BREAKING: Disgraced Leftist Journalist Arrested for Making Threats Against Jewish Community Centers

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Juan Thompson

No, he wasn't a Trump supporter.

Judging from his Twitter feed, he was a virulent leftist anti-Trumper who saw racism everywhere.

According to Gateway Pundit, he was actually a Bernie Sanders partisan.

He also was a self-proclaimed Muslim "revert."

A year ago, he was fired by the Intercept for fabricating a fake interview with a non-existent cousin of mass-murderer Dylan Roof.

Recently, he was fired from another writing job after his employer became aware of his earlier actions.

He then wrote a column blaming the whole thing on racism.

It now turns out he had in the meanwhile been stalking and harassing an ex-girlfriend, culminating in a bizarre scheme to frame her for threatening the Jewish community centers.

From the Washington Examiner:

St. Louis man, former journalist, arrested for making threats against Jewish centers

A St. Louis man has been arrested for making some of the bomb threats against Jewish community centers.

According to a criminal complaint filed in the Southern District of New York, Juan Thompson, 31, was arrested on one count of cyberstalking. The crime carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison.

Thompson allegedly threatened the Anti-Defamation League's New York headquarters and eight Jewish community centers while allegedly trying to "harass and intimidate" a former girlfriend.

According to the FBI, Thompson made bomb threats in her name in an attempt to intimidate her.

The FBI complaint charged that he emailed a threat against the ADL in New York and named the woman, saying she was "behind the bomb threats against the jews. She lives in nyc and is making more bomb threats tomorrow." The next day, the ADL received a phone call claiming a bomb was in its headquarters.

In early February, an anonymous threat to a JCC in Manhattan included Thompson's name, and said he "put two bombs in the office of the Jewish center today. He wants to create Jewish newtown tomorrow."

The FBI complaint includes Thompson's alleged Twitter account, @JuanMThompson, which is also linked to a journalist of the same name who wrote for the Intercept from late 2014 until early 2016.

As recently as a week ago, the Thompson Twitter account posted "the hatred of Jews goes across all demos. Ask NYC's [Victim-1's employer]. They employ a filthy anti-Semite in [Victim-1]. These ppl are evil."

"Threats of violence targeting people and places based on religion or race – whatever the motivation – are unacceptable, un-American, and criminal," Preet Bharara, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, said in a statement.

Thompson was fired from the Intercept in February 2016 after the discovery of a "pattern of deception" in his reporting, and fabricated quotes in several stories.

"Thompson went to great lengths to deceive his editors, creating an email account to impersonate a source and lying about his reporting methods," editor-in-chief Betsy Reed said at the time.

In a statement on Friday, Reed said the Intercept was "horrified" to learn about the arrest.

"These actions are heinous and should be fully investigated and prosecuted," Reed said, adding that they have "no information about the charges against Thompson other than what is included in the criminal complaint."

There have been no arrests yet in connection with the nationwide robocall threats that have been made to JCCs across the country.

Austrian Woman Denies Holocaust on Facebook. Police then Search Her House and Find Nazi Slogan affixed to Her Toilet. She is Fined $1,280 and Given a Suspended Sentence. However, Police Don't Release Her Name Due to the Country's Privacy Laws.

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"Excuse me, can we use your bathroom?"

Mahound's Paradise is not in favor of Holocaust denial.

We think it's ignorant, irrational and potentially hateful - if that term still has any meaning after years of abuse by the left.

But we also believe it's silly and dangerous to make it illegal.

Germany and Austria had a legitimate reason to censor pro-Nazi sentiments after the war, but that time has long past.

And of course, against the background of the Islamification of Europe, where a raid on literally any mosque would turn up nasty anti-semitic literature, and where Jews are being driven out of their neighborhoods not by Nazis but Muslims - who have in practice been enthusiastically invited in by European governments - prosecuting a naive, non-violent 53-year-old German woman for "pro-Nazi" sympathies is pretty misdirected and sick.

But what got me, of course, was the clincher: after the police search her house and charge her for a small sign displayed on her own toilet, they then do not release her name due to privacy laws.

From the Jewish Press, February 20:

Austrian Woman Fined for Denying Holocaust in Bathroom

A court in Feldkirch, Austria, on Friday fined a woman $1,280 and gave her a suspended jail sentence for calling the Holocaust “lies” and placing a pro-Nazi sign above her toilet, AP reported. The woman accused of “spreading lies” a German soccer club that commemorated the victims of Auschwitz on its Facebook page. Police then searched her house and discovered the sign in her toilet. However, according to AP, because of Austria’s privacy laws police did not release her name.

And here is the story in The Local:

'Hitlerine' who denied Holocaust given suspended jail sentence

A woman who denied that the Holocaust took place and displayed a sign over her toilet saying “This Hitlerine needs a clean latrine” has been found guilty of breaking Austria’s anti-Nazi law and given a seven month suspended jail sentence.

A court in the western city of Feldkirch in Vorarlberg also handed the 53-year-old a €1,200 fine.

The woman was charged after she criticized a Facebook posting made by a German football club commemorating the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp and paying homage to the victims. In a response, she accused the club of “spreading lies”.

An anonymous internet user tipped off the police, who searched the woman’s house and found the sign in the toilet.

It is illegal in Austria to praise the Nazi era or to deny its crimes.

The woman’s lawyer described her as a “simple housewife” who had never heard of Austria’s Prohibition Act.

The woman, who has not been named, said she regretted the comments she made online, and that she had been misinformed about the Holocaust after watching a TV documentary. She added that the sign in the toilet was “just a joke”.

Former Tallest Building in Tehran Collapses in Horrific Fire - Perhaps 30+ Firefighters Killed

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The iconic Plasco Building, a fifteen-story concrete and steel-framed building in downtown Tehran, and the tallest building in the city from 1960 to 1963 collapsed earlier this morning in an horrific fire.

The collapse was witnessed by thousands on the ground and recorded live by hundreds of sources.

Though most news stories aren't mentioning it, it is of course impossible not to immediately think of the Trade Center collapse.

In some ways the cases are similar. They both happened on a sunny morning and were witnessed in awe and horror by commuters. In one of the videos, an unseen voice wails in Farsi as the Plasco Building starts to fall. Though I can't say precisely what he said, the conveyed emotion was eerily the same as that expressed in some of the most well-known videos from 9/11.

As with 9/11, I assume this was an unprecedented tragedy for Tehran's firefighters. Reports have varied as to casualties but it's clear that many died.

There's some debate on the internet as to whether or not Plastco had a steel frame. I assume it did as it would be hard to construct a 15-story building without one. It appears as if the fire melted the metal frame past the breaking point.

Of course a fifteen-story "skyscraper" doesn't seem high by modern American standards. And Tehran itself now has many taller buildings and towers. Some of the firefighters were actually able to spray water through the top windows of the building from cranes, and indeed one narrowly missed perishing as the wall collapsed next to his elevated platform.

Obviously, this tragedy was on a much smaller scale than that of 9/11, and today's fire was a "mere" disaster, not a terrorist attack. Many of those in the Middle-East now mourning the Plasco collapse were cheering the collapse of the Twin Towers.

But that makes no difference to the firefighters who died today or their family members.

The building was built by Jewish businessman, Habib Elghanian who named it after his plastics company.

That was in the days when Jews were allowed to build skyscrapers in the Muslim Middle-East.

Elghanian would later be executed for "espionage" in an anti-Jewish purge shortly after the 1979 Islamic revolution.

Here is dramatic footage of the collapse on live television:

And here is the latest from Reuters via the Daily Mail:

Troops, rescuers search for trapped firefighters after Iran building collapse 

By Parisa Hafezi 

ANKARA, Jan 19 (Reuters) - Soldiers, sniffer dogs and rescue workers searched for trapped firefighters and medics treated dozens of casualties after a blazing high-rise building collapsed in downtown Tehran on Thursday. 

One witness described the 17-storey commercial building's collapse as like a "scene from a horror movie." 

State TV reported that at least 75 people, including 45 firefighters, had been hurt when the building came crashing down in a giant cloud of dust early on Thursday morning. 

Mayor Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf said there were about 25 firefighters trapped under rubble and the semi-official Tasnim news agency said troops had been sent to help dig through the ruins. 

One of the first firefighters to be reached shouted "leave me alone, let me go back inside and save my trapped colleagues" as he was brought out, Tasnim reported. 

Most of the hurt had been taken to hospital and many were quickly discharged, state TV said. 

An electrical short circuit caused the fire, Tasnim said, citing an official in the Tehran governor's office. Reuters could not immediately verify the cause. 

Earlier, President Hassan Rouhani had ordered an "immediate investigation" and compensation for those affected. 

The building's occupants were evacuated but firefighters had still been trying to control the fire when the building came down. 

State TV said the occupants included garment manufacturers and broadcast footage of business owners trying to re-enter the wreckage. 

Sniffer dogs searched for signs of survivors buried under giant slabs of concrete and heaps of twisted metal. The rescue operation could last more than two days, state TV said. 

The Plasco building in southern Tehran was more than 50 years old. Tasnim said it "had caught fire in the past". 

A fire department spokesman told state TV that the building's tenants "had been warned repeatedly in the past months by the municipality to evacuate the building because of safety concerns." 

The owner of a nearby grocery store, forced by police to leave the area, told Reuters by telephone that "it was like a horror movie. The building collapsed in front of me." 

The semi-official Fars news agency said police had cordoned off the British and Turkish Embassies that are located near the Plasco building. 

"The flames could be seen kilometers away from the old building," the Fars news agency reported. (Writing by Parisa Hafezi; Editing by Richard Lough)

Bizarre Video: "Psycho" Muslima Attempts to Stab Two IDF Soldiers

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This happened two days ago at a bus stop near Ariel, Israel.

A woman in a hijab, pink tunic and jeans walks towards two Israeli soldiers with a large knife hidden behind her back. It looks like the soldiers suspect something.

She then reveals the knife and walks slowly towards them with the knife raised. They step back. She keeps walking towards them as if in a horror movie. You can't hear anything from the video, but presumably they are yelling at her to stop or put it down, etc.

Finally, one of them shoots her in the chest, perhaps as she is lunging at them.

The video was taken by a motorist who apparently just happened to be driving by.

Thoughts:

One's first reaction might be, did they really have to shoot her? After all, they are soldiers, perhaps partially armored. She is merely a woman with a knife. And because she is moving so slowly she doesn't look that dangerous. It's like watching one of those horror movies where you imagine you could just casually step away from the slow-moving zombie. But I think they did the right thing, or at least they didn't do the wrong thing. She could have seriously injured one of them. And it's not their job to risk their lives to save hers - she's the one who initiated the attack. Consider also that the video seems to show that at first they were closer to her and tried to get out of her way. If it makes anyone feel better, apparently her gunshot wound was not fatal and she is recovering in the hospital.

Where did she come from? Was she dropped off? Did she climb an embankment? Or was she just casually strolling along a highway with a knife behind her back looking for Jews to stab?

This is just one example - though one of the better recorded - of literally hundreds of Muslim stabbing attempts against Israelis in the last few years. And a number were "successful," resulting in many deaths and injuries. What kind of culture encourages people - not hardened ISIS militants, but presumably "ordinary" citizens with no criminal records - to literally become psycho knife attackers?

Teen Vogue Muslima is (Surprise!) a Big Fan of Hitler and the Holocaust

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A Muslim woman recently took some selfies in front of an anti-Islam protest in Belgium. She "confronted" and then "charmed" the "haters." The whole thing went viral on social media. Here's the title blurb for a rhapsodic piece that Teen Vogue wrote two days ago:

Yeah. She's a total badass, alright. Social media sleuths soon found that she was a foul-mouthed anti-semite who approvingly tweeted about Hitler and the Holocaust.

There was more on other sites. Zakia Belkhiri has since scrubbed all her social media accounts, telling the BBC that "she didn’t want to look like a girl who seeks attention." But two days ago she tastefully tweeted a different view:

By the way, Sarah Harvard of Teen Vogue is a tireless author of Islamist agitprop:

Does the Holocaust count as one of the "real issues of racism"? Or is that one of the things she won't say sorry for?

Read more about Belkhiri at Pamela Geller and Breitbart.

In the Wake of the Brussels Terror Attacks, Jewish Volunteer Calls Belgian Government Crisis Center and Gets (Surprise!) an Operator Named "Zakaria" Who Tells Him that Israel Doesn't Exist and that the Jews Are Occupiers of Palestine

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"How can I help you, you filthy Jew?"

This sort of thing is not really surprising. The overall Muslim population of Belgium is 5% to 7%, though it is higher in most major cities, constituting 20% and 25% of Antwerp and Brussels, respectively. Despite what you might hear from Islamophobes like me, some Muslims have "assimilated" or at least they have assimilated in so far as they hold down actual jobs in the mainstream economy (such as working in the IPG Belgium Call Center featured in this story).

Now we can add the polite and helpful but politically opinionated call center operator to the gallery of harmless everyday Muslims--the handsome academic, the nice veiled woman, the pleasant baker--featured in Charlie Hebdo's "How the hell did I end up here?"   

Via Elder of Ziyon from Joods Actueel, translated by The New Antisemite:

At least two Israelis were injured in the terror attacks in Brussels. Israel would like to fly them home and so in order to release them from the hospital, a Jewish volunteer called up the Crisis Center set up by the Ministry for Internal Affairs to ask about the procedure. 

He was told that the Israeli victims could not be sent back to Israel, they can only be sent back to Palestine. The family of the victim is shocked and says that "It's just like Iran here". 

This is not the first time an emergency responder decides a Jewish medical emergency is a good reason to preach for Palestine. During the Gaza war, a doctor refused to treat a 90 year old Jewish woman, and suggested to "send her to Gaza for a few hours"

Here is the recorded conversation in Flemish, followed by a translated transcription:

Contact with the Crisis Centre of the Ministry of Internal Affairs 

Wednesday March 30th around 17:00 

XXX: Good afternoon, my name is XXX, I am a volunteer in the Jewish coordination committee of Antwerp. We are contacted by persons… we have 2 persons of the Jewish community that were hurt in the attacks in the airport 

Crisis Centre: Yes sir 

XXX: They are prepared to be transported back to Israel. Our volunteers are busy with it and take care of everything but we received information from the hospital that we need special papers from the police that they can be released. Is this correct and to who should we ask that? Can you tell me more about that? 

CC: That is effectively.. I will take a look. So … they go back to Palestine. 

XXX: Not Palestine, Israel. 

CC: Yes, but that was before Palestine, of course. OK 

XXX: Could you repeat that again, please? What is the name? 

CC: That … Palestine. 

XXX: Can I get your name, please? 

CC: Of course, Zakaria. 

XXX: And you know only Palestine? 

CC: Sorry? 

XXX: You don’t know Israel, only Palestine? 

CC: I know the Jews went to there, that Palestine received (opvangen) them and that there is a war between Israel and Palestine, of course. And the occupation… that’s what's on the news of course. 

XXX: Can you help me with the question I have, or not? 

CC: Naturally, of course. Thus they go back to Palestine and ask that they could get an attestation. Voila, it is noted. 

XXX: Can I have you name again, I didn’t understand it well. 

CC: Zakaria 

XXX: Zakaria? 

CC: That is correct. 

XXX: Zakaria what? What is your last name? 

CC: I am not obliged to give it. 

XXX: OK 

XXX; Thank you very much. 

CC: You're welcome. Bye

EoZ adds this from The Jewish Telegraphic Agency:

Michael Freilich, the editor-in-chief of Joods Actueel, said it “defies imagination” that a Belgian state employee would display the anti-Israel behavior that is commonplace in Arab countries. He also called for punishing the operator instead of issuing the “standard apology.” 

The recording’s release follows at least four recorded cases in which people who either spoke Arabic or wore Muslim traditional garb, destroyed, concealed or removed Israeli flags at an impromptu memorial space set up for the attacks’victims at Place de la Bourse in Brussels. It features many flags, including of Arab countries and the Palestinian Authority.

Donald Trump Brings Down the House at Pro-Israel AIPAC Conference: Video and Full Transcript

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Earlier today, Donald Trump spoke at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) 2016 Policy Conference at the Verizon Center in Washington.

Outside the largely Jewish, pro-Israel event, often violent leftist mobs grotesquely compared Trump to Hitler and hurled antisemitic slurs.

And in the oddly named Google+ group, The Conservative Union, which only on Saturday tut-tutted about "bigotry" towards Mormons, members took the opportunity of Trump's speech to rail against "pandering" to Israel, Zionism and the Jewish vote and then equated the policies of the Jewish State with the violent land-grabs of Mao's China.

Who are the fascists?

It was a great speech. It was also the first pre-written speech of Donald Trump's campaign.

For a man who is often accused (with some justice) of sounding crass and petty, his remarks at the Conference were wise, righteous and presidential.

It is obviously not unreasonable for Republicans and conservatives to support other candidates. But those Republican and conservative Never Trumpers who used the speech simply to take more potshots at the man are the ones who ended up looking small.

Unless one believes that every word Trump utters, including "and," "but" and "if" is just a cynical lie to sell more self-help books or whatever, then if one is pro-Israel, it is impossible to believe that Trump would not be much better for the Jewish State than Obama/Clinton.

Is he perfect on the issue of Israel or Islamic Terrorism? No. Among other things, we're still waiting for him to apologize to Pamella Geller for his unjust remarks about the Draw Muhammad attack in Garland, Texas.

But he's looking better all the time.

Here is the video followed by a transcription from Time Magazine:

       

Good evening. Thank you very much. 

I speak to you today as a lifelong supporter and true friend of Israel. (CHEERS, APPLAUSE) 

I am a newcomer to politics, but not to backing the Jewish state. 

(APPLAUSE) 

In 2001, weeks after the attacks on New York City and on Washington and, frankly, the attacks on all of us, attacks that perpetrated and they were perpetrated by the Islamic fundamentalists, Mayor Rudy Giuliani visited Israel to show solidarity with terror victims. 

I sent my plane because I backed the mission for Israel 100 percent. 

(CHEERS, APPLAUSE) 

In spring of 2004 at the height of the violence in the Gaza Strip, I was the grand marshal of the 40th Salute to Israel Parade, the largest-single gathering in support of the Jewish state. 

(APPLAUSE) 

It was a very dangerous time for Israel and frankly for anyone supporting Israel. Many people turned down this honor. I did not. I took the risk and I’m glad I did. 

(APPLAUSE) 

But I didn’t come here tonight to pander to you about Israel. That’s what politicians do: all talk, no action. Believe me. 

(APPLAUSE) 

I came here to speak to you about where I stand on the future of American relations with our strategic ally, our unbreakable friendship and our cultural brother, the only democracy in the Middle East, the state of Israel. 

(CHEERS, APPLAUSE) 

Thank you. 

My number-one priority is to dismantle the disastrous deal with Iran. 

(CHEERS, APPLAUSE) 

Thank you. Thank you. 

I have been in business a long time. I know deal-making. And let me tell you, this deal is catastrophic for America, for Israel and for the whole of the Middle East. 

(APPLAUSE) The problem here is fundamental. We’ve rewarded the world’s leading state sponsor of terror with $150 billion, and we received absolutely nothing in return. 

(APPLAUSE) 

I’ve studied this issue in great detail, I would say actually greater by far than anybody else. 

(LAUGHTER) 

Believe me. Oh, believe me. And it’s a bad deal. 

The biggest concern with the deal is not necessarily that Iran is going to violate it because already, you know, as you know, it has, the bigger problem is that they can keep the terms and still get the bomb by simply running out the clock. And of course, they’ll keep the billions and billions of dollars that we so stupidly and foolishly gave them. 

(APPLAUSE) 

The deal doesn’t even require Iran to dismantle its military nuclear capability. Yes, it places limits on its military nuclear program for only a certain number of years, but when those restrictions expire, Iran will have an industrial-sized, military nuclear capability ready to go and with zero provision for delay, no matter how bad Iran’s behavior is. Terrible, terrible situation that we are all placed in and especially Israel. 

(APPLAUSE) 

When I’m president, I will adopt a strategy that focuses on three things when it comes to Iran. First, we will stand up to Iran’s aggressive push to destabilize and dominate the region. 

(APPLAUSE) 

Iran is a very big problem and will continue to be. But if I’m not elected president, I know how to deal with trouble. And believe me, that’s why I’m going to be elected president, folks. 

(CHEERS, APPLAUSE) 

And we are leading in every poll. Remember that, please. 

(CHEERS) 

Iran is a problem in Iraq, a problem in Syria, a problem in Lebanon, a problem in Yemen and will be a very, very major problem for Saudi Arabia. Literally every day, Iran provides more and better weapons to support their puppet states. Hezbollah, Lebanon received — and I’ll tell you what, it has received sophisticated anti-ship weapons, anti-aircraft weapons and GPS systems and rockets like very few people anywhere in the world and certainly very few countries have. Now they’re in Syria trying to establish another front against Israel from the Syrian side of the Golan Heights. 

In Gaza, Iran is supporting Hamas and Islamic jihad. 

And in the West Bank, they’re openly offering Palestinians $7,000 per terror attack and $30,000 for every Palestinian terrorist’s home that’s been destroyed. A deplorable, deplorable situation. 

(APPLAUSE) 

Iran is financing military forces throughout the Middle East and it’s absolutely incredible that we handed them over $150 billion to do even more toward the many horrible acts of terror. 

(APPLAUSE) 

Secondly, we will totally dismantle Iran’s global terror network which is big and powerful, but not powerful like us. 

(APPLAUSE) 

Iran has seeded terror groups all over the world. During the last five years, Iran has perpetuated terror attacks in 25 different countries on five continents. They’ve got terror cells everywhere, including in the Western Hemisphere, very close to home. 

Iran is the biggest sponsor of terrorism around the world. And we will work to dismantle that reach, believe me, believe me. 

(APPLAUSE) 

Third, at the very least, we must enforce the terms of the previous deal to hold Iran totally accountable. And we will enforce it like you’ve never seen a contract enforced before, folks, believe me. 

(APPLAUSE) 

Iran has already, since the deal is in place, test-fired ballistic missiles three times. Those ballistic missiles, with a range of 1,250 miles, were designed to intimidate not only Israel, which is only 600 miles away, but also intended to frighten Europe and someday maybe hit even the United States. And we’re not going to let that happen. We’re not letting it happen. And we’re not letting it happen to Israel, believe me. 

(CHEERS, APPLAUSE) 

Thank you. Thank you. 

Do you want to hear something really shocking? As many of the great people in this room know, painted on those missiles in both Hebrew and Farsi were the words “Israel must be wiped off the face of the earth.” You can forget that. 

(APPLAUSE) 

What kind of demented minds write that in Hebrew? 

And here’s another. You talk about twisted. Here’s another twisted part. Testing these missiles does not even violate the horrible deal that we’ve made. The deal is silent on test missiles. But those tests do violate the United Nations Security Council resolutions. 

The problem is no one has done anything about it. We will, we will. I promise, we will. 

(CHEERS, APPLAUSE) 

Thank you. 

Which brings me to my next point, the utter weakness and incompetence of the United Nations. 

(CHEERS, APPLAUSE) 

The United Nations is not a friend of democracy, it’s not a friend to freedom, it’s not a friend even to the United States of America where, as you know, it has its home. And it surely is not a friend to Israel. 

(APPLAUSE) 

With President Obama in his final year — yea! 

(LAUGHTER) 

(CHEERS, APPLAUSE) 

(LAUGHTER) 

He may be the worst thing to ever happen to Israel, believe me, believe me. And you know it and you know it better than anybody. 

So with the president in his final year, discussions have been swirling about an attempt to bring a Security Council resolution on terms of an eventual agreement between Israel and Palestine. 

Let me be clear: An agreement imposed by the United Nations would be a total and complete disaster. 

(APPLAUSE) 

The United States must oppose this resolution and use the power of our veto, which I will use as president 100 percent. 

(APPLAUSE) 

When people ask why, it’s because that’s not how you make a deal. Deals are made when parties come together, they come to a table and they negotiate. Each side must give up something. It’s values. I mean, we have to do something where there’s value in exchange for something that it requires. That’s what a deal is. A deal is really something that when we impose it on Israel and Palestine, we bring together a group of people that come up with something. 

That’s not going to happen with the United Nations. It will only further, very importantly, it will only further delegitimize Israel. It will be a catastrophe and a disaster for Israel. It’s not going to happen, folks. 

(CHEERS, APPLAUSE) 

And further, it would reward Palestinian terrorism because every day they’re stabbing Israelis and even Americans. Just last week, American Taylor Allen Force, a West Point grad, phenomenal young person who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, was murdered in the street by a knife-wielding Palestinian. You don’t reward behavior like that. You cannot do it. 

(APPLAUSE) 

There’s only one way you treat that kind of behavior. You have to confront it. 

(APPLAUSE) 

So it’s not up to the United Nations to really go with a solution. It’s really the parties that must negotiate a resolution themselves. They have no choice. They have to do it themselves or it will never hold up anyway. The United States can be useful as a facilitator of negotiations, but no one should be telling Israel that it must be and really that it must abide by some agreement made by others thousands of miles away that don’t even really know what’s happening to Israel, to anything in the area. It’s so preposterous, we’re not going to let that happen. 

(CHEERS, APPLAUSE) 

When I’m president, believe me, I will veto any attempt by the U.N. to impose its will on the Jewish state. It will be vetoed 100 percent. 

(APPLAUSE) 

You see, I know about deal-making. That’s what I do. I wrote “The Art of the Deal.” 

(LAUGHTER) 

One of the best-selling, all-time — and I mean, seriously, I’m saying one of because I’ll be criticized when I say “the” so I’m going to be very diplomatic — one of… 

(LAUGHTER) 

I’ll be criticized. I think it is number one, but why take a chance? (LAUGHTER) 

(APPLAUSE) 

One of the all-time best-selling books about deals and deal- making. To make a great deal, you need two willing participants. We know Israel is willing to deal. Israel has been trying. 

(APPLAUSE) 

That’s right. Israel has been trying to sit down at the negotiating table without preconditions for years. You had Camp David in 2000 where Prime Minister Barak made an incredible offer, maybe even too generous; Arafat rejected it. 

In 2008, Prime Minister Olmert made an equally generous offer. The Palestinian Authority rejected it also. 

Then John Kerry tried to come up with a framework and Abbas didn’t even respond, not even to the secretary of state of the United States of America. They didn’t even respond. 

When I become president, the days of treating Israel like a second-class citizen will end on day one. 

(CHEERS, APPLAUSE) 

Thank you. 

And when I say something, I mean it, I mean it. 

I will meet with Prime Minister Netanyahu immediately. I have known him for many years and we’ll be able to work closely together to help bring stability and peace to Israel and to the entire region. 

Meanwhile, every single day you have rampant incitement and children being taught to hate Israel and to hate the Jews. It has to stop. 

(APPLAUSE) 

When you live in a society where the firefighters are the heroes, little kids want to be firefighters. When you live in a society where athletes and movie stars are the heroes, little kids want to be athletes and movie stars. 

In Palestinian society, the heroes are those who murder Jews. We can’t let this continue. We can’t let this happen any longer. 

(CHEERS, APPLAUSE) 

You cannot achieve peace if terrorists are treated as martyrs. Glorifying terrorists is a tremendous barrier to peace. It is a horrible, horrible way to think. It’s a barrier that can’t be broken. That will end and it’ll end soon, believe me. 

(APPLAUSE) 

In Palestinian textbooks and mosques, you’ve got a culture of hatred that has been fomenting there for years. And if we want to achieve peace, they’ve got to go out and they’ve got to start this educational process. They have to end education of hatred. They have to end it and now. 

(APPLAUSE) 

There is no moral equivalency. Israel does not name public squares after terrorists. Israel does not pay its children to stab random Palestinians.
You see, what President Obama gets wrong about deal-making is that he constantly applies pressure to our friends and rewards our enemies. 

(CHEERS, APPLAUSE) 

And you see that happening all the time, that pattern practiced by the president and his administration, including former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who is a total disaster, by the way. 

(LAUGHTER) 

(CHEERS, APPLAUSE) 

She and President Obama have treated Israel very, very badly. 

(APPLAUSE) 

But it’s repeated itself over and over again and has done nothing (to) embolden those who hate America. We saw that with releasing the $150 billion to Iran in the hope that they would magically join the world community. It didn’t happen. 

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President Obama thinks that applying pressure to Israel will force the issue. But it’s precisely the opposite that happens. Already half of the population of Palestine has been taken over by the Palestinian ISIS and Hamas, and the other half refuses to confront the first half, so it’s a very difficult situation that’s never going to get solved unless you have great leadership right here in the United States. 

We’ll get it solved. One way or the other, we will get it solved. 

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But when the United States stands with Israel, the chances of peace really rise and rises exponentially. That’s what will happen when Donald Trump is president of the United States. 

(CHEERS, APPLAUSE) We will move the American embassy to the eternal capital of the Jewish people, Jerusalem. 

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And we will send a clear signal that there is no daylight between America and our most reliable ally, the state of Israel. 

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The Palestinians must come to the table knowing that the bond between the United States and Israel is absolutely, totally unbreakable. 

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They must come to the table willing and able to stop the terror being committed on a daily basis against Israel. They must do that. 

And they must come to the table willing to accept that Israel is a Jewish state and it will forever exist as a Jewish state. 

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I love the people in this room. I love Israel. I love Israel. I’ve been with Israel so long in terms of I’ve received some of my greatest honors from Israel, my father before me, incredible. My daughter, Ivanka, is about to have a beautiful Jewish baby. 

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In fact, it could be happening right now, which would be very nice as far as I’m concerned. 

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So I want to thank you very much. This has been a truly great honor. Thank you, everybody. Thank you. 

Thank you very much. 

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