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		<title>Only Muslim Schoolchildren Lives Matter?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raymond Ibrahim]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The world heard about the Peshawar school attack, but many attacks on Christian schools go unreported by MSM.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/4973928-3x2-700x467.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-248284" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/4973928-3x2-700x467-450x300.jpg" alt="4973928-3x2-700x467" width="321" height="214" /></a>Earlier we looked at “<a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/raymond-ibrahim/how-western-media-enable-islamic-terrorism/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">how Western mainstream media enable Islamic terrorism</span></a>,” specifically by employing an arsenal of semantic games, key phrases, convenient omissions, and moral relativism to portray such violence as a product of anything and everything—political and historical grievances, “Islamophobia,” individual insanity, poverty and ignorance, territorial disputes—not Islam.</p>
<p>Another strategy that recently came to the fore consists of highlighting Islamic terror attacks that target other Muslims.  The logic here is clear:  How “Islamic” can such Islamic groups be if they attack and kill fellow Muslims?  In other words, whatever the motivation, it surely cannot be Islam, since those being killed are themselves Muslims.  This suggests that the terrorists themselves cannot be true Muslims since Muslims are generally forbidden by Islam to kill other Muslims (caveats exist).</p>
<p>A recent example of this is the December 16 Taliban attack on an army public school in Peshawar, where 145 people were killed, the majority being schoolchildren age 18 and under.   This incident was reported all over the mainstream media, and rightfully so.</p>
<p>Yet this begs the question: why do similar attacks, when directed at non-Muslims—especially Christians—rarely if ever get the same sort of media coverage?</p>
<p>For example, in <a href="https://barnabasfund.org/US/News/Archives/47-youngsters-killed-at-Christian-school-in-Nigeria-while-Christians-in-Mubi-forced-to-flee-after-Boko-Haram-renames-it-City-of-Islam.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Nigeria</span></a> on November 10,</p>
<blockquote><p>A suicide bomb attack in a Christian secondary school in the town of Potiskum in Yobe state, north-eastern <a href="https://barnabasfund.org/US/Our-work/Our-current-projects/BF-Project-Countries/Nigeria.html?"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Nigeria</span></a>, has killed at least 47 people on Monday as the students gathered for morning assembly. Boko Haram is thought to be behind the blast, having carried out several attacks on schools giving a Western-style education. Translated from Hausa, Boko Haram means “Western education is forbidden” of which this latest school attack is a stark reminder.</p></blockquote>
<p>Earlier in the year in Nigeria “Boko Haram claimed the lives of <a href="http://www.romereports.com/pg155924-nearly-60-students-at-christian-school-killed-in-boko-haram-attack-in-nigeria-en"><span style="color: #0433ff;">59 students</span></a> at a Christian school &#8230;  Some 50 men ambushed the school, then beat and shot staff and students. Once finished, they set fire to the buildings, with many students still inside. It&#8217;s the fourth attack of its kind since May of last year.”</p>
<p>On October 1 in Syria, at least 41 Alawite children—all under 12—were <a href="https://docs.zoho.com/writer/ropen.do?rid=b6wwv3c5aa80706194262ab5ce81131ace25c#bookmark=http://www.fides.org/en/news/36468-ASIA_SYRIA_Massacre_of_children_in_Homs_three_Christians_kidnapped_in_the_province_of_Hassake"><span style="color: #0433ff;">killed</span></a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>The massacre was one of the most severe in terms of children who died since the beginning of the conflict in Syria. According to official Syrian sources, a car bomb and a suicide bomber caused two explosions when the children came out of school, in the suburb of Akrameh inhabited mainly by Alawites, with the targeted intention to cause the highest number possible of deaths among children of the same religious community to which the Assad family belong.</p></blockquote>
<p>Here is the testimony of an eyewitness to another Islamic attack on a Christian school in Syria, where 12 people—mostly children—were <a href="http://www.charismanews.com/world/43540-god-is-here-but-i-am-getting-so-tired-syrian-christian-mother-mourns-killing-of-children-from-bombings"><span style="color: #0433ff;">killed</span></a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>I want to tell you about Tuesday. It was a terrible day. We cried and prayed all day. Tuesday they were bombing Bab Touma, the old city of Damascus. A lot of Christians live there. There is also a Christian school—a private one. We know a lot of people in that school. Some children from our area also go to school there. When those kids went to school on Tuesday, gathered at the square like they always do, a mortar fell in their midst. Some friends passed by the school and saw that parents and teachers were carrying their wounded children out of the school, dripping with blood. They saw them running to the hospitals in panic. For me, as a mother and a teacher, I can hardly bear to imagine what these people must be going through right now.  Twelve people lost their lives in that school, most of them children from the elementary school. Many more of them have lost arms and legs or have other injuries.</p></blockquote>
<p>As for Islamic attacks on Christian schools that do not lead to casualties, these are quite common.  Thus, on November 5 in Bangladesh, hundreds of Muslims, some armed with knives and machetes, attacked a Christian school.  <a href="https://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/2014/11/article_3500298.html/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">They</span></a> torched its library, burned Bibles and hymnals, and committed other wanton acts of violence.  According to a source, “A wave of panic swept through the school and traumatized everyone. Many students became sick in the following days.”  The reason for this particular attack?  <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/islamists-project-islams-worst-traits-onto-christians/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Muslim projection</span></a>: a rumor started that the Christian school was converting Muslim students to Christianity.</p>
<p>How many of those Western people who could not help but hear about the Peshawar attack—considering its widespread coverage—also heard about these Islamic attacks on schools some of which also took large numbers of children lives?  Not very many, I would wager.</p>
<p>The reason, again, is obvious: reporting Muslims killing Muslims does not contradict the mainstream media’s narrative but ostensibly enforces it.  For—so the simple logic goes—Muslims who kill fellow Muslims cannot be “real” Muslims to start with, and must in fact be, as Western politicians habitually characterize them, mere “criminals.”</p>
<p>Thus, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan issued a <a href="http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?adbid=545215646309416960&amp;adbpl=tw&amp;adbpr=66369181&amp;cid=social_20141217_37458137&amp;id=123838"><span style="color: #0433ff;">statement</span></a> condemning the Peshawar attack, adding, “The barbaric actions of the Taliban illustrate their lack of value for human life and lack of respect for the Islamic faith. These attacks only prove their selfish desire for power and willingness to murder to reach their self-serving goals.”</p>
<p>On the other hand, it is more difficult for the media to dissemble the motives of Muslims who intentionally target and kill “the other”—outnumbered and defenseless “infidel” minorities—simply because <i>they are</i> “the other.”</p>
<p>Whether small numbers or large—whether <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/islam-built-on-the-blood-of-christian-martyrs/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">four children decapitated for refusing to renounce Christ</span></a> or whether <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/largest-massacre-of-christians-in-syria-ignored/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">the largest massacre of Christians in Syria</span></a>—Muslim persecution of Christians will rarely if ever get MSM coverage, for it <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/why-christian-persecution-is-islams-achilles-heel/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">throws a wrench</span></a> in the media’s narrative that Islamic violence is a product of anything and everything but <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/the-ultimate-source-of-islamic-hate-for-infidels/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Islamic hate for non-Muslims</span></a>.</p>
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		<title>Taliban School Slaughter</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2014 05:54:09 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/635543241836764189-AP-Pakistan-002.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247656" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/635543241836764189-AP-Pakistan-002-450x316.jpg" alt="635543241836764189-AP-Pakistan-002" width="313" height="220" /></a>The mind-numbing savagery of radical Islam plumbed new depths in Pakistan yesterday. Taliban terrorists shouting &#8220;Allahu akbar&#8221; <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/pakistan-school-massacre/pakistan-school-attack-taliban-militants-kill-more-140-peshawar-n269011"><span style="color: #1255cc;">attacked</span></a> the Army Public School and Degree College in Peshawar, slaughtering 142 people, including 132 children <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/taliban-storms-pakistani-military-school-kills-20-students-article-1.2046714"><span style="color: #1255cc;">between</span></a> the ages of six and 16. Another 10 staff members, including the principal, were also murdered. &#8220;They didn&#8217;t take any hostages initially and started firing in the hall,” said Maj. Gen. Asim Bajwa, a military spokesman.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The details of the slaughter are horrific. “We were in the education hall when militants barged in, shooting,” <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/17/world/asia/taliban-attack-pakistani-school.html?_r=0"><span style="color: #1255cc;">said</span></a> Zeeshan, a student, speaking at a hospital. “Our instructor asked us to duck and lay down and then I saw militants walking past rows of students shooting them in the head.” Another student confirmed those shootings. &#8220;The gunmen entered class by class and shot some kids one by one,” he told local media. Jamshed Khan, a school bus driver, also described the scene. &#8220;We were standing outside the school and firing suddenly started and there was chaos everywhere and the screams of children and teachers,” he said.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;"><span style="color: #1255cc;"><a href="http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/peshawar-school-attack-taliban-burn-teacher-alive-front-pupils-behead-children-1479767?">According</a></span> to the <i>International Business Times</i>, the Taliban monsters allegedly stooped even lower to satisfy their bloodlust. &#8220;They burnt a teacher in front of the students in a classroom,&#8221; an unnamed military source revealed. &#8220;They literally set the teacher on fire with gasoline and made the kids watch.” Moreover, Pakistani officials revealed that many of the dead children brought to the hospital had their heads chopped off.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The assault began around 11 a.m. local time (1 a.m. EST)  when <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-30491435"><span style="color: #1255cc;">seven terrorists</span></a> wearing police uniforms and suicide vests scaled the wall of the school. They immediately began lobbing hand grenades and shooting indiscriminately at a time when approximately 1,000 of the school’s 2,500 male and female students in grades one through 10 were in attendance. The siege lasted more than eight hours, with Pakistani security forces forced to deal with five “heavy” explosions heard around 5 a.m. EST, in a seeming attempt to hinder rescue efforts. All seven attackers were ultimately killed, with the <i>Daily News</i> reporting that once they were finally cornered by Pakistani commandos &#8220;they blew themselves up rather than surrender.&#8221; A sweep of the compound for additional explosives was subsequently undertaken.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">An unnamed security official illuminated the one and only objective of these savage thugs. “These attackers were not in the mood to take hostages,” he said. “They were there to kill and this is what they did.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The killers <a href="http://pamelageller.com/2014/12/126-dead-in-taliban-attack-on-school-hundreds-of-children-held-hostage.html/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">were</span></a> part of the Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP) group, a Pakistani terrorist organization attempting to over throw the Pakistani government, and the same group to which wannabe 2010 Times Square bomber Faisal Shahzad belonged. TTP spokesman Mohammed Khurasani <a href="http://tribune.com.pk/story/807564/gunmen-target-school-in-peshawar/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">told</span></a> the Karachi-based <i>Express Tribune</i> the attack was an act of revenge. “We selected the army’s school for the attack because the government is targeting our families and females,” he said, referring to Pakistan’s ongoing military offensive taking place on the Afghan border. “We want them to feel the pain.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Gen. Bajwa confirmed that almost all of the children killed belonged to members of the Pakistani military. Army chief of staff General Raheel Sharif called the killers “inhuman beasts.” Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who arrived in Peshawar where authorities have declared a three-day mourning period, promised certain reprisal. “Those behind the heinous act will not be spared,” he vowed.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Sharif also announced a meeting of all government parties scheduled for today. Its comes amidst political turbulence orchestrated by opposition leader Imran Khan whose political party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), controls the provincial government in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. Khan has led a series of protests in a effort to unseat Sharif, because he believes the Prime Minister’s supporters rigged the 2013 election, and because he disagrees with the army’s ongoing effort against terrorists in tribal areas. That effort, known as Operation Zarb-e-Azb, has killed approximately 1,800 terrorists operating in North Waziristan, an epicenter of Taliban terrorist activity. And while public support for that campaign has been described as “lukewarm,” due to what by government policy-makers attribute to &#8220;lack of consensus&#8221; and &#8220;large pockets of sympathy” for terrorists, Khan&#8217;s belief the government should negotiate with the terrorists instead of fighting them has garnered considerable criticism.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Unfortunately, he is not alone in that regard. The same day President Obama insisted the Taliban had &#8220;once again shown their depravity,&#8221; Breitbart News <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2014/12/16/Obama-2012-My-Administration-is-Negotiating-With-The-Taliban"><span style="color: #1255cc;">revealed</span></a> a statement made in 2012 by Obama at Bagram Airfield Base, home of the U.S. Air Forces Central Command in Afghanistan. &#8220;We&#8217;re pursuing a negotiated peace. In coordination with the Afghan government my administration has been in direct discussions with the Taliban &#8230; Many members of the Taliban, from foot soldiers to leaders, have indicated an interest in reconciliation,” he said at the time.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The BBC wonders whether this heinous attack will constitute a “watershed” moment for the Pakistani government. Americans might be forgiven for wondering the same thing with regard to the Obama administration.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Other world leaders issued forceful condemnations of the slaughter. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon referred to it as &#8220;an act of horror and rank cowardice.” British Prime Minister David Cameron characterized it as “deeply shocking,” adding that it was “horrifying that children are being killed simply for going to school.<i>” </i>Indian prime minister Narendra Modi called it “cowardly,” and a &#8220;senseless act of unspeakable brutality that has claimed lives of the most innocent of human beings&#8211;young children in their school.”<i> </i></p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Nobel Prize winner<i> </i><a href="http://www.dailyworth.com/posts/3014-10-fast-facts-about-malala-yousafzai"><span style="color: #1255cc;">Malala Yousafzai</span></a>, the young girl shot in the head by would-be Taliban assassins in 2012 when she was only 15, also added her voice to the mix. “Innocent children in their school have no place in horror such as this,” she said in a statement. “I, along with millions of others around the world, mourn these children, my brothers and sisters — but we will never be defeated.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Pakistan has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/16/pakistan-taliban-peshawar-massacre-attack"><span style="color: #1255cc;">already responded</span></a> to the tragedy. Gen. Shariff tweeted that “massive air strikes” had been carried out in the Khyber region of the country, and Sharif insisted that Operation Zarb-e-Azb &#8220;will continue until the terrorism is rooted out from our land.” The latest attack is part of a bloody track record in a nation where 50,000 people have been killed by terrorist violence in the past 13 years.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Devastated parent Tahir Ali expressed the grief undoubtedly shared by every parent victimized by this brutality. &#8220;My son was in uniform in the morning, he is in a casket now,” Ali said. “My son was my dream. My dream has been killed.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">One would hope the world’s denial about radical Islam, pockmarked by occasional outbursts of horror whenever the next atrocity occurs, will suffer the same fate. We are two days removed from the <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/lindt-chocolat-cafe-hostage-drama-in-martin-place-sydney-20141215-1278cx.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">attack</span></a> in Sydney, one of many where the mainstream media and feckless politicians seek the false comfort of the “lone wolf” theory that amounts to nothing more than a willful refusal to connect the dots.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">An Obama administration that refers to the war on terror as “an overseas contingency operation” and applauds the conclusions of a one-sided report denigrating the CIA, hardly inspires confidence that the status quo will change. Thus, the only question is when the next horrific atrocity will occur. Should Americans have confidence that it won&#8217;t be in their own shopping malls, train stations, airports and city squares? The answer is a clear &#8220;no.&#8221;</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2014 05:03:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And it continues all the time.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/mideast-israel-palest_newb1.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-245949" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/mideast-israel-palest_newb1-402x350.jpg" alt="Mideast Israel Palestinians" width="402" height="350" /></a>At the end of yet another brutal week where Israelis were killed while praying, the lessons of <a href="http://www.algemeiner.com/2012/04/01/ze%E2%80%99ev-jabotinskys-answer-to-hypocrisy/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Zionist hero Ze’ev Jabotinsky</span></a> are relevant, as before there was a Jewish State he wrote:</p>
<blockquote><p>It is very, very sad that Jews are compelled to learn to shoot. But we are compelled and it is useless to argue against the compulsion of historic reality. That compulsion says you may be well educated, you may learn to plow the land and to build houses, you may speak Hebrew… but if you do not at the same time know how to shoot there is no hope. That is the lesson of the reality of our time and that is the prospect for the lifetime of our children.</p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #353434;"><span style="color: #000000;">What Jabotinsky said in the 1930’s in Europe remains true today. So, too do the words of his former secretary, </span>Ben-Zion Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel’s father who said in 2009: &#8220;The Holocaust didn&#8217;t end. It continues all the time.&#8221; The brutal images of Jews being killed at prayer this week in Jerusalem could have come from any other tragedy in Jewish history.</p>
<p><span style="color: #0433ff;"><a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/ronn-torossian/zeev-jabotinsky-to-benjamin-netanyahu-on-hamas/">Ze’ev Jabotinsky</a></span> noted,</p>
<blockquote><p>Where it is a question of war you do not stand and ask questions as to what is &#8220;better,” whether to shoot or not to shoot.  The only permissible question in such circumstances is on the contrary “what is worse” to let yourself be killed or enslaved without any resistance or to undertake resistance with all its horrible questions. For there is no “better” at all. Everything connected with war is bad, and cannot be “good.” When you shoot at enemy soldiers do not lie to yourself or persuade yourself that you are shooting at “guilty” ones. If you start calculating with what is “better” the calculation is very simple; if you want to be good let yourself be killed and renounce everything you would like to defend: home, country, freedom, hope.  The blackest of all characteristics is the tradition of the cheapness of Jewish blood.</p></blockquote>
<p>In the legendary essay “Ethics of the Iron Wall,” Jabotinsky, the father of the Likud Party wrote:</p>
<blockquote><p>Human society is based on reciprocity. If you remove reciprocity, justice becomes a lie. A person walking somewhere on a street has the right to live only because and only to the extent that he acknowledges my right to live. But, if he wishes to kill me, to my mind he forfeits his right to exist – and this also applies to nations. Otherwise, the world would become a racing area for vicious predators, where not only the weakest would be devoured, but the best.</p></blockquote>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ISIS-Burns-Down-Church.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-244875" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ISIS-Burns-Down-Church.jpg" alt="ISIS-Burns-Down-Church" width="321" height="272" /></a>The purge of ancient Christian communities throughout Iraq that started in June culminated in a show of great intolerance in July.</p>
<p>Among other things, a Christian church that had stood on the ground of Iraq for 1,800 years—a church that was erected less than 200 year after Christ—was reportedly torched by the Islamic State, according to numerous news agencies, including <a href="http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2014/07/20/ISIS-burns-1-800-year-old-church-in-Mosul.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Al Arabiya</span></a>.</p>
<p>Islamic State jihadis also stormed and took over an ancient monastery in northern Iraq and <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/jihadists-seize-iraq-monastery-005850871.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">expelled its few monks</span></a>, telling them “You have no place here anymore, you have to leave immediately.”  The monks plead to be allowed to save some of the monastery’s ancient relics but the jihadis refused and ordered them to walk many miles along a deserted road with nothing but their clothes.  (St. Behnam monastery had stood since the fourth century and was one of Iraq’s best-known Christian landmarks.  It was built by an Assyrian king as a penance for executing his children Behnam and Sarah for converting to Christianity.)</p>
<p>The Islamic State issued a July 19 deadline for Mosul’s remaining <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/24/iraqi-christians-mosul-isis-convert-islam-or-be-executed"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Christians either to convert to Islam or face execution</span></a>.  Islamic State members also singled out Christian homes by placing the Arabic letter for “N”—based on the Arabic word <i>Nasara</i>, or “Nazarenes,” the Koran’s pejorative for Christians—on the sides of their homes.   The result, in the words of Patriarch Louis Sako, is that “For the first time in the history of Iraq, Mosul is now empty of Christians.”</p>
<p>In response to the Islamic State’s latest atrocities against Iraq’s Christian minorities, the Syriac Orthodox bishop of Mount Lebanon and Tripoli,<span style="color: #0433ff;"> George Saliba</span>, <a href="https://docs.zoho.com/writer/ropen.do?rid=fs79p4de3b9a0916c47bc898fe0713d6d0e07#bookmark=http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2014/Jul-30/265488-syriac-orthodox-bishop-muslims-enemies-of-christ.ashx"><span style="color: #0433ff;">denounced</span></a> not just the Islamic State but Muslims in general for their long “history of violence and oppression against Christians”:</p>
<blockquote><p>What is happening in<span style="color: #0433ff;"> Iraq</span> is a strange thing, but it is normal for Muslims, because they have never treated Christians well, and they have always held an offensive and defaming stand against Christians….  We used to live and coexist with Muslims, but then they revealed their canines [teeth]….  [They don’t] have the right to storm houses, steal and attack the honor of Christians.  Most Muslims do this, the Ottomans killed us and after that the ruling nation-states understood the circumstances but always gave advantage to the Muslims.  Islam has never changed&#8230;</p></blockquote>
<p>Islamic organizations responded by denouncing the Syriac bishop’s words as “hateful” and Islamophobic, demanding an apology.</p>
<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also made some telling remarks concerning the plight of Christians, <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/presbyterian-church-usa-criticizes-israel-ignores-christian-persecution/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">especially in those Mideast countries the U.S. is involved in</span></a>.  When asked if he was “troubled” by the Presbyterian Church USA’s decision to withdraw $21 million worth in investments from Israel on behalf of the Palestinian people, the prime minister said:</p>
<blockquote><p>You know I would suggest to these Presbyterian organizations to fly to the Middle East, come and see Israel for the embattled democracy that it is, and then take a bus tour, go to Libya, go to Syria, go to Iraq, and see the difference. And I would give them two pieces of advice, one is, make sure it’s an armor plated bus, and second, don’t say that you’re Christians.<i> </i></p></blockquote>
<p>The rest of July’s roundup of Muslim persecution of Christians around the world includes (but is not limited to) the following accounts, listed by theme and country alphabetical order, not necessarily according to severity.</p>
<p><b>Muslim Attacks on Churches and Carnage</b></p>
<p><b>Afghanistan</b>: according to BosNewsLife, the central Asian nation’s “tiny Christian community was left in shock Friday,  July 25, after <a href="http://www.bosnewslife.com/33389-news-alert-finish-christian-workers-killed-in-afghanistan"><span style="color: #0433ff;">two Finnish Christian aid workers were shot dead</span></a>.”  The attack “underscored the dangers faced by Christian aid workers.”  The two women were slain by motorcycle riding gunmen in the western city of Herat, “the latest in a series of attacks targeting Westerners, including Christian believers.  The Christians, who represented International Assistance Mission (IAM), had been working in Afghanistan since the 1990s…  They both spoke Dari well and knew and respected the culture of Afghanistan.”  Among those the aid workers were helping were people with mental disabilities and illiterate women.</p>
<p><b>Central African Republic</b>:  At least <a href="http://barnabasfund.org/US/News/Archives/Help-Christians-affected-by-CAR-violence-27-killed-in-church-attack.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">27 Christians were slaughtered</span></a> during a July 7 attack on the St. Joseph’s Cathedral compound in Bambari, where thousands of people, mostly Christian, were receiving sanctuary.  The attackers were fighters from the Islamic Seleka rebel movement and Muslim civilians. The armed attackers entered the grounds at around 3pm and began shooting indiscriminately. Women and children were among those killed; over 20 people were injured.  The Islamic attackers burnt down 20 <a href="http://barnabasfund.org/US/Our-work/Our-current-projects/BF-Project-Categories/Buildings.html?"><span style="color: #0433ff;">buildings</span></a> within the church compound, set fire to three cars, and stole two others as well as a number of motorbikes.  Weeks earlier, on May 28, another attack on a church compound in Bangui, the capital, left around 20 people dead.</p>
<p><b>Kenya</b>: On July 5, Muslims attacked the Covenant Church, three kilometers north of Hindi, just as Bible study was closing.  As the Bible study participants fled, two men opted to hide inside the church building—and were <a href="http://morningstarnews.org/2014/07/christians-killed-in-attacks-in-coastal-region-of-kenya/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">burned alive after the Islamic attackers set the building on fire</span></a>.  On the same night, a Catholic church building in the village of Gamba, in neighboring Tana River County, was also destroyed by attackers.   Two days earlier, 15-20 assailants armed with guns and knives attacked Gamba and the village of Hindi, killing at least 13 people, including a 12-year-old student and a 30-year-old man “who was found in a pool of blood with a Bible on his back,” reports Morning Star News. One survivor of the attacks said the invaders were heard “saying non-Muslims should get out, and if not they should convert to Islam.”  Another survivor said, “I was removed with my daughter from the house while the attackers tied my husband to the bedside before setting the house on fire.  The attackers, who spoke mainly in Somali, targeted non-Muslims, whom they tied with ropes before slitting their throats.” (Gamba is about 28 miles from Mpeketoni, another Christian town where gunmen killed at least 57 people in a <a href="http://morningstarnews.org/2014/06/christians-targeted-in-massacre-by-al-shabaab-in-kenya/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">June 15 attack</span></a>.)</p>
<p><b>Lebanon</b>: A shadowy group known as the Free Sunnis of Baalbek Brigade, which had only recently pledged its allegiance to the Islamic State, announced on its twitter account that a “specialized group of free jihadists were tasked with cleansing the Islamic state of Bekaa in particular and in Lebanon in general <a href="http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/137260-free-sunnis-of-baalbek-brigade-vows-to-silence-church-bells-in-bekaa"><span style="color: #0433ff;">from the churches</span></a>.  We will target crusaders in the state and in Lebanon to silence the ringing of the bells.”  (According to Islamic Sharia, churches under Islamic authority are <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/western-ignorance-of-the-conditions-of-omar/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">forbidden from ringing their bells</span></a>.)  The Brigade has claimed responsibility for several rocket and bomb attacks inside Lebanon, the last of which were the suicide blasts in Dahr al-Baydar and Raouche’s Duroy Hotel.</p>
<p><b>Nigeria</b>: A <a href="https://docs.zoho.com/writer/ropen.do?rid=fs79p4de3b9a0916c47bc898fe0713d6d0e07#bookmark=http://www.smh.com.au/world/five-killed-in-bomb-attack-on-nigerian-church-20140728-zxhss.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">bomb blast inside the Saint Charles Catholic Church</span></a> left five people dead and eight injured.  The attack came shortly after Sunday mass ended, when an improvised explosive device was thrown inside the city of Kano, which has a strong presence of Boko Haram, the local Islamic terrorist organization.  On the same Sunday and also in Kano, a woman suicide bomber blew herself up outside a university after police prevented her from carrying out an attack.  Five officers were injured.  According to a police spokesman, “A female suicide bomber was isolated (by police) as she was walking towards the gate of the university.”  She had hidden the bomb under her “long black hijab” and was singled out for behaving strangely, said the spokesman.  Police were about to ask a female colleague to frisk the woman when she detonated the bomb, killing herself and injuring the police officers.  Also in July,<b> </b>Nicholas Okoh, primate of the Church of Nigeria, said in an interview that, despite Boko Haram’s nonstop attacks on Christians and their churches, for long “the United States did not come out to say anything about Boko Haram.  They kept talking about economic problems, [saying] that Boko Haram is fighting because of economic problems. That is not true &#8230; <a href="http://www.brnow.org/News/July-2014/Boko-Haram-s-Islamic-motives-ignored"><span style="color: #0433ff;">The United States deliberately ignored the fundamental issues of religious ideology</span></a>.”</p>
<p><b>Sudan</b>:  In adherence to Islamic law, the east African nation formally announced a <a href="http://www.pravoslavie.ru/english/72207.htm"><span style="color: #0433ff;">ban on the construction of any new Christian churches</span></a> in the country.  This move came after several churches, some of which have been in existence for decades, were bulldozed to the ground by authorities, the most recent one, the Sudanese Christ Church at El Izba residential area in Khartoum North, on July 1. According to Pravoslavie, “The Sudanese Minister of Guidance and Religious Endowments Shalil Abdullah announced that the government will henceforth not issue permits for the building of churches in the country.  Minister Shalil Abdullah told the press on Saturday [July 12] that the existing churches are enough for the Christian population remaining in Sudan after the secession of South Sudan in 2011.”  Since 1989, Sudan has been governed by a Sharia enforcing Islamic regime. Reverend Kori El Ramli, the Secretary-General of Sudan Council of Churches, criticized this move as contradicting the nation’s Constitution, adding “Yes, we are a minority, but we have freedom of worship and belief just like the rest of the Sudanese as long as we are Sudanese nationals like them.”</p>
<p><b>Turkey</b>:  A band of <a href="http://www.catholic.org/news/international/europe/story.php?id=56220"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Muslims attacked the Saint Stephanos Church</span></a> in Istanbul during a baptismal service held on July 15. Among other things, the Muslim intruders pushed their way into the baptismal service, yelling obscenities, with one waving a knife and threatening to stab a parishioner.  The attack occurred during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, which <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/ramadan-islams-holy-month-of-christian-oppression/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">often sees a concomitant rise of intolerance</span></a> in Muslim majority areas.   Speaking about the attack, one parishioner said on condition of anonymity that “It’s not the first, and it won’t be the last.”  In fact, two months earlier, men in their late teens and 20s entered the church building at night, ripped out most of its audio equipment and destroyed what they couldn’t carry away. They also took some of the ceremonial candles, lit them and started setting items in the rear of the building on fire. They stacked all remaining candles into a pile, lit them and left.</p>
<p><b>Uganda</b>: A gang of Muslims brandishing machetes stormed a church during service, <a href="http://barnabasfund.org/US/News/Archives/Christian-teenager-killed-by-machete-in-attack-on-church-in-Uganda.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">hacking one 18-year-old woman to death</span></a> and leaving three others, including a one-year-old baby, injured.  A group of around 20 Christians had gathered at Chali Born Victory Church in Kyegegwa district for their regular Friday night prayer session when armed Muslims burst into the building around 2 am.  Pastor Jackson Turyamureba was preaching when he saw somebody peeping through a window.  According to the pastor, “I thought he was a drunkard and told him to either enter or go away. Shortly after that I heard doors being banged and men shouting ‘Allahu Akhbar’ (Allah is great) as they stormed the church brandishing pangas (machetes) and beating worshippers….  One of the attackers followed me and threw a panga which went over my head. I ran through a garden and the man who was pursuing me fell down and gave up the chase.”  The Muslim attackers then fled to a nearby mosque; police surrounded the mosque and one officer was killed when attackers opened fire.  Two suspects were arrested.   According to the pastor<i>, </i>the church has had problems with a group of Muslims in the area who had unsuccessfully tried to convert them to Islam. Church member Polly Tashobya added that the group said they wanted to transform Uganda into an Islamic nation and would kill anyone who refused to convert.</p>
<p><b>Muslim Attacks on Christian Freedom and ‘Dhimmitude’</b></p>
<p><b>Iran</b>: <a href="http://www.bosnewslife.com/33301-iran-detains-evangelical-christians-bible-confiscated"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Authorities detained a pastor and two other members of the Church of Iran</span></a>, one of the country’s largest house church movements.  Pastor Matthias Haghnejad, Mohammad Roghangir, and Suroush Saraie were arrested July 5 by security forces at the pastor’s home in the city of Bandar-Anzali.  According to BosNewsLife, “Their detention comes amid an ongoing government campaign to halt the spread of Christianity in the Islamic country. Especially converts from Islam, many of whom visit the Church of Iran, have been targeted.”  Security forces reportedly confiscated the pastor’s belongings, including his Bible, and several other books.  This would be the latest setback for Pastor Matthias, who was jailed for his faith on three other occasions between 2006 and 2011.  Separately, <a href="https://docs.zoho.com/writer/ropen.do?rid=fs79p4de3b9a0916c47bc898fe0713d6d0e07#bookmark=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2702774/Christian-sentenced-Iranian-judge-lips-burnt-cigarette-eating-Ramadan.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">a judge sentenced a Christian man to have his lips burnt with a cigarette</span></a> for eating during the day in the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, when Muslims are required to abstain from food and drink during daylight.  The punishment was carried out in public in a square in the city of Kermanshah.  Five other Muslim men were also flogged in public with 70 lashes for not fasting during Ramadan.  A spokesperson from The National Council of Resistance of Iran, a political coalition which opposes the government, denounced the treatment as ‘savage’ and called on Western countries to respond:  “The silence of the world community, especially of western countries, vis-à-vis these medieval punishments under the excuse of having nuclear talks with Iran has intensified the brutal and systematic violation of human rights in Iran.”</p>
<p><b>Somalia</b>: Muslim converts to Christianity who fled Somalia and reside in Kenyan refugee camps remain in mortal danger.  One convert, known only as “Abubakr,” and his wife reportedly held each other under their bed in their refugee camp as suspected gunmen from the Islamic terrorist organization Al Shabaab pounded on their door. They ordered the man to come out and called him an “infidel” (in both the Arabic and Somali languages), saying, “<a href="http://morningstarnews.org/2014/07/stay-or-leave-somali-christians-in-kenyan-refugee-camps-face-danger/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">We need your head</span></a>.”  When the apostate refused, they opened fire through the spaces of the poles of the couple’s hut, striking their legs.  Then they heard the attackers say, “We have killed the infidels” as they shot into the air while leaving.  The Christian couple was found two days later lying in their own pool of blood.   According to Abubakr, far from providing security for the hiding apostates, Muslim guards at the refugee camp actually help Al Shabaab militants locate them.  Another Somali convert from Islam, Abdikadir, saw Muslim relatives and other Somalis burn down his home in one of the undisclosed Dadaab refugee camps in April. They took away his wife and four children in the course of destroying his home.  He fled the camp and is now living elsewhere.</p>
<p><b>United Kingdom</b>: According to the Telegraph, “<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/10977187/Christians-lie-and-wives-must-have-sex-or-go-to-hell-Trojan-Horse-pupils-told.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Children were taught that all Christians are liars</span></a> and attempts were made to introduce Sharia law in classrooms as part of an alleged ‘Trojan Horse’ takeover plot of Birmingham schools, an inquiry has found.”  Commissioned by Birmingham City Council, the inquiry found “evidence of religious extremism in 13 schools as school governors and teachers tried to promote and enforce radical Islamic values.”  Among other things, schools canceled Christmas, put up posters warning children that they would “go to hell” if they did not pray, and girls were taught that women who refused to have sex with their husbands would be “punished” by angels “from dusk to dawn.”  The report found that the extremism went unchecked because the council “disastrously” prioritized community cohesion over “doing what is right.”</p>
<p><b>About this Series</b></p>
<p>The persecution of Christians in the Islamic world has become endemic.  Accordingly, “Muslim Persecution of Christians” was developed to collate some—by no means all—of the instances of persecution that surface each month. It serves two purposes:</p>
<p>1) To document that which the mainstream media does not: the habitual, if not chronic, persecution of Christians.</p>
<p>2) To show that such persecution is not “random,” but systematic and interrelated—that it is rooted in a worldview inspired by Islamic Sharia.</p>
<p>Accordingly, whatever the anecdote of persecution, it typically fits under a specific theme, including hatred for churches and other Christian symbols; apostasy, blasphemy, and proselytism laws that criminalize and sometimes punish with death those who “offend” Islam; sexual abuse of Christian women; forced conversions to Islam;  theft and plunder in lieu of <i>jizya</i> (financial tribute expected from non-Muslims); overall expectations for Christians to behave like cowed <i>dhimmis</i>, or third-class, “tolerated” citizens; and simple violence and murder. Sometimes it is a combination thereof.</p>
<p>Because these accounts of persecution span different ethnicities, languages, and locales—from Morocco in the West, to Indonesia in the East—it should be clear that one thing alone binds them: Islam—whether the strict application of Islamic Sharia law, or the supremacist culture born of it.</p>
<p><b>Previous Reports</b>:</p>
<p style="color: #0433ff;">•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/isis-snuffs-out-ancient-christianity-muslim-persecution-of-christians-june-2014/">June, 2014</a></p>
<p style="color: #0433ff;">•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-may-2014/">May, 2014</a></p>
<p style="color: #0433ff;">•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/raped-and-slaughtered-muslim-persecution-of-christians-april-2014/">April, 2014</a></p>
<p style="color: #0433ff;">•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/obama-administration-suppresses-talk-of-muslim-persecution-of-christians-march-2014/">March, 2014</a></p>
<p style="color: #0433ff;">•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/christians-most-persecuted-group-in-world-muslim-persecution-of-christians-february-2014/">February, 2014</a></p>
<p style="color: #0433ff;">•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/becomes-chief-enabler-of-christian-persecution-muslim-persecution-of-christians-january-2014/">January, 2014</a></p>
<p style="color: #0433ff;">•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/they-are-slaughtering-us-like-chickens-muslim-persecution-of-christians-december-2013/">December, 2013</a></p>
<p style="color: #0433ff;">•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/u-s-chose-to-stay-silent-on-muslim-persecution-of-christians-november-2013/">November, 2013</a></p>
<p style="color: #0433ff;">•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-october-2013/">October, 2013</a></p>
<p style="color: #0433ff;">•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-october-2013/">September, 2013</a></p>
<p style="color: #0433ff;">•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-august-2013/">August, 2013</a></p>
<p style="color: #0433ff;">•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-july-2013/">July, 2013</a></p>
<p style="color: #0433ff;">•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-june-2013/">June, 2013</a></p>
<p style="color: #0433ff;">•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/muslim-persecution-of-christians-may-2013/">May, 2013</a></p>
<p style="color: #0433ff;">•<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/muslim-persecution-of-christians-april-2013/">April, 2013</a></p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2014 04:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Moshe Phillips and Benyamin Korn]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color: #222222;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/canada-ottawa-shooting.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-243674" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/canada-ottawa-shooting-450x344.jpg" alt="canada-ottawa-shooting" width="378" height="289" /></a>The mother of the Muslim terrorists who attacked Canada&#8217;s parliament building on October 22 says she is weeping for her son&#8217;s victims, not for her son. What a contrast with the mothers of Palestinian terrorists who murder Israelis.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">Mrs. Susan Bibeau, the mother of Canadian terrorist Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, told the Associated Press on October 23: &#8220;If I&#8217;m crying it&#8217;s for the people, not for my son…I am mad at my son.&#8221;</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">If only Palestinian mothers felt the same way! Instead, they have the jihad mentality, too.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">Last year (on Jan. 27, 2013), the Facebook page of Fatah, the movement headed by Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas, posted a feature about the mother of 23-year-old Wafa Idris, the first female Palestinian suicide bomber. She murdered one Israeli, and wounded over 100, by blowing herself up in a Jerusalem supermarket in 2002. The posting quoted Wafa&#8217;s mother as saying &#8220;She is a hero…My daughter is a Martyr (Shahida).&#8221; </span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">The Fatah page added: &#8220;Wafa&#8217;s mother said that she is proud of her daughter, and hopes that more girls will follow in her footsteps.&#8221;</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">More recently, in an interview with Israel Television on </span><span class="aBn" style="color: #222222;" tabindex="0" data-term="goog_1099525506"><span class="aQJ">June 29</span></span><span style="color: #222222;">, the mother of one of the Hamas terrorists involved in the kidnap-murders of three Israeli teenagers said: &#8220;If they [the Israelis] accuse him of this [the kidnapping], and if it is a true accusation, I will be proud of him until Judgment Day. If the accusation that he did it is true&#8230;My boys are all righteous, pious and pure. The goal of my children is the triumph of Islam.&#8221;  </span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">Of course, that is not to say that no Palestinian mothers have any regrets about their children carrying out suicide bombing. But those regrets are not always the kind one would hope for. For example, on June 6, 2004,  PA Television broadcast these remarks by the mother of a 15-year-old who died during a suicide attack: &#8220;It was sad and joyous what happened to him, meaning, he always liked the Shahada (Martyrdom). All children at his age do. He always cared for me. I would have preferred that one of his other brothers would have attained Shahada instead of him, because he was the joy of my life.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #222222;">(All translations courtesy of Palestinian Media Watch.)</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">How can one explain the stark contrast between the Canadian mother and the Palestinian mother? It&#8217;s not really so complicated. Different cultures have different values. Canadian culture promotes Judeo-Christian values &#8212; democracy, equal rights, respect for minorities, non-violence.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">By contrast, Palestinian society is dominated by a &#8220;culture of Jihad,&#8221; Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya&#8217;alon said this week.  On his Facebook Page, Ya&#8217;alon wrote that the latest Palestinian terrorist attacks are “clearly the outcome of those in the Palestinian Authority who educate the younger generation to hate Jews and expel them from their homeland.” He added: “The Palestinian Authority does not, and never did, have a culture of peace, but rather a culture of incitement and jihad against Jews. It starts with Abbas’s lying statements against Israel from the UN podium, continues with persistent Palestinian attempts to delegitimize us in the international arena and ends with incitement in the Palestinian education system. These are the harsh consequences.&#8221;</span></p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2014 04:27:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Should Israel openly support internal opponents of the Islamic Republic? ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/1371416420044127700-e1373642361951.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-242818" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/1371416420044127700-e1373642361951-418x350.jpg" alt="1371416420044127700-e1373642361951" width="320" height="268" /></a>Originally published by the <a href="http://www.jpost.com/landedpages/printarticle.aspx?id=378494">Jerusalem Post</a>. </em></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">It is still unclear what happened on Sunday night at Iran’s illicit nuclear installation at Parchin. According to Iranian sources, there was a large explosion that rocked the area within a 15-km. radius of the facility. Two people were reportedly injured.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">According to the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency and Israel, the Parchin facility is a key component of Iran’s suspected military nuclear program. It is at Parchin that Iran is allegedly building a nuclear explosive device – that is, a nuclear warhead.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The timing of the blast is notable. On Monday night, a delegation from the IAEA landed in Tehran for a new round of talks scheduled for that Tuesday. The UN’s demand to inspect Parchin was set to be one of the top agenda items at the talks.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Given the timing, it is certainly possible that the Iranians carried out the explosion themselves as a means of preventing the IAEA from demanding access.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">But let us assume that the widely held automatic assumption – that Israel was behind the blast at Parchin – is accurate. The fact is that in order to destroy Iran’s nuclear weapons program, or seriously setback its completion, dozens, if not hundreds of additional targets need to be hit and destroyed.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Iran has secured its illicit nuclear program by dispersing and replicating its nuclear installations throughout the country. If the Parchin bombing was carried out by Israel, it must be seen as but another strike in Israel’s purported – and if it exists, meandering – campaign to destroy Iran’s capacity to develop nuclear weapons.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">At the desultory rate Israel’s assumed campaign is progressing, we can have little confidence that through bombing alone, Israel will be able to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons in the near future.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">One of the main reasons that Israel’s purported strikes in Iran have been so lethargic is because the US opposes them. As we have seen in recent years, the Obama administration has been a sieve of information to the media about Israel’s alleged covert strikes in Iran. To successfully neutralize Iran’s nuclear facilities through acts of sabotage, Israel needs to hide its effort from the US as well as Iran.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In light of these constraints, Israel should consider expanding the goal of its policy towards Iran from merely debilitating Iran’s nuclear project to ending it entirely by overthrowing the regime.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">There are many reasons to believe that overthrowing the regime is a realistic option.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">First and foremost, to the shock and amazement of the entire world, following the stolen 2009 Iranian presidential elections, the Green Movement arose spontaneously and nearly overthrew the regime. Millions of Iranians from across ethnic lines and throughout the country rose up against the regime. They rallied around presidential candidates Seyyed Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi and demanded that the mullocracy be replaced with a democracy.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Had the Obama administration backed the Iranian people rather than the regime, it is likely that the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and supreme dictator Ali Khamenei would have been finished six years ago along with their nuclear program and worldwide terrorist network.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Dr. Michael Ledeen, Freedom Scholar at the Washington-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies has been closely following the Iranian regime since he served in the Reagan administration in the 1980s. In 2009, he argued that even without US assistance, if Israel had been willing to help the Green Movement, with little effort, it could have empowered the opposition sufficiently to overthrow the regime.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In a conversation this week, Ledeen said Israel still has the capacity to provide opposition forces the tools they require to overthrow the regime.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Today, with Khamenei reportedly seriously ill, the widespread assessment is that Iran is already in the throes of a succession crisis. As Ledeen sees it, radical ayatollahs are vying with the IRGC and Khamenei’s family to succeed him. President Hassan Rouhani is also seeking to ascend to Khamenei’s all powerful throne.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">At the same, time, as Iran enters into this period of political uncertainty, the regime itself is less popular than ever.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Rouhani was elected last year on the strength of his promise to expand freedoms in Iran. Since he took office, repression, not freedom has expanded.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Over the past year, the number of regime executions and mass arrests has skyrocketed. So too, the number of Iranian political prisoners subjected to torture has risen. Despite Rouhani’s promise to free them, Mousavi and Karroubi, who were placed under house arrest in 2011, have not been freed.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Last week, the family of Ayatollah Hossein Kazemeyni Boroujerdi announced that the religious leader has been informed that he is about to be executed by the regime. Boroujerdi is serving his eighth year of an 11-year prison sentence for rejecting the religious legitimacy of the regime and demanding, in keeping with Shi’ite jurisprudence, its overthrow and replacement with a democracy in which mosque is separated from state.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Boroujerdi enjoys massive support in Iran. His bravery in the face of regime repression is breathtaking.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Since his arrest, Boroujerdi has been subjected to barbaric torture. And yet, rather than repent his ways, as the regime demands, he has smuggled letters to the world outside his prison exposing the dismal state of human rights in the Iran, and the heresy at the heart of the regime.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Ledeen claims that an Israeli campaign to highlight the suffering of Iranian political prisoners and dissidents that would include constant public condemnations of the regime, calls for the release of political prisoners, and support for greater freedom, particularly for women would have a major impact both globally and in Iran.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">If such a campaign is coupled with the provision of communication equipment for the opposition to let its leaders and followers bypass the regime’s firewalls and communicate freely with one another, its chances of success would grow. So too, the provision of financial and other support for Iranian workers’ unions, including building international support for their rejection of the regime, and broadcast of accurate news, by among other things expanding the broadcast time allotted to Voice of Israel Persian service, could empower the regime’s opponents.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Ledeen scoffs at the concern that Israeli support for regime opponents will boomerang against them and strengthen public support for the regime. As he put it, “Opponents of the regime are always accused of being in cahoots with Israel and the US, so getting support doesn’t change their risk, and in fact will strengthen them&#8230; The opposition is probably amazed they are not getting help from Israel.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Ledeen’s policy involves a program of nonviolent, open Israeli political and financial support for regime opponents.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">A different policy of regime overthrow was put forward by Nicholas Saidel in an article published last month by Mida online magazine. Saidel recommended that Israel adopt a more involved policy of directly supporting minority liberation movements operating inside Iran. Saidel noted that oppressed, irredentist minorities – including the Azeris, Kurds, Ahwazi Arabs and Baluchis together comprise more than a third of Iran’s population. He suggests that the regime should be overthrown and Iran should be carved up into a number of smaller states that will be too weak to threaten Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Saidel notes that all four minorities have in the past cooperated with Israel. Some have spoken openly in favor of Israel. Israel, he argues, has the wherewithal to help them today in significant ways that will, at a minimum, significantly weaken the regime and so limit its ability to harm Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Of the two options, the potential downside of Saidel’s is far higher. The specter of small, powerful jihadist forces along the lines of Islamic State and the Taliban being installed in power in Iran is distressing. But even in this case, the payoff of destroying the regime, and so ending Iran’s nuclear program and its sponsorship with Hezbollah, Hamas and other jihadist terror groups would be enormous.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Regardless of how one assesses the risk of either policy of supporting regime opponents, given the risk a nuclear armed Iran will constitute for Israel; the Obama administration’s obvious preference for a nuclear armed Iran over an Israeli strike against Iran’s nuclear installations; and the ever growing threat posed by Iran’s terrorist proxies, it would appear that the risks attached to adopting either Ledeen’s approach, or Saidel’s approach, or both, are far smaller than the risk of letting Iran take out membership in the nuclear club.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Distressingly, Israel’s security brass seems utterly bereft of creative or even three dimensional thought in regards to Iran. In an interview with Ma’ariv published last Friday, IDF Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz claimed that international sanctions convinced Iran that its nuclear project was harming its regime.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">What the sanctions actually convinced them was that it was worth their while to pretend to be interested in a nuclear deal in order to loosen or end the sanctions. Acting this way would not prevent them from acquiring nuclear weapons but would restore Iran’s economic viability.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Over the past decade, attempts to get Israeli military leaders to even consider a program of assisting the regime’s opponents have come up empty.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The time has come to reconsider this refusal. In his recent public remarks on Iran, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu argued repeatedly and rightly that the Iranian regime is more dangerous to global security than Islamic State. But he has abstained from mentioning that the Iranian regime is as dangerous to those living under its jackboot as Islamic State is to those who come under its power.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Had Netanyahu raised Boroujerdi’s plight in his speech at the UN, it would have weakened Rouhani.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">And for his part, Boroujerdi would not have been any more imperiled than he already is.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">So too, the seven young Iranians who were sentenced last month to suspended jail sentences and 91 lashes for daring to post an Internet video of themselves singing Pharrell Williams’s song “Happy” will not be any more unhappy and oppressed if Israeli leaders stood up for their right to be happy.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Ledeen remarked, “I’ve rarely seen a policy that was both strategically and morally imperative, but [supporting the Iranian regime’s domestic opponents] is certainly one of them.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">We may never know what exactly happened Sunday night at Parchin. But we certainly know that it will take hundreds more mysterious explosions to prevent Iran from getting the bomb. And even if such explosions take place, so long as the regime remains in power, there is every reason to believe that such achievements will lack significance in the long term.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Iran is Israel’s greatest foe. Between its support for Hezbollah and Hamas and its nuclear program, it threatens Israel more gravely than any other state today. The best way to end these threats is not to fight another round against its proxies. It is to go to the source of the problem.</span></p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2014 04:50:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Klein]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Hamas-rockets.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-236061" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Hamas-rockets.jpg" alt="Hamas-rockets" width="300" height="224" /></a>Since Israel withdrew from the Gaza Strip in 2005, Hamas and its co-jihadists have fired more than 8,000 rockets into Israel.  They have been conducting an unrelenting <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/joseph-klein/hamass-nazi-style-rocket-blitz/"><span style="color: #0463c1;">Nazi-style rocket blitz</span></a> for years, except during cease-fires that are hastily negotiated after Israel strikes back. Hamas’s rocket blitz has intensified massively in recent days to new heights. Over the past several days, Hamas and Islamic Jihad have fired more than 550 rockets and mortars from Gaza into Israel, with the intent to kill and terrorize innocent civilians, including children.</p>
<p>On July 9<sup>th</sup> alone, Hamas fired nearly 100 rockets towards Israeli population centers. And it has raised the ante in terms of the sophistication and reach of its rockets, with longer range rockets targeting Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and Israel’s nuclear power plant in the city of Dimona. Israel’s Iron Dome defense system has had remarkable success so far. It prevented what could have been a horrible nuclear disaster by intercepting one of the rockets out of the sky near Dimona. Iron Dome has also knocked out rockets over Tel Aviv and other major population centers. But no defense system is foolproof. Hence, after warning Hamas to no avail that it will face sharp reprisals if it does not stop the rocket attacks, Israel launched Operation Protective Edge.</p>
<p>To date, Israel has responded with air strikes aimed at Hamas strongholds, hitting more than 560 targets in Gaza during the past two days.  Its targets consist of arms storage facilities and manufacturing plants, military compounds, tunnels, buried rocket launching pads, a command and control base and homes of Hamas and Jihad Islamist commanders. Israel does not deliberately target Palestinian civilians. To the contrary, whenever possible, the Israeli military makes phone calls to suspected Hamas operatives’ homes and drops leaflets in advance of strikes to warn occupants to get out of harm’s way immediately.</p>
<p>Although Israel has also authorized the call-up of approximately 40,000 reservists and amassed tanks near the Israeli-Gaza border, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has to date resisted calls for launching a ground operation. However, his patience is running out. “The army is ready for all possibilities,” the prime minister said after a meeting of his security cabinet. “The operation will expand and continue until the fire toward our towns stops and quiet returns.”</p>
<p>In a sign that the start of a ground operation may be very near if the rocket firing does not stop, it has been reported by DEBKAfile that, on July 10, “the IDF advised 100,000 Palestinian civilians to leave their homes in the northern Gaza villages of Beit Lahiya, Beit Hanoun, Greater Ibsen and Smaller Ibsen and head west to the coast or south to remove themselves from danger.”</p>
<p>Hamas remains defiant. Its political chief, Khaled Meshal, rejected any efforts at mediation, declaring in a televised speech: “We receive calls from mediators from Arab and Western sides to broker a ceasefire. We say to those who ask us for a lull: Go back!”</p>
<p>Hamas also put out a video promising: &#8220;Zionists, wait and see stabbing attacks everywhere. Wait for suicide attacks on every bus, café and street.&#8221;</p>
<p>Hamas has the backing of its unity government partner Palestinian Authority President Abbas, whom, playing the usual Palestinian victimhood card, accused Israel of committing “genocide.”</p>
<p>Here is the perverse logic of the Palestinian propaganda offensive in a nutshell:  Hamas and its co-jihadists can launch long-range rockets aimed indiscriminately at Israeli civilians in major population centers and try to precipitate a nuclear disaster with impunity, but when Israel strikes back selectively to take out military targets in Gaza used to launch or support the rocket firings, Israel, according to Abbas, is committing “genocide.”</p>
<p>Not surprisingly, the Palestinians are successfully pushing this outrageous, truth-challenged narrative in their favorite venue, the United Nations.</p>
<p>At the insistence of the Palestinian UN observer state delegation and its Arab allies, the UN Security Council held an emergency meeting on July 10<sup>th</sup>.  The Palestinians want the Security Council to take action against Israel for what they brand as Israel’s “aggression.” After UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon warned the Security Council of the “risk of an all-out escalation in Israel and Gaza” and appealed to both sides for “maximum restraint” – his favorite phrase of late – Palestinian UN Ambassador Riyad Mansour accused Israel of war crimes. He said that Israel was cynically using “this latest aggression against the Palestinian people to bring about collapse of our government.”</p>
<p>Ambassador Mansour emoted how Palestinian children were being killed by Israeli air strikes, neglecting to mention how Hamas uses Palestinian civilians, including children, as human shields.</p>
<p>“I speak on behalf of the suffering and grieving Palestinian people,” Mansour said, “who are enduring yet another barrage of death, destruction, trauma and terror, which is being perpetrated willfully and maliciously against them by the Israeli occupying forces before the eyes of the world as it persists with its nearly five-decade long belligerent military occupation.”</p>
<p>Ambassador Mansour also announced that Palestinian President Abbas has officially requested from the Swiss government that it convene the High Contracting Parties of the Geneva Conventions. The ostensible purpose would be to investigate and possibly sanction Israel for alleged violations of its responsibilities as the occupying power and for the alleged commission of war crimes.</p>
<p>Apparently, Ambassador Mansour and his boss President Abbas have forgotten that Israel vacated Gaza completely in 2005. It is Hamas, not Israel, which exercises all the functions of government in Gaza, which in turn is part of what the Palestinians claim to be the State of Palestine.  Hamas’s idea of how to govern is to use Gaza as a base from which to launch attacks against Israeli civilians.  The Israeli government’s idea of how to govern is to defend and protect its citizens against such wanton and potentially deadly assaults from an area it does not control.</p>
<p>Recall that after Israel vacated Gaza, it kept the border crossings between Israel and Gaza open with security arrangements mutually agreed upon between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. That worked until Hamas took over Gaza and expelled Abbas’s Fatah faction. Has Ambassador Mansour forgotten the Palestinian civilian casualties in Gaza inflicted by Hamas during its clashes with Fatah? Now Ambassador Mansour is defending the actions of the same Hamas against the civilians of Israel, which he must do since Hamas is officially a co-equal partner in what he calls the “national consensus government.”</p>
<p>In fact, when asked by reporters at a press briefing after the July 10<sup>th</sup> Security Council meeting if the Palestinian Authority accepted responsibility for the rockets fired by Hamas from Gaza, Ambassador Mansour responded, “The Palestinian people are one. The government is one.  The president is president Abbas.”</p>
<p>If that is so, then this unity government must accept responsibility at minimum for Hamas’s current round of hundreds of rocket launchings targeting Israeli civilians in major population centers. The “State of Palestine,” which became a party to the Fourth Geneva Convention earlier this year and now seeks to invoke the Convention against Israel, is itself in direct violation of Article 33 of the Convention prohibiting “all measures of intimidation or of terrorism.”</p>
<p>Ambassador Mansour claimed that Hamas’s rocket firings were in self-defense.  “We did not start this round of attacks,” he declared. “It is the Israeli government. After the killing of the three settlers [Eyal, Gilad and Naftali], they started this attack against our people. The rockets came after that.”</p>
<p>This is sheer propaganda. Note Ambassador Mansour’s clever reference to “<i>this</i> <i>round </i>of attacks.”  The fact is that Hamas and its cohorts have been firing rockets and mortars at Israel continuously all throughout 2014 – more than 100 &#8211; way before the latest crisis and “this” most recent round, not to mention the thousands of rockets launched against Israeli civilians before 2014.</p>
<p>Even Secretary General Ban Ki-moon acknowledged the cause and effect of the current crisis, while urging both sides to stop the violence.   He noted in his remarks to the Security Council that civilians were “caught between Hamas&#8217;s irresponsibility and Israel&#8217;s tough response.” He added that further escalation, including a possible ground operation, is “preventable only if Hamas stops rocket firing.”</p>
<p>Israeli UN Ambassador Ron Prosor, in his own address to the Security Council on July 10<sup>th</sup>, pointed out that Hamas was committing war crimes against both Israeli civilians and Palestinian civilians:</p>
<blockquote><p>“Hamas is exploiting our concern for human life by hiding in Palestinian homes, schools, and mosques and using the basement of a hospital in Gaza as its headquarters. They are committing a double war crime: targeting Israeli civilians while hiding behind Palestinian civilians.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Ambassador Prosor told the Security Council that, while Secretary General Ban Ki-moon delivered his remarks to the Council, &#8220;another five rockets were fired from Gaza,&#8221; with one landing on a house. Israel isn&#8217;t looking &#8220;for a Band-Aid solution that will allow Hamas to rest and regroup,&#8221; he added. Israel’s goal &#8220;is to remove the threat posed by Hamas by dismantling its military infrastructure and restore quiet in Israel. Hamas must understand that it cannot target Israeli civilians.”</p>
<p>Israel’s leaders have a responsibility to protect their own civilians, which the government is doing while trying to mitigate any unintended collateral damage. The Palestinian leaders, including President Abbas, are failing to fulfill their responsibilities to their own people by placing them in harm’s way as a direct result of the jihadists’ war to destroy Israel.  Hamas is simply following through on its Charter’s declaration that “&#8217;Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it. There is no solution for the Palestinian problem except by Jihad.”</p>
<p>The United Nations and other bodies reflecting the opinions of the so-called international community enable this jihad so long as they try to impede Israel’s legitimate right to defend itself and protect its civilian population.</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2014 04:54:22 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/000_Nic6345898-e1404485005909-635x357.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-235925" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/000_Nic6345898-e1404485005909-635x357-423x350.jpg" alt="000_Nic6345898-e1404485005909-635x357" width="282" height="233" /></a>Originally published by the <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Our-World-Fighting-enemies-from-within-and-without-362004">Jerusalem Post</a>. </em></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Sixteen-year-old Muhammad Abu Khdeir was doing his own thing last Tuesday when he was abducted by Jewish terrorists, who slaughtered him. They killed him because he was an Arab, and they are racist murderers.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The police made solving Abu Khdeir’s murder a top priority. In less than a week, they had six suspects in custody. Three confessed to the murder.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">There are dark forces at work in Israeli society. They need to be dealt with.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">And they will be dealt with harshly.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">They will be dealt with harshly because there is no significant sector in Israeli society that supports terrorism.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">There is no Jewish tradition that condones or calls for the murder of innocents. In Jewish tradition, the line between protecting society from its enemies and committing murder is long, wide, unmistakable and unmoving.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">This is why, for instance, at the memorial service for 20-year-old Shelly Dadon, who was murdered by an Israeli Arab terrorist from the Galilee in early May, the placards held up by the 2,000 participants called for the police to protect the public.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">“Our blood is not worthless,” “Today it’s Shelly, tomorrow it could be you,” and, “Death penalty for murderers,” they read.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Not surprisingly, when on Sunday the police revealed both that they had arrested Abu Khdeir’s Jewish killers and that they had arrested Dadon’s Muslim murderer, public interest in the former story far surpassed interest in the latter.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The story of an Israeli Muslim terrorist murdering an Israeli Jewish woman is a dog bites man story.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The story of Israeli Jewish terrorists murdering an Israeli Muslim teenager is a man bites dog story.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The same goes for violent rioting.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The anti-terror demonstration in Jerusalem scheduled for last Tuesday quickly became a violent anti-Arab riot with rioters assaulting helpless Arab passersby. The police arrested 47 Jewish rioters. And the public as a whole condemned them.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Without public support, such deviant behavior has little longevity. Mob violence, as a general rule, plays to the audience at home. With no public support, the riots were over after one night.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In contrast, Jerusalem Arabs began rioting on Wednesday night. The riots spread to the north and south of the country by the end of the week. And there seems to be no end in sight.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">There are several factors prolonging them. The most troubling is the depraved state of Arab society – both Palestinian Arab and Israeli Arab.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Whereas aside from fascist soccer fan clubs there are no significant Israeli Jewish groups that condone terrorism or racial violence, hatred of Israel and support for terrorism and the destruction of the Jewish state are widespread among Israeli Arab leaders and the general Arab public.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As for the Palestinians, there are no significant forces in Palestinian society calling for peaceful coexistence with Israel. The only voices celebrated are those calling for murdering Jews and destroying the Jewish state.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">There is also the issue of the unfortunate timing the current violence.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The month of Ramadan has only just begun. During Ramadan, Muslims generally sleep during the day, wake up in the evening to eat and stay up all night long. With the widespread societal support for committing violence against Jews, rioting after the holiday meal is an attractive option for young people.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Moreover, we are in the midst of summer vacation. Teenagers with nothing to do can easily keep rioting through the night until school starts on September 1.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Monday night was witness to some encouraging signs. Several Arab mayors took to the streets to discourage continued rioting. The mayor of Kalansuwa, whose residents firebombed Jewish cars over the weekend and beat their drivers, began cleaning up the road. But the rioting is far from a spent force.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Beyond the local cause for their continuation, there are the outside forces itching to take over the action.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Israeli Arabs do not operate in a vacuum.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">If the rioting continues, the current situation, in which much of the violence is spontaneous and locally organized, is not likely to last.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In 1987, the Palestinian uprising began as a spontaneous riot in Gaza City following a traffic accident involving an Israeli driver. At the time, from its distant base in Tunis, the PLO was searching for a way to be relevant.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Yasser Arafat and his goons quickly seized on the riots in the territories and took control of them through a campaign of bribery, extortion and murder.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Today Fatah and Hamas are in the midst of a power struggle. Each is keen to take control of the riots to assert supremacy over the other.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In Fatah’s case the effort still appears limited to incitement. On Monday for instance, Fatah’s Facebook page addressed Israel saying, “Sons of Zion, this is an oath to the Lord of the Heavens: Prepare all the body bags you can for your body parts.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As Palestinian Media Watch has reported, this post was of a piece with other posts Fatah has published in the past week, all making clear that Fatah supports the riots and wishes to subsume them into a larger Fatah-led terror campaign against Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Hamas today faces severe challenges.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Egypt is starving Hamas by blocking the smuggling tunnels from Egypt to Gaza. Fatah is starving Hamas by refusing to pay its employees’ salaries.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Internally Hamas in Gaza is facing a growing challenge from Islamic Jihad on the one hand and al-Qaida and ISIS affiliated terror cells on the other.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As Hamas sees it, no doubt rightly, the best way to rally its people behind it, weaken Fatah and alleviate Egypt’s stranglehold of Gaza is to go to war against the Jews. Operationally, it believes that it has a momentary advantage because a significant number of Israeli forces are tied down in Judea and Samaria.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The Netanyahu government gave Hamas good reason to believe it should press its perceived advantage.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">By openly calling last Thursday for a cease-fire with Hamas, the government demonstrated severe weakness at a critical moment. It is not at all surprising that by Monday Hamas had escalated its attacks and extended the range of the rockets it has deployed to the outskirts of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Nor is it surprising that by Monday night, the government was compelled to launch Operation Protective Edge to destroy Hamas’s missile arsenal.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The Jewish terrorists who murdered Abu Khdeir have made a bad situation much worse for Israel. The largely anti-Semitic international community had difficulty denying Israel’s right to self-defense after Naftali Fraenkel, Gil-Ad Shaer and Eyal Yifrah’s bodies were found last Monday.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Now, despite the obvious differences between Israel and its Arab neighbors, the man-bites-dog story these Jewish terrorists created has relegated Israel again to its normal position of defendant in the continuous Kafkaesque trial that is the Jewish state’s diplomatic fate.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Unfortunately, we cannot stand down because we are mortified by the sick margins of our society.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">We must build on these first signs of remorse and quell the Israeli Arab riots as quickly as possible. Aside from their obvious human toll, every day the riots continue, the prospect of Palestinian terror groups taking over and directing the violence expands.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">So too, Israel has no choice but to fight another round of war with Hamas. And it must win this one decisively.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">It would have been far more advantageous if Israel could have sat back and watched as Hamas and its foes destroyed one another. But this is not an option. Hamas is determined to fight. Israel must defeat it.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Once the dust has settled, or even as it continues to storm, Israel will have to deal with our Jewish terrorist problem.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The weeds of our society must be uprooted. And we must take action to heal Israeli Arab society. We cannot repeat the mistake we made in 2000, by appointing a commission that strengthened the most dangerous forces in Israeli Arab society in an attempt to appease them.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">We must build on the actions of the Arab mayors who have begun to stand up to the rioters and actively encourage Israeli Arabs to integrate into Israeli society while enforcing the laws without prejudice against those who incite, condone, facilitate, organize or otherwise abet mob violence and irredentism among Israeli Arab society.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Israel faces a difficult, violent period ahead. But there are certain imperatives of freedom that we cannot shirk.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Defeating enemies – from within and without – who act to destroy us is one of them.</span></p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2014 04:47:49 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/76121111_10126676-04ad-417a-8d2a-280c7dd2a2c5.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-235917" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/76121111_10126676-04ad-417a-8d2a-280c7dd2a2c5-450x337.jpg" alt="_76121111_10126676-04ad-417a-8d2a-280c7dd2a2c5" width="260" height="195" /></a>The Palestinian unity government, via its co-equal partner Hamas, is committing war crimes and crimes against humanity against Israeli civilians.  Hamas has launched scores of rockets from Gaza aimed at major Israeli cities covering more than half of Israel, including Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa and Caesarea. The attacks have escalated from 6 on June 27<sup>th</sup> to more than 160 on July 8<sup>th</sup>. This is Hamas’s version of the Nazi-style air blitz, meant to terrorize the Israeli population into submission. Imitating Nazi tactics is a logical extension of the great esteem which Hamas leaders and their Palestinian forebears have held for Adolf Hitler.</p>
<p>&#8220;For the first time, the (Ezzedine al-) Qassam Brigades strike Haifa with an R160 rocket, and strike occupied Jerusalem with four M75 rockets and Tel Aviv with four M75 rockets,&#8221; a Hamas statement boasted.</p>
<p>Hamas also attempted to invade Israel with a naval commando landing on Ashkelon’s Zikkim beach, which the IDF repelled.</p>
<p>In response to these acts of clear Palestinian aggression, Israel to date has carefully controlled the extent of its reprisals. Israel waited several weeks and issued a series of warnings before finally launching its military operation against Hamas on July 7<sup>th</sup>.</p>
<p>Israeli air strikes have been limited so far to targeting Hamas operatives and facilities used to launch or support their rocket assaults.  Although there have been some unintended Palestinian casualties, they have been kept to a minimum, despite the fact that Hamas insists on hiding its weapons and operatives amongst the civilian population and using Palestinian civilians as human shields. Israel has never declared all Palestinian children to be legitimate targets as Hamas has done with respect to Israeli children. Israel condemned the recent killing of the Palestinian youth Muhammad Abu Khdeir and promptly arrested the alleged right-wing Jewish extremist perpetrators with a vow to prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sent his condolences to the Abu Khdeir family, saying, “We do not differentiate between terrorists, and we will respond to all of them.” In contrast, Hamas’s leaders praised the kidnapping of the three Israeli teenagers who were murdered. The Palestinian government has yet to show any urgency in finding the perpetrators of the abduction and murder of the three Israeli teenagers.</p>
<p>Despite the unrelenting rocket attacks, Israel has held back so far on any large scale ground operation in Gaza, which, however, may become necessary if Hamas refuses to stop its escalating violence. 40,000 additional reservists have been called up for duty in case it is determined that a ground operation will be needed.  Israeli military tanks have reportedly been assembling near the Israeli-Gaza border town Sderot.</p>
<p>As DEBKAFile reported on July 8<sup>th</sup>:</p>
<blockquote><p>The government and the IDF have billed the operation as a long-term, staged offensive to destroy Hamas’ logistical and strategic infrastructure, to be escalated stage by stage as needed, up to a limited ground incursion, which would require additional reserve call-ups, as well targeted assassinations. This progression will be adjusted to the enemy’s response and how quickly ‘quiet is restored to the South.</p></blockquote>
<p>United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called on both sides to exercise “maximum restraint” and avoid further civilian casualties. The rocket attacks should cease, Mr. Ban said, but he spent more space in his statement lamenting the plight of the Palestinians. He said he was “extremely concerned at the dangerous escalation of violence, which has already resulted in multiple Palestinian deaths and injuries as a result of Israeli operations against Gaza.&#8221;</p>
<p>UN Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay has sunk even lower than this in the swamp of moral equivalency.  &#8220;From a human rights point of view, I utterly condemn these rocket attacks,” she said, “and <i>more especially</i> I condemn Israel&#8217;s <i>excessive</i> acts of retaliation.&#8221; (Emphasis added.)</p>
<p>This moral equivalency position is getting very old.  Hamas and its fellow jihadists remain primarily responsible for the escalation by continuing their full-scale deliberate rocket assaults against Israeli civilians despite repeated warnings to stop.  Palestinian Authority President Abbas’s decision to include Hamas in the Palestine unity government makes him responsible as well for his government partner’s rocket assaults, since he claims to be the president of the entire putative unified state of Palestine that includes Hamas-governed Gaza.</p>
<p>As if Hamas were not bad enough, ISIS (more recently calling itself the Islamic State), which is presently ravaging parts of Syria and Iraq, is reportedly infiltrating Gaza. ISIS shares Hamas’s goal of creating an Islamic caliphate but believes that Hamas is &#8220;too moderate&#8221; in its approach. As described by the Jerusalem Post last month, unlike Hamas, which is presently focused on ousting the Jewish state from what it claims to be the land belonging to the Palestinian people, “ISIS is a globalized movement that lacks deep roots in any particular society and has no nationalist project.”</p>
<p>However, ISIS and Hamas do share the supremacist ideology of Islam and the jihadist fervor to spread Islam and sharia law by force. In the short run, at least, they will use each other, but in the long run ISIS is even more dangerous than Hamas as it looks to expand its reach from its bases in neighboring Syria and Iraq into Jordan and Egypt, encircling Israel, and beyond. While Israel must do whatever is necessary to keep Hamas under control, it must be careful not to fool itself into thinking that eliminating Hamas alone will mean eliminating an even more dangerous and ruthless jihadist threat that is growing like a cancer on its doorstep.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2014 04:35:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthew Vadum]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/o-SUPREME-COURT-facebook.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-223080" alt="o-SUPREME-COURT-facebook" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/o-SUPREME-COURT-facebook-450x350.jpg" width="315" height="245" /></a></span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Left-wing activists and U.S. senators have launched a pressure campaign targeting the more conservative members of the Supreme Court in hopes of forcing them to abandon First Amendment protections in the Constitution.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In the Left&#8217;s view, Americans and the corporations they use to make money can&#8217;t be allowed to freely express themselves politically by giving money to candidates for public office because that might halt the country&#8217;s ongoing slide into leftist chaos. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">American leftists have long believed that if they can&#8217;t get what they want through the ballot box, they&#8217;ll get it through the judicial system. If they can&#8217;t get what they want from the judges, they&#8217;ll smear and intimidate those judges, Hugo Chavez-style, until they give in. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Get ready for Justices Antonin Scalia, Samuel Alito, and others to be viciously attacked and demonized by the Left using the techniques of </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Rules for Radicals</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> author Saul Alinsky.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In the manner of Soviet era propagandists, these neo-Marxist activists are planning to depict the nation&#8217;s highest court as a tool of the wealthy powers-that-be that conspire against middle-class families. Senate Majority Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has taken to the floor of the Senate to denounce wealthy libertarian donors Charles and David Koch, who underwrite many right-leaning causes.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Some strategists on the Left picture the new movement as a left-wing answer to the “Impeach Earl Warren” movement of the 1960s, which they say set the stage for the high court to become more conservative later on.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">According to </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">The Hill</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> newspaper, </span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">&#8220;Democrats say the present-day court lacks the experience to understand the corrupting influence of money in politics, because none of its members have held publicly elected office. Warren served as governor of California before presiding as chief justice from 1953-1969, when the court issued landmark rulings celebrated by liberals in </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Brown v. Board of Education</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> and </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Miranda v. Arizona</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">.&#8221;</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">But the current Supreme Court wishes &#8220;to dismantle all limits on giving, piece by piece, until we are back to the days of the robber barons, when anyone or anything could give unlimited money, undisclosed, and make our political system seem so rigged that everyone will lose interest in our democracy,” said Senate Rules Committee Chairman Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.). Schumer, incidentally, </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/01/schumers_plan_to_abolish_the_tea_party.html">laid out</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> a blueprint to destroy the Tea Party movement at the Center for American Progress Action Fund earlier this year.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">An added bonus to this new effort to influence the high court is that the Left&#8217;s agitation may help to pump up voter turnout in the November midterm elections by energizing the Democrats&#8217; extremist electoral base.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Sixties radical </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1170">Robert Borosage</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, co-director of </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7331">Campaign for America’s Future</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, said the Left&#8217;s “legal groups will be doing a full-fledged, increasingly severe critique of the court as a court for plutocrats.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Carrying their message of hatred and class warfare, activists and Democratic senators are accusing the conservative-leaning justices of acting out of political bias to further the Republican Party&#8217;s agenda. These radicals have it exactly backwards. The jurists deemed conservative don&#8217;t vote reliably as a bloc &#8212; but when they do they tend to be acting as </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">originalists</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> trying to faithfully interpret the Constitution without glomming a political agenda onto the plain meaning of the words. They are enforcing the great national charter, not rewriting it as the Left would prefer they do.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">These increasingly obnoxious groups are taking cues from President Obama who </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/politicolive/0110/Justice_Alitos_You_lie_moment.html">scolded</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> the assembled Supreme Court justices at the 2010 State of the Union address for upholding the First Amendment. In that speech the former part-time adjunct constitutional law lecturer misrepresented the landmark </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Citizens United v. FEC</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> decision when he claimed it &#8220;reversed a century of law to open the floodgates for special interests — including foreign corporations — to spend without limit in our elections.&#8221; In response, Justice Samuel Alito was famously caught on camera mouthing the words &#8220;not true.&#8221; </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Georgetown University Law Center professor Randy Barnett offered a sports analogy to describe what these groups are now doing to the Supreme Court.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">“The Left clearly tried to work the refs on the Affordable Care Act,” Barnett said. “They worked the refs after </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Citizens United</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, which helped set things up for the Affordable Care Act challenge. If it seems to work, why not continue? It’s unfortunate, I think, that they’ve been encouraged in this behavior by its apparent success.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Democrats are also backing this campaign to distract from the Obama administration&#8217;s many failures, especially the bungled Affordable Care Act that has already taken health care insurance away from millions of Americans.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">“This very well likely is also about finding an issue other than health care and the economy in 2014,&#8221; Barnett said. &#8220;This is like attacking the Koch brothers from the floor of the Senate every other day. It’s another way of trying to gin up the base of the Democratic Party.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In 2010 elected Democrats did chastise and attempt to embarrass Supreme Court justices during speeches in Congress after political spending provisions were circumscribed in </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">One popular rumor floating around the nation&#8217;s capital is that Chief Justice John Roberts infamously voted to uphold Obamacare in 2012 because he was stung by criticism and sought to prevent a similar blow-up from happening following the rendering of that decision.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">One of the groups trying to strong-arm the Supreme Court is the Progressive Change Campaign Committee which is running online ads encouraging supporters to back legislation that would fund political candidates with tax dollars.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">PCCC boasts that the far-left </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Nation</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> magazine gave it an award for “Most Valuable Campaign” of 2011 and that MSNBC’s unhinged talk show host Ed Schultz has called PCCC “the top progressive group in the country.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Founded in 2009, the grassroots-funded PCCC </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://boldprogressives.org/2014/04/supreme-court-doubles-down-on-citizens-united-time-to-fight-back/">reacted</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> in horror April 2 when in </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> the Supreme Court struck down some of the limits on how much individuals can donate to electoral campaigns. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">&#8220;With those limits gone, it will be even harder for everyday people to have their voices heard in Washington. In response, PCCC is launching ads in Washington to make clear that not only should Congress pass a Constitutional Amendment to counteract the power of money in politics — it needs to pass the Government by the People Act, which would fit within recent Supreme Court rulings and would match small-dollar donations with public funds.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The creepy corporatist legislation to which PCCC </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.demos.org/publication/government-people-act">refers</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> really ought to be called the Perpetuation of Big Government Forever Act. The measure would create a massive campaign contribution subsidy scheme paid for by U.S. taxpayers.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Specifically, it would form a Freedom from Influence Fund to match contributions of up to $150 to participating candidates 6-to-1 or more. It would provide a $25 refundable tax credit for small contributions and matching funds in the final 60 days of a general election for candidates in high-cost races. It would also create People PACs, or small donor committees, that aggregate the donations of individuals.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">According to their official website biographies, PCCC was founded by left-wing activists Stephanie Taylor and Adam Green. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Taylor, currently a Ph.D. candidate in American history at Georgetown University, is a veteran union organizer &#8220;and a pioneer in the area of scalable field, using technology and field to achieve results.&#8221; Green, who has a law degree from the University of Virginia, worked four years as Director of Strategic Campaigns and Civic Communications Director for MoveOn. Green was also press secretary for Sen. Tim Johnson&#8217;s (D-S.D.) 2002 re-election campaign. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">PCCC and its allies are gearing up in anticipation of the Supreme Court&#8217;s upcoming ruling in </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores Inc</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">. The court is expected to determine whether the federal mandate on employers to offer birth control coverage violates the Constitution.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Senate Rules Committee Chairman Schumer plan to conduct hearings on the </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">McCutcheon</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> decision, according to </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/202898-dems-the-left-seeking-to-demonize-justices#ixzz2yJrZkm00"><i>The Hill</i></a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> newspaper.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">After the ruling was released, Leahy said, “five justices once again have decided to rule on the side of moneyed interests and against the American people.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">It&#8217;s been said in political circles that personnel is policy. If that&#8217;s true, Americans should be very concerned about Leahy&#8217;s senior counsel at the Judiciary Committee. That lawyer is the race-obsessed radical </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/matthew-vadum/mumia-abu-jamals-lawyer-to-obamas-justice-department/">Debo Adegbile</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> who recently lost his fight to become the Justice Department&#8217;s top civil rights enforcer. The Senate rejected Adegbile&#8217;s nomination after conservative groups pointed out his support for unrepentant cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal. A staunch affirmative action supporter, Adegbile, formerly head of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, doesn’t appear to believe that white Americans are entitled to civil rights protection.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Meanwhile, the Left is essentially threatening to riot if the Supreme Court strikes down the Obamacare mandate forcing employers to provide birth control options in their employee&#8217;s health care insurance packages.</span></p>
<p>Democrat Shenna Bellows, who is challenging moderate Sen. Susan Collins (R- Maine), participated in a rally outside the Supreme Court to put pressure on the justices to leave the mandate alone.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">If the ruling comes down the way the Left fears, with any luck the unrest caused by progressives will happen soon before the November election, just in time to disgust conservative and middle-of-the-road voters.</span></p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/lat-israel-syria-wounded-wre0016142975-20140318.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-221423" alt="APphoto_Mideast Israel Syria" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/lat-israel-syria-wounded-wre0016142975-20140318-450x315.jpg" width="315" height="221" /></a>On Tuesday an explosive device that was planted along the Israeli-Syrian border wounded four Israeli soldiers, one of them seriously. Early Wednesday morning Israeli planes struck back—notably, not against Hizballah but against Syrian military targets, killing one Syrian soldier and wounding seven.  </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu <a href="http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=16239">said</a> the Syrian targets that were hit “not only enabled the attack on our troops, they cooperated with it. Our policy is very clear—we strike at those who strike at us.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">A former chief of military intelligence said:</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The execution of [Tuesday’s] attack was professional. There is no doubt that the Syrians knew about it—they may even have carried it out for Hizballah. Something like this, if it proves true, is a game changer…. </span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">It’s a game changer because, while there has been a string of attacks along the Syrian and Lebanese borders involving Hizballah and global-jihad elements, and while Syria has long been part of the Iran-Syria-Hizballah axis, Israel’s operative assumption has been that Syria’s Assad regime has its hands full with the country’s civil war and no desire to open another front with Israel.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Although Tuesday’s attack was probably carried out on the ground by Hizballah operatives, direct Syrian facilitation appears to be a new development and part of a threatening trend.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The incident comes—ironically—against the backdrop of the opening of yet another round of nuclear talks with Iran. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">That Israel takes a dim view of the talks was made explicit this week by Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon, who <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/defense-minister-we-cant-rely-on-us-to-deal-with-iran/">said</a> that “the U.S. at a certain stage began negotiating with them, and unfortunately in the Persian bazaar the Iranians were better. [Therefore] we [Israelis] have to look out for ourselves.” </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">White House officials <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4501067,00.html">reportedly</a> reacted with shock and outrage. Yaalon had already taken an <em>enfant terrible</em> posture by dismissing the U.S.-orchestrated Israeli-Palestinian negotiations as pointless and even calling Secretary of State John Kerry’s role in them “messianic” and “obsessive,” a choice of words for which Yaalon later apologized.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">But if Washington was upset by Yaalon’s latest words on Iran, it could hardly take comfort from a <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.580701">report</a> in <em>Haaretz</em> on Wednesday that Netanyahu and Yaalon had ordered the Israeli army to prepare for a possible strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities in 2014.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Given that Yaalon, as strategic affairs minister in Netanyahu’s previous government, opposed a strike on Iran but now publicly acknowledges that he has changed his mind, and that the third member of Israel’s top political-security echelon, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, is a known Iran hawk, the report carries plausibility.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">It also carries plausibility because of a recent, marked escalation against Israel by Iran’s proxies. On March 5, the Israeli navy <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Defense/Israel-Navy-intercepts-Gaza-bound-Iranian-rocket-ship-near-Port-Sudan-344369">intercepted</a> an Iranian arms ship carrying Syrian-manufactured rockets to the Iranian-sponsored Islamic Jihad terror group in Gaza. On March 12 Islamic Jihad fired dozens of rockets at Israel from Gaza. And incidents along the northern border reached a new peak on Tuesday with apparent direct Syrian involvement.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Unlike the Western diplomats launching yet another round of talks in Vienna this week with a <a href="http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp/story.asp?NewsID=47334&amp;Cr=execution&amp;Cr1=#.UynWHKLrvKc">brutal regime</a>, Israel does not have the luxury of living in a fantasy world. Jerusalem is well aware that Iran is capable of accurately taking the measure of a weak, bumbling U.S. president and his allies and feels emboldened. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Jerusalem is also well aware that if Iran had the bomb, the current difficult situation of attacks by Iran’s proxies and allies would turn into a nightmare. Yaalon’s words may be grating, but Israelis are getting subjected to even less pleasant sounds.</span></p>
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		<title>Arctic Jihad</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/IMG_0921-1024x768.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-221221" alt="IMG_0921-1024x768" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/IMG_0921-1024x768-450x334.jpg" width="315" height="234" /></a>Finnmark is the northernmost county in Norway, as well as the northernmost part of continental Europe. Apart from a few Arctic islands such as the Norwegian-controlled archipelago of Svalbard, the next stop is the North Pole. Even in the near-Arctic region of Lapland in northern Norway, Sweden and Finland, you can now encounter significant numbers of </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" title="" href="http://www.finnmarken.no/nyheter/ost_finnmark/article7131570.ece" target="_blank">Muslim</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> immigrants from as far away as Somalia or Pakistan.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In 2013, it was announced that a specialist abattoir in northern Norway had slaughtered the country’s first ever </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" title="" href="http://www.thelocal.no/20131202/norway-produces-its-first-ever-halal-reindeer-meat" target="_blank">halal reindeer</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> meat, with a view to selling it to top-end restaurants as far afield as Dubai. Mehtab Afsar, the General Secretary of the Islamic Council of Norway and one of those who oversaw the slaughter, was pleased with this.</span></p>
<p>The problem is, halal meat is not the only thing available once Islam enters a given territory.</p>
<p>In <a title="" href="http://www.thelocal.no/20140224/norway-terror-threat-to-rise-in-2014" target="_blank">February 2014</a>, Lieutenant-General Kjell Grandhagen from the Norwegian Intelligence Service (NIS) warned that the terror threat against Norway is rising due to the return of battle-hardened militant Muslims who return after participating in Jihadist activities during the civil war in Syria. Benedicte Bjørnland, the head of the Norwegian Police Security Service (PST), in early March 2014 warned that Norway had &#8220;<a title="" href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2014/03/04/nyheter/innenriks/pst/politiets_sikkerhetstjeneste/trusselvurdering/32133101/" target="_blank">failed</a>&#8221; as a society due to the dozens of young people becoming radicalized and going abroad to fight in conflict areas such as Syria.</p>
<p>Tromsø is the largest city in northern Norway, as well as the world’s northernmost university town. There was strong public <a title="" href="http://www.nordlys.no/nyheter/article5351286.ece" target="_blank">resistance</a> a few years ago when the sizable <a title="" href="http://www.alnor.no/en_about_alnor.htm" target="_blank">Muslim community</a> in Tromsø wanted to build a mosque there with financial support from Saudi Arabia.</p>
<p>Those who currently travel to Syria from all over Western Europe include Muslim immigrants from many different countries, as well as a few white converts to Islam. In Norway, many of the volunteers come from the Oslo region, where the bulk of the local Muslims live. However, it has been confirmed by the security services that some of the Syria-bound Jihadists come from as far north as <a title="" href="http://www.nordlys.no/nyheter/article7219756.ece" target="_blank">Troms</a> county, far above the Arctic Circle.</p>
<p>Jørn Holme, as the then head of the Police Security Service (PST), stated in 2007 that native Norwegians are “<a title="" href="http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/1.3585847" target="_blank">stupid</a>” and inexperienced concerning diversity and Multiculturalism. This makes them confuse Islam with Islamism. Since native Norwegians are allegedly stupid, Holme feared a lynch mob against Muslims in the event of an Islamic terror attack in the country.</p>
<p>Knut Storberget of the Labour Party agreed with Holme on this issue, fearing that Islamic terrorist attacks might create “stigmatization” of Muslims. Storberget served as the Minister of Justice and the Police in the cabinet of Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg from October 2005 until November 2011.</p>
<p>Notice how these two individuals, who were at that time in charge of their country’s security, seemingly feared potential verbal abuse by Muslim immigrants more than the possibility that their own countrymen might get killed by Muslims.</p>
<p>Hugh Fitzgerald, an insightful critic of Islam, in 2007 called for the resignation of PST leader Jørn Holme over his comments and for suggesting that Islam is no more violent than Christianity. In Fitzgerald’s view back then, in order to improve the security situation in Norway Jørn Holme “<a title="" href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2007/09/fitzgerald-the-head-of-norways-security-service-a-bit-stupid-yes-but-not-as-regards-diversity.html" target="_blank">should be</a> immediately fired. He should be replaced by someone with a solid grasp of Islam, and therefore of the permanent threat that Islam represents to the legal and political institutions of Norway, to its social arrangements, to free inquiry and to art, to the physical well-being of Infidels.”</p>
<p>What Jørn Holme and Knut Storberget did not say in 2007 is that an attack carried out by a Muslim man had already taken place in Norway and very nearly succeeded in killing many people. For some reason, this is not always classified as terrorism, even though it had many of the hallmarks of being an Islamic Jihadist terror attack. Moreover, this event did not lead to widespread stigmatization of Muslims in Norway. The writer <a title="" href="http://orjas.blogg.no/" target="_blank">Elin Ørjasæter</a> later <a title="" href="http://www.uriasposten.net/archives/40099" target="_blank">published</a> an insightful reader’s comment about this subject.</p>
<p>On September 29 2004, <a title="" href="http://www.vg.no/nyheter/spesial.php?id=924" target="_blank">Brahim Bouteraa</a>, a rejected Muslim asylum seeker from Algeria, entered the cockpit of an airplane in northern Norway and attempted to crash it. The plane was flying from the town of Narvik to the town of Bodø in Nordland County, north of the Arctic Circle. The lives of all those on board were narrowly saved solely due to the resolute intervention from a couple of male passengers. The plane was literally seconds away from crashing when the pilot finally managed to regain control over it, 30 meters above the ground.</p>
<p>One of those who intervened was Odd Eriksen, a politician from the Labour Party. After this incident, he served briefly as Minister of Trade and Industry in the government of PM Jens Stoltenberg. Eriksen is no coward and deserves full credit for taking action. He physically struggled with the attacker and tried to hold him down, but he didn’t fully succeed in doing so. It was only when another passenger, Trond Frantzen, intervened that they finally managed to get the Muslim attacker under control and gave the pilots enough breathing space to save the plane from crashing.</p>
<p>Afterwards, the two men who attempted to overpower the attacker said very different things about how they had experienced this dramatic episode. Eriksen, who tried but failed to hold the hijacker down, stated that he “felt so sorry” for the Muslim asylum seeker who very nearly killed him. Frantzen, on the other hand, the man who actually succeeded in restraining the attacker with the aid of Eriksen, stated that at that moment he was “<a title="" href="http://www.ranablad.no/nyheter/article1270731.ece" target="_blank">fully intent on</a> killing him.” Frantzen grabbed the man by the throat and shouted “Lie still or I will kill you!” straight to his face. At this moment, Trond Frantzen was thinking about the Islamic terror attacks and airplane hijackings of September 11 in the USA three years earlier. He was also looking at his 15-year-old daughter Marlene at the back of the plane, and desperately trying to save her life.</p>
<p>The interesting thing is that if you ask random Norwegians about this attack, more people will probably remember Odd Eriksen than Trond Frantzen. Odd Eriksen is a good Social Democrat who feels sorry for everybody, even those who try to murder him. He is a man of good intentions, exactly as many educated Scandinavians see themselves or want to see themselves.</p>
<p>Trond Frantzen, on the other hand, is the hero who actually saved the day and ultimately the lives of all those on board the plane. However, he is a man who would use anger, aggression and lethal force to protect his own life and the life of his daughter. He is therefore a man of action who is sadly out of place in the age of “dialogue,” a relic from a past of traditional masculinity.</p>
<p>As one Norwegian reader commented, we have become a society nearly devoid of aggression. We feel sorry for those who try to murder us. This makes us very vulnerable when faced with brutal aggressors. We as a society have to recognize that force and aggression are sometimes needed to protect what matters most to us.</p>
<p>Another point worth emphasizing is that this Muslim man, Brahim Bouteraa, has been partly written off as crazy, even though he was judged sane by psychiatrists and sentenced to <a title="" href="http://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/artikkel.php?artid=269821" target="_blank">17 years</a> in prison. He was described as a <a title="" href="http://blog.bearstrong.net/archive/weblog/001434.html" target="_blank">very devout</a> Muslim who wanted to become <a title="" href="http://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/artikkel.php?artid=247553" target="_blank">an imam</a> and open a mosque in the town of Narvik. Bouteraa had been member of a <a title="" href="http://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/artikkel.php?artid=268808" target="_blank">militant</a> Islamic group in his native Algeria. Before his attack in Norway, the security services (PST) had been warned about his “<a title="" href="http://pub.nettavisen.no/nettavisen/innenriks/article353603.ece" target="_blank">religious excesses</a>.” He cited some texts in Arabic, possibly Koranic verses, immediately before the attempted hijacking, and then screamed “<a title="" href="http://pub.nettavisen.no/nettavisen/english/article284934.ece" target="_blank">I’m going</a> to crash this plane.”</p>
<p>Yet despite all of this, there is a tendency in Norwegian mass media, if they talk about this case at all (they rarely do), to view it as an isolated incident involving a mentally disturbed individual as perpetrator. This trend is, sadly, not unique to Scandinavia. It is endemic all over the Western world today.</p>
<p>In the USA, Nidal Malik Hasan, a U.S. Army Major, murdered 13 people and wounded 29 others during an attack at Fort Hood, Texas, on November 5 2009. There is every indication that this pious Muslim man, who shouted “Allahu akhbar!” during his massacre, carried out an Islamic Jihadist attack. Despite this, the Obama Administration labeled the shooting a case of “<a title="" href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/editorials/fort_hood_diversity_rules_JYs7ebOl6EQmoxkv6cROCI" target="_blank">workplace violence</a>,” refusing any mention of Islam or Jihad.</p>
<p>After a trial where he was found guilty on all accounts, Nidal Malik Hasan was sentenced <a title="" href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/08/28/jury-set-to-deliberate-fate-fort-hood-gunman/" target="_blank">to death</a> on August 28, 2013. He has openly and repeatedly given a specifically Islamic justification for his mass murder and said he did it on behalf of Islamic militants abroad.</p>
<p>It is easier to pretend that the Jihadist threat does not exist, of course. Yet for how long can we keep up this illusion, while continuing to import en masse Muslims who long for Jihad?</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jan 2014 05:53:32 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Sheikh-Ayman-Al-Zawahiri.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-217141" alt="Sheikh Ayman Al-Zawahiri" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Sheikh-Ayman-Al-Zawahiri-450x347.jpg" width="315" height="243" /></a>Israeli security forces have shut down a massive al-Qaeda plot coordinated by terrorist mastermind Ayman al-Zawahiri that involved attacking the Jerusalem Convention Center and the American embassy in the diplomatic center of Tel Aviv.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">This is believed to be </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://app.debka.com/p/article/23617/Zuwahiri-plotted-Palestinian-Caucasian-terrorist-attacks-on-US-embassy-Jerusalem-Convention-Center">the first time</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> that al-Qaeda chief al-Zawahiri has gotten personally involved in engineering strikes within Israel.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The foiled plot is a sobering reminder that al-Qaeda has been experiencing a comeback in the Obama era.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Weeks before the November 2012 election Obama bragged, “al-Qaeda is on the path to defeat and Osama bin Laden is dead.” It is true that al-Qaeda is &#8220;on the run,&#8221; but not in the sense that President Obama uses the term. The stock of the international Muslim terrorist network is experiencing a </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">bull run</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> in many corners of the world, lifted higher by the profuse pro-Islamist promises of appeasement offered by Secretary of State John Kerry.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Meanwhile, the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) told the </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.jpost.com/Defense/3-al-Qaida-recruits-arrested-planned-massive-bombings-339002"><i>Jerusalem Post</i></a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> Wednesday that it arrested three Palestinians from east Jerusalem recruited online by a Gaza-based al-Qaeda operative. The three men were preparing to launch a wave of terror attacks involving bombs and firearms that would have targeted the Jerusalem Convention Center, a bus route, the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv, and the emergency responders who would have attended to the wounded at the attack sites.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">A U.S. State Department official suggested that the plot against the diplomatic facility had been a matter of discussion between the American and Israeli governments for some time. “The U.S. embassy was not just the target, but obviously other targets were involved as well in the threat,” State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said Wednesday.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The U.S. won&#8217;t be evacuating the embassy, Harf said. “We obviously don’t discuss all of our security measures.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The Shin Bet said al-Qaeda operative Ariv Al-Sham used the Internet to sign up Iyad Khalil Abu-Sara, Rubin Abu-Nagma, and Ala Anam for the violent campaign. At press time it was unclear if Al-Sham was in Israeli custody. The Shin Bet said he received orders directly from Ayman Al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden&#8217;s successor as head of al-Qaeda.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Abu-Sara confessed he volunteered to carry out a &#8220;sacrifice attack&#8221; on an Israeli bus traveling between Jerusalem and Ma&#8217;ale Adumim. The plan was to shoot out the vehicle&#8217;s wheels, causing it to turn over, and then to gun down passengers and first responders. The suspect also confessed he planned to participate in simultaneous suicide bombings at the U.S. Embassy and the Jerusalem Convention Center. Abu-Sara would have killed responders at the convention center by detonating a suicide truck bomb at the scene.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">&#8220;Al-Sham and Abu-Sara plotted to bring a group of foreign terrorists to Israel using fake Russian passports, who would have entered the country by posing as tourists,&#8221; the newspaper reported. &#8220;Abu-Sara was meant to receive the terrorists, and prepare their suicide bomb vests and a truck bomb. Abu-Sara was also supposed to travel to Syria for training in combat and explosives manufacturing, and had purchased a flight ticket to Turkey, a gateway to Syria.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Abu-Nagma admitted he intended to kidnap a soldier and bomb a building housing Israeli Jews in east Jerusalem. Ala Anam admitted planning to establish a Salafi-Jihadi cell in Samaria for the purpose of launching terror attacks.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Jerusalem Post</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> quoted an unnamed source saying the new arrests are proof that al-Qaeda-affiliated elements &#8212; as well as operatives from Hamas and Islamic Jihad &#8212; are using the Gaza Strip as a terrorism base. &#8220;Hundreds of Salafi-jihadis in Gaza have access to rockets and arms, and travel to Sinai to attack both Egypt and Israel,&#8221; the source said.</span></p>
<p>News of the foiled plot runs counter to the Obama administration&#8217;s fanciful insistence that al-Qaeda no longer matters and its <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/01/27/140127fa_fact_remnick?currentPage=all">denial</a>, on display in a recent interview with the <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/01/27/140127fa_fact_remnick?currentPage=all"><em>New Yorker</em></a>, that al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorism is spreading rapidly around the globe.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">After some major setbacks in recent years, al-Qaeda&#8217;s influence is growing as it establishes and fortifies terrorism beachheads throughout the Middle East and North Africa. Al-Qaeda&#8217;s affiliate al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) now controls large chunks of Iraq.</span></p>
<p>The group &#8220;is trying to take over two countries at once; Iraq and Syria,&#8221; as Daniel Greenfield <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/the-cost-of-obamas-abandonment-of-iraq/">notes</a>. &#8220;It’s a big goal, but it knows that in Syria, Obama will help them and that in Iraq, he won’t do anything to stop them.&#8221;</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">AQI, &#8220;a predominantly Sunni jihadist group, seeks to sow civil unrest in Iraq and the Levant with the aim of establishing a caliphate—a single, transnational Islamic state based on sharia law,&#8221; </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.cfr.org/iraq/al-qaeda-iraq-k-islamic-state-iraq-greater-syria/p14811">according to</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> the Council on Foreign Relations.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The withdrawal of U.S. forces in 2011 has left a substantial power vacuum in the increasingly fractious country. According to the Council, al-Qaeda &#8220;has increased attacks on mainly Shiite targets in what is seen as an attempt to reignite conflict between Iraq&#8217;s Sunni minority and the Shiite-dominated government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.&#8221; The result has been a vicious resurgence of violence:</span></p>
<blockquote><p>Burgeoning violence in 2013 left nearly eight thousand civilians dead, making it Iraq&#8217;s bloodiest year since 2008, according to the United Nations. Meanwhile, in 2012 the group adopted a new moniker, Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS, a.k.a. Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL) as an expression of its broadened ambitions as its fighters have crossed into neighboring Syria to challenge both the Assad regime and secular and Islamist opposition groups there.</p></blockquote>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Al-Qaeda itself &#8220;remains a cohesive organization&#8221; and its core &#8220;leadership continues to be important to the global movement,&#8221; </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.nctc.gov/site/groups/al_qaida.html">according to</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> the National Counterterrorism Center. </span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Despite continued leadership losses, al-Qa‘ida remains committed to conducting attacks in the United States and against American interests abroad. The group has advanced a number of unsuccessful plots in the past several years, including against the United States and Europe. This highlights al-Qa‘ida’s ability to continue some attack preparations while under sustained counterterrorism pressure and suggests it may be plotting additional attacks against the United States at home or overseas.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Islamists are increasingly emboldened by America’s projection of weakness abroad and by the Obama administration&#8217;s dogmatic determination to undermine the government of Benjamin Netanyahu.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Chances are the terrorist networks will grow even stronger before President Obama leaves office in January 2017.</span></p>
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		<title>New Declassified Docs Expose Obama&#8217;s Benghazi Lies</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arnold Ahlert]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/benghazi.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-215299" alt="benghazi" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/benghazi-450x323.jpg" width="360" height="258" /></a>Newly declassified documents <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/01/13/benghazi-transcripts-top-defense-officials-briefed-obama-on-attack-not-video-or/">reveal</a> that high-ranking members of the Obama administration were aware that the September 11, 2012 assault on the American consulate in Benghazi was a &#8220;terrorist attack&#8221; <i>only minutes</i> after the battle began. In classified testimony given on June 26, 2013 to the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigation, Gen. Carter Hamm, former head of the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) revealed he was the one who broke the news to former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. According to declassified testimony obtained by Fox News, Hamm testified that he learned about the attack only 15 minutes after it began at 9:42 p.m. Libya time. Thus, the administration&#8217;s carefully crafted narrative that the attack was based on a video has once again been revealed for the lie it always was.</p>
<p>&#8220;My first call was to General Dempsey, General Dempsey&#8217;s office, to say, &#8216;Hey, I am headed down the hall. I need to see him right away,&#8217;&#8221; the General told lawmakers. &#8220;I told him what I knew. We immediately walked upstairs to meet with Secretary Panetta.&#8221; Hamm characterized the ability to meet with both men so soon after the attack occurred as a fortunate &#8220;happenstance&#8221; because &#8220;they had the basic information as they headed across for the meeting at the White House.&#8221;</p>
<p>That meeting had been pre-scheduled with the president for 5 p.m. EST. A Defense Department (DOD) timeline notes that the meeting <a href="http://cnsnews.com/news/article/panetta-and-joint-chiefs-chair-obama-talked-them-only-once-night-benghazi-attack">occurred</a> one hour and 18 minutes after the attack began, and even as the battle at the consulate was ongoing. The DOD also revealed that an unarmed drone arrived over the battlefield during that time. As both men revealed in subsequent testimony, the meeting with the president lasted approximately 30 minutes &#8212; after which they never heard from anyone in the White House again.</p>
<p>Hamm revealed that he met with Panetta and Dempsey when they returned from that session.</p>
<p>Armed Services Chairman Howard &#8220;Buck&#8221; McKeon (R-CA) was the lawmaker who put Hamm on the spot regarding the administration&#8217;s video narrative. &#8220;In your discussions with General Dempsey and Secretary Panetta, was there any mention of a demonstration, or was all discussion about an attack?&#8221; McKeon asked. Hamm characterized the discussion of a demonstration as &#8220;peripheral,&#8221; but noted that &#8220;at that initial meeting, we knew that a U.S. facility had been attacked and was under attack, and we knew at that point that we had two individuals, Ambassador Stevens and Mr. Smith, unaccounted for.&#8221;</p>
<p>Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-OH), an Iraq war veteran and Army reserve officer, pressed the General more forcefully on the nature of his conversation with Panetta and Dempsey. He expressed his concern &#8220;that someone in the military would be advising that this was a demonstration&#8221; rather than a terrorist attack. Hamm noted their was some &#8220;preliminary discussion&#8221; of the point, but emphasized that they were aware of what was really going on. &#8220;But I think at the command, I personally and I think the command very quickly got to the point that this was not a demonstration, this was a terrorist attack,&#8221; he testified. Hamm also reiterated that &#8220;with General Dempsey and Secretary Panetta, that is the nature of the conversation we had, yes, sir.&#8221;</p>
<p>Hamm, Dempsey and Carter were not the only ones aware that a terrorist attack was occurring. The declassified transcripts show that key officers, along with several channels of command throughout the Pentagon and its combatants commands, were equally quick to label the assault a terrorist attack.</p>
<p>Wenstrup took the approach with Marine Corps Col. George Bristol, commander of AFRICOM&#8217;s Joint Special Operations Task Force for the Trans Sahara region, that he did with Dempsey. Bristol testified he was in Dakar, Senegal when the Joint Operations Center called to tell him about &#8220;a considerable event unfolding in Libya.&#8221; Bristol called Lt. Col. S.E. Gibson, an Army commander stationed in Tripoli, who informed Bristol that Ambassador Stevens was missing and &#8220;there was a fight going on&#8221; at the compound. &#8220;So no one from the military was ever advising, that you are aware of, that this was a demonstration gone out of control, it was always considered an attack on the United States?&#8221; Wenstrup asked Bristol. &#8220;Yes, sir. &#8230; We referred to it as the attack,&#8221; he replied.</p>
<p>When their investigations continue, staffers on the Armed Services subcommittee have indicated their desire to recall Panetta to ask him additional questions. &#8220;He is in the president&#8217;s Cabinet,&#8221; Rep. Martha Roby (R-AL), chair of the panel that collected the testimony, told Fox News. &#8220;The American people deserve the truth. They deserve to know what&#8217;s going on, and I honestly think that that&#8217;s why you have seen &#8212; beyond the tragedy that there was a loss of four Americans&#8217; lives &#8211; is that the American people feel misled.&#8221;</p>
<p>Kim R. Holmes, a former assistant secretary of state under President George W. Bush, echoed that assertion. &#8220;Leon Panetta should have spoken up,&#8221; he insisted. &#8220;The people at the Pentagon and frankly, the people at the CIA stood back while all of this was unfolding and allowed this narrative to go on longer than they should have.&#8221;</p>
<p>As of now, the retired Panetta has resisted requests for further testimony.</p>
<p>Preliminary conclusions reached by those same staffers regarding Panetta&#8217;s earlier testimony that a rescue operation would have been impossible, agreed with the former Secretary&#8217;s assessment. But those same documents <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/01/13/benghazi-transcripts-us-military-woefully-unprepared-for-attack-documents-show/">reveal</a> it was because America&#8217;s assets in the region were badly arrayed. And not just with regard to Benghazi, but other Middle East hotspots as well. Transcripts from top military commanders paint a woeful picture of gaps in the position of assets worldwide. Examples of unpreparedness include the reality that no aircraft were put on high alert for September 11, and that the closet F-35 fighter jets to Benghazi, stationed in Aviano, Italy were unarmed. Moreover, the closest mid-air re-fuelers were 10 hours away in Great Briatin.</p>
<p>Other assets, including AC-130 gunships were 10 hours from Libya, and a unit of 23 special operators that comprise part of a discretionary, &#8220;in-extremis&#8221; force, were training in Croatia. According to testimony, they didn&#8217;t even make it to a staging base in Sigonella, Italy until 19 hours after the attack began.</p>
<p>Rep. Martha Roby (R-AL), the Republican chairwoman of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, addressed this disturbing reality. &#8220;It does not appear that U.S. military forces, units, aircrafts, drones, or specific personnel that could have been readily deployed in the course of the attack in Benghazi were unduly held back, or told to stand down, or refused permission to enter the fight,&#8221; she concluded. &#8220;Rather, we were so badly postured, they could not have made a difference or we were desperately needed elsewhere.&#8221;</p>
<p>The newly released documents also reveal that Gen. Hamm had been left out of the loop in White House-led discussions regarding military preparedness and force posture on the eve of Sept. 11. This revelation undercuts White House assurances that then-counterterrorism adviser John Brennan had &#8220;convened numerous meetings,&#8221; and the president and his national security principals discussed &#8220;steps taken to protect U.S. persons and facilities abroad.&#8221;</p>
<p>Perhaps they they did. But it remains unknown why the head of AFRICOM would not be include in those discussions.</p>
<p>Hamm insisted that no one told him to stand down, there simply weren&#8217;t assets available to counter the attack. He repeatedly argued that having an F-16 do a fly-over in  Benghazi wouldn&#8217;t have made any difference, despite that tactic being routinely employed to disperse enemy forces in Afghanistan.</p>
<p>AFRICOM and Pentagon officials insisted they were more worried about threats emanating from Tunisia, Egypt and Sudan on Sept. 11, 2012. &#8220;As I look back at the intelligence, I don&#8217;t see the indications of imminent attack in Benghazi,&#8221; Ham said. Yet Maj. Gen. Darryl Roberson, vice chief of operations on the Joint Staff in the Pentagon that night, seemingly confirmed the lack of military preparedness. &#8220;We were postured as appropriately as we can be and we thought we should be around the world. It wasn&#8217;t just in Africa, in North Africa, that we had issues. We had issues around the world.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Appropriately postured&#8221;&#8211;but with &#8220;issues&#8221;?</p>
<p>Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) remained skeptical of Hamm&#8217;s assessment. &#8220;The extraction took an exceptionally long amount of time,&#8221; he noted. &#8220;I still don&#8217;t understand, with two men down by 10:00 p.m. local time and then another attack at 5:00 a.m. the next morning, how at 6:05 in the morning the Department of Defense prepares a C-17 to go down, and that doesn&#8217;t actually depart Germany until 2:15 p.m. and doesn&#8217;t return back to Germany until 10:19 p.m. I have flown with you from Germany to Libya. It is not that far a flight.&#8221;</p>
<p>Another infuriating fact revealed by the documents regards a FAST team of Marines in Rota, Spain. They were apparently forced to deplane and change out of their uniforms before flying to Libya. “When we got people down do you really have &#8212; do you really actually let somebody push the military around and say, well, you are in the wrong uniform,&#8221; Chaffetz asked in disbelief. &#8220;Is that really a reason to delay the FAST team coming in to protect Americans, that they are not wearing a t-shirt?&#8221;</p>
<p>Nothing should surprise anyone with regard to Benghazi anymore. Not the administration&#8217;s wholesale lying about a video. Not the callousness of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who wondered <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka0_nz53CcM">aloud</a> in congressional testimony, &#8220;what difference at this point does it make?&#8221; regarding the how and why of the attack. Not the equal amount of callousness demonstrated by a president who handed off responsibility for the operations to Panetta and Dempsey, and promptly disappeared, even as he showed up at a Las Vegas fundraiser the next day with his oft-repeated campaign slogan that was also a lie: &#8220;A day after 9/11, we are reminded that a new tower rises above the New York skyline, but al Qaeda is on the path to defeat and bin Laden is dead,” Obama told the audience.</p>
<p>That would be the same al Qaeda that,<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/07/opinion/bergen-al-qaeda-terrority-gains/index.html#disqus_thread"> according</a> to CNN, &#8220;appears to control more territory in the Arab world than it has done at any time in its history.&#8221;</p>
<p>The can be no doubt any longer what the president knew and when he knew it. On September 11, 2012 four Americans were killed in a terrorist attack. The president was aware of that reality shortly after 5 p.m. EST, even as a drone flew over the battlefield relaying video in real time. And despite all the lying, and incompetence, not a single person has been fired or held accountable, nor has even one member of the media asked the president where he was between the time he left Panetta and Dempsey, and boarded a plan for the fundraiser in Las Vegas.</p>
<p>Last Sunday, former Defense Secretary Robert Gates may have inadvertently <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/01/12/gates-chides-obama-over-absence-passion-contrasts-with-bush-style/">given</a> America some insight in that regard. He was describing Obama with regard to Afghanistan. &#8220;As I write in the book, it was this absence of passion, this absence of a conviction of the importance of success that disturbed me,&#8221; Gates said.</p>
<p>Americans might ask themselves whether that lack of compassion and absence of conviction extended to Benghazi.</p>
<p>Or perhaps former Carter campaign worker Pat Caddell <a href="http://www.aim.org/video/pat-caddell-the-audacity-of-corruption/">had it right</a> at an Accuracy in Media conference in June of 2012, when he lambasted the media and their unrelenting efforts to cover for Obama. &#8220;If a President of either party—I don’t care whether it was Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton or George Bush or Ronald Reagan or George H. W. Bush—had a terrorist incident, and got on an airplane after saying something, and flown off to a fundraiser in Las Vegas, they would have been crucified!&#8221; he declared.</p>
<p>Perhaps that time is coming.</p>
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		<title>Black Mob Violence in Rochester: Get Used To It</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jan 2014 05:09:11 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>Rochester does not have a problem with black mob violence.  Or black on white crime. The city does, however, have a problem with white people who are not used to it.</p>
<p>So says a Rochester city councilman.</p>
<p>The latest example <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/new-from-rochester-the-knockout-game-that-does-not-exist/">is a “disturbing” video of a group of black people laughing and dancing as they talk about how </a>they are going wait for an “old lady” to leave a convenience story, then smash her in the face with a snow ball. And a fist.</p>
<p>Which they did. Thanks to the efforts of local activist Davy V., police have a copy of the video and know who the culprits are. And they will talk to them eventually. But police told the local paper it looks more like harassment than assault.</p>
<p>Which should make Rochester councilman Adam McFadden a happy man. McFadden schooled white people about their finicky sensibilities toward crime in 2011. The occasion was an episode of large-scale black mob violence at a city-sponsored Memorial Day party featuring barbecue ribs.</p>
<p>More than 200 black people showed up, ate, rioted, then left. Police arrested 13 black people, including one for assaulting an officer. If anyone in Rochester was surprised or upset, they did a good job hiding it. The local paper explained that several public holiday gatherings had been cancelled the year before because of violence, and “the city has an ongoing issue with crowds of youth at the Liberty Pole downtown.”</p>
<p>Which continue today &#8212; the Liberty Pole is the site of regular and frequent black mob violence, especially when students ride the bus there after school. Sometimes accompanied by gunfire. The paper does not talk about the black part.</p>
<p>McFadden explained the <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/new-from-rochester-the-knockout-game-that-does-not-exist/">2011 black mob violence, thusly</a>: “I think what you saw at the [Memorial Day barbecue] is what we’ve been seeing in many of our neighborhoods for two decades,” said  McFadden. “It’s just that you had a lot of people there who are not used to that culture and got to witness it personally.”</p>
<p>In the two years since,  McFadden has been proven correct over and over again &#8212; with many of the episodes documented in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/White-Girl-Bleed-Lot-Violence-ebook/dp/B00E8NCA7G/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1389202208&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=colin+flaherty">White Girl Bleed a Lot: The Return of Racial Violence to America and How the Media Ignore It</a>.</p>
<p>The city’s Lilac Festival was once a national showcase of horticultural excellence. Today, the annual flower show is just another excuse for frequent episodes of black mob violence.</p>
<p>By the time it was over last year, 200 people were arrested and four people were stabbed. A man with a shotgun escaped and two police officers were hurt.</p>
<p>Two months prior to the festival, the Rochester police chief sent potential criminals a letter, saying he was watching them and they’d better start behaving. They did not.</p>
<p>Local reporters do not – or will not – report what many readers know: “Let’s face it, this is a racial problem,” said Ann Marie Cummings in the comment section of the <em>Democrat and Chronicle</em>. “Whether it is the Puerto Rican fest, last year at the rib fest, or problems at sea breeze with gangs. It’s obvious these street thugs pick arenas … large amount of people attending.”</p>
<p>In September of 2013 in the Rochester suburb of Irondequoit, police had to close down a movie theater after 400 to 500 black people started fighting inside and outside a showing of the movie Insidious, Chapter 2.</p>
<p>Most of the fighters were from Rochester.</p>
<p>“I saw police officers chasing kids, as we were pulling out of the parking lot to leave we saw police officer knock kids to the ground and one police officer was batoning kids,” said Alton Johnson to Rochester YNN.</p>
<p>Lt. Jonna Izzo explained it all to News 8: “They have pent up energy from being scared in the movie theater and they come out and they don’t know what to do with that energy.”</p>
<p>Some residents said it was strange that anyone could blame a large scale act of violence and mayhem on a movie. Others said it had nothing to with the movie: That mall and others in Irondequoit have been plagued by black mob violence for years:</p>
<p>“So it’s not the first time and won’t be the last !!,” said David Sevor at the web site for WHAM TV news. “It’s sad these young teenagers don’t know how to behave out in public.”</p>
<p>Mike Alpaha was more explicit: “It’s been a problem that has been escalating for a long time. White people are the real problem! Your all too scared to speak up and talk about the real problem!”</p>
<p>“These young black kids are out of control and have no discipline in the home. They have no respect for anyone (especially white people). But everyone is scared of being called a racist for telling it how it is.I’m not a racist, but I can say that the inner city black youth are out of control and only getting worse!”</p>
<p>Four police departments from neighboring jurisdictions assisted. City officials called the bus company, which returned the rioters to Rochester. No one was arrested.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, police are looking for the “old lady” who was struck with a snow ball and a fist.</p>
<p>But the activist who discovered the tape and recorded it before it could be removed is not holding his breath. <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/new-from-rochester-the-knockout-game-that-does-not-exist/">Davy V. is a filmmaker and blogger who writes in Rochester.</a> He describes some of the actors and actions:</p>
<blockquote><p>Sunday evening, a Rochester, NY youth who goes by the Facebook name &#8220;True Goon Tocool Sneekey&#8221; posted a :53 second video titled &#8220;Just doin shit watch the smack cam&#8221;.</p>
<p>The video starts with the youth laughing and talking into the camera.</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m bout to smack the old lady with the snowball when she come out the store,&#8221; he says.</p>
<p>A few seconds later, as more laughter is heard in the background, an older woman is seen coming out of a corner store located at the intersection of Jay and Child Streets, on the city&#8217;s west side.</p>
<p>The youth in the video then hits the woman in the side of the head.</p>
<p>The youths then run off as one of them is heard yelling &#8220;Smack cam! Smack cam!&#8221;</p>
<p>Then one of the youths is heard saying &#8220;I&#8217;m gonna get the fuck up outta here before she calls the cops!&#8221;, obviously referring to the woman they just assaulted.</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/new-from-rochester-the-knockout-game-that-does-not-exist/">Davy V. says police are not taking the crime seriously.</a></p>
<p>“I wonder if the woman who came out of that store, and was attacked by some young punk who blinded sided her, hitting her on the side of her head, if that woman had been RPD Sgt. Elena Correia&#8217;s mother, or grandmother, would she brush it off as &#8216;harassment&#8217;, which is nothing more than a violation,” said Davy V.</p>
<p>Maybe Councilman McFadden would know. But he is not returning calls or emails.</p>
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		<title>The Muslim Suicide Convert</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jan 2014 05:46:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why new followers gravitate toward jihad with such frequency. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/article-2531254-1A58FDE900000578-258_634x361.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-214365" alt="article-2531254-1A58FDE900000578-258_634x361" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/article-2531254-1A58FDE900000578-258_634x361-430x350.jpg" width="301" height="245" /></a>Both of the suicide bombers who struck in Russia were Muslim converts. They follow a long string of Muslim terrorist converts, including the murderers of British soldier Lee Rigby, who were sentenced last month, and Terry Lee Loewen, who plotted to car bomb the Wichita Mid-Continent Airport that same month.</p>
<p>Muslim converts engage in terrorism at a higher rate than Muslims. It&#8217;s gotten so bad that converting to Islam is almost a form of suicide.</p>
<p>The popular theory is that Muslim terrorist groups use converts because they blend in better. But in most Western countries, screening by race is nearly illegal and even in targeted countries where it isn’t, there are usually many members of Muslim ethnic groups in most major cities.</p>
<p>There are four reasons for the rise of the Muslim Suicide Convert. Muslim converts are gullible, fanatical, suicidal and expendable.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s start with the last one. Muslims usually come from tribal cultures with extended family groups. Despite its claims of transnationalism and multiculturalism, Islam is an ethnic religion with the descendants of Mohammed elevated over everyone else, the families in the region of his first conquests elevated over other Arabs, Arabs elevated over non-Arabs, Asian Muslims over African Muslims and African Muslims over Western converts to Islam.</p>
<p>A convert to Islam is lowest on the totem pole because he has no family group. In a tribal society, not having a family connection makes you an outsider. A Muslim who Jihads himself to death creates a hole in the network of arranged cousin marriages, illegal business arrangements and other extended family support structures. A Muslim convert was never part of the network unless he married into it. And even then he can easily be unplugged because he shares no common ancestry with them.</p>
<p>In a Muslim country, he can be killed without having to pay blood price. In a Western country, he can be sent off to die without the &#8220;tribe&#8221; of Pakistanis or Egyptians who built the mosques and hired the Imams who converted him and convinced him to kill non-Muslims being affected by his death.</p>
<p>He is expendable.</p>
<p>Converts are not part of the family networks of the Muslim settlers in their Western diasporas. That makes them useful cannon fodder. If they are captured, the mosque denies all responsibility and blames the Internet even though most mosques and Muslim student groups host those same speakers who &#8220;radicalize&#8221; converts over the Internet at their own facilities and events.</p>
<p>Muslim converts are also suicidal. The act of conversion destroys the entire cultural and faith background of the individual. It cuts him off from his family, his people and his way of life. Converts to Islam often discuss feeling empty. They expect Islam to fill the void within them and when it does not, they are told that the failure is theirs.</p>
<p>The Muslim convert finds Islam in a search for fulfillment and still feeling unfulfilled, seeks out its &#8220;purer&#8221; forms whose commitment to Jihadist violence is more overt. The violence of their rhetoric and the force of their commitment briefly feel like fulfillment, but then dissatisfaction sets in again. Told to blame himself for this final failure, the Muslim Suicide Convert makes his final kamikaze run hoping to find the meaning and fulfillment in the afterlife that evaded him in this life.</p>
<p>Muslim converts have personal problems that they try to treat with Islam the way that sufferers from conventional diseases try to treat their illnesses with phony cures. Muslim clerics promise that Islam will solve the personal problems of non-Muslims and non-Muslim societies, but like so many criminal gurus, they are peddling phony cures that kill the patient.</p>
<p>That is one reason why Muslim converts are fanatical. Another reason is that they have no baseline. Converts plunge into another religion and culture as into deep water.</p>
<p>Muslims have learned to make the necessary compromises with their fanatical religion that make their lives livable. That is why most of them do not go out and blow themselves up; instead they undermine Western societies in slower and steadier ways through demographics, disinformation and political influence.</p>
<p>The Muslim Suicide Convert seeks an uncompromising purity. He rejects the compromises that Muslims have learned to make over the centuries. Seeking the core revelation in a religion of death; he finds that revelation only in death. The truth of Islam is in its killing fields. It preaches war for power and paradise. The Muslim convert who searches for its essence finds a grinning skull in the desert sands and hurries to emulate its terrible example.</p>
<p>Finally, Muslim converts are gullible. The natives of every land have games that they play with tourists, relying on their unfamiliarity with another culture to mislead them and trick them. Muslim converts are strangers in a strange land, slowly learning a foreign way of life and pathetically eager to be accepted by another culture. It is all too easy for Muslim clerics to lead them down the garden path to the suicide bomber’s paradise by offering and withholding affection until they are willing to do anything to belong.</p>
<p>Muslim Suicide Converts are enlisted in a war the way that men have been enlisted in wars throughout the ages with appeals to patriotism, tales of outrageous atrocities and myths of incredible heroism. The Muslim clerics tailor their pitch to the disposable people who are the least likely to be missed.</p>
<p>Muslim recruiters thrive on campus for the same reasons as cult recruiters and leftist academics.</p>
<p>The modern university is the place to find insecure young people questioning everything that they believe in and unsure of what to do when their impulse to tear down everything does not fulfill their need for something to believe in.</p>
<p>Into this universe of doubt, the Muslim cleric intrudes with his false offer of certainty, with the air of the victim, the badge of the underdog, the mysticism of the east and the romance of the grass that, like the terrorist flags that wave among it, always grows greener on the other side of the world.</p>
<p>Westernized Muslims are urged to purge themselves of Western culture, embrace the black flags and atone for their beers they drank, the girls they kissed and the songs they sang with the death screams of sirens and the blood of their non-Muslim friends and neighbors.</p>
<p>The seduction of the non-Muslim aims for the dissatisfied and unhappy who were trained by a liberal culture contemptuous of its own values and traditions to instinctively value non-Western spirituality over their own &#8220;materialistic&#8221; and &#8220;imperialistic&#8221; faiths.</p>
<p>The children of an intellectual tradition that taught them to reject absolutes; embrace with fervor an absolutism that calls for their deaths and the death of the world.</p>
<p>The Muslim Suicide Convert embraces his role as the vanguard of a spiritual world order, destroying the oppressive materialism of the world to make way for the superior rule of Islamic law, believing that he can only overcome his own materialism by destroying his material substance and the material substance of the society that nurtured someone as unworthy as him in the ultimate act of submission for the death drive of the Islamic religion of submission.</p>
<p>His suicide is the extension of the national suicide that brought the Muslim preachers who worked on his mind into the country and into its universities.</p>
<p>The Muslim Suicide Convert, like his Islam-friendly liberal society, kills himself and his society to atone for its materialism, reaching instead for a material paradise of virgin demon women, young boys serving wine and rivers and hills made of the bounties of seventh century Arabia, drowning his guilt in death and his hope for eternity in the innocent blood of his victims.</p>
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		<title>First You Laugh: Rules for the Knockout Game</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2014 05:40:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Colin Flaherty]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why are police ignoring the brutal beating of Jeanne Doucette and her boyfriend?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/news-mallbeating2.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-214300" alt="news-mallbeating2" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/news-mallbeating2-382x350.jpg" width="306" height="280" /></a>They always laugh, these Knockout Game artists. That is why they call it a game. The fun is more important than the violence.</p>
<p>But lots of media reports ignore that.</p>
<p>The latest example of the <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/new-black-mob-violence-in-charlottesville-send-in-the-clowns/">Knockout Game in Charlottesville</a>, Virginia illustrates  all of the features of this increasingly popular past time. Let’s start with the central organizing feature of the mayhem: First, the attackers were black.</p>
<p>Jeanne Doucette and her boyfriend Marc Adams were enjoying the holiday season in downtown Charlottesville when Adams tripped. As he tried to get up, three black people came upon them, one said something, perhaps even offering him a hand up.</p>
<p>Much like a similar episode of the <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/new-black-mob-violence-in-charlottesville-send-in-the-clowns/">Knockout Game last year in Springfield, Missouri</a>: A bicyclist hit a pot hole near a black fraternity party, causing him to fly over the handlebars.  One of the party-goers came out to see if biker was alright. When he put his hand out to help him up, he punched the bicyclist in the face with the other hand.</p>
<p>Then walked away laughing.</p>
<p>Marc Adams is not clear about what his attacker said prior to the beginning of the Knockout Game.  <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/new-black-mob-violence-in-charlottesville-send-in-the-clowns/">According to the C-Ville Weekly</a>, they</p>
<blockquote><p>kicked Adams while he was on the ground, before being joined by his friends who beat Adams severely, breaking his ankle, cracking ribs and knocking out one of his teeth.</p>
<p>While Doucette suffered bruising to her head and tearing of the cartilage in her ear, Adams bore the brunt of the men’s aggression, sustaining broken bones and a concussion that he said has robbed him of any memory of the incident and its immediate aftermath.</p></blockquote>
<p>All for no other reason than the attackers could attack and the victims could not resist.  The predators did not utter any racial epithets. None that the victims told police anyway. Without the magic words, it would not be correct to call this a hate crime.</p>
<p>But given that the overwhelming number of people who play this game are black, and most of the victims are not, it would be equally incorrect to say race has no role in the violence. Or that the violence is random. It is not.</p>
<p>The assault moved up the street as Adams and Doucette tried to escape their attackers. They screamed at passersby for help. They screamed at their attackers to stop. No one listened. The beating continued.</p>
<p>Then came the next identifying feature of the Knockout Game: The laughing.</p>
<blockquote><p>they had no apparent interest in robbing her. Instead, she said, they seemed to delight in the brutality.</p>
<p>“They were laughing, high-fiving, hugging, and then returning to kick him,” said Doucette. “There was some kind of camaraderie to it.”</p></blockquote>
<p>The predators laugh. They are having fun. In Philadelphia, a businessman in a similar situation pleaded with his attackers to stop. He asked them: “Why are you doing this? Why?”</p>
<p>“Its not our fault you can’t fight,” they told him. Then the laughing started again.</p>
<p>In Milwaukee, when a group of 50 to 100  black people attacked a few white kids on a Fourth of July picnic, a black woman stood over a white woman during the attack and motioned to her friend, laughing: “White girl bleed a lot,” she said, laughing even louder.</p>
<p>Her friends thought that was funny too. Maybe because it was true.</p>
<p>The laughing predators are documented in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/White-Girl-Bleed-Lot-Violence/dp/1938067061/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1388432037&amp;sr=8-1">White Girl Bleed a Lot: The Return of Racial Violence to America and How the Media Ignore it.</a></p>
<p>Eventually the violence ended when the attackers knocked Adams out. And they got tired of beating up the girlfriend. But not before Doucette took their pictures.</p>
<p>Then came the next traditional phase of the Knockout Game: The dismissal.  The disinterest. Doucette turned her photos over to police and waited for the full court press to catch the dangerous men who tried to kill her boyfriend. And her.</p>
<p>Not that anyone would call this a life threatening attack. That’s another part of the Knockout Game:  Police and reporters usually call the injuries “non-life threatening” or minor &#8212; when this kind of violence can shatter a life time for a long time.</p>
<p>And the perpetrators are rarely apprehended.</p>
<p>The victims &#8212; and their families &#8211; are now left wondering what happened. Why no one cares. And why they feel weird about talking about the fact that their attackers were black, and it has happened before. Many times.</p>
<p>That is what happened to Sherry Godfrey in Springfield, Missouri when her son was the victim of racial violence from people attending (another) black fraternity party in Springfield.  Police did not investigate, other than asking a few perfunctory questions of a few party-goers. And when, last year, Godfrey asked if her son was the victim of racial violence, officials at the school where the attackers attended and local met met her inquiries with impatience. Then silence.  Says Godfrey:</p>
<blockquote><p>If you have never been to Springfield, there might be a reason: Not much happens here. It is the home of Brad Pitt and Bass Pro Shops. It is a quiet and safe place to raise a family. So we thought.</p>
<p>After learning more about this epidemic of racial violence, I asked the police officers investigating the assault on my son if this had ever happened before in Springfield.</p>
<p>“All the time,” he said.</p>
<p>But no stories in the paper.</p></blockquote>
<p>Unhappy with the police and media indifference to her son’s beating, she put up a web site &#8212; JusticeInSpringfield.com &#8212; where she gathered all the police reports and other information about the attack on her son. The perpetrators have yet to be brought to justice, but she’s not giving up:</p>
<blockquote><p>We know that people at the party know who is responsible. We are putting up this web site in the hope that telling the world who they are, they will tell the world what they know. Trevor never saw his attackers and was unable to defend himself,  but we are going to fight back by seeking justice.</p></blockquote>
<p>And now Doucette and Adams are today where Sherry Godfrey was last year. <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/new-black-mob-violence-in-charlottesville-send-in-the-clowns/">Says the C-Ville Weekly</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Nearly two weeks after the attack, the physical wounds are healing, but both Doucette and Adams are troubled by what they see as a lack of response from the Charlottesville Police Department.</p>
<p>“It’s like they don’t care,” said Doucette, who said she called police on December 29 to follow up on the investigation and was told that the case had been suspended due to a lack of information and had not been assigned to a detective. “I don’t understand why they couldn’t even have the courtesy to call and say we’re not even going to look for them,” she said.</p></blockquote>
<p>That’s not how the Knockout Game is played, that’s why.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Clearing the deck for Hillary Clinton in 2016.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/US-consulate-libya-blood-streaks.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-214164" alt="US-consulate-libya-blood-streaks" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/US-consulate-libya-blood-streaks.png" width="305" height="227" /></a>To help put Hillary Clinton in the White House, the once-great <i>New York Times</i> has published a dubious report swallowing the Obama administration&#8217;s lies about the Sept. 11, 2012 Islamist attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya.</p>
<p>In an act of journalistic malfeasance, the agenda-setting newspaper of record <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2013/benghazi/?nl=todaysheadlines&amp;emc=edit_th_20131229">concluded</a> over the weekend that the once-obscure &#8220;Innocence of Muslims&#8221; YouTube video sparked the armed assault that left four Americans dead at the height of last year&#8217;s presidential election cycle. The newspaper also concluded that al-Qaeda wasn&#8217;t involved, ignoring the mountain of evidence suggesting al-Qaeda was involved.</p>
<blockquote><p>Months of investigation by <i>The New York Times</i>, centered on extensive interviews with Libyans in Benghazi who had direct knowledge of the attack there and its context, turned up no evidence that Al Qaeda or other international terrorist groups had any role in the assault. The attack was led, instead, by fighters who had benefited directly from NATO’s extensive air power and logistics support during the uprising against Colonel Qaddafi. And contrary to claims by some members of Congress, it was fueled in large part by anger at an American-made video denigrating Islam.</p></blockquote>
<p>Evidently the Old Gray Lady didn&#8217;t look too hard for the truth.</p>
<p>From the outset the Obama administration said that what happened in Benghazi was a spontaneous riot identical to what had taken place in Cairo, Egypt, a short time before.</p>
<p>The administration <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2012/11/16/flashback-what-susan-rice-said-about-benghazi/">claimed</a> that the Benghazi violence was a spontaneous protest that somehow got out of hand. The official line was that a demonstration outside the U.S. mission in Benghazi grew increasingly violent and that protesters unconnected to terrorist groups eventually stormed the facility.</p>
<p>Not long after the attack National Security Adviser Susan Rice told Fox&#8217;s Chris Wallace that,</p>
<blockquote><p>the best information and the best assessment we have today is that in fact this was not a preplanned, premeditated attack. That what happened initially was that it was a spontaneous reaction to what had just transpired in Cairo as a consequence of the video. People gathered outside the embassy and then it grew very violent and those with extremist ties joined the fray and came with heavy weapons, which unfortunately are quite common in post-revolutionary Libya and that then spun out of control.</p></blockquote>
<p>Weeks later the Obama administration changed its tune, admitting as more and more evidence accumulated that terrorist groups were involved in planning and carrying out the attack.</p>
<p>After Rice&#8217;s TV appearance, the State Department said that there were no protests whatsoever outside the consulate before the attack. The tale that Rice told of &#8220;mobs&#8221; and &#8220;protests&#8221; spiraling out of control was an utter fabrication. It was a bald-faced lie told with a straight face to the American people on national TV.</p>
<p>Why would the administration go on with this charade? Mostly likely to downplay the threat of Islamic jihad during Obama&#8217;s reelection campaign. President Obama had gone to great lengths to declare that al-Qaeda was in decline thanks to his efforts. It is clear that the Benghazi attack was premeditated and planned, though the exact details of for how long and by whom remain a bit fuzzy.</p>
<p>Like radical leftist fabulist Oliver Stone laboring to create his crazy-quilt alternative myth explaining the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the <i>New York Times</i> is attempting to rewrite the narrative about what really happened in Benghazi and afterwards. It is trying to resurrect the Obama administration&#8217;s original line of argument in order to create wiggle room for Hillary Clinton who has been scathingly criticized by Republican lawmakers and the occasional Democrat for bungling the Benghazi saga.</p>
<p>Rep. Steve Stockman (R-Texas), an outspoken critic of the Obama administration&#8217;s handling of the Benghazi saga, was not impressed, saying a proper congressional investigation is urgently needed to clear the air.</p>
<p>&#8220;This is why I introduced my discharge petition to force a full investigation into the Benghazi attacks with full subpoena power,&#8221; Stockman, a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told <i>FrontPage</i>. &#8220;So far we have had only partial, limited investigations. I hope Speaker Boehner will immediately bring my petition to the floor so justice can be served.&#8221;</p>
<p>Stockman&#8217;s discharge petition, <a href="http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-113hres306ih/pdf/BILLS-113hres306ih.pdf">House Resolution 306</a>, would establish &#8220;a select committee to investigate and report on the attack on the United States consulate in Benghazi, Libya.&#8221; Boehner has been blocking Stockman&#8217;s request for months.</p>
<p>Amidst White House stonewalling, intimidation of witnesses, and Republican gutlessness, little has been done to move the ball forward in the investigation surrounding the deaths on Sept. 11, 2012, of U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, information management officer Sean Smith, and security personnel Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods at U.S. facilities in eastern Libya.</p>
<p>But on &#8220;Fox News Sunday,&#8221; House Intelligence Committee chairman Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/12/29/congress-in-bipartisan-tone-disputes-report-al-qaeda-not-involved-in-benghazi/">rejected</a> the <i>New York Times</i> story. “I dispute that, and the intelligence community, to a large volume, disputes that,” he said, adding several times that the article was “not accurate.”</p>
<p>Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), also on the show, also rejected the newspaper report, saying “intelligence indicates al-Qaeda was involved.”</p>
<p>On Saturday, Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), a member and former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, told Fox News the contention in the <i>NYT</i> article that the militia group Ansar al-Shariah &#8212; not al-Qaeda &#8212; led the attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, was an exercise in semantics.</p>
<p>“It’s misleading,” said King, given that Ansar al-Shariah is widely believed to be affiliated with al-Qaeda. “It’s a distinction without a difference.”</p>
<p>The <i>New York Times</i> article, allegedly the work product of a team of researchers, also contradicts the testimony of Greg Hicks, the deputy of Ambassador Christopher Stevens, who was murdered during the attack. Hicks said the &#8220;Innocence of Muslims&#8221; video, which portrayed the Islamic prophet Mohammed in an unflattering manner, was &#8220;a non-event in Libya&#8221; at that time and didn&#8217;t precipitate the Benghazi attack.</p>
<p>As previously noted, the obvious goal of this breathtakingly dishonest move is to insulate former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton from criticism for her role in the affair. It is no understatement to suggest that there is a vast left-wing media conspiracy aimed at maintaining the political viability of the woman who coined the phrase &#8220;vast right-wing conspiracy&#8221; as a red herring to explain away the problems of her corrupt, lawbreaking husband, then-President Bill Clinton.</p>
<p>The Left&#8217;s coverup of the Obama administration&#8217;s mishandling of the Benghazi saga began as soon as the attack got underway a little over 15 months ago. A coordinated effort to deflect blame from President Obama, at that time involved in a competitive reelection fight, was directed by the White House with the assistance of dupes in the media.</p>
<p>Even the hapless Candy Crowley got involved in defending Obama when during a televised presidential debate she <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/matthew-vadum/candy-crowleys-benghazi-lifeline-to-obama/">slapped down</a> GOP candidate Mitt Romney for correctly stating that “it took the president 14 days before he called the attack in Benghazi an act of terror.” Obama got more support from the left-wing media and the George Soros-funded Media Matters for America, which went on to publish a book titled <i>The Benghazi Hoax</i>, by Media Matters founder and confessed liar David Brock, in order to provide progressive dupes with talking points to regurgitate.</p>
<p>The <i>New York Times</i> story comes as Democrats grow increasingly nervous about an electoral wipeout in the congressional elections in November 2014. Evidence of Democrat jitters abounds. Republicans <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/matthew-vadum/2014-a-bad-year-for-the-left/">lead</a> Democrats in the generic congressional ballot by 5 percentage points as public disapproval of President Obama and Obamacare continue to rise.</p>
<p>The Obama White House is preparing <a href="http://tiny.iavian.net/1rj1">to flood</a> the airwaves with pro-Affordable Care Act propaganda showing alleged Obamacare success stories. Over the weekend the Democratic National Committee <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/12/28/dnc-sends-email-defending-obama-from-impeachment-possibility/">sent out</a> a mass email to Obama supporters warning that Republicans are preparing to impeach the 44th president. The email referred to the “I-Word” and said that “Republicans are actually excited about the idea.” Actually, only a handful of Republican lawmakers would like to move forward with impeachment proceedings. Members of the GOP leadership are terrified of taking action out of a paralyzing fear of being tarred as bigots by left-wingers who characterize virtually all criticism of Obama as motivated by racial antagonism.</p>
<p>The Left will do whatever it takes to decouple Hillary Clinton in the public mind from the fiasco in Benghazi. Expect many more blatant media attempts to rehabilitate her stained legacy as Secretary of State to come.</p>
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		<title>Operation &#8216;Pillar of Defense&#8217;: One Year Later</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Nov 2013 05:15:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Noam Bedein]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/MzU3M2Y2NzAzNyMvVnVGZVpFdUVMa1d2OWhvSmNDM0dZZ0p2S29NPS84NDB4NTMwL3NtYXJ0L2ZpbHRlcnM6cXVhbGl0eSg3NSk6c3RyaXBfaWNjKDEpL2h0dHAlM0ElMkYlMkZzMy5hbWF6b25hd3MuY29tJTJGcG1idWNrZXQlMkZzaXRlJTJGYXJ0aWNsZXMlMkYxOTIzOSUyRm9yaWdpbmFsLmpwZw.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-211650" alt="MzU3M2Y2NzAzNyMvVnVGZVpFdUVMa1d2OWhvSmNDM0dZZ0p2S29NPS84NDB4NTMwL3NtYXJ0L2ZpbHRlcnM6cXVhbGl0eSg3NSk6c3RyaXBfaWNjKDEpL2h0dHAlM0ElMkYlMkZzMy5hbWF6b25hd3MuY29tJTJGcG1idWNrZXQlMkZzaXRlJTJGYXJ0aWNsZXMlMkYxOTIzOSUyRm9yaWdpbmFsLmpwZw==" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/MzU3M2Y2NzAzNyMvVnVGZVpFdUVMa1d2OWhvSmNDM0dZZ0p2S29NPS84NDB4NTMwL3NtYXJ0L2ZpbHRlcnM6cXVhbGl0eSg3NSk6c3RyaXBfaWNjKDEpL2h0dHAlM0ElMkYlMkZzMy5hbWF6b25hd3MuY29tJTJGcG1idWNrZXQlMkZzaXRlJTJGYXJ0aWNsZXMlMkYxOTIzOSUyRm9yaWdpbmFsLmpwZw-440x350.jpg" width="308" height="245" /></a></span></b>This November, southern Israel marks one year since the IDF’s Operation Pillar of Defense in the Gaza Strip. It has been the quietest year in quite awhile, with “only” 79 rockets and missiles fired at southern Israeli communities. This is the fourth cease-fire between Israel and Hamas in the past seven years, the first having been on November 26, 2006.</p>
<p>Southern Israel has sustained hundreds of rocket attacks during these cease-fires. The last cease-fire lasted from the end of Operation Cast Lead on January 18, 2009, to the first day of Operation Pillar of Defense on November 12, 2012. During that period, approximately 2,000 rockets and missiles were fired from Hamas-controlled Gaza, sending one million Israelis running to shelters with between 15-45 seconds’ warning.</p>
<p>The most important lesson that we as Israelis need to learn is that after the last Gaza operation, within seven years of the disengagement in the Gaza strip in August 2005, <em>most Israeli citizens came under Iranian missile fire from Hamas-controlled Gaza</em>, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem were put into range of missile fire, and the most heavily bombarded city was Ashdod, the fifth most-populated city in Israel.</p>
<p>According to Israeli intelligence sources, there remain in Gaza thousands of long-range missiles hidden deep within Gaza’s civilian buildings and infrastructure.  In &#8220;Operation Pillar of Defense,&#8221; <a href="http://sderotmedia.org.il/bin/content.cgi?ID=965&amp;q=7">Iranian Fajar missiles were fired near the Shifa hospital in Gaza</a> towards Jerusalem. Israel renovated the Shifa hospital in the 1980s.</p>
<p>The &#8220;Iron Dome&#8221; battery defense system received a great deal of media attention during and after the Operation, implying that this was the military solution for the rocket fire from Gaza.  While there is no doubt this has brought about a change in the strategic warfare combating Hamas, it has definitely not solved the problem of rocket fire—far from it.</p>
<p>During the Operation there were five operational batteries intercepting missiles in mid-air.  As there are hundreds of mid-sized towns and cities in southern-central Israel within a 75-kilometer range of Gaza, it has been always a game of &#8220;Russian roulette&#8221; as to what areas or cities the &#8220;Iron Dome&#8221; could protect.</p>
<p>The Iron Dome does not protect the western Negev communities and the section of Sderot that is up to 4.5 kilometers from the Gaza border, because the 15 seconds it takes to fire an advanced Qassam rocket until the explosion in these communities just does not leave enough time to intercept the rocket.</p>
<p>Thus, a &#8220;creative solution&#8221; has been given for Sderot and the western Negev communities to turn into &#8220;<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sD3hqeog0KE">the bomb shelter capital of the world</a>.&#8221;  500 million shekels were invested only for Sderot to build 6,000 new bomb shelters, and up to 500 million US dollars to protect the western Negev communities in the 4.5 kilometer radius, including public buildings and schools.</p>
<p>As director for seven years of the Sderot Media Center, I can attest to the fact that Israel has not provided a solution to the rocket fire or threat, and that we should expect many more years of living through rocket and missile escalations, in addition to years of rehabilitation for an entire population that has entered its 14th year of living under rocket fire and threat.</p>
<p>The current &#8220;relative quiet&#8221; in the western Negev has resulted a near-absence of attention to the Hamas-controlled Gaza element in the current peace talks.</p>
<p>The &#8216;Two-State Solution&#8217; remains high on the agenda of the Israeli government, as well as the focus of the Israeli media. However, hardly any mention is made of the &#8220;Hamstan&#8221; state established in Gaza, after the one-sided Israeli action giving &#8220;land for peace&#8221; on August 2005, leaving Gaza empty of a Jewish presence, civilian or military.</p>
<p>The lack of governmental and media attention to the current conflict between southern Israel and Hamas-controlled Gaza (even if it is largely at this point a matter of low-intensity warfare) in no way affects the very possible outcome of any withdrawal by agreement, or even worse, &#8220;separation plan&#8221; (of which Tzipi Livni is very proud), from territories in the mountain ranges of Judaea and Samaria looking over the center of Israel.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEwPmu462BY">Ben Gurion airport, Israel&#8217;s only international airport, is less than 3 kilometers from the western Judaean mountains</a>. The Sderot case has taught us that the most advanced technology in the world cannot stop a Qassam rocket followed by an explosion after 15 seconds.  One may ask: how many Israelis will live on the borders of a demilitarized Palestinian state?</p>
<p>Hamas today is in control of the entire Gaza strip and its population of 1.7 million Palestinian Arabs.  Hamas makes sure to remind Israel and the rest of the world that they won US and EU-supervised elections in all the Palestinian territories in January 2006.  Since then, there have been no elections. Again, one may ask: who does Abu-Mazen actually represent?  Who chose him?</p>
<p>In April 2013, during US President Obama&#8217;s visit to Israel, on his second-day visit to Ramallah, Hamas fired five rockets towards southern Israel, two exploding into Sderot.  <a href="http://sderotmedia.org.il/bin/content.cgi?ID=972&amp;q=3">One rocket exploded underneath a children&#8217;s bedroom of the Haziza family</a>, and <a href="http://sderotmedia.org.il/bin/content.cgi?ID=973&amp;q=3">one rocket exploding directly into a children&#8217;s kindergarten</a>.  This took place during Passover vacation, so no injuries were sustained, but the attack barely received media attention.</p>
<p>One million Israelis in southern Israel living within missile range of Hamas-controlled Gaza are asking themselves:  <i>&#8220;If Hamas and the rocket fire and threat are not part of the current negotiations and peace talks, how is it possible to reach an agreement? Could we reach the absurd situation in which ‘peace’ is achieved and the rockets continue to be fired?&#8221;</i></p>
<p>The more we ignore the conclusions and policy Implications of &#8220;Operation Pillar of Defense&#8221; the more illusions we build.</p>
<p><i>Noam Bedein is a photojournalist, lecturer and founder/director of </i><a href="http://www.sderotmedia.org.il/"><i>Sderot Media Center</i></a><i>. He has conducted briefings and tours for government officials, diplomats, foreign press, and students from around the world. Recently he produced a short documentary for the US Embassy-</i><i><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzsuX-dZH9w"> &#8216;Standing Resilient in Israel&#8217;</a></i></p>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Leaks &amp; Sabotaging Israel’s Defense</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Nov 2013 04:41:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Klein]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/israel-jet-figher_2481583b.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-209474" alt="israel-jet-figher_2481583b" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/israel-jet-figher_2481583b-421x350.jpg" width="295" height="245" /></a>Israel has established a clear-cut red line when it comes to preventing the transfer of advanced arms from Syria to Hezbollah. And unlike the Obama administration, Israel means what it says. Israel has conducted military strikes to destroy advanced Iranian and Russian weapons in the Syrian regime’s hands before they could be added to Hezbollah’s growing stockpile of offensive arms aimed at Israeli population centers or used to thwart Israeli defense systems.</span></b></p>
<p>Instead of providing covert support for Israeli operations, or at least staying out of Israel’s way, the Obama administration is deliberately compromising Israel’s security by leaking sensitive information on Israeli attacks against the Syrian weapons targets.</p>
<p>The latest episode of Obama administration betrayal of America’s closest ally in the Middle East came last week when an Obama administration official leaked to CNN that Israeli warplanes had attacked a Syrian base, targeting “missiles and related equipment” to prevent their delivery to Hezbollah. The Israeli Air Force attack targeted Russian-made SA-8 Gecko Dgreen mobile missiles in the Syrian port of Latakia. Israel reportedly also struck a similar shipment in Damascus. The latest leaks continue a disturbing pattern, including the U.S. intelligence community’s public disclosure last summer of an Israeli air and naval strike on a shipment of highly advanced Russian anti-ship missiles.</p>
<p>Israeli TV Channel 2’s military analyst, Roni Daniel, explained that Israel’s policy of not openly acknowledging the attacks it conducts is meant to avoid publicly humiliating Syria’s President Bashar Assad. Such humiliation would be likely to lead Assad to respond to the attacks in order to save face. The U.S. leaks are working at cross-purposes with this strategy. In Daniel’s words, the leaks risk “pushing Assad closer to the point where he can’t swallow these attacks, and will respond.”</p>
<p>The Israeli military intelligence website DEBKAfile cites military sources who disclosed that “the US media reports of Israeli Air Force attacks in Syria that quoted US officials aroused indignation in government circles in Jerusalem and military headquarters in Tel Aviv.” The DEBKAfile report went on to say that Israeli government and military insiders consider the Obama administration’s leaks to be “in breach of the understandings and agreements reached between Israel and the White House on Syria.” The leaks were said to undermine the cooperation that the U.S. and Israeli governments had supposedly worked out, according to DEBKAfile, “in the effort to prevent advanced weapons reaching the Hizballah terrorist organization in Lebanon from Syria.”</p>
<p>Having decided instead to throw in his lot with Russia’s diplomatic initiative that requires working cooperatively with Syrian President Assad to enable the peaceful destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons stockpiles under international auspices, President Obama wants to handcuff Israel. He does not want the Israelis upsetting either the Russians or Assad with strikes on the conventional weapons the Russians provided to Assad, irrespective of their ultimate destination. DEBKAfile, citing its Washington sources, explained that “because the administration is immersed in a complicated joint diplomatic maneuver with Moscow on Syria, it can’t afford to leave the impression of US involvement in the Israeli attack or its approval.” So the Obama administration overcompensated by blowing Israel’s cover.</p>
<p>Likewise, Obama does not want anything to interfere with the negotiations now underway with Iran regarding its nuclear program. It is in this context that the Obama administration is doing whatever it can to discourage a unilateral Israeli air attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities, which would be virtually certain to derail the current negotiations with Iran. It is also planning to take pressure off of the Iranians by loosening the existing sanctions and dissuading Congress from approving any new sanctions.</p>
<p>Voice of America reported on October 31<sup>st</sup> that the Obama administration is “indicating some softening, with a chief U.S. official involved in the talks telling VOA recently that the time is coming for a pause in new sanctions.” Previously, the Obama administration’s chief negotiator with Tehran, U.S. Undersecretary of State Wendy Sherman, had told Voice of America that any push for additional U.S. sanctions by Congress should be delayed to see if nuclear talks can &#8220;gain traction.&#8221;</p>
<p>According to DEBKAfile, there are already talks underway between the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, which oversees the sanctions regime, and senior staff from Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s administration to determine which current sanctions will be lifted and when.</p>
<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been a harsh critic of any softening of the sanctions until Iran completely dismantles its nuclear enrichment and plutonium facilities and submits to unfettered international inspections. Warning of Iranian duplicity and the existential threat to Israel and the region that a nuclear armed Iran would pose, Netanyahu has not ruled out unilateral military action to stop Iran before it reaches that capability. He has less confidence than ever in Obama’s willingness to exercise the military option against Iran, especially following Obama’s pull back from his own red line in responding militarily to the Syrian regime’s alleged use of chemical weapons against its own people.</p>
<p>Secretary of State John Kerry, who has invested considerable time and credibility in the negotiations, took a not-so-subtle swipe at Netanyahu when he said last week, “Some have suggested that somehow there’s something wrong with giving diplomacy a chance. We will not succumb to those fear tactics and forces that suggest otherwise.”</p>
<p>The leaks appear to be part of the Obama administration’s strategy to put Netanyahu in his place by telling him, in effect, that the U.S. has the capacity to monitor every move the Israelis make, including preparations for a military strike to halt Iran’s nuclear program, and to expose Israel’s plans preemptively, if the Obama administration deems necessary, to protect its ongoing negotiations with Iran.</p>
<p>Now comes word, revealed by DEBKAfile’s intelligence and Iranian sources, that there was an unexplained explosion last week at Iran’s Arak heavy water reactor that is under construction and would have the capability to produce plutonium for use in nuclear bombs as an alternative to enriched uranium. There is no indication yet whether Israel may have been involved in some sort of act of sabotage. But if Israel was involved, will the Obama administration sabotage Israel’s covert activities with yet another embarrassing leak?  Based on its pattern of leaking Israel’s strikes on advanced weapons in Syria destined for Hezbollah, the answer sadly is most likely yes.</p>
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