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		<title>50 Shades Of CIA</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why reading erotic fiction out loud is now the top qualification for being a deputy CIA director. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/cia.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-194516" alt="cia" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/cia-450x299.jpg" width="270" height="179" /></a>President Obama, already known to his staff as a &#8220;<a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/09/10/Firestorm-Obama-Misses-Over-Half-His-Intelligence-Briefings-WH-Calls-Report-Hilarious" target="_blank">sophisticated&#8221; and &#8220;voracious&#8221; consumer of intelligence reports</a>, has just found a way to enhance his intelligence briefing experience even further, by choosing <a href="http://www.cosmopolitan.com/celebrity/news/avril-danica-haines" target="_blank">Avril Danica Haines</a>, whose resume includes <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/06/13/new-cia-2-pick-used-to-read-anne-rice-aloud-at-her-bookstore-s-erotica-night.html" target="_blank">reading erotic fiction out loud</a> to paying customers, as a new deputy CIA director.</p>
<p>Twenty years ago, after dropping out of a graduate program in physics, Haines co-owned a Baltimore book store, which featured regular &#8220;Erotica Nights&#8221; with readings of erotic prose over dinner (couples $30, singles $17). Apparently, the expertise she obtained in the process later qualified her to perform as a lawyer in the White House Counsel’s office in charge of the CIA&#8217;s undercover actions, now followed by the number-two position at the top spy agency, where she will be composing and reading provocative stories of crime and passion to the president directly.</p>
<p>This job was previously performed by <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/06/12/cia-deputy-director-morell-resigns/" target="_blank">Michael &#8220;Benghazi&#8221; Morell</a>, who resigned in disgrace after he was outed as the author of the scandalously indecent talking points on the 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya.</p>
<p>Avril Haines is likely to be a more competent replacement, given her know-how in motivating dirty old men <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/aug/10/executive-branch-porn-problem/" target="_blank">working in the Pentagon, ICE, Missile Defense Agency, TSA, Secret Service, and State Department</a>, to <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/29/workers-porn-surfing-rampant-federal-agency/" target="_blank">take their minds off internet porn</a> and actually interact with a live woman who has intimate knowledge of undercover operations, probing deeply together into the matter at hand. As an added bonus, President Obama is expected never again to miss <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-leadership/post/is-it-okay-for-president-obama-to-skip-some-daily-intelligence-briefings-share-your-thoughts/2012/09/11/4474e59c-fc26-11e1-b153-218509a954e1_blog.html" target="_blank">66 percent of daily intelligence meetings</a>.</p>
<p>Liberal policies have always been based on raw, knee-jerk emotions, best summed up in the title of a 1968 tune, &#8220;If it feels good, you know it can&#8217;t be wrong.&#8221; Taking the feel-good principle to a whole new level, this administration&#8217;s behavior has long resembled adventures of a sexually liberated woman in touch with her inner flower child; it stands to reason that they would eventually hire one. Expect more exciting foreign policy adventures driven by erotic sensations in response to international crises.</p>
<p>If the <a href="http://pjmedia.com/spengler/2013/06/18/syria-and-egypt-cant-be-fixed/" target="_blank">aftermath of the Arab Spring</a> is generating butterflies in the stomach, you know it can&#8217;t be wrong. In contrast, supporting the <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2013/05/07/mass-exodus-christians-from-muslim-world/" target="_blank">persecuted Christians in Egypt and elsewhere in the Muslim world</a> is a proven turnoff. But let&#8217;s try <a href="http://sago.com/2013/06/21/obama-to-send-u-s-troops-to-egypt-to-suppress-riots-against-muslim-brotherhood-regime/" target="_blank">sending U.S. troops to help suppress the opposition to Egypt&#8217;s Islamists regime</a> and see if causes a salacious tingling sensation. It does &#8211; let&#8217;s send even more troops! Let&#8217;s <a href="http://www.france24.com/en/20130622-us-military-presence-jordan-expands-1000-troops" target="_blank">send troops to Jordan</a> too. And let&#8217;s <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/06/13/us-confirms-chemical-weapons-syria/2420763/" target="_blank">give arms to Islamic fundamentalists in Syria</a>. Yes! It feels so good, it hurts!                        <wbr /></p>
<p>Political scientists may actually have an opportunity here to build an objective geopolitical scale by quantifying amorous body responses to international stimuli, ranging from Palestine&#8217;s aphrodisiac to Israel&#8217;s buzzkill. All other international entities, organizations, and movements can be arranged between these two extremes in the order of titillating magnitude: the ultimate liberal method of determining foreign policy, building alliances, and making permanent decisions based on fleeting emotions.</p>
<p>At a time when America is being screwed by just about every tyrannical, fundamentalist, and plutocratic international gangbanger, from China to Russia to the Middle East to Latin America, the appointment of an erotic aficionado to lead the nation&#8217;s top intelligence agency is quite symptomatic: if we can&#8217;t fight back, the next best thing is to get professional advice on how to lie back and enjoy the experience. Soft music and candlelight are optional.</p>
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		<title>Stopping the Imperial Senate</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:03:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How can we prevent Senate Democrats from forcing through ObamaCare against the will of the American people? ]]></description>
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<p>There is a story about legendary chess grandmaster Aaron Nimzowitsch, who detested cigar smoke. In the great New York tournament of 1927 his opponent Milan Vidmar took out his cigar case and began to fiddle with it. Nimzowitsch became agitated and complained to the tournament director. But he is not smoking, the director replied. “He is threatening to!” shouted the distraught Nimzowitsch. Vidmar got the better of Nimzowitsch in New York. The threat was enough.<strong> </strong></p>
<p>The GOP could learn a valuable lesson from Dr. Vidmar and protect the country from a disaster in the making. If the Senate Democrats force passage of ObamaCare through “reconciliation,” what will individual Democrat Senators have done? First, they will have ignored the clear and consistent message of the American people in poll after poll. In some states those who oppose the bill outnumber those in favor by 20 points or more. Second, they will have taken the unprecedented step of passing major social legislation without bipartisan support—in fact without a single opposition party vote. Third, they will have violated Senate rules which allow only a limited and technical role for reconciliation, not a use that to all intents and purposes abolishes the Senate’s 60 vote rule for substantive policy issues.</p>
<p>It is reasonable to conclude that this represents a series of morally indefensible actions on the part of the Senators involved. On the first point, they have treated the opinion of the people who elected them with contempt. On the second point, they have acted irresponsibly. On the third point they have cheated when the stakes were so huge that faithful adherence to the rules was essential. Take the three points together, and you have despicable behavior, behavior unworthy of a U.S. Senator.</p>
<p>Elected representatives have been recalled for much less than this. California’s Governor Gray Davis was recalled simply for failing to halt runaway legislative spending, and that doesn’t come close to the immorality of jamming through legislation of massive national import with parliamentary tricks and ruthless partisanship over the strong objection of the American people. Recalls are as a rule both difficult and dangerous. They easily create a backlash in favor of the incumbent as the electorate becomes irritated with a process that seems to question its judgment in having elected the individual in the first place. In 1967, the attempt to recall Frank Church probably strengthened his position for reelection, which he won by a large margin. But given the mood of the country with respect to ObamaCare, that danger is now minimal.</p>
<p>What of the difficulty of the process? The answer to this is that there are severe limits to what can be done, but that there are nonetheless some real opportunities. Only eighteen states provide for recall of U.S. Senators: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington and Wisconsin. (The question whether state recall statutes are legally enforceable for federal offices is not completely clear, but I’ll return to that in a moment.) That is 18 states, so a total of 36 senators are potentially subject to recall. Of these, 11 are at the moment Republicans, which leaves us with 25. A recall would be pointless for 7 of those, because they are up for reelection this year. Among the remaining 18, only Kent Conrad has said that “Reconciliation cannot be used to pass comprehensive health care reform.” We are thus left with 17 senators in 12 states: Alaska’s Begich; California’s Feinstein; Colorado’s Udall; Louisiana’s Landrieu; Michigan’s Levin and Stabenow; Minnesota’s Franken and Klobuchar; Montana’s Baucus and Tester; New   Jersey’s Lautenberg and Menendez; Oregon’s Merkley; Rhode   Island’s Reed and Whitehouse; Washington’s Cantwell; Wisconsin’s Kohl.</p>
<p>All but four of these are states carried by Gore, Kerry and Obama. Anything is possible in a climate in which a Republican took Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat, but it would certainly be hard to get a blue state to recall a Democrat. However, the chances are quite good in the three states carried by both George W Bush and McCain: Alaska, Louisiana and Montana. And then there is Colorado, which Bush carried twice.</p>
<p>If we look at the mood in these four states, it’s clear that their five Democratic Senators are all vulnerable. In Alaska, Mark Begich’s approval rating has fallen to 35% according to a recent Public Policy Polling poll. In Colorado, Mark Udall’s approval numbers had dropped into minus territory already by April of 2009, and that was a time when Obama’s numbers were still high. But when you add to this the fact that Obama’s current polling in Colorado is worse than his national average, that the incumbent Senate Democrat up for reelection this year is now behind by 14 points, and that in an especially ominous poll Coloradans say they trust the judgment of the American people more than their political leaders by 74 to 11 percent, this looks to be fertile ground for a recall. In Louisiana Mary Landrieu’s polls plummeted following the Louisiana purchase, and the state’s incumbent Republican Senator is 24 points up in his reelection campaign this year. In Montana, a recent poll showed a huge margin against ObamaCare (74 to 26) and Max Baucus’ approval rating instantly dropped 20 points to 44% because of his role in promoting it. If Baucus or Jon Tester vote for ObamaCare by reconciliation in this climate of opinion in their state they can expect a firestorm.</p>
<p>But states vary in the difficulty of mounting a recall: some make it easy, while in others the hurdles are almost impossible to overcome. Fortunately, Alaska, Colorado and Montana are among the easiest. In Alaska and Colorado, the number of signatures needed to qualify a recall petition is 25% of the vote received in the last election by the person to be recalled. That means roughly 38,000 signatures for Begich and 50,000 for Udall—easily doable. In Louisiana and Montana the number is a percentage of the total eligible voters (not those who actually voted) in the last election. In Louisiana, that percentage is one third, which means 800,000 signatures, and that would be hard to do. But in Montana the percentage is a mere 10%, so it would take only 75,000 to recall Tester or Baucus, and that is feasible. Recall efforts would create the kind of national attention that would generate more than enough money to finance the collecting of signatures.</p>
<p>To be sure, there are many ways in which recall drives can fail. There is a school of legal thought which holds that a recall interferes with the federally determined term of six years, and is thus unconstitutional. I don’t find this convincing, but some people I respect do. The least we can say is that it is not clear what the U.S. Supreme Court would do. The outcome could well be that U.S. Senators can’t be recalled after all—we simply don’t know. But back to Dr Vidmar: just take out the cigar case and fiddle with it, and see what happens. The threat is a powerful one. If tomorrow the state Republican chairs in these four states were to announce that any vote for ObamaCare by reconciliation would trigger a drive to recall the Senator who cast it, these five would have to decide whether they wanted to take the risk.</p>
<p>At the very least, the recall drive would be embarrassing to them, and would provide a forum in which the full extent of their betrayal of their constituents, of responsible government, and of Senate rules and traditions could be spelled out, discussed, publicized, denounced. And in the worst case scenario, the Supreme Court might decide that those state statutes are not in fact unconstitutional. It might hold, say, that the six year term only specifies a limit; after all, Scott Brown was not elected to a six year term, and nobody thinks that unconstitutional. Or it may hold that a recall from a six year term is an action that cancels the term completely, and does not change the definition of a full term. My hunch is that that is what the court would do, because it makes the most sense. But we just don’t know—and the point is that the Senators can’t know either. We can be sure that they don’t really want to cast this vote. The announcement that they will face a recall effort could easily be enough to tip them over the edge. Go to it, Alaska, Colorado, Louisiana, and Montana.</p>
<p><em>John Ellis is President of the California Association of Scholars, and a Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Santa Cruz.</em></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Troubling developments at the Conservative Political Action Conference.]]></description>
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<p>Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Pamela Geller, founder, editor and publisher of the popular and award-winning weblog <em>AtlasShrugs.com</em>.. She has won acclaim for her interviews with internationally renowned figures, including John Bolton, Geert Wilders, Bat Ye’or, Natan Sharansky, and many others, and has broken numerous important stories — notably the questionable sources of some of the financing of the Obama campaign. Her op-eds have been published in <em>The Washington Times</em>, <em>The American Thinker</em>, <em>Israel National News</em>, <em>Frontpage Magazine</em>, <em>World Net Daily</em>, and <em>New Media Journal</em>, among other publications. She is the co-author (with Robert Spencer) of the soon to be released, <a title="http://www.amazon.com/Post-American-Presidency-Obama-Administrations-America/dp/1439189307/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1260121208&amp;sr=8-2" href="http://www.amazon.com/Post-American-Presidency-Obama-Administrations-America/dp/1439189307/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1260121208&amp;sr=8-2" target="_blank">The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration’s War on America</a> (forward by Ambassador John Bolton).</p>
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<p><strong>FP:</strong> Pamela, welcome back to Frontpage Interview.</p>
<p>I would like to talk to you today about some troubling developments that occurred at the recent Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).</p>
<p>Let’s begin by you telling us about your own event there.</p>
<p><strong>Geller:</strong> Good to be here again Jamie, thank you.</p>
<p>Last Friday, Robert Spencer and I hosted a standing-room-only event at CPAC. It was standing room only, despite the fact that we were off to the side and were going against Gov. Tim Pawlenty, Congressman Steve King, Congressman Mike Pence, Grover Norquist and several other panels.</p>
<p>Our conference was designed to speak the truths that others will not speak. First to speak was Wafa Sultan, the ex-Muslim who shot to international fame after she stood up for human rights against Sharia on Al-Jazeera in a debate with an Islamic cleric on a famous viral video, and the author of <em>A God Who Hates</em>. She spoke of Islam’s war against the West. Then Steve Coughlin, the former Pentagon Islamic law specialist who was making his first public appearance after being fired from the Defense Department after pressure from those who didn’t like his truth-of-the-matter stance on jihad. He gave a bit of his controversial presentation to the Pentagon, showing how the Defense Department is ignoring the true nature of the jihad threat, to our great detriment – which is the title of his lengthy thesis on this problem.</p>
<p>Then in the second hour our speakers showed the next phases of the advance of jihad and Sharia. While Coughlin was fired for telling the truth about Islam and jihad, human rights activist Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff is being prosecuted for “hate speech” in Austria for the same truth telling. After her came Anders Gravers of Stop the Islamisation of Europe, who has been physically assaulted for standing up for freedom in Denmark. Then Simon Deng, a former slave in Sudan and a leading human rights activist against jihad and Islamic supremacism, showed what life is like for the subjugated, enslaved Christians of southern Sudan – the fourth phase of Sharia encroachment. Finally, the war hero and Congressional candidate Lt. Colonel Allen West gave a stirring speech calling us all to the defense of freedom.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> It’s a great sign that CPAC hosted an event like this, right?</p>
<p><strong>Geller:</strong> Well Jamie, it’s not really what happened. The truth of the matter is that our event was at CPAC, but it was an independent event, <em>not a CPAC event</em>. And the truths that our speakers told were not aired at any other event at CPAC.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Ok, just a second, let me get something straight: we are facing a deadly enemy in this current terror war, and that enemy is Islamic jihad &#8212; based on Islamic theology. CPAC had how many panels about it?</p>
<p><strong>Geller: </strong>One.</p>
<p>And it was an exercise in misinformation.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Are you kidding me?</p>
<p><strong>Geller: </strong>Not at all. The single panel was:<strong> </strong></p>
<blockquote><p><strong>“You’ve Been Lied To: Why Real Conservatives are Against the </strong><strong>War on Terror</strong><strong> Delaware Ballroom</strong><br />
Sponsored by Campaign for Liberty (60 minutes)<br />
Speakers: Retired U.S. Air Force Lt. Karen Kwiatkowski and Jacob Hornberger, President of FFF<br />
Open to All CPAC Attendees”</p></blockquote>
<p>The message there was that “real conservatives” don’t support the war on terror because it is a creation of the “Israeli lobby” &#8212; which coalesces with the left-wing’s new anti-Semitism against neoconservatives. Karen Kwiatkowski is a darling of both the leftist Huffington Post and the anti-Semitic paleocon site Antiwar.com.</p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>Tell us some more about Kwiatkowski.</p>
<p><strong>Geller:</strong> Well, let’s put it this way: in a 2006 article, she described John Bolton as “that blubbering bundle of self-righteousness.” She also wrote:</p>
<blockquote><p>“Many in America oppose the U.S. knee-jerk, unquestioning support for Israel. Many more worry that the Israeli lobby is unusually influential in Washington, while remaining hidden and unaccountable to average Americans. Still others are alarmed that Israel’s constant war mentality has become our new American model, and that Iraq and our own borders have become our own occupied territories, teeming with terror and constituting a never-ending threat to our lives, prosperity and value system.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Kwiatkowski is a retired military officer. Is this really the type of thinking prevalent in the military? Me thinks not. So why on earth was she given a platform at CPAC? Doing  can only undermine those who are now serving. Having different points of view presented is one thing, but by hosting this event, CPAC explicitly endorsed this fringe, anti-American thinking.</p>
<p>That panel was, of course, a reflection of Ron Paul’s perspective. There were no counter-jihadists, no Robert Spencer, no Ibn Warraq on any CPAC panel, but they had room for this well-funded “Campaign for Liberty” presentation. The same group also had a co-sponsor booth. No expense was spared &#8212; they were everywhere. At the event Jacob Hornberger said that there were four reasons why real conservatives should be against the war on terror: because it is too costly, because it makes us less safe (he said Americans were less secure because American troops kill children and mothers and people who are simply defending their country against invaders, and have even, he said, killed a bride at her wedding), because it violates Constitutional principles, and because it is a threat to liberty.</p>
<p>Nothing was said about the Islamic doctrine that shows that jihadists would be waging war against the U.S. even if we did end all actions in Afghanistan and Iraq. The panel agreed with Obama, that Muslims are angry with us because of our actions, and will stop being angry with us if we change our foreign policy. This view is naïve and reflects ignorance of Islamic doctrine. And consider this: if Ron Paul were as anti-Islam as he is anti-Israel, he would not have been in CPAC, and his perspective would not have been represented. Instead of coming together on our basic core values and circling the wagons on the fundamentals &#8212; national security, small government, low taxes, and the freedom of speech &#8212; the CPAC leadership had a circus of the fringe.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> This is mind-boggling. This is a conservative conference and one would think conservatives are interested in national security and protecting our liberties and American lives. Why do you think this happened?</p>
<p><strong>Geller:</strong> I think CPAC’s agenda in 2010, as well as 2009 and before that, reflects the influence of Grover Norquist, the conservative powerhouse and kingmaker. He is a board member of the ACU, and from the looks of CPAC&#8217;s covered topics and omission of discussion of jihad, it looks as if he exerts enormous influence over David Keene, the ACU’s nominal leader. Norquist and his ally Suhail Khan seem to be in charge at CPAC &#8212; no CPAC event goes on that doesn’t reflect their perspective.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Expand a bit on what perspective Norquist represents.</p>
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<p><strong>Geller:</strong> Jamie, Grover Norquist’s troubling ties to Islamic supremacists and jihadists have been known for years. He and his Palestinian wife, Samah Alrayyes, who was director of communications for his Islamic Free Market Institute until they married in 2005, are very active in “Muslim outreach.” Just six weeks after 9/11, <em>The</em> <em>New Republic</em> ran an expose explaining how Norquist arranged for George W. Bush to meet with fifteen Islamic supremacists at the White House on September 26, 2001 &#8212; to show how Muslims rejected terrorism. Wrote <em>TNR</em> author Franklin Foer:</p>
<blockquote><p>Unfortunately, many of the leaders present hadn’t unambiguously rejected it. To the president’s left sat Dr. Yahya Basha, president of the American Muslim Council, an organization whose leaders have repeatedly called Hamas “freedom fighters.” Also in attendance was Salam Al-Marayati, executive director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, who on the afternoon of September 11 told a Los   Angeles public radio audience that “we should put the State of Israel on the suspect list.” And sitting right next to President Bush was Muzammil Siddiqi, president of the Islamic Society of North America, who last fall told a Washington crowd chanting pro-Hezbollah slogans, “America has to learn if you remain on the side of injustice, the wrath of God will come.”</p></blockquote>
<p>It was Norquist who ushered these silver-tongued jihadists into the Oval Office after the worst attack ever on American soil. Don’t you think that the likes of Ibn Warraq, Bat Ye’or, and Wafa Sultan should have been advising the President instead of Hamas, Hizballah and the Muslim Brotherhood? But that wasn’t to be. So at that September 26 meeting Bush declared that “the teachings of Islam are teachings of peace and good.” It was a critically important, historic moment. What should have been the most important teaching moment of the long war became a propaganda tool for Islam. A singular historic opportunity was squandered, and the harm that has resulted is incalculable.</p>
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<p><strong>FP:</strong> Why did Bush do that?</p>
<p><strong>Geller:</strong> Because he trusted Norquist, who vouched for these Muslim leaders. Yet “the record suggests,” wrote Foer, “that Norquist has spent quite a lot of time promoting people openly sympathetic to Islamist terrorists.” And this continued for years. In December 2003, <a href="http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=15084">David Horowitz wrote</a> that Norquist:</p>
<blockquote><p>“has formed alliances with prominent Islamic radicals who have ties to the Saudis and to Libya and to Palestine Islamic Jihad, and who are now under indictment by U.S. authorities. Equally troubling is that the arrests of these individuals and their exposure as agents of terrorism have not resulted in noticeable second thoughts on Grover’s part or any meaningful effort to dissociate himself from his unsavory friends.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Horowitz wrote this in an introduction to a detailed <a href="http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=15084">expose by Frank Gaffney</a> here in Frontpage showing how Norquist had given Muslims with jihad terror links access to the highest levels of the U.S. government.</p>
<p>Grover Norquist was on the jihad payroll before and after the carnage and death of September 11. Gaffney revealed Norquist’s close ties to Abdurahman Alamoudi, who is now serving twenty-three years in prison for financing jihad activity. In 2000, Alamoudi said at a rally, “I have been labeled by the media in New   York to be a supporter of Hamas. Anybody support Hamas here?&#8230;Hear that, Bill Clinton? We are all supporters of Hamas. I wished they added that I am also a supporter of Hizballah.” Alamoudi was at that time head of the now defunct “moderate” group known as American Muslim Council (AMC), and was active in other Muslim groups in the U.S. that showed sympathy or support for jihadists. And Alamoudi, according to Gaffney, gave $50,000 to the lobbying group Janus-Merritt Strategies, which Norquist cofounded.</p>
<p>His money bought influence. Gaffney wrote back in 2003: “It seems unlikely that even in Alamoudi’s wildest dreams he could have imagined the extent of the access, influence and legitimacy the American Muslim Council and allied Islamist organizations would be able to secure in Republican circles, thanks to the investment they began in 1998 in a relationship with Norquist.”</p>
<p>Alamoudi also helped found Norquist’s Islamic Institute with a $10,000 loan and a gift of another $10,000. The founding director of the Islamic Institute was Khaled Saffuri, a Palestinian Muslim who had previously been active in Islamic groups in Bosnia, where Islamic jihadists from all over the world gathered “to establish,” says Gaffney, “a beachhead on the continent of Europe.” Gaffney adds that Saffuri “has acknowledged personally supporting the families of suicide bombers – even though, in public settings, he strenuously denies having done so.” Saffuri also denounced Bush’s shutdown of the Holy Land Foundation, which was funneling charitable contributions to Hamas.</p>
<p>Norquist has also carried water for Islamic supremacist efforts to weaken anti-terror efforts. Gaffney reveals that:</p>
<blockquote><p>“Norquist was also a prime-mover behind efforts to secure one of the Islamists’ top pre-9/11 agenda items: the abolition of a section of the 1996 Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act that permits authorities to use what critics call ‘secret evidence.’…Norquist was an honoree at an event held by Sami Al-Arian’s National Coalition to Protect Political Freedom in July 2001, two months before 9/11. The award was for being a ‘champion of the abolishment movement against secret evidence.’”</p></blockquote>
<p>Al-Arian in 2006 pleaded guilty “conspiracy to make or receive contributions of funds to or for the benefit of Palestinian Islamic Jihad.” Palestinian Islamic Jihad is even worse than Hamas, celebrates the killing of Israeli civilians and calls repeatedly for the destruction of Israel.</p>
<p>Scott Johnson of the Powerline blog noted shortly after Gaffney’s article appeared that Norquist’s reponse to this exhaustively documented expose was:</p>
<blockquote><p>“personal and evasive. He attacks Gaffney as racist and bigoted; not a trace of evidence in the public record supports these charges. I heard Norquist respond to Gaffney in this manner at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington this past January. He did not deign to respond to Gaffney’s remarks in substance.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Norquist also introduced Nihad Awad, cofounder and executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, to President Bush. CAIR is one of the foremost Islamic supremacist hate sponsors in the U.S. Terror expert Steve Emerson wrote that “CAIR, which touts itself as America’s premier Muslim civil rights organization, was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Terror trial.” He noted that CAIR cofounders Nihad Awad and Omar Ahmad attended “a 1993 Philadelphia meeting where the HAMAS members and supporters discussed a strategy to kill the Oslo Peace Accords, which threatened to marginalize HAMAS. The group also discussed ways to improve HAMAS fundraising in America.”</p>
<p>Emerson also reveals that according to the testimony of an FBI agent, “CAIR was listed as a member of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestine Committee.” The Palestine Committee is dedicated to jihad for the destruction of Israel. Emerson reveals that a 1992 memo seized from a jihadi’s home explains that “Palestine is the one for which Muslim Brotherhood prepared armies – made up from the children of Islam in the Arab and Islamic nations to liberate its land from the abomination and the defilement of the children of the Jews and they watered its pure soil with their honorable blood which sprouted into a jihad that is continuing until the Day of Resurrection and provided a zeal without relenting making the slogan of its children ‘it is a Jihad for victory or martyrdom.’” Omar Ahmad and Nihad Awad were also listed as members of the Palestine Committee.</p>
<p>Robert Spencer added this about CAIR:</p>
<blockquote><p>“CAIR operatives have repeatedly refused to denounce Hamas and Hizballah as terrorist groups. Several former CAIR officials have been convicted of various crimes related to jihad terror. CAIR’s cofounder and longtime Board chairman (Omar Ahmad), as well as its chief spokesman (Honest Ibe Hooper), have made Islamic supremacist statements. CAIR has warred against free speech in the past.”</p></blockquote>
<p>These are Grover Norquist’s bedfellows. Abusing his power and access, he introduced Islamic supremacists who advocate the overthrow of the government to those who have an oath to protect and defend the Constitution, and advocated for their cause. The enemy’s strategy for winning is by subverting our senior leaders. Norquist made that possible.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Is Norquist still doing all of this?</p>
<p><strong>Geller:</strong> Yes, Jamie. Grover Norquist has continued his activities on behalf of the jihad: in 2008 journalist Paul Sperry revealed Norquist’s sponsorship of Muslim candidates with shadowy ties to terrorists, and wrote that Norquist had a “wicked project to dress Islamists up as patriotic Republicans so they can infiltrate the government.” Norquist sponsored Kamal Nawash’s unsuccessful bid to become Republican party leader in Virginia; Nawash was Abdurahman Alamoudi’s attorney. Norquist also aided previous failed political runs by Nawash – including Nawash’s 2003 Virginia state senate bid, to which Saffuri gave money.</p>
<p>Norquist also aided Faisal Gill’s failed run for the Virginia state legislature in 2007. Gill, like Nawash, was an associate of Alamoudi. During his run he took $3,000 in contributions from the pro-jihad Safa group.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Final words?</p>
<p><strong>Geller:</strong> It is no surprise that CPAC 2010, like CPAC 2009, had nothing addressing the war we are actually engaged in. This is due to the influence of Norquist, Keene, and Suhail Khan, a CPAC board member. According to Gaffney, Khan “has repeatedly been a featured speaker at MSA, ISNA and CAIR events” – that is, Muslim Students Association, Islamic Society of North America, and Council on American-Islamic Relations, three groups linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, the international Islamic organization dedicated to establishing the rule of Islamic law and the subjugation of infidels worldwide.</p>
<p>Grover Norquist single-handedly ushered into America’s highest levels of government Islamic supremacist leaders, subversives, the Islamic fifth column. Grover gave them unparalleled access. Why didn’t Gaffney’s revelations, and those that preceded and followed his expose, end Norquist’s influence among conservatives? Why does he still have so much power?</p>
<p>Grover Norquist should be a pariah, not a kingmaker.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Pamela Geller, thank you for joining us.</p>
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<p>Private industry and governments around the world have spent trillions of dollars in the name of saving our planet from manmade global warming. Academic institutions, think tanks and schools have altered their curricula and agenda to accommodate what was seen as the global warming &#8220;consensus.&#8221;</p>
<p>Mounting evidence suggests that claims of manmade global warming might turn out to be the greatest hoax in mankind&#8217;s history. Immune and hostile to the evidence, President Barack Obama&#8217;s administration and most of the U.S. Congress sides with Climate Czar Carol Browner, who says, &#8220;I&#8217;m sticking with the 2,500 scientists. These people have been studying this issue for a very long time and agree this problem is real.&#8221;</p>
<p>The scientists whom Browner references are associated with the U.N.&#8217;s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Let&#8217;s look some of what they told us. The 2007 IPCC report, which won them a Nobel Peace Prize, said that the probability of Himalayan glaciers &#8220;disappearing by the year 2035 and perhaps sooner is very high&#8221; as a result of manmade global warming. Recently, IPCC was forced to retract their glacier disappearance claim, which was made on the basis of a non-scientific magazine article. When critics initially questioned the prediction, Rajendra Pachauri, IPCC&#8217;s chairman, dismissed them as &#8220;voodoo scientists.&#8221;</p>
<p>The IPCC also had to retract its claim that up to 40 percent of the Amazonian forests were at risk from global warming and would likely be replaced by &#8220;tropical savannas&#8221; if temperatures continued to rise. The IPCC claim was based on a paper co-authored by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), two environmental activist groups.</p>
<p>England&#8217;s now-disgraced University of East Anglia&#8217;s Climatic Research Unit (CRU) has been a leader in climate research data. Their data, collected and analyzed by them, have been used for years to bolster IPCC efforts to press governments to cut carbon dioxide emissions. Climatologists, including CRU&#8217;s disgraced former director Professor Phil Jones, have been accused of manipulating data and criminally withholding scientific information to prevent its disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act.</p>
<p>Professor Jones, considered to be the high priest of the manmade global warming movement, has been in the spotlight since he was forced to step down as CRU&#8217;s director after the leaking of e-mails that skeptics claim show scientists were manipulating data.</p>
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<p>In a recent interview with the BBC, he admitted that he did not believe that &#8220;the debate on climate change is over&#8221; and that he didn&#8217;t &#8220;believe the vast majority of climate scientists think this.&#8221;</p>
<p>Long denied by the warmers, Professor Jones admitted that the Medieval Warm Period (800 A.D. to 1300 A.D.) might well had been as warm as the Current Warm Period (1975-present), or warmer, and that if it was, &#8220;then obviously the late-20th century warmth would not be unprecedented.&#8221; That suggests global warming may not be a manmade phenomenon. In any case, Professor Jones said that for the past 15 years, there has been no &#8220;statistically significant&#8221; global warming.</p>
<p>During the BBC interview, Professor Jones dodged several questions: why he had asked a colleague to delete e-mails relating to the IPCC&#8217;s Fourth Assessment Report and ask others to do likewise; whether some of his handling of data had crossed the line of acceptable scientific practice; and what about his letter saying that he had used a &#8220;trick&#8221; to &#8220;hide the decline&#8221; in tree-ring temperature data?</p>
<p>Given all the false claims and evidence pointing to scientific fraud, I don&#8217;t think it wise to continue spending billions of dollars and enacting economically crippling regulations in the name of fighting global warming. At the minimum, we should stop the Environmental Protection Agency from going on with their plans to regulate carbon emissions. Companies should resign from the United States Climate Action Partnership (USCAP), a lobbying group of businesses and radical environmentalists. Dr. Tom Borelli, who is director of the National Center for Public Policy Research&#8217;s Free Enterprise Project, says that BP, Caterpillar, Conoco Phillips, Marsh, Inc. and Xerox have the common sense to so already.</p>
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<p>Although news reports have frequently described the situation in Sderot as back to normal—with real estate having gone up 20 to 30 percent, 1,400 new homes approved for construction, and families returning to the city—behind the headlines the impact of last year’s rocket war is still hammering away at the population.<br />
Hila Barzilai, the director of the Sderot Resilience Center (Merkaz Hosen) recently told Sderot Media Center that in the past six months following Operation Cast Lead, hundreds of Sderot children have turned to the resilience center for therapy treatment.</p>
<p>“These kids come to us with their parents to seek therapy for the trauma built up from years of rocket attacks,” says Barzilai. “These problems did not just begin post-Operation Cast Lead. We are talking about eight years of constant rocket attacks whose psychological effects are now emerging during this period of calm.”</p>
<p>Over 364 new patients arrived to the resilience center six months after Operation Cast Lead, according to Barzilai.</p>
<p>“We do everything possible to limit the long-lasting affects of these rocket attacks but it is a long and drawn-out process.”</p>
<p>The average recovery period for a child can take up to eight months or more, said Barzilai. One of the challenges of trauma patients face in the recovery process are the  sporadic rocket attacks that still continue to hit Sderot and the western Negev region.</p>
<p>Barzilai notes in frustration that “it takes one rocket attack to destroy any progress in the patient’s therapy. The siren alert will trigger the flashbacks of terror and fear in the child or adult, which means that the therapy process has to start over again.”</p>
<p>The over 20 Gaza rockets fired in early January 2010, bought on a new wave of trauma patients to the center according to Barzilai, who also stated that this was the resilience center’s final year of operation due to financial issues.</p>
<p>Barzilai is not the only health professional in Sderot who has seen a sharp increase in the number of patients suffering from health issues during the calm.</p>
<p>Orna Hurwitz, the director of the Sderot Bon Tone Hearing Institute, told Sderot Media Center on Monday that hearing loss has become an ailment unique to Sderot and Gaza-border residents.</p>
<p>“The hearing impairments suffered by residents of Sderot are akin to the hearing loss that soldiers experience during war. The repeated blasts of the rocket explosions harm the ear drum to the point that many residents have to be treated for hearing loss, dizziness, tinnitus, and/or central auditory processing disorders,” says Hurwitz.</p>
<p>“Many of these victims do not seek out treatment for such internal injuries immediately. After a rocket attack, the first things that are treated are the physical injuries and the shock. Less noticeable are the internal injuries. Many victims therefore fail to realize that their hearing may have also been impaired.”</p>
<p>“It is during the calm and quiet—like this third ceasefire with Hamas—that residents are discovering that they have been injured in other ways.”</p>
<p>“Hearing loss is an especially sensitive subject,” said Horowitz.  “It takes time for people to process that they have a hearing problem and many are embarrassed to seek help—especially the younger victims.”</p>
<p>The expensive cost for the treatment is another reason why Sderot residents do not get the necessary assistance. According to Horowitz, many low-income residents simply do not have the budget to purchase a hearing aid, which can cost anywhere from $1,000 to $5,000, or seek more professional care.</p>
<p>“In Sderot, we have over 200 residents with hearing impairments as a result of rocket explosions. Most cannot afford the treatment that they need to get better.”</p>
<p>Horowitz says that although the city appears to be returning to some semblance of normalcy, “the beautiful new parks and playgrounds do nothing to address the real health issues of residents.”</p>
<p>“Hearing is one of the five basic senses that human beings need to live and enjoy life to the fullest. Although things may look normal on the outside at this moment, there are many residents here who continue to suffer in silence,” she says.</p>
<p>“Hearing loss among my patients has led to loss of jobs, depression, and strained family ties. It’s a never-ending battle that I see Sderot residents struggle with in my office every day.”</p>
<p>Anav Silverman is the international correspondent at Sderot Media Center, SderotMedia.com, a social media organization dedicated to bringing the voices of Sderot residents to the attention of the global community.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[While the American Hamas terror lobby was shut down, its offspring are still flourishing.]]></description>
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<p>In 1981, future terrorist leader and spokesman Mousa Abu Marzook began building, within the United States, a network of violence supporting Palestinian-oriented groups, which would later become the basis for a well-financed Hamas infrastructure. Today, that network has been severely crippled. However, parts of it yet exist, all of which hail from the American propaganda wing of Hamas, the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP), one of which is a chapter <em>of the IAP itself</em>.</p>
<p>On December 8, 2004, Joyce and Stanley Boim, an American couple, were awarded $156 million by a federal court jury for the murder of their teenage son, David, who had been shot and killed during a May 1996 Hamas terrorist operation in Israel. The four defendants who were found liable for the murder included three organizations, the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF), the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP), and the Quranic Literacy Institute (QLI), and one individual, a Chicago resident named Muhammad Salah.</p>
<p>Of the three organizations, only the IAP was still in existence at the time of the trial. However, that would soon change, as then-Communications Director of the Chicago office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Chicago) Ahmed Rehab, in January 2006, e-mailed this author <a href="http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=5681">declaring that the IAP was no more</a>.</p>
<p>In the time that the IAP was operating, from the years 1981 to 2005, the group had created a number of local chapters throughout the U.S., using aliases as names. These included the American Middle Eastern League for Palestine (AMELP) and the American Muslim Society (AMS).</p>
<p>Like the IAP, most of these groups are gone. However, there is still one chapter that is in operation, the American Muslim Society of the Tristate Area of Pennsylvania, New Jersey &amp; Delaware (AMS Tri-State).</p>
<p>AMS Tri-State was established in December 2000 and incorporated the following month, in January 2001. According to the Pennsylvania Department of State, the group’s <a href="http://www.americansagainsthate.org/American_Muslim_Society_and_CAIR.html">corporation is still active</a>.</p>
<p>The registered address of AMS Tri-State is 1860 Montgomery Avenue, located in Villanova, Pennsylvania. It is the same address as the Foundation of Islamic Education (FIE), a satellite campus for Cairo, Egypt’s Al-Azhar University.</p>
<p>Since it began, AMS Tri-State has held board meetings at FIE and has held annual conferences at FIE. These conferences, which were co-sponsored by FIE, featured a number of leaders from various radical Muslim groups, including the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), the Muslim American Society (MAS), the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), and the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT).</p>
<p>The website address of AMS Tri-State was <a href="http://www.americansagainsthate.org/American_Muslim_Society_and_CAIR.html">recently renewed</a>, as the expiration date of it has changed from December 16, 2009 to December 16, 2010. The Registrant, Administrative Contact and Technical Contact of the site is Iftekhar Hussain. According to the website of CAIR-Pennsylvania, of which Hussain acts as Chairman of the Board, Hussain is “currently serving as Secretary General of the American Muslim Society of the Tristate Area of PA, NJ &amp; DE.”</p>
<p>For Hussain to be involved with both groups is no strange coincidence, as the IAP was the parent organization of CAIR. CAIR was founded by three leaders of the IAP: IAP National President Omar Ahmad, IAP National Public Relations Director Nihad Awad, and AMS-Chicago President Rafiq Jaber, who later became IAP National President.</p>
<p>In fact, some can make the claim that AMS Tri-State <em>is the parent organization</em> of CAIR-Pennsylvania, which was established in 2004. AMS Tri-State founding Secretary General Iftekhar Hussain served as CAIR-Pennsylvania Chairman; AMS Tri-State founding President Zaheer Chaudhry served as a CAIR-Pennsylvania board member; and AMS Tri-State founding Chairman Masood Ghaznavi <a href="http://www.americansagainsthate.org/American_Muslim_Society_and_CAIR.html">served as a CAIR-Pennsylvania advisor</a>.</p>
<p>Remnants of Hamas, such as AMS and CAIR, exist as a cautious reminder of a violent movement that began in the 1980s and that persists to this day. Unfortunately, when the IAP was shut down in 2005, its offspring were left to flourish.</p>
<p>Unlike CAIR, though, which has grown to over 30 chapters across the United States, AMS Tri-State appears to be an oversight. The memory of David Boim, along with all the other innocents who have perished at the hands of Hamas, cannot be served by its continuance.</p>
<p>Why the IAP lingers in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware is a mystery that can only be known to the group itself. And whatever the reason is, it cannot have anything but a sinister motive attached to it.</p>
<p><em>Joe Kaufman is the Chairman of </em><a href="http://www.americansagainsthate.org/"><em>Americans Against Hate</em></a><em>, the founder of </em><a href="http://www.cairwatch.org/"><em>CAIR Watch</em></a><em>, and the spokesman for </em><a href="http://www.youngzionists.org/"><em>Young Zionists</em></a><em>.</em></p>
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<p><em>Beila Rabinowitz, Director of </em><a href="http://www.militantislammonitor.org/"><em>Militant Islam Monitor</em></a><em>, contributed to this report.</em></p>
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<p>“This is not an Israeli-Palestinian debate,” Stanley Cohen, the director of the Scone Foundation, said. “It is [a conference] to honor the archivist profession.”</p>
<p>Cohen’s statement was half true: the event was not a “debate,” but only because there were no dissenting opinions to challenge keynote speaker <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/6418">Rashid Khalidi’s</a> monologue portraying the Palestinians as powerless victims of an Israeli foe intent on destroying their historical records.</p>
<p>Cohen was speaking to an audience of approximately 150 people, mostly members of the general public and scholars of the Middle East, at the Scone Foundation’s “Archivist of the Year” award ceremony, held January 25 at the CUNY Graduate Center’s expansive auditorium in the heart of New York City.</p>
<p>The event was billed as an opportunity to honor the joint recipients of the seventh Archivist of the Year award, Yehoshua Freundlich of the Israeli Archives and Khader Salameh of the Al-Aqsa Mosque Library. <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/search.php?cx=015692155655874064424%3A-cjrsa07xqe&amp;cof=FORID%3A9&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=khalidi&amp;sa=Search#922">Khalidi</a>, Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia University and a <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/1211">former spokesman for the PLO</a>, and <a href="http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/history/myers/">Professor David Myers</a>, the director of the Center for Jewish Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, were the event’s keynote speakers.</p>
<p>Cohen made clear from the start that he subscribed to the political biases of academia. He claimed that a previous recipient of the Archivist of the Year Award had been “shelved by the Defense Department” for opposing Operation Iraqi Freedom. “Archivists cannot oppose faith-based policies,” Cohen joked with his seemingly sympathetic audience.</p>
<p>Salameh’s and Freundlich’s speeches followed Cohen’s address. The two archivists were dispassionate, thoughtful, and apolitical in describing their work. Salameh demonstrated a fluent grasp of Hebrew when speaking to an Israeli during his presentation, and Freundlich talked about his determination to preserve documents related to Palestinian history.</p>
<p>The American academics proved decidedly less capable of keeping politics out of their speeches. Myers spoke first, stating before he began his address that, “self-critical research,” meaning criticism of the Palestinian narrative, was a “defining feature of [Khalidi’s] work”—a preposterous claim that could not withstand the evidence presented in Khalidi’s own words.</p>
<p>Khalidi began his speech by saying that the “statelessness” of the Palestinians is a “condition that manifests itself directly in the lack of Palestinian national archives.”  This proved a half-hearted attempt to make his digression into politics relevant to the subject of the ceremony.</p>
<p>While Myers had discussed how Israel’s leftist “<a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/New_Historians.html">New Historians</a>” challenged the alleged “myths” of Israelis’ “collective memory,” Khalidi sounded almost giddy when he stated, “the founders of the [Israeli] state would be turning in their graves [if they read what these historians wrote].”</p>
<p>Khalidi later made clear that Palestinians, unlike Israelis and Americans, are exempt from the obligation to challenge their national myths: “The collective memory of the Palestinians was perfectly clear,” Khalidi said of the precision of the Palestinian refugees’ recollection of their “expulsion” from the Jewish state.</p>
<p>He neglected to mention that even according to the controversial estimates of the New Historians, <a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/refugees.html">at most a third of the Palestinian refugees</a> of Israel’s 1948 War of Independence were expelled; the rest left on their own accord, Palestinians’ “collective memory” to the contrary notwithstanding.</p>
<p>Khalidi claimed Palestinian archives were systematically destroyed by the Israelis, adding that this issue was “exacerbated by the destruction or desecration of religious and historical sites.” He later expanded on this claim: “These actions are often linked to efforts to deny the existence of Palestinians in Palestine.”</p>
<p>The only examples Khalidi offered of such Israeli actions were the bombing of Palestinian archives at a PLO building in Beirut during the <a href="http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1678203/the_first_lebanon_war_arab_israeli.html">First Lebanon War</a> and the closing of the PLO’s Jerusalem headquarters and archives at the <a href="http://www.orienthouse.org/about/index.html">Orient House</a> during the Second Intifada. The intuitive reason for such actions—<a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/testimony/5.pdf">the PLO’s documented support for terrorism</a> and not a desire to “deny the existence of Palestinians”—was seemingly lost on Khalidi.</p>
<p>Given Khalidi’s abandonment of any pretense of discussing the work of the two archivists, Myers was clearly hesitant to challenge Khalidi’s assertions during the question and answer session. He further politicized the conference with a digression on how historians could use their trade to assist Palestinians who claimed to have lost property in Jerusalem. Myers neglected to discuss how historians could help redeem the <a href="http://info.jpost.com/C003/Supplements/Refugees/12-13.html">much more significant financial losses</a> of the approximately <a href="http://www.meforum.org/263/why-jews-fled-the-arab-countries">900,000 Jews who fled Arab lands</a>.</p>
<p>However, to his credit, Myers did argue for the “ameliorative role” of archives and their “possibility to craft a shared history [between Israelis and Palestinians].” Cohen had also claimed in <a href="http://www.newyorkhistoryblog.com/2010/01/palestinian-israeli-archivists-feted-as.html">a flier</a> for the conference that, “Open archives may very well be instruments to reduce divergence, expand mutual understanding and fruitful cooperation [between Israelis and Palestinians].&#8221;</p>
<p>Khalidi ended the awards ceremony on a decidedly less optimistic note. He discussed how Germany and France had fought wars for a century and a half and had to wait 60 years after those conflicts ended before they could establish a joint “peace” curriculum for their schools. He then concluded, “[A Palestinian State], I fear, is unlikely to see the light of day anytime soon, if ever.”</p>
<p>Khalidi’s politicization of an awards ceremony intended to honor the unsung heroes of the archivist profession was predictable to anyone familiar with his public lectures, which routinely politicize rather than analyze the contemporary Middle East. More disturbing was Myers’s and the audience’s complacent acceptance of his usurpation. The professionalism of the Israeli and Palestinian archivists stood in stark contrast to the unwillingness of the American academics to check their politics at the door. The honorees deserved better.</p>
<p><em>Brendan Goldman is a senior at New York University majoring in Middle Eastern and Islamic studies, and an intern at the Middle East Forum. This essay was sponsored by </em><em><a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/">Campus Watch</a>, a project of the <a href="http://www.meforum.org/">Middle East Forum</a>.</em></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Hayden, the former CIA director, penned a superb op-ed in the Washington Post on Sunday. Succinctly, he tallies the wages of having Attorney General Eric Holder make national-security decisions. Unlike the attorney general, Hayden is a real general, and very much worth heeding. He shows that these decisions have been premised on left-wing political [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Michael Hayden, the former CIA director, penned a superb op-ed in the Washington Post on Sunday. Succinctly, he tallies the wages of having Attorney General Eric Holder make national-security decisions. Unlike the attorney general, Hayden is a real general, and very much worth heeding. He shows that these decisions have been premised on left-wing political calculations that always shortchange intelligence collection and the pursuit of American interests. Holder’s judgments are not based on what America’s safety requires or on what the law maximally permits U.S. intelligence to do in wartime.</p>
<p>As Hayden points out, the policy decisions that President Obama has allowed Holder to make are significant — not only taken one by one, but in their cumulative effect on the ethos of our intelligence agencies. “Intelligence officers,” he writes, “need to know that someone has their back.” After Holder forced the release in April of classified memos prepared by Bush Justice Department lawyers, laying out interrogation tactics and the legal rationale for permitting them, “CIA officers began to ask whether the people doing things that were currently authorized would be dragged through this kind of public knothole in five years. No one could guarantee that they would not.”</p>
<p>The paralysis wrought by this decision transcends the narrow subject of interrogations. All intelligence collection is infected. If you can’t/don’t collect intelligence in a war against a secretive, transnational jihadist network, you stand to lose — and a lot of Americans stand to die. Thus, Hayden concludes, “Some may celebrate that the current Justice Department’s perspective on the war on terrorism has become markedly more dominant in the past year. We should probably understand the implications of that before we break out the champagne.”</p>
<p>via <a href="http://article.nationalreview.com/423597/the-attorney-and-the-general/andrew-c-mccarthy">The Attorney and the General &#8211; Andrew C. McCarthy &#8211; National Review Online</a>.</p>
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		<title>The State Of The Union Address Obama Should Give</title>
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<p>In a culmination of his controversial first year in office, President Obama will deliver the State of the Union address this evening. <em>Front Page</em> magazine turned to a panel of experts for their advice on the speech that the president should give and the political priorities that he must address in 2010. &#8212; <em>The Editors</em></p>
<p><strong>Brian Riedl</strong></p>
<p>Life After Debt</p>
<p>New budget estimates show that – under current policies – the national debt would triple to $22 trillion over the next decade. This additional debt, which is overwhelmingly driven by rising spending, would total $130,000 per household.</p>
<p>In a perfect world, President Obama would announce:</p>
<p>1) specific reforms to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid</p>
<p>2) a repeal of TARP and the stimulus</p>
<p>3) a plan to devolve much of the federal government to the state and local governments closer to the people they serve</p>
<p>4) an abandonment of his massive health care bill.</p>
<p>Alas, this is not going to happen.</p>
<p>Perhaps more realistically, the President should back up his proposed three-year freeze on some discretionary spending with statutory spending caps – and promise to veto any spending that exceeds the cap. He should follow a bipartisan recommendation to take Social Medicare, Medicare, and Medicaid spending off autopilot, and force Congress to budget for these programs. He should restore his campaign promises to reduce earmarks down to 1994 levels, scour the federal budget line-by-line for wasteful spending, and produce a health plan that truly bends the cost curve downward.</p>
<p><em>Brian Riedl is a Senior Policy Analyst and Grover Hermann Fellow in Federal Budgetary Affairs at The Heritage Foundation.</em></p>
<p><strong>David Horowitz </strong></p>
<p>Nowhere Left to Turn</p>
<p>In my view, the problem for Obama is that no matter what he says, no one&#8217;s going to believe him &#8212; not the right, not the left, not the center. In a year in office has acquired a massive credibility problem, which is not helped by the way by his overexposure. Consider his problem. To go forward with his leftist agenda is political suicide as every poll since August has shown. But what will he gain if he tacks right? He will further alienate his base but will he persuade any conservatives that he is not an incompetent menace? Or reassure the independents who have deserted him that he just made a mistake, and is not fundamentally dishonest (which even <em>Newsweek</em>’s Evan Thomas, who recently thought of him as a &#8220;<a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/kyle-drennen/2009/06/05/newsweek-s-evan-thomas-obama-sort-god">God</a>,&#8221; now believes) and not to be trusted? I almost think it would be better for him to skip the State of the Union, and spend the evening firing most of the people around him, which would be the first step in convincing everybody that he&#8217;s serious about changing course.</p>
<p><em>David Horowitz is editor-in-chief of</em> Front Page <em>magazine, the author of numerous books, and the president and founder of the David Horowitz Freedom Center.</em></p>
<p><strong>Peter Collier </strong></p>
<p>A Teachable Moment</p>
<p>I&#8217;d like to hear Obama say that he is going to go back to the drawing boards with health care and will work consensually to solve this complex problem incrementally rather than through some arrogant holistic solutions that will make us sicker and poorer in one gesture.</p>
<p>I&#8217;d like him to hear him admit that the stimulus plan was a bust and that, contrary to his mendacious spokesmen, his administration has failed utterly in the effort to create jobs.</p>
<p>I&#8217;d like to hear him tell the nation to read his lips on no new taxes.</p>
<p>I&#8217;d like to hear him acknowledge that the way voters came forth in elections in Massachusetts, New Jersey and Virginia to show that while they want to be intelligently governed they refuse to be ruled represents a quintessential American moment.</p>
<p>I&#8217;d like to hear him tell the democracy activists in Iran that he is deeply ashamed by his failure to support their cause and that he no longer harbors fantasies that his contemptible silence will bring talks in which he will be able to use his overrated eloquence to turn their mullah tormentors away from their desire to get the Bomb.</p>
<p>I&#8217;d like to hear him say that he is disillusioned with the Palestinian thugocracy his policies see as morally superior to the Israelis.</p>
<p>I&#8217;d like to hear him say that he has rethought his negative take on American exceptionalism and now, after a regrettable apology tour, sees that the US is a shining example for the world rather than just another country.</p>
<p>I&#8217;d like, in other words, for an admission, however oblique, that he has learned something in his first year in office.</p>
<p>But I&#8217;m not holding my breath.</p>
<p><em>Peter Collier co-authored seven books with David Horowitz, including the widely read</em> Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts About the ‘60s<em>. He is also the author of many other books including, biographies on the Fords, Rockefellers, and Kennedys. He works at the David Horowitz Freedom Center.</em></p>
<p><strong>Alan Dowd</strong></p>
<p>The Pride Before the Fall</p>
<p>If someone had told President Obama that one year after his inauguration his party would lose statewide races in Virginia and New Jersey, fumble signature initiatives like health care and cap-and-trade, surrender the seat Ted Kennedy had held since 1962—to an unknown state senator—and give the once-demoralized Republican Party an opportunity to win back Congress, he would have laughed at that someone. One thing is certain: He’s not laughing right now as he prepares for his first State of the Union address.</p>
<p>The smartest course of action for the president may the most difficult for him to take, because it would require him to learn from, and listen to, his predecessors. That, of course, would presuppose that he believes he can learn something from his predecessors. The Clinton model of retreating from an ideological crusade and “pivoting” to practical and politically palatable policies could be helpful to Obama’s sinking administration. But don’t count on him to embrace that model. Obama seems far more ideological than President Clinton and has yet to convey the appearance of humility, which Clinton so effectively used to his advantage as a candidate and president. I actually hope Obama keeps listening to the “full speed ahead” mantra of the far left. If he does, by this time next year there will be a Republican Congress in place to check his statist agenda.</p>
<p><em>Alan Dowd writes on U.S. politics and U.S. foreign policy.</em></p>
<p><strong>James Carafano </strong></p>
<p>Time for Return of the Straight Talk Express</p>
<p>It used to be said “politics should stop at the water’s edge.” With the threat of global terrorism, where security is concerned politics should stop at our “doorstep.” Sadly, none of that is happening in Washington. In his first year in office, on security issues, Obama never switched from campaigning to governing. All of his initiatives were “political calculations” to try to show he was not weak on national security, but at the same time didn’t lose the “base.”</p>
<p>That has to stop. Obama has nothing to show for a year in the world. His foreign policies have not been shrewd and pragmatic. They have been laughable. He dithered on Afghanistan. He lost the bubble on homeland security. He caved to the Russians and Chinese.</p>
<p>Stop the insanity, Mr. President.</p>
<p>Here are five commitments he could make to turn things around.</p>
<p>1) State flatly terrorism is job #1.</p>
<p>2) Declare we are in Afghanistan to win and winning is more important than arbitrary deadlines.</p>
<p>3) Admit we are living in the margin of error of when Iran will detonate a nuclear weapon. We need unilateral US sanctions&#8211;now. We need robust missile defense&#8211;now. We need to highlight the regime’s horrific human rights record&#8211;now. We need to draw red lines&#8211;now.</p>
<p>4) Call for adding $50 billion a year to the defense budget to buy the equipment our men and women in uniform need to protect this generation of Americans and the next.</p>
<p>5) Forget about immigration “amnesty.” Granting amnesty would just make the challenge of securing the border worse. We need security, enforcement, and legitimate worker programs. That has to be Obama’s priority—now.</p>
<p><em>Dr. James Jay Carafano is the deputy director of the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies and director of the Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation. </em></p>
<p><strong>Ariel Cohen </strong></p>
<p>A Reset on Russia</p>
<p>President Barack Obama’s Russia policy is defined by the Administration’s view that America is overstretched globally, and that without assistance from a major power, such as Russia or China, Washington cannot achieve its goals. Some in the Administration believe that America is in decline and their job is to manage it. The policy of “outstretched hand” toward Russia (as well as other unfriendly powers) follows from this notion. So far, President Obama has failed to achieve any impressive results.</p>
<p>Russian officials say that the Obama Administration listens better [than that of George W. Bush], but “did not offer anything substantive.” Others compared Obama with Gorbachev – in terms of presiding over a great power in decline and referring to his naïveté. A senior Russian official half-jokingly said the U.S. concessions were “birthday presents for President Medvedev and Prime Minister Putin.”</p>
<p>Sure, the Kremlin will pocket the U.S. concessions and ask for more. It was blatantly clear to this author as early as September 2009, (after spending ten days with the leading Russian foreign policy experts), that the Obama Administration did not – and will not — receive any quid-pro-quo for the significant concessions it provided to Russia as a part of its “reset button” policy.</p>
<p>Another systemic problem Obama faced in Russia is the duopoly of power. Obama spent many hours talking to Medvedev, whereas the real decision making lies with Putin. Talking to the wrong guy is a bad negotiating strategy.</p>
<p>It is too expensive to have a U.S. president learning on the job. Misreading Russia’s great power agenda, overestimation of one’s own negotiating capabilities, misplaced and idealistic faith in the merits of arms control, and dialogue at all costs all this brought Barack Obama’s Russia policy into dangerous shoals. One hopes that the President will learn his lessons and that his second year in office will benefit the United States in the Administration’s dealings with Putin &amp; Co.</p>
<p><em>Ariel Cohen, Ph.D., is Senior Research Fellow in Russian and Eurasian Studies and International Energy Policy at the Katherine and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Policy at The Heritage Foundation.</em></p>
<p><strong>Andrew Klavan</strong></p>
<p>Here is my suggested text for the State of the Union in its entirety:</p>
<p>&#8220;My fellow citizens of the world. I come before you today to gaze into the middle distance and speak in ringing phrases.  For make no mistake:  the time for phrases that do not ring is past.  Already, in only the first year since I have fulfilled my awesome destiny, I have created millions of jobs—not just ordinary jobs that you have to work at for pay, but jobs beyond your wildest imagination, over the mountain of your deepest desires, and down the hallway of your fondest dreams.  I have sent many troops to Afghanistan—many, many troops who are running here and there with serious faces, shouting “Let’s go,” and firing their rifles so that the isolated extremists who have gathered together in great numbers to attack us will know that I am become Shiva, destroyer of worlds.</p>
<p>“But there is much still to do.  Even as we speak, a child is crying—a little, sad, pitiful child with big eyes, crying enormous tears that will cost hundreds of billions of dollars to dry.  So let me be very clear:  the bridge from yesteryear leads to the cloudbanks of a golden perfection where the prospect of a horizon awaits a mighty century.  At this, we must not fail.  Thank you—and God bless us, every one.&#8221;</p>
<p><em>Andrew Klavan is the author of best-selling novels </em>True Crime, Don’t Say a Word, and Empire of Lies. <em>He blogs at</em> <a href="http://andrewklavan.com/">AndrewKlavan.com</a>.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[The attempted Christmas Day destruction over Detroit of Northwest Flight 253 by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is fading from public memory as a fortunate near-miss. This incident should not fade from view. As more information emerges, the picture it paints about the antiterror mindset of the current U.S. government is—there is no other word—scary. Last week [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>The attempted Christmas Day destruction over Detroit of Northwest Flight 253 by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is fading from public memory as a fortunate near-miss. This incident should not fade from view. As more information emerges, the picture it paints about the antiterror mindset of the current U.S. government is—there is no other word—scary.</p>
<p>Last week in these columns, we discussed Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair&#8217;s Congressional testimony on the Abdulmutallab case. This was Mr. Blair&#8217;s famous &#8220;duh&#8221; remark about the government&#8217;s failure to invoke the new High-Value Detainee Interrogration Group (HIG) to question Abdulmutallab. A remarkable Associated Press story this past weekend makes clear that &#8220;duh&#8221; was mainly another word for disgust inside the intelligence bureaucracy over what happened that day in Detroit.</p>
<p>Here, compressed, is AP&#8217;s account of how Abdulmutallab was handled after the plane landed. Read it and weep.</p>
<p>He was taken to the hospital by U.S. Customs agents and local cops, to whom he babbled that he was trying to blow up the plane.</p>
<p>via <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703808904575025231056290438.html">Abdulmutallab Stops Talking After Being Read Miranda Rights &#8211; WSJ.com</a>.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two new books detail the brutalities of daily life in Mao’s worker’s paradise. 
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<p><em><strong><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Search-My-Homeland-Memoir-Chinese/dp/0060881267">In Search of My Homeland: A Memoir of a Chinese Labor Camp </a><br />
</strong></em><strong>By Er Tai Gao<br />
</strong><strong>Harper Collins, $22.99, 260 pp.</strong></p>
<p><strong><em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Socialism-Great-Workers-Memoir-China/dp/0977743373">“Socialism is Great!”: A Worker’s Memoir of the New China </a><br />
</em></strong><strong>By Lijia Zhang<br />
</strong><strong>Anchor, $15, 364 pp.</strong></p>
<p>In a time when a <a href="http://newsrealblog.com/2009/10/25/anita-dunn-were-you-also-joking-about-mother-theresa-by-jamie-glazov/" target="_blank">White House Communications Director lists Red Chinese dictator Mao as a major</a> influence in her life, it’s worth taking a look at the society that Mao established through mass murder and terror.</p>
<p>Two very different new memoirs by Chinese authors do just that. Anita Dunn, then President Obama&#8217;s director of communications, last fall held up Mao as an example of individualism. In reality, under Mao’s regime, the communist government was so intent on wiping out individuality that it even demanded ideological allegiance from those it had branded enemies of the state — as it was killing them.</p>
<p>Even in the time of “reform” after Mao’s death, during the great “liberalization” of the 1980s, Chinese female workers were required to report their menstrual cycles and sex lives to factory apparatchiks in charge of population control. Evidently, this is Anita Dunn’s idea of how the individual can make a difference in society.</p>
<p>In <em>In Search of My Homeland</em>, his eloquent and tragic memoir, artist Er Tai Goa records that as the Chinese government worked its prisoners to death, those in Mao’s gulags were continuously tested for ideological rigor. In fact, the inmates, much like the rest of the country, monitored each other through “mutual supervision,” complete with the infamous group criticism sessions and punishments. As Goa recounts, the prisoners were required to endure all this with a state-enforced smile on their faces, a strenuous effort that added another torment to their daily agony.</p>
<p>While prisoners were dropping like flies in the camps, life could still be made worse by the commandant. Even whole-heartedly embracing the process of personal “reforming through labor” and taking a vocal lead in ideological discussions — and “mutual supervision” — did not spare one from arbitrary punishment.</p>
<p>If this seems unbelievably Orwellian, consider this: During China&#8217;s Cultural Revolution in the &#8217;60s, most of the people sent to their deaths in labor camps weren&#8217;t dissidents at all. In fact, most were as devoted to Mao as the people who denounced them and sent them away.</p>
<p>Er Tai Gao, however, did commit an ideological crime in the eyes of the regime, even though he had no political motive. As a young, naïve art teacher, Gao published an essay, “On Beauty,” in which he argued that beauty was subjective and dependent on context. Essentially, he wrote, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. To Western readers, the premise of Goa’s essay, which is included as an appendix, seems self-evident. But Lenin had held that beauty was objective and materialistic. So, in Mao&#8217;s eyes, Gao&#8217;s position was a crime against the Chinese State.</p>
<p>Gao published his essay in 1957, the time of “openness,” when Mao suckered his country’s intellectuals into expressing heresy openly so he could purge them in the Cultural Revolution. Gao was sent to the Jiabiangou “Farm” in the Gobi Desert, where the prisoners dug and filled in ditches through every kinds of brutal weather until they collapsed and died.</p>
<p>Goa, who survived more than two years in Jiabiangou, was released to a restrictive work environment, only to be denounced again and publically beaten; and was sent to another camp until he was released in 1962. He found a job after his release in China’s famed Mogoa Caves, a treasure trove of archeology and art, where he was able to lose himself in his work despite constant deprivation and threat.</p>
<p><em>In Search of My Homeland</em> is a spare and beautifully written book. But it&#8217;s not necessarily a hopeful one. Gao says his survival was not due to any great inner strength of his own, or the kindness of strangers, but was entirely “capricious.”</p>
<p>He may give himself too little credit. This book is the result of a secret diary he kept hidden on his person as he kept himself sane by writing. The discovery of the document would probably have led to his death. However foolish the risk was, readers are the beneficiaries of his foolhardy courage in providing us this extraordinary document.</p>
<p><strong>“Socialism is Great!”</strong></p>
<p>While not a political dissident in any sense we would recognize, Gao at least was an intellectual of some consequence who expressed an opinion that clashed with state orthodoxy. But as Lijia Zhang recounts in her extremely engaging memoir, <em>“Socialism is Great!,”</em> her parents were basically anonymous workers, cogs in the machine of China’s vast labor force, who endured persecution during the Cultural Revolution.</p>
<p>For Zhang, however, neither Cultural Revolution nor Mao himself is the primary focus. Her story begins when her mother ends the school career of young Lijia and bequeaths the budding 16-year-old scholar a mind-numbing job in a Nanjing rocket factory — presumably a life sentence.</p>
<p>Lijia discovers an environment where the “workers” are anything but dedicated laborers and find innumerable ways to get through the day without effort. Production is secondary to ideological purity in the late 1970s, and the plant&#8217;s political instructor gathers them daily for what amounted to Communist chapel sermons:</p>
<blockquote><p>“Wang loved to talk up the latest political movement: today, a campaign against burgeois liberalism symbolized by bell-bottoms, called ‘trumpet trousers’ in Chinese.</p>
<p>&#8220;&#8216;Unable to distinguish between flagrant flowers and poisonous weeds, these young people pick up capitalist trash like &#8220;trumpet trousers and rotten music,&#8217;;’ Wang spat through a southern accent. &#8220;‘We must resolutely defend the “four cardinal principles&#8221; of socialism and firmly oppose bourgeois liberalism!’&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>But Lijia was a free spirit to a fault &#8212; and ambitious to boot. She first exercised rebellion by soaking up as much Western culture and literature as possible, such as secretly reading <em>Jane Eyre</em> and <em>Great Expectations</em>, and eventually through forbidden meetings with lovers (recounted in such frank detail that one hopes at least some were given pseudonyms).</p>
<p>While many in the West have heard of China’s one-child policy, which led to millions of cases of infanticide and forced abortions, it is rarely recounted just how thoroughly the Communist Party regulated the love life of average citizens.</p>
<p>China in the 1980s was a nation where married women could be forced to have an abortion at the same time a single woman could not legally obtain one. In a society nearly as sexually regulated as one under Islamic Sharia Law, an unmarried pregnant woman suffered not just social stigma but also civil sanctions—but so-called “pro-choice” and “feminist” groups on the American Left still lauded communist China’s “family planning” regime as a model for the Third World.</p>
<p>The limiting of offspring was not the only way in which married couples’ lives were regulated by the State. Lijia’s mother, for instance, lived as a virtual widow for most of her adult life for daring to marry a man from another city who was never given permission to permanently join her in Nanjing, giving them less than two weeks a year to be together.</p>
<p>In the rocket plant Lijia, and the other women are forced to submit to examinations by “the period police” in the factory hygiene office, a humiliation she recounts in chilling detail.</p>
<p>The book’s title comes from a hilariously stilted song the party gave the workers to boost morale. <em>“Socialism is Great!”</em> is filled with wry observations and a delicious sense of the ridiculous. While the totalitarian weight of the Chinese state is ever-present, Zhang tells her story with a sense of humor that is unique in dystopian memoirs.</p>
<p>The book ends on a serious note, however. Lijia, who organizes China’s largest pro-freedom rally outside of Tienanmen Square, is arrested for questioning even while her personal life takes a potentially disastrous and poignant turn.</p>
<p><em>In Search of My Homeland</em> and <em>“Socialism is Great”</em> could not be more different books that examine the same society. Gao’s book may be more of a literary masterpiece, but Zhang’s effort fills the more needed gap in our understanding by covering a much more neglected period of Chinese political history.</p>
<p>Despite all the talk of progress, the more things changed, the more the underlying totalitarian nature of the Chinese Communist state has stayed the same.</p>
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		<title>Descendants of Göring, Eichmann speak out in Israeli documentary &#8211; Ynetnews</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[More than sixty years after World War II, a small group of German men and women are coming to grips with the crimes of their fathers, uncles, and grandfathers. Israeli director Chanoch Zeevi engages us with the descendants of the most powerful figures in the Nazi regime, who were left a legacy that permanently associates [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>More than sixty years after World War II, a small group of German men and women are coming to grips with the crimes of their fathers, uncles, and grandfathers. Israeli director Chanoch Zeevi engages us with the descendants of the most powerful figures in the Nazi regime, who were left a legacy that permanently associates them with one of the greatest crimes in history. Adolf Hitler did not have children. Joseph Goebbels and his family died in Hitler’s bunker. But what of the families of Hermann Göring, Heinrich Himmler and Adolf Eichmann, to name a few? How have their descendants dealt with the legacy left by their notorious families &#8212; those who still recall whispered conversations between their parents and, in some instances, still remember a pat on the head from the Führer himself?</p>
<p>via <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3835103,00.html">Descendants of Göring, Eichmann speak out in Israeli documentary &#8211; Israel Culture, Ynetnews</a>.</p>
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		<title>Eric Kurlander: Empathy for Hitler? What in the World is Oliver Stone Talking About? &#8211; HNN</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week the director Oliver Stone caused quite a stir when, in describing his new Showtime mini-series, &#8220;A Secret History of America,&#8221; he declared that Adolf Hitler was an &#8220;easy scapegoat throughout history… [who]&#8216;s been used cheaply.&#8221; &#8220;We can&#8217;t judge people as only &#8216;bad&#8217; or &#8216;good,&#8217;&#8221; Stone continued. Even Hitler was &#8220;the product of a [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>Last week the director Oliver Stone caused quite a stir when, in describing his new Showtime mini-series, &#8220;A Secret History of America,&#8221; he declared that Adolf Hitler was an &#8220;easy scapegoat throughout history… [who]&#8216;s been used cheaply.&#8221;  &#8220;We can&#8217;t judge people as only &#8216;bad&#8217; or &#8216;good,&#8217;&#8221; Stone continued.  Even Hitler was &#8220;the product of a series of actions.  It&#8217;s cause and effect.  People in America don&#8217;t know the connection between WWI and WWII.&#8221;  “You cannot approach history,” Stone added in reference to Stalin and Hitler, “unless you have empathy for the person you may hate.&#8221;</p>
<p>The furor, as one can imagine, was immediate; not only from historians and Jewish groups, but journalists and politicians as well.  As Ron Radosh wrote in his own scathing HNN reply to Stone and the director’s main consultant, the historian Peter Kuznick, it&#8217;s hardly novel for academics to argue that Nazism was a product of external and internal circumstances.  Without the First World War, Versailles Treaty, or the Great Depression, the Nazi movement could never have achieved the success that it did.  And without the repeated social and political crises that defined the latter years of the Weimar Republic, Hitler would not have been named German Chancellor in January 1933.  We don’t need “empathy” for Hitler to understand the way that people, even Hitler and the Nazis, were shaped by circumstances.  So what in the world is Stone talking about?</p>
<p>One can only speculate as to the director’s precise point of departure.  But I’m going to presume that Stone, despite his penchant for sensationalism, is hardly going to make the case that Hitler was a decent human being.  The question he probably intends to answer is the same one I address in my recent book, Living With Hitler (reviewed by Jeffrey Gaab in the September 2009 HNN newsletter):  How could so many educated, liberal-minded Germans have actively supported, or at the very least passively accommodated, a fanatic like Hitler?</p>
<p>via <a href="http://www.hnn.us/articles/122342.html">What in the World is Oliver Stone Talking About?</a>.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Excerpt from the Council on American-Islamic Relations profile: The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) was co-founded in 1994 by Nihad Awad and Omar Ahmad, both of whom had close ties to the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP), which was established by senior Hamas operative Mousa Abu Marzook and functioned as Hamas&#8217; public relations and [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><em><strong>Excerpt from the Council on American-Islamic Relations profile:</strong></em></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; widows: 2; orphans: 2;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) was co-founded in 1994 by </span></span></span></span></span><a href="file:///individualProfile.asp%3Findid=755"><span style="color: #800000;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Nihad Awad </span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">and </span></span></span></span></span><a href="file:///individualProfile.asp%3Findid=967"><span style="color: #800000;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Omar Ahmad</span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">, both of whom had close ties to the </span></span></span></span></span><a href="file:///groupProfile.asp%3Fgrpid=6215"><span style="color: #800000;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Islamic Association for Palestine </span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">(IAP), which was established by senior </span></span></span></span></span><a href="file:///groupProfile.asp%3Fgrpid=6204"><span style="color: #800000;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Hamas </span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">operative </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #800000;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="file:///individualProfile.asp%3Findid=676">Mousa </a><a href="file:///individualProfile.asp%3Findid=676">Abu Marzook</a></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> and functioned as Hamas&#8217; public relations and recruitment arm in the United States. Awad and Ahmad previously had served, respectively, as IAP&#8217;s Public Relations Director and President. Thus it can be said that CAIR was an outgrowth of IAP.</span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p>CAIR opened its first office in Washington, DC, with the help of a $5,000 donation from the <a href="file:///groupProfile.asp%3Fgrpid=6181"><span style="color: #800000;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development </span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">(HLF), a self-described charity founded by Mousa Abu Marzook. In May 1996, CAIR coordinated a press conference to protest the decision of the U.S. government to extradite Marzook for his connection to terrorist acts performed by Hamas. CAIR characterized the extradition as &#8220;anti-Islamic&#8221; and &#8220;anti-American.&#8221; When President Bush closed HLF in December 2001 for collecting money &#8220;to support the Hamas terror organization,&#8221; CAIR decried his action as &#8220;unjust&#8221; and &#8220;disturbing.&#8221;</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> &#8230;</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong>To view the complete CAIR profile, <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6176">click here</a>.</strong></span></span></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[An al-Qaida affiliate in Yemen apparently ordered the Christmas Day plot against a U.S. airliner, training and arming the 23-year-old Nigerian man accused in the failed bombing, President Barack Obama said Saturday. &#8220;This is not the first time this group has targeted us,&#8221; Obama said, reporting on some of the findings of an administration review [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>An al-Qaida affiliate in Yemen apparently ordered the Christmas Day plot against a U.S. airliner, training and arming the 23-year-old Nigerian man accused in the failed bombing, President Barack Obama said Saturday.</p>
<p>&#8220;This is not the first time this group has targeted us,&#8221; Obama said, reporting on some of the findings of an administration review into how intelligence agencies failed to prevent Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab from boarding Detroit-bound Northwest Flight 253.</p>
<p>In his most direct public language to date, Obama described the path through Yemen of Abdulmutallab. He also emphasized that the United States would continue its partnerships with friendly countries — citing Yemen, in particular — to fight terrorists and extremist groups.</p>
<p>The U.S. plans to more than double its counterterrorism aid to the impoverished, fragmented Arab nation in the coming year to support Yemen&#8217;s campaign against al-Qaida.</p>
<p>Obama&#8217;s homeland security team has been piecing together just how Abdulmutallab was able to get on the plane. Officials have described flaws in the system and by those executing the strategy and have delivered a preliminary assessment.</p>
<p>A top counterterrorism official said Saturday that al-Qaida and others extremists are working to test U.S. defenses and launch an attack on American soil.</p>
<p>The failed attempt against the plane &#8220;is the starkest of reminders of the insidious terrorist threats we face,&#8221; said Michael Leiter, director of the National Counterterrorism Center. &#8220;We know with absolute certainty that al-Qaida and those who support its ideology continue to refine their methods to test our defenses and pursue an attack on the homeland,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>The center, part of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, draws experts from the CIA, FBI, Pentagon and other agencies who try to ensure that clues about potential attacks are not missed.</p>
<p>A senior administration official had said the United States increasingly was confident of a link between Abdulmutallab and an al-Qaida affiliate, but Obama&#8217;s statement was the strongest connection between the two. The official said regular updates from the White House Situation Room and from his homeland security advisers gave Obama enough confidence to use this radio address — typically, focused on domestic priorities — to communicate a stark message about Abdulmutallab.</p>
<p>via <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100103/ap_on_re_us/us_airline_attack_obama;_ylt=Asc2CUTWi2G7bJ_JLvB2TMms0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNuajVuZXIyBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTAwMTAzL3VzX2FpcmxpbmVfYXR0YWNrX29iYW1hBGNjb2RlA21vc3Rwb3B1bGFyBGNwb3MDMQRwb3MDMgRwdANob21lX2Nva2UEc2VjA3luX3RvcF9zdG9yeQRzbGsDb2JhbWFjaXRlc2Fw">Obama cites apparent al-Qaida link in bomb plot &#8211; Yahoo! News</a>.</p>
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		<title>ON GUARD Rally &#8211; by Jamie Glazov</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 05:08:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Come stand up for America, Israel and freedom on December 30 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.]]></description>
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<p>Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Tom Trento, Director of the <a href="http://www.floridasecuritycouncil.org/">Florida Security Council</a>.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Tom Trento, welcome to Frontpage Interview. I want to talk to you today about the rally your group is coordinating for Dec 30.</p>
<p>But first, let me ask you this. Last year, on Dec 30, 2008, you videotaped a pro-Hamas demonstration in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. In days, the You Tube video, went “viral,” around the world. What happened?</p>
<p><strong>Trento: </strong>My video camera, not unlike a microscope in a laboratory, discovered a “virus” of such lethality, on the streets of Fort Lauderdale, that it makes the bubonic plague look like a runny nose.</p>
<p>The frightening problem is that we have no cure, for the infectious growth of the <em>Arab Street</em> here on the streets of America. Here is what happened:</p>
<p>On December 30, 2008, a protest was planned by HAMAS and Hezbollah supporters against the United   States and Israel, because Israel was prosecuting the Gaza War, in an effort to stop the daily rocket attacks by the Palestinians. A counter demonstration, by Jews, Christians and secular Americans took place directly across from the HAMAS demonstration.</p>
<p>I decided to go across to the Palestinian side and videotape the Muslims, up close and personal. Boy, what a decision that turned out to be for the counter-jihad movement. I was in the middle of 300 of the most hateful, angry, venomous people I have ever been around, as they yelled insult after curse, after unimaginable comment at the Jews in particular.</p>
<p>When a Muslim women in full hajib, yelled with a distorted, somewhat demonic voice, “<em>Jews go back in the oven</em>,” I knew I had the making of a powerful story. Right after a call to prayer by the Imam, the hate-filled crowd got up and started marching, in a threatening manner toward 25 Jewish and Christian counter protestors, most of whom were elderly or young. But not for the brave Fort   Lauderdale police, the Muslim crowd would have hurt many innocent people. Once I got home and saw all of this <a href="http://www.floridasecuritycouncil.org/#proHamas">on my tape</a>, I knew I had to get this unbelievable message out to America.</p>
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<p><strong>FP:</strong> How exactly did this <a href="http://www.floridasecuritycouncil.org/#proHamas">short video</a> change your life?</p>
<p><strong>Trento</strong><strong>:</strong> I finished the editing of the video around midnight and put it up on You Tube. Early next morning, over seven thousand people had watched the 10 minute revelation of the angry, Arab   Street. Then, for many days, over 30,000 people a day people watched the video and the emails and phone calls starting coming in to my office. I received over 5000 personal comments and scores of calls from news agencies all over the world, who wanted to play various parts of the video. It has even been used in several documentaries about anti-Semitism, terrorism and the decline of America. Literally, millions of people worldwide have experienced, through the video, the emotions of being right there in the middle of this very dangerous gathering.</p>
<p>Less than one week after the Fort Lauderdale demonstration, I was at a similar rally in Miami and when I walked over to the Palestinian side – immediately, an angry group of six Muslim men came up to me in a threatening manner and started yelling at me, telling me that I made Muslims look bad in my video and that I better put my camera down. My response was simple, direct and forceful. I said get back, don’t start trouble, you are in America now and I’m going to take more pictures of whatever you do and say so get out of my way. Then I told them that I didn’t make them look bad, all I did was hold a camera and capture what they truly are, hateful Muslim men who want to destroy Israel, it’s really that simple.</p>
<p>Unlike in Fort   Lauderdale, where the police held back the violence, over a dozen Muslims and one Jewish man were arrested as fight after fight broke out in Miami. The Arab   Street lives. My video has underscored the valuable role that advocacy video can play in the education of America about the clash of the civilized West against the barbaric mentality of the venomous Arab Street. I am dedicated to producing more videos that take the fight to the bad guys.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Tell us a bit more about the Arab Street and how active it is in America.</p>
<p><strong>Trento</strong><strong>: </strong>A simple definition for the concept, Arab Street, is “an out of control Arab gang intent on change through force, terror, destruction and…even death, when necessary.”</p>
<p>Basically, it is how many Middle East countries operate on a daily basis. Due to this cultural conditioning, when Muslim Arabs men come to America and run into the freedoms we enjoy, like videotaping people yelling for Jews to go back into the ovens, these Muslims believe that their collective power, as a gang, will intimidate their opponents, causing such fear that the Muslims will get their way, thus exerting their Islamic supremacy.</p>
<p>Sadly, this sociological tactic has become an effective methodology for terrorizing more and more Americas, just like the Arab Street is doing in places like, Paris and London.</p>
<p>Sadly, the Obama Administration’s concerted effort to appease the “Muslim World,” has only provided political fuel for igniting this Muslim hatred in American streets, as we approach some very deadly and dangerous days ahead.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> So why are you and others gathering in the same place, on the same date, one year later?</p>
<p><strong>Trento</strong><strong>: </strong>Recently I was approached by several organizations who wanted to “commemorate” the video that I shot, so that America will not ignore the Muslim hatred that is boiling just under our cultural surface. I thought it was important and agreed to participate and help promote the <a href="http://www.floridasecuritycouncil.org/on_guard_rally.pdf">ON GUARD Rally</a>. Our message is simple – We stand ON GUARD for America, for Israel, for Freedom…come stand with us.</p>
<p>The Rally is on December 30, from 3 – 7pm, at <a href="http://www.floridasecuritycouncil.org/on_guard_rally.pdf">the exact location</a> in Fort Lauderdale where I filmed it last year.</p>
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<p><strong>FP:</strong> Who should attend and why?</p>
<p><strong>Trento</strong><strong>: </strong>All patriotic Americans who want to GUARD America, Israel and Freedom should join with us and let your voices be heard.</p>
<p>This Rally, unlike last year, is being organized with the full cooperation and assistance of the Fort Lauderdale Police department and several joint anti-terrorism law enforcement organizations.</p>
<p>Participants will have no reason to fear the Arab Street, in fact it is freedom loving Americans who strike fear in the hearts of sharia loving hate-filled Muslims.</p>
<p>Join with us! We have a excellent group of speakers including; Joe Kaufman, Bob Knust, Charles Jacobs, May Long, Alan Bergstein, Joyce Kaufman and I may even say a word or two (or three)!</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Your thoughts on what will happen in 2010?</p>
<p><strong>Trento</strong><strong>: </strong>Regrettably, I do not have very good thoughts for 2010. When Israel attacks and destroys Iran’s nuclear facilities, which it must do for the sake of the free world, the Arab   Street will erupt, globally. As my video demonstrated, angry Muslim men will not be able to control themselves, when Islamic leaders &#8211; calling for jihad against all Jews, Christians, Americans and Europeans &#8211; incite these ticking time bombs to strike back, hard.</p>
<p>In various parts of America, the Arab Street will explode with violence, destruction and death. At that point many Americans will have had enough of this “Muslim craziness” and they too will fight back to stop this out of control situation. Then the whole world will be looking to President Obama, to see if he stands with Israel, or condemns Israel, as the rest of the world will do.</p>
<p>If he stands with Israel, the Islamic world will feel betrayed by the one they consider their own and even more death and destruction will follow. If President Obama stands with the Islamic world against Israel, that will be read by Islamic scholars (who are quite good at political manipulation)  as the will of Allah, blessing their call for a worldwide jihad, which will further fuel the destructive desire of those angry men, who found themselves in the lens of my camera, one short year ago.</p>
<p>America and Israel are at a crossroads in 2010. Happy New Year everyone. I hope I’m wrong, but you know I’m right.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Tom Trento, thank you for joining us.</p>
<p>For rally details, <a href="http://www.floridasecuritycouncil.org/on_guard_rally.pdf">click here.</a></p>
<p>To see the Hamas video, <a href="http://www.floridasecuritycouncil.org/#proHamas">click here.</a></p>
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