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* Peder Jensen: Violent Crime Rocks Sweden Ahead of Elections
* Burak Bekdil: Congress Holds the Key to the Balance of Airpower between Turkey and Greece
* Gatestone Institute: Gatestone Institute Is Proudly Announces the Winners of its Student Essay Contest


** Violent Crime Rocks Sweden Ahead of Elections ([link removed])
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by Peder Jensen • August 25, 2022 at 5:00 am
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* For the first time, crime tops the list of voters' most important concerns in the run-up to the elections.
* Of the more than 8,200 people the Swedish police counted as being members of criminal gangs by late 2021, almost 15% were under the age of 18.
* Sweden has in just two generations gone from being one of the safest countries in the world to being one of the most dangerous countries in Europe. During the same time, mass immigration has dramatically altered Sweden's population. 1.2 million of those eligible to vote in the elections in September 2022 were born outside Sweden...
* Basem Mahmoud is an imam operating in the heavily Muslim-dominated area of Rosengård in Malmö. He has called Jews "the offspring of pigs and apes," said he was "only quoting the Koran," and is looking forward to "the great battle" when all non-Muslims will be forced to submit themselves to Muslims.
* In a sermon in February 2022, Mahmoud went on the attack against Swedish schools and social services and stated that Muslims are taking over the country. "Sweden is ours," he said. " It is ours, whether they [Swedes] like it or not. In ten to fifteen years, it is ours."
* Sweden has one of the world's worst recorded rape rates. In 2018, the state broadcaster SVT revealed that 58% of men convicted in Sweden of rape and attempted rape over the previous five years were born abroad. Some of the most brutal rape cases have involved Muslim or African immigrants.
* Unfortunately, such problems are no longer confined only to major cities. They are spreading to smaller towns and even rural areas across Sweden. Kalmar, a relatively small medieval town of historical importance, has experienced multiple deadly gang shootings.
* Swedes who want their families to be safe from violent crime are running out of places to move to -- unless they decide to leave their homeland behind entirely, as some are doing already.

For the first time in Sweden, crime tops the list of voters' most important concerns in the run-up to the elections. Of the more than 8,200 people the Swedish police counted as being members of criminal gangs by late 2021, almost 15 percent ([link removed]) were under the age of 18.

Pictured: Police commandos enter the Latin School in Malmö, Sweden on March 21, 2022, following an attack in which two teachers at the school were stabbed to death by a student. (Photo by Johan Nilsson/TT News Agency/AFP via Getty Images)

Sweden will hold general elections on September 11, 2022. At the same time, the country is rocked by a wave of violent crime that is unprecedented in modern Scandinavian history.

For the first time, crime tops the list of voters' most important concerns in the run-up to the elections. "It's going to be a very unique type of Swedish election with a very unusual issue at the top of the agenda," Henrik Ekengren Oscarsson, professor of political science at Gothenburg University, told newspaper Dagens Nyheter. Forty-one percent of those surveyed said that law and order are the most important issues in society, as well as the most important political issues.

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** Congress Holds the Key to the Balance of Airpower between Turkey and Greece ([link removed])
Turkey Trying to Buy More Fighter Jets: To Do What?
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by Burak Bekdil • August 25, 2022 at 4:00 am
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* The U.S. House of Representatives on July 14 approved legislation that could create a new hurdle for Biden's plan to sell F-16 fighter jets to Turkey.
* The House approved a measure that basically said that the amendment would bar the U.S. from selling or transferring the [F-16] jets to Turkey unless the administration certifies that doing so is essential to U.S. national security and includes a description of concrete steps taken to ensure that they are not used for unauthorized overflights of Greece (which Turkey repeatedly conducts).
* The U.S. Congress should take into account a political perspective in Aegean military balance -- in addition to the $6 billion or so business for the American industry -- if and when it decides on an F-16 sale to Turkey.
* Turkey, theoretically, is a NATO ally, but in the last decade, Erdoğan's rigid anti-Western ideology has brought Turkey closer to like-minded states such as Russia and Iran. Erdoğan should not be allowed access to critical weapon systems with which he can further threaten Greece, a NATO and EU member. Further escalation in the Aegean Sea is not in anyone's interest in the West.

Turkey, theoretically, is a NATO ally, but in the last decade, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's rigid anti-Western ideology has brought Turkey closer to like-minded states such as Russia and Iran. Erdoğan should not be allowed access to critical weapon systems with which he can further threaten Greece, a NATO and EU member. Further escalation in the Aegean Sea is not in anyone's interest in the West. Pictured: A Turkish Air Force F-16 fighter jet performs aerial maneuvers during an airshow over the Turkish-occupied northern part of Cyprus' capital Nicosia, on November 15, 2021. (Photo by Birol Bebek/AFP via Getty Images)

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan may be a notorious gambler but his miscalculations and bad bluffing have cost Turkey a lot, both economically and geostrategically.

In 2019, underestimating reaction from Turkey's NATO allies, Erdoğan decided to buy the Russian-made S-400 air defense system, the first such system to be purchased by a NATO member state. The cost to the Turkish taxpayer was a good $2.5 billion. The system remains "unpacked": Erdoğan fears further Western sanctions if he actually deploys the S-400s.

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** Gatestone Institute Is Proudly Announces the Winners of its Student Essay Contest ([link removed])
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by Gatestone Institute • August 25, 2022 at 3:30 am
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Gatestone Institute is honored to announce the winners of its educational Gatestone Student Essay Contest on Free Market Capitalism. The contest was launched late last year under the leadership of Lawrence Kadish, a real estate entrepreneur who serves as a Member of the Board of Governors of Gatestone Institute, and Lawrence Kudlow, former Director of the National Economic Council of the United States and the host of the Fox Business Channel's highest rated show, Kudlow. The essay contest was based on Mr. Kudlow's quote:

"We were endowed by our Creator with the inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We were not endowed by the Federal Government. We were not endowed by entitlements. We were not endowed by pork barrel spending; we were not endowed by budgetary earmarks."

First place was tied between Elijah Vickers and Declan Hurley.

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