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U.S. Airstrikes Kill 50 Al-Shabaab Jihadis in Somalia
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Could Israel's ‘Good Neighbor' Policy Work for the Migrant Caravans?
[PJ] Amid the controversy of President Trump ordering 5,200 active-duty soldiers to deploy to the United States’ southern border, tension has once again peaked politically. The Trump administration’s decision has come as a caravan of over 3,000 migrants from Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala begins arriving at the Mexican-American border to claim asylum. Democrats have been quick to highlight images of women and children among the caravan, and have echoed the claims that the caravan is composed of families fleeing violence and poverty that must be offered entry into the United States. Meanwhile, Republicans have taken a hard stance against the thousands of unknown individuals, arguing that national security must be our nation’s primary consideration and that the caravan should be unreluctantly turned away. Once again, this country is seemingly at yet another impasse.

Little attention has been paid though to a small country several thousand miles away that seems to face a similar dilemma: Israel.

A country of only 8.7 million people with an area just smaller than the size of New Hampshire, Israel is the only industrialized country adjacent to Syria amidst their civil war. Having been involved in eight wars, two intifadas, and a series of armed conflicts in the country’s 70-year history, Israel is all too aware of the risks associated with bringing in unknown refugees. As thousands of Syrians continue to flee to their northern Golan Heights border, Israel has to decide how it is going to respond.

While Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made it perspicuously clear that Israel would not open its northern border, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) began providing tents, food, clothing, medicine, and humanitarian aid to the refugees as they amassed at the border, a mission they termed "Good Neighbor." Further, as sick and injured Syrians approach the border for medical aid, after being screened by the IDF, the individuals are taken via Israeli ambulances to nearby hospitals for medical treatment and hospitalization before being returned to the border. Lastly, following the Yom Kippur War in 1973, Israel and Syria signed the "Agreement on Disengagement," which created a demilitarized zone between the two countries in which the refugees are now dwelling. Israel has made it categorically clear that any attack on the demilitarized zone would be militantly reciprocated, and Israel has moved tanks, artillery cannons, and troops to their northern border accordingly. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has yet to violate the decades-old agreement, and a degree of military protection is thus additionally offered to the refugees.

The question is how applicable, or even humane, such a model is for the United States.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/24/2018 03:49 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  How bout "Your asylum application goes to the end of the line until questions about the other countries you transited are resolved?"
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/24/2018 10:07 Comments || Top||


Europe
Swiss vote on going it alone in sovereignty referendum
[BBC] Why the fuss?

The main proposal calls for Swiss law to take precedence over international law and treaties. For supporters like Aliki Panayides, it would give voters "the final say on every issue".

She says: "That's all we want: it's us that says what is going on in Switzerland, not a foreign tribunal."

United in opposition are the Swiss government, all major political parties bar one, and a coalition of 120 civil society organisations, from environmental groups to groups which support the elderly, the disabled, or refugees.
'Yes, for democracy and political self determination'...loosely translated.
"It's a Trojan horse... it's not about saving democracy, it's about weakening fundamental rights in Switzerland," says Andrea Huber.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/24/2018 07:10 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Given the numerical opportunities for voter fraud, you'd think global plebiscites would be the Left's holy grail...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/24/2018 10:42 Comments || Top||

#2  With the readership of the Burg, how could she possibly say no ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/24/2018 16:57 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Did Chief Justice Roberts just urinate on my leg?
[American Thinker] Chief Justice John Roberts recently wrote, "We do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges."

The chief justice knows that this is not true, and I find it extremely insulting that he believes that I am stupid enough to believe it. As he relieved himself on my leg, he told me it was raining. Roberts's statement was a response to President Trump's criticism of "Obama judges" who ruled against the administration.

The president replied, "Sorry Chief Justice John Roberts, but you do indeed have 'Obama judges,' and they have a much different point of view than the people who are charged with the safety of our country. It would be great if the 9th Circuit was indeed an 'independent judiciary'[.]"

Dov Fischer at the American Spectator claimed, "[I]t sounds ridiculous ‐ even borderline delusional ‐ to deny that today's federal judiciary is chock-full of Obama judges and Clinton judges on a mission to stop President Trump's agenda."

Justice Roberts is not delusional.

Justices do not have the name of the president who nominated them in their titles. In this respect only, Justice Roberts is correct. However, they generally reflect the philosophy of the president who nominated them. Robert Barnes of the Washington Post remarked, "[S]tudies show there are clear ideological differences between judges nominated by presidents of different parties." Do we actually need studies to illustrate this?

Yet the pool of potential judicial nominees is dominated by progressives, and even "conservative" nominees can turn out to be quite liberal. U.S. district judge Timothy Kelly ‐ a Trump appointee ‐ ruled against the administration in its attempt to revoke CNN reporter Jim Acosta's White House press credentials.

Judges are human beings. They reflect a wide range of personality types and philosophies. There are "wise Latinas," "wise Yentas," and even "wise old Crackers." Their core responsibility is to make decisions free of bias using the U.S. Constitution as a guideline. This is not always the case. Justice Thurgood Marshall is famous for saying, "You guys have been practicing discrimination for years. Now it's our turn."
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/24/2018 03:14 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Do we actually need studies to illustrate this?

See - who do they judge 'shop' for Progressive agendas? Betcha there's a tight corollary.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/24/2018 6:58 Comments || Top||

#2  Kelly ruled against the WH due to a prior ruling by his circut court which he had to follow. Only a higher court can overturn a lower court ruling, so Kelly was stuck between a rock and a hard place.
Posted by: Chomosh Whusose7479 || 11/24/2018 7:35 Comments || Top||

#3  If Trump gets to place another justice on SCOTUS, John Souter Roberts will emerge from his chrysalis as a gay minority woman to wild applause from the Left...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 11/24/2018 10:15 Comments || Top||

#4  Justice Roberts is probably now part of the swamp.
Posted by: jvalentour || 11/24/2018 10:50 Comments || Top||

#5  I still believe Brennan or someone in the 'O' WH has something on Roberts which resulted in his rollover on O'Care.

Conspiracy, maybe. Convenient, possibly. Odd based on his former rulings, yes.

Posted by: Mullah Richard || 11/24/2018 12:48 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
To fight ISIS the US has to placate Turkey and protect Syria's Kurds
[Rudaw] The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
's recent shelling of the Syrian Kurds once again highlighted the precarious situation the United States faces in Syria. On the one hand, it needs to placate Turkey while it continues to support its Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) rival. On the other, it needs to ensure the protection of the YPG from Turkey so that it continues to focus its efforts and resources on fighting the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS).
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Posted by: trailing wife || 11/24/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Sublime Porte

#1  The Iranian backed militias won't be out of Syria anytime soon.
Posted by: jvalentour || 11/24/2018 9:40 Comments || Top||

#2  Screw Turkey. Remember the 4th ID.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 11/24/2018 15:47 Comments || Top||

#3  Thanks Mike! Some things merit remembering.
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/24/2018 16:51 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
The Lefty Lies About a World Without Borders
h/t Instapundit
My husband recently noticed a lot of movies with the UN in a positive role, and basically a world-government role.

Even though Husband is largely apolitical, this made him snort. Because even people who are mostly apolitical know the disaster that child-trafficking, aid-stealing UN "troops" are, at least when they’re not just U.S. troops flying the blue flag. (What is it with the blue flags, btw? That’s the EU too. Would white be too on the nose?)

I told him that’s because the left always telegraphs their intentions. Before they were ready for Hilary! for instance, they ran movies and wrote books about a president that was basically Hillary for at least a decade and probably more. (I don’t watch TV and movies, save for odd jags, usually years after they first came out, so the actual release years are fuzzy.)

And right now the left is so near that one-world-government, no borders, give peace a chance, John Lennon’s Imagine world they can taste it.

Or so they think. Of course, they’re nowhere near it. What they are actually enabling is the plundering of the first world by the third and the destruction of civilization and the engine of creation and production that has lifted most of the world population to a level our ancestors would consider unimaginable wealth. (Yes, even most of the third world is richer than, say, Elizabethan England. But never mind that.)
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 11/24/2018 11:42 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:



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Two weeks of WOT
Sat 2018-11-24
  U.S. Airstrikes Kill 50 Al-Shabaab Jihadis in Somalia
Fri 2018-11-23
  Terror attack on Chinese Consulate in Karachi foiled; 2 policemen martyred
Thu 2018-11-22
  PA court sentences Palestinians to 15 years hard labor for selling land to Jews
Wed 2018-11-21
  US military says strikes killed over 30 suspected militants in Somalia
Tue 2018-11-20
  Daesh suffers devastating defeat as Syrian Army liberates entire Al-Safa region
Mon 2018-11-19
  Key Taliban commanders among 7 detained by Afghan Commandos in Takhar
Sun 2018-11-18
  43 civilians killed by anti-ISIS coalition strikes in east Syria
Sat 2018-11-17
  Taliban kill 30 policemen in Farah province
Fri 2018-11-16
  Saudi Arabia will BEHEAD Khashoggi killers
Thu 2018-11-15
  Maute brothers' teen cousin surrenders in Mindanao
Wed 2018-11-14
  Ceasefire Goes Into Effect In South Following Unprecedented Rocket Barrage
Tue 2018-11-13
  Gaza factions agree to cease fire if Israel halts attack - Palestinian official
Mon 2018-11-12
  IAF have begun air strikes on Gaza.
Sun 2018-11-11
  Yemeni forces 'seize Hodeidah's main hospital' amid air raids
Sat 2018-11-10
  Yemeni forces, Saudi-led coalition launch 'vast' Hodeidah push

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