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Jordan: We Do Not Want Palestinians by Khaled Abu Toameh

“Improve the living conditions of the Palestinian refugees. Allow them to settle down. Give them citizenship so that they can live as human beings.” — Dr. Ahmad Abu Matar, an Oslo-based Palestinian academic, blasting Arab the world for its continued mistreatment of Palestinians.

The Arabs do not care about the Palestinians and want them to remain Israel’s problem. Countries such as Lebanon and Syria would rather see Palestinians living as “animals in the jungle” than grant them basic rights such as employment, education and citizenship.

It is no surprise that refugees fleeing Syria have no ambitions to settle in any Arab country. They know that their fate in the Arab world will be no better than that of Palestinians living in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and other Arab countries.

This is the America We Live in Now: Daniel Greenfield

The two white beams memorializing the lost towers cut diagonally across the sky. On the empty white panel of a broken phone booth someone has scrawled “Free Kim Davis”. And on another one and another one following someone’s zigzag route through the East Village’s maze of hipster joints.
This is the America we live in now.

We will spend 9/11 debating the merits of letting a terror state that helped the 9/11 hijackers go nuclear. #PeaceWins #LoveWins. The heat and humidity is broken by a thunderstorm. The faint lights vanish behind the clouds.
History must have grown tired of repeating itself because no one talks about it. That old kind of news has become a formality. Our news is a crazed jumble of Kardashians, pet videos and social justice outrages. Media is an ADD lifestyle section where all the outrages that matter are petty.

The big stuff, wars, moon landings, civilizations, doesn’t matter. Everything has been reduced to the lowest common denominator of personal insecurities masquerading as politics and entertainment reduced to fame for fame’s sake celebrities. All of it is calculated to match the workday routine of a twenty-something female college graduate working in media. Because that is mostly who writes it.

Edward Cline :Why is Our Culture for the Birds? You Can Blame Federal and State Subsidies for the Arts, and Also Corporate Art-Mongering.

“There Was a Crooked House….”

…called our Cultural Establishment. Of crooked little men and cash-flush caitiffs and assorted other denizens of the ongoing cultural scam with their crooked little smiles and crooked sixpence.

Have you ever wondered where all the trashy literature and modern anti-art comes from? Or, rather, have you ever scratched your head in wonder about who paid to have it produced? In large part, we, the taxpayers pay for it, through Federal, State, and local taxes. These unreadable, boring, super-naturalistic or unclassifiable novels, those “controversial” or shock-jock or feminist shock-crotch plays, the sculpture that looks like debris from the collapse of the World Trade Center on 9/11, the crucifixes in jars of urine, the welded-together auto parts, the cheapjack, hand-held camera movies one can find by the wheelbarrow-load on Netflix, each crediting half a dozen or more oddly-named production companies – these are also the products of private grant money.

Private sector grants are made annually in the billions of dollars. So, we can’t blame the Federal, state, or local governments for everything that’s rotten. The boards and selection committees of dozens of “charitable” foundations, big and small, are also responsible for littering the cultural landscape with consumable, throw-away rubbish.

The Iran Nuclear Deal’s Islamist Supporters :Steve Emerson

The White House is claiming victory in the fight over the Iranian nuclear deal following Thursday’s Senate vote which fell short of cloture on a Democratic filibuster blocking an up or down vote on the deal.

Critics continue to express concerns that the agreement paves the way for Iran to eventually develop its own nuclear weapons. And it is beyond dispute that the agreement fuels the Islamic Republic with as much as $150 billion in relief from what had been crippling economic sanctions. That money can be used to fund terror proxies seeking to attack Israel.

Those concerns prompted the U.S. House on Friday to reject the Iran deal by a vote of 162-269.

It is little surprise, therefore, that the deal enjoys strong support from prominent American Islamists with a history of support for Iran or who espouse rabid anti-Israel rhetoric, including radicals who see Zionist conspiracies at nearly every turn.

House Passes Bill Blocking Obama from Lifting Iran Sanctions By: Lori Lowenthal Marcus

On Friday, Sept. 11, The Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted down approval of the Iran Deal and voted to block implementation of the deal.At the very last minute the House of Representatives is acting as if the house is on fire. Finally.

First, the House voted on Friday – the day after the Senate seemed to hand the President a victory – against the approval of the Nuclear Iran Deal. The vote was 269 to 162.

The House also acted on a bill which was introduced by Rep. Peter Roskam (R-IL) and Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) on Wednesday, Sept. 9.

That bill, HR 3460, blocks U.S. President Barack Obama from in any way lifting sanctions on Iran’s nuclear program, or from releasing individuals from specially designated terrorist lists which would otherwise be released under the proposed terms of the Nuclear Iran Deal.

Jordan, a Leading Middle East Ally of the United States, Has Signed a Military Cooperation Deal with China.

The accord was signed on Sept. 9 during King Abdullah’s visit to Beijing, officials said, adding that the deal includes Jordan’s purchase of unspecified Chinese equipment.

“The meeting saw the signing of a military cooperation agreement between the Jordan Armed Forces and the Chinese army, worth 30 million yuan [$4.7 million] to provide JAF with military equipment,” Jordan’s official Petra News Agency said.

The deal was inked on the sidelines of the 2015 China-Arab States Expo in Yinchuan, the capital of Ningxia Hui autonomous region. The investment agreement between Jordan and China is worth over $7 billion and includes a $1.7 billion project to build Jordan’s first oil shale-fired power plant in the Attarat (southern Jordan) area.

Another major part of the deal was a $2.8 billion investment to construct a national railway network in Jordan.

RUTHIE BLUM: A WELCOME AND WARNING TO FRENCH JEWS

This year’s figures for immigration to Israel from France are not yet in, as such statistics are not calculated according to the Hebrew calendar. But around 3,000 French Jews made aliyah during this summer alone.

In 2014, a total of 7,000 French Jews relocated to the Jewish state, with many of whom saying they felt safer in Israel even with rockets raining down from Gaza during Operation Protective Edge than they did in France. Violent anti-Zionist demonstrations in their neighborhoods, they said, were far more menacing than the instructions they received upon arrival at Ben-Gurion Airport on how to make it to a shelter at the sound of an air raid siren.

By the end of 2015, which kicked off in Paris with the Charlie Hebdo massacre and Hyper Cacher murders, the numbers are likely to be equally high.

When Prime Minister Netanyahu flew to the mass “unity rally” in the French capital in January in the wake of the above events, he was first criticized for attending at all, and then lambasted at home and abroad for reminding European Jews that they always have a home in Israel.

MY SAY: THE SAD ANNIVERSARIES OF SEPTEMBER

9/11/2001 ISLAMIC JIHAD COMES TO AMERICA…..THE BOMBING AND DESTRUCTION OF THE WORLD TRADE CENTER IN NEW YORK…..

9/14/1939 ROSH HA SHANA IN POLAND THE JEWISH QUARTER IS BURNED

The German invasion of Warsaw, Poland had begun over a week before, but they intentionally set the Jewish quarter of Warsaw on fire during the holiday. Jews used bucket brigades trying to save their homes, their lives, and their livelihoods. The quarter was destroyed that night.

PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH AT GROUND ZERO

Thank you all. I want you all to know — I want you all to know that America today, America today is on bended knee, in prayer for the people whose lives were lost here, for the workers who work here, for the families who mourn. The nation stands with the good people of New York City and New Jersey and Connecticut as we mourn the loss of thousands of our citizens.

I can hear you! I can hear you! The rest of the world hears you! And the people — and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon!

The nation — The nation sends its love and compassion to everybody who is here. Thank you for your hard work. Thank you for making the nation proud, and may God bless America.

A Grand Alliance against Terror By Rick Perry

No words can do justice to the memory of the 2,988 people who died on September 11, 2001, including eleven unborn children and the citizens of over 90 countries. On this day especially, we pray for the safety of our nation’s first responders, who carry on the legacy of service exemplified by those who gave their lives to save others. And we salute those sons and daughters of America who volunteered to don the uniform of our country, to ensure that something like 9/11 could never happen again.

In the years since 9/11, we have asked much of those who have served our country. I’d like to share with you one such story of sacrifice, the story of Marc Alan Lee.

Marc had dreams of becoming a professional soccer player. In 1997, he was scheduled to try out for Colorado’s major-league team, the Colorado Rapids. But Marc blew out his knee. So instead he decided to major in Bible and theology at The Master’s College in California. In 2001, Marc joined the Navy and earned a spot with the SEALs. On August 2, 2006, Marc was killed in Ramadi, Iraq.

Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province, the center of Sunni Iraq, had been home to many senior officials in Saddam Hussein’s government — especially senior military officials. By 2006, after the American-led coalition reclaimed Fallujah, Ramadi had become the center of the Sunni terrorist insurgency. Our generals knew that if we could clear Ramadi of insurgents, we would be on our way to defeating al-Qaeda in Iraq.