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		<title>The Great October: A Revolution Financed By an Enemy Government</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2014 05:20:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Oleg Atbashian]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Lenin.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-244755" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Lenin.jpg" alt="Lenin" width="283" height="164" /></a>Can it be true that Vladimir Lenin, the alleged &#8220;leader of the world Proletariat,&#8221; whose monuments adorned central squares in every Soviet town and who inspired generations of Soviet citizens, had been a mere agent provocateur working for the German government?</p>
<p>In <em>The World Crisis, Volume 5,</em> Winston Churchill writes this about war-time Germany in 1917:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;They turned upon Russia the most grisly of all weapons. They transported Lenin in a sealed truck like a plague bacillus from Switzerland into Russia.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>The rest is history: Lenin staged a coup and withdrew Russia from World War One, conceding large swaths of land to Germany. In the process, he consolidated his power, initiated the policy of Red Terror, brutally exterminated all opposition, and founded the world&#8217;s first totalitarian socialist state.</p>
<p>Many contemporary politicians had made claims that Lenin was a long-time agent of the Imperial German Secret Service. A warrant for his arrest was issued after the Russian government had learned that the Bolsheviks were financed by the Germans, with whom Russia was at war. However, with time these claims dwindled as no documentary proof could be found.</p>
<p>Why did Lenin&#8217;s culpability, which his contemporaries considered evident, stop being so evident to the following generations? What did the contemporaries know that we don&#8217;t?</p>
<p>It would be safe to assume that Soviet agents, who had penetrated all levels of Western societies early on, had successfully removed and destroyed all proof, along with all the witnesses. They apparently did it so well that even the Nazis, who inherited the German intelligence service about a decade later, couldn&#8217;t find any related documents, otherwise they would have certainly demonstrated them to the world in order to prove the illegitimacy of the rival dictatorship. Let&#8217;s leave further speculations to the authors of period spy thrillers.</p>
<p>The fact is, Lenin&#8217;s case wouldn&#8217;t be all that unique. At the time, the Imperial German Secret Service seemed to have a policy of recruiting agents among exiled Russian communists and financing their subversive activities and propaganda aimed to plunge Russia into turmoil. Some of them, like Fuerstenberg and Kozlovsky, were prominent Bolsheviks with close ties to Lenin.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=38cce5bb-1ef7-439d-a351-607e76877d1f">This author</a> provides a number of other examples of such recruitment and money trails, concluding his research by saying, &#8220;we know that the Bolsheviks conducted public relations that seemed to be beyond their means. We know that German agents &#8211; some with considerable funds at their disposal &#8211; were closely entwined with the Bolsheviks. And we know that Lenin lied when confronted about that situation.&#8221;</p>
<p>The truth was unearthed only in the late 1980s, with the opening of Soviet archives to the public. The newly declassified documents revealed the dates, the banks, and the substantial amounts of money provided to the communists by Kaiser&#8217;s Germany, which financed Lenin&#8217;s subversive, seditious activities. According to historian <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=BIQuNweyC4kC&amp;pg=PA39#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false">Albert L. Weeks</a>, the German authorities cynically referred to Lenin as a &#8220;bacillus&#8221; who would &#8220;infect&#8221; Russia and thus incapacitate a major military adversary.</p>
<p>But do even the large money transfers and the intriguing return from exile in a sealed one-car train make Lenin a spy? Only in the most general sense of the word; strictly speaking, he was rather a sociopathic traitor and a criminally-minded, community-organizing opportunist, driven by the principle of &#8220;the enemy of my enemy is my friend.&#8221; In the words of Weeks,  Lenin &#8220;merely took advantage of the Kaiser&#8217;s &#8216;generosity&#8217; and exploited the subsidies for his own purposes in seizing and holding power in Russia.&#8221;</p>
<p>And yet, while the Bolshevik revolution could not have been engineered by the Western bankers as some modern conspiracy theories claim, there is enough evidence to suggest that Lenin could not have pulled it off without Germany&#8217;s financial and logistical help. And even if he had, the &#8220;leader of the workers and peasants&#8221; would surely have used less radical strategies had he not had a second career on which to fall back.</p>
<p>Common sense suggests that if left to their own devices, Lenin and his close comrades would be less likely to take such great risks; it was the helpful network of foreign agents with backup plans, escape routes, and other comforting factors that boosted their confidence and provided the feeling of relative safety. Thus, their motto, &#8220;we have nothing to lose but our chains,&#8221; was a lie. The selfless sacrifice and the blind trust in the Communist Manifesto was good enough for the people but not for the people&#8217;s leaders.</p>
<p>In this, Lenin was not an exception. Being the leader of the semi-legal communist party, he collaborated with his nation&#8217;s enemy in a time of war much like the American communists and other leftist groups, who have throughout history collaborated with enemies of the United States in order to gain more influence at the expense of their own country.</p>
<p>The irrefutable evidence that Lenin and his party conspired with and received funding from an enemy government sheds an unforgiving light on the seditious and treasonous character, methods, and motivations of all international communist and socialist movements, the Communist Party USA, and every communist party around the world, who continue to operate by Lenin&#8217;s methods and who still hold him as a major inspiration.</p>
<p>In the court of law, a verdict based on false or tainted evidence is usually overturned. We have to wonder if in the court of history, the verdict regarding the celebrated &#8220;people&#8217;s revolution&#8221; paid for by an imperial intelligence service will also be altered &#8211; and if our history books will be corrected accordingly.</p>
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		<title>Five Years Since the Fort Hood Massacre</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2014 04:40:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lloyd Billingsley]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/o-NIDAL-HASAN-facebook.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-243529" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/o-NIDAL-HASAN-facebook-450x314.jpg" alt="Nidal Hasan" width="350" height="244" /></a>On November 5, 2009, at Ford Hood, Texas, U.S. soldiers were getting their final medical checkups before deploying to Afghanistan. Major Nidal Malik Hasan, an Army psychiatrist began gunning down the soldiers. His victims, all unarmed, included </span>Francheska Velez, a 21-year-old private from Chicago who pleaded for the life of her unborn child. The Muslim major killed two other women that day along with 10 men, more than twice as many victims as the first attack on the World Trade Center in 1993.</p>
<p style="color: #272727;">Hasan also wounded 33 others, including Sergeant Alonzo Lunsford, who played dead then fled the building. Major Hasan chased down Lunsford, an African-American, and shot him seven times, including one bullet in the back. <span style="color: #000000;">Firing a high-capacity handgun fitted with laser sights, </span>Major Hasan shot Sergeant Shawn Manning in the chest and pumped four rounds into <span style="color: #000000;">Sgt. Patrick Zeigler. Hasan would have killed and wounded more if civilian police officer Kim Munley had not wounded the assailant, who </span>yelled “<i>Allahu akbar</i>,” as he killed. That familiar cry was hardly the only indicator of Hasan’s motives.</p>
<p style="color: #272727;">Hasan had been emailing terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki about the prospect of killing infidel American soldiers, and the “Soldier of Allah,” as he called himself, did everything but take out an ad on the Super Bowl to announce his jihadist intentions. The U.S. security establishment was well aware of the communications but did nothing to stop Hasan, who claimed to be acting on behalf of the Taliban. Anwar al-Awlaki was orgasmic with joy that Hasan had done his duty.</p>
<p style="color: #272727;">President Barack Obama’s first response to Hasan’s mass murder was brief, low key, and failed to ascribe any responsibility to Islamic terrorism. “We cannot fully know what leads a man to do such a thing,” the president said. Such breathtaking denial soon <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/lloyd-billingsley/is-the-election-delaying-nidal-hasans-trial/"><span style="color: #6f0a00;">became official policy.</span></a> The Obama administration’s Department of Defense issued <i>Protecting the Force: Lessons from Fort Hood</i>, which contains not a single reference to jihad or jihadists. Its only mention of “Islamic” is an endnote reference to “Countering Violent Islamic Extremism,” a 2007 FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin.</p>
<p style="color: #272727;">The United States Army and federal government did not call Hasan’s attack terrorism or even gun violence. Major Hasan killed African Americans, hispanics and non-Muslims, but the government did not call the attack a hate crime. Rather, the government proclaimed the murder spree a case of “workplace violence,” an absurdity for the ages with consequences for the Hasan’s victims. The refused to classify Hasan’s attack as terrorism rendered victims ineligible for medals and other benefits related to combat.</p>
<p style="color: #272727;">Hasan remained in the Army, retained his rank of major, and the Army continued to pay his full salary. The Army also took care of the paralyzing injuries Hasan sustained, but Alonzo Lunsford told reporters the army refused to cover an operation to remove a bullet still in his body, and docked his pay when he was undergoing treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder. “We don’t get passes the way Major Hasan got passes,” Lunsford <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/05/us/as-trial-begins-in-fort-hood-spree-experts-see-landmark-case.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=0"><span style="color: #6f0a00;">told the New York Times</span></a>. “Each one of us has gotten a raw deal somewhere down the line.” <span style="color: #000000;">In April, the White House <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/white-house-denies-09-fort-hood-victim-meeting/story?id=23288867"><span style="color: #0433ff;">declined Alonzo Lunsford’s request</span></a> to meet with the president and explain how the government mistreated victims of the 2009 attack.</span></p>
<p>In August of 2013, a panel of 13 military officers <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2404766/Fort-Hood-shooter-Major-Nidal-Hasan-sentenced-death-2009-shooting-rampage.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">handed down a death sentence</span></a> for Major Hasan, but the sentence may never be carried out. The U.S. military has not executed an active-duty soldier since 1961, a span of more than half a century. The appeal process is lengthy and the final call goes to the President of the United States. The current incumbent is Barack Obama and Major Hasan showcases the opportunities for “Soldiers of Allah” under the Obama administration.</p>
<p>They can join the U.S. Army and still get promoted. They can correspond freely with the most bloodthirsty foreign terrorists, and those conducting the surveillance will do nothing to stop them from killing 13 American soldiers on a U.S. Army base. The Army, government, and president will provide cover by calling this workplace violence instead of terrorism. So the Soldier of Allah escapes with his own life and in prison continues to inspire other jihadists.</p>
<p>The month before Major Hasan’s trial, <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/lloyd-billingsley/tsarnaev-hasan-and-deadly-political-correctness/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Rudy Giuliani said, “you can’t fight an enemy you don’t acknowledge.”</span></a> The next president, who will also be Commander in Chief, will have an opportunity to acknowledge the enemy, recognize Major Hasan’s massacre as terrorism, and execute the terrorist on day one. As one of his victims said, he doesn’t deserve to live.</p>
<p><em>Lloyd Billingsley is the author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Exceptional-Depravity-Double-Murder-California-ebook/dp/B00OGW1WZK"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Exceptional Depravity</span></a>, a new crime book, and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Hollywood-Party-Stalinist-Adventures-American-ebook/dp/B00MWCP900"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Hollywood Party: Stalinist Adventures in the American Movie Industry</span></a>. He has written for City Journal California, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal and many other publications.</em></p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2014 04:58:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Spencer]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today's reminder of the heavy price we pay when our leaders succumb to delusions on Islam.  ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Screen-Shot-2014-09-10-at-6.29.46-PM.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-240725" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Screen-Shot-2014-09-10-at-6.29.46-PM-450x340.png" alt="9/11" width="295" height="223" /></a>Thirteen years after 9/11, there is one thing that virtually all our politicians, law enforcement officials, and mainstream media guardians of opinion know: that attack had nothing whatsoever to do with Islam, and neither does any other jihad terror attack, anywhere, no matter how often its perpetrators quote the Qur’an and invoke Muhammad. Islam, we’re told again and again, is a good, benign thing – indeed, a positive force for societies, and to be encouraged in the West. Jihad terror is an aberration, an outrage against the Religion of Peace’s peaceful teachings. These lessons from our betters are coming more and more often in light of the advent of the Islamic State.</p>
<p>The caliph Ibrahim, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/10939235/Rome-will-be-conquered-next-says-leader-of-Islamic-State.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">has a PhD in Islamic Studies</span></a>. But Barack Obama <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/transcript-president-obamas-remarks-on-the-execution-of-journalist-james-foley-by-islamic-state/2014/08/20/f5a63802-2884-11e4-8593-da634b334390_story.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">is unimpressed with his Islamic erudition</span></a>: “ISIL speaks for no religion. Their victims are overwhelmingly Muslim, and no faith teaches people to massacre innocents.” State Department spokesperson Marie Harf <a href="http://cnsnews.com/news/article/brittany-m-hughes/state-dept-beheading-us-journalist-not-about-united-states"><span style="color: #0433ff;">emphasized</span></a> that Obama meant what he said: “ISIL does not operate in the name of any religion. The president has been very clear about that, and the more we can underscore that, the better.”</p>
<p>Secretary of State <a href="http://www.state.gov/secretary/remarks/2014/09/231377.htm"><span style="color: #0433ff;">John Kerry</span></a> said that for some members of the international coalition he hopes to build against the Islamic State, joining it “will mean demolishing the distortion of one of the world’s great peaceful religions.”</p>
<p>British Prime Minister David Cameron <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/11038121/David-Cameron-Isil-poses-a-direct-and-deadly-threat-to-Britain.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">chimed in</span></a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>What we are witnessing is actually a battle between Islam on the one hand and extremists who want to abuse Islam on the other. These extremists, often funded by fanatics living far away from the battlefields, pervert the Islamic faith as a way of justifying their warped and barbaric ideology – and they do so not just in Iraq and Syria but right across the world, from Boko Haram and al-Shabaab to the Taliban and al-Qaeda.</p></blockquote>
<p>Where is “Islam” actually battling these “extremists who want to abuse Islam”? Cameron didn’t say.</p>
<p>Showing as much grasp of the situation as Kerry, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond <a href="http://www.channel4.com/news/iraq-philip-hammond-james-foley-beheading-isis-is-isil"><span style="color: #0433ff;">declared</span></a>: “Isil’s so-called caliphate has no moral legitimacy; it is a regime of torture, arbitrary punishment and murder that goes against the most basic beliefs of Islam.” On the opposite side of the aisle, Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/killing-of-james-foley-an-utter-betrayal-of-britain--foreign-secretary-philip-hammond-9687959.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">complained</span></a> that Islamic State “extremists are beheading people and parading their heads on spikes, subjugating women and girls, killing Muslims, Christians and anyone who gets in their way. This is no liberation movement — only a perverted, oppressive ideology that bears no relation to Islam.”</p>
<p>Unfortunately, for every Islamic State atrocity she enumerated, there is Qur’anic sanction:</p>
<p>Beheading people: “When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks…” (Qur’an 47:4).</p>
<p>Subjugating women and girls: “Men have authority over women because Allah has made the one superior to the other, and because they spend their wealth to maintain them. Good women are obedient. They guard their unseen parts because Allah has guarded them. As for those from whom you fear disobedience, admonish them and send them to beds apart and beat them” (Qur’an 4:34).</p>
<p>Killing Muslims: “They wish that you reject Faith, as they have rejected (Faith), and thus that you all become equal (like one another). So take not Auliya’ (protectors or friends) from them, till they emigrate in the Way of Allah (to Muhammad SAW). But if they turn back (from Islam), take (hold) of them and kill them wherever you find them, and take neither Auliya’ (protectors or friends) nor helpers from them” (Qur’an 4:89).</p>
<p>Killing Christians: “Fight those who believe not in God nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by God and His Apostle, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued” (Qur’an 9:29).</p>
<p>Even if the Islamic State is misinterpreting or misunderstanding these verses, it is doing so in a way that accords with their obvious literal meaning. That should, at very least, lead to a public discussion about the possibility of Islamic reform, what is being taught in mosques in the West, and related issues. But such a discussion is not forthcoming; it would be “Islamophobic.”</p>
<p>And why does it matter, anyway? Why does it make any difference whether or not what the Islamic State is doing is in accord with Islamic texts and teachings?</p>
<p>It matters for many reasons. Aside from all the vague condemnations of the Islamic State that American Muslim groups have issued, how closely the Islamic State actually hews to the letter of Islamic law will help determine how much support it will ultimately get from Muslims worldwide. Two American Muslims have already been killed fighting for it; how many more will there be? Only by examining the Islamic State’s actions in light of an honest assessment of Islamic teachings will we be able to estimate to what extent we can expect to see its actions replicated by other Muslims elsewhere.</p>
<p>These dismissals of the Islamic State’s Islam, of course, are designed to assure us that we need not have any concerns about massive rates of Muslim immigration and the Muslims already living among us. One problem with this is that it prevents authorities from calling upon Muslim communities to teach against the doctrines that the Islamic State acts upon, and to work for genuine reform. And so the door remains open to the possibility that the actions of the Islamic State <i>could</i> be repeated in Western countries.</p>
<p>Barack Obama, David Cameron and the rest would do far better to confront the Islamic State’s Islamic justifications for its actions and call on Muslims in the U.S., the U.K. and elsewhere to teach against these understandings of Islam that they ostensibly reject. But they never do that, and apparently have no interest in doing it. Instead, they foster complacency among the people of the West. For doing so, they may never pay a price, but their people will almost certainly have to pay, and pay dearly.</p>
<p><span style="color: #0433ff;"><a href="http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/two-men-face-terror-charges-as-police-raid-islamic-book-store-at-logan/story-fnihsrf2-1227053771259?nk=1c1ce3e56ea095ea4048bcf141edc942">On Wednesday</a></span>, Australian police raided an Islamic bookstore and arrested two Muslims on terror charges relating to their activities in recruiting Muslims for the jihad in Syria. Australian Federal Police National Manager Counter Terrorism Assistant Commissioner Neil Gaughan insisted: “This has got nothing to do with Islam, this is criminal behaviour by Australians involved in terrorist activity.&#8221;</p>
<p>Gaughan could have uttered the epitaph of the West: “This has nothing to do with Islam.” As the jihadist’s knife slices through their necks, Western officials like him will use their dying breaths to gasp it out one more time: “This has nothing to do with Islam.”</p>
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		<title>The Stalin-Hitler Pact Turns 75</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2014 04:10:01 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/genocide_template_clip_image002.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-239136" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/genocide_template_clip_image002.jpg" alt="genocide_template_clip_image002" width="306" height="267" /></a>In June, Western democratic leaders invited Vladimir Putin to the 70th anniversary of D-Day memorial in France, but there’s no good reason he should have been there. Putin is an autocrat, not a democrat. He laments the demise of the Soviet Union, a dictatorship that played no role in the D-Day operation. And since Putin is now conducting an incremental invasion of Ukraine, a different memorial would be more suitable. As it happens, this one is long overdue and remains shrouded in ignorance.</p>
<p>Seventy-five years ago, on August 23, 1939, the USSR and Nazi Germany became allies through the Stalin-Hitler Pact. Joachim von Ribbentrop signed for Hitler and Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov signed on behalf of Stalin. Molotov said that Hitlerism was “a matter of taste,” and that it was “not only senseless, but criminal” to wage war on Hitler “camouflaged as a fight for democracy.” Though often described as a “non-aggression pact,” the reverse was true.</p>
<p>The month after the Pact, Stalin and Hitler both invaded Poland, starting World War II. The Pact also gave Stalin control of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, which he retained after the war, along with other conquests such as Czechoslovakia, Hungary and what became the German Democrat Republic, the regime that made emigration an exciting experience.</p>
<p>While the pact was in effect, Soviet and Nazi intelligence agencies worked together and American Communists did everything in their power to keep the United States from coming to Britain’s aid. During the Pact, the Soviets murdered 22,000 Polish officers in the Katyn forest. That came at the direct order of Stalin, as Russia now acknowledges. Less well known is the reality that Stalin also handed over German Jewish Communists to Hitler’s Gestapo. At the Nuremberg trials after the war, Joachim von Ribbentrop was convicted for signing the Pact while Molotov, who signed for Stalin, sat in the accuser’s chair. So Stalin and his gang got away with it.</p>
<p>A Nazi-Soviet Pact memorial would be a great opportunity for Putin to express his admiration for Stalin. Maybe he could provide some enlightenment on what happened to the Jews Stalin handed over to Hitler. And as a former KGB man, maybe he could bring out more details of Soviet-Nazi intelligence cooperation during the Pact. This could be a shining moment for Putin, but the memorial would also do others some good.</p>
<p>American educators, for example, could familiarize themselves with these events and gauge the depths of their ignorance and denial. Some might even decide to make the Stalin-Hitler Pact into a college course. That would tell students something they don’t know. American politicians would also benefit.</p>
<p>It’s a good bet that most of them, regardless of party, know little if anything about the Stalin-Hitler Pact. A 75th anniversary memorial would help educate them, and would be particularly relevant for Barack Obama, President of the United States. He could use the memorial to expand on one of his mentors.</p>
<p>That would be Frank Marshall Davis, an orthodox Stalinist of exceptional ferocity, with an absolutely sulfuric hatred of the United States. Davis joined the Communist Party USA after the Pact was signed, at the same time others were leaving the ranks, never to return. The Pact memorial would be an opportunity for Obama to provide a full profile of the man his handlers disguised simply as “Frank” in &#8220;Dreams From My Father.&#8221; If Frank Marshall Davis ever believed, said, or did anything with which Obama disagreed, a Stalin-Hitler Pact memorial would be the ideal time to set the record straight. After all, the Obama administration is the most transparent in history, with not a smidgeon of corruption. And of course, it would be another photo op he could use to raise funds. He could even bring along his travelling studio audience.</p>
<p>Former First Lady and current presidential candidate Hillary Clinton could also benefit. One of her mentors is Robert Treuhaft, a Stalinist lawyer who joined the Communist Party USA after the Stalin-Hitler Pact and served faithfully in the USSR’s alibi armory. Hillary Clinton, who interned for Treuhaft, could use a Pact memorial to clarify Treuhaft’s career, and explain why he left the Communist Party in 1958, as he claimed. And she could go on record if she ever disagreed with anything her Stalinist mentor believed, said or did.</p>
<p>That could prove enlightening, but as with Benghazi she might just say “what does it matter?” Actually, it matters quite a bit, especially for someone who wants to be president, and the one who already is.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2014 04:20:22 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Rouhani.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-238675" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Rouhani-433x350.jpg" alt="Rouhani" width="288" height="233" /></a>At this time last year, Hassan Rouhani, the Iranian regime insider, assumed the office of presidency in the Islamic Republic. Rouhani was approved to run by the constitutionally-mandated and appointed 12 members of the Islamist and hardline Guardian Council, and after he gave empty promises of bringing &#8220;<a href="http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/06/13/shoulder_to_shoulder_canada_foreign_minister_iran_rouhani_human_rights"><span style="color: #0433ff;">dignity</span></a>” to the nation,  freeing political prisoners, promoting civil rights, normalcy, reintegrating Iran in the world economically and politically.</p>
<p>Other crucial reasons behind his election included his <a href="http://archive.thedailystar.net/beta2/news/hassan-rouhani-reformer-or-loyalist/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">loyalty</span></a> to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Iran’s Islamist revolutionary principles, his background profile as a government insider and chief nuclear negotiator, the blessings of Supreme Leaders for him, and the low standards that the hardliner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad set.</p>
<p>The purpose of having Rouhani as the president was evident from the beginning: for the first time, Ayatollah Khamenei and the senior cadre of the Islamic Republic’s Revolutionary Guards Corps deeply felt that their hold on power was being threatened. This was due to international economic and political sanctions, Iran’s nuclear defiance, along with disenfranchisement and discontent of Iranian youth (for reasons such as unemployment, human rights violations, suppression of freedom of press, expression, assembly, high inflation).</p>
<p>How has Rouhani served his regime? Under the first year of his presidency, Rouhani and his nuclear technocrat team were unprecedentedly and unexpectedly successful at reaching the regime’s objectives. He was capable of achieving the ideological, economic, and geopolitical goals of the Islamist agenda of the ruling clerics.</p>
<p>It is crucial to point out that, in the first year, Rouhani&#8217;s goal was to merge the Islamic Republic’s ideological and Islamist principles with its economic, strategic and geopolitical interests. Rouhani wanted to ensure the survival of the Islamist regime.</p>
<p>The game that Rouhani and his team played with the West and particularly the United States was anchored in utilizing softer tones while exploiting the fragile and weak position of the Obama administration.</p>
<p>First, by striking the nuclear interim deal with the P5+1 (the United States, Russia, France, China, the United Kingdom, plus Germany), Rouhani and his technocrat nuclear team were successful in obtaining sanctions relief&#8211; <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-20/iran-hails-long-day-as-it-starts-curbing-nuclear-work.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">worth</span></a> between $6 and $7 billion – and suspending certain sanctions on some Iranian industries including the automotive sector, gold and precious metals trade, and petrochemical exports.</p>
<p>On the other hand, currently, the Islamic Republic’s economy has been stabilized according to the <a href="http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13930120000786"><span style="color: #0433ff;">International Monetary Fund</span></a>, and oil exports have increased by approximately <a href="http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/07/31/uk-asia-iran-crude-idUKKBN0G00C320140731"><span style="color: #0433ff;">25 percent</span></a>, specifically to Asian countries, in the first six months of the year 2014.</p>
<p>While Rouhani has spent a considerable amount of his political capital on the international arena, nuclear talks, attempting to empower the Islamic Republic in the world affairs and economy, and removing economic sanctions, Iran’s fundamental foreign policies in the region, internationally and domestically remain ideological and intact.</p>
<p>For example, President Hassan Rouhani <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/irans-new-president-hassan-rouhani-vows-to-support-syrian-regime-as-president-assad-vows-to-crush-rebels-with-iron-fist-8745857.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">voiced</span></a> his support for the Syrian government, as Iran’s <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/irans-new-president-hassan-rouhani-vows-to-support-syrian-regime-as-president-assad-vows-to-crush-rebels-with-iron-fist-8745857.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">support</span></a> for the Syrian government financially, militarily, politically and advisory continues. Even after the use of chemical weapons against the civilians in Syria, Rouhani’s administration has not shifted its support and policies towards President Bashar Al Assad.</p>
<p>In addition, under Rouhani’s administration, the Islamic Republic continues to support non state actors such as Hezbollah and Hamas. In addition, the Islamic Republic’s <a href="http://forward.com/articles/184240/iranian-president-hassan-rouhani-criticizes-israel/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">foreign policies</span></a> towards Israel remain intact as well.</p>
<p>On the other hand, billions of dollars gained by the ruling cleric, are tightly distributed among the top officials. Millions of ordinary Iranian people still encounter hardship economically. In addition, the unemployment rate remains to be in <a href="http://carnegieendowment.org/2014/08/06/ineffective-economic-stewardship/hk2b?reloadFlag=1"><span style="color: #0433ff;">double digit</span></a><span style="color: #0433ff;">s</span> for millions of Iranian people.</p>
<p>When it comes to human rights and freedoms (assembly, press and speech),  Rouhani has supported the status quo of repression. According to the Human Rights Watch, there has been <a href="http://www.hrw.org/world-report/2014/country-chapters/iran?page=3"><span style="color: #0433ff;">“no sign of improvement”</span></a> and the Islamic Republic continues to violate human rights under Rouhani.</p>
<p>On March 11, Ahmed Shaheed, the United Nations special rapporteur on the human rights conditions in the Islamic Republic of Iran, released his <a href="http://www.hrw.org/world-report/2014/country-chapters/iran?page=3"><span style="color: #0433ff;">second annual report</span></a> to the UN Human Rights Council (HRC), pointing out that there exists an “apparent increase in the degree of seriousness of human rights violations” and he expressed his concern at the “rate of executions in the country, especially for crimes that do not meet serious crimes standards.”</p>
<p>In addition, in October, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon released his annual report expressing concerns with regards to the continuing human rights violations in the Islamic Republic under Rouhani. Human Rights Watch <a href="http://www.hrw.org/world-report/2014/country-chapters/iran?page=3"><span style="color: #0433ff;">points out</span></a> that “The government continued to block access to Shaheed and to experts with other UN rights bodies.”</p>
<p>It is an illusion to believe that any political figure in the Islamic Republic, who rises to power, will shift the Islamist, radical, and ideological perspective of this regime. Loyalty to the Islamist principles, antagonism towards Israel, and supporting Hezbollah, Hamas, or other Islamists groups, are the underlying and basic rules that each Iranian politician believes in and has to pursue, in order to survive and rise the political ladder in Iran. The higher an Iranian politician is in his political life and position, the more loyal he is to the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the more he voices his antagonism towards the state of Israel publicly or covertly, and the more he views the United States as a Great Satan. This underlying rule is the political formula for survival and promotion under the Islamist and ideological regime of the Islamic Republic.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/ap-image-7ec3644151df412f85a1f64c46e3ff16.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-225468" alt="ap-image-7ec3644151df412f85a1f64c46e3ff16" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/ap-image-7ec3644151df412f85a1f64c46e3ff16.jpg" width="254" height="176" /></a>Steven Spielberg threw a Holocaust party and everyone, from Samuel L. Jackson to Kim Kardashian, was invited.</p>
<p>The gala evening for his Shoah Foundation began with a few jokes. Conan O&#8217;Brien&#8217;s, “I called all my Jewish writers into my office and asked them for some Shoah jokes” really killed. Bruce Springsteen played &#8220;Dancing in the Dark&#8221; whose lyrics &#8220;you can&#8217;t start a fire without a spark&#8221; couldn&#8217;t possibly have been more appropriate considering that the literal meaning of Holocaust is &#8220;Sacrifice by fire.&#8221;</p>
<p>Obama slipped in after his DNC fundraiser with Barbara Streisand and Jeffrey Katzenberg to shake hands with a bunch of studio heads, Jewish and non-Jewish, and accept an award as Ambassador for Humanity. There was no explanation as to what an Ambassador for Humanity does. Maybe he reaches out to space aliens. Or tries to commune with fish.</p>
<p>Last summer, Obama had forced Israel to release the murderer of Isaac Rotenburg, an elderly Holocaust survivor who had escaped a death camp and reached Israel, only to be killed by a member of Palestinian Authority leader Abbas&#8217; Fatah party.</p>
<p>Flanked by Spielberg and Springsteen, Obama told an audience of notables such as Kim Kardashian, Tyler Perry, Tom Cruise, Samuel L. Jackson and Robert Downey Jr. about the importance of Holocaust survivors and how he would like to help the Nigerian girls kidnapped by an Islamic terrorist group that his administration fought to keep off the terrorist list, but he just can&#8217;t.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s hard to find the time to fight Nigerian Islamic terrorists when you&#8217;re so busy forcing Israel to free Islamic terrorists.</p>
<p>Cruise had delivered the introduction to the 2005 event at which Steven Spielberg appointed Bill Clinton as Ambassador for Humanity. Last year George Clooney, currently marrying a woman eager to defend every Muslim thug and terrorist, became Ambassador for Humanity. Before that it was the CEO of Walt Disney, the CEO of Comcast and Spielberg&#8217;s pal Jeffrey Katzenberg.</p>
<p>To be appointed Ambassador for Humanity you have to run a Hollywood studio or be a top Democrat. If Hillary Clinton isn&#8217;t named Ambassador for Humanity next year, it will only be because the world ended.</p>
<p>There was no word on whether Tony Kushner was in attendance. Kushner, Spielberg&#8217;s longtime collaborator, had called the rebirth of Israel a &#8220;mistake&#8221; and accused Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust memorial and museum, of a &#8220;Zionist agenda&#8221;.</p>
<p>Spielberg had handed over the story of the PLO massacre of Israeli athletes to Kushner who turned it into an indictment of Israel and a defense of the terrorists. Munich was a work of historical revisionism justifying the murder of Jews and demonizing those Jews who fought back from a filmmaker who had built the “serious” phase of his career on exploiting the Holocaust.</p>
<p>Responding to the backlash, Spielberg called critics &#8220;right-wing fundamentalists&#8221; and said that, &#8220;people who are important to me&#8221; see the movie correctly, including, &#8220;Liberal American Jews.&#8221;</p>
<p>Now Spielberg is working on yet another Jewish themed project with Kushner.</p>
<p>The Israeli response to the Munich Massacre embodied a “Never Again” attitude to the Holocaust in the truest sense. It was this “Never Again” stance that Spielberg, like so many Jewish liberals, tried to tear down and replace with tolerance memorials and vulgar parties.</p>
<p>After the jokes and musical performances, the speeches by Spielberg and Obama implied that the Shoah Foundation was working to prevent a repetition of the Holocaust. If anything it&#8217;s the other way around. Spielberg and Obama have helped make another Holocaust possible.</p>
<p>Obama bears the blame for enabling Iran&#8217;s nuclear strategy, but Spielberg bears the guilt for celebrating him while he does it. Obama is married by family and ideology to two movements that have sought to exterminate the Jews. Spielberg&#8217;s party circuit echoes with the shallowness and liberal pieties that prevented American Jewish leaders from challenging FDR&#8217;s complicity in the Holocaust.</p>
<p>That battle was fought between Jewish studio heads who pledged their allegiance and silence to FDR and rebels like Ben Hecht. On one side was a cult worshiping a liberal leader and on the other were desperate advertisements such as &#8220;For Sale to Humanity 70,000 Jews Guaranteed Human Beings at $50 A Piece&#8221; and &#8220;Help Prevent 4,000,000 People from Becoming Ghosts&#8221;.</p>
<p>None of the Ambassadors for Humanity of the time were interested. Instead they denounced the advertisements, pageants and protests for being too shrill, too abrasive and too hostile to FDR.</p>
<p>The leaders of liberal American Jewry have not changed. They continue handing out awards to their friends and providing cover for anti-Semitic liberal politicians. They clink their glasses and toast each other while their brothers burn. And they do it while exploiting the Holocaust.</p>
<p>Never again means nothing to them. Their apathy and empty internationalist pieties about the peoples of the world are the very &#8220;Again&#8221; that Never Again was meant to avert.</p>
<p>Genocide is not a threat when it comes from obvious villains. Serial killers aren&#8217;t the monsters that everyone fears. They are the friendly next door neighbor with a basement full of bodies.</p>
<p>The Nazis have become omnipresent villains, but before the war they were the personable serial killers next door. The political and economic programs of Germany and Italy were influential in Washington D.C. Hitler’s columns ran in American newspapers and the excuses made for Nazism by the media sound familiar when contrasted with the modern excuses for Islamic terror.</p>
<p>The <i>New York Times</i> wrote that that the “men around Hitler hold diverse views.” The AP assured readers that “Nazi Drive on Jews Under Control Now: US Investigation Shows No Cause for Protest.”  INS, a forerunner of UPI, conveyed that the “Hitler regime was doing its best to curb further persecution” of Jews.</p>
<p>The State Department said that physical mistreatment of Jews &#8220;may be considered virtually terminated.&#8221;</p>
<p>Now the serial killer next door is a friendly Muslim immigrant. No one is allowed to suspect him of anything, profile him or spy on his mosque until the bomb goes off at a synagogue or until the plane flies into a New York skyscraper. He is the moderate PLO leader whose followers call for blood. He is the newly moderate President of Iran, smiling and shaking hands, while the technicians move the radioactive work of genocide forward.</p>
<p>If Never Again is to stand for anything, it must challenge the official reassurances that nothing is wrong even while the fire begins to burn. If the foundations, organizations and assorted rubber chicken party circuit stops that exploit the memory of the Holocaust are to justify their seven-figure fundraisers and six-figure salaries, when a mass movement threatens to kill all the Jews and then kills some Jews, they should at the very least pay attention, instead of making excuses for them and for their politicians.</p>
<p>Spielberg&#8217;s Shoah Foundation with its empty awards and vulgar gaiety, its Holocaust jokes and humanitarian trophies isn&#8217;t the cure, it&#8217;s the disease. It&#8217;s not what we ought to be supporting, it&#8217;s what we need to be fighting.</p>
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		<title>Tiananmen Square: 25 Years Since a Failed Revolt for Democracy in China</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2014 04:20:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[George Jochnowitz]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reflections on the torch of freedom that Chinese students lit on April 15, 1989.
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/tian.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-223406" alt="tian" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/tian.jpg" width="300" height="300" /></a><em>T</em><i>ian </i>(heaven). <i>An </i>(peace). <i>Men </i>(gate). The Gate of Heavenly Peace is the entrance to the Forbidden City, where China&#8217;s emperors lived and where the movie <i>The Last Emperor</i> was filmed. Tiananmen Square, the front yard of the Forbidden City, was enlarged by Chairman Mao into the largest public space in the world, so that he could organize mass demonstrations of his supporters. Irony of ironies. Twenty-five years ago, the square was the scene of the biggest spontaneous demonstration is history, part of a movement that almost brought down the regime Mao had created. I was there on May 13, when the hunger strike began; on May 19, when the students prepared for an invasion by the People’s Liberation Army that was turned back before it ever got near the Square, and on June 2, when the Goddess of Democracy had been erected but a sense of doom pervaded the atmosphere.</p>
<p>The Beijing Spring Movement was a relatively rare phenomenon in human history: a struggle between good and evil. Mao Zedong had created a vicious regime, which taught people to betray their friends and relatives, which launched mad policies (ordering farmers to melt their tools in order to manufacture steel in backyard furnaces) that led to the most catastrophic famine in human history, and which continued to export grain during that famine.</p>
<p>Radical evil is more familiar and therefore less surprising than radical virtue. Nevertheless, outbreaks of radical virtue occur. After the funeral of Party Secretary Hu Yaobang on April 22, 1989, and even more so after the start of the hunger strike in Tiananmen Square on May 13, human nature changed in China. A drop in crime, fires and accidents was reported. &#8220;Criminals are on strike for freedom and democracy,&#8221; people joked. A steady stream of trucks went in and out of the square&#8211;the citizens of Beijing supplying the million or so demonstrators with food and beverages. Railroad employees, famous for their rudeness, became polite. Students and other demonstrators riding to and from Beijing were allowed to ride free. At Hebei University in Baoding, where I taught, the students took over the campus loudspeakers and played Beethoven symphonies, alternating with appeals for contributions for an independent newspaper. A peasant woman walked up to the university gates and put 50 yuan into the collection box&#8211;the equivalent of half a month&#8217;s salary at the time.</p>
<p>I often think of my student—let me call her Miss Qin. She was the shyest person I ever met. No matter what I asked her, she whispered &#8220;yes.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;How old are you?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Yes.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Do you understand me?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Yes.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;<i>Ni duo da</i>?&#8221; (How old are you?)</p>
<p>&#8220;Yes.&#8221;</p>
<p>Miss Qin&#8217;s parents lived in my building. Her father was a Party member. She and her parents seemed to have a very cold relationship with each other. One day, she approached me voluntarily, already a surprise. &#8220;I&#8217;ve been to Tiananmen,&#8221; she said in perfect English. &#8220;I spent three days there.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;My God, does your father know?&#8221; I asked, shocked.</p>
<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re not opposed,&#8221; she answered in Chinese.</p>
<p>Unbelievable! About an hour later, I saw Miss Qin and her mother walking and talking together, their arms around each other. The Beijing Spring Movement had brought the Qin family together.</p>
<p>I remember the sound of the ambulances in Beijing, carrying hunger strikers to the hospital, just as I had heard them on May 19. Whenever I think of that time, tears come to my eyes—even now as I type these words. But even in Baoding, the smoky, drab industrial city I lived in, demonstrations took place every day. At 6:30 A.M. on May 16, 1989, I woke up in my apartment in a faculty residence building at Hebei University. My younger daughter, Miriam, had already left the apartment to join a student demonstration in front of the Communist Party headquarters. After breakfast, I got on my bicycle to see what was happening. The main street of Baoding was packed with demonstrators, who began to ask me questions in Chinese:</p>
<p>&#8220;What do you think of China&#8217;s students?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;China&#8217;s hope,&#8221; I answered as well as I could in Chinese. I got big smiles and thumbs-up signs in response. This encouraged me.</p>
<p>&#8220;What do you think of the Communist Party?&#8221; someone asked.</p>
<p>&#8220;It serves no purpose.&#8221;</p>
<p>Thumbs up. &#8220;And what do you think of Marxism?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;<i>Goupi</i>&#8221; (bullshit, literally &#8220;dog fart&#8221;), I replied. I did not know that I was being filmed by a television crew and would appear on the local evening news later that day. The following day, two police cars drove up to the campus to warn me, very politely, not to interfere in China&#8217;s internal affairs.</p>
<p>The popularity of the movement was not enough. There was no organization to build on. There were no independent clubs or groups of any kind in China in 1989. The protesters in Tiananmen Square had no office and no telephone. There was no way for leaders to be elected by the ever-changing population in the square. There was no way to establish authority. Totalitarian regimes are designed to prevent competition of any kind from arising. Even the Catholic Church—the pro-contraception, pro-abortion Chinese Patriotic Catholic Church—was, and still is, run by the government.</p>
<p>The absence of civil society gives the Communist Party a monopoly on all political activity. When the Party falls, as it will some day, the lack of a political opposition will be a great danger to the country. Had there been some sort of legal organization outside the government, there would have been a way to settle the issues raised by Beijing Spring.</p>
<p>And what were those issues? Rule of law was tied for first place with an end to corruption. &#8220;Rulers should not be above the law,&#8221; I was told repeatedly by my students. Separation of powers was an issue as well. There was a great deal of political sophistication expressed to me by people I spoke to, mostly my own students.</p>
<p>What would the government have done had the protesters left the square on, let’s say, May 30? The great majority of the casualties of June 4 did not take place in Tiananmen Square at all. The bloodshed occurred about three miles to the west, on Chang&#8217;an Avenue, a major east-west street, part of which forms the northern boundary of Tiananmen Square. Many of the victims were simply residents of the apartment buildings and old courtyard houses in the neighborhood who took it upon themselves to block the tanks. Would plans to enter the city have been canceled if the students had left the square? I don&#8217;t think so. Would the residents of Chang&#8217;an Avenue have come out to stop the army even if there were no students in the square? I think the answer may be yes.</p>
<p>There are no &#8220;what-if&#8217;s&#8221; in history. The demonstrators did not withdraw on May 30, and the People&#8217;s Republic of China killed unarmed civilians who, during the seven weeks of Beijing Spring, had been extraordinarily peaceful and good humored.</p>
<p>On June 4, 1989, tanks of the People&#8217;s Liberation Army crushed Beijing Spring, the movement for democracy in China. The whole world watched, even in Communist East Europe. Demonstrations took place in front of the Chinese Embassy in Warsaw. Mikhail Gorbachev had witnessed the movement personally when he visited China in May. It is no coincidence that the Berlin Wall fell later that year.</p>
<p>In China, the government decided that it could placate the people by giving them capitalism instead of democracy. Although democracy ordinarily coexists with capitalism, China now has Marxist Capitalism—the pursuit of wealth and relatively free markets but no free speech and no freedom of thought. Money, however, will not buy human rights.</p>
<p>China&#8217;s current leaders have achieved a certain degree of prosperity, but the regime they have created is repressive and, like all dictatorships, it is unstable, having no established process for leaders to succeed each other.</p>
<p>Democracies are inherently stable, because they have established procedures for governments to change. They are inherently rich, because creativity is an essential element of a prosperous society, and to be creative one has to have freedom of thought. Democracy is the Gateway to Heavenly Peace.</p>
<p><i>George Jochnowitz was born in New York City, in 1937. He became aware of different regional pronunciations when he was six, and he could consciously switch accents as a child. He got his Ph.D. in linguistics from Columbia University and taught linguistics at the College of Staten Island, CUNY. His area of specialization was Jewish languages, in particular, Judeo-Italian dialects. As part of a faculty-exchange agreement with Hebei University in Baoding, China, he was in China during the Tiananmen Massacre. He can be reached at <a href="mailto:george@jochnowitz.net">george@jochnowitz.net.</a></i></p>
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		<title>Ayatollahs Celebrate 35 Years of Terror</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Feb 2014 05:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Majid Rafizadeh]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Convicted-men-publicly-hanged.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-218068" alt="Convicted-men-publicly-hanged" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Convicted-men-publicly-hanged-450x269.jpg" width="270" height="161" /></a>I was born after the Islamic Revolution of Iran, at the beginning of the eight-year-long Iran-Iraq war and lived most of my life in the post-revolutionary era under the Ayatollah and Shiite Islamic Sharia law. I remember many people that underestimated the power of the Islamist movement, of Ayatollah and Imam Ruhollah Khomeini and his followers. Yet, here we are at the 35</span><sup style="line-height: 1.5em;">th</sup><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> anniversary of the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran, with a much stronger, centralized regime that has been successful at promoting its ideology across the region, creating proxies such as Hezbollah, funding other Islamist movements, and thwarting America’s (and its allies’) security interests, as well as the U.S.&#8217;s foreign policy, geopolitical, geostrategic and geo-economic objectives in the region.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The Ayatollah, Mullahs, and Iranian leaders are celebrating the 35</span><sup style="line-height: 1.5em;">th</sup><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> anniversary of the establishment of Islamic Republic of Iran by Ayatollah and Imam Ruhollah Khomeini and his extremist followers.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">It is also worth noting that due to the Carter administration’s foreign policies, the United States stood by and watched one of our (and Israel’s) staunchest allies in the Middle East be controlled by Shiite Islamic Ayatollahs and clerics; Iran was turned into one of the U.S.&#8217;s most robust and determined geopolitical, geostrategic, and geo-economic enemies.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">This considerably shifted the balance of power in the Middle East, as the Islamic Republic built a firmer alliance with Russia and China, to counter American and Israeli foreign policy objectives in the region.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Ceremonies began in Iran on Saturday, marking the 35th anniversary of the victory of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, which deposed pro-US Muhammad Reza Shah and brought in the Islamic Republic.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The beginning of the 10 days of celebration, called the 10-Day Dawn (Fajr) festivities across Iran, marks the day when the late founder of the Islamic Republic, Imam Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, arrived back home from exile on February 1, 1979, after having spent more than 14 years away, mostly in the Iraqi holy city of Najaf, with some time in Turkey and France.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">These 10 days will culminate in one of largest nationwide rallies on February 11</span><sup style="line-height: 1.5em;">th</sup><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, to celebrate the anniversary of the triumph of the Islamic Revolution.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">After overthrowing the secular and pro-Western state, the Ayatollahs instituted a new social order based primarily on Islamist thoughts, Shari’a law, and Shiite ideals like the introduction of Jurisprudent Leadership (Vilayat-e Faqih) and giving divine power to the Supreme Leader (Vali)—whose legitimacy lies in his piety and his supposedly unmatched knowledge of Islam.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Article 57 was added to the constitution to emphasize this shift</span><b style="line-height: 1.5em;">: “</b><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The powers of government in the Islamic Republic are vested in the legislature, the judiciary, and the executive powers, functioning under the supervision of the absolute religious leader and the Leadership of the Ummah, in accordance with the forthcoming articles of this Constitution…”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">This gave the Supreme leader the absolute power to veto, enact, or suspend any law that was deemed to be un-Islamic based on his interpretations. All articles of the constitutions became subject to approval of Islamic laws. This created an artificial façade of democracy. For example, while the constitution gives rights to writers, journalists, and bloggers to write freely, everything should still comply with Islamic and Shiite laws.  </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">To be precise, the arrest, torture and execution of writers were legitimized by the ruling leaders and clerics because of the enforcement of Article 24 which states, “Publications and the press have freedom of expression, except when it is detrimental to the fundamental principles of Islam or the rights of the public. The details of this exception will be specified by law.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In other words, every article in the constitution became subject to Article 4: “All civil, penal financial, economic, administrative, cultural, military, political, and other laws and regulations must be based on Islamic criteria.  This principle applies absolutely and generally to all articles of the Constitution as well as to all other laws and regulations, and the wise persons of the Guardian Council are judges in this matter.” This law gave the ruling Ayatollah and Iranian leaders the sovereign power and institutional mechanisms to implement and ensure compliance with Islam, as defined by the ruling clerics.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Is the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran getting weaker?</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The answer is mixed. Regarding regional and international realms, the Islamic Republic has definitely become a much more centralized state compared to its 1979 condition. The nation is also on the verge of becoming a nuclear power and nuclear-armed state.  The Islamic Republic has also grown to be more self-sufficient in some industries, particularly in military capabilities, including multiple ballistic and cruise missile systems— such as Shahab-3, the Shahab-3D— investment in nuclear technologies, missile-equipped drones with a range of 2,000 kilometers like the Fotros drone (copying the US drone captured by Iranian forces), automobiles such as Sepehr, and air-to-air missiles such as Fatter (a copy of U.S. AIM-9 Sidewinder). This partial self-sufficiency has mostly concentrated on military programs since the 1980s, as also seen in the frequent announcements by Iranian leaders on various technological breakthroughs including the building of jet fighters, submarines, tanks, and torpedoes.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">When it comes to domestic policies, the Iranian government has definitely become more masterful in cracking down, suppressing, and implementing the discriminatory laws against religious minorities, segregating the society based on gender, executing dissidents, imposing dress code, stifling the potential of both society and economic opportunity.  But this has also created a large section of the society (primarily the youth population under 30 years of age who comprise approximately more than 50% of the Iranian population) to become disaffected and disenchanted with the Islamic regime. Finally, if there is going to be any real threat to the Ayatollahs and Iranian leaders, it will most likely be from this young section of the population, rather than any action from external forces.</span></p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthew Vadum]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/black-and-homeless-4x31.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-215053" alt="black-and-homeless-4x31" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/black-and-homeless-4x31-450x337.jpg" width="315" height="236" /></a>Fifty years after liberals launched their sacrosanct &#8220;War on Poverty,&#8221; Americans, and black Americans in particular, aren&#8217;t better off.</p>
<p>But neo-Marxist ideologue that he is, President Obama is determined to double-down on leftist failure, widening the so-called war by calling for the biggest welfare spending increases in American history— amounting to more than $10 trillion over a decade, according to the Heritage Foundation&#8217;s Robert Rector.</p>
<p>This War on Poverty that Obama wants to escalate came on the heels of the death of President John F. Kennedy.</p>
<p>As the country was reeling in shock just seven weeks after Kennedy was assassinated, his successor, President Lyndon B. Johnson, <a href="http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/speeches.hom/640108.asp">urged</a> Congress to embark on a new metaphorical war effort against poverty. In that State of the Union address on Jan. 8, 1964, Johnson said, &#8220;Let this session of Congress be known &#8230; as the session which declared all-out war on human poverty and unemployment in these United States.&#8221;</p>
<p>This &#8220;unconditional war on poverty in America &#8230; will not be a short or easy struggle, no single weapon or strategy will suffice, but we shall not rest until that war is won,&#8221; Johnson said. &#8220;The richest nation on earth can afford to win it. We cannot afford to lose it.&#8221;</p>
<p>The War on Poverty also gave taxpayers’ money to so-called community groups like ACORN and Saul Alinsky&#8217;s Industrial Areas Foundation in order to encourage them to agitate against the status quo. This, in turn, stimulated demand for more government spending as taxpayer dollars became a kind of ever-increasing subsidy for pro-Big Government activism. The federal government still hands out huge grants to left-wing groups to subsidize their efforts to take away our economic freedoms.</p>
<p>A half a century later, federal and state welfare spending, adjusted for inflation, is now 16 times greater. The country has spent $20.7 trillion in 2011 dollars over the past 50 years on welfare programs, far exceeding what the U.S. has spent on every war it has fought.</p>
<p>Already the federal government administers 80 different means-tested welfare programs. Government blew $916 billion on these programs in 2012 alone, and about 100 million Americans accepted aid from at least one of the programs, costing $9,000 per recipient on average, a figure, Heritage&#8217;s Rector notes, that doesn&#8217;t include Social Security or Medicare benefits.</p>
<p>Yet &#8220;victory&#8221; in the War on Poverty is nowhere in sight. In 2012, 15 percent of Americans lived below the poverty line, roughly the same percentage as in the mid-1960s. Currently, around 50 million Americans <a href="http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/poverty-line-grows-under/2014/01/08/id/545892">live below</a> the poverty line, which the government defines as a four-member family earning $23,550 a year. And 47 million Americans receive food stamp benefits, 13 million more than when President Obama was first sworn in.</p>
<p>&#8220;Liberals argue that we aren&#8217;t spending enough money on poverty-fighting programs, but that&#8217;s not the problem,&#8221; <a href="http://www.heritage.org/research/commentary/2014/1/how-the-war-on-poverty-was-lost">according to</a> Rector. &#8220;In reality, we&#8217;re losing the war on poverty because we have forgotten the original goal, as LBJ stated it half a century ago: &#8216;to give our fellow citizens a fair chance to develop their own capacities.&#8217;&#8221;</p>
<p>Despite an orgy of federal spending, blacks and other minorities have suffered the most from big government poverty alleviation efforts. The anti-marriage, anti-family tilt of welfare policies has devastated black communities.</p>
<p>“The welfare state has done to black Americans what slavery couldn’t do, what Jim Crow couldn’t do, what the harshest racism couldn’t do, and that is to destroy the black family,” says economics professor Walter E. Williams of George Mason University, a black man who rose from poverty.</p>
<p>As a result of misguided government policies that grew out of the War on Poverty, out-of-wedlock birthrates have mushroomed, David Horowitz and John Perazzo <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/frontpagemag-com/government-versus-the-people/">report</a> in &#8220;Government vs. the People.&#8221;</p>
<p>By 1976, the illegitimacy rate for whites jumped to 10 percent from 3 percent in 1965. Blacks fared far worse, as their illegitimacy rate skyrocketed to 50.3 percent, more than double the percentage in 1965. &#8220;In 1987, for the first time in the history of any American racial or ethnic group, the birthrate for unmarried black women surpassed that for married black women,&#8221; they wrote.</p>
<p>Currently, whites have an illegitimacy rate of 29 percent, compared to a shocking 73 percent for blacks. Overall, the poverty rate for single parents with children was 35.6 percent in 2008, but for married couples with children it was a much lower 6.4 percent.</p>
<p>The poverty rate for single Hispanic parents with children was 37.5 percent in 2008, but for married Hispanic couples with children it was 12.8 percent. The poverty rate for single black parents with children was 35.3 percent in 2008, but for married black couples with children it was 6.9 percent.</p>
<p>The economic situation of blacks <a href="http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/obama-blacks-poverty-education/2014/01/08/id/545866">has deteriorated</a> sharply during Barack Obama&#8217;s presidency, in particular. Nationally, unemployment stands at 7 percent but among black Americans unemployment has essentially stood still. When Obama was inaugurated in 2009 black unemployment was 12.7 percent. Today it is 12.5 percent.</p>
<p>In 2008 the black poverty rate was 12 percent; now it is 16.1 percent. Median income fell by 3.6 percent in white households to $58,000 in the same time frame, but slid 10.9 percent to $33,500 for black households, according to the Census Bureau.</p>
<p>&#8220;The data is [sic] going to indicate sadly that when the Obama administration is over, black people will have lost ground in every single leading economic indicator category,&#8221; Tavis Smiley, a black, left-wing radio talk show host said in the fall. &#8220;On that regard, the president ought to be held responsible.&#8221;</p>
<p>These terrible numbers help to explain the president&#8217;s recent attempt to change the subject from the economy to &#8220;income inequality,&#8221; an abstraction that fails to register with most Americans.</p>
<p>They also help to explain why Obama intends to push for an increase in the federal minimum wage, currently $7.25 an hour, in his State of the Union address on Jan. 28.</p>
<p>Left-wingers have successfully been changing the subject, moving the discussion away from their policy failures for 50 years now.</p>
<p>Why should they change a winning formula now? They know they can continue to count on taxpayer funding for their adventures in leftist activism.</p>
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		<title>Operation &#8216;Pillar of Defense&#8217;: One Year Later</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Nov 2013 05:15:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What Israelis have learned. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/MzU3M2Y2NzAzNyMvVnVGZVpFdUVMa1d2OWhvSmNDM0dZZ0p2S29NPS84NDB4NTMwL3NtYXJ0L2ZpbHRlcnM6cXVhbGl0eSg3NSk6c3RyaXBfaWNjKDEpL2h0dHAlM0ElMkYlMkZzMy5hbWF6b25hd3MuY29tJTJGcG1idWNrZXQlMkZzaXRlJTJGYXJ0aWNsZXMlMkYxOTIzOSUyRm9yaWdpbmFsLmpwZw.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-211650" alt="MzU3M2Y2NzAzNyMvVnVGZVpFdUVMa1d2OWhvSmNDM0dZZ0p2S29NPS84NDB4NTMwL3NtYXJ0L2ZpbHRlcnM6cXVhbGl0eSg3NSk6c3RyaXBfaWNjKDEpL2h0dHAlM0ElMkYlMkZzMy5hbWF6b25hd3MuY29tJTJGcG1idWNrZXQlMkZzaXRlJTJGYXJ0aWNsZXMlMkYxOTIzOSUyRm9yaWdpbmFsLmpwZw==" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/MzU3M2Y2NzAzNyMvVnVGZVpFdUVMa1d2OWhvSmNDM0dZZ0p2S29NPS84NDB4NTMwL3NtYXJ0L2ZpbHRlcnM6cXVhbGl0eSg3NSk6c3RyaXBfaWNjKDEpL2h0dHAlM0ElMkYlMkZzMy5hbWF6b25hd3MuY29tJTJGcG1idWNrZXQlMkZzaXRlJTJGYXJ0aWNsZXMlMkYxOTIzOSUyRm9yaWdpbmFsLmpwZw-440x350.jpg" width="308" height="245" /></a></span></b>This November, southern Israel marks one year since the IDF’s Operation Pillar of Defense in the Gaza Strip. It has been the quietest year in quite awhile, with “only” 79 rockets and missiles fired at southern Israeli communities. This is the fourth cease-fire between Israel and Hamas in the past seven years, the first having been on November 26, 2006.</p>
<p>Southern Israel has sustained hundreds of rocket attacks during these cease-fires. The last cease-fire lasted from the end of Operation Cast Lead on January 18, 2009, to the first day of Operation Pillar of Defense on November 12, 2012. During that period, approximately 2,000 rockets and missiles were fired from Hamas-controlled Gaza, sending one million Israelis running to shelters with between 15-45 seconds’ warning.</p>
<p>The most important lesson that we as Israelis need to learn is that after the last Gaza operation, within seven years of the disengagement in the Gaza strip in August 2005, <em>most Israeli citizens came under Iranian missile fire from Hamas-controlled Gaza</em>, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem were put into range of missile fire, and the most heavily bombarded city was Ashdod, the fifth most-populated city in Israel.</p>
<p>According to Israeli intelligence sources, there remain in Gaza thousands of long-range missiles hidden deep within Gaza’s civilian buildings and infrastructure.  In &#8220;Operation Pillar of Defense,&#8221; <a href="http://sderotmedia.org.il/bin/content.cgi?ID=965&amp;q=7">Iranian Fajar missiles were fired near the Shifa hospital in Gaza</a> towards Jerusalem. Israel renovated the Shifa hospital in the 1980s.</p>
<p>The &#8220;Iron Dome&#8221; battery defense system received a great deal of media attention during and after the Operation, implying that this was the military solution for the rocket fire from Gaza.  While there is no doubt this has brought about a change in the strategic warfare combating Hamas, it has definitely not solved the problem of rocket fire—far from it.</p>
<p>During the Operation there were five operational batteries intercepting missiles in mid-air.  As there are hundreds of mid-sized towns and cities in southern-central Israel within a 75-kilometer range of Gaza, it has been always a game of &#8220;Russian roulette&#8221; as to what areas or cities the &#8220;Iron Dome&#8221; could protect.</p>
<p>The Iron Dome does not protect the western Negev communities and the section of Sderot that is up to 4.5 kilometers from the Gaza border, because the 15 seconds it takes to fire an advanced Qassam rocket until the explosion in these communities just does not leave enough time to intercept the rocket.</p>
<p>Thus, a &#8220;creative solution&#8221; has been given for Sderot and the western Negev communities to turn into &#8220;<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD3hqeog0KE">the bomb shelter capital of the world</a>.&#8221;  500 million shekels were invested only for Sderot to build 6,000 new bomb shelters, and up to 500 million US dollars to protect the western Negev communities in the 4.5 kilometer radius, including public buildings and schools.</p>
<p>As director for seven years of the Sderot Media Center, I can attest to the fact that Israel has not provided a solution to the rocket fire or threat, and that we should expect many more years of living through rocket and missile escalations, in addition to years of rehabilitation for an entire population that has entered its 14th year of living under rocket fire and threat.</p>
<p>The current &#8220;relative quiet&#8221; in the western Negev has resulted a near-absence of attention to the Hamas-controlled Gaza element in the current peace talks.</p>
<p>The &#8216;Two-State Solution&#8217; remains high on the agenda of the Israeli government, as well as the focus of the Israeli media. However, hardly any mention is made of the &#8220;Hamstan&#8221; state established in Gaza, after the one-sided Israeli action giving &#8220;land for peace&#8221; on August 2005, leaving Gaza empty of a Jewish presence, civilian or military.</p>
<p>The lack of governmental and media attention to the current conflict between southern Israel and Hamas-controlled Gaza (even if it is largely at this point a matter of low-intensity warfare) in no way affects the very possible outcome of any withdrawal by agreement, or even worse, &#8220;separation plan&#8221; (of which Tzipi Livni is very proud), from territories in the mountain ranges of Judaea and Samaria looking over the center of Israel.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEwPmu462BY">Ben Gurion airport, Israel&#8217;s only international airport, is less than 3 kilometers from the western Judaean mountains</a>. The Sderot case has taught us that the most advanced technology in the world cannot stop a Qassam rocket followed by an explosion after 15 seconds.  One may ask: how many Israelis will live on the borders of a demilitarized Palestinian state?</p>
<p>Hamas today is in control of the entire Gaza strip and its population of 1.7 million Palestinian Arabs.  Hamas makes sure to remind Israel and the rest of the world that they won US and EU-supervised elections in all the Palestinian territories in January 2006.  Since then, there have been no elections. Again, one may ask: who does Abu-Mazen actually represent?  Who chose him?</p>
<p>In April 2013, during US President Obama&#8217;s visit to Israel, on his second-day visit to Ramallah, Hamas fired five rockets towards southern Israel, two exploding into Sderot.  <a href="http://sderotmedia.org.il/bin/content.cgi?ID=972&amp;q=3">One rocket exploded underneath a children&#8217;s bedroom of the Haziza family</a>, and <a href="http://sderotmedia.org.il/bin/content.cgi?ID=973&amp;q=3">one rocket exploding directly into a children&#8217;s kindergarten</a>.  This took place during Passover vacation, so no injuries were sustained, but the attack barely received media attention.</p>
<p>One million Israelis in southern Israel living within missile range of Hamas-controlled Gaza are asking themselves:  <i>&#8220;If Hamas and the rocket fire and threat are not part of the current negotiations and peace talks, how is it possible to reach an agreement? Could we reach the absurd situation in which ‘peace’ is achieved and the rockets continue to be fired?&#8221;</i></p>
<p>The more we ignore the conclusions and policy Implications of &#8220;Operation Pillar of Defense&#8221; the more illusions we build.</p>
<p><i>Noam Bedein is a photojournalist, lecturer and founder/director of </i><a href="http://www.sderotmedia.org.il/"><i>Sderot Media Center</i></a><i>. He has conducted briefings and tours for government officials, diplomats, foreign press, and students from around the world. Recently he produced a short documentary for the US Embassy-</i><i><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzsuX-dZH9w"> &#8216;Standing Resilient in Israel&#8217;</a></i></p>
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		<title>America Undone</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Nov 2013 04:45:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The day America was forced to confront the radical forces tearing the country apart. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/527d7f8d2c722.preview-620.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-211343" alt="527d7f8d2c722.preview-620" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/527d7f8d2c722.preview-620-450x328.jpg" width="315" height="230" /></a>At the moment John F. Kennedy was shot, I was sitting at the bar of Jilly Rizzo&#8217;s famous watering hole in New York, sharing an early-afternoon bourbon and water with Jilly himself and, of course, Sinatra, whose eyes had been glued to the TV for several minutes as he waited for CBS to interrupt <i>As the World Turns. </i>“C&#8217;mon, c&#8217;mon!” he growled impatiently, “that car should be heading into Dealey Plaza any second now. And then – bada-bing!”</p>
<p>“That&#8217;ll teach him to double-cross Momo,” said Jilly, using an affectionate nickname for mob boss Sam Giancana.</p>
<p>“And to cut off contact with me,” added Frank, “after I got the boys to rig the Chicago vote for him!”</p>
<p>“Toddlin&#8217; town,” Jilly grunted, wiping down the bar with a rag.</p>
<p>OK, OK, so I wasn&#8217;t really with Ol&#8217; Blue Eyes that day. I was in my second-grade classroom in Queens. At around two in the afternoon our teacher, Mrs. Gibbons, rolled in a blond-wood TV set the size of a large refrigerator so we could spend the last hour of the schoolday watching some program on what was then called educational TV. The show had been on for only a few minutes when it was interrupted by a news bulletin.</p>
<p>Mrs. Gibbons, a hefty, white-haired woman in a flower-print dress – the Old-Fashioned Schoolteacher from Central Casting – promptly turned her back on us and stared at the tube, transfixed, ignoring us completely until she finally, perfunctorily, after what felt like a very long time, said we could go home.</p>
<p>Objectively speaking, her conduct was unprofessional. She probably should&#8217;ve turned the TV off, or at least been quick to explain to us, in the least traumatizing way possible, what was going on, and to reassure us that everything would be all right. But, veteran though she was, Mrs. Gibbons had never been confronted by such a situation. Nobody had written the pedagogical manual on this one.</p>
<p>That interval during which we were, effectively, teacherless was strange: we sat there in an unkidlike hush, taking in the news as best we could, old enough to grasp the raw fact of what had taken place but not old enough to have a sense of what it might mean for us, our lives, the world. My imagination ran wild: was it possible that when the President died, the whole country descend into utter chaos?</p>
<p>I craved the security of home, and when Mrs. Gibbons finally cut us loose I was out of there like a shot, and ran all the way (I was a good runner) to our front steps three and a half blocks away. I tried the door. It was locked. I banged urgently. On an ordinary day, my mother would have let me in promptly: she was always home. But this was no ordinary day. This time, it seemed, nobody was home. My worst fears –  that everything had changed forever, that the world was indeed spinning out of control – appeared to have been confirmed.</p>
<p>And as I stood there in a mounting panic, not knowing what to do or where to go, my mother called to me from across the street. She was watching Walter Cronkite with the neighbors. They had a better TV.</p>
<p>So America hadn&#8217;t come undone, after all. I was wrong.</p>
<p>Or was I? For as it turned out, the JFK assassination ushered in an era in which America, for more than a few people around my age, <i>would </i>seem to be perilously close to coming undone. Having undergone the first stages of our preparation for adult life in one America – namely, a well-mannered, grown-up, culturally sophisticated society in which patriotism was encouraged, excellence prized, authority respected, the civic virtues (remember those?) upheld, and real social advances being made in a sensible, orderly way – we would grow into adulthood in a country in tumult, one that nobody, in the years before Dallas, could ever have imagined.</p>
<p>There would be more assassinations; there would be riots and protests, and something called sit-ins; great cities, for reasons that really made no sense whatsoever, would go up in flames and never be the same; and even as the ugliness of various sorts of intolerance (racial and otherwise) gradually, and thankfully, ebbed, massive social programs directed at the objects of that intolerance – programs based on fanciful, ideology-driven ideas that defied basic principles of human psychology and economics – began to result in the pathological coarsening of segments of American culture in which the cruelty of oppression had always, at least, been leavened by dignity and self-respect.</p>
<p>That wasn&#8217;t all. As young people (just a few a few years older than me) who&#8217;d started their public careers by posturing as rebels against the established order began to gain power in the media, government, academy, and culture, the idea of mature and responsible liberalism – a liberalism rooted in the determination to bring America ever more into line with her founding ideals of freedom, and to protect that freedom against its enemies, foreign and domestic – would become contaminated by an ideological poison that, over time, instilled in millions of Americans a perverse contempt for liberty and attraction to (or, at the very least, readiness to excuse) thuggery, tyranny, and even out-and-out totalitarianism.</p>
<p>And what of JFK himself? In the decades after his death, thanks largely to the tireless machinations of his family and cronies, he would become a lasting symbol of what was represented as a golden age, an irrecoverable era of glory. It wasn&#8217;t just American baby-boomers who bought into this B.S.: visit almost any foreign city and you&#8217;ll eventually run across an Avenue du Président Kennedy (Paris), President Kennedylaan (Amsterdam), Kennedygatan (Gothenburg), Kennedystrasse (Cologne), Avenida Presidente Kennedy (Rio de Janeiro), etc. The stellar image was, needless to say, at striking odds with the mostly sorry record of JFK&#8217;s brief presidency, which – from the Bay of Pigs to the Vienna Summit to the Cuba Missile Crisis – was in fact a series of fiascos punctuated by stray moments of wit, glamour, and bravado.</p>
<p>This isn&#8217;t to deny that there was something rather glorious about the JFK years; it&#8217;s just that the glory had virtually nothing to do with JFK himself. It had to do, rather, with the fact that America – after surviving the Great Depression and leading the free world to victory in World War II – worked its butt off during the 1950s and entered the 1960s with an unprecedented level of freedom and prosperity that dazzled the rest of the world and that, during the JFK years, enabled it to compile a record of cultural accomplishment and social progress that made it reasonable (as I wrote about <a href="http://www.wilsonquarterly.com/essays/other-sixties">here</a>) to speak, if not of a golden, then at least of a silver age.</p>
<p>In the decades that followed, along with the horrors (from Vietnam to 9/11), there would be positive developments (above all, the defeat of Soviet Communism) and certainly better presidents than the internationally adored JFK. But scarcely anything – not even the very best things – would remain entirely untouched by such toxic, illiberal post-JFK phenomena as political correctness, multiculturalism, and the culture of victimhood. JFK himself, an essentially conservative politician who had been killed by a Communist, would likely have rejected these phenomena outright, but no matter: many of their adherents did their best to turn him into a symbol of them.</p>
<p>Thanks to those pernicious new ideological facts of life – and thanks too, at least in part, to the diffusion of romantic ideas about the presidency that were bolstered by the Camelot myth (ideas having less to do with a mature understanding of goverance, <i>Realpolitik, </i>and human nature than with puerile utopianism, celebrity culture, and the all-important question of who&#8217;s more attractive on TV) – the American electorate would elevate at least two people to the role of Leader of the Free World whose palpable disdain for that role, and seeming distaste for many fundamental aspects of America itself, marked them as individuals who would never have been elected to the presidency pre-JFK.</p>
<p>The thoroughly appalling Jimmy Carter, for example, would surely not have won in 1976 if his palpably bogus Everyman act hadn&#8217;t appealed to millions of media-age voters in the wake of the overblown debacle of Watergate. It was Carter&#8217;s fecklessness, and his evident (and dangerous) discomfort with the idea of America as the Fortress of Democracy, that made possible the 1980 Reagan victory, and it was Reagan&#8217;s revolution that saved America, and the free world, from the Carter retreat (and, moreover, helped bring about the Soviet collapse).</p>
<p>After the Carter nightmare, more than thirty years had to go by before it was possible for a new generation of voters (for whom the Carter years were ancient history) to elect, and even re-elect, another man who was even less fond than Carter of his own country and who, in addition to making war on constitutional liberties and on the economic system that had made America rich, stood for an even more extensive, and more damaging, U.S. withdrawal from superpower responsibilities – all of which, barring the arrival on the scene of a new Reagan, may yet succeed in unraveling the American miracle.</p>
<p>If nothing else, then, JFK&#8217;s brief, not-so-shining moment marks a divide, for those of us old enough to have experienced it, between two radically different Americas. Still, if so many baby boomers are paying what may appear, to our younger countrymen, undue attention to the fiftieth anniversary of the JFK assassination, I suspect the main reason is, quite simply, that it&#8217;s sobering to realize that one has reached a point at which one possesses vivid personal memories of something that happened a full half-century ago. <i>Tempus fugit.</i></p>
<p>Think of it! And we baby boomers, according to the silly fools who were our earliest self-appointed spokespeople, were never supposed to grow old.</p>
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		<title>The JFK Conspiracy Theory Is the Conspiracy</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ongoing plot to conceal left-wing terrorism and murder. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/lee-harvey-oswald.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-211022" alt="lee-harvey-oswald" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/lee-harvey-oswald.jpg" width="268" height="167" /></a>Sometimes a conspiracy theory exposes a conspiracy. Sometimes the conspiracy theory is the conspiracy.</p>
<p>JFK assassination plots are the only conspiracy theories to be widely accepted by the general public. The moon landing filmed in a studio, the Lincoln conspiracy or the World Trade Center being blown up by lasers from outer space never gained much credence because they lacked mainstream backing. Conspiracy theories ordinarily remain on the margins. The JFK theories were too important to the liberals who were really running things to allow them to die out.</p>
<p>There are probably more Americans who could tell you the ins and outs of the &#8220;magic bullet&#8221; than can recite the Bill of Rights from memory. More books have been sold about the Kennedy assassination than about any of the real government abuses taking place today.</p>
<p>The 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination brings with it the usual weighty tomes, speculative articles and nostalgic reminiscing about the utopia that might have been. The political messianism of JFK was as doomed as that of any other liberal savior. Unlike Obama, it conveniently ended in a martyrdom which excused a generation of liberal failures.</p>
<p>The JFK assassination became a liberal martyrdom in search of a conservative inquisitioner. Oliver Stone&#8217;s JFK was a laborious effort to connect the murder of a liberal icon to the despicable conservative villains that his political martyrdom demanded.</p>
<p>The endless search for the real killers was not done to find them, but to perpetuate the myth. The search could never be complete; the conspiracy theories could provide no closure; though the lynching of Nixon for daring to try and make JFK&#8217;s ideas work helped put to rest the ghosts of Camelot for many angry liberals.</p>
<p>JFK was not killed by some miasma of right-wing hatred, by a confederacy of Cuban exiles, CIA agents and Sicilian mafia bosses.</p>
<p>The directions in which the JFK conspiracy theories point reveal what they are trying to hide. John F. Kennedy was not murdered by a miasma of hatred on the right, but on the left. Before liberals became leftists, leftists had a propensity for killing liberals.</p>
<p>And Lee Harvey Oswald was as far to the left as you could go.</p>
<p>There was never really any disagreement about Lee Harvey Oswald&#8217;s politics. The media has avoided the issue by characterizing him as a screwball, but Lee Harvey Oswald was a militant Socialist screwball who defected to the USSR and plotted the murders of people he considered &#8220;right-wing.&#8221;</p>
<p>Lee Harvey Oswald was part of a continuum of left-wing terror in America. The murder of JFK was a bridge between the explosions of violence in the twenties by anarchists and by the Weathermen in the seventies. Oswald was the leading edge of American left-wing violence.</p>
<p>Like so many radicals, Oswald was bored and shiftless. The reality of the Soviet Union with no revolution, just factories to work at, did not appeal to him. Instead he drifted back to America, a weapon in search of a target. The actual murder may have shocked the nation, but it would not be very long before left-wing violence would once again become part of life in America.</p>
<p>JFK was not killed by a military-industrial complex or a vast right-wing conspiracy. No group of men in suits sat around a table plotting his death. The forces that killed him were the same political ideas of the left that led young American men and women to cheer for the Viet Cong, plant bombs and wage war against their own country.</p>
<p>To understand why JFK died, you must understand the Weathermen and Leon Czolgosz who murdered President McKinley. You must understand the Atom Bomb Spies and Sacco and Vanzetti and a century of left-wing sabotage and terrorism in America.</p>
<p>It’s much safer to talk about magic bullets, than magical thinking ideologies that promise that a workers’ paradise is only a bomb away.</p>
<p>The assassination was a warning of the consequences of the ideas that the left was unleashing on the country. Instead of searching for Cubans in the CIA, liberals should have looked to the left. Instead they covered up the complicity of the left and blamed the right.</p>
<p>JFK was the martyr of the dangerously unstable new America that the left was bringing into being.</p>
<p>Three years after the Kennedy assassination in Dallas, an engineering student and another former marine would climb a tower at the University of Austin and open fire. The killing spree would become a starting point in an accelerating trend of mass killings.</p>
<p>The murder of John Lennon, another liberal icon, in a new decade that closed the door on the chaos of the counterculture, would be a death undignified by any larger meaning. From Charles Manson to Jim Jones, these were the mad horrors spawned by a damaged culture where the monsters and madmen were suddenly the only ones who understood the rules.</p>
<p>Kennedy was killed in a more innocent time when it was still possible to deny that the wave of change was not ushering in a brave new world, but the destruction of a culture that had kept the worst human instincts in check.</p>
<p>The real Kennedy conspiracy was an effort to suppress the basic truths of what had happened and to replace them with a recursive loop of conspiracy theories that could never resolve anything while convincing everyone that the basic truths of what happened could be safely ignored.</p>
<p>The conspiracy did not cover up the work of the secret organization that killed JFK, but the secret organizations of the left whose ideas led to his murder. The real JFK conspiracy concealed the deeper secret that the left is destructive and that its ideas carry a dark wind of violence.</p>
<p>The left cannot make history come out the way that it wants to, but it can always lie about it. Its myths of the past are tawdry attempts at refusing to learn the lessons of history so that it will be given the freedom to repeat its terrible mistakes.</p>
<p>Lee Harvey Oswald was the stepchild of the left&#8217;s destructive ideas. The same madness that led to Guyana and the bombing of the Pentagon had its day fifty years ago in Dallas.</p>
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		<title>The Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia, 45 Years Later</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The socialism that came in from the cold. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/czech.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-201377" alt="czech" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/czech.jpg" width="319" height="193" /></a>In August 1968, the Warsaw Pact tanks and half a million-strong military killed the Prague Spring. It was not simply the end of a daring political experiment, but also a gigantic defeat for the dreams of reconciling communism and democracy. Marxist revisionism, the utopian endeavor to rediscover the presumably forgotten thesaurus of left-wing radicalism, suffered a terrible blow.  In the words of a Polish dissident, &#8220;We then realized that there was no socialism with a human face, but only totalitarianism with broken teeth.&#8221;</p>
<p>Even Jean-Paul Sartre, the philosopher who in the 1950s had been silent (to put it mildly) about the Gulag, lambasted the invasion as &#8220;the socialism which came in from the cold.&#8221; It was the Leninist communism of barbed wire, fear, suspicion and lies. Stalin, as famous East European dissidents showed, was Lenin&#8217;s most faithful heir. He was also the most successful disciple. Post-Stalin Soviet leaders refused to allow for genuine democratization, remained faithful to the original one-party autocracy. A joke of those times captured this continuity: &#8220;What are Brezhnev eyebrows? Stalin&#8217;s mustache at a higher level.&#8221;</p>
<p>The leader of the Prague Spring was Alexander Dubcek, a Moscow-trained communist apparatchik with reformist propensities. Elected Communist Party leader in January 1968, he launched an ambitious renewal program. In a few months, many Stalinist institutions lost their power. Censorship was disbanded, intellectuals were excited, civil society returned. Warsaw Pact leaders, headed by the sclerotic Leonid Brezhnev, panicked. Romania&#8217;s Nicolae Ceausescu supported Dubcek not because of solidarity with the attempt to humanize socialism, but rather as a way to challenge Soviet imperialist claims.</p>
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<p>Adopted in April 1968, the &#8220;Action Program&#8221; of the Czechoslovak communists pledged to put an end to repressive policies and engage the party in a genuine dialogue with the citizens. One its main authors, Zdenek Mlynar, had studied law in Moscow in the early 1950s. He shared a dormitory room with a young Soviet student, an arduous Komsomol militant named Mikhail Gorbachev. They became close friends. Years later, Gorbachev would resume the Prague Spring agenda hoping against hope that democratic communism could somehow be accomplished.</p>
<p>In June, writer Ludvik Vaculik issued a document that entered history as &#8220;The Two Thousand Words&#8221; manifesto. The Soviets and their allies went ballistic. The Manifesto was an unmitigated, outspoken, unambiguous call for political pluralism. Millions supported it expecting a multi-party system to emerge soon. As events unfolded in breathtaking speed, the neo-Stalinists East European despots acted pre-emptively and crushed the Prague Spring. Dubcek and his comrades were arrested, transported to Moscow and forced to sign a humiliating capitulation. A few months later, Dubcek was expelled from the communist party. A new freeze followed under the name &#8220;normalization.&#8221; It was the normalcy of jails, denunciations, terror. In the words of poet Luis Aragon, another repentant ex-Stalinist, the country had become &#8220;a Biafra of the spirit.&#8221; Opposition activists were harassed, besmirched, jailed. They acted heroically in spite of the most unpropitious circumstances. Among them, critical intellectuals like Vaclav Havel who argued in favor of the power of the powerless.</p>
<p>Then in March 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in Moscow. In his belief that communism included such a humanistic dimension and his insistence that Stalin had been a vicious traitor to the original Marxist and Leninist messages, Gorbachev was part of a long tradition within the communist chapels. Students of Marxism refer to the attempt to turn such beliefs into policy as revisionism.</p>
<p>Of course, Gorbachev was not the first celebrated revisionist. Before him, attempts had been made by others to reconcile socialism with democracy and to jettison the repressive features of the system as distortions of an intrinsically healthy order. Consider Imre Nagy, Hungary&#8217;s premier during the 1956 revolution, executed in 1958, and then Alexander Dubcek. Both Nagy and Dubcek failed because Soviet intervention crushed their experiments and dashed hopes of renovating socialism from within. But when Gorbachev came to power in March 1985 and announced his program of renewal, there was no foreign force to threaten the great shaker in the Kremlin. The seeds of the negation of the old order were planted in the empire&#8217;s innermost sanctum.</p>
<p>What have been the main illusions of Nagy, Dubcek, Gorbachev and other revisionists? First, that the Communist Party, as the initiator of reforms, should preserve a central role during their implementation. Second, that there was a middle way between the conservation of Stalinist structures and their complete disbandment. Third, that a compromise of sorts could be reached with the exponents of the old regime. And fourth, that the population at large was ready to enthusiastically espouse the revisionist program and endorse the new leaders in the frantic search for modernization. The revisionists naively believed in their popular mandate.</p>
<p>But this logic was basically flawed. The system could not tolerate structural changes and secreted antibodies. In the case of the Soviet Union, instead of foreign intervention, Gorbachev was faced with the morose inertia of the bureaucratic colossus. His exhortations increasingly fell on deaf ears, as economic performance failed to improve. The work ethos was plagued by apathy and indifference.</p>
<p>Were Dubcek and Gorbachev true believers? In a sense yes, because only a true believer would have engaged in such destructive action while hoping that there was enough loyalty to the system among its subjects to keep the regime alive. The crushing of the Prague Spring was justified as defense of socialist internationalism. In fact, Marxist internationalism was nothing but hollow, ludicrous rhetoric, a facade for Soviet imperialism, ethical dereliction, civic paralysis, and bureaucratic domination. It symbolized the breakdown of Marxist revisionism. It demonstrated a truth that East Europeans had been long familiar with: There is no communism with a human face.</p>
<p><strong>Vladimir Tismaneanu is professor of politics at the University of Maryland (College Park) and author most recently of &#8220;<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0520239725/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0520239725&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=theweesta-20">The Devil in History: Communism, Fascism, and Some Lessons of the Twentieth Century</a>&#8221; (University of California Press, 2012).</strong></p>
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		<title>The Rosenberg Traitors: 60 Years Later</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jun 2013 04:40:09 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/rosen.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-193936" alt="rosen" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/rosen.jpg" width="263" height="239" /></a>All those who treasure America’s liberties should solemnly observe the 60th anniversary this week of the execution of Communist spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.</p>
<p>Given that the Soviet Union they spied for is no more, why are the Rosenbergs still important?</p>
<p>They continue to matter because they remain part of the Left&#8217;s anti-American mythology. The Left denied the treachery of its pseudo-martyrs for decades, arguing that they were condemned to death in a wave of anti-Communist hysteria. This lie permeates American culture even today &#8212; in movies, plays, and literature &#8212; decades after Ron Radosh&#8217;s painstaking research conclusively established the Rosenbergs&#8217; guilt.</p>
<p>Electrocuted at Sing Sing on June 19, 1953, the penalty they paid was more severe than the sentences handed down to other American traitors such as <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2278" target="_blank">Alger Hiss</a></span>, <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/history/famous-cases/robert-hanssen" target="_blank">Robert Hanssen</a></span>, and Aldrich Ames, who similarly jeopardized the nation by passing sensitive data to the Soviet Union during the Cold War. But the punishment meted out to the Rosenbergs was just because their actions led to the deaths of who knows how many Americans.</p>
<p>The Rosenberg spy ring gave the USSR sensitive information about U.S. air capabilities in the Korean War and the secrets of the A-bomb, allowing our totalitarian enemies to develop nuclear weapons years earlier than they otherwise would have. These spies helped to change the balance of power in the world and emboldened the irredentist Soviet Union as it became a superpower and went on the march enslaving tens of millions in Eastern Europe.</p>
<p>The Rosenberg saga, which cleared the way for the meteoric rise of Sen. Joseph McCarthy and his high-profile investigations into anti-American activities by U.S. citizens, unfolded during the so-called Red Scare of the 1950s, a relative nonevent that gave imaginative radicals something to whine about for years as they indulged their persecution complex.</p>
<p>&#8220;In the entire Cold War period less than two hundred leaders and functionaries of the [Communist] Party ever went to prison, in most cases serving less than two years,&#8221; David Horowitz writes in <i>Radical Son: A Generational Odyssey. </i>&#8220;This was not a small number or an insignificant price to pay for their political allegiances. But, considering the Party&#8217;s organizational ties to an enemy power armed with nuclear weapons poised to attack America, it was not a large one, either.&#8221;<i></i></p>
<p>Hollywood, long a hotbed of radicalism, came to the Party&#8217;s rescue, serving as a huge Soviet echo chamber. The dream factory helped the Communist cause by churning out product that falsely depicted anti-Communists as vicious opportunists conducting politically motivated witch hunts.</p>
<p>Because the Rosenbergs were unabashed Communists who didn&#8217;t hide their admiration of Stalin&#8217;s Soviet Union, the Left ran to their defense, using rationales that shifted over time as more and more damning evidence surfaced against the couple. When the Rosenbergs&#8217; guilt could no longer be disputed, their defenders pivoted, saying they had noble intentions and that the information passed on to the Soviets was junk.</p>
<p>These are all lies.</p>
<p>It is important to understand what the Rosenbergs actually did.</p>
<p>Specifically, the Rosenbergs were &#8220;motivated by loyalty to the Soviet Union, not opposition to fascism as their defenders claim,&#8221; Radosh <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/sobell-confession_554817.html?nopager=1" target="_blank">explains</a></span>. The Rosenberg spy ring &#8220;provided vast quantities of technical data to the Soviet Union that helped it achieve near parity with the United States in the skies over Korea and Vietnam.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;When the Cold War turned hot in Korea, this technology was used to kill American soldiers,&#8221; he writes. For example, the purloined information was &#8220;probably used in the design of the Russian high-tailed MiG fighter jet that was deployed in Korea against American airmen.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Rosenberg himself gave his Soviet handler Alexander Feklisov the proximity fuse, which was used to track Francis Gary Powers’ U-2 plane and to shoot it down during the Eisenhower administration,&#8221; Radosh <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=32430" target="_blank">writes</a></span>. The Rosenberg network &#8220;passed on the 12,000 page blueprints for the Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star, airborne radars for nighttime navigation and bombing,&#8221; and for innovations in radar technology.</p>
<p>Radosh quotes Steven Usdin from his 2005 book, <i>Engineering Communism</i>:<i><br />
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<blockquote><p>“Rosenberg’s band of amateur spies turned over detailed information on a wide range of technologies and weapon systems that hastened the Red Army’s march to Berlin, jump-started its postwar development of nuclear weapons and delivery systems, and later helped Communist troops in North Korea fight the American military to a standoff.”</p></blockquote>
<p>In sentencing the Rosenbergs, Judge Irving Kaufman <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/rosenb/ROS_SENT.HTM" target="_blank">was unsparing</a></span> in his criticism:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;I consider your crime worse than murder. Plain deliberate contemplated murder is dwarfed in magnitude by comparison with the crime you have committed. In committing the act of murder, the criminal kills only his victim. The immediate family is brought to grief and when justice is meted out the chapter is closed. But in your case, I believe your conduct in putting into the hands of the Russians the A-bomb years before our best scientists predicted Russia would perfect the bomb has already caused, in my opinion, the Communist aggression in Korea, with the resultant casualties exceeding 50,000 and who knows but that millions more of innocent people may pay the price of your treason. Indeed, by your betrayal you undoubtedly have altered the course of history to the disadvantage of our country.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Arguably the most insidious untruth that emerged over the years from the ever expanding crazy-quilt of rationalizations generated by Rosenberg apologists was that the U.S. government executed the couple for their political ideas. This falsehood has been regurgitated over and over and over again in popular culture, unchallenged by facts.</p>
<p>Leftists use the Rosenbergs&#8217; story to attack all mid-century efforts to counteract subversive activity. They deny that Americans were ever justified in worrying about Communist infiltration or that the U.S. government was justified in prosecuting Communist spies like the Rosenbergs. But the historical record has confirmed that, as John Haynes, Harvey Klehr and Alexander Vassiliev have documented in their book,  <a href="http://www.amazon.ca/Spies-Rise-Fall-KGB-America/dp/0300123906/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1245213343&amp;sr=1-1">Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America</a>, Soviet agents did in fact heavily penetrate the U.S. government, the Democratic Party, organs of culture such as Hollywood and Broadway, the news media, and the scientific research community.</p>
<p>Despite the facts, however, the Left continues to falsify history and to use its playbook to discredit its political enemies with slander and lies. But in terms of the Rosenbergs, and so many other traitors who helped to advance the Communist cause, the historical facts cannot be disputed. And despite the Left&#8217;s denial regarding these two traitors, one fact remains clear: Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were guilty &#8212; and they deserved what they got.</p>
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		<title>As Israelis Mourn, Jordanians Glorify a Terrorist</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The killer of more than half-a-dozen Israeli school girls may be released from prison for his "heroic" act. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/alan-m-dershowitz/as-israelis-mourn-jordanians-glorify-a-terrorist/attachment/4174056668/" rel="attachment wp-att-185917"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-185917" title="4174056668" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/4174056668-450x293.jpg" alt="" width="270" height="176" /></a>Israelis are now transitioning from their annual day of remembrance to the day they celebrate their independence.  But even in celebrating 65 years of statehood, Israel never forgets the sacrifices it has made over the course of its existence.</p>
<p>As Israelis mourn the 25,000 soldiers—young men and women—who have been killed in the course of defending the Jewish state against aggression and terrorism, Jordanian leaders (not including the King, at least thus far) are making a hero out of a Jordanian soldier who murdered 7 Israeli school girls and wounded 6 others during a peace program in 1997.  Ahmed Daqamseh, who expressed pride in his mass murder, was convicted of these crimes but spared the death penalty, despite the fact that Jordan executes large numbers of criminals for relatively trivial offenses.</p>
<p>Now after serving approximately 2 years for each of the murders, he is seeking his release and he has the support of a large majority of Jordanian parliamentarians, who regard him as a hero.  The very word “hero” was used by the Jordanian Justice Minister in joining the chorus calling for his release.</p>
<p>Daqamseh’s mother has said, “I am proud of my son and I hold my head high.  My son did a heroic deed and has pleased Allah and his own conscience.  My son lifts my head and the head of the entire Arab and Islamic nation.  I am proud of any Muslim who does what Ahmed did.”</p>
<p>Daqamseh himself has said, “I have no regrets.”  He continued, “The only thing I am angry about is the gun, which did not work properly.  Otherwise, I would have killed all of the [children].”  He also said he would do it again if given the opportunity.</p>
<p>The 13 school girls who were shot by the Jordanian soldier were on a peace mission at a place ironically called The Island of Peace.  It is the man who shot these 13 school girls, wishes he had killed more, and promises to do it again, who is being called a hero by Jordanian public officials.  The silence of King Abdullah speaks loudly about the widespread popular support that exists for this mass murderer of Jewish children.</p>
<p>In justifying his support for Daqamseh’s release, the Justice Minister said, “If a Jew murdered Arabs, [the Israelis] build him a statue.”  In fact precisely the opposite is true.  When a Jewish extremists (not a soldier) murdered Arabs at prayer, the Israeli government not only did not build him a statue, it forbade any statue from being built by private sources and has demonized the killer (who was himself killed), as a mass murderer deserving of no lionization.</p>
<p>Another indication of the widespread support is that 110 out of the 120 members of the lower house of Jordan’s parliament have called him a hero and demanded his release.  They are seeking “freedom for the soldier hero” and saying “we are all Ahmed Daqamseh.”  Leading this despicable effort to free a mass murderer is Ali Sneid, a man who claims to be of the left.</p>
<p>The effort to release Daqamseh has taken on elements of Islamic anti-Semitism by calling the continued imprisonment of this murderer “protection for the herds of the brothers of apes and pigs” and calling the victims of this mass murder by other anti-Semitic terms.</p>
<p>Nor is this hatred of Jews and the Jewish state by Jordanians limited to this particular case, despicable as that would be.  Among grass root Jordanians, particularly those of Palestinian background, there is widespread hatred of all things Jewish, Israeli and even American.  Islamic extremism is rampant in parts of Jordan, though suppressed by its King and his dictatorial minions.  Jordan is ripe for yet another Arab Spring turned winter.  All that stands between the current monarchy and an Islamic upheaval is massive American financial and military support for its charming King.  King Abdullah presents a far more beneficent face of despotism than did any of the other Arab despots who were toppled, or in the process of being toppled, by the Arab Spring turned Islamic extremist winter.  How long this situation will last is anyone’s guess.  But the possibility that before long Israel may have a neighbor to the east who is not as peaceful as the current Jordanian government, must be seriously considered.</p>
<p>If Daqamseh is released and treated as a hero, that unconscionable decision will tell us much about the direction of the Jordanian street.  So next time you see the smiling face of King Abdullah on television speaking about peace, remember that many of his subjects regard the cold-blooded mass murderer of Jewish children as an Islamic hero.</p>
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		<title>Beyonce and Jay-Z&#8217;s Cuban Odyssey</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 04:44:39 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/ben-shapiro/beyonce-and-jay-zs-cuban-odyssey/beyonce-jay-z-cuba/" rel="attachment wp-att-185415"><img class=" wp-image-185415 alignleft" title="beyonce-jay-z-cuba" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/beyonce-jay-z-cuba-450x333.jpg" alt="" width="270" height="200" /></a>This week, two of Barack Obama’s favorite celebrities, Jay-Z and Beyonce, headed to Cuba to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary. The two music superstars toured the Communist paradise, heading to romantic Old Havana (they didn’t visit any political prisons), dined at La Guarida (they didn’t redistribute their dinner tips), posing with local schoolkids (who will grow up under political repression), and stopping by a Cuban cigar shop to pick up some gifts for Bill Clinton. Ok, this  last activity is the only one they didn’t do.</p>
<p>They shouldn’t have been in Cuba, either morally or legally.  Under American policy, an embargo covers travel to Cuba, requiring special government permission for journalistic, academic, or humanitarian missions. Simple tourism isn’t on the list. The idea behind the embargo is simple: Americans spending their tourism dollars in Cuba upholds an oppressive regime that continues to impoverish its own people.</p>
<p>But somehow Beyonce and Jay-Z got on the list. As it turns out, the US Treasury Department gave them permission for the “cultural trip.”</p>
<p>No surprise there – Hollywoodites routinely get permission to visit Cuba, even when the rest of us can’t. In 1998, Jack Nicholson headed to Cuba to befriend Castro, and the Joker came away impressed: “He is a genius. We spoke about everything.”</p>
<p>Back in 2001, head of CBS Les Moonves and several of his Hollywood friends headed over to Cuba, where they dined with Fidel Castro and hung out in the sun before heading to jazz clubs in the evening. While the federal government sent them letters about violating the travel ban, nothing was done about it. That same year, Kevin Costner headed over to Cuba to show Castro <em>13 Days</em>, his film about the Cuban Missile Crisis. Costner promptly called it “an experience of a lifetime.”</p>
<p>In 2002, director Steven Spielberg headed to Cuba, where he dined with Castro. That trip was okayed by the US government for cultural purposes. “It was an opportunity to share his films and his values with the Cuban people,” said Spielberg’s office. Spielberg himself called the meeting “the eight most important hours of my life.”</p>
<p>That same year, Oliver Stone went to Cuba, and then did a 90-minute propaganda documentary on Castro, <em>Comandante</em>. Castro, said Stone, was “very selfless and moral – one of the world’s wisest men.”</p>
<p>It’s significantly more difficult for non-celebs to get to Cuba. That’s because non-royal Americans have to have an actual excuse to head over to the Communist island to bestow our wealth on that unfortunate population. Hollywoodites get special treatment because they are from Hollywood. It doesn’t matter whether it’s Clinton, Bush, or Obama – they are treated with kid gloves because they have the power of the camera behind them.</p>
<p>The problem with that power is that the very folks who wield it do so on behalf of dictators like Castro. It would be too easy to blame Jay-Z and Beyonce’s sunlit trip on their close relationship with President Obama. The truth is deeper: Washington D.C. insiders of both parties are afraid of offending Hollywood bigwigs. That means perks for Tinseltown stars. But more importantly, it means perks for the Communist leadership of Cuba that plays those stars like fish.</p>
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		<title>Beyonce and Jay-Z Bankroll Castro&#8217;s Racist Tyranny</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Humberto Fontova]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/humberto-fontova/beyonce-and-jay-z-bankroll-castros-racist-tyranny/cuba-people-beyonce/" rel="attachment wp-att-184713"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-184713" title="Cuba People Beyonce" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/beyonce_jayz_cuba_ap_605-450x296.jpg" alt="" width="270" height="178" /></a>Beyonce and Jay-Z celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary in Havana last week as official guests of a regime busily beating and arresting black civil rights activists known as the <a href="http://www.capitolhillcubans.com/2013/04/must-watch-what-beyonce-and-kathy.html">“Rosa Parks Civil Rights Movement.”</a></p>
<p>Indeed the Stalinist/Apartheid regime hosting the superstar couple murdered more political prisoners per capita in its first three years in power than Hitler&#8217;s murdered in its first six. It jailed political prisoners at a higher rate than Stalin’s during the Great Terror. Among these victims were (are) the longest-suffering black political prisoners in modern history of the human race.</p>
<p>In fact, the superstar black couple’s visit coincided with a wave of racist repression by Cuba’s lily-white rulers. Cuba’s black human-rights activists are being beaten, arrested and tortured at a rate that sets a <a href="http://www.capitolhillcubans.com/2013/03/10-years-after-black-spring-repression.html">ten-year record</a> for racist torture and terror in the Castro family fiefdom, which is really saying something.</p>
<p>Heartbreakingly, as mentioned above, many of these Cuban human-rights activists admire the U.S. civil rights movement, unaware that the current standard-bearers of this movement—far from championing their cause—actually champion their torturers:</p>
<p>“Viva FIDEL!—VIVA CHE!” yelled Jesse Jackson while arm-in-arm with Fidel Castro at the University of Havana in 1984.</p>
<p>&#8220;He [Raul Castro] is one of the most amazing human beings I&#8217;ve ever met!&#8221; gushed chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus Emanuel Cleaver upon visiting the Castro family fiefdom three years ago. And on and on.</p>
<p>As Beyonce and Jay-Z lived it up around Havana, every penny they spent lands in the pocket of the regime currently beating and arresting Cuban blacks peacefully protesting under the banner of the civil rights leaders the U.S. superstars claim to venerate. Cuban dissident Sonia Garro has spent the past two <a href="http://www.capitolhillcubans.com/2013/03/wsj-on-sonia-garro-two-easters-in.html">Easters in Castro’s dungeons</a> without even being charged. She was beaten, arrested&#8211; and beaten again&#8211; for the crime of carrying flowers in a peaceful religious demonstration honoring other peaceful Cuban blacks murdered by Castroite firing squads.</p>
<p>Not far from the Havana vacation haunts of Beyonce and her <a href="http://babalublog.com/2013/04/04/beyonce-and-jay-z-celebrate-5th-wedding-anniv-in-havana-but-u-s-tourism-to-cuba-is-illegal-keep-repeating-it/">(Che-Guevara worshipping)</a> husband Jay-Z, black political prisoners languish in KGB-designed dungeons for such crimes as publicly quoting the works of Martin Luther King Jr. and the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights. Among these prisoners is Dr. Elias Biscet, an Amnesty International prisoner of conscience who was awarded (obviously in absentia) the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Bush in 2008.</p>
<p>“The negro,” sneered Jay-Z’s t-shirt idol Che Guevara, “is indolent and lazy, and spends his money on frivolities, whereas the European is forward-looking, organized <a href="http://www.hfontova.com/che.html">and intelligent.”</a></p>
<p>Many Cuban blacks suffered longer incarceration in Castro and Che’s dungeons and torture chambers than Nelson Mandela suffered in South Africa&#8217;s. In fact, Castro’s victims qualify as the longest-suffering political prisoners in modern history. Eusebio Penalver, Ignacio Cuesta Valle, Antonio Lopez Munoz, Ricardo Valdes Cancio, and many other Cuban blacks suffered almost thirty years in Castro&#8217;s prisons. These men were bloodied in their fight against Beyonce’s hosts but remained unbowed for almost thirty years in their dungeons and torture chambers.</p>
<p>But have you ever heard any of their names mentioned by the U.S. media?  Eusebio Penalver became a U.S. citizen and lived in Miami for almost 20 years. He would have been a cinch for the media to track down. Ever see a CNN interview with any of them? Ever see any of them on &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221;? Ever read about them in The New York Times?  The Boston Globe? Ever hear about them on NPR during Black History Month? Ever seen anything on them on the History Channel or A&amp;E? Ever hear the NAACP or Congressional Black Caucus mention them?</p>
<p>Why do I bother asking? They were (are) victims of the Left&#8217;s premier pin-up boys.</p>
<p>Almost exactly three years ago the Castroites murdered black human rights activist Orlando Zapata-Tamayo. This black Cuban had endured an 83-day hunger strike seeking (vainly, as usual) to alert the world to the Castro regime&#8217;s cowardly Stalinism and racism. Finally, a series of savage beatings by his Communist jailers finished him off. Naturally, the U.S. media was no more revelatory of his death than they&#8217;d been of his jailing or hunger strike.</p>
<p>Samizdats, smuggled out of Cuba by eye-witnesses, report that while gleefully kicking and bludgeoning Tamayo, his Castroite jailers yelled, &#8220;Worthless ni**er!&#8221; Dirty worthless ni**r!</p>
<p>Just last month black activist Roberto Rivalta Junco <a href="http://babalublog.com/2013/04/04/cuba-the-heartbreaking-denouncement-by-the-mother-of-murdered-prisoner-roberto-antonio-rivalta-junco/">died from maltreatment</a> in Castro’s dungeons. Did the media inform you of any of this racist repression on our very borders? And yet Cuba hosts media bureaus from CNN to ABC and from the AP to NBC. Sure seems that these media outlets reported exhaustively on racist repression when it took place 8 thousand miles away (Apartheid South Africa).</p>
<p>Today, the prison population in Stalinist/Apartheid Cuba is about 80% black, while only 9% of the ruling Stalinist party is black. Many of a certain age well remember many of Beyonce’s musician predecessors mounting a campaign called &#8220;Artists United Against Apartheid,&#8221; aimed at boycotting South Africa, reviling any musicians who played there, and showcasing the human rights abuses suffered by South African blacks.</p>
<p>Should we hold our breath for the same bunch to organize &#8220;Artists United Against Castro-Stalinism&#8221;?</p>
<p>As I write Cuba’s racist/Stalinist rulers are enjoying a record windfall of almost $3 <em>billion </em>from tourism. This gravy-train arrives courtesy of a deluge of tourists <em>ten times</em> the number as visited Cuba during the 1950s when she was a “tourist playground.” Sure, you remember. After all, you probably saw it in liberals’ top educational source on Cuba: The Godfather II.</p>
<p>Result of this tourist windfall? A fat, rich and happy Stalinist regime; accompanied by a twenty-year high in repression against the Cuban people. Castro’s military, you see, mostly owns Cuba’s tourist industry in majority partnership with some European robber-barons. Did the media inform you that many of Cuban hotels currently crammed to suffocation with tourists were stolen at Soviet gunpoint form Cuban and American owners and stockholders in 1960? And that they’re being run by European and Castroite millionaires who laugh in the face of the fleeced and rightful owners? Didn’t think so.</p>
<p>Did the media inform you that this armed robbery (totaling $7 billion in current dollars) followed by fifty years of snickering and flinger-flipping by the thieves at the legal owners features in the U.S. sanctions known as the Cuba “embargo?” Didn’t think so.</p>
<p>Every shred of observable evidence proves that travel to Cuba enriches and entrenches the KGB-trained and heavily-armed owners of Cuba’s tourism industry, and thus the most highly motivated guardians of Cuba’s Stalinist status-quo.</p>
<p>Oh, I know. I know in all the libertarian, liberal and think-tank computer models regarding ending the Cuba “embargo” it plays out differently. But observable facts are truly a b*tch, especially for academic eggheads and think-tank dogmatists.</p>
<p>Canadians make up a big plurality of the tourist partners (some of it for child-sex tourism) in Castroite repression. So Canada’s SunNews recently prompted a Frontpage columnist <a href="http://babalublog.com/2013/03/19/raving-hard-line-maniac-insults-canadians-and-canadian-gov-while-on-a-top-rated-canadian-tv-network/">to lower the boom on them.</a></p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 04:28:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the 10th anniversary of her death, the Left continues to whitewash a hateful anti-Israel radical. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/ari-lieberman/the-rachel-corrie-the-new-york-times-doesnt-want-you-to-see/corrie01/" rel="attachment wp-att-182259"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-182259" title="corrie01" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/corrie01.jpg" alt="" width="221" height="170" /></a>March 16, 2013 marked the 10-year anniversary of the death of Rachel Corrie, the radical anti-American, anti-Israeli provocateur who was accidentally killed while interfering with an Israeli anti-terror operation in the Gaza Strip. Corrie, a former member of the extremist International Solidarity Movement, is considered by those wishing to vilify the Jewish State as a hero and her name has become a rallying cry for Islamo-fascists and their radical leftist supporters the world over.</p>
<p>We have come to expect dishonesty from groups like the ISM. They claim to engage in non-violent protest but their members have more than once been caught aiding and abetting terror. Some have been <a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2006/09/14/peace-activists-with-ak-47s/">pictured</a> holding AK-47 assault rifles while gleefully smiling for the cameras while others have attempted to <a href="http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Government/Communiques/2003/Senior+Islamic+Jihad+terrorist+arrested+while+hidi">facilitate the escape</a> of known terrorists. As a result, most people who cross paths with the ISM quickly recognize that they are a radical, marginal group, not dissimilar from radical European anarchists, who espouse views that are an anathema to those who cherish democratic principles. They are thus rightfully dismissed as a misguided, lunatic fringe and while their activities may be annoying and cause headaches for the authorities, they are no more harmful than a pesky mosquito on a hot summer’s night.</p>
<p>The problem, however, becomes more acute when a so-called mainstream paper takes up the ISM cause by deliberate use or misuse of misleading photos that attempt to portray the ISM in a positive light. The New York Times has time and again demonstrated a pernicious bias against the State of Israel. As recently as March 16, it featured an article by the infamous Jodi Rudoren in which she referred to housing for Jews in their own capital as “settlements” that “complicate” the prospects for peace. It comes as no surprise, therefore, that the New York Times, when covering news items relating to Rachel Corrie, repetitively feature the same photo depicting her as an angelic figure in Western style dress, a piercing gaze with flowing blond hair and a pair of sunglasses resting fashionably on her head.</p>
<p>The message that the Times is attempting to convey is patently obvious – that Corrie was not a radical extremist but rather your everyday all-American. The truth is quite the opposite, however. Corrie was in fact rabidly anti-American and it goes with out saying, an insidious opponent of the Jewish state. I performed a Google image search of Rachel Corrie and quite easily found <a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-GowSikBS-vo/TZds8zRUV5I/AAAAAAAAAEo/9FxL3efuWUY/s1600/211869.504rachel_corrie2_orig.jpg">images</a> of her in the midst of an Islamist demonstration, dressed in conservative Islamist clothing, shrouded in black. She is seen screaming, frothing at the mouth while shredding and burning an American flag. It is a violent, brutish display performed in full view of young, impressionable children and in effect, represents a malevolent form of child abuse, one that facilitates the formation of odious views in those most susceptible. In addition, her contorted, near animal-like face,  portrays a disturbing image of a women consumed with hate – hate of America, hate of the West, hate of Israel and hate of Jews.</p>
<p>Of course, this is not the image that the New York Times wishes to convey. The Times prefers to steer its readers to a different narrative, one that seeks to glorify those who wish to see the destruction and dismantling of Israel. The Times’ selective and nefarious misuse of photos and its consistent biased reporting in the finest traditions of yellow journalism demonstrate in no uncertain terms why this paper has rendered itself completely irrelevant and no more than a mere mouthpiece for assorted radicals and rejectionist Palestinian groups.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a decade, removing Saddam Hussein's terror regime was still the right thing to do. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/alan-w-dowd/iraq-ten-years-later/iraq-1109-13-2/" rel="attachment wp-att-180970"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-180970" title="iraq-1109-13" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/iraq-1109-131-450x323.jpg" alt="" width="252" height="181" /></a>As we arrive at the tenth anniversary of Operation Iraqi Freedom, several things are apparent today that were not so clear a decade ago—and a few things are actually less clear today than they were back then.</p>
<p>Among the things that have come into focus:</p>
<p><em>Iraq was broken long before March 19, 2003.</em></p>
<p>Those who say the U.S. “broke Iraq” and pushed it into failed-state status by intervening in 2003 fail to recognize that Iraq was a failed state long before Operation Iraqi Freedom. As the Hoover Institution’s Fouad Ajami has observed, when the coalition entered Iraq, they found “a country wrecked and poisoned.” Gen. Ray Odierno adds, “What I underestimated when I got there was the societal devastation that was occurring in Iraq—the fact that education really had stopped for about 20 years, the fact that investment had stopped, the fact that people were being brutalized.” In short, Iraq was not broken because outside powers intervened. Rather, outside powers intervened because Iraq was broken.</p>
<p><em>Iraq really was part of a wider war on terror.</em></p>
<p>With tentacles stretching out to the 1993 World Trade Center bombers, Abu Nidal and Palestinian suicide bombers, Saddam Hussein’s Iraq was part of a constellation of nation-states, transnational groups and individuals that view terrorism as a normalized, legitimate tool for achieving political ends. Moreover, although Saddam Hussein’s Iraq was not connected to al Qaeda’s 9/11 attacks, Saddam Hussein’s Iraq was connected to Abu Musab Zarqawi, the al Qaeda lieutenant who ignited Iraq’s postwar civil war. As Tony Blair revealed in his memoir, Zarqawi traveled to Iraq in May 2002, met “senior Iraqis” and established a presence in Iraq six months before the U.S.-led invasion.</p>
<p>What Saddam Hussein failed to grasp in such risky dealings was that 9/11 had changed the very DNA of U.S. national-security policy. “Any administration in such a crisis,” as historian John Lewis Gaddis concludes, “would have had to rethink what it thought it knew about security.” Was deterrence possible? Was containment viable? Was giving Baghdad the benefit of the doubt responsible? The Bush administration’s answer to each question was “no,” which led to war.</p>
<p>Finally, as historian Paul Johnson observed, by overthrowing the terror regime of Saddam Hussein, “America obliged the leaders of international terrorism to concentrate all their efforts on preventing democracy from emerging in Iraq.” Fighters from al Qaeda’s ranks were drawn to Iraq like moths to light. Indeed, Iraq would prove to be a key battlefield in the wider war. By all accounts—including al Qaeda’s—the U.S. surge dealt bin Laden’s terror enterprise a significant strategic defeat in Iraq.</p>
<p><em>Operation Iraqi Freedom lived up to its name.</em></p>
<p>The war liberated 24 million Iraqis. Iraq is anything but perfect today, but its people are free—free from tyranny, free from being required to pledge their “souls and blood…for Saddam,” free from the vast torture chamber Saddam turned Iraq into, free from his omnipresent terrors. As Odierno recently <a href="http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/events/2013/2/15%20odierno/20130215_odierno_army_transcript.pdf">reflected</a>, “It’s hard to describe to somebody what an awful dictator Saddam Hussein was unless you were there in Iraq.” Iraqis held their first post-Saddam election in 2005, when 75 percent of eligible voters walked, marched, limped and ran to the polls to prove they belong in the democratic family.</p>
<p><em>The world is better—and America more secure—without Saddam Hussein.</em></p>
<p>“If nothing else, Iraq is not a destabilizing factor,” Odierno observes. It pays to recall that during Saddam’s reign, which began in 1979, Iraq made war against virtually all of its neighbors: Iran, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Israel. Saddam used <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/18/world/officers-say-us-aided-iraq-in-war-despite-use-of-gas.html?pagewanted=all&amp;src=pm">chemical weapons</a> against his own people and against Iran. Long before Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, he was racing to join the nuclear club. After Desert Storm, the U.S. tried to contain Saddam by enforcing no-fly zones—at an annual cost $13 billion—and by garrisoning troops in Saudi Arabia. The presence of foreign troops in the Muslim holy land incensed Osama bin Laden, who set about the task of expelling the Americans from the “land of the two holy places.” Thus was born a fringe terror group known as al Qaeda, which launched a global guerilla war against America, which triggered America’s global war on terror, which led, inevitably, back to Iraq.</p>
<p>It was inevitable because Saddam Hussein’s associations, behavior and record with weapons of mass destruction fueled a presumption of guilt that, when mixed with America’s profound sense of vulnerability after 9/11, created a deadly combination. This is perhaps the most fundamental way 9/11 is linked to Saddam Hussein’s Iraq: The latter did not perpetrate the former, but the former taught Washington a lesson about the danger of failing to confront threats before they are fully formed. In the same way, the appeasement of Hitler at once had nothing and yet everything to do with how America waged the Cold War against Moscow.</p>
<p><em>President Bush did make mistakes.</em></p>
<p>All wartime presidents make mistakes. The major mistake President Bush made was not in going to war, but in how he went to war. By not going heavy into Iraq and by disbanding the Iraqi military, a postwar insurgency became inevitable. The Bush administration’s rationale that a lighter footprint would be better suited to a limited war focused on regime change may have made sense on paper. But a force built to move fast across the desert proved insufficient for occupation and rehabilitation of Iraq’s poisoned politics. The result: a costly postwar war.</p>
<p>That brings us to the things that remain hazy, even a decade after the beginning of the Iraq War:</p>
<p><em>Was it worth it?</em></p>
<p>Like a Rorschach inkblot, to some Americans, the Iraq War looks like a necessary but costly effort to protect U.S. interests—and to others, like a fiasco. The war’s critics cannot overlook the costs: 4,500 Americans killed and $880 billion spent. The defenders of the war counter that the success or failure of America’s wars is not determined by <a href="http://www.legion.org/landingzone/7066/casualties-count">casualty counts</a>.</p>
<p>Interestingly, a decade after the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom, America’s opinion of the controversial war is starting to coalesce around a surprising consensus: Today, 55 percent say the war was “very successful” or “somewhat successful,” up from 43 percent in 2008, according to an NBC News/<em>Wall Street Journal</em> poll.</p>
<p><em>What about those WMDs?</em></p>
<p>President Bush’s decision to launch a preventive war in Iraq was primarily based on worries that Baghdad would use or lose its WMDs. But the invasion revealed only the skeleton of a WMD program.</p>
<p>Some observers—including President Obama’s director of national intelligence, <a href="http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2003-10-29/news/0310290219_1_illicit-weapons-clapper-weapons-inspector">James Clapper</a>—contend that Saddam spirited his WMDs off to Syria for safe keeping. Clapper was head of the National Imagery and Mapping <a href="http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2003-10-29/news/0310290219_1_illicit-weapons-clapper-weapons-inspector">Agency</a> during the Iraq War and concluded that Saddam had “unquestionably” moved his WMDs into Syria, using converted civilian airliners and truck convoys to haul the contraband out of Iraq in late 2002 and early 2003. Those assessments are being <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/07/19/syria-s-next-act.html">revisited today</a> in the <a href="http://rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/24/the-unresolved-mystery-of-syrias-iraqi-chemical-weapons/">mainstream press</a> and in <a href="http://blog.usni.org/2012/07/20/iraq-chemical-weapons-moved-to-syria-before-2003-invasion">military circles</a>, as Syria implodes and the world wonders if Bashar Assad will turn his WMD arsenal on his own people. If /when Assad falls or flees, lots of people will be scouring Syria’s WMD stocks for Iraqi markings.</p>
<p>The irony is that President Obama, intent on avoiding another Iraq, has stayed out of Syria, which has increased the likelihood that Damascus might use or lose its WMDs.</p>
<p><em>What lies ahead?</em></p>
<p>As Frederick Kagan, one of the architects of the surge, <a href="http://www.criticalthreats.org/other/kagan-president-generals-afghanistan-december-12-2011">explained</a> in late 2011, President Obama’s own military officials wanted to keep more than 20,000 U.S. troops in Iraq. But President Obama undercut the delicate negotiations with Baghdad and proposed a force so small that it would be unable even to protect itself. When Baghdad balked, as Kagan reported, the White House “decided instead to withdraw all U.S. troops from Iraq…despite the fact that no military commander supported the notion that such a course of action could secure U.S. interests.” The result: Washington has no leverage with Baghdad; Iraq is scarred by renewed <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/28/us-iraq-violence-idUSBRE8AQ0ZL20121128">sectarian war</a>; Iran is moving arms and fighters into Syria <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/19/us-syria-crisis-iran-iraq-idUSBRE88I17B20120919">via Iraq</a>; and al Qaeda is making a comeback in Iraq.</p>
<p>Just as President Bush’s decision to invade Iraq opened the door to uncounted unknowns, so did President Obama’s decision to withdraw from Iraq.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Che_Guevara.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-147418" title="Che_Guevara" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Che_Guevara.gif" alt="" width="375" height="277" /></a>Forty-five years ago this week, Ernesto &#8220;Che&#8221; Guevara got a major dose of his own medicine. Without trial he was declared a murderer, stood against a wall and shot. If the saying &#8220;What goes around comes around&#8221; ever fit, it&#8217;s here.</p>
<p>&#8220;When you saw the beaming look on Che&#8217;s face as his victims were tied to the stake and blasted apart by the firing squad,&#8221; said a former Cuban political prisoner to this writer, &#8220;you saw there was something seriously,<em> seriously </em>wrong with Che Guevara.&#8221;</p>
<p>As commander of the <em>La Cabana</em> execution yard, Che often shattered the skull of the condemned man (or boy) by firing the coup de grâce himself. When other duties tore him away from his beloved execution yard, he consoled himself by viewing the slaughter. Che&#8217;s second-story office in La Cabana had a section of wall torn out so he could watch <a href="http://www.hfontova.com/che.html">his darling firing-squads at work.</a></p>
<p>A Rumanian journalist named Stefan Bacie visited Cuba in early 1959 and was fortunate enough to get an audience with the already quasi-famous &#8220;Che&#8221; Guevara. Upon entering Castro&#8217;s chief executioner&#8217;s office, Bacie noticed Che motioning him over to the office&#8217;s newly constructed window. Bacie got there just in time to hear the command of <em>FUEGO!</em> hear the blast from the firing squad and see a condemned prisoner crumple and convulse.</p>
<p>The stricken journalist immediately left and composed a poem titled &#8220;I No Longer Sing of Che.&#8221; (&#8220;I no longer sing of Che any more than I would of Stalin,&#8221; go the first lines.)</p>
<p>Even as a youth, Ernesto Guevara&#8217;s writings revealed a serious mental illness. &#8220;My nostrils dilate while savoring the acrid odor of gunpowder and blood. Crazy with fury I will stain my rifle red while slaughtering any <em>vencido</em> that falls in my hands! With the deaths of my enemies I prepare my being for the sacred fight and join the triumphant proletariat with a bestial howl!&#8221; This passage is from Ernesto Guevara&#8217;s famous Motorcycle Diaries, though Robert Redford somehow overlooked it while producing his heart-warming movie.</p>
<p>The Spanish word <em>vencido</em>, by the way, translates into &#8220;defeated&#8221; or &#8220;surrendered.&#8221; And indeed, the &#8220;acrid odor of gunpowder and blood&#8221; very, very rarely reached Guevara&#8217;s nostrils from anything properly describable as combat. It mostly came from the close-range murders of unarmed and defenseless men (and boys). Carlos Machado was 15 years old in 1963 when the bullets from the firing squad shattered his body. His twin brother and father collapsed beside Carlos from the same volley. All had resisted Castro and Che&#8217;s theft of their humble family farm, all refused blindfolds and all died sneering at their Communist murderers, as did thousands of their valiant countrymen. &#8220;&#8216;<em>Viva Cuba Libre! Viva Cristo Rey! Abajo Comunismo!&#8217; </em>The defiant yells would make the walls of La Cabana prison tremble,&#8221; wrote eyewitness to the slaughter, Armando Valladares.</p>
<p>The one genuine accomplishment in Che Guevara&#8217;s life was the mass-murder of <em>defenseless </em>men and boys. Under his own gun dozens died. Under his orders thousands crumpled. At everything else Che Guevara failed abysmally, even comically.</p>
<p>During his Bolivian &#8220;guerrilla&#8221; campaign, Che split his forces whereupon they got hopelessly lost and bumbled around, half-starved, half-clothed and half-shod, without any contact with each other for 6 months before being wiped out. They didn&#8217;t even have WWII vintage walkie-talkies to communicate and seemed incapable of applying a compass reading to a map. They spent much of the time walking in circles and were usually within a mile of each other. During this blundering they often engaged in ferocious firefights <em>against each other.</em></p>
<p>&#8220;You hate to laugh at anything associated with Che, who murdered so many,&#8221; says Felix Rodriguez, the Cuban-American CIA officer who played a key role in tracking him down in Bolivia. &#8220;But when it comes to Che as &#8216;guerrilla&#8217; you simply can&#8217;t help but guffaw.&#8221;</p>
<p>So for many, the questions remains: how did such an incurable doofus, sadist and epic idiot attain such iconic status?</p>
<p>The answer is that this psychotic and thoroughly unimposing vagrant named Ernesto Guevara de la Serna y Lynch had the magnificent fortune of linking up with modern history&#8217;s top press agent, Fidel Castro, who &#8212; from the New York Times&#8217; Herbert Matthews in 1957, through CBS&#8217;s Ed Murrow in 1959 to CBS&#8217;s Dan Rather, to ABC&#8217;s Barbara Walters, to NBC&#8217;s Andrea Mitchell more recently &#8212; always had the mainstream media anxiously scurrying to his every beck and call and eating out of his hand like trained pigeons.</p>
<p>Had Ernesto Guevara not linked up with Raul and Fidel Castro in Mexico city that fateful summer of 1955 &#8212; had he not linked up with a Cuban exile named Nico Lopez in Guatemala the year before who later introduced him to Raul and Fidel Castro in Mexico City &#8212; everything points to Ernesto continuing his life of a traveling hobo, panhandling, mooching off women, staying in flophouses and scribbling unreadable poetry.</p>
<p>Che&#8217;s image is particularly ubiquitous on college campuses. But in the wrong places. He belongs in the marketing, PR and advertising departments. His lessons and history are fascinating and valuable, but only in light of P.T. Barnum. One born every minute, Mr. Barnum? If only you&#8217;d lived to see the Che phenomenon. Actually, <em>ten </em>are born every second.</p>
<p>His pathetic whimpering while dropping his fully-loaded weapons as two Bolivian soldiers approached him on Oct. 8 1967 (&#8220;Don&#8217;t shoot! I&#8217;m Che! I&#8217;m worth more to you alive than dead!&#8221;) proves that this cowardly, murdering swine was unfit to carry his victims&#8217; slop buckets.</p>
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