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	<title>FrontPage Magazine &#187; Anne Bayefsky</title>
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		<title>Benghazi, Bergdahl and Hamas</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2014 04:41:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anne Bayefsky]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The common thread in Obama's foreign policy.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Obama-change-he-can-believe-in.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-233249" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Obama-change-he-can-believe-in-450x233.jpg" alt="Obama change he can believe in" width="344" height="178" /></a>Originally published by <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://humanrightsvoices.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=779a7657507fa1127185b036a&amp;id=db8e4094cf&amp;e=d6c6102f8e"><span style="color: #1255cc; text-decoration: underline;">FoxNews</span></a></span>.</em></p>
<p style="color: #232323;">It is about time that pundits stop describing President Obama’s foreign policy as weak. There is a straight line between emboldening Syria’s Assad by calling him a reformer, Egypt’s Morsi a democrat, Turkey’s Erdogan a friend, Iran’s Rouhani a moderate, and now a Palestinian government that includes Hamas, a peace partner.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Monday&#8217;s speedy announcement that the United States will work with and pay for a PLO-Hamas coalition government is a strong and predictable step in an alarming pattern.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Every one of these moves has deliberately driven a wedge between Obama and Israel. President Obama’s priority is, and always has been, the Muslim world. It has made no difference to this partiality that in the latter world American hostages are languishing in prison cells, the killers of Americans are government insiders, official anti-Semitism is flourishing, and the locals are brutalized.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">At the same time, President Obama has a recurring problem with his choice of best friends. There is an inconvenient discord between the terrorism and violence emanating from his BFF’s and his putative job as commander-in-chief.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The difficulty presents itself, for example, in the context of Benghazi. The anger over Benghazi is more than justified, but not because it is still a mystery why the president sent no one to bomb Libya in order to save Americans under attack. He may have hurt somebody on the ground who was not American, or he may have stirred up local resentment.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">President Obama has never made a secret of his “counter-terrorism” policy. In May 2013 he said quite clearly that even in the face of “terrorists who pose a continuing and imminent threat to the American people,” “before any strike is taken, there must be near-certainty that no civilians will be killed or injured.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Speaking at West Point on May 28, 2014 he reiterated that in taking direct action “against terrorism,” we may strike “only where there is near certainty of no civilian casualties.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The problem is not that he’s unclear. It’s that he isn’t right. International law does not require planning for zero civilian casualties – which would simply encourage combatants to use more civilians as human shields. The Geneva Conventions test is one of proportionality: “An attack which may be expected to cause incidental loss of civilian life [or] injury to civilians” is prohibited if it “would be excessive in relation to the concrete and direct military advantage anticipated.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">So international law is not what is driving President Obama’s foreign policy. What’s really eating him is that he believes we are our own worst enemy. As he said at West Point: “our actions should meet a simple test: We must not create more enemies than we take off the battlefield.” He is worried that if we defend ourselves, we “stir up local resentments.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">That’s a green light for the political enablers of terrorists everywhere to start writing UN speeches, mount new phony demonstrations, and concoct more bogus Islamophobia charges. If we are the ones responsible for creating more terrorists by fighting terrorists, then we may as well just go golfing.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The President’s release of top five Taliban terrorists from Guantanamo this past weekend fits the dogma. As early as May 21, 2009, the President told us: “the existence of Guantanamo…created …terrorists…It is a rallying cry for our enemies.” Unsurprisingly, they prefer their terrorist buddies back in the field.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Similarly, our drone program is dwindling – nothing in Pakistan’s tribal areas since last December – because our enemies don’t like it either. But then, why would they?</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Which brings us back to the President’s embrace of a Palestinian government that includes the terror organization, Hamas – just hours after the PLO-Hamas deal was done.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Why the rush? Why was the issue of legitimizing a terror organization, dedicated to the annihilation of one of our closest allies, not worth more than a few seconds thought?</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The answer is that for President Obama, it was just business as usual. His top priority is not delegitimizing terrorists and fighting to win, but avoiding stirring up local resentments. And Palestinians have made fabricating resentment for every imaginable affront into an art form. “A house is being built!” is a favorite, while Palestinian rocket-launchers and kidnappers and would-be suicide bombers are plying their wares.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Furthermore, the President never seriously tried to stop it. He could have threatened and ensured harsh economic and political repercussions, which Congress would have supported. But he didn’t. Just as he didn’t make any such threats when the Palestinians went to the UN in November 2012 to become a non-member observer state. And just as he didn’t when the Palestinians started signing treaties this past April that legally are only open to states.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The ugly truth is that President Obama is happy to let the UN turn Palestine into a state, and thereby allow Palestinians to avoid negotiation, avoid recognition of the Jewish state, and avoid genuine commitment to peaceful coexistence with its Jewish neighbor. Unilateralism and the UN was always the back-up plan to Kerry’s egoistic globe-hopping.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Asked about Hamas’ continued commitment to militarism, Psaki responded “we’ll continue to evaluate the specifics here.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The specifics are simple. One more Jew-hating, Israel-bashing, American foe has been welcomed into Obama’s Islamist inner circle.</p>
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		<title>Obama’s U.N. Debacle</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Mar 2011 04:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anne Bayefsky]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Obama administration’s big hopes of reforming the Human Rights Council from within are in shreds.]]></description>
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<p><strong>Visit <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/">NationalReviewOnline</a>.</strong></p>
<p>President Obama’s decision to place the  United Nations at the center of his foreign policy took another hit  Friday as the U.N. Human Rights Council ended its latest session in  Geneva. One of the president’s primary justifications for joining the  notorious council shortly after he assumed office was its mandatory  five-year review process; if the U.S. was a member, the administration  claimed, it could influence this process. The process, which quietly  unfolded in back rooms in Geneva over the past six months, has been  exposed to be a total fraud, taking the administration’s cover down with  it.</p>
<p>Starting last fall, the Obama team was a very active participant in a  working group of the council that had been set up to tackle reform. At  the end of February, the working group produced a document summarizing  its decisions, and on Friday the council passed a resolution adopting  that document by consensus — that is, without a vote. Regardless of the  fact that every serious recommendation of the United States was  rejected, Obama’s diplomats refused to call for a vote on the resolution  so that they could vote against it.</p>
<p><strong>To continue reading this article, <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/263102/obama-s-un-debacle-anne-bayefsky">click here</a>.</strong></p>
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		<title>The Danger of ElBaradei: Corruption, Violence, and Nukes for Everyone</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 13:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Anne Bayefsky]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the name of democratic reform, Mohammed ElBaradei is doing his best to appear as the annointed one to succeed Egyptian President Hosni Mubarek, should the government fall. In reality, ElBaradei has more in common with Iranian demagogue Mahmoud Ahmadinejad than anything remotely resembling democracy. He is the former Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), where his primary legacy was running interference for Iran and ensuring that Iran is now on the verge of acquiring nuclear weapons.]]></description>
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<p>In the name of democratic reform, Mohammed  ElBaradei is doing his best to appear as the annointed one to succeed  Egyptian President Hosni Mubarek, should the government fall. In  reality, ElBaradei has more in common with Iranian demagogue Mahmoud  Ahmadinejad than anything remotely resembling democracy. He is the  former Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency  (IAEA), where his primary legacy was running interference for Iran and  ensuring that Iran is now on the verge of acquiring nuclear weapons.</p>
<p>Year-after-year for a decade, ElBaradei used his position at the IAEA to  stall for time on behalf of Iran. In September 2005 ElBaradei helped  push the issue off the Security Council table and bragged: &#8220;I am  encouraged that the issue has not been referred to the Security Council,  precisely to give time for diplomacy and negotiation.&#8221; Typical of his  foot-dragging was his February 2006 report: &#8220;Although the Agency has not  seen any diversion of nuclear material to nuclear weapons or other  nuclear explosive devices, the Agency is not at this point in time in a  position to conclude that there are no undeclared nuclear materials or  activities in Iran. The process of drawing such a conclusion &#8230; is a  time consuming process.&#8221;</p>
<p><span id="more-115673"></span>In January 2007, in the midst of growing calls for sanctions against  Iran, ElBaradei suggested a &#8220;time-out.&#8221; In September 2007, with stiffer  sanctions on the horizon, ElBaradei again called for a &#8220;time-out.&#8221; In  January 2008 the IAEA reported: &#8220;ElBaradei has repeatedly noted that &#8230;  the IAEA has not seen any diversion of material to nuclear weapons or  other nuclear explosive devices.&#8221;</p>
<p>As soon as ElBaradei was finally replaced as IAEA head early last year,  his successor Yukiya Amano attempted to distance himself from the  obvious cover-up. He issued a report in which the IAEA, for the first  time, said things like &#8211; on the basis of &#8220;extensive&#8221; and &#8220;credible&#8221;  information the IAEA now has &#8220;concerns about the possible existence in  Iran of &#8230; current undisclosed activities related to the development of  a nuclear payload for a missile,&#8221; and &#8220;concerns about possible military  dimensions to Iran&#8217;s nuclear program.&#8221;</p>
<p>If El Baradei were ever to become President of Egypt, not only would he  have helped Iran acquire nuclear weapons, he would undoubtedly turn  around and lead the charge for an Egyptian nuclear weapon. Nobel Prize  notwithstanding, his calling card is to cast nuclear proliferation as  some kind of equal rights game between developed and developing  countries.</p>
<p>Here is the frightening interview he gave to the Financial Times on  February 19, 2007 that indicates the kind of Iranian look-alike which is  in the making: “Iran sees enrichment&#8230; as a strategic goal because  they feel that this will bring them power, prestige and influence&#8230;[A]  lot of that is true. A nuclear capability is a nuclear deterrent in many  ways&#8230;When you see here in the UK the programme for modernising  Trident, which basically gets the UK far into the 21st century with a  nuclear deterrent, it is difficult then for us to turn around and tell  everybody else that nuclear deterrents are really no good for you&#8230;”</p>
<p>Reports out of Egypt directly connecting ElBaradei&#8217;s political ambitions  with Tehran surfaced last September via a political rival, Abdul  Mabboud. <a href="http://eyeontheun.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=779a7657507fa1127185b036a&amp;id=7ae6a0f839&amp;e=ec83833888" >A story translated from Egyptian Newspaper Al Youm Al Sabeh last September said</a>:  &#8220;in a communication to the Attorney General of Egypt, Dr. Yasser Najib  Abdel Mabboud, has accused Dr. Mohamed ElBaradei&#8230;of receiving funds  exceeding $7 million (US) from Iran’s leadership as support for  ‘political reform in Egypt’.&#8221; The story claimed that &#8220;the check in the  amount of $ 7 million is said to be meant to cover the financial costs  of the election campaign and the activities of the Front for Change.&#8221;</p>
<p>The shoe sure seems to fit. ElBaradei told CNN&#8217;s Fareed Zakaria Sunday  that: &#8220;The Muslim Brotherhood &#8230;has nothing to do with  extremism&#8230;[T]hey have a lot of credibility&#8230;And I have been reaching  out to them.&#8221; Actually, ElBaradei&#8217;s comrade-in-arms is a viciouslt anti-Semitic and anti-Western organization that would send Egyptian women  back to the stone ages and rupture peace agreements with Israel as a  warm-up act.</p>
<p>If the Obama administration throws Mubarak overboard in the immediate  future with nothing but an ElBaradei-Muslim Brotherhood front man in the  wings, Egyptians will be farther away from democracy than they ever  were and the rest of the world will be a far more dangerous place.</p>
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