Saturday morning roundup

Josh Gelertner at NRO lays out four scenarios that, if the hostile players - that is, the Palestinians and their sponsors - were to genuinely get on board, might get the "peace process off dead center. The bullet-point version:

1) Israel could say publicly: We will accept a Palestinian state tomorrow, under these conditions: A Palestinian state must be demilitarized. Jerusalem must remain Israeli, as must East Hebron and the largest settlement blocks. In exchange for this territory being annexed to Israel, the most heavily Palestinian part of Israel — the Wadi Triangle — will be annexed to the Palestinian state: Two states for two peoples, as the saying goes. . . 

2) Those European bankrollers — who give the Palestinians hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign aid every year — could demand that the PA lift its ban on Palestinians voluntarily selling land to Jews. Per the Palestinian Authority’s own Central Bureau of Statistics, roughly a third of Palestinians wish to emigrate from the West Bank. But they don’t have enough money to make the move. Selling their land to Jews anxious to live in the heartland of ancient Israel (who are the only people who want to buy it) would give emigration-minded Palestinians money enough to settle in Jordan or the Gulf States or Europe, as they wish to do. . . . 

3) Along the same lines, Israel, or peace-minded donors in Israel or the U.S. or anywhere else, could simply offer to sponsor any Palestinians who wish to leave. . . 

4) Thirty miles southwest of the Gaza–Egypt border is the Egyptian city of Arish; between Arish and Gaza, there is more or less nothing but desert. Israel could make a multi-billion-dollar investment in the Egyptian economy, irrigating part of that desert and paying for the construction of a port city between Arish and Gaza, using Egyptian and Palestinian labor. Then Israel would offer apartments in that city, for free, to West Bank Palestinians. . . 

Brexit's popularity with the British public is on the upswing:

The campaign to take Britain out of the EU has opened up a remarkable 10-point lead over the Remain camp, according to an exclusive poll for The Independent.

The survey of 2,000 people by ORB found that 55 per cent believe the UK should leave the EU (up four points since our last poll in April), while 45 per cent want it to remain (down four points). These figures are weighted to take account of people’s likelihood to vote. It is by far the biggest lead the Leave camp has enjoyed since ORB began polling the EU issue for The Independent a year ago, when it was Remain who enjoyed a 10-point lead. Now the tables have turned.

Even when the findings are not weighted for turnout, Leave is on 53 per cent (up three points since April) and Remain on 47 per cent (down three). The online poll, taken on Wednesday and Thursday, suggests the Out camp has achieved momentum at the critical time ahead of the 23 June referendum.

Stephen Hayes at The Weekly Standard chimes in with a point that echoes those made by Rich Lowry at NRO and Kimberly Strassel at WSJ to which I linked in a post yesterday about how Squirrel-Hair's approach to life is set in stone and how Pubs are left making excuses for him:

Many Republican leaders back Trump anyway. Their reasoning is, well, complicated: Trump may be a bigot and a boor, but he's our bigot and he's our boor, so he must be president.

Some of them—perhaps most of them—understand that this argument is self-discrediting and self-debasing. They know it's indefensible to accept and promote the Trump that they've seen over the past year, so they pretend that he might change—giving more weight to a 15-minute speech he read from a teleprompter than the multitude of disqualifying moments they've observed throughout his candidacy. "Using a prepared text last night and not attacking any other Americans was a good start," McConnell said on June 8, reiterating his support for Trump. McConnell said he's holding out hope for a "more thoughtful Trump," which is like wishing for warmer ice.

All in all, it's a triumph of hope over experience. Trump isn't going to change. And a party that works to elect him deserves its fate.

And, regarding the other party's moral-monster presidential candidate, a spate of books is coming out that may, shall we say, present her campaign with challenges. There's Clinton Cash by Peter Schweitzer, which focuses on the pay-for-play raison d'être of the Clinton Foundation. There's Crisis of Character by Gary J. Byrne, who, as a Secret Service agent, was stationed right outside the Oval Office during the Billy Jeff the Zipper years and has some pretty startling observations. But if your primary interest is in the details of what a spark plug Billy Jeff has been over the course of his lifetime, and what a cold marriage based solely on mutual political benefit BJ and Hillionaire have, check out Hillary: The Other Woman by Dolly Kyle. She met BJ on a Hot Springs, Arkansas golf course when both were in high school, and over the next few decades, decades that included his becoming president, was perhaps his most consistent sex partner. Their relationship was such, though, that he could confide in her about how many other women he was dallying with, and how he called Hillionaire "The Warden". Oh, and how  Hillionaire, who knew her, got her to lie on 60 Minutes:

In 1974, he told her of this woman he had moved in with at Yale. It was simply a decent place to live, a roof over his and she would never be an issue between them, he intimated.

The now 60-something Dolly didn't realize at the time that Hillary's role was financial provider, a role that started at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.

'Hillary's role of providing financial security for Billy was part of her motivation for the series of financial crimes (yes, crimes) that she committed over the decades'.

'Hillary was upholding her part of the deal to get Billy elected president, after which it would be her turn to be the first woman in the Oval Office', lawyer and author Dolly Kyle writes in her bombshell book Hillary, The Other Woman, published by WND Books.

‘Billy and Hillary Clinton continue to be lying, cheating, manipulative, scratching, clawing, ruthlessly aggressive, insatiably ambitious politicians who are giving public service a bad name – and nothing about them has changed in the past forty-plus years, except that they have deluded more and more people’.

'The Clintons and their misled supporters have rewritten history to suit their political agenda, which is to get votes to get power to get money to get more power to get more money'.

'The Clintons' vicious cycle of intertwining greed and power addictions will have no limit, unless someone stands up and announces, "The emperor has no clothes!"

'Here am I', writes Dolly.

'Ideology, integrity, and love of country were never involved in the "Billary" quest for the White House.

'It was always a codependent, co-conspiratorial grab for money and power and more money and more power'.

'Unfortunately for them and for the United States of America, there is never enough to satisfy addicts'

Sick stuff:

Dolly started sleeping with Bill after high school and admits 'Billy was a sex addict; I was a codependent'.'Then I read about sex addiction. I realized that Billy and I shared a similar problem,' she writes. He confessed his sex addiction to Dolly in 1987 and was undone by Wilt Chamberlain's claim to have slept with 20,000 women.'That's ten times more than I've had!' he told Dolly.He notoriously never used a condom and Dolly guessed Hillary wasn't concerned because she wasn't sleeping with him because of her 'lifestyle'.It didn't matter that Bill married Hillary in October 1975, Dolly writes. Dolly and Bill continued their love affair and were safe in Arkansas because no one liked Hillary, she says.Chomping at the bit for her own term as governor or president, she still had private investigators tracking Bill and the 'women he was dating or attacking'.Bill called her 'the Warden', but 'she had to keep his nose clean in the public mind because she was riding his coattails to political power'.

And then there's the Big Media Deceit of 1993:

The Clintons' reaction was for Dolly, a lover of Bill's for years,  deny that he had any liaison with Gennifer but admit that he did have a lengthy close relationship with her that began when they were in high school.They wanted the big lie to be told on the television show, 60 Minutes, with Hillary, Bill and Dolly sitting in a room facing the camera.The Clintons believed that the confession would make Gennifer's story disappear and now the media would focus on Dolly, who was loved in Arkansas.

But Hillary didn't care about her husband's affections for Dolly. She did care if Gennifer Flowers' confession derailed Bill's run for President that year.Dolly, a stickler for the truth, however, refused to go along with the big deceit and she was told, 'Bill and Hillary will have to destroy you'.

Have you wondered why the various gadgets in your life don't work as well as they once did?

The Obama administration’s seemingly never-ending wave of energy efficiency regulations for everyday household appliances don’t seem to be working very well, according to congressional testimony.

Energy Department regulators have or plan to impose 23 different energy efficiency regulations for household appliances by 2018, and already the home appliance industry and policy experts find these rules just make appliances cost more and perform worse.

Planned decline, baby!

And what the hell is up with brands such as Angel Soft and Old Navy making their Father's Day promotions about women? There's been a backlash, which is encouraging to see.

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