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The gathering will take place on June 25-26 and will be attended by several Gulf Arab States as well as Arab partners for peace all over the region. By Mike Evans Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump hold up the signed document acknowledging Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, on March 25, 2019. (photo credit: AMOS BEN-GERSHOM/GPO) The Trump administration announced on Sunday the first stages of the peace plan roll-out, confirming that it will host a workshop in Bahrain in late June to focus on more direct economic investments of the West Bank and Gaza. The...

In the world of clandestine intelligence operations, discovery is an ever-present danger. Operations are by definition risky. Operators, assets and projects are regularly compromised. You plan in advance for such eventualities, and you structure your networks so that they can survive adversity. ... The network waits out the scrutiny and resumes work when things have cooled off and attention has been drawn elsewhere. Such, in all likelihood, is exactly what is happening right now with those individuals who were part of what increasingly seems to have been a deliberate, carefully planned effort to destabilize a sitting President, overturn the results...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s claim that the world will “end in 12 years” unless climate change is tackled was accepted as a fact by two-thirds of Democrats, even though she said herself that only those with the “social intelligence of a sea sponge” could actually believe it. The New York Democrat drew mockery from Republicans after she made the doomsday warning in a bid to convince people that radical action against climate change is needed. “Millennials and people, you know, Gen Z and all these folks that will come after us are looking up and we’re like: ‘The world is gonna...

Trumped weighed in on the events and said he hopes "Bibi" will prevail. The prime minister said there's a 48-hour deadline. JERUSALEM — Israel's parliament on Monday passed a preliminary motion to dissolve itself. The move further pushed the country toward an unprecedented political impasse, less than two months after elections seemed to promise Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a new mandate. If the bill receives final passage in a vote scheduled Wednesday, Israel would be forced to hold new elections — sending the political system into disarray. Netanyahu appeared to have a clear path to victory, and a fourth consecutive...

A new Gillette ad released last week Thursday features a transgender man shaving for the first time. Samson Bonkeabantu Brown, a Toronto-based artist, shares the personal on-camera experience with his father, who coaches him through the significant life moment. “Now, don’t be scared,” his father warns. “Shaving is about being confident.” “Growing up, I was always trying to figure out what kind of man I wanted to become and I’m still trying to figure out what kind of man that I want to become,” says Brown, who addresses his transition through manhood.

The dangerous lack of scrutiny of those gaining legal status to the U.S. Rampant, blind greed warps the perspectives of those who suffer from that ailment. Consider politicians who have declared that aliens who trespass on the United States and evade the inspections process conducted at ports of entry are “entitled” to United States citizenship or, at the very least, lawful status.The outrageous view ignores both commonsense and the findings and recommendations of the 9/11 Commission and the 9/11 Commission Staff.Our borders and our immigration laws are America's first line of defense and last line of defense against international terrorists...

If the Democratic Party wants to run on a full-blown socialist agenda, and it looks like they could especially in future election cycles, then Republicans have the perfect example to show voters concerning its total failure. Yes, we’re talking about Venezuela whose addiction to so-called 21stCentury Socialism, championed by the late Hugo Chavez, had led to one of the most stunning economic collapses in nearly a half-century. It’s downright depraved what has occurred. People are eating out of trashcans, hyperinflation has made mounds of money utter worthless, groceries are now a luxury due to available items and costs, and because of...

President Donald Trump presented Ohio State University police officer Alan Horujko, a Fairfield native, with a presidential Medal of Valor on Wednesday for shooting to death a knife-wielding Somali refugee on Nov. 28, 2016, after the attacker had wounded 13 people on campus. During a White House ceremony to award medals to 14 public safety officers, Trump gave Horujko his medal, the highest decoration police officers can receive. Horujko shot Abdul Razak Ali Artan, a move university officials said prevented an even worse attack. Artan, an 18-year-old OSU student, had crashed his brother’s car into a crowd of people near...

Lebanese-born terrorist was a naturalized U.S. citizen. Tensions and hostilities between the United States and Iran have been ramping up and while the news media focuses on how Iran has been operating throughout the Middle East threatening our allies including Israel, the media has ignored that operatives of Hezbollah have, for many years, been operating widely throughout Latin America in conjunction with drug cartels that engage in the smuggling of huge quantities of narcotics into the United States as well as huge numbers of aliens. This not only provides a major source of revenue for Iran to fund its wide-ranging...

Today’s Campaign Update (Because The Campaign Never Ends) Hey, why does that strategy sound so familiar?– The Washington Post carried a piece on Sunday titled “Biden’s Campaign is one of Limited Exposure.” Gosh, that sure sounds like something we’ve heard from a leading Democrat candidate before, doesn’t it? Yeah, sure does. To see why, all we must do is hark back to 2015, when the Pantsuit Princess’s advisors decided that the best thing for her to do was to lay low and stay out of the public eye as much as possible. Why would that be the case, you might...

The first rule of any Marxist revolution is that rules are fine if they advance the cause or cripple opponents. The rules can be discarded the minute they get in the way. That’s the way America’s Marxists, socialists and many liberals operate when it comes to the Constitution, especially the First Amendment. Here’s the relevant portion: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press.” When they are legalizing obscenity and destroying community standards, the Left’s attorneys, spearheaded by the ACLU, take a...

Just finished watching the series What/If on Netflix. I don't watch any cable or broadcast television so some of the presentation was new to me. I watched it for the actress Renee Zellweger who had a bizarre face and manner throughout the series. She portrayed evil in a way that was intriguing and off-putting. The rest of the series had some strong actors however the writing was a cross between the old show Dallas and a Hispanic Soap opera. Not being much in the mainstream, I was surprised at just how often the series took up the cudgels of the...

Her public AND private lives revolve around an intense hatred for Israel. Rasha Mubarak leads an extremist life. She organizes anti-Israel rallies, she affiliates with terror-related groups, she posts photos of Hamas celebrations on her social media, and she attacks those who believe Israel has a right to defend herself. Mubarak’s extremist existence, though, has not just appeared in her public life; it has also reared its ugly head in her private life, case in point: Mubarak’s hostile marriage. Mubarak is the Central Florida Regional Director for the Florida Young Democrats (FYD). Prior to getting involved with the Democratic Party,...

On Saturday, the U.S. Military Academy at West Point graduated the most diverse class in the academy's history. Of the 980 cadets who are commissioning into the U.S. Army as second lieutenants, there was the highest number of African American women, Hispanic women, and highest number of women overall since the first class of women graduated in 1980, according to a West Point press release. Frank Demaro, West Point spokesman, told CNN that last year's class had 27 African American women graduates — this year had 34 — and they expect "next year's class will be even larger than this...

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called the release of self-admitted "American Taliban" member John Walker Lindh "unexplainable and unconscionable." Lindh, who was paroled last Thursday from a federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, served 17 years of a 20-year sentence for illegally aiding Taliban forces. Lindh had joined the terrorist organization before September 11, 2001. He was in Afghanistan at the time and was also there when a group of Taliban prisoners murdered CIA officer Johnny Micheal Spann. Spann's daughter, who was 9 when her father died, called Lindh's early release "a slap in the face" to everyone who died...

These are a handful of photos and a couple videos of Cafe Yeonnam-dong 239-20 in Seoul. It was designed to look like a 2-D black and white pen drawing. They really did a fantastic job -- so whimsical. And you know how I feel about whimsy. "Way better than flimsy." Infinitely. But do you know what's even better than whimsy? Whimskey. "You mean whiskey." Not when you've already had as much as I have. GUUR! "Did you just throw up in your mouth a little?" More than a little. Keep going for some more shots and the videos (hit right...

Ian Bremmer, an NYU academic and columnist for ‘Time,’ apologized on Monday morning for posting a fabricated quote he attributed to President Trump.“My tweet yesterday about Trump preferring Kim Jong Un to Biden as President was meant in jest,” Bremmer tweeted on Monday morning.“The President correctly quoted me as saying it was a ‘completely ludicrous’ statement. I should have been clearer. My apologies,” he added. My tweet yesterday about Trump preferring Kim Jong Un to Biden as President was meant in jest. The President correctly quoted me as saying it was a “completely ludicrous” statement. I should have been...

Twenty years after Columbine, the United States is still looking for how to stop mass public shootings. The rest of the world, where mass public shootings are actually much more common, is also looking for solutions. Russia, France, Finland, and Norway are among the European countries that have experienced far more deaths per capita from these attacks.Change is coming, if slowly, in the United States. Twenty states currently allow teachers and staff to carry guns to varying degrees on school property. Florida’s just enacted law expanding their program. Texas’ Senate overwhelmingly passed a measure by a 20-to-11 margin that removes the cap on the number of school...

Several days ago, I saw a headline come through my Facebook feed that was so absurd I assumed it was satire. Unfortunately, the headline that read, “Pregnancy Kills, Abortion Saves Lives” was real. It was from a New York Times op-ed written by late-term abortionist Warren M. Hern. Dr. Hern is the author of a book called Abortion Practice, which I read in January of this year as I prepared to debate another abortionist named Willie Parker. I had decided to read Hern’s book because he dedicates an entire chapter to describing in detail how to perform abortions. He focuses...

Venezuela's murderous 'Crazy Boys' make their living by kidnapping in one of the world's most violent cities, with lawlessness spreading in the failing socialist state. Feared Caracas street gangster El Negrito, 24, sleeps with a silver revolver under his pillow and says he's lost track of his murder count. But despite his bloody record, the killer says firing his gun has become a luxury with soaring inflation in President Nicolas Maduro's economy. 'If you empty your clip, you're shooting off $15,' said El Negrito, who spoke to The Associated Press on the condition he be identified only by his street...