Tuesday ~ The Front Page Cover

 The Front Page Cover 
"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
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Featuring:
In Israel, a reason for celebration: 
Let's stop and make a hard-nosed, 
clear-eyed assessment
Caroline B. Glick
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"Rise up together as one voice"
"Be careful where you stand"
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 Can the GOP at Least Slow Iran Deal?  
Republicans are considering their options to thwart the Iran deal and preserve at least some of the sanctions against Iran for as long as possible. They'll do this by rebuking Barack nObama for failing even to abide by the terms of Sen. Bob Corker's ill-advised review deal. Under that law, which nObama signed, he was required to submit all relevant information to the deal, including unbelievably foolish secret side deals, by July 19, after which Congress would have 60 days for review. nObama did not do so, which Republicans argue means the congressional review period never actually began. They have forced a delay in the debate over the deal until nObama hands over the information. In the meantime, the House will vote on two measures laying groundwork for possible legal action: One condemning nObama for violating the law, and another meant-to-fail measure to approve the deal. "The administration has not submitted the deal," Sen. Ted Cruz said, adding, "Republicans in this body should not be facilitating this president yet again disregarding the law and doing so in contravention of the national security interests of this country."
          On the other side of the aisle, House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer perhaps the worst endorsement ever: "I have concluded that this is not the best deal the P5+1 could have achieved." Not even close, as detailed by the rest of his statement. "However," he continued, "it is the agreement that the United States agreed to and that is now before the Congress. Although it was a difficult choice, I have decided to oppose a resolution of disapproval, albeit with serious concerns." Try to contain your enthusiasm, there, Steny.  -The Patriot Post 
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  Khamenei: Israel Will Be Gone in 25 Years  
Now that Barack nObama has the necessary congressional minorities to block opposition to his Iran deal, Iran's supreme leader decided to rub some salt in the wound. This time, he's back to threatening Israel. "After nuclear negotiations, the Zionist regime said that they will not be worried about Iran in the next 25 years," Ayatollah Ali Khamenei wrote. "I am telling you, first, you will not be around in 25 years' time, and God willing, there will be no Zionist regime in 25 years. Second, during this period, the spirit of fighting, heroism and jihad will keep you worried every moment." Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned in his March speech to a joint session of Congress that negotiating with the Iranian regime was a fool's errand, and that nObama's "deal will not prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons; it would all but guarantee that Iran gets those weapons — lots of them." Best-case scenario under nObama's deal, Iran is prevented from obtaining nuclear weapons for 15 years. That leaves 10 years in Khamenei's 25-year window to annihilate Israel. In the meantime, nObama will give Iran more than $100 billion in sanctions relief with which to keep the jihad going, just as Khamenei promised. Republicans ought to be doing whatever they can to stop this deal.  -The Patriot Post 
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 Carson Nails Favorite Bible Verses Question  
It wasn't long ago that Donald Trump refused to name any favorite Bible verses (likely because he couldn't). Ben Carson didn't have any trouble with the same question. Carson offered Proverbs 3:5-6 and Proverbs 22:4, both of which he quoted — the latter says, "With humility and the fear of the Lord, that's where life and wealth come from." To be fair, he had time to prepare, but we also don't doubt his sincerity as we do Trump's.  -The Patriot Post 
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 Another September, Another Shutdown Threat  
It’s that time of year again — summer’s end, the hint of falling leaves and the annual talk of a government shutdown. With Congress back in session this week and fewer than 10 working days before the Sept. 30 spending bill deadline, political consultants are once again prepping the spin-fest to ensure that, should a shutdown occur, the other side gets the blame.
          This time, the sticking point isn’t nObamaCare as in 2013, or Barack nObama’s immigration overreach as in 2014, but rather continued government funding for Planned Parenthood. The nation's largest abortion mill (327,653 babies killed in 2013) rakes in more than $500 million per year in taxpayer dollars while dismembering babies and selling their body parts to the highest bidder.
          "[T]his arrangement is not new," notes Terence Jeffrey. "In fiscal 2012, Planned Parenthood says in its immediate past report, it did 327,166 abortions. In the year that ended on June 30, 2013, it got $540.6 million in government money. In fiscal 2011, it did 333,964 abortions, and in the year that ended on June 30, 2012, it got $542.4 million in government money."
          That's $1.6 billion in tax dollars for nearly a million dead babies. Oh, they say no federal money goes to pay for abortions, but is anyone really naïve enough to buy that?   -The Patriot Post 
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 ISIS releases ‘Kill List’ of US cities  
{themuslimissue.wordpress.com} ~The Pentagon has responded to a globally-released ‘Kill List’, asking law enforcement to give extra protection for military personnel whose personal information was released, News Channel 10 reports... CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports the Pentagon spent the weekend notifying the soldiers who appeared on the list, and urged city police departments and military police to increase patrol in the neighborhoods where the targeted live. The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) published the list days ago, a report that contained names, photos, and home addresses of U.S. Armed Forces personnel, causing alarm in cities potentially at high-risk.   https://themuslimissue.wordpress.com/2015/09/12/isis-releases-kill-list-of-us-cities/
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 Senate GOP Should Take "Nuclear Option" To Force Iran Deal Vote  
The senate filibuster is not in the constitution, it is simply a rule of the senate, The nuclear option or dinky Reid Rule allows the senate to vote on an bill or appointee with a simple majority and no worry of filibuster... Senators are very reluctant to resort to the nuclear option, because of the fear that while it is used when they are in the majority, they wont always be in the majority and breaking the long tradition of filibuster protection of the minority may very likely be used against them. That's why it was such a surprise on Hugh Hewitt's radio show on Friday when first John McCain and then Marco Rubio said this may be the time to break the dinky Reid Rule:        https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?shva=1#inbox/14fc1705ed07823e?compose=14fc36d99687ba93
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 50 Spies Say ISIS Intelligence Was Cooked  
{Shane Harris}It’s being called a ‘revolt’ by intelligence pros who are paid to give their honest assessment of the ISIS war—but are instead seeing their reports turned into happy talk... More than 50 intelligence analysts working out of the U.S. military’s Central Command have formally complained that their reports on ISIS and al Qaeda’s branch in Syria were being inappropriately altered by senior officials, The Daily Beast has learned. The complaints spurred the Pentagon’s inspector general to open an investigation into the alleged manipulation of intelligence. The fact that so many people complained suggests there are deep-rooted, systemic problems in how the U.S. military command charged with the war against the self-proclaimed Islamic State assesses intelligence.
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 Two Open Borders Dems Pushing For Huge Increases In Refugees...  
{rickwells.us} ~ Two of the more radical open borders Democrats, Rep John Conyers of Michigan and Zoe Lofgren of California aren’t satisfied with the speed of the decline of the United States of America... under the bombardment of illegal aliens from south of the border that they have engineered. They’ve never seen a willing foreigner they didn’t feel needed to be imported and supported by the citizens of the United States. That includes those that we have to transport from terrorist nations. From their perverse viewpoint, being an American is something every human is entitled to, and they’re working to bring the US domestic population of third world transplants up to the maximum sustainable levels, and well beyond, to the point of terminal overload, just as rapidly as possible. They’re Marxists and aside from their own ruling class, there’s no room for individual wealth or prosperity; equally poor is the rule of the day, and the goal of these two anti-American miscreants.        http://rickwells.us/two-open-borders-dems-pushing-for-huge-increases-in-refugee-numbers-from-terrorist-nations-syria/
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 Solving the European Migrant Problem  
{Barry Shaw} ~ The problem facing Europe is not only the vast number of migrants flooding the continent. It is that, from past experience, these people do not escape the Middle East... They bring the Middle East with them. The result is enormous strain on the social fabric of the host nations. It becomes increasingly difficult to assimilate the immigrants with the people already there, as governments try to accommodate the overwhelming weight of strangers who do not know their customs and do not speak their languages. Multiculturalism was a dream. It failed. In its place seems to be an emerging nightmare of unmanageable proportions. The migrant problem is becoming a huge destabilizing headache for Europe. It should not be. The most humane solution -- respecting the migrant's ethnic and religious origins, and honoring their basic traditions of faith and language -- might be closer to home, at least for the migrants from the Middle East and North Africa. Had these migrants been Jewish you can be sure that Israel would have taken emergency measures to accept and absorb them into the Jewish State.       http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/6491/european-migrant-problem
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 Get Ready Suckers Of America, Here They Come...  
{rickwells.us} ~ In the period between now and the Christmas holiday, actions will be taken in our names without our permission or authorization by the globalist Marxists intent on establishing world communism... Those attempts, if successful, will be devastating to us both from a perspective of our financial well being and our American sovereignty. What we are witnessing and being subjected to now is the soft-sell that precedes the hard-sell and outright usurpation of our independent self-government through dictatorial acts. It’s okay, we are told, it’s for our own good; we’re just to ignorant to understand these things; Trust the government and trust the Pope; neither would ever lie to us. Let there be no mistake, Pope Francis is acting as the chief representative and negotiator for the UN world government under Agenda 21, which also goes by the code words “sustainable development.” It is a surrender of independence to the world governing body, with draconian rules as to what we may and may not do in our private lives. They are regulations that would have most Americans marching in the streets if they weren’t too lazy to do so or to even bother to look it up online.        http://rickwells.us/get-ready-suckers-of-america-here-they-come-we-can-trust-these-guys-right-climate-scam-moves-into-high-gear/
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 Surprise! Iran Finds “Unexpectedly High” Uranium Reserve  
{Leah Barkoukis} ~ Most are not suprised……On the heels of nObama essentially securing a nuclear deal with Iran, which was supposed to be running low on uranium... the rogue nation just happened to “unexpectedly” find the nuclear raw material. What. Luck. “I cannot announce (the level of) Iran’s uranium mine reserves,” the state news agency IRNA quoted Iranian nuclear head Ali Akbar Salehi as saying. “The important thing is that before aerial prospecting for uranium ores we were not too optimistic, but the new discoveries have made us confident about our reserves.” The comments cast doubt on previous assessments from some Western analysts who said the country had a low supply and would sooner or later would need to import uranium, the raw material needed for its nuclear program.
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 Spying on Friends: The U.S. and Israel  
{Machla Abramovitz} ~ The extent to which the US spies on friendly countries, including Israel, was exposed in 2013 by former CIA contractor Edward Snowden. Almost four years earlier, in a top secret document... the Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Court approved certification giving the National Security Agency (NSA) the right to conduct surveillance on over 190 foreign governments and entities. So while Jonathan Pollard was given a life sentence for passing classified information to an ally (Israel), what do the revelations of the NSA imply about the US spying on Israel? Political pundit Daniel Pipes has extensively researched the underbelly of the covert relationship between the US and Israel. From his hotel room in Stockholm, Sweden, he explained the complex nature of this relationship, as well as Pollard's activities and subsequent sentencing within this broader context.
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 Massive Anti-Islamization Demos in Eastern Europe  
{pamelageller.com} ~ Thousands of people joined anti-migrant protests in three eastern European capitals on Saturday after leaders from the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia opposed an EU scheme to fix refugee quotas... In the Polish capital Warsaw, nearly 5,000 people, many chanting anti-Islamic slogans, marched through the city, an AFP correspondent said. “Islam will be the death of Europe”, one of the banners said. Organisers claimed the demonstration drew 10,000 people but police refused to confirm the figure. “We’re here so that the government hears our voice and abandons any plans to welcome Muslims,” shouted one of the organisers after starting the march with prayers which identified the participants as Roman Catholics.     http://pamelageller.com/2015/09/massive-anti-islamization-demos-in-eastern-europe.html
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 THE GUILTY MEN  
{Bruce Thornton} ~ In July 1940, after the debacle of Dunkirk and the fall of France, an anonymously published book called The Guilty Men criticized by name 18 politicians for the policy of appeasement that had led to the war... Someday someone will no doubt write a similar exposé of the disastrous nuclear deal with Iran. But there will be more than 18 culprits whose hands will be stained with the blood this capitulation will lead to. Start with the 42 Senators who for now are saving nObama from having to veto the bill intended to slow down an agreement that is a disaster for our security and interests. There are only two explanations for these cowardly votes. Either the Senators endorse the delusional argument that giving away the store to Iran is the only option for stopping the Iranians from acquiring nuclear weapons, or they made a despicable political calculation that their careers depended on staying in the good graces of the party’s hierarchy and its leader. In the end it doesn’t matter if they are naïve idealists, like Neville Chamberlain, or selfish careerists. The dangers are the same. And let’s not forget the scores of House Democrats guilty of the same sins. Patrick Murphy, a Congressman from Florida who plans to run for Marco Rubio’s Senate seat, made a statement that encapsulates the muddled thinking of the deal’s champions:
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In Israel, a reason for celebration: 
Let's stop and make a hard-nosed, 
clear-eyed assessment
Caroline B. Glick
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     {jewishworldreview.com} ~ As we approach Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, the people of Israel need to recognize how lucky we are.
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     True, today, we find ourselves largely alone, set apart from our traditional partners in the Western world. But standing alone isn't always the worst option. Today it is certainly not the worst option.
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     Over the past several years, we have witnessed the growing radicalization and fragmentation of the societies of neighboring lands. Sunnis fight Shi'ites and one another. Minority populations are slaughtered, enslaved and oppressed. Regimes fall, rise and fall again. Today, every Arab society is either in danger or at war. And in almost every case, it isn't good fighting evil but varying degrees of evil and barbarism fighting one another.
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     From the PLO to Islamic State, through Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, the Assad regime in Syria, the ayatollahs of Iran, Hezbollah, the Erdogan regime in Turkey and other though Saudi Arabia, every single actor in the region resorts to some degree of torture and oppression.
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And all do so while quoting the Koran.
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Israel has responded rationally to the carnage at our doorstep.
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     We help where we can. For instance, we are assisting the Egyptian regime in its war against jihadist forces in Sinai. We support the Hashemite regime in Jordan. We provide humanitarian assistance to the victims of the bloodbath in Syria.
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And we are securing our borders.
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     After we finished building the border fence with Egypt, we built one along the Syrian border. Now we are fencing off the border with Jordan.
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     These fences may not make good neighbors. But they do keep the bad ones at bay.
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     Similar rationality is in short supply today in Europe and among the smart set in America. Westerners are increasingly at a loss in the face of the break-up of societies throughout the Arab world.
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     Consider for instance Europe's disoriented, confused response to the massive wave of refugees from Syria now washing onto its shores. Perhaps the most notable aspect of the unfolding drama is that it appears the Europeans only just realized that Syria has fallen apart.
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The war in Syria broke out nearly five years ago.
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     Hundreds of thousands have already been killed in the conflict. Ten million people — nearly half of Syria's pre-war population — have been displaced. For the past four years, millions of Syrians have been living in refugee camps in neighboring states — first and foremost in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan.
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     Most of the refugees now arriving in Europe are coming from these camps, rather than directly from Syria. Rather than help them either resettle in the lands to which they fled, or take action on the ground in Syria to enable them to return to their homes, the Europeans largely ignored them.
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     Part of the reason Europe has ignored Syria, of course, is indifference. So long as it's happening "over there," the Europeans really couldn't care less.
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     But indifference alone does not explain how Europe has been taken by surprise by a humanitarian disaster of the magnitude now unfolding at its borders.
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     Identity politics have played a key role in shaping Europe's failed Middle East policies — in Syria and throughout the increasingly destabilized Islamic world.
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     Identity politics distinguish between various groups based on how they fall on a spectrum of "oppression."
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     Western nations, led by Europe and the US, are all classified as "oppressors," due to their "imperialist" past.
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The Islamic world writ large is classified as "oppressed."
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     All groups that receive "oppressed" status are immune from judgment, much less resistance from those who fall on the side of the "oppressors."
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     Given this taxonomy, Europeans along with the sectors of American society that have embraced identity policies are incapable of recognizing, much less taking action against, radical Islamists.
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     Those who are oppressed by the "oppressed" of the Islamic world — the Yazidis, Christians and Kurds, for instance — can receive no sustained protection from their jihadist oppressors by the "Muslim-oppressing" West.
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     The immunity identity politics confers on "oppressed" population groups adheres even when those groups themselves engage in oppression.
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     There is, however, one group in the Islamic world that identity politics do not immunize from Western opposition. The West can oppose Arab regimes that wish to cooperate with the West in fighting against radical Islamists.
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     Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi for instance is a member of this group. Ever since he overthrew the US-supported Muslim Brotherhood regime two years ago, the US has kept him at arm's length. Washington has imposed a partial weapons embargo and denied US support for its war against jihadist forces in Sinai.
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     Then there is Libya. Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi collaborated with the West against al-Qaida from 2004 until he was assassinated in 2011.
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     That year Gaddafi was overthrown by European forces backed by the US. The West overthrew Gaddafi in order "to prevent genocide."
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     The chaos that ensued in Libya after his overthrow has in turn enabled al-Qaida and Islamic State to take over large swathes of the country.
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The West has had nothing to say about this turn of events.
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     The tyranny of identity politics is not limited to its conferral of immunity on jihadists. Identity politics are a comprehensive, totalitarian world view that dictates responses in all areas of human endeavor.
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     For instance, the "Black Lives Matter" group in the US, which sanctions the murder of policemen, is given a pass by adherents of identity politics. Its followers view all blacks as oppressed. Police, who are perceived as agents of Western oppression, cannot expect sympathy when they are murdered.
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     In Britain, adherents of identity politics not only want to see Britain out of the Middle East, they support their country's unilateral nuclear disarmament, because as they see it, Britain is unworthy of nuclear weapons due to its imperialist past.
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     A testament to the power of identity politics in Britain is the rise of Jeremy Corbyn. The radical Labor parliamentarian is expected to win the race for leadership of the party on Saturday.
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     Corbyn is a shining example of the type of leader produced by identity politics. He opposes British power. He is a foe of free markets and the British military. He supports Hamas and Hezbollah. He has led anti-Israel demonstrations and conferences organized by Islamist organizations. He has contributed to an organization led by a Holocaust denier and participated in its conferences.
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And of course, he opposes Israel and Jews who support it.
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    That's the thing of it. Identity politics define both Israel and Jews in the Diaspora as "oppressors."
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     Many Israelis as well as Jewish organizations in the Diaspora have been trying for years to prove that this is untrue. Israel is after all the victim of both European and Islamic imperialists. Zionism is a national liberation movement.
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     But these protestations have made no impression on anyone. And this is to be expected. It isn't possible to change Israel's classification on the oppression scale, because the scale is completely arbitrary. Even worse, every attempt to question the arbitrary scale simply induces more hostility on the part of its adherents. Questioning whether oppressed groups are in fact oppressed is itself an act of oppression and further proof that those who question are indeed oppressors.
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     In other words, identity politics are a closed intellectual universe immune from all doubts, and logic.
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     According to media reports, British Jewry is in a state of panic at the prospect of Corbyn's imminent takeover of the Labor Party. They understand that if he does win on Saturday, any residual influence they have over the second largest party in Britain will disappear. And the consequences of this loss of even a semblance of power will not be long in coming.
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     This week it was reported that during the past year the UK has seen a 93 percent rise in anti-Semitic attacks. This week's brutal assault on a group of Orthodox Jewish teens in Manchester by three Muslim Jew-haters was just a particularly brutal example of what is now a daily phenomenon in Britain.
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     The violent demonstration against Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu outside 10 Downing Street on Wednesday was similarly to be expected. Britain's kid glove treatment of Muslim violence and racism empowered protesters to trample on the Israeli flag, and call for the destruction of Israel and for Netanyahu to be killed just meters away from where he was meeting with Prime Minister David Cameron.
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     As for the US, identity politics control the lives of university students from the moment they enter the gates of their campus until the moment they leave them. It is due to this stranglehold that anti-Semitism is now rampant in American academia.
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     Quite simply a university that subscribes to identity politics cannot accept that Jews are persecuted by the groups it has deemed oppressed.
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     Identity politics also has significant influence in left-wing ideological circles outside the classroom.
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     The most obvious testament to their power is President Barack nObama's radical shift of US Middle East strategy.
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     The nObama administration's animosity toward Israel is part and parcel of the world view that brought it to support Gaddafi's overthrow and the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. So, too, the administration's refusal to take action to overthrow the Assad regime or destroy Islamic State in Syria and Iraq on the one hand, and its facilitation of Iran's rise to regional hegemony and nuclear empowerment on the other, is a clear indication that identity politics play a key role in determining the administration's foreign policy.
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     But there is still reason to hope that things can change in America. The fact is that two-thirds of Americans oppose nObama's nuclear pact with the mullahs and support Israel. nObama has only been able to promote his radical agenda by pretending it isn't his agenda.
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     As Israel seeks to secure and advance its interests in the identity politics-riven West, we must understand that our ability to impact the views of the other side is limited. The moment a society embraces identity politics, its members become incapable of rationally pursuing their own interests.
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And consequently, they are lost to Israel.
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     As far as securing our relations with the US is concerned, we must take every opportunity to strengthen those who fight against identity politics and for rationality and reasoned analysis of reality.
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     And while we pray for their success, we need to recognize that this is America's fight to win or to lose. We cannot fight it for the American people.
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     But just as we build fences along our borders, we need to prepare for the worst in order to secure our survival.
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     Israel's greatest strategic asset is our willingness to see things for what they are. It is my prayer for the coming year that our vision becomes ever sharper and that through our moral and strategic clarity we rally the Americans and other like-minded nations to our side in our fight for ourselves and for the noblest attributes of humanity.
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