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15,000 Opinion. Tradition. PEOPLE CAN LIBERALS ON BECOMING ATTEND OVERLOOK AN ISRAELI TRUMP'S FLAWS? AMERICAN FESTIVAL A2. A7. A11. THE algemeiner JOURNAL YOM KIPPUR EDITION $1.00 - PRINTED IN NEW YORK FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2017 | 9 TAMUZ 5778 VOL. XLV NO. 2324 Abbas’ Fatah Movement Bernard-Henri Lévy: Jews Have Praises Har Adar ‘Special Obligation’ Terrorist as ‘Martyr’ to Support Kurdish Independence BY BEN COHEN Lévy was scathing on the subject of the Kurds’ immediate neighbors, calling Turkey, Iran and Iraq “the same gang” as far as the Kurds are concerned. “When you think that the three of them have the nerve to appeal to international law,” he said. “Th e hands of Iran’s leaders are still wet with the blood of the 400,000 Syrians that Bashar al-Assad has butchered with the help of Hezbollah. Palestinian terrorist Nimr Mahmoud Ahmed Jamal. Photo: Facebook. Kurdish Peshmerga from Syria and Iraq on the frontline against ISIS. Photo: ekurd.net. BY BEN COHEN in Jerusalem (sic — Har Adar) is for the terrorists and their families.” Turkey has on its hands the blood of the lawyers, intellec- Martyr (Shahid) Nimr Mahmoud According to PMW, Jamal’s tuals, military offi cers, and ordinary citizens who have been Th e ruling Fatah movement Ahmed Al-Jamal,” Israeli monitoring family will receive annual compen- tortured to death in the jails of Istanbul and Ankara. Iraq, in the Palestinian Authority organization Palestinian Media sation for life of approximately just in recent memory, has that of the thousands of Kurds rushed on Tuesday to praise Watch (PMW) reported. $9,000, based on the PA’s sliding gassed in Halabja (when thousands of Kurds were killed in Nimer Mahmoud Ahmad Jamal — Former Israeli Interior scale that adds extra funds for each a poison gas attack on this city launched by Iraqi forces.)” the terrorist who murdered three Minister Gideon Sa’ar drew atten- wife and child of dead or convicted “And this merry band is invoking law and morality?” Israelis in the West Bank commu- tion to the fi nancial compensation terrorist. Jamal is reported to have Lévy continued. “We must be dreaming.” He argued that nity of Har Adar, near Jerusalem. Jamal’s family can now expect had one wife and four children. the Erdogan regime poses the most immediate threat to On its Facebook offi cial page, from the PA, declaring that there Fatah — the faction headed Kurdish independence, “because it has, in addition to all the Fatah honored the killer by posting “is no greater encouragement of by PA President Mahmoud Abbas rest, economic leverage.” his picture alongside the text, “Th e terror than the Palestinian Author- — added that Israel bore respon- Continued on Page A3 one who carried out the operation ity’s generous policy of allowances Continued on Page A4 Bulgaria's ShabbatCalendar YOM KIPPUR Times for New York City, Friday Candle Lighting Shabbat Begins: 6:23pm | Shabbat Ends: 7:19pm יום כיפור Rescue of 50,000 Jews P.O.B. 250746, Brooklyn, NY 11225-3203 Tel: (718) 771.0400 | Fax: (718) 771.0308 page A8 Email: [email protected] www.algemeiner.com © Copyright 2016 Th e Algemeiner Journal - All Rights Reserved. A2 | FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2017 Opinion. Can Liberals Overlook Trump’s Flaws and Embrace His Policies? is arguably one of the worst human rights But another key test awaits Jewish disasters of the 21st century. Democrats. With Trump intent on either The report was a scandal that under- renegotiating the deal with Iran or nulli- JONATHAN S. TOBIN mined the museum’s mission by exonerating fying it, the Jewish community will soon be JNS.ORG Obama for his decision to let Syria and its faced with a difficult choice. people burn, even when chemical weapons If this issue were removed from were being used to kill innocents. The shock partisan politics and personalities, the that the study generated forced the museum to debate would be one-sided. Support for Is there anything that would entice almost immediately withdraw the document. an effort to either improve or throw out an liberal Jews to stand with President Donald The lesson here was not so much the agreement that empowered and enriched Trump or to join with him in trashing former chutzpah of those involved in this disgrace, but the world’s leading state sponsor of terror President Barack Obama’s legacy? the extent of the loyalty that prominent Jewish — a country that is still intent on destroying The obvious answer is nothing. In the wake Democrats still feel for Obama — especially Israel — would be a no-brainer. of Charlottesville, most voters’ disgust with now that he’s been replaced by Trump. Instead of seizing, in Obama’s words, US President Donald Trump delivers his first Trump is at an all-time high — but especially address before the UN General Assembly. Yet as dismaying as this episode was, we an opportunity to “get right with the world,” Photo: UN. liberal Jews, who were already appalled with may soon witness a similar scenario being Iran has used the last two years to become him. Moreover, the longer that Trump is in played out on a far greater stage, as Jewish even more aggressive. The ayatollahs’ object of Trump’s enmity — a point empha- office, the better that his predecessor looks to Democrats are faced with a choice about how military expedition in Syria has established sized during his address to the United Nations many Americans, if only for his more presiden- to react to Trump’s efforts to roll back the Iran what is, for all intents and purposes, a land — it would likely be roundly denounced by tial temperament — if not his policies. nuclear deal. bridge to its Hezbollah terrorist auxiliaries in every segment of responsible Jewish opinion. Yet a desire to defend Obama’s record The Iran deal was Obama’s signature Lebanon. Along with the Iranians’ renewed Yet because many Jews see this fight as a has been very much in the news these days. foreign policy achievement. In order to alliance with Hamas, Tehran now has the political battle, rather than a genuine security One especially egregious instance took place prevent a dubious Congress from preventing ability to launch a three-front war against threat, reactions to Trump’s effort are predict- at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in its confirmation, Obama made it a litmus test Israel at any time of its choosing. Moreover, ably partisan. Washington. of party loyalty, and Democrats filibustered the terms that Obama negotiated for the Perhaps it is too much to ask liberals That museum’s board is made up of Republican efforts to vote it down. nuclear deal have done nothing to make the to realize that even Trump can be right, and both scholars and political appointees. So One of the key episodes of that battle world safer. At best, the deal merely puts off an Obama could have been dead wrong about it was little surprise that after eight years of was Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netan- Iranian bomb for a few years. something so important. But if that is the only being packed with loyal Jewish Democrats yahu’s mistake in accepting a GOP invitation In other words, the Iran nuclear pact way they can view this issue, then the moral (following eight years of Jewish Republicans to address a joint session of Congress to is an indefensible swindle negotiated by an failure is theirs. appointed by George W. Bush), the board speak out against the accord. Obama was administration so determined to get a deal at Jonathan S. Tobin is opinion editor would commission a study about the events able to pressure most Democrats to view this any price that it abandoned every principle of JNS.org and a Contributing Writer for in Syria, which was essentially a whitewash of as a personal insult, and Netanyahu’s speech that it should have defended. Were it not the National Review. Follow him on Twitter at: Obama’s dismal failure to act to prevent what undermined opposition to the deal. personal project of Obama and the particular @jonathans_tobin. Valerie Plame Knew Exactly What She Was Tweeting This was not the first time Plame blink reality. Plame had to know what she was the retweeted Giraldi’s garbage. In 2014, she doing, since she was aware of Giraldi’s bigotry. Algemeiner Journal ALAN DERSHOWITZ re-tweeted one of his screeds with the Her apologies ring hollow. Her true feelings BOSTON following notation: “Well put.” And after were revealed in what she said before she (USPS 927800) is published weekly tweeting the current antisemitic article she realized that she would be widely condemned (except for the week of Passover described it as: “Yes, very provocative, but for her original re- tweet. She must now do and Succos) thoughtful. Many neocon hawks ARE Jewish. more than apologize. She must explain how Subscription rate $40 per year Ugh.” Nor is this the only time that Plame has she came upon the article? Who sent it to her? Valerie Plame had to know what she was Algemeiner Journal re-tweeted other nonsense from the bigoted Does she regularly read bigoted websites? tweeting. Plame re-tweeted a virulently antise- platform this piece came from – a platform of Why is she reading and re-tweeting a known 508 Montgomery Street mitic article by a well-known bigot, which she which she has pleaded ignorance. According antisemite? What are her own personal views Brooklyn, N.Y. 11225-3023 characterized as “thoughtful.” Now she’s trying to journalist Yashar Ali, Plame has tweeted regarding the content of Giraldi’s article.