Iran Pressured Syria To Fire Back
Syria was most likely pressured by Iran to fire surface-to-air missiles at Israeli aircraft carrying out strikes in Syrian territory over the weekend, an Arab intelligence official told Breitbart Jerusalem.
On Sunday, Israel confirmed attacking Syrian targets, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu explaining the strikes took out weapons bound for the Iran-sponsored terrorist group Hizbullah.
The Arab official said that despite Syria’s wish to change the balance of power vis-à-vis Israel – “whereby Israel attacks Syria repeatedly without retaliation” – according to intelligence estimates from the region “it’s not a good time for [President Bashar] Assad to rock the boat.”
Hamas May Turn To Iran
Hamas’s months-long financial crisis has led to calls from within the Islamic terrorist group to renew its relationship with Iran in hopes of securing future financing, a top Hamas official told Breitbart Jerusalem
The official said that for the last three months Hamas has been unable to pay most of its employees, including those in the security and military wings, more than 60 percent of their salaries.
The source said that the direct reason for the crisis is Egypt’s ongoing campaign to destroy the cross-border tunnels connecting Sinai and Gaza, which have been a valuable lifeline for Hamas.
With the increasing scarcity of the tunnels, Hamas’s ability to levy taxes on incoming goods and smuggle cash for its own purposes has been damaged. Another detrimental factor is the schism between Hamas and its allies in the Sinai’s ISIS branch following pressure from Cairo.
Michael Savage Says It’s ‘Open Season’ On Prominent Trump Supporters
“It is clearly open season on prominent Trump supporters,” talk radio star Michael Savage told this reporter one day after he was reportedly assaulted at a restaurant in Tiburon, California last week.
Savage, who has been credited with aiding President Donald Trump’s election, said that he was not able to comment on the specific alleged incident. His attorney told the news media that Savage was verbally taunted and then assaulted by a restaurant patron.
Speaking generally, Savage told this reporter: “It is clearly open season on prominent Trump supporters. The fascist left has been empowered by their own false narrative that those who support borders, language, and culture – my motto – are evil fascists! This is how Hitler came to power. He used his brown shirts to beat any opponents. The media and police are almost wholly driven by this lie.”
Fake News From The Associated Press
The Associated Press on Monday released a news-making story with a glaring headline claiming that “Most young Americans don’t see Trump as a legitimate leader.”
A closer look at the survey finds that it was conducted by a group financed by billionaire George Soros whose activist arm demands reparations for slavery and “mass incarceration” and has engaged in anti-police activism.
In addition, the survey was not representative of the racial and ethnic profiles of young adults. Instead it focused heavily on demographic samples of populations that voted overwhelmingly against Donald Trump.
The AP story claimed a “majority of young adults – 57 percent – see Trump’s presidency as illegitimate, including about three-quarters of blacks and large majorities of Latinos and Asians, the GenForward poll found.”
“A slim majority of young whites in the poll, 53 percent, consider Trump a legitimate president, but even among that group 55 percent disapprove of the job he’s doing, according to the survey,” the AP article claimed.
The AP reports that the poll, titled GenForward, was conducted “by the Black Youth Project at the University of Chicago with The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.”
A note at the bottom of the article states that the survey “was paid for by the Black Youth Project at the University of Chicago, using grants from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Ford Foundation.”
Unreported by the AP is that the Black Youth Project is financed by Soros’s Open Society Foundations.
The Black Youth Project’s website states that it “work[s] closely with our activist organization, BYP 100, to bring light to efforts to better our communities through direct engagement.”
BYP 100, or Black Youth Project 100, describes itself as an “activist member-based organization of Black 18-35 year-olds, dedicated to creating justice and freedom for all Black people.” It says its mission includes “transformative leadership development, direct action organizing, advocacy and education using a Black queer feminist lens.”
The group demands “reparations for chattel slavery, Jim Crow and mass incarceration.”
The Black Youth Project 100 has engaged in anti-police activism. Last July, the group stormed the lower Manhattan headquarters of the New York Police Department’s largest union, with some activists reportedly chaining themselves to a turnstile while chanting anti-cop slogans in an effort to lock down the building.
The AP repeatedly billed the poll as being representative of “young Americans,” using the terms “young Americans,” “young people” and “young adults” a combined total of 11 times if one includes the title of the article and a graphic inside the piece.
The AP notes that some “young Americans” were particularly incensed about Trump’s previous comments about Mexicans during the campaign.
A close look at the methodology of the poll posted at GenForwardSurvey.com reveals that the survey was conducted in both English and Spanish, and the breakdown of those polled includes a majority of minorities, many of whom tend to hold views more closely aligned with the Democratic party.
The GenForwardSurvey.com website reveals that 49 percent of the completed interviews for the survey come from the Black Youth Project’s own “panel of young adults,” recruited by the NORC at the University of Chicago, which describes itself as “an independent research institution that delivers reliable data and rigorous analysis to guide critical programmatic, business, and policy decisions.”
The website reveals the racial breakdown on the survey: “A total of 1,833 interviews were conducted between February 16 and March 6, 2017 with adults ages 18-30 representing the 50 states and the District of Columbia, including completed interviews with 516 African American young adults, 277 Asian American young adults, 504 Latino young adults, 505 white young adults, and 31 young adults with other racial and ethnic backgrounds.”
That breakdown stresses constituents who voted overwhelmingly against Trump. Hillary Clinton reportedly received some 88 percent of African-American vote and 65 percent of the Latino vote. According to exit polling, Clinton garnered 65 percent of the Asian-American vote.
The breakdown is not representative of demographic trends among the Millennial population, 55.8 percent of whom are white, according to 2015 U.S. Census data.
The GenForwardSurvey.com site itself notes the millennial racial breakdown numbers, which are not consistent with its own survey breakdown. “About 19 percent of millennials identify as Latino or Hispanic, 13 percent as Black or African American, and 6 percent as Asian American,” it states.
Yet the website contends that “to fully understand how young adults think about elections and politicians, issues such as terrorism or gun violence, as well as their economic futures and race relations, we have to apply an intersectional lens and pay attention to characteristics such as race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality.”
