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		<title>Being Safe While Isolated</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caroline Glick]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An attempted murder in Jerusalem underscores the danger of Obama's subversion against Israel. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/BN-FH124_1029GL_P_20141029214811.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-244176" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/BN-FH124_1029GL_P_20141029214811-450x299.jpg" alt="BN-FH124_1029GL_P_20141029214811" width="327" height="217" /></a>Originally published by the <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Column-One-Being-safe-while-isolated-380359">Jerusalem Post</a>. </em></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Yehudah Glick has spent the better part of the last 20 years championing the right of Jews to pray on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem – Judaism’s holiest site. On Wednesday night, the Palestinians sent a hit man to Jerusalem to kill him.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">And today Glick lays in a coma at Shaare Zedek Medical Center.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Two people bear direct responsibility for this terrorist attack: the gunman, and Palestinian Authority President and PLO chief Mahmoud Abbas. The gunman shot Glick, and Abbas told him to shoot Glick.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Abbas routinely glorifies terrorist murder of Jews, and funds terrorism with the PA’s US- and European-funded budget.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">But it isn’t often that he directly incites the murder of Jews.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Two weeks ago, Abbas did just that. Speaking to Fatah members, he referred to Jews who wish to pray at Judaism’s holiest site as “settlers.” He then told his audience that they must remain on the Temple Mount at all times to block Jews from entering.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">“We must prevent them from entering [the Temple Mount] in any way&#8230;. They have no right to enter and desecrate [it]. We must confront them and defend our holy sites,” he said.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As Palestinian Media Watch reported Thursday, in the three days leading up to the assassination attempt on Glick, the PA’s television station broadcast Abbas’s call for attacks on Jews who seek to enter the Temple Mount 19 times.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">While Abbas himself is responsible for the hit on Glick, he has had one major enabler – the Obama administration. Since Abbas first issued the order for Palestinians to attack Jews, there have been two terrorist attacks in Jerusalem. Both have claimed American citizens among their victims. Yet the Obama administration has refused to condemn Abbas’s call to murder Jews either before it led to the first terrorist attack or since Glick was shot Wednesday night.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Not only have the White House and the State Department refused to condemn Abbas for soliciting the murder of Jews. They have praised him and attacked Israel and its elected leader. In other words, they are not merely doing nothing, they are actively rewarding Abbas’s aggression, and so abetting it.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Since Abbas called for Palestinians to kill Jews, the White House and State Department have accused Israel of diminishing the prospect of peace by refusing to make massive concessions to Abbas. The concessions the Americans are demanding include accepting the ethnic cleansing of all Jews from land they foresee becoming part of a future Palestinian state; denying Jews the rights to their lawfully held properties in predominantly Arab neighborhoods; and abrogating urban planning procedures in Jewish neighborhoods in Jerusalem built within the areas of the city that Israel took control over from Jordan in 1967.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The US claims that it has great influence over the Palestinians. If this is true, then as Fatah’s official celebrations of Glick’s attempted murder make clear, that influence is being intentionally exercised in a negative way. The Americans are encouraging the Palestinians to be more violent, more radical and more extreme in their demands of Israel and propagation of Jew-hatred.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The Obama administration is abetting Palestinian terrorism today. And it is doing so after it spent last summer siding with Hamas and its state sponsors Qatar and Turkey in its illegal war against Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Moreover, it is important to note that the most outrageous statements the administration has made to date against Israel came after the first terrorist attack in Jerusalem directly inspired by Abbas’s call to murder Jews.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The most outrageous statements the administration has made about Israel came of course this week with The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg’s report that senior unnamed Obama administration officials called Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “a chickensh*t” and a “coward.” They also described an administration in a state of “red hot anger” against Netanyahu and his government. Those statements were made after three-month old Chaya Zissel Braun, an American baby, was murdered by a Palestinian terrorist in Jerusalem in an Abbas-incited attack.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The most distressing aspect of Goldberg’s quotes is that in and of themselves, these profane, schoolyard bully personal attacks against Israel’s elected leader were the mildest part of the story.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The most disturbing thing about the gutter talk is what they tell us about Israel’s role in Obama’s assessments of his political cards as they relate to his nuclear negotiations with Iran.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The senior administration officials called Netanyahu a coward because, among other reasons, he has not bombed Iran’s nuclear installations.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">And now, they crowed, it’s too late for Israel to do anything to stop Iran.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">They are happy about this claimed state of affairs, because now Obama is free to make a deal with the Iranians that will allow them to develop nuclear weapons at will.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The obscene rhetoric they adopted in their characterization of Netanyahu didn’t come from “red hot anger.” It was a calculated move. Obama knows that he has caved in on every significant redline that he claimed he would defend in the nuclear talks with Iran.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Obama has chosen to demonize Netanyahu and castigate Israel now as a means to transform the debate about Iran into a debate about Israel. The fact that the trash talk about Netanyahu was a premeditated bid to capture the discourse on Iran is further exposed by the fact that Obama has refused to take any action against the officials who made the statements.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">He isn’t going to punish them for carrying out his policies.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Obama knows that after next week’s midterm elections, he will likely be facing a Republican-controlled House and Senate. He has no substantive defense against attacks on his policy of enabling the world’s most active state sponsor of terrorism to acquire nuclear weapons. The threat a nuclear- armed Iran poses to the US is self-evident to most people who pay attention to foreign affairs.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Since he can’t win the substantive debate, he wants to change the subject by pretending that the only country that opposes Iran’s nuclear weapons program is Israel, which, his senior advisers insinuated to Goldberg, was apparently bluffing about its danger. After all, if it was a reason for concern, Netanyahu would have bombed Iran three years ago rather than try to accommodate Obama.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As a consequence, any congressional opposition to his deal makes no sense and therefore must be the result of the nefarious Israel’s lobby’s control of Congress. Loyal Americans, like Obama, must stand up to the cowardly, power grabbing, warmongering Jews, led by the coward in chief Netanyahu.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In other words, in castigating Netanyahu and Israel, the Obama administration has decided to use Jew-hatred as a political weapon to defend its policies of abetting Palestinian terrorism and enabling Iran’s nuclear weapons program.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">There are critical messages to the Israeli people and our leaders embedded in the Goldberg article.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">First, the unbridled attacks against Israel’s democratically elected – and popular – prime minister show us that when we are faced with an inherently hostile administration, the wages of appeasement are contempt.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">No Israel leader has done more to appease a US administration than Netanyahu has done to appease Obama. Against the opposition of his party and the general public, Netanyahu in 2009 bowed to Obama’s demand to embrace the goal of establishing a Palestinian state.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Against the opposition of his party and the general public, in 2010 Netanyahu bowed to Obama’s demand and enacted an official 10-month moratorium on Jewish property rights in lands beyond the 1949 armistice lines, and later enacted an unofficial moratorium on those rights.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">And Netanyahu bowed to Obama’s pressure, released murderers from prison and conducted negotiations with Abbas that only empowered Abbas and his political war to delegitimize and isolate Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">And for all his efforts to appease Obama, today the administration abets Palestinian terrorism and political warfare.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As to Iran, Netanyahu agreed to play along with Obama’s phony sanctions policy, and bowed to Obama’s demand not to attack Iran’s nuclear installations. All of this caused suffering to the Iranian people while giving the regime four-and-ahalf years of more or less unfettered work on its nuclear program.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Netanyahu only cut bait after Obama signed the interim nuclear deal with Iran last November where he effectively gave up the store.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">And for Netanyahu’s Herculean efforts to appease Obama, Netanyahu found himself mocked publicly as a coward by senior administration officials who snorted that now it is too late for him to stop Obama from paving Iran’s open road to nuclear power.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">One of the assets that Netanyahu’s continuous attempts to please Obama was geared toward securing was US support for Israel at the UN Security Council. And now, according to the senior administration officials, Obama has decided to spend his last two years in office refusing to veto anti-Israel Security Council resolutions.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Before formulating a strategy for dealing with Obama over the next two years, Israelis need to first take a deep breath and recognize that as bad as things are going to get, nothing that Obama will do to us over the next two years is as dangerous as what he has already done. No anti-Israel Security Council resolution, no Obama map of Israel’s borders will endanger Israel as much as his facilitation of Iran’s nuclear program.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As unpleasant as anti-Israel Security Council resolutions will be, and as unpleasant as an Obama framework for Israel’s final borders will be, given the brevity of his remaining time in power, it is highly unlikely that any of the measures will have lasting impact.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">At any rate, no matter how upsetting such resolutions may be, Goldberg’s article made clear that Israel should make no concessions to Obama in exchange for a reversal of his plans. Concessions to Obama merely escalate his contempt for us.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Bearing this in mind, Israel’s required actions in the wake of Goldberg’s sources’ warnings are fairly straightforward.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">First, to the extent that Israel does have the capacity to damage Iran’s nuclear installations, Israel should act right away. Its capacity should not be saved for a more propitious political moment.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The only clock Israel should care about is Iran’s nuclear clock.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As for the Palestinians, whether Netanyahu’s willingness to stand up to Obama stems from the growing prospect of national elections or from his own determination that there is no point in trying to appease Obama anymore, the fact is that this is the only pragmatic policy for him to follow.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The proper response to the assassination attempt on Yehudah Glick is to allow Jews freedom of worship on the Temple Mount. The proper response to Obama’s nuclear negotiations is a bomb in Natanz. Obama will be angry with Israel for taking such steps. But he is angry with Israel for standing down. At least if we defend ourselves, we will be safe while isolated, rather than unsafe while isolated.</span></p>
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		<title>America Undone</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Nov 2013 04:45:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bruce Bawer]]></dc:creator>
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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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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Nov 2013 04:52:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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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>Kennedy Family Rules</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Nov 2013 04:18:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lloyd Billingsley]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/skakel.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-210921" alt="skakel" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/skakel-450x345.jpg" width="315" height="241" /></a>On November 22, 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald gunned down John Fitzgerald Kennedy as his presidential motorcade passed the Texas Book Depository in Dallas. The assassination was captured on film and so was the assassination of the assassin, so it is only right that 50 years later JFK should be getting attention. The conspiracy theorists are out in force and PBS has become a virtual JFK channel even as other stories confirm the lingering clout of the Kennedy family.</p>
<p>In 1960 JFK defeated Richard Nixon by a whisker and in his search for an Attorney General, the new president looked no farther than his brother, Robert Francis Kennedy. Robert wanted to be president in the footsteps of his brother but Sirhan Sirhan assassinated RFK on June 5, 1968. Robert F. Kennedy’s widow, Ethel, is the sister of Rushton Skakel, father of Michael Skakel. In 2002 Michael Skakel was sentenced to 20 years to life for murdering his neighbor Martha Moxley with a golf club in Greenwich, Connecticut, on October 30, 1975. Judge Thomas Bishop recently awarded Skakel, now 53, <a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/michael_skakel/">a new trial</a> on the grounds that his attorney Michel Sherman was negligent. That comes as good news to Skakel’s cousin Robert F. Kennedy Jr.</p>
<p>In 2003 RFK Jr. wrote a lengthy <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2003/01/a-miscarriage-of-justice/304759/">article in the <i>Atlantic</i></a> charging that Michael Skakel was innocent and his imprisonment a miscarriage of justice. Kennedy recently squared off on Fox News with detective Mark Fuhrman, author of<i> Murder in Greenwich: Who Killed Martha Moxley?</i> That 1998 book made a strong case that Michael Skakel bludgeoned Martha Moxley to death with a golf club. Four years later Skakel had been convicted and imprisoned. Furhman told Fox’s Geraldo Rivera he has no doubt of Skakel’s guilt. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. denounced Fuhrman and charged him with botching the O.J. Simpson case.</p>
<p>The author shows how the Greenwich police practically served as a private security force for the wealthy Skakel family. The local police, inexperienced with murder cases, also botched the investigation, particularly the crime scene. The 6-iron murder weapon was from a set owned by the Skakels, and the evidence pointed strongly to someone in the family, particularly Michael, known for violent behavior. So Martha Moxley had good reason to fear him.</p>
<p>The police tendered a theory of some mysterious transient and did their best to block Fuhrman’s investigation. The case went cold and Michael Skakel continued his privileged life. When busted for drunk driving his family avoided criminal charges by packing him off to a remote school for alcoholism treatment. In 1994, after graduating from Curry College, Michael Skakel worked on the reelection campaign of Edward Moore Kennedy, JFK’s youngest brother and better known as Ted.</p>
<p>In the Kennedy tradition Senate seats are proprietary, like a dukedom. True to form, Ted Kennedy was elected to the Senate in a 1962 special election to fill the seat of his brother John F. Kennedy. He was also involved a case that showed special treatment for the Kennedy family.</p>
<p>On July 18, 1969 Ted Kennedy drove a car off a bridge in Chappaquiddick, Massachusetts. Kennedy escaped unharmed but 28-year-old passenger Mary Jo Kopechne died. George Killen, detective with the Massachusetts state police, and chief of a never-revealed investigation of the case, told author Leo Damore that Ted Kennedy “killed that girl the same as if he put a gun to her head and pulled the trigger.”</p>
<p>In the 1988 <i>Senatorial Privilege: The Chappaquiddick Cover-up</i>, Damore showed how the Kennedy family deployed their influence to quash investigations of the incident and shield Kennedy from accountability. He got only a two-year suspended sentence for leaving the scene of an accident and in 1970 was reelected to the U.S. Senate. There he became an object of derision even to liberal Democrats. “Every image that the Democrats have to overcome – that they overtax the Middle Americans, try to meet social problems only with a proliferation of programs, are the junior partners of vociferous but marginal interest groups, look too carelessly at the credentials of the Third World movements and leaders, and neglect the security of the nation and of the free world – is kept alive by this buffoon.” That is from “Hamalot,” a 1987 <a href="http://www.newrepublic.com/article/politics/hamalot">article by Henry Fairlie in <i>The New Republic</i>.</a></p>
<p>Meanwhile, the old newsreels of JFK’s Camelot confirm that the Kennedys were something of a royal family for the world. They do not, unfortunately, tell the whole story. Viewers don’t learn much about family patriarch Joseph P. Kennedy, FDR’s ambassador to England, who had <a href="http://hnn.us/article/697">problems with Jewish people</a>. In 1940, when the Nazis occupied Poland, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and France, Joe Kennedy wrote in the <i>Boston Globe</i> that <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/primary-resources/kennedys-democracy-finished/">“Democracy is finished in England. It may be here.”</a>  Finest hour indeed. That helped kill his political career, but he still had the kids.</p>
<p>For the whole story see <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Kennedys-An-American-Drama/dp/1893554317"><i>The Kennedys: An American Drama</i></a> by Peter Collier and David Horowitz. In his review of that book, P.J. O’Rourke called the Kennedys “sewer trout.” Even so, if Robert F. Kennedy Jr. succeeds in getting Michael Skakel off the hook the Kennedy clout will have outlived JFK by more than half a century. That would also answer the question Mark Fuhrman posed in <i>Murder in Greenwich: </i>“Are there two systems of justice in this country – one for the rich, and another for the rest of us?”</p>
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		<title>Will Israel’s Left Destroy Israel?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Oct 2013 04:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/2011-israeli-protest-movement.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-207307" alt="2011-israeli-protest-movement" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/2011-israeli-protest-movement-450x341.jpg" width="315" height="239" /></a>The anniversaries of the Yom Kippur War and the Rabin assassination have come and gone. Both historical events are national traumas laden with ambiguous meanings.</p>
<p>The Yom Kippur War destroyed the political fortunes of Golda Meir and Moshe Dayan and moved Rabin into the big chair. Rabin couldn’t hold on to power as Labor corruption ended the unbroken rule of the left commencing what was effectively fifteen years of rule by the right.</p>
<p>Rabin’s return to power was an equally brief window for the left. Since Peres’ loss to Netanyahu, there has only been one Labor prime minister and he barely lasted two years in office.</p>
<p>From one angle, Israel has emerged out of the shadows of the left. Under conservative governments, it has modernized and innovated. The Israel of the startup probably would not exist if the kibbutz was still a viable proposition. From another angle, Israel is a conservative country in the grip of an unelected left.</p>
<p>The peace process, a desperate attempt by the Labor Party to become relevant again, is headed into its third decade. The casualties of the endless Peace War and the expansion of the enemy’s capabilities to the point that Tel Aviv and Jerusalem have been shelled are all terrible, but they are not the real threat.</p>
<p>The terrorist war against Israel is a war of nerves. It is meant to drain Israel’s energies, to tie it down and make its people and soldiers feel futile and desperate in the face of a threat that can’t be pinned down. These are the same exact tactics being used against the United States. Terrorists are proxy armies. They are not the ultimate threat. They are a strategic means of disabling an enemy before the real attack.</p>
<p>The Yom Kippur War is a reminder that the era of the surprise attack isn’t over and the domestic conflicts over the Peace War, in which the Rabin assassination and its ugly aftermath was only a single episode, are a reminder that Israelis may be quite capable of repeating the follies of history.</p>
<p>The unelected left has become Israel’s albatross, irrelevant but immovable, incapable of adapting and incapable of giving up power. Its leaders have trouble winning elections, but they pervade academia, the media, the judiciary and even the ranks of the top military brass. And they are making it clear that they would rather destroy the country than lose control over it.</p>
<p>It took a united Israel to win the Six-Day War. Labor’s failures in the Yom Kippur War helped destroy it, but the protests against the Lebanon War were its revenge. It would have taken a united Israel to break away from the peace process; but the left was too politically desperate to cling to Rabin’s legacy. And now it is perversely working against any effort to stop Iran out of a reflexive hatred for the right.</p>
<p>The left may not be able to win elections, but it can destroy Israel.</p>
<p>A divided Israel has not been able to break away from the peace process. And it is unable to stop Iran. Netanyahu’s dilemma is not just that he has to convince Obama or dance around him, but that he has to figure out a way to do the same thing for the country’s domestic left whose parliamentary presence is limited, but whose actual obstructive powers are huge. And the left will insist on waiting until the very last second while claiming that Netanyahu is manufacturing a crisis for political advantage until it’s almost too late.</p>
<p>Or until it actually is too late.</p>
<p>The same establishment that was wrong about Turkey and wrong about the Arab Spring insists on sticking to its guns, or lack of guns, when it comes to Iran.</p>
<p>Israel’s left ran out of ideas long ago and runs instead on the recycled effluvia of the European left. It has adopted the conviction of the international left that Israel is always to blame. Except it replaces Israel with its favorite right-wing villains and is surprised every time it is confronted with the fact that the international left doesn’t bother making any fine distinctions between settlers in Ariel and Kochav Yair and between the good Israeli soldiers who will only serve within the Green Line and the bad Israeli soldiers who will serve beyond the Green Line.</p>
<p>With the dogmatic cluelessness of the professional ideologue, much of the Israeli left really believes that it would be able to get along with everyone from Hamas to Baroness Ashton if it wasn’t for the right. It’s a deadly illusion and there is no telling how many more Israelis will have to die before the illusion dies.</p>
<p>The Israeli left has never been willing to believe that it faces an inescapable regional conflict because of matters of religion and race. It thought that it could make common cause with the Arab left. It thought that class mattered more than ethnicity in a region where people kill each over clan honor. It thought that religion would stop mattering in a place where Shiites and Sunnis have been killing each other since the time of Charlemagne.</p>
<p>It was wrong on all these counts. And it has never been able to admit that.</p>
<p>Their only hope was that the Israeli left, like American liberalism, would see an equivalent of the split between fellow travelers and anti-Communist liberals that made a united front against the USSR temporarily possible. There have been occasional signs of such a split. Figures like Benny Morris may be the prototypes of a split over national security and a realistic attitude toward the regional conflict.</p>
<p>But Israel may not have enough time left to evolve its own neo-conservatives. Israel isn’t the United States in 1955. It’s Czechoslovakia in 1938.</p>
<p>The Middle East is changing. Israeli leaders dream of being Singapore, but they’re caught in the middle of a regional ethnic and religious conflict tearing apart the region. And every side in that conflict wants to score political points by destroying Israel.</p>
<p>The Sunnis and Shiites may be more obsessed with killing each other right now, but Jerusalem is still their great prize. Whichever side destroys the Jewish State will be able to claim that Allah has given them a mandate for regional theocracy and empire.</p>
<p>The time is five minutes to midnight. Israel faces serious threats from Iran, its Sunni rivals and their proxy terrorist armies inside and around its borders, but its biggest threat may come from its own left.</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Pipes]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shame on the New York Times for smearing Lars Hedegaard after his narrow escape from an Islamic assassin. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/daniel-pipes/a-stew-of-anti-muslim-bile-and-conspiracy-laden-forecasts/picture-10-11/" rel="attachment wp-att-180200"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-180200" title="Picture 10" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Picture-10-450x295.png" alt="" width="216" height="142" /></a>At 11:20 a.m. on Feb. 5, Lars Hedegaard answered his door bell to an apparent mailman. Instead of receiving a package, however, the 70-year-old Danish historian and journalist found himself face to face with a would-be assassin about one third his age. The assailant shot him once, narrowly missing his head. The gun locked, Hedegaard wrestled with him, and the young man fled.</p>
<p>Given Hedegaard’s criticism of Islam and his even being taken to court on criminal charges of “hate speech,” the attack reverberated in <a href="http://cphpost.dk/news/national/islam-critic-survives-assassination-attempt">Denmark</a> and beyond. The <a href="http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/02/06/the-bullet-flew-past-my-right-ear-danish-islam-critic-narrowly-escapes-assassination-attempt/">Associated Press</a> reported this incident, which was featured prominently in the British press, including the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/05/danish-critic-islam-attacked-gunman"><em>Guardian</em></a>, the <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2273988/The-bullet-flew-past-ear-Danish-anti-Islam-writer-narrowly-survives-doorstep-assassination-attempt.html"><em>Daily Mail,</em></a> and the <a href="http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/8842941/i-may-be-killed-if-i-write-this/"><em>Spectator</em></a>, as well as in Canada’s <a href="http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2013/02/27/george-jonas-making-excuses-for-an-aggrieved-gunman/"><em>National Post</em></a>. The <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB40001424127887323495104578314751130285998.html?KEYWORDS=Lars+Hedegaard+"><em>Wall Street Journal</em></a> published an article by him about his experience.</p>
<p>When the <em>New York Times</em> belatedly bestirred itself on Feb. 28 to inform its readership about the assassination attempt, it did not so much report the event itself but an alleged Muslim support for Hedegaard to express himself. As implied by the title of Andrew Higgins’ article, “<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/28/world/europe/lars-hedegaard-anti-islamic-provocateur-receives-support-from-danish-muslims.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=0">Danish Opponent of Islam Is Attacked, and Muslims Defend His Right to Speak</a>,” he mainly celebrates Danish Islam: “Muslim groups in the country, which were often criticized during the cartoon furor for not speaking out against violence and even deliberately fanning the flames, raised their voices to condemn the attack on Mr. Hedegaard and support his right to express his views, <em>no matter how odious</em> [emphasis added].” This theme pervades the piece; for example, Karen Haekkerup, the minister of social affairs and integration, is quoted pleased that “the Muslim community is now active in the debate.”</p>
<p>(For a close dissection of this agitprop, see <a href="http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/2430/The-NYT-on-the-Would-Be-Might-Have-Been-Assassination-of-Lars-Hedegaard.aspx">Diana West</a>’s evisceration; and see <a href="http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/2013/02/28/times-demonizes-hedegaard-lionizes-danish-muslim-instigator-of-murderous-cartoon-riots/">Andrew Bostom</a>’s analysis for a comparison of Higgins to Walter Duranty, the <em>NYT</em> reporter who whitewashed Stalin’s crimes.)</p>
<p>Secondarily Higgins delegitimizes Hedegaard, my topic here. In addition to the snarky “no matter how odious” reference, Higgins dismisses Hedegaard’s “opinions” as “a stew of anti-Muslim bile and conspiracy-laden forecasts of a coming civil war” and claims the Dane has “fanned wild conspiracy theories and sometimes veered into calumny.”</p>
<p>These characterizations of Hedegaard’s work are a vicious travesty. A few specifics:</p>
<p>1. What Higgins airily dismisses as Hedegaard’s “opinions” is in fact a substantial oeuvre in several academic books and articles laden with facts and references dealing with Islamic ideology, Muslim history, and Muslim immigration to Denmark. Those books include:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>I krigens hus: Islams kolonisering af Vesten </em>[In the House of War: Islam’s colonization of the West] (with Helle Merete Brix and Torben Hansen). Aarhus, Hovedland, 2003</p>
<p><em>1400 års krigen: Islams strategi, EU og frihedens endeligt </em>[The 1400 Year War: Islam’s strategy, the EU and the demise of freedom]<em> </em>(with Mogens Camre). Odense, Trykkefrihedsselskabets Bibliotek, 2009</p>
<p><em>Muhammeds piger: Vold, mord og voldtægter i Islams Hus. </em>[Muhammad’s girls: Violence, murder and rape in the House of Islam] Odense, Trykkefrihedsselskabets Bibliotek, 2011</p></blockquote>
<p>Hedegaard’s major articles include:</p>
<blockquote><p>“Den 11. september som historie” [September 11 as history] in Helle Merete Brix and Torben Hansen (eds.), <em>Islam i Vesten: På Koranens vej?</em> Copenhagen, Tiderne Skifter, 2002.</p>
<p>“The Growth of Islam in Denmark and the Future of Secularism” in Kurt Almqvist (ed.), <em>The Secular State and Islam in Europe. </em>Stockholm, Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation, 2007</p>
<p>“Free Speech: Its Benefits and Limitations” in Süheyla Kirca and LuEtt Hanson (eds.), <em>Freedom and Prejudice: Approaches to Media and Culture.</em> Istanbul, Bahcesehir University Press, 2008</p>
<p>“De cartoon-jihad en de opkomst van parallelle samenlevingen” [The cartoon jihad and the emergence of parallel societies] in Hans Jansen and Bert Snel (eds.), <em>Eindstrijd: De finale clash tussen het liberale Westen en een traditionele islam.</em> Amsterdam, Uitgiverij Van Praag, 2009</p></blockquote>
<p>To the best of my knowledge, no one has claimed these writings contain sloppy scholarship or wrong references. As Hedegaard puts it, “I am a university-trained historian and take my craft seriously.” The real criticism of Hedegaard is not about his scholarship – but that he raises difficult and even unpleasant questions.</p>
<p>And, as someone who has written <a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/books/hidden.php">two</a> <a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/books/conspiracy.php">books</a> on conspiracy theories, I judge Hedegaard’s writings innocent of that intellectual sin.</p>
<p>2. Higgins ascribes to him “forecasts of a coming war”; but these are not his forecasts, only his reporting what Islamist texts and spokesmen themselves predict and advocate.</p>
<p>3. Higgins writes that Hedegaard “for several years edited a mainstream Danish daily, <a href="http://www.information.dk/"><em>Information</em></a>, is a major figure in what a study last year by a British group, Hope Not Hate, identified as a global movement of ‘Islamophobic’ writers, bloggers and activists whose ‘anti-Muslim rhetoric poisons the political discourse, sometimes with deadly effect’.”</p>
<p>“Islamophobia” is a silly neologism intended to vilify anyone who criticizes Islam or even Islamism.</p>
<p>As for “sometimes with deadly effect”: that is applied to the whole group of 100 organizations and individuals in the Hate not Hope listing, not to Hedegaard individually. Higgins nastily insinuates that Hedegaard is responsible for deadly attacks on Muslims when, in fact, he was the victim not the perpetrator of an attack. (Hope not Hate, by the way, lists both the Middle East Forum and me in its <em>Counter-Jihad Report</em>; it <a href="http://www.hopenothate.org.uk/counter-jihad/country/USA">flatters me</a> as the “Powerhouse behind the international counter-jihadist movement.”)</p>
<p>In conclusion, it’s not “a stew of anti-Muslim bile and conspiracy-laden forecasts” but “a cocktail of sensible critiques and unsettling analyses.” Higgins has written a stew of shoddy aspersions of a brave, distinguished, and accomplished writer with whom I co-authored an article “<a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/450/something-rotten-in-denmark">Something Rotten in Denmark?</a>” in 2002 and who is currently a colleague at the Middle East Forum.</p>
<p>Shame on Higgins for this article and shame on the <em>New York Times</em> for publishing him.</p>
<p><strong>Mr. Pipes (DanielPipes.org) is president of the Middle East Forum. <em>© 2013 All rights reserved by Daniel Pipes.</em></strong></p>
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		<title>Islamic Assassination: Silencing Freedom Fighters</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 04:31:45 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/raymond-ibrahim/islamic-assassination-silencing-freedom-fighters/la-fg-wn-tunisian-leader-assassinated-20130206-001/" rel="attachment wp-att-178146"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-178146" title="la-fg-wn-tunisian-leader-assassinated-20130206-001" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/la-fg-wn-tunisian-leader-assassinated-20130206-001.jpg" alt="" width="281" height="230" /></a>Tunisia, one of the most secular Arab countries in modern times—and the first country to experience the “Arab Spring”—was also recently the first Arab country to experience an Islamic assassination since the Arab Spring began.  The <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-21349719">BBC</a> explains:</p>
<blockquote><p>Tunisian opposition politician Chokri Belaid has been shot dead outside his home in the capital, Tunis.  Relatives say Mr Belaid was shot in the neck and head on his way to work.  He was a prominent secular opponent of the moderate [sic] Islamist-led government and his murder has sparked protests around the country, with police firing tear gas to disperse angry crowds.</p></blockquote>
<p>Although the BBC report states “It is not known who is responsible for the attack on the politician,” who Belaid was—a leader of the Democratic Patriots party, which has been at the forefront of challenging the Islamist-led government of Tunisia—speaks for itself.  As French President Francois Hollande put it, “This murder robs Tunisia of one of its most courageous and free voices.”</p>
<p>The Islamist Ennahda party <a href="http://gulfnews.com/news/region/tunisia/tunisia-erupts-after-belaid-s-slaying-1.1142930">naturally denies any involvement</a>—even as it, not to mention all Tunisian Islamists, had the most to gain from the silencing of Belaid. According to the Islamist party’s president, Rashid Gannouchi,  “Ennahda is completely innocent of the assassination of Belaid.”</p>
<p>Neither the BBC nor the Ennahda party bother mentioning the fact that, mere days before Belaid was shot to death, fatwas calling for his death were publicly proclaimed.  For example, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=5sdCXxu7Wrg">one video</a> shows a bearded Tunisian cleric, of the Salafi brand, publicly denouncing Belaid as an “infidel” whose must be killed—“not according to me but the prophet!”—even as those around him cry “Allahu Akbar!”</p>
<p>Just as Arab-Spring fever came to Egypt following Tunisia—and in both countries, saw the empowerment of Islamist parties, namely the Ennahda and Muslim Brotherhood—so too have Islamic fatwas to assassinate those opposing the Islamist agenda come to Egypt following Tunisia.  Aside from the fact that, during the popular protests against President Muhammad Morsi and his Sharia-heavy constitution, his Islamist allies issued any number of fatwas permitting the spilling of the blood of those opposing him, some days ago, <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/muslim-clerics-kill-all-who-insult-islam-2/">Dr. Mahmoud Sha’ban</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=oaoCJ6zXrns">issued a fatwa</a> on live TV calling for the killing of Muhammad el-Baradei and Hamdin Sabhi, leaders of Egypt’s secular National Salvation Front party for being openly critical of Morsi and the Brotherhood.  He unhesitatingly pronounced that the “Sharia of Allah” demands their killing, basing his fatwa on the words of Muhammad—to behead those who oppose the leader—as found in the canonical collections of Sahih Muslim.</p>
<p>Then, a few days after Sha’ban issued this fatwa, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BVqPNCidGc">an assassination attempt</a> was made on Dr. Tawfik Okasha—the host of the TV show <em>Misr al-Youm</em> (“Egypt Today”) and one of the most vociferous critics of the Muslim Brotherhood.  As he was leaving his home, cars with unknown assailants opened fire on him, though he was protected by his bodyguards—popular critics of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, who can afford it, are often surrounded by personal bodyguards—who opened fire back on the assassins.</p>
<p>In other words, we are witnessing in Egypt the same exact pattern that took place in Tunisia, where Chokri Belaid, a leader of the nation’s secular party who was unabashedly critical of the Islamist-led government, was assassinated—all in accordance with the fatwas of the sheikhs.</p>
<p>None of this is surprising, considering the deep continuity of Islamic assassinations, which litter the annals of history.  Indeed, the very word “assassinate” and “assassin” are based on a Medieval Islamic sect, the Hashashin, which pioneered the use of political assassination in the name of Islam.</p>
<p>Nor is the calling for the assassination of those who oppose Islamic supremacism limited to the Islamic world.  Most recently in Denmark,  Lars Hedegaard, a seventy-year-old free speech activist and critic of Islam, <a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3578/lars-hedegaard-assassination">narrowly escaped an assassination attempt</a> on his life right outside his home in Copenhagen:</p>
<blockquote><p>According to <a href="http://jyllands-posten.dk/indland/krimi/article5154349.ece">Danish media</a>, the gunman, in a postal service uniform, rang the doorbell of Hedegaard&#8217;s apartment building on the pretext of delivering a package. When Hedegaard opened the front door, the man pulled out a gun and fired a shot, narrowly missing Hedegaard&#8217;s head.  Danish police say they are searching for the suspect, whom they describe as &#8220;a man of a different ethnic background than Danish.&#8221; He is believed to be in his 20s and has a &#8220;Middle Eastern appearance.&#8221; Speculation is that the assailant is a Muslim because of critical statements that Hedegaard has made regarding Islam.</p></blockquote>
<p>Nor are front door assassinations on behalf of Islam limited to silencing criticism against the Islamist agenda; instead, they are regularly used to silence all free speech that threatens Islam.  For instance, just last December 2012 in Pakistan, Birgitta Almby, a 70-year-old Bible school teacher from Sweden, <a href="http://morningstarnews.org/2012/12/swedish-christian-worker-dies-from-pakistan-shooting/">was shot by two men in front of her home</a>, dying soon thereafter.  She had served in Pakistan for 38 years.   Christians who were close to her had no doubt that “Islamic extremists” murdered the elderly woman: “Who else would want to murder someone as apolitical and harmless as Almby, who had dedicated her life to serving humanity?”</p>
<p>No doubt someone who thought she was breaking the laws of Allah by proselytizing to Muslims—as when American Joel Shrum was assassinated in Yemen for purportedly preaching the Gospel to Muslims; or when Russian priest Fr.Daniil Sysoyev was shot to death by Muslim assassins for proselytizing to and baptizing Muslims.</p>
<p>Assassination has long been a tool of Islamic supremacism, to the point of giving the English language the word “assassinate.”  Accordingly, inasmuch as Islam grows in power and influence, so too will those who resist it be prey to the Islamic dagger, both at home and abroad.</p>
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		<title>Lars Hedegaard Escapes Jihadist Assassination Attempt</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2013 04:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bruce Bawer]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Denmark's leading Islam critic survives life-and-death struggle with gun-wielding assailant.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/bruce-bawer/lars-hedegaard-escapes-jihadist-assassination-attempt/lars-hedegaard-2/" rel="attachment wp-att-176515"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-176515" title="Lars Hedegaard" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Lars-Hedegaard-010.jpg" alt="" width="304" height="220" /></a>When I arrived in Amsterdam last week for a brief visit, an excited acquaintance informed me of the day&#8217;s big news: the highly popular Queen Beatrix, who has been on the throne for more than three decades, had just announced her intention to abdicate in favor of her imperially bland son Willem-Alexander. The first thought that came to mind when I heard the tidings was Her Majesty&#8217;s disgraceful conduct after the 2004 jihadist butchering of Theo van Gogh. Refusing to attend the funeral of the accomplished author, journalist, and filmmaker, Beatrix instead rushed off to a Moroccan youth center to assure those present that she was their pal. According to Reuters, Beatrix didn&#8217;t want to leave the throne until she was sure “that anti-immigrant, euroskeptic politician Geert Wilders, of whom she disapproved, was in no danger of assuming real political influence&#8230;.Wilders&#8217; poor showing at the last election and loss of influence in politics, could well have contributed to her decision to abdicate.” Willem-Alexander, whom van Gogh once <a href="http://www.theovangogh.nl/stuk6.htm">described</a> as something of a royal dummy, is no Wilders fan either, sneering in 2007, apropos of the politician, that “Speech is silver, silence is golden.” (The dim-bulb prince appeared not to grasp that under the rules of the Netherlands&#8217; constitutional monarchy, it&#8217;s <em>his </em>job, not that of an elected official like Wilders, to keep his mouth shut.)</p>
<p>Walking the streets of Amsterdam in recent days, I thought about the sudden, horrible way in which van Gogh had been struck down, shot and stabbed, on an ordinary November morning on one of those very streets. I thought about how many years it&#8217;s been since that day. And I thought about the fact that things on that front have been relatively silent lately: it&#8217;s been a while since the last high-profile killing, or attempted killing, of an Islam critic. I reflected about the fact that each of these events causes instant shock and consternation, a brief preoccupation on the part of many Europeans with the reality of the domestic Islamic threat, and is followed by a gradual forgetfulness and return to complacency about Islamization. And I found myself thinking that it was only a matter of time until the next such assassination attempt. Where would it be? Who would be the target?</p>
<p>No sooner had I returned home to Scandinavia that the news came. My longtime friend Lars Hedegaard, a fearless critic of Islam, founder of Denmark&#8217;s Free Press Society, and defendant in the most disgraceful trial in postwar Danish history, had just escaped being killed by a thug who came to the door of his home in Copenhagen pretending to be a mailman. The incident took place at about 11:00 on Tuesday morning. The would-be perpetrator was wearing a standard mailman&#8217;s uniform.</p>
<p>It was right out of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udQM_DbATFk"><em>Three Days of the Condor.</em></a><em> </em>Hedegaard opened the door and was handed a package by the guy, who then drew a pistol and shot at him. Miraculously, the gunman missed – just barely. While he fumbled with his weapon, trying to get off another shot, Lars acted fast, striking his assailant, who dropped the gun. Lars tried to shut the door, but the perpetrator stuck his foot in and managed to push it open again and to pick up his pistol. The two men struggled, and the goon finally took it on the lam. Afterwards, Lars told an interviewer that he was not scared but angry – angry to have been attacked in his own country, obviously for the offense of speaking his mind (and the truth). “If they think they can scare me, they&#8217;re thoroughly mistaken,” he said. The police, in their public alert on the case, have described the assailant as “a man around 25 with a foreign background.” (Interestingly, officials at the Copenhagen Zoo, into which two persons of interest were seen fleeing, <a href="http://www.bt.dk/danmark/kendt-islam-kritiker-forsoegt-skudt-paa-frederiksberg">told</a> reporters that police officials, in describing the suspect to them, had actually used the word Pakistani.)</p>
<p>As with the murders of Pim Fortuyn and Theo van Gogh, journalists have taken the attempt to end Hedegaard&#8217;s life as an excellent occasion to smear the victim. A subhead that appeared both in an <a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/uriks/Kulen-sneiet-hodet-hans-7112285.html">article</a> in <em>Aftenposten </em>credited to Kjetil Hanssen and the Norwegian Telegrambyrå, and in an<a href="http://www.vg.no/nyheter/utenriks/artikkel.php?artid=10119979"> article</a> in <em>VG</em> credited to Bjørn-Martin Nordby and Harald Berg Sævereid, refers to Lars as a “<em>krass</em>” critic of Islam – <em>krass </em>being a word that can mean outspoken, harsh, or (yes) crass. Both articles (which were curiously full of such similarities) described Lars as “head of the so-called Free Press Society, a controversial association” – the controversy, of course, being that many members of the Danish media and academic elite think that the press shouldn&#8217;t be so free when the topic is Islam. Both articles further noted that Lars had “traveled around with Swedish artist Lars Vilks, who created [or caused] riots when he drew the Prophet Muhammed as a dog.” Vilks, in other words, was responsible for riots against his work, and Lars – well, guilt by association, you see. Similarly, <em>Politiken </em><a href="http://politiken.dk/indland/ECE1889503/hedegaard-troede-at-gerningsmand-var-postbud/%20">described</a> Lars as “the controversial commentator.” And NRK radio chose to <a href="http://www.rights.no/2013/02/bakteppet-for-rettssaken-mot-hedegaard/">identify</a> Lars by saying he&#8217;d been “fined several times” for criticizing Islam – when, in fact, a lower court had fined him once, in a decision that the Supreme Court later overturned.</p>
<p>Well. The good thing is that Lars Hedegaard lives, and has vowed to persist in his courageous efforts to resist the Islamization of Europe. The bad thing is that his Muslim enemies are also alive and well and as determined as ever to wreak their monstrous havoc – and that their abettors in the media and elsewhere have lost none of their shameful readiness to relativize jihad and tear down heroes.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Tuesday-Feb.-16-2010-Hezbollah-members-perform-during-a-rally-commemorating-the-2008-assassination-of-Hezbollahs-top-military-commander-Imad-Mughniyeh-in-Beiruts-southern-suburbs-Lebanon.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-145843" title="Tuesday,-Feb.-16,-2010,-Hezbollah-members-perform-during-a-rally-commemorating-the-2008-assassination-of-Hezbollah's-top-military-commander-Imad-Mughniyeh-in-Beirut's-southern-suburbs,-Lebanon" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Tuesday-Feb.-16-2010-Hezbollah-members-perform-during-a-rally-commemorating-the-2008-assassination-of-Hezbollahs-top-military-commander-Imad-Mughniyeh-in-Beiruts-southern-suburbs-Lebanon.gif" alt="" width="375" height="250" /></a>The outspoken and courageous son of an equally outspoken and courageous father is making waves of his own. Moustafa Geha is a Lebanese political activist and journalist who has openly opposed the meddling of Syria, Iran and Hezbollah in his country&#8217;s affairs. As a result, an attempt was made to assassinate him on April 14th. Luckily, he survived. His father wasn&#8217;t as lucky. The elder Geha&#8217;s outspoken opposition to Syrian and Iranian intervention in Lebanon, as well his criticism of violent Islamists during the 1970s and 1980s, <a href="http://www.israeltoday.co.il/NewsItem/tabid/178/nid/23281/Default.aspx">precipitated</a> his assassination by pro-Syrian terrorists in 1992.</p>
<p>&#8220;I cannot forget my father&#8217;s pictures when he was assassinated by Hezbollah in 1992 and I cannot forget the sound of shooting at me in April,&#8221; Geha told FrontPage. &#8220;I want to have peace [for me] and my family too, because we have a long, bad history with killing and oppression. I want to have the right to write and publish my ideas and to be safe at the same time. For this I left Lebanon and I don’t want to come back, because I know they will kill me,&#8221; he added. Geha currently seeking political asylum in Sweden. &#8220;It&#8217;s a good country for human rights,&#8221; he notes.</p>
<p>The same can hardly be said for Lebanon, where the murderous machinations of Hezbollah&#8211;backed by Syria and Iran&#8211;continue to be perpetrated with impunity. In an article for <em>Arutz Sheva&#8217;s </em>op-ed page, Geha <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/12077?fb_action_ids=222133841245838&amp;fb_action_types=og.recommends&amp;fb_source=timeline_og&amp;action_object_map=%7B%22222133841245838%22:10151036512108167%7D&amp;action_type_map=%7B%22222133841245838%22:%22og.recommends%22%7D&amp;action_ref_map=%5B%5D#.UDtwaMHibEw">illuminates</a> that history, even as he remains rightly incredulous that the European Union refuses to categorize Hezbollah as a terrorist organization. Hezbollah &#8220;is now running world public opinion,&#8221; he writes.</p>
<p>Geha is on the mark. As recently as July, Cypriot Foreign Minister Gujarat Cossack-Marcolis, who presently holds the EU&#8217;s rotating presidency, <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/158218">contended</a> that &#8220;there is no consensus on the [terror] issue,&#8221; because Hezbollah &#8220;also has an active political arm.&#8221; She added that the matter might be reconsidered if &#8220;tangible evidence&#8221; reveals otherwise.</p>
<p>Geha offers this clueless EU bureaucrat and other like-minded Europeans a brief history of such &#8220;tangible evidence,&#8221; beginning in 1983, when Hezbollah carried out three operations. They bombed the U.S. embassy in Beirut, killing 63 Americans, and a camp of French soldiers in the Bekaa Valley, killing 58 Frenchmen. Furthermore, they were responsible for the now infamous bombing of the U.S. Marine headquarters in Beirut, where 241 American soldiers lost their lives. Geha&#8217;s historically inspired indictment continues, as he lists several assassinations carried out by Hezbollah over the course of decades, including the murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in 2005, as well as their attack against Israel in 2006 that precipitated an all-out war. Even now, Hezbollah remains &#8220;a huge threat to Lebanese society through the group&#8217;s control of the security network, where false accusations and charges can be levied against those who oppose the fabrication of files putting them in prisons or worse,&#8221; writes Geha.</p>
<p>Geha went into the issue even deeper for FrontPage. After noting that neither he nor his father were followers of Islam, he explains why. &#8220;I do not believe Islam can be characterized as a religion,&#8221; he contends. &#8220;Islam is concerned only about spreading Islam. It is not concerned about the welfare of the Muslim. In the Hadith, unbelievers have three choices: accept Islam, [go to] war with Muslims, or pay a tax and live a humiliating inferior status. Living as equals in peaceful coexistence is not a choice!&#8221; He further notes the long line of civilizations destroyed by Islam on the Arabian Peninsula, and in Africa and Asia. &#8220;How many Jews, Christians, Zoroastrians, Bahaists and others were killed by Muslims only because they are not Muslims?&#8221; he asks. &#8220;And don&#8217;t believe those who say Islam is religion of peace,&#8221; he adds.</p>
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		<title>Major Covert Campaign Claims Another Iranian Scientist</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 04:32:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan Mauro]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Attacks increase fivefold, but is it enough to derail the nuclear threat?]]></description>
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<p>An Iranian nuclear scientist was <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/01/11/report-bomb-kills-iran-university-professor/">killed</a> yesterday in an attack similar to those carried out on other scientists. Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan is the fifth scientist to mysteriously die. The killing is the latest in a long list of apparent covert operations in recent months to stall Iran’s nuclear weapons program.</p>
<p>Iran <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2012/01/201211162848691713.html">describes</a> Roshan as the “deputy in charge of commerce” at its Natanz enrichment facility and immediately blamed “the Zionist regime” for his death. Two individuals attached and detonated a magnetic bomb to his car in Tehran outside of Allameh Tabatai University, killing him and his bodyguard. Roshan was a lecturer at the university.</p>
<p>At Natanz, Roshan was in charge of procuring equipment. The fact that he had a bodyguard shows he had an important role. His death comes just one day after the Israeli military’s chief of staff <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Article.aspx?id=252974">said</a> that 2012 is a “critical year” for Iran and referred to “events that happen unnaturally.” Indeed, the past few months has seen a huge rise in “accidents” and other “unnatural” events affecting Iran’s nuclear program and the regime’s pillars of strength.</p>
<p>On December 22, the Iranian regime <a href="http://www.worldthreats.com/?p=9999">claimed</a> that its oil depot in Abadan was hit with a rocket. It is located in the Arab-populated Khuzestan Province, so it may have been launched by locals that often clash with the regime. The attack came just two weeks after Iran announced that it would spend $800 million to increase its gasoline output by 12,500 barrels per day by February.</p>
<p>The covert operations aren’t just aimed at nuclear sites and their staff. The <em>Washington Post</em> <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/mysterious-explosions-pose-dilemma-for-iranian-leaders/2011/11/23/gIQA8IsSvN_story.html">says</a> that there has been a “fivefold increase in explosions at refineries and gas pipelines since 2010.” There were three explosions at gas pipelines in 2009. In 2010, it was 17. In February, three gas pipelines near Qom were <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Headlines/Article.aspx?id=207828">hit</a> with explosions. In April, <a href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/concoughlin/100050959/whos-blowing-up-irans-gas-pipelines/">another</a> three explosions in the same area happened. In July, a pipeline to Turkey was struck, and three more pipelines suffered blasts within the first two weeks of August.</p>
<p>On December 15, Israel <a href="http://www.worldthreats.com/?p=10017">carried out</a> a secret air strike on a convoy in Sudan headed to Hamas. It was carrying weapons from Iran. At least six Land Cruiser jeeps were destroyed and four were killed. There was reportedly another strike in Sudan in early December that destroyed at least one truck.</p>
<p>On December 11, a mysterious explosion <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/dec/12/blast-hits-another-plant-in-iran/">happened</a> at a steel plant in Yazd that almost no one reported on. The blast killed 7 people and wounded 12. Among the casualties were unidentified foreigners. The site <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4160500,00.html">has not</a> been publicly tied to Iran’s nuclear program, so it indicates the perpetrators had access to classified information. Michael Ledeen <a href="http://pjmedia.com/michaelledeen/2011/12/14/whos-really-blowing-up-iran/">wrote</a> that the plant made the material for nose cones for ballistic missiles. Other reports said the steel can be used in making exhaust systems. A German news outlet reported in November that North Korea was providing Iran and Syria with maraging steel for centrifuges.</p>
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		<title>Did Castro Get Kennedy?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 04:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Humberto Fontova]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The classified intelligence report that rattled Alexander Haig.]]></description>
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<p>“<em>Of all the people I interviewed in New Orleans regarding the Kennedy assassination, Carlos Bringuier was the one I trusted most. I could see in his eyes he was always telling me the complete truth</em>.” (Oriana Fallaci, <em>L, Europeo</em>, 1969.)</p>
<p>&#8220;That weasel walked into my store and started looking around,&#8221; recalls Carlos Bringuier about the afternoon of August 5, 1963. &#8220;But I could sense he wasn&#8217;t a shopper. Sure enough, after a few minutes of browsing he came up and extended his hand. &#8220;Good afternoon,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;m Lee Harvey Oswald.&#8221;</p>
<p>In 1963 the CIA regarded the <em>Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantil</em> (DRE) “the most militant and deeply motivated of all the Cuban exile organizations seeking to oust Castro.&#8221; Carlos Bringuier was their representative in New Orleans. It was DRE agents who infiltrated Cuba and brought out the first reports of Soviet missile installations&#8211;to the scoffs of everyone from Camelot&#8217;s CIA to the State Department&#8217;s wizards, to the White House&#8217;s Best and Brightest. It took two months for anyone to finally take them seriously. A U-2 flight then confirmed every last detail of what the DRE boys had been risking their lives for months to report.</p>
<p>“Oswald approached me because my name was so often linked to anti-Castro activities in the local (New Orleans) news,” recalls Bringuier. “He even jammed his hand in his pocket and pulled out a roll of bills, offering to contribute to the anti-Castro cause. I was suspicious and declined, but he kept blasting Castro and Communism in very colorful terms the whole time he was in the store. He returned the next day, snarled out a few more anti-Castroisms and dropped off his training manual for the anti-Castro fight, Guidebook for Marines.”</p>
<p>Two days later Bringuier was astounded to spot Oswald a few blocks away from his store distributing Fair Play for Cuba pamphlets. Carlos approached, accepted a pamphlet, ripped it to pieces and a scuffle ensued. The cops arrived, the scuffle made the news, and a few days later Bringuier and Oswald debated on New Orleans radio and TV.</p>
<p>Dozens of books, movies, articles and TV specials depict these events. What they <em>don&#8217;t</em> depict is how, between their scuffle and debate, Carlos and a friend Carlos Quiroga <em>turned the tables on Oswald</em>. Posing as a Castro-sympathizer eager to join Oswald’s Fair Play for Cuba Committee, Quiroga (who had not been in the store or involved in the scuffle) visited Oswald at his home and they commiserated for hours. “You read everyplace that Oswald was dumb, a flake, a patsy, a set-up,” says Bringuier. “Nonsense. He was a smooth operator and spoke fluent Russian.”</p>
<p>Quiroga noticed that Oswald’s living room was filled with Fair Play for Cuba Committee literature. From one stack Oswald pulled an application to join the Committee and offered it to Quiroga. Yet during the Warren Commission circus the Fair Play for Cuba Committee repeatedly denied that Oswald had any links with them.</p>
<p>Among the things that caught Quiroga&#8217;s eye during his visit was Oswald speaking Russian with his wife and daughter. &#8220;Its good practice,&#8221; explained Oswald. &#8220;I&#8217;m studying foreign languages at Tulane University.&#8221; He was lying. Also keep in mind the date:  this was 3 months before the assassination. Oswald’s stint in Russia was virtually unknown at the time.</p>
<p>On the very night of Nov. 22<sup>rd</sup> 1963, Carlos Bringuier went public on American radio and TV: “We don’t know yet if Lee Harvey Oswald is President Kennedy’s assassin. But if he is, then Fidel Castro’s hand is involved in this assassination. &#8221;</p>
<p>Fidel Castro immediately called a press conference to denounce Carlos Bringuier by name and kick off the media disinformation campaign that finally peaked as high comedy with Oliver Stone’s JFK.</p>
<p>“For 15 years of my life at the top of the Soviet bloc intelligence community, I was involved in a world-wide disinformation effort aimed at diverting attention away from the KGB’s involvement with Lee Harvey Oswald. The Kennedy assassination conspiracy was born—and it never died” (Ion Pacepa, the highest ranking intelligence official ever to defect from the Soviet bloc.)</p>
<p>But Carlos Bringuier was on to the disinformation campaign from its very birthday.</p>
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		<title>Assassinating Reality</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 04:04:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Flynn]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The mythology survives the facts 48 years after JFK’s assassination]]></description>
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<p>“The Kennedy cult,” Frank Rich writes in a <em>New York Times Magazine</em> piece, “generally gets a waiver on reality checks.” Perhaps this cultist, who confesses to finding the thousand-day presidency “beautiful, even erotic,” counted on such a waiver when writing his delusional commemoration of the 35<sup>th</sup> president’s assassination.</p>
<p>Take it from Frank Rich: Don’t blame a Communist for the president’s death. Blame the American Right.</p>
<p>Lee Harvey Oswald killed John F. Kennedy in Dallas forty-eight-years ago today. Even before Lyndon Johnson’s presidency began, the assassination narrative did. Did you know that the John Birch Society was big in Dallas? That Dallas was once in the Confederacy and Kennedy hailed from the capital of Yankee America? That Victor Lasky’s anti-Camelot <em>JFK: The Man &amp; the Myth</em> topped the city’s bestseller lists? Such is the flimsy stuff of connect-the-dots historiography.</p>
<p>“What defines the Kennedy legacy today is less the fallen president’s short, often admirable life than the particular strain of virulent hatred that helped bring him down,” Rich writes. “After JFK was killed, that hate went into only temporary hiding. It has been a growth industry ever since and has been flourishing in the Obama years. There are plenty of comparisons to be made between the two men, but the most telling is the vitriol that engulfed both their presidencies.” Alas, the vitriol that engulfed John Kennedy’s two successors, and Barack Obama’s two predecessors, dwarfed the vitriol directed at either of America’s most recent Democratic presidents from the North.</p>
<p>For Rich, understanding <em>why</em> has less to do with <em>who</em> the assassin was than with <em>where</em> the assassination occurred. He implores readers to remember “the role played in Oswald’s psyche by the torrid atmosphere of political rage in Dallas.” But he presumably wants them to forget that the “political rage” Kennedy’s assassin tapped into emanated from Moscow and Havana, not Dallas. Rich devotes one line to debunking, or at least deflating, the notion that Oswald’s activism as a Communist motivated his noxious act. “Immediately after the assassination and ever since, the right has tried to deflect any connection between its fevered Kennedy hatred and Oswald’s addled psyche with the fact that the assassin had briefly defected to the Soviet Union,” Rich writes. But West-to-East migration was hardly a pedestrian occurrence at the height of the Cold War. Can one credibly dismiss the defection as a minor bit of information mitigated by its brevity, particularly when one makes the curious case that right-wing extremism fueled the left-wing assassin?</p>
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		<title>Itzhak Rabin: A Conflicted Legacy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 04:05:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Puder]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A tug of war between Israel's political Left and Right. ]]></description>
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<p>Sixteen years have passed since the shocking assassination of Prime Minister Itzhak Rabin in November 1995.  In Israel, the trauma of the assassination has not completely receded from the public’s mind in large measure because of the media’s sharp focus on the tragedy.  Rabin’s legacy has led to a tug of war between the political left and right, and the issue is how Rabin would have reacted to the subsequent actions of the Palestinians, had he lived.</p>
<p>Rabin’s death occurred two years after the Oslo Accords were signed on the White House lawn in September 1993.  A spate of suicide bombings by Palestinians in 1994-1995 in Israeli cities (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Palestinian_suicide_attacks#1994_.285_bombings.29">Beit Lid</a> massacre, January 22, 1995, 21 Israelis killed; Kfar Darom bus attack, April 9, 1995, 8 Israelis killed; Ramat Gan bus #20 bombing, July 24, 1995, 6 Israelis killed; Ramat Eshkol bus bombing in Jerusalem, August 21, 1995, 4 Israelis killed) made the accords most unpopular.  Moreover, the Palestinian commitment to amend their inherently intolerant and deeply anti-Jewish covenant was ignored.</p>
<p>Had Rabin survived the assassination, he would have abrogated the accords for a very obvious reason &#8211; the Palestinian side simply did not adhere to its commitments and responsibilities.</p>
<p>In his last public speech to the Knesset, on October 5, 1995, just weeks before he was murdered, Prime Minister Itzhak Rabin had this to say:</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://www.mythsandfacts.org/article_view.asp?">We</a> are aware of the fact that the Palestinian Authority has not &#8211; up until now &#8211; honored its commitment to change the Palestinian Covenant, and that all of the promises on this matter have not been kept. I would like to bring it to the attention of the members of the house that I view these changes as a supreme test of the Palestinian Authority&#8217;s willingness and ability, and the changes required will be an important and serious touchstone vis-a-vis the continued implementation of the agreement as a whole.</p></blockquote>
<p>Unlike his rival to the Labor party leadership, Shimon Peres, Rabin the soldier and “Mr. Security” did not trust Yasser Arafat and the Palestinian Liberation Organization (P.L.O.). He was reluctant to endorse the secretive Oslo negotiations but was put under tremendous pressure by Shimon Peres, his Foreign Minister, who “cautioned” him not to miss an historic opportunity for peace with the Palestinians.  Peres himself was assured by his deputy Yossi Beilin of the negotiation’s “successful” outcome.</p>
<p>In an interview this reporter conducted with Itzhak Rabin in late1 991, Rabin assured me that he &#8220;will not negotiate with the P.L.O.” and that even in the context of peace he “will not give up the Golan to the Syrians.”  In a conversation this past weekend with Ambassador Yehuda Avner who served as an advisor to Prime Minister Rabin, Avner revealed that Rabin had indeed prepared a document, which he saw, that stipulated that the Golan will remain in Israeli hands.</p>
<p>When it came to security, Rabin was a confirmed “hawk” albeit, in his second term as Prime Minister he committed to becoming a peace-maker. His most dramatic speech, delivered on the White House lawn at the signing of the Oslo Accords on September 13, 1993, Rabin declared, “We the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0913.html">soldiers</a> who have returned from the battle stained with blood, we who have fought against you, the Palestinians, we say to you today in a loud and clear voice: &#8216;Enough of blood and tears! Enough!”</p>
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		<title>“Demonizing” Government Leads to Violence?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 04:03:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rick Moran]]></dc:creator>
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<p>Bill Clinton wants the GOP, conservatives, and especially the tea party people to cool their rhetoric against President Obama and the Democrats because, he believes, it could lead to violence.</p>
<p>“There can be real consequences when what you say animates people who do things you would never do,” Mr. Clinton told the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/16/us/politics/16clinton.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss">New York Times</a>. “Because of the Internet, there is this vast echo chamber and our advocacy reaches into corners that never would have been possible before,” he said. Mr. Clinton added that demonizing government and those who serve in it can have tragic consequences, as evidenced by the Oklahoma City bombing in 1993 where he insists the executed Timothy McVeigh was influenced by anti-government rhetoric.</p>
<p>Specifically, Clinton took Minnesota Representative Michele Bachmann to task for using the phrase &#8220;gangster government&#8221; to describe the Obama administration. “They are not gangsters. They were elected. They are not doing anything they were not elected to do,” the former president said.</p>
<p>Mr. Clinton&#8217;s concern for the quality of our nation&#8217;s political discourse is touching, if not a little curious. Apparently, the avalanche of hate, violent rhetoric, and invective against President Bush for 8 years didn&#8217;t pose much of a danger in his mind. Otherwise, he would have said something, right?</p>
<p>During the Bush years, major figures on the left referred to the <a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Rush-Limbaugh-Chris-Matthews-and-the-regime-question-89848762.html">&#8220;Bush regime&#8221;</a> as <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brad-wilmouth/2008/02/15/olbermann-invokes-fascism-liar-bush-using-terrorism">&#8220;fascist,&#8221;</a> while insisting that the president was trying to set up <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/andrew_sullivan/article4836535.ece">a dictatorship.</a> Mr. Bush was regularly hung in effigy at protest rallies, and something of an &#8220;<a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2006/08/31/assassination-chic/">assassination chic</a>&#8221; arose where the killing of the president became a parlor game for some of the president&#8217;s more hip critics.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t recall Mr. Clinton &#8212; or anyone else on the left for that matter &#8212; raising the specter of political violence as a result of that fantastically exaggerated, hateful rhetoric. Few, if any in the mainstream media raised an alarm that such unscrewed looniness would incite or enable some left wing kook to act out his violent impulses. Not even as the left <em>en mass</em> were screaming about Bush <a href="http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/09/why-did-bush-ruin-the-country-1.php">&#8220;destroying the country&#8221;</a> did we hear a peep from the former president about &#8220;demonization&#8221; of Bush by his liberal allies.</p>
<p>The point being, Mr. Clinton is engaging in an effort to silence and delegitimize critics of President Obama by hinting at violence that hasn&#8217;t occurred yet. He is, in effect, setting the stage for a massive backlash against the right and tea partiers if, God forbid, some nutcase were to listen to the voices in his head telling him to kill people and act on those impulses. If this were to occur, we would once again be treated to the entire left playing amateur psychologist and trying to guess the insane person’s “motivations.” The fact that most crazed gunmen don’t need any outside stimuli to perpetrate their crimes is beside the point. Even the idea that the fringe right character plotting mayhem cares what some internet blogger has to say about Obama gains currency when the left engages in its politically motivated hunt for blame.</p>
<p>It is not the first time Bill Clinton has raised the specter of &#8220;hate speech&#8221; causing violence. He performed a similar fete of rhetorical legerdemain in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing, hinting broadly that conservative talk radio was to blame for that horrific attack.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/How-Clinton-exploited-Oklahoma-City-for-political-gain-91267829.html">Byron York</a> reminds us that there was method in Clinton&#8217;s madness; a cynical attempt to connect the GOP and Timothy McVeigh:</p>
<blockquote><p>In addition to seeing a criminal act and human loss, Clinton and Morris saw opportunity. If the White House could tie Gingrich, congressional Republicans and conservative voices like Rush Limbaugh to the attack, then Clinton might gain the edge in the fight against the GOP.</p>
<p>[Dick]Morris began polling about Oklahoma City almost immediately after the bombing. On April 23, four days after the attack, Clinton appeared to point the finger straight at his political opponents during a speech in Minneapolis. &#8220;We hear so many loud and angry voices in America today whose sole goal seems to be to try to keep some people as paranoid as possible and the rest of us all torn up and upset with each other,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They spread hate. They leave the impression that, by their very words, that violence is acceptable.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>In his book<em> Behind the Oval Office</em>, Morris relates the strategy employed by President Clinton &#8212; an elegant, brilliant, subtle, and wholly dishonest plan to deliberately forge a false link from the bombing to the admittedly overheated rhetoric being used by talk radio hosts. Both then and now, Clinton is arguing that hyperbole and exaggeration borders on criminal incitement to violence &#8212; at least when conservatives are at fault.</p>
<p>The question he raises is not without precedent. When the Warren Commission was investigating the Kennedy Assassination, there was a debate over how much blame should be assessed the city of Dallas. William Manchester in his seminal work on the assassination <em>Death of a President</em> writes of the unhinged nature of right wing fanaticism that had been let loose in that city in the months leading up to JFK&#8217;s death. Open talk of killing the president, as well as a palpable atmosphere of hate in Dallas caused several Texans in the administration to warn Mr. Kennedy to avoid the city. Just weeks prior to Kennedy&#8217;s visit, Adlai Stevenson experienced a fright when he was physically assaulted after a speech.</p>
<p>The Commission&#8217;s problem; did all this right wing hate have an effect on Lee Harvey Oswald? Oswald, a self described Marxist, had a superficial understanding of the term, embracing it because it made the desperate loner stand out in a crowd. Might the white hot rhetoric employed by the Birchers, the Kluxers, the segregationists, and the southern revanchists have enabled Oswald in some way?</p>
<p>In the end, the Commission took the safe, politically expedient way out and barely mentioned the climate of hate and loathing for Kennedy in Dallas. But there is a world of difference between the kind of violent rhetoric employed by the right in Dallas prior to the assassination and the sometimes angry speech used by talk radio hosts and tea partiers directed at President Obama and the Democrats.</p>
<p>In fact, there is no comparison at all. Where a case can be made that the <em>Dallas News </em>placing a mug shot of the president on their front page the day of his visit with the caption, &#8220;Wanted for Treason&#8221; is beyond the pale of decency, referring to Obama as a &#8220;gangster&#8221; hardly rises to the level of incitement. It may by inaccurate and over the top, but the last I looked, nobody has gone off half cocked because a conservative compared the president to Al Capone.</p>
<p>The real wackos who might be galvanized into action and actually try to hurt someone or blow something up look upon the Limbaugh&#8217;s of the world and the tea partiers with contempt. They, like McVeigh, see them as weaklings without the courage of their convictions. The violent fringe on both sides have abandoned democratic norms and see those who protest as part of the problem. It does not seem rational to believe that anything the protestors say matters a whit to those who would perpetrate violent acts to make their statement against government. To do so ascribes rational thinking to irrational people.</p>
<p>The motivations of the far right fringe are not gleaned from mainstream sources. Timothy McVeigh received <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_McVeigh#Motivations_for_the_bombing">his inspiration</a> from <em>The Turner Diaries</em>, and other far right, fringe literature. To posit the idea that right wing fanatical kooks scour the internet for motivation to commit violent acts, or even thinking that they might accidentally come across some unhinged rant by a right wing blogger that will set them off, is not supported by what we know of potential domestic terrorists. Thus, Bill Clinton&#8217;s warnings can be seen as nothing more than an attempt to silence critics, and to delegitimize their criticisms in the eyes of the public.</p>
<p>Certainly, using reason and logic in political discourse is always preferable to hyperbole and angry rhetoric. But to hint that passionate speech, even if it is irrational or over heated in its description of the opposition, will lead to violence is an insidious attempt to shut off debate and get people to shut up.</p>
<p>It didn&#8217;t work when Clinton tried it in 1994. And it won&#8217;t work now.</p>
<p><em>Rick Moran is Blog Editor of </em><a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/"><em>The American Thinker</em></a><em>,and Chicago Editor for </em><a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/"><em>Pajamas Media</em></a><em>. His personal blog is </em><a href="http://rightwingnuthouse.com/"><em>Right Wing Nuthouse.</em></a><em> </em></p>
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<p>For those familiar with the stellar reputation of Israel’s clandestine services, the recent hit on a Hamas operative and arms dealer in Dubai seems oddly atypical. It was, to the outside observer, an embarrassingly sloppy effort: The agents who allegedly carried out the assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh  in his luxury hotel room made what appear to be a series of rookie mistakes, for instance allowing themselves to be caught on video surveillance cameras and using the stolen passports of Israeli citizens. Hardly the kind of work one would associate with the Israeli Mossad, whose efficiency in covert operations is the stuff of cloak-and-dagger legend.</p>
<p>Indeed, even Hamas is starting to have doubts. Having initially pointed the finger at Israel, Hamas <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1153316.html">now suspects</a> that the security services of another Arab state – possibly Jordan or Egypt – could have been behind the assassination.</p>
<blockquote><p><em>Hamas suspects the security forces of an Arab state were behind the assassination of a senior group operative in Dubai earlier this year, the Al-Quds Al-Araby daily reported on Tuesday. </em><em> </em></p>
<p><em>Mahmoud Nasser, a member of Hamas’ political bureau, told the newspaper that slain commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was likely being tracked by agents from Jordan and Egypt prior to the January 19 killing.</em></p>
<p><em>Nasser said he had been given information regarding such efforts to kill Mabhouh, adding that the evidence indicated that the assassination was carried out earlier than the alleged agents had planned. </em></p>
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<p><em>According to Nasser, Mabhouh was in possession of “dangerous” information seen as dangerous to particular Arab elements seeking to topple Islamist resistance.</em></p></blockquote>
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<p>That tracks with the reporting of the <em>Washington</em><em> Times’</em> Eli Lake, who <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/feb/25/dubai-hit-did-not-upset-israeli-counterterror-ties/print/">noted</a> last week that despite widespread assumptions about Israel’s role in the assassination<em> </em></p>
<blockquote><p><em>…some details have emerged that do not track with traditional Israeli intelligence tradecraft. The Dubai authorities this week said two of the operatives fled to Iran. </em></p>
<p><em>Michael Ross, a retired officer for the Mossad’s covert-operations division, said it would be a breach of Israeli protocol for an operative to flee to another target country like that after an operation. </em></p>
<p><em>He also said that it was unlikely that Israel would use 26 people for a job that would require far fewer people. “The Mossad believes if two people can do something instead of three people, then send two.” </em></p></blockquote>
<p>I’m not sure the last point is a strong one. As former CIA field officer Robert Baer <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704479404575087621440351704.html">pointed out</a> in the <em>Wall Street Journal</em> last weekend, 26 people is just about the right number for this kind of operation. The logic is that it takes a lot of people to provide the reconnaissance and observation required for the hit to succeed without alerting the authorities. Nevertheless, the abject failure of those involved in the assassination scheme to cover their tracks while bringing almost immediate scrutiny to bear on Israel may well be the strongest reason to question whether Israeli intelligence was in fact responsible. After all, Hamas has long been on the receiving end of Israel’s superlative ability to carry out clean and precise assassinations. If even they are having their doubts about Israel’s involvement, the emerging conventional wisdom about what really happened in Dubai may yet be proven wrong.</p>
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<p>It all began with an innocent enough request for an interview about the Goldstone report and my <a href="http://www.alandershowitz.com/goldstone.pdf">49 page response</a> to it. The Israeli Army radio station asked to interview me.  The interview was conducted by an experienced host, Razi Barkai.  Unbeknownst to me, Barkai had an agenda.  He wanted to get me to say that I thought that Goldstone was a “moser.”  He wanted me to use this Hebrew word, whose meaning I did not understand, because in Israel, this obscure theological term has taken on a meaning of its own.  According to The Forward, “the term moser entered Israeli political discourse in 1995 in the wake of Rabin’s assassination by radical settler supporter Yigal Amir, when Amir cited some rabbis’ designation of Rabin as a moser as part of his justification for carrying out the murder.”  The Forward quoted Michael Karpin, an Israeli journalist and the author of a book on Rabin’s assassination, as follows: “After the assassination, when Amir was interviewed by the police and he mentioned the term moser, people tried to find out what it is…Nobody used it here before the assassination.”</p>
<p>Unfortunately, I was totally unfamiliar with the “inside baseball”—or in this case “inside Israel”—use of this esoteric term.</p>
<p>Several times during the interview, Barkai tried to get me to agree that Goldstone was a moser, a word he pronounced with a thick accent.  Since the interview was being conducted in English, I thought he was asking me to agree with him that Goldstone was a “monster.”  I would never use the term “monster” since it suggests an inherent, even genetic, flaw in a person, without regard to what he has said or done.  I was clear throughout my interview that I believed that Goldstone had exploited his Jewishness to lend illegitimate credibility <a href="http://cgis.jpost.com/Blogs/dershowitz/entry/arguments_ad_hominem_in_defense">to a false report</a>. In this respect, he had betrayed his people and deserved to be condemned in the marketplace of ideas.  Accordingly, when Barkai asked me the following question, “Do you hint, Professor, that he is a moser, someone who betrays his own people?,”  I focused on the part of the question I understood.  Believing that he is someone who betrays his own people, I answered the question in the affirmative.  Barkai had sprung the trap.  Now he had me.  He could send out press releases indicating that I had called Goldstone a moser, even though I never used the word and had no idea what it meant.</p>
<p>The story spread quickly around the world, and I was condemned, largely by the extreme left, for advocating Goldstone’s murder.  As soon as I heard this, I immediately demanded a clarification from Barkai, which he ran on the air.  I repeatedly emphasized, in subsequent interviews, that “I certainly did not mean to imply that any physical harm should come to Goldstone.”  But this didn’t stop the incitement by those in the media more interested in sensationalism than truth.</p>
<p>M.J. Rosenberg, the former Director of Policy Analysis for Israel Policy Forum, wrote in his Palestine Note blog that I was “calling for Goldstone’s murder.”  Even more insidiously, the Forward, a mainstream Jewish newspaper, ran a lengthy piece strongly implying that I must have known the theological (or “Halachic”) implications of “moser.”  They went so far as to find an elementary school classmate at Etz Chayim Yeshiva in Boro Park who told them, quite erroneously, that I “must have heard it as a child.”  (Another classmate wrote the Forward a letter confirming that he too had never heard it—and he was a <span style="text-decoration: underline;">good</span> Yeshiva student!)  The Forward then went on to quote another rabbi to the effect that “a moser can become a capital crime” under certain circumstances.  At the very bottom of the article, so as not to detract from its sensationalism, the Forward included the following disclaimer:</p>
<p>“I do not want any harm to come to Richard Goldstone,” Dershowitz said.  “I want him to be responded to in the marketplace of ideas.”</p>
<p>An article in the Jewish Telegraphic Agency by Ron Kampares was even more irresponsible.  It “reported” the following:</p>
<p>“Most recently, Alan Dershowitz likened him to a “moser”, a Jewish traitor deemed in some interpretations as worthy of a death sentence.”</p>
<p>This was written days <span style="text-decoration: underline;">after</span> I had made it clear that I wanted no harm to befall Goldstone.  A response to the JTA article by Debra DeLee, President and CEO of Americans For Peace Now, accused me—also days after I made my position clear—of calling Goldstone a “moser,” which she said is “a term reserved in traditional Jewish law for a Jewish traitor who should be killed.”</p>
<p>She also showed her ignorance of the fact that I had written a 49 page substantive response to the Goldstone report, by saying that I “could have—and should have—aired substantive disagreements about the report that Judge Goldstone authored following the Gaza War.”</p>
<p>Finally, a columnist for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz (Bradley Burston) described me as “Kahane-sounding,” a reference for the radical rabbi who did in fact call for violence—as contrasted for my call for peace based on a two-state solution and the end of civilian settlements.  But no matter, its sells newspapers.</p>
<p>It’s bad enough that there are some religious extremists on both sides who actually incite their followers to commit violence.  But when elements of the mainstream Israeli and Jewish media twist the truth in the interest of sensationalism to imply—or state outright—that I am calling for the murder of Richard Goldstone, it is those irresponsible members of the media (and of Americans For Peace Now) who become the inciters.</p>
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		<title>Being George Galloway &#8211; WSJ.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:27:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to George Galloway, where do we begin? In recent years, the former British Labour MP—now representing the Respect Party for the district of Bethnal Green and Bow—could be found lauding Syria as a force for stability in Lebanon, defending the fraudulent re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Iran and denying Hezbollah&#8217;s long record [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When it comes to George Galloway, where do we begin? In recent years, the former British Labour MP—now representing the Respect Party for the district of Bethnal Green and Bow—could be found lauding Syria as a force for stability in Lebanon, defending the fraudulent re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Iran and denying Hezbollah&#8217;s long record of international terrorism. In response to a question in 2006, he said that the assassination of George W. Bush and Tony Blair would be &#8220;morally justified,&#8221; while carefully adding, &#8220;I am not calling for it.&#8221;</p>
<p>And last week, he was deported and banned from Egypt after leading an aid convoy to the Gaza Strip whose transit through Egypt left dozens wounded and at least one Egyptian border guard dead. Mr. Galloway, for the record, denies that he is or has ever been a supporter of Hamas, just as he always denied knowingly lending aid and comfort to Saddam Hussein, or being a beneficiary of the dictator&#8217;s largesse. As for his aid missions to Gaza, he insists it was solely for the benefit of its people. Any propaganda value for Hamas that might arise out of his efforts is purely, so to speak, collateral damage—as were the death and injuries that resulted from his latest foray into freelance diplomacy.</p>
<p>But then, this is what it is to be George Galloway: He&#8217;s a scold of the perceived moral compromises of others who does not hesitate to make moral compromises of his own; a self-professed crusader for democracy who rarely bothers to vote in Parliament; a champion for the dispossessed who does not hesitate to cozy up to tyrants when it suits his purposes. Reconciling these paradoxes isn&#8217;t difficult to do, since when it comes to Mr. Galloway, all of his crusades are about nothing except the glorification of himself, regardless of the costs to others.</p>
<p>via <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB10001424052748703652104574652161470269816-lMyQjAxMTAwMDEwMTExNDEyWj.html">Being George Galloway &#8211; WSJ.com</a>.</p>
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		<title>Panic room saved artist Kurt Westergaard from Islamist assassin &#8211; Times Online</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 04:07:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just when Denmark thought the worst was over, Islamic fury has come back to haunt it with an assassination attempt on the artist whose cartoon of the prophet Muhammad as a suicide bomber had an explosive impact four years ago on the Muslim world.An axe-wielding Somali extremist broke into the home of Kurt Westergaard on [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just when Denmark thought the worst was over, Islamic fury has come back to haunt it with an assassination attempt on the artist whose cartoon of the prophet Muhammad as a suicide bomber had an explosive impact four years ago on the Muslim world.An axe-wielding Somali extremist broke into the home of Kurt Westergaard on Friday night as the 75-year-old cartoonist was looking after Stephanie, his five-year-old granddaughter.Westergaard, whose little ink drawing of Muhammad with a bomb in his turban sparked riots throughout the Middle East in 2006, has received numerous death threats. He pressed an alarm button to summon police when the attacker entered the house in Aarhus, Denmark’s second city, by breaking a window.He did not have time to collect the child from the living room before locking himself into a “panic room”, a specially fortified bathroom. He said the assailant had shouted “swear words, really crude words” and shrieked about “blood” and “revenge”, as he smashed the axe in vain against the bathroom door.</p>
<p>via <a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article6973966.ece">Panic room saved artist Kurt Westergaard from Islamist assassin &#8211; Times Online</a>.</p>
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