Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Flashback — ‘They don’t even try’: Hungary’s new border fence called ‘spectacular success’ – World Tribune: Window on the Real World

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SENATE PANEL TO INVESTIGATE MEETINGS BETWEEN OBAMA OFFICIALS AND RUSSIANS Steven Ahle FEBRUARY 17, 2019

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Tehillim Psalms Chapter 149

https://www.chabad.org/library/bible_cdo/aid/16370/jewish/Chapter-149.htm

ח לֶאְסֹּ֣ר מַלְכֵיהֶ֣ם בְּזִקִּ֑ים וְ֜נִכְבְּדֵיהֶ֗ם בְּכַבְלֵ֥י בַרְזֶֽל

8. to bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with iron fetters;

ט לַֽעֲשׂ֬וֹת בָּהֶ֨ם | מִשְׁפָּ֬ט כָּת֗וּב הָדָ֣ר ה֖וּא לְכָל־חֲ֜סִידָ֗יו הַֽלְלוּיָֽהּ:

9. to execute upon them the prescribed judgment; it shall be a glory for all His pious ones. Praise the Lord!

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Fwd: [Nashimbyarok-WIG] Congressman Dr. Andy Harris of Maryland and Congressman Andy Barr of Kentucky hear about Sovereignty חברי קונגרס שומעים ריבונות at Oz VeGaon

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Congressman Dr. Andy Harris of Maryland and Congressman Andy Barr of Kentucky at Oz VeGaon hear and internalize the idea of sovereignty

Yesterday, Monday, Congressman Dr. Andy Harris of Maryland and Congressman Andy Barr of Kentucky visited Oz VeGaon, as part of a tour of Gush Etzion organized by the YesIsrael Project headed by Ruthie Lieberman and Sarah Paley.

Short video of words by the 2 Congressmen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SOgItrq2Y0

Video summarizing all speakers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSlLa-v7kSw

The congressmen heard from Yehudit Katsover and Nadia Matar about the establishment of the reserve as a Zionist response to the murder of the three youths and especially the importance of applying Israeli sovereignty over Judea and Samaria.

The two conveyed a clear message that President Trump's century plan should not include any Israeli withdrawal from Judea and Samaria. This would be a disaster not only to Israel but also for the United States. The American interest is stability in the region. There can only be stability if there is only one sovereign nation between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River – Israeli sovereignty. The two also said:

1. Israeli withdrawal from Judea and Samaria will lead to the area being taken over by radical Islam just as it did in Gaza. The Palestinian leadership has extensive ties with the Ayatollahs. If Israel does not control the area, the Ayatollahs can obtain intelligence bases in Judea and Saria, and, Heaven forbid, even landing rights and an airport.

2. A Palestinian State will pass a death sentence over the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, to the detriment of Saudi Arabia, the Arabian Peninsula, and the entry of Russian and Chinese influence into the region

3. The Palestinian leadership's record is known as subversive and terrorist, even for Arabs – such as the intervention with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, as well as in Kuwait.

4. It's time to change direction. Instead of a plan in which Israel once again has to give up and withdraw, a method that has failed over the past 100 years because of Arab recalcitrance – a plan that serves the American, the Israelis and local Arab interests (in secret, most of them prefer Israeli sovereignty) – a plan to apply sovereignty; i.e., applying Israeli law over Judea and Samaria, the Land of the Bible, the birthplace of the Jewish people for 4000 years.

The head of the Gush Etzion Council, Mr. Shlomo Neeman, related his personal story that he came from the Soviet Union, where Stalin established a state for Jews in Birobidzhan but the Jews didn't want it, they dreamed of the Land of Israel. Here is the place of the Jews. This is where the normal life of our people should be – in the Land of the Bible. This is the natural situation and indeed, in 1948 the US supported the establishment of the State of Israel. "Israel remembers her friends," said the head of the Gush Etzion Regional Council. In Jerusalem there are streets named after the countries that voted for us in UN vote of 1947. We thank you for your enduring friendship."

Congressman Andy Bar replied: "Thank you very much for your hospitality. Thank you for showing us this beautiful land. Especially the symbolism of this place, and cleaning up the trash, cleaning up the garbage (in Oz veGaon) is a symbol of what Israel is doing at large, which is renewing its claim to its Biblical Homeland and we will share this (Sovereignty) message with our colleagues in Congress and our constituents in the United States as we echo your sentiment that a strong Israel and Israeli Sovereignty is an interest not just of the Jewish People but of the United States as well.

Congressman Andy Harris said: "I associate myself with the remarks of my colleague, specifically you make a very good point that what happened in 1948 can't be a one-time deal and that is, is the world needs reminding that Israel is the Jewish State, it's historically based and it's important for world peace. And it's a shame that the world needs to be reminded about that. But we will continue to remind the world. Thank you.

Also participating in this visit was Anthony Adma from Canada, the head of a Christian organization for Israel's sovereignty in the Land of the Bible.

At the end of the visit, the two congressmen planted two olive trees, while blessed rain watered the trees and the staunch friendship with Israel, a viewpoint originating from and based on the Bible.

Rabbi Tuli Weiss, head of the 365 Organization for deepening Bible awareness and connection to the Land of Israel, read verses from Amos, Chapter 9:

And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall rebuild the ruined cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink their wine; they shall also make gardens, and eat their fruit. And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be plucked up out of their land which I have given them, says the Lord your God.

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Photos credit Yes!Israel project, Gemma Blech, Oz veGaon

Video: Eli Estreicher

חברי קונגרס בעוז וגאו"ן שומעים ומפנימים את רעיון הריבונות

אתמול, יום שני , ביקרו בעוז וגאו"ן חברי הקונגרס ד"ר אנדי האריס ממרילנד וחבר קונגרס אנדי באר מקנטוקי כחלק מסיור בגוש עציון המאורגן על ידי פרויקט YesIsrael בראשות רותי ליברמן ושרה פיילי.

וידיאו קצר רק של דברי חברי הקונגרסף https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SOgItrq2Y0

וידיאו המסכם כל הביקור https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSlLa-v7kSw

חברי הקונגרס שמעו מפי יהודית קצובר ונדיה מטר על הקמת השמורה כתגובה ציונית לרצח שלושת הבנים ובעיקר על חשיבותה של החלת ריבונות ישראל על יהודה ושומרון.

השתיים העבירו מסר ברור שאסור שתוכנית המאה של טראמפ תכלול נסיגה ישראלית מיו"ש. הדבר יהווה אסון לא רק לישראל אלא גם לארצות הברית. האינטרס האמריקאי הוא יציבות באזור. יציבות תהיה רק כשבין הים לירדן תהיה אך ורק ריבונות אחת- ריבונות ישראלית. עוד אמרו השתיים:

· נסיגה ישראלית מיו"ש תביא להשתלטות האיסלם הקיצוני על השטח כמו שקרה בעזה. להנהגה הפלשתינית קשרים ענפים עם האייטולות. אם ישראל אינה שולטת בשטח יוכלו האייטולות לקבל ביו"ש בסיסי מודיעין ואף זכויות נחיתה ונמל חלילה.

· מדינה פלשתינית ביו"ש תביא גזר דין מוות לשלטון ההאשמי בירדן, דבר שיגרור שינויים לרעה בסעודיה, בחצי האי ערב וכניסת השפעה רוסית וסינית לאזור

· הרקורד של ההנהגה הפלשתינית ידועה כחתרנית וטרוריסטית, גם כלפי ערבים- כדוגמת ההתערבות עם האחים המוסלמים במצרים וכן בכווית

· הגיע הזמן לשנות כיוון. במקום תוכנית בה ישראל שוב צריכה לוותר ולסגת, שיטה שכבר יותר מ100 שנה נכשלה בגלל סירוב הערבים- יש לקדם תוכנית שמשרתת את האינטרס האמריקאי ,הישראלי והערבי המקומי (שרובם מעדיפים בסתר ריבונות ישראלית)- תוכנית החלת הריבונות, כלומר החלת החוק הישראלי על יהודה ושומרון, ארץ התנ"ך,ערש הולדתו של העם היהודי מזה 4000 שנה.

ראש מועצת גוש עציון מר שלמה נאמן סיפר את סיפורו האישי שהוא בא מברית המועצות שם סטאלין הקים מדינה ליהודים בבירוביג'אן אבל היהודים חלמו על ארץ ישראל. כאן המקום של היהודים. כאן צריכים להתקיים החיים הנורמליים של העם שלנו על מרחבי ארץ התנ"ך – זה המצב הטבעי ואכן ב48 ארה"ב תמכה בהקמת מדינת ישראל. "ישראל זוכרת את ידידיה אמר ראש המועצה. בירושלים יש שמות רחובות על שם המדינות שהצביעו עבורנו ב48. מודים לכם על הידידות המתמשכת."

חבר הקונגרס אנדי באר ענה: "תודה רבה על הארוח שלכם. תודה שהראתם לנו את האדמה היפהפיה הזאת. הניקיון שעשיתם כאן בשמורה מסמלת את מה שישראל עושה בגדול, חידוש הזיקה שלכם למולדתכם, לביתכם המובטח עוד מימי המקרא. אנחנו נשתף את המסר הזה (של הריבונות) עם השותפים שלנו בקונגרס ועם ציבור הבוחרים שלנו בארה"ב. נעביר הלאה את התחושות שלכם שישראל חזקה וריבונות ישראלית הם אינטרס לא רק של העם היהודי אלא גם של ארצות הברית."

חבר הקונגרס אנדי האריס אמר: :"אני מצטרף לכל מה שהקולגה שלי אמר. במיוחד אותה טענה מאד נכונה [של ראש המועצה] שמה שקרה ב1948 (הכרזת העצמאות) זה לא ארוע חד פעמי. העולם צריך תזכורת שישראל היא מדינה יהודית. זוהי עובדה מבוססת היסטורית וזה חשוב לשלום העולמי. חבל שהעולם צריך תזכורת לגבי זה. אנחנו נמשיך להזכיר להם.

בביקור השתתף אנטוני אדמה מקנדה העומד בראש ארגון נוצרים למען ריבונות ישראל בארץ התנ"ך.

בסוף הביקור נטעו 2 חברי הקונגרס שני עצ זית תחת גשמי ברכה שהרוו את העצים ואת הידידות האמיצה עם ישראל שבבסיס תפישתם התנ"ך המקורי.

הרב טולי וייס , ראש ארגון 365 , להעמקת תודעת התנ"ך והקשר לארץ ישראל, הקריא את הפסוקים מעמוס פרק ט':

וְשַׁבְתִּי, אֶת-שְׁבוּת עַמִּי יִשְׂרָאֵל, וּבָנוּ עָרִים נְשַׁמּוֹת וְיָשָׁבוּ, וְנָטְעוּ כְרָמִים וְשָׁתוּ אֶת-יֵינָם; וְעָשׂוּ גַנּוֹת, וְאָכְלוּ אֶת-פְּרִיהֶם. וּנְטַעְתִּים, עַל-אַדְמָתָם; וְלֹא יִנָּתְשׁוּ עוֹד, מֵעַל אַדְמָתָם אֲשֶׁר נָתַתִּי לָהֶם--אָמַר, יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ.

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Fwd: Vetting Muslim Prison Chaplains a Global Problem

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February 19, 2019

Vetting Muslim Prison Chaplains a Global Problem

by Patrick Dunleavy
IPT News
February 19, 2019

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Preventing or even minimizing prison radicalization is always a challenge. It's more difficult, however, when we continually fail to vet the chaplains who minister to inmates.

Germany appears to have learned this lesson recently. Authorities there recently discovered that over 85 percent of their Muslim prison chaplains were actually agents of the Turkish government, the Gatestone Institute reports. Those clerics had to be terminated after the Turkish government refused to have them go through security checks, which are required by German law for all prison chaplains. And while the number of foreign-born inmates in German prisons has spiked to nearly 50 percent, the vast majority of those are from Poland, Tunisia, the Czech Republic, and Georgia, not Turkey.

One wonders why the need for the 97 Turkish prison chaplains who were let go.

Germany now has 25 Muslim chaplains. This reduction comes in the light of the increased number of Muslim inmates in their system and the fears of the increased threat of radicalization.

The Muslim chaplains are represented by the Turkish Islamic Union, or DİTİB, which has been under investigation by Germany's Domestic Intelligence agency after it found a connection between Turkish military action in Syria and a rise in persecution of Turkish dissidents. It was also discovered that some DİTİB chaplains were providing names of dissidents to their embassy in Germany.

This is not the type of religious figure you want ministering to a captive audience vulnerable to radicalization.

Authorities both here and in the European Union have known for years the powerful influence a prison chaplain can have on an incarcerated individual.

The right chaplain can help the inmate on the path to rehabilitation and restoration of family ties. The wrong one can be like a wolf in sheep's clothing filling the inmate's mind with a radical ideology that pushes him or her down the road to jihad. Only a thorough vetting of religious clergy and volunteers can reduce that threat.

When I testified before Congress in 2011 on the threat of prison radicalization, I was asked by U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, if there was any difference between Islamic radicalization in prison and other types of radicalization such as Christian militants in prison. My answer was succinct, "Foreign country backing and foreign country financing."

While investigating radical Islamic influences in prison, we found several indicators that contributed to the radicalization process. One was foreign born inmates who had already committed terrorist acts. Improperly vetted clergy also play a role, along with foreign funds that came to organizations like the North American Islamic Trust Fund, the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), the Islamic Development Bank in Saudi Arabia and the Graduate School of Islamic Social Sciences (GSISS).

The GSISS was founded by Taha Jabir Al-Alwani, an Egyptian cleric who worked closely with Palestinian Islamic Jihad operative Sami Al-Arian and helped finance Al-Arian's think tank. Al-Alwani was also investigated for his involvement with the SAAR Foundation, a Saudi-funded organization, based in Herndon, Va., that was suspected of funneling money to terrorist organizations.

Some of that money from these foreign sources were used to pay for overseas travel for Muslim prison chaplains and also literature for the prison libraries that promoted a Salafist/Wahhabi view of Islam.

In 2014, the Federal Bureau of Prisons hired an Egyptian born cleric, Fouad El Bayly, to be a prison chaplain. As president of the Islamic Center in Johnstown, Penn., he publicly called for the death of Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a former Muslim, activist, and writer who was a vocal critic of Islam's subjugation of women. Ali "...has defamed the faith," Bayly said. "... and when you decide to defame it deliberately, the sentence is death."

That revelation prompted U.S. Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, to request a list of organizations that the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) was using to assist in its background checks of potential religious workers. Grassley was outraged to find ISNA on that list. ISNA's history of ties to the Muslim Brotherhood has been well documented by the Investigative Project on Terrorism.

With blatant incredulity CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper came to ISNA's defense, accusing Grassley of Islamophobia.

"This is an extremely old issue that has been circulated endlessly on anti-Muslim hate sites and it's a bit surprising to see an elected official promoting these kinds of Islamophobic smears," Hooper told FoxNews.com. "(ISNA) is a well-respected Muslim organization that for decades has made positive contributions to our nation, and like any Muslim-American organization they are frequently targeted by scurrilous attacks whose only goal seems to be to demonize and marginalize American Muslims."

In fact, it was federal prosecutors and documented evidence which connected ISNA to the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas financing. Prosecutors included ISNA among groups and people "who are and/or were members of the US Muslim Brotherhood" during the Hamas-financing trial against the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development and five former officials. Bank records admitted into evidence show that ISNA served as a conduit for Holy Land Foundation contributions. Some checks that passed through ISNA accounts were made payable to "the Palestinian Mujahadeen," the original name for the Hamas military wing, prosecutors said.

New York's Majlis Ash-Shura also was on the BOP list. It includes the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), an organization with direct ties with Jamaat-e-Islami, a Pakistani-based terrorist group.

ICNA's goals include the establishment of a caliphate, or global Islamic state, its 2010 member handbook said.

ICNA has published literature that describe jihad as a form of worship.

"Groups like ICNA do not promote Islam, but rather Islamism, the linking of politics and religion," said Zuhdi Jasser, founder of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy.

This appears to be what the Turkish prison chaplains were trying to do in German prisons through DİTİB.

Organizations with this type of ideology should not be relied upon to certify potential prison chaplains. It only risks promoting radicalization among the inmates and destabilizing the already fragile prison environment.

IPT Senior Fellow Patrick Dunleavy is the former Deputy Inspector General for New York State Department of Corrections and author of The Fertile Soil of Jihad. He currently teaches a class on terrorism for the United States Military Special Operations School.

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