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		<title>The Sony Cyberattack: A Preview of Things to Come</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2014 05:55:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Klein]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why the North Korean hacking incident was no mere act of "vandalism." ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/rtr4h6b5.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-248059" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/rtr4h6b5-389x350.jpg" alt="rtr4h6b5" width="351" height="316" /></a>The FBI accused the North Korean government last week of perpetrating the devastating cyberattacks against Sony’s computer network for which a group calling itself the Guardians of Peace took responsibility. The North Korean government denied the charge and warned of serious consequences if the United States launched any counter-attack. President Obama ignored the threat, declaring that the U.S. would respond “proportionally” to what he characterized as cyberspace “vandalism.”</p>
<p>This Monday, North Korea experienced a total Internet outage for a bit less than ten hours. “I haven’t seen such a steady beat of routing instability and outages in KP before,” Doug Madory, director of Internet analysis at DYN Research, told North Korea Tech, referring to North Korea’s Internet country code top-level domain. “Usually there are isolated blips, not continuous connectivity problems. I wouldn’t be surprised if they are absorbing some sort of attack presently.”</p>
<p>North Korea’s Internet access, which it obtains through China-based facilities, has since been restored.</p>
<p>Some observers have attributed the temporary Internet outage to the fulfillment, in part or in whole, of Obama’s “proportional” response, which a White House National Security spokeswoman would neither confirm nor deny. Whether China may have played a role in the temporary outage is unknown, but doubtful.</p>
<p>The FBI said that its evidence of North Korean complicity in the Sony hacking was based in part on similarities between the malware found to be used in the Sony hacking and software used in previous cyberattacks carried out by North Korea — “similarities in specific lines of code, encryption algorithms, data deletion methods, and compromised networks.” While some cybersecurity experts have questioned the FBI’s findings, North Korea certainly has a self-declared motive for going after Sony and it has sophisticated cyberattack capabilities. Moreover, it would not be North Korea’s first time engaging in such tactics. Last spring, South Korea concluded that North Korea was responsible for the hacking of several South Korean banks and media outlets that, along with another attack last year, were estimated to have caused damages in the neighborhood of $800 million.</p>
<p>The cyberattacks against Sony were evidently in retaliation for a movie called <i>The Interview</i> Sony was planning to release that depicted a mission to assassinate North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un. His regime demanded that the U.S. government ban the film, characterized it as an act of war in a letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon last June and threatened a “merciless and resolute” response. In addition to the cyberattacks which resulted in the release of sensitive and sometimes embarrassing confidential information and internal Sony communications, the attackers issued threats of terrorist attacks against theaters that dared to display the film. An e-mail of theirs warned: &#8220;The world will be full of fear. Remember the 11th of September 2001.&#8221;</p>
<p>Theater owners cowered in the face of these threats. Sony withdrew its planned Christmas Day release of the movie, although it now claims it will make the film available to the public after all.</p>
<p>It would be easy to dismiss this latest incident as yet another in a long series of spats between the United States and the North Korean regime, precipitated in this case by a movie studio’s decision to produce and release a tasteless farce offensive to the megalomaniac North Korean dictator. President Obama played into this trivialization by downplaying the cyberattack as a mere act of “vandalism.”  Instead, it should be seen as a preview of what is likely to come as rogue states such as North Korea and Iran, as well as technology savvy jihadists such as ISIS, focus on this alternative form of warfare and intimidation to censor speech they find offensive.</p>
<p>Rep. Patrick Meehan, chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security’s Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, warned the “attack on Sony is the latest high-profile example of the growing danger of the cyber threat, and it won’t be the last. American businesses, financial networks, government agencies and infrastructure systems like power grids are at continual risk. They’re targeted not just by lone hackers and criminal syndicates, but by well-funded nation-states like North Korea and Iran. A lack of consequences for when nation states carry out cyberattacks has only emboldened these adversaries to do more harm.”</p>
<p><i>Reuters</i> quoted a South Korean specialist in nuclear designs, South Korea University’s Su Kune-yull, as saying, following the recent hacking of computer systems at South Korea’s nuclear plant operator:</p>
<p>“This demonstrated that, if anyone is intent with malice to infiltrate the system, it would be impossible to say with confidence that such an effort would be blocked completely. And a compromise of nuclear reactors&#8217; safety pretty clearly means there is a gaping hole in national security.”</p>
<p>The control systems of the U.S. electric bulk power distribution system, the electrical grid, is particularly vulnerable to cyberattacks without adequate defenses, which are sorely lacking today. As Frank J. Gaffney, Jr., President of the Center for Security Policy, warned:</p>
<p>“The vulnerability of America’s electric grid is a ticking time-bomb…Many of our foes are aware both of the grid’s susceptibility to attack and the potentially catastrophic consequences for this country and its people should it happen.”</p>
<p>Cyberattack is one of the means available to our enemies to exploit the electric grid’s vulnerability and create a literal nightmare for the nation’s population so dependent on electricity for their day-to-day lives.</p>
<p>Congress passed earlier this month the Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Protection Act, which President Obama is expected to sign. While the legislation is a step in the right direction of enlisting government and private enterprise resources to enhance the nation’s cyber defenses and awareness, it is not enough. It must be accompanied by forceful actions by the Commander-in-Chief to deter any future cyberattacks against sensitive systems and infrastructures. Our enemies are watching. As U.S. Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power told the UN Security Council during its open debate on December 22<sup>nd</sup> regarding North Korea’s abysmal human rights record, “Dictators who see threats are an effective tool for silencing the international community tend to be emboldened and not placated.”</p>
<p>Slaps on the wrist, like the type of temporary Internet outage that the Obama administration may or may not have caused to North Korea’s Internet access, are woefully insufficient. We cannot give even the appearance of being intimidated by thug regimes and terrorists who want to bully us into suppressing the fundamental right of free expression in our own country. In addition to restoring North Korea to the list of state sponsors of terrorism, further counter-measures should be seriously considered now.  These may include cutting off North Korea’s access to global finance as completely as possible and targeting critical pieces of North Korea’s military infrastructure control systems with viruses of the sort used to infiltrate and incapacitate some of Iran’s centrifuges. Another counter-measure worth pursuing is the launching of a massive propaganda counter-offensive, using the Internet and social media to which North Korean elites and military officers have access to sow further doubts they may already be harboring in Kim Jong-un’s leadership.</p>
<p>Less rhetoric and more action from President Obama is what is needed. As Teddy Roosevelt said: “Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.”</p>
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		<title>A UN Timetable for Israel’s Destruction</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2014 05:53:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Klein]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And Obama's betrayal. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/rtr4hxon.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247524" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/rtr4hxon-410x350.jpg" alt="rtr4hxon" width="302" height="258" /></a>The Obama administration is shamelessly outsourcing the United States&#8217; historic leadership in facilitating negotiations between the Palestinians and Israel of a workable, secure two-state solution to the United Nations and European governments. In putting its trust in these two centers of anti-Israel sentiment, the Obama administration refuses to say categorically that it would veto a UN Security Council resolution setting some sort of deadline for the creation of a Palestinian state and Israeli withdrawal to the pre-June 1967 lines.</p>
<p>In the words of an unnamed senior U.S. State Department official quoted by Reuters, &#8220;These things are all very much in flux, it&#8217;s not as if we&#8217;re being asked to take a position on any particular Security Council resolution right now. It would be premature for us to discuss documents that are of uncertain status right now.&#8221;</p>
<p>Any Security Council resolution the Obama administration would agree to, which imposes pressure only on Israel to make more unilateral concessions for an illusionary “peace,” will serve to legitimize a United Nations timetable for Israel’s surrender to forces that wish to destroy it. The Gaza debacle following Israel’s decision to unilaterally withdraw from Gaza in 2005 and give the Palestinians a chance to build a prototype Palestinian state illustrates the danger Israel would face from being pressured into more withdrawals at this time.</p>
<p>The Palestinian Authority leadership is pressing for action on just such a Security Council resolution as early as this Wednesday, according to a Palestine Liberation Organization official and Palestinian U.N. Ambassador Riyad Mansour. The Palestinian resolution, to be sponsored by Jordan (a non-permanent member of the Security Council), would reportedly set a two year deadline for complete Israeli withdrawal from all “occupied” territories, although Jordan’s UN ambassador told reporters it was news to her that any action to vote on the resolution would be taken as soon as the Palestinians are demanding. There is some speculation amongst UN insiders that a vote on a Palestinian resolution could be put off until early in the new year. The Security Council makeup will then be even more inclined towards the Palestinian position, because Malaysia will be replacing South Korea as a non-permanent member of the Security Council.</p>
<p>The Palestinians are finding a very receptive audience in Europe for their use of the United Nations to sidestep direct negotiations with Israel. As the tide of anti-Semitism is rising to the surface and spreading once again throughout Europe, a number of European countries&#8217; parliaments have adopted non-binding resolutions calling upon their respective governments to recognize a Palestinian state. Sweden went further with official recognition of a state of Palestine. France, a permanent member of the UN Security Council, is taking the lead in crafting a European version of a Palestinian state resolution. The idea reportedly would be to set out an expectation for a final peace agreement to achieve a two-state solution within two years. During the two year interval, the United Nations might accord full UN membership rights to an officially recognized Palestinian state. The text is still a subject of consultations in European capitals, according to the United Kingdom&#8217;s UN Ambassador Lyall Grant.</p>
<p>The Obama administration, which would like nothing better than to see its nemesis Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defeated in the upcoming March 2015 Israeli elections, is calibrating a position that appears intended to send a pointed message to the Israeli electorate. This message is not to count on the administration standing steadfastly with Israel on sensitive security concerns if Prime Minister Netanyahu is re-elected. The Obama administration is willing to consider a &#8220;compromise&#8221; Security Council resolution to pressure Israel into resuming negotiations against a backdrop of a framework withdrawal timetable, so that the administration can say it did all it can to avoid an immediate two year deadline and thereby not have to use its veto power to “protect” Israel.</p>
<p>Thus, Secretary of State John Kerry is meeting early this week with European foreign ministers, Arab League officials, and Israeli and Palestinian officials to &#8220;hear from and engage with other stakeholders&#8230;and to the best of our ability work toward a common path forward,&#8221; according to a senior State Department official.</p>
<p>Israeli civilians under relentless attack by Palestinian jihadists are the main &#8220;stakeholders&#8221; whom the United States should be worried about. If there is to be a &#8220;common path forward&#8221; to peace, it requires Palestinian negotiating partners who are willing to publicly give up their claim to a right of return of millions of so-called Palestinian refugees to pre-June 1967 Israeli cities and towns, and who recognize Israel&#8217;s right to self-determination as a Jewish state that can co-exist securely side by side with a peaceful Palestinian state. There has been no such partner to engage in genuine negotiations for more than six decades. There remains no such partner today, nor is there likely to be one in the foreseeable future.</p>
<p>Hamas has made clear its intention time again, by word and deed, to destroy the state of Israel and kill as many Jews as possible. Following, for example, are excerpts from an interview with Hamas MP and cleric Yunis Al-Astal, which aired on Al-Aqsa TV on May 11, 2011 (courtesy of MEMRI):</p>
<blockquote><p>The [Jews] are brought in droves to Palestine so that the Palestinians – and the Islamic nation behind them – will have the honor of annihilating the evil of this gang…All the predators, all the birds of prey, all the dangerous reptiles and insects, and all the lethal bacteria are far less dangerous than the Jews…When Palestine is liberated and its people return to it, and the entire region, with the grace of Allah, will have turned into the United States of Islam, the land of Palestine will become the capital of the Islamic Caliphate, and all these countries will turn into states within the Caliphate.</p></blockquote>
<p>Hamas’s barrage of rocket attacks launched from Gaza against Israeli civilians since Hamas took control of Gaza in 2007 attests to its deadly intentions. Just last Sunday, Hamas marked its 27<sup>th</sup> anniversary by parading 2,000 of its armed fighters and truck-mounted rockets. A senior Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya said: &#8216;This illusion called Israel will be removed.”</p>
<p>Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has thrown in his lot with Hamas in forming a so-called “unity reconciliation” government and has himself incited sectarian violence in and around Jerusalem with incendiary rhetoric.  But even Abbas has expressed frustration with what he called Hamas’s continued “shadow government&#8230; running the territory&#8221; in Gaza on its own.</p>
<p>In the real world, which is alien to the United Nations, the Arab world, European governments and the Obama administration, simply saying something is so doesn&#8217;t make it so. Diplomatic recognition of a Palestinian state does not change the reality on the ground. Nor does a pie-in-the-sky declaration of a “unity” or “reconciliation” Palestinian government that exists only on paper. For example, in delivering his regular briefing to the Security Council on the situation in the Middle East, Robert Serry, the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, admitted to Security Council members on December 15<sup>th</sup> the lack of a functioning Palestinian reconciliation unity government to replace Hamas’s governance in Gaza. He said that delivery of thousands of tons of construction materials into Gaza is being permitted by Israel under the temporary Gaza Reconstruction Mechanism agreed upon by Israel, the so-called Palestinian Government of National Consensus and the UN, even though the “Government of National Consensus in Gaza has still not taken up its rightful governance and security function” that is a critical part of the arrangement.</p>
<p>The Palestinians’ own internal power struggle between Hamas, which governs Gaza, and the Palestinian Authority, which currently dominates the West Bank, means that there is no real unified state government apparatus. Hamas won’t give up its military control in Gaza and is seeking to expand its influence in the West Bank at the Palestinian Authority’s expense. There can be no real foundation for a workable Palestinian state under international law when there is no single governing authority in a position to effectively exert sovereign control over all of a putative Palestinian state’s territory and people. Nor can there be a real state under international law that does not have the capacity to ensure compliance with any bilateral or international agreements such a state may enter into in the future.</p>
<p>No matter what kind of “common path” Secretary of State Kerry thinks he can achieve with the Palestinians and their Arab and European supporters on a Security Council timetable resolution, Israel must reject the path of forced withdrawal that could lead to its own destruction. As Prime Minister Netanyahu said during the regular Israeli cabinet meeting on Sunday, a UN Security Council-imposed deadline for Israeli withdrawal to the pre-June 1967 lines would bring &#8220;Islamic extremists to the suburbs of Tel Aviv and to the heart of Jerusalem. We will not allow this. We will rebuff this forcefully and responsibly. Let there be no doubt, this will be rejected.&#8221;</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2014 05:17:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Islamic Republic moves one step closer to the bomb. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Obama_Iran.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-246197" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Obama_Iran-450x305.jpg" alt="Obama_Iran" width="388" height="263" /></a>The commander of the Iranian Revolution Guards Corps, Iran’s top military force aligned with Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, openly mocked the United States for having “clearly surrendered to Iran’s might,” according to a report quoted by the <i>Washington Free Beacon</i>.  “Despite the military embargo on the Islamic Republic, there is no weapon that our military is not able to manufacture,” he added.</p>
<p>The commander, Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari, was commenting on the Obama administration’s agreement to a further seven-month extension in the talks with Iran over its nuclear program, which were supposed to have expired on November 24<sup>th</sup>. Sadly, Iran’s top military thug is right. The extension gave the Iranians what they have most wanted out of the talks all along – more time within which to further develop their nuclear arms technologies while still gaining some relief from the economic sanctions. Indeed, Iran will continue to get its hands on $700 million per month in frozen assets under the terms of the nuclear negotiation extension.</p>
<p>Secretary of State John Kerry told reporters that “we would be fools to walk away.” As usual, Kerry was being played for a fool. And once again, the United States looks weak under President Obama&#8217;s failed leadership.</p>
<p>Iran’s leaders are out to prove to the world that Iran can be counted on to stand up to the “arrogant powers,” as Iranian leaders like to refer to the U.S. and its allies. So far, they are succeeding.</p>
<p>“In the nuclear issue, America and colonial European countries got together and did their best to bring the Islamic Republic to its knees, but they could not do so – and they will not do so,” said Ayatollah Khamenei on November 25<sup>th</sup> according to his personal website.</p>
<p>The year-long negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program have been going nowhere, even as the Obama administration was reportedly willing to allow Iran to maintain its own nuclear enrichment program. Dismantlement of large parts of Iran’s nuclear infrastructure, presumably an original goal of the negotiations for the so-called P-5 countries (the United States, United Kingdom, France, Russia, China and Germany), is no longer on the table, if it ever really was.  Iran’s missile program never was on the table. Nor were its possible imports of any nuclear materials, technologies and weapons delivery system components from North Korea.</p>
<p>Yet, the Iranians were still not satisfied with the offers they received during the negotiations. Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani boasted in a television interview following the announcement of the talks extension that his country’s “centrifuges will never stop.”  He added that “Today we have a victory much greater than what happened in the negotiation. This victory is that our circumstances are not like previous years. Today we are at a point that nobody in the world [in which no one says] sanctions must be increased in order that Iran accept P5+1 demands. No one says to reach agreement we must increase pressure on Iran.”</p>
<p>Rouhani has a history of using negotiations as a delay tactic to achieve by stealth Iran’s strategic objectives. This time, Iran set out, in the words of its Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, to reach a final deal that will result in “a serious and not a token Iranian enrichment program coupled with removal of sanctions. This is the objective that we’re working on and this is the objective we will achieve.”</p>
<p>What additional evidence does the Obama administration need to demonstrate that Iran’s strategic objective is irreconcilable with a deal that would truly protect the world against Iran’s emergence as a nuclear-armed power? Apparently, they have learned nothing from the disastrous results of negotiations with North Korea. Instead of walking away from the talks after a year of futility and immediately reinstituting the full array of economic sanctions that have been melting away over the last year, the Obama administration buckled.</p>
<p>During the next seven months, the Obama administration will be deluding itself and sacrificing the security of the American people if it thinks that Iran will simply stand still and freeze all of its vast nuclear technology and production programs in place. According to Greg Jones, a senior research and nuclear analyst at the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, “They have a stockpile now that’ll probably support the production of about four nuclear weapons, and that’s slowly increasing over the course. It’ll probably gain another nuclear weapons worth by the end of June 2015 when this agreement runs out. So certainly that’s been continuing.”</p>
<p>John Kerry remarked that the Obama administration has “earned the benefit of the doubt” in agreeing to the further extension of talks, even though he conceded that “significant points of disagreement” remain. To the contrary, the administration has run out of excuses. Its quixotic quest for an elusive deal with a rogue state that continues to refuse the International Atomic Energy Agency access to all of its sites does nothing but raise more doubts about the administration’s intentions and competence.</p>
<p>For example, Iran has persistently refused to allow international inspectors to visit Parchin, Iran’s military facility where the agency seeks to probe for itself evidence that Iran may have been conducting experiments on nuclear detonators. Just days ago, the agency’s director Yukiya Amano complained that Iran was not cooperating “concerning issues with possible military dimensions.” Mr. Amano also warned that his agency, while able to assess Iran’s compliance with the interim agreement regarding its declared nuclear materials, was “not in a position to provide credible assurance about the absence of undeclared nuclear material and activities in Iran, and therefore to conclude that all nuclear material in Iran is in peaceful activities.”</p>
<p>Yet Kerry’s message to Congress is to hold off on re-imposing or adding any sanctions at this time. Some members of Congress in both parties are understandably frustrated by the lack of concrete results. They believe that preserving the threat of increased sanctions if an acceptable, verifiable deal is not reached by a date certain is the most realistic strategy.</p>
<p>“The cycle of negotiations, followed by an extension, coupled with sanctions relief for Iran has not succeeded,” the outgoing Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) said in response to the latest extension. “I continue to believe that the two-track approach of diplomacy and economic pressure that brought Iran to the negotiating table is also the best path forward to achieve a breakthrough.”</p>
<p>Senator Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), whom has co-authored a sanctions bill with Senator Menendez, said it was now “critical that Congress enacts sanctions that give Iran’s mullahs no choice but to dismantle their illicit nuclear program.”</p>
<p>The chances for Congressional passage of a sanctions bill will improve next year when the Republicans take control of the Senate. However, President Obama is likely to veto such a bill. If the current extension runs out in June 2015 with no final deal concluded, expect the Obama administration to once again plead for more time so that it can kick the can down the road for the next president to handle – if it is not too late by then. Even worse, in a rush to try and improve his tarnished foreign policy legacy, President Obama may end up accepting just about any bone Iran offers him in a deal that he can spin as a positive achievement. The lethal consequences will be for the next president to worry about while the world becomes much less safe.</p>
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		<title>Hagel Ouster Won&#8217;t Solve the Obama Foreign Policy Crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2014 05:45:01 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/458110428-1024x682.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245966" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/458110428-1024x682-412x350.jpg" alt="458110428-1024x682" width="338" height="287" /></a>Secretary of Defense Charles Hagel has resigned his position under pressure from the Obama White House. According to one senior administration official, “He wasn’t up to the job.” Of course, if competence were the standard, President Obama himself should resign.</p>
<p>Hagel is being made the fall guy for Obama’s own national security failures, including not forcefully addressing the ISIS threat at a more opportune time to destroy ISIS. After all, it was Obama who derided the jihadist militants earlier this year as being akin to a junior varsity team.</p>
<p>Obama had precipitously pulled all American troops out of Iraq in 2011, against the advice of his military advisers, which helped create a vacuum filled by ISIS. Then he watched and did nothing while ISIS racked up victory after victory in Iraq during the last year, ignoring warnings from Iraqi government officials, U.S. intelligence and U.S. military leaders. Hagel added his own warning, declaring that ISIS represented an “imminent threat to every interest we have.”</p>
<p>Finally, in response to mounting criticism from home and abroad that he was showing no leadership while multiple global crises were exploding around him, President Obama first ordered air attacks on ISIS positions in Iraq while telegraphing to the enemy what he would not do. Then he expanded the air attacks to parts of Syria, while gradually increasing the number of U.S. troops he was willing to send back to Iraq, ostensibly to play a non-combat role.</p>
<p>Incredibly, senior administration officials are reported by the <i>New York Times</i> to have claimed, as justification for the pressure on Hagel to resign, that Hagel lacked the skills to deal with the ISIS threat. It was Obama – not Hagel – who had so recklessly minimized the ISIS threat in Iraq when it could have been dealt with more readily. And it was Obama – not Hagel – who admitted he had no strategy to deal with the ISIS threat in Syria. Hagel had his eyes open and saw the ISIS threat more clearly. Obama looked away as long as he could. But Hagel takes the fall.</p>
<p>President Obama chose Hagel for the Pentagon chief post in the first place to serve as the nominal Republican in his cabinet. Hagel also shared Obama’s skepticism about the Iraq War. Hagel’s combination of actual war experience as a Vietnam veteran and his cautiousness in committing American troops to vaguely defined missions suited Obama’s own inclinations. After having experienced the strongly opinionated Robert M. Gates, the former defense secretary, who went on to criticize the president in his memoir, Obama appears to have wanted someone he thought would focus more on internal management of the Pentagon than embroiling himself in national security policy debates.</p>
<p>Opposition to Hagel’s nomination among his former colleagues in the Senate and among some analysts stemmed in part from the remarks he has made about the Iraq War over the years and his evident anti-Israel bias. Questions were also raised about his overall fitness for the job. Hagel did himself no favors in that regard with his widely criticized poor performance during his Senate confirmation hearings. Nevertheless, Hagel was eventually confirmed as defense secretary by the Senate in a 58-41 vote.</p>
<p>During his relatively brief tenure, Hagel served as Obama’s manager of a diminishing U.S. military footprint. Hagel oversaw the draw-down of troops in Afghanistan that Obama had ordered, and began the process of looking for ways to trim the Pentagon’s budget.</p>
<p>However, on matters of national security and crafting responses to emerging threats such as ISIS, Hagel never made it into the inner circle of decision-makers in the Obama administration. He is reported to have remained mum during cabinet meetings, as he concluded that his advice was not being taken seriously by those who had the president’s ear. Hagel is said to have provided his advice to Obama in one-on-one phone calls, but he was still relegated to the outer periphery of influence on Obama’s final decisions.</p>
<p>While Hagel came across during his Senate confirmation hearings and in some public appearances since he became defense secretary as tentative and unsure of himself, he is no shrinking violet. He has at times expressed the kind of sharp-edged skepticism about the direction that the current president is taking the country’s military and national security that he displayed as a senator regarding former President George W. Bush’s handling of the Iraq War.</p>
<p>For example, Hagel wrote a memo to National Security Adviser Susan Rice last month raising concerns about the administration’s Syria strategy, particularly how to best deal with Syrian President Bashar Assad while simultaneously fighting ISIS in Syria.</p>
<p>Rice is at the heart of Obama’s inner circle and does not take kindly to disagreements with her patron’s policies. “I guess I could be a testosterone-driven, territorial kind of personality in this role,” Rice was quoted by the <i>New York Times</i> last month as having said. “My view on this is that it’s an asset to have a partner down the hall.”</p>
<p>Hagel did not have that kind of access to the president. He had also been losing patience with what he regarded as interference on his own turf by an inexperienced White House national security team.</p>
<p>Said Senator John McCain, the incoming chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee: “I know that Chuck was frustrated with aspects of the Administration’s national security policy and decision-making process. His predecessors have spoken about the excessive micro-management they faced from the White House and how that made it more difficult to do their jobs successfully. Chuck’s situation was no different.”</p>
<p>During an interview with Charlie Rose last week, Chuck Hagel’s frustration seemed to have boiled over. Hagel expressed concern about the military’s declining capability under President Obama’s watch.  “I am worried about it, I am concerned about it, Chairman Dempsey is, the chiefs are, every leader of this institution,” Hagel said, referring to the Pentagon. Then, in a not-too-subtle slap at the dithering that Obama brings to decision-making when a quick response from a capable and confident leader is required instead, Hagel added that “the main responsibility of any leader is to prepare your institution for the future. If you don’t do that, you’ve failed. I don’t care how good you are, how smart you are, any part of your job. If you don’t prepare your institution, you’ve failed.”</p>
<p>President Obama has displayed a thin skin time and time again. Truly believing that he is always the smartest person in the room, Obama wants yes-people around him. Hagel, for all his faults, did not fit that mold.</p>
<p>During a White House ceremony Monday at which Hagel’s resignation was officially announced, Obama said he and the defense secretary had determined it was an “appropriate time for him to complete his service.” Obama’s praise for Hagel as an “exemplary defense secretary” rings no truer than all of Obama’s other statements on a variety of topics. Hagel served as Obama’s scapegoat. Sadly, this president’s national security failures will continue.</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2014 05:58:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Palestinian leaders incite brutal synagogue killings in Jerusalem. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ShowImage.ashx_.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245561" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ShowImage.ashx_-450x314.jpg" alt="ShowImage.ashx" width="358" height="250" /></a>Two Palestinian thugs, armed with cleavers, knives and a gun, invaded an orthodox synagogue in West Jerusalem early Tuesday during morning prayers, and proceeded to murder four Jewish worshippers in cold blood. At least a dozen others were wounded. Three of the murder victims were American citizens. The fourth was a British citizen. Three of the victims were also rabbis. Israeli police, arriving at the scene of the horrific massacre and exchanging gunfire with the Palestinians as they tried to escape, shot the murderers to death. But the horrible images of the slain and wounded worshippers with blood everywhere, drenching holy books, prayer shawls and walls of the synagogue, will live on for a very long time.</p>
<p>“To see Jews wearing tefillin and wrapped in the tallit lying in pools of blood, I wondered if I was imagining scenes from the Holocaust,” said Yehuda Meshi Zahav, the veteran leader of a religious emergency-response team as quoted by the <i>New York Times. </i>“It was a massacre of Jews at prayer.”</p>
<p>At least ten Jews have now been run over by cars and killed, or have been stabbed to death by Palestinians during the last month. Call this latest spate of violence the &#8220;Car Intifada,&#8221; as some Palestinian social media refer to it with a song by that name, or the &#8220;Knife Intifada,&#8221; as other Palestinians have coined it. Either way, Palestinian leaders have Jewish blood on their hands after exhorting their followers to commit such violent acts. The inciters to murder are as guilty as the murderers themselves.</p>
<p>Predictably, Hamas praised the cowardly synagogue attack as a “heroic” act. Hamas&#8217;s leadership claimed that the brutal murders were justified as legitimate responses to Israeli actions. “There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad. Initiatives proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time,” a spokesman for Hamas declared. Senior Hamas official Ghazi Hamad told Al Jazeera International to expect “more revolution in Jerusalem, and more uprising.&#8221;</p>
<p>A Hamas official posted <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ana.hor.bahaayaseen/photos/a.634911186630127.1073741830.263328473788402/671934452927800/?type=1"><span style="color: #0463c1;">an image of a grotesque poster</span></a> depicting the attack on his Facebook page. It showed Palestinians brandishing guns and a bloodied knife rampaging through a synagogue with bodies of Jews strewn on the floor and other Jews trying to flee the terror. In the evil perverted minds of Hamas jihadists and their ilk, the killing of Jews even while praying in their own synagogue far removed from the Temple Mount is a cause for great celebration.</p>
<p>Palestinian Authority President Abbas, whose talk of a &#8220;religious war&#8221; and other incendiary rhetoric helped to incite the latest in a series of violent attacks against Jewish civilians in Jerusalem and elsewhere, issued a formulaic condemnation of the synagogue killings. At the same time he continued his lie-ridden rant against Israelis:</p>
<blockquote><p>The president always condemns killings of civilians from any party whatsoever, and condemns the killing of worshipers today in one of the houses of worship in West Jerusalem, and also denounces all violent acts no matter what their source is, and demands an end to the ongoing incursions into the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the provocative acts by Israeli settlers as well as incitement by some Israeli ministers.</p>
<p>The presidency also confirms that it is time to end the occupation and end the causes of tension and violence, affirming our commitment to a just-based solution on the basis of a two-state solution, in accordance with the resolutions of international legitimacy, and maintain an atmosphere of calm and understandings that have been made with King Abdullah II and American Secretary of State John Kerry in Amman.</p></blockquote>
<p>Meanwhile, official Palestinian Authority television is reported to have broadcast disgusting images of Bethlehem residents handing out candy in the streets, to celebrate the attack. And an official spokesman for Abbas’s Fatah party, Ahmed Assaf, said that “the Jerusalem operation was a natural response to the Israeli violations.”</p>
<p>Secretary of State Kerry, who just a few days ago expressed his belief that tensions in Jerusalem were beginning to de-escalate, issued a strong condemnation of the synagogue murders. “To have this kind of act, which is a pure result of incitement, of calls for ‘days of rage,’ of just irresponsibility, is unacceptable,” Kerry said. “The Palestinian leadership must condemn this and they must begin to take serious steps to restrain any kind of incitement …This simply has no place in human behavior and we need to hear from leaders who are going to lead their people to a different place.”</p>
<p>Clearly, Abbas and his henchmen have not gotten Kerry’s message. And Hamas seeks to characterize the synagogue slaughters as delivering a very different type of message. Mushir al-Masri, a Hamas spokesman, wrote in a Facebook post: “We have the full right to revenge for the blood of our martyrs in all possible means.”</p>
<p>For his part, President Obama did personally condemn the bloody slaughters, saying “there is and can be no justification for such attacks against innocent civilians.” But, as usual, Obama tried to link an act of pure evil &#8212; the shedding of innocent blood of worshippers in their holy place of prayer &#8211; to the failed peace negotiations. He said that &#8220;it is all the more important for Israeli and Palestinian leaders and ordinary citizens to work cooperatively together to lower tensions, reject violence and seek a path forward towards peace.” Obama also continued his false moral equivalency narrative by noting that there has been violence committed on both sides. &#8220;Too many Israelis have died, too many Palestinians have died,” Obama said. That’s true, but it is the Palestinians who are at fault. They have rejected real peace, from the original United Nations two-state partition solution more than six decades ago until now, and have instead conducted a relentless campaign of violence against Jewish civilians.</p>
<p>The failed peace talks, the building of additional Jewish housing in Jewish neighborhoods of Jerusalem and the lies about purported Israeli plans to interfere with Muslim worship and invade their mosques serve only as pretexts for Palestinians to satiate their never-ending lust for Jewish blood. Obama’s anti-Israel bias blinds him to the incontrovertible fact that Palestinian leaders have refused to work together with Israeli leaders to lower tensions and reject violence as he has suggested. Only Israel is trying in good faith to lower the temperature and prevent a conflagration. Indeed, while Hamas leaders and Abbas have incited violence with blatant lies about alleged Israeli plans to attack the al-Aqsa Mosque, Prime Minister Netanyahu has tried to de-escalate tensions by even continuing to prevent Jews from exercising their fundamental human right to worship freely wherever they wish, including on the Temple Mount, Judaism’s holiest site.</p>
<p>However, Prime Minister Netanyahu’s patience has just about run out. Now Jews cannot even pray safely in their own synagogues in the uncontested area of West Jerusalem. Such pathological Palestinian behavior must be stopped once and for all.</p>
<p>“This is the direct result of the incitement being led by Hamas and Abu Mazen [Palestinian Authority - PA President Mahmoud Abbas], incitement which the international community is irresponsibly ignoring,” Prime Minister Netanyahu said. “We will respond with a heavy hand to the brutal murder of Jews who came to pray and were met by reprehensible murderers. We will respond harshly,” he added.</p>
<p>The prime minister called for national unity in fighting against &#8220;those human animals who committed this massacre&#8221; and against Hamas, the Islamic movement, the Palestinian Authority and whomever else &#8220;disseminate libels against the state of Israel.&#8221;</p>
<p>Demolition of the Palestinian murderers’ homes and arrests of any and all accomplices are first steps. Security will be beefed up all around Jerusalem. More restrictions may be needed on freedom of movement among at least certain segments of the Palestinian population living in Jerusalem. The two killers were residents of East Jerusalem who carried Israeli identification cards allowing them to travel throughout Israel. They also worked in Jewish neighborhoods. In addition, Israeli officials should bring pressure to bear on social media providers such as Facebook to monitor and immediately remove the kind of hate speech inciting violence against Jews, including babies, on sites that Palestinians are regularly frequenting. If necessary, Israel should use its technological prowess to block access to such sites.</p>
<p>Whatever measures Israel takes to protect its citizens against the Palestinians’ bloodlust should be fully supported by the United States. Anti-Israel resolutions at the UN Security Council should be vetoed. UN Human Rights Council kangaroo investigations of alleged Israeli “crimes” should be met with U.S. withdrawal from this farcical body and de-funding. But that is not likely to happen, since President Obama’s thinking is in synch with the anti-Israel, moral equivalency mindset of the UN. When I asked the United Nations High Commissioner for Human rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein for his comment on the Jerusalem synagogue slaughters, he responded in a similar fashion to President Obama’s statement. He condemned any killings of civilians and said he hoped that calm can be restored. He would not criticize the incitements to violence by Hamas and other Palestinian leaders.</p>
<p>If, as expected, the Obama administration continues its campaign to undermine Prime Minister Netanyahu, rather than wholeheartedly support his fight against ISIS look-alikes such as Hamas and other Palestinian murderers of innocent civilians, the prime minister should go over Obama’s head and take his case directly to the American people. His message should be that Israel and America are fighting the same enemy. Israel’s battles against the Palestinian jihadists are inextricably linked with America’s fight against ISIS and other jihadists worldwide who want to destroy the freedoms we take for granted. He can start with a speech to a joint session of Congress, which large bipartisan majorities in both houses of Congress would welcome, even if President Obama is displeased.</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2014 05:55:30 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/israel-stab-feature.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245071" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/israel-stab-feature-386x350.jpg" alt="APTOPIX Mideast Israel Palestinians" width="281" height="255" /></a>Hamas leaders have urged their followers to use their cars and knives to spill as much Jewish blood as possible. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas called on Palestinians to stop Jews from visiting the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, the holiest site in Judaism as well as the location of the Islamic Al Aqsa complex, by using &#8220;all means&#8221; necessary.</p>
<p>The calls for violence by top Palestinian authorities have been enthusiastically answered by thugs in the streets.  Six Israelis have been killed in terror attacks in the last thirty days – not by rockets this time, but by cars and knives wielded as murder weapons against Israeli soldiers and civilians alike, including women and children.</p>
<p>On October 22nd, a member of Hamas rammed his car into pedestrians in Jerusalem, killing a three-month-old girl.</p>
<p>Last week, a Palestinian Jerusalem resident also turned his vehicle into a killing machine. An Israeli was killed and 13 others wounded when he aimed his vehicle at a group of people waiting at a light rail station. On the same day, yet another Palestinian ran into and wounded three Israeli soldiers near Jerusalem.</p>
<p>Leaders of Abbas’s party, Fatah, and of Hamas, Abbas’s partners in the so-called Palestinian “unity” government, shrugged their shoulders and said the attacks were perfectly “natural” or “normal” responses to Israeli policies. Indeed, they regard the killers as heroes.</p>
<p>As Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Ron Prosor said to reporters at UN headquarters in New York on November 10<sup>th</sup>:</p>
<blockquote><p>A person doesn’t just wake up one day and decide to stab someone or ram his car into a crowd of people.  These attacks are the results of years of anti-Israel indoctrination and the glorification of so-called martyrs. The incitement is everywhere.  In schools, mosques and media, the Palestinian Authority is glorifying terrorists and celebrating attacks on Jews and Israelis.</p></blockquote>
<p>Palestinians flocking to social media celebrated what they are calling the “Car Intifada.” <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/new-palestinian-hit-song-run-over-the-two-month-old-baby/">A video of a new song with that catchy title</a>, for example, appears on the MoslimMan.Rok Facebook page. It has become a hit that has Palestinians happily singing along to lyrics such as “Run over the two-month-old baby – that is how we get them.”</p>
<p>As <a href="http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&amp;doc_id=13007">reported by Palestinian Media Watch</a>, another song popular on Palestinian social media included the words:</p>
<blockquote><p>Run [them] over, destroy, annihilate, blow them up; Don’t let the Zionist live long… Today, the entire people demands a hero willing to fight with weapons. He began fighting with a car, running them over like rabbits.</p></blockquote>
<p><span style="color: #0463c1;"><a href="http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&amp;doc_id=12979">Palestinian Media Watch also reported</a></span> on a cartoon appearing on one of Fatah&#8217;s official Facebook pages (&#8220;Fatah-The Main Page&#8221;), which carried the label &#8220;the run over organization&#8221; and urged people to &#8220;Hit the gas at 199 [km/h] for Al-Aqsa.&#8221; On another Facebook page, &#8220;The National Liberation Movement &#8211; Fatah,&#8221; a cartoon is posted showing a car going after three fleeing stereotyped Jews wearing hats with the Star of David.</p>
<p>The car may be the Palestinians’ murder weapon of choice these days, but anything they can use to kill Jews, including women and children, will suffice. After all, they are just following the directions of their leaders. One of Hamas’s leaders said just last week, during a television interview, that even a Palestinian “who owns nothing but his faith has a kitchen in his house in which he has a knife.” It is his duty to “grab his knife and confront the Zionist enemy.”</p>
<p>Is it any surprise that in separate knifing incidents on November 10th, an Israeli soldier and a woman were stabbed to death by Palestinians practicing their “faith”? The soldier was killed in Tel Aviv by a Palestinian illegally there to look for work. The woman was killed at a traffic circle in the West Bank after the Palestinian murderer had tried and failed to run over people waiting at a bus station.</p>
<p>Israel&#8217;s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denounced Abbas for “spreading lies” and inciting violence. “Instead of teaching his people the path of peace, he teaches them the path of terrorism,” the prime minister said. Prime Minister Netanyahu also announced a series of stepped up security measures to deal with the mounting crisis.</p>
<p>The Obama administration and European Union issued tepid condemnations of the killings. &#8220;It is absolutely critical that the parties take every possible measure to protect civilians and de-escalate tensions,&#8221; said US State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki. No kidding &#8212; but when it comes to the Palestinians who sing about killing babies, her pleadings fall on deaf ears.</p>
<p>United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon issued a statement on November 11<sup>th</sup> saying he was “deeply concerned about the upsurge in violence and killings over the past few days in Israel and the West Bank. Violence only deepens distrust.” The statement added, “while making more distant the prospects for peace between Israelis and Palestinians. The Secretary-General calls on all sides to do everything they possibly can to avoid further exacerbating an already tense environment.”</p>
<p>As usual, the UN at its highest levels refused to lay the blame for the latest spate of violence where it belongs: on the Palestinians and their leadership. The spokesperson’s office for the Secretary General, despite several requests for comment, has refused to specifically condemn the incendiary remarks of Palestinian Authority President Abbas and other Palestinian leaders.  There has also been no UN condemnation of the Palestinians’ demand, which they have backed up with violence, that Jews and other non-Muslims be barred from worshipping anywhere on the Temple Mount. Instead, the UN, as well as the Obama administration, appear to support this demand in order to reduce tensions, even though the forcible exclusion of Jews and other non-Muslims from being able to worship at a site sacred to them is contrary to the basic human right of free exercise of religion.</p>
<p>Symbolic of the UN’s unconditional support for the Palestinians, no matter how badly they act, the United Nations hosted a fashion show to recognize the UN’s international year of solidarity with the Palestinian people. The event was held on November 10th, the same day of two murders of Israelis committed by Palestinians whom had been incited to their acts of violence by their leaders. As Israeli UN Ambassador Prosor asked rhetorically, “Solidarity with incitement? Solidarity with terror and extremism?” Apparently so.</p>
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		<title>Top Obama Lawyer Brings Anti-Israel Bias to High Court</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/zivotofsky_wide-b042c275eff15a2ea95aaee3c6be1b4f4ae3ae51.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-244732" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/zivotofsky_wide-b042c275eff15a2ea95aaee3c6be1b4f4ae3ae51-440x350.jpg" alt="zivotofsky" width="342" height="272" /></a>The Obama administration’s anti-Israel bias was on full display at the Supreme Court earlier this week. Its chief lawyer, Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, offered an incredibly insulting analogy while arguing a case involving whether a U.S. citizen born in Jerusalem has the right to require, upon request, that the State Department identify “Israel” as the place of birth on his or her passport. In defending the administration’s position that it has the inherent discretion to deny any such request if it believes that granting the request would undermine the president’s foreign policy objectives, Verrilli raised the bogeyman comparison to “issuing passports to people born in the Crimea tomorrow that identified Russia as the country of birth.” Verrilli said that to do so “would contradict the foreign policy position in a way that could be quite deleterious,” leaving the distinct impression that Israel’s relationship to Jerusalem should be analyzed the same way for the purposes of this case.</p>
<p>The case stemmed from an attempt by the parents of a boy born in Jerusalem, who is a U.S. citizen because both of his parents are U.S. citizens, to file an application for a consular report of birth abroad and a United States passport for their son, Menachem Binyamin, listing his place of birth as “Israel.” The parents were exercising a statutory right explicitly granted by Congress in the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, which still remains in effect and requires the State Department to record a Jerusalem-born U.S. citizen’s place of birth as “Israel” if requested to do so by the citizen or his or her legal guardian.</p>
<p>The State Department denied the parents’ request, despite the fact that their son was born in “West&#8221; Jerusalem, which even the Palestinian negotiators are not currently claiming belongs to them. The Palestinians insist that only “East” Jerusalem must become the capital of an independent Palestinian state, but the State Department’s rejection of the passport request thrusts the status of <i>all</i> parts of Jerusalem into the conflict, including the undisputed portion.</p>
<p>Verrilli argued to the Supreme Court that requiring the State Department to identify in a passport, an official government-issued document, Israel as the birthplace of a U.S. citizen, known by the government to have been born in Jerusalem, would impermissibly “interject an issue of recognition policy into the content of passports.” He added that “Congress cannot compel the Executive to issue diplomatic communications that contradict the official position of the United States on a matter of recognition,” in summing up the administration’s position. He also expressed concern about the impact that such implied recognition of Israel’s claims would have on the Palestinians, whom, he noted, declared, “Jerusalem the capital of the Palestinian state.”</p>
<p>Verrilli characterized the Obama administration’s role as “an honest broker who could stand apart from this conflict and help bring it to resolution.” He said that adhering to the Foreign Relations Authorization Act’s passport requirement would undermine this role and “the credibility of the President on this fundamental question of where the United States stands on the status of Jerusalem until the parties work it out.”</p>
<p>In other words, the Obama administration has come before the Supreme Court with self-righteous proclamations about the need to preserve the president’s credibility and even-handedness in his conduct of diplomacy on the Jerusalem issue in order to justify its utter disregard of a law on the books concerning the issuance of passports. True to form, the Obama administration is asserting unbridled executive power. Claiming that Congress cannot interfere with the president’s conduct of foreign diplomacy, the State Department decided to disregard an explicit provision in a congressional statute, which requires the State Department to record a Jerusalem-born U.S. citizen’s place of birth as “Israel” if requested to do so by the citizen or his or her legal guardian. The Foreign Relations Authorization Act’s Jerusalem provision granted no discretion to the executive branch in this regard.  The Act says: “For … a United States citizen born in the city of Jerusalem, the Secretary shall, upon the request of the citizen or the citizen’s legal guardian, record the place of birth as Israel.”</p>
<p>“Shall,” not “may,” is the operative word. Such legal technicalities do not faze the Obama administration, however. Its Solicitor General told the Supreme Court Justices that they “ought to defer to the Executive Branch&#8217;s judgment that the place of birth listing can have significant diplomatic consequences.” Justice Stephen Breyer agreed with this position because, as Justice Breyer so humbly put it, “I&#8217;m a judge. I&#8217;m not a foreign affairs expert.”</p>
<p>Justice Sotomayor, acting as if she were counsel for the Palestinians rather than a Supreme Court Justice, remarked that requiring the State Department to honor a Jerusalem-born U.S. citizen’s request to record his or her place of birth as “Israel” on an official government document would be tantamount to “asking the government to lie.” She reached that bizarre conclusion on the premise that the U.S. government would be identifying Jerusalem with Israel, contrary to the government’s official recognition policy.</p>
<p>The more conservative-leaning Justices expressed some skepticism regarding the argument that issuing the passport as requested would interfere with the president’s diplomatic powers to decide whether or not to recognize the sovereign claims of Israel to Jerusalem. Justice Scalia acknowledged that there could be a constitutional issue if the president’s recognition powers were being directly challenged by legislation, but he questioned whether that was the case here.</p>
<p>Justice Alito said that while he understood “the position of the United States that Israel does not exercise full sovereignty over Jerusalem,” he suspected there were certain attributes of sovereignty exercised by Israel such as Israel’s issuance of birth certificates for births within Jerusalem or Israel’s prosecution of crimes committed within Jerusalem which “the United States recognizes that Israel is lawfully exercising.”</p>
<p>Justice Kennedy proposed an idea he thought might alleviate the State Department’s concerns. He suggested that the State Department could simply include a statement with the passports it issues for Jewish American citizens born in Jerusalem that “This passport does not indicate that the government of the United States and the Secretary of State recognize that Israel has sovereign jurisdiction.”</p>
<p>Justices Kagan and Ginsburg expressed concern about the ramifications of appearing to take sides in the dispute between the Palestinians and Israel over Jerusalem’s status.</p>
<p>“I mean, history suggests that everything is a big deal with respect to the status of Jerusalem,” Justice Kagan said, pointing to the recent spate of violence in Jerusalem to support her point. “And right now Jerusalem is a tinderbox,” she added, “because of issues about the status of and access to a particularly holy site there. And so sort of everything matters, doesn&#8217;t it?”</p>
<p>With all due respect to Justice Kagan’s concerns about not setting off a “tinderbox,” what should matter is not to give the Palestinians a veto power over the implementation of a clear congressional statutory directive because of worries about a violent Palestinian reaction.</p>
<p>Justice Ginsburg questioned the fairness of the statute. “What about Palestinians who were born in Jerusalem and want to have Palestine as their place of birth?” she asked. “American born Palestinians cannot do that. And that suggests that Congress had a view, and the view was that Jerusalem was properly part of Israel.”</p>
<p>Horror of horrors that Congress should dare tilt in the direction of the one true democracy in the Middle East that has traditionally been our closest ally in the region!</p>
<p>In any case, President Obama has tipped the scale in precisely the opposite direction. Solicitor General Verrilli’s argument that the president’s ability to serve as an “honest broker” will be at risk if the Court rules against the State Department’s denial of the passport request rings hollow. Obama forfeited that role when he effectively endorsed the division of Jerusalem, based on Obama’s call for Israel to withdraw essentially to the pre-June 1967 lines as the basis for Palestinian-Israeli final status negotiations on the border between the two states. Obama’s map-drawing would mean that so-called “East” Jerusalem would become a part of a new Palestine state, codifying an artificial division that would reinstate the conditions prevailing during Jordan’s illegal occupation of the eastern portion of Jerusalem, including the Old City, between 1948 and 1967.</p>
<p>Prior to the Jordanians’ illegal occupation, Jerusalem was an undivided city. Historically, Jews have been living in Jerusalem continuously for more than three millennia. Jerusalem has never been the capital of any sovereign nation except of the Jewish people.</p>
<p>In more recent times, Jews have constituted the largest single group of inhabitants in Jerusalem since at least the mid-1800s. During the Jordanians’ illegal occupation between 1948 and 1967 of the eastern section, including the Old City, which Jordan annexed and ruled from its capital, Amman, Jewish homes and sacred places were destroyed or defaced. Jews were barred from worshipping at their holiest sites. The Palestinians today want to replicate this division and impose an ethnic and religious cleansing of any Jewish residents.</p>
<p>“In a final resolution, we would not see the presence of a single Israeli — civilian or soldier — on our lands,” Palestinian Authority President Abbas said last year.</p>
<p>When the Obama administration condemns Israel for planning to expand housing for Israeli Jews living in over-crowded Jewish neighborhoods within the portion of Jerusalem that Jordan had illegally occupied until Israel reunified the city, it is not neutral or acting as an “honest broker.” It is embracing the Palestinians’ bogus claims derived from Jordan’s illegal occupation.</p>
<p>Earlier this week, Abbas sent a letter to the family of the Palestinian jihadist killed by Israeli soldiers after he had seriously wounded Rabbi Glick, an American citizen, who was peacefully seeking more access for Jews to pray on the Temple Mount. Abbas called the would-be assassin “a martyr defending the rights of our people and the holy places.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Temple Mount is holy to Jews, as well as to Muslims. It includes but is not limited to the al-Aqsa Mosque. But Muslims, whom have been abusing the administrative responsibilities Israel granted to them in connection with the site,  insist on barring Jews from worshipping anywhere on the Temple Mount site. Defending “the holy places” means, according to Abbas, enforcing such discriminatory exclusion of Jews, whom he previously referred to as “cattle,” by &#8220;all means&#8221; necessary.</p>
<p>Palestinian violence has followed in the wake of Abbas’s incendiary rhetoric. But the Obama administration continues to side with the Palestinian position. When asked to comment last week on Glick’s shooting by a Palestinian jihadist, State Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki deplored the shooting but quickly pivoted to expressing the Obama Administration’s “support” for “the long-standing practices regarding non-Muslim visitors to the site, to Haram al-Sharif / Temple Mount.” Just by referring to the Temple Mount first by its Arabic name – even before its English designation &#8211; and omitting any reference to its Hebrew name Har haBáyit (or Har haMoria), the State Department spokesperson displayed the Obama administration’s pro-Palestinian bias.</p>
<p>In what should have been a prosaic explanation to the Supreme Court of the Obama administration’s position on the relevant law, its Solicitor General exposed the true animus that the Obama administration has towards the Jewish state of Israel. Solicitor General Verrilli’s reference to Russia and Crimea in an oral argument dealing with the issuance of a passport listing Israel as the place of birth for an American citizen born in Jerusalem was a contemptible distraction intended to place Israel in an unfavorable light in front of the highest court of the land.</p>
<p>It is always difficult to ascertain which way the Supreme Court will rule in a controversial case from the comments made by the various Justices during oral argument. However, what could emerge is a narrowly written majority opinion that sidesteps the constitutional question of separation of powers. The State Department can honor the Jerusalem-born American citizen’s request in accordance with the statute, based simply on the uncontested fact that it was Israel which issued the official birth certificate in the first place upon which the issuers of the passport relied for information. As Justice Kennedy, often a swing vote on the Court, suggested, the administrative action of issuing the passport with such birth information can be accompanied by a clear disclaimer statement that issuing the passport in no way is meant to express the U.S. government’s diplomatic recognition of Israel’s sovereign claims to Jerusalem.</p>
<p>Whatever the outcome, Solicitor General Verrilli’s slanderous Russia-Crimea analogy will remain a shameful episode in the annals of Supreme Court oral arguments.</p>
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		<title>Obama Administration Trusts Russia on Iran</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2014 05:45:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another catastrophe in an administration's catastrophic foreign policy. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/po.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-244613" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/po-450x253.jpg" alt="po" width="343" height="193" /></a>The Obama administration is so desperate to reach a nuclear deal with Iran by the current deadline of November 24<sup>th</sup> if at all possible that it is willing to trust Russia to play a key implementation role. In the face of Russian President Vladimir Putin&#8217;s duplicity with regard to Ukraine and Putin&#8217;s increasingly aggressive stance towards the West that harkens back to the Cold War, the Obama administration is deluding itself into thinking that it can trust Putin to keep his word on ensuring that much of Iran&#8217;s uranium stockpile is converted into a relatively harmless end product.</p>
<p>According to an article on November 4<sup>th</sup> in the <em>New York Times</em>, the Obama administration is encouraged by Iran’s purported willingness to ship much of its huge stockpile of uranium to Russia, which would convert it to fuel rods. The idea is that fuel rods are much more difficult to use in making nuclear bombs. Iran&#8217;s current stockpile of uranium is estimated to be in the range of 28,000 pounds, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency.</p>
<p>The <em>New York Times</em> article quoted an unnamed American it claims to be deeply involved in the negotiations as saying that &#8220;if the Iran-Russia deal works, it could be the cornerstone of something much larger.&#8221;</p>
<p>The <em>New York Times</em> also quoted from a recent speech delivered by Wendy R. Sherman, the chief American negotiator with Iran, in which she presumably alluded indirectly to the proposed Russian involvement in uranium conversion, stating that &#8220;we have made impressive progress on issues that originally seemed intractable.&#8221;</p>
<p>A senior National Security Council official praised Russia&#8217;s role in the negotiations with Iran. The official, quoted by the <em>New York Times</em>, said that &#8220;it is accurate to say that the Russians have played a very helpful role during these negotiations.&#8221;</p>
<p>Mind you, this is the same Russia whose president lied outright about the presence of Russian military forces in Crimea and has recently added to his barrage of insults against the United States by accusing the U.S. of supporting &#8220;neo-fascists&#8221; and &#8220;Islamic radicals.” Putin has cultivated alliances with both the Iranian and Syrian regimes in order to enhance Russia’s own influence in the Middle East.</p>
<p>This past September, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak announced a series of bilateral projects agreed to between Iran and Russia, worth seventy billion euros. In clear defiance of the U.S.-led international economic sanctions against Iran, Russia’s closer ties with Iran will include cooperation in the energy sector, which Novak described as “mutually beneficial” to the two countries. Areas of cooperation include power, oil and gas and what Novak described, in a meeting with his Iranian energy counterpart, as “the peaceful use of nuclear energy.&#8221;</p>
<p>Even if Putin were somehow miraculously sincere in his intentions this time, which is virtually impossible for the Russian leader who is trying to re-create the Russian empire, he cannot control what Ayatollah Khamenei, Iran&#8217;s supreme leader and ultimate decision-maker, will actually do. Khamenei torpedoed a similar deal worked out between the Obama administration and Iran in 2009 that would have involved the shipment of some of Iran&#8217;s nuclear fuel out of Iran. Moreover, Iran has refused to allow the International Atomic Energy Agency unfettered access to conduct inspections anywhere in the country, meaning that Iran would be free to hide some uranium and assets used to produce weapons grade enriched uranium in undisclosed covert locations. Its centrifuges would keep spinning. And Iran&#8217;s alternative route to a nuclear arms capability &#8211; its heavy water plutonium reactor &#8211; would not be affected by a uranium conversion deal with Russia.</p>
<p>Iran’s supreme leader Khamenei, who must sign off on any final deal, said this past May that those Iranians who promote negotiations with the United States are committing “treason.” He also committed his country to jihad against the United States:</p>
<p>“Battle and jihad are endless because evil and its front continue to exist. … This battle will only end when the society can get rid of the oppressors’ front with America at the head of it, which has expanded its claws on human mind, body and thought. … This requires a difficult and lengthy struggle and need for great strides.”</p>
<p>President Obama wants a deal at all cost with Iran to tout as his significant foreign policy achievement. The potentially tragic consequences will be the next president’s problem. The Obama administration thinks that it can get away with even a bad deal, because it assumes that the primary opponents of such a deal – Israel and many members of both parties in Congress – are too powerless to stop it. The administration believes that it is too late for Israel to take unilateral military action against Iran’s nuclear facilities and that the U.S. Congress can be end-run.</p>
<p>In his October 28<sup>th</sup> article in <em>The Atlantic</em> entitled “The Crisis in U.S.-Israel Relations Is Officially Here,” Jeffrey Goldberg quoted a senior Obama administration official’s epithet accusing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of cowardice. The charge derives in part from the Obama administration’s belief that Netanyahu is not willing or able to launch a preemptive strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities at this time.</p>
<p>“It’s too late for him to do anything,” Goldberg quoted another senior Obama administration official as saying, referring to Prime Minister Netanyahu’s purported hesitation “to pull the trigger.”</p>
<p>As for the Congress, the Obama administration has sent strong signals that it believes it does not have to seek formal Senate ratification of any agreement the administration reaches with Iran because such an agreement would not constitute a formal treaty. Moreover, the Obama administration believes that the president has the executive power to unilaterally suspend most sanctions against Iran.</p>
<p>President Obama has no compunctions about thumbing his nose at Congress and countenancing vile insults hurled by his senior lackeys against Israel’s prime minister. But he appears willing to trust one proven liar and aggressor, Putin, to help implement a key part of an agreement with a regime whose supreme leader, a fanatic theocrat, has vowed jihad to destroy the United States.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ShowImage.ashx_.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-244114" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ShowImage.ashx_-434x350.jpg" alt="ShowImage.ashx" width="301" height="243" /></a>The Obama administration’s contemptible hostility towards Israel has descended into the proverbial cellar.  According to an October 28<sup>th</sup> article appearing in <i>The Atlantic</i> by Jeffrey Goldberg, a high-level Obama administration official has recently added &#8220;chickensh*t&#8221; to other derisive terms used in ad hominem verbal attacks on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, such as “recalcitrant, myopic, reactionary, obtuse, blustering, pompous, and ‘Aspergery.’”</p>
<p>Prime Minister Netanyahu responded to the latest diatribe in his remarks to the Knesset on October 29<sup>th</sup> that &#8220;I am being attacked because I am willing to defend the State of Israel.&#8221;</p>
<p>Needless to say, other Israelis were more direct in expressing their outrage at the reported epithet. For example, Economy Minister Naftali Bennett said that “severe curse words against the Israeli prime minister are harmful to millions of Israeli citizens and Jews worldwide.&#8221; Former Israeli United Nations Ambassador Dan Gillerman described such name calling as “shameful,” “abusive,” and “counter-productive.”</p>
<p>The White House has tried to do some damage control regarding the &#8220;chickensh*t&#8221; remark, as it usually does after stepping into its own mess. U.S. National Security Spokesperson Alistair Baskey said in response to the latest imbroglio that “such comments are inappropriate and counter-productive. We do not believe there is a crisis in the relationship. The relationship remains as strong as ever and the ties between our nations are unshakable.&#8221;</p>
<p>With all due respect, Mr. Baskey, the relationship between Israel and the United States is at a historic low. The White House’s petty vindictiveness was illustrated again just last week when Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon was given a cold shoulder by various high-profile Obama administration officials, who were instructed not to meet with the defense minister during his visit to Washington. These officials included Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State John Kerry and National Security Advisor Susan Rice.  Aside from a routine meeting with his counterpart Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, Defense Minister Ya’alon did manage to meet with the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power, despite attempts by the administration, which came too late, to block the meeting. In any event, Ambassador Power focused her attention during the meeting on the settlements issue.</p>
<p>As Jeffrey Goldberg wrote in his article in <i>The</i> <i>Atlantic</i>:</p>
<blockquote><p>The relationship between these two administrations &#8212; dual guarantors of the putatively &#8220;unbreakable&#8221; bond between the U.S. and Israel &#8212; is now the worst it&#8217;s ever been, and it stands to get significantly worse after the November midterm elections. By next year, the Obama administration may actually withdraw diplomatic cover for Israel at the United Nations, but even before that, both sides are expecting a showdown over Iran, should an agreement be reached about the future of its nuclear program.</p></blockquote>
<p>While Jeffrey Goldberg correctly identified the problem, he mistakenly blamed Prime Minister Netanyahu as the main cause of the problem. Goldberg parroted the Obama administration line that, if it were not for the Israeli government’s settlements policies, a peaceful two-state solution would be achievable. He referred to what one Obama administration official described as the administration’s “red-hot anger” at the Israeli prime minister “for pursuing settlement policies on the West Bank, and building policies in Jerusalem, that they believe have fatally undermined Secretary of State John Kerry’s peace process.”</p>
<p>Indeed, Secretary of State John Kerry has gone public in blaming the Jewish state and its settlements policies for the failure of his feckless pretentions to be a peacemaker between the Israelis and the Palestinians.  He even went so far as to repeat without any rebuttal, at a White House reception earlier this month held in honor of a Muslim holiday, a contention that Israel’s intransigence was contributing to the rise of jihad in the Middle East.</p>
<p>The crisis in the once close relationship between the two countries originates from the very top of the Obama administration. President Obama himself has set the tone for the unprecedented verbal assaults from members of his administration on the leader of the only real democracy in the Middle East, and one of the United States’ closest allies – until now.</p>
<p>Back in November 2011, for example, Obama and former French President Nicolas Sarkozy were caught on an open microphone complaining about the Israeli prime minister. After Sarkozy said that he “can’t stand” Prime Minister Netanyahu and called him a “liar,” Obama replied: &#8220;You&#8217;re tired of him; what about me? I have to deal with him every day.&#8221;</p>
<p>In 2010, Obama is reported to have snubbed Prime Minister Netanyahu, declining to join the Israeli leader and his delegation for a White House dinner.</p>
<p>Obama came into office in 2008 with a decidedly pro-Palestinian bias. He absorbed the anti-Semitic rhetoric of his long-time pastor in Chicago, Jeremiah Wright, and of his friend from his teaching days at the University of Chicago, Rashid Khalidi.</p>
<p>Khalidi was a big fan of Yasser Arafat’s terrorist organization, the PLO.  He described Israel as a “racist” state and “basically an apartheid system in creation.” In 2003, at a farewell dinner for Khalidi, who was about to leave the University of Chicago for a position at Columbia University, Obama hailed Khalidi’s insights as an influence on his own thinking. Khalidi later returned the favor, telling pro-Palestinian audiences that Obama deserved their help in winning a U.S. Senate seat, stating: “You will not have a better senator under any circumstances.”</p>
<p>From the beginning of his first presidential term, President Obama signaled his intention to come down hard on Israel by initially demanding a complete freeze on settlements – including on any growth in existing settlements. He also outlined his concept of a final peace agreement that would require Israel to withdraw virtually entirely to the pre-June 1967 lines, but with no reciprocal requirement that the Palestinians renounce completely once and for all its assertion of a so-called “right of return” of millions of &#8220;refugees&#8221; to lands within pre-June 1967 Israel.  He has clearly bought into the self-serving narrative of Palestinian victimhood.</p>
<p>All that the Obama administration wants to talk about are Jewish settlements, failing even to distinguish between actual settlements in the West Bank and expansion of housing for Israelis living in certain Jewish neighborhoods in Jerusalem that happen to fall within the revisionist construct of a divided “East Jerusalem” that the Obama administration helps to perpetuate. Historically, Jerusalem has been an undivided city that has had a Jewish majority population and has in the past been the capital for the Jewish people. Jordan’s illegal occupation between 1948 and 1967 resulted in the artificial division of Jerusalem that the Palestinians, with help from the Obama administration, seek to make permanent. Jerusalem is whole again as it should be, but – unlike during the years of Jordan’s occupation – the holy sites are open to worshipers of all faiths.</p>
<p>During an “emergency” United Nations Security Council meeting convened on October 29<sup>th</sup> to discuss Israeli plans to build more Jewish housing in “East” Jerusalem, the U.S. representative speaking to the Council called Israel’s “unilateral” actions, including in Jerusalem, “deeply concerning” and provocative. This followed the usual Israeli-bashing by the United Nations bureaucracy. United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, Jeffrey Feltman, said during the meeting that &#8220;Israel&#8217;s construction plans in East Jerusalem &#8211; if they go ahead &#8211; raise grave doubts on its willingness to promote peace.&#8221;</p>
<p>Israel wants peace, but not how the Palestinians, backed by the Obama administration and the Palestinians&#8217; allies at the United Nations, would define it.</p>
<p>Gaza was a test case of the Palestinians’ ability and willingness to establish a model for an independent state after Israel withdrew completely in 2005 and turned over economic resources and responsibility for security to the Palestinian Authority. As has happened so often when the Palestinians had a chance for a truly peaceful two-state solution, they blew the opportunity. Hamas, whose genocidal charter calls for the destruction of Israel and the murder of Jews worldwide, took over Gaza in 2007 and turned it into a launching pad for above-ground rocket and underground tunnel attacks against Israeli civilians living in Israeli towns and cities. In Jerusalem itself, just last week, a Hamas affiliated jihadist deliberately drove his car into a group of pedestrians, killing a 3-month old baby, who, it turns out, was an American citizen. The response from Palestinian President Abbas’s Fatah party was to call the baby murderer a “heroic martyr.” A Hamas spokesman called the murder a “natural response” to the “invasion of our land by the Jews.”</p>
<p>Abbas did not express outrage or remorse over the senseless murder of the baby. Indeed, his own incendiary remarks calling for the use of “any means” to stop Jews from visiting or worshipping at the Temple Mount may have helped incite this violent attack. Hanan Ashrawi, a prominent member of the PLO Executive Committee, added her own fuel to the fire by saying that allowing Jews to visit the Temple Mount (which is holy to Jews as well as to Muslims) is a “declaration of war against Islam.” President Obama himself did not speak out publicly regarding such inflammatory rhetoric, the subsequent murderous attack itself or the disgusting reaction of the Palestinian leadership to the attack.</p>
<p>Abbas and the Hamas leadership play “good cop-bad cop” in terms of tactics, but their end-game is the same – the extinguishment of Jewish self-determination in any lands the Palestinians falsely consider their birth-right. There is no room for any Jewish state anywhere between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, in their own vision of the region.</p>
<p>The Obama administration turns a blind eye to the Palestinian pathology of hatred of Jews, some of which is rooted in Islamic supremacism. Preached in mosques and taught in Palestinian schools to poison the minds of generations of Palestinians, such hatred prevents the realization of any true two-state solution which recognizes the right of self-determination of the Jewish people as well as the Palestinian people to live side by side in peace and security.</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Klein]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/0717-Mideasfffft-Jordan-visit-John-Kerry_full_600.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-243614" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/0717-Mideasfffft-Jordan-visit-John-Kerry_full_600-420x350.jpg" alt="0717-Mideasfffft-Jordan-visit-John-Kerry_full_600" width="312" height="260" /></a>Secretary of State John Kerry</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">chose </span><a style="color: blue;" title="" href="http://www.state.gov/secretary/remarks/2014/10/233058.htm" target="_blank" data-href="http://www.state.gov/secretary/remarks/2014/10/233058.htm" data-type="1"><span class="zw-portion link" style="color: #0563c1;">a White House ceremony</span><span class="zw-portion" style="color: #0563c1;"> on October 16th</span></a><span class="zw-portion"> for the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha to </span><span class="zw-portion">regurgitate a false</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">theory </span><span class="zw-portion">link</span><span class="zw-portion">ing</span><span class="zw-portion"> the </span><span class="zw-portion">Israeli/Palestinian conflict </span><span class="zw-portion">with </span><span class="zw-portion">the increase of </span><span class="zw-portion">jihadist violence and </span><span class="zw-portion">recruitment</span><span class="zw-portion"> in the Middle East region</span><span class="zw-portion">.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">“As I went around and met with people in the course of our discussions about the ISIL [also referred to as ISIS or the Isla</span><span class="zw-portion">mic State]</span><span class="zw-portion"> coalition, the truth is we — t</span><span class="zw-portion">here wasn’t a leader I met with</span><span class="zw-portion">in the region who didn’t raise with me spontaneously the need to try to get peace between Israel and the Palestinians, because it was a cause of recruitment and of street anger and agitation that they felt</span><span class="zw-portion"> – and I see a lot of heads nodding – they had to respond to,” Kerry said. “And people need to understand the connection of that. And it has something to do with humiliation and denial and absence of dignity, and Eid celebrates the opposite of all of that.</span><span class="zw-portion">”</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">After Israeli Economic Minister Naftali Bennett sharply criticized Kerry’s statement, the State Department tried to walk it back, claiming, in the words of Deputy </span><span class="zw-portion">Spokesperson</span><span class="zw-portion"> Marie Harf</span><span class="zw-portion">,</span><span class="zw-portion"> that Kerry “did not make a link between the growth of ISIL and Israel, period.”</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">At best, Harf is telling only a half-truth. </span><span class="zw-portion">While Kerry did not explicitly state that it was </span><span class="zw-portion">his own </span><span class="zw-portion">view there was a link betwe</span><span class="zw-portion">en the growth of ISIS and the failure of the peace talks</span><span class="zw-portion"> or Israel</span><span class="zw-portion">, </span><span class="zw-portion">Kerry </span><span class="zw-portion">transmitted the linkage theory he heard from leaders in the region to a receptive audience at the White House. And he </span><span class="zw-portion">did not refute it. </span><span class="zw-portion">In fact, he lent credence to the linkage theory by saying that “people need to understand the connection.” </span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Kerry once again proved the truth of Mark Twain’s famous quip: &#8220;A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.&#8221;</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Indeed, Kerry has helped launch a series of lies against Israel during his term as Secretary of State. Last April, for example, he said that Israel was at risk of becoming “an apartheid state,” if it does not come to terms with the Palestinians. </span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">A</span><span class="zw-portion"> competent and honest Secretary of State – neither of which describe</span><span class="zw-portion">s</span><span class="zw-portion"> John Kerry – would not have </span><span class="zw-portion">repeated the falsehood of linking the failure of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks with the growth of ISIS and other jihadist movements</span><span class="zw-portion"> in the first place</span><span class="zw-portion">, </span><span class="zw-portion">unless he intended to set up this </span><span class="zw-portion">straw man</span><span class="zw-portion"> argument</span><span class="zw-portion"> in order</span><span class="zw-portion"> to </span><span class="zw-portion">immediately </span><span class="zw-portion">knock </span><span class="zw-portion">it </span><span class="zw-portion">down. </span><span class="zw-portion">What on earth does ISIS’s systematic massacre of Christians and Yazidis, rapes of women and children, and sexual slavery have to do with Kerry’s failed </span><span class="zw-portion">attempt to continue </span><span class="zw-portion">peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians? Absolutely nothing!</span><span class="zw-portion"> But Kerry </span><span class="zw-portion">shamelessly </span><span class="zw-portion">repeated the li</span><span class="zw-portion">e anyway.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">As one Israeli commentator observed</span><span class="zw-portion"> a few days after Kerry told the</span><span class="zw-portion"> Muslim</span><span class="zw-portion">s in his</span><span class="zw-portion"> audience what they wanted to hear, “Kerry didn’t mention that the astounding Saudi and Qatari assets invested in mosques around the world, including Europe, leads to radicalization. He didn’t come </span><span class="zw-portion">out against Qatar, which has become the primary funder of jihadi organizations. He doesn’t blame the institutionalized anti-Semitic incitement, which is growing in the Muslim world, including by Al-Jazeera.”</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Instead, Kerry pandered to his audience. He repeated President Obama’s claim that there is nothing Islamic about the Islamic State</span><span class="zw-portion">, even though ISIS’s atrocities find justification in the Koran and the Hadith (the sayings and deeds of the Islamic prophet Muhammad). Kerry</span><span class="zw-portion"> then assured the audience </span><span class="zw-portion">that </span><span class="zw-portion">the sectarian murders </span><span class="zw-portion">occurring regularly </span><span class="zw-portion">within the Muslim community </span><span class="zw-portion">today </span><span class="zw-portion">in the 21</span><span class="zw-portion">st</span><span class="zw-portion"> century can be compared with the Thirty Years’ War in 17</span><span class="zw-portion">th</span><span class="zw-portion"> century Europe that broke out initially between Protestant and Catholic states. The problem with such specious comparisons is that Muslims, unlike Catholics and Protestants, are still killing each other</span><span class="zw-portion">,</span><span class="zw-portion"> as well as Christians, Jews, Hindus, Yazidis, Zoroastrians and other “infidels</span><span class="zw-portion">,</span><span class="zw-portion">”</span><span class="zw-portion"> in massive numbers all over the world.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Hamas is the jihadist branch dedicated, in the words of its charter, to the destruction of the state of Israel and the killing of Jews wherever they can be found. Yet Kerry rarely mentions Hamas in his statements regarding the failed peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians</span><span class="zw-portion">. He </span><span class="zw-portion">has not insisted that </span><span class="zw-portion">effective measures be in place first to prevent the rearmament of Hamas as</span><span class="zw-portion"> a pre-condition for </span><span class="zw-portion">pouring millions of dollars of </span><span class="zw-portion">new aid the United States is pledging for reconstruction in Gaza</span><span class="zw-portion">, much less the disarmament of Hamas in Gaza</span><span class="zw-portion">.  </span><span class="zw-portion"> </span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Kerry’s willingness to turn a blind eye to the real culprit Hamas echoes the attitude of </span><span class="zw-portion">United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-m</span><span class="zw-portion">oon, who visited Gaza recently. </span><span class="zw-portion">During his visit, the Secretary General </span><span class="zw-portion">referred to Israel’s partial defensive blockade of Gaza as a “siege.” He said that lifting the “siege” and “easing movement restrictions” is “one of the most important issues… a basic human right for all the Palestinian people.”</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">“Siege” is defined in the Oxford Dictionaries as “a military operation in which enemy forces surround a town or building, cutting off essential supplies, with the aim of compelling the surrender of those inside.” Israel’s partial blockade of Gaza in response to relentless rocket attacks launched by Hamas and other jihadist groups from civilian centers in Gaza against civilian populations in Israel is anything but a siege. Israel withdrew from Gaza unilaterally in 2005 and turned over </span><span class="zw-portion">major </span><span class="zw-portion">security responsibilities at the border crossings to the Palestinian Autho</span><span class="zw-portion">ri</span><span class="zw-portion">ty</span><span class="zw-portion">. There was no blockade to speak of until Hamas seized power and turned Gaza into a launching pad for attacks against Israel. Even </span><span class="zw-portion">since </span><span class="zw-portion">then, Israel </span><span class="zw-portion">has </span><span class="zw-portion">permitted food and humanitarian aid to enter Gaza as well as construction materials for international projects</span><span class="zw-portion"> – the antithesis of a siege</span><span class="zw-portion">. </span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">I approached Secretary General Ban Ki-moon last week to ask him whether he would reconsider the use of the term “siege” in describing Israel’s partial blockade</span><span class="zw-portion">. He said he would think about</span><span class="zw-portion"> it.</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">In his remarks to the press the next day, Ban did not refer again to an Israeli “siege,” but he continued to castigate Israel for what transpired during the latest Gaza conflict with Hamas. Ban said that while he understood “the security threat from rockets above and tunnels below” that Israel was facing, Israel’s response and resulting “destruction in Gaza has left deep questions about proportionality.” </span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Ban also castigated Israel for </span><span class="zw-portion">shelling UN schools in Gaza,</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">while </span><span class="zw-portion">refusing to acknowledge</span><span class="zw-portion"> Israel’s allegation that</span><span class="zw-portion"> the UN </span><span class="zw-portion">returned</span><span class="zw-portion"> rockets found in UN school</span><span class="zw-portion">s</span><span class="zw-portion"> to Hamas. </span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Where the ant</span><span class="zw-portion">i</span><span class="zw-portion">-Israel bias of the Obama administration and the United Nations may converge is a UN Security Council resolution sought by Palestinian President Abbas and sponsored by Jordan</span><span class="zw-portion">,</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">which</span><span class="zw-portion"> would set a </span><span class="zw-portion">firm </span><span class="zw-portion">deadline </span><span class="zw-portion">for Israel </span><span class="zw-portion">to</span><span class="zw-portion"> withdraw from all Palestinian territories and end the “occupation.”</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">The precise wording</span><span class="zw-portion"> is currently being negotiated behind the scenes</span><span class="zw-portion">. </span><span class="zw-portion">C</span><span class="zw-portion">hief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat</span><span class="zw-portion"> has recommended that the Palestinian Authority end all security-related cooperation with Israel in the West Bank if the United States ends up vetoing the resolution. </span><span class="zw-portion">The Palestinians would also be likely to </span><span class="zw-portion">join more </span><span class="zw-portion">UN agencies and </span><span class="zw-portion">treaties</span><span class="zw-portion">,</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">as well as </span><span class="zw-portion">the International Criminal Court</span><span class="zw-portion"> where they would try to obtain prosecutions against Israeli leaders for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">If France and the United Kingdom dec</span><span class="zw-portion">ide to support some form of the timetable</span><span class="zw-portion"> resolution</span><span class="zw-portion"> for Israeli withdrawal</span><span class="zw-portion"> the Palestinians are seeking</span><span class="zw-portion">, the Obama administration – given its anti-Israel bias – may well decide </span><span class="zw-portion">ultimately </span><span class="zw-portion">to abstain</span><span class="zw-portion"> rather than exercise its veto power</span><span class="zw-portion">.</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">The UK parliament has already gone on record </span><span class="zw-portion">in a symbolic vote </span><span class="zw-portion">as supporting the recognition of a Palestinian state, following the Swedish government’s decision to </span><span class="zw-portion">actually </span><span class="zw-portion">do</span><span class="zw-portion"> just that</span><span class="zw-portion">. Other Eur</span><span class="zw-portion">opean Union countries may add themselves to the growing list of countries that are going along with this </span><span class="zw-portion">Palestinian state </span><span class="zw-portion">recognition </span><span class="zw-portion">trend</span><span class="zw-portion">, giving </span><span class="zw-portion">the Obama administration some political cover to abstain</span><span class="zw-portion"> on the timetable resolution</span><span class="zw-portion">. </span><span class="zw-portion">A </span><span class="zw-portion">vote </span><span class="zw-portion">on the resolution may be postponed </span><span class="zw-portion">until after the U.S. mid-term elections to give the Obama administration some</span><span class="zw-portion"> breathing room</span><span class="zw-portion">. </span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">In the meantime, </span><span class="zw-portion">John Kerry is reported to be scrambling to head off a Security Council resolution altogether by trying to put pressure on Israel to return to the negotiating table </span><span class="zw-portion">for direct talks with the Palestinians. He is meeting resistance from both sides. “</span><span class="zw-portion">We’re are not going back to negotiations unless there is some change in the rules to discuss the borders first,” said Fatah Central Committee member Dr. Nabil Shaath. “To continue to negotiate while the Israelis are eating up land is like suicide,” he said. </span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Kerry’s remarks </span><span class="zw-portion">at the White House </span><span class="zw-portion">Eid al-Adha </span><span class="zw-portion">ceremony, raising </span><span class="zw-portion">concerns among unnamed Middle East leaders regarding the purported linkage of the failure of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks and the rise of ISIS</span><span class="zw-portion">,</span><span class="zw-portion"> may be his Hail Mary pass</span><span class="zw-portion"> to</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">try and shame </span><span class="zw-portion">Israel </span><span class="zw-portion">publicly into returning t</span><span class="zw-portion">o the negotiating table and making</span><span class="zw-portion"> more concessions. That way, </span><span class="zw-portion">the Palestinians may decide to also resume direct negotiations and postpone seeking action on their </span><span class="zw-portion">proposed Security Council resolution</span><span class="zw-portion">, relieving</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">the Obama administration</span><span class="zw-portion"> of having to make a decision on which way to vote</span><span class="zw-portion">. If so, it is another counter-productive move by the Obama administration that will create even more distance with </span><span class="zw-portion">the one true democracy that has traditionally been our </span><span class="zw-portion">closest ally in the Middle East.</span></p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2014 04:40:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Klein]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/20193bfc-943d-49dc-b9dd-eee2f768b4a81.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-243428" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/20193bfc-943d-49dc-b9dd-eee2f768b4a81.jpg" alt="20193bfc-943d-49dc-b9dd-eee2f768b4a8" width="330" height="256" /></a>In Abraham Lincoln’s famous words, “You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.” The American people have common sense. They cannot be fooled for long by the kind of pious pronouncements and half-truths from President Obama and his administration that they hear and read about virtually every day.</p>
<p>During the last six years, many Americans have sensed a steep decline in America’s prestige, military might and economic power in the world. They wake up every day to witness their country lurching from crisis to crisis in a rudderless ship.</p>
<p>Jihadists are on the march, unchecked by President Obama’s tepid responses. Russian President Vladimir Putin openly thumbs his nose at the United States under Obama’s leadership. Iran is edging ever closer to achieving its ambition of becoming a nuclear-armed power, while the Obama administration bumbles along with fruitless negotiations and weakening of sanctions. Ebola is spreading, while the president refuses to take the common sense step of banning commercial flights from the most affected countries. In fact, according to Judicial Watch, “the Obama administration is actively formulating plans to admit Ebola-infected non-U.S. citizens into the United States for treatment,” apparently without seeking congressional approval. President Obama is also reportedly planning to issue an executive order after the mid-term elections that would effectively grant amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants in this country while the southern border remains vulnerable to the entry of terrorists and infected illegal immigrants. The economy remains shaky, characterized by stagnant household incomes and people giving up looking for work as the labor participation rate has declined to the lowest rate in 36 years. Add to all this the scandals about which the Obama administration has not been forthcoming, including the handling of events leading up to, during and following the jihadist attacks in Benghazi that claimed four American lives, the IRS’s politically motivated targeting of conservatives, the mess at the Department of Veterans Affairs and Fast-and-Furious.</p>
<p>Thus, it should be no surprise that, in a recent poll of likely voters in competitive U.S. House and Senate races reported on by<a href="http://images.politico.com/global/2014/10/17/141017_politico_topline_october_2014_survey_t_1605_watermark.html"><span style="color: #0463c1;"> Politico</span></a>, 64% believed that “[t]hings in the U.S. feel like they are out of control right now.” A whopping 84% of those polled believed that ISIS represents a threat to our homeland, despite assurances from the Obama administration that there is no credible information that ISIS plans to attack the homeland. When Americans see the brutality ISIS is capable of with their own eyes, and hear ISIS warn that “We Will Drown All of You in Blood” and that the jihadists will “raise the flag of Allah in the White House,” Americans have good reason to believe that things are getting out of control and that the Obama administration is either clueless or deceitful. ISIS is far better armed than al Qaeda was when it carried out its 9/11 attacks and has the advantage of hundreds of recruits from the West, including the United States, who can return home and wreak havoc.</p>
<p>Overall, 53% disapprove of President Obama’s performance as president while 47% approve, according to the poll published by Politico. Three times as many strongly disapproved than strongly approved of President Obama’s performance. While neither President Obama nor former President George W. Bush elicited much confidence in terms of being effective at managing the basic functions of the federal government, Bush edged out Obama by 38% to 35%, respectively.</p>
<p>President Obama’s signature domestic piece of legislation, Obamacare, fared poorly in the poll. More than twice as many of those polled believed that their quality of health care will be worse than better under Obamacare. Eight times as many believed that the amount of money they pay personally will increase than decrease under Obamacare.</p>
<p>A <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2014/10/20/americans-gloom-marches-into-second-decade/"><span style="color: #0463c1;">Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll</span></a> released last week backs up the prevailing feeling among Americans that things are heading in the wrong direction. Sixty-five percent of those polled “said the country had taken a wrong turn, and only 25% said the U.S. was on the right path,” according to the Wall Street Journal. “The only time the public has felt worse was in October 2008, during the first, deep spasms of the recession.” As one retirement-age female Democrat from Iowa was quoted as saying in explaining why she thought the nation was on the wrong track:  “The wars, the bombings, the terrorism and that, this Ebola thing, that’s not good.</p>
<p>The results of a <a href="http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/mood_of_america/right_direction_or_wrong_track"><span style="color: #0463c1;">Rasmussen Reports survey</span></a> published last week further confirm Americans’ deep concerns about the direction in which the country is heading. Sixty-five percent of likely voters polled believed that the country was on the wrong track while only 27% believed that the country was headed in the right direction. “[Seventy percent] of voters not affiliated with either major political party think the country is on the wrong track,” Rasmussen reported. Democrats and liberals were more inclined to believe the country was headed in the right direction, but by slim margins of 48% to 42% for Democrats and 48% to 40% for liberals.</p>
<p>When former President Jimmy Carter gave his so-called “malaise” speech in July 1979 in which he discussed the energy crisis the nation was then facing, he tried to address head-on what he described as a “crisis of confidence” among the American people. While not acknowledging that his own failed policies were a significant contributor to Americans’ loss of confidence in the future, at least he did not let fund-raising and golf games divert his attention from trying to directly address Americans’ concerns.</p>
<p>To be sure, Carter misdiagnosed the reasons for Americans’ loss of confidence. However, he did see that there was a fundamental feeling of deep unease in the land that the president as the leader of the country and the free world could not simply ignore. President Obama, on the other hand, is either in denial or casts about for false excuses. Indeed, he chose a fund-raising event last August to pronounce that the world was in much better shape than when he took office. He blamed the rise of social media for feeding Americans’ anxieties. He said that the “world has always been messy,” and that “we’re just noticing now because of social media and our capacity to see in intimate detail the hardships that people are going through.”</p>
<p>Barack Obama cannot even man up as much as Jimmy Carter tried to do 35 years ago, which is pathetic. Instead, he continues to insult the intelligence of the American people. But as the poll numbers reported by Politico demonstrate, the American people will not be fooled. They know in their guts that things are out of control and they have a pretty good idea why. They have decided to believe their own eyes and ears rather than the Obama administration’s double-talk.</p>
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		<title>Kerry: Global Warming World&#8217;s &#8216;Most Fearsome&#8217; Threat</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2014 04:30:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Klein]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the face of Ebola and ISIS, the Obama administration reveals its real priorities. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/132156075_21n1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-243007" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/132156075_21n1-402x350.jpg" alt="132156075_21n" width="291" height="253" /></a>Speaking at the Wind Technology Testing Center in Boston Massachusetts on October 9<sup>th</sup>, the windsurfer and windbag-in-chief himself, Secretary of State John Kerry, pronounced that climate change, if left unaddressed, will result in the end of times: “Life as you know it on Earth ends,” Kerry said. Last February, Kerry claimed that climate change was the world’s &#8220;most fearsome&#8221; weapon of mass destruction. Not nuclear arms in the hands of the terrorist sponsoring regime of Iran or in the hands of ISIS or al Qaeda. Climate change is the real number #1 national security threat, according to Kerry.</p>
<p>Perhaps Kerry should take his head out of the clouds and take a hard look at the stark reality on earth that we are facing today. Think Ebola and global jihad for starts.</p>
<p>The World Health Organization called the Ebola outbreak &#8220;the most severe, acute health emergency seen in modern times.&#8221; The Ebola epidemic has already killed more than 4,000 people, mostly in the West Africa. But the Ebola virus has spread to other parts of the world, including the United States. A Liberian man who had traveled to the U.S. has already died of Ebola in a Texas hospital. Now we learn that a nurse who treated him at the hospital is infected herself with the virus.</p>
<p>As usual, the Obama administration is scrambling to deal with the crisis by holding lots of meetings and taking half-hearted measures. It has refused to heed calls by an increasing number of people, including a leading epidemiologist, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/10/06/epidemiologist-stop-the-flights-now/"><span style="color: #0463c1;">David Dausey</span></a>, who works on controlling pandemics and said that we must do “whatever it takes to keep infected people from coming here.” This should include an immediate ban on travel from the countries with the largest rates of infection to the United States. A majority of Americans agree, according to an NBC News online survey. Instead, the Obama administration is more worried about such bans being seen as racist and disrupting the economies of the affected countries in West Africa than protecting the American people and easing their fears.</p>
<p>“We don&#8217;t want to isolate parts of the world,” said Dr. Tom Frieden, the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, earlier this month. John Kerry said that “we need borders to remain open,” while calling as usual for multilateral action by African nations to deal with the crisis. They are wrong. Except for vital medical supplies transported on military aircraft to help stem the further spread of the disease in West Africa, the borders should be closed. The breeding ground in West Africa for Ebola must be fully isolated lest the deadly disease turn into a global pandemic. To paraphrase John Kerry, an unchecked Ebola contagion will bring an end to many lives including possibly in the United States &#8211; a lot sooner than climate change.</p>
<p>ISIS is on the outskirts of Baghdad. It is also on the verge of capturing the key city of Kobani near the Turkish border. While apoplectic and apocalyptic all at the same time about climate change, Kerry sees the jihadist conquests as just part of the “ups” and “downs” there are “in any kind of conflict.” He has talked about so-called &#8220;climate refugees.&#8221; However, despite the threat of imminent ISIS conquest of Kobani and the flood of real refugees attempting to escape slaughter at the hands of the jihadists in Syria, Kerry said that the U.S. has other strategic objectives. “As horrific as it is to watch in real time what is happening in Kobani, you have to step back and understand the strategic objective,” he remarked. Exactly what that strategic objective is, neither Kerry nor President Obama have been able to clearly explain.</p>
<p>Last month at the United Nations headquarters in New York, Kerry told reporters that the U.S. was getting all that it needed in the way of support from Turkey. But that was not true. Turkey has been dragging its feet ever since Kerry made that remark. Only in just the last several days has Turkey finally agreed to allow the use of its bases by coalition forces fighting against ISIS. Turkey still is preventing Kurds living in Turkey from joining their besieged Kurdish colleagues in Syria to save Kobani. And although Turkey is the NATO member most directly threatened on its border by ISIS, its Islamist government has not been willing to date to contribute any of its own ground troops to fight ISIS and prevent an invasion across its border. If Turkey is invaded by ISIS, will it expect the U.S. and other NATO members to come to its aid with air and ground combat forces under the collective security provisions of the NATO treaty?  What good is Turkey as a member of NATO and purported “ally” of the United States anyway so long as it is led by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who shares ISIS’s supremacist Islamist ideology, if not its methods, and has his own caliphate ambitions?</p>
<p>As for what is happening in Iraq – a direct consequence of the Obama administration’s decision to pull all U.S. troops out of the country in 2011 against the advice of military and policy advisers – Kerry said that it is up to the Iraqis to deal with what Kerry himself acknowledged was “an existential threat” to their country. U.S. airstrikes remain too little too late. And military supplies for the Kurds in Iraq to use in serving as the boots in the ground against ISIS in Iraq continue to be supplied through Baghdad rather than directly to the Kurds themselves.</p>
<p>During this past week’s international donor conference in Cairo concerning Gaza reconstruction, Kerry said casually that “There will be ups and there will be downs over the next days as there are in any kind of conflict.” But the conflict with ISIS is not just “any kind of conflict.” And ISIS and its jihadist cohorts are no ordinary combatants with local territorial, political or economic grievances. They are the carriers of the global ideology of Islamic supremacism that threatens, again to paraphrase Kerry, to end life as we know it in a civilized world.</p>
<p>Next to the immediate threats posed by Ebola and global jihad, climate change pales by comparison.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2014 04:57:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A sobering speech at the U.N. about the "master faith" and its quest for global dominance. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/2557147983.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-241997" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/2557147983-434x350.jpg" alt="2557147983" width="305" height="246" /></a>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a powerful and sobering speech to the United Nations General Assembly on September 29<sup>th</sup>.  He said he came from Jerusalem to speak on behalf of the Israeli people and to “expose the brazen lies spoken from this very podium against my country and the brave soldiers who defend it.”</p>
<p>“Truth must always be spoken, especially here, in the United Nations,” the prime minister said to an audience of government leaders and delegates not used to hearing the truth spoken in the UN on issues relating to the Jewish state.</p>
<p>Israel’s leader emphasized that his country’s fight against Hamas was part of the larger global fight against “militant Islam” which is “on the march.” He added that “Hamas is ISIS and ISIS is Hamas.”  They share a “fanatical creed,” which they ultimately seek to impose on the world.</p>
<p>“The Nazis believed in a master race, militant Islamists believe in a master faith; they just disagree on who will be the master of the master faith,” Mr. Netanyahu said. “The question before us is whether militant Islam will have the power to realize its violent ambitions.”</p>
<p>Prime Minister Netanyahu backed up his melding of ISIS and Hamas with quotes from leaders of both jihadist groups, proving their common violent ambitions. Islamic State head al-Baghdadi said that a day will come when the world will see Islam as a master who will destroy the idol of democracy. Khaled Meshaal, Hamas’s political leader, said: “Our nation will sit on the throne of the world.”</p>
<p>The truth about Hamas does not faze Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.  Last week he wasted an opportunity, in his own UN General Assembly speech, to publicly distance the Palestinian Authority from the ISIS look-alike, Hamas. Instead of unequivocally condemning Hamas’s crimes against humanity in launching rocket attacks against Israeli civilians while using Palestinian children and other civilians as human shields, Palestinian President Abbas served as Hamas’s mouthpiece on the global stage. He was Hamas’s propaganda sword and shield, falsely accusing Israel of committing “genocide” and “absolute war crimes” in Gaza.</p>
<p>Prime Minister Netanyahu’s rebuttal to Abbas’s blood libel was right to the point. Holding up a picture of a rocket launcher in Gaza next to children playing, taken by a French news photographer, he delivered this message to President Abbas:</p>
<blockquote><p>Ladies and gentleman, this is a war crime, and I say to president Abbas these are the crimes, the war crimes committed by your Hamas partners in the national unity government you created and which you are responsible for … and which you should have spoken out against in your speech last week.</p></blockquote>
<p>In remarks to the press before Prime Minister Netanyahu delivered his General Assembly speech, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said that Abbas had “lost his way.” Mr. Lieberman characterized Abbas’s speech as a “message of hatred and incitements,” and expressed doubts as to Abbas’s “legitimacy” to speak on behalf of the Palestinian people.</p>
<p>In further rebuttal to Abbas’s lies, Mr. Netanyahu listed in his speech the unprecedented steps that Israel took, at risk to the lives of its own troops, to minimize civilian casualties during the Gaza war. And he challenged the General Assembly audience to consider how they would react if their towns were under attack by a barrage of rockets, forcing their citizens to seek cover with only seconds to spare.</p>
<p>The prime minister said that the UN Human Rights Council, which he characterized as an “oxymoron,” was helping Hamas in its propaganda war. Its singular condemnation of Israel, while giving Hamas a pass on it use of civilians as human shields, earned it the title “terrorist rights council.”</p>
<p>Turning to Iran, Prime Minister Netanyahu warned about the smooth-talking charm offensive of Iran’s president and foreign minister, which masked the Iranian regime’s relentless drive to become a nuclear armed state while getting the sanctions lifted. He accused the Iranian regime of playing games to “bamboozle its way to an agreement that will leave it with thousands of centrifuges. The world’s most dangerous regime will obtain the world’s most dangerous weapons.”</p>
<p>The prime minister said that it was not enough for the world to focus its attention on ISIS and destroy it, as important as that goal is to achieve.  The world must not lose sight of the overriding threat of a nuclear armed Iran.</p>
<p>“To disarm ISIS but leave Iran with the bomb would be to win the battle but lose the war,” he said, drawing applause from supporters of Israel in the General Assembly hall gallery but only silence from the world leaders and delegates seated at their desks on the main floor. “Would you let ISIS enrich uranium … develop ICBMs? Of course you wouldn’t. Then you mustn’t let Iran do those things either,” he added.</p>
<p>Mr. Netanyahu mocked Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s lament last week in his General Assembly speech about the rise of terrorism in the world, which Rouhani blamed on the West. The Israeli prime minister called this double-talk, coming from the president of a leading state sponsor and practitioner of global terrorism. “You can ask him to call off Iran’s global terror campaign,” the prime minister declared.</p>
<p>Israel wants peace, Prime Minister Netanyahu said. However, Israel also insists on “rock solid security arrangements.” Israel saw what happened after it vacated Lebanon and Gaza, as “militant” Islamists filled the void and unleashed their weapons of terror against Israeli civilians.  He said that “as prime minister of Israel I am entrusted with the awesome responsibility of ensuring the survival of the Jewish people and the Jewish state. I will not waver.”</p>
<p>Finally, Mr. Netanyahu expressed some hope that “Peace can be realized with the active involvement of Arab countries.” He said that there is “a new Middle East” in which the Arab countries can play an “indispensable” role in helping bring about a genuine peace with the Palestinians.</p>
<p>Prime Minister Netanyahu concluded his General Assembly speech quoting from the Prophet Isaiah: “for the sake of Zion I will not be silent, for the sake of Jerusalem I will not be still.” And then he called upon the assembled world leaders and delegates to “light a torch of truth and justice to light our future.”</p>
<p>As the prime minister was finishing his speech and about to leave the podium, loud applause could be heard in the General Assembly hall. But, as normally happens at the UN, the slander and lies against the Jewish state will continue long after Mr. Netanyahu’s speech and the applause become a faint memory.</p>
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		<title>Turkey: The Jihadists’ Fifth Column in NATO?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new passageway of ISIS terrorists into Syria. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/PJ-Erdogan-1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-241923" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/PJ-Erdogan-1.jpg" alt="PJ-Erdogan-1" width="293" height="230" /></a>Turkey may well be the jihadists’ fifth column in NATO.</p>
<p>Turkey’s autocratic Islamist president, Tayyip Erdogan, has allowed Turkey’s border to become a passageway for jihadist fighters streaming into Syria to join ISIS and the al Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra.</p>
<p>Oil from fields in Iraq and Syria under ISIS control has been regularly transported into Turkey, and sold to black market traders at below international oil market prices. Turkey itself is reportedly a major buyer of the cheap black market oil. The income from ISIS’s oil sales through the black market, as much as $30 million a month, helps finance ISIS’s expansion, making Turkey one of ISIS’s key bankrollers and enablers.</p>
<p>Turkey has also allowed ISIS recruiting networks operating online and through religious study groups to flourish within its borders. Turkey’s Milliyet newspaper reported that as many as 3,000 Turks have joined ISIS. For a government that has cracked down harshly on Kurdish dissidents and on journalists reporting inside Turkey who dare to question Erdogan’s policies, Erdogan’s regime has not appeared to have discouraged ISIS recruitment within its borders or the flow of recruits from Turkey, and the flow of recruits from other countries traveling through Turkey, who are joining ISIS fighters in Iraq and Syria.</p>
<p>Despite pressure from the United States, Erdogan has held back from making any significant contributions to the U.S.-led anti-ISIS coalition, fearing that Syria’s Assad regime and Kurds would benefit to Turkey’s detriment.  Even after Turkey secured the release of its citizens held by ISIS – reportedly through a prisoner exchange with ISIS – Turkey is not acting like an active NATO partner.</p>
<p>Turkey may now decide to provide a show of token support to the coalition to humor Obama and win U.S. support for Turkey’s bid to become a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council next year. However, the fact is that Erdogan is on the side of the jihadists and will use a seat on the Security Council to push an agenda that is both pro-Islamist and anti-Israel.</p>
<p>Erdogan’s active support of Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood speaks for itself. And if there were any doubt where Erdogan’s sympathies lie, one only need to take a look at his speech to the United Nations General Assembly last week.</p>
<p>Instead of expressing moral outrage at the jihadists’ slaughters in Iraq and Syria, for example, Erdogan engaged in a gratuitous attack on Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who had responded to mass demonstrations in Egypt demanding an end to the theocracy that the jihadists were seeking to impose forcibly on Egyptian citizens. Erdogan was upset that his Muslim Brotherhood jihadist buddy Mohamed Morsi was no longer Egypt’s leader:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;The United Nations as well as the democratic countries have done nothing but watch the events such as overthrowing the elected president in Egypt and the killings of thousands of innocent people who want to defend their choice. And the person who carried out this coup is being legitimized. If we are going to defend people who come to power through coups, then I ask the question why we exist as the United Nations.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Erdogan’s pettiness was evidenced by reports that he refused to attend a luncheon hosted by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon last week when he learned he would be sitting at the same table as President Sisi.</p>
<p>Instead of playing a constructive role, like Egypt did, in trying to bring an end to the conflict in Gaza on terms that were not a complete give-away to Hamas’s demands, Erdogan did what he could to undermine Egypt’s efforts. He has previously referred to President Sisi as a “tyrant” who could not be trusted to broker a cease-fire.</p>
<p>Egypt&#8217;s foreign ministry put out a statement after Erdogan’s General Assembly speech exposing Erdogan’s hidden agenda to restore the Ottoman Empire’s glory days of the past:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;There is no doubt that the fabrication of such lies and fabrications are not something strange that comes from the Turkish President, who is keen to provoke chaos to sow divisions in the Middle East region through its support for groups and terrorist organizations. Whether political support or funding or accommodation in order to harm the interests of the peoples of the region to achieve personal ambitions for the Turkish president and revive illusions of the past.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Erdogan told the Council on Foreign Relations, in a speech he delivered a day before his General Assembly address, that everything would have been hunky-dory if only the Ottoman Empire had remained intact. He said that “we see significant crises taking place in the Middle East and Eastern Europe today, and up until 100 years ago, these areas were governed from the Ottoman capital, Istanbul. The Palestinian issue, the problems in Iraq and Syria, Crimea, the Balkans are all issues that emerged following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.”</p>
<p>Erdogan has in the past evoked the imagery of the Battle of Manzikert as a symbol for Turkish youth to look up to and emulate. The Battle of Manzikert occurred in 1071, when the Seljuk Turks decisively defeated the leading Christian power of that era, the Byzantine Empire.</p>
<p>In sum, Erdogan shares the same goal as ISIS – the restoral of an Islamic caliphate – even if they ultimately spar over who will control the caliphate.</p>
<p>Erdogan said in his General Assembly speech that Turkey stands against terrorism. But Erdogan’s concept of whom qualifies as a terrorist is focused on the Jewish state.  “Israel is a terror state; they are creating a wave of terror with what they’re doing now,” he told CNN in an interview last July, referring to Israel’s military actions to defend its civilian population against Hamas’s rocket attacks and terror tunnels. “Right now, we are a member state of NATO and we are a country which acts within the framework together with our partners in NATO. We have an international identity, a character. We never got involved with terror – we have always fought against terror.”</p>
<p>Erdogan is engaging in taqiyya, the Islamic doctrine of deceit. Turkey, for example, actively supports Hamas, a jihadist group that engages in terror against civilians and is the offspring of the Muslim Brotherhood which Turkey supports as well. While denying in his remarks to the Council on Foreign Relations that he harbored any anti-Semitic feelings, Erdogan condemned Israel for what he called its ”massacres” in Gaza. He said the Palestinian issue “is an important issue that has an impact not just on the Palestinians, but on all the Muslims and everyone who has a conscience in the world.”</p>
<p>But Turkey’s “conscience” is very selective. Turkey has a double standard when it comes to the issue of “occupation” and “settlers.”  While consistently condemning Israel for alleged occupation of Palestinian lands and allegedly illegal settlements, Turkey continues its own illegal occupation of northern Cyprus following its invasion of the island in 1974. Tens of thousands of mainland Turks have settled on Cypriote land that does not belong to them, under the protection of thousands of Turkish soldiers who do not belong in Cyprus.</p>
<p>At a UN press briefing by Republic of Cyprus President Nicos Anastasidades on September 26<sup>th</sup>, I asked him to comment on Turkey’s evident hypocrisy regarding the occupation and settlements issue, which it raises in every available forum with regards to Israel but evades when it comes to itself. President Anastasidades agreed that Turkey was displaying a double-standard.  This exchange was later removed from an official UN video record of the press conference. Did Turkish officials, who several years ago made UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon apologize for an alleged incident involving an altercation between UN security personnel and Turkish personnel, demand a censoring of the video to remove the criticism of Turkey’s hypocrisy on the occupation and settlements issue? Given the Turkish government’s regular anti-press campaign of intimidation in its own country, it would not be surprising if they did, but we will probably never know for sure.</p>
<p>However, one thing is for sure. Turkey is not a reliable member of NATO or U.S. ally. Its president’s sympathies lie with the jihadists and the enemies of Western style democracy. If Turkey does not unequivocally change its ways, steps should be considered to end its membership in NATO and to re-align the U.S. strategic relationship in the region further away from Turkey.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2014 04:53:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Israeli prime minister's tough words vs. the Obama administration's confusion. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/0cbea0ee-8c6c-430d-972b-6622dd45c5ea_16x9_600x338.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-241261" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/0cbea0ee-8c6c-430d-972b-6622dd45c5ea_16x9_600x338.jpg" alt="Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu talks at a news conference with U.S. President Barack Obama in Jerusalem" width="338" height="283" /></a>Confronted with pure evil in the form of ISIS, President Barack Obama treats the jihadists as if they represented an isolated threat that can be dealt with on its own. ISIS (or ISIL as the U.S. government calls it, or the Islamic State as the jihadists now call themselves) has no relationship to Islam, according to the president and his Secretary of State John Kerry.</p>
<p>ISIS is “not Islamic,” Obama declared in his speech last week announcing the steps he intends to take to combat ISIS in Iraq and Syria. “And it has no vision other than the slaughter of all who stand in its way.” It is “a terrorist organization, pure and simple,” Obama added.</p>
<p>In other words, according to the president, ISIS is for all intents and purposes made up of a bunch of nihilists who just engage in terrorism for terrorism’s sake. There is no purpose to what they are doing other than their pleasure in the deaths and mayhem they wreak, he would have us believe.</p>
<p>This fundamental misunderstanding of the enemy we are fighting will continue to result in Obama’s piecemeal muddle that passes for a “strategy.”  Are we even in a war? It depends on which member of the Obama administration is speaking and on what day. When are we going to start bombing ISIS in Syria as the president said he was prepared to do in his speech last week? Are we waiting to put together a “coalition” to bring the fight to ISIS on the ground while we send in some military advisors and otherwise limit ourselves to air strikes?  Apparently so, since the president has already made clear to the enemy what we will not do. And talking about coalitions, it seems that ISIS has had more success in that arena. All Obama and Kerry have managed to do so far is to cobble together vague pledges from some countries without specific commitments that we know of to contribute combat troops. ISIS, on the other hand, has reportedly recruited fighters from around seventy countries. These fighters are committed to ISIS’s fight for a caliphate. And the idea that we can find and train enough reliable so-called “moderate” Syrian rebels to “partner” with, who are motivated to take on the jihadists with “boots on the ground,” is a joke.</p>
<p>Indeed, ISIS and its other jihadist cohorts do have a vision, contrary to Obama’s confusion of terrorist tactics with their endgame of Islamic supremacy. Terrorist tactics, along with stealth jihad tactics of infiltration and manipulation of our institutions, serve to achieve this endgame. And while different jihadist groups may squabble among themselves over who represents the purest form of Islam, they are united by their hatred of the “infidels” – and the intent to covert, subjugate or kill as many of us as possible. Whatever name they go by, whether it is ISIS, Hamas, al-Qaeda, Boko Haram, al-Shabab, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad or the Islamic Republic of Iran that supports some of these groups and others, they all represent an indivisible threat to global peace, security and individual liberties. They are, in short, part of a common enemy driven by the same pathological supremacist ideology.</p>
<p>Unlike President Obama, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sees the threat and its animating ideology without rose-colored glasses. <a href="http://mfa.gov.il/MFA/PressRoom/2014/Pages/PM-Netanyahu-addresses-International-Conference-on-Counter-Terrorism-11-Sep-2014.aspx"><span style="color: #0463c1;">Addressing a conference</span></a> of the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Prime Minister Netanyahu described the repugnant vision as one of global supremacism.</p>
<blockquote><p>We&#8217;ve seen this before. There&#8217;s a master race; now there&#8217;s a master faith. And that allows you to do anything to anyone, but first of all to your own people and then to everyone else… The goal is we establish a new Islamist dominion, first in the Middle East and in their warped thinking, throughout the world. They all agree on that. They are not limited in their scope to a territory. They&#8217;re not limited to borders.</p></blockquote>
<p>While Obama went through the motions in commemorating the anniversary of 9/11 and has displayed moral confusion, Prime Minister Netanyahu spoke eloquently with moral clarity about what is at stake for the civilized world:</p>
<blockquote><p>I believe that the battle against these groups is indivisible and it&#8217;s important not to let any of these groups succeed anywhere because if they gain ground somewhere, they gain ground everywhere. And their setbacks are also felt everywhere. If they gain ground, if they were to succeed, they would return humanity to a primitive early medievalism … where women are treated as chattel, as property and gays are stoned and minorities persecuted if they&#8217;re left alive at all.</p></blockquote>
<p>Prime Minister Netanyahu knows firsthand that a true leader cannot make excuses for jihadists who fancy themselves as custodians of the “master faith” of Islam, nor negotiate with them. It does not make any difference how they label themselves. They are all branches of “the same poisonous tree,” as the prime minister put it. “These groups have absolutely no moral or other impediment to their mad desires. Once they have massive power, they will unleash all their violence, all their ideological zeal, all their hatred, with weapons of mass death,” he added.</p>
<p>President Obama mistakenly believes that he can separate the branches of the poisonous tree and engage with some of them as if they were unrelated fruit trees. Thus, his fruitless outreach to the Muslim Brotherhood and to the Iranian regime.</p>
<p>Prime Minister Netanyahu is under no such illusion. With moral clarity, he understands the jihadist ideology of Islam supremacism that we are up against and what is at stake if we do not defeat it.  President Obama does not, which places us at risk of another even deadlier attack on our homeland.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/kerry-syria-chemical-attack.si_.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-240304" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/kerry-syria-chemical-attack.si_-397x350.jpg" alt="kerry-syria-chemical-attack.si" width="276" height="243" /></a>Secretary of State John Kerry should have extended his Nantucket vacation.  That would have spared him and the nation from his embarrassing remarks praising Islam as a “peaceful religion based on the dignity of all human beings,” which he delivered just a day after ISIS released a video showing American journalist Steven Sotloff being beheaded.</p>
<p>Kerry was speaking at a ceremony honoring the State Department’s new special representative to Muslim communities, Shaarik Zafar. Rather than call on Muslim leaders around the world to publicly condemn ISIS in the strongest possible terms and do everything possible to counter ISIS’s recruitment campaign, ideology and financing, Kerry coddled them.</p>
<p>“I want to take advantage of this podium and of this moment to underscore as powerfully as I know how, that the face of Islam is not the butchers who killed Steven Sotloff. That’s ISIL,” Kerry said. He added that the real face of Islam is “one where Muslim communities are advocating for universal human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the most basic freedom to practice one’s faith openly and freely.”</p>
<p>Where exactly in Muslim-majority countries today is a non-Muslim free to practice his or her faith “openly and freely”?  Ten out of the sixteen countries deemed of particular concern regarding their abuses of religious freedom are Muslim nations, according to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom’s 2014 Annual Report. The governments of these countries engage in or tolerate particularly severe violations of religious freedom, the report states.</p>
<p>The Commission makes policy recommendations to the President, the Secretary of State, and Congress. Evidently, Kerry has not read the Commission report’s findings regarding the state of religious freedom in Muslim-majority countries or did not take them seriously.  It also appears that Kerry has not read or understood the implications of the Cairo Declaration of Human Rights, based on Sharia law, which is diametrically opposed to the principles underlying the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.</p>
<p>The Universal Declaration’s organizing principle is that “[A]ll human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.”</p>
<p>The Universal Declaration promotes the ideal that self-governing human beings all have certain inalienable rights such as the right to life and liberty, freedom of expression, and equality before the law. These universal rights apply to all human beings equally, whichever geographical location, country, race, culture or religion they belong to.</p>
<p>As the Islamic response to the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) foreign ministers adopted the Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam in 1990.</p>
<p>The Cairo Declaration reaffirmed “the civilizing and historical role of the Islamic Ummah which God made the best nation that has given mankind a universal and well-balanced civilization in which harmony is established between this life and the hereafter and knowledge is combined with faith.”  After reciting a litany of human rights that it pledged to protect, the Cairo Declaration subjected all of its protections to the requirements of Islamic law:</p>
<blockquote><p>Article 22 (a)</p>
<p>“Everyone shall have the right to express his opinion freely in such manner as would not be contrary to the principles of the Shari’ah.”</p>
<p>Article 24</p>
<p>“All the rights and freedoms stipulated in this Declaration are subject to the Islamic Shari&#8217;ah.”</p>
<p>Article 25</p>
<p>“The Islamic Shari&#8217;ah is the only source of reference for the explanation or clarification to any of the articles of this Declaration.”</p></blockquote>
<p>By making Islamic law the sole authority for defining the scope of human rights, the Cairo Declaration sanctioned limits on freedom of expression, discrimination against non-Muslims and women, and a prohibition against a Muslim’s conversion from Islam. Such restrictions are completely at odds with the fundamental human freedoms spelled out in the Universal Declaration.</p>
<p>“The reality,” Kerry said, “is that our faiths and our fates are inextricably linked.” He is right about that, but not for the reasons he suggests.  Jihadists with access to sophisticated weapons, money and willing recruits, including from the West, are seeking to determine our fates, which in their minds is a stark choice between subservience to Islam or death. The supremacism that permeates the Koran itself provides the jihadists with “moral” justification in their perverted world view. The sayings and actions of their Prophet Muhammad provide the jihadists with their roadmap. As an example, Islam’s prophet was quoted as saying, &#8220;Fight everyone in the way of Allah and kill those who disbelieve in Allah.&#8221; (Ibn Ishaq 992)</p>
<p>Secretary of State Kerry, perhaps suffering from a case of post-vacation sunstroke, used part of his remarks at the ceremony to connect what he called the “duty or responsibility” to confront climate change with the “scriptures, clearly, beginning in Genesis.” Then, remembering that he was speaking at a ceremony honoring his new special representative to Muslim communities, Kerry immediately tried to tie his elevation of climate change to Biblical heights with his concern for the fate of Muslims. He said that “Muslim-majority countries are among the most vulnerable.”  Right after that, he added: “Our response to this challenge ought to be rooted in a sense of stewardship of Earth. And for me and for many of us here today, that responsibility comes from God.”</p>
<p>The Koran quotes the Muslim supreme deity Allah as declaring:  “I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them.&#8221; (Koran 8:12) Is Allah the “God” whom Kerry looks to as the source of responsibility for our “stewardship of Earth”?</p>
<p>John Kerry takes his cue from President Obama. The president has focused his attention on the United States’ supposed failure to adequately protect Muslims’ human rights and recognize their sensibilities, instead of holding the Muslim world to account for its own problems. While ISIS’s barbarism does not represent the behavior of most Muslims, ISIS is not an isolated phenomenon as Obama and Kerry would try to have us believe. ISIS is an outgrowth of Islamic supremacism, which many so-called mainstream Muslim imams and teachers believe, preach and teach. They do so not only in Muslim-majority countries, but also in mosques and schools in the West. Until the United States leads the free world in directly confronting and defeating the ideological wellspring of jihad that feeds violent groups such as ISIS and stealth jihadists seeking to infiltrate our institutions from within, we will be deluding ourselves while playing whack-a-mole against the violent threat du jour.</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Klein]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/steven-sotloff.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-240109" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/steven-sotloff-450x329.jpg" alt="steven-sotloff" width="304" height="222" /></a>A</span><span class="zw-portion"> video, entitled “A Second Message to America,” </span><span class="zw-portion">was released on September </span><span class="zw-portion">2nd</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">purporting to show </span><span class="zw-portion">the beheading of American journalist Steven Sotloff</span><span class="zw-portion"> by an ISIS jihadist</span><span class="zw-portion">. </span><span class="zw-portion">The Obama administration could not immediately verify the authenticity of the video. </span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Meanwhile, as strange as it may seem, ISIS itself decried the early release of the video “before the official time,” but did not deny responsibility for the barbaric act. Apparently, ISIS not only combines its medieval </span><span class="zw-portion">barbarism </span><span class="zw-portion">with 21</span><span class="zw-portion">st</span><span class="zw-portion"> century social media technology, but also </span><span class="zw-portion">wants to time the </span><span class="zw-portion">marketing</span><span class="zw-portion"> of</span><span class="zw-portion"> its barbarism</span><span class="zw-portion"> for maximum </span><span class="zw-portion">prime time </span><span class="zw-portion">effect.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Mr. Sotloff</span><span class="zw-portion"> was </span><span class="zw-portion">reportedly </span><span class="zw-portion">executed</span><span class="zw-portion"> in the same manner as </span><span class="zw-portion">the journalist </span><span class="zw-portion">James Foley </span><span class="zw-portion">was </span><span class="zw-portion">two weeks ago</span><span class="zw-portion">. </span><span class="zw-portion">The chilling voice in the video, which appeared to be same voice </span><span class="zw-portion">with a British accent</span><span class="zw-portion"> that was heard</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">o</span><span class="zw-portion">n the video </span><span class="zw-portion">of Mr. Foley’s execution, uttered these taunting words directed at President Obama:</span></p>
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<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">I’m back, Obama, and I’m back because of your arrogant foreign policy towards the Islamic State, because of your insistence on continuing your bombings and … on Mosul Dam, despite our serious warnings. You Obama, have but to gain from your actions but another American citizen. So just as your missiles continue to strike out people, our knife will continue to strike the necks of your people.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">We take this opportunity to warn those governments that enter this evil alliance of America against the Islamic State to back off and leave our people alone.</span></p>
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<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">President Obama himself did not have any immediate comment. White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest, </span><span class="zw-portion">upon </span><span class="zw-portion">learning about the beheading while speaking to reporters at the daily White House press briefing, said that he was not then in a position to confirm t</span><span class="zw-portion">he authenticity of the video</span><span class="zw-portion">,</span><span class="zw-portion"> but </span><span class="zw-portion">said: </span><span class="zw-portion">“Our thoughts and prayers, first and foremost, are with Mr. Sotloff and Mr. Sotloff&#8217;s family and those who worked with him</span><span class="zw-portion">. </span><span class="zw-portion">The United States, as you know, has dedicated significant time and resources</span><span class="zw-portion"> to try and rescue Mr. Sotloff.”</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Whether the Obama administration did everything it could to rescue </span><span class="zw-portion">Steven Sotloff</span><span class="zw-portion"> and James Foley is in question. The White House is said to have delayed a decision on whether to launch a rescue operation for at least 30 days, according to a report in </span><span class="zw-portion">The Sunday Times of London</span><span class="zw-portion">.</span><span class="zw-portion"> That could well have made the difference between success and failure.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">State D</span><span class="zw-portion">epartment </span><span class="zw-portion">Deputy S</span><span class="zw-portion">pokeswoman Jen Psaki said that if the </span><span class="zw-portion">latest beheading </span><span class="zw-portion">video was genuine, “we are sickened by this brutal act.” However, she refused, in response to a question, to characterize Mr. Sotloff&#8217;s execution as an act of war. “I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s a useful exercise to go back and forth about new terms,” she remarked. “What&#8217;s important is what we&#8217;re doing about it.”</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">The Obama administration’s solution, Ms. Psaki said, was to create “an international coalition to address this threat.”</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">The question is why President</span><span class="zw-portion"> Obama has waited this long to begin building the coalition</span><span class="zw-portion">, let alone take any effective action on his own as the leader of the free world</span><span class="zw-portion">. ISIS was identified by our intelligence and military services as a major threat months ago. Yet, as of last week, President Obama shockingly admitted that in dealing with ISIS in Syria &#8220;We don&#8217;t have a strategy yet.&#8221;</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">ISIS reconstituted itself and gathered strength</span><span class="zw-portion"> in Syria before it re-emerged i</span><span class="zw-portion">n Iraq and took over large swaths of territory in northern Iraq. Syria was in effect ground zero for key ISIS bases</span><span class="zw-portion"> from which it launched its attacks</span><span class="zw-portion">. </span><span class="zw-portion">Obama was </span><span class="zw-portion">reportedly </span><span class="zw-portion">warned about the growing threat that ISIS posed </span><span class="zw-portion">months ago in great detail, </span><span class="zw-portion">but dismissed ISIS as a junior varsity team.  </span><span class="zw-portion">Obama made </span><span class="zw-portion">his flippant </span><span class="zw-portion">junior varsity </span><span class="zw-portion">remark last January in the face of clear evidence to the contrary, according to a former Pentagon official with knowledge of the </span><span class="zw-portion">daily intelligence briefings that were presented to the president.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">As Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said, </span><span class="zw-portion">&#8220;I think it&#8217;s a major varsity team. I see nothing that compares with its viciousness.&#8221; Senator Feinstein added that she believed President Obama was being “too cautious” in dealing with the ISIS threat. That is the understatement of the year.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">The former P</span><span class="zw-portion">entagon official was quoted by Fox News as saying that </span><span class="zw-portion">&#8220;[we] were ready to fire, on a moment&#8217;s noti</span><span class="zw-portion">ce, on a couple hundred targets.</span><span class="zw-portion">&#8221; </span><span class="zw-portion">However, President Obama did not issue the order. Now it is </span><span class="zw-portion">more urgent than ever </span><span class="zw-portion">to do so</span><span class="zw-portion"> without any further delay</span><span class="zw-portion">. </span><span class="zw-portion">Saturation bombing</span><span class="zw-portion">,</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">using</span><span class="zw-portion"> drones, fighter planes and </span><span class="zw-portion">missiles</span><span class="zw-portion">,</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">against </span><span class="zw-portion">all known ISIS locations wherever they are located – in Syria or Iraq – should not have to await the building of a</span><span class="zw-portion">n “international”</span><span class="zw-portion"> coalition.  Obama should for once lead from the front and not from behind.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Moreover, ISIS represents a clear and present danger not only to Americans </span><span class="zw-portion">and U.S. interests </span><span class="zw-portion">in the region where ISIS has taken control</span><span class="zw-portion">,</span><span class="zw-portion"> but also to Americans right here at home. </span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Some U.S. citizens and Western Europeans who do not need visas to enter the United States are believed to have joined the ISIS jihadists. These recruits are ready-made time bombs when and if they enter the United States after </span><span class="zw-portion">receiving their training </span><span class="zw-portion">fighting for</span><span class="zw-portion"> the so-called Islamic State. British Prime Minister David Cameron, who, unlike President Obama, immediately cut short his vacation after the Foley video was released, is moving to thwart the return of British jihadists to his country after they have been in the Middle East fighting with ISIS</span><span class="zw-portion">. Prime Minister Cameron</span><span class="zw-portion"> is also planning on strengthening the hand of the police in seizing the passports of individuals trying to join the ISIS jihadists.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">To date, we have heard nothing from President Obama on taking comparable steps to </span><span class="zw-portion">prevent fifth columns of ISIS-trained operatives with U.S. or Western European passports </span><span class="zw-portion">from </span><span class="zw-portion">coming back </span><span class="zw-portion">after </span><span class="zw-portion">their ISIS experience to wage jihad here at home. </span><span class="zw-portion">State Department Deputy Spokeswoman Psaki </span><span class="zw-portion">refused to say whether passports </span><span class="zw-portion">belonging to Americans confirmed to be fighting with ISIS have been revoked</span><span class="zw-portion">, claiming </span><span class="zw-portion">&#8220;It&#8217;s not as black and white as that</span><span class="zw-portion">.” Yes it is, </span><span class="zw-portion">if </span><span class="zw-portion">the</span><span class="zw-portion"> president</span><span class="zw-portion"> decided to use his executive powers as commander-in-chief for something constructive </span><span class="zw-portion">rather than abusing</span><span class="zw-portion"> the executive order process to usurp Congress’s </span><span class="zw-portion">domestic </span><span class="zw-portion">legislative powers.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Even more ominously, ISIS has taken note of the porous border between the United States and Mexico. </span><span class="zw-portion">“A review of ISIS social media messaging during the week ending August 26 shows that militants are expressing an increased interest in the notion that they could clandestinely infiltrate the southwest border of [the] US, for terror attack,” warns the Texas Department of Public Safety &#8220;situational awareness&#8221; bulletin, obtained by FoxNews.com. “Social media account holders believed to be ISIS militants and propagandists have called for unspecified border operations, or they have sought to raise awareness that illegal entry through Mexico is a viable option,” the bulletin stated</span><span class="zw-portion">,</span><span class="zw-portion"> as quoted by Fox News</span><span class="zw-portion">.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Instead of taking steps to stop the inflow of illegal aliens across the </span><span class="zw-portion">southern </span><span class="zw-portion">border into the United States, the Obama administration has all but put out the welcome mat</span><span class="zw-portion"> for more illegal aliens to enter</span><span class="zw-portion">. </span><span class="zw-portion">Border agents are overwhelmed. Without sufficient National Guard or other military resources </span><span class="zw-portion">monitoring </span><span class="zw-portion">vulnerable portions of the border, it is only a matter of time until ISIS infiltrators make their way into the United States and begin wreaking havoc.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">When will President Obama stop treating ISIS as a junior varsity team and </span><span class="zw-portion">finally </span><span class="zw-portion">act like a senior varsity United States president himself in dealing with the ISIS threat?</span><span class="zw-portion"> Not likely in time.</span></p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2014 04:12:25 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/1392924232400.cached.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-239961" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/1392924232400.cached-400x350.jpg" alt="1392924232400.cached" width="307" height="269" /></a>Russia has expanded the scope of its military intervention in Ukraine. Following on the heels of its illegal occupation and annexation of Crimea and arming of the separatists fighting the Ukrainian government in eastern Ukraine, Russian regular troops have now joined the separatists’ fight. They are equipped with heavy weaponry, including armored personnel carriers. And a new southeastern front has been opened by the Russian-backed separatists which would enable Russia to gain effective control over a vital land link between Russia and Crimea.</p>
<p>Determined not to allow Ukrainian forces to quell the separatist rebellion, which they were well on their way to doing, Russian President Vladimir Putin decided to use more Russian military might to tip the scales in the separatists’ favor.</p>
<p>On August 26<sup>th</sup> – the same day that Putin was meeting with Ukrainian President Poroshenko in Minsk, Belarus to talk about peace &#8211; satellite imagery showed Russian combat units southeast of Donetsk, in eastern Ukraine.  Ukraine also detained regular Russian Army personnel from the 9th brigade, whom Russia claimed had mistakenly wandered into Ukraine.</p>
<p>A separatist leader boasted that three or four thousand Russian soldiers have joined their fight, whom he claimed were using their vacation time to help their comrades. NATO has estimated that at least 1,000 Russian troops were present in Ukraine. Dismissing Russia’s “hollow denials,” NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on August 29<sup>th</sup> that</p>
<blockquote><p>it is now clear that Russian troops and equipment have illegally crossed the border. This is a blatant violation of Ukraine&#8217;s sovereignty and territorial integrity. It defies all diplomatic efforts for a peaceful solution.</p></blockquote>
<p>United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman, in his briefing to an emergency session of the UN Security Council on August 28th, referred to the “deeply alarming reports of Russian military involvement in this new wave of escalation. If confirmed, it would constitute a direct contravention of international law and of the UN Charter.”</p>
<p>Mr. Feltman added that, “as arms and heavy weaponry reportedly continue to flow unabated into Ukraine from Russia,” illegal armed groups operating in the Donetsk region</p>
<blockquote><p>have reportedly intensified their activities over the last two days, spreading violence along Ukraine’s southern coast, in the direction of the key strategic port of Mariupol…The southward spread of fighting, along the border with the Russian Federation and the Sea of Azov, marks a dangerous escalation in the conflict.</p></blockquote>
<p>After Mr. Feltman spoke, each member of the Security Council, as well as the Ukrainian UN representative, chimed in with their remarks. Lithuania, which had requested the emergency meeting, went first. Its ambassador accused Russia of committing multiple violations of international law in its “aggression” in Ukraine. She demanded that Russia remove its fighters from Ukraine.</p>
<p>U.S. Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power lambasted Russia for ignoring the repeated calls of the Security Council to stop its aggressive actions. “Instead of listening, instead of heeding the demands of the international community and the rules of the international order, at every step, Russia has come before this Council to say everything except the truth,” Ambassador Power said. “It has manipulated. It has obfuscated. It has outright lied.”</p>
<p>Ambassador Power warned that the United States and its partners will work together &#8220;to ratchet up the consequences on Russia.&#8221; France’s UN representative concurred.</p>
<p>British UN Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant, the Security Council president during August, said: &#8220;Now we see irrefutable evidence of regular Russian forces operating inside Ukraine.&#8221; He reeled off numbers of heavy weaponry in the hands of the separatists, most of which was supplied by Russia, including 100 tanks, 80 armored personnel carriers, 500 anti-tank weapons and more than 100 artillery pieces.</p>
<p>During the Security Council meeting, Russia’s UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin did his best to fend off the condemnations of Russia’s actions coming from other members of the Council and the Ukrainian representative.  Sure, there were Russian “volunteers” present in eastern parts of Ukraine, Ambassador Churkin said. &#8220;No one is hiding that,&#8221; he claimed. But then, in an apparent game of turnabout is fair play, Ambassador Churkin called on the United States to be more forthcoming about what he asserted to be the presence of 1000 Western advisers in Ukraine. He said that he wanted to &#8220;send a message to Washington: Stop interfering in the internal affairs of sovereign states.&#8221;</p>
<p>Russia will be sending another “humanitarian” convoy into Ukraine, Ambassador Churkin declared. And he challenged the other members of the Security Council to adopt the text of his proposed press statement calling for an immediate unconditional ceasefire, inclusive dialogue and stepped up humanitarian relief. The Lithuanian ambassador said that her country would need more time to review the text, but it appeared to be deficient in not calling specifically for the separatists to stop impeding the flow of humanitarian aid.</p>
<p>Ambassador Churkin tried to maintain an even demeanor as he delivered the official Russian line in response to the sharply critical speeches that preceded his remarks. His strongest rhetoric was reserved for the Ukrainian government in Kiev, which he accused of engaging in “a war against its own people.” Ambassador Churkin also dismissed the Ukrainian government’s call for a ceasefire and for the separatists to lay down their arms as a sham.</p>
<p>President Putin’s decision to up the ante has reversed the tide of momentum that had been going the Ukrainian government’s way. Now the Ukrainian military forces are on the defensive and at risk of losing control of a wide area of coastal territory. Putin praised the separatists’ resurgence “in intercepting Kiev’s military operation.” He called the separatists the fighters of Novorossiya – meaning the territory Putin likes to refer to as “New Russia,” based on what he claims belongs historically to Russia.</p>
<p>Putin talks out of both sides of his mouth. While single-handedly providing enough weapons and troops to keep the rebellion going against the duly elected government of Ukraine in Kiev, he talks about opening humanitarian corridors and wanting peaceful dialogue. Putin has no interest in peace except on his terms. His goals are to take effective control over as much of the eastern portion of Ukraine as he can, keep the remainder of Ukraine as weak as possible to make it too much of a burden for Western Europe to bail out, and continue to expand the territory of “New Russia.”</p>
<p>“The question is to ensure the rights and interests of the Russian southeast,” Putin said in a nationally televised interview last April after his aggressive occupation of Crimea. He continued:</p>
<blockquote><p>It’s New Russia. Kharkiv, Lugansk, Donetsk, Odessa were not part of Ukraine in czarist times, they were transferred in 1920. Why? God knows. Then for various reasons these areas were gone, and the people stayed there. We need to encourage them to find a solution.</p></blockquote>
<p>Expanding the reach of the Russian empire to that of the czarist glory days is Putin’s idea of the right solution. And nobody should even think of taking any military actions against Russia in return. &#8220;It&#8217;s best not to mess with us,&#8221; he warned on Friday. “I want to remind you that Russia is one of the leading nuclear powers.&#8221;</p>
<p>To justify his imperialistic ambitions, Putin brazenly invoked Russia’s own suffering at the hands of the Nazis during World War II. Referring to Ukrainian current military actions against Ukraine’s southeastern cities, he told students last week that “[I]t reminds me of World War II, when German forces encircled Russian cities like Leningrad and hit residential quarters with heavy artillery.”</p>
<p>Putin’s Nazi reference in his remarks to students is ironic to the say the least, considering that his own Ukraine strategy is an echo of Hitler’s Anschluss. Also, he had no comment on the civilians killed by rockets imported from Russia or the depraved public parading and humiliation of captured Ukrainian soldiers by the separatists in violation of the Geneva Conventions. And Putin has apparently moved beyond the tragedy of the passengers and crew who lost their lives aboard the commercial Malaysian plane shot down by a surface-to-air missile launched from an area controlled by Russian-backed separatists.</p>
<p>The United Nations Security Council has met 24 times on the subject of Ukraine. It has turned into bad theater. All we hear is the predictable rhetoric from Russia and its critics. Russia’s veto power prevents anything of real substance from being accomplished.</p>
<p>Increasingly severe economic sanctions have been imposed by the United States and its Western European allies against Russian individuals, businesses and the financial and arms industries. However, aside from some tough-sounding rhetoric, European leaders are equivocating on exactly what new stronger economic measures they would be willing to take against Russia and when they would do so, worrying about the impact of such measures on their own economies. President Obama may impose more sanctions on his own if need be, but he would prefer to reach a consensus with Europe on next steps. Either way, as a senior U.S. diplomat told me, sanctions do not appear to be making much of a difference in changing Putin’s calculations.</p>
<p>President Obama has ruled out any direct overt U.S. military confrontation with Russia in Ukraine, which makes sense. But with economic sanctions not fazing Putin and direct military confrontation out of the picture, one U.S. official was quoted by The Telegraph as saying: &#8220;If Putin is immune to economic pain and we are not willing to use military force, then he&#8217;s got us in check mate, doesn&#8217;t he?&#8221;</p>
<p>Putin has us in check mate only if we ignore what Winston Churchill counseled about the Russians in his 1946 “Sinews of Peace” speech. He said that “there is nothing they admire so much as strength.”</p>
<p>What we need to do is to find creative ways to display the kind of strength that will get Putin’s attention and give him pause.</p>
<p>First, we can provide more sophisticated arms and training to Ukraine’s beleaguered military forces together with more sharing of intelligence information. Second, we can utilize covert operations in support of dissidents in Crimea and anti-Russian Ukrainians in eastern Ukraine to create a counter-force that would undercut Putin’s assumption of a low-cost occupation.</p>
<p>Third, and perhaps most important of all, Obama should now deploy the mobile missile defense systems in Poland and the Czech Republic, which he had mistakenly decided not to do in his first term as part of his failed attempt to “re-set” relations with Russia in a more positive direction. In fact, Obama should add Hungary and the Baltic states to the list. In other words, do to Putin what he has been most afraid of. Contain him with an encirclement strategy.</p>
<p>There are no guarantees that these measures will work.  But one thing is for sure. If we do nothing but add a few more sanctions, Putin will not stop his aggression with eastern Ukraine.</p>
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		<title>Libya Under Siege</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2014 04:55:13 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/libya-tripoli-airport-seized-by-islamist-militias.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-239555" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/libya-tripoli-airport-seized-by-islamist-militias-421x350.jpg" alt="libya-tripoli-airport-seized-by-islamist-militias" width="328" height="273" /></a>While media attention has focused of late on the so-called Islamic State (ISIS), which has seized large swaths of territory in Syria and northern Iraq, jihadists are also on the march in Libya. A coalition of jihadists, operating under the name Dawn of Libya, has claimed to have taken control of Libya’s main international airport in its capital city Tripoli as well as some other locations in the capital city itself. Benghazi, Libya’s second largest city, is already in the hands of other jihadists including Ansar al-Shariah, some of whom may have participated in the killing of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans nearly two years ago.</p>
<p>“We will not accept the project of democracy, secular parties, nor the parties that falsely claim the Islamic cause,” a statement issued last week by an alliance of Benghazi-based jihadists, including Ansar al-Shariah, declared.</p>
<p>Whatever excuses the Obama administration may try to make with regards to the chaos brought about by ISIS in Iraq, including continued finger-pointing at the Bush administration, the mess in Libya has happened entirely on President Obama’s watch. It stems from President Obama’s decision to back the rebels in forcibly removing Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi from power without any thought about the destabilizing consequences for Libya, North Africa and the entire Middle East region. Obama himself admitted that there were lessons to be learned from the Libya regime change operation. “Do we have an answer [for] the day after?’” Obama said to New York Times op-ed columnist Thomas Friedman on Aug. 8<sup>th</sup>.</p>
<p>Qaddafi was of no strategic threat to the United States. Indeed, one of the positive byproducts of the Iraq war launched in 2003 was the fear Qaddafi had of a similar invasion that led to his decision to give up entirely his nuclear arms program. But Obama got sucked into a military conflict in Libya that morphed from a limited humanitarian rescue operation into a war to bring about regime change. Obama yielded to pressure from France, the United Kingdom and the Arab League to expand the objectives of the operation. Members of his own administration characterized his role as “leading from behind.”</p>
<p>Removing Qaddafi left a huge vacuum for the jihadists to fill. Libya lacks any real central government today. Instead, two rival parliaments appear to be emerging, the original one controlled by the jihadists and a newly elected one more closely aligned with anti-jihadists.  Weapons from Qaddafi’s stockpiles have been dispersed to militias within Libya as well as to North Africa and Syria, some falling into the jihadists’ hands. Militias in support of the jihadists and opposing the jihadists are fighting each other in Libya, with the jihadists appearing to have gained the upper hand. With the country on the brink of civil war, and a possible replication in Libya of the self-declared caliphate that ISIS has established in parts of Iraq and Syria, U.S. and other Western nations have pulled out their diplomats from Tripoli. The United Nations has reduced its presence to a bare minimum.</p>
<p>Obama’s response to all this has followed his usual pattern of dithering and indecision. But it is even worse than that. The Obama administration appears to be trying to impede Egypt and the United Arab Emirates from proceeding on their own to protect their countries from the rising tide of jihad across the Middle East, including right on Egypt’s doorstep in neighboring Libya.</p>
<p>According to an August 25<sup>th</sup> report by the New York Times, four senior American officials said that the United States was caught by surprise upon learning that “Egypt and the United Arab Emirates have secretly teamed up to launch airstrikes against Islamist-allied militias battling for control of Tripoli, Libya.”</p>
<p>Egypt reportedly provided the bases from which to launch the attacks, which occurred in the vicinity of Tripoli. The United Arab Emirates, which has one of the more proficient air forces in the region, reportedly furnished the pilots and planes to carry out the strikes.</p>
<p>Egyptian officials denied any involvement in the airstrikes in their discussions with Obama State Department diplomats. The United Arab Emirates has been cagier in its remarks on the subject.</p>
<p>According to the New York Times report, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates have cooperated previously in special force operations inside Libya, targeting jihadists.</p>
<p>Instead of welcoming the operation to thwart jihadists who already have American blood on their hands, the Obama administration reacted angrily. “We don’t see this as constructive at all,” one senior American official was quoted by the New York Times as saying.</p>
<p>This foolish remark ignores the simple truth that the jihadists fighting to take over Libya are of the same ideological bent as the ISIS jihadists who beheaded Jim Foley and whom we are now fighting directly. In fact, Libya&#8217;s <a href="http://www.veooz.com/photos/RG_FLYV.html"><span style="color: #0463c1;">al-Battar brigade is working with ISIS</span></a> and has returned from fighting in Syria to join Ansar al-Shariah. It issued a statement last June warning that heads would be cut off, stomachs slit and Libya filled with graves to revenge the shooting of one of its jihadists who had fought in Syria.</p>
<p>Ramzi Yousef, a member of Ansar al-Shariah said, &#8220;The group of al-Battar, the word refers to one of the names of the sword an affiliate of Ansar al-Sharia. It was founded in Syria and all its members are from Libya. They are the fiercest because they do not negotiate but just act.&#8221;</p>
<p>Expressions of support have also been exchanged between ISIS and Libyan jihadists.</p>
<p>The Obama administration is fully aware that Qatar – the same country that is helping to bankroll Hamas and the jihadists fighting in Syria – is providing support to the Libyan-based jihadists. Just as Secretary of State John Kerry tried to push Israel into accepting a Qatari-brokered ceasefire with Hamas on largely Hamas’s terms instead of the ceasefire terms supported by Israel, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, the Obama administration is favoring Qatar’s interests over those of Egypt and the United Arab Emirates. And this means it is effectively coming out on the side of the jihadists in Libya, as the Obama administration did in Egypt itself when it helped install, and then tried to keep in power, the Muslim Brotherhood.</p>
<p>Against any common sense reckoning of U.S. interests in the region, the Obama administration criticized the two Arab countries trying to fend off the jihadist threat in Libya on their own -before the threat in Libya metastasizes into something much larger on the model of ISIS. Rather than fume and pressure Egypt and the United Arab Emirates to stand down, the Obama administration should welcome regional coalitions like this to fight the jihadist scourge wherever it pops up. Instead of leading from behind, President Obama should just get out of the way.</p>
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		<title>UN Says Reconstruct Hamas-Controlled Gaza Now and Investigate Israel</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2014 04:35:36 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/un.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-239027" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/un-450x281.jpg" alt="un" width="325" height="203" /></a>The United Kingdom’s United Nations Ambassador Lyall Grant, serving as this month’s president of the Security Council, said that the Security Council met on August 18<sup>th</sup> in closed consultative session following a public briefing on the Middle East by Robert Serry, the UN’s Special Coordinator for the Middle East. The main focus was on Gaza. The members discussed a number of parameters they considered necessary for a durable ceasefire in Gaza going forward.</p>
<p>“There would need to be guarantees for Israeli security, there would need to be an opening up of Gaza for greater economic activity, a return of the Palestinian Authority, verification and monitoring mechanisms,” Ambassador Grant told reporters following the Security Council’s closed door session.</p>
<p>Both Ambassador Grant, and Mr. Serry in his own remarks to the Security Council and the press, were vague on how to ensure Israel’s security if border crossings were to be opened to more goods beyond the strictly humanitarian supplies that have entered Gaza without interruption.</p>
<p>The closest Ambassador Grant came to addressing any consideration by the Security Council of the possibility of demilitarization of Gaza to accompany reconstruction was to say that “[T]here wasn’t any discussion in detail about demilitarisation options, but a number of Members, including particularly the European Members, raised the point that there would probably need to be some form of international component to that, and indeed the EU could play a role in doing that.”</p>
<p>Mr. Serry emphasized that the “main priority” in his view was the reconstruction of Gaza. Without providing any details, Mr. Serry asserted that the system under which the UN has been importing construction materials for UN projects, undertaken in coordination with the Israeli government, has “demonstrably worked” in preventing the diversion of materials to military use. “We stand ready to explore with the relevant stakeholders how the UN’s proven mechanism can be expanded to monitoring a PA-led, private-sector-driven reconstruction programme in Gaza,” he said.</p>
<p>The problem with Mr. Serry’s assertion of a successful UN monitoring program is that it was undermined by several recent events. First, there was the discovery of Hamas rockets stored in at least three UN schools. Second, there was the diversion of concrete that Israel itself had sent into Gaza for peaceful construction purposes to the building of Hamas’s terror tunnels, which Israeli forces discovered when they entered those tunnels. Third, an internal audit report of the UN’s Development Programme regarding construction work in Gaza found, according to Fox News, lack of careful procurement monitoring. Fox reported the audit’s conclusion that “a U.N. Development Program office that funds and monitors spending on construction in the territory allowed at least five non-staff contract employees to handle ‘core’ procurement processes that only staffers are supposed to handle, including those for ordering up ‘significant’ civil construction activities.”</p>
<p>Moreover, the United Nations cannot be trusted when it comes to having even the slightest genuine concern about Israel’s security from jihadist attacks against Israel’s civilian population. Israel has over-reacted in using “disproportionate” force in responding to Hamas’s provocations, the UN’s highest officials have declared over and over again.</p>
<p>As Israel’s UN Ambassador Ron Prosor told reporters, the “only thing ‘disproportionate’ is the accusations being made against Israel.”</p>
<p>One need look no further for proof of such disproportionality than the &#8220;kangaroo court&#8221; that the UN Human Rights Council selected to conduct an “investigation” into possible violations of international human rights and humanitarian law in Gaza. William Schabas, the Canadian professor of international law who was chosen to head the panel, reached his verdict regarding Israel’s culpability years ago.</p>
<p>In 2011, he claimed that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should be &#8220;in the dock of an international court.&#8221; And in a 2011 interview, Schabas criticized the International Criminal Court’s focus on prosecuting Sudan’s President al-Bashir for crimes against humanity and war crimes in Darfur while not going after Israel’s former president. “Why are we going after the president of Sudan for Darfur and not the president of Israel for Gaza? Because of politics,” Schabas said.</p>
<p>In 2013, Schabas demonstrated his willingness to manipulate the law in order to get Israel. He said that “by twisting things and maneuvering” it would be possible to prosecute Israel for “crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression, all of which I think can be shown have been perpetrated at various times during the history of the state of Israel.”</p>
<p>Schabas’s sidekick on the UN Human Rights Council’s “kangaroo court” is just as biased, if not even worse. He is Doudou Diene, who has served in the past as the UN’s Special Rapporteur on racism. In that capacity, Diene took a UN-paid junket across the United States in the spring of 2008 to “investigate,” among other things, Islamophobia in America. He met with such “reliable” sources of information as leaders of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and a former top fundraiser for the Texas-based Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, which has been found guilty of illegally funneling more than $12 million to Hamas. Diene “balanced” his tour, so to speak, by meeting with far left human rights advocates in New York City, including the New York Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Constitutional Rights. Not surprisingly, in his report to the UN Human Rights Council, Diene concluded that “[R]acism and racial discrimination have profoundly and lastingly marked and structured American society.”</p>
<p>In 2009, at a rally in Geneva that included demonstrators with signs stating “Zionism equals racism” and “Israel is an Apartheid State,” Diene fed the crowd the red meat that it craved, accusing Israel of perpetuating colonialism and racism in Palestine.</p>
<p>The UN might as well issue its anti-Israel report on Gaza right now and save the time and money that will be wasted by Schabas, Diene and whomever else the Human Rights Council appoints to its “kangaroo court.” Moreover, the United Nations cannot be trusted to take responsibility for ensuring the proper civilian use of construction materials brought into Gaza in the future. Far more robust on-site multinational supervision will be required to ensure Israel’s security, including the prompt removal of rockets and mortars from the hands of Hamas and other jihadists as well as the destruction of all remaining tunnels.</p>
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