Dear President Obama, I wanted to say goodbye and show you the respect due to a tenacious adversary. Many US Jews, and even a few here in Israel, thought you were a friend. But for us settlers, there was no question that you were a challenger, a formidable foe. It was easy to determine. Your Condemnations You and your team condemned our homes and lives in the West Bank as “illegitimate,” and branded us “occupiers.” Now, it is one thing to theorize that Israel should rip up settlements and part with our ancestral lands for the sake of a compromise to end the conflict. But it is quite another to say that our presence in these areas is “illegitimate” or that Israel is an “occupation.” For us “settlers,” the West Bank of the Jordan River — Judea and Samaria — is the Jewish historic heartland, where most of our people’s foundational stories took place. From our perspective, living here is key to giving the modern state of Israel its rooting in Jewish history and connecting it to the two previous Jewish commonwealths that existed on this very soil. If we weren’t here, the historic foundations of our connection to this land would be undermined. If we have no rights to ancient Hebron, we certainly won’t have them to modern Tel Aviv. Our Security Furthermore, it is a core settler belief that evacuation from Judea and Samaria — Israel’s mountainous highlands — would undermine Israel’s security. The 2005 Gaza evacuation and immediate takeover by Hamas proved us right. Today, three wars and more than 1,000 of our casualties later, more than half of our country agrees that, as jihad becomes prevalent in the region, the last thing Israel needs is Palestine looking down on us from the mountaintops. So, while you obsessively condemned us in Paris, at the Security Council, and in your last interview, as illegitimate occupiers, we see ourselves as historically legitimate, having a deep connection with our land and on the front lines of the battle to defend our small country. The Scorecard However, your attack on Israel went beyond criticism of the settlements. If we were keeping a scorecard of the boxing match between you and Israel, I would say that you landed three big punches: Iran — In your steadfast embrace of Iran, you dropped the sanctions and released millions of dollars into the coffers of the world’s number one terror exporter and a dangerous and determined hater of Israel. You legitimized the jihadists while delegitimizing the only light of liberty in the region, the Jewish state. Big point for you. Jerusalem — In the Supreme Court case “Zivotofsky v. Kerry,” lawyers for your State Department successfully defended the idea that Congress cannot require the State Department to indicate in American passports that Jerusalem is part of Israel. In other words, you pushed hard to perpetuate the lie that Jerusalem is not the capital of Israel all the way up to America’s highest court, and won. Point for you. Settlements — In your last days in office, you called for America’s abstention from an anti-Israel resolution at the UN, which derided the presence of Jews in Judea and Samaria and east Jerusalem in such famous Palestinian landmarks as… the Western Wall. You even supported a last-ditch delegitimization conference in Paris literally a week before you were no longer going to be a policy-maker in America — once again, to condemn Israelis as illegitimate occupiers on the world stage. Another big point for you. However, the boxing match was not one-sided and you, President Obama, took a few punches as well: The Middle East meltdown — You wanted the Arab world to rise during your presidency, but in fact, it plummeted into chaos. Without a strong American will and presence, the jihad turned on itself, killing half a million Syrians, with millions more displaced. The Arab Spring turned into a repressive blood-letting and your allies, our enemies, became weaker. Point for us. Donald Trump — Your policies, President Obama, which alienated the American people, allowed, in part, for the Trump phenomenon. The new president may be a wild card, but most indications show that he does not share your contempt for Israel, for Jerusalem and for the Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria. We are looking forward to the next four years. Point for us. A stronger Israel — Strangely, we can thank you for the positive growth in Israel since you came into office. Inadvertently, you, President Obama, made Israel stronger. The average Israeli never bought into your charm and knew that you were an adversary. This helped Israel gain a new sense of self, a realization that though we have friends and allies, we cannot be a puppet state, and must act independently with our own best interests at heart. You helped bring about this healthy evolution in the Jewish state. Furthermore, your pro-Iran stance propelled Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a player on the world stage and gained him, and Israel, popularity in the US and around the globe. Moreover, with all the threats of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement damaging Israel, which you have tacitly supported, Israel’s economy is booming and the world can’t get enough of what we have to offer. Finally, in spite of your efforts, and probably to your great consternation, there are more Israelis in Judea, Samaria and east Jerusalem today than when you started. Indeed, Jewish communities are flourishing, and there is more political support for the Jews of Judea and Samaria then ever. Big point for us. The Final Tally On balance, given that you’re not living on Pennsylvania Avenue anymore, but we’re still living in Beit El, Efrat, Ma’ale Adumim and Shilo, I think Israel wins. But we have no doubt that you’re not down for the count. I hear that you are the first US President since Woodrow Wilson who will remain in Washington after his term, and I bet you will find a way to affect global affairs and spar with us once again. I assure you, though, that we here in Judea, Samaria and east Jerusalem intend on staying put, as well. We wish the American people well, as they — and we — put your presidency behind us. Until next time, Read more at https://www.breakingisraelnews.com/82374/goodbye-president-obama-settlers-opinion/#w2A4WKKI4cpukoRw.99

I laughed at this. It’s not me although he is a friend. Whatever you say ElPunto. Whatever you say!!! Awesome results! Is this the first black minister in Canada?

What happened to the topic?

Galbeedi, this was a republican year saaxib. The democrats wanted 12 or 16 years, but in American politics, that doesn't happen that easy. The fact that Hillary was running also complicated any third term for the democrats. I still believe nothing would have changed the final result even if Comey didn't act so disgracefully.

Something is brewing. I think Trump is so delusional that he thinks he can keep playing these games and get away with it. If he colluded with the Russians to rig the election, he is done.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcJSspjgNtY

Big blow for Dahabshiil. They spent 3 million dollars chasing Dahir Alasow.

Congrats ElPunto. Great achievement for the Somalis. He is muslim He is Black He is an immigrant.

Looks like an interesting book. However, I don't like the book cover design. It looks amateurish and done by a 2nd grade student.

AUN. The past 2016 year was horrible at so many levels. I pray that 2017 bring better conditions for everyone affected.

Oh my. That is really cheap. They could have raised that amount from Somali business community.

Of all people , C/weli Gaas, a Harvard educated man , had not only removed a good and hard working man, but prevented the introduction of life changing methods of life. Word has it, Abdiweli fired this minister because he was getting more attention than he was. Somalia is cursed with lack of leadership all over.

Good point Tallaabo. Meet The Jews Begging to Join the Alt-Right Talk about self-hating. Meet the American Jews lining up to shout ‘Seig Heil’ and ‘Hail, Donald.’ JAMES KIRCHICK “I refuse to join any club that will have me as a member,” Groucho Marx famously said. “We insist on joining the club that refuses to have us as members” might as well be the mantra of some aspiring Jewish adherents of the racist “alt-right.” A nebulous collective of internet trolls, neoreactionaries, and outright white supremacists, the alt-right has drawn widespread fascination in the wake of Donald Trump’s presidential election victory, which it helped propel. Contemptuous of mainstream conservativism and explicitly embracing white identity politics, alt-righters are in many ways the mirror image of the racial minority and “woke” liberal activists they gleefully antagonize. This likeness is implicitly acknowledged by the alt-right’s use of the term “identitarian,” a designation that seeks to politicize whiteness. Needless to say, these guys aren’t exactly fans of the Jews. One of alt-right’s leading voices, Kevin MacDonald, has written entire books positing that Judaism is a “group evolutionary strategy” aimed at undermining white, Christian civilization. But none of this seems to faze denizens of “The Jewish Alternative,” a newly launched website and podcast purporting to represent “The Voice of Dissident Jewry.” The alt-right, they say, is the only force willing to protect western civilization—and, by implication, Jews—from the hordes of Muslims, Black Lives Matter activists, and campus totalitarians trying to destroy it. Joshua Seidel, one of the site’s proprietors and an occasional Twitter antagonist of mine, related in an interview that he went through a “pretty typical progression” in his politics. Starting out as a leftist in college, he became a “neocon after 9/11” before winding up where he is today as a wannabe member of the alt-right (or, “alt-light” as he puts it, acknowledging that he’s not as extreme as some of the movement’s more vocal spokesmen, who take pleasure in photoshopping Jewish journalists—including yours truly—into gas chambers). The problem is that, while Seidel desperately wants to join the alt-right club, the feelings aren’t exactly reciprocal. In August, Seidel wrote a piece for the Forward, a Jewish newspaper, entitled, “I’m a Jew, and I’m a Member of the Alt-Right.” Seidel’s self-profession of alt-right membership brought to mind Margaret Thatcher’s imperishable observation about being a lady: “If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.” For while the alt-right is an amorphous movement without any official membership roll, there do seem to be some ground rules, one of which is Jews Need Not Apply. “Alt-Right is explicitly white and jews are not white,” an individual known by the handle EthnoSwede wrote in the comments beneath Seidel’s article, which the Forward eventually disabled once they started to resemble a sewer more befitting Breitbart.com. “You’re not welcome.” Another commenter noted that there “is no such thing as a Jewish ‘alt-righter’” as the movement “is centered around the fundamental truth that Jews have been a cancer upon European civilization since the classical era.” A blunter message was delivered by one Alan S. Nackbarr: “Since you’re versed in the alt-right I assume you’re going to put yourself in the oven?” ADVERTISEMENT inRead invented by Teads Seidel isn’t the only alt-right-curious Jew having the door slammed shut in his face. Breitbart’s Milo Yiannopoulos, who claims Jewish ancestry, was recently targeted by a neo-Nazi website as “the single greatest threat our movement has at this time.” Nevertheless, Seidel still wants in. His persistence might be attributable to the strange fact that one of the alt-right’s founders is himself a Jew. Paul Gottfried, a retired academic, is credited with coining the term “alt-right” along with a man named Richard Spencer way back in 2008. Then, the movement was more closely identified with the “paleoconservative” ideas espoused by Pat Buchanan: economic nationalism, isolationism and a belief that Western European racial identity is intrinsic to American nationhood. (“The alt-right is the direct heir of the paleoconservatives,” writes Jacob Siegel, author of an extensive profile Tablet magazine profile of Gottfried). Only recently, with the rise of Trump and the crass, internet meme-culture that rallied around him, has the alt-right become notorious for anti-Semitism. The alt-right’s embrace of anti-Semitism might also have something to do with the increasing influence of Spencer, who has effectively become leader of the alt-right. Unlike his cranky mentor, Spencer is a self-described “revolutionary” who seeks to transform America into a white ethno-state devoid of Jews, not return it to some idyllic, pre-Civil Rights era past. When I asked Seidel about the recent Washington, DC convention put on by Spencer’s National Policy Institute, where the 38-year-old white nationalist yelled “Hail Trump!” amidst a room full of “fashy” haircut-sporting young men, Seidel was nonplussed. There was, he said, a “tremendous media overreaction to five people giving a sieg heil salute.” A similarly willful denial of reality permeates a manifesto written by Seidel and posted on The Jewish Alternative’s website. While left-wing and Muslim anti-Semitism is permanent and pervasive, he argues, right-wing anti-Semitism is largely overblown and provoked by Jews themselves. (That Jews, or their state, are responsible for the hatred directed against them is, of course, the same excuse one often hears for left-wing and Muslim anti-Semitism). Commenting on The Passion of the Christ, which many critics (Jewish and gentile alike) accused of promoting the contention that “the Jews” killed Jesus, Seidel asks, “Would Mel Gibson EVER have become an anti-Semitic icon had Jews not protested his work, calling him an anti-Semite before he had spoken on the subject?” Indeed, who among us, upon being picked up for drunk driving in Malibu, wouldn’t also declare that “the Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world?” The Jewish Alternative’s podcast, entitled The Skype Chat, appropriates what some alt-Reichers, hoping to evade Twitter censorship, have adopted as a code word for Jews. “Jew/kike=skype, Spic/Mexican = yahoo, gay (men) = butterfly,” explains one handy alt-right glossary. It joins the ranks of other alt-right podcasts like The Daily Shoah and Fash the Nation, something that must surely give nachas to the bubbies of its hosts, who go by the pseudonyms, “Ari ben Canaan” (the Zionist hero of Exodus played by Paul Newman) and “Reactionary Jew.” Ari sounds distressingly like Seth Rogen, if Seth Rogen dropped terms like “remove kebab,” (alt-right slang for ethnically cleansing Muslims), and mused about African immigrants “slinging their excrement on the Arc de Triomphe.” Asked how Jews could make their peace with a movement that explicitly embraces an exclusionary white identity, Reactionary Jew responded that he actually doesn’t want his fellow Members of the Tribe to think of themselves as white; “they are fundamentally an other” who should nonetheless ally with white Christendom. Disclaiming white identity also has the benefit of annoying and confusing the left, which, according to Ari, “sees us as the whitest of the white” due to Jews’ cultural and political influence, high rates of educational attainment and wealth. Ironically, this way of thinking is very much in line with that of leading alt-right activists like the aforementioned Spencer, whom, when I once asked if Jews are white, cautiously replied, “Jews are Jews.” The problem with this race obsession—and this goes for all people, not just Jews—is that it can obscure individual humanity. Despite their ideological antagonism, the hard left and alt-right display a similar mode of collectivist thinking when it comes to the Chosen People: There are good Jews and bad Jews. For the extreme left, the only good Jews are anti-Zionists, committed to gauzy notions of universalism; bad Jews are those who defend Israel or their own cultural heritage too vigorously. For the (non-Nazi) alt-right, the dichotomy is reversed: Good Jews are those who embrace their appointed role as tip of the spear in the civilizational struggle against the Muslim hordes, while bad Jews are those embracing liberal, non-racial pluralism. Both of these options are nuts. Of all people, Jews should know that their well-being is best assured in societies that respect religious and ethnic diversity, pluralism, democratic values and the rule of law. That’s why Jews have so far succeeded in the United States of America. And it’s what makes the enthusiasm for Donald Trump—a man who waged the most divisive, authoritarian, scapegoating and conspiracy-peddling presidential campaign in modern history—among self-described Jewish alt-righters so noxious. In warming up to an explicitly racist and anti-democratic movement that frankly doesn’t want them, they are mimicking some of the most self-destructive behaviors in the tragic history of the Jews

The usual suspects are running around trying to fathom what just happened. ---- Sen. Lindsey Graham says he will propose a measure to pull all American funding for the United Nations over the resolution passed on Friday by the U.N. Security Council that condemned Israeli settlements, CNN reports. "It's that important to me," Graham reportedly said. "This is a road we haven't gone down before. If you can't show the American people that international organizations can be more responsible, there is going to be a break. And I am going to lead that break." He added, "I will do everything in my power, working with the new administration and Congress, to leave no doubt about where America stands when it comes to the peace process and where we stand with the only true democracy in the Middle East, Israel." The U.S., which has veto power, abstained in the 14-0 vote. President-elect Donald Trump adamantly opposed the measure, in alliance with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Trump tweeted on Friday, "Things will be different after Jan. 20th." http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2016/12/24/graham-defund-u-n-after-israel-vote.html?via=mobile&source=copyurl

BREAKING NEWS - Syrian-bound Russian defense ministry plane carrying 91 people including its famous military band disappears from radar moments after taking off from Sochi

Fadumo Dayib is a fraud. She is neither the first (she fed the media lies) nor does she have any important message to help the country. She is doing all of this to carve herself a good career in her European hideout. Istusus.

Your name is familiar. Facebook is fake news. There is nothing to challenge. Everyone becomes dumb. lol

Hibaq, welcome.

Shameless ... I agree.

People are desperate at every corner in Somalia. Why would a politician steal a spot from orphans when he or she can afford to send their kids to a private school? It looks like there is not much to steal anymore. Even politicians are desperate. Every box is empty.

I thought there was something new. Honestly, there is not much there. Apart from the Turkish embassy complex, the city is just a mess. Not much development other than 3 refurbished roads and the Turkish embassy. This video is rehash of existing information. I prefer Hargeisa.

Salax, is Bohol a district shared by different clans?

Very terrible new that Somaliland is slowly being dismantled by tribalism.

Ohio State Attacker Described Himself as a ‘Scared’ Muslim Before running over and stabbing bystanders, Abdul Razak Ali Artan told his college newspaper he was afraid to pray on campus. An apparent attack at Ohio State University on Monday morning has left at least ten people injured after Abdul Razak Ali Artan struck them with his car and slashed them with a knife. Artan was shot dead by police shortly after the attack began at approximately 9:52 a.m., director of public service Monica Moll said at a afternoon press conference. Artan aimed his Honda Civic at a group of pedestrains, jumping the curb, and colliding with them. Artan then exited the vehicle and began slashing pedestrians. By 9:53 a.m. — less than one minute following the start of the attack — responding officer Alan Horujko shot and killed Artan. No other people are suspected in the attack. University police tweeted about 10 a.m. to “run, hide, fight,” a common mantra printed on safety pamphlets for evading an active shooter. Police lifted a shelter in place at about 11:30 a.m. All classes were canceled for the day for the campus's 60,000 enrolled students. Artan described himself as a pious and scared Muslim in an interview with the Ohio State student newspaper in August. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/11/28/attack-with-butcher-knife-and-car-injures-several-at-ohio-state-university.html