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		<title>Turkey, Friend or Foe?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2014 05:40:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kenneth R. Timmerman]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/turkish-prime-minister-turkey.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247168" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/turkish-prime-minister-turkey-436x350.jpg" alt="turkish-prime-minister-turkey" width="369" height="296" /></a>As the battle for the Syrian border city of Kobani raged and prospects of an ISIS-led massacre of thousands of innocent civilians loomed this fall, the BBC interviewed the vice-chairman of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s AKP Party in Ankara.</p>
<p>Why hadn’t Turkey responded to NATO’s request to launch joint military operations to halt the ISIS assault on Kobani? How could Turkey just sit back and watch so many innocent civilians die, BBC correspondent Jonathan Marcus asked.</p>
<p>The replies from Yasin Aktay are telling.</p>
<p>&#8220;Why is Kobani the most important problem?&#8221; he asked. &#8220;There is no tragedy in Kobani as cried out by the terrorist PKK. There is a war between two terrorist groups. You mean we should… favor one terrorist organization over another?&#8221;</p>
<p>The AKP deputy leader <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-29555999"><span style="color: #0433ff;">went on to explain</span></a> the calculus of death as seen from Turkey’s point of view. &#8220;Less than 1000 people have been killed in Kobani, but more than 300,000 people have been killed in Syria. Which is more important?”</p>
<p>Aktay’s remarks reveal much more than just a callous disregard for the Kurds, who comprise roughly one-third of Turkey’s overall population, or for the popular Kurdish Workers Party (PKK), which broke off peace talks with the Turkish government in October to <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/13/world/middleeast/kurdish-rebels-assail-turkish-inaction-on-isis-as-peril-to-peace-talks.html?_r=0"><span style="color: #0433ff;">protest Turkey’s stranglehold</span></a> over the Kurds in Kobani.</p>
<p>According to Vice-president Joe Biden, <a href="http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/biden-says-erdogan-admitted-isil-mistake.aspx?PageID=238&amp;NID=72530&amp;NewsCatID=359"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Erdogan himself admitted</span></a> that Turkey had ordered border guards to turn a blind eye as new ISIS recruits flooded across Turkey’s borders to join the battle against Assad in Syria. (Okay, when Erdogan was informed of Biden’s comments, he hit the roof <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/turkey-erdogan-biden-apologize-apology-isis-2014-10"><span style="color: #0433ff;">and demanded that “loose-lips” Uncle Joe retract them</span></a>).</p>
<p>In response to a Harvard University student’s question whether the U.S. could have intervened earlier in Syria, Biden went even further:</p>
<p>“[O]ur allies in the region were our largest problem in Syria. The Turks were great friends – and I have the greatest relationship with Erdogan, which I just spent a lot of time with – the Saudis, the Emiratis, etc. What were they doing? They were so determined to take down Assad and essentially have a proxy Sunni-Shia war, what did they do? They poured hundreds of millions of dollars and tens, thousands of tons of weapons into anyone who would fight against Assad except that the people who were being supplied were Al Nusra and Al Qaeda and the extremist elements of jihadis coming from other parts of the world.</p>
<p>“Now you think I’m exaggerating – take a look. Where did all of this go? So now what’s happening? All of a sudden everybody’s awakened because this outfit called ISIL which was Al Qaeda in Iraq, which when they were essentially thrown out of Iraq, found open space in territory in eastern Syria, work with Al Nusra who we declared a terrorist group early on and we could not convince our colleagues to stop supplying them. So what happened? Now all of a sudden – I don’t want to be too facetious – but they had seen the Lord. Now we have – the President’s been able to put together a coalition of our Sunni neighbors, because America can’t once again go into a Muslim nation and be seen as the aggressor – it has to be led by Sunnis to go and attack a Sunni organization.” [h/t to Mark Langfan for <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npd4OSPjrt0"><span style="color: #0433ff;">excerpting this Q&amp;A</span></a> from Biden’s speech]</p>
<p>But Erdogan’s treachery goes much deeper.</p>
<p>Kurdish sources tell me that the initial Turkey-al Nusra front agreement was made more than two years ago, and included Turkey’s agreement to help smuggle arms to the Syrian rebels from Benghazi and other parts of Libya.</p>
<p>Earlier this year, Turkish and Qatari intelligence officials met with senior ISIS leaders in Jordan to plot the take-over of Mosul and the predominantly Christian Nineveh Plain.</p>
<p>Also at the meeting was a representative of Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) president Massoud Barzani, who has worked closely with the Turkish government and has spearheaded massive Turkish investment in northern Iraq. Barzani apparently believed ISIS would stop their advance after seizing Mosul and the Nineveh Plain, and ordered his peshmerga fighters to withdraw rather than fight the ISIS advance.</p>
<p>The most dramatic events occurred in Sinjar, when 13,000 peshmerga fighters mysteriously “melted away” in August rather than confront an ISIS assault force of around 1000 men. While much of the national media focused on the plight of the Yazidis, a Shiite sect considered heretical by most Sunnis, ISIS continued to march eastward through the Nineveh plain, massacring the Christians who failed to flee.</p>
<p>Not until they began threatening Erbil, the capital of the KRG, did Barzani apparently realize he had been duped and called on the United States to supply heavy weapons so the peshmerga could halt the ISIS advance. As <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/2014/10/31/kurds-accuse-turkish-government-supporting-isis-278776.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Kobani was falling</span></a>, Barzani authorized Kurdish fighters from the PKK and <a href="http://kentimmerman.com/news/2007_1017-pkk-pjak.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">PJAK, who had bases in northern Iraq</span></a>, to transit through his territory to relieve the besieged city.</p>
<p>A former ISIS communications technician, using the pseudonum “Sherko Omer,” recently sat down with Newsweek reporter Barney Guiton and spilled the beans on Turkey’s deep relationship to the Islamic State.</p>
<p>ISIS fighters traveled regularly back and forth from their stronghold in Raqaa, Syria into Turkey to acquire supplies and new fighters. “ISIS commanders told us to fear nothing at all because there was full cooperation with the Turks,” Omer said.</p>
<p>It was imperative for the Islamic State to establish a secure supply line through Turkey in order to bypass areas in northern Syria controlled by Kurdish fighters from the Democratic Union Party (YPG), which is allied to the PKK.</p>
<p>“ISIS saw the Turkish army as its ally especially when it came to attacking the Kurds in Syria,” Omer said. “The Kurds were the common enemy for both ISIS and Turkey.”</p>
<p>“I have connected ISIS field captains and commanders from Syria with people in Turkey on innumerable occasions,” Omer said.</p>
<p>In the same report, a YPG <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/isis-and-turkey-cooperate-destroy-kurds-former-isis-member-reveals-turkish-282920"><span style="color: #0433ff;">spokesman told Newsweek</span></a> that Turkey was providing ISIS with arms and ammunition, in addition to allowing Islamic State fighters to cross unimpeded back and forth between Turkey and Syria.</p>
<p>His accusations were repeated in Berlin Claudia Roth, a deputy speaker of the German parliament and a Green Party MP.</p>
<p>President Erdogan’s “dealings with the ISIS are unacceptable,” <a href="http://rudaw.net/english/middleeast/12102014"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Roth said.</span></a> “I could not believe that Turkey harbors an ISIS militant camp in Istanbul. Turkey has also allowed weapons to be transported into Syria through its borders. Also that the ISIS has been able to sell its oil via Turkey is extraordinary.”</p>
<p>Turkish opposition politician Ali Ediboglu <a href="http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/business/2014/06/turkey-syria-isis-selling-smuggled-oil.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">claimed in June</span></a> that ISIS had already exported oil worth $800 million through Turkey through special pipelines and convoys of trucks, without any opposition from the Turkish authorities.</p>
<p>(For more on Turkey’s support for ISIS read <a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/14486/turkey-isis"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Daniel Pipes’ summary</span></a> of what Kurdish and Turkish intellectuals have been writing, and this <a href="http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/schanzer-jonathan-bordering-on-terrorism/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">excellent if lengthy report</span></a> from the FDD’s Jonathan Schanzer.)</p>
<p>President Obama once named Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan among his top five <a href="http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/obama-names-turkish-pmerdogan-among-trusted-friends.aspx?pageID=238&amp;nid=11897"><span style="color: #0433ff;">“best friends”</span></a> on the world stage, “an outstanding partner and an outstanding friend.”</p>
<p>No longer. According to Erdogan, the two no longer chat on the phone. The time of Obama <a href="http://pjmedia.com/barryrubin/2012/03/26/obama-hearts-turkish-leader-erdogan-as-he-oppresses-his-own-people-and-stabs-america-in-the-back/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">“hearting”</span></a> Erdogan are over.</p>
<p><span style="color: #0433ff;"><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/no-longer-talk-obama-turkeys-erdogan-100909241.html">Erdogan says</a></span> their falling out began in September 2013, when Obama failed to order unilateral military operations against the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad once he faced resistance in the U.S. Congress.</p>
<p>If that’s the case, why is Obama letting Erdogan off the hook for his support for ISIS?</p>
<p>It’s time to let Turkey choose: they can continue to be a NATO ally and join us in the fight against ISIS and other enemies of freedom. Or they can continue to support ISIS and suffer the consequences. Which is it?</p>
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		<title>Biden Spins Fantasies, Middle East Heats Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2014 05:22:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[P. David Hornik]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reports: Israel hits targets in Syria.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/628x471.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247032" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/628x471-450x321.jpg" alt="628x471" width="374" height="267" /></a>Speaking to the Saban Forum in Washington on Saturday, Vice-President Joe Biden <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/12/07/remarks-vice-president-joe-biden-2014-saban-forum"><span style="color: #0433ff;">said</span></a> that the talks with Iran, which began about a year ago and recently were extended for another seven months, had “brought significant benefits” and slowed down Iran’s nuclear program.</p>
<p>Biden added that the talks were providing time to “see if it’s possible to reach a comprehensive agreement that can peacefully ensure that Iran will not develop a nuclear weapon,” and that “all of this was accomplished with very modest sanctions relief.”</p>
<p>The speech also included very positive words about Israel and the U.S.-Israeli alliance. Israel, however, needs more than words.</p>
<p>On Sunday, one day later, Israeli national security adviser Yossi Cohen gave a briefing to the Israeli cabinet that <a href="http://www.jpost.com/israel-news/politics-and-diplomacy/iran-retains-its-nuclear-capabilities-as-sanctions-regime-eroding-nsc-chief-says-383899"><span style="color: #0433ff;">contradicted Biden on every point</span></a>.</p>
<p>In a statement that later was issued by the office of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Cohen said that Iran was continuing to pursue a nuclear weapon, that the extension of the talks was enabling it to maintain and even strengthen its nuclear capabilities, and that the sanctions are “in danger of collapse. This is something that could lead to a regional nuclear arms race in the Middle East.”</p>
<p>Cohen also said Israel had played an important role in ensuring that the U.S.-led P5+1 countries did not reach a “bad” agreement with Iran last month, but that meanwhile Iran was continuing a huge military buildup and masterminding terrorism all over the globe.</p>
<p>That was Sunday morning. On Sunday afternoon two sites near Damascus were bombed from the air. Although Israeli officials are not saying a word about the incident, reports outside of Israel, as well as statements from Syria, Iran, and Hezbollah, say Israel was responsible.</p>
<p>In a <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,l-4600771,00.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">commentary</span></a>, Israeli military analyst Ron Ben-Yishai said Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps was</p>
<blockquote><p><i>continu[ing] to play with fire by equipping Hezbollah with arms that have the capability to cause widespread losses and destruction in Israel…. It is widely believed that shipments of missiles and other arms destined for Hezbollah land in Iranian cargo jets at the airport in Damascus, then [are] transferred to a Syrian military storage site, until they are sent over the border to Lebanon.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>On Monday, Arab media <a href="http://www.jpost.com/israel-news/politics-and-diplomacy/report-two-hezbollah-operatives-killed-in-sundays-alleged-iaf-strikes-in-syria-384003"><span style="color: #0433ff;">were cited as reporting</span></a> that</p>
<blockquote><p><i>the airstrikes destroyed a storage facility housing anti-aircraft missiles and drones belonging to Hezbollah, and cut off the power supply from Damascus International Airport.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>It was also reported that “two Hezbollah militants were killed” during the strikes, one of them a “senior military official.”</p>
<p>According to reports outside of Israel, never officially confirmed by Jerusalem, in 2013 Israeli planes struck at least five weapons consignments in Syria that were on their way to Hezbollah, and earlier this year struck a Hezbollah base within Lebanon.</p>
<p>Although in most of these cases Hezbollah and the Syrian regime, both of them embroiled in the fighting in Syria, have refrained from retaliating, accounts say that in this latest case Israeli forces have been on high alert for a possible counterstrike.</p>
<p>Meanwhile it was also <a href="http://www.jpost.com/middle-east/russia-wants-israeli-explanation-for-aggressive-actions-in-syria-383986"><span style="color: #0433ff;">reported</span></a> on Monday that Russia was “demand[ing] an explanation” for Israel’s “aggressive action” in Syria and was “deeply worried by this dangerous development.”</p>
<p>And finally, a <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/07/us-iran-economy-iduskbn0jl0h320141207?feedtype=rss&amp;feedname=topnews"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Reuters report</span></a> bears out the words of the Israeli national security adviser and belies the cheerful words of Vice-President Biden:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>Iranian President Hassan Rouhani will hike military spending by more than a third in the next fiscal year despite presenting a “cautious, tight” budget to parliament on Sunday in response to falling oil prices…. [D]efense expenditure will rise 33.5 percent to about 282 trillion rials, most of which will be assigned to the elite Revolutionary Guards…. Iran is stockpiling rockets, missiles and other conventional weapons…. Nuclear talks between Iran and six powers have been extended until June. In the meantime, Iran can still access $700 million per month of frozen oil revenue held abroad. </i></p></blockquote>
<p>In other words: thanks to the talks Iran can keep funding its needs.</p>
<p>This confluence of events gives rise to two points.</p>
<p>One is that a belligerent, confident Iran, a belligerent, intrusive, and threatening Russia, is how the Middle East looks at a time of feckless U.S. policy based—at best—on self-delusion.</p>
<p>The other is that, even though Netanyahu’s government now faces an election campaign and is in a lame-duck status, no one should think it will take its eye off the ball.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s not about what Obama didn’t do -- it’s about what he did.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/bid.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-242554" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/bid-450x253.jpg" alt="bid" width="285" height="160" /></a>Joe Biden is making his latest round of apologies for that rarest of gaffes, especially coming from him: the truth. Biden’s crime was stating that ISIS had been empowered by the backing of Sunni states, including Turkey and the UAE, for the Syrian opposition.</p>
<p>“They poured hundreds of millions of dollars and tens, thousands of tons of weapons into anyone who would fight against Assad — except that the people who were being supplied were al Nusra and al Qaeda,”<a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/10/05/vp-biden-apologizes-for-telling-truth-about-turkey-saudi-and-isis.html"> Biden said</a>.</p>
<p>Biden, who insulted plenty of people over the years, has been forced to apologize, making private phone calls to the Islamist thug ruling Turkey and to a UAE prince. It’s a humiliating performance for a man who is only a heartbeat away from becoming the President of the United States to be forced to apologize to some tinpot despots for telling the truth about them.</p>
<p>When Biden decided to throw a temper tantrum in Israel, it was the Israelis who were forced to apologize to him. Biden recently boasted of insulting Putin to his face (though it probably never actually happened) without being forced to make any apologetic phone calls to Moscow. It’s telling that only Muslim countries appear to be able to compel apologies from the Vice President of the United States.</p>
<p>But the one time that Biden did apologize for something he said was also the one time that he should not have apologized because it was the one time that he was telling the truth.</p>
<p>Biden didn’t tell the whole truth. He left out any mention of Qatar and the blank check its weapons smuggling had received from his administration. He also neglected to mention that the roots of the Syrian Civil War had come out of Obama’s Libyan War and the Arab Spring. Still there’s only so much truth that you can expect from a top Democrat who also happens to be a notoriously compulsive liar.</p>
<p>Truth may be the rarest quality in this conflict.</p>
<p>Obama has been mostly blamed for what he didn’t do, arm the rebels, keep troops in Iraq or maintain ties with the Sunni tribes, than for the things that he did do. Neglect is a safer charge than malfeasance. It leaves open the door for Hillary Clinton to run on some variant of her more aggressive foreign policy so that she can finally take her 3 AM phone call from the Syrian terrorists and send them lots of guns.</p>
<p>Biden’s story that his administration refused to arm the Syrian rebels and pleaded with the Sunni states not to arm them is one of those widely circulated half-truths. In fact Obama and his people chose to maintain plausible deniability in both Libya and Syria, attempting to direct arms without getting their fingerprints all over the merchandise, going so far as to ask the UAE to smuggle non-American weapons.</p>
<p>The <em>New York Times</em>, the outlet of choice for officially unofficial administration leaks, <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/obama-administration-oversaw-arms-shipments-to-al-qaeda-in-libya/">quoted a former official as saying</a>, “The U.A.E. was asking for clearance to send U.S. weapons. We told them it’s O.K. to ship other weapons.”</p>
<p>That’s what plausible deniability looks like.</p>
<p>Obama did arm the Islamic militias in Libya and Syria; he just chose to do it more indirectly than directly. Only recently has the work become more direct, but even so it’s still shrouded in misleading leaks, sneakers on the ground and plausible deniability. The smuggling began in Libya and culminated in Syria.</p>
<p>The Sunni states did the actual dirty work of smuggling in weapons in Libya while Obama ordered the military to turn a blind eye to what was going on. Again, quoting from the same story, “NATO air and sea forces around Libya had to be alerted not to interdict the cargo planes and freighters transporting the arms into Libya from Qatar and the emirates.”</p>
<p>The unofficially official story is that the UAE and Qatar were going to ship the weapons anyway and we got involved to see that they didn’t fall into the hands of “extremists.” They kept falling into the hands of the “extremists” anyway and we just threw up our hands and accepted that we couldn’t do anything about it, but let the smuggling continue. Another name for that short play is good cop-bad cop.</p>
<p>The Turkish, Emirati and Qatari bad cops smuggled the weapons while Obama wrung his hands and complained that his Sunni Muslim partners were crazy and he just couldn’t stop them.</p>
<p>In this “best case scenario” story, Obama was a hapless puppet of Qatar, Turkey and the UAE. In the worst case scenario, he was an equal partner. It’s telling that Biden and the <em>New York Times</em> are both sticking with the “hapless puppet” version of the narrative. It makes Obama look incompetent, but the<a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/obama-born-again-idiot/"> “born-again idiot” routine</a> is becoming an acceptable fallback scenario for the party and the movement.</p>
<p>And it conveniently differentiates Biden from Hillary who has committed to arming the rebels after initially opposing it in interviews while she was still employed by the administration.</p>
<p>Biden’s apologies to Qatar and Turkey are a reminder of who calls the shots on foreign policy and it isn’t the military-industrial complex, the Israel Lobby or the Freemasons. It’s a bunch of desert bandits with oil and a ton of Washington insiders on their payroll. But there’s also a lot more to it than that.</p>
<p>If we accept the version of history put out by Biden and the <em>New York Times</em>, Obama Inc. knew that there were no democracy-loving “moderates” in Syria to arm. And indeed we do have quotes and leaks to support that. But despite that Obama chose to make no moves against Al Qaeda leaders in Iraq and Syria. Instead he went on working with a Syrian opposition that he knew had no credibility.</p>
<p>That scenario doesn’t hold up too well. If Obama knew that the Syrian rebels were too dangerous to arm, then why work with them at all and why eventually arm them?</p>
<p>The Arab Spring and ISIS are both examples of blowback to the joint projects of Obama, Qatar and Turkey. The Muslim Brotherhood and ISIS proved to be dangerous tools for ensuring Sunni supremacy. Everyone except Qatar and Turkey has abandoned the Muslim Brotherhood. And ISIS is even threatening Turkey and Qatar. Like Carter’s botched policy in Iran, a liberal Islamization project has gone up in flames and the man to blame has managed to make it seem as if the problem was what he didn’t do, rather than what he did. Obama has managed to pull off a Carter.</p>
<p>Neither Carter nor Obama wanted the disastrous outcomes that they got, but they did want to set up Islamist states as part of their foreign policy. They just weren’t counting on things getting so messy.</p>
<p>Biden is complaining about the UAE and Turkey seeking out a Sunni-Shiite proxy war in Syria. But that’s only because he’s an idiot. The Arab Spring was meant to empower Sunni Islamists. What did he and his boss imagine that Sunni Islamists would do with their free time, aside from killing Christians and attacking American diplomatic missions? And who else did he think would end up on top of the pile?</p>
<p>Biden can blame Turkey and the UAE for the outcome, but it was always going to end this way. ISIS is Obamas’ mess. The Egyptian military and the Saudis cleaned up the mess in Egypt. Now the Saudis, the UAE and Obama are belatedly trying to put the ISIS genie back in the bottle in Iraq and Syria.</p>
<p>Obama would settle for being criticized for not intervening aggressively enough, but the real problem was his original aggressive intervention. His foreign policy overthrew governments and armed terrorists while maintaining plausible deniability.</p>
<p>Now he hopes that no one notices that he’s bombing the end results of his own foreign policy.</p>
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		<title>Hillary&#8217;s Hand in Hamas&#8217; Terror Tunnels</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2014 04:10:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One accomplishment from Clinton's tenure as secretary of state. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/hillary1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-239435" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/hillary1-409x350.jpg" alt="hillary1" width="291" height="249" /></a>Much has been said and written about the terror tunnels that Hamas built in Gaza. But too little has been said about who it was that put the cement into Hamas’ hands, thus making the construction of the tunnels possible in the first place.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Until now.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">In a bombshell revelation, Dennis Ross, the senior Mideast policy adviser to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton from 2009 to 2011, has admitted that it was he who was assigned the task of pressuring Israel to ease up on its military blockade of Gaza, in the events after Israel&#8217;s withdrawal from that region in 2005.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">&#8220;I argued with Israeli leaders and security officials, telling them they needed to allow more construction materials, including cement, into Gaza so that housing, schools and basic infrastructure could be built,&#8221; Ross revealed in the Washington Post on August 10. &#8220;They countered that Hamas would misuse it, and they were right.&#8221;</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Not that Hillary&#8217;s State Department had been acting independently of the White House on the issue of cement. For example, Vice President Joe Biden told interviewer Charlie Rose, on Bloomberg TV in 2010: &#8220;We have put as much pressure and as much cajoling on Israel as we can to allow them to get building materials&#8221; and other forbidden items into Gaza.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">But now that Mrs. Clinton is attempting to distance herself from the president’s debacles in foreign affairs, Ross’s admission shows that it was she who sent her personal envoy to push for a policy that ultimately enabled Hamas to build the terror tunnels.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Israeli officials have long been justifiably concerned about the danger of dual-use items such as cement. On the one hand, cement could be used for innocent purposes such as home construction, in the hands of a peace-seeking, trustworthy government. But in the hands of untrustworthy elements &#8212; such as the Hamas terrorist regime that rules Gaza &#8212; it could also be used for other purposes. Such as terror tunnels.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">President Obama recently remarked, in his much-discussed interview with Thomas Friedman of the New York Times: &#8220;Because Israel is so capable militarily, I don’t worry about Israel’s survival.&#8221; Secretary Clinton evidently shared that dismissive attitude when she sent Ross on his mission to put cement into Hamas&#8217; hands.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">It seems Obama and Clinton forgot that Israel is the only country in the world that is threatened with annihilation by a nearby regime rushing to build nuclear weapons. Israel is the only country in the world that, in the space of just 65 years, has been forced to fight four major defensive wars and five smaller ones, in order to survive. Israel is the only country in the world whose next-door neighbors have built dozens of tunnels into Israel to perpetrate massacres of civilians.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Today, at least thirty-two terror tunnels later, we know that Clinton, Obama and Ross have been wrong, while Israel is right.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Hamas spent between $1-million and $10-million to build each of those tunnels, using as many as 350 truckloads of cement and other supplies per tunnel, according a report in to the Wall Street Journal, quoting Israeli military officials.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">And it is &#8220;likely that there are additional tunnels&#8221; that the Israelis have yet to uncover, according to the Journal’s report.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Instead of lethal purposes, the materials used for each tunnel could have built 86 homes, or 19 medical clinics, or seven mosques, or six schools. But Hamas had other priorities.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">And Secretary Clinton consciously turned a blind eye. Just as she turned a blind eye to other aggressive and anti-peace behavior by the Palestinians, such as the Palestinian Authority&#8217;s sheltering of known terrorists, its payments to imprisoned terrorists, the anti-Israel and anti-America propaganda that fills the PA-controlled media, and the anti-Semitic hatred in the textbooks used in the PA&#8217;s schools.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">What are the real-life consequences of ignoring such Palestinian actions? An entire generation of young Palestinians have grown up incited to hatred of Jews and Israel, and glorifying terrorists as heroes and martyrs.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">What are the real-life consequences of Mrs. Clinton putting cement into Hamas&#8217;s hands? The tunnels into Israel were used to carry out the kidnapping of Gilad Shalit and numerous other attacks in which Israelis were murdered. They were being prepared to carry out a mass coordinated attack on Israeli towns and kibbutzim, this year on Rosh Hashanah.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Imagine a scenario in which a surgeon decided that she wanted to employ a controversial and risky technique. She was warned repeatedly that it was too dangerous, but proceeded anyway and in the process nearly killed the patient. Surely that would be deemed malpractice. The surgeon probably would be barred from ever again practicing medicine.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Secretary of Stated Hillary Clinton committed diplomatic malpractice. Her own top aide has revealed that it was she who put the cement into Hamas&#8217; hands, even after Israel warned repeatedly that doing so was too dangerous. And Israel continues to suffer the consequences.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Another lesson of the Gaza war: Even as we condemn Hamas’ diversion of cement from the construction of housing to the construction of terror tunnels, let us not forget that it was Hillary Clinton who pushed through the policy that made those tunnels possible.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;"><em>[Moshe Phillips and Benyamin Korn are members of the board of the Religious Zionists of America. This article is part of a series. To view previous installments, please visit <a href="http://www.phillyreligiouszionists.org/lessons-from-the-gaza-war/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">http://www.phillyreligiouszionists.org/lessons-from-the-gaza-war/</span></a>.]</em></p>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Shift from AIPAC to J Street</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2013 04:35:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Puder]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The administration sends an ominous signal of its real disposition toward Israel.  ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/jstreet.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-205430" alt="jstreet" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/jstreet.jpg" width="265" height="190" /></a>J Street, the self-described pro-Israel and pro-peace organization, has announced on its website that U.S. Vice President Joe Biden will be its keynote speaker at its annual conference scheduled to commence on September 28, 2013. Hitherto, President Obama has been unwilling to authorize his high-ranking officials to participate in the J Street conferences. However, Valerie Jarrett, a Chicago buddy of Barack Obama, who now serves as Senior Advisor to Obama and as Assistant to the president for Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs, was a major presenter at J Street’s 2012 conference. The significance of Biden’s acceptance of the invitation is that it may signal an Obama administration shift from supporting the traditional Jewish mainstream positions of AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) on Israel to that of the left-leaning, and openly Democratic Party stalwart J Street.</p>
<p>Clearly, Barack Obama no longer needs AIPAC to help him win a presidential election.  He does, however, want and need Jewish Democrat participation in the 2014 Congressional elections in order to take away the House of Representatives from the Republicans. He would like to reward Nancy Pelosi with the House Speakership. The preservation of ObamaCare is particularly important for Obama’s personal legacy.</p>
<p>In the realm of foreign policy, Obama seeks the coveted legacy of being the peace-maker between Israel and the Palestinians.  He is cognizant that his recent predecessors have all failed in their quest to bring accommodation, if not peace. Bill Clinton’s Oslo Accords are in a shambles and Arafat’s September, 2000 intifada saw to that. Israelis rejected the Oslo Accords twice by electing Benjamin Netanyahu as Prime Minister. The Palestinians, as well, did not get what they were promised by Arafat: a collapsed Israel that will give way to an Arab Islamic Palestine from the River to the Sea. George W. Bush’s Road Map has had torturous twists and has led to nowhere. Obama has decided that his approach, which is the same as J Street, would make the difference.</p>
<p>The J Street blog (September 24, 2013) points with pride to President Obama’s speech at the United Nations General Assembly, suggesting that Obama adopted J Street’s vision of peace between Israel and the Palestinians (which Palestinians,  Hamas or Fatah?) based on the two-state solution. J Street stated that it “<a href="http://jstreet.org/blog/post/j-street-determined-to-answer-president-obamas-un-challenge_1">welcomes</a> that call and urges other American Jewish organizations to do the same.” The blog quoted Obama saying, “Friends of Israel, including the United States, must recognize that Israel’s security as a Jewish and democratic state depends on the realization of a Palestinian state. And we should say so clearly.”  The President stressed that “Israel’s future as a democracy and a Jewish homeland depended on reaching peace with the Palestinians. There’s a growing recognition within Israel that the occupation of the West Bank is tearing at the democratic fabric of the Jewish state.”</p>
<p>J Street also welcomed Obama’s pledge to test the “diplomatic path in an effort to solve the nuclear crisis with Iran peacefully.”</p>
<p>The premise of a Palestinian State J Street shares with President Obama is naïve, if not erroneous. A Palestinian State at this stage in history will be an unstable and terrorism-prone state.  Israel’s Jewish character and its vibrant democracy have been sustained now for 46 years without a Palestinian state. And the demographic boogieman that J Street and the Israeli-left warned about is far from a reality. Recent decades, moreover, have witnessed a surge in Jewish demographic growth and a decline in Arab-Palestinian growth, as the latter become wealthier, more educated and urbanized.</p>
<p>The U.S. and the West have been testing the “diplomatic path” with Iran since 2009, and the only result is that it has allowed the radical Islamic regime to come closer to developing a nuclear bomb.</p>
<p>In its policy positions, J Street declares, “In the 21st century, we have reached a moment in history where <a href="http://jstreet.org/blog/post/proisrael-propeace_2">supporting a Palestinian state is the only way to ensure Israel’s survival</a> as a democracy and a national home for the Jewish people. Being pro-peace is, indeed, being pro-Israel.”</p>
<p>J Street believes that Israel must return to the June 4, 1967 boundaries, with a few modifications, such as land swaps. In the modern age of terrorism and missiles, that would be akin to what Abba Eban, Israel’s legendary Foreign Minister called “Auschwitz borders.” But, J Street endorsed President Obama’s May 19, 2011 statement. “We believe the borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/05/19/remarks-president-middle-east-and-north-africa">1967 lines</a> with mutually agreed swaps, so that secure and recognized borders are established for both states. The Palestinian people must have the right to govern themselves, and reach their full potential, in a sovereign and contiguous state.”</p>
<p>J Street supports the division of the holy city, Jerusalem. “Jewish neighborhoods of Jerusalem would fall under Israeli sovereignty and the Arab neighborhoods would be under Palestinian sovereignty.” This would mean that historical and religious Jewish sites will come under Palestinian control. The Prospects of Jewish access to holy places such as the Kotel would be fraught with danger from Palestinian shooters. Moreover, the Cave of the Machpela in Hebron, (burial place of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob) just like Joseph’s tomb in Nablus, would be forbidden to Jews.</p>
<p>J Street, like Israel’s Peace Now movement, takes the view that the settlements are an “obstacle to peace.”  When Israel agreed to the “Road Map” in 2003, it agreed to freeze settlement construction on the condition that the Palestinians would renounce their terrorist tactics and end the deadly incitement against Jews and Israelis as well as recognize Israel as a Jewish State.  Israelis, therefore, continued to expand existing settlements as needed to accommodate the “natural growth” of the inhabitants. There are no legal prohibitions on Israeli Jews living anywhere in Judea and Samaria. Arabs, after all, live in Israel, and it would be hypocritical to deny the same rights to Jews, unless of course you are Saudi Arabia or Jordan, which are legally “judenrein.”</p>
<p>According to J Street:</p>
<blockquote><p>Continued settlement growth <a href="http://jstreet.org/blog/post/settlements_1">undermines the prospects for peace</a> by making Palestinians doubt Israeli motives and commitment, and by complicating the territorial compromises that will be necessary in final status talks. The arrangements that have been made for the benefit of settlers and for security – checkpoints, settler-only roads, and the route of the security barrier – have all made daily life more difficult for Palestinians, deepening hostility and increasing the odds of violence and conflict.</p></blockquote>
<p>Suffice it to say that under the Oslo Accords, Area C, where virtually all Jewish settlements are located, was designated to be under both Israeli military and civilian control. Areas A and B are under Palestinian control. Once the border issues are negotiated, it is more than likely that significant portions of area C would become part of Israel.</p>
<p>It is understandable why Obama supports J Street. The latter group fully supports his vision of an Israeli-Palestinian peace. What is hard to understand is Biden’s move to please J Street. Biden has been the most hawkish pro-Israel member of Obama&#8217;s team, and a frequent guest of AIPAC. <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-18/j-street-learns-to-play-the-washington-money-game.html">The Louis Susman factor</a> is one reason. Susman, one of Obama&#8217;s chief campaign-contribution bundlers, has also been a close friend of Biden. J Street recruited Susman to be a member of their board and used his influence to bring Biden to the J Street conference. In considering a run for the U.S. Presidency, Biden needs people like Susman. But, it could also signal the Obama administration open shift from supporting the traditional Jewish mainstream positions of AIPAC on Israel to that of J Street.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Biden, the Stupidiot of the United States of America.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think Obama appointed Joke Biden to be his Vice President because he knew he would never challenge him &amp; he could carry out Obama&#8217;s destructive plans, by accident if necessary. Not to mention the fact that Biden makes Obama feel smart.</p>
<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/bosch-fawstin/s-pelosi-says/">Here</a> was my $#!+ Pelosi Says cartoon.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the National Rifle Association’s meeting with Vice President Joe Biden and the White House gun violence task force, the vice president said the Obama administration does not have the time to fully enforce existing gun laws.]]></description>
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<p>The left is in love with laws and legislation. It adds more and more regulations to a giant pile that no one has any time to read, let alone enforce, so that enforcement is entirely selective.</p>
<p>New laws are passed and then ignored. Everyone is always guilty of something because of the sheer number of laws out there. And when the problem that the laws were created to solve continues, that&#8217;s just <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/01/18/biden-to-nra-we-dont-have-the-time-to-prosecute-people-who-lie-on-background-checks/">an excuse for bigger legislative overreaches</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>During the National Rifle Association’s meeting with Vice President Joe Biden and the White House gun violence task force, the vice president said the Obama administration does not have the time to fully enforce existing gun laws.</p>
<p>Jim Baker, the NRA representative present at the meeting, recalled the vice president’s words during an interview with The Daily Caller: “And to your point, Mr. Baker, regarding the lack of prosecutions on lying on Form 4473s, we simply don’t have the time or manpower to prosecute everybody who lies on a form, that checks a wrong box, that answers a question inaccurately.”</p></blockquote>
<p>&#8230; like you know, Obama.</p>
<p>But this is classic liberalism. Some laws are important and some aren&#8217;t. And their priority changes at a given moment. Enforcing the unimportant ones is ridiculed, but enforcing the important ones becomes a matter of life and death.</p>
<p>If there wasn&#8217;t a penalty for lying on background checks, then Obama would be trotting out adorable kiddies and calling the NRA murderers for not passing a law to criminalize lying on background checks. But now that the law is here, the idea of actually enforcing it is just silly.</p>
<p>Obama Inc. isn&#8217;t really interested in preventing guns from falling into the hands of criminals, so it doesn&#8217;t really care about background checks except as a salami slice of the second amendment. Criminals will always have guns anyway and that&#8217;s not a problem. Liberals don&#8217;t make laws penalizing criminals, they make laws penalizing the middle class. The middle class is their natural enemy.</p>
<p>Gun control is just one more way of making the middle class more helpless and marginalized.</p>
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		<title>Off With a Bang: Assault on Second Amendment Begins</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 04:40:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthew Vadum]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Congress and an emboldened President Obama are after much more than an "assault weapons" ban. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/matthew-vadum/off-with-a-bang-assault-on-second-amendment-begins/bidenobama-12-12/" rel="attachment wp-att-172527"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-172527" title="bidenobama.12.12" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/bidenobama.12.12-438x350.jpg" alt="" width="263" height="210" /></a>President Obama is planning an aggressive, in-your-face, blitzkrieg-style campaign against Americans&#8217; fundamental Second Amendment right to self-defense.</p>
<p>After a madman murdered 26 people including 20 young schoolchildren last month at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, Obama initially urged a reinstatement of the expired federal Assault Weapons Ban. The demonstrably useless law lapsed in 2004 and had no detectable impact on crime. It was designed to cater to big-city liberals and their irrational fear of firearms.</p>
<p>But the Obama administration&#8217;s plans to assault the Bill of Rights grew more ambitious over the Christmas holidays. The administration has now had an opportunity to brainstorm more extensively with the left-wing gun-grabbing lobby, which is heavily financed by radical financier George Soros.</p>
<p>The president is hoping to use the bloody Newtown massacre to impose sweeping new restrictions on firearms and to create a massive new database to track and spy on law-abiding gun owners. Americans are wise to be wary of such proposals. Governments the world over have used such databases time and time again to crack down on internal dissent, lay the groundwork for gun confiscation, and clear the way for genocidal slaughter.</p>
<p>Citing multiple sources &#8220;involved in the administration’s discussions,&#8221; the Washington Post <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/white-house-weighs-broad-gun-control-agenda-in-wake-of-newtown-shootings/2013/01/05/d281efe0-5682-11e2-bf3e-76c0a789346f_print.html">reports</a> that the Obama White House is now &#8220;weighing a far broader and more comprehensive approach to curbing the nation’s gun violence than simply reinstating an expired ban on assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition.&#8221;</p>
<p>According to the newspaper:</p>
<blockquote><p>A working group led by Vice President [Joe] Biden is seriously considering measures backed by key law enforcement leaders that would require universal background checks for firearm buyers, track the movement and sale of weapons through a national database, strengthen mental health checks, and stiffen penalties for carrying guns near schools or giving them to minors&#8230;</p></blockquote>
<p>Vice President Biden &#8220;guaranteed&#8221; Boston Mayor Thomas Menino that President Obama would push through sweeping firearms restrictions before February.</p>
<p>“He said, ‘Tommy, I guarantee you, we’ll get it done by the end of January,’” Menino said, according to the Boston Herald. “They’re going to get it done.&#8221;</p>
<p>Obama may intend to bribe and blackmail businesses in order to win their support for his assault on law-abiding gun owners, the Post article suggests.</p>
<p>&#8220;[T]he White House is developing strategies to work around the National Rifle Association that one source said could include rallying support from Wal-Mart and other gun retailers for measures that would benefit their businesses,&#8221; the article stated.</p>
<p>The Obama White House is coordinating its strategy with New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, an outspoken enemy of the Second Amendment. Bloomberg co-founded Mayors Against Illegal Guns with Boston&#8217;s Menino.</p>
<p>Biden&#8217;s working group is reportedly gearing up to present a package of recommendations to the president soon. After that the Community Organizer-in-Chief intends to head up a public-relations campaign to further inflame the public before the passions generated by the Newtown murders cool.</p>
<p>“They are very clearly committed to looking at this issue comprehensively,” said Dan Gross, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, which is participating in Biden&#8217;s group.</p>
<p>Despite ceaseless cheerleading by their allies in the mainstream media, leftists probably won&#8217;t be able to shoot holes in the Second Amendment easily.</p>
<p>Lawmakers from both parties are opposed to further crackdowns on the ownership of guns, which author David B. Kopel notes are already &#8220;the most severely regulated consumer product in the United States — the only product for which FBI permission is required for every single sale.&#8221;</p>
<p>Newly sworn-in Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said gun control proposals now being discussed –including a plan by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) to create a national gun registry– are unconstitutional. The federal government doesn&#8217;t have &#8220;any business having a list of law-abiding citizens&#8221; who choose to exercise their right to keep and bear arms, he said.</p>
<p>After Newtown &#8220;within minutes, we saw politicians run out and try to exploit this tragedy, try to push their political agenda of gun control,&#8221; Cruz told &#8220;Fox News Sunday.&#8221;</p>
<p>What happened in Newtown is &#8220;a tragedy, but it’s not a tragedy that should be answered by restricting the constitutional rights of all Americans.&#8221;</p>
<p>Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.) also cautioned against taking aim at gun owners&#8217; rights.</p>
<p>“I think you need to put everything on the table, but what I hear from the administration — and if the Washington Post is to be believed — that’s way, way in extreme of what I think is necessary or even should be talked about. And it’s not going to pass,” the new freshman senator said on a Sunday TV talk show.</p>
<p>Heitkamp said mental health-related proposals have to be part of any package aimed at reducing violent crime.</p>
<p>“Let’s start addressing the problem. And to me, one of the issues that I think comes — screams out of this is the issue of mental health and the care for the mentally ill in our country, especially the dangerously mentally ill. And so we need to have a broad discussion before we start talking about gun control,” she said.</p>
<p>Obama&#8217;s sudden reversal on gun rights shouldn&#8217;t come as a surprise. Obama has a long anti-gun track record that he carefully distanced himself from when he began running for the presidency. In his academic days he <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/white-house-weighs-broad-gun-control-agenda-in-wake-of-newtown-shootings/2013/01/05/d281efe0-5682-11e2-bf3e-76c0a789346f_print.html">told</a> a colleague: &#8220;I don&#8217;t believe people should be able to own guns.&#8221;</p>
<p>As a candidate for state office in 1996, Obama <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/white-house-weighs-broad-gun-control-agenda-in-wake-of-newtown-shootings/2013/01/05/d281efe0-5682-11e2-bf3e-76c0a789346f_print.html">promised</a> to ban &#8220;the manufacture, sale &amp; possession of handguns.” Seeking his U.S. Senate seat in 2004, Obama advocated blocking citizens nationwide from receiving concealed-carry permits.</p>
<p>This documented antipathy toward Second Amendment rights stands in stark contrast to Obama&#8217;s statements on the presidential campaign trail in 2008 when he <a href="http://cnsnews.com/blog/gregory-gwyn-williams-jr/flashback-obama-i-will-not-take-your-guns-away">promised</a> to respect Americans&#8217; individual right to bear arms.</p>
<p>&#8220;When you all go home and you&#8217;re talking to your buddies and you say, ah &#8216;He wants to take my gun away.&#8217; You&#8217;ve heard it here, I&#8217;m on television so everybody knows it. I believe in the Second Amendment. I believe in people&#8217;s lawful right to bear arms. I will not take your shotgun away. I will not take your rifle away. I won&#8217;t take your handgun away.&#8221;</p>
<p>But that was before the Newtown opportunity came along. Obama never allows a gut-wrenching crisis to go to waste.</p>
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		<title>Federal Pay Freeze Ends, Biden Gets $5,000 Raise</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2012 21:27:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The decision to grant federal employees a four-day weekend came after 28,257 people signed an online petition on the White House "We the People" website requesting it.]]></description>
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<p>Because <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-orders-raise-biden-members-congress-federal-workers_692223.html">he&#8217;s doing such a</a> good job.</p>
<blockquote><p>Biden made a cool $225,521 last year. After the pay increase, he&#8217;ll now make $231,900 per year.</p></blockquote>
<p>The 2010 Federal pay freeze was always a sham because it sounded good, but <a href="http://www.fedsmith.com/2012/12/27/end-of-the-federal-pay-freeze-announced/">did not apply to automatic step pay increases</a> so Federal employees still continued getting raises despite the pay freeze.</p>
<p>Facing political setbacks nationwide and growing concern about the deficit, Obama signed on to a two-year pay freeze which will expire in December, but which Obama&#8217;s new executive order will delay until March 27, 2013, when some sort of budgetary agreement is supposed to arrive.</p>
<blockquote><p>For those who may also be wondering if Congress could change the pay rates or completely eliminate the pay raise, the answer is that it could be done. However, the change would have to pass both the House and the Senate and, as a practical matter, the Senate has not displayed any independence from the desires of the White House. So any change is unlikely (although not impossible) prior to the effective date.</p></blockquote>
<p>In addition to the end of the pay freeze, Obama has given government workers the gift that they want most. <a href="http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/news/us/national-briefs-obama-grants-federal-petition-667768/">Less time working</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8216;Twas the day before Christmas and all across the federal government, workers were enjoying an extra day off after President Barack Obama issued an executive order closing offices Monday and excusing all but postal service employees from duty.</p>
<p>The estimated cost for shutting down the government for a day is $100 million.</p>
<p>The decision to grant federal employees a four-day weekend came after 28,257 people signed an online petition on the White House &#8220;We the People&#8221; website requesting it.</p>
<p>&#8220;Federal employees have had a pay freeze for the past several years and the pay and benefits for the federal workforce have been under serious attack during the national elections held this year,&#8221; said the petition, which was started on Dec. 1.</p></blockquote>
<p>Unlike most Federal employees however, Vice President Joseph Robinette Biden gets every single day off.</p>
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		<title>Libya Lies &#8212; on The Glazov Gang</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2012 04:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dwight Schultz, Diane Zinn and Rob Nelson shed light on the darkness in Benghazi-Gate. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft  wp-image-149070" title="Stevens0365" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Stevens03653-450x309.jpg" alt="" width="270" height="185" />On this week’s <em>Glazov Gang</em>, Dwight Schultz, Diane Zinn and Rob Nelson gathered to discuss <em>Libya Lies. </em>The debate occurred in <strong>Part II</strong> and focused on what the administration knew and when it knew it. <strong>Part I</strong> focused on <em>When Biden Laughed,</em> dealing with Biden&#8217;s condescending treatment of Ryan in their recent debate.  Both parts of the two part series can be seen below:</p>
<p><strong>Part I:</strong></p>
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		<title>Abedin Family Matters and Other Points of Hysteria &#8212; on The Brewster Gang</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2012 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nonie Darwish, Susanne Reyto and Shari Goodman shed light on Huma Abedin and her family's troubling Islamist ties.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/adebin1.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-141078" title="adebin" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/adebin1.jpg" alt="" width="360" height="240" /></a>On this week’s <em>Brewster Gang</em>, Nonie Darwish, Susanne Reyto and Shari Goodman gathered to discuss <em>Abedin Family Matters and Other Points of Hysteria</em>.<em></em> Below are all three parts of a three part series.</p>
<p><strong>Part I:</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Part III:</strong></p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2012 04:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nonie Darwish, Susanne Reyto and Shari Goodman mix it up on Frontpage's television show.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Collectivism.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-141276" title="Collectivism" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Collectivism.jpg" alt="" width="336" height="224" /></a>On this week’s <em>Brewster Gang</em>, Nonie Darwish, Susanne Reyto and Shari Goodman gathered to discuss <em>Why It&#8217;s &#8220;Passé&#8221; to Discuss Collectivism</em>.<em></em> Below is <strong>Part III</strong> of a three part series. To see <strong>Part I,</strong> <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/frontpagemag-com/joe-biden-gets-a-pass-on-the-brewster-gang/">click here</a>. To see <strong>Part II</strong>, <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/frontpagemag-com/joe-biden-gets-a-pass-on-the-brewster-gang-1/">click here</a>.</p>
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		<title>Joe Biden Gets a Pass &#8212; on The Brewster Gang</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nonie Darwish, Susanne Reyto and Shari Goodman point to the ongoing twisted hypocrisy in our media.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/biden.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-140975" title="biden" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/biden.jpg" alt="" width="320" height="242" /></a>On this week’s <em>Brewster Gang</em>, Nonie Darwish, Susanne Reyto and Shari Goodman gathered to discuss <em>Joe Biden Gets a Pass.</em> Below is <strong>Part I</strong> of a three part series. We will run <strong>Part</strong> <strong>II</strong> in tomorrow&#8217;s edition.</p>
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		<title>Obama Camp Claims He&#8217;s Batman</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2012 04:37:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[They’re closer to the Joker.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/batman.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-137925" title="batman" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/batman.jpg" alt="" width="387" height="258" /></a>This week, the Obama campaign went gaga for Batman. Sure, <em>The Dark Knight Rises</em> is coming out on Friday – and sure, it’ll make a fortune. Any competent campaign would be eager to tie their campaign to the popularity of Batman.</p>
<p>But the Obama campaign doesn’t really get Batman.</p>
<p>How do we know? Well, they tried to exploit Batman in two ways. First, they tried to suggest that Bain Capital, Mitt Romney’s old hedge fund, was evil … just like the villain in the new Batman movie, who happens to be named Bane. “It has been observed that movies can reflect the national mood,” Democratic advisor Christopher Lehane told the <em>Washington Examiner</em>. “Whether it is spelled Bain and being put out by the Obama campaign or Bane and being out by Hollywood, the narratives are similar: a highly intelligent villain with offshore interests and a past both are seeking to cover up who had a powerful father and is set on pillaging society.”</p>
<p>Wrong. The creator of Bane, Chuck Dixon, who is apparently a conservative, quickly called this “ridiculous.” The good news, says Dixon: “Overgrasping Dems? Hey, if it gets Obama supporters into theaters. Maybe they’ll buy thousands of Bane toys to throw at Romney. It all adds to MY Bane capital.”</p>
<p>So the Democrats turned to exploiting the new Batman movie another way: they’re calling Obama and Joe Biden “the Dynamic Duo.” Only one problem: Batman – Bruce Wayne – is a multi-billionaire who fights the evil forces of the Occupy Wall Streeters like Catwoman in the new movie. In fact, Catwoman tells Batman, “There&#8217;s a storm coming, Mr. Wayne. You and your friends better batten down the hatches. Because when it hits you&#8217;re all going to wonder how you ever thought you could live so large and leave so little for the rest of us.” The 99% speaking.</p>
<p>And there’s no Robin in the movie. And even if there were a Robin … well, nobody likes Robin. He’s annoying and silly and a tad odd. So at least there’s an argument to be made that Biden is like the Boy Wonder, even if Barack is no caped crusader.</p>
<p>In truth, Christopher Nolan’s <em>Batman</em> trilogy has, thus far, been quite conservative. The first film, <em>Batman Begins</em>, suggested that government is corrupt, private individuals with great wealth can help protect the populace, and individuals can triumph over collective solutions (the villain in that film wants to watch Gotham City go down in flames so that it can rebuild in a better way). The second film, <em>The Dark Knight</em>, is an ode to George W. Bush’s anti-terror methodologies – Bruce Wayne constructs a PATRIOT Act-like system of bugging every cellphone in Gotham to track down the ruthless terrorist Joker. (And we never hear about the Joker’s bad childhood or poverty-ridden teenage years; he’s just bad.)  The press turns against Batman for fighting terror too wholeheartedly; the population wants to concede to the terrorists. But Batman wins anyway—at the cost of his popularity.  (George W. take heart.)</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[So now two presidents in the space of less than three years have bucked overwhelming conventional wisdom, as well as public opinion, and decided that they did not want to lose a war. And what lonely decisions these have been. Perhaps the most disturbing thing about the last few years has been the stunningly large [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So now two presidents in the space of less than three years have bucked overwhelming conventional wisdom, as well as public opinion, and decided that they did not want to lose a war. And what lonely decisions these have been. Perhaps the most disturbing thing about the last few years has been the stunningly large number of American thinkers, strategists and pundits who have been perfectly prepared to lose wars in both Iraq and Afghanistan. People talk about American decline these days, but it is not in the basic measurements of national power that American decline is to be found. It is in the willingness of the intellectual and foreign policy establishments to accept both decline and defeat.There is a new doctrine out there that seems to enjoy enormous cache among the smart foreign policy set: fight wars until they get hard, then quit. Vice President Biden seems to be a leading proponent of this approach. While a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Biden backed the Iraq War and spent the first few years after 2003 rightly calling on the Bush administration to send more troops. But when Bush finally wriggled himself free from the disastrous strategies of Donald Rumsfeld, Biden declared the situation hopeless and called instead for breaking up Iraq into three pieces. He then proceeded to oppose the very troop increase he had so long, and so courageously, fought for. And, of course, in opposing the surge, he had the whole foreign policy establishment on his side, epitomized by the wise people of the Baker-Hamilton commission.Many Bush supporters like to point to that president’s enormous courage in turning against the prevailing winds, disregarding not only the advice of the foreign policy establishment but of many of his own top advisers and much of the Republican party, which in early 2007 was perfectly prepared to quit Iraq to save their political skins.But now we see President Obama doing much the same thing, turning against a majority in his own party, resisting the counsel of Biden and the wise men to head for the exits from a war that they had long supported.</p>
<p>via <a href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postpartisan/2009/12/obamas_lonely_decision.html">PostPartisan &#8211; Obama&#8217;s lonely decision</a>.</p>
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