SADLY, IN THIS GLOBAL WAR, WE HAVE NEITHER AN FDR OR A CHURCHILL... YET...

Steve Rosenberg/BBC:

More than 70 years have passed since the Tehran Conference. But today, in Russia, the idea of "invincible unity" is being revived and repackaged for a new war: the war on terror.
"We understand that international terrorism is an international phenomenon and to combat it we need an international coalition," Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of external church relations for the Russian Orthodox Church, tells me. 

"During the Second World War, on the one side, there were countries which were very different as far as their political systems were concerned. And yet they were able to put aside these differences in order to combat the plague of fascism. What we need now is the same: to put aside the differences to combat together international terrorism."
... In recent weeks, so many of the Russian politicians, officials and religious figures with whom I've spoken have promoted the same message: that Russia and the West should forge a World War Two-style alliance against so-called Islamic State.
President Putin has put forward the same idea. Speaking at the United Nations in September, he called for a "genuinely broad alliance against terrorism, just like the one against Hitler".
...  I [Rosenberg] cannot help thinking that if Roosevelt and Churchill could find a way to work with Stalin, Obama and Cameron can find a way to work with Putin.
Perhaps this will only happen, though, when all sides conclude the threat to their nation is so great and imminent that the only way to win the war on terror is to fight together.

FOR AN EFFECTIVE ALLIANCE AGAINST GLOBAL JIHAD ND THE CALIPHATE. THE WEST NEEDS NEW LEADERSHIP, REAL LEADERSHIP.

DOES ANYONE DOUBT THAT AN ALLIANCE OF PRESIDENT TED CRUZ, PM NIGEL FARAGE, PRESIDENT MARINE LE PEN AND PM GEERT WILDERS, AND PRESIDENT PUTIN WOULD BE INFINITELY BETTER AND MORE EFFECTIVE?

I THINK NOT.

IN 2017 WE MIGHT GET THREE OUT OF THE ABOVE FOUR: LE PEN, WILDERS, AND CRUZ.

(UNFORTUNATELY, BRITAIN IS STUCK WITH CAMERON - LIKE SARKOZY: ALL WORDS AND NO DEEDS, THOUGH IF THEY LEAVE THE EU IT WILL HELP, IMMENSELY...)

I PRAY WE DO GET REAL LEADERSHIP.... AND I PRAY IT IS NOT TOO LATE...

BY THE NUMBERS: WE ARE LESS SAFE NOW THAN IN 2008

There have been 75 plotted radical muslim attacks since 9/11. 

• 64 by radicalized Americans.
• 25 plotted radical muslim attacks were after 9/11 and under bush; they were all thwarted.
• 50 plotted radical muslim attacks since 2009.

Several were not thwarted but failed due to bad bomb-making.

Several were successful.

Here's a complete list of the successful ones: from religionofpeace.com - 
(the numbers are killed and then injured)

2/12/2009	USA	Buffalo, NY	1	0	The founder of a Muslim TV station beheads his wife in the hallway for seeking a divorce.
4/12/2009	USA	Phoenix, AZ	2	0	A man shoots his brother-in-law and another man to death after finding out that they visited a strip club, in contradiction to Islamic values.
6/1/2009	USA	Little Rock, AR	1	1	A Muslim shoots a local soldier to death inside a recruiting center explicitly in the name of Allah.
11/2/2009	USA	Glendale, AZ	1	1	A woman dies from injuries suffered when her father runs her down with a car for being too 'Westernized.' (10-20-09)
11/5/2009	USA	Ft. Hood, TX	13	31	A Muslim psychiatrist guns down thirteen unarmed soldiers while yelling praises to Allah.
12/4/2009	USA	Binghamton, NY	1	0	A non-Muslim Islamic studies professor is stabbed to death by a Muslim grad student in revenge for 'persecuted' Muslims.
4/14/2010	USA	Marquette Park, IL	5	2	After quarrelling with his wife over Islamic dress, a Muslim convert shoots his family members to 'take them back to Allah' and out of the 'world of sinners'.
4/30/2011	USA	Warren, MI	1	0	A 20-year-old woman is shot in the head by her stepfather for not adhering to Islamic practices.
9/11/2011	USA	Waltham, MA	3	0	Three Jewish men have their throats slashed by Muslim terrorists.
1/15/2012	USA	Houston, TX	1	0	A 30-year-old Christian convert is shot to death by a devout Muslim for helping to convert his daughter.
11/12/2012	USA	Houston, TX	1	0	A 28-year-old American man is shot to death by a conservative Muslim over an alleged role in converting a woman to Christianity.
2/7/2013	USA	Buena Vista, NJ	2	0	A Muslim targets and beheads two Christian Coptic immigrants.
3/24/2013	USA	Ashtabula, OH	1	0	A Muslim convert walks into a church service with a Quran and guns down his Christian father while praising Allah.
4/15/2013	USA	Boston, MA	3	264	Foreign-born Muslims describing themselves as 'very religious' detonate two bombs packed with ball bearings at the Boston Marathon, killing three people and causing several more to lose limbs.
4/19/2013	USA	Boston, MA	1	1	Jihadists gun down a university police officer sitting in his car.
8/4/2013	USA	Richmond, CA	1	0	A convert "on a mission from Allah" stabs a store clerk to death.
3/6/2014	USA	Port Bolivar, TX	2	0	A Muslim man shoots his lesbian daughter and her lover to death and leaves a copy of the Quran open to a page condemning homosexuality.
4/27/2014	USA	Skyway, WA	1	0	A 30-year-old man is murdered by a Muslim fanatic.
6/1/2014	USA	Seattle, WA	2	0	Two homosexuals are murdered by an Islamic extremist.
6/25/2014	USA	West Orange, NJ	1	0	A 19-year-old college student is shot to death 'in revenge' for Muslim deaths overseas.
9/25/2014	USA	Moore, OK	1	1	A Sharia advocate beheads a woman after calling for Islamic terror and posting an Islamist beheading photo.
7/16/2015	USA	Chattanooga	5	2	A 'devout Muslim' stages a suicide attack on a recruiting center at a strip mall and a naval center which leaves five dead.
12/2/2015	USA	San Bernardino, CA	14	17	A 'very religious' Muslim shoots up a Christmas party with his wife, leaving fourteen dead.

Here's a list of unsuccessful attacks, thwarted or failed due to bad weapons since 2009: from wiki

May 20, 2009	New York City Synagogues/ U.S. Military Aircraft	Four men were arrested in New York after a plot is revealed to blow up two synagogues and shoot down a U.S. Military Aircraft.[32]	New York, New York	James Cromitie, et al.
September 19, 2009	New York City Subway	Zazi, a native of Afghanistan who lived in Colorado, was arrested and convicted of plotting to bomb the New York City Subway system. He was trained by al-Qaeda in Pakistan. 5 others were also indicted on related charges. " [33]	New York, New York	Najibullah Zazi, et al.
September 24, 2009	Federal Building,Springfield, IL	A 29 year old was arrested on charges that he intended to bomb the Paul Findley Federal Building in Springfieldl, IL. [34]	Springfield, Illinois	Michael Finton
September 24, 2009	Dallas skyscraper	A 19-year-old was arrested on charges that he intended to bomb a downtown Dallas skyscraper.[35]	Dallas, Texas	Hosam Maher Husein Smadi
October 16, 2009	Various overseas targets	Colleen LaRose, also known as JihadJane and Fatima LaRose, is an American citizen charged with terrorism-related crimes, including conspiracy to commit murder and providing material support to terrorists. Lars Vilks was a named target in response to drawings of Muhammad.[36]	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Colleen LaRose, et al.
December 25, 2009	Northwest Airlines Flight 253	A man was arrested after Northwest Airlines passengers jumped him to avoid his detonating an explosive device above the city of Detroit.[37]	Detroit, Michigan	Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab
May 1, 2010	Times Square	A Pakistani American who attempted the May 1, 2010, Times Square car bombing. He was arrested after he had boarded Emirates Flight 202 to Dubai. On June 21, 2010, in Federal District Court in Manhattan he confessed to 10 counts arising from the bombing attempt.[38]	New York, New York	Faisal Shahzad
October 27, 2010	Arlington Cemetery station	A Pakistani-born Virginia man was arrested and accused of casing Washington-area subway stations in what he thought was an al-Qaeda plot to bomb and kill commuters.[39]	Arlington, Virginia	Farooque Ahmed
September 28, 2011	The Pentagonand United States Capitol Building	Rezwan Ferdaus is a U.S. citizen, born and raised in Massachusetts, of Bangladeshi descent, who was arrested by the FBI on September 28, 2011, for allegedly plotting to attack The Pentagon and United States Capitol with remote-controlled model aircraft packed with explosives. He was also charged with supporting al-Qaeda and plotting attacks on U.S. soldiers abroad, by making IED detonators.[40]	Arlington, Virginia;Washington, D.C.	Rezwan Ferdaus
January 7, 2012	Tampa and various other targets	Sami Osmakac is a man who allegedly plotted an attack, to avenge what he felt were wrongs done to Muslims, in the area around Tampa, Florida. Osmakac, an Albanian from Kosovo and a naturalized US citizen, was arrested January 7, 2012, for the alleged attack plan, which involved bombing nightclubs, detonating a car bomb, using an assault rifle, wearing an explosive belt in a crowded area, and taking hostages.[41]	Tampa, Florida	Sami Osmakac
February 17, 2012	United States Capitol	A Moroccan man who was arrested by the FBI)for allegedly plotting to carry out a suicide bombing on the United States Capitol. El Khalifi thought he was working with al-Qaeda operatives, but was actually in contact with undercover FBI agents. He was sentenced to prison for 30 years in September 2012.[42]	Washington, D.C.	Amine El Khalifi
October 17, 2012	New York Federal Reserve	A Bangladeshi man was charged with trying to blow up the Federal Reserve building in New York. While Nafis believed he had the blessing of al-Qaeda and was acting on behalf of the terrorist group, he has no known ties, according to federal officials.[43]	New York, New York	Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis

Obama administration (Second term)[edit]

Date	Target	Description	Arrest location	Suspect(s)
September 11, 2015	9/11 Memorial event in Kansas City. Missouri	A Jewish American man, Joshua Ryne Goldberg, posing as an Australian ISIS supporter, attempted to get an FBI confidential informant to detonate a bomb at a Kansas City, Missouri September 11 attacks memorial event. Goldberg attempted to persuade the confidential informant to coat the shrapnel of the bomb in rat poison in order to maximize casualties. [44][45][46][47]	Orange Park, Florida	Joshua Ryne Goldberg

The increased pace of attacks and number of successful attacks is directly related to the shutdown of Gitmo and the hampering of the NSA and Obama's "leading from behind" - his appeasement of the enemy.

The numbers prove we are less safe now than in 2008.

We can do better. we need better gun control, bomb-making control - to keep these weapons out of the hands of islamists; this means we need to use PROFILING.

And we need better intel - intel not changed to fit a policy of appeasement or to make political decision by politician look better than they really are (s 50 intel officers/whistle-blowers allege)..

And our nation needs a serious debate on how to do this, with everyone at the table - with the views of Trump and Rand Paul and and Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz and even Bernie Sanders all represented.

Bush succeeded in doing this, in forging a broad consensus.

Too bad Obama is unable or unwilling to do this.

It will probably have to wait until 2017.

I hope we make it....

MARZ'S REACTIONS TO TRAGEDY IN SAN BERNARDINO

And now for Ron Marz's responses to the week's tragedy, which are about what you could expect - he has used a violent crime alternately as an excuse for gun control advocacy, and to attack conservatives. For example, he said:

Mass shooting in San Bernardino, VA. This is the country the NRA has decreed we live in. https://t.co/Rxr2hXMqwx

— Ron Marz (@ronmarz) December 2, 2015

Nope, this is the situation any poor education system has decreed we live in, because they have no interest in teaching students why violence is wrong. This is also the situation that results from "cultural sensitivity" that hinders the ability to combat violent ideologies effectively.

L.A. Times story indicates shooting is at Inland Regional Center, which "provides services to disabled people and others in need." My God.

— Ron Marz (@ronmarz) December 2, 2015

I remain ashamed that my country is too cowardly and too greedy to do anything about its gun problem. #SanBernadino

— Ron Marz (@ronmarz) December 2, 2015

Marz should be ashamed of himself for lack of interest in condemning any ideology that promotes murderous rampages. He also doesn't seem particularly concerned about the neighbor of the jihadists who purportedly bought the weapons used in the assault.

Apparently, some people thought my previous tweet was an invitation to assert their precious Second Amendment Rights.

— Ron Marz (@ronmarz) December 2, 2015

It was just an insult to laws that were meant to defend people's safety. Quit trying to fool anybody.

Guy just explained to me that we REALLY don't have a gun problem because ... well, I dunno, because I blocked him before I finished reading.

— Ron Marz (@ronmarz) December 2, 2015

He couldn't bring himself to admit we have a jihad problem. The same kind of tragedy that's poisoned Europe, and which jelly spined politicians won't do anything to stop.

Twitter indicates there are many, many people who seem smugly pleased the terrorists have Muslim names.

— Ron Marz (@ronmarz) December 3, 2015

So many wearing their ignorance as badge of honor. That, more than anything, depresses me.

— Ron Marz (@ronmarz) December 3, 2015

Again, there goes an ignoramus spouting off ditherings meant for himself. He must've written that as a vindictive reaction to his own hopes that it would be a right-winger, after every leftarded narrative was refuted. Just who are these people he speaks of? From what I can tell, he means conservatives in the USA, and not Islamofascists overseas. It's also extremely offensive how he implies everyone's "smugly pleased". *Ahem* NOBODY with half a brain is even remotely pleased whenever there's a bloodbath anywhere, and it makes no difference what the ideological background of the criminals is. What matters is that whoever the perpetrators of a violent crime were, they did something repulsive that goes throughly against human values.

Impossible to use Twitter to find updating news on terrorist attack, thanks to hyper-partisan hyperventilating. Suggestion for good info?

— Ron Marz (@ronmarz) December 3, 2015

How about some conservative websites? Maybe some milbloggers?

Right after Sandy Hook, the country was mostly united in outrage and grief. Now, it's mostly petty bickering and scoring political points.

— Ron Marz (@ronmarz) December 3, 2015

For Marz, it's lamenting all the way-too-easy scapegoats, because he's little more than a coward himself.

It's a sad indication of how numbed to and accepting of mass shootings we've become. Part of the daily fabric of America now.

— Ron Marz (@ronmarz) December 3, 2015

Marz has only demonstrated with all this how hermetically sealed off he is to what repellent ideologies are like.

He goes on to respond to a Rolling Stone story about a TV channel advertising guns, saying:

See? The answer is ALWAYS more guns. https://t.co/Tmm4rMqGvz

— Ron Marz (@ronmarz) December 3, 2015

The answer is more self-defense, including in Europe. Oh, and interesting how he, like Dan Slott, is using Rolling Stone as a source of recommended news, after the offensive cover story they ran dedicated to one of the Boston marathon bombers. He just demonstrates yet again why he'd be better off refraining from these kind political issues.

DAN SLOTT EXPLOITS TRAGEDY IN SAN BERNARDINO FOR MORE GUN CONTROL PROPAGANDA

Predictably, Slott's back to his own ultra-leftist rantings on gun control, following the horrible jihad attack in San Bernardino. Here's some of his own tweets on the subject:

If you are sickened by the number of mass shootings and want to do more than tweet, here is something you can do. https://t.co/8VqrufQilb

— Dan Slott (@DanSlott) December 2, 2015

If anyone tells you that it's "too soon" to talk about gun control, tell them you're talking in response to the shooting from last week.

— Dan Slott (@DanSlott) December 2, 2015

It's not the time at all to talk about gun control. Slott's opportunism is shameful. What we should be talking about, if anything, is how to stop violent ideologies from being indoctrinated into people who end up becoming savages as a result. Slott's ranting about gun control is disrespectful to many victims of any gun violence, no matter what the topics involved. He also seems pretty disinterested in whether neglect by authorities had any responsibility for the terrible incident.

& yet all those "good guys" w/ guns failed to stop Texas from having one of the highest # of mass shootings in 2015. https://t.co/aM2kMcvMm9

— Dan Slott (@DanSlott) December 2, 2015

And yet Slott had no issue writing Punisher stories at one time. Did he also go to see the movie from the past decade?

If youre calling guns "sticks", we have more "sticks" per citizen than other countries & more "stick" related deaths https://t.co/m4HCv6L4Ak

— Dan Slott (@DanSlott) December 2, 2015

Yeah, and one of those sticks is Slott. He's just a stick in the mud who can't keep his mouth shut. If he's so worried about gun control, how come he isn't worried about border/passport control that failed to "vet" a proper background check for one of the jihadists in California?

The 4 most nonsensical arguments against gun control and how to rationally call people out on them. https://t.co/BukK2FQvf1

— Dan Slott (@DanSlott) December 2, 2015

Using a magazine that dedicated one of their cover stories to the Boston marathon bombers to make his points? I think that's very low. Oh, and look who responded to a rather inappropriate post of his:

@DanSlott Very funny. Very valid points. Btw, I'm a gun owner. ...a gun owner that realizes that we need some adjustments to our gun laws.)

— Greg Capullo (@GregCapullo) December 3, 2015

Look who's talking! The same guy who made people mad when he retweeted a disgusting joke involving Bill Cosby. This is not the time to be making jokes.

Non-Americans, you're all looking at us and shaking your heads in disbelief, aren't you?

— Dan Slott (@DanSlott) December 2, 2015

I see French citizens looking at Slott and shaking their heads in disbelief. He seems to have forgotten all about last month's tragedy in Paris, committed by ISIS infiltrators. I also see Israelis here too looking at a fraud like Slott and shaking their heads in disbelief. He clearly ignored jihadist attacks in Israel like this one in the Har Nof neighborhood last year. It makes no difference whether the attacks by Islamofascists were committed using knives or guns, it's abominable. Slott goes on to attack the NRA:

Care about the NRA's influence over your politicians? Follow @igorvolsky's feed right now. He's listing who got how much campaign donations.

— Dan Slott (@DanSlott) December 3, 2015

I wonder to whom Slott makes donations?

IN 2009, OBAMA APOLOGIZED TO THE ISLAMIC WORLD FOR THE USA, AND EVER SINCE HE HAS APOLOGIZED FOR THEIR TERROR TO US.

Just saying.

Because it proves he is a traitor.

THE SAN BERNARDINO ATTACK PROVES ALL MUSLIMS ARE JUSTIFIABLY POTENTIAL TERRORISTS AND SUSPECTS

THE ISLAMO-TERRORISTS WHO PERPETRATED THE SAN BERNADINO ATTACK WERE NOT SUSPECTED AT ANY TIME OF BEING RADICALS OR EXTREMISTS, LET ALONE TERRORISTS...

...NOT BY THE COWORKERS THEY MURDERED...

... NOT BY THEIR LANDLORD....

... AND NOT BY THEIR FRIENDS...

... AND NOT BY FAMILY.

THIS MEANS THAT ANY AND ALL MUSLIMS MIGHT BE TERRORISTS IN WAITING, IF NOT THEN TERRORIST IN TRAINING, IN PLANNING.

THAT'S JUST A FACT.

A HARD TRUTH.

IN OTHER WORDS, ISLAMOPHOBIA IS SENSIBLE, AND SHOULD NOT BE AN EPITHET USED TO ATTACK SENSIBLE PEOPLE WHO ARE JUSTIFIABLY CONCERNED ABOUT THEIR SAFETY, THE SAFETY OF THEIR LOVED ONES - AND THE SAFETY OF THEIR NATION.

RAPE BY MUSLIM IN TEL AVIV RECOGNIZED AS TERRORIST ATTACK

A brutal rape committed by a Muslim that took place 3 years ago in Tel Aviv has now been classified as a terrorist attack:

The Defense Ministry has recognized a brutal rape of an Israeli teenager by a Palestinian three years ago as a terror attack — a decision that will allow the victim to receive financial support from the National Insurance Institute.

The decision, announced Thursday, marked the conclusion of an internal inquiry by the ministry.

In June 2013, the Tel Aviv Regional Court sentenced Ahmed Bani Jaber, 21, a Palestinian from the West Bank town of Nablus, to 30 years in prison for the 2012 attack on the teenage girl and her boyfriend.

[...] The sentence was one of the most severe ever given for a sex crime in Israel and among the longest possible for the offense.

He deserved it. He also deserves being locked in an isolated cell for the remainder of his days.

ANOTHER STABBING NEAR HALAMISH

The latest intifada stabbing took place circa the village of Halamish:

A Palestinian stabbed and wounded an Israeli near the West Bank settlement of Halamish near the city of Ramallah on Friday and was killed by security forces, the army said.

"Forces at the scene responded and shot the attacker, resulting in his death," it said in a statement.

Initial reports said that 20 year-old male suffered stab wounds to his neck and was evacuated to Tel Hashomer Medical Center in serious condition.

The attacker was identified as 27 year-old Palestinian Abed al-Rahman al-Barghouthi.

The attack comes hours after an Israeli soldier was lightly injured in a stabbing attack in the West Bank city of Hebron Thursday night.

The two Palestinian assailants were shot dead at the scene in the Tel Rumeida neighborhood, according to initial reports and the injured soldier was evacuated to Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek hospital for treatment.

The assailants can go to hell. Let's hope the victims recover.

JIHAD IN SAN BERNARDINO LEAVES 14 DEAD

Another terrible case of jihad took place in California, committed by 3 monsters, one who's described as very religious (H/T: Jihad Watch):

One of the suspects in Wednesday’s mass shooting in San Bernardino, Calif. has been identified as Syed Farook, according to reports [...]

A man who identified himself as Farook’s father told the Daily News his son worked as a health technician inspecting restaurants and hotels [...]

“He was very religious. He would go to work, come back, go to pray, come back. He’s Muslim.”

The most tragic part of this incident was that a man who'd spotted the jihadists earlier refused to contact authorities because he was afraid of being called "racist":

A man who has been working in the area said he noticed a half-dozen Middle Eastern men in the area in recent weeks, but decided not to report anything since he did not wish to racially profile those people.

“We sat around lunch thinking, ‘What war they doing around the neighborhood?’” he said. “We’d see them leave where they’re raiding the apartment.”

This is exactly why these tragedies happen. Jihad Watch says:

The same thing happened several years ago in the Fort Dix jihad plot: the young man who inadvertently discovered the plot initially hesitated to contact police, fearing that to do so might be racist. This is what 14 years of pounding in the media from Hamas-linked CAIR and the Left has done: make people think that defending themselves and their country is somehow wrong.

Anybody who won't report potential monsters should be charged with failing to report/prevent a crime. The ignoramus who allowed this to happen should be ashamed of himself, as should all those pushing this kind of narrative. Because he refused to act, he now has blood on his hands.

TOP COW'S MATT HAWKINS THINKS "ISLAMOPHOBIA" IS A PROBLEM BUT NOT THE KORAN?

After reading these preview pages from a new series called The Tithe, written by Top Cow's leading editor/publisher Matt Hawkins, I can only conclude he's one of the biggest modern embarrassments in comicdom. The title of this story is "Islamophobia", no less. As you'll notice, one of the opening narrative captions says, "Sunni and Shia are to Islam what Catholic and Protestant are to Christianity; doctrinal differences often debated with bloodshed." Which not only runs the gamut of moral equivalence, they make it sound like all the different denominations of Christianity are no better than Muslims.

The captions also say, "Al Qaeda, the Taliban and ISIS are Sunni", and "The 9-11 hijackers were all Sunni too." Is Hawkins and company saying that there's a difference between two or more sects? Then all he's saying is that he's never bothered to read the Koran, because all interpretations derive from the exact same source. And Bill Roggio at the Long War Journal reported 5 years ago that Iran's been backing 3 Shia terrorist gangs. The Clarion Project has a list of as many as 40 Shia militias Iran's supporting. So if Hawkins is attempting to absolve the Shia sect of any guilt, he's only resorted to apologia.

There's more here about the next issue, and the summary says:

They’ve uncovered the truth about the terrorist attacks, but are told not to reveal it. CIA vs. FBI in the highest stakes of all.

I'm sure we won't want to know what that is exactly.

When Top Cow was founded as an Image affiliate in the early 1990s, their primary goal was fantasy entertainment. Now, they're going out of their way to confuse fantasy with reality. They should've stuck with the kind of science-fantasy products they were known for years before (Cyberforce, Witchblade, Darkness, etc). Now, left-wing politics seems to be all they can think about doing.

COMMEMORATION HELD FOR JEWS EXPELLED FROM MUSLIM COUNTRIES

For the second time, a special commemoration was held for Jews who were exiled from Muslim regimes after Israel declared independence in 1948:

Israel officially commemorated the tragic persecution and forced expulsion of almost one million Arab and Iranian Jews from their homes and countries of origin starting in 1948, after Israel declared independence as a Jewish state.

Israel held, for the second time in its history, an official commemoration for the Jews expelled from Arab countries and Iran in the years surrounding the Zionist initiative in Israel and after the establishment of the Jewish state in 1948.

Nearly 80 years ago, Arab countries began the exile of what would amount to 850,000 Jews, some from communities that existed for 3,000 years. The story was silenced by the world. Nearly 50 percent of the Jewish refugees made their home in the State of Israel.

Thousands attended the official commemoration event in Jerusalem on Monday. The event, titled “Longing for Home,” began with a moment of silence for Jews killed in pogroms in Arab countries and Iran.

Amazingly enough, the event was held even at the UN, which is surprising, given that none of the Muslim autocracies there have a care in the world about the fate of Jews who once lived in their lands. The WJC also hosted the event.

BELGIAN MAYOR HOLDS RESPONSIBILITY FOR TURNING MOLENBEEK INTO JIHADIST ENCLAVE

Gatestone Institute wrote about a former Brussels mayor who has to shoulder some blame for enabling the Molenbeek district to become a haven for jihadists:

Testimonials to a city in fear. Much of the responsibility for this apparently rests with Philippe Moureaux, member of the Socialist Party (Parti Socialiste), who was mayor of Molenbeek from 1992 until 2012. Confronted with the complaints of his citizens, he regularly denied the unsustainable conditions in his town: "It makes me angry when people pick out tiny details and lie about them," he said in the quoted report. Molenbeek is "not the Bronx;" the problems with criminality only concern a small number of streets, said Moureaux.

Then Moureaux showed his true colors: "Molenbeek is a symbol that certain people want to destroy. But only over my dead body." Certain people? Does the mayor actually believe in a conspiracy against his district of misery? One does not have to search for long to realize that Moureaux, on whose initiative Belgium passed an "anti-racism law" in 1981, is an anti-Semite -- not exactly common even in Belgium. At the same time, he downplays and supports the violence of young Muslims -- also against Jews.

There was heavy rioting in 2009 during Ramadan in Molenbeek. Muslim youths set up barricades made of burning tires, set cars ablaze, threw rocks at firefighters who came to put out fires and, equipped with rocks and crowbars, looted stores. According to unconfirmed reports, the police received the following order: "Do not provoke them, do not search them, do not intervene, even if dozens of them come together, do not issue warnings for harassment, not even if they throw rocks at you."

Jewish shop-owners were also harassed other than at Ramadan. In 2008, the Flemish magazine Dag Allemaal reported on "youths" yelling, "The Jews are our worst enemies," in the streets of Molenbeek. There used be many stores run by Jews on the Rue du Prado and the Chaussée de Grand in Molenbeek, but in 2008, with the exception of one furniture store, they suddenly disappeared. And nobody seemed bothered by this, especially not Mayor Moureaux.

History should record this man as one of Europe's worst allies for the enemies. It's socialists like him who've destroyed what was decent about the continent.

UN ADMITS IRAN'S LATEST "DEAL" UNLIKELY TO BE "PEACEFUL"

The UN's overseen another laughable faustian deal with the Islamofascist regime that didn't even sign on the nuclear deal with the Obama administration, but is willing to admit the obvious:

Iran is reducing its nuclear activities under a deal with six world powers, but a senior UN official says he cannot guarantee that everything it is doing is peaceful.

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Yukiya Amano spoke Thursday to the IAEA’s 35-nation board.

Amano says he is “not in a position to provide credible assurance about the absence of undeclared nuclear material and activities in Iran,” and thus cannot conclude that “all nuclear material in Iran is in peaceful activities.”

And there's no chance Iran will ever give them convincing ability to inspect their facilities either. Oh, and what's this about "reducing" their activities? How do we know there aren't underground labs where they're keeping the bulk of their research? Once again, the UN's proven how unreliable they are, and their own respect for life and safety isn't guaranteed either.