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		<title>Iran Laughs at America’s “Surrender” – on The Glazov Gang</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2014 05:36:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Mullahs inch toward the Bomb -- while mocking a Radical-in-Chief.]]></description>
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<p>This week’s <em>Glazov Gang</em> was joined by <strong>Ernie White</strong>, a Civil Rights Activist, <strong>Morgan Brittany</strong>, a Conservative TV and Movie Star, and <strong>Mell Flynn</strong>, the President of Hollywood Congress of Republicans.</p>
<p>The Gang gathered to discuss <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/the-americans-have-very-clearly-surrendered-to-irans-might/"><strong>Iran Laughs at America’s “Surrender,”</strong></a> analyzing how the Mullahs are inching toward the Bomb, while mocking a Radical-in-Chief <strong>(starts at 29:15 mark).</strong> The guests also focused on <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/11/islamic-supremacist-groups-connect-their-jihad-to-ferguson-riots">Ferguson and Islamic Holy War Against America</a>, <em>Obama and the Ferguson Lynch Mob</em>, <em><a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/did-obama-just-fire-his-secretary-of-defense-for-being-a-republican/">Bye Bye Hagel</a></em>, and much, much more.</p>
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		<title>Obama Administration Trusts Russia on Iran</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2014 05:45:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Klein]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another catastrophe in an administration's catastrophic foreign policy. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/po.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-244613" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/po-450x253.jpg" alt="po" width="343" height="193" /></a>The Obama administration is so desperate to reach a nuclear deal with Iran by the current deadline of November 24<sup>th</sup> if at all possible that it is willing to trust Russia to play a key implementation role. In the face of Russian President Vladimir Putin&#8217;s duplicity with regard to Ukraine and Putin&#8217;s increasingly aggressive stance towards the West that harkens back to the Cold War, the Obama administration is deluding itself into thinking that it can trust Putin to keep his word on ensuring that much of Iran&#8217;s uranium stockpile is converted into a relatively harmless end product.</p>
<p>According to an article on November 4<sup>th</sup> in the <em>New York Times</em>, the Obama administration is encouraged by Iran’s purported willingness to ship much of its huge stockpile of uranium to Russia, which would convert it to fuel rods. The idea is that fuel rods are much more difficult to use in making nuclear bombs. Iran&#8217;s current stockpile of uranium is estimated to be in the range of 28,000 pounds, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency.</p>
<p>The <em>New York Times</em> article quoted an unnamed American it claims to be deeply involved in the negotiations as saying that &#8220;if the Iran-Russia deal works, it could be the cornerstone of something much larger.&#8221;</p>
<p>The <em>New York Times</em> also quoted from a recent speech delivered by Wendy R. Sherman, the chief American negotiator with Iran, in which she presumably alluded indirectly to the proposed Russian involvement in uranium conversion, stating that &#8220;we have made impressive progress on issues that originally seemed intractable.&#8221;</p>
<p>A senior National Security Council official praised Russia&#8217;s role in the negotiations with Iran. The official, quoted by the <em>New York Times</em>, said that &#8220;it is accurate to say that the Russians have played a very helpful role during these negotiations.&#8221;</p>
<p>Mind you, this is the same Russia whose president lied outright about the presence of Russian military forces in Crimea and has recently added to his barrage of insults against the United States by accusing the U.S. of supporting &#8220;neo-fascists&#8221; and &#8220;Islamic radicals.” Putin has cultivated alliances with both the Iranian and Syrian regimes in order to enhance Russia’s own influence in the Middle East.</p>
<p>This past September, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak announced a series of bilateral projects agreed to between Iran and Russia, worth seventy billion euros. In clear defiance of the U.S.-led international economic sanctions against Iran, Russia’s closer ties with Iran will include cooperation in the energy sector, which Novak described as “mutually beneficial” to the two countries. Areas of cooperation include power, oil and gas and what Novak described, in a meeting with his Iranian energy counterpart, as “the peaceful use of nuclear energy.&#8221;</p>
<p>Even if Putin were somehow miraculously sincere in his intentions this time, which is virtually impossible for the Russian leader who is trying to re-create the Russian empire, he cannot control what Ayatollah Khamenei, Iran&#8217;s supreme leader and ultimate decision-maker, will actually do. Khamenei torpedoed a similar deal worked out between the Obama administration and Iran in 2009 that would have involved the shipment of some of Iran&#8217;s nuclear fuel out of Iran. Moreover, Iran has refused to allow the International Atomic Energy Agency unfettered access to conduct inspections anywhere in the country, meaning that Iran would be free to hide some uranium and assets used to produce weapons grade enriched uranium in undisclosed covert locations. Its centrifuges would keep spinning. And Iran&#8217;s alternative route to a nuclear arms capability &#8211; its heavy water plutonium reactor &#8211; would not be affected by a uranium conversion deal with Russia.</p>
<p>Iran’s supreme leader Khamenei, who must sign off on any final deal, said this past May that those Iranians who promote negotiations with the United States are committing “treason.” He also committed his country to jihad against the United States:</p>
<p>“Battle and jihad are endless because evil and its front continue to exist. … This battle will only end when the society can get rid of the oppressors’ front with America at the head of it, which has expanded its claws on human mind, body and thought. … This requires a difficult and lengthy struggle and need for great strides.”</p>
<p>President Obama wants a deal at all cost with Iran to tout as his significant foreign policy achievement. The potentially tragic consequences will be the next president’s problem. The Obama administration thinks that it can get away with even a bad deal, because it assumes that the primary opponents of such a deal – Israel and many members of both parties in Congress – are too powerless to stop it. The administration believes that it is too late for Israel to take unilateral military action against Iran’s nuclear facilities and that the U.S. Congress can be end-run.</p>
<p>In his October 28<sup>th</sup> article in <em>The Atlantic</em> entitled “The Crisis in U.S.-Israel Relations Is Officially Here,” Jeffrey Goldberg quoted a senior Obama administration official’s epithet accusing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of cowardice. The charge derives in part from the Obama administration’s belief that Netanyahu is not willing or able to launch a preemptive strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities at this time.</p>
<p>“It’s too late for him to do anything,” Goldberg quoted another senior Obama administration official as saying, referring to Prime Minister Netanyahu’s purported hesitation “to pull the trigger.”</p>
<p>As for the Congress, the Obama administration has sent strong signals that it believes it does not have to seek formal Senate ratification of any agreement the administration reaches with Iran because such an agreement would not constitute a formal treaty. Moreover, the Obama administration believes that the president has the executive power to unilaterally suspend most sanctions against Iran.</p>
<p>President Obama has no compunctions about thumbing his nose at Congress and countenancing vile insults hurled by his senior lackeys against Israel’s prime minister. But he appears willing to trust one proven liar and aggressor, Putin, to help implement a key part of an agreement with a regime whose supreme leader, a fanatic theocrat, has vowed jihad to destroy the United States.</p>
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		<title>Islamist Turkey&#8217;s Betrayal</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2014 04:05:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Puder]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Kobane_3071699b.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-243324" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Kobane_3071699b-423x350.jpg" alt="Kobane_3071699b" width="346" height="286" /></a>The struggle for Kobani, the Syrian Kurdish town on the border with Turkey where the Kurdish forces alone are battling the barbaric hordes of the Islamic State, aka ISIS, is reminiscent of the Polish uprising in Warsaw against the Nazis in August, 1944. While the Polish Home Army fought courageously against the might of the superior armed Nazis, the Soviet Union’s Red Army stood by across the River Vistula, which divides Warsaw, watching the merciless slaughter of Polish civilians and the destruction of the city.</p>
<p>The Turkish dictator Recep Tayyip Erdogan, like the Soviet dictator Josef Stalin before him, showed no consideration for the lives of innocent Kurdish civilians already butchered by the sadists of the Islamic State mercenaries. For those still alive in Kobani, unless rescued by outside intervention or supplied with heavy arms and ammunition, will also die a gruesome death. Turkish tanks, in the meantime, are ensconced on the crest overlooking Kobani. They can help save the remaining Kurds should Erdogan give them the order to fire on the ISIS fighters. But, just as Stalin wanted the Nazis to decimate the Polish nationalist Home Army, Erdogan is wishing for ISIS to destroy the Syrian Kurds.</p>
<p>What is puzzling in all this is the role the U.S. is playing. In his September 10, 2014 speech, President Obama said that, “military advisors are needed to support Iraqi and <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/09/10/statement-president-isil-1"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Kurdish forces</span></a> with training, intelligence, and equipment.” Hitherto, there has been no supply of equipment or training of the Kurds. In fact, the Obama administrations blind support for a unitary Iraqi state led by Shiite ruled Baghdad government is in contradiction with the realities on the ground. The Shiite-led Iraqi army folded in the face of the jihadi ISIS guerrilla offensive, and in the process, abandoning U.S. supplied heavy weapons including tanks, armored cars, Humvees, etc. The Kurdish Peshmergas alone hold the line against ISIS, and they are not getting the promised arms because the U.S. has long insisted that all sales of U.S. weapons must go through Iraq&#8217;s central government, despite Kurdish complaints that Baghdad had deprived them of promised military equipment and financial support.</p>
<p>Washington has not overruled Baghdad on issuing direct shipments of arms to the Kurds.  The Iraqi government has demanded that all shipments to the Kurds arrive first in Baghdad. Iraqi officials have regularly blocked or delayed these shipments to the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Erbil. Moreover, U.S. State Department regulations bar the KRG from purchasing U.S. made weapons without “<a href="http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/resetting-the-u.s.-kurdish-baghdad-relationship"><span style="color: #0433ff;">end-user certificates</span></a>” issued by Baghdad. According to the Washington Institute for Near Eastern Policy, “Baghdad is bent on wielding this authority to prevent the <a href="http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/resetting-the-u.s.-kurdish-baghdad-relationship"><span style="color: #0433ff;">KRG</span></a> from developing antitank and antiaircraft arsenals.”</p>
<p>The Kurds in both Iraq and Syria are the only effective fighting force, boots on the ground, capable of stopping the ISIS hordes. In Iraq, the Peshmergas, the Kurdistan Regional Government defense forces are facing ISIS while armed with antiquated Russian Kalashnikovs (AK-47) and machine guns mounted on open Toyota pick-up trucks. Britain, France and Germany pledged to supply arms, but the KRG, while welcoming such support, has yet to receive them.</p>
<p>In Syria, the Kurdish defenders of Kobani are encircled on three sides with their backs pressed against the Turkish border, and the only supply line is through Turkey. Erdogan and his government however, have branded the defending Kurds as terrorists. Erdogan has argued that the Kurds of Kobani are no better than ISIS. The <i>New York Times</i> (October 12, 2014) quoted Erdogan as saying, “The <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/13/world/middleeast/kurdish-rebels-assail-turkish-inaction-on-isis-as-peril-to-peace-talks.html?mabReward=RI%3A14&amp;module=WelcomeBackModal&amp;contentCollection=Middle%20East&amp;region=FixedCenter&amp;action=click&amp;src=recg&amp;pgtype=article"><span style="color: #0433ff;">P.K.K</span></a>. and ISIS are the same for Turkey…It is wrong to view them differently. We need to deal with them jointly.”</p>
<p>The P.K.K. is indeed considered a terrorist organization by the U.S. and the European Union, yet the P.K.K. has been in peace negotiations with Ankara, demanding not the destruction of Turkey (unlike Hamas’ aim of destroying Israel) but merely cultural rights. The P.K.K demands include use of the Kurdish language in educational institutions, reduction in the threshold for elections to parliament from 10% to 5%, greater decentralization, and the removal of all discriminatory provisions against Kurds from the constitution and other laws.</p>
<p>It is highly hypocritical for Erdogan to compare the P.K.K. to the fanatical Islamist group ISIS, when he has been one of the chief supporters of the Palestinian terrorist organization, Hamas. And, if there is to be a fair comparison, it would be between ISIS and Hamas, both seeking to create an Islamic Caliphate, and the expulsion of non-Muslims from the region.</p>
<p>Kobani is being defended by the People’s Protection Units, or Y.P.G., an affiliate of the P.K.K. Erdogan’s concern is that the Syrian Kurds might try to establish an autonomous region on the border, which Turkey wants to prevent. Again, Erdogan’s transparent hypocrisy is clear to see. He actively supports Hamas and Palestinian independence but seeks to deny the same to the Kurds, the end result being that he will allow the Kurds of Kobani to perish while at the same time looking the other way while the ISIS jihadists use Turkey as a corridor for their recruited fighters to enter Syria and Iraq.</p>
<p>Erdogan’s Turkey is a member of NATO, yet in 2003 he refused Turkish airspace to U.S. and allied forces on the way to Iraq. <i>The New York Times</i> reported (October 7, 2014) Turkish President Erdogan said “Turkey would not get more deeply <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/08/world/middleeast/isis-syria-coalition-strikes.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">involved</span></a> in the conflict with the Islamic State.” Erdogan conditioned Turkey’s possible involvement in fighting ISIS on the U.S. giving greater support to the rebels trying to oust Bashar Assad, the Syrian President. Turkey has, moreover, denied that it has signed an agreement authorizing the U.S. and the coalition forces to use its airbases for operations against the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq and Syria. Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman Tanju Bilgic told <i>Reuters</i>: “<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/13/us-mideast-crisis-turkey-idUSKCN0I210L20141013"><span style="color: #0433ff;">There is not an agreement</span></a>; no decision has been taken with regard to using Incirlik air base.” He refuted U.S. National Security Advisor Susan Rice’s claim on <i>NBC News ‘Meet The Press’</i> show on October 12 (2014) that Turkey had agreed to allow the use of the Incirlik airbase against IS.</p>
<p>The U.S. should react to the Turkish treachery by removing its airbase from Incirlik, Turkey to Erbil, the capital of Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government. The U.S. should immediately provide the KRG with heavy weapons, including tanks, artillery, anti-armor rockets, and Humvees. The equipment should be sent directly to Erbil bypassing Baghdad. The State Department must change its regulations, and allow the KRG to become a certified “end-user,” instead of being at the mercy of Iranian controlled Baghdad.</p>
<p><i>The Wall Street Journal</i> headline on October 15, 2014 reading “Turks Bomb Kurds, Not Islamic State” is most telling. It is in essence siding with the enemies of the U.S. and its NATO allies. Considering Turkey’s behavior as a NATO member, it is time to consider its leader – President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for what he really is – an anti-western pro-Jihadist dictator. If anything, in Kobani, Erdogan has shown the world his treacherous nature by betraying the Kurds with whom he has been negotiating peace.</p>
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		<title>Obama Will Fight ISIS by Arming ISIS</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2014 04:55:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Screen-Shot-2014-09-11-at-12.46.36-AM.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-240761" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Screen-Shot-2014-09-11-at-12.46.36-AM-418x350.png" alt="Screen Shot 2014-09-11 at 12.46.36 AM" width="293" height="245" /></a>“Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel,” Samuel Johnson said. A few centuries later his fellow Englishman, Winston Churchill, quipped, “The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative.”</p>
<p>It’s not true of the United States, but it is true of Barack Obama who, having exhausted every alternative that involved appeasement or pretending that ISIS wasn’t a threat, has decided to do the right thing.</p>
<p>As long as he gets enough applause for doing it.</p>
<p>With his approval ratings, particularly on American leadership and national security, lower than Assad’s, he decided to exploit September 11 to butch up his foreign policy image.</p>
<p>After spending the last few years ignoring ISIS, he delivered a carefully timed speech vowing to take it on. The speech might have been a little more credible if it had not come from the man whose inaction allowed ISIS to take over parts of Iraq and Syria and who early this year was dismissing it as a JV team.</p>
<p>The scoundrel who lied and claimed that he had defeated Al Qaeda has been reborn again as a patriot who is promising to… defeat Al Qaeda. Even his usual boast of defeating Al Qaeda has been carefully walked back to a claim of having defeated “much of al-Qaida’s leadership in Afghanistan and Pakistan”.</p>
<p>That brief moment of near honesty is diminished only by the fact that the war on Al Qaeda had moved on to the Middle East long before Obama even took office. It was Obama who decided to divert away from fighting Al Qaeda in the Middle East on a failed attempt to defeat the Taliban and an even more failed attempt to negotiate peace with the “moderate” Taliban.</p>
<p>Obama’s strategy is a kitchen sink approach that promises air strikes for the patriots and multilateral coalitions for the appeasers. There will be coalitions with Sunni Arabs and with a new “inclusive” Iraqi government. There will be coalitions with everyone. A UN session will be chaired. Syria will be bombed and “terrorists who threaten our country” will be hunted down.</p>
<p>And all of it will happen without a single American soldier being put at risk.</p>
<p>It’s an utterly incoherent and calculatedly unobjectionable speech by a failing politician that fails to address why we’re in this mess and what past policies we have to rethink to get out of it.</p>
<p>In a telling sign, Obama’s giant goodie bag of ISIS proposals also includes arming ISIS.</p>
<p>“Across the border in Syria, we have ramped up our military assistance to the Syrian opposition. Tonight, I again call on Congress, again, to give us additional authorities and resources to train and equip these fighters,” Obama said. “We must strengthen the opposition as the best counterweight to extremists like ISIL, while pursuing the political solution necessary to solve Syria’s crisis once and for all.”</p>
<p>It was the Syrian crisis that turned ISIS into an army. Some of the groups now loyal to ISIS once fought alongside the Syrian opposition that he would like to arm.</p>
<p>Some still do.</p>
<p>Not only does Obama know this, but he refrained from fully committing to arming the Syrian rebels precisely because there was no way to do so without risking the weapons falling into the hands of ISIS.</p>
<p>Hillary Clinton wrote in <i>Hard Choices</i> that he had refused to arm the rebels. Last year Defense Secretary Leon Panetta had testified that Obama had vetoed a proposal to provide weapons to them.</p>
<p>At a press conference Obama had said, “We have seen extremist elements insinuate themselves into the opposition, and you know, one of the things that we have to be on guard about &#8212; particularly when we start talking about arming opposition figures &#8212; is that we are not indirectly putting arms in the hands of folks that would do Americans harm.”</p>
<p>Reports in the <i>New York Times</i> suggested that the administration had not been able to find any “moderates” who could safely be armed with heavy weapons because the actual fighters on the ground are all Islamic Jihadists.</p>
<p>Now Obama is not only reversing one of the few sensible things he did and championing a policy that he knows quite well is wrong, but is also attempting to make Congress complicit in his destructive folly.</p>
<p>Obama was willing to give F-16 jets to the Muslim Brotherhood regime in Egypt. If he was holding off on heavy weapons transfers to the Jihadists in Syria, it was because he knew that there was a very high risk that those weapons would end up being used against Americans. And that he would pay a political price.</p>
<p>ISIS became much more lethal when it acquired American equipment that had been provided to the Iraqi military. ISIS allies in Syria had already been photographed with American humanitarian aid and when the Jihadists of the Islamic Front turned on the Free Syrian Army that is the typical vector for US aid, it easily seized their supplies and warehouses.</p>
<p>While the FSA isn’t ISIS, parts of it are aligned with ISIS and the other parts are jockeying for power.</p>
<p>Some Jihadist commanders with the FSA and other non-ISIS groups fight ISIS and its allies. Others are its allies. Telling them apart is hard even with a map and a room full of charts. Fighters drift back and forth. The “moderate” Syrian rebel that we arm and train today will be the “extreme” terrorist tomorrow and there is absolutely no way to tell where a weapon that we provide will end up.</p>
<p>Arming the Syrian opposition is the same thing as arming ISIS. The Syrian Jihadists fighting it don’t “reject its extreme ideology” as much as they’re angling for their piece of the Caliphate. The Al Nusra Front was fighting ISIS before it pledged allegiance to ISIS. The Sunni opposition consists of a lot of wannabe Caliphs trying to collect enough bakeries and oil wells to cash in for a Caliphate.</p>
<p>Obama insisted once again in his speech that ISIS is not Islamic. “No religion condones the killing of innocents&#8230; ISIL is a terrorist organization, pure and simple. And it has no vision other than the slaughter of all who stand in its way.”</p>
<p>The vision of Islam, past and present, has been the slaughter of all who stand in the way of the religion’s supremacy. But the attempt to portray ISIS as a unique entity that is detached from all other Islamic terrorist groups is a misleading effort to justify an incoherent policy.</p>
<p>“These terrorists are unique in their brutality,” Obama claimed. “They execute captured prisoners. They kill children. They enslave, rape and force women into marriage. They threatened a religious minority with genocide.”</p>
<p>There isn’t anything unique about these things. Wahhabi Jihadists have been doing all of them for centuries. And these tactics date back to Mohammed.</p>
<p>ISIS isn’t unique in its brutality. It’s unique in its successes. And its successes can be credited to Obama’s Arab Spring and his refusal to admit that his policy of ignoring Iraq had failed.</p>
<p>“America is safer,” Obama claims. But that’s a lie.</p>
<p>America is less safe than ever. Not just because of ISIS, but because of a leadership that allows such crises to become severe threats because it refuses to address what they really are.</p>
<p>Obama’s speech promises action against ISIS while denying what it is. If Obama follows through on his policy, instead of defeating ISIS, he will arm it. It’s an old mistake being repeated all over again.</p>
<p>We can’t defeat terrorists by arming terrorists.</p>
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		<title>Iran’s Path to the Bomb</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles Bybelezer]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/76114095_3c03127b-b8dc-47c0-af9c-66715d0adff4.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-235875" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/76114095_3c03127b-b8dc-47c0-af9c-66715d0adff4.jpg" alt="_76114095_3c03127b-b8dc-47c0-af9c-66715d0adff4" width="256" height="193" /></a>As nuclear negotiations resume between Iran and world powers, it is becoming increasingly clear that any deal signed will be considered negatively by Israel as “ill-conceived.”</p>
<p>According to most estimations, the focus of the talks has shifted from dismantling Iran’s nuclear infrastructure, as demanded by Jerusalem, to creating a verification network that would, ideally, grant inspectors unfettered access to Iranian sites to ensure the peaceful nature of its nuclear operations.</p>
<p>In “Inspections: The Weak Link in a Nuclear Agreement with Iran,” Dore Gold, a former Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations and currently an advisor to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, questions “the advisability of erecting a comprehensive agreement with Iran that is so highly dependent upon the efficacy of its inspection system and the willingness of Iran to agree to what some analysts call unprecedented levels of transparency.”</p>
<p>The drawbacks should be evident, especially when considering Iran’s ongoing refusal to grant the IAEA access to its Parchin facility, where the UN nuclear watchdog believes Tehran has conducted military research into the development of atomic weapons. That the underground Fordow nuclear plant remained unknown to the West for years casts further doubt on both the Islamic Republic’s trustworthiness and the ability of monitors to keep tabs on the whole of its nuclear activities.</p>
<p>The fact that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry recently revealed that Iran’s breakout capacity stands at a mere two months should alone obviate any such deal, as this window is surely too close for comfort.</p>
<p>Nonetheless, it appears as though the prospects of reversing the Islamic Republic’s nuclear progress by significantly reducing the number of its centrifuges is off the table.</p>
<p>In the prescient words of Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif, the “talks are not about nuclear capability…they are about Iranian integrity and dignity.”</p>
<p>But the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism is undeserving of respect.</p>
<p>Iran continues to fuel the debauchery in Syria, and now has boots on the ground in Iraq; with the aim there, in conjunction with local Shiite fighters, almost certainly to carve out an Iranian protectorate.</p>
<p>Moreover, the widely held belief that Iran opposes the Sunni terror group ISIS, which is active in both Iraq and Syria, is tenuous at best, with recent reports suggesting the organization may well have been spawn by Tehran.</p>
<p>As the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs’ Pinhas Inbari recently pointed out, “the more time passes, the more this notion of a link between ISIS, Syrian and Iranian intelligence has become fixed in the minds of leading Arab analysts.”</p>
<p>To support this claim, Inbari highlights a February 2012 U.S. Treasury Department document which states that ISIS’ precursor, “al-Qaeda in Iraq,” was provided with money and weapons by Iran. He also raises the intriguing possibility that Iran facilitated ISIS’ advances in Iraq in order to force the U.S. to deepen its coordination with Tehran.</p>
<p>As journalist Melanie Phillips recently noted in the <i>Jerusalem Post</i>, “the Iranian leadership [has] suggested the price of its ‘help’ in ‘stabilizing’ Iraq would be a deal over its nuclear program.”</p>
<p>And this is the key point: The road to an Iranian bomb is paved with instability.</p>
<p>Iran’s carefully crafted plan is two-tiered; first, to foment widespread regional unrest, thereby removing the focus on is illicit nuclear work while, concurrently, convincing the West, which shuns chaos in favor of stability, that the only solution is to engage, rather than defeat, Iran.</p>
<p>And it has worked.</p>
<p>The West has misunderstood, or otherwise turned a blind eye to, Iran’s strategy, devised to buy time while Tehran becomes a nuclear power, which, in turn, will allow it to pursue its ultimate ambition of spreading its Islamic “revolution” throughout the world.</p>
<p>The ramifications of an expansionist, nuclear-armed Iran would be devastating.</p>
<p>Even without the bomb, in the near future Iran will effectively control territory spanning from eastern Iraq to southern Lebanon. The so-called Shi’ite crescent warned of years ago by Jordan&#8217;s King Abdullah is, for all intents and purposes, a <i>fait accompli</i>.</p>
<p>An Iran with atomic bombs can be expected to set its sights on Sunni Gulf states, including Kuwait and Bahrain, where its meddling during the Arab Spring prompted Saudi Arabia to deploy troops to the country.</p>
<p>In fact, Tehran appears to be on a collision course with Riyadh (which, parenthetically, is alleged to have pre-paid atomic weapons waiting for it in Pakistan).</p>
<p>Were tensions to explode between the Mullahs and the House of Saud, the entire region could be drawn into a bloody conflict; not unlike the Sunni-Shiite proxy war currently being waged in Syria, although the effects of a direct clash between the leading purveyors of these competing forms of Islam would, almost inconceivably, be much worse.</p>
<p>Like it or not, such a prospect would force the hand of the United States, which could not sit idly by as its allies, as well as the global oil economy, became endangered.</p>
<p>It is possible that an emboldened Russia would likewise become involved, at the very least as an arms supplier, and perhaps even ascendant China if to protect its growing interests in the region.</p>
<p>Israel, undoubtedly, would be targeted by its enemies and thus dragged into the fighting.</p>
<p>This is but a snapshot of the bleak picture facing the Middle East if Iran goes nuclear, and the Obama administration in particular is seemingly oblivious.</p>
<p>While the U.S. president reiterated last month—this time to his outgoing Israeli counterpart—that he remains committed to preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, Obama’s words are no longer trusted by many in Jerusalem given his willingness (eagerness) to treat a rogue regime, ideologically committed to the West’s destruction, as a friend.</p>
<p>Hence the recent dispatch to Washington of Israeli National Security Adviser Yossi Cohen and Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz, in order to spell out the Jewish state’s positions perhaps for the last time.</p>
<p>Speaking to prior to his departure, Steinitz made clear that a good deal “will not allow the Iranians to remain a nuclear threshold state&#8230;. Our position is that an agreement needs to be based not only on supervision and verification, but on dismantling infrastructure,” he affirmed.</p>
<p>Netanyahu likewise weighed in last week, granting interviews to major television networks in each of the P5+1 countries.</p>
<p>“Inspectors can be deceived,” he warned, before advocating for an agreement along the lines of the Syrian one, which “remove[s] what’s not destroyed.”</p>
<p>But given Obama’s ongoing rapprochement with Iran, Israel&#8217;s expectations are surely being tempered. In fact, it would be surprising if the government was not already intensifying covert preparations for “plan-B.”</p>
<p>What this entails could be revealed as early as July 21st, the day after the deadline for a nuclear agreement is set to expire.</p>
<p>Only then will it become known whether Netanyahu is serious about preventing an Iranian bomb—and the lengths to which he is willing to go in order to do so.</p>
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		<title>Terror Wave in Russia</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Dec 2013 05:40:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Spencer]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/rtx16x59.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-214268" alt="Members of the emergency services work at the site of a bomb blast on a trolleybus in Volgograd" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/rtx16x59-450x345.jpg" width="315" height="241" /></a>There have now been three major jihad terror attacks in Russia in four days. The attacks are a grim reminder of how vulnerable crowded public places are worldwide to jihad mass murder &#8212; and an indication of what the United States could look like sooner or later.</p>
<p>The latest round of jihad mass murder began last Friday, when <a href="http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/12/30/22103858-rush-hour-blast-kills-14-on-trolley-bus-in-volgograd-russia-3rd-deadly-attack-in-four-days?lite">jihadists murdered three people</a> with a car bomb in Pyatigorsk in southern Russia. Then on Sunday, a jihad/martyrdom suicide bomber <a href="http://zeenews.india.com/news/world/russia-station-blast-at-least-18-dead-head-of-bomber-discovered_900224.html">murdered sixteen people</a> at the train station in Volgograd – the city that, as Stalingrad, was the bloody site of the turning point of World War II. Then on Monday, <a href="http://zeenews.india.com/news/world/another-deadly-blast-rocks-russia-s-volgograd-sochi-olympics-at-risk_900314.html">a jihadist murdered fourteen more people</a> on a trolley bus in the same city.</p>
<p>These were by no means the first jihad strikes in Russia in recent years. In September 2004, Islamic jihadists under the command of Chechen jihad leader Shamil Basayev took 1,300 hostages at a school in Beslan, a town in the Russian Republic of North Ossetia; ultimately <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/3665136.stm">the jihadists murdered well over 300 people</a>.</p>
<p>Then <a href="http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/12/30/22110562-bombings-fuel-fears-about-sochi-threat-by-emir-of-caucasus-doku-umarov">in August 2009</a>, jihadists claimed to have murdered over 24 people with a bomb at Siberia’s Sayno-Shushenskata hydro-electric plant in Siberia, although the Russian government claimed that there was no bomb at all, and that the explosion was an accident. On November 27, 2009, jihadists murdered 27 people with a bomb planted under the Nevsky Express train between Moscow and Saint Petersburg. Then in March 2010, Islamic jihad/martyrdom suicide bombers murdered 39 people on the Moscow subway. In February 2011, another jihad/martyrdom suicide bomber murdered 36 people at Domodedovo International Airport in Moscow.</p>
<p>Another Chechen jihadist, Doku Umarov, the leader of a group that calls itself the Caucasus Emirate (Umarov styles himself the “Emir of the Caucasus”), told Russians in 2010: “I promise you that war will come to your streets and you will feel it in your lives, feel it on your own skin.” He later threatened that “more special operations” would soon follow, for “among us there are hundreds of brothers who are prepared to sacrifice themselves&#8230;.We can at any time carry out operations where we want.”</p>
<p>He warned the Russians again last July, exhorting Muslims to wage jihad warfare against the Russians for daring to host the Winter Olympics in Sochi on the Black Sea coast. <a href="http://zeenews.india.com/news/world/another-deadly-blast-rocks-russia-s-volgograd-sochi-olympics-at-risk_900314.html">Umarov said</a> that Muslims should “use maximum force on the path of Allah to disrupt this Satanic dancing” – by which Patrick Swayze-evoking locution he referred to the Games. The Russians, <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/30/world/europe/russia-terrorist-attacks-explainer/">he said</a>, “plan to hold the Olympics on the bones of our ancestors, on the bones of many, many dead Muslims buried on the territory of our land on the Black Sea, and we Mujahedeen are obliged not to permit that &#8212; using any methods allowed us by the almighty Allah.”</p>
<p>The Caucasus Emirate has not claimed responsibility for the jihad attacks this week, but given the threats Umarov has made against the Games, which are scheduled to begin February 6, it is understandable that suspicion has focused on this group. Vladimir Putin has tightened security, but Russian officials know that there is little he can do to prevent still more jihad terror. Alexei Filatov, whom <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/vladimir-putin-orders-tighter-security-after-bombing-1.2478303">Reuters describes</a> as the “deputy head of the veterans’ association of the elite Alfa anti-terrorism unit,” observes: “We can expect more such attacks. The threat is greatest now because it is when terrorists can make the biggest impression. The security measures were beefed up long ago around Sochi, so terrorists will strike instead in these nearby cities like Volgograd.”</p>
<p>There is little doubt that Filatov is right: the area that requires protection is simply too vast, and the possible targets too many, to ensure that there will not be more jihad attacks in Volgograd or elsewhere. The situation is the same in the United States: while law enforcement agents so far have been able to stop most jihad plots from ever coming to murderous fruition, their luck is unlikely to hold – particularly since the Obama Administration has forbidden agencies to study Islam and jihad in connection with terrorism, thereby depriving them of the ability to understand the motives and goals of those who have vowed to destroy Western societies.</p>
<p>It is well within the realm of possibility, then, that sometime in the not-so-distant future, the United States could be the country that is reeling from three jihad attacks in four days, with an untold number of casualties. What is glaringly deficient, if not altogether absent, in both the Russian and American response to this reality is any serious attempt to prevent such attacks from being plotted in the first place. No one is challenging Muslim groups in the U.S. or Russia to reinterpret the Islamic texts and teachings that jihadists use to justify violence and supremacism, and to teach actively against the understanding of Islam that gives rise to such attacks.</p>
<p>To be sure, government and law enforcement officials in the U.S. work with Muslims they deem “moderate” against those they regard as “extremist”; however, since they lack a clear understanding (and are forbidden to gain one – to do so would be “Islamophobic”) of the roots of jihad violence in Islamic teaching, they tend to take disingenuous claims to “moderation” at naïve face value. Their delineation between the “extremist” and “moderate” is often superficial and leads them into self-defeating blind alleys.</p>
<p>One notorious example of this is how government and law-enforcement agencies continued to work with the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) for several years after the Justice Department designated it an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding case, and its Hamas ties were abundantly established. I myself several years ago gave a four-hour-long presentation to a roomful of FBI and intelligence agents that included, among many other things, evidence of CAIR’s ties to Hamas. Yet during the question-and-answer period an agent complained that some of his best contacts in the Muslim community were CAIR officials, and I was wrong to “stigmatize” them.</p>
<p>Of course, it was not I, but the Justice Department, that had done the “stigmatizing,” and one would think that this surpassingly naïve agent would have thought that forewarned was forearmed regarding how much he could trust his friends at CAIR, but he wouldn’t hear it: he knew they were friendly and “moderate,” and that was good enough for him.</p>
<p>This politically correct naïvete practically amounts to an invitation to Islamic jihadists to mount more jihad attacks. And so they will, in the U.S. as well as Russia – but this agent’s friends at CAIR will issue another pro-forma condemnation, and so all will be well.</p>
<p>Three jihad strikes in four days in Russia. They were warned. We have been warned as well. But we aren’t paying attention to those warnings. To heed them would be “Islamophobic.”</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to a nuclearized Middle East.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/rouh_edited-1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-211874" alt="rouh_edited-1" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/rouh_edited-1.jpg" width="280" height="252" /></a>Over the weekend of November 23-24, 2013, a deal was struck between the 5+1 powers and Iran. The deal was consummated following secret negotiations in Amman Jordan, between US and Iranian diplomats. The Obama administration’s eagerness to embrace the deal with Iran and its new president Hassan Rouhani, is transparent. Sadly, it is reminiscent of an earlier negotiation that took place between Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany and the western powers of Britain and France, in September,1938, known as the Munich Agreement. Now, as then, regime change was not the goal. The western powers have considered easing tensions in the region, and will get instead a nuclearized Middle East. In 1938, they sought to appease a rogue nation in order to prevent a war, and received instead a World War.</p>
<p>It is interesting to note that the talking heads appearing on ABC, CBS, CNN, and Fox, (to name a few), have discussed the variables of the agreement. Some supported it, yet others felt it was shortcoming and would enable Iran to continue to enrich uranium, and add centrifuges, and ultimately build a nuclear bomb. Few if any however, discussed the need for a regime change in Iran. What the White House and media have done in addition to the flawed interim agreement, is to legitimize the Islamic Republic, a regime that oppresses its own people, persecutes Sunni-Muslims and other minorities, such as the Baha’is, Christians and Jews. In addition, the Tehran regime is a global sponsor of terrorism.</p>
<p>Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called the deal with Iran “an <a href="http://www.latimes.com/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-netanyahu-israel-iran-deal-mistake-20131124,0,59571.story#axzz2lmK27k4r">historic mistake</a>,” and added that it “makes the world a much more dangerous place.” Netanyahu said that Israel will not be bound by it. He pointed out that the sanctions imposed on Iran offered the “best chance for a peaceful solution.” He told the Knesset that, “Israel has the right to defend itself by itself, and emphasized that Israel will not allow Iran to develop a military nuclear capability. For Israel, it signifies mortal danger and an existential threat.</p>
<p>On a previous weekend, Netanyahu asserted that “<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-18/obama-defends-iran-dealmaking-amid-dispute-over-relief.html">easing the sanctions</a> would endanger the whole sanctions regime that took years to make.” In an interview with CNN’s State of the Union program he added, “You are going to get investors, companies, and countries scrambling one after the other to try to get deals with Iran, because economies and prices work on future expectations.” Netanyahu has proposed that Iran surrender some of its uranium stockpiles, which it has already been enriched, so that Tehran won’t have the fissile material needed for a nuclear weapon. He also declared that Israel does not trust Iran to cooperate in subsequent negotiations.</p>
<p>Recently, President Rouhani proposed that Iran will end its uranium enrichment at the 20% level in exchange for receiving fuel for its nuclear reactor, allegedly to manufacture medical drugs. Israel views Rouhani’s proposal as a cheap ploy. Jerusalem contends that isotopes needed for medical drugs could be obtained in the free market, and do not require a nuclear reactor. In his charm offensive towards the west, Rouhani has promised that Iran would never develop a nuclear weapon, but at the same time he insisted that Iran must retain the right to enrich uranium. And, while PM Netanyahu called Rouhani’s claims “fraudulent,” others might call him a “taqiyyah artist,” which Encyclopedia Britannica explains as “the practice of concealing one’s belief,” or simply put, lying and deceiving the enemy.</p>
<p>The Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei stated on Wednesday, November 20, 2013, that Iran will not give up the right to enrich uranium. Speaking to the Basij force which is controlled by the Revolutionary Guard, Khamenei declared “There are <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57613135/iran-nuclear-talks-resume-with-ayatollah-khameneis-blessing-and-a-warning-over-red-lines/">red lines</a>. There are limits. These limits must be observed.” He declared that Israel is doomed to fail and characterized the “Zionist regime” as the “sinister, unclean rabid dog of the region” and added that “<a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-unpleasantly-surprised-by-us-silence-on-khameneis-vicious-speech/">Israelis cannot be called human beings</a>.” The last regime to charge that Jews were not human beings was Nazi Germany. The world ignored it then and it helped facilitate the Holocaust.  Once again, the US and the European powers have chosen to ignore the leader’s vulgar statements, and signed a deal with his regime.</p>
<p>Iran’s Islamic Republic has a pretty murky record on trust. It has cheated the international community, and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) regarding its nuclear facilities. It took Iranian defectors and opposition leaders to reveal the truth about Iran’s nuclear program, and the existence of hidden nuclear facilities in Arak (heavy water facility) and a uranium enrichment plant in Natanz. The IAEA also revealed Iran’s policy of deception and lies, and in October, 2003, it served Iran with an ultimatum to come clean on its nuclear program. Another ultimatum in 2004 ordered Iran to cease its uranium enrichment. All of these ultimatums had little effect on Iran, which was aided by the Egyptian head of the IAEA, Muhammad el-Baradei. IAEA warnings were not followed by sanctions, and it encouraged Tehran to continue with its tactics of revealing one facility while hiding two others from the international community.</p>
<p>Writing in the <i>Wall Street Journal </i>(11/19/2013), Claudia Rosett pointed out that “Mr. Kerry and his team have yet to address one of the biggest challenges: the example set by North Korea, which over the past two decades has shown the world – Iran, not least – how a rogue state can exploit <a href="http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304439804579207422182734460">over-eager western diplomacy</a> to haggle and cheat its way to the nuclear bomb.” The Tehran regime is just as much a rogue state as North Korea. It is the premier terror-sponsoring state in the world, with a doomsday ideology that believes in order to usher in the coming of the Mehdi (Shiite messiah), “hidden imam,” an Armageddon must occur, which will wipe out the non-believers, first and foremost the big and little Satan, namely the US and Israel. While America is too big, too far, and too strong for Iran to tackle, Israel is close, small, and perceived as weak. Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahamdinejad declared his vision of a world without Zionism and stated on October 27, 2005, “that Israel must be <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/26/world/africa/26iht-iran.html?_r=0">wiped off the map</a>.”</p>
<p>The Tehran regime may or may not adhere to the interim agreement. Regardless, it continues to be a dangerous regime that threatens genocide and fosters instability in the region. The only way to regain peace and stability in the region is by affecting a regime change in Iran. The majority of Iran’s population would welcome it, and the Sunni minorities (Kurds, Baluchis, and Ahwazi Arabs) who are locked in combat with the regime, would opt for peace. The Arab Gulf states would be relieved, and cancel their plans to nuclearize. Active support for opposition groups in Iran and tough sanctions might very well bring down the regime. This should be the goal of the Western governments. The interim agreement does the opposite. It strengthens the regime’s grip on the Iranian people.</p>
<p>The Obama administration’s efforts to disengage the US from conflict by appeasing dangerous foes such as Iran will surely bring consequences that cannot be imagined. The Obama administration’s failure to act on the Red Line it presented to Assad of Syria on his use of chemical weapons, served to encourage Iranian President Rouhani. It has emboldened his negotiators to demand relief from western sanctions while Tehran refuses to refrain from uranium enrichment. Iran continues to develop its strategic nuclear weapons. In short, we are living through a repeat of the 1938 Munich Agreement, which sacrificed Czechoslovakia on the altar of “peace in our time” as proclaimed by Neville Chamberlain. It cost humanity 60 million dead souls. Nazi Germany was unrestrained by western weakness, and so is Iran.</p>
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		<title>Underneath the Deal</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Nov 2013 05:40:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Netanyahu continues to say publicly what the President wants to hide.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/now-the-really-hard-part-starts-after-landmark-iran-nuclear-deal.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-211745" alt="now-the-really-hard-part-starts-after-landmark-iran-nuclear-deal" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/now-the-really-hard-part-starts-after-landmark-iran-nuclear-deal-450x337.jpg" width="270" height="202" /></a>The Obama administration is entitled to be furious with Israel.  Although the U.S. got bragging rights for its (one-sided-not-in-our-favor) deal with Iran, Prime Minister Netanyahu remains determined publicly to say what the President wants to hide: Iran’s nuclear program could not be negotiated away, rolled back significantly or inspected properly. The only means to a signed document was for the U.S. to abandon its principles and pressure its allies. The U.S. has done that.</p>
<p>It was hard to oppose negotiations, it always is hard. Churchill said, “Its better to jaw, jaw than war, war” (you need the accent to make it work).  But a deal that is not a capitulation by one side requires two conditions: the parties must equally value the process; and there has to be a compatible endgame.  The West invested the process with much more value than did Iran, providing the mullahs with instant leverage, but most important, there was no agreed-upon end game.</p>
<p>The P5+1 wanted to negotiate the terms of Iran’s nuclear surrender; Iran was negotiating the conditions under which it will operate its nuclear program.</p>
<p>We’re familiar with the rules of buying a rug in the <i>souk</i>.  The goals are compatible – he wants to sell, you want to buy. If you want the rug more than he wants the deal, you will overpay; if he wants the deal more than you want the rug, you win.  But either way, money and rug will change hands.  Alternatively, if you want to buy a rug and he wants to sell a camel, no matter how ardently you bargain there will be no deal. Unless you change your mind and take the camel.</p>
<p>The White House took the camel.</p>
<p>Here is how it happened.  At the <a href="http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-09-24/politics/42340329_1_challenges-war-u-n-general-assembly/4">UN General Assembly</a> this year, President Obama put forward his theory of Iran’s bellicosity, ascribing motives and goals to the Islamic regime that mirror American motives and goals &#8211; starting with American mistakes. “Iranians have long complained of a history of U.S. interference in their affairs and of America’s role in overthrowing the Iranian government during the Cold War.”  Since he asserted that the nuclear program stemmed from Iranian fear of American meddling, he assuaged what he said were their concerns.  “We are not seeking regime change, and we respect the right of the Iranian people to access peaceful nuclear energy.”  Then he promised what he called a better future. “I do believe that if we can resolve the issue of Iran’s nuclear program, that can serve as a major step down a long road toward a different relationship based on mutual interests and mutual respect.”</p>
<p>But what if Iran doesn’t believe we have “mutual interests” and seeks a future in which the Islamic Republic is the hegemonic Gulf power and the United States is banished from the region, leaving its Sunni allies and Israel without a patron? (Russia is already taken.) What if Iran seeks religious hegemony over the world’s Muslim population, which requires supporting Syria and Hezbollah in the face of more numerous Sunni adversaries?</p>
<p>In that case the nuclear program is not an “issue” to be “resolved,” but a means toward a considered end.  <a href="http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/why-a-nuclear-deal-with-iran-is-so-hard#.Uozx0YEQjHU.twitter">Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei</a> – the only real power in Iran – believes, as did the Ayatollah Khomeini before him, that the program is the determinant of Iran’s power and prestige, and necessary to resist political and economic domination by the West. A nuclear-capable Iran would be a power with influence in the Muslim and the wider world, equal to the nuclear-armed United States and, as an oil-producing country, superior to Israel.</p>
<p>From that angle, the Administration’s belief that a mild easing of sanctions (a <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_world_/2013/11/14/iran_sanctions_john_kerry_is_promising_unbelievably_small_things_again.html">&#8220;tiny portion,&#8221;</a> according to Secretary of State Kerry, and “<a href="http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/the-value-of-the-proposed-sanctions-relief-at-geneva/#sthash.jdKAkClv.dpuf">very limited, temporary and reversible</a>” according to President Obama) would induce Iran to begin the process of de-nuclearizing or denuding itself under the watchful, powerful, and punitive eye of the despised West was farfetched at best.  Even large-scale bribery (the <a href="http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/the-value-of-the-proposed-sanctions-relief-at-geneva/">$20 billion or so</a> FDD’s Mark Dubowitz estimated might become available to the regime) would be unlikely to move the Iranians from their national nuclear project.</p>
<p>That was the most important understanding in the development of international sanctions. Sanctions were NOT designed to force Iran choose between nuclear progress and “mutual respect” with the West.  Sanctions, rather, were designed to force Iran to negotiate with itself.  To choose between two of its own national goals: the nuclear project and economic stability.  But at the very moment sanctions began to work and Iran began the internal conversation, the White House decided to buy the camel Iran was selling – temporary, reversible paper promises &#8211; for which the West would pay with eased sanctions and at least tacit acceptance of Iran’s “right” to uranium enrichment.</p>
<p>France (for itself, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and the U.S. Congress) saved the Western position for a week.  Unable to acknowledge the fundamental American shift, and having pulled France back into the fold, the administration continues to blame Israel and, if reports are true, has warned it  not to consider <a href="http://kleinonline.wnd.com/2013/11/24/officals-israelis-in-secret-trip-to-inspect-saudi-bases-could-be-used-as-staging-ground-for-strikes-against-iran/">military action against Iran</a> without American “permission.”  Somehow, the U.S. has become the guarantor of the security of Iran’s nuclear program, and thus the guarantor of the Islamic Republic’s rotten regime.</p>
<p>The implications are staggering.  Iran has supported militias that <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/07/07/iraq.militias.iran.support/">killed American troops</a> in Iraq and Afghanistan.  It traffics in weapons and missile technology with North Korea, some of which it then supplies along with troops to the gruesomely murderous regime of Bashar Assad and the equally murderous Hezbollah.  Iran ships weapons through Somalia and across North Africa to jihadists in Sinai and Hamas in Gaza.  It stirs trouble for American allies in the Gulf and threatens Israel with genocide on a regular basis.</p>
<p>The election of the so-called “moderate” Hasan Rouhani made no difference at all to the Iranian people.  In the first 100 days of his administration, <a href="http://disquietreservations.blogspot.com/2013/11/executions-of-political-prisoners-on.html">207 people have been executed</a>, some publicly.  Iranian-American pastor <a href="http://www.charismanews.com/us/41831-pastor-saeed-remains-alive-but-in-danger-in-deadly-iranian-prison">Saeed Abedani</a>, in prison for over a year for practicing Christianity, was been moved to the “violent criminal” ward and denied medical treatment for injuries suffered in prison. Veteran Iran-watcher Michael Ledeen has chronicled the regime’s <a href="http://pjmedia.com/michaelledeen/2013/10/27/those-new-gentler-iranians-are-busy-hanging-stoning-and-biting-their-people/">domestic violence</a>, including the stoning deaths of four women and mass arrests of Kurds in Tehran in October.</p>
<p>Putting international priority on Iran’s nuclear program might have been reasonable given the stakes, but Iran presents a basket of issues for the West, the Sunni Muslim world and Russia. The Administration’s willingness to undermine the allied position on the nuclear program has left no room to maneuver on the other points – if it wants to.</p>
<p><i>Shoshana Bryen is Senior Director of The Jewish Policy Center.</i></p>
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		<title>Why Obama’s Iran Nuke Deal Is a Good Thing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Nov 2013 05:50:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Israel now knows it stands alone.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/deal1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-211588" alt="deal" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/deal1.jpg" width="320" height="233" /></a>Obama was never going to stop Iran from going nuclear, but his promises gave people who should have known better, including American Jewish leaders and the Prime Minister of Israel, the idea that he would stand firm.</p>
<p>“Iran’s leaders should understand that I do not have a policy of containment; I have a policy to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon,” Obama said last year. “Rest assured that the Iranian government will know our resolve and that our coordination with Israel will continue.”</p>
<p>Instead Obama reached a secret deal to relax Iran sanctions and accept an Iranian nuclear program while cutting Israel out of the loop.</p>
<p>Despite the anger and outrage, this isn’t the worst case scenario. The worst case scenario would have been if Obama had kept stringing everyone along, adding a little bit of sanctions here and there, while quietly eliminating them under the table, and playing for time until Iran actually detonated a nuke.</p>
<p>Now Obama has made it clear that he will do nothing to stop Iran from going nuclear.</p>
<p>Israel and Saudi Arabia have both issued statements making it clear that they will not accept an Iranian bomb. And unlike Obama, they actually mean it. What they will do about it is another question, but now they, and everyone on the firing line, knows that Obama will do nothing and that sets them free to act.</p>
<p>Iran is in the North Korean cycle of nuclear development, useless sanctions, pointed threats and worthless deals. If the cycle continues, Iran will detonate a nuclear weapon and then it will pass nuclear technology into the hands of terrorists. And the next step is the mass murder of millions.</p>
<p>This trickledown effect was why China should not have been allowed to go nuclear, why North Korea should not have been allowed to go nuclear and why Pakistan should not have been allowed to go nuclear. The process that began with the Atom Bomb spies helping the USSR go nuclear has kept moving forward allowing smaller and more erratic players to be able to kill millions with the push of a button.</p>
<p>Iran may launch a nuclear missile or it may turn over weapons to terrorists who will do the dirty work while it plays innocent. And once a terrorist group goes nuclear; it will be able to choose its own targets.</p>
<p>Despite Iran’s religious war, it has a history of trying to work with Sunni terrorist groups; including Hamas and Al Qaeda. Saudi Arabia has made it clear that it will go nuclear if Iran does. And Saudi Arabia is to Sunni Islamic terrorists what Iran is to Shiite Islamic terrorists.</p>
<p>Unless Iran is stopped; it’s only a matter of time until an Islamic terrorist group goes nuclear.</p>
<p>All this could have been averted long ago, but administration after administration chose to do nothing, or their efforts were aggressively sabotaged by their own diplomats and intelligence agents.</p>
<p>Bill Clinton could have used the breathing room after the collapse of the Soviet Union to stop nuclear proliferation at the source in North Korea. Instead he let the worst mass murderer in the world play him for a fool while he launched a bombing campaign against Yugoslavian trains, water towers and the Chinese embassy on phony charges of genocide.</p>
<p>If an American city vanishes in nuclear fire in the next decade; the blame will belong to Clinton most of all. Obama is only a coward who blusters and threatens Americans, but who bows before every foreign tyrant. No one would have expected him to do anything except cut a deal that would score him a few points during a domestic crisis and let a terrorist state keep its nukes.</p>
<p>The final death toll from ObamaCare may end up being in the millions if a future nuclear attack happens because Obama needed something to shore up poll numbers that were falling over an inability to make a website work.</p>
<p>But whatever the triggering mechanism for Obama’s bailout of the Iranian bomb, what matters is that the mask is off. Die-hard Democrats will still defend the deal, but it is clear that the only ones who can stop Iran from going nuclear are the major players in the region.</p>
<p>Chamberlain’s deal with Hitler signified that the UK was no longer willing or able to stop the Nazis. And despite its eventual declaration of war and the heroic efforts of its people; the United States ushered in the American world order by destroying the Nazi war machine and liberating Western Europe.</p>
<p>Chamberlain’s “Peace in Our Time” recognized a Post-British world order. Obama’s Iran deal recognizes a Post-American world order.</p>
<p>The Middle East is in chaos because American power has vanished. The P5+1 agreement is a statement that Western nations are unwilling and unable to do anything about Iran’s nuclear ambitions except save face.</p>
<p>And that they expect their allies to live with that.</p>
<p>The P5+1 agreement takes Western power off the table. And while that’s a very bad thing; it also ends the illusion that some international power or combination of powers would stop Iran.</p>
<p>In this Post-American world that Obama has made there was never any possibility that the answer to Tehran’s genocidal ambitions would come from Washington.</p>
<p>There is an old Chassidic story about an infertile woman who goes to a Rabbi to ask for a blessing. The Rabbi agrees to pray for her if she donates 1,000 rubles. The woman replies that if she and her husband scrape together everything they own, they might be able to come up with 100 rubles.</p>
<p>The Rabbi refuses. The woman tells him that if they sell everything, they might have 300 rubles. Still he relentlessly demands 1,000 rubles. After begging and pleading for an hour; she despairs and shouts that she doesn’t need his prayers and will pray for a child on her own.</p>
<p>“Aha,” the Rabbi tells her. “That was what I wanted to hear. Your prayers are the ones that matter.”</p>
<p>Israel has gotten into the bad habit of acting as if the United States had all the answers. If it had gone on waiting for Obama to do the right thing, millions might have died. Now it knows that there is no Rabbi in Washington to turn to for answers. If it is to have a prayer, it must act on its own.</p>
<p>In a Post-American world; Israel stands alone. It will live or die based on what it does next.</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Nov 2013 05:40:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The true intentions of the Mullahs unveiled. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/mullahs.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-211380" alt="mullahs" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/mullahs.jpg" width="240" height="180" /></a>While the Obama administration was tirelessly pushing to make a flimsy deal with the Ayatollahs and Mullahs of the Islamist state of Iran, along with going around the world to promoting the idea that Iran should be trusted and given a chance, new crucial revelations and reports about undeclared underground nuclear sites, militaristic long-range missiles, and drone programs have reinforced the true intentions of the clerics and Iranian Islamist leaders.</p>
<p>Firstly, according to <a href="/en/News/80908752/Politic/Iran_unveils_strategic_drone">reports</a> from the official IRNA news agency, Iran unveiled a missile-equipped drone with a range of 2,000 kilometers (1,200 miles) just a few days ago.  Iranian Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan stated, “The Fotros drone has an operational range of 2,000 kilometers and can fly at an altitude of 25,000 feet, with a flight time of 16 to 30 hours&#8221;.</p>
<p>While projecting a ceremony and feast for the military development, Dehghan clearly stated that the aircraft was tested &#8220;successfully&#8221; and &#8220;shows that sanctions imposed by the enemies are not an obstacle to the progress of the defense industry.”  Recently, the Iranian army leaders also boasted about establishing and launching an ambitious drone program, which has raised concerns in the region and the West, considering Tehran’s prospective and secret plans and its regional hegemonic ambitions. This ambitious drone program includes producing a series of drones called Rad-85, and as Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards Corps pointed out, it also <a href="/news/middleeast/2013/11/iran-unveils-biggest-missile-equipped-drone-201311182223466932.html">includes</a> the mass production of the Shahed 129 drone. Shahed 129 is believed to have the ability to carry eight missiles, fly for 24 hours, and go for a range of 1,700 kilometers. Previously, Iranian authorities mentioned that the developed drone Yasseer was based on the design of the US ScanEagle drone, which was captured in December 2012 by the Iranian army.</p>
<p>Besides that, the People’s Mujahideen Organization of Iran (PMOI) a group affiliated with the National Council of Resistance of Iran -— the group that first exposed Iran’s Natanz uranium enrichment plant in 2002 along with a related heavy-water facility, named Arak &#8212; have announced new information about Iran’s clandestine activities. This information comes at a time when Iran is getting closer to nuclear breakaway capacity.</p>
<p>PMOI has also pointed out that they <a href="/story/news/world/2013/11/18/new-iranian-site-reported/3625929/">have proof</a> that Tehran has been working on a secret and undeclared underground nuclear facility that will be key to developing an atomic weapons program. According to NCRI’s Mehdi Abrichamtchi in the Ynet News report, “According to specific information obtained by the Iranian resistance, the clerical regime is establishing or completing parallel secret and undeclared sites for its nuclear project.”. It is argued that this clandestine nuclear facility is located inside a large tunnel underneath mountains approximately six miles from the town of Mobarekeh, which is close to the existing military industrial complex, at Haft-e Tir. Accordingly, the site has been in operation under Hassan Rouhani’s presidency as well.</p>
<p>Essentially the issue with these underground nuclear sites such as Fordow and the alleged new undeclared site is that they are virtually indestructible because of their geographical location and installations underground. The plutonium reactor is also indestructible because of the possible danger it creates for the neighboring enrichment. According to FTP, previously, Boroujerdi warned that Iran will never close Fordow; &#8220;We have created the conditions for America and the Zionist regime in a way that they will never think of attacking our nuclear sites. Our missiles are a deterrent &#8230; but Fordow is one of our red lines.&#8221;</p>
<p>The dilemma here is that no matter how much proof and evidence have emerged showing the danger that the Ayatolahs and Mullahs will have on the world and regional security, and no matter whatever is presented to the Obama administration, the administration, particularly President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry and his nuclear team, are launching a campaign to persuade the world and international community that Iran and the Mullahs are trustworthy enough to sign any deal with them and that the world should start easing sanctions on them. President Obama had already started to make deals with the Iranian government and to ease sanctions on them long before the <a href="/2013/majid-rafizadeh/the-secret-deals-between-obama-and-iran/">latest nuclear talks</a> were initiated.</p>
<p>Iran’s constant mischievous and Machiavellian polices toward the international community, and its clandestine underground nuclear activities are tremendously alarming. But what is more alarming is that the Obama administration, with its foreign policies, is providing the most powerful blessing for Iran, for the Iranian leaders, this is the best Allah’s blessing.</p>
<p>Stunningly, the Obama administration has even attempted to convince other Western countries including France to ease its relations with Iran to reach a deal. Even Kerry cancelled his visit to Israel on the 15th, despite a claim by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the 17th, in order to give Iranian nuclear talks another chance. Delegates from the Obama administration, primarily Kerry, have been traveling around the world as if they are the promoters and advertisers for the Iranian regime, spreading the idea that the Iranian regime should be trusted and given another chance.</p>
<p>Giving Iran another chance means a nuclear-armed Islamist Iran, based on the radical Islamist ideology of Jihad, and viewing other non-Muslim countries as enemies that should be Islamized or wiped out. For the last 34 years, the Mullahs have been getting chances after chances. The Ayatollahs are just a few months away from obtaining bomb-grade nuclear materials, according to an overwhelming majority of nuclear experts, yet the question remains, how many last chances should be given to Islamist Iran?</p>
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		<title>Iran is More Than a Threat to the Middle East</title>
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		<title>Western Powers, Iran on Brink of Bad Deal</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Nov 2013 04:24:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Israel and Saudi Arabia preparing to act?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Iran.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-211224" alt="Iran" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Iran.jpg" width="307" height="191" /></a>Israel—and Sunni Arab states of the Middle East led by Saudi Arabia—watched with trepidation on Wednesday as the P5+1 countries and Iran reconvened in Geneva for another round of nuclear talks.</p>
<p>British foreign secretary William Hague <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Iranian-Threat/News/World-powers-Iran-resume-efforts-to-reach-nuclear-deal-in-Geneva-talks-332400">spoke of narrow differences</a> and a historic deal being in reach. “It is the best chance for a long time,” he told an Istanbul news conference, “to make progress on one of the gravest problems in foreign policy.”</p>
<p>Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov—whose country is not exactly a foe of Iran, having helped it build its Bushehr nuclear reactor—said: “We hope the efforts that are being made will be crowned with success at the meeting that opens today in Geneva.”</p>
<p>In a sort of prelude to this lovefest, on Tuesday Iran’s foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif released a YouTube video in which he said:</p>
<blockquote><p>For us, nuclear energy is about securing the future of our children, about diversifying our economy, about stopping the burning of our oil, and about generating clean power.</p></blockquote>
<p>In other words, meet the new, hip, enlightened Iran, second to none in its concern for clean power and diversity.</p>
<p>Zarif did not explain why, if those are Iran’s innocent aims, it has been spending billions of dollars for decades in developing bomb-grade uranium, a reactor for making plutonium bombs, intercontinental ballistic missiles, nuclear triggering devices, and so on. But sometimes diversity and clean power come with certain accoutrements.</p>
<p>The depressing picture that emerges, though, is of an ongoing courtship the Western powers—still with the possible exception of France—cannot resist; while the non-Western members of the P5+1—Russia and China—have been abetting Iran for years anyway.</p>
<p>To the Obama administration and the Europeans an interim agreement at this point, followed by a supposed six-month trial period for further diplomacy, looks enticing indeed. It takes the proverbial military option off the table, at last giving that supposedly heavily weighted table some rest. It puts Israel in a position where, for its part, it cannot exercise a military option without becoming a rogue state responsible for wrecking a peace process. And by relaxing sanctions it opens the gates—very cautiously and reversibly, we’re told—to renewed, lucrative trade with the expansionist, terror-supporting Shiite power which, after all, is a source of good business.</p>
<p>By this time, the objections of Israel—and its not-so-tacit Arab allies on this issue—to the deal said to be taking shape are well known. The deal requires Iran to suspend uranium enrichment temporarily while leaving all 19,000 of its enrichment devices—that is, centrifuges—in place. It requires Iran to stop fueling its Arak plutonium reactor but not to stop building it. And it relaxes what we’re told will be only a few billion dollars’ worth of sanctions, but which Israel says will <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/sanctions-easing-would-save-iran-up-to-40b-israeli-minister-says/">quickly snowball</a> to $20-$40 billion worth and more.</p>
<p>This week Israel’s former national security adviser Yaakov Amidror, who stepped down only a few weeks ago, <a href="http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=13395">said in an unusually blunt statement</a> that Israel could set back Iran’s nuclear program “for a very long time,” that its air force has been conducting “very long-range flights &#8230;all around the world,” and that:</p>
<blockquote><p>We are not bluffing. We are very serious, preparing ourselves for the possibility that Israel will have to defend itself by itself. From here to Iran, it is 2,000 kilometers [1,243 miles], and you have to be familiar with such destinations. All those who have radar cover of the Middle East know what we are doing.</p></blockquote>
<p>The coming days may tell whether the U.S. and Europe are eager for a deal at just about any price, whether the supposed sticking point of Iran’s <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Iranian-Threat/News/Khamenei-says-Iran-will-not-step-back-from-its-nuclear-rights-332364">insistence on a “right” to enrich uranium</a> can be finessed, and whether France is indeed in the Sunni Arabs’ and Israel’s camp and will seriously oppose a bad deal. The first two seem likely, the third more dubious, but time—possibly not much more time—will tell.</p>
<p>If things continue in their downward trend, with a bad, easily-violated deal creating passive satisfaction in Washington, Brussels, London, and Berlin, the sanctions crumbing as Western and Chinese firms leap happily into all sorts of loopholes, and Iran retaining all its capabilities, Israel will be left facing a test.</p>
<p>A few days ago Britain’s <i>Sunday Times</i>—known for sensationalistic stories about Israeli security issues—<a href="http://www.jpost.com/Iranian-Threat/News/Report-Mossad-working-with-Saudis-on-contingency-plans-for-potential-attack-on-Iran-331961">ran a report claiming</a> that the Mossad and Saudi officials are working together on “contingency plans” for a strike on Iran. Far-fetched? Maybe; but desperation can produce strange friendships.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Sep 2013 04:27:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Rosh Hashanah gift from Israel's "peace partners." ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/israel-hotels_jerusalem-hotels_jerusalem-hotel-_mamila-jerusalem-hotel_mamilla_mall.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-202966" alt="israel hotels_jerusalem hotels_jerusalem hotel _mamila jerusalem hotel_mamilla_mall" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/israel-hotels_jerusalem-hotels_jerusalem-hotel-_mamila-jerusalem-hotel_mamilla_mall-450x312.jpg" width="270" height="187" /></a>As Rosh Hashanah (the Jewish New Year) approaches on Thursday this week, the mood here in Israel has been oddly “schizoid.” On one hand, the usual rush on apples, honey, pomegranates and the like for the holiday; on the other, a rush on gas masks as Syria and Iran threaten “retaliation” against Israel for a possible U.S. strike on Syria.</span></b></p>
<p>This week there was more news on the grim side of the ledger. It turned out Israel’s Shin Bet (internal security service) had arrested five Hamas operatives who were planning a terror attack on a Jerusalem mall—timed for, and exploiting, the holiday season (reports <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.544699">here</a> and <a href="http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=11725">here</a>).</p>
<p>The leader of the cell was 22-year-old Hamdi Romana of Ramallah in the West Bank. He recruited two other West Bankers to make the explosives—and two East Jerusalem residents with Israeli ID cards, who worked as maintenance men in the mall, to plant the bomb.</p>
<p>The plan was to “cover the bomb in wrapping paper to make it look like a present, then place it in a restaurant, cafe or store while the mall was filled with shoppers….” The “explicit aim” was to “kill…the maximum number of Jews.”</p>
<p>The cell was also</p>
<blockquote><p><i>planning other attacks, including planting a bomb in Ramallah that would target Israeli soldiers, firing homemade rockets at Israeli settlements near Ramallah, and firing at soldiers stationed at [a] checkpoint in northeast Jerusalem.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>A few things are worth pointing out here:</p>
<p>● The West Bank remains a terror tinderbox. The Shin Bet said the cell’s discovery “demonstrates that terrorists in the West Bank, led by Hamas, are highly motivated to carry out terror attacks in Israeli territory….”</p>
<p>In other words, even with the West Bank under Palestinian Authority rule and ultimate Israeli security control, Hamas remains strong there. This at a time when, intensively pushed into it by Secretary of State John Kerry, Israel and the PA are engaged in “peace talks” aimed at an Israeli withdrawal from the area. But if Hamas remains potent and dangerous there even when Israeli security forces are active, one is hard pressed to understand why, or how, anyone thinks Hamas’s takeover could be prevented if those forces were gone—any more than upheavals and takeovers have proved preventable recently elsewhere in the region.</p>
<p>● While the cell’s three operatives from the West Bank are part of a population widely regarded in the West as living under “occupation” and having a grievance against Israel, the two East Jerusalem bearers of Israeli ID cards had—rationally speaking—no such grievance. While the reports don’t mention whether they had taken out Israeli citizenship, as East Jerusalem residents they had that option. Indeed, as <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/davidhornik/west-longs-for-jew-free-zones-in-jerusalem/">I’ve noted</a>,</p>
<blockquote><p>the numbers of [East Jerusalem Arabs] requesting Israeli citizenship have <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/3-374-east-jerusalem-residents-received-full-israeli-citizenship-in-past-decade.premium-1.471189">dramatically climbed</a> in recent years. Polls find that, even if the Palestinian state was established, most East Jerusalem Palestinians would <a href="http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/02/02/palestinians-divided-jerusalem/">prefer to remain Israeli</a>.</p></blockquote>
<p>And yet, in the wake of this incident, the Shin Bet warned of a high risk of West Bank-based terrorists “exploiting those who have Israeli identification and enjoy freedom of movement, and using them to carry out terror attacks inside Israel.”</p>
<p>The two East Jerusalem members of the cell, in other words, were representative of the Arab world’s real, fundamental grievance against Israel: its existence, not its control of any specific territory.</p>
<p>● As Rosh Hashanah nears, Israelis can look back at another year in which lethal terror attacks have been kept to a minimum. But as the Shin Bet keeps emphasizing, the reason is not any drop in motivation or attempts to commit them but because Israel retains security control over the land between the Jordan and the Mediterranean. There could be no more fervent prayer than that situation should continue.</p>
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		<title>The Last Israelis</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jun 2013 04:38:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Noah Beck’s apocalyptic novel confronts the doomsday scenario of a nuclear-armed Iran.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/last.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-194419" alt="last" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/last-262x350.jpg" width="262" height="350" /></a>Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Noah Beck, a frequent columnist on Middle East issues and author of the book, &#8220;<a href="http://thelastisraelis.com/">The Last Israelis</a>,&#8221; the second edition of which was released last spring.</p>
<p><b>FP:</b> Noah Beck, welcome to Frontpage Interview.</p>
<p>Congratulations on releasing the second edition of your book, which our readers should know is available in e-book, paperback, and audiobook formats on Amazon.com, iTunes and other sites.</p>
<p>Noah, the message of your book is chilling and packed into an informative and entertaining submarine thriller.</p>
<p>Let’s begin by you telling us a bit about the book in general.</p>
<p><b>Beck:</b> Thanks, Jamie. <i>The Last Israelis</i> was inspired by a simple question: what happens when it’s too late to stop Iran from acquiring nukes? My novel depicts the doomsday scenario resulting from a nuclear-armed Iran, as experienced by 35 ideologically divided and ethnically diverse Israelis aboard the Dolphin submarine.</p>
<p><b>FP:</b> Some reviews of your book say that it should be made into a movie. Any plans for that?</p>
<p><b>Beck:</b> Well, that&#8217;s how I originally conceived of the idea, back in 2009. The premise was boiling with dramatic potential, and I was tempted to dive into a film project, but writing a screenplay that within months becomes a widely released movie is like Ayatollah Khamenei taking a phone call from me and agreeing to dismantle Iran&#8217;s nuclear program: impossible. But in March of 2012, after I was still hearing the same type of weak talk and indecision about the Iranian nuclear issue, I resolved to drop everything and work on this story as an e-book, which can be released instantly.</p>
<p><b>FP:</b> So your concern about Iran&#8217;s nuclear program is what inspired you to write <i>The Last Israelis</i>?</p>
<p><b>Beck:</b> Absolutely. The Iranian nuclear threat is the most important global security issue of this generation. Many extremely bad consequences follow if Iran goes nuclear. The entire NPT regime will be undermined, opening the proliferation floodgates as other countries in the volatile Middle East will feel threatened into wanting their own nuclear programs. You could soon see a nuclear proliferation nightmare unfold in the world&#8217;s most unstable region, as Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Egypt, and other countries rush to build the Bomb.</p>
<p>Iran is also the world&#8217;s leading sponsor of terrorism and has supported many terrorist organizations, including Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and Hezbollah. In fact, Hezbollah is responsible for more American deaths than any group other than al-Qaeda. So if Iran has no qualms about supporting such groups with arms, training, and funds, why should we hope that a nuclear-armed Iran wouldn&#8217;t share the nuclear material needed for one of these groups to produce and deploy a dirty bomb? The era of nuclear terrorism could make crashing planes into buildings look like “the quaint, good old days” when terrorist attacks at least weren’t radioactive.</p>
<p>And if Iran sponsors terrorism, threatens its neighbors (including countless overt threats to destroy Israel), and cooperates with rogue regimes like Syria and North Korea WITHOUT a nuclear deterrent, imagine how much more dangerous and aggressive the Iranian regime becomes once it has nukes in its arsenal. Knowing that it has a nuclear deterrent, Iran would become that much more belligerent when exporting its radical Islamic ideology, pursuing disputed territories and resources from neighboring countries, and/or undertaking actions like blocking the Strait of Hormuz to increase the price of oil.</p>
<p>And imagine the consequences for the war in Syria (Iran&#8217;s biggest ally in the Middle East) if Iran had nuclear weapons today. To cap it off, Iran has been threatening to destroy Israel for at least a decade while tenaciously pursuing the nuclear means to do exactly that. So the parade of horribles associated with Iranian nukes is seemingly endless. And yet, world powers appear to be asleep at the wheel when it comes to preventing this calamity.</p>
<p>So, to focus public attention on the issue, I authored <i>The Last Israelis</i> in a breathless ten weeks, hoping to release the book in time to impact the May 2012 “P5+1” talks in Baghdad, when world powers tried yet again for a diplomatic solution.</p>
<p><b>FP:</b> You have never served in the submarine force, so how does a layman write a 271-page Armageddon thriller about the crew aboard Israel&#8217;s German-made, diesel-electric submarine?</p>
<p><b>Beck:</b> It was an all-consuming project that took over my every waking minute. I basically dropped everything in my life, watched countless submarine movies, and lived and slept in front of my Internet connection, conducting whatever research I could online. I also traveled to Israel to speak with veterans of the Israeli submarine force. I was amazed at how flat hierarchies there are – even with something as rigid as the military. With a few friendly introductions, I was talking to the former head of the submarine force, who had himself captained countless missions.</p>
<p>I also became friends with one of a handful of Ethiopians ever to have served in Israel’s elite and secretive submarine force. Of course, these veterans dodged most of my questions, for reasons of national security, but they were very helpful with general guidance that helped to keep the story realistic. One of the veterans even reviewed the first draft of my manuscript and pointed out technical issues that needed to be tweaked or researched online more.</p>
<p>Armed with all of the submarine details, Middle East history, military research, and other story elements that I had carefully researched, I imagined a motley group of submariners &#8212; from diverse ethnic backgrounds with dramatically different worldviews and politics &#8212; confronting the unthinkable as World War III unfolds in their claustrophobic reality. Writing the book was so intense and involved so few breaks (essentially just leaving my small apartment when I ran out of food) that at times I felt as if I myself was on that Dolphin submarine.</p>
<p><b>FP:</b> That does sound intense. What led you to release a second edition last spring?</p>
<p><b>Beck:</b> Last January, I saw that &#8212; since the time my novel first came out &#8212; Iran&#8217;s nuclear progress had continued unabated. So, to continue raising awareness before Iran crosses the nuclear finish line, I decided to reach more people by making the book available in more formats (paperback and audiobook). The process of revisiting the manuscript led to editorial improvements that I didn&#8217;t have time to catch during the rushed writing of the first draft, and there were a few geopolitical updates to add to the story (since the backdrop is all based on current events and Middle East history).</p>
<p><b>FP:</b> Your book is hardly the typical action thriller, and that unconventional style allows it to explore a fascinating collection of issues. Can you talk a bit about that?</p>
<p><b>Beck:</b> Thanks. You&#8217;re right that the apocalyptic novel is not your typical, action-packed military technothriller. There&#8217;s plenty of action (mostly in the second half of the book) but the book also addresses several themes and issues beyond submarine warfare and the dangers of Iranian nukes. Many of the sailors on board come from families that represent the complex history of Israel and the Middle East. So the book also covers the treatment of Jews, Christians, and other religious minorities in the Middle East. The story also examines the impact of terrorism on victim&#8217;s families, the limits of nuclear deterrence and containment, Zionism and what the State of Israel represents to Jews and non-Jews alike, war ethics and retribution, and other topics.</p>
<p><b>FP:</b> How do you think Iran&#8217;s president-elect Hassan Rouhani may change the dynamic of the Iranian nuclear threat and/or public interest in your nuclear thriller?</p>
<p><b>Beck:</b> Funny you should ask. After Rouhani won the Iranian presidential election, there was a 2,000% surge in the sales of my book. By the third day following his election, I had sold over 2,100 copies just from Amazon and Barnes &amp; Noble. I think that the skyrocketing sales could mean that the reading public is growing concerned about Iran’s nuclear program and is maybe skeptical about the next Iranian president’s nuclear policy. After all, Rouhani skillfully played for time when he led Iran’s nuclear negotiations from 2003 to 2005, so maybe his election actually helps Iran gets nukes, which leads to the kind of Armageddon my book depicts.</p>
<p><b>FP:</b> I can certainly see Obama and various European leaders trying to convince themselves that they&#8217;re now dealing with a moderate.</p>
<p><b>Beck:</b> Indeed, that&#8217;s what actually makes his election bad news. Iran&#8217;s outgoing President Ahmadinejad was arguably the best way to keep the world focused on just how dangerous the Iranian regime is. He was this grotesque and generally reviled figure, and the thought that his finger might be anywhere near the nuclear button was viscerally disturbing even to the most naive doves. And yet – despite all of Ahmadinejad&#8217;s Holocaust denials and threats to destroy Israel – Iran still managed to achieve substantial nuclear progress, so imagine how much more impotent world powers will become once they&#8217;re dealing with the far more palatable Rouhani.</p>
<p><b>FP:</b> And people forget that the Iranian president isn&#8217;t even the most powerful figure in the regime.</p>
<p><b>Beck:</b> Exactly. Even if Rouhani wanted to soften Iran’s nuclear policy, it is Khamenei who decides such matters, and his intransigence is well established (e.g., Khamenei banned presidential candidates from later making concessions to the West, and last February vetoed direct talks between Iran and the United States).</p>
<p>And even if Khamenei were to disappear, the realpolitik considerations guiding the Iranian regime would remain. Iran, which considers itself a protector of Shiite Islam, fears a Sunni takeover of Alawite-ruled Syria. The Alawites are an offshoot of Shiite Islam, and Iran just committed 4,000 troops to Syria, to help fortify Basher Assad’s regime there. So Iran’s alignments mean that it will also continue supporting Hezbollah, another Shiite force fighting alongside Assad’s military. These realities ensure that Shiite Iran’s relations with its Sunni neighbors will grow increasingly adversarial, and that too will reinforce Iran’s nuclear ambitions.</p>
<p><b>FP:</b> Is the idea of &#8220;regime change&#8221; outdated on the issue of Iranian nukes?</p>
<p><b>Beck:</b> I think so. Those who cautioned that military action against Iranian nukes could alienate ordinary Iranians and minimize the odds of internal regime change must now concede that Iran’s regime has “changed.” Any further change could take years, because president-elect Rouhani must work within a complex system, developed over decades, and he’s not about to overthrow it. Nor are the millions who elected him. They got the president they voted for, so they have no reason to protest any time soon (especially after 2009, when they had strong grounds to protest, but their voices brought only brutal crackdowns without any democratic gains).</p>
<p><b>FP:</b> So what approach do you think world powers should take with Iran&#8217;s new president?</p>
<p><b>Beck:</b> To show good faith and establish his “moderate” credentials, Rouhani should cease all nuclear enrichment until the next round of diplomatic talks concludes. But in his very first press conference, Rouhani vowed to continue enrichment. So after he assumes the presidency this August, he deserves only the briefest “honeymoon.” If he offers no substantive nuclear compromise within weeks, the West must halt Iran’s nuclear program with a firm ultimatum backed by overwhelming force.</p>
<p>The only time Iran ever showed any willingness to compromise on its nukes was when it feared an attack: after US forces swiftly devastated Iraq’s military in 2003. If Obama thinks that — without the threat of force — his outstretched hand will now be embraced by a “reformer,” he has fallen for the illusions of a fist that was unclenched for sleight of hand.</p>
<p><b>FP:</b> Scary times.</p>
<p><b>Beck:</b> Scary times indeed, Jamie. Iran has already enriched enough uranium to make several nukes, and will get the Bomb during Rouhani’s first term as president, unless an effective diplomatic and military strategy is pursued. So this is no time for naiveté about “moderates.”</p>
<p><b>FP:</b> Noah, thanks so much for joining us here at Frontpage Interview.</p>
<p><b>Beck:</b> Thanks, Jamie.  There isn&#8217;t much time for my book&#8217;s urgent message to spread far and wide, so I hope your readers not only get the book but also tell their friends about it. Those who want to learn more about my apocalyptic thriller and/or read my blog (which includes many of my op-ed columns) can visit <a href="http://www.TheLastIsraelis.com" target="_blank">www.TheLastIsraelis.com</a>.</p>
<p><b>FP:</b> Thank, Noah.</p>
<p>And I strongly recommend <i>The Last Israelis</i> to all of our readers here at Frontpage – and to anyone who wants to read a gripping doomsday thriller and get up to speed on the Iranian nuclear issue, Middle East history, and all the pressing challenges we now face in that frightening theater.</p>
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		<title>Hollywood&#8217;s Take on Terrorism</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 04:45:47 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Picture-12.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-186188" alt="Picture-12" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Picture-12.jpg" width="288" height="174" /></a>In Robert Redford’s new film, <i>The Company You Keep</i>, not yet nationally released, a group of former leftist terrorists are apparently portrayed as heroes who were just trying to make their country a better place. Reviewer Rex Reed of the <i>New York Observer</i> says that the film presents “earnest insight into the validity of the noble but misdirected romantic idealism of the ‘70s radicals.” <i>The Hollywood Reporter</i> review similarly fetes 1970s terrorists: the movie, says the <i>Reporter</i>, “provides an absorbing reflection on the courage and cost of dissent.” But as Christian Toto of Big Hollywood writes, “Movie goers may not be so forgiving, what with the fresh images of bloodshed in Boston still on their minds.”</span></p>
<p>But Hollywood has always been forgiving of leftist terrorists. In the 1988 film <i>Running on Empty</i>, starring Judd Hirsch and River Phoenix and directed by Sidney Lumet, parents Annie and Arthur Pope are on the run for years after bombing a napalm laboratory and accidentally paralyzing a janitor. They are separated from their son, who wants to go to Julliard; they don’t want to let him go. Finally they realize that since they are freedom fighters, they need to let their son follow his dream. “Now,” says Arthur to his son, “go out there and make a difference. Your mother and I tried. Don’t let anyone tell you different.”</p>
<p>The reviewers loved that film, too. Janet Maslin of <i>The</i> <i>New York Times</i> criticized the film mainly because she found the notion of leftist terrorism grown old and gray unacceptable. Hal Hinson of the <i>Washington Post</i>, who didn’t love the film, soft-pedaled 1960s terrorism: “What it touches on is the costs of political commitment, specifically the fervent activism of young college kids in the &#8217;60s who, swept up in the revolutionary moment, took actions they pay for for the rest of their lives.”</p>
<p>Hollywood leftists aren’t too averse to Islamic terrorism, either. Whether it’s <i>The Siege</i>, in which tyrannical US government counterterrorism operatives are the bad guys rather than Islamic terrorists, or <i>The Sum of All Fears</i>, where Islamic terrorism is written out entirely in favor of the dastardly scourge of neo-Nazi nuclear terrorism, Hollywood treats Islamic terrorism with a surprising amount of respect. Even in <i>The Kingdom</i>, a searching look at jihadists, in the ending Hollywood attempts to equate Islamic terrorism with American military response.</p>
<p>Then there’s another sort of terrorism. This is the kind of terrorism leftists actually do <i>hate</i>: non-left-wing domestic anti-government terrorism, which according to the left is a massive threat to America’s very existence. While Islamist violence is rarely a subject for Hollywood, right wing violence is something it takes very seriously. In <i>Arlington Road</i>, Jeff Bridges tracks down anti-government bomber Tim Robbins. Robbins’s character babbles: “I’m a messenger, Michael, I’m a messenger! There’s millions of us, waiting to take up arms, ready to spread the word … millions of us!” Robbins’ character, naturally, is supremely evil. Hollywood has yet to create a movie with a sympathetic anti-government terrorist. That’s a good thing. Sadly, they’re not averse to their left-wing bomber friends, and they spend an awful lot of time justifying Islamic terrorism.</p>
<p>That’s because the left <i>craves</i> what it perceives as right-wing violence. Whenever something evil happens, the left jumps to the conclusion that it was “right-wing extremists” – by which they mean crazy people inspired by Rush Limbaugh. Whether it’s Jared Lee Loughner, who shot Gabby Giffords and was quickly labeled a Sarah Palin follower without evidence, or James Holmes, who shot up an Aurora theater and was labeled a Tea Partier without evidence, or Lee Harvey Oswald, a communist who shot JFK and was quickly and falsely labeled a representative of the anti-JFK conservative movement, the left craves legitimation for its worldview that the right is the source of terrorism in the United States.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the left sees its own terrorists as fighting for something larger&#8211; or freedom fighters like Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, who are still held in high regard at the universities. Anti-government kooks, however, are portrayed as results of talk radio and Fox News.</p>
<p>That’s just how Hollywood likes it. So even as we await word on who perpetrated the bombings at the Boston Marathon, Hollywood releases a Redford film upholding the moral worth of folks who bombed government installations in the 1960s and 1970s. After all, they’re groovy. We’re just supposed to be the dunderheads who create Timothy McVeighs on a daily basis.</p>
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		<title>When Unrepentant Terrorists Teach Our Youth</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Klein]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greenwich Village would-be bombers have plenty of leftist role models to emulate.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/joseph-klein/when-unrepentant-terrorists-teach-our-youth/gliedmangreen-copy-2/" rel="attachment wp-att-171844"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-171844" title="gliedmangreen-Copy" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/gliedmangreen-Copy1-450x283.png" alt="" width="270" height="170" /></a>Morgan Gliedman, 27, and her boyfriend Aaron Greene, 31, were arrested on weapons charges this past weekend in their Greenwich Village apartment on West 9th Street. They were charged with possessing bomb-making materials and were also found to have in their apartment bomb-making manuals, various booby traps and a sawed-off shotgun.  Both are reported to &#8220;have close ties to the left-wing social and academic establishment in Chicago and elsewhere,&#8221; according to The Daily Caller which had access to confirming records. Although no clear motive or link to any known terrorist group has been established to date, the chief spokesperson for the New York Police Department characterized the explosive they found in the apartment as one &#8220;used in terrorists&#8217; attacks previously.&#8221;</p>
<p>This story brought to mind an incident in a West Village townhouse nearly forty-three years ago, when a trio of radicals, while finishing up preparations to bomb the Non-Commissioned Officers Dance at Fort Dix, blew themselves up in an explosion of a New York City townhouse on West 11th Street in Greenwich Village. It so happens that I had gone to high school with one of these radicals, Terry Robbins.</p>
<p>When I knew Robbins, he was a serious, relatively shy kid &#8211; conservatively dressed and with no particular political ideology that he was trying to promote. I never saw Terry Robbins again after high school. He went on to embrace radical left causes, including the  Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). After dropping out of Kenyon College, Robbins linked up with Bill Ayers, an unrepentant leader of radical domestic terrorist groups during the 1960s and &#8217;70s, to recruit members to join the SDS. Robbins helped found with Ayers the even more radical Weatherman Organization (which later became known as the Weather Underground), based himself in Chicago and plotted with Ayers to bomb one of Chicago’s historical monuments.</p>
<p>Ayers said that Robbins&#8217; &#8220;extremism was an impulse in all of us.&#8221; Robbins extremism led him to plot more aggressive bombings, until he met his fate in the explosion at the West Village townhouse on March 6, 1970.</p>
<p>Robbins&#8217; close associate Bill Ayers lost his girlfriend Diana Oughton in the explosion. Nevertheless, the radical Ayers, who years later would help launch President Barack Obama&#8217;s political career in Chicago, carried on Robbins&#8217; work by participating in the bombings of New York City Police Department headquarters in 1970, the United States Capitol building in 1971, and the Pentagon in 1972.</p>
<p>Had Robbins survived, I have little doubt that he would have been welcomed to join the faculty at one of our many left-wing academic institutions. Terrorists are rewarded in academia. After all, that&#8217;s what happened to Bill Ayers, who, though he remains unrepentant for what he did, became a tenured professor in the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago.</p>
<p>In an interview he gave in 1995, Ayers said: &#8220;I am a radical, Leftist, small &#8216;c&#8217; communist &#8230; The ethics of communism still appeal to me.&#8221; Two years later, Chicago awarded him its Citizen of the Year award.</p>
<p>Ayers&#8217; wife Bernardine Dohrn, who was also a leader of the Weather Underground and  was a principal signatory to a &#8220;Declaration of a State of War&#8221; against the United States government, is an Associate Professor of Law at Northwestern University School of Law and the immediate past Director of Northwestern&#8217;s Children and Family Justice Center.</p>
<p>A hint at what she may be teaching her students appeared in a statement she made in 2010: &#8220;The real terrorist is the American government, state terrorism unleashed against the world.&#8221;  Another hint emerged in her statement about NATO during its meeting in Chicago last May: &#8220;NATO is a global secret cabal. It is the military arm of the global 1 percent.&#8221;</p>
<p>Back in 1969, Dohrn described the bloody murders recently committed by the Manson Family (in which the pregnant actress Sharon Tate and several other inhabitants of a Benedict Canyon mansion had been brutally stabbed to death) this way: “Dig it! First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them. They even shoved a fork into the victim’s stomach! Wild!”</p>
<p>Northwestern University School of Law couldn&#8217;t be bothered by the outrageous acts and vile statements of their associate law professor, including her reveling in the killing of a woman and the life growing in her womb. Bernardine Dohrn&#8217;s faculty profile describes her simply as &#8220;a child advocate who teaches, lectures and write about children’s law, juvenile justice, the needs and rights of youth, and international human rights.&#8221;</p>
<p>Two radicals who survived the explosion in the West Village townhouse, were Kathy Boudin and Cathy Wilkerson.</p>
<p>Boudin, along with several members of the Weather Underground and the Black Liberation Army, robbed a Brinks armored car at the Nanuet Mall, in Nanuet, New York in 1981, resulting in the deaths of two police officers and a guard. Boudin pled guilty to one count of felony murder and robbery. While incarcerated, she wrote and managed to get published articles in the Harvard Educational Review and poems for which she won the International PEN prize. In the meantime, her son was adopted by Bill Ayers and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn.</p>
<p>After Boudin was released from prison in 2003, she became an assistant professor at Columbia University School of Social Work. Incredibly, Boudin&#8217;s faculty profile discusses her work on &#8220;criminal justice issues including women in prison; mother-child relationships and parenting from a distance; adolescent relationships with incarcerated parents; restorative justice, and higher education and basic literacy inside correctional institutions,&#8221; but leaves out entirely her own lengthy incarceration for murder.</p>
<p>Cathy Wilkerson&#8217;s father owned the townhouse that blew up in 1970, killing three of her Weatherman comrades including Terry Robbins. She served eleven months in jail on explosives charges. For the past twenty years, she has been teaching mathematics in high schools and adult education programs. Does she have any regrets about her Weatherman days?  Not a chance.  &#8221;We were way not the first,&#8221; she said in an interview with the New York Times in 2003. &#8221;It was a mass phenomenon. In 1969, national liberation was sweeping the world and looked like it was going to be the main vehicle for ushering in popular governments.&#8221;</p>
<p>Convicted terrorist Susan Rosenberg was involved with several terrorist groups in the 1970s and early 1980s, including the Black Liberation Army, the Weather Underground, and The Family.</p>
<p>Rosenberg was sentenced in 1984 to a 58-year prison term for the possession of more than 700 pounds of explosives and a stockpile of illicit weapons, but was pardoned by President Bill Clinton in January 2001.  She was offered the opportunity to teach a course at New York&#8217;s Hamilton College after being written up very positively in a whitewashed biography put out by the campus leftwing &#8220;social justice&#8221; organization known as the Kirkland Project. She was hailed as &#8220;an award-winning writer, an activist, and a teacher who offers a unique perspective as a writer.&#8221; Missing was any mention of her terrorist jailbird record.</p>
<p>Another veteran member of the Weather Underground, who pled guilty to the bombing of the U.S. Capitol in 1983, is Laura Whitehorn. Although (maybe because) she remains unrepentant for her terrorist activities, Whitehorn gets invitations to speak at some of the nation&#8217;s most prestigious universities. She has been described in publicity for her lecture at Duke University, for example, as a &#8220;political prisoner,&#8221; and a &#8220;champion of human rights.&#8221;</p>
<p>The unrepentant terrorists of yesterday are honored members or guests of the nation&#8217;s left-wing faculties today. Their platforms have enabled them to become mentors to new generations of potential terrorists. Were Morgan Gliedman and Aaron Greene auditioning to take over the roles of Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn in their prime? Whatever led them down the path to an explosives laden apartment in the West Village, so eerily similar to the path taken by Terry Robins and his Weather Underground associates that ended in a deadly explosion nearly forty-three years ago, may become more apparent in the coming days.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[A horrifying glimpse into the Islamist predilection for using children as human explosives.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/frank-crimi/al-qaedas-child-soldiers/al-qaeda-7/" rel="attachment wp-att-166251"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-166251" title="al-qaeda" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/al-qaeda.jpg" alt="" width="350" height="240" /></a>Al-Qaeda’s longstanding use of children to wage jihad was on display in a recent <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2234840/The-year-old-terrorists-Youngsters-trained-kill-pistols-assault-rifles-shocking-pictures-al-Qaedas-heartland.html">video</a> showing boys as young as five training with assault rifles and handguns at a terrorist training camp.</p>
<p>The video of the gun-toting, prepubescent jihadists was reportedly filmed by the al-Qaeda-linked East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM) at one of the terror group’s training camps in Pakistan’s North Waziristan region.</p>
<p>Since 1990 the ETIM, which has been fighting to create an independent Islamic state in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region, has not only committed more than 200 acts of worldwide terrorism but has trained scores of jihadists to fight alongside al-Qaeda and the Taliban.</p>
<p>Like father like son, many of the young boys in the ETIM camp were reportedly orphans of slain al-Qaeda fighters coerced by their malevolent elders into carrying on their families’ jihadi business.</p>
<p>It should be noted that the use of child combatants is a worldwide plague practiced by a wide array of government, militant, insurgent and terrorist forces. In fact, it is <a href="http://childrenandarmedconflict.un.org/">estimated</a> that most of the 300,000 boys and girls involved in the over 30 ongoing conflicts worldwide are less than 15 years of age.</p>
<p>Most of these child soldiers are either forcibly recruited &#8212; abducted at school, on the streets or at home &#8212; or have joined “voluntarily,” driven to enlist by a need to escape crushing poverty.</p>
<p>While some end up in government armed forces and civil militia, most find themselves serving in nongovernmental forces, such as terrorist and insurgent groups, with their combatant roles relegated to such activities as armed fighters, messengers, domestic workers and sexual slaves.</p>
<p>Yet, not surprisingly, al-Qaeda, the Taliban and its Islamist allies have taken their use of child combatants to a completely new and ruthless level, disregard that finds its expression in forced indoctrination and training that includes, among other things, using children as suicide bombers.</p>
<p>For example, al-Qaeda and the Taliban have constructed and operated a slew of suicide training facilities in Afghanistan and Pakistan, death factories that have trained over 5,000 Pakistani children, many as young as eight, as suicide bombers.</p>
<p>The Islamist predilection for using children as human explosives can best be explained by the unfortunate fact that children make particularly good suicide terror candidates given that, according to one US intelligence <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/05/01/afghan-police-militants-kill-5-2-attacks/">report</a>, “they are more willing to martyr themselves due to their lack of reasoning on taking innocent lives.”</p>
<p>That willingness to die is exploited by the Islamists through a variety of ways, including desensitization and brainwashing. As one Afghan official <a href="http://jafrianews.com/2011/02/09/us-strategy-to-fuel-the-taliban-with-suicide-bombers/">noted</a>, “They are made to watch video films, showing physical torture and killing of Muslims women and children …by what they call infidels.”</p>
<p>Juvenile bombers are also told that great rewards are earned for performing such deadly deeds. As one youthful captured suicide bomber <a href="http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2011%5C04%5C21%5Cstory%2021-4-2011%20pg3%204">said</a>, he was told by his instructors that as a good Muslim he had a duty to defend Islam and that “as soon as I blow myself up, I will be in heaven and will get eternal peace.”</p>
<p>For those who chafe at the idea of self-slaughter, the terrorists rely on the threat and use of violence to ensure compliance. Not surprisingly, the need to resort to violence to guarantee obedience comes from the fact that many child recruits don’t come to the jihad willingly, but are the victims of kidnapping by the terrorists.</p>
<p>That type of forced coercion has been disturbingly demonstrated by al-Shabab, Somalia’s notorious al-Qaeda-linked terror group that has gained a well deserved reputation for brutality in its efforts to remake Somalia into a Sharia-run Islamist state.</p>
<p>Specifically, an al-Shabab child terrorist training school was discovered earlier in 2012 by Somali government forces in the capital of Mogadishu. There, young <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2187374/Al-Qaedas-brutal-new-weapons-Children-kidnapped-kept-chains-taught-suicide-bombers.html">children</a>, all under 10-years-old, were found chained to beds where they were instructed in carrying out suicide bombings and other types of “martyrdom-operations.”</p>
<p>Of course, al-Shabab has found other creative uses for its underage recruits, some of whom are as young as seven years of age. After spending up to three months learning how to use heavy weaponry, including AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenades, graduates are sent to the frontline to serve as human shields to protect adult fighters.</p>
<p>Like most Islamist terror groups, al-Shabab either abducts its child recruits from their homes and schools or entices them by offers of free food and gifts. In some cases, however, the Islamists take advantage of a child’s grinding poverty by paying for his services.</p>
<p>In northern Mali, for example, Ansar Dine, the Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa, and al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb have <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/islamists-mali-recruit-pay-child-soldiers-130012868.html">paid</a> over 1,000 children up to $30 a day and $400 a month to join their forces.</p>
<p>The use of child combatants is also gaining in popularity in Syria where a <a href="http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/HRBodies/HRCouncil/RegularSession/Session21/A-HRC-21-50.doc">report </a>by the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry found the rebel Free Syrian Army, laden with Islamist and al-Qaeda-linked terror organizations, forcibly recruiting children, some as young as eight-years-old, into their ranks.</p>
<p>Yet, as horrific as life is for a child ensconced inside the ranks of an Islamist terror outfit, children outside their deadly confines can still find themselves unsuspectingly used for lethal operations.</p>
<p>In one such particular case in July 2012, members of al-Qaeda in Yemen asked a 12-year-old boy to deliver a packaged gift to his father, a tribal sheik who was an outspoken opponent of the terrorist group. When the boy entered his house, he was killed instantly when the package <a href="http://www.crin.org/resources/infodetail.asp?ID=29242">exploded</a>.</p>
<p>Sadly, the appetite by Islamist terror groups for child soldiers doesn’t appear to be satiating anytime soon given the favorable cost-benefit ratio their use entails.</p>
<p>As Abdul Rahman Barman, a Yemeni lawyer and child rights activist, has <a href="http://al-shorfa.com/en_GB/articles/meii/features/main/2011/08/08/feature-01">explained</a>, “Children and adolescents can be managed easily and can be recruited to carry out terrorist acts at a lower cost because it is enough to tell them that they will end up in paradise to encourage them to die while conducting a terrorist operation.”</p>
<p>Unfortunately for these children, the gruesome reality of their violent deaths will most definitely trump the empty promise of the jihadist paradise painted by their heinous guardians.</p>
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		<title>The Fed Reserve Bomb Plotter: Explaining Jihadist &#8216;Nice Guys&#8217;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quazi Nafis wasn't a maniac, but a rational devotee of Islam. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/?attachment_id=149017" rel="attachment wp-att-149017"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-149017" title="quazi-mohammad-rezwanul-ahsan-nafis" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/quazi-mohammad-rezwanul-ahsan-nafis.jpg" alt="" width="305" height="225" /></a>&#8220;He is very gentle and devoted to his studies,&#8221; says the father of Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis, who was arrested after trying to detonate what he thought was a 1,000-pound bomb at the New York City Federal Reserve Bank. And it could be true: he <em>could</em> be a gentle, studious soul. His studies of Islam could have led him to the conviction that he needed to wage jihad against Infidels.</p>
<p>Nafis explained his action in clear Islamic terms. He told undercover agents, whom he thought were his fellow plotters: “I don&#8217;t want something that&#8217;s like, small. I just want something big. Something very big &#8230; that will shake the whole country, that will make America, not one step ahead, change of policy, and make one step ahead, for the Muslims &#8230; that will make us one step closer to run the whole world.” Islamic rule of the world is indeed a traditional Islamic imperative, delineated in Islamic law.</p>
<p>Nafis is an exchange student from Bangladesh who came to the U.S., authorities said, solely to wage jihad against Americans – and, as he put it, thereby to “destroy America.” Nonetheless, because his motivation is grounded in his piety, he could be as decent a fellow as his father says he is. There are abundant precedents: according to former Detroit Public Schools Superintendent Eddie Green, Kifah Jayyousi was “a great guy, one of the nicest people I’ve ever met.” While Green was superintendent, Jayyousi oversaw the Detroit school district’s capital improvement program. Later, Jayyousi was charged, according to the Detroit Free Press, with “conspiring to kidnap, maim and murder by providing money, recruits and equipment for Islamic struggles in Bosnia, Kosovo and Chechnya from 1993 to 2001.”</p>
<p>Christopher Paul, a martial arts instructor at a mosque in Columbus, Ohio, was also a terrific guy. Ahmad Al-Akhras, vice chairman of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations chapter in Columbus, said: “From the things I know, he is a loving husband and he has a wife and parents in town. They are a good family together.”</p>
<p>Yet Paul, a Muslim, was charged, according to Associated Press, with “providing material support to terrorists, conspiracy to provide support to terrorists and conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction.” He was accused of training with Al-Qaeda in the early 1990s, training people for violent jihad attacks on targets in Europe and the United States, and more.</p>
<p>According to a Southern California friend of Raed Albanna, who killed 132 people in a suicide attack outside a medical clinic in Iraq in 2005, “He was into partying. We hit some pretty wild clubs in Hollywood.” Frank Lindh, the father of John Walker Lindh, a.k.a. Suleyman Al-Faris, the convert to Islam from Marin County who joined the Taliban and was captured in Afghanistan fighting against American troops, has said: “In simple terms, this is the story of a decent and honorable young man embarked on a spiritual quest.”</p>
<p>Great guys all. Some partied and some embarked on a spiritual search, but they all ended up in the same place, committing acts dedicated to furthering the cause of jihad, or facing charges of having done so.</p>
<p>But they may be genuinely decent fellows. It was the Nazi genocide mastermind Heinrich Himmler who told a group of SS leaders: “Most of you know what it means to see a hundred corpses lying together, five hundred, or a thousand. To have gone through this and yet &#8212; apart from a few exceptions, examples of human weakness &#8212; to have remained decent fellows, this is what has made us hard…”</p>
<p>Were these SS mass murderers really decent fellows? To their friends and family, they probably were. After all, they weren’t interested in undifferentiated mayhem. They were adherents of a totalitarian, genocidal ideology that convinced them that the murders they were committing were for a good purpose. As far as they were concerned, their goals were rational. It was a necessity for them to remain “decent fellows,”  for they were busy trying to build what they saw as a decent society. That their vision of a decent society included genocide and torture did not trouble them, for it was all for &#8212; in their view &#8212; a goal that remained good.</p>
<p>Today’s jihad terrorists are likewise the adherents of a totalitarian, genocidal ideology that teaches them that murders committed under certain circumstances are a good thing. And those murders, here again, are not committed for their own sake, but for the sake of a societal vision hardly less draconian and evil than that of Adolf Hitler, but one also that portrays itself as the exponent of all that is good &#8212; as the Taliban showed us. But the continued reference to such people as “terrorists” pure and simple, and the refusal of the media and most law enforcement officials to examine their ideology at all, only reinforces the idea that these people are raving maniacs, interested solely in chaos for its own sake. The society they want to build, and the means besides guns and bombs that they are using to build it, is a forbidden topic for government analysts. People like Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis are just “terrorists,” interested only in “terror.” And so we’re continually surprised when they turn out to be nice guys after all. Decent fellows. Like the SS.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[A heated exchange on Islam -- and what to do about Iran -- breaks out on Frontpage's television program.  ]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama turns his back on the only safe-haven of freedom in the Middle East.  ]]></description>
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<p>Vice President Joe Biden, wrong on virtually every major foreign policy issue since his election to the Senate in 1972, nailed this one: He warned that actors on the international stage would test the new, inexperienced President.</p>
<p>He knew that President Barack Obama&#8217;s enemies would perceive his strength-through-peace (versus peace-through-strength) approach as weakness. They do and are acting accordingly.</p>
<p>Candidate Obama vowed to hold high-level talks with Iran and North Korea without &#8220;preconditions.&#8221; Obama promised a &#8220;reset&#8221; of all things President George W. Bush, with no more talk of &#8220;victory&#8221; in Iraq and Afghanistan. He reneged on the promised missile shield defense in Poland and the Czech Republic. He waits for countries like China and Russia, both of which have business interests in Iran, to agree to &#8220;tough, crippling&#8221; sanctions.</p>
<p>The President dropped the term &#8220;war on terror&#8221; and refuses to call Islamofascists &#8220;Islamofascists.&#8221; He apologetically says America is vital in maintaining world peace &#8220;whether we like it or not.&#8221; He sent a videotaped message to Iran telling of our willingness to re-engage the country — if only it would unclench its fist. It unclenched more time for Iran to pursue a nuclear bomb. The administration was painfully slow to acknowledge that the Times Square truck bomb attempt involved foreign Islamic terrorists.</p>
<p>The administration chastised Israel for settlement construction in an area of east Jerusalem that President Bill Clinton, President George W. Bush and even Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat assumed would be part of Israel in any peace agreement. During Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu&#8217;s state visit, Obama treated him worse than a White House dinner gate-crasher.</p>
<p>How&#8217;s the hope and change working out?</p>
<p>North Korea, in an act of war, sank a South Korean ship. Iran may now have sufficient materiel and technical knowledge to build a nuclear bomb. The Iranian-backed terrorist group Hezbollah — under the nose of United Nations &#8220;peacekeepers&#8221; — continues to stock southern Lebanon with weapons that threaten Israel.</p>
<p>Now comes the anti-Israel &#8220;humanitarian&#8221; flotilla.</p>
<p>After Israel unilaterally withdrew from Gaza, the terror group Hamas seized power. Israel and Egypt began a naval blockade of ships in and out of Gaza. Though Israel had uprooted every Israeli settler from Gaza, Hamas fired thousands of rockets into Israel, a bombardment that continues today.</p>
<p>Israel already sends humanitarian aid into Gaza and allows others to do so.</p>
<p>Israel even agreed to allow the supposed humanitarian flotilla cargo to enter, provided Israeli security could check it for weapons. And never mind that some of the flotilla&#8217;s &#8220;humanitarian activists&#8221; appear to have ties to terror organizations.</p>
<p>The flotilla&#8217;s attempt to run the blockade resulted in nine deaths when the Israeli military boarded ships to inspect the cargo. As Israel&#8217;s enemies hoped, Israel stands accused of a &#8220;disproportionate&#8221; response.</p>
<p>But why the flotilla now?</p>
<p>The most significant intervening event is the election of President Obama. Now Israel&#8217;s most important ally considers Israeli intransigence the principal obstacle to peace with the Palestinians in particular and in the Middle East in general. The activists got the message: Israel is on the defensive.</p>
<p>Israel, with good reason, feels alone.</p>
<p>Obama, like Bush in his second term, seems willing to accept a nuclear-armed Iran — even as Iran threatens Israel with annihilation. Obama apparently considers a nuclear-armed Iran inevitable, even if it ignites a regional nuclear arms race — since Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan fear Iran more than they do Israel.</p>
<p>Give Obama credit for continuing many of Bush&#8217;s policies. Gitmo remains open, the administration finally understanding that the prison exists for a reason. He continued rendition, the terror surveillance program and the increased use of drone predators in Pakistan. He used the same &#8220;state secrets&#8221; argument to fight courtroom disclosure of sources and methods. He increased troop strength in Afghanistan and continues the Bush &#8220;clear and hold&#8221; strategy for that country and Iraq.</p>
<p>But Jimmy Carter governed as a strength-through-peace president. He pressured the Shah of Iran to release &#8220;political prisoners.&#8221; The shah was toppled, only to be followed by the repressive and threatening Islamic Republic of Iran. Carter urged Americans to abandon their &#8220;inordinate fear of communism.&#8221; Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev considered Carter weak and rewarded him by invading Afghanistan. This triggered a chain reaction from which the world continues to suffer. The Arabs and Muslims who fought to expel the Soviet Union then turned on the United States and the West in a grand plan for an Islamic world.</p>
<p>Israel&#8217;s response to the flotilla was an act of self-defense. The Western world&#8217;s reaction has been shameful. Western countries once again fail to distinguish the arsonist from the firefighter.</p>
<p>In 1962, the United States imposed a naval blockade — a &#8220;quarantine&#8221; — on Cuba. What would we have done to a &#8220;humanitarian&#8221; flotilla determined to help Fidel Castro place Soviet missiles 90 miles from Florida?</p>
<p><em>Larry Elder is a syndicated radio talk show host and best-selling author. His latest book, &#8220;What&#8217;s Race Got to Do with It?&#8221; is available now. To find out more about Larry Elder, visit his Web page at www.WeveGotACountryToSav</em><em>e.com.</em></p>
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