'Put Up or Shut Up': Giuliani Ruthlessly Tears into Mueller, Calls for Report To Be Submitted

https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/put-shut-giuliani-tears-mueller-calls-report/

The US Withdrawal from Syria: A Blessing in Disguise?

https://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/us-withdrawal-syria-blessing/

"Palestinian" Authority arrests 44 "Palestinians" for selling properties to Jews - Geller Report

https://gellerreport.com/2018/12/arrests-44-jews.html/

Fwd: Daniel Greenfield's article: Hillary's Russia Doomsday Scenario

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Daniel Greenfield's article: Hillary's Russia Doomsday Scenario

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Hillary's Russia Doomsday Scenario Posted: 27 Dec 2018 02:15 PM PST The Steele dossier, a document produced by Christopher Steele at the behest of the Clinton campaign is ground zero for the Russia conspiracy theory that is tearing apart the country. Even the Mueller investigation has its ultimate roots in the eavesdropping carried out by the Obama administration using the dossier as evidence and the dubious and unverified claims made by Steele in the dossier. But why did the Clinton campaign ever set out to create such a document? The Steele dossier has been described as opposition research and it was certainly circulated among reporters in order to spread the Russia conspiracy theory in the media, but its contents were circulated more in the Obama era FBI and the DOJ, and its media rounds seemed more geared to creating stories that would justify a FISA warrant than to any serious effort to sway the electorate with its attacks. The dossier was never convincing opposition research because its central claim, that Trump was a Russian agent, was too farfetched and detached from election issues to ever connect with voters. It required the complicity of the FBI and the DOJ, and Mueller's sanction, to give it any credibility. The dossier's real role was legal, not political. It wasn't meant for the tabloids, but to create a pretext for an investigation of Trump and his associates. And so it's easy to see its usefulness to the Dems today. But why create a pretext for a secret investigation of Trump before the election was even done? The FISA warrants had always raised the possibility that the investigation was used to collect information on a rival campaign. And, because of the slow pace of declassification and the lack of a thorough release of information about exactly what was done and who was responsible, that remains a real possibility. But a recent statement by Christopher Steele raises an even more disturbing possibility. Steele had been hired by Fusion GPS, a smear firm, which in turn had been hired by the Clinton campaign through Perkins Coie. In response to a lawsuit, Steele admitted that, "Fusion's immediate client was law firm Perkins Coie. It engaged Fusion to obtain information necessary for Perkins Coie LLP to provide legal advice on the potential impact of Russian involvement on the legal validity of the outcome of the 2016 US Presidential election." "Based on that advice, parties such as the Democratic National Committee and HFACC Inc. (also known as 'Hillary for America') could consider steps they would be legally entitled to take to challenge the validity of the outcome of that election." The Steele dossier would have been mostly worthless in a conventional legal challenge of the election outcome, but it was used to launch a very different brand of "legal challenge" that is more often seen in banana republics in which police powers are abused to target the political opposition. It is highly implausible that the Clinton campaign had hired a firm to investigate the possibility of Russian election tampering as far back as April or June. But it could have been laying the groundwork for a variety of scenarios, including a doomsday scenario in which Hillary Clinton lost to Donald Trump. It's a matter of faith among both Democrats and Republicans that Hillary Clinton never expected to lose. And there's certainly plenty of evidence of arrogance and complacency by the Clinton campaign. But Steele's reply offers evidence that some people in the Clinton campaign had a doomsday plan. To understand why, consider the unique natures of both the Clinton and Trump campaigns. The Clinton campaign wasn't just a candidacy thrown together a year or two before an election. It was Clintonworld, a political network going back decades, an interface between government, charity and political campaigns, with loyalists whose entire careers had been built around the Clintons. There's been nothing quite like it in American history. And it all depended on one unappealing politician. Hillary. Clintonworld had been badly burned by Hillary's loss to Obama. The Clinton Foundation wasn't just about Bill and Hillary. It gave Clintonworlders their own embassy with an international presence, employment opportunities and networking. It was the royal court in exile of the Clintons and it allowed them to maintain an army of loyalists to launch yet another bid for the White House. A second defeat would be catastrophic because it would kill Clintonworld leaving behind an army of unemployed and unemployable Clintonites with egg on their face after having lost yet another expensive election and burned through another vast fortune of donor cash. And few in the golden halls of Clintonworld wanted to take the fall for Hillary's poor people skills and lack of popular appeal. They needed a potential election defeat to be illegitimate even before it happened. But there was something even bigger at stake. Shortly after Steele got to work on his dossier, Trump was cheering the "Lock her up" chants directed at Hillary. The Clintons had done plenty of things to be locked up for. But Clintonworld staffers knew that Bill and Hillary were unlikely to ever go down. If a new DOJ were to seriously go after them, it would be the minions of Clintonworld who would take the fall. The Steele dossier became Plan B. A doomsday scenario in case the impossible truly happened. Was Plan B meant to be Hillary's revenge by bringing down her rival even if he defeated her? Was it a conspiracy to cripple any possible investigation of the Clintons by instead enmeshing Trump in legal troubles? Was it an excuse to eavesdrop on the Trump campaign? A last ditch effort by Clinton staffers to justify their loss? It could be any and all of the above. But the tactics do reveal certain clues. The Russia theme enabled abuses like the FISA warrant. Any scandal short of foreign espionage would not have allowed the Obama administration and its Clinton allies to pull off their own Watergate. Being able to eavesdrop on Trump allies was crucial to the conspiracy. But false accusations are also revealing. The accusers tend to slander their targets by accusing them of their own crimes to cover them up. What Trump and his allies have been accused of, is what Clintonworld most feared being accused of. General Michael Flynn was a special target. The NSC had been abused, and so had to be secured. But one obvious personal reason was the "Lock her up" chants. Revenge is a cliché, but it should never be overlooked when it comes to the famously spiteful Clintons. An ongoing investigation building to impeachment looks a lot like the Clintons seeking revenge for Bill. Would the Clintons have diverted effort and energy from the campaign to plot a doomsday scenario? We don't know, but a group in the campaign and integrated within the government certainly did. There's been a lot of talk about the 'deep state'. But anyone who knows Washington D.C. also knows that there are many deep states. Some are ideological, most are careerist. Moving up the ladder is about making the right connections. Political patronage isn't just a necessary evil, but a way of life. Transactional opportunism defines the microscopic political universe of the city that runs the country. "Lock her up" was less of a threat to Hillary Clinton than to the people who had been doing her dirty work, and everyone who had been doing their dirty work. Even more than the threat of prison, the fall of Clintonworld was a blow to countless careers. And then there were the Obama people who weren't invested in Clintonworld, but were concerned about the light being shined under their particular rock. The Steele dossier was a clumsy instrument, but it got the job done. And if it was clumsy, that may be because no one ever thought that it would be truly needed or ever see the light of day. It was badly made because it wasn't a priority. But then it was truly needed, and it was too late to fix it, so it had to be put into action as it was, with all its errors and absurd nonsense. The Clinton campaign spared enough resources to create a post-election doomsday weapon. It built the weapon and detonated it. And the radioactivity from the blast has poisoned our political system. Dirty tricks are part of politics. But few presidential candidates have the spite and hubris to create a dirty trick that blows up the presidency even when it can no longer benefit them in any obvious way. Hillary Clinton never made history the way she wanted to. But she made history anyway. Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine at the above link. Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation. Thank you for reading.

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Fwd: then and now . Where are the Maccabees of Today?The true Israeli Apartheid by Tour Guide Shalom Pollack No go areas for Jews.

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-"We come not to these lands as a foreign conqueror. Our forefathers were forcefully expelled from our God-given lands by the Babylonians and by His grace, we are back in our homeland. We are returning to what is rightfully ours. You are sitting on our lands and the time has come for you to remove yourselves from them."

This clear and unapologetic statement was made by Yochanan Horkinus the Macabbee leader 2,100 years ago.

After His father and uncles(the five Maccabee brothers) won a prolonged war of liberation and religious liberty from the Greek world power, Yochanan turned his attention to the pockets of foreign occupation that developed during the generations of Jewish exile and military impotence.
That had now changed with the astounding routing of successive vast Greek armies.
It was time to reassert Jewish sovereignty in all the land of Israel.
That meant all those peoples who have filled the vacuum and trespassed while the Jews were in exile.
The process of reconquest led to the establishment of the widest borders since the time of  King David and Solomon.

Fast forward two thousand years.
 The Jewish people miraculously return from, not seventy years of exile but close to two thousand, culminating with the worst blow ever delivered to the Jewish people or any people ever.

Despite impossible odds, the tattered remains of the Jewish people rebuilt (bought before being attacked) and claimed their homeland; the same one that Yochanan the Macabbee reclaimed twenty-one hundred years ago.
The liberation of the land came in stages and at a heavy price - just as it was in the times of the Maccabees.
Who is not familiar with the amazing history-making dates, nineteen forty-eight and nineteen sixty-seven?

However, unlike the Maccabees, the leaders of the modern returnees did not possess the belief that it was God that has indeed wrought these extraordinary miracles for us.
They would never dare make a speech such as Yochanan the Maccabee did when returning to the land.

Another watershed date will always be remembered in Jewish history as the exact opposite of the 1948 and 1967 miracles and certainly unlike the events or twenty-one hundred years ago.

 I refer to 1993 and the perfidious, nefarious, "Oslo" agreements.
Instead of claiming and securing sovereignty over lands liberated in the miraculous Six Day War of 1967, our "leaders" INVITED those who CLAIMED our land as their own to settle on it and then, armed them in order for them to PROTECT us!
It cost us, so far, thousands of Jewish lives.

All this is well known recent historic tragedy.

The entire saga returned to me yesterday when I attended a tour of the Macabeean palaces in Jericho.
I visited this unique (there are no other Maccabean remains found in Israel) site years ago, before the dangers and restrictions that the Oslo "peace" created.
I remember being wowed by the enormity of the find and feeling directly atttached to the Macabbees at that moment and place.
The palaces, swimming pools, the mikvah, and especially the synagogue were spectacular.
It was an impressive excavation that stood by itself with no buildings or agriculture anywhere near it.
It stood alone in its brilliance as a rare gem should.

 Though I have since discussed the find that I was privileged to see many years ago with tourists, as we bypass Jericho (area "A" - a no-go area for Jews), I have not been back there for many years.  The Oslo peace, you know.

Yesterday, Chanukah I returned.
The excavations are in "area C". This, according to the Oslo agreement is an area under full Israeli control, as opposed to A and B in which Jews are very sternly warned not to enter due to great potential physical harm (at the hands of our peace partners whom we have graciously armed).
Despite it being in area C and an official Israel national park, the authorities do not allow free Jewish access due to what they deem political/security considerations since it is near area A.
 Complicated, I know..

A number of groups have petitioned the military administration in charge of the "territories" to allow Jews to visit the spectacular site - at least once a year, on Chanukah.
After much effort, permission was granted for one day (out of the entire year).
That is how I found myself attending a tour of a site that I had seen with such ease and comfort years ago. This time there was a very large military presence that protected us from the locals who entered "our" area C with impunity.
 I suppose the force was also there to make sure that Jews did not wander off into "their" territory which would have been a major political issue or perhaps even a lynching.

The site is almost unrecognizable.

The Arabs use the surrounding areas as garbage dumps. Where I saw, years ago, open spaces around the site, now are cluttered with an assortment of huts, animal pens, hothouses, and garbage. Arabs continually damage the priceless artifacts.

It was explained to us that the Arab presence near the site is indeed area C - ours, BUT the Israeli authorities just do not enforce the law. This criminal negligence is common all over the "territories" - except when it comes to enforcing the law against Jews. In that case, there are never a lack of resources or determination - or cruelty on the part of the Israeli authorities..

Needless to say, my  Chanuka visit to the Macabee palace made me think of my last visit there so many years ago; the one that filled me with pride and joy; the one that made it very clear why I left the USA and came home.
It made me think of the speech given by Yochanan, the one that was the exact opposite of the warning on the big red signs that forbid Jews to enter parts of our beloved land (this is the true apartheid in Israel).

Yesterday I and many others on the tour asked ourselves, why? Why?
Where are the Maccabees today? Where?
Where!


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