Contrary to what this article says, Turkey is in league with the PKK. She is attempting to split the Syrian Kurds to prevent their autonomy. More on this later. Ted Belman

Turkey must work with Syria’s Kurds
While Turkey may be threatened by Kurdish gains in Syria, there’s little it can do to prevent an autonomous Syrian Kurdistan

Ranj Alaaldin, guardian

Turkey’s support for the uprising against Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad, has been challenged during the last week or so as Kurds in the north-east of Syria have taken control of several towns and cities.

The ploy, if it succeeds, will bring a further extension of Kurdish automony in the Middle East, complementing Iraq’s booming Kurdistan region, where 5 million Kurds govern themselves as a federal entity within Iraq and with minimal interference from the central government in Baghdad.
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By Pinhas Inbari, WJC ANALYSIS –

The fate of the Assad regime in Syria has been the main focus of media attention in recent months. Yet, another crisis has quietly developed on the sidelines of the Syrian calamity which may greatly affect the Palestinian refugees and the coveted “right of return”.

Over the past year, the Palestinians have challenged Israel by organizing mass marches of refugees to the Jewish state’s northern borders in order to breach its defenses and “return” to their homes. These attempts ended in a debacle, prompting the angry marchers, who felt betrayed by PLO organizers, to storm and set fire to the headquarters of Ahmad Jibril – one of the founders of the PLO – located in the Syrian Palestinian capital refugee camp of al-Yarmuk, situated in Damascus. The collapse of the “return marches” became the precursor of a process accelerated by the Syrian crisis, whereby the destruction of the refugee camps is leading to the dissolution of the right of return.
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Laura: Mind you that the owner of Chick-fil-a is being crucified for merely opposing gay marriage, he doesn’t actually discriminate against gays. Yet the muslim owner of a luxury hotel in Santa Monica threw Jews out simply because they were Jewish. So where are the liberals in Hollywood? Why haven’t they called for a boycott of this hotel? Where are the Jewish liberal organizations? Do the Rabbis promoting interfaith outreach to muslims have anything to say? Imagine if it were muslims or blacks who were thrown out of a hotel or any other place of business. This incident happened 2 years ago yet is the first time I have heard of it. I have not seen this covered anywhere. Why are we welcoming people into this country with an ideology that does not respect equal rights under the law, which is what this nation is based on?

Atlas shrugs:

Muslim American Owner of Santa Monica Shangra-La hotel: “Get the [expletive] Jews out of my pool!”

By Chana Ya’ar, INN

The government on Monday passed a sweeping measure to tighten Israel’s belt at a time when the world is facing another global financial crisis.

With a vote of 20 to 9, the Cabinet approved a package of austerity measures designed to raise some NIS 14.15 billion within a year, and reduce the budget deficit by 1.5 percent. Voting against the package were the Independence and Shas parties, as well as Likud Social Services Minister Moshe Kahlon.

The measures include raising taxes, increasing fines and cutting budgets.

Tax Hikes and Fines
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By Mordechai Kedar

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The point of this ironic story is that the Arab world does not need “weapons of total destruction”, since even without them the area is in total ruins. The situation in Syria these days illustrates this situation, and in live broadcast. With presidents slaughtering their own citizens in the thousands, and their capitals serving as a front in the battle against them, and the state’s military branches fighting against its people, when human dignity – especially that of women and girls – is openly trampled upon and these countries’ economies are collapsing, the Arab world is in an advanced state of systemic collapse, “total destruction.”
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By NEWT GINGRICH, POLITICO

The underlying driving force behind this desperate desire to stop unpleasant questions is the elite’s fear that an honest discussion of radical Islamism will spin out of control. They fear if Americans fully understood how serious radical Islamists are, they would demand a more confrontational strategy.

The recent assault on the National Security Five is only the most recent example of the fear our elites have about discussing and understanding radical Islamists.

When an orchestrated assault is launched on the right to ask questions in an effort to stop members of Congress from even inquiring about a topic — you know the fix is in.
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YAAKOV KATZ, JPOST

Growing number of countries flock to Israel to study construction of Egypt border fence; India to send delegation to review technologies for its fence with Pakistan, Bangladesh; US examining Elta radars for Mexico barrier.

The fence is 5 meters in height and layered with barbed wire. It is supported by dozens of radars that are deployed along the border to issue alerts about possible crossings while the potential infiltrators are still kilometers away.
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This woman’s army

Compare with Obama’s Cairo Speech

Romney’s Remarkable Speech in Jerusalem

by Daniel Pipes

Mitt Romney speaking before a backdrop of the Old City of Jerusalem.
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My cousin was among them in 1948 and was killed in 1951.  Ted Belman

by Steve Kramer (www.encountering israel.com)

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By Ted Belman

Is the two-state solution doable?  Dani Dayan, Chairman of the Yesha Council of Jewish Communities in Judea and Samaria, thinks not. Seth Mandel thinks otherwise.

The NYT published a strongly worded Op-Ed this week by Dani Dayan, under the title “Israel’s Settlers are here to stay”.  Seth Mandel, in an article in Commentary Magazine, called his comments “wrongheaded”.

Mandel accused him of ignoring “both an accepted reality and the Palestinian people”.  Dayan has every right to ignore or even reject, both. Mandel further complained  that “two of his ideas contained in the op-ed would be, if accepted, detrimental to the American foreign policy doctrine that results in such steadfast American support for Israel.” I beg to differ for reasons set ?out below.

Mandel writes:
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This is exactly how my working group on a federated Syria sees the conflict and the solution. Ted Belman

By Georgy Gounev, AMERICAN THINKER

The most important international factor that influences the Syrian crisis is the politics of the United States and Russia. In the eyes of the majority of the American observers, the primary factor for the continuing bloodshed in Syria is the diplomatic and military support rendered to Assad’s regime by Russia.

Let’s take a closer look at the main arguments of the powerful group of observers and experts who tend to blame exclusively Moscow for the endless bloodbath in Syria. Some of those arguments are absolutely correct. It is true that one of the main reasons for the Russian attitude is the traditional close relationship between Moscow and Damascus that has lasted for decades. It is also true that the loss of this connection will deprive Russia of its only remaining ally in the area. In case of a regime change, Russia is about to lose Tartus, which is the only base of the Russian Navy in the Mediterranean.
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By Caroline B. Glick, JWR

By Wednesday John Brennan, US President Barack Obama’s assistant for homeland security and counterterrorism made a quick trip to Israel to discuss Hezbollah’s massacre of Israeli tourists in Burgas, Bulgaria last week.

Hopefully it was an instructive meeting for the senior US official, although his Israeli interlocutors were undoubtedly dumbstruck by how difficult it was to communicate with him. Unlike previous US counterterror officials, Brennan does not share Israel’s understanding of Middle Eastern terrorism.

Brennan’s outlook on this subject was revealed in a speech he gave two years ago in Washington. In that speech Brennan spoke dreamily about Hezbollah. As he put it, “Hezbollah is a very interesting organization.” He claimed it had evolved from a “purely terrorist organization” to a militia and then into an organization with members in Lebanon’s parliament and serving in Lebanon’s cabinet.
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By Jerry Gordon, Iconoclast

Lori Lowenthal Marcus of Z Street  writes in The Jewish Press of plans by the North American Jewish Federation to drop the term “Zionism” from its Global Planning Table, “Jewish Federations to Drop “Zionism” from their Global Plans”.

And we all thought that Jewish Federations were the  focus of the American Jewish Community’s coimmitment of the Jewish State of Israel.  However, we have seen over the past few years evidence of distancing of Federations’ from commitment to Israel.

That  was reflected in underwriting  Olive Tree Initiative trips for college students at UC Irvine in California  to mistakenly meet Hamas Representatives on the West Bank in Israel by an affiliate of the Jewish Federation of Orange County  California.  (Read more…)

By Gil Ronen, INN

Illegal Infiltration into Israel through Sinai has plummeted sharply in last two months, according to official statistics.

The number of illegal immigrants who have crossed the border thus far in July is 244. In June, the number of infiltrators was 928. In May it was 2,031. This means the rate of infiltration has dropped by over 85% in two months.

Unlike previous months, all of the immigrants crossing the border illegally have been arrested and detained. Before the government changed its policy on infiltration, the infiltrators were escorted by the IDF from the border and then put on buses to Tel Aviv, where they were released.
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Posted by Bill Levinson

Source: Wall Street Journal

President Barack Obama supports the decision for Penn State University to take down the statue of Joe Paterno after a report by former FBI Director Louis Freeh showed the late football coach and other school officials ignored allegations of child sexual abuse, White House press secretary Jay Carney said Sunday.

The problem is that the Freeh Report’s content contradicts its findings, and another problem is Freeh’s track record of slipshod and incomplete investigative research. Obama’s approach to the Penn State issue is therefore similar to his (and the UN’s) approach to Israel: disregard the facts in favor of what is politically convenient.

If you know any Penn State alumni, please share this with them to help make sure Obama loses Pennsylvania and the general election with it.

by Adina Kutnicki

Barack Hussein Obama…The Radical/Thug-in-Chief… His Subversive Underlings….Lurching From One Anti-American Disaster To Another

Circumstances, as they unfold, are often interpreted according to a person’s particular worldview. The observer can veer between ecstasy and horror, depending on the lens they are looking through. However, this does not obviate the clear fault-line between right and wrong, or good vs evil. Nevertheless, it does afford one the opportunity to cheer or jeer, as events play themselves out. This dare not be a distinction without a difference.

In this regard, patriotic Americans are continually recoiling in disbelief as the Obama regime lurches from one anti-American disaster to another – domestic or foreign policy-wise.

Their swathe of destruction is vast and deep. But it is enough for us to concentrate on two glaring examples perpetrated by Barack Hussein Obama’s appointed underlings.

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Laura: Mark Levin reveals that Michele Bachmann has been threatened by the GOP to apologize for her letter to the State Department or lose her position on the House Intelligence Committee. One outrage piles on top of another on a daily basis. Our government is protecting Huma Abedin and other potential muslim brotherhood operatives infiltrating our government. Both parties are protecting America’s mortal enemies. The GOP establishment is concerned about protecting their own hides, not in America’s national security. I hope Michele Bachmann stands her ground.

Mark Levin: It is true, Bachmann WAS told to apologize or she might lose her intelligence committee post