Dear Family & Friends, The SuperMoon is directly above us here in Jerusalem, Israel! It’s huge & beautiful & silvery with a slight haze!!! It’s the closest Super-Moon since January 26, 1948. The moon won’t come this close to Earth again until November 25, 2034. It’s a SuperMoon because it is at perigee – closest to Earth. At perigee, the moon lies only 356,509 kilometers (221,524 miles) away. Show your kids. It’s better than Television or Computers or SmartPhones – because it’s real – a real true phenomenon.

Then come back inside to reality. If you weren’t totally invested in seeing Hillary win, you might begin to view Donald Trump’s win as actually encouraging for our future & our children’s futures & even our great-grandchildrens’ futures. His winning this election has led ‘experts’ to call this a ‘populist’ election as a denigrating/derogatory appellation. But, ‘populist’ just means “the people”. Yes, people! The people saw something in Donald Trump & have praised it with their vociferous votes, so he won! What’s wrong with that? Isn’t that what a real Democracy is supposed to do?

So, relax! Enjoy the moment. Live in the moment. Hope & pray he can accomplish all he set out to do. It’s a big heartfelt promise.

See the SuperMoon! Hug your spouse & your kids! Life is really beautiful!

All the very best, Gail/Geula/Savta/Savta Raba x 2/Mom

1.Israel in the Trump era By Caroline B. Glick

2.Lech Lecha: Great like the stars

Torah from Israel’s first Chief Rabbi. HaRav Avraham Yitzchak HaCohen Kook zts”l, 11/11/16

HaRav Avraham Yitzchak HaCohen Kook zts”l First Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel, revered and famed Torah sage, philosopher, writer, poet, iconic and beloved leader of religious Zionism and the return to Zion (1865-1935).

Stars and Sand

When Abraham complained to God that he was childless, God promised that his children would be as numerous as the stars in the sky:

“God took him outside and said, ‘Look at the sky, and count the stars if you can! So will be your descendants.’” (Gen. 15:5)

On another occasion, God promised Abraham that his children would be like “the sand on the seashore” (Gen. 22:17). Why are the Jewish people compared to both stars and grains of sand?

Greatness at Mount Sinai

The Sages took note that God’s promise uses the uncommon word ‘koh’ (????) – “So [koh] will be your descendants.” They explained that this word alludes to the Jewish people’s future greatness at Mount Sinai, where the word ‘koh’ also appears: “So [koh] shall you say to the House of Jacob” (Ex. 19:3). What does the state of the Jewish people at Mount Sinai have to do with being likened to stars?

In general, we need to understand the metaphor of the star. The psalmist wrote that God gave each star a name (Psalms 147:4). Why do stars need names?

Personal and Collective Missions

What is in a name? A name reflects an entity’s inner essence. It defines the nature of its existence and indicates its fundamental purpose. Stars are wonderful, powerful creations. Each star has a unique function for which it was created, and each star has a unique name corresponding to its special purpose.

The comparison of Abraham’s descendants to stars indicates the importance and greatness of every individual member of the Jewish people. Every soul is a universe unto itself, as the Sages wrote: “One who saves a single soul of Israel, it is as if he has saved an entire world” (Sanhedrin 37a).

But the Jewish people also have a collective mission, as indicated by their comparison to sand. A single grain of sand is of no particular consequence; but together, these grains of sand form a border against the ocean, establishing dry land and enabling life to exist. Israel’s collective purpose is to bring about the world’s spiritual advance, as it says, “This people I have created for Me [so that] they will proclaim My praise” (Isaiah 43:21).

It is logical for God to first establish the collective mission of the Jewish people, and only afterwards adjoin their individual goals. Thus, upon leaving Egypt, Israel was formed into a people with a unique collective purpose. This collective mission is an integral part of their very essence, regardless of any individual merits. The collective aspect of the Jewish people was valid even though the Israelites lacked personal merits and good deeds when they left Egypt, as it says, “I have made you [Israel] numerous like the plants of the field, and you have increased and grown… yet you were naked and bare” (Ezekiel 16:7).

Like the Stars

The prominence of the stars, on the other hand, is indicative of the special mission of each individual. This metaphor refers to the potential for greatness that each member of the Jewish people acquired at Mount Sinai.

These special goals are a function of each individual’s efforts, deeds, and Torah study. This level is based on the revelation of Torah and mitzvot at Mount Sinai. The Midrash teaches that when Israel promised to obey the laws of the Torah, the angels tied two crowns to the head of every Jew. These spiritual crowns reflected the greatness of each individual; every Jew was a prince, bearing his own unique crown of holiness.

(Sapphire from the Land of Israel. Adapted from Midbar Shur, pp. 110-121, sent to Arutz Sheva by Rabbi Chanan Morrison of ravkooktorah.org) See also: The Inner Will of the Universe

Lech Lecha: Great like the stars

Culture, religion & Israel’s economy

Civil debate

Enormous amounts of time, energy and money are taken up by these land disputes.

Beit El settlement, West Bank July 29, 2015. (photo credit:Tovah Lazaroff)

Daily confrontations over land ownership and building rights in Judea and Samaria are fueling anti-Israel propaganda campaigns and undermining the authority and reputation of the state. Arab claims of land ownership often result in the needless destruction of Jewish homes and property and charges that Jews have stolen Arab land, creating anger and frustration.
Enormous amounts of time, energy and money are taken up by these land disputes.

The High Court is clogged with cases.
Legal advisors at the Civil Administration (CA) – the state agency that controls land registration for Judea and Samaria and is tasked with deciding issues of land ownership – are unqualified and often politically motivated. COGAT (Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories) which is part of the Defense Ministry (since the area is under military occupation) is responsible for the CA, but is run by IDF officers who are unqualified, often politically compromised and who operate their own separate legal system. Unsupervised by Israeli courts, they make the law and the rules. Appealing their decisions to the High Court is useless since the High Court always defers to COGAT and the CA as the legal authority.
We don’t even know on what basis the CA decides questions of disputed land or why it prevents Jews from examining documents in the land registry records.
The system is a judicial mess and Arabs, assisted by foreign-funded NGOs like Yesh Din and Peace Now, are able to manipulate the system against Israeli Jews.
Attempts to bring a rational, coherent legal system to Judea and Samaria, however, have met with government inertia and resistance from bureaucrats in the legal establishment. In order to find a way out, several years ago Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu established a special committee to offer suggestions.
The Levy Committee, headed by the late former Justice Edmund Levy and staffed by legal experts, carefully evaluated Israel’s legal position in Judea and Samaria. It recommended practical and realistic solutions, including special courts to handle land disputes, but the report has been blocked by a single, unelected and politically motivated official: Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein.
He has refused to explain his opposition and refuses to allow the Levy Report to be considered by the government.
Weinstein’s obstruction of the democratic process shames our claim to be a democracy and the “rule of law.”
A simple solution to disputes of land ownership in Judea and Samaria is the application of the Torrens land title system which is used by Israel and many other countries. It involves proper land surveying and zoning, rather than relying on arbitrary and unprofessional decisions made by CA/COGAT bureaucrats.
Torrens title is a system of land title in which the state maintains a register of land holdings and guarantees an indefeasible (clear) title to those included. The title reflects all the information about the land claimed. The registrar ensures that only legally valid changes are made to the register.
If there is a change of ownership, for example due to the sale of the land or the death of the registered owner, or as a result of a court order, the registrar must decide what is valid.
Land ownership (deeds) is transferred through registration by title instead of title by registration (which the CA uses in Judea and Samaria). Its main purpose is to simplify land transactions and to certify ownership.
It eliminates the need for a chain of title (i.e. tracing title through a series of documents) and is guaranteed by the state. Those who lose title due to errors or operations of the state are compensated by the state.
“The main object of the Torrens Title System is to make the register conclusive.
Once your name is registered on the Torrens Title register, you become the owner of the property to the exclusion of all others.
You therefore obtain ‘title by registration,’ which is a pivotal concept of Torrens Title.”
(All quotes are from Internet and Wikipedia).
The Torrens system was established over 150 years ago in Australia – at the same time the Ottoman Empire introduced its Land Codes for areas it ruled – and is used throughout the British Commonwealth and Canada. It is widely accepted and is taught in law schools throughout the world.
There are also other land registry systems.
The cadastral system is a comprehensive register of specific real estate and property.
Developed at the end of the 18th century in France and used in many European countries, it uses maps which show the boundaries and ownership of land parcels.
Based on tax rolls, these maps are designed to make local situations legible and enable states to collect data on their subjects. The cadastral system includes details of the ownership, tenure, precise location and dimensions, the cultivation if rural, and the value of individual parcels of land. The cadastral system is used by the US Bureau of Land Management to resolve disputes over land ownership.
Under common law, land owners needed to prove their ownership of a particular piece of land back to the earliest grant of land by the sovereign power. Since this was often difficult and imprecise, many disputes arose.
“The documents relating to transactions with the land were collectively known as the title deeds or the ‘chain of title.’ This event could have occurred hundreds of years prior and could have been intervened by dozens of changes in the land’s ownership.
A person’s ownership over land could also be challenged, potentially causing great legal expense to land owners and hindering development.”
“The main difference between a common law title and a Torrens title is that a member of the general community, acting in good faith, can rely on the information on the land register as to the rights and interests of parties recorded there, and act on the basis of that information. A prospective purchaser, for example, is not required to look beyond that record. He or she does not need even to examine the Certificate of Title, the register information being paramount. This contrasts with a common law title, which is based on the principle that a vendor cannot transfer to a purchaser a greater interest than he or she owns. As with a chain, the seller’s title is as good as the weakest link of the chain of title. Accordingly, if a vendor’s common law title is defective in any way, so would be the purchaser’s title. Hence, it is incumbent on the purchaser to ensure that the vendor’s title is beyond question. This may involve both inquiries and an examination of the chain of title.”
Applying the Torrens system to Judea and Samaria would avoid unnecessary appeals and interventions by the High Court, reduce disputes and prevent fraud, and it would simplify judicial procedures.
Matters of civil law should be adjudicated by courts and by professionals – not by IDF bureaucrats. The current system used by CA/COGAT is not only unreliable and untenable, it is inefficient and unjust.
The author is a PhD historian, writer and journalist.

4.Progressive Jews & the crusade against Israel by Dr. Moshe Dann 11/30/2015

Resolving land disputes: the Torrens land title system

Settlements and the Zionist vision

Progressive Jews leverage their political power and funding outside of Israel in order to change Israeli policies, but they ignore the consequences.

American Jews who are members of the Union for Reform Judaism, formerly the Union Of American Hebrew Congregations at the Western Wall in Jerusalem?.. (photo credit:REUTERS)

Cheers for US vice president Joe Biden’s criticism of settlements at the Reform movement’s recent convention reflect a long-standing position of the organization and a controversy that has divided Jewish communities and undermines support for Israel and Zionism: Are Jewish communities built beyond the 1949 Armistice Lines – the “settlements” – legal, legitimate, and part of the Zionist vision? Unfortunately, Israeli administrations and leaders have not addressed this question.
Recently, two American professors who claim to be Zionists wrote an op-ed in The Washington Post supporting campaigns to boycott Israel because of “Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory.”

Although criticism of Israel by Jews and Israelis is not unusual, few have crossed the red line of what is considered legitimate criticism.
But it’s a line that begged to be crossed. If Israel’s policy is wrong in their view, why should it be tolerated? Since criticism of “the occupation” and settlements is raised by Israelis, the media and the international community all the time, why should anyone be surprised or upset that non-Israeli liberal Progressive Jews also hold these views and join the crusade against Israel? Progressive Judaism defines itself as a movement for social justice, civil and humanitarian rights, gender equality and pluralism.
It’s a Jewish tradition. Jews are and have been in the forefront of efforts to help those in need, the suffering and persecuted. It’s a Biblical commandment: charity, concern for the stranger and the prohibition of taking advantage of someone who is less fortunate, especially an indentured servant – and, above all, the desire for peace.

It is argued that this is the reason why many Progressive Jews support another Palestinian state, “ending the occupation” and eliminating settlements.
But while advocating “pluralistic Judaism” in Israel is consistent with the Reform movement’s theological position, Israel’s settlement policy has nothing to do with religious belief or practice. It is political and affects only Israeli Jews.
Opposition to settlements supports Arab insistence that violence against Israel is legitimate “resistance against Israeli occupation.”
Disguised in rhetoric of “the peace process,” “the two state” delusion, and “two states for two peoples” opposition to settlements and support for Palestinian-ism ignores Israeli security and the threat of Jihad.
Ostensibly humanitarian arguments like “the right of Palestinians to self-determination” confuse the issue by ignoring the meaning of Palestinian-ism as clearly stated in the PLO and Hamas covenants: Israel’s destruction.
Since there is consensus in Israel that settlements are a strategic asset and there is no longer any possibility of removing them, the Reform movement’s opposition is difficult to understand.
Most Israelis agree that withdrawing from “the occupied territories” would turn these areas into launching sites for more terrorist attacks. Moreover, the large number of Jews living in there – more than a half million – has passed well beyond the point of no return.
If destroying Israeli settlements is not a realistic possibility, harms Jews and Israel and no Israeli government would even consider such a move, why do liberal Progressive Jews continue to promote it? Although some current and former Israeli leaders, academics, writers and pundits support calls to “end the occupation” and champion the cause of Palestinian-ism, they have little popular support at home. All recent Israeli polls indicate increasing support for settlements and disenchantment with Palestinian promises.
Even Arab Palestinians are deeply divided about “the two-state solution.”
Few Israeli Arabs – even those who despise Israel – would be willing to give up their privileges as Israeli citizens.
A recent Israel Democracy Institute survey revealed that 83.4 percent of Israeli Arabs prefer to live in Israel rather than move to the US or Europe, and rate their situation as “good” or “very good.”
Yet, in another survey by Prof. Sami Smooha of Haifa University [& B’tselem-GW], at least 57% of Israeli Arabs said that they support the radical Islamic Movement; other polls indicate widespread support of violence against Jews – demonstrating the power of ideology over well-being.
Similarly, the Nakba (catastrophe of Israel’s establishment) remains a rallying cry for hatred and incitement, even though everyone understands that it is practically irrelevant. Although Arabs focus on “settlements” built after 1967, they don’t ignore those which were established before.
Opposition to settlements is also the heart of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement and Arab and Muslim efforts to destroy the State of Israel.
The dispute over settlements, moreover, is exploited by the PA/ PLO.
Ironically, PA President Mahmoud Abbas in his recent UN address quoted Yitzhak Rabin that Israeli settlements are a “cancer.”
But settlement-building continued during Rabin’s tenure, as well as all Israeli administrations because settlements are a national priority which insures defensible borders; they are essential to Israel’s security, economy and its survival.
Progressive Jews, especially those affiliated with the Reform and Reconstructionist movements, organizations like J Street and the New Israel Fund, and pro-Palestinian NGOs led by Progressive Jews like Peace Now, T’ruah, Tayush, Yesh Din, Rabbis for Human Rights and B’Tselem leverage their political power and funding outside of Israel in order to change Israeli policies, but they ignore the consequences.
Opponents of settlements who claim to be “liberal Zionists” don’t want to destroy Israel, only to destroy settlements and “end the occupation.” But their demands contribute to Israel’s demonization, endanger its citizens and place Israel at risk – &, therefore, are fundamentally anti-Zionist & anti-Israel.
In 1937, the Reform movement, in its Columbus Platform affirmed “the obligation of all Jewry to aid in [Palestine’s] upbuilding as a Jewish homeland by endeavoring to make it not only a haven of refuge for the oppressed but also a center of Jewish culture and spiritual life.”
Now that’s something to cheer.

5.Trump team warns Obama against major moves against Israel at UN

“Obama shouldn’t go seeking new adventures or pushing policies that clearly don’t match Trump’s positions,” the president-elect’s national security adviser tells Politico • Senior Trump adviser: With Trump there won’t be any coercion against Israel. by Shlomo Cesana and Israel Hayom Staff

President-elect Donald Trump with PM Benjamin Netanyahu in NY, Sept. 25 | Photo credit: Kobi Gideon/GPO

Reports surfaced last week, before the Nov. 8 elections, that outgoing U.S. President Barack Obama could be preparing an unpleasant surprise for Israel, most likely in the form of calling on the United Nations Security Council to recognize a Palestinian state.

Now, with Donald Trump set to step into the White House, his aides say Obama should not even think about taking such steps, according to American political website Politico.
“On big, transformative issues where President Obama and President-elect Trump are not in alignment, I don’t think it’s in keeping with the spirit of the transition … to try to push through agenda items that are contrary to the president-elect’s positions,” a Trump national security adviser told Politico on Thursday. “It’s not going to be just counterproductive, but it will also send mixed messages.”

He added: “The machinery of government is going to have to keep grinding as best it can. But Obama and his aides shouldn’t go seeking new adventures or pushing through policies that clearly don’t match Trump’s positions.”

Israel vehemently opposes any move by Obama to secure a U.N. Security Council resolution, which it views as hostile to Israeli interests, especially if he was to ask other world powers to embrace U.S.-drafted parameters for a two-state solution.

One Israeli official, who asked not be identified, told Politico that any such move would represent a “dagger in the heart” of the peace process — perhaps forever.

Senior Trump adviser Jason Greenblatt, seeking to allay Israeli concerns, said: “With Trump, there won’t be any coercion for negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians. He thinks Israel is in a tough position, needs to defend itself and won’t force a solution on Israel. Peace has to come from both sides. If Trump will have an idea that can contribute to the sides he will contribute it, but he doesn’t intend to force a solution.”

Greenblatt, who is also the executive vice president and chief legal officer at the Trump Organization, made the comments during an interview with Army Radio on Thursday.

He said Trump “does not define the settlements as an obstacle to peace, and as evidence of this he will present the situation in Gaza, where the Jewish communities were evacuated and yet peace still wasn’t forthcoming. He does not see the settlements as an obstacle to peace.”

Regarding Trump’s comments that he would transfer the U.S. Embassy, currently located in Tel Aviv, to Jerusalem, Greenblatt said that “when Trump gives his word he stands by it. For Israel, he recognizes the right of Jewish nation to preside in its eternal capital of Jerusalem and is revolted by UNESCO’s decision on the matter.”

Asked whether Trump intends an Israel-related role for him, such as Middle East emissary, Greenblatt answered in Hebrew that such an appointment would be a “bracha” [“blessing”] and added, “It’s too early to tell, but I very much hope so. It would be an honor & a privilege to serve in that capacity.”

‘Maximum aid for Israel’

During the election campaign, Greenblatt and David Friedman, Trump’s adviser on Israel, formulated an official document stipulating that on the matter of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the U.S. is interested in coming to an agreement, but that “a two-state solution between Israel and the Palestinians appears impossible as long as the Palestinians are unwilling to renounce violence against Israel or recognize Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state.

“Additionally, the Palestinians are divided between PA rule in the West Bank and Hamas rule in Gaza, so there is not a united Palestinian people who could control a second state. Hamas is a U.S.-designated terrorist organization that actively seeks Israel’s destruction. We will seek to assist the Israelis and the Palestinians in reaching a comprehensive and lasting peace, to be freely and fairly negotiated between those living in the region.”

The document also states that “the Palestinian leadership, including the PA, has undermined any chance for peace with Israel by raising generations of Palestinian children on an educational program of hatred of Israel and Jews. The larger Palestinian society is regularly taught such hatred on Palestinian television, in the Palestinian press, in entertainment media, and in political and religious communications. The two major Palestinian political parties — Hamas and Fatah — regularly promote anti-Semitism and jihad.

“The U.S. cannot support the creation of a new state where terrorism is financially incentivized, terrorists are celebrated by political parties and government institutions, and the corrupt diversion of foreign aid is rampant. The U.S. should not support the creation of a state that forbids the presence of Christian or Jewish citizens, or that discriminates against people on the basis of religion.”

Regarding Israel’s future borders, the document specifies that “Israel’s maintenance of defensible borders that preserve peace and promote stability in the region is a necessity. Pressure should not be put on Israel to withdraw to borders that make attacks and conflict more likely.”

On the issue of the Jewish and Israeli connection to Jerusalem, the document states that “the U.S. will recognize Jerusalem as the eternal and indivisible capital of the Jewish state and [the Trump administration] will move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem.”

Meanwhile, on the matter of the Memorandum of Understanding between Israel and the U.S. on defense aid for Israel, the document describes it is “a good first step, but there is much more to be done. A Trump administration will ensure that Israel receives maximum military, strategic and tactical cooperation from the United States & the MOU will not limit the support that we give. Further, Congress will not be limited to give support greater than that provided by the MOU if it chooses to do so.”

The U.S., according to the document, “should veto any United Nations votes that unfairly single out Israel and will work in international institutions and forums, including in our relations with the European Union, to oppose efforts to delegitimize Israel, impose discriminatory double standards against Israel, or to impose special labeling requirements on Israeli products or boycotts on Israeli goods.

“The U.S. should cut off funds for the U.N. Human Rights Council, a body dominated by countries presently run by dictatorships that seems solely devoted to slandering the Jewish state.”

Regarding the anti-Israel boycott, divestment and sanction movement, the document declares that the U.S. should view such efforts “as inherently anti-Semitic and take strong measures, both diplomatic and legislative, to thwart actions that are intended to limit commercial relations with Israel, or persons or entities doing business in Israeli areas, in a discriminatory manner.”

On relations with Iran, the document states: “Despite the Iran nuclear deal in 2015, the U.S. State Department recently designated Iran, yet again, as the leading state sponsor of terrorism — putting the Middle East particularly, but the whole world at risk by financing, arming, and training terrorist groups operating around the world including Hamas, Hezbollah, and forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

The U.S. must counteract Iran’s ongoing violations of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action regarding Iran’s quest for nuclear weapons and their noncompliance with past and present sanctions, as well as the agreements they signed, and implement tough, new sanctions when needed to protect the world and Iran’s neighbors from its continuing nuclear and non-nuclear threats.”

The document describes the relationship between Israel and the U.S. as an “unbreakable bond” that is “based upon shared values of democracy, freedom of speech, respect for minorities, cherishing life, and the opportunity for all citizens to pursue their dreams.”

It continues: “Israel is the state of the Jewish people, who have lived in that land for 3,500 years. The State of Israel was founded with courage and determination by great men and women against enormous odds and is an inspiration to people everywhere who value freedom and human dignity.

“Israel is a staunch ally of the U.S. and a key partner in the global war against Islamic jihadism. Military cooperation and coordination between Israel and the U.S. must continue to grow.”

6.Correction: Hillary Clinton Won the Illegal Vote By Diana West, Nov. 10, 2016

About that popular vote victory the Left is claiming over Donald Trump.

The latest tallies show that after millions of Americans citizens, fraudsters and non-citizens voted for president, Donald Trump won 59,704,886 votes and Hillary Clinton won 59,938,290. (THERE ARE 9 MILLION VOTES YET TO BE COUNTED)

That’s 233,304 more votes in Hillary’s column. But is this margin of popular victory the will of legally registered American voters?
In 2014, three political scientists from Old Dominion University and George Mason University looked back at earlier elections to study whether any of an estimated 19.4 million adult non-citizens in the US voted in the 2008 election. After much surveying, sampling and extrapolating, their best guess — the “adjusted estimate” — was to suggest that a whopping 1.2 million non-citizens cast ballots, and cast mainly Democrat ballots, in the 2008 election that brought Barack Obama into the White House.

The impact of such fraud, they write, included the following:

We find that there is reason to believe non-citizen voting changed one state’s Electoral College votes in 2008, delivering North Carolina to Obama, and that non-citizen votes have also led to Democratic victories in congressional races including a critical 2008 Senate race [Al Franken’s] that delivered for Democrats a 60-vote filibuster-proof majority in the Senate.

No doubt there remains number-crunching to do on the 2016 election, especially when it comes to states and districts that were won by narrow margins of victory. It seems eminently fair, however, to deduce that Clinton’s margin of popular victory, typically and fittingly, was illegal.

Photo: Gage Skidmore/flickr

The Middle East that President-elect Donald Trump will inherit when he assumes office in two months is, as a foreign policy advisor to the last two presidents told The New York Times last month, “seemingly in free fall.”

Among the challenges that Trump will have to deal with: wars in Syria, Iraq & Yemen; a Kurdish push for independence; a regional power struggle between Iran & Saudi Arabia; Iranian non-compliance with the nuclear deal that it signed last year & the unresolved Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Veteran foreign policy correspondent Michael Totten wrote in The Tower last week that when the next president weighs his policy options, “the best you can pull off right now is damage control.”

Totten called on the next president to reverse Obama’s strategy of putting “daylight” between the United States and Israel, observing that “it accomplished a grand total of nothing.” There has been no progress on a negotiated agreement between Israel and the Palestinians because “trying to force the Israelis to give up more than they already have…won’t do an iota of good if the Palestinian side remains rejectionist.”

That assessment matches with that of Johns Hopkins University professor Michael Mandelbaum, who wrote in May that “peace requires that the Palestinians accept the norms of common decency and common sense: The Jews have the same right to sovereignty as any other people.” This would require that the Palestinians give up their so-called “right of return” and that the United States should make relinquishing that demand a condition for any future negotiations.

Speculation has risen over the past few weeks that there could be a push to influence Israeli-Palestinian negotiations via a United Nations resolution. Trump and his opponent, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, both stated that they were opposed to the UN imposing parameters on negotiations. They also both identified Palestinian rejectionism as a major obstacle to a peaceful solution. “Palestinian leaders need to stop inciting violence, stop celebrating terrorists as martyrs and stop paying rewards to their families,” Clinton said at the AIPAC Policy Conference in March. Trump echoed this the following day, saying, “You cannot achieve peace if terrorists are treated as martyrs. Glorifying terrorists is a tremendous barrier to peace. It is a horrible way to think. It’s a barrier that can’t be broken.”

Another major reason that peace has been elusive is the continued growth of the Palestinian terror group Hamas, which is armed and financed by Iran. The Islamic Republic is also backing terrorist groups and militias fighting in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Yemen. Totten exhorted the next president to “start twisting the screws again posthaste, and you should make it clear that you’re going to do so before you’re even inaugurated” so that Iran will know “that you are not like your predecessor and shouldn’t be messed with.”

Trump and Clinton disagreed on the merits of the nuclear deal, but adopted very similar positions when it came to countering Iran’s regional ambitions. Clinton insisted at AIPAC that “vigorous enforcement” of the nuclear deal must be coupled with “a broader strategy to confront” Iran’s aggression throughout the Middle East. Trump similarly promised at AIPAC to “enforce the terms of the previous deal to hold Iran totally accountable.” He also noted the presence of Iranian proxies in multiple Middle Eastern countries and promised to “totally dismantle Iran’s global terror network.“

Prior to Election Day, imams were out telling Muslims to vote, even launching a special campaign: October 7 is My Muslim Vote National Khutba Day a day meant to encourage American Muslims to get to the polls this November. During this week’s services, spiritual leaders will be ascending minbars, or pulpits, to preach a khutba, or sermon, that focuses on the importance of voting in this election.

The #MyMuslimVote campaign is led by the activist group MPower Change and the national Muslim Students Association.

A CAIR survey predicted that 75% of Muslims will vote for Clinton. It is well known that: CAIR has been declared a terrorist organization by the United Arab Emirates and was named by federal prosecutors as an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas-funding operation.

The Muslim Students Association – a leader in the “MyMuslimVote” campaign — also has Muslim Brotherhood links.

Most telling about Hillary Clinton was that she “raked in” over $41,000 “from prominent Islamists” in donations, which included “$19,249 from senior officials of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.”

An Aljazeera report stated that Muslims, “blacks, South Asians, Middle Easterners and converts…form a Democrat-leaning mass, according to CAIR’s survey.” That same report painted Trump as racist and Hillary as the preferred candidate, citing the CAIR survey. Meanwhile, Pakistani American Muslims were reportedly busy making a “final push” for Hillary Clinton:

The US Council of Muslim Organisations, an umbrella group of two dozen Muslim advocacy organisations announced this week that over one million American Muslims have registered to vote in the November 8 US elections.

Despite the old us-versus-them rhetoric of Islamic supremacists, CAIR, and the Left, who are all too eager to scream “Islamophobia” and claim that Trump is the preferred candidate of the whites-only club, a Fox News report pointed out a historic shift in party alignment:

First, for the first time since anyone can remember, Republicans have broken the communications monopoly Democrats have enjoyed among African-Americans. Trump is persistently reaching out to them; visiting their churches and neighborhoods, making a commitment to rebuild America’s cities, economy and jobs.

A report from last March, summing up the CAIR view of the election: “CAIR Super Tuesday Poll Shows Muslim Voters Support Hillary Clinton, Concerned About Islamophobia”, CAIR, March 10, 2016:

Survey shows more older Muslim voters back Clinton, while younger Muslims support Bernie Sanders

(WASHINGTON, D.C., 3/2/16) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today released the results of a six-state “Super Tuesday” poll of almost 2000 Muslim voters indicating that almost half of those voters (46 percent) support Hillary Clinton, followed by Bernie Sanders at 25% & 11% support for Donald Trump.

CAIR’s poll also showed that growing Islamophobia is the top issue for Muslim voters.

“American Muslim voters are worried about unprecedented anti-Muslim rhetoric used by presidential candidates & are going to the polls in increasing numbers at both state & national levels to make their voices heard by the candidates,” said CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad.

An exit poll of Muslim voters in Texas and Virginia indicated that Sanders narrowed Clinton’s lead in those states – 34 to 40 percent in Virginia and 29 to 37 percent in Texas.

In upcoming primary elections in California, Illinois, New York, and Florida Clinton’s lead over Sanders ranged from 22 percent (California) to 40 percent (New York).

The survey indicated that older Muslim voters – 65 percent of those 45 to 64 and 80 percent of those 65 and older – backed Clinton, while younger Muslim voters (18 to 24) supported Sanders (78 percent). In the 25 to 44 age group, support for Clinton and Sanders was more evenly distributed at 44 percent for Sanders and 56 percent for Clinton.

CAIR noted that Muslim support for Sanders may actually be higher because its poll surveyed more voters over the age of 45.

Nationwide, Islamophobia continued to rank as the most important issue of concern for all Muslim voters (24%), a partisan divide was evident with Muslim Democrats ranking Islamophobia highest (27%) and then the economy (19%), while Muslim Republicans ranked the economy (38%) highest followed by Islamophobia (14%).

Support for the Democratic and Republican Parties mostly remained constant from previous surveys with 67% of Muslim voters supporting the Democratic Party & 18% supporting the Republican Party. CAIR’s February 1 poll of Muslim voters showed 67 and 15% respectively voiced support for the Democratic and Republican Parties…….

Trump’s victory speech (Photo Credit: Screenshot)

History lessons a few decades from today, assuming some people will still be interested in learning history, will probably compare the start of the 21st Century to the opening of its predecessor, the 20th. In both cases, it took about a decade and a half of very dramatic events to bring people in the West to realize that political reality on their planet had changed irreversibly and that they better come up with a solution and fast. The events leading up to WWI and then the war itself, the most devastating carnage known to mankind at the time, yanked Western people from whatever romantic delusions they may have entertained back in the 1800s, and forced them to retool for crueller, bloodier times.

Likewise, the era that began abruptly on September 11, 2001, with the unprovoked onslaught of blood thirsty Muslims on one of the cultural jewels of Western society, culminated in the West finally getting the message, about 15 years later, on November 9, 2016, realizing there were dangerous beasts out there that needed to be put down, and, seeing that the traditional political leadership was not prepared to carry out the mission, picked a leader.

Obviously, there are many holes and inconsistencies in this simplified explanation of President Elect Donald Trump’s victory this morning; but I expect in a few decades people won’t be interested in more complex explanations for the Trump win, coming as it did only a few months following the Brexit vote that yanked the UK from the European Union. And next year, when rightwing presidential candidate Marine Le Pen takes a serious stab at the leadership of the French Republic, simplified explanations could actually come in handy.

In fact, Le Pen, leader of France’s National Front party, congratulated Donald Trump on his victory, and her father announced, “Today, the United States, tomorrow, France. Bravo!” Then Le Pen’s deputy, Florian Philippot, tweeted: “Their world is collapsing. Ours is being built.”

There’s a second common aspect to the British, American and French rightwing campaigns: they all appeal to the men and women who used to belong to the middle class and now feel that they have been left behind. In a multinational world in which corporations serve only their shareholders, with zero loyalty to the rest of the people, societies have been split in half, into winners and losers. The winners reap all the benefits of a brave, new world, saturated with exciting, tantalizing, new technology, dream jobs and oodles of much publicized fun — relegating the other half to life on the wrong side of the train ‘de grande vitesse’ tracks.

In all three countries, as is likely the case everywhere else in the civilized, Western world, the political class has been closely associated with the new winners, doing their bidding and largely ignoring the have-nots.

In that sense, there was nothing Conservative about the Donald Trump campaign — as has been pointed out numerous times by offended, true Conservatives. On many issues Trump and Hillary Clinton’s other great opponent, Bernie Sanders, represented an astonishingly similar message: the powers that be have abandoned you and it’s time to do something about it.

Filmmaker Michael Moore successfully described this as the forgotten middle class’ urge to throw a Molotov cocktail at the establishment, all of it, Democrats and Republicans alike. Which they did. The Brexit leaders, just like Donald Trump, did not have to offer well thought out alternative plans to gain a winning support. All they had to do was identify with and then personify the two-decade long rage of a people whose two most basic needs have been ignored by the likes of Hillary Clinton: their fear of a fanatical enemy scheming to destroy their countries for no apparent sane reason, and their fear of a life of deepening poverty and hopelessness.

The good news is that once the message has been delivered, both in the UK & the US, it will be received everywhere in the Western world & local systems will come up with concrete, effective means of repairing the rift between the people & their traditional leaders. The Western lion has been awakened from its slumber at long last & we all owe our gratitude to Donald Trump for the wake up call.

Now let us all pray that the medicine we, Americans, and the rest of the world, have swallowed won’t be too bitter. Someone on one of the dozens of shows I flipped through last night quipped that Trump’s opponents took his ideas literally but didn’t take him seriously, while his followers took him seriously but didn’t take his ideas literally. Judging by the President Elect’s words of reconciliation in his victory speech, there’s room for hope. David writes news at JewishPress.com.

10.DEFENSE STOCKS SOAR ON NEWS OF TRUMP VICTORY by Petty Officer 3rd Class Nathan T. Beard/U.S. Navy 11/11/16

In early trading, the new commander in chief’s promises to rebuild the American military are helping defense stocks buck the wider market plunge.

U.S. defense stocks rose Wednesday following the election of Donald Trump, with analysts now anticipating a military arms build-up similar to the 1980s under Ronald Reagan.

While markets opened down, stocks belonging to the makers of ships, fighter jets, tanks and armored vehicles were all up.

“The Trump victory, combined with the impressive GOP retention of Congress, means our low-probability, high-impact scenario for defense spending over the next four years becomes the base case,” Roman Schweizer, an analyst with Cowen and Co. said in a note to investors Wednesday morning. “We expect defense spending will go up significantly, at least double the projected 2.5% growth rate in the now-superfluous [Budget Control Act].

The Budget Control Act — sometimes called sequestration — has capped defense spending since 2013. It is on the books until 2021 unless Congress repeals it. Under President Obama, Congress and the White House have not been able to agree on other places in the federal budget to cut to offset an increase in defense spending.

As of 10:30 a.m. EST, here’s where stocks stand among the largest suppliers:

§ Lockheed Martin: Up 4.8 percent

§ Northrop Grumman: Up 5.1 percent

§ Raytheon: Up 6.2 percent

§ General Dynamics: Up 4.1 percent

§ L-3 Communications: Up 5.4 percent

§ Textron: Up 2.2 percent

§ Boeing: Up .76 percent

§ Huntington Ingalls: Up 6.5 percent

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Learning about our world and nature

11.The Global Day of Jewish Learning will be Sunday, November 20, 2016. The 2016 Global Day theme is Under the Same Sky: “The earth is full of Your creations” (Psalm 104:24). We will learn about our world and nature. One of many references in Jewish texts is to the beauty and vastness of our world and nature. We’ll explore nurturing & nourishment, ecology & the environment, cycles & seasons.

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Curriculum materials for adults and children are available to registered communities, with English, Russian, Spanish and Hebrew versions. Already registered? Go to the Toolbox to download materials now. Units include:

· “Green Torah Wisdom”
Living modern life in balance with nature is a challenge, but Judaism offers solutions that may surprise you. What does it mean to be a Jewish environmentalist? (Includes ELI Talk video)

· Healing: A Natural Practice?
This session navigates the tension in Jewish sources between God as granter of life and healing and the practice of medicine by humans. Is it “unnatural” to interfere and make changes in the natural world?

· Planting for the Future
Planting is at the core of gardening and farming. It is also a fundamental metaphor for long-term planning and investment. We will examine the significance of planting within Jewish life.

· Ruler, Steward, Servant: Humanity’s Relationship with Nature
Was the world created for our sake? Are we masters over the animals and plants, or are we their stewards? We’ll consider the relationship between humanity and nature through a close reading of the Creation story.

· Shmita: A Cycle of Rest, Release and Ownership
Shmita is a year of rest and release for the land. It can also be meaningful today as a marker of cycles, a time for personal renewal & as a reminder of our responsibilities to others & the world around us.

· A Time for Rain
The Jewish prayer for rain asks for rain that is for blessing and not for curse. Rain can be a blessing but it can also cause destruction. Explore the complex relationship humans have with rain, and how Jewish texts can help us connect to rain and the environment.

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· Loving the Trees (Elementary School)
It is important to care for trees, by planting new ones and caring for old ones. How can we learn from trees? Explore stories from Jewish texts that teach us how to love trees.

· The Power of Planting: Appreciating Seeds and Saplings (Middle School)
Planting signifies new beginnings – when the world was created, when the nation moved into its homeland, and when children are born. We’ll discover more about planting and our impact on the future.

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· Do not destroy (Bal Tashchit): The importance of Conserving and Protecting Nature

· Kindness to animals (Tza’ar Ba’alei Chayim)

· Appreciating the wonders of Nature (Le He’arich et Pelai haTeva)

Rabbi Steinsaltz writes: “We speak about “humanity” and “nature” as if we exist in one way, and the rest of the world exists in a different way. This dichotomy between man and nature is neither simple nor accurate. Granted, nature without the presence of man would be very different; yet humanity, although unique and distinct, is still part of nature. Whether we define nature as the totality of existence or as the set of laws that govern it – we are included in it.”

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The 2016 Global Day theme is Under the Same Sky: “The Earth is Full of Your creations”

Pim Fortuyn, the hero of Rotterdam, the man who shook the country awake, once said, “Do not aim for what is possible, but what is imaginable.” He wanted to make clear that for us,

the Dutch, nothing is impossible.

Pim Fortuyn was right. Nothing is impossible for us. We are Dutch.

Look at our country. We have single-handedly created this unique and beautiful land. We are the

only people in the world living in a country which for the largest part we created ourselves. A great achievement.

We not only created our own land, but we also explored the world. We have sailed all the seas. We founded New York and discovered Australia. Sometimes, it seems like we have forgotten it all. Forgotten what we are capable of. What we are capable of when we put our mind to it. And maybe that is our problem. We must dare to think big again. Because where there is a will, there is a way.

Yes, I know. Many things are bothering us. There is also much to be angry about & rightfully so.

This government has destroyed our country with its austerity policies and has allowed our country to be colonized by Islam. But let’s start aiming for the imaginable. Let us liberate our country.

Four years ago, Mark Rutte won the election with a campaign based on false promises. With lies

& deceit. No more money to the Greeks, 1,000 euros for every Dutch citizen, a strict immigration policy.

The Labour Party was his enemy, as everyone remembers. He recently apologized, but he didn’t draw his conclusions. On the contrary, he apologized but continues destroying & giving away our country. Perhaps, he will even govern with Labour again for another four years. No one can still believe what he says. My question to you is: do you want a prime minister like that for the next four years?

At the moment, you are living in the land of Mark Rutte. And for many, that is no longer a pleasant land. Just walk out your front door and look around. Chances are that thugs are hanging around at the entrance of your local convenience store. That you get spit on & robbed there. That your daughters, your wives & your parents get harassed and no longer dare to go out at night. That you are becoming a stranger in your own country. That must change. Because this is our country. And it is being taken away from you. And I will take it back for you.

A politician like me, who speaks the truth about a huge problem many Dutch are confronted with every day — yes, I am talking about the terror of Islam and the Moroccan problem — is dragged to court. Facing trial, while imams can preach all the hatred they want and the political elites keep silent. They call themselves leaders, but they do not lead; they mislead.

Mark Rutte’s plan can be summarized in one word: Dereliction of duty.

My plan for the Netherlands is called Liberation. Liberation begins with stating the facts.

The facts: Six out of every ten inmates in the Netherlands are immigrants, and of all prisoners, more than 10% are of Moroccan origin. Moroccan youths are nearly five times more often suspected of a crime than native youths. The Netherlands has become a continuous live broadcast of Opsporing Verzocht [“Wanted Criminals”, a Dutch television program]. A politician who keeps silent about this is worthless. I refuse to do that.

I will not keep silent about Islam either. Never, ever. Because silence is dangerous. Last July, Nobel Prize winner & Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel passed away. I met him a few years ago in New York. He gave the world a wise lesson: “When someone says they want to kill you, believe them.” Islam says it wants to kill us. The Koran leaves no doubt about that.

Seven out of ten Dutch Muslims believe that religious rules are more important than

Dutch secular laws. More than one in ten Muslims in the Netherlands find it acceptable

to use violence in name of Islam. That is more than 100,000 people. Many refuse to integrate and show no respect for Dutch authority in areas such as Maassluis or Poelenburg. They give us

the middle finger. Islamic hooligans parade with Islamic State flags through the streets in The

Hague & occupy bridges with Turkish flags in Rotterdam. This is our country, but their flags are waving.

Look at their flags. Look at our flag. There is no Koran verse & no crescent on our flag, but red, white & blue stripes. The red of our identity, the white of our freedom & the blue of the truth. This is the time that from house to house, from street to street and from municipality to municipality, we must raise our flag. Everywhere. With pride. Because this is our country, our Netherlands! It cries for liberation.

When I come to power, I will protect our beautiful country. And this is only possible if we

de-Islamize. I want to make it the core of my policy. Because I refuse to let this wonderful country of ours perish and I choose our culture and the freedom of our people.

Our values are not Islamic, but are based on the Judeo-Christian and humanist civilization. We have the right and freedom to choose how we want to live our lives, and to never give away this right. Twelve years ago, Theo van Gogh was murdered. He gave his life for the freedom that lies at the heart of our Dutch identity. And that identity must defend itself. We must not allow those who want to destroy our freedom to abuse freedom in order to take ours away.

We must stop being naive and defend ourselves. Because this is our country.

The Dutch are fully aware of the fact that while there are moderate Muslims, there is

no moderate Islam. Two out of three Dutch people say that the Islamic culture does not belong

to the Netherlands. Three-quarters of the Dutch people believe that politicians underestimate the problem of the rising numbers of Muslims in our country. More than three-quarters believe that Islam is not an enrichment for the Netherlands. Those people are right. But nobody listens to them. Only I do.

Mark Rutte spoke about stubborn optimism, but the Netherlands do not need laughing donkeys. It needs heroes with firm realism. We cannot afford to underestimate the seriousness

of the threat. Because the threat is existential: the survival of our country is at stake. Potential terrorists are already among us in great numbers and are coming to Europe on a daily basis,

also with the influx of asylum seekers. They walk free here. It is a dereliction of duty to do nothing about it & to leave our borders open to tens of thousands mainly Islamic fortune-seekers from the Middle East & Africa.

We must also liberate ourselves from the Europhiles in Brussels who wipe the floor with our identity, our sovereignty & our prosperity. We are no longer in control of our own borders,

our own money, our own democracy. If we decide in a referendum that we do not want something, like the association agreement with Ukraine, then they force it down our throats anyways. Because the will of the people is not relevant to the elite. They are laughing at us.

Everything belonging to our culture is being taken away from us. Even Zwarte Piet

(Black Pete) is not allowed anymore. The elite wants to abolish the word “allochtoon” (foreigner), but it is the native people who are losing their country. I refuse to let that happen. This is our country, our culture, our identity. The Netherlands, this beautiful country, this great nation, this beacon of freedom, it is ours and will remain ours! This is the time to withstand tyranny.

Today, I appeal to all the Dutch. To everyone who enjoys our hard-won freedoms, to everyone who wants to safeguard the prosperity and wealth of this great country for their

children and grandchildren: let us show the world that we are Dutch. Stand up — democratically and non-violently — against the elites who are giving away your country. The task that lays ahead of us is immense. But the courage to reclaim our country is so, too. There are many good things to be preserved and there are many things that have to be rebuilt.

This is the time for clear language: Dutch money for the Dutch people! Not a penny to Africa, Turkey, Greece or Brussels anymore. If we do that, so much will become possible.

Imagine it! Then we will be able to reduce taxes for everyone, so the purchasing power can rise significantly and the economy can get a tremendous boost. We will be able give our elderly a decent old day. We will be able to can lower the retirement age to 65 again, and no pensions will have to be cut.

I also want to keep our nursing homes open and employ thousands of extra nurses. In my Netherlands, we remedy the terrible degradation of healthcare under Rutte II and there will be many nurses taking care of our elderly with dedication, love and respect, day & night. In my Netherlands, we abolish deductibles in healthcare. It is intolerable that Dutch people are avoiding healthcare because they cannot afford it, while asylum seekers, who on average have 1,000 euros more healthcare costs a year, get everything for free. This injustice fills me with disgust.

We will be able to spend more on the police and the army, so they have more resources to keep our country safe and free and to protect our property and borders. We must close our borders to asylum seekers and immigrants from Islamic countries, no longer allow jihadists from Syria return & denaturalize & expel criminals with dual citizenship. We must liberate our country.

I also want to introduce direct democracy in the Netherlands with binding referendums. Our political system is still that of the 20th century, ruled by the same arrogant political elites with their false promises & hypocritical apologies. If the mess created by Mark Rutte has taught us one thing, it is this: the people should be able to pull the emergency brake when the political elites violate their will. Not just once every four years.

The past decades, millions of Dutch people have seen how their country was hijacked before their very eyes. It did not take a genius to know that this would end badly. The constant transferring of sovereignty to the EU, the euro that does more harm than good, the endless waste of money spent on the Greeks, the dangers of Islam, the open borders & mass immigration, the growing threat of terrorism, the tsunami of asylum seekers, the tax increases, and last but not least, the budget cuts in healthcare for the elderly and the disabled that have crushed the weakest in our society.

Unfortunately, those who warned have been proven right. But there is hope. Together we can take care of that. When a nation awakes and starts moving, everything is possible. I am not saying that the task will be easy. But it can be done, and it must be done. Because we have no choice. A strong and sovereign country where hard work is rewarded and the weak are protected, where terrorists cannot just cross the border at Hazeldonk [main border crossing with Belgium], where women can walk the streets in skirts without being harassed or sexually assaulted, where care is affordable and pensions are decent, where all citizens — including Jews, homosexuals, women, and critics of Islam — are safe. Where patriotism is not an insult but a badge of honor. Where Islam is shown the door.

This beautiful country, our country, is not lost. In fact, the best years lay ahead of us. If we make the right choices. Say goodbye to those who look away from the problems and give away the Netherlands. It is time for liberation! Let us reclaim our country together.

Starting on March 15, 2017!

Geert Wilders is a member of the Dutch Parliament and leader of the Party for Freedom (PVV).

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