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		<title>Who Chose Hamas to Lead Them?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gazans seek sympathy -- after voting in terrorists who vow to exterminate Jews. ]]></description>
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<p>To understand the people of  Gaza, who now  lay claim to the passions of humanitarians-without-a-cause, one might begin by  considering Gazans’ freely elected leadership: the Hamas terror network.  And to understand Hamas, one might begin  by looking closely at the <a href="http://sirenschronicles.com/2009/01/02/us-policy-helped-build-hamas-power-base/" target="_blank">Hamas logo</a>. The logo’s center features swords and a  golden-domed structure, but the squiggle at the top-center of the logo is most  descriptive. One squiggle is worth a thousand words. That squiggle is not an  Arabic symbol but the map of Israel.</p>
<p>Look even more carefully:  the squiggle – the map of Israel depicted on the Hamas logo – primarily is  <em>pre-1967</em> Israel.  It is Israel <em>without</em> the Gaza Strip.  Hamas has no designs on the Gaza Strip  it controls.  Rather, leveraging  Gaza as a springboard for its actual aspiration,  Hamas illustratively has designs on the only Palestine it ever has coveted:  the Palestine that now is called “the State of  Israel.”  As <a href="http://scaredmonkeys.com/2010/06/04/yikes-helen-thomas-tells-jews-%E2%80%98get-the-hell-out-of-palestine%E2%80%99-and-go-back-to-germany-poland/" target="_blank">Jew-hating journalist Helen Thomas</a> recently said about  Israelis, “Tell them to get the hell out of Palestine. Remember, these [Arab] people are  occupied, and it’s their land.”  The  Jews, Thomas added, can go back where they come from – “Poland.  Germany. . . . And  America and everywhere else.”  (Reflecting ignorance all too common  among the White House press corps, Thomas is unaware that the majority of  Israelis are children of the Middle East, descendants of the <a href="http://www.hsje.org/forcedmigration.htm" target="_blank">850,000 Jews  exiled by Northern African Arab dictatorships</a> during the years  Israel was being  founded.)</p>
<p>The  only “Palestine” that ever existed was always  synonymous with the Jewish homeland that later was renamed &#8220;Israel&#8221; in 1948.  Rent a copy of the 1960 movie &#8220;<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053804/" target="_blank">Exodus</a>.”  Listen dispassionately to the dialogue.  Don&#8217;t take sides.  Just listen for definitions. The British, fairly or  unfairly, are depicted as the bad guys in the movie, trying to keep the Jews out  of &#8220;Palestine.&#8221;  Paul Newman is trying to get the Jews into &#8220;Palestine.&#8221; Everyone watching the movie  perceives that &#8220;Palestine&#8221; is a name that refers  synonymously with &#8220;Israel.&#8221; Thus, what we seem to have  had here is a failure to communicate. It could not be simpler: For the past two  thousand years, since the Romans renamed the land of Israel after they expelled and exiled the Jews,  &#8220;Israel&#8221; always was  synonymous with &#8220;Palestine,&#8221; and &#8220;Palestine&#8221; always was &#8220;Israel.&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Golda_Meir" target="_blank"><em>There never ever was an Arab Palestine  entity</em>.</a> Who, after all, ever was its leader? Try to name  <em>any </em>leader  who <em>ever</em> in history led a sovereign &#8220;Palestinian Arab&#8221; people of &#8220;Arab Palestine.&#8221; What  year was that entity founded? What was the name of its capital city &#8212;  <em>any</em> capital city? Where is the drawing or photograph of its seat of government, or  the place where its governmental leader lived? What was the name of its  currency? Whose face, what slogan was on that currency? When did it fall? In  which Olympic Games did it compete? Which issue of Encyclopedia Britannica had  an entry for its government?</p>
<p>Consider this way:   <a href="http://www.cityofpalestinetx.com/" target="_blank">The American  city of Palestine, Texas was founded in 1846.  It was so named in honor of  an early settler there</a>, Daniel Parker, who hailed from Palestine, Illinois.  That Palestine was <a href="http://www.pioneercity.com/history.html" target="_blank">chartered in  1811.  It drew its name in 1678 from the French explorer, Jean LaMotte, who  looked at the land and named it &#8220;Palestine&#8221; because it reminded him of the  Biblical Promised Land of the Jews, flowing with milk and  honey</a>.  No one associated &#8220;Palestine&#8221; with the Arab community, not even  the French in the 1600s.  Rather, the name was associated with the Jews and  their Biblical Promised Land. The same with Palestine, Arkansas (pop.  741) and East Palestine,  Ohio.</p>
<p>Before the Jewish  country was named “<em>Israel</em><em>” in 1948, even the most ardent Jews  identified the Jewish homeland as “Palestine.” Today’s Jerusalem Post</em>, the  English-language daily newspaper of Israel, originally was called the <em><a href="http://www.jpress.org.il/publications/PPost-en.asp" target="_blank">Palestine Post</a></em>.  The pre-government institution that laid  Israel’s political foundation  was the <a href="http://www.virtualjudaica.com/Item/21187/Memorandum" target="_blank">Jewish Agency for Palestine</a>, headed by Dr. Chaim  Weitzmann, who became Israel’s first head of  state.</p>
<p>It is this “Palestine” – namely, the  State of Israel – that Hamas forthrightly is determined to seize.  The squiggle tells all.  To attain the power to pursue its dream  of eradicating Israel from the map, Hamas first  engaged in more than a decade of bloody terror, <a href="http://www.cfr.org/publication/8968/" target="_blank">killing some 500  people in the course of more than 350 terror attacks</a> since 1993.  Hamas popularized suicide bombing.  Then, during the January 2006 general  elections held freely and with minimal intimidation within the areas of Gaza and  the segments of Judea and Samaria (the “West Bank”) controlled by the Palestine  Authority, the Palestinian Arab electorate voted Hamas into power.  <a href="http://www.elections.ps/template.aspx?id=291" target="_blank">Hamas  won 74 seats, compared to 45 for runner-up Fatah. </a> Former President <a href="http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/En/default.aspx?xyz=U6Qq7k%2BcOd87MDI46m9rUxJEpMO%2Bi1s7fEv4BvqAHWSSctkp9fPMS5RHXh2THa6FUQzspXreoheHsOR%2B%2BgIqahlt%2BMx8Mqc%2Bx4CGBZpPkLOAyecV87jZ638BXAcbCPh5evI2umg4IeA%3D" target="_blank">Jimmy Carter monitored the vote</a> and declared the  election of Hamas “fair and square,” deeming them free, fair, just, and  transparent.  That is, the  Palestinian Arab voters freely chose to be led by a group of terrorists and  suicide-bomb architects <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20050511025028/http:/www.state.gov/s/ct/rls/45394.htm" target="_blank">outlawed</a> <a href="http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/site/en/oj/2005/l_340/l_34020051223en00640066.pdf" target="_blank">throughout</a> the <a href="http://www.mofa.go.jp/policy/other/bluebook/2005/ch3-a.pdf" target="_blank">world</a>.   After winning parliamentary elections, Hamas terrorists in Gaza proceeded to launch a  bloody internecine war against their political competition, Fatah terrorists  loyal to Palestine Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3409548,00.html" target="_blank">More than 600 Arab terrorists</a> killed each other during  the next eighteen months.   Ultimately, Hamas won and seized the reins of power in Gaza.  By virtue of the freely expressed will  of the people of Gaza, Hamas now enjoys popular support to lead  Gazans with the Hamas vision.</p>
<p>On March 5, 1933, the German  people cast their ballots, resulting in Adolf Hitler’s ascent to power as  chancellor of Germany.  The voters knew Hitler’s agenda, and he  prosecuted the agenda he promised them.   Mass terror followed, and the world was submerged into a war that brought  death to tens of millions.  By the  end, America and  England gained an upper hand and had  enough.  In one midnight hour, the  Allies dropped more than 2,300 tons of aerial bombs on Hamburg. During the <a href="http://ww2db.com/battle_spec.php?battle_id=55" target="_blank">bombing  of Dresden</a>, the allies dropped more than 3,900 tons of bombs in two  days, killing some 25,000 Germans.   As the debate raged over whether these aerial bombings had been overkill,  an underlying justification always lay in the recognition that the German  civilian population had elected the Nazis and, by the power of their ballots,  willingly brought the war and destruction on others – and, by the end, onto  themselves.</p>
<p>So it is with Gazans and the  Hamas terror vision for which they voted “fair and square.”  In a world that has seen Iranian  civilians rise up and, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/22/neda-soltani-death-iran" target="_blank">like Neda Soltani, give their very lives</a> trying to  liberate themselves from the yoke of an Islamofascist regime led by Ayatollahs  and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the stark contrast from the people of Gaza is striking.  <a href="http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c4c_1185534648" target="_blank">Gazans  celebrate death</a>.  <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr2aQoCh4Ik" target="_blank">They  celebrate terror</a>.  Given  a free choice, they have opted for a vision of terror aimed at wiping out  innocent Western lives and eradicating Israel off the face of the  earth.  In the face of such  contemporary persecutions as the <a href="http://www.savedarfur.org/" target="_blank">Sudanese terror in Darfur</a> and the Turkish oppression of  the Kurd minority that now numbers more than two million refugees, can anyone  truly make a “fair and square” argument that the people of Gaza are victims of  anything other than their own tragically violent predilection to support terror  over coexistence and war over peace?</p>
<p><em>Dov Fischer is a legal affairs consultant and adjunct  professor of the law of civil procedure and advanced torts. He was formerly  Chief Articles Editor of UCLA Law Review and writes extensively on political,  cultural, and religious issues.  He is author of General Sharon’s War  Against Time Magazine and blogs at <a title="http://www.rabbidov.com/" href="http://www.rabbidov.com/" target="_blank">www.rabbidov.com</a></em></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Where is the apology to Israel -- or, for that matter, to the Armenians?]]></description>
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<p>Turkey has been at the center of the now infamous flotilla incident involving a <a href="http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=IHH+flotilla+hamas+turkey&amp;ei=utf-8&amp;fr=b2ie7">Hamas-connected Turkish “NGO”</a> which attempted to run an Israeli naval blockade off the coast of Gaza. The flotilla was supported<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/02/world/middleeast/02activists.html"> financially by Hamas and peopled primarily by their Turkish allies.</a> It was purportedly seeking to transport 10,000 tons of humanitarian supplies to Gaza.  But in fact, Israel supplies Gaza with <a href="http://www.anglicanfriendsofisrael.com/index.php">15,000 tons of food, medicines, and related humanitarian support every week</a>.  There seems to be more here than meets the eye.</p>
<p>Turkey remains a prime transit route for Southwest Asian heroin into Western Europe. International trafficking organizations that operate within the country, from Ankara to Istanbul and beyond, excel at evading narcotics blockades and interdicts. With all the focus on Turks sailing towards the Hamas seas, defying Israel’s determined effort to bar delivery of military weapons and material to the terrorist government that runs Gaza, one wonders how genteel Turkey’s own internal borders have been.  Does her treatment of religious and ethnic minorities model Western humanitarian values? Consider Turkey’s treatment of her Armenian, Catholic, and Kurdish minorities.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.tellthechildrenthetruth.com/gallery/">Adolf Hitler, a personal friend and ally of Grand Mufti Haj Amin el-Husseini, the founder of modern-day Palestinian Arab nationalism</a>, said in 1939:  <a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:5Xh70o2b5HwJ:www.armenian-genocide.org/hitler.html+Who,+after+all,+speaks+today+of+the+annihilation+of+the+Armenians&amp;hl=en&amp;ct=clnk&amp;cd=1&amp;gl=us">“Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?” </a> Certainly not Istanbul.  For nearly a century, Turkey steadfastly has refused to acknowledge their barbaric genocide between 1915-1918 of 1,500,000 Armenian men, women, and children. Turkey will not apologize <a href="http://www.anca.org/action_alerts/action_docs.php?docsid=15">or even acknowledge the genocide</a> they perpetrated, assuring that one of the most heinous war crimes of the twentieth century festers unresolved. American President <a href="http://www.theodoreroosevelt.org/tr%20web%20book/TR_CD_to_HTML64.html">Theodore Roosevelt</a> contemporaneously wrote in 1918: “[T]he Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war, and the failure to act against Turkey is to condone it&#8230;[T]he failure to deal radically with the Turkish horror means that all talk of guaranteeing the future peace of the world is mischievous nonsense.”  <a href="http://www.armenian-genocide.org/churchill.html">British Prime Minister Winston Churchill said</a>: “In 1915 the Turkish Government began and ruthlessly carried out the infamous general massacre and deportation of Armenians in Asia Minor&#8230;There is no reasonable doubt that this crime was planned and executed for political reasons.”  In 1981, <a href="http://www.anca.org/genocide/reagan.php">Ronald Reagan urged in a Presidential proclamation</a> that the lessons of the Nazi Holocaust never be forgotten “like the genocide of the Armenians before it, and the genocide of the Cambodians which followed it.”</p>
<p>Throughout the week,<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/06/02/israel.netanyahu/index.html"> Israel has acknowledged and publicly regretted</a> the loss of human life due to the flotilla incident, even as Israel has explained why she must continue blockading Gaza – namely, because recent experience has evidenced <a href="http://www.mixx.com/videos/14743012/youtube_weapons_found_on_the_karin_a_ship_in_january_2002">again</a> and <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3800306,00.html">again</a> that Hamas supporters will not stop trying to ship rockets, grenades, and anti-tank missiles to Israel’s bordering enemies to launch terror assaults against Jewish civilian communities. Meanwhile, Turkey still denies the Armenian Genocide ever happened.</p>
<p>As for the country’s Catholics, Bishop Luigi Padovese, a <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704025304575284361935474370.html?mod=djemTAR_h">Roman Catholic bishop, was stabbed to death in Turkey</a> on Thursday shortly before he was scheduled to depart for nearby Cyprus to meet with Pope Benedict XVI.  Three years ago, <a href="http://www.bosnewslife.com/2903-2903-turkish-believers-satanically-tortured-before">three missionaries’ throats were cut out</a> in central Turkey. Their deaths were meant to send a message. The men were disemboweled, and “their intestines sliced up in front of their eyes. They were emasculated and watched as those body parts were destroyed&#8230;Fingers were chopped off&#8230;Noses and mouths and anuses were sliced open.” One was stabbed 156 times, another 99 times, and their “throats were sliced from ear to ear,” according to <a href="http://www.persecution.org/suffering/index.php">International Christian Concern</a>, an American organization based in Washington, D.C.   There is no record of sorrow from <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/7117">Rachel Corrie</a> backers or the IHH.</p>
<p>Under the Turkish Constitution enacted by Kemal Ataturk nearly a century ago, ethnic minorities were barred from expressing cultural distinctiveness in Turkey.  Thus, even as the United States is home to many foreign-language television and radio stations, the Kurdish language was absolutely banned in 1991.  Expressions of Kurdish nationalism continue to be repressed; <a href="http://www.minorityrights.org/download.php?id=425">Kurds in Turkey are restricted from giving their children Kurdish names</a>. <a href="http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/62649/f-stephen-larrabee/turkey-rediscovers-the-middle-east">Turkey has moved closer to the governments of Syria and Iran</a> in dealing with Kurdish nationalism.  In 1995, Leyla Zana, the first Kurdish woman ever elected to Turkish parliament, was sentenced to fifteen years incarceration for “separatist speech,” and her political party was barred. While she was incarcerated in Turkish prison, the European Parliament awarded her the Sakharov Prize in Human Rights. (By contrast, an <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20100602/wl_csm/305513_1">Arab member of the Israeli Knesset was aboard the Gaza flotilla</a> and returned safely to Parliament after the it was stopped.)  In the 1990s, the Turkish government was spending <a href="http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=8+billion+kurds+300%2C000+turkey&amp;ei=utf-8&amp;fr=b2ie7">some $8 billion annually deploying 300,000 troops in southeastern Turkey</a> to suppress Kurdish nationalism.  For numerical perspective, consider that President Obama announced last week that he is dispatching <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2010/05/27/troops-to-the-border/">1,200 National Guard troops to provide administrative support</a> along the porous American border with Mexico.</p>
<p>Turkey killed approximately 25,000 Kurds in the mid-1990s, destroying some 3,000 Kurdish villages during the effort to repress Kurdish nationalism and producing more than 2,000,000 Kurdish refugees.  According to Minority Rights Group International, in a <a href="http://news.stv.tv/world/82611-turkey-disregards-minority-rights-in-schools/">report funded by the European Union,</a> as many as 40% of Kurdish women in Turkey are illiterate and nearly half the children of Kurdish refugees receive no education.  In addition, the government obstructs Armenian and Greek minorities’ school educational efforts.  The Turkish war against the Kurds is so visceral that it threatened Turkey’s willingness to join with American troops against Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda in neighboring Iraq. In an official <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/enlargement/pdf/key_documents/2006/Nov/tr_sec_1390_en.pdf">EU 2006 “Progress Report” on Turkey’s fitness</a> for acceptance in the European Union, it was concluded<em> inter alia </em>that “Turkey [still] needs to significantly improve the situation of fundamental rights in a number of areas and address the problems that minorities are facing.”</p>
<p>Now that the world has been talking Israel for the past week, slowly coming to understand more fully why Israel needs to protect her borders from Hamas state-sponsored terrorism in Gaza, it seems it&#8217;s time to talk Turkey.</p>
<p><em>Dov Fischer is a legal affairs consultant and adjunct professor of the law of civil procedure and advanced torts. He was formerly Chief Articles Editor of UCLA Law Review and writes extensively on political, cultural, and religious issues.  He is author of General Sharon’s War Against Time Magazine and blogs at </em><a href="http://www.rabbidov.com/"><em>www.rabbidov.com</em></a></p>
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<p>Mahmoud Abbas and his Palestine Authority, we are told, comprise the moderate Palestinian alternative to the Hamas-driven vision of mayhem and terror in Gaza.  This assurance is repeated despite Abbas’s well-established biography as <a href="http://www.tomgrossmedia.com/mideastdispatches/archives/000032.html" target="_blank">someone antipathetic to Jews</a> as a people.  In his doctoral thesis, written at Moscow’s Institute  of Oriental Studies, Abbas presaged Mahmoud Ahmadinejad by <a href="http://www.wymaninstitute.org/articles/2003-03-denier.php" target="_blank">denying the Holocaust</a>.  As a top lieutenant to Yasser Arafat – <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasser_Abbas" target="_blank">he named a son “Yasser” for his mentor</a> – he was a terrorist leader, even sporting a <em>nom-de-guerre</em>:  Abu Mazen.  In his prominent role within <em>Al-Fatah</em>, <a href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/si_online/news/2002/08/20/sb2/" target="_blank">Abbas provided the funds that Abu Daoud used to perpetrate the 1972 massacre of eleven Israeli athletes at the Munic Olympic Games. </a> During the period Abbas has headed the Palestine Authority on <a href="http://old.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-fischer052302.asp" target="_blank">the land that Arabs call the “West Bank” and Jews call “Judea and Samaria,”</a> he has honored mass murderers by <a href="http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=171031" target="_blank">naming town squares for them</a>, has permitted <a href="http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=32924" target="_blank">mass media under his control</a> to savage Jews as people, and even has allowed anti-Jewish vituperative to be taught in the <a href="http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=4&amp;x_outlet=28&amp;x_article=94" target="_blank">curricula of his schools</a>.</p>
<p>Now comes word that his Government – ever on the international prowl with outstretched hand seeking <a href="http://english.pnn.ps/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=3315&amp;Itemid=49" target="_blank">hundreds of millions</a> of dollars and euros to cushion <a href="http://www.arabianbusiness.com/485586" target="_blank">its bankrupt economy</a> – has found <a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Palestinians-plan-fund-to-apf-614993593.html?x=0&amp;.v=1" target="_blank">$50 million to fund a new initiative</a>.  The Palestinian Authority will pay Arabs not to accept employment in Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria.</p>
<p>Will American tax dollars indirectly be financing this “fund”?  Inexorably so. Only last year we <a href="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/middle_east/jan-june09/gazaaid_03-02.html" target="_blank">pledged the Palestinian Authority and Gaza $900 million</a>, then rushed them another <a href="http://www.india-server.com/news/us-transfers-200-mn-as-palestinian-aid-9576.html" target="_blank">emergency infusion of $200 million as</a> their economy crumbled.  Yet, while the Palestine Authority may not be wealthy, their sense of irony is rich: If Israelis hesitate to employ Palestinian laborers, sincerely <a href="http://www.vosizneias.com/37989/2009/09/07/ramat-gan-israel-religious-jew-stabbed-to-death-by-fired-arab-worker/" target="_blank">fearing terrorism</a> in their midst, <a href="http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m66218&amp;hd=&amp;size=1&amp;l=e" target="_blank">they are berated as “racist” and “apartheid.” </a> Now, in the face of tens of thousands of Palestinians working amicably with Jews, Mahmoud Abbas will pay them to revert to unemployed rather than to accept employment within Judea and Samaria.</p>
<p>More than 20,000 Palestinian Arabs now work at the industrial parks and construction sites that employ them throughout Judea and Samaria.  Despite continual efforts by Mr. Abbas and Israel’s haters throughout the world to slander Israel as an “Apartheid” entity, the reality is that Arabs often earn from their Jewish employers twice the income they command within Mr. Abbas’s polity.  These are good salaries, and those wages support large families. The people whose lives would be affected by the cynicism – the workers in the industrial parks – do not want to give up those jobs.  The <a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Palestinians-plan-fund-to-apf-614993593.html?x=0&amp;.v=1" target="_blank">Associated Press interviewed</a> Suhail Jaber, who supports his family of eight by working in a picture frame company in the community of Barkan in Samaria, an industrial park employs some 5,000 Arabs. Jaber told the AP that, if forced by Abbas to quit without being assured a new job, he might turn to stealing to feed his family.  Another employee, Samer Awad, “said he would sleep in Barkan&#8217;s furniture factory to avoid detection by Palestinian law enforcement, rather than quit.”</p>
<p>This is the season when pockets of Western campus radicals enjoy proclaiming on their respective campuses their annual day or <a href="http://www.msuuci.com/?p=2098" target="_blank">week of anti-Israel hate</a>.  (They mark May 15, 1948 as the “Day of Catastrophe” because Israel was proclaimed into existence as the Middle East’s first democracy on that day.) Curiously, the anti-Zionists actually are half-correct when they bewail the presence of Apartheid segregation and <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/9623" target="_blank">Nazi-like hatred in the Middle East</a>.  <em>There really is “Apartheid in Palestine.”</em> <em>There really is “Nazi-like hate” in the Middle East.</em> The only tweak on those <a href="http://www.msuuci.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/IAW_FRONT.jpg" target="_blank">anti-Israel posters</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqNhbSaf8ik" target="_blank">Jew-hating sloganeers</a>, and haters <a href="http://videos.mensup.fr/youtube/video/QLvfX_SGcAA/malik-ali-at-uci-51310.html" target="_blank">who call Israel-supporters the “new Nazis</a>,” is that the Apartheid and venom of Nazi-like hatred in Palestine <em>is perpetrated by the Palestinian Arabs</em>.  It is their unbridled insistence on demographic separation – complete, utter separation from Jews – and their concomitant dehumanization and demonization of Jews that sees them refuse to coexist permanently with a Jewish state next door or anywhere in the Middle East.  This social pathology mirrors the Apartheid and Nazi-like vitriol that sees the <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703745904575248301172607696.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTTopOpinion" target="_blank">Coptic Christian minority persecuted in Egypt</a>, the <a href="http://www.persecution.org/Countries/algeria.html" target="_blank">Berber minority persecuted in Algeria</a>, the <a href="http://www.persecution.org/suffering/countryinfodetail.php?countrycode=23" target="_blank">Christian minority persecuted in Saudi Arabia</a>, African <a href="http://www.persecution.org/suffering/countryinfodetail.php?countrycode=11&amp;PHPSESSID=dfd140dfe1541bd582dda6205d6ad0e1" target="_blank">Christians persecuted in the Sudan</a>, the <a href="http://news.bahai.org/story/413" target="_blank">Baha’i persecuted in Iran</a>, <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/slaughter-of-kurds-genocide-court-rules/2005/12/24/1135353171483.html" target="_blank">Kurds mass-murdered in Iraq</a>, and even Shiites persecuted in Sunni Muslim lands and Sunnis persecuted by Shiites. The <a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/muftihit.html" target="_blank">affinity with Hitler’s Nazi paradigm of mass-murder and Jew-hatred</a> may be traced back to the father of Palestinian nationalism, the <a href="http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_mandate_grand_mufti.php" target="_blank">Grand Mufti of Jerusalem</a>.</p>
<p>This pathological hatred of Jews <a href="http://www.patrobertson.com/PressReleases/bushresponse2.asp" target="_blank">transcends the worst images of Hitler’s <em>Mein Kampf</em>. </a> At the core of Scripture, in its chapter five (“The Table”), Surah 5:57-62, the Koran discusses the “People of the Book,” portraying Jews as sub-human, despicable animals: “Believers, do not seek the friendship of the infidels and those who were given the Book before you . . . . Say: ‘People of the Book, do you hate us for any reason other than . . . that most of you are evil-doers?’. . . .You see many of them vie with one another in sin and wickedness . . . . Evil is what they do.”  Thus, Allah will lay his “worst reward” on the Jews, “transforming them into apes and pigs.”   The vicious ape/pig demonization of Jews recurs throughout the Koran (see, e.g., “The Cow,” 2:64-65), and that vicious imagery – a veritable Blood Libel – has been a central message <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaB5n8Az984" target="_blank">propagated by the Palestine Authority</a> in its mass media <a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/arabs/sermons.html#_ednref21" target="_blank">for years</a>, even as it is a <a href="http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=20108" target="_blank">recurring Friday sermon topic</a> telecast on Palestine Arab television – the literal demonizing of Jews as blood brothers or children of apes and pigs.</p>
<p>For all the hatred, perhaps nowhere in the world is Apartheid in Palestine more pernicious than . . . within the Palestine Authority.  Only within the Arab world do we find civilian populations in their thousands consigned to “refugee camps” for sixty years.  This perpetual consignment – indeed, virtual internment – constitutes one of the worst crimes against humanity we have witnessed in the modern era: the concerted persecution of Palestinian Arabs by cynical Arab regimes who have planted them in “refugee camps.”  Nowhere is the cynicism more manifest than it is within the Palestine Authority, which maintains <a href="http://www.unrwa.org/etemplate.php?id=118" target="_blank">“refugee camps” in cities like Jenin. </a> Consider: If those denizens indeed are Palestinian Arabs, and if the Palestine Authority oversees the homeland of the Palestinians, then <em>how in the world can people living in their own land, under a government freely elected by their own people, be deemed “refugees”?</em></p>
<p>Those “refugee camps” are historical anomalies, thoroughly anachronistic. Their residents are dumped onto international welfare rolls, under the rubric of a cynically anti-Jewish United Nations agency, the “<a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/001/213cgjov.asp" target="_blank">United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East</a>” (UNRWA), which runs the camps and their schools.  The UNRWA has a vested interest – namely, preserving their own existence, preserving their own continued employment and pay checks, preserving their jobs –  in perpetuating the historical crime of refusing to let the residents be absorbed into their local environments.</p>
<p>During the last century, the world has seen so many tragically painful “population exchanges” play themselves out on the world stage. Greek ethnics were forced out of Bulgaria and into Greece, while Bulgarian ethnics were forced from Greece into Bulgaria. In 1922, under the League of Nations, 1.25 million Greek Orthodox ethnics were transferred from Turkey, and half a million Moslems were transferred reciprocally to Turkey from Greece. Fridtjof Nansen, who oversaw the population exchange, was awarded the <a href="http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1922/nansen-bio.html" target="_blank">1922 Nobel Peace Prize</a> for his effort. In 1940, under the Treaty of Craiova, there was a massive population exchange: 80,000 Romanian ethnics were forced into Bulgaria, and 65,000 Bulgarian ethnics forced out of Romania. After World War II, between 14-16 million ethnic Germans were transferred out of Central and Eastern Europe, and into Germany. Poland and the Soviet Union exchanged populations: between 1944 and 1946, some 2 million people, Polish ethnics sent to Poland from the Ukraine and Ukrainians sent out of Poland, were transferred. More than 5 million Hindus and Sikhs were forced to India from the regions that became Pakistan, and more than 6 million Moslems were pushed from India into Pakistan.</p>
<p>Where are the languishing Bulgarian refugee camps? Greek refugee camps? Romanian/ Polish/ German/ Ukrainian/ Hindu/ Sikh refugee camps? Where are the Bosnian Moslem refugee camps?  Why is there no massive international welfare apparatus in the rubric of a United Nations Relief and Works Agency for any of these  refugees? <em>How is it that no one even thinks to ask?</em></p>
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<p>Maybe, as Mr. Abbas directs $50 million to pay Palestinian Arabs to leave their jobs alongside Jews, and to return to the squalor of his homespun “refugee camps,” it is time for Americans to ask that question – before we write him our next billion-dollar check.</p>
<p><em><em>Dov Fischer is a legal affairs consultant and adjunct professor of the law of civil procedure and advanced torts. He was formerly Chief Articles Editor of UCLA Law Review and writes extensively on political, cultural, and religious issues.  He is author of general Sharon’s War Against Time Magazine and blogs at <a title="http://www.rabbidov.com/" href="http://www.rabbidov.com/" target="_blank">www.rabbidov.com.</a></em></em></p>
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<p>White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel gained notoriety for declaring his credo: “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yeA_kHHLow" target="_blank">You never want a serious crisis to go to waste</a>.” In other words, when there is tragedy and suffering, intense human pain and disaster, a political expert enjoys a unique opportunity to push the least popular parts of his agenda past a distracted electorate.</p>
<p>No sooner had President Barack Obama entered the White House than the Emanuel Doctrine was put into motion with the 1,073-page $787 billion “stimulus bill” that had to be <a href="http://www.nwfdailynews.com/opinion/bill-15375-welfare-people.html" target="_blank">rushed through Congress, seemingly overnight</a>.  As <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/jan/26/joe-barton/Congress-getting-little-review-of-stimulus-bill/" target="_blank">Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX) said</a>: “We have not had a single hearing on anything in front of us&#8230;.We’ve been told that even one hearing would be one too many, and that we have a single day to approve these five complex propositions that will affect the lives of millions.”</p>
<p>Faced in January 2009 with a looming national financial catastrophe, as a crash in the residential real estate market prompted a grave Wall Street crisis, the Obama White House detected cover to raid the public till and reward staunch Democrat loyalists under the rubric of a “stimulus bill.”  Beneath the public radar and buried within <a href="http://bailout.uslaw.com/?p=453" target="_blank">the bill’s 1,073 pages</a>, the “stimulus” allocated <em>inter alia</em> $50 million to the National Endowment for the Arts, nearly half a billion dollars for people interested in researching “global warming,” even <a href="http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2009/07/18m-being-spent-to-redesign-recoverygov-web-site.html" target="_blank">at least $18 million for the website</a> that reports how the “stimulus” funds are allocated.  Overturning a prime achievement of the Clinton Administration, the “stimulus” <a href="http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2009/02/Welfare-Spendathon-House-Stimulus-Bill-Will-Cost-Taxpayers-787-Billion-in-New-Welfare-Spending" target="_blank">restored key elements of the welfare practices</a> that America had abandoned. Over time, the “stimulus” has trickled down to fund $233,825 for <a href="http://stimuluswatch.org/2.0/awards/view/2798/explaining-the-african-vote" target="_blank">explaining voting patterns in Africa</a> and $363,760 for two jobs “<a href="http://stimuluswatch.org/2.0/awards/view/21694/develop-real-life-stroies-that-underscore-job-and-infrastructure-related-to-arra-research-findings" target="_blank">[d]evelop[ing] &#8216;real life&#8217; st[or]ies</a> that underscore job and infrastructure related to [the Stimulus Bill] research findings.”</p>
<p>In sum, there was crisis – thus opportunity.  The sweaty-palms sense of crisis that demanded virtually overnight passage before Congressional representatives could read its encyclopedic contents has long since proven exaggerated.  The vast majority of the bill’s funds still have not stimulated anything.  Much of it still has not been infused into the economy.</p>
<p>This is the Emanuel Doctrine:  never let a crisis go to waste.  This doctrine similarly was implemented after <a href="http://www.forbes.com/2010/01/19/brown-coakley-massachusetts-business-healthcare-senate.html" target="_blank">the ObamaCare health measure had been all-but-abandoned</a> when Scott Brown surprisingly defeated Attorney-General Martha Coakley in the race for United State Senator from Massachusetts.  Soon after, unexpectedly, a national pseudo-crisis emerged when Anthem Blue Cross, a California health insurer, sought to raise its health premiums by <a href="http://www.californiahealthline.org/articles/2010/2/5/anthem-blue-cross-to-hike-premium-rates-for-individual-policy-holders.aspx" target="_blank">as much as 39 percent</a>.  The crisis was not wasted by Washington.  Within days, ObamaCare was rushed back onto the House calendar.  Forgotten amid the federal legislative carnage that followed – most recently credited with helping bring down <a href="http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/05/05/senior-house-democrat-rep-david-obey-to-resign/" target="_blank">Rep. David Obey</a>, <a href="http://img.thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/91307-stupak-to-retire" target="_blank">Rep. Bart Stupak</a>, and Sen. Arlen Specter – is that <a href="http://www.californiahealthline.org/articles/2010/4/30/anthem-blue-cross-to-withdraw-planned-rate-hikes-could-refile-soon.aspx" target="_blank">Anthem Blue Cross ultimately withdrew their rate-hike request</a> as the California insurance oversight system effectively regulated as intended.</p>
<p>Considered in the light of this prior experience, it becomes understandable why the Obama Administration has opted to curtail oil-exploration, suspending and rescinding permits, in response to the tragic Deepwater Horizon oil rig spill off the Gulf  of Mexico.  The story is fresh in the public mind. In raw numbers, eleven have died, and <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/27/AR2010052701957_2.html?wpisrc=nl_headline&amp;sid=ST2010052704421" target="_blank">between 18 million and 39 million gallons</a> of oil have gushed along America’s Gulf Coast, already exceeding the <em>Exxon Valdez</em> disaster that spilled nearly 11 million gallons of oil into the waters along Alaska. One of America’s fiercest Democrat partisans, New Orleans resident James Carville, <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_gulf_oil_spill" target="_blank">went on an extraordinary tear</a> last week against the Obama Administration:  “The President of the United States could’ve come down here. He could’ve been involved with the families of these 11 people&#8230;.These people are crying. They&#8217;re begging for something down here, and it just looks like he&#8217;s not involved in this. Man, you got to get down here and take control of this. Put somebody in charge of this and get this thing moving. We&#8217;re about to die down here.” Observing that “[t]he political stupidity of this is just unbelievable,” Carville emphatically repeated his call: “There&#8217;s a thousand things that he could do. He just needs to get down here and start doing something, people are dying.”</p>
<p>By last Thursday, the <a href="http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/obama_administration/daily_presidential_tracking_poll" target="_blank">daily Rasmussen tracking poll</a> revealed that 26 percent of Americans strongly approve of the President’s job performance, while 42 percent strongly disapprove, giving Mr. Obama a Presidential Approval rating of minus-16.  A <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_pl2270" target="_blank">USA Today/Gallup survey</a> found that 53 percent of Americans rate his handling of the crisis as “poor” or “very poor” while only 43 percent still are satisfied.  Nevertheless, Americans continue to support oil exploration. By a <a href="http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_state_surveys/texas/65_in_texas_still_support_offshore_drilling" target="_blank">significant margin, Texas voters</a> still want more offshore oil drilling.  <a href="http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/offshore_drilling/64_favor_offshore_oil_drilling" target="_blank">Similar percentages hold nationally. </a> However, for this White House, proceeding with new drilling would “waste” the crisis.</p>
<p>If Obama’s goal were to evaluate ecologically responsible alternatives to drilling for oil a mile below the gulf’s surface, the White House could <a href="http://www.anwr.org/ANWR-Basics/Top-ten-reasons-to-support-ANWR-development.php" target="_blank">reconsider exploring for oil and natural gas in ANWR</a>, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in the north Alaskan coast.  Of ANWR’s 19 million acres, there is enormous potential in a small section, the “10-02 Area,” which still would leave 92% of ANWR untouched. Only one-ten-thousandth of ANWR – a section smaller than LAX airport – actually would have surface drilling rigs. ANWR exploration could pump scores of billions of dollars into the national economy, create half a million great-paying jobs, and reduce American fuel-import expenditures by hundreds of billions of dollars.  Moreover, the local caribou population fare <a href="http://alaskaspirit.com/alaska-travel/the-trans-alaska-pipeline-the-must-see-attraction-for-the-caribou/" target="_blank">better around oil pipelines</a> than environmentalists ever expected.</p>
<p>The Obama White House also could focus its response to the Deepwater Horizon disaster by intensifying federal efforts to clean the environmental catastrophe to Louisiana’s fishing waters, and by <a href="http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/05/gov_bobby_jindal_state_will_co.html" target="_blank">moving rapidly to approve</a> Gov. <a href="http://www.wwl.com/Jindal---We-won-t-wait-for-federal-permission-to-s/7163295" target="_blank">Bobby Jindal’s almost-frantic pleas for federal permission to erect more protective sand berms</a> along the coast.  However, prior crisis behavior by this White House – whether prompted by a devastating Wall Street collapse or an outlier health insurer inordinately applying to raise rates by 39 percent – reflects that President Obama deems moments like these as unique <em>opportunities</em> for “<a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/11/obamas_transformative_powers.html" target="_blank">transformative</a> social change.”  Thus, we may well anticipate an intensified effort in the near term to resuscitate the moribund “<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124588837560750781.html" target="_blank">Cap and Trade</a>” bill which would add <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504383_162-5314040-504383.html" target="_blank">between $1,761 and $3,100 in annual energy costs</a> for most American homes.</p>
<p>For the President’s <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100528/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill_obama_glance_2" target="_blank">longer-range vision</a> of this crisis, we again encounter his determination to pursue ideological goals that <a href="http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/environment_energy/56_don_t_want_to_pay_more_to_fight_global_warming" target="_blank">clash with the American people’s concerns</a>.  He is now stopping new oil exploration: suspending plans for exploratory drilling off the Virginia and Alaska coasts; stopping 33 exploratory drilling projects in the Gulf of Mexico, and; continuing a six-month moratorium on all permits for offshore drilling.  Although our Outer Continental Shelf contains <a href="http://www.mms.gov/offshore/" target="_blank">as much as 86 billion barrels of oil</a>, with possibly <a href="http://www.mms.gov/offshore/220.htm" target="_blank">130 million barrels off the coast of Virginia</a> alone, the President’s response means that we instead will continue importing <a href="https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2175rank.html" target="_blank">approximately 13.5 million barrels daily</a> – more than twenty percent of that <a href="http://www.realinstitutoelcano.org/wps/portal/rielcano_eng/Content?WCM_GLOBAL_CONTEXT=/elcano/elcano_in/zonas_in/ari+74-2006" target="_blank">from the Persian Gulf dictatorships</a> – at prices that now hover around $70 a barrel. We will send Arab Gulf despots some $175 million daily or some $65 billion a year, even as our deficit-driven economy starves for capital, and as our unemployed search for good-paying jobs at home.</p>
<p>Our nation consumes more than <a href="http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/ene_oil_con-energy-oil-consumption" target="_blank">20 million barrels of oil daily</a>, importing nearly <a href="http://www.nationmaster.com/country/us-united-states/ene-energy" target="_blank">sixty percent</a> from foreign countries whose production standards are far less friendly to the polar ice caps than ours.  <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Earth/Saudi_Arabia_dirtiest/articleshow/3816750.cms" target="_blank">Saudi Arabia, for example, ranks last</a> as the dirtiest emitter of greenhouse gases among the 57 countries rated on one NGO’s “Climate Change Performance Index.” Moreover, our imported oil necessarily arrives in tankers – the petroleum obviously cannot be delivered any other way – and those tankers pose <a href="http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/coal-oil-gas/biggest-oil-spills-in-history" target="_blank">even more extreme environmental risks</a>.  The 1979 <em>Atlantic Empress</em> tanker spilled 88.3 million gallons of oil.  The <em>ABT Summer</em> tanker spilled 78 million off the Angola Coast in 1991.  The <em>Castillo de Bellver </em>spilled 78.5 million.  The <em>Amoco Cadiz</em> tanker lost 68.7 million gallons off France’s Brittany coast.  The <em>Odyssey</em> spilled 43 million off Nova Scotia. The <em>Haven </em>poured 42 million gallons in the waters outside Italy.  <a href="http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001451.html" target="_blank">The list goes on.</a> Yet oil-importing tankers have not been suspended from sailing America’s waters.  Nor do we suspend air travel after a tragedy in the sky nor rail transportation after a train wreck.</p>
<p>President Obama has long opposed new oil exploration. In <a href="http://www.ontheissues.org/SenateVote/Party_2005-288.htm" target="_blank">November 2005</a>, he voted against oil and gas leasing in the Alaskan Coastal Plain.  On April 20, 2007, rolling out his “Initiative to Combat Global Warming,” he told students in New Hampshire that “[i]t will take a grassroots effort to make America greener and <a href="http://www.barackobama.com/2007/04/20/barack_obama_unveils_initiativ.php" target="_blank">end the tyranny of oil</a>.”  Weeks later, he told a crowd: “<a href="http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2007/05/obama_the_age_of_oil_must_end.html" target="_blank">The age of oil must end</a>.” In his <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/07/presidential.debate.transcript/index.html" target="_blank">second Presidential Debate</a> against John McCain, he stated: “[W]e can&#8217;t simply drill our way out of the problem. And we&#8217;re not going to be able to deal with the climate crisis if our only solution is to use more fossil fuels that create global warming.”</p>
<p>Now, with a crisis too opportune to waste, the President has chosen not to respond with a comprehensive proactive approach to America’s energy choices.  He could have encouraged safe new exploration by directing his Interior Secretary henceforth to administer and enforce competently the safety regulations already on the books, but which his <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/04/AR2010050404118.html" target="_blank">Minerals Management Service ignored on his watch</a> during the construction of Deepwater Horizon. He could reconsider opening ANWR to drilling, encourage efforts to expand clean-coal technology, and even order a prioritized review aimed at reviving the construction of nuclear power plants in America. (America has <a href="http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-04/28/content_438216.htm" target="_blank">not built a new nuclear power plant in more than thirty years</a>, even as France’s <a href="http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf40.html" target="_blank">sixteen nuclear power plants generate nearly 80 percent</a> of that country’s electricity.) Instead, this Administration, which knows that <a href="http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2008/07/14/4425084-drilling-debate-part-2" target="_blank">it can take ten years</a> from licensing exploration until newly discovered oil reaches market, is prepared to risk laying the foundations for a future crisis by presently deterring new exploration and instead tilting disproportionately at windmills.</p>
<p><em>Dov Fischer is a legal affairs consultant and adjunct professor of the law of civil procedure and advanced torts. He was formerly Chief Articles Editor of UCLA Law Review and writes extensively on political, cultural, and religious issues.  He is author of general </em><em>Sharon</em><em>’s War Against Time Magazine and blogs at <a title="blocked::http://www.rabbidov.com/ http://www.rabbidov.com/" href="http://www.rabbidov.com/" target="_blank">www.rabbidov.com</a></em></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">The Obama Administration announced on Tuesday that it is sending 1,200 National Guard troops to assist with immigration control, notably along the Arizona border with Mexico. The move represents an unstated victory for the much-maligned Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer and her state legislature, whose recently passed immigration law, assailed by critics as a remarkable assertion of state authority to secure borders, was at least in part an indictment of the federal government’s failure to do precisely that job. Sending in troops to secure the border is an acknowledgement that Arizona was right, after all.</p>
<p>Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, faced with the mounting natural disaster occasioned by the month-long Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, may want to take notice of how quickly a significant federal military response to a national crisis can be implemented. Indeed, a state just needs to act forthrightly within the constitutional limits of its police power to fill the vacuum of leadership caused by a paralysis of will in Washington.</p>
<p>Arizonans, across party lines, had requested the troops months ago. Democrat Rep. <a href="http://giffords.house.gov/2010/04/us-rep-gabrielle-giffords-again-urges-president-to-send-national-guard-to-border.shtml">Gabrielle Giffords had asked Washington for the troops</a> after the March 27 murder of Robert Krentz, whose family and 35,000-acre cattle ranch had been inducted into the Arizona Farming and Ranching Hall of Fame only two years earlier. Krentz, whose prominent family had been in cattle ranching for nearly a century, <a href="http://www.diggersrealm.com/mt/archives/003355.html">had reported that illegals crossing his land had cost him nearly $8 million</a> in damage just during the years 2000-2005. Arizona’s Attorney-General, also a Democrat, wrote the Obama White House on April 20 for National Guard assistance. Meanwhile, the state’s two U.S. Senators, <a href="http://azstarnet.com/news/local/border/article_5269e3db-1ff5-5611-a02a-149c0b413996.html">Republicans Jon Kyl and John McCain, both had asked for 3,000 troops a month ago</a>. Indeed, <a href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/right-now/2010/05/mccain_gets_political_win_on_b.html">McCain now wants 6,000</a> along the border.</p>
<p>Along came <a href="http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/49leg/2r/bills/sb1070h.pdf">Arizona Senate Bill 1070</a> (SB 1070), as amended by <a href="http://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/azstarnet.com/content/tncms/assets/editorial/6/47/206/64720634-4e56-11df-9876-001cc4c03286.pdf.pdf?_dc=1272645050">House Bill 2162</a>. Then the <a href="http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/view/35442/americans_support_arizona_immigration_bill">public opinion surveys</a>. Suddenly, Obama was persuaded to send in the cavalry.</p>
<p>SB 1070 is hardly remarkable. Consistent with settled federal Constitutional precedent dating back 42 years to <em>Terry v. Ohio</em>, 392 U.S. 1 (1968), the <a href="http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/043010_hb2162/">new Arizona law</a> merely codifies that state law enforcement officials may make a “reasonable attempt” to ascertain a person’s lawful status in America when that person already has been lawfully stopped, detained, or arrested – but only when a “reasonable suspicion exists” to suspect the person is here illegally. (How else, for that matter, did federal immigration officers in Postville, Iowa, determine precisely which 300 employees at the <a href="http://qctimes.com/news/state-and-regional/article_98fed9d0-968d-56c7-8500-95e7c2f6ac4e.html">Agriprocessors slaughterhouse were illegally in America</a>?)</p>
<p>Even so, the Arizona law explicitly warns law enforcement that they “may not consider race, color or national origin” when implementing the law. For anyone here legally, the law hardly differs from allowing a traffic cop to ask for your driver’s license at a lawful stop because all legal aliens carry proper documentation with them, as mandated by federal law. 8 U.S.C. § 1304(e).</p>
<p>Attorney-General Eric Holder, who had been condemning the Arizona law, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr2HCDODPRI">told Congress last week that he still had not read it</a>. Perhaps he finally has worked his way through its ten pages and advised his boss that Washington better do something to recapture the immigration enforcement debate because SB 1070 probably will pass Constitutional muster. In finally responding to widespread public pressure – the Arizona law is <a href="http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/immigration/55_favor_immigration_law_like_arizona_s_for_their_state">wildly popular throughout America</a> – with a partial military deployment to bolster a desperate front in the nation’s effort to protect the Homeland, President Obama has afforded us a “déjà vu moment.”</p>
<p>We have seen this Obama drama before. His announcement is eerily reminiscent of Washington’s three-month delay last year in responding – and, then, only with a partial, politically handcuffed deployment – to Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal’s increasingly public pleas last autumn to send 40,000 troops to bolster American efforts aimed at suppressing the Taliban in Afghanistan. Gen McChrystal pleaded for troops, finally getting only some of what he sought after a months-long delay. And this only after he took matters into his own hands, breaking protocol to back the President into a corner.</p>
<p>In McChrystal’s case, he <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN06420075">finally went public in late September 2009</a> with the substance of his <a href="http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/documents/Assessment_Redacted_092109.pdf">66-page August 30 request for troops. </a>Obama, after dressing down his four-star general for deviating impatiently from protocol and forcing the President into that corner, finally acted on December 1 – virtually three months later – with a partial fix: most of the requested troops, but handcuffed in their objective by the President’s announcement at West Point that they would be withdrawn from the Afghanistan theater a year later.</p>
<p>The pattern is repeating in Arizona. As a <a href="http://cis.org/Videos/HiddenCameras-IllegalImmigration">brief film posted</a> by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) demonstrates, America’s southern border along Arizona is outright porous. It seems harder to enter a movie theater without a ticket than to cross Mexico illegally into Arizona. The <a href="http://cis.org/Announcement/AZ-Immigration-SB1070">CIS further reports</a>, <em>inter alia</em>, that some 460,000 illegals presently reside in Arizona; that as many as 22 percent of all felonies in Maricopa County are perpetrated by illegals; that illegals comprise approximately ten percent of the county’s adult population; that illegals comprise 11 percent of the state prison population; and that approximately one of every six people arrested by the Border Patrol in the Tucson area have prior criminal records in the U.S. No wonder the new measure’s supporters outnumber opponents by three-to-one in Arizona.</p>
<p>As it did towards McChrystal’s continuing pleas to bolster the Afghanistan front, the Obama White House dallied for more than two months in the face of desperate bipartisan pleas for troops to protect the Arizona-Mexico border – <a href="http://www.army.mil/-news/2009/03/13/18189-obama-considers-deploying-national-guard-to-us-mexico-border/">actually dallying for more than a year on the challenge to demonstrate some leadership on the issue</a> – finally agreeing only piecemeal to dispatch a mere forty percent of the military muscle most recently sought, and only to provide intelligence and surveillance but not to participate in direct enforcement. Cochise County sheriff Larry Dever has noted that the deployment provides <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE64O5RE20100526">only one Guardsman for every two miles of security fence</a>, and – assuming the standard three shifts over a daily 24-hour period – actually only one troop for every six miles. Rep. Harry Mitchell, an Arizona Democrat, was equally dismayed: “<a href="http://mitchell.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=797&amp;Itemid=80">I believe we need much more,” he said. “Arizona continues to pay a huge price for the federal government’s failure to secure the border</a>.” Another Arizona Democrat, <a href="http://kirkpatrick.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=924:rep-kirkpatrick-on-decision-to-deploy-national-guard-to-border-it-is-about-time-washington-started-listening-to-us&amp;catid=37:press-releases&amp;Itemid=92">Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick, also chided the White House</a>: “[M]uch more needs to be done. It will take more than just 1,200 additional troops to get the border under control.”</p>
<p>And so we watch a hapless Administration in Washington, awarded a Nobel Peace Prize by European admirers and cluelessly obsessed with pursuing an agenda of all the wrong priorities.</p>
<p>Indeed, the stumbling in the dark has included everything from winning the right to host the Olympic Games in Chicago to endangering the fragile national economy and job market by pursuing costly and scientifically dubious climate-control strategies to revamping an excellent national healthcare system into a morass that Americans do not want and at a price we cannot afford. All of this while the White House fails to grasp the first responsibility of government: to protect Homeland security.</p>
<p>At a minimum, that responsibility includes sealing the porous border with a comprehensively planned federal strategy that does not rely patchwork on states doing Washington’s job, and proactively preventing terrorist attacks on these shores rather than racing to Mirandize admitted Al Qaeda bombers. The fate of Democratic incumbents in the recent primary elections is a sign of what’s in store for the president’s party if his administration continues on its present course of appeasing every constituency in the world except for the lawfully documented American people.</p>
<p><em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; color: black; font-size: small;">Dov Fischer is a legal affairs consultant and adjunct professor of the law of civil procedure and advanced torts. He was formerly Chief Articles Editor of UCLA Law Review and writes extensively on political, cultural, and religious issues.  He is author of general Sharon’s War Against Time Magazine and blogs at <a title="http://www.rabbidov.com/" href="http://www.rabbidov.com/" target="_blank">www.rabbidov.com</a></span></em></p>
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