Obama allies use ‘dark money to wage war of defamation’ against Roy Moore

Federal disclosure papers reveal close Obama affiliates used a dark-money PAC to wage a war of defamation against Judge Roy Moore.

One America News Network’s Kristian Rouz has the latest on Alabama’s special election.

VIDEO: ROGUE WON — The Culture War Story

Main Street Patriots decided that with the newest Star Wars movie premier on December 15th, 2017 creating a Culture Wars video titled “Join the Rebellion Alliance.” Enjoy it, share it and donate to Trump and the Rebellion Alliance.

May the Trump be with you in 2018!

President Trump at the Opening of the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum

“These museums are labors of love — love for Mississippi, love for your nation, love for God-given dignity written into every human soul. These buildings embody the hope that has lived in the hearts of every American for generations — the hope in a future that is more just and more free,” – President Donald J. Trump

Remarks by President Trump at the Opening of the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum

Mississippi Civil Rights Museum
Jackson, Mississippi

11:05 A.M. CST

THE PRESIDENT:  Thank you very much.  Thank you.  And I do love Mississippi.  It’s a great place.

And thank you, Governor Bryant, for that kind introduction and for honoring me with this invitation to be with you today.

I also want to recognize Secretary Ben Carson and his wonderful wife, Candy, for joining us.  (Applause.)  Thank you.  Thank you, Ben.  Thank you, Candy.

I especially want to thank you, Justice Reuben Anderson — great man with a great reputation — even outside of the state of Mississippi.  I have to tell you that.  (Applause.)  So, thank you.  Thank you very much.  And you are an inspiration to us all.  Thank you, Judge.

And we’re here today to celebrate the opening of two really extraordinary museums — and I just took a tour — the Mississippi State History Museum and the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum.

To all who helped make these wonderful places possible, we are truly grateful.  We thank you.  We admire you.  It was hard work.  It was long hours.  It’s a lot of money, and I know the Governor helped with that, and that was a great thing you’ve done.  That’s a great legacy, Phil, right there.  Just that in itself.  But it really is a beautiful, beautiful place.  And it’s an honor.

These museums are labors of love — love for Mississippi, love for your nation, love for God-given dignity written into every human soul.

These buildings embody the hope that has lived in the hearts of every American for generations — the hope in a future that is more just and more free.

The Civil Rights Museum records the oppression, cruelty and injustice inflicted on the African-American community, the fight to end slavery, to break down Jim Crow, to end segregation, to gain the right to vote, and to achieve the sacred birthright of equality here.  (Applause.)  And that’s big stuff.  That’s big stuff.  Those are very big phrases.  Very big words.

Here, we memorialize the brave men and women who struggled to sacrifice, and sacrificed so much so that others might live in freedom.

Among those we honor are the Christian pastors who started the Civil Rights movement in their own churches preaching, like Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. — a man that we have studied and watched, and admired for my entire life — that we’re all made in the image of our Lord.

Students like James Meredith, who were persecuted for standing up for their right to the same education as every other American student.  Young people, like the nine brave students who quietly sat.  And they sat very stoically, but very proudly, at the Jackson Public Library in 1961.  And, by the way, I would add the word “very bravely” — they sat very bravely.

And, finally, martyrs like Sergeant Medgar Wiley Evers — (applause) — whose brother I just met at the plane, and who I liked a lot — I have to — stand up, please.  Come on.  Stand up.  You were so nice.  I appreciate it.  (Applause.)  You were so nice.  Thank you very much.

Medgar joined the U.S. Army in 1943, when he was 17 years old.  He fought in Normandy in the Second World War.  And when he came back home to Mississippi, he kept fighting for the same rights and freedom that he had defended in the war.  Mr. Evers became a civil rights leader in his community.  He helped fellow African Americans register to vote, organize boycotts, and investigated grave injustices against very innocent people.

For his courageous leadership in the Civil Rights movement, Mr. Evers was assassinated by a member of the KKK in the driveway of his own home.

We are deeply privileged to be joined today by his incredible widow — somebody that’s loved throughout large sections of our country — beyond this area.  So I just want to say hello to Myrlie.  Myrlie.  Where is Myrlie?  (Applause.)  How are you, Myrlie?  Thank you so much.  Highly respected.  Thank you.  Thank you, Myrlie.  And his brother, Charles.  Thank you, Charles, again.

For decades, they have carried on Medgar’s real legacy — and a legacy like few people have and few people can even think of.  And I want to thank them for their tremendous service to our nation.
Less than a month before Mr. Evers’s death, he delivered a historic televised address to the people of Jackson on the issue of civil rights.

In that speech, he said the following: The African American “has been here in America since 1619.  This country is his home.  He wants to do his part to help make this city, state, and nation a better place for everyone, regardless of color or race.”
Medgar Evers loved his family, his community, and his country.  And he knew it was long past time for his nation to fulfill its founding promise: to treat every citizen as an equal child of God.  (Applause.)

Four days after he was murdered, Sergeant Evers was laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors.  In Arlington, he lies beside men and women of all races, backgrounds, and walks of life who have served and sacrificed for our country.  Their headstones do not mark the color of their skin, but immortalize the courage of their deeds.

Their memories are carved in stone as American heroes.  That is what Medgar Evers was.  He was a great American hero.  That is what the others honored in this museum were: true American heroes.

Today, we strive to be worthy of their sacrifice.  We pray for inspiration from their example.

We want our country to be a place where every child, from every background, can grow up free from fear, innocent of hatred, and surrounded by love, opportunity, and hope.

Today, we pay solemn tribute to our heroes of the past and dedicate ourselves to building a future of freedom, equality, justice, and peace.

And I want to congratulate your great Governor, and all of the people in this room who were so inspirational to so many others to get out and get this done.  This is an incredible tribute, not only to the state of Mississippi — a state that I love, a state where I’ve had great success — this is a tribute to our nation at the highest level.

This is a great thing you’ve done, and I want to congratulate you, and just say God bless you, and God bless America.

Thank you very much.  Thank you.  Thank you all very much.  (Applause.)

END           11:15 A.M. CST

Judge Roy Moore launches video titled ‘We Dare To Defend’

In an email to supporters the Roy Moore for Senate campaign sent out a new video titled “We Dare To Defend.” The email reads:

Doug Jones is a radical left-wing liberal who despises our Alabama conservative values.

But McConnell, the Obama-Clinton Machine and their lapdogs in the fake news media are burying me and my campaign under an avalanche of nasty attacks as part of a desperate effort to hide Doug Jones’ liberal views from the voters.

That’s why I need your help to counter their attacks and expose liberal Doug Jones.

You see, my campaign team just produced a hard-hitting video ad showing voters Doug Jones is just another pro-abortion, anti-gun Hollywood liberal.

Using state-of-the-art digital technology, my digital team can show this new hard-hitting ad to up to 1,000,000 targeted voters over the next 48 hours — for a fraction of the cost of expensive TV ads.

Those wishing to donate to the Roy Moore for Senate campaign may do so by clicking here.

VIDEO: President Trump hosts Louise Lawrence-Israëls at the White House for Hanukkah celebration

On December 7th, 2017 President Trump hosted a Hanukkah celebration at the White House. One of the guests there was Louise Lawrence-Israëls.

President Trump said this about Louise:

We’re also deeply honored that Louise Lawrence-Israëls is here to share this evening with us and to make a few remarks. Louise is a Holocaust survivor. The first three years of her life were spent in hiding in an attic out of Amsterdam, a row house in Amsterdam — amazing story and amazing situation to be in.

Her family could not light the candles that we’re about to light this evening, but they lit them in their hearts.

Who is Louise Lawrence-Israëls?

Through the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum First Person program, Holocaust survivors have the opportunity to share their remarkable personal stories of hope, tragedy, and survival with thousands of visitors at the Museum. This program was recorded on June 1, 2017. It features Louise Lawrence-Israëls, who was born in Haarlem, the Netherlands, in 1942. Louise was just a baby when her parents took her with them into hiding in Amsterdam. The city was liberated by Canadian forces on May 5, 1945.

Please watch her tell her story, lest we ever forget.

VIDEO: America With God or America Without God? A Warning to Every Citizen!

Tom Trento is one of the leading academic activists in the United States. He appeared at the America – The Truth conference in Sarasota, Florida. He discussed what it would be like to have an America with God and an America without God.

Here are his two presentations, each is a must watch for those concerned about the moral compass of America. Given the growing revelations of sexual misconduct and abuse by a wide variety of individuals of all parties his comments are prophetic.

America With God:

America Without God:

ABOUT TOM TRENTO

A highly skilled debater and dynamic public speaker, exposing the radical agenda of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mr. Trento has degrees in Law Enforcement, Philosophy and Theology. In his extensive travels throughout the United States and Europe, his lectures have exposed Islamic violence and infiltration in government, law enforcement and academic institutions. He is one of the co-authors of Shariah: The Threat to America and appears frequently on major media outlets and talk shows as an authority on Islamic ideology. Mr. Trento’s web site may be viewed at TheUnitedWest.org.

PODCAST: The Left’s Double Standard on Sexual Misconduct

Are the Democrats hypocrites when it comes to politicians accused of sexual misconduct? We discuss that, as well as the Palestinian uproar over President Trump announcing move of the U.S. Embassy to Israel, and the universities trying to ban Christmas.

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VIDEO: On 12/6/2017 President Trump declares Jerusalem Eternal Capital of Israel

Jerusalem, capital of the State of Israel.

On May 14, 1948 at 6:01 p.m. EST in Washington, D.C. President Harry S. Truman made the historic and heroic decision to recognize the state of Israel. President Truman faced strong opposition from his Secretary of State George Marshall, his closet advisers, the United Nations and allies across the globe. Clark M. Clifford, Special Counsel to President Truman, wrote:

From our many talks over the past year, I knew that five factors dominated Truman’s thinking. From his youth, he had detested intolerance and discrimination. He had been deeply moved by the plight of the millions of homeless of World War II, and felt that alone among the homeless, the Jews had no homeland of their own to which they could return. He was, of course, horrified by the Holocaust and he denounced it vehemently, as, in the aftermath of the war, its full dimen­sions became clear. Also, he believed that the Balfour Declaration, issued by British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour in 1917, committed Great Britain and, by implication, the United States, which now shared a certain global responsibility with the British, to the creation of the Jewish state in Palestine. And finally, he was a student and believer in the Bible since his youth. From his reading of the Old Testament he felt the Jews derived a legitimate historical right to Palestine, and he sometimes cited such biblical lines as Deuteronomy 1:8: “Behold, I have given up the land before you; go in and take possession of the land which the Lord hath sworn unto your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.”

Nearly seventy years later another President makes a similar historic and heroic decision.

At 1:07 p.m. EST on December 6, 2017 President Donald J. Trump declared Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and orders the moving the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

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Statement by President Trump on Jerusalem

Diplomatic Reception Room

1:07 P.M. EST

THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. When I came into office, I promised to look at the world’s challenges with open eyes and very fresh thinking. We cannot solve our problems by making the same failed assumptions and repeating the same failed strategies of the past. Old challenges demand new approaches.

My announcement today marks the beginning of a new approach to conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.

In 1995, Congress adopted the Jerusalem Embassy Act, urging the federal government to relocate the American embassy to Jerusalem and to recognize that that city — and so importantly — is Israel’s capital. This act passed Congress by an overwhelming bipartisan majority and was reaffirmed by a unanimous vote of the Senate only six months ago.

Yet, for over 20 years, every previous American president has exercised the law’s waiver, refusing to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem or to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital city.

Presidents issued these waivers under the belief that delaying the recognition of Jerusalem would advance the cause of peace. Some say they lacked courage, but they made their best judgments based on facts as they understood them at the time. Nevertheless, the record is in. After more than two decades of waivers, we are no closer to a lasting peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians. It would be folly to assume that repeating the exact same formula would now produce a different or better result.

Therefore, I have determined that it is time to officially recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

While previous presidents have made this a major campaign promise, they failed to deliver. Today, I am delivering.

I’ve judged this course of action to be in the best interests of the United States of America and the pursuit of peace between Israel and the Palestinians. This is a long-overdue step to advance the peace process and to work towards a lasting agreement.

Israel is a sovereign nation with the right like every other sovereign nation to determine its own capital. Acknowledging this as a fact is a necessary condition for achieving peace.

It was 70 years ago that the United States, under President Truman, recognized the State of Israel. Ever since then, Israel has made its capital in the city of Jerusalem — the capital the Jewish people established in ancient times. Today, Jerusalem is the seat of the modern Israeli government. It is the home of the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, as well as the Israeli Supreme Court. It is the location of the official residence of the Prime Minister and the President. It is the headquarters of many government ministries.

For decades, visiting American presidents, secretaries of state, and military leaders have met their Israeli counterparts in Jerusalem, as I did on my trip to Israel earlier this year.

Jerusalem is not just the heart of three great religions, but it is now also the heart of one of the most successful democracies in the world. Over the past seven decades, the Israeli people have built a country where Jews, Muslims, and Christians, and people of all faiths are free to live and worship according to their conscience and according to their beliefs.

Jerusalem is today, and must remain, a place where Jews pray at the Western Wall, where Christians walk the Stations of the Cross, and where Muslims worship at Al-Aqsa Mosque.

However, through all of these years, presidents representing the United States have declined to officially recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. In fact, we have declined to acknowledge any Israeli capital at all.

But today, we finally acknowledge the obvious: that Jerusalem is Israel’s capital. This is nothing more, or less, than a recognition of reality. It is also the right thing to do. It’s something that has to be done.

That is why, consistent with the Jerusalem Embassy Act, I am also directing the State Department to begin preparation to move the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. This will immediately begin the process of hiring architects, engineers, and planners, so that a new embassy, when completed, will be a magnificent tribute to peace.

In making these announcements, I also want to make one point very clear: This decision is not intended, in any way, to reflect a departure from our strong commitment to facilitate a lasting peace agreement. We want an agreement that is a great deal for the Israelis and a great deal for the Palestinians. We are not taking a position of any final status issues, including the specific boundaries of the Israeli sovereignty in Jerusalem, or the resolution of contested borders. Those questions are up to the parties involved.

The United States remains deeply committed to helping facilitate a peace agreement that is acceptable to both sides. I intend to do everything in my power to help forge such an agreement. Without question, Jerusalem is one of the most sensitive issues in those talks. The United States would support a two-state solution if agreed to by both sides.

In the meantime, I call on all parties to maintain the status quo at Jerusalem’s holy sites, including the Temple Mount, also known as Haram al-Sharif.

Above all, our greatest hope is for peace, the universal yearning in every human soul. With today’s action, I reaffirm my administration’s longstanding commitment to a future of peace and security for the region.

There will, of course, be disagreement and dissent regarding this announcement. But we are confident that ultimately, as we work through these disagreements, we will arrive at a peace and a place far greater in understanding and cooperation.

This sacred city should call forth the best in humanity, lifting our sights to what it is possible; not pulling us back and down to the old fights that have become so totally predictable. Peace is never beyond the grasp of those willing to reach.

So today, we call for calm, for moderation, and for the voices of tolerance to prevail over the purveyors of hate. Our children should inherit our love, not our conflicts.

I repeat the message I delivered at the historic and extraordinary summit in Saudi Arabia earlier this year: The Middle East is a region rich with culture, spirit, and history. Its people are brilliant, proud, and diverse, vibrant and strong. But the incredible future awaiting this region is held at bay by bloodshed, ignorance, and terror.

Vice President Pence will travel to the region in the coming days to reaffirm our commitment to work with partners throughout the Middle East to defeat radicalism that threatens the hopes and dreams of future generations.

It is time for the many who desire peace to expel the extremists from their midst. It is time for all civilized nations, and people, to respond to disagreement with reasoned debate –- not violence.

And it is time for young and moderate voices all across the Middle East to claim for themselves a bright and beautiful future.

So today, let us rededicate ourselves to a path of mutual understanding and respect. Let us rethink old assumptions and open our hearts and minds to possible and possibilities. And finally, I ask the leaders of the region — political and religious; Israeli and Palestinian; Jewish and Christian and Muslim — to join us in the noble quest for lasting peace.

Thank you. God bless you. God bless Israel. God bless the Palestinians. And God bless the United States. Thank you very much. Thank you.

(The proclamation is signed.)

END 1:19 P.M. EST

ملاحظات بشأن عاصمة إسرائيل

شكرا،

عندما تسلمت مقاليد الحكم، وعَدتُ بالنظر في تحديات العالم بعينين مفتوحتين وذهن نقي جدا، ونحن لا نستطيع أن نحل مشاكلنا من خلال نفس الافتراضات الفاشلة وإعادة نفس الاستراتيجيات الفاشلة في الماضي. تحتاج التحديات القديمة نهجا جديدا.

إن إعلاني اليوم يمثل بداية لنهج جديد تجاه الصراع بين اسرائيل والفلسطينيين.

ففي عام 1995، إعتمد الكونجرس قانون سفارة القدس حثَّ فيه الحكومة الفدرالية على نقل السفارة الأمريكية إلى القدس والاعتراف بأن تلك المدينة – وبشكل هام جدا – هي عاصة اسرائيل. وقد تم إقرار القانون في الكونجرس بأغلبية ساحقة من كِلا الحزبين، وقد أُعيد تأكيده بالاجماع من قبل مجلس الشيوخ قبل ستة اشهر فقط.

ومع ذلك، ولأكثر من عشرين سنة، مارس كل رئيس أمريكي سابق الإعفاء الذي يسمح به القانون – رافضا نقل السفارة الأمريكية إلى القدس أو الاعتراف بالقدس كعاصمة لإسرائيل.

لقد اصدر الرؤساء هذه الإعفاءات ظنا منهم بأن تأخير الاعتراف بالقدس من شأنه أن يعزز قضية السلام. ويقول البعض بأنهم كانت تنقصهم الشجاعة، غير انهم اتخذوا ما اعتقدوا أنه القرار الصائب على أساس حقائق فهموها في حينها. ومع ذلك فإن النتيجة تتحدث عن نفسها. فبعد اكثر من عقدين من الإعفاءات، نحن غير قريبين من تحقيق اتفاق سلام دائم بين اسرائيل والفلسطينيين. وسيكون من الحماقة ان نفترض بأن تكرار نفس الصيغة بالضبط من شأنه أن يأتي بنتيجة مغايرة أو افضل.

لذلك، فقد قررت أن الوقت قد حان للإعتراف رسميا بالقدس كعاصمة لإسرائيل.

وفي حين جعل الرؤساء السابقين من هذا الأمر وعدا رئيسيا في حملاتهم، إلا أنهم لم يفوا بذلك. وأنا اليوم أوفي بذلك.

لقد قررتُ بأن مسار العمل هذا يخدم المصالح العُليا للولايات المتحدة والسعي لتحقيق السلام بين الإسرائيليين والفلسطينيين. إن هذه خطوة طال انتظارها للدفع بعملية السلام قدما والعمل نحو التوصل إلى اتفاق دائم.

إن إسرائيل دولة ذات سيادة، ولها الحق – كأي دولة اخرى ذات سيادة – بأن تحدد عاصمتها. وإن الاعتراف بأن هذا الأمر يُعد حقيقة هو شرط ضروري لتحقيق السلام.

قبل 70 سنة مضت اعترفت الولايات المتحدة، برئاسة الرئيس ترومان، بدولة اسرائيل. ومنذ ذلك الوقت، جعلت اسرائيل عاصمتها في مدينة القدس – العاصمة التي اسسها الشعب اليهودي في الأزمنة القديمة. واليوم القدس هي مقر الحكومة الإسرائيلية الحديثة. فهي موطن البرلمان الإسرائيلي، الكنيست، فضلا عن المحكمة العُليا الإسرائيلية. وهي محل الاقامتين الرئيسيتين لرئيس الوزراء ورئيس الدولة، وتضم مقرات العديد من الوزرات الحكومية.

وقد التقى الرؤساء ووزراء الخارجية والقادة العسكريين الأمريكيين القادمين في زيارة بنظرائهم الإسرائيليين في القدس ولعقود – كما فعلتُ أنا في زيارتي لإسرائيل في وقت سابق من هذا العام.

إن القدس ليست مجرد قلب لثلاثة أديان عظيمة، بل هي ايضا الآن قلب لأحد اكثر الأنظمة الديمقراطية نجاحا في العالم. ولقد بنى الشعب الاسرائيلي لسبعة عقود مضت بلدا يتمتع فيه اليهود والمسلمون والمسيحيون وأتباع جميع الاديان بحرية العيش والعبادة وفقا لما يمليه عليهم ضميرهم ومعتقداتهم.

تُعد القدس اليوم مكانا يصلي فيه اليهود عند الحائط الغربي، ويمشي فيه المسيحيون في محطات درب الصليب، ويصلي فيه المسلمون في المسجد الاقصى، ويجب ان تبقى كذلك.

ومع ذلك، وعلى مدى كل هذه السنوات، رفض الرؤساء اللذين كانوا يمثلون الولايات المتحدة الاعتراف رسميا بالقدس كعاصمة لإسرائيل. وفي الحقيقة، فقد رفضنا الاعتراف بأي عاصمة إسرائيلية على الإطلاق.

ولكننا نعترف اليوم أخيرا بما هو واضح – بأن القدس هي عاصمة إسرائيل. وهذا ليس أكثر، أو اقل، من الاعتراف بالحقيقة. بل هو ايضا الشيء الصحيح الذي يجب فعله. وإنه شيء يجب القيام به.

ولذلك، وتماشيا مع قانون سفارة القدس، فأنا اوجه وزارة الخارجية ايضا ببدء التحضيرات لنقل السفارة الأمريكية من تل أبيب إلى القدس. وسوف يبدء هذا الشيء على الفور عملية توظيف المهندسين المعماريين والمهندسين الآخرين والمخططين لتكون السفارة الجديدة بمثابة إشادة رائعة بالسلام عند اكتمالها.

ومن خلال إصدار هذه الإعلانات، أرغب ايضا أن أوضح نقطة بشكل كبير: إن هذا القرار لا يُقصَد به، بأي شكل من الاشكال، أن يعكس خروجا عن التزامنا القوي بتسهيل التوصل إلى اتفاق دائم للسلام. نريد أن يكون هناك اتفاقا يكون بمثابة صفقة عظيمة للإسرائيليين وصفقة عظيمة للفلسطينيين. ونحن لا نتخذ موقفا تجاه أي قضايا تتعلق بالوضع النهائي، بما في ذلك الحدود المُعينة للسيادة الإسرائيلية في القدس، أو حل قضية الحدود المتنازع عليها. حيث ان هذه المسائل تعود إلى الطرفين المعنيين.

وتظل الولايات المتحدة ملتزمة التزاما عميقا بالمساعدة في تسهيل اتفاق سلام مقبول لدى كلا الطرفين. وأعتزم أن أفعل كل ما بوسعي للمساعدة في صياغة مثل هكذا اتفاق. إن القدس هي إحدى القضايا الاكثر حساسية في هذه المحادثات وبدون اي شك. وستدعم الولايات المتحدة حل الدولتين إذا وافق عليه كلا الطرفان.

وفي هذه الاثناء، أدعو جميع الاطراف إلى الحفاظ على الوضع الحالي في المواقع المقدسة التابعة للقدس، بما في ذلك جبل الهيكل، الذي يُعرف أيضا بالحرم الشريف.

وفوق كل شي، فإن أملنا الأكبر هو تحقيق السلام – المُبتغى العالمي الذي يتوق إليه كل إنسان.

ومن خلال الإجراء الذي نتخذه اليوم، أؤكد من جديد التزام إدارتي الثابت لمستقبل يعمه السلام والأمن في المنطقة.

سيكون هناك بالطبع خلاف ومعارضة بشأن هذا الإعلان – ولكننا واثقون من أننا في نهاية المطاف سوف نتوصل الى السلام ونصل إلى أرضية فيها تفاهم وتعاون اكثر، في الوقت الذي نعمل فيه على حل هذه الخلافات.

وينبغي على هذه المدينة المقدسة أن تبعث إلى ماهو افضل في الانسانية – توجيه رؤيتنا إلى ماهو ممكن، وليس جرنا وإدخالنا في المعارك القديمة التي اصبح من السهل جدا لتنبؤ بها. إن السلام ليس بعيدا عن متناول الذين يرغبون الوصول اليه.

لذلك ندعوا اليوم الى الهدوء والاعتدال وإلى أن تسود اصوات التسامح على حساب موردي الكراهية. وينبغي أن يرث أطفالنا حبنا، وليس صراعاتنا.

وأكرر الرسالة التي ألقيتها في القمة التاريخية والاستثنائية في المملكة العربية السعودية في وقت سابق من هذا العام: إن الشرق الأوسط هي منطقة غنية بالثقافة والروح والتاريخ. وإن الناس فيه رائعون وفخورون ومتنوعون ونشطون وأقوياء. غير أن المستقبل المذهل الذي ينتظر هذه المنطقة محجوب بفعل سفك الدماء، والتأخر، والرعب.

سوف يسافر نائب الرئيس/ بنس إلى المنطقة في الأيام المقبلة للتأكيد من جديد على التزامنا في العمل مع الشركاء في كل انحاء الشرق الاوسط لهزيمة التطرف الذي يهدد آمال واحلام الأجيال المقبلة.

لقد حان الوقت للكثير من اللذين يرغبون بتحقيق السلام أن يطردوا المتطرفين من وسطهم.وقد حان الوقت لجميع الأمم والشعوب المتحضرة أن يردّوا على الخلاف من خلال نقاش منطقي – لا من خلال العنف.

وحان الوقت للأصوات الشابة والمعتدلة في جميع انحاء الشرق الأوسط بأن تطالب لنفسها مستقبلا مشرقا وجميلا.

إذا دعونا اليوم نعيد تكريس انفسنا لمسار من التفاهم والاحترام المتبادلين. ودعونا نعيد التفكير في الافتراضات القديمة ونفتح قلوبنا وأذهاننا لاحتمالات جديدة. وأخيرا، أطلب من قادة المنطقة – من السياسيين والدينيين، إسرائيليين وفلسطينيين، يهودا ومسيحيين ومسلمين – بأن ينضموا إلينا في السعي النبيل نحو تحقيق سلام دائم.

.شكرا لكم، وبارك الله فيكم، وبارك الله في اسرائيل، وبارك الله في الفلسطينيين، وبارك الله في الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية. شكرا جزيلا لكم. شكرا

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VIDEO: President Trump endorses Judge Roy Moore for the U.S. Senate

In an email to supporters Judge Roy Moore wrote:

This afternoon I had a great conversation with President Trump.

He called from Air Force One to offer his full support for me and my campaign in our all-out battle against Doug Jones and the forces of evil on December 12.

And earlier this morning, President Trump officially endorsed my campaign for U.S. Senate — slamming my opponent as just another “Pelosi/Schumer Liberal Puppet” who flat-out hates our conservative values.

If elected as the next U.S. Senator from Alabama, I pledge to fight with everything I’ve got to help President Trump Drain the Swamp in Washington — including repealing ObamaCare and building the wall!

I’m honored to have President Trump’s support.

And I’d be honored to know I’ve earned your support, too.

President Trump tweeted the following:

One America News published an exclusive two part interview by OANN journalist Emerald Robertson with Judge Moore.

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President Trump Weighs in on Judicial Watch’s Fox News Interview

In case you missed it, below is the video of Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton’s appearance on “Fox and Friends” on the Fox News Channel on Sunday, December 3, 2017, where Tom discussed the Mueller investigation and the firing of an anti-Trump FBI agent.

Here is President Trump’s tweet:

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VIDEO: Former White House Insider Explains Why Trump Is Uniquely Able to Challenge the Left and Media

Sebastian Gorka, former deputy assistant to President Donald Trump and counterterrorism adviser, is delivering a series of lectures for The Heritage Foundation about national security issues. His next speech will take place at Heritage on Dec. 15. Gorka spoke to Daily Signal editor-in-chief Rob Bluey about a range of topics—his time in the White House, Trump’s accomplishments and disappointments, his biggest fears, and Trump’s ability to outmaneuver the media. The following is an edited transcript of their interview along the with the video.

Rob Bluey: You’ve given a series of speeches to Heritage audiences now in three locations. What’s your message to them? What are you talking to them about?

Gorka: There’s one initial message I like to give everywhere, and it’s a very simple one that I give it to all conservative audiences. And it’s, “Relax, it’s OK.” Count to 10, take a deep breath, don’t worry.

Why do I say that? Because of the reactions I saw when my old boss Steve Bannon resigned. A lot of people were very worried about what happens to the so-called Trump agenda. And then when I resigned a week later, then even more people were worried about what’s going to happen to the platform that got this man elected on Nov. 8.

So I try to tell them a very simple messages: It’s not about where I sit or Steve sits and it’s not even about President Trump. It’s about what you voted for on Nov. 8 and making sure that it’s the long game.

So be calm, it’s OK. It’s about eight years of President Trump and then eight years of President Pence. That’s my first message. And then, of course, we talk about concrete national security issues.

President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence.(Photo: Andrea Hanks/White House)

Bluey: And why do you have that confidence? Because there are those skeptics out there who worry that with a departure of you and with the departure of Bannon and others that there might be other forces at play in the White House. What makes you so confident about President Trump?

Gorka: Two things: No. 1, we’ve never had a politician like—well, he’s not a politician—we’ve never had a president like this in the modern age. In fact, it bears remembering that this is the first-ever president in U.S. history who’s never had prior political position and/or never served as a general in our armed forces.

The left had won the debate, whether it was on social issues, on education, on fiscal responsibility, and along comes this man who just ignores the original politically correct agenda and just breaks through the ice like an ice breaker.

So this is a very different kind of commander in chief and president. And he’s acted … the analogy I like to give is he’s like an ice breaker. The political waters froze over.

The left had won the debate, whether it was on social issues, on education, on fiscal responsibility, and along comes this man who just ignores the original politically correct agenda and just breaks through the ice like an ice breaker.

And now we have a very exciting moment to fill out behind him what it means to be part of the conservative movement at the beginning of the 21st century. So No. 1, he is a unique character in American politics. And then secondly, it is about a movement. It really is about returning to the first principles that made America so incredibly successful in the ’80s and that’s why I’m excited and everybody should be excited.

Bluey: As you look back over the past year, from the time he was elected in November 2016 to today, what is the greatest accomplishment in your mind that he’s been able to achieve?

Gorka: It’s a hard choice. I was on Lou Dobbs’ show and talking about all the foreign policy accomplishments, whether it’s the revitalization of NATO, the crushing of ISIS, the renewal of our relationships in Asia, the calling out of the Middle East to do more about radical jihadism. It’s an amazing list just in the first nine months. And then you look at the domestic scene, and it’s hard to choose.

Look at two quarters of 3 percent GDP growth, 1.5 million jobs created, the lowest unemployment in 17 years. So it’s hard to choose.

But for me, because I was involved in it, I was given the final draft of the travel moratorium to give my opinion on before we went public with it. I think the most important act of the president was the successful implementation of the travel moratorium to keep Americans safe from the kinds of attacks we see almost every day in Europe.

Bluey: Is there a disappointment that comes to mind? Something that you wish had gone better?

Gorka: Yeah, there is a disappointment, and it has to do with how unusual this victory was. Because for me, Donald Trump was only accidentally the GOP candidate. He really had very little to do with the GOP establishment, especially the RINO establishment.

I think the biggest flaw to date is lack of requisite attention to the key adage in Washington: personnel is policy.

He was an anti-establishment candidate, both with regard to the left and the right. And as such, it was a very small group of people that came into the White House who were truly part of the Trump agenda who came there because they believed in Nov. 8 and what it stood for.

And as a result, I call it the most leveraged hostile takeover in modern political history. And as such, our personnel policy was a problem.

There were very few people who were really Trumpian in mentality to fill key slots, and that’s one of the reasons I resigned to better serve the president from the outside. I think the biggest flaw to date is lack of requisite attention to the key adage in Washington: personnel is policy.

President Donald Trump and Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi participate in a bilateral meeting at the White House. (Photo: Benjamin Applebaum/White House)

Bluey: You worked on counterterrorism issues for the president. What’s your biggest fear today?

Gorka: I have to say, my time at the White House opened my eyes and changed my perspective. I went in there because of my work on Sunni jihadism, specifically Al-Qaeda and ISIS. And once I arrived and once I had the requisite clearances to see the materials that most people don’t get to see, my viewpoint changed.

My prior concern, groups like Al-Qaeda and ISIS I now see as simply the 5-meter target, as the military would say. It’s the approximate close target but it will be dealt with. And with people like Secretary Mattis, we are dealing with it.

China has a plan to displace America as the most important nation in the world. It’s not secret. … They wish to displace us economically, militarily, politically.

More serious than that, the 100-meter target is in fact Shia jihadism. The Iranian regime’s capacity to create their own vision of a caliphate and, unfortunately, the fact that they’ve had almost $200 billion released to them by the prior White House and that they want nuclear weapons on top of it makes Shia jihadism, in my estimation, more serious.

And then the last thing, which may surprise you, and I have to thank Steve Bannon for this because he made the scales fall from my eyes. My real concern today is neither of those. We will deal with them.

My real concern in the long-term strategic sense is China. China has a plan to displace America as the most important nation in the world. It’s not secret. It’s called the One Belt, One Road strategy, which is timed for the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Revolution in 2049.

They wish to displace us economically, militarily, politically. And if we don’t wake up to what they’re doing in terms of the cyber domain, in terms of intellectual property theft, the intimidation of our friends and our allies, then we may just wake up one morning and China will be the dominant global player.

Bluey: How would you confront that challenge?

Gorka: Well, first things first, I’d do exactly what the president did two months ago. I’d use all the tools at his disposal to begin countering what they’re doing that most people don’t realize is already happening.

So the 301 trade investigation to look into what China is actually doing, not just with the theft of U.S. intellectual property but what is called the forced acquisition. If you want to do business as IBM or Google in China, you basically have to hand over your intellectual property to the state of China if you want access to that market.

Well, that’s not fair trade. That’s a protectionist attitude that also undermines our businesses because it’s their intellectual property that is being stolen.

No. 1 is call them out on what they’re doing, which is wrong. And secondly, do exactly what the president just did in Asia. Go and tell our friends, “It’s OK. America is back and we will help you and we’ll stand by you,” and send a clear message that the days of unfettered intimidation of its neighbors by China are over.

President Donald J. Trump and President Xi Jinping in China. (Photo: Shealah Craighead/White House)

Bluey: How worried should we be about North Korea?

Gorka: North Korea is the most Stalinist regime this planet has ever seen. I mean, Joe Stalin was an amateur by comparison to this regime, the Kim family. It’s an evil dictatorship. It is a prison state, and it has to be understood as such.

North Korea is the most Stalinist regime this planet has ever seen. I mean, Joe Stalin was an amateur by comparison to this regime, the Kim family.

However, in terms of what we used to call it during the Cold War, the correlation of forces, it’s a flea. Yes, it may have missiles. It may have some nuclear capacity, but compared to America, which is the most powerful nation on God’s earth, they’re not really a strategic threat.

They bluster, they intimidate, but as Secretary Mattis and the president have said, if you actually take action against us, we will destroy you. And we’re not talking about the North Korean people. We’re talking about this Stalinist regime.

We have to take it seriously because they continually escalate. But at the end of the day, they will be dealt with.

Bluey: In October, the United States experienced the 100th terrorist attack or plot on our homeland since 9/11. What’s your outlook on the homegrown terrorist threat that we face here in the United States?

Gorka: First things first, we have to do what the president did when he addressed Congress in that joint session. We have to look at the world as it is and not as we wish it to be.

We don’t allow political censorship, political correctness to dilute our threat assessment. For eight years under Obama, we weren’t allowed to talk about jihad. We weren’t allowed to talk about the Islamic aspects of the ideology used by the terrorists. That has changed the normal political filter of the threat.

For eight years under Obama, we weren’t allowed to talk about jihad. We weren’t allowed to talk about the Islamic aspects of the ideology used by the terrorists.

Secondly, in addition to putting immense political pressure, immense military pressure on groups like ISIS, we have to learn the lessons from New York. The NYPD after 9/11 became one of the most effective intelligence-gathering agencies in the world, not just in America, in the world.

We have to reinstate those human intelligence capabilities, those undercover capabilities that let you find the terrorists before they build the pressure cooker bomb, before they rent that truck to mow down people on a bicycle path, because good counterterrorism is preventative. It’s not reactionary. There is a plan and the president has begun to follow it.

Bluey: What about the Diversity Visa Lottery Program? Do you think that that will come to an end?

Gorka: Yes, absolutely. I mean, it’s insanity. The idea that some vague concept of diversity has to be propagated in probably the world’s most diverse nation.

Really, I mean, you live here. I mean, isn’t America diverse? We don’t need little government programs to try and help the diversity of Americans. It’s a diverse nation.

The idea that we just spin a roulette wheel and if you’re from Chechnya or Kazakhstan you can get a green card and then you can have 60 or 70 people sponsored by that green card holder, that’s a bad “SNL” skit.

President Donald Trump speaks at the Loren Cook Co. in Springfield, Missouri. (Photo: Joyce N. Boghosian/White House)

Bluey: How much of a factor is the border and the wall that the president has talked about both in the campaign and as president to stop terrorist threats?

Gorka: It’s perhaps the most important pillar that got this real estate magnate from Queens elected.

Remember, this is where it all began, with Jeff Sessions and the commitment to the wall. The fact is this isn’t just about stopping illegal immigrants coming here and taking jobs from Americans or from newly arrived illegal immigrants. It’s a symbolic message about national sovereignty.

When you go to bed at night, do you lock your doors? Of course you do. It’s not because you hate your neighbors, but it’s because you want to keep what you love inside safe. America is a home and the border is our front door.

What the left doesn’t seem to understand is that the Trump phenomenon isn’t an isolated one. It’s linked to other phenomena, like Brexit, and it’s the reassertion—I don’t like the word populism—it’s the reassertion of democracy, representative government in which the government is held accountable and in which the nation has sovereignty again.

When you go to bed at night, do you lock your doors? Of course you do. It’s not because you hate your neighbors, but it’s because you want to keep what you love inside safe. America is a home and the border is our front door. So it’s just protecting the house that is America.

Bluey: What was it like to work for President Trump in the White House?

Gorka: I only became an American five years ago. I mean, this is an amazing nation. Think about it. I literally pinched myself.

I would be in and out of the West Wing 40 times, 50 times a day, and it never gets old. It never gets normal. So it was a dream come true. But also, it’s very different from what you expect.

If you watch the TV shows and the movies, you think the West Wing is this massive building and the president is going to be walking around it for an hour talking to his aides. You’ve seen it. You’ve seen the West Wing. The West Wing is two corridors. I mean, it takes three minutes to walk through the West Wing.

In real life you get a different perspective, but working for the president, being in the Oval Office for big decisions like the decertification of the Iran deal, it’s a dream.

President Donald Trump in the Oval Office. (Photo: D. Myles Cullen/White House)

Bluey: What’s the media’s biggest misperception about you?

Gorka: I wouldn’t know where to begin. I had one journalist—one journalist—write 45 attack pieces on me in just a matter of two months. They attacked my wife, my dead mother, my teenage son.

I’m so puzzled by the hatred people have for somebody they don’t know. And the way in which people will believe absolute fake news. So the accusations made against me of racism, proto-fascist, neo-fascist tendencies.

I’m so puzzled by the hatred people have for somebody they don’t know. And the way in which people will believe absolute fake news.

My father, as a young boy at the age of 13, escorted his fellow schoolmates to school in Budapest during the German occupation because his fellow schoolmates were forced to wear the yellow Star of David as Jews. And my father, as a Catholic young 14-year-old, protected them from getting beaten up or spat on by the German forces occupying Budapest.

And for them to then accuse me of having some kind of extreme right-wing tendency … you don’t get to call yourself a journalist and lie that badly, but it tells you the state of journalism in America today. But I think that’s going to change.

Bluey: As a contributor to Fox News, you’re not going to have the opportunity to appear on MSNBC or CNN. What are you going to miss most?

Gorka: I have to say, this is my dirty little secret. I loved going on CNN and MSNBC because but whether it’s Chris Cuomo, whether it’s Jake Tapper, they always came to a gun fight with a knife, and it was just too easy.

I mean, clearly they’ve been given talking points. And if you actually got into a conversation and asked them hard questions, they were stymied.

If it wasn’t in the script and if it hadn’t been written about in The New York Times or The Washington Post, it didn’t exist. So I will miss going on those shows to just slightly poke at their bubble. But I’m writing for The Hill. I’ll be giving lectures here at Heritage and maybe we can shake their world a little bit.

Bluey: It seems that no day goes by where some of those big players in the media aren’t obsessed about what the president is tweeting. What’s your take on his personal tweets?

Gorka: I was asked again and again and again live on TV to comment on the president’s tweets and shouldn’t he stop tweeting and I said to everybody who asked me to talk about my boss’ social media habits, I said, “I am the last person who will ever tell the president what he should or should not tweet.”

The most wonderful thing about the president is he just doesn’t care what The New York Times thinks about him. He doesn’t care what CNN thinks about him. And that’s how we can cut the heart of the matter.

Why? Because it’s thanks to his Twitter feed and the 43 million followers he has today that he is the president.

He is a master of social media. Whether it’s at 3 a.m. or whether it’s over Thanksgiving holiday, he knows what buttons the press.

The bottom line is he’s broken the false monopoly that the left-wing media thought they had on their version of the truth. The most wonderful thing about the president is he just doesn’t care what The New York Times thinks about him. He doesn’t care what CNN thinks about him. And that’s how we can cut the heart of the matter.

So God bless him and his Twitter feed.

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VIDEO: Michael Flynn was ‘right’ to try to delay the UN Security Council Resolution 2334 vote

Fox News’ Eric Shawn interviewed Dan Gillerman, the former Israeli Ambassador to the United States, on national security advisor Lieutenant General Michael Flynn’s contact with the Russians during the transition period. Because this effort occurred during the transition it was not illegal. However, his lying to the FBI is illegal, which is a separate issue.

It appears that General Flynn was trying to delay the December, 2016 UN Security Council Resolution 2334 vote on Israeli settlements. The Obama administration abstained during the vote. This abstention lead to UN Resolution 2334 passing on December 23, 2016.

According to Foreign Policy magazine:

The Obama administration stood by as the U.N. Security Council voted Friday to adopt a resolution declaring Israeli settlements in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem illegal and demanding a halt to their expansion. It was a blunt rejection by the Obama administration of appeals (via Twitter) by President-elect Donald Trump to veto the measure.

The vote, with 14 in favor and only the United States abstaining, followed an extraordinary day of diplomacy that saw a U.S. president-elect insert himself directly into a diplomatic spat in an effort to sway the sitting president to change course. Trump continued blasting the U.N. and the administration after the vote. Trump tweeted, “As to the U.N., things will be different after Jan. 20th,” after Friday’s vote.

It was clear that then President-elect Trump wanted Resolution 2334 delayed until he could appoint Nikki Haley as his UN Ambassador to the United Nations. Given President Trump and Ambassador Haley’s positions on Israel it is clear that the United States would have vetoed UN Resolution 2334. This effort by Obama as he was leaving office put both the position of the United States and Israel to negotiate a peaceful agreement with the Palestinians at risk. It gave the Palestinians ownership of something they have never owned, territory in Israel.

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“We’re saying ‘Merry Christmas’ again,” he said with gusto. And they aren’t just saying it, they’re embracing it. From the official White House Christmas card to red and green press conference signs, this is the December Donald Trump has been waiting for. “Today is a day that I’ve been looking very much forward to all year long. It’s one that we have heard and we speak about and we dream about. And now, as the President of the United States, it’s my tremendous honor to finally wish America and the world, a very merry Christmas,” he told the crowd at the ellipse. With a bit of irony, Trump pointed back to the 1870 legislation signed by President Ulysses Grant making Christmas a federal holiday. “And I sort of feel we’re doing that again. That’s what’s happening,” he said.

But Christmas isn’t the only thing making a comeback under President Trump — so is the story behind it. In a speech that no one would ever mistake for Barack Obama’s, the 45th president made it clear that this “is a holy season, the celebration of the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ… [That],” he went on, is “the most extraordinary gift of all — the gift of God’s love for all of humanity… Whatever our beliefs, we know that the birth of Jesus Christ and the story of this incredible life forever changed the course of human history. There’s hardly an aspect of our lives today that His life has not touched — art, music, culture, law and our respect for the sacred dignity of every person, everywhere in the world.”

“Each one of us is a child of God,” the president reminded Americans. “That is the true source of joy this time of the year… And so, this Christmas, we ask for God’s blessings for our family and for our nation. We pray that our country will be a place where every child knows a home filled with love, a community rich with hope, and a nation blessed with faitords were a breathtaking departure from recent Christmases past, they were completely lost on a media whose only headline appeared to be the empty chairs in the back of the viewing area. (A problem common to every president, Fox 5 points out — with pictures to prove it.) For most of America, though, it was a refreshing break from the Left’s pageants of political correctness. To millions of them, Donald Trump isn’t just tapping into the frustration they feel about Christmas – but the mockery of every value they hold dear: marriage, family, faith, and patriotism.

As far as some liberals are concerned, believing in Jesus is as childish as believing in Santa. They’re embarrassed by the “unsophistication” of Christianity. And, for years, they’ve done a bang-up job persuading others to feel likewise.

“The opponents of ‘Merry Christmas’ and other uses of the word ‘Christmas’ know exactly what they are doing…” writes Dennis Prager. “They are disingenuous when they dismiss defenders of ‘Merry Christmas’ as fabricating some sort of ‘war.’ The Left in America, like the Left in Europe, wants to create a thoroughly secular society… That’s why ‘Merry Christmas’ so bothers the anti-religious Left. It is perhaps the single most blatant reminder of just how religious America is.”

“The ‘Happy Holidays’ advocates want it both ways,” Prager argues. “They dismiss opponents as hysterical, while at the same time, relentlessly pushing to rid America of ‘Merry Christmas.'”

Why? Because in the end, this isn’t a war on Christmas. It’s a war on Christ. Every time the nine letters of Christmas are used, people come face to face with the six that secularists are trying to drive out. So this is hardly a silly little controversy invented by hypersensitive Christians. It’s the epitome of the fight for faith in America. And don’t believe any liberal who says otherwise.

** If you want to reward retailers who aren’t shying away from the reason for the season, check out American Family Association’s Naughty and Nice list. To see who’s Christmas-friendly, check out this list. Or, as our friends at 2nd Vote point out, you can simplify with their December hashtag: #AnywhereButTARGET.


Tony Perkins’ Washington Update is written with the aid of FRC senior writers.


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