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		<title>Benny Gantz’s Troubling Assessments</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2014 04:46:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caroline Glick]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How Israel's IDF chief of staff is facilitating the opening of Gaza's borders. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/3277243153.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-242999" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/3277243153-444x350.jpg" alt="3277243153" width="320" height="252" /></a>Originally published by the <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Our-World-Benny-Gantzs-troubling-assessments-378793">Jerusalem Post</a>. </em></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">The outcome of the donor conference for Gaza reconstruction that was held in Cairo on Sunday was not surprising.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Representatives of 50 countries convened to pledge funds to Hamas and the PLO. The Palestinians had hoped to receive $4 billion in pledges. They raised $5.4b.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Most of the money will be transferred to the PLO-controlled Palestinian Authority led by President Mahmoud Abbas. But at least $1b. will go directly to Hamas, from its primary financier, Qatar.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">With its $1b. Hamas will be able to pay its terrorist operatives and rebuild its terrorist forces.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The air force revealed last week that Hamas is rebuilding its rocket arsenal already.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As for the money that will be transferred to Abbas, the billions in funding will give the PLO the money it needs to finance Abbas’s rapidly escalating political war against Israel in the international arena.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">At least some of the money will also go to Hamas, Abbas’s partner in the unity government.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The entire nature of the conference was surreal, but again predictable.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Surreal because it was based on a total disregard for reality.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In last summer’s war, Hamas wantonly and deliberately waged an unprovoked, illegal missile campaign against Israel for the third time in five years. It fired 4,500 projectiles at Israeli territory. It also used tunnels it dug into Israeli territory to attack Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Had Hamas not attacked, Israel would not have counterattacked. There would have been no damage to repair in Gaza.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">If the US, Europe and the Arab world were interested in actually helping Gaza, rather than organize a conference to fund Hamas and the PLO, they would have enjoined Israel to finish the job two months ago and end Hamas’s criminal, terrorist state in Gaza once and for all.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Yet, they did no such thing. Throughout the war, the US and the EU joined Qatar and Turkey in blaming Israel for Hamas’s illegal war.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">And on Sunday, they put their money where their mouths are. They pledged billions to the PLO and its political war against Israel. And they funded Hamas – both directly and indirectly. Moreover, they gave Hamas a political victory by agreeing to fund Abbas, even though he is the head of a PLO-Hamas government.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">All of this was predictable because it happens every time Israel is attacked, whether by terrorist armies in Judea, Samaria and Gaza, or in Lebanon.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Every time the Palestinians and Lebanese Hezbollah attack Israel, the US and Europe eventually side with the Arabs and demand that Israel stop defending itself.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The only difference between the most recent war with Hamas and its predecessors is that this time, the US was even more adamantly opposed to Israel’s attempts to defeat Hamas than the Europeans and many Arab governments.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In other words, the only difference between the most recent war and its predecessors is that the level of hostility towards Israel – and conversely support for Hamas – among leading members of the international community was unprecedented.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Israel’s job in contending with this hostile environment should have been similarly unprecedented.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Israel should have been offering to lead an international force in Gaza to overthrow Hamas and arrest its leaders pending war crimes trials. It should have been sticking the international community’s nose in the stench of its hypocrisy and anti-Israel bias.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Operationally, it should have recognized that Israel’s chief achievement in the war was its ability to withstand US pressure and maintain Gaza’s physical isolation by maintaining the borders shut, and so preventing the terrorist regime from resupplying and rearming.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">At least on the last count, keeping Gaza sealed was Israel’s unflinching position throughout the war. To prevent the opening of Gaza’s borders, and through it, the rebuilding of Hamas’s terrorist infrastructure and political power, at great diplomatic cost, Israel repeatedly rejected US demands for an open border.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">But today, this position is collapsing. True, Israel is insisting officially that stringent controls be placed on all dual use goods brought into Gaza. But officials openly acknowledge that there is no way to enforce the controls once the goods are imported.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Far worse than accepting that its position is difficult to enforce, Israel is actually facilitating the opening of Gaza’s borders. In so doing, Israel is giving Hamas the victory it failed to achieve on the battlefield.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">And worst of all, the chief proponent of this policy is not Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, or even Justice Minister Tzipi Livni. Its chief advocate is IDF chief of staff Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Throughout the war, tremors of criticism were heard in governing circles and the media against the IDF leadership in general, and against Gantz, in particular.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In a series of media interviews on the eve of Yom Kippur, Gantz showed that not only was the criticism warranted – it was far too mild.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">For years, it has been rightly said that Israel suffers from a chronic shortage of strong leaders. But what Gantz showed in his interviews is that even if Israel was blessed with the strongest leaders in Jewish history, it is far from clear that they would have the capacity to act on their convictions.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In Israel, as in all countries, for a government to get things done political leaders require the assistance of professional echelons who develop tactical options for achieving strategic goals and implement government policies.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The chief criticism of Gantz during the war was that he failed to present the government with options for defeating Hamas or that when he did present them, he did so in ways that made it impossible for the government to adopt options he opposed.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">It was also said that he failed to respect the government’s sovereign authority to determine policy, and interjected his position on issues that were well beyond the professional authority of the IDF.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In his interview with Maariv, Gantz said that the only way to guarantee that the cease-fire will hold is by paying off Hamas. That is, he made clear that he sides with the US and the rest of the international community against the government.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In his words, “At the end of the day, 1.8 million Palestinians live there, and the quiet is also dependent on the trend of creating economic hope there.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Gantz placed the blame for their supposed hopelessness on Israel, and its measures to contain Hamas’s threat to Gaza. In his words, “The people there need to live, and they are caught between Egypt on one side, us on another side and the sea with a six mile fishing zone on the other side.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Later in the interview, Gantz insisted that Israel’s interest is in enabling the international community to fund Hamas, arguing that terrorism is simply the result of economic privation.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As he put it, “The Palestinians also do not want to see terrorism operating from within them.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Hamas absorbed a mighty blow and sustained great damage. It needs to see economic recovery, and this need, for economic growth is an opportunity for us.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The question of whether or not Gaza should be enriched is not a military one. But that doesn’t bother Gantz. After dictating what the government’s position must be, he then coyly winked, “I leave this for the elected leadership.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Throughout the war, Israel’s elected leadership insisted that Gaza remain sealed.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The Left has followed Gantz’s lead and attacked the government for not opening Gaza’s borders and even participating in the Cairo conference.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">But again, reality tells a different tale.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Israel has nothing to gain from participating in a Hamas funding drive.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">It does however have an interest in influencing the international agenda. To do so, the most basic requirement for the government is to reject the lie that Israel is to blame for Hamas’s aggression. Israel’s leaders – elected and appointed – need to internalize the fact that the war this summer, like all previous acts of Hamas aggression against Israel stemmed not from privation and hopelessness, but from empowerment and hopefulness.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Hamas doesn’t attack Israel because it needs money. It attacks Israel because doing so empowers it and weakens Israel – as we saw in Cairo on Sunday.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Unfortunately, for as long as our unelected professional class is led by men who have internalized our enemies’ narratives, there is no way that Israel can act on these basic strategic truths regardless of whom voters elect. And as a result, we shall continue to witness our soldiers’ hard won victories being squandered by our leaders – in and out of uniform.</span></p>
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		<title>President Ebola</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2014 04:50:02 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Obama_Ebola_P1k_t618.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-242428" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Obama_Ebola_P1k_t618-450x295.jpg" alt="Obama_Ebola_P1k_t618" width="331" height="217" /></a>In 2009, Obama lifted the ban on AIDS cases entering the United States. Describing HIV as “a virus that has touched lives,” he announced that he was ending a ban based on “fear rather than fact.”</p>
<p>Obama didn’t specify what new facts about AIDS had been discovered that made it no longer infectious or a threat to public health. Instead he just had the CDC remove HIV from the list of “communicable diseases of public health significance.” Was HIV no longer of “public health significance”? The amount of money being lavished on it indicated otherwise. Was it then suddenly no longer communicable?</p>
<p>The CDC awkwardly tried to explain why syphilis, gonorrhea and other sexually transmitted diseases were still on the list, but HIV wasn’t. The answer <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/immigrantrefugeehealth/laws-regs/hiv-ban-removal/qa-technical.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">could be summed</span></a> as “because Obama said so.” The CDC did promise to “consider other diseases, including sexually transmitted diseases, for scientific review.” But most STDs don’t have their own billion-dollar lobby that can make or break politicians.</p>
<p>In a cage match between public health and politically correct cash, the winner was AIDS. And so the ban was lifted and immigrants no longer had to be tested for HIV.</p>
<p>But Obama was not a one-disease politician. He was also open to being touched by other viruses. The same year that his CDC decided that AIDS was no longer a communicable disease, <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/10/03/president-ebola-in-2010-obama-administration-scrapped-cdc-quarantine-regulations-aimed-at-ebola/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Bush era quarantine regs</span></a> were also scrapped.  The regs had been part of an Avian Flu response that <a href="http://ace.mu.nu/archives/352220.php"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Senator Obama had demanded</span></a> when he was cynically maneuvering for political advantage. But that was then. This is now.</p>
<p>In a bid for amnesty, Obama opened the southern border and flooded America with dangerous diseases.</p>
<p>The commitment to open borders had clear viral consequences. Border agents <a href="http://www.valleycentral.com/news/story.aspx?id=1105359"><span style="color: #0433ff;">have already come down</span></a> with antibiotic resistant infections carried by illegal aliens and in some cases <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/border-patrol-agents-brought-home-diseases-to-their-children/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">passed these diseases on</span></a> to their children. Also <a href="http://freebeacon.com/national-security/outbreak-on-the-border/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">along for the ride was Swine Flu</span></a>, a potentially fatal and communicable disease.</p>
<p>Obama had declared Swine Flu a “national emergency” around the same time that he was putting out the welcome mat for AIDS. But in his push for amnesty, he <a href="http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/swine-flu-illegal-immigrant/2014/06/28/id/579816/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">also welcomed Swine Flu into</span></a> the country.</p>
<p>And that was just the beginning.</p>
<p>An <a href="http://sharylattkisson.com/polio-like-outbreak-claims-fifth-life-in-u-s?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SharylAttkisson+(Sharyl+Attkisson)"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Enterovirus D68 outbreak</span></a>, that has now claimed the life of an American child, followed. The death took place in New Jersey, which has one of the highest rates of unaccompanied alien minor placements and possibly the highest rate when accounting for territorial size. Some D68 cases appeared to be linked to a mysterious condition in Colorado causing paralysis and spinal cord abnormalities in children.</p>
<p>As horrifying as these public health crises caused by Obama’s open borders policy are, the real nightmare may still be coming.</p>
<p>Even though Ebola doesn’t have its own lobby yet, it’s getting the AIDS treatment. The White House has been firm about rejecting any Ebola travel ban. Instead arriving visitors from Ebolaland are getting flyers at airports telling them to report any symptoms to their doctor. The CDC is claiming that the source screenings, which can be fooled by an Ebola carrier taking Advil, are good enough.</p>
<p>And if not, well, the Democratic Party’s voters have to come from somewhere. Who cares if they happen to be vomiting up blood while they’re casting their vote?</p>
<p>If AIDS can magically stop being a “communicable disease of public health significance,” why not Ebola? Why not any and every epidemic that might potentially keep a future Democrat out of Chicago?</p>
<p>As with AIDS, Obama is taking the line that Ebola has to be stopped at its source in Africa and that keeping the infected out of America will somehow interfere with this mission. It’s the sort of reasoning that makes a lot of sense to someone who views borders and nations as outdated relics. It doesn’t, however, make much sense to most Americans who still think there is such a thing as the United States.</p>
<p>The media, which can stir up a mass panic over a fly in a restaurant, is warning of “Ebola-phobia” and assuring the country that there’s no reason to fear an outbreak. Ebola isn’t really all that contagious, say all the same media outlets which have been claiming that AIDS and leprosy aren’t all that contagious. But then again no disease carried by Democratic Party voters can be considered truly contagious.</p>
<p>Except maybe leftism.</p>
<p>Now that we know that we don’t have to worry, it’s only a question of which outbreak we don’t have to worry about first.</p>
<p>Due to Obama’s policies, we have so many contagious and deadly diseases waiting in line to infect Americans that it’s not clear which outbreak we should be worrying about the least. Should we be getting unready for an Ebola outbreak, a Swine Flu outbreak or an Enterovirus B68 outbreak?</p>
<p>But that’s what happens when the border security of a nation vanishes into thin air.</p>
<p>ISIS fighters who returned to the United States were allowed in. Illegal aliens with every possible disease were allowed in. Any other course of action would be Islamophobia and Ebolaphobia.</p>
<p>ObamaCare has a menu of exotic disease outbreaks to cope with. Even as Ebola enriches our airports, Virginia has become “Ground Zero” for Chagas disease which kills 11,000 people a year, a mysterious paralyzing virus is spreading across Colorado and the border patrol <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/381101/texas-immigration-center-magnet-disease-ryan-lovelace"><span style="color: #0433ff;">even caught a case of leprosy</span></a>.</p>
<p>Where does one go to find leprosy in the age of Obama? New York City. While the United States is overwhelmed with foreign leprosy cases, it is now possible to be born in New York City and live your entire life there and <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/18/health/leprosy-a-synonym-for-a-stigma-returns.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">still come down with leprosy</span></a> because <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3164768/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">it’s become an endemic disease</span></a>. Leprosy cases really took off after Ted Kennedy’s Immigration and Nationality Act did to public health what he had done to Mary Jo Kopechne. The top source countries for the disease are Mexico, Vietnam and Cuba.</p>
<p>So much for socialized medicine.</p>
<p>Open borders means a constantly shifting menu of diseases and terrorist threats that never go away because the door is open. It’s as open to an Ebola patient as it is to an ISIS Jihadist. AIDS is as welcome as the next Anwar Al-Awlaki. They are all part of the great multicultural future of the Democratic Party in which Islamic terrorists and Third World diseases battle it out for the opportunity to destroy America.</p>
<p>If an Ebola outbreak does happen, this disastrous administration and its leader may go down in history as President Ebola. But even if it doesn’t, there’s always President Swine Flu or President B68.</p>
<p>And there are always the classics. Three years after Obama took down the HIV travel ban, foreign-born Latinos AIDS cases in New York had <a href="http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/health/2013/01/31/health-officials-deal-with-growing-aids-epidemic-in-latino-community/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">risen to 31%</span></a>. There’s a lot of talk about the importance of spreading awareness of the disease, but we could start by spreading awareness of the fact that allowing people with infectious diseases into the United States has deadly consequences.</p>
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<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/kl1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-237319" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/kl1.jpg" alt="kl" width="311" height="168" /></a><em>Andrew Klavan interviews one of the tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors streaming over America&#8217;s Southern border to discover more about the little feller&#8217;s harrowing ordeal. See the video and transcript:</em></p>
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<p>I’m Andrew Klavan and this is the Revolting Truth.</p>
<p>[Pointing at a completely blank blackboard:]  This is the United States of America!&#8230;  after the Obama administration removed the borders.</p>
<p>Right here&#8230;  somewhere&#8230;   a humanitarian crisis is unfolding as tens of thousands of Central American children come streaming into the place where our country used to be. The invasion was incited by President Obama’s threats to grant these children amnesty with just a phone and a pen that he’ll use to cross out the sections of the constitution that limit his powers.</p>
<p>Now, many fear that flooding the nation with confused, terrified juveniles who have no notion of American customs or laws is an attempt to expand the Democrat voter base&#8230;  since “confused, terrified juveniles with no notion of American customs or laws” is actually a definition of the Democrat voter base.</p>
<p>But we here at the Revolting Truth are determined to get the facts.  So today, through the miracle of Chalk-o-vision, we’re going to interview one of these poor lost children.</p>
<p>[A fifty year old jihadi in turban and long beard appears]</p>
<p>Well, my little friend, and how old are you?</p>
<p>HM: Eleven.</p>
<p>AK:  Eleven years old</p>
<p>HM:  From Central America.</p>
<p>AK:  I see.  And what country in Central America are you from?</p>
<p>HM:  Hanh?</p>
<p>AK:  Are you from Guatemala&#8230;  San Salvador&#8230;</p>
<p>HM:  Yes, Guatemala San Salvador, that is my country in Central America.</p>
<p>AK:  Right.  You know, as much as we sympathize with your plight, little feller, many of us fear that so many unchecked refugees might bring diseases with them.</p>
<p>HM:  I have no diseases.</p>
<p>AK:  Really.</p>
<p>HM:  Allah has healed my malady with his magic powers.</p>
<p>AK:  Great.  Of course, there’s still the problem that we can’t care for so many unskilled newcomers.</p>
<p>HM:  I have many skills.</p>
<p>AK:  Like what?</p>
<p>HM:  I can fly a plane, and I can build a nuclear device out of paper clips and a plastic bag.</p>
<p>AK:  Wow.  Still, don’t all countries have the right and the need to protect their borders?</p>
<p>HM:  Imagine there’s no countries.  It isn’t hard to do.</p>
<p>AK:  I see.  Like the John Lennon song.  Nothing to kill or die for.</p>
<p>HM:  Except Jihad.</p>
<p>AK:  Oh boy.</p>
<p>HM:  You wouldn’t happen to have a plastic bag on you, would you?</p>
<p>AK:  No, no, no.</p>
<p>HM:  [singing]  you may say I’m a dreamer&#8230;.</p>
<p>AK:  This is Andrew Klavan with the revolting truth.</p>
<p>HM:  But I’m not the only one. I hope someday you will join us. And the world can live as one&#8230;</p>
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		<title>Kerry&#8217;s Plan for an Indefensible Jewish State</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Dec 2013 05:58:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[P. David Hornik]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Mahmoud-Abbas-John-Kerry-jpg.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-213475" alt="Mahmoud-Abbas--John-Kerry-jpg" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Mahmoud-Abbas-John-Kerry-jpg-416x350.jpg" width="291" height="245" /></a>Secretary of State John Kerry was in Israel yet again on Thursday and Friday. Upon arriving, he went straight from Ben-Gurion Airport to Ramallah to meet with Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas—but had to cut the visit short and hurry to Jerusalem because rare blizzard conditions were developing.</p>
<p>Kerry managed to meet with Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu after that, however, even as the presumably harried Netanyahu was also dealing with emergency problems of downed power lines, perilously stranded cars, and the like.</p>
<p>Kerry, however, pronounced himself buoyant and optimistic about the peace talks as always. Before leaving Israel for Vietnam he <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/kerry-israeli-palestinian-peace-deal-by-spring-remains-the-goal/2013/12/13/e36a7e14-642b-11e3-a373-0f9f2d1c2b61_story.html?tid=hpModule_04941f10-8a79-11e2-98d9-3012c1cd8d1e">told reporters</a> that Israel and the Palestinian Authority were on track to iron out all their disagreements by April, and that:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>The core framework, if you want to call it that, which we are discussing with respect to this, centers on the critical issues…. Borders, security, refugees, Jerusalem, mutual recognition and an end to conflict and to all claims.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>A less upbeat assessment, however, came from Khaled Abu Toameh, who <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/PA-officials-No-progress-on-peace-deal-in-latest-Abbas-Kerry-meeting-334982">reported</a> that Kerry’s meeting with Abbas “did not achieve a breakthrough”; that Abbas’s spokesman said the Palestinians “won’t accept any Israeli presence on our land”; and that Abbas gave Kerry a letter in which he “reiterated his complete opposition to demands to recognize Israel as a Jewish state.”</p>
<p>The refusal to “accept any Israeli presence on our land” seemed particularly pertinent, since according to reports the talks have lately been centering on Kerry’s proposal to leave a limited Israeli military presence in the Jordan Valley for a limited time (variously cited as five, ten, or fifteen years). The <i>Washington Post</i> had already <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/kerry-in-middle-east-to-talk-jordan-valley-security-proposals-with-israelis-palestinians/2013/12/12/00f76cbe-6367-11e3-a373-0f9f2d1c2b61_story.html">reported</a> that</p>
<blockquote><p><i>Neither side is on board with [the idea]….</i></p>
<p><i>For…Netanyahu, limiting the number of Israeli troops in the Jordan Valley, and how long they can be there, would not guarantee safety.</i></p>
<p><i>For…Abbas, who has promised his people they would not see a single Israeli soldier on Palestinian land in a future state, any army presence would be too much.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>The <i>Post</i>, not a bastion of Israeli hawkishness, went on to add that:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>A generation of Israeli generals has considered the Jordan Valley a crucial eastern flank against a land invasion of the Jewish state from the east.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>So the talks, to which Kerry affixed a nine-month time span, have been going on since late July and, according to these and other reports, still have not reached first base. Netanyahu has said that ensuring Israel’s security comes first, and only then can the other none-too-simple matters like Jerusalem, refugees, and an end to claims be addressed.</p>
<p>If Abbas, though, after five months of Kerry’s earnest involvement and frequent Jerusalem-Ramallah shuttles, remains dead-set against even security arrangements for Israel that Israel sees as inadequate, it is hard to fathom where Kerry’s dauntless optimism comes from.</p>
<p>Kerry, indeed, with some sense that the Jordan Valley is not an easy issue, has delegated Gen. John Allen (who earlier this year turned down a position as NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander), with a team of no less than 160 defense and intelligence experts, to come up with ideas on how to resolve it to both sides’ satisfaction.</p>
<p>What they have not—presumably—been asked to do, however, is explain how to square the circle: how to convince Israel that, after five or fifteen or whatever years, it can safely contract to a width of nine miles in the less than stable Middle East; and how to convince Abbas to accept an arrangement—of Israeli troops remaining in the Palestinian Authority after an agreement—that he has repeatedly and consistently rejected as out of the question.</p>
<p>And even if that circle were somehow to be squared, Kerry would need to appoint further teams of experts to work out (among other things): how Jerusalem can be both undivided (the position of Netanyahu and most of his government) and divided (the position, repeated with mantric insistence, of the Palestinian Authority); how millions of descendants of Arabs who left Israel over sixty years ago can both not “return” to Israel (Israel’s position) and “return” to it (the Palestinian Authority’s position); and how Abbas can both recognize (Netanyahu’s demand) and not recognize (Abbas’s demand) Israel as a Jewish state.</p>
<p>And what would be the “prize” if all the miracles could somehow be achieved? An indefensible Jewish state, pushed back to a nine-mile width by the “diplomacy” of a country with a three-thousand-mile width; the  reversion of Judea and Samaria to total Muslim rule; jihadists from Syria and elsewhere spilling over the porous borders of Palestine and turning Palestine itself, Israel, and Jordan into a cauldron of instability and danger.</p>
<p>Israel already has a precedent, none too encouraging, of Secretary Kerry’s diplomatic skill, as Iran <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/366492/real-cost-geneva-ilan-berman">pockets the Geneva deal</a> along with billions of dollars of sanctions relief while <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4466146,00.html">not even pretending</a> to give up its nuclear plans.</p>
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		<title>How to Respond to EU Sanctions</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jul 2013 04:48:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caroline Glick]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Europe's economic warfare against Israel must receive a serious answer. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/holland-loves-labeling-jews.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-198368" alt="holland-loves-labeling-jews" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/holland-loves-labeling-jews-450x345.jpg" width="270" height="207" /></a>Originally published in <a href="http://www.jpost.com/LandedPages/PrintArticle.aspx?id=321086">The Jerusalem Post. </a></i></p>
<p>THIS WEEK the EU took three steps that together prove Europe&#8217;s ill-intentions toward the Jewish state.</p>
<p>First, last Friday the EU announced it is imposing economic sanctions on Israel. The sanctions deny EU funds to Israeli entities with an address beyond the 1949 Armistice Lines. They also deny EU funds to Israeli entities countrywide that carry out activities beyond the 1949 Armistice Lines.</p>
<p>The areas beyond the 1949 Armistice Lines delineated by the EU directive include the Gaza Strip, which Israel abandoned eight years ago; the Golan Heights, which has been under Israeli sovereignty since 1981; eastern, northern and southern Jerusalem, which have been under Israeli sovereignty since 1967; and Judea and Samaria, over which Israel has shared governance with the PLO since 1994 in accordance with signed agreements witnessed by EU representatives.</p>
<p>The EU&#8217;s second action was the publication Tuesday of EU foreign policy commissioner Catherine Ashton&#8217;s letter to her fellow commissioners informing them that by the end of the year, the EU will publish binding requirements for specially labeling Israeli goods produced by Jews beyond the 1949 Armistice Lines exported to EU member states.</p>
<p>This act is potentially more damaging for Israel than the ban on transferring EU monies to Israeli entities with &#8220;bad&#8221; addresses. Labeling Israeli products is a means of signaling Europeans consumers that they should view all Israeli exports as morally inferior to other goods and wage a consumer boycott of Israeli products. Indeed, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius described the proposed labeling as an alternative to a broader boycott of all Israeli goods.</p>
<p>The EU&#8217;s third act was its decision to define Hezbollah&#8217;s &#8220;military wing&#8221; as a terrorist organization, but leave all the other Hezbollah-related institutions untouched. While the move has been applauded by Israeli politicians desperate to deny Europe&#8217;s animosity, Europe&#8217;s partial designation of Hezbollah as a terrorist entity is another act of aggression against Israel.</p>
<p>By pretending that Hezbollah has a legitimate &#8220;political wing&#8221; &#8211; a transparent lie that even Hezbollah has denied &#8211; the EU ensures that Hezbollah personnel and Hezbollah institutions can continue to find safe haven in Europe so long as they avoid attacking non-Jewish Europeans.</p>
<p>Hezbollah agents can continue raising money, planning attacks, and recruiting terrorists in Europe, as long as Hezbollah labels the activities &#8220;political.&#8221;</p>
<p>In other words, all Hezbollah operations directed against Israel and Jews will remain lawful in Europe.</p>
<p>Beyond exposing the EU&#8217;s fundamental and obsessive hostility toward the Jewish state, these three actions put paid to the EU&#8217;s protestations of allegiance to international law and commitment to bringing about peace between the Palestinians and Israel.</p>
<p>As ambassador Alan Baker, the former legal adviser to the Foreign Ministry, wrote in an article published by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, the EU&#8217;s actions against Israeli entities that operate beyond the 1949 Armistice Lines are unsupported by international law. The EU&#8217;s claim that Israel&#8217;s presence beyond the 1949 Armistice Lines is unlawful is not supported by any treaties or customs. Indeed, it is explicitly refuted by treaties and customs.</p>
<p>Israel&#8217;s legal rights to sovereignty over Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem are recognized under the law of nations through the 1922 League of Nations Mandate for Palestine, which also called for &#8220;close Jewish settlement&#8221; of these areas. The Mandate&#8217;s allocation of sovereign rights over all of these areas to the Jewish people, and its recognition of the Jews as the indigenous people of the areas, has not been abrogated by any subsequent treaty. To the contrary, they were reinforced by Article 80 of the UN Charter.</p>
<p>Moreover, as Baker noted, the EU wrongly claims that Jewish communities beyond the 1949 Armistice Lines are illegal under Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention from 1949. But authoritative interpretations of Article 49 make clear that Article 49 does not apply to such communities.</p>
<p>The lines the EU points to as Israel&#8217;s legal border were never borders and never legal. The 1949 Armistice Lines, which the EU falsely refers to as the 1967 borders, represent nothing more than the lines at which Israeli forces halted the invading armies of Arab states that illegally assaulted the nascent Jewish state at its birth on May 15, 1948.</p>
<p>The armistice agreements explicitly stated that the armistice lines lack all legal significance in terms of claims of parties to lands beyond the lines.</p>
<p>Finally, as Baker noted, the EU itself repeatedly supported UN resolutions and international agreements that recognize the legality of Israel&#8217;s continued control and civilian presence in the areas. As a consequence, its own actions contradict its claim that Israel&#8217;s presence and the presence of Israeli civilian communities beyond the 1949 Armistice Lines are illegal.</p>
<p>Beyond its unsubstantiated legal claims against Israel, both in its intention to label Israeli products and in its actions related to Hezbollah, the EU is acting in violation of international law. The EU&#8217;s intention to label Israeli products involves the imposition of trade barriers in contravention of the World Trade Organization&#8217;s legally binding rules.</p>
<p>By allowing Hezbollah to continue to operate in the EU, the EU is in violation of binding UN Security Council Resolution 1373 from 2001 that prohibits the use of member states&#8217; territory for the benefit of terrorist groups.</p>
<p>Justice Minister Tzipi Livni called the EU&#8217;s imposition of economic sanctions a &#8220;resounding wake-up call,&#8221; adding, &#8220;I hope that now all those who thought it is possible to continue with the freeze [in the peace talks with the PLO] will understand that we have to act to open negotiations, because this is the only way to protect Israel&#8217;s general interests.&#8221;</p>
<p>This view, which is the official view of the Left, is based on a complete denial of reality.</p>
<p>The EU announced its sanctions on the very same day US Secretary of State John Kerry announced he had convinced the PLO to return to peace talks with Israel. The confluence of these events could not demonstrate more clearly that the EU&#8217;s diplomatic onslaught against Israel has nothing to do with the conduct of negotiations with the PLO. If the EU&#8217;s chief interest was bringing Israel and the PLO to the negotiating table, Brussels would be sanctioning the Palestinians who have refused to negotiate with Israel since 2008.</p>
<p>By levying sanctions the EU does not seek to advance the cause of peace. It hopes to coerce Israel into abandoning its legitimate historic claims as the indigenous people of the Land of Israel to the lands allocated to the Jewish people under international law by the 1922 League of Nations Mandate for Palestine. It hopes to coerce Israel into surrendering its right to defensible borders and voluntarily transform itself into an indefensible strategic basket case wholly dependent on the goodwill of outside powers for its survival.</p>
<p>The question is what can Israel do about it? Were Israel to fight fire with fire and levy counter sanctions on European goods it would be entering an economic war that it would lose and therefore has every interest in avoiding. But Israel&#8217;s inability to respond in kind to European aggression does not mean it is without options.</p>
<p>Europe is using economic sanctions to expand its political power over Israeli decision-makers. So Israel should act to diminish Europe&#8217;s political power in Israel.</p>
<p>The EU itself told Israel how to go about doing this in Paragraph 15 of the sanctions directive. It reads, &#8220;The requirements [banning the transfer of EU funds to Israeli entities operating beyond the 1949 armistice lines]&#8230; do not apply to activities which, although carried out in the territories&#8230;</p>
<p>aim at benefiting protected persons under the terms of international humanitarian law who live in these territories [i.e., the Palestinians] and/or at promoting the Middle East peace process in line with EU policy.&#8221;</p>
<p>In other words, Israeli NGOs that receive EU assistance are exempt from the financing ban if they commit to undermining Israel&#8217;s rights in the area. As the EU sees it, NGOs who receive EU money are EU agents, advancing European goals in the domestic Israeli arena, and as such should be exempted from the EU&#8217;s economic sanctions.</p>
<p>In a 2010 meeting with US diplomats leaked by WikiLeaks, Jessica Montell, the executive director of the Israeli-registered pro-Palestinian pressure group B&#8217;Tselem, effectively admitted that her organization would cease to exist without European funding.</p>
<p>According to the protocol of the meeting, Montell &#8220;estimated her NIS 9 million ($2.4 million) budget is 95 percent funded from abroad, mostly from European countries.&#8221;</p>
<p>TO STEM THE momentum of Europe&#8217;s new economic war, Israel&#8217;s first response to the EU&#8217;s sanctions must be swift passage in the Knesset of a law requiring all Israeli entities that agree to operate under the EU&#8217;s funding guidelines to register as foreign agents and report all EU contributions.</p>
<p>Those contributions should be taxed at the highest corporate tax rate.</p>
<p>EU officials have stated repeatedly that they seek to undermine Israeli control over Area C. Area C is the area of Judea and Samaria where, in accordance with agreements signed between the PLO and Israel, Israel exercises most civil and military authorities. The EU is funding projects in Area C whose stated goal is to make it impossible over time for Israel to assert its authority over the area.</p>
<p>Israel&#8217;s second response to the EU&#8217;s announcement of economic sanctions on Israeli economic activity in Judea and Samaria should be to suspend all EU projects in Area C. Future EU projects should be subject to intense scrutiny by the civil administration. Israel&#8217;s default position should be to reject, rather than approve, such requests, given their hostile intent.</p>
<p>Finally, EU peacekeeping forces from Gaza to Lebanon to Syria have repeatedly proven not only their cowardice, but their willingness to act in ways that endanger Israel in order to protect themselves.</p>
<p>In Gaza, EU border guards fled to Israel following Hamas&#8217;s takeover of the area in 2007.</p>
<p>Along the border with Syria, Austrian peacekeepers fled at the first sign of trouble, leaving Israel to deal with Syrian breaches of the European-sanctioned 1974 disengagement agreement by itself.</p>
<p>European forces in UNIFIL in Lebanon have signed protection agreements with Hezbollah where in exchange for European forces&#8217; turning a blind eye to Hezbollah&#8217;s illegal use of civilian infrastructures as military installations, Hezbollah has promised not to murder European forces.</p>
<p>Given this track record, Israel should bar European forces from further participation in armed forces in Israel. To this end, Israel should allow the mandate of the European-dominated Temporary International Presence in Hebron to expire when it next comes up for review. The TIPH, which has been deployed to the city since 1994, is composed of forces from Denmark, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and Turkey.</p>
<p>Israel has for years been operating under the misguided belief that the EU would eventually come around and side with Israel against its enemies.</p>
<p>This belief has been informed by equal doses of innocence and wishful thinking. The EU&#8217;s decision to initiate an economic war against the Jewish state forces Israel to abandon its long-held illusions.</p>
<p>Israel has options for responding forcefully to Europe&#8217;s aggression. If judiciously and firmly employed, these responses can diminish the Europeans&#8217; interest in escalating this economic war, by denying them the political victory they seek.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 May 2013 04:32:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arnold Ahlert]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The administration squanders the hard-won victory handed down by President Bush -- and sets off a Mideast meltdown.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/IRAQ-articleLarge.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-191583" alt="IRAQ-articleLarge" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/IRAQ-articleLarge-450x300.jpg" width="270" height="180" /></a>After almost a century of existence, the borders that form the modern Mideast nation states appear to be on the <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/middle_east_crackup_Uuuz0EjXZfBTxnaW91AMnO">verge</a> of disintegration. Part of the driving force behind this meltdown, as observers are beginning to acknowledge, is of course the intractable sectarian war in Syria. But a far bigger part of the picture is the <a href="http://www.jidaily.com/38059?utm_source=Jewish+Ideas+Daily+Insider&amp;utm_campaign=4078bb7fd4-Insider&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_0b0517b2ab-4078bb7fd4-41171925">accelerating</a> destabilization of Iraq. The breakdown of Iraq, with its far-reaching regional ramifications, is attributable in no small part to President Obama&#8217;s abandonment of the U.S.&#8217;s mission in the country, a betrayal committed in total defiance of the military establishment&#8217;s recommendations, which squandered the hard-won victory handed down by President Bush. As predicted, our precipitous withdrawal has left the once pacified nation riven with sectarian strife, primarily among Sunni and Shia Muslims and the Kurds. As the region descends, the consequences of Obama&#8217;s folly are only becoming more obvious: a nation that once stood a chance at being a source of stability in the region is instead rapidly becoming its maelstrom.</p>
<p>In 1916, Sir Mark Sykes of Britain and Georges Picot of France <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/middle_east/2001/israel_and_the_palestinians/key_documents/1681362.stm">signed</a> a secret agreement, with Russia&#8217;s approval, to dissolve the Ottoman Empire. The Sykes-Picot agreement was concerned with creating Middle East spheres of influence for France and Great Britain following their victory in WWl. The League of Nations facilitated the mandates over the territory captured by both nations. France got Syria and Lebanon, and Britain got Iraq. The agreement also separated the British mandatory Palestine, known by its Arab residents prior to WWI as &#8220;Surya al-Janubiyya&#8221; (Southern Syria), from the French mandatory of Syria to the north. For its approval of the deal, Russia received territory that eventually became Turkey.</p>
<p>Thus, the artificial borders of five countries were established. In the ensuing years, two critical realities were also realized: in Syria, the Alawite minority, the sect to which current president Bashar Assad belongs, was granted power over the Sunni majority. In Iraq, the Sunni minority was empowered at the expense of the Shi&#8217;ite majority. In other words, borders created to satisfy European sensibilities largely ignored the realities of historic ethnic, tribal and sectarian divisions. these divisions were exacerbated by the rise of dictators, tyrants and Arab monarchs who maintained power after the French and British withdrew in the middle of last century.</p>
<p>It is those divisions that are now asserting themselves.</p>
<p>The current flashpoint involves the 370 mile border separating Iraq from Syria. The civil war on the Syrian side has drawn everyone in the region into the conflict. On the Shi&#8217;ite side, troops from Iran and their Lebanese-based proxy, Hezbollah, have aligned themselves with Bashar Assad. Troops from Saudi Arabia and Qatar are fighting on the side of the rebels, along with elements of al Qaeda. Turkey also has Sunni allies in Syria, but their main ambition appears to be separating Kurdish elements from both Syria <i>and</i> Iraq, because they have made peace with the Kurdish rebels within their own borders, and are seeking to expand their regional influence as a result.</p>
<p>Then there is Russia. They have <a href="http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2013/05/28/Russia-insists-Iran-join-Syria-peace-conference.html">proposed</a> a &#8220;peace&#8221; conference scheduled for June 15-16 in Geneva, Switzerland, as an attempt to end the two years of fighting in Syria. Yet their motives are profoundly transparent, as evidenced by the reality that they have reportedly <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/middle-east-live/2013/may/30/syria-first-shipment-of-russian-missiles-has-arrived-says-assad-live-updates">shipped</a> anti-aircraft S-300 rockets to Assad. This move preempts any effort by Western nations to establish a &#8220;no-fly&#8221; zone over Syrian airspace (an idea the Obama administrated toyed with, but never followed through on), thereby tipping the balance of power in Assad&#8217;s favor. Yet more importantly, it establishes that Russia’s position at the peace conference will be an effort to dictate post-war terms, with the intention of keeping Assad in power. Since rebel forces consider this completely antithetical to their ambitions, the fighting will undoubtedly continue.</p>
<p>The most likely outcome of that fighting is a stalemate leading to the breakup of Syria into three mini-states, respectively controlled by Kurds, Sunnis and Alawites. Since most of the Alawites live in the coastal corridor that includes Damascus, even this seemingly chaotic scenario accrues to Russian interests. They maintain an influence in the region, and they will still have their naval base in Tartous.</p>
<p>On the Iraqi side of the border, the developments are even more ominous. Despite being largely ignored by the American media, the disintegration of Iraq is continuing rapidly. The deaths of 700 Iraqis killed in sectarian violence throughout the country in April <a href="http://www.dinaradvice.com/2013/05/28/blood-borders-iraq-syria-death-of-modern-middle-east/">represents</a> the largest number of casualties in the last five years. In the northern part of Iraq, the province of Iraqi Kurdistan has, for all intents and purposes, dissolved its ties with the Shia-dominated government of Nouri al-Maliki in Baghdad. They are in the process of cutting autonomous deals with international oil companies, and next September a new pipeline will carry oil from Kurdistan to Turkey linking them to their Kurdish brethren in that region. In the process they have ignored U.S. opposition to any oil exports &#8220;without the appropriate approval of the Iraqi federal government.&#8221;</p>
<p>Iraqi Sunnis, who held a vise-like grip on power during the days of Saddam Hussein, have little incentive to remain united with the current government either. In late April, after Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) <a href="http://iswiraq.blogspot.com/2013/04/2013-iraq-update-17-iraqs-sunni-mobilize.html">opened</a> fire on Sunni protesters in Hawija, Kirkuk, killing 20 and wounding over 100, Sunni tribal militia began mobilizing against the government. Several clashes between the ISF and the militias have taken place, with thousands of tribe members in Kirkuk and Salah ad-Din vowing to seek revenge. Other clashes have broken out in the Anbar provice cities of Ramadi and Fallujah as well. In Mosul, protesters demanded a withdrawal of government forces.</p>
<p>Furthermore, the efforts of Sunni leaders to maintain ties to the Maliki government have undermined their credibly with their constituents, who see them as sellouts to a regime that has consistently ignored the concerns of Sunnis. Many Sunnis are convinced that Maliki is intent on establishing a &#8220;Shi&#8217;ite crescent&#8221; in conjunction with Iran. The Sunni counterweight to that reality is their alliance with Sunni rebels in Syria. That effectively obliterates the Syrian-Iraqi border, and establishes the possibility that they will precipitate a civil war with Maliki to realize a separate state comprised of Sunnis from both nations.</p>
<p>In a column for the <i>Washington Post</i>, former Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker <a href="http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-04-30/opinions/38930434_1_protesters-sunni-arab-insurgents">explains</a> that the battle in Hawija represented a critical turning point in the effort to keep Iraq united. Yet far more importantly, he inadvertently reveals the fecklessness of President Obama&#8217;s politically motivated and premature withdrawal of American troops from the country. &#8220;Al-Qaeda in Iraq has already begun to reestablish itself in areas that Iraqi and U.S. forces cleared at enormous cost over the past five years,” he writes.</p>
<blockquote><p>And Jabhat al-Nusra, al-Qaeda in Iraq’s front group in Syria, is attempting to hijack the secular resistance to Syrian President Bashar al­Assad. These developments threaten not only to unravel the gains made since 2007, but also to energize the forces of violent extremism in the heart of the Arab world, already burning in Syria.</p></blockquote>
<p>Crocker further notes the current Sunni-Shi&#8217;ite confrontation is reminiscent of the one which occurred in 2006 that precipitated the troop surge so vehemently opposed by Obama and the Left. Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-250_162-2709229.html">declared</a> that the war in Iraq was &#8220;lost&#8221; before the troops even arrived in country. Yet Crocker notes that, as a result of the hard-won security established by those troops, &#8220;Sunni and Shiite leaders opted to resolve their differences through accommodation rather than through violence.&#8221; He believes the current impasse can be resolved by &#8220;a sustained, high-level diplomatic effort.&#8221; Yet absent the presence of U.S. troops to add weight to that diplomatic effort, such a prescription appears hopeless.</p>
<p>On Friday, October 21, 2011, President Obama, in a statement similar to the one he made last week regarding the war on terror in general, &#8220;declared&#8221; that the war in Iraq was over. &#8220;I can report that, as promised, the rest of our troops in Iraq will come home by the end of the year,&#8221; Obama <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/obama-announces-total-iraq-troop-withdrawal-165635034.html">said.</a> &#8220;After nearly nine years, America&#8217;s war in Iraq will be over.&#8221; In doing so, he ignored the advice of military commanders who <a href="http://www.cfr.org/iraq/obamas-tragic-iraq-withdrawal/p26381">insisted</a> a minimum of 20,000 troops should be left behind to ensure the stability that America&#8217;s fighting forces fought and died to establish. Thus,  Obama has made a mockery of our soldiers’ sacrifices and snatched defeat from the jaws of victory &#8212; all so he could placate his leftist base.</p>
<p>The tragic consequences of that decision are unfolding at a rapid pace. A complete &#8212; and bloody &#8212; realignment of the entire Middle East is occurring, none of which accrues to America&#8217;s interests. In the Middle East, the U.S. has traded possible stability for almost certain chaos. As for our new role in shaping events there, it is best described by <i>NY Post</i> columnist Benny Avni. &#8220;What are America’s interests in any of this?&#8221; he writes. &#8220;Doesn’t matter. By opting to sit out, we’ve basically forfeited any say in the outcome.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Palestinians at U.N. Warn of &#8216;Consequences&#8217; for &#8216;Apartheid&#8217; Israel</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 04:07:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Jewish State's "peace partners" show their true colors. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/67af7c8d70af36b667f070992f9be841_oo.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-190149" alt="67af7c8d70af36b667f070992f9be841_oo" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/67af7c8d70af36b667f070992f9be841_oo-450x335.jpg" width="270" height="201" /></a>Saëb Erakat, Member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization and Chief Palestinian Negotiator, addressed the 352nd meeting of the United Nations Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People at UN headquarters in New York on May 20th.  His message was wrapped in the standard Palestinian victimhood narrative. It contained superficially nice sounding words about the Palestinians&#8217; interest in peace but only on their terms.</p>
<p>Erakat used his speech to attack Israel&#8217;s alleged &#8220;apartheid&#8221; policies in the West Bank and East Jerusalem and  to trumpet the Palestinians&#8217; commitment to a peaceful resolution of the conflict with Israel based on &#8220;two states on the 1967 line.&#8221; At the same time, he praised Secretary of State John Kerry for trying to bring the parties together and move the peace negotiation process forward. &#8220;I know his heart is there,&#8221; Erakat said.</p>
<p>Erakat denied that the Palestinians were imposing any conditions on resuming negotiations with Israel. Then, in the next breath, he insisted that Israel must first meet its &#8220;obligations&#8221; to freeze all settlement activities and free Palestinian prisoners. It must also accept what he repeatedly called in shorthand &#8220;two states &#8211; 1967.&#8221; By referring to &#8220;Israeli obligations&#8221; instead of &#8220;conditions,&#8221; Erakat tried to sugarcoat the Palestinians&#8217; continued obstruction of peace negotiations.  Erakat, the Chief Palestinian Negotiator, wants certain major issues in dispute with Israel to be decided first in the Palestinians&#8217; favor before they will agree to even sit down with Israeli negotiators.</p>
<p>If Israel does not accept &#8220;two states &#8211; 1967,&#8221; Erakat warned, there will be &#8220;consequences.&#8221; He mocked the current relevance of Israel&#8217;s security concern that the 1967 line was indefensible. &#8220;Missiles today cannot be stopped by walls,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>Israelis have every reason to be suspicious of Erakat&#8217;s &#8220;two states-1967&#8243; formula for durable peace, even aside from their legitimate security concerns. The Palestinians have not given up on their so-called “right of return” demand, which would send potentially millions of Palestinian refugees back to live within the land of pre-June 1967 Israel and effectively destroy its Jewish identity.</p>
<p>Indeed, Erakat noted that the Palestinians just marked the anniversary of Israel&#8217;s independence in 1948 which they call &#8220;nakba&#8221; or the Great Catastrophe. &#8220;In May 1948, Palestine as a nation was interrupted,&#8221; he said. This sounds like the Chief Palestinian Negotiator still considers Israel a temporary interloper on what the Palestinians claim was their land alone before May 1948.</p>
<p>Moreover, there is nobody on the Palestinian side who can deliver a secure and lasting peace, despite Erakat&#8217;s claims to the contrary in his UN speech. Israel withdrew from Gaza unilaterally in 2005, uprooting thousands of settlers in the process. All that Israel has gotten in return are thousands of rockets fired from Gaza into Israel and aimed at civilian population centers by Hamas and its other jihadist allies. For his part, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas objected to attaching the label “terrorists” to Hamas. During a March 15, 2013 interview on Russian TV, as transcribed by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), Abbas declared: &#8220;As far as I am concerned, there is no difference between our policies and those of Hamas.&#8221;</p>
<p>Back in 2008, Abbas demonstrated his lack of interest in a negotiated peace fair to both sides when he rejected a peace proposal from Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that would have given the Palestinians approximately 94% of the West Bank. The Palestinians rejected Israel&#8217;s offer because they did not get 100% of what they wanted, including the full &#8220;right of return&#8221; and every stone of East Jerusalem under Palestinian rule.</p>
<p>Here is what Saëb Erakat himself said about the rejected offer during a television appearance in March 2009, as transcribed by MEMRI:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Abu Mazen [Palestinian President Abbas] could have accepted a proposal that talked about Jerusalem and almost 100% of the West Bank, but it is not our goal to score points against one another here. Our strategic goal, when we strive for peace, is not to do so at any price. We strive for peace on the basis of an Israeli withdrawal to the June 4, 1967 borders, the establishment of an independent Palestinian state, with East Jerusalem as its capital, and with the West Bank and the Gaza Strip geographically connected&#8230; There will be no peace whatsoever unless East Jerusalem – with every single stone in it – becomes the capital of Palestine&#8230;</p>
<p>Olmert, who talked today about his proposal to Abu Mazen, offered the 1967 borders, but said: &#8216;We will take 6.5% of the West Bank, and give in return 5.8% from the 1948 lands, and the 0.7% will constitute the safe passage, and East Jerusalem will be the capital, but there is a problem with the Haram and with what they called the Holy Basin.&#8217; Abu Mazen too answered with defiance, saying: &#8216;I am not in a marketplace or a bazaar. I came to demarcate the borders of Palestine – the June 4, 1967 borders – without detracting a single inch, and without detracting a single stone from Jerusalem, or from the holy Christian and Muslim places. This is why the Palestinian negotiators did not sign.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Saëb Erakat&#8217;s speech to the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People and his &#8220;two states-1967&#8243; formula continued the Palestinians&#8217; intransigent and deceptive approach to negotiations with Israel. The Palestinians remain the victims of their own delusions.</p>
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		<title>The Divine Hand of the Europeans</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 04:25:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Adam Turner]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why is Israel the only British-carved nation with negotiable borders? ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/adam-turner/the-divine-hand-of-the-europeans/2223556912_1afaa9f61b/" rel="attachment wp-att-184352"><img class=" wp-image-184352 alignleft" title="2223556912_1afaa9f61b" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/2223556912_1afaa9f61b-450x307.jpg" alt="" width="270" height="184" /></a>The Biblical Book of Joshua begins:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>And it was after the death of Moses, the servant of the Lord, that the Lord said to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ minister, saying, “Moses my servant has died and now arise and cross the River Jordan. You and all this nation go to the land which I give the Children of Israel. Every place on which the soles of your feet will tread I have given to you, as I have spoken to Moses. No man shall stand up …</em></p></blockquote>
<p>“Not so,” say diplomats in the United States and the rest of the Western world.</p>
<p>These leaders have their own, alternate supreme authority, which delineates not just the borders of Israel, but also that of every other nation within the Middle East.  They consider their authority to be an entity far more powerful than the Lord – the European colonial powers, especially the United Kingdom and France.</p>
<p>Just look at today’s map in the Middle East, and you can see what I mean.</p>
<p>Israel, Jordan, Iraq, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Lebanon, etc. all still exist within the borders that the European colonial powers drew for them.  These borders had nothing to do with their history.  They had nothing to do with their ethnic homogeneity.  They had nothing to do with their religious homogeneity.  They had nothing to do with their linguistics.  And today, the mix of peoples within each state is sometimes even more divided than when the borders were first drawn, as the different peoples within them often have different natural growth rates, or emigration rates, which have altered the balance of power in a major way. Simply put, these borders no longer make sense, if they ever did.</p>
<p>But don’t you ever think about touching those borders.  That is not to be allowed.</p>
<p>When the United States ousted the Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein, and occupied that country, our officials were careful to maintain a unified state out of the hodgepodge of nationalities and religions created by the British-French pen.  The Iraqi population is roughly 30 plus million divide as follows as follows – about 18 million Shia Arabs, 5 million Sunni Arabs, 5 million Sunni Kurds, who are a different ethnic group than Arabs, with the remainder largely Christian Arabs (those who haven’t fled yet).  Generally, the three main peoples live in different areas of the nation, with the Kurds in the North, the Sunni Arabs in the West, and the Shia Arabs predominating elsewhere.  Historically these three groups have been in opposition to one another.  But, even during the height of the Iraqi post-war insurrection, when Shia Arabs and Sunni Arabs and Kurds were all at each other’s throats, <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/id/12572371/">almost</a> no American of any significance considered the logical option of dividing the country into three sections. Perhaps the world felt that since Europe colonialists had already spoken on the matter, the Iraqis would just have to learn to live together.</p>
<p>Also, consider Syria and Lebanon.  France originally drew their boundaries.  Both were drawn to maximize French interests, especially in Lebanon, where the French were interested in producing a majority Christian nation.  Today, the conflicts originating out of these lines have led to the death of hundreds of thousands of people.</p>
<p>In Syria, there are 23 million inhabitants.  16 million are Sunni Arabs.  Over 3 million are non-Sunni Arabs, mostly Alawites, but also including some Druze. Both the Alawites and the Druze live primarily in the Western, more mountainous areas.  There are about 2 million Kurds residing in the northeastern corner.  And there were more than 2 million Christian Arabs, prior to the rebellion.  Currently, much of the country is in flames, as Sunni Arabs – led by jihadists – seek to violently overthrow the Iranian-backed Alawite dictator Assad.  Over 70,000 people have died during this civil war.  Yet, among all the various peace plans that have been proposed by the international elites, precious few advocate the seemingly obvious idea of splitting Syria into its different constituent parts, so as to better protect minorities.  (The Christians may not be concentrated enough to create a separate state, although it is possible that they might be more safe in an Alawite or Kurdish state.)</p>
<p>In Lebanon, there are around 1.2 million Sunni Arabs, more than 1.2 million Shia Arabs, 1.4 million Christians (whom are further subdivided) and 200,000 Druze.  Because Lebanon is so heterogynous, it has had over twenty-five years of civil war, with hundreds of thousands of casualties, and currently is under a fragile “truce” thanks to the ability of the Shia terrorist group Hezbollah to forcibly control the nation.  The Lebanese communities are, once again, mostly segregated.  But, once again, no major international peace plans for Lebanon have ever made the case for a sensible division of the country.</p>
<p>So, now we come back to Israel.</p>
<p>After God had had his way, the British stepped in.  In 1921, the British chopped off 80% of the land to give to their ally, the Hashemite Abdullah, whose family had just lost their prior kingdom in what is now Saudi Arabia.  The monarchy of Jordan – as it became – has been in existence ever since.  Of course, as befits a kingdom arbitrarily drawn up by the British, a majority of the population of Jordan is actually made up of Palestinian Arab emigrants.</p>
<p>After the British tired of keeping peace between the warring Arabs and Jews in the remaining 20% of Palestine, the United Nations – led by the European diplomats – tried to organize that rump into competing areas of Arab and Jewish control.  This led to war, which resulted in the 1948 armistice lines.  Since then, Israel has been forced to fight numerous times against the Arab world.  In each of these struggles, the lines have changed.</p>
<p>But the world – led by the diplomats of Europe – still doesn’t recognize the current borders of Israel.  Neither does the <a href="http://freebeacon.com/obamas-middle-east-map-erases-israeli-territory/">Obama Administration</a>.</p>
<p>Then again, perhaps this isn’t too surprising.  The British never got their final say on Israel’s borders, did they?</p>
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		<title>Debbie Wasserman Schultz: Wrapping an Anti-Israeli Message With an Israeli Flag</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 04:38:39 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/joe-kaufman/debbie-wasserman-schultz-anti-israel-wrapped-in-an-israeli-flag/tumblr_m9t0epoyoc1qij8k6/" rel="attachment wp-att-176054"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-176054" title="tumblr_m9t0epOYoc1qij8k6" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/tumblr_m9t0epOYoc1qij8k6.png" alt="" width="291" height="210" /></a>On January 22nd, U.S. Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz was reelected as chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC). A big reason for progressives to want Wasserman Schultz back as leader of the party is that she represents two large American voting blocks, women and Jews, blocks that the Democratic Party relies on to win elections and blocks that President Barack Obama relied on to be reelected, himself.</p>
<p>However, while the congresswoman represents these two groups, that does not necessarily mean she represents their best interests. Case in point: Wasserman Schultz’s lack of support for the Jewish state of Israel.</p>
<p>Wasserman Schultz is recognized as being an advocate for Israel. Upon visiting her congressional website, you will notice that the first two photos which pop up are her <a href="http://wassermanschultz.house.gov/">with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu</a> and her laying a wreath at Israel’s Holocaust memorial, Yad Vashem. And though these things appear as if Wasserman Schultz is a staunch supporter of the Jewish state, the reality is that they are a convenient cover for her anti-Israel activity.</p>
<p>In May 2009, Wasserman Schultz co-hosted an event for J Street, a left wing group linked to financier George Soros that promotes on its website a moral equivalence between Israel’s fighting in Gaza and Hamas suicide bombers. Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz told the Jerusalem Post that he believes “J Street has done more damage to Israel than any [other] American organization.” At the J Street event, Wasserman Schultz praised the group, saying that “<a href="http://blogs.jta.org/politics/article/2009/05/15/1005192/j-street-celebrates-jahm-with-wasserman-schultz-white-house-rep">J Street has worthy goals.</a>” In October 2009, Wasserman Schultz was a featured speaker at J Street’s first major conference, even after a dozen other members of congress dropped out.</p>
<p>In February 2011, after Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was imprisoned by Islamists, Wasserman Schultz ignored Mubarak’s role as Israel’s peace partner and took the side of his violent jailers. She stated, “For the past two weeks the world has heard a truly momentous grassroots call for democracy from the streets and squares of Egypt. Today, with the resignation of President Mubarak, <a href="http://wassermanschultz.house.gov/2011/02/statement-on-the-resignation-of-egyptian-president-mubarak.shtml">the voices of the people of Egypt were finally heeded</a>.” As a result of this tragedy, Egypt is now led by Israel’s enemy, the Muslim Brotherhood, and new President Muhammad Morsi, who not long ago referred to Jews as “the descendants of apes and pigs.”</p>
<p>In May 2011, when President Obama came out with his disastrous plan to push Israel back to her pre-1967 lines, which Prime Minister Netanyahu rejected as “indefensible,” Wasserman Schultz didn’t hesitate to throw her weight at the initiative. The headline from the <em>Miami Herald</em> read, ‘<a href="http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2011/05/debbie-wasserman-schultz-on-president-obamas-remarks-on-israel.html">Debbie Wasserman Schultz backs President Obama’s remarks on Israel</a>.’ The article stated, “The new chair of the national Democratic party &#8212; and prominent Jewish lawmaker &#8212; is out with remarks praising President Obama&#8217;s call for Israel&#8217;s pre-1967 borders…&#8221;</p>
<p>To say that she supported indefensible borders for Israel only to back the position of her boss, Barack Obama, would not be entirely accurate. In October 2011, just five months after the borders flap, Wasserman Schultz told an audience of mostly Jewish seniors that there are parts of Israel that are “not important” – <em>quote “not important.”</em> It took place at Wynmoor Village, located in Coconut Creek, Florida.</p>
<p>In September 2012, at the DNC Convention, Wasserman Schultz, the DNC leader, allowed the Democratic Party platform to be voted on without mention of Jerusalem as being Israel’s capital. Following criticism from the GOP – or as the Associated Press put it, “Embarrassed by Republicans” – the DNC amended the platform the next day to include the word “God” and Jerusalem (amidst boos from the crowd). When confronted about it by a reporter, Wasserman Schultz claimed that the platform was changed <em>because President Obama wanted it changed</em>. She said it was “<a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2012/09/05/cnn-mocks-debbie-wasserman-schultzs-lame-spin-god-and-jerusalem-platf">directly the result of his personal view</a>” – evidently not hers.</p>
<p>In January 2013, President Obama nominated former U.S. Senator Chuck Hagel to become Secretary of Defense. His nomination was seen as highly controversial, as Hagel’s past statements and voting habits made him appear as though he was anti-Israel and a defender of Israel’s enemies. Hagel complained about the existence of a “Jewish lobby,” a derogatory and conspiratorial term that suggests an unwarranted Jewish influence/intimidation in American politics. After he spoke to and apologized to Wasserman Schultz, she endorsed Hagel, saying that much of the concern “<a href="http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/the-buzz-florida-politics/content/chuck-hagel-apologizes-wasserman-schultz-about-jewish-lobby-remark-allays-other-concerns">could be chalked up to misunderstandings over his true positions</a>.” Both the apology and the acceptance of it smacked of political expediency.</p>
<p>All of the above paints a damning picture of U.S. Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz. It suggests that any notion of the congresswoman as being pro-Israel is a notion built on false perception and a lack of knowledge of her offending behavior. The image that Wasserman Schultz has created for the public is completely a facade. While she is indeed Jewish, her actions show a lack of care for the greater Jewish community in Israel.</p>
<p><em>Joe Kaufman is a </em><a href="http://www.kaufmanforcongress.com/"><em>candidate for United States Congress</em></a><em>. He is an expert in the fields of counter-terrorism, foreign affairs and energy independence for America.</em></p>
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		<title>Who Threw Israel Under the Bus?</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/arlene-kushner/yes-obama-did-throw-israel-under-the-bus/barack-obama-benjamin-netanyahu/" rel="attachment wp-att-163070"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-163070" title="Barack-Obama-Benjamin-Netanyahu" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Barack-Obama-Benjamin-Netanyahu.gif" alt="" width="315" height="226" /></a>On October 23, the profoundly anti-Israel <em>New York Times</em> ran an op-ed by Ephraim Halevy – former head of Israel’s Mosad and national security advisor to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon – titled “Who Threw Israel Under the Bus?”</p>
<p>His thesis is that it has always been Republicans who have been bad for Israel; and he provides examples of how this has been the case.</p>
<p>I do not presume to know what motivated Halevy to write this badly biased piece, but what seems clear is that it requires a response, especially in the week before election day, when everything has become grist for the campaign mill.</p>
<p>The fact that three named Republicans were allegedly problematic for Israel says less than nothing about whether Romney would be, and certainly does not vindicate Obama.</p>
<p>One of the “problematic” Republicans Halevy fingers is Obama’s predecessor, George W. Bush. Halevy’s attempt to assess Obama by looking at Bush&#8217;s record, rather than Obama&#8217;s, is rather foolish: Bush is bad, so <em>ipso facto</em> Obama is good.</p>
<p>In a few instances, however, we can learn by looking at Bush&#8217;s positions and then how Obama subsequently acted.  These instances show that Bush was far more pro-Israel than Obama, no matter what Halevy claims:</p>
<p>On April 14, 2004, when Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was in the midst of his plans for a disengagement from Gaza, he and President Bush exchanged letters. The letter from Bush said in part:</p>
<blockquote><p>In light of new realities on the ground, including already existing major Israeli population centers, it is unrealistic to expect that the outcome of final status negotiations will be a full and complete return to the armistice lines of 1949.</p></blockquote>
<p>This was important on at least two counts. First, it spoke about armistice lines of 1949 – which is what is actually meant when people today refer to the &#8220;1967 borders.&#8221;  <em>There were no borders, only temporary armistice lines</em> – and Bush was acknowledging this historical fact with accuracy.</p>
<p>What is more, he was saying that Israel would not be expected to return to those armistice lines because of new realities on the ground.  This was an acknowledgement that in a final settlement with the Palestinian Arabs, were it to happen, major settlement blocs would be retained by Israel.</p>
<p>The exchange of letters that took place between Bush and Sharon (who spelled out plans for the disengagement in his) is known as a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) – an executive agreement not ratified by Congress.  It carries less weight than a treaty that is ratified, but is still broadly understood to reflect the authority of the executive office.</p>
<p>Bush’s letter, however, was totally rejected by Obama as being without import. Obama refers to the armistice line as the &#8220;1967 border&#8221; (an historical inaccuracy that tilts to the Palestinian Arabs), and has declared repeatedly that Israel must return to this line in a final settlement.</p>
<p>This is particularly startling because – even beyond the Memorandum of Understanding – there is considerable precedent for earlier US presidents acknowledging that Israel cannot be asked to return to that armistice line.  Among them, Republicans Nixon and Reagan.</p>
<p>Quite simply, <em>Obama’s position is anti-Israel</em>.</p>
<p>While he claims to be in support of security for Israel, <em>he pumps for a resolution of negotiations that would push Israel behind a border that is not defensible</em>.  The left-wing Abba Eban called this line &#8220;Auschwitz borders.&#8221; They would render Israel nine miles narrow at one point, and vulnerable to being over-run by enemies from the east.  But Obama says Israel <em>must</em> do this.  It is not a coincidence that what he has declared is <em>exactly</em> what the PA demands.  He has promoted their position shamelessly.</p>
<p>And there is more.  <em>No</em> president before Obama ever demanded a full freeze on Israeli settlements in Judea and Samaria as a precondition for negotiations. The Palestinian Arabs themselves never demanded this – they sat with Israel repeatedly while building in settlements was taking place.  Abbas started demanding this <em>because</em> Obama set it as a precondition.  How could Abbas demand less?</p>
<p>Elliott Abrams, who handled Middle East affairs at the (US) National Security Council from 2001 to 2009, has written that Bush agreed to &#8220;natural growth&#8221; in the settlements, within existing settlement lines.  But Obama would not agree to even this.  The position he demanded meant deprivation to Israeli citizens living in those settlements, who were being told they couldn&#8217;t build a new school for their children, or a new clinic or even a new room on a house for a new baby.</p>
<p>Whatever disagreements there have been between various presidents and Israel, until the Obama administration there has always been an implied sense of a bond between America and Israel because of shared values, goals and destiny. Obama broke with this. He let it be known that it was a good thing for there to be &#8220;daylight&#8221; between Israel and the US.  After a meeting Obama had in 2009 with Jewish leaders, Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, reported that Obama had said:</p>
<blockquote><p>Look at the past eight years [referring to the George W. Bush administration]… During those eight years, there was no space between us and Israel, and what did we get from that? When there is no daylight, Israel just sits on the sidelines, and that erodes our credibility with the Arab states.</p></blockquote>
<p>“Credibility with the Arab states.” Never has there been a president who has so courted the Islamic world.  This is at the heart of the matter.  It&#8217;s impossible to attempt to secure the approval of various Islamic and Arab states and to also be pro-Israel.  Obama knew this and made his choice, even though he pretends otherwise during this election season when Jewish votes count.</p>
<p>Remember that for his June 2009 speech to the Muslim world in Cairo University, a Muslim Brotherhood hotbed, he <em>specifically invited</em> members of the Muslim Brotherhood, which seeks to destroy Israel.  This is not something a friend of Israel would have done.  This was the beginning of US positions that put the Brotherhood in power in Egypt.  During that speech he already called for a “stop” to settlements, and actually equated the “suffering of the Palestinian people in pursuit of a homeland” with the horrors of the Holocaust.</p>
<p>As well, after his inauguration, some four months previous, the very first international &#8220;leader&#8221; he called was Mahmoud Abbas of the PA. A rather pointed statement.</p>
<p>An observation I made about Obama when he was still a candidate provided broad hints as to what he was:</p>
<p>He came here to Israel when he was campaigning. There had been a terror attack just blocks from the hotel where he was staying; it occurred roughly about the time he arrived.  He knew about it. He <em>had to</em> know about it. Then he went to Sderot, which is near the border with Gaza, and he spoke about how the people there suffer because of rocket attacks.  He <em>knew</em>, and he was courting Jews with his sympathetic words.</p>
<p>From Israel, he went to Germany for a major speech, which included a discussion of terrorism in the world and how it must be combated.  He listed countries struggling with this – the UK, Spain, etc. etc.  <strong><em>But he left out Israel</em>.</strong></p>
<p>Damn, I thought then. This is not an oversight. He just came from Israel, he just saw for himself.  He cannot have forgotten. It would have added powerful rhetoric to his speech, had he talked about what he had just seen first hand. But he did not want to appear sympathetic to Israel before the world.</p>
<p>I called it then, and I have not been wrong about him. In truth, he has been far worse than I had feared.  Who would have imagined, four years ago, that President Obama would establish the Global Counterterrorism Forum in 2011, and then, in June of this year, <em>actively block participation by Israel</em> – the world’s greatest expert on terrorism – when the Forum had its first meeting in Istanbul?</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 04:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The importance of maintaining strong borders. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/mideast-articleLarge.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-132118" title="mideast-articleLarge" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/mideast-articleLarge.gif" alt="" width="375" height="249" /></a>It is an undisputed fact that Israel’s army reserves are the backbone of the IDF in times of war. The question, therefore, is: how does Israel buy the 48 hours it must have to fully mobilize and deploy its army reserves?</p>
<p>Israel’s citizen army naturally mobilizes its reserve troops where they live. This means primarily an “L” shaped land mass, from Jerusalem at one end and Haifa at the other with Tel Aviv in the middle. Along this short and narrow strip resides some 70 percent of Israel’s population (and 80 percent of its industrial base) and therefore, about 70 percent of the nation’s reserve soldiers (as well as 70 percent of its labor force).</p>
<p>Even before Israel has the opportunity to field the full complement of its army, including its reserves, in time of war, Israel must prevent this area from being overrun by an invading enemy. Should the enemy forces succeed in cutting into the “L”, the damage to Israel’s mobilization and deployment process might well be beyond repair. Worse, if the invasion force cannot be stopped before the fighting reached the main cities, Israel would have lost the war.</p>
<p>This grave situation is recognized by Israel’s military, even if not fully grasped by all its politicians. In 1952, IDF Chief of Operations General Yitzhak Rabin ordered IDF Chief of Planning Colonel Yuval Ne’eman (who helped organize the IDF into a reservist-based army, developed the mobilization system, and wrote the first draft of Israel’s defense doctrine) to conduct an exercise to test the IDF under conditions of a surprise attack, under the then-prevailing 1949 ceasefire lines, i.e. the pre-’67 lines known today as the “Green Line.”</p>
<p>The maneuvers were organized, and the ensuing results were a disaster. During the exercise, Israel’s first president, Dr. Chaim Weizman, passed away. The exercise was then cancelled to deal with the State funeral that had to be carried out. However, by that time the exercise’s “invading force” had conquered Petach Tikva and Ramat Gan, two cities surrounding the approach to Tel Aviv proper (the distance from the pre-’67 ceasefire lines to the outskirts of metropolitan Tel Aviv is a mere 11 miles), and had yet to be stopped in its tracks. It is this nightmarish situation that hung over Israel’s neck like the Sword of Damocles until the 1967 Six Day War and the extension of Israeli control over the Biblical mountain ranges of Judea and Samaria.</p>
<p>Imagine further, how much worse in reality the results of the 1952 exercise could have been if Israel’s enemies, large and small, added to the invasion force barrage after barrage of missiles onto Israel’s main population centers.</p>
<p>The “Land for Peace” concept, accepted and unquestioned in Western capitals (and by Israel’s political Left), if implemented, would seriously weaken Israel, even clearing the path to its ultimate destruction. The areas already given over to the control of the Palestinian Authority (and now also Hamas) has considerably complicated Israel’s defense in an all out war situation. Further territorial concessions would prove catastrophic.</p>
<p>The missile age has not made strategic depth irrelevant, it has made it even more vital. The advanced weapons systems and missiles now in the hands of the Arabs, make the threat of the reduction of Israel’s size back to pre-’67 dimensions potentially devastating. Permitting such a diminution would also be a foolhardy move on the part of the Western democracies. A truncated Israel, forced to concentrate all its defenses on high-population areas, would effectively become useless to those it currently serves so well as a major linchpin in the Western global strategy against the threat from radical Islamic expansionism.</p>
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		<title>The World’s Oldest Sickness</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Gaza flotilla incident reminds us that the destiny of the Jew is to be eternally unsafe in this world.]]></description>
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<p>The world is sick again with an old disease for which no cure has ever been found. It tends to go into remission here and there at various times but it invariably reappears, as virulent as ever, developing new strains as the bacillus adapts to the antibiotics of reason, shame or distraction. The disease is called anti-Semitism and it can afflict even those who would seem best prepared to resist it. Few are immune.</p>
<p>It can assume racial forms, the Jew regarded as a quasi-human deformity, as rodent, monkey or <em>untermensch</em>. International jurist Jacques Gautier, who finds it “<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uug1x_OTyr4">shameful</a>” that under the dispensation of the Human Rights community it is understood that Arabs will have legal and political rights in Israel while it is accepted that Arab countries can be <em>judenrein</em>, concludes that Jews do not enjoy human rights because they are not reckoned as <em>human</em>. Why extend the norms and principles that presumably govern human behavior and the relations between states to a people and a state tacitly considered as beyond the pale, as not quite “like us”? This is how double standards are implicitly justified. Judaism has also been condemned as a cultural and economic perversion that contorts the structure of society. This is a very old story. Indeed, whatever manifestation it assumes, anti-Semitism has been with us almost as far back as human memory goes. What historian Robert Wistrich has called the world’s <a href="http://www.amazon.com/ANTI-SEMITISM-LONGEST-ROBERT-S-WISTRICH/dp/041365320X">longest hatred</a> is also the world’s oldest sickness.</p>
<p>It is, in fact, best construed as a universal epidemic, the emotional and intellectual equivalent of the Black Death that decimated Europe in the fourteenth century. The difference is that those who have contracted this septicemia of the mind do not die, except inwardly. Ironically, their victims are precisely those who do not suffer from the plague that has contaminated its bearers—except, of course, for those apostate Jews who are sick with the same morbid distemper. The list of such despicables would fill the devil’s Rolodex. But they too must eventually succumb to the fury of the demented carriers of the pathology. Unfortunately, the Israeli pharmaceutical firm <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/19/business/global/19drugs.html">Teva</a>, one of the world’s largest suppliers of antibiotic medicines, has no psychic or endocrinal equivalent to treat the malady.</p>
<p>In <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Anti-Semite-Jew-Exploration-Etiology-Hate/dp/0805210474/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1269178463&amp;sr=1-1">Anti-Semite and Jew</a></em>, Jean-Paul Sartre argues that anti-Semitism is not an idea but “first of all a passion” that is akin to hysteria. This passion connects schematically with “the idea of the Jew” to which individual Jews are made to conform irrespective of their personal attributes. For Sartre, anti-Semitism is founded in the “fear of the human condition”—of solitude, responsibility for oneself, and the terror of contingency. The Jew is made responsible for the inescapable distress of being human along the entire spectrum from the empirical to the ontological—an excuse for failure, a means of false absolution and a convenient repository of all we are unwilling to acknowledge about ourselves. As such he has been zoned for apartheid, whether metaphysical or social. Sartre concludes that “If the Jew did not exist, the anti-Semite would invent him.”</p>
<p>For all his innovative phrasing, Sartre is really playing variations on the grizzled notion of the Jew as scapegoat, derived from <em>Leviticus</em> 16, which is true enough—witness the current U.S. administration’s treatment of Israel which, as historian Moshe Dann <a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/is-obama-using-israel-as-a-scapegoat-for-his-foreign-policy-failures/">suggests</a>, is a species of <em>collective</em> scapegoating to cover its own foreign policy failures. Philosopher René Girard adds a certain twist to the etiology of this recurrent sickness and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Violence-Sacred-Ren%C3%A9-Girard/dp/0801822181/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1269178277&amp;sr=1-3">proposes the concept</a> of “ritual mimesis” or “mimetic victimage,” an ironic conflict-management elucidation of the scapegoat philosophy. In Girard’s thinking, the violence <em>between groups</em> in a given society is resolved by projecting it upon a third party—the Jew—who is then expelled.</p>
<p>In <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Eliot-Anti-Semitism-Literary-Form-Second/dp/0500282803/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1272197911&amp;sr=1-3">T.S. Eliot, Anti-Semitism, and Literary Form</a></em>, Anthony Julius suggests an interesting comparison/contrast between Homeric mythology and anti-Semitism. They both “offer explanations intended to make sense of puzzling misfortunes in human life, the one by the intervention of the gods, the other by the intervention of the Jews.” The trouble is that “Jews are not malign Olympians who dispose of humankind by manipulative wizardry.” But tell that to the anti-Semite, who craves an easy explanation for what he does not comprehend in the larger world or cannot resolve in his own circumscribed life. By making the Jew responsible for all he cannot clarify, come to terms with or vanquish, the anti-Semite forfeits both courage and morality. What will he do when the Jew is no longer there? He would be like the parasite that has devoured its host and now faces starvation.</p>
<p>This suggests another definition of anti-Semitism. <em>Anti-Semitism is a form of spiritual parasitism</em>, the always tempting resort of the human leech who feeds his appetite for security, justification and self-acquittal from the life-blood of others—in this case, of course, from the body of the Jewish people. Put less offensively, anti-Semitism is blind ignorance, both of the world and the self. Psychologists like to call this psycho-reflex “projection” or “cathexis,” but these terms don’t even begin to cover the malice inherent in so invidious an emotional investment or to parry what Wistrich in his recent book, <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Lethal-Obsession-Anti-Semitism-Antiquity-Global/dp/1400060974/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1272987204&amp;sr=1-1">A Lethal Obsession</a></em>, has identified as a “Judeophobic virus.”</p>
<p>Today, anti-Semitism has adopted a new expression, dubbed by Robin Shepherd in <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/State-Beyond-Pale-Europes-Problem/dp/0297856642/ref=sr_1_1/180-7579365-3343620?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1272987899&amp;sr=1-1">A State Beyond The Pale: Europe’s Problem with Israel</a></em> as “neo-anti-Semitism” which is “virulently anti-Israeli”. The Neurozone is gravely compromised, but the syndrome is making significant inroads on this side of the Atlantic as well. While not entirely ridding itself of its racial and socioeconomic baggage, neo-anti-Semitism converges on the Jew-as-Zionist, associated with the state of Israel as the modern embodiment of a discredited colonial enterprise. The purveyors of this claim affect not to be anti-Semitic, but their protestations are not convincing. It looks more like lying by ancillary focus.</p>
<p>The proof resides not only in the fact that Israel is unfairly and disproportionately singled out for opprobrium while flagrant and undoubted human rights offenders are generally given a free pass. It is also evident in the fact that Israel is conceived as no ordinary colonialist power. Israeli Jews are regarded as reviving the pestilence of Nazism, cleansing, or approving of the cleansing, of ethnic populations, aka the Palestinians—which is nothing short of a gross misreading of the historical archive and a wrenching misrepresentation of the present circumstance. For despite the fictions of a perjurious world, there can be no question that the Jewish people enjoy a religious, historical and <em>legal</em> right to their homeland, as Jacques Gautier, who spent twenty years studying the issue of ownership, as attorney and legal specialist Howard Grief in his <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Legal-Foundation-Borders-Israel-International/dp/9657344522/">The Legal Foundation and Borders of Israel under International Law</a></em>, and as many others have established beyond the slightest doubt. The effort to deny what is the cadastral address of the Jewish people is a pattern of what Melanie Phillips has called, in her new book of that title, <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/World-Turned-Upside-Down-Global/dp/1594033757/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1271700557&amp;sr=1-1">The World Turned Upside Down</a></em>.</p>
<p>Interestingly, the accusation that Israel is the new SS is the contemporary distortion of the theme of Albert Camus’ <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Plague-Albert-Camus/dp/0679720219/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1269197629&amp;sr=1-1">The Plague</a></em>, an obvious allegory of the Nazi invasion of Europe and North Africa. The wrinkle added to this fabric of defamation is that Jews <em>have no right to any kind of power or authority</em>. As Bernard Lewis writes in <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Semites-Anti-Semites-Inquiry-Conflict-Prejudice/dp/0753800330/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1269183330&amp;sr=1-1">Semites &amp; Anti-Semites</a></em>, Jews have no business being anything other than, at best, “a tolerated subject minority.” Therefore, “by appearing as conquerors and rulers the Jews have subverted God’s order in the universe.” This calumny, says Lewis, is both the Muslim and “the fashionable leftist or progressive line.” But it is only a symptom or manifestation of the same old sickness. To paraphrase Stephen Toulmin in <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Cosmopolis-Modernity-Stephen-Edelston-Toulmin/dp/0226808386/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1273011114&amp;sr=1-1">Cosmopolis</a></em>, it is, in effect, “the narrative of a past episode reflected in a more recent mirror.”</p>
<p>And yet the mystery persists. But whatever theory we advance to decrypt what may be largely unfathomable or at least not wholly explicable, one thing is certain. Anti-Semitism is here to stay. Jessica may elope with Lorenzo but she or her children or grandchildren will one day be forced to accept the indelible fact of origins. Anti-Semitism is not a contagion that, like Daniel Defoe’s description in <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Journal-Plague-Written-Citizen-Continued/dp/1151166510/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1269197558&amp;sr=1-1">A Journal of the Plague Year</a></em> of the catastrophe that visited London in the year 1665, will ever be “enervated and its malignity spent.” This is because anti-Semitism is unlike other forms of irrational hatred and operates under a different set of laws, which appear to be immutable.</p>
<p>Indeed, today once again, as we confront a new world-generation of venomous and commissurotomized anti-Semites, we might plausibly conclude that anti-Semitic sentiments and irruptions, in virtue of their millennial repeatability, have become entrenched in human consciousness as a <em>natural</em> inevitability. As I have <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Hear-O-Israel-David-Solway/dp/0973406534/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1272375783&amp;sr=1-1">written before</a>, “It is something that it is perceived in the depths of the psyche to have moved from the dimension of history over into the structure of nature. It is as if anti-Semitism has now become part of our synaptic equipment.”</p>
<p>As a result, the destiny of the Jew is to be eternally unsafe in this world, despite the narcotic of assimilation or the illusion of self-rejection. The time seems invariably to come when the Jew is thrown back on his identity and regarded not as a human being or as an ordinary citizen but as, <em>ab ovo</em>, a Jew. After which, measures are adopted. Of no other people can this be said. And this is why the Jewish people cannot afford the luxury of historical amnesia, self-betrayal or the hallucination of ultimate security, but must remain vigilant, conscious and always prepared for the resurgence of the plague.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new video outlines the threats to Israel from terrorist rockets, ballistic missiles, and conventional ground and air threats from the east.]]></description>
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<p>In any future agreement with the Palestinians, Israel has a critical need for defensible borders. Watch this new video, produced by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, that outlines the threats to Israel from terrorist rockets, ballistic missiles, and conventional ground and air threats from the east:</p>
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		<title>Dennis Kucinich and the Politics of Appeasement</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) has served in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1996. Kucinich does not believe that the U.S. should hold foreign states accountable for the actions of terrorists who operate within their borders. In this view, the 9/11 hijackers and their co-conspirators were an independent band of criminals who should have been prosecuted through legal, not [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) has served in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1996. Kucinich does not believe that the U.S. should hold foreign states accountable for the actions of terrorists who operate within their borders. In this view, the 9/11 hijackers and their co-conspirators were an independent band of criminals who should have been prosecuted through legal, not military, channels. Says Kucinich: “When terrorists threaten our security, we must enforce the law and bring [them] to justice within our system of constitutional justice, without undermining the very civil liberties which permits our democracy to breathe.”</p>
<p>In Kucinich’s view, the U.S. is almost always to blame in matters of international conflict. He contends, for instance, that American anti-terrorism troops deployed in the Philippines, Yemen, Soviet Georgia, Columbia, and Indonesia only “create new possibilities for expanded war.” With regard to the military action that brought down the Taliban in 2001, he decried America&#8217;s “bombing of civilians in Afghanistan,” and lamented that “the blood of innocent people who perished on September 11 [was] avenged with the blood of innocent villagers in Afghanistan.” In September 2007 Kucinich went on Syrian television to condemn President Bush&#8217;s &#8220;illegal war&#8221; in Iraq.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=630">To view the full Dennis Kucinich profile, click here.</a></p>
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		<title>If it is to recover, Haiti must make some profound cultural and political changes. &#8211; By Anne Applebaum &#8211; Slate Magazine</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For the past several days, I have found myself unable to look at the photographs from Haiti. I have also found that when I start reading an article datelined Port-au-Prince, I have to force myself to read to the end of it. I have donated money to Doctors Without Borders, on the grounds that it has been in Haiti a long time and will be able to use the cash quickly. However, I have no illusions about my tiny donation, or about the organization&#8217;s ability to help. I have no illusions about anyone&#8217;s ability to help, for this is not just a natural disaster: It is a man-made disaster first and foremost, and so it will remain.</p>
<p>via <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2241861/">If it is to recover, Haiti must make some profound cultural and political changes. &#8211; By Anne Applebaum &#8211; Slate Magazine</a>.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Obama administration is turning up the pressure on Pakistan to fight the Taliban inside its borders, warning that if it does not act more aggressively the United States will use considerably more force on the Pakistani side of the border to shut down Taliban attacks on American forces in Afghanistan, American and Pakistani officials [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Obama administration is turning up the pressure on Pakistan to fight the Taliban inside its borders, warning that if it does not act more aggressively the United States will use considerably more force on the Pakistani side of the border to shut down Taliban attacks on American forces in Afghanistan, American and Pakistani officials said.</p>
<p>via <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/08/world/asia/08policy.html?hp">Pakistan Told to Ratchet Up Fight Against the Taliban &#8211; NYTimes.com</a>.</p>
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		<title>The Left&#8217;s War Against the Boy Scouts &#8211; by Dennis Prager</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[What it teaches us about so-called "progressives."]]></description>
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<p>Watching the left attempting to undo the greatness of American medicine  and dismantle the unprecedentedly powerful American economic engine built almost  entirely on non-governmental entrepreneurial effort, I realize once again that  the left is far better at destroying than building.</p>
<p>I first  realized this as I watched the left &#8212; and here I sadly include the whole  organized left from liberal to far left &#8212; do whatever it could to destroy one  of the most wonderful organizations in American life, the Boy Scouts of     America . From Democratic city  governments to the New York Times and other liberal editorial pages to the most  destructive organization on the left, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU),  there has been the most concerted effort to break the Boy  Scouts.</p>
<p>When challenged about this, fellow Americans on the left respond that  this is a false accusation, that they have no desire to destroy the Boy Scouts,  only to coerce the organization into accepting as scouts and scout leaders boys  and men who have announced they are gay.</p>
<p>This is not an honest response, however, because the left is in fact  doing whatever it can to destroy the Boy Scouts until the Boy Scouts change  their policy on gays. The left-wing position is that if the Boy Scouts do not  change a policy that has been in place since the inception of the organization,  they do not deserve to exist.</p>
<p>Therefore it is entirely accurate to state that the left wishes to  destroy the Boy Scouts as that organization now exists. No matter how much good  the Boy Scouts have done and continue to do for millions of boys, for the left,  all this good amounts to nothing.</p>
<p>For the  left in this instance, as in most instances, the attitude is: Destroy the  imperfect in order to build the perfect.</p>
<p>There is  no left-wing Boy Scouts. The left knows best how to crush the non-left Boy  Scouts, but it has never made a boys organization of its  own.</p>
<p>Likewise  with individual lives devoted to the poor. Sure, there are secular and left-wing  organizations devoted to the poor, but the individuals who give up their lives  to the poorest in America and the world, like the members of Salvation Army at  home and the Mother Teresas abroad, are overwhelmingly religious (and to be  fair, Christian).</p>
<p>I just  spent Thanksgiving week in  Zambia and benighted  Zimbabwe with my  teenage son to help an organization give out mosquito nets and seed to the  poorest of the poor. The organization that brought us there, Rock of Africa, is  a Christian organization that works with the destitute in  Zimbabwe . As  with a larger, also Christian-based, organization that I have worked with for  nearly two years (full disclosure: It periodically sponsors my radio show), Cure  International, all those affiliated with the organization get nothing or almost  nothing for their work.</p>
<p>Why do the doctors who work at, and those who build, Cure International’s  hospitals in places like  Honduras ,  Uganda and  Afghanistan and  the volunteers of Rock of Africa do their work? Because they believe that their  faith demands that they do (I have no religious agenda here, as I am Jewish, not  Christian). The number of Christians and Christian organizations doing  self-sacrificing work around the world is large and impressive. Now, there are  also secular organizations doing magnificent work in the poorest parts of the  world &#8212; Doctors Without Borders is a well-known example &#8212; but I would bet that  the number of religious individuals who give their lives for virtually no pay to  the worst off in  America and around the world is far  greater than the number of irreligious individuals.</p>
<p>And just  as there is no left-wing Boy Scouts, there is no Salvation Army built and manned  by people with left-wing values. Nor has there ever been a left-wing country as  magnanimous, as willing to die for others, as opportunity-giving to people from  all over the world, as  America , whose greatness comes from  its traditional secular values and its Judeo-Christian values. As with the Boy  Scouts, the left can bring an  America down, but it cannot build  one.</p>
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