Friday, May 31, 2019

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Monday, May 20, 2019

בצדק תשפוט עמיתך ויקרא יט Duma Blood Libel: BeTzedek Tishpot Amitecha Vayikra 19:15 Mitvoth D'Orayta Judge With Righteousness


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Pikuach Nefesh (Savings one's life) Who can endure administrative detention which translates to charges, prosecution, imprisonment, interrogation without due process , slander and torture for a crime one does not commit?
We can therefore safely assume that this is a matter of Pikuach Nefesh and the Duma suspects' lives, physical and emotional health, are in a precarious state along with all the other Settler Youth who are suffering Post Trauma Stress Disorder following unfair, unjustified, criminal treatment...)
Pidyon Shvuyim -- Pidyon Shvuyim (Hebrew: פִּדְיוֹן שְׁבוּיִים‎, literally: Redemption of Captives) is a religious duty in Judaism to bring about the release of a fellow Jew imprisoned unjustly by the authorities. The release of the prisoner is typically secured by a ransom paid by the Jewish community.  We are not asking for money but simply that you share this email and other articles/posts etc. that vindicate the Jewish Settler Youth. Share it with your Rabbi and Spiritual Leader, Askan, Jewish print media, radio, TV, email and/or social media.
Shmos Perek 23 Parshat Mishpatim Pesukim 1-8
1 You shall not accept a false report; do not place your hand with a wicked person to be a false witness.
  א לֹא תִשָּׂא שֵׁמַע שָׁוְא אַל תָּשֶׁת יָדְךָ עִם רָשָׁע לִהְיֹת עֵד חָמָס  We have good reason to believe that the Israel Security Agency (also known as ISA  or Shin Bet) has provided false reports about the hilltop, settler youth among them forced confessions.  Unfortunately, many influential leaders, Rabbanim across the board, political figures and journalists have accepted these false reports as truth and the slander has been spread throughout the secular and Jewish media.

2 You shall not follow the majority for evil, and you shall not respond concerning a lawsuit to follow many to pervert [justice].   "לֹא-תִהְיֶה אַחֲרֵי-רַבִּים לְרָעֹת וְלֹא-תַעֲנֶה עַל-רִב לִנְטֹת אַחֲרֵי רַבִּים לְהַטֹּת ב
Just because the majority of the media and political figures and even Rabbanim have condemned hilltop youth for Price Tag vandalism, arson and the murder of innocent Arabs we may not pervert justice and must conduct a fair investigation as to precisely what exactly happened and not rely on forced confessions..
3 Neither shall you glorify a poor man in his lawsuit.   
ג וְדָל לֹא תֶהְדַּר בְּרִיבוֹ: It must be a fair investigation

(As does the Torah, I am now embedding in our discussion about pursuing justice the Pesukim regarding helping with your enemy's donkey. There is much we can learn from this juxtaposition. Many Rabbanim hold that Meir Ettinger and the Hilltop youth reject and threaten Rabbinic authority when they promote going up to Har HaBayit etc. and in this respect consider them their enemy. Yet the Torah says that when our enemy is down we come to his aid.  What a tremendous Kiddush Hashem it would be if Moetzet Gedolei Hatorah and the Aguda would demand a fair and open investigation of the hilltop youth! We pray for Shalom and Unity in Am Yisroel)
4 If you come upon your enemy's bull or his stray donkey, you shall surely return it to him.   
ד כִּי תִפְגַּע שׁוֹר אֹיִבְךָ אוֹ חֲמֹרוֹ תֹּעֶה הָשֵׁב תְּשִׁיבֶנּוּ לוֹ: Please restore the good name  of these boys who have been slandered as Jewish Terrorists in a blood libel against them.
5 If you see your enemy's donkey lying under its burden would you refrain from helping him? You shall surely help along with him.  
ה כִּי תִרְאֶה חֲמוֹר שׂנַאֲךָ רֹבֵץ תַּחַת מַשָּׂאוֹ וְחָדַלְתָּ מֵעֲזֹב לוֹ עָזֹב תַּעֲזֹב עִמּוֹ Please write a letter!
6 You shall not pervert the judgment of your poor man in his lawsuit.  
ו לֹא תַטֶּה מִשְׁפַּט אֶבְיֹנְךָ בְּרִיב (These kids are vulnerable. They have been outcasts either by choice or by force, many of them never recovered from the severe trauma and betrayal they experienced from the expulsion from Gush Katif and Amona or of a similar nature. The Jewish people owe them an apology rather than to compound the trauma)
7 Distance yourself from a false matter; and do not kill a truly innocent person or one who has been declared innocent, for I will not vindicate a guilty person.   ז מִדְּבַר שֶׁקֶר תִּרְחָק וְנָקִי וְצַדִּיק אַל תַּהֲרֹג כִּי לֹא אַצְדִּיק רָשָׁע: The hilltop youth claim that the allegations against them are false and fabricated and they deny the allegations… that is until they were tortured. One just turned 18 Jewish boy, a Duma suspect, who happens to be an American citizen, showed the scars of an attempted suicide following being tortured..
8 You shall not accept a bribe, for a bribe will blind the clear sighted and corrupt words that are right.   ח וְשֹׁחַד לֹא תִקָּח כִּי הַשֹּׁחַד יְעַוֵּר פִּקְחִים וִיסַלֵּף דִּבְרֵי צַדִּיקִים: Does government funding for Political entities and Yeshivoth come into the picture that distorts clarity of what really happened in Duma and their quick condemnations of hilltop youth?

Vayikra Perek 19 Pesukim 15-18
15 You shall commit no injustice in judgment; you shall not favor a poor person or respect a great man; you shall judge your fellow with righteousness.   טו לֹא תַעֲשׂוּ עָוֶל בַּמִּשְׁפָּט לֹא תִשָּׂא פְנֵי דָל וְלֹא תֶהְדַּר פְּנֵי גָדוֹל בְּצֶדֶק תִּשְׁפֹּט עֲמִיתֶךָ: The truth must be investigated and the words of influential politicians or even influential Rabbinic or governmental leaders should not be taken more seriously than the words of the poor and vulnerable.  
16 You shall not go around as a gossipmonger amidst your people. You shall not stand by [the shedding of] your fellow's blood. I am the Lord.
  טז לֹא תֵלֵךְ רָכִיל בְּעַמֶּיךָ לֹא תַעֲמֹד עַל דַּם רֵעֶךָ אֲנִי יְהוָֹה: The slander regarding the Duma case clearly reminds us of this Pasuk where almost everyone was quick to condemn them thereby engaging in character assassination and a blood libel.. These condemnations were public, are on the record, in the news and have been dutifully noted and documented and can easily be found on the internet.
17 You shall not hate your brother in your heart. You shall surely rebuke your fellow, but you shall not bear a sin on his account.
יז לֹא תִשְׂנָא אֶת אָחִיךָ בִּלְבָבֶךָ הוֹכֵחַ תּוֹכִיחַ אֶת עֲמִיתֶךָ וְלֹא תִשָּׂא עָלָיו חֵטְא: Silence of evil is evil, to quote Glenn Beck.  How can we be silent at this travesty of justice? Not coming to their defense points to Sinat Chinam against the hilltop and Settler youth in our hearts and fueling Sinat Chinam between Chareidim and Dati Leumi communities. Will we allow them to be locked up to satisfy our own agenda?
18 You shall neither take revenge from nor bear a grudge against the members of your people; you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord.
יח לֹא תִקֹּם וְלֹא תִטֹּר אֶת בְּנֵי עַמֶּךָ וְאָהַבְתָּ לְרֵעֲךָ כָּמוֹךָ אֲנִי יְהוָֹה:
Amein! Ken Yehi Ratzon!


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Sincerely,

Robin Ticker

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The Duma Skunk

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The DUMA SKUNK 
by ROBIN TICKER 


I smell a skunk..... 

The plea bargain forced upon minor E. Odess is a form of forced confession and should not be considered any different from the other confessions he made as a 15 year old child during weeks of relentless torture.

If the plea bargain confession in any way falsely incriminates E. and others, such as Amiram ben Uliel, this does not serve justice.. . neither for E., nor for the Arab Duma arson victims. 

The family knows their son is innocent. They only signed the plea bargain in the hopes of relief from the unrelenting mental and physical anguish to which they are subjected. They want to be free of  the relentless scrutiny of every move they make. 

Furthermore, it is even questionable whether the Government of Israel will keep their end of the plea bargain. The system's focus is concern about protecting themselves and saving face. Too much freedom for E. means he might possibly conduct media interviews such as were conducted with Ahed Temimi following her release. Surely the government won't risk the embarrassment of the truth being revealed.

Elisha has been in prison for over 3 years, tortured emotionally and physically for a crime he never committed. .

No one can blame him or his family for this plea bargain.

No one blames him for confessing to an arson he never committed. It sure beats suicide which he apparently attempted as a child  following torture and interrogation and a judge who fell asleep when Elisha showed him his slit wrists.

His forced confession of the Duma arson was thrown out for good reason. Under torture, physical or emotional, he is not a credible witness against himself. (Who among us would not confess under the circumstances?)

The plea bargain is just another forced confession by a fake judicial process that continues to put Elisha and his family under tremendous emotional duress through emotional blackmail.

The reality is that there is no lawyer in Israel who will dare represent a kid who can legitimately justify bringing charges against the Prime Minister of Israel, the President of Israel, the Defense Minister of Israel, the Justice Minister of Israel, the Supreme Court of Israel, the Jewish Division of Shabak, MKs, and the Media and prestigious Rabbanim all complicit for prematurely and falsely condemning "Jewish Terror" in the Duma case within 24 hours of it occurring. All the above guilty parties have successfully kept this false narrative going weeks and months and years with no apologies. 

 The public condemnation against the myth of "Jewish Terror" in August 2015 went viral, across the globe, within a week, with no genuine real investigation to speak of. It was based solely on very questionable, non-convincing Hebrew graffiti found at the scene of the crime and the "professional expertise" of a biased Jewish Division of Terror of the Shabak (which many say should be dismantled).  

This so called "Jewish Division" within the Shabak has a long history of seeking to manufacture Jewish terrorists for political motivations.

Based on the false myth that "Hilltop Youth" are ticking time bombs, tens of innocent, idealistic youths who love the Land of Israel  were denied due process, interrogated, denied counsel and habeas corpus, tortured emotionally and physically, and internationally slandered.  Their good name was publicly smeared by reputable, trusted, powerful and influential leaders of Israel.  

I am not only talking about E. Odess or Amiram ben Uliel. Tens, if not hundreds of settler youth were treated as if they were ticking time bombs, and this has not ceased to this day. They continue to be at the mercy of the draconian punishment of Administrative Detention (imprisonment without legal representation), a politically biased court, biased prosecution, and biased investigation. 

President Trump would accurately call it a "Witch Hunt"!

Hoaxes based on graffiti have been used way before the Duma arson as a successful tool to incriminate innocent people for political motives.

The Jewish Division of Terror of Shabak has a history of planting agents and moles among settlers for the purpose of creative a false narrative of fabricated "Jewish terror".

If this plea bargain will continue to perpetuate a false narrative, slandering settlers as "Jewish terrorists", it will only to protect all the VIPs who were too quick to condemn the arson on Jews, quick to slander and destroy the lives of beautiful and patriotic settler kids and their families for political reasons.

We as a people can choose to persist in this false narrative for the benefit of protecting all those in leadership roles who rushed to falsely condemn Hilltop Settler Youth prematurely for political gain,  or we can insist on due process. The courts must free Elisha O. for lack of evidence and focus on truth to find the real perpetrators of the Duma arson. They can start by investigating the feuding Arabs in the town of Duma who have a long history of arson against the Dawabshe family.

 The Odess family stated that signing the plea bargain was not based on truth!

I believe them.

There needs to be some solid evidence other than Elisha's own confessions to incriminate him.
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Following is a statement by Helen Freedman, Executive Director of AFSI (Americans for a Safe Israel)

"The situation with E. Odess is so totally disgraceful and shameful. PM Netanyahu needs to examine the facts and totally exonerate Elisha. He and the family have suffered enough. The plea bargain is a sham. It should be scrapped and total innocence should be declared."
Helen Freedman, Executive Dir., AFSI


Statement by MK Betzalel Smotrich: 

"What the State did to this minor and his family is among the most severe injustices in Israel's history. I call upon the Attorney General to intervene at last in this case and stop the witch hung that is mortally damaging the very little trust remaining in the law enforcement system..."  (12-07-18) ....

Statement by Ruth Gavison, renowned Israeli Law Professor at the Hebrew University:

"We presently find ourselves at a critical juncture in the Duma blood libel. Not only is the issue of torture under examination, but also the question of the proposed plea deal.  

This proposed plea deal is a form of criminal extortion. The State Attorney's Office is pressuring the family of Elisha O. to accept this plea deal with the unrelenting coercive pressure of the court. While accepting a plea deal will save time in the courtroom, it is inherently dishonest and is a distortion of the legal process. The prosecution has all the time and all means to pressure the defendant indefinitely to confess to the most serious charges. The defendant, on the other hand, does not have the financial or emotional means to wage a costly and lengthy legal battle to prove his innocence."

Fwd: CLEAR CHANNEL REFUSES TO ALLOW TIMES SQUARE BILLBOARD DEMANDING REMOVAL OF OMAR FROM CONGRESS


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PRESS RELEASE

CLEAR CHANNEL REFUSES TO ALLOW TIMES SQUARE BILLBOARD DEMANDING REMOVAL OF OMAR FROM CONGRESS

AMERICAN VOICES ARE SILENCED IN CONDEMNING AN ANTISEMITIC CONGRESSWOMAN

(NEW YORK, NEW YORK) –May 20, 2019 –Today's scheduled multi-organizational rally in New York's Time Square to demand the removal of Ilhan Omar from Congress was denied the display of a commercial billboard.

The Omar Times Square billboard demanding her removal due to her anti-Semitic comments and ties to Islamic terror front groups like the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) and Islamic Relief USA was denied ad space at the eleventh hour by Clear Channel.   

This denial of advertising space comes on the heels of national headlines made by Clear Channel for their refusal earlier this month to display a billboard by Focus On The Family, an evangelical Christian ministry. The planned 4-D ultra-sound image of an unborn baby, in support of their pro-life  "Alive From New York," was denied for the event staged on May 4.

Laurie Cardoza-Moore, Founder and President of the evangelical Christian advocacy organization, Proclaiming Justice to The Nations (PJTN), and an Advisory Board member of the more than one dozen organizations staging the Omar protest rally, noted:  "Today's event was overshadowed by a definite attempt by Clear Channel to silence the free expression of Judeo/Christian and American values—an agenda carried out by both Clear Channel and by Facebook.  Facebook removed, without notice, the fundraising page established and actively receiving donations to help fund the event. The removal came on the vague grounds of 'violation of community standards' despite the fact that the page was originally set-up through proper channels in the Facebook system."

Cardoza Moore's PJTN organization has been responsible for amassing tens of thousands of signatures in an online petition calling from the removal of Ilhan Omar.

Jeffrey Wiesenfeld, one of the organizers hosting the rally stated, "US Corporate culture is now completely in the province of political correctness and will be part of the further decline of US society. Those very rare entities who are not in line, like Chick-fil-A, will need to tread water to survive, irrespective of their product quality."

Cardoza-Moore concludes that "a double standard exists when our attempts to wake up America to the dangers to our national security and our Judeo/Christian/American values that Omar stands against through her anti-Semitic messaging and support of terrorist groups. This is evident as we are denied the right to display a viable and truthful viewpoint for Americans to consider in an open forum like Times Square. Most sobering of all, and at the heart of this entire reprehensible scenario, is the stark realization that voices that don't espouse the values and views of the left wing liberal media are subject to being totally turned off by organizations such as Clear Channel and Facebook. Unless these corporate biases on free speech are challenged, it will set the stage for the continued decline of freedom in America as we know it."

While today's rally to demand Omar's removal will be staged as planned in Times Square, it is now a prelude to a larger event already in the planning.  More speakers, a higher profile national call to action, and a larger billboard are all to be featured.

 

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Friday, May 17, 2019

Fwd: Daniel Greenfield's article: Americans Paid for the Internet, We Deserve Free Speech On It


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Daniel Greenfield's article: Americans Paid for the Internet, We Deserve Free Speech On It 

Link to Sultan Knish     

Posted: 16 May 2019 05:58 PM PDT
"But, it's a private company."

It's a familiar argument. Bring up the problem of Google, Facebook and Twitter suppressing conservative speech and many conservatives will retort that it's a free market. The big dot com monopolies created their own companies, didn't they? And we wouldn't want government regulation of business.

In a FOX Business editorial, Iain Murray writes that breaking up dot coms like Google would be "a repudiation of conservative principles". He argues that "Twitter is a private company" and that "there is no positive right to free speech on Twitter or any other private venue."

"The same goes for the president's attacks on Google and the complaints of conservative censorship," Diane Katz writes at the Heritage Institute. "These private enterprises are not obligated to abide any sort of partisan fairness doctrine."

The talking point that Google, Facebook and Twitter are private companies that can discriminate as they please on their private platforms, and that the First Amendment doesn't apply, is in the air everywhere.

But it overlooks two very simple facts.

The driving force behind the censorship of conservatives isn't a handful of tech tycoons. It's elected officials. Senator Kamala Harris offered an example of that in a recent speech where she declared that she would "hold social media platforms accountable" if they contained "hate" or "misinformation".

"Misinformation" is a well-known euphemism among Democrats and the media for conservative political content. It was originally known as "fake news" before President Trump hijacked the term to refer to the media. The recent Poynter list of "unreliable" sites was stacked with conservative sites. Lists like these aren't hypothetical. Poynter runs the International Fact Checking Network which had been empowered by Facebook and other sites to deplatform conservative content through its 'fact checks'.

All of this got underway in response to claims by Hillary Clinton and her allies that "fake news" had cost her the election and represented a grave attack on our democracy. The call was quickly taken up by Democrats in the House and the Senate. It's been commented on supportively by powerful Clinton allies in the tech industry, like Eric Schmidt, the former chairman of Google.

Dot coms like Facebook are cracking down on conservatives as an explicit response to pressure from elected government officials. That's not the voluntary behavior of private companies. When Facebook deletes conservatives in response to threats of regulatory action from Senate Democrats, its censors are acting as government agents while engaging in viewpoint discrimination.

Free market conservatives can argue that Facebook should have the right to discriminate against conservatives. But do they really want to argue that Senate Democrats should have the right to compel private companies to censor conservatives?

What's the difference between that and a totalitarian state?

It might, arguably, be legal for your landlord to kick you out of your house because he doesn't like the fact that you're a Republican. But is it legal for him to do so on orders from Senator Kamala Harris?

Defending abusive behavior like that is a desecration of the free market.

The second fact is that the internet is not the work of a handful of aspiring entrepreneurs who built it out of thin air using nothing but their talent, brains and nimble fingers.

The internet was the work of DARPA. That stands for Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. DARPA is part of the Department of Defense. DARPA had funded the creation of the core technologies that made the internet possible. The origins of the internet go back to DARPA's Arpanet.

Nor did the story end once the internet had entered every home.

Where did Google come from? "The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine," the original paper by Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the co-founders of Google, reveals support from the National Science Foundation, DARPA, and even NASA.

Harvard's computer science department, where Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg learned to play with the toys that turned him into a billionaire, has also wallowed in DARPA cash. Not to mention funds from a variety of other DOD and Federal science agencies.

Taxpayer sank a fortune into developing a public marketplace where ideas are exchanged, and political advocacy and economic activity takes place. That marketplace doesn't belong to Google, Amazon or Facebook. And when those monopolies take a stranglehold on the marketplace, squeezing out conservatives from being able to participate, they're undermining our rights and freedoms.

"A right of free correspondence between citizen and citizen on their joint interests, whether public or private and under whatsoever laws these interests arise (to wit: of the State, of Congress, of France, Spain, or Turkey), is a natural right," Thomas Jefferson argued.

There should be a high barrier for any company seeking to interfere with the marketplace of ideas in which the right of free correspondence is practiced.

Critics of regulating dot com monopolies have made valid points.

Regulating Google or Facebook as a public utility is dangerous. And their argument that giving government the power to control content on these platforms would backfire is sensible.

Any solution to the problem should not be based on expanding government control.

But there are two answers.

First, companies that engage in viewpoint discrimination in response to government pressure are acting as government agents. When a pattern of viewpoint discrimination manifests itself on the platform controlled by a monopoly, a civil rights investigation should examine what role government officials played in instigating the suppression of a particular point of view.

Liberals have abandoned the Public Forum Doctrine, once a popular ACLU theme, while embracing censorship. But if the Doctrine could apply to a shopping mall, it certainly applies to the internet.

In Packingham v. North Carolina, the Supreme Court's decision found that, "A fundamental principle of the First Amendment is that all persons have access to places where they can speak and listen."

The Packingham case dealt with government interference, but when monopolies silence conservatives on behalf of government actors, they are fulfilling the same role as an ISP that suspends a customer in response to a law.

When dot com monopolies get so big that being banned from their platforms effectively neutralizes political activity, press activity and political speech, then they're public forums.

Second, rights are threatened by any sufficiently large organization or entity, not just government. Government has traditionally been the most powerful such organization, but the natural rights that our country was founded on are equally immune to every organization. Governments, as the Declaration of Independence asserts, exist as part of a social contract to secure these rights for its citizens.

Government secures these rights, first and foremost, against itself. (Our system effectively exists to answer the question of who watches the watchers.) But it also secures them against foreign powers, a crisis that the Declaration of Independence was written to meet, and against domestic organizations, criminal or political, whether it's the Communist Party or ISIS, that seek to rob Americans of their rights.

A country in which freedom of speech effectively did not exist, even though it remained a technical right, would not be America. A government that allowed such a thing would have no right to exist.

Only a government whose citizens enjoy the rights of free men legally justifies is existence.

If a private company took control of all the roads and closed them to conservatives every Election Day, elections would become a mockery and the resulting government would be an illegitimate tyranny.

That's the crisis that conservatives face with the internet.

Protecting freedom of speech does not abandon conservative principles, it secures them. There are no conservative principles without freedom of speech. A free market nation without freedom of speech isn't a conservative country. It's an oligarchy. That's the state of affairs on the internet.

Conservatives should beware of blindly enlisting in leftist efforts to take regulatory control of companies like Facebook. The result would be a deeper and more pervasive form of censorship than exists today. But neither should they imagine that the 'free market side of history' will automatically fix the problem.

As the internet has devolved from its origins in academia to a set of handheld devices controlled by one of two companies, and then to a set of smart assistants controlled by one of two companies, it has become far less open. Even if Google were to lose its monopoly, Silicon Valley hosts a politicized workforce which allies with the media to compel any rising new company to toe the same line.

And if that fails, there are always House and Senate hearings and harder laws coming out of Europe.

We have an existing useful toolset to draw on, from anti-trust laws to civil rights investigations to the Public Forum Doctrine. This will be a challenging process, but we must remember through it all, that we have a right to freedom of speech on the internet. Our tax dollars, invested over generations, built this system. It does not belong to the Left. Or, for that matter, the Right. It belongs to all of us.






Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article originally appeared at Front Page Magazine.

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Framing Jewish Settlers and their Youth. Who is Not Guilty?

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Framing followers of Rabbi Meir Kahane Hy"d as Terrorists is a pattern that has to stop once and for all! 

Was there Collusion and a Witch Hunt from the Prime Ministers Office down?  

Local Arab denies Jews responsible for deadly Duma arson - Israel National News

Were the Arabs even interrogated as part of the Duma Investigation? Apparently not.  

Settler kid vindicated in charges of stoning an Arab woman's car on Shabbat.

 How many other innocent Settlers Youth were falsely accused of being Ticking Time Bombs?

Pursue Justice!!!

If an honest and truthful investigation reveals that Arabs perpetrated the Duma arson and not Jewish Hilltop Youth, coupled with the recent findings that the Arab woman couldn't have been stoned by Settler Yeshiva kid Tzvi Nerya coupled with too many baseless interrogations of Settler Youth coming up empty handed, we must demand Dayenu!

Local Arab denies Jews responsible for deadly Duma arson
Arab resident of Duma tells private investigator that Jews weren't responsible for deadly 2015 arson that killed three Palestinian Arabs.

Ido Ben Porat, 16/05/19 
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/263258

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From Israel: Inconceivable!

May 14, 2019

Or so I would have thought.

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Yet, in America today this is what we see:

Florida Young Democrats (FYD) has a new Central Florida Regional Director, Rasha Mubarak. In their announcement welcoming her, Florida Young Democrats noted that she had previously served as the Central Florida Regional Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).

Say what??

The federal government designated CAIR an un-indicted terror co-conspirator in 2007 in the prosecution of the Holy Land Foundation and others for providing support to violent Hamas jihadists. Ghassan Elashi, a founding board member of CAIR's Texas chapter, was convicted of laundering money for Hamas terrorism. CAIR's civil rights director Randall Todd Royer trained with the al Qaeda-linked jihad group Lashkar-e-Taiba and was convicted of conspiring to engage in terror activities.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/political_commentary/commentary_by_michelle_malkin/never_forget_cair_s_dirty_deeds

Apparently, all of this is of no concern to FYD, but we shouldn't be surprised. After all Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D – Minn.), who spoke at a CAIR fundraiser, recently described CAIR as an organization founded to protect American Muslims from Islamophobia after 9/11:

"CAIR was founded after 9/11 because they recognized that some people did something and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties."

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It was bad enough that she referred to the terrorism perpetrated by Muslim jihadis – which took 3,000 innocent American lives – as "some people did something." But she also misrepresented the founding of CAIR, which came into existence in the 1990s.

https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2019/apr/15/ilhan-omar/ilhan-omar-misstates-facts-about-cairs-founding/

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There were people – some of them progressive Jews and all of them Democrats – who actually praised Omar for her words, because she purportedly spoke bravely for Muslim Americans. I myself gag on this sort of blind hyper-political correctness.

Omar has been marked as an anti-Semite who has drawn on classic anti-Semitic themes in comments she has made, so none of this should surprise us.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/rep-ilhan-omar-criticized-for-anti-semitic-tweet

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Then, too, Omar has the companionship of another anti-Israel, anti-Semitic Muslim Congresswoman, Rashida Tlaib (D- MI), who has just made what may be the worst comment of all:

Thinking of the Holocaust, she declared, always gives her a "calming effect" because she knows that her ancestors gave the Jews "safe haven" although at tremendous cost to themselves (the Palestinian Arabs).

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/05/13/rep_rashida_tlaib_palestinians_created_safe_haven_for_jews_after_holocaust.html

A calming effect…

The Arabs in Palestine right after the Holocaust did everything in their power to prevent the Jews from being there. It is an outrage – an enormous reversal of historical truth – to describe the atmosphere they generated as a "safe haven" for Jews.

And notice, please, how in her version of events the Arabs were the ones who suffered.

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YouTube

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But wait, I'm not done yet.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi – weak, ineffective, and lacking the courage to do what is right – invited one Imam Omar Suleiman to give the opening prayer in the House earlier this month.

And who is Imam Suleiman?

At the start of the 2014 war in Gaza, Suleiman wrote:

"God willing on this blessed night as the 3rd Intifada begins, the beginning of the end of Zionism is here. May Allah help us overcome this monster…"

In 2018, he tweeted that the tide in the fight for Palestinians "is turning."

"There is no longer one side dominating the political discourse in America. In the last month, we heard from newly-elected congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib openly express their support for BDS and Palestinian rights." (Emphasis added)

https://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Israel-bashing-Imam-delivers-opening-prayer-at-House-of-Representatives-589337

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So there we are. I watch all of this from Jerusalem and I am horrified. What, I ask myself again and again, has happened to the America that I knew?

Senator Ted Cruz (R – TX) described the situation on Fox News yesterday (emphasis added):

"The Democratic Party as a whole is galloping to the left. And one of the components of that is that the extreme left has a long history of anti-Semitism, anti-Israel hatred. We're seeing it with this freshman trio [Rasida, Tlaib, and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (NY – D)]…who keep expressing anti-Semitic, anti-Israel comments.

"In the House of Representatives the Democratic party as a whole, the leadership as a whole, is unwilling to distance themselves from these radicals."

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/263119

Washington Times

Credit: Washington Times

There was a time when American Jews declared with full confidence, "It can't happen here." But we see now that it can!!

What grieves me deeply is the fact that many progressive American Jews close their eyes to this reality, and will, in spite of everything, continue to vote Democratic.

I want to cry, "Wake up!" but they wouldn't pay attention to Senator Cruz and they most certainly wouldn't listen to me.

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Actually, America is quite schizoid right now. The flip side of the devotion of Jewish progressives to the left-wing Democratic Party is a passionate, destructive and irrational hatred of President Donald Trump.

This too is cause for grief: It is an obsession known as "Trump Derangement Syndrome." Everything bad that happens is Trump's fault; Trump must be brought into every discussion, political or otherwise; and every effort must be made to bring him down, no matter the cost to the nation.

Those suffering from this derangement seem unable to separate Trump's sometimes bombastic style from his genuine accomplishments.

One need not be ecstatic about every Trump action, every Trump political decision, every Trump Tweet, to recognize that he's doing an excellent job in several respects.

I have reservations about the "Deal of the Century," and may yet speak out against it – I have already indicated that I think his team is well-intentioned but essentially naïve about the situation here.

But I salute him for a great deal that he is doing: For moving the Embassy to Jerusalem and recognizing the Golan Heights as part of Israel; for backing Israel entirely in the fight with Hamas; and taking a tough stance with the Palestinian Arabs. (I thought it was great that Hanan Ashwari was not permitted into the US this week; that's small stuff – but delivers a message.)

I love it that he has some fantastic people – Mike Pompeo, John Bolton, David Friedman – working with him; and that he is tough-minded and cannot be threatened.

And I was delighted at the no-nonsense way he took on Rashida Tlaib with regard to her Holocaust statement: "She obviously has tremendous hatred of Israel and the Jewish people. Can you imagine what would happen if I ever said what she said, and says?"

Most importantly, the president recognized the dangers of the Iran deal that the Obama administration had negotiated. He walked away from it, and instituted sanctions on Iran to apply enormous pressure. Now he is refusing to back off from Iran's military threats – it is essential that he stand strong.

Those with Trump derangement will never acknowledge the debt the world owes to Donald Trump for taking on Iran. Until he took office, the Iranians had the upper hand and their plans were malign and dangerous in the extreme.

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Credit: Fox News

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And so, here, too, I want to cry to progressive American Jews, "Get real! See what's happening."

But there is no point in even trying. Although it would not hurt, my friends, if you shared this broadly.

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I will post again in short order, returning to issues here in Israel (where matters are hardly easy); I will also likely have a good deal more to say about Iran.

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See my website: https://www.arlenefromisrael.info

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