

First, Politico is reporting that former V.P. Biden is struggling to connect with young voters, particularly those of color. The article points out that this problem started in the primaries and continues. It appears that many of these younger voters see Mr. Biden as part of the system. In other words, it's tough to call for change when you've been in Washington since President Nixon was re-elected in 1972.

Another story is that Rasmussen Reports has black American support for President Trump at 41%. More interesting than that is that "intense" black support is 25%.

Let's assume that 41% is too high and that the truth is closer to 25%. It's still way higher than the 9% that President Trump got in 2016.

The riots and looting may change these numbers. My guess is that they will. Mr. Biden less relevant to young voters and may move some black Americans to President Trump, or the "law and order" candidate.

We will know on election day. However, these numbers must make some Democrats wonder if Mr. Biden is talking too much about police brutality and not enough about criminals burning black- and other minority-owned businesses.

PS: You can listen to my show (Canto Talk) and follow me on Twitter.


Silvio Canto, Jr.

Source: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/06/black_support_for_trump_as_riots_rage_whats_going_on.html

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The threat - a wave of illegal Arab construction - Arutz Sheva Staff

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by Arutz Sheva Staff

Mount Hebron council head warns Trump sovereignty plan will lead to even more illegal construction meant to strangle Jewish communities.

Illegal Arab construction on Mount Hebron                 Mount Hebron council spokesperson

 

100 residents of Mount Hebron protested on Friday following the illegal construction being promoted by Palestinian Authority in the Carmel, Avigayil, Maon and Susya communities.

The residents moved among the many construction groups that were established between the localities and stood on the perimeter of the illegal construction built on the fences of the localities.

The eastern ridge of Mount Hebron is entirely populated by Israeli localities and is largely in Area C and composed of state land. The area has seen a wave of illegal Arab construction.

In recent years, the Palestinian Authority has been funded by the European Union to promote aggressive and systematic illegal construction with the intention of taking control of Area C. The construction is concentrated in clusters between Israeli localities with the intention of creating a buffer between them and interrupting Israeli sovereignty and territorial cohesion in the area.

Arab construction is in line with the principles outlined at the time in the Fayyad plan, which calls for 'quiet occupation' and the establishment of facts on the ground. In recent years, hundreds of new buildings, agricultural terraces and roads have been observed, indicating a clear trend to produce illegal Arab settlement between the city of Hebron and the Judean Desert, between eastern Jerusalem and the Bedouin diaspora in the Negev.

Mount Hebron Regional Council chairman Yochai Daamri warned: "This is just a promo for the dangerous situation that could come if the Trump plan is approved in its current form. Even today, when the territories are fully under our control, there is a severe problem of the Arab and European construction terrorist systems. When the area between the communities is strengthened for negotiation purposes, we will find a tsunami of construction that will surround our localities and may turn them into enclaves within an Arabian sea."

Commenting on the prime minister's promise to freeze construction in these territories, Damari added: "Since I have not seen any written reference in the Trump vision that indicates a freeze on construction in Arabs in Area C, I am not at all calm and certainly have not been presented with an effective monitoring mechanism."

Pinni Roth, a resident of Carmel, who attended the tour and was active in the struggle, said that "every day new illegal houses are being erected between the communities by the Arabs. This is wild construction with the intention to build a large Arab continuum that will strangle the localities. The purpose of the tour is to protest, influence and point out the rampant construction in every direction and occupies an area that is the oxygen of the communities and the State of Israel. Unfortunately, the Civil Administration is unable to destroy the buildings and keep pace with the takeover and we are here to prevent it."


Arutz Sheva Staff

Source: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/281442

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Hong Kong and the US: how much do they rely on each other economically? - Nadeem Shad

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by Nadeem Shad

Loss of the US special trading status, which has historically allowed Hong Kong to be treated as a different economic entity from the Chinese mainland, would have major implications for both parties.

Hong Kong and the United States have an economic relationship that stretches back many decades. But in a May 29, 2020, statement, US President Donald Trump said that  Washington was ready to end preferential trade relations with the city, leaving many speculating about Hong Kong’s economic future. The US move was in response to China’s plans to enact a controversial new national security law for Hong Kong, that critics fear will have serious repercussions for human rights and freedom of expression. Loss of the US special trading status, which has historically allowed Hong Kong to be treated as a different economic entity from the Chinese mainland, would have major implications for both parties. The South China Morning Post takes a look at the deep economic ties that bind these trading partners. 

Nadeem Shad

Source:https://www.scmp.com/video/hong-kong/3087804/hong-kong-and-us-how-much-do-they-rely-each-other-economically

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Video: “You Ain’t Gay!” – Leftists to Brandon Straka for Supporting Trump - Frontpagemag.com

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by Frontpagemag.com

The Left’s dehumanization of free thinkers knows no bounds.

Subscribe to the Glazov Gang‘s YouTube Channel and follow us on Twitter: @JamieGlazov.

This new Glazov Gang episode features Brandon Straka, the Campaign Founder for #WalkAway.

Brandon discusses “You Ain’t Gay!” – Leftists to Brandon Straka for Supporting Trump, revealing how the Left’s dehumanization of free thinkers knows no bounds.

Don’t miss it!




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Source: https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/06/video-you-aint-gay-leftists-brandon-straka-frontpagemagcom/

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Report: 12 Iranian militia fighters killed in Syria airstrikes - Arutz Sheva Staff

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by Arutz Sheva Staff

'Unidentified drones' attack military base used by Iran in eastern Syria soon after base was reinforced with new supplies and fighters.

The headquarters of Iranian militias in the M’eizileh base in Deir Ezzor in eastern Syria were struck by "unidentifiable drones" overnight, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported.

The base was targeted by eight airstrikes, killing a total of twelve Iranian-backed fighters.

SOHR reported that the Iranian-backed militias brought in significant reinforcements to the base on June 3, including a military convoy of 30 vehicles.


Arutz Sheva Staff

Source: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/281437

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