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"This Week In The Middle East" by Gil Elan, President and CEO of Southwest Jewish Congress . At the opening plenum session of the UN General Assembly on Monday,   President Obama said   that any resolution in Syria must include the removal of Bashar Al-Assad as president. President Putin, in his speech, insisted that   Assad was not the problem   and that his exit would enable the Sunni Jihadists, mainly ISIS and Al-Qaeda affiliated Jabhat Al-Nusra, to take over the country. Putin's argument has merit. Obama's incessant calls for the removal of Assad is a continuation of the well-intended but totally naive, misguided and eventually disastrous US policy during the so-called "Arab Spring" of assisting with the overthrow of secular, stabilizing, pro-Western dictators in favor of "democratic elections". And we all know   how that turned out. Read the complete article at -- http://swjcdallas.blogspot.com/2015/09/putins-syria-strategy.html...

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has published a new book called “Palestine,” a 416-page screed against the Jewish state in which he makes his position clear from the start: Israel has no right to exist as a state. His strategy for the destruction of Israel is not based on anti-Semitism, which he describes as a European phenomenon. His position is instead based on “well-established Islamic principles.” One principle is that a land that falls under Muslim rule, even briefly, can never again be ceded to non-Muslims. What matters in Islam is ownership of a land’s government, even if the majority of inhabitants are non-Muslims. Dozens of maps circulate in the Muslim world showing the extent of Muslim territories lost to the Infidel that must be recovered. These include large parts of Russia and Europe, almost a third of China, the whole of India and parts of the Philippines and Thailand. Khamenei insists he is not recommending “classical wars” to wipe Israel off the map, nor does he want to “ma...

This is a speech well worth reading and its loaded with TOV Values --  http://www.newrepublic.com/article/122916/pope-franciss-address-united-nations-transcript-his-full

Following notes written by an English traveler in the early 19th century and two French pilots in the 1950s, Pierre Tallet made a stunning discovery: a set of 30 caves honeycombed into limestone hills but sealed up and hidden from view in a remote part of the Egyptian desert, a few miles inland from the Red Sea, far from any city, ancient or modern. During his first digging season, in 2011, he established that the caves had served as a kind of boat storage depot during the fourth dynasty of the Old Kingdom, about 4,600 years ago. Then, in 2013, during his third digging season, he came upon something quite unexpected: entire rolls of papyrus, some a few feet long and still relatively intact, written in hieroglyphics as well as hieratic, the cursive script the ancient Egyptians used for everyday communication. Tallet realized that he was dealing with the oldest known papyri in the world. Astonishingly, the papyri were written by men who participated in the building of the Great Pyramid, ...

This is a very important subject that every American needs to understand. Please take a few minutes to watch Frances Larson’s Ted Talk. “We're fulfilling the murderer's desire to be seen. When the victim of a decapitation is bound and defenseless,   he or she essentially becomes a pawn in their killer's show.   Unlike a trophy head that's taken in battle,   that represents the luck and skill it takes to win a fight,   when a beheading is staged,   when it's essentially a piece of theater,   the power comes from the reception the killer receives as he performs.   In other words, watching is very much part of the event.” View the video at -- http://www.ted.com/talks/frances_larson_why_public_beheadings_get_millions_of_views#t-10979

Rasheed Abdul Aziz, 40, entered the Corinth Missionary Baptist Church in Bullard Texas hours after the regular Sunday morning service and asked to see the pastor.   As Aziz was shown into the conference room, “Every hair on my neck just stood up,” said Rev. Johnson, 45. “It was almost like you could just like feel the presence of just negative energy.” Aziz was dressed in camouflage fatigue pants and boots, a black T-shirt and a tactical vest. He was sweating heavily. As Johnson extended his hand, Aziz began yelling about being a “man of Islam” and how his god said he was authorized to take the lives of infidels. He specifically mentioned killing Jews and Christians because their doctrine was contradictory to Islam. Read the complete article at -- http://www.clarionproject.org/news/us-pastor-talks-down-islamist-gunmen-while-saving-parishers