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Palestinians: a Generation Raised on Hate will Never Compromise With Israel
Nov 18th, 2016
CommentaryKHALED ABU TOAMEH/GATESTONE INSTITUTE
Categories: The Nation Of Israel

Last week, Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas tipped his hand concerning his ultimatum on any revival of the peace process with Israel.

"I'm 81 years old and I'm not going to end my life drooping, making concessions or selling out."

Thus declared a defiant Abbas at a rally in Ramallah, marking the 12th anniversary of the death of his predecessor, Yasser Arafat.

Abbas in this way relayed to the hundreds of Palestinians who gathered in Ramallah to commemorate Arafat: "I have no intention of going down in history as a leader who compromised with Israel."

Like Arafat, Abbas would rather die intransigent than achieve a peaceful settlement with Israel.

Yet the position of the two Palestinian leaders is deeply rooted in the Palestinian tradition and culture, in which any concession to or compromise with Israel is considered an act of high treason.

Upon returning to Ramallah in the summer of 2000, after following the botched Camp David summit, Arafat explained his decision to reject the offer made by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak. According to Arafat, Barak wanted the Palestinians to make concessions concerning Jerusalem and its holy sites.

"He who relinquishes one grain of soil of the land of Jerusalem does not belong to our people," Arafat announced. "We want all of Jerusalem, all of it, all of it. Revolution until victory!"

At Camp David, Arafat and his negotiators demanded full sovereignty over the entire West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem, including its holy sites and the Jewish Quarter in the Old City. 

They also repeated their long-standing demand that the "right of return" for Palestinian refugees be fully implemented, allowing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to flock into Israel.

Barak, for his part, is said to have offered the Palestinians a state that would be established on 91% of the West Bank, large parts of East Jerusalem and the entire Gaza Strip. 

What is certain is that Barak wanted the Palestinian leader to make some concessions on the explosive issues of Jerusalem and refugees.

The Camp David summit failed the moment Arafat realized that he was not going to get all of his demands met. Arafat later informed his confidants that he walked out of the summit because he did not want to go down into history as a leader who succumbed to Israeli and American pressure.

Fast-forward 16 years: Abbas stands near Arafat's grave in Ramallah and spouts similar sentiments. Vowing to continue in Arafat's path and honor his legacy, Abbas said that these days he was being "inspired" by his predecessor's "determination" and "resolve."

Abbas is at least up-front in his intentions. No one, he says unashamedly -- not the Israelis nor the Americans nor the Europeans -- ought to harbor any illusions. "Peace" with the Palestinians, says Abbas, means Israel fulfilling each and every demand he -- and Arafat -- has made. "Peace," in other words, with no Palestinian concessions.

Arafat continues to enjoy massive popularity among Palestinians because he died without "selling out" to Israel. His hero status hinges on his rejectionism at Camp David.

Had Arafat accepted Barak's offer at that summit, he would have been condemned as a "pawn" in the hands of the Israelis and Americans, a failed leader who betrayed his people.

Abbas's self-fashioning himself in the guise of Arafat is not new. For many years, he has been following in the footsteps of Arafat and honoring his legacy. Moreover, Abbas is well aware that, like Arafat, he is not authorized by his people to make any concessions to Israel. This is not merely because Abbas is now in his 12th year of a four-year-term in office.

Even if Abbas were a legitimate president, no concessions to Israel would be forthcoming. Arafat was quoted back then as saying that he rejected the Barak offer because he did not want to end up drinking tea with assassinated Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, the first Arab leader to sign a peace agreement with Israel.

Thus, Abbas is in no hurry to return to the negotiating table with Israel. Indeed, for Abbas, there is no negotiation -- only demands. He knows that concessions on his part would result in being spat upon by his people -- or killed.

Hence the PA president has in recent years avoided even the pretense of negotiations with Israel, and instead has poured his energies into strong-arming the international community to impose a solution on Israel -- one that would indeed supply the Palestinians with nearly all their demands.

Abbas and the Palestinian leadership in Ramallah want the international community to hand them what Israel will not give them at the negotiating table. Abbas is hoping to achieve his goal through international conferences on the Middle East, like the one being floated around by France, or through the United Nations and other international agencies and institutions.

In fact, this has been Abbas's sole strategy in recent years: a diplomatic war in the international arena that is aimed at isolating and delegitimizing Israel, in order to force it to comply with all Palestinian demands.

Of course, this strategy has its risks. Yet, if it fails, Abbas will at least depart the scene without being branded with the scarlet letter of "traitor." His successor, he hopes, will stand next to his grave and pledge to follow in his footsteps, as he himself has done for Arafat. And this is not an idle hope.

Thanks to decades of indoctrination and anti-Israel rhetoric, for which both Arafat and Abbas are also responsible, Palestinians have been radicalized to the point where it is impossible to identify a single leader who would negotiate in good faith with Israel.

Under the current circumstances, any attempt by the Obama Administration -- in its remaining months in power -- to support a United Nations vote in favor of a Palestinian state will be seen as a reward to those Palestinians who are opposed to a resumption of peace negotiations with Israel.

Many in Europe, particularly France, seem be aching to do just that -- as a "present" to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to show how submissive the French can be; to encourage more "business" with Arab and Muslim states, and, they might hope, to deter more terrorist attacks. 

Actually, if the members of the UN Security Council declare a Palestinian state unilaterally, they are encouraging more terrorist attacks: the terrorists will see that attacks "work" and embark on more of them to help the jihadi takeover of Europe go even faster.

The Obama Administration (and the next US Administration) need to make it clear to Abbas and the Palestinians that the only way to achieve a state is through direct negotiations with Israel, and not additional UN resolutions.

Similarly, the French would do well to abandon their plan for convening an international conference on peace in the Middle East. 

They need to understand that Abbas and the Palestinians are hoping to use the conference as an excuse to stay away from the negotiating table with Israel -- the only country that could really help the Palestinians achieve a state through direct talks. 

Declaring a Palestinian state in the Security Council only makes them look as if their actual goal is to destroy Israel by allying "two sides of the Mediterranean" against Israel -- and they know it. They would be fooling no one.

The message that needs to be relayed to the Palestinians is that UN resolutions and international conferences will not bring them closer to achieving their aspirations. 

Another message that needs to be driven home to the Palestinian leadership is that without preparing their people for peace and compromise with Israel, the whole idea of a two-state solution is meaningless.

An entire Palestinian generation has been raised on the poisonous idea that even the consideration of compromise with Israel is traitorous. The next US Administration might do well to consider this unpleasant reality.

Obama's View of the Israeli - Palestinian Conflict will Fade Away With Him
Nov 18th, 2016
CommentaryELDER OF ZIYON/ALGEMEINER.COM
Categories: The Nation Of Israel

I have no idea what is going to happen in a Trump administration, either domestically or in foreign policy. I don't know what his Israel policy will be.

But there will be one instant and long-lasting effect: the Obama narrative of the conflict will become hugely diminished.

In Obama's worldview, Israel is the only party with any agency and any responsibility. And the lack of peace is wholly Israel's fault.

In Obama's worldview, Palestinian terror is an unfortunate but understandable consequence of Israeli policies.

In Obama's worldview, Jews living in Judea and Samaria are the single biggest obstacle to peace.

In Obama's worldview, Netanyahu is an intransigent bully who has no desire for peace and whose policies will doom Israel unless the left saves the country in spite of him.

In Obama's worldview, supporting Iran is the only reliable path for a stable Middle East.

In Obama's worldview, American Zionists are part of the problem, and therefore an alternative movement that shares his viewpoint must be encouraged and propped up.

Being President isn't only about policies, laws, bills and strategies; the White House has a huge influence on American public opinion and how Americans view the world.

Americans will inevitably view the Middle East differently, because Obama will be out of the White House.

It will be shocking to the world when President Trump opines on the Middle East for the first tune. But chances are that he will look at the region without the obscuring clouds of years of lies about "settlers" and "Likud intransigence". If there is anything Trump loves to do, it is to burst the bubble of conventional wisdom.

Maybe he'll ask, "If settlements are inexorably taking over the entire disputed areas, then why don't Palestinians rush to make peace and protect what they can?"

Maybe he'll ask, "Why, 23 years after Oslo, has the Palestinian Authority continued to teach hate on TV and in the classrooms?"

Maybe he'll ask, "If Palestinians want peace so much, why have they turned down every peace offer, and why did they respond to Bill Clinton's plan with a war on Jewish civilians?"

Maybe he'll ask, "Why are people wanting to boycott the one country that does more for human rights than any other country in the entire Middle East"?

Maybe he'll ask, "What possible purpose does it serve to keep the US embassy out of the undisputed part of Jerusalem?" (The official answer, that the US still officially supports the part of the 1947 partition plan where all of Jerusalem was supposed to become an international city, is so stupid that it is a perfect thing for a Trumpian president to expose and ridicule to show that he is different from his predecessors.)

These types of obvious questions -- obvious to anyone who is not caught up in the previous narrative, that is -- will create more positive change than any number of conferences or bills passed. The media will not be able to ignore the plain truths that they have been studiously ignoring for many years.

The anti-Israel crowd is in a panic, and for good reason. It is not because Trump is necessarily pro-Israel. It is because Trump is not afraid to speak out loud what everyone knows deep down. And those truths are what scares the hell out of the people whose entire existence depends on maintaining their anti-Israel narratives in the media and on campus.

Let the Headlines Speak
Nov 18th, 2016
Daily NewsFrom the Internet
Categories: Today's Headlines

Kansas Rep. Mike Pompeo gets Donald Trump's nomination to head CIA
A graduate of the U.S. Military Academy and Harvard Law School, he is regarded a member of the congressional Republicans' Tea Party caucus, and serves on the House Select Committee on Benghazi, investigating the attack on the U.S. consulate compound that killed four people in 2012.  

UK's May to Germany's Merkel: Brexit preparations are 'on track'
Prime Minister Theresa May on Friday assured her German counterpart that preparations for Britain's exit from the European union were on track, and that the legal process of leaving would be triggered by the end of March next year.  

Supermoon, Trump’s Win and the Clash of Moral Values at the End of Days
Rabbi Winston asserted that a primary goal of the liberal movement is to break away from the obligations that come with living a God-centered life. According to his viewpoint, as history draws to a close, God is forcing each person to make a decision about where they stand morally. Are they aligned with conservative or with liberal values?  

Poll Finds Disunity in EU Ranks, 'Things Are Going in the Wrong Direction'
And this dissatisfaction with the EU is hardly isolated to the British Isles: it is growing across Europe and becoming increasingly vocal. European nationalism itself is being fueled by a perception that EU institutions, are out of touch with many of its own members.  

Electoral College voters 'deluged' with death threats
One of Michigan’s 16 electors who will be called upon to cast a vote validating the election of Donald Trump in the Electoral College has testified on video that he and others in the state are receiving “dozens and dozens of death threats” from Hillary Clinton supporters urging them to switch their votes to Clinton.  

Netanyahu to break Ben-Gurion's record for longest consecutive term as prime minister
With 2,788 days consecutive days in office, Netanyahu will break one of the records set by Israel's first prime minister, but in order to break Ben-Gurion's record of overall time in office, he would need 972 more days.  

Secret Service Can’t Find Tons Of Its Guns, Phones, Badges And Cars
Thousands of sensitive assets belonging to U.S. Secret Service agents, including firearms, computer laptops, work badges, telephones and even motor vehicles, have been lost during the past 15 years, according to documents obtained by nonprofit government watchdog Judicial Watch.  

More academics, mayors detained as Turkish purges enter fifth month
Turkish police detained more than 70 academics at an Istanbul university, NATO said Turkish soldiers had sought asylum and more pro-Kurdish mayors were arrested on Friday as a crackdown after July's failed coup entered its fifth month.  

Why did Democratic congressmen meet with anti-Israel terrorist?
The five House Democrats, including Luis Gutierrez (Illinois), Hank Johnson (Georgia), Matt Cartwright (Pennsylvania), Dan Kildee (Michigan), and Mark Pocan (Wisconsin), toured Judea, Samaria, and eastern Jerusalem on a guided tour paid for by the American Global Institute.  

Trump Takes Charge
Republicans I’ve spoken to over the last week are unified, enthusiastic, and eager to pursue Trump’s agenda. Giddiness is the attitude toward the prospect of GOP control of the White House, the Congress, and the courts. Republicans are ecstatic as they look at House Democrats in turmoil, 13 red-state Senate Democrats up for reelection in 2018, a state and local Democratic Party in ruins, and liberal elites urging the party to double-down on the identity politics that have brought them to this ominous point.  

‘Israel Looking Forward to Working With Trump Team — Bannon Included’
Dermer said Israel looks forward to “working with the Trump administration, with all of the members of the Trump administration, including Steve Bannon, and making the U.S.-Israel alliance stronger than ever.” The reference to Bannon comes in the wake of a concerted effort by numerous media to demonize the former CEO of Breitbart News,  

Pro-Israel Jewish Democrats Oppose Keith Ellison’s DNC Bid
A growing number of pro-Israel activists and Jewish community figures are expressing concern that Minnesota’s U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison will turn the Democratic Party away from Israel if he is elected party chairman.  

Hezbollah Shows Off American APCs in Syrian Military Parade
US-made armored personnel carriers were on display as Hezbollah paraded in Syria. No one knows how they got there. The question is how Hezbollah obtained the APCs — and whether they are the same APCs that were given to the Lebanese Armed Forces by the United States.  

Mystery aircraft circling skies confirmed to be TOP SECRET E-6B 'doomsday' NUKE plane
Thousands of witnesses spotted the aircraft circling the Denver area in Colorado, US, on Wednesday (November 16). Now the plane has been identified as an E-6B mercury – a US Airforce mobile command centre used to launch nuclear weapons anywhere in the world.  

Pence Tells House GOP to Get Ready for Sweeping Legislation
Vice President-elect Mike Pence told House Republicans in a closed-door meeting...to be ready to move a lot of legislation next year. “We’re going to move an agenda” focused on rebuilding the military and improving the economy... In his remarks to House Republicans... he and the new administration wanted members to “buckle up,” and get ready for a speedy start on policy.  

Trump offers Flynn post of national security adviser
President-elect Donald Trump has offered retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn the post of national security adviser... The official said that Flynn had not yet officially accepted Trump's offer. Flynn, who served as the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) between 2012 and 2014, has advised Trump on national security issues for months.  

The Latest: Trump tweets about Ford decision on auto plans
President-elect Donald Trump says on Twitter that Ford Motor Co. won't move Lincoln production from Kentucky to Mexico. Trump says in a tweet that Ford Executive Chairman Bill Ford called him Thursday evening with the news. Ford had planned to move...to Mexico in a deal negotiated with the United Auto Workers union in 2015.  

Japan PM Shinzo Abe: 'I have great confidence in Trump'
Japan's PM Shinzo Abe has said he has "great confidence" in US President-elect Donald Trump and he believes they can build a relationship of trust. Mr Abe described the 90-minute meeting in Trump Tower, New York, as "candid", with a "warm atmosphere". Some of Mr Trump's campaign rhetoric cast doubt over long-standing US alliances, including with Japan.  

Trump election: Baltic warning over Russian move on Nato
Lithuania has warned that Russian President Vladimir Putin may test Nato in the weeks before Donald Trump becomes US president. Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius said he was "very afraid" for the Baltics, as well as the Syrian city of Aleppo. Nowhere is the troubled transition of Donald Trump being watched more carefully than in the Baltic states.  

Is Sydney really in the grip of a housing bubble?
Sydney's sky-high property market has spawned doomsday predictions of a housing bubble on the verge of collapse. But is a "bloodbath" inevitable, asks Ian Lloyd Neubauer. Bidders slugging it out for a A$1.7m (£1.02m; $1.28m) shed. An apartment bought for A$750,000 in 2015 selling for A$1,08m this year.  

New Zealand quake: The geological impact of a 'complex' tremor
The powerful earthquakes which hit New Zealand were some of the most complex ever recorded, say scientists. ...Scientists studying it have said the initial tremor was actually two separate powerful quakes, which together lasted for two minutes. It was one of the most complex quakes ever recorded on land, said Geonet, the national quake-monitoring body.  

Report: 12 members of nuclear negotiating team arrested by Iran for espionage
At least a dozen senior officials who were part of the negotiating team that conducted talks with the west regarding the Islamic Republic's nuclear program were arrested by Iranian authorities on espionage charges, Channel 2 citing an Iranian member of parliament reported Friday. Iranian MP Husein Al Haj said earlier this week that some of those arrested had dual citizenship...  

Mexican Mayor Arrested After Hundreds Massacred and Cooked in Network of Ovens...
Mexican authorities have arrested the former mayor of a rural community in the border state of Coahuila in connection with the kidnapping, murder and incineration of hundreds of victims through a network of ovens at the hands of the Los Zetas cartel. The arrest comes after Breitbart Texas exposed not only the horrors of the mass extermination, but also the cover-up and complicity of the Mexican government.  

UN watchdog chides Iran on nuclear deal
The head of the UN watchdog chided Iran on Thursday for exceeding for the second time an agreed upper limit for nuclear material set out in last year's atomic accord. A report by the International Atomic Energy Agency last week showed that Iran's stock of so-called heavy water had inched above the 130-tonne level set out in the landmark deal.  

Here's Why Trump Is The Perfect Scapegoat for Obama's Failures
According to a recent FBI analysis, there has been an uptick in the number of hate crimes and racist and bigoted behavior in the United States, particularly towards people of Muslim backgrounds. This surge in hate crimes has been so prominent it forced Donald Trump to respond personally to these attacks in an interview with 60 Minutes, in which he urged these criminals to “stop it.”  

Obama Sets New Record For Regulations – 81,640 Pages In 2016
The Obama Administration has just shattered the previous record for pages of regulations and rules published by the Federal Register in a single year.  

Kosovo police 'foil IS attack' on Israeli football team
Kosovan police say they have foiled a plot by so-called Islamic State (IS) to attack the Israeli football team when it visited Albania last week. Nineteen arrests were made ahead of Israel's World Cup qualifier and the group is also suspected of planning attacks inside Kosovo itself.  

Hezbollah has U.S. armored personnel carriers. But how did they get them?
Over the weekend images surfaced online of a Hezbollah parade in Qusair, Syria, featuring U.S. armored personnel carriers affixed with antiaircraft guns. The images prompted a flurry of speculation about the vehicles’ origin and whether the group had pilfered the stocks of the U.S.-supplied Lebanese military.  

ESPN’s Public Editor Agrees With Viewers That Network ‘Has Moved Leftward’
ESPN Public Editor Jim Brady on Election Eve surveyed complaints that the sports network had gone overboard with liberal pieties, frustrating long-time watchers by injecting politics onto the playing field. He agreed with conservative complaints that ESPN had shifted leftward, though the company brass and at least one outspoken lefty personality didn’t see a problem: "One notion that virtually everyone I spoke to at ESPN dismisses is what some have perceived as unequal treatment of conservatives who make controversial statements vs. liberals who do the same." 

Why These Jewish Mystics Think God Helped Trump Win
“I hope that [Trump] will ascend the Temple Mount and, from that source of light and energy in the world, lead us in a dialogue of peace and reconciliation,” Yehuda Glick, a Knesset member and leading figure in the Temple Mount movement, told Israel National News.  

Google and Facebook will be Arbiters of Truth in the War on Fake News
Nov 18th, 2016
CommentaryDAISY LUTHER/DAISYLUTHER.COM
Categories: Contemporary Issues

War has been declared - a war on fake news.

But guess who they're really coming for?

Google and Facebook are on a mission to rid the world of "fake news"

But instead of starting with the New York Times, whose publisher basically admitted that their coverage of the election was dishonest, they're targeting alternative media - the very people who were the ones out there telling the truth during the election.

In fact, in a quote that is rich with irony, the aforementioned NY Times said:

Google kicked off the action on Monday afternoon when the Silicon Valley search giant said it would ban websites that peddle fake news from using its online advertising service. 

Hours later, Facebook, the social network, updated the language in its Facebook Audience Network policy, which already says it will not display ads in sites that show misleading or illegal content, to include fake news sites.

"We have updated the policy to explicitly clarify that this applies to fake news," a Facebook spokesman said in a statement. "Our team will continue to closely vet all prospective publishers and monitor existing ones to ensure compliance."

Taken together, the decisions were a clear signal that the tech behemoths could no longer ignore the growing outcry over their power in distributing information to the American electorate.

Vox agrees that "fake news" is a problem, and cites - I kid you not - an investigation by Buzzfeed to prove their point.

A group of cynical Macedonian hucksters had created dozens of right-wing news sites that publish low-quality pro-Trump news stories. Some are plagiarized from other conservative news sites. 

Others appear to be totally made up, with headlines like "Proof surfaces that Obama was born in Kenya," "Bill Clinton's sex tape just leaked," and "Pope Francis forbids Catholics from voting for Hillary!"

"Yes, the info in the blogs is bad, false, and misleading but the rationale is that 'if it gets the people to click on it and engage, then use it,'" a Macedonian student told BuzzFeed.

Other fake news is generated by partisan bloggers taking news tidbits out of context and drawing totally wrong conclusions from them. 

For example, some confused conservative bloggers misread a leaked email from Clinton adviser John Podesta as evidence that Democrats were manipulating public poll results. 

In fact, Democrats were using a standard polling technique called oversampling on Democrats' own internal polls -- but that didn't stop the story from spreading among online conservatives.

Since Facebook has already been busted suppressing trending news if it supported a conservative point of view, it's no surprise to hear that they plan to do their best to suppress whatever information they want by arbitrarily saying that it's fake.

Vox feels that Facebook can censor monitor the "truth" through algorithms.

Facebook can also add value at the opposite end of the quality spectrum, by identifying articles that are thoughtful and thoroughly reported (and publications with a track record of producing such articles) and giving those an extra boost in the News Feed algorithm.

An advantage of this approach is that it makes it less necessary to make hard judgment calls about whether a particular article is so fake that it needs to be blocked outright. 

Low-quality news (whether outright hoaxes or just sloppy journalism) will just naturally get less exposure because people will only see it after scrolling through the higher-quality news their friends have shared.

I'm pretty sure we can all see where this is leading.

You'll see what they want you to see. It's already to the point at which most people see very little from the pages they "like" on Facebook. I have more than 25,000 readers on one of my pages and I'm lucky if 1000 people see my posts.

They'll hit non-approved websites where it hurts.

The goal is to hit the targeted websites where it hurts, in the owners' wallets.

For example, many independent sites rely on Google AdSense to make a little money. That way, the site can provide information at no cost to you, the reader. 

And don't think that we're raking it in, either - once Google has taken their cut, it isn't that much. Running a small website does not make you rich. Here's what Google had to say about advertising revenue.

"Moving forward, we will restrict ad serving on pages that misrepresent, misstate, or conceal information about the publisher, the publisher's content, or the primary purpose of the web property," Google said in a statement. The company did not detail how it would implement or enforce the new policy, which some accuse is the monetary equivalent of censorship.

The shifts comes as Google, Facebook and Twitter face a backlash over the role they played in the U.S. presidential election by allowing the spread of false and often malicious information that might have swayed voters toward Republican candidate Donald Trump. 

Of course, others have repeatedly accused both Google (which chairman Eric Schmidt's collaboration with the Clinton campaign was revealed courtesy of the Podesta emails), and Facebook of doing everything in their power to promote a Clinton win, so the narrative is not exactly clear on this one.

As for Facebook, they will disallow ads, which can be highly lucrative, to certain sites.  Fortune reports:

"We do not integrate or display ads in apps or sites containing content that is illegal, misleading or deceptive, which includes fake news," Facebook said in a statement, adding that it will continue to vet publishers to ensure compliance.

This follows closely in the footsteps of YouTube, which has removed the right to have ads on any content that is "sensitive" or "controversial." Mac Slavo writes:

The moves by Google and Facebook follow a recent de-monetzation effort at Youtube that has also targeted alternative media. As noted in their "Advertiser Friendly Content Guidelines," they appear to be targeting exactly the issues often covered by alternative media by directly banning:

Content that is considered "not advertiser-friendly" includes, but is not limited to:

Controversial or sensitive subjects and events, including subjects related to war, political conflicts, natural disasters and tragedies, even if graphic imagery is not shown

So basically, anything newsworthy is no longer advertiser friendly, and these organizations will now determine whose news will or won't be seen based on what is sure to be proprietary algorithms and secretive human curation.

If Google, Facebook, and YouTube have their way, anyone reporting information outside the party line will be considered "fake," and they'll work hard to starve out the bloggers, vloggers, and citizen journalists who are providing an alternative point of view.

The bottom line is this: the time and energy required to produce the amount of video content and investigative journalism that we saw during the election is astronomical. 

Thousands of journalists, bloggers and concerned citizens spent countless hours reporting the news the mainstream media wouldn't. Many of those people depend on advertising revenue to cover their most basic website maintenance costs, as well as their monthly mortgages and the food they put on their dinner tables.

The aim with policies like this, which will no doubt be overseen by establishment hacks, is to quite literally starve independent media. In turn, they will starve the people of the information they so desperately need to understand what is being done to them.

How do Google and Facebook plan to become the arbiters of truth?

First, let's define "arbiter." -   ar·bi·ter  -  ÈärbYdYr/ noun plural noun: arbiters

a person who settles a dispute or has ultimate authority in a matter.

"the military acted as arbiter of conflicts between political groups"

a person whose views or actions have great influence over trends in social behavior.

Google and Facebook plan to become those ultimate authorities, but they have have not pointed out exactly what they regard as fake news.

I have questions.

If it differs with their desired bias, does that make it fake?

Will opinion pieces be classed as propaganda if they veer too far from the mainstream party line?

Is all subject matter classed as propaganda considered fake?

Will all stories about a liberal-beloved candidate like Hillary Clinton be considered a lie if they are critical?

Did we actually go to bed in America and wake up in North Korea?

I suspect they'll work hand in hand with other mainstream sites to villainize those who aren't playing ball with the team.

When you see the exact same wording repeated over and over, generally it's a "talking point" that someone has informed the media they are to emphasize. 

Have you ever noticed phrases like "an abundance of caution" or "for your own safety" getting used over and over? It's a talking point, and the collusive media is using it as a propaganda tool. Never trust a talking point.

The new talking point is going to be "fake news."

US News and World Report felt obligated to provide a list of such websites that should be avoided "at all costs."

I spoke to a representative from one of the sites mentioned, Activist Post, who said:

The establishment seems desperate to regain control of the narrative after independent news outlets on this list appear to have tipped the election to Trump.

We believe that we're being unfairly lumped in with deliberately fake websites like The Onion in an attempt to discredit alternative viewpoints of current events.

If you thought the propaganda controlling the minds of the masses was bad before, just wait. You ain't seen nothin' yet.

25 New Dead Sea Scrolls Revealed
Nov 18th, 2016
Daily NewsLiveScience Online
Categories: The Nation Of Israel

More than 25 previously unpublished "Dead Sea Scroll" fragments, dating back 2,000 years and holding text from the Hebrew Bible, have been brought to light, their contents detailed in two new books.

The various scroll fragments record parts of the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Deuteronomy, Samuel, Ruth, Kings, Micah, Nehemiah, Jeremiah, Joel, Joshua, Judges, Proverbs, Numbers, Psalms, Ezekiel and Jonah. The Qumran caves - where the Dead Sea Scrolls were first discovered - had yet to yield any fragments from the Book of Nehemiah; if this newly revealed fragment is authenticated it would be the first.

 Scholars have expressed concerns that some of the fragments are forgeries.

These 25 newly published fragments are just the tip of the iceberg. A scholar told Live Science that around 70 newly discovered fragments have appeared on the antiquities market since 2002. Additionally, the cabinet minister in charge of the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA), along with a number of scholars, believes that there are undiscovered scrolls that are being found by looters in caves in the Judean Desert. The IAA is sponsoring a new series of scientific surveys and excavations to find these scrolls before looters do.

The Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered between 1947 and 1956 in a series of 11 caves by the archaeological site of Qumran in the Judean Desert, near the Dead Sea. During that time, archaeologists and local Bedouins unearthed thousands of fragments from nearly 900 manuscripts.

Some of the Bedouin sold their scrolls in Bethlehem through an antiquities dealer named Khalil Iskander Shahin, who went by the name "Kando." Shahin died in 1993 and his son William Kando now runs his business and estate.

Although the term Dead Sea Scrolls usually refers to the scrolls found at Qumran, there have been scrolls found in caves at other sites in the Judean Desert that are considered Dead Sea Scrolls.

A highlight from the newly published Museum of the Bible collection is a fragment from the Book of Nehemiah (Nehemiah 2:13-16). The fragment tells of a man named Nehemiah who lived during the fifth century B.C., at a time after Jerusalem had been destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 B.C. The Persia Empire had taken over Babylon's territory and the Jews, who had been forced to leave Israel by the Babylonians, were allowed to return home.

The fragment records Nehemiah's visit to a ruined Jerusalem, finding that its gates had been "consumed by fire." According to the fragment text, he inspects the remains of the walls before starting work on rebuilding them. Scholars have noted in previous studies that archaeologists hadn't found any copies of the Book of Nehemiah in the Qumran caves. How this fragment came to America is unknown, and scholars say they can't be sure it's from Qumran.

"It is assumed to come from Cave 4 [at Qumran], but in the final analysis it must be said that the provenance of the fragment remains unknown," wrote Martin G. Abegg Jr., a professor at Trinity Western University who led the team that analyzed the fragment, in the book "Dead Sea Scrolls Fragments in the Museum Collection."