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		<title>The Nazi Romance With Islam Has Some Lessons for the United States</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two new important histories look at Hitler’s fascination with Islam and Atatürk, the founder of modern Turkey.]]></description>
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<div class="story-category">Both Hitler and Himmler had a soft spot for Islam. Hitler several times fantasized that, if the Saracens had not been stopped at the Battle of Tours, Islam would have spread through the European continent—and that would have been a good thing, since “Jewish Christianity” wouldn’t have gone on to poison Europe. Christianity doted on weakness and suffering, while Islam extolled strength, Hitler believed. Himmler in a January 1944 speech called Islam “a practical and attractive religion for soldiers,” with its promise of paradise and beautiful women for brave martyrs after their death. “This is the kind of language a soldier understands,” Himmler gushed.</div>
<p>Surely, the Nazi leaders thought, Muslims would see that the Germans were their blood brothers: loyal, iron-willed, and most important, convinced that Jews were the evil that most plagued the world. “Do you recognize him, the fat, curly-haired Jew who deceives and rules the whole world and who steals the land of the Arabs?” demanded one of the Nazi pamphlets dropped over North Africa (a million copies of it were printed). “The Jew,” the pamphlet explained, was the evil King Dajjal from Islamic tradition, who in the world’s final days was supposed to lead 70,000 Jews from Isfahan in apocalyptic battle against Isa—often identified with Jesus, but according to the Reich Propaganda Ministry none other than Hitler himself. Germany produced reams of leaflets like this one, often quoting the Quran on the subject of Jewish treachery.</p>
<p>It is not surprising, then, that there are those today who draw a direct line between modern Jew-hatred in the Islamic world and the Nazis. A poster currently at Columbus Circle’s subway entrance proclaims loudly that “Jew-hatred is in the Quran.” The poster features a photograph of Hitler with the notoriously anti-Jewish Mufti al-Husaini of Palestine, who is erroneously labeled “the leader of the Muslim world.” The truth is considerably more complex. The mufti made himself useful to the Nazis as a propagandist, but he had little influence in most Muslim regions. Few Muslims believed Nazi claims that Hitler was the protector of Islam, much less the Twelfth Imam, as one Reich pamphlet suggested.</p>
<p>The Nazis’ anti-Jewish propaganda no doubt attracted many Muslims, as historian Jeffrey Herf has documented, but they balked at believing that Hitler would be their savior or liberator. Instead, they sensed correctly that the Nazis wanted Muslims to fight and die for Germany. As Rommel approached Cairo, Egyptians started to get nervous. They knew that the Germans were not coming to liberate them, but instead wanted to make the Muslim world part of their own burgeoning empire. In the end, more Muslims wound up fighting for the Allies than for the Axis.</p>
<p>Hitler’s failed effort to put Muslim boots on the ground still stands as the most far-reaching Western attempt to use Islam to win a war. Such is the judgment of David Motadel, the author of a new, authoritative book, <em><a href="http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674724600" rel="external">Islam and Nazi Germany’s War</a> .</em> Motadel’s detailed and fascinating explanation of how and why the Nazis failed to get Muslims on their side is a must-read for serious students of World War II, and it has an important message as well for our own policy in the Middle East.</p>
<p>***</p>
<p>To grasp why the Nazis had such high hopes for Muslim collaboration—and why their hopes failed—we need to go back to the great war that made Hitler the fanatical monster he was. One hundred years ago, a few months into World War I, Germany looked like it might be in trouble. The German offensive had failed to break through at Ypres after a month of bloody fighting. The waves of German soldiers stumbling through no-man’s land slowed to a stop. The kaiser’s army was exhausted, and its commanders suddenly realized that the quick Western Front victory they had dreamed of was impossible. Meanwhile, Russia was massing troops around Warsaw, and the tsar had just declared war on the Ottoman Empire.</p>
<p>There was one bright spot, though. On Nov. 11, 1914, the highest religious authority of the Ottoman caliphate, Sheikh al-Islam Ürgüplü Hayri, issued a call for worldwide jihad against Russia, Britain, and France. Suddenly, the Great War was a holy war. Surely, the Germans dreamed, Muslims would join their side en masse and turn the tide of battle.</p>
<p>In the early years of World War I the German Reich caught Islam fever: Muslims became the great Eastern hope against the Entente. Helmuth von Moltke, chief of the German general staff, planned to “awaken the fanaticism of Islam” in the French and British colonies, making the Muslim masses rise up against their European masters. <a href="http://tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/books/141788/hitler-jews-oppenheim" rel="external">Max von Oppenheim</a> , the German diplomat and orientalist, described Islam as “one of our most important weapons” in his famous position paper of October 1914. Oppenheim wanted to spark a Muslim revolt stretching from India to Morocco that Germany could use for its own purposes. Germany just needed to get the message across, Oppenheim insisted: Russia, Britain, and France were the oppressors of Muslims, whereas the Germans would liberate them.</p>
<p>The German strategy didn’t work. Instead, Britain and France won the game when they capitalized on the Arab uprising against a crumbling Ottoman Empire. T.E. Lawrence, rather than the kaiser, inspired the Arabs. After the war, Britain and France sliced up the Middle East pie between them in the Sykes-Picot agreement of 1916.</p>
<p>Germany tried once again to mobilize Islam in WWII. Astonishingly, in 1940 Oppenheim, at that point 80 years old, championed the same plan that had failed so badly in the previous war. Even more surprising, Hitler and Himmler warmly embraced the part-Jewish Oppenheim’s idea: They too thought that Islam would help bring about a Nazi triumph.</p>
<p>“German officials would always refer to global Islam, to pan Islam,” Motadel told me over the phone from his home in Cambridge, England, where he is Research Fellow in History at the University of Cambridge’s Gonville and Caius College. The Nazis spoke of the Muslims as a “bloc” that could be “activated” against the British, the French, and the Soviets. Their belief that Islam was monolithic led them to ignore differences of region, sect, and nationality, which helped to ensure the failure of their efforts.</p>
<p>As Motadel documents, those efforts were indeed considerable. Germans sought out imams who would issue fatwas for their side, and they told their soldiers to be especially careful of religious sensibilities when traveling through Muslim territory. They gave special privileges to Muslims who joined the Wehrmacht: The Nazi leadership even allowed them to follow Muslim dietary laws. Astonishingly, German forces in the East permitted Muslims to practice both circumcision and ritual slaughter, proving more liberal on these two issues than many Europeans are today. At the beginning of Operation Barbarossa, the Germans murdered many Muslims because they were mistaken for Jews: They didn’t realize that Muslims were also circumcised. But Berlin soon corrected the error and cautioned troops in the East to make sure to treat Muslims with respect, since they were Germany’s potential allies. In December 1942 Hitler decided he wanted to recruit all-Muslim units in the Caucasus. He distrusted Georgians and Armenians, but the Muslims, he said, were true soldiers.</p>
<p>The Germans assumed that the Muslim world would naturally flock to the Nazi banner, since Muslims like Germans knew that Jews were the enemy, and since Germany was offering them freedom from France, Britain, and Russia. But for the most part, they were wrong. Muslims only embraced the Nazi cause in places where they were desperate to arm themselves against local persecutors, the Crimea, the Caucasus, and the Balkans. In most of the Muslim world, Hitler failed to attract a large following.</p>
<p>North Africa was a miserable failure for German recruitment. “230,000 Muslims fought for the Free French against the Axis from North Africa,” Motadel pointed out to me in our interview, far more than those who enlisted with Germany. The Germans had their millions of leaflets, but they were not the only propagandists in the field. “The Free French mobilized them with anti-colonial rhetoric. The British and French were the ruling powers; they had much more control over propaganda.”</p>
<p>The East was much more favorable than North Africa to the German recruitment drive. The Muslims of the Caucasus and the Crimea had many reasons to choose Germany over Stalin’s Soviet Union. “In the East the Muslim population had really suffered under Stalin, economically and religiously,” Motadel remarked to me. They had nothing to lose, they thought, by siding with “Adolf Effendi.” The Crimean Tatars took a notorious place among Germany’s most loyal and ruthless battalions, fighting both in the East and, near the end of the war, in Romania. The Tatars made the wrong choice: Stalin mercilessly deported many of them to his gulags after the war.</p>
<p>In the Balkans many Muslims turned to Germany in the middle of a brutal civil war, fleeing the rampages of the Croatian Ustase. The infamous all-Muslim Handžar battalion of the SS, organized in the Balkans late in the war, committed many atrocities. In Serbian areas, noted one British officer, the Handžar “massacres all civil population without mercy or regard for age or sex.”</p>
<p>The Nazis made sure, with few exceptions, that the Nuremberg laws could be applied only to Jews, not to those other Semites, the Arabs, nor to Turks and Persians—which paradoxically allowed certain communities of Jews in Muslim regions to also survive the Shoah. In Crimea, two puzzled officers of the Wehrmacht, Fritz Donner and Ernst Seifert, reported on “Near Eastern racial groups of a non-Semitic character who, strangely, have adopted the Jewish faith,” while also noting that “a large part of these Jews on the Crimea is of Mohammedan faith.” What to do? In the end the Reich ruled that the Karaites, traditionally seen as a Turkic people, could be spared, while the Krymchaks should be murdered as Jews, though both these Crimean tribes followed Jewish law. In the northern Caucasus, the Nazis decided that the Judeo-Tats, a tiny Torah-observant island in a sea of Muslims, had only their religion in common with Jews. In effect, they became honorary Muslims and were saved from death. The Karaites were close to the Muslim Crimean Tatars, and the Judeo-Tats also had deep ties to their Muslim neighbors. It was their supposed affinity to Islam that saved the lives of these observant Jews. In these cases the Nazi wish to cultivate the Muslim world even affected to a small degree their anti-Semitic policy—to the Jews’ advantage.</p>
<p>***</p>
<p>Hitler cultivated many parts of the Muslim world, but he was fanatically enthusiastic about only one country: Turkey (the Nazis officially decided in 1936 that the Turks were Aryans). Stefan Ihrig’s brilliant new book <em><a href="http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674368378" rel="external">Atatürk in the Nazi Imagination</a> </em> demonstrates convincingly that Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’s conquest of Turkey was the most important model for the Nazis’ remaking of Germany, far more so than Mussolini’s 1922 March on Rome, which is usually cited as Hitler’s main inspiration. Turkey had taken control of its destiny in manly fashion, in proud defiance of the international community—if only Germany would do the same! So argued many on the German right, including Hitler, during the 10 years between Atatürk’s victory and the Nazi seizure of power.</p>
<p>The victorious Entente had vastly curtailed Ottoman territory under the Treaty of Sèvres after WWI, just as the Treaty of Versailles shrank German territory. But the new nation of Turkey threw off the victors’ shackles and, after Mustafa Kemal (later renamed Atatürk) marched from Ankara westward, the Turks won the right to a homeland in the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne. The Weimar Republic’s newspapers obsessively celebrated the Turks’ victory and endorsed their claims to the disputed region of Hatay (the Turks’ Alsace-Lorraine), portraying the Turks as more advanced than the Germans, trailblazers on the path to strong nationhood. “If we want to be free, then we will have no choice but to follow the Turkish example in one way or another,” the right-wing military man and journalist Hans Tröbst announced in the newspaper <em>Heimatland</em> in 1923. Nearly every item in Hitler’s playbook can be found in such Weimar-era endorsements of Atatürk: All Turkey had mobilized for the war; strong faith in their leader had saved them.</p>
<p>Ihrig argues that the Turkish treatment of minorities, both under Atatürk and earlier, was the true precursor for Hitler’s murderous policy in the East. Those “bloodsuckers and parasites,” the Greeks and Armenians, had been “eradicated” by the Turks, Tröbst explained in <em>Heimatland</em>. “Gentle measures—that history has always shown—will not do in such cases.” The Turks had achieved “the purification of a nation of its foreign elements on a grand scale.” He added that “Almost all of those of foreign background in the area of combat had to die; their number is not put too low with 500,000.” Here was a chilling endorsement of genocide, and one that surely did not escape Hitler’s eye. Shortly after his articles appeared, Hitler invited Tröbst to give a speech on Turkey to the SA.</p>
<p>From 1923 on, Hitler consistently praised Atatürk in his own speeches as well. Berlin, like Istanbul, was cosmopolitan and decadent. Munich, site of Hitler’s beer-hall putsch, was the place for a German “Ankara government.” When Hitler seized power in 1933 his <em>Völkischer Beobachter</em> cited Atatürk’s victory as the “star in the darkness” that had shone for the beleaguered Nazis in 1923, after the putsch’s failure. Turkey was “proof of what a real man could do”—a man like Atatürk, or Hitler.</p>
<p>The Third Reich produced many idolizing biographies of Atatürk. Six years after the Turkish leader’s death, in late 1944, a delusional Hitler was still dreaming of a postwar alliance between Turkey and Germany. He never got his wish. During the war, Turkey, as a neutral power, kept its distance from the Nazis until it finally declared war against Germany in February 1945.</p>
<p>In Turkey, criticizing Atatürk can still get you three years in jail, though the country’s increasingly <a href="http://tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/37048/fantasia" rel="external">unhinged</a> President Recep Tayyip Erdogan broke the law himself last year when he called Atatürk a drunkard. While Erdogan wants to reverse his predecessor’s program for secularizing Turkey, he appears to be imitating Atatürk’s extravagant cult of personality along with his habit of demonizing his enemies. But while Atatürk disdained Hitler’s anti-Semitism, Erdogan is obsessed with Jews. The 2014 Gaza operation, he has <a href="http://forward.com/articles/202423/turkey-leader-slams-israel-attack-on-gaza-as-more/" rel="external">remarked</a> , was worse than anything Hitler ever did, and the Israelis have been committing “systematic genocide every day” since 1948. Perhaps if Erdogan had been in power in the 1940s, the Nazis would have found the Muslim ally they so desperately sought.</p>
<p>Weaponizing Islam has often been a temptation for the United States, just as it was for Germany. In its battle against Moscow, Washington recruited Islamic leaders after WWII, most famously Said Ramadan, a major figure in the Muslim Brotherhood. The United States even smiled on Saudi Arabia’s funding of radical Islamist organizations, hoping that religion would serve as a bulwark against Soviet Communism. Then the Muslim Brotherhood killed U.S. ally Anwar Sadat, and its follower Ayman al-Zawahiri became, along with Osama Bin Laden, the founder of al-Qaida. We supported the Mujahedeen in Afghanistan, until the Mujahedeen turned into the Taliban.</p>
<p>We are still trying to turn the Muslim world to our own purposes, but this time by supporting Shiite against Sunni. In addition to courting Erdogan, President Barack Obama hopes to make use of Iran as a stabilizing regional force. In his most recent personal letter to Ayatollah Khamanei, Obama seems to have made a promise: We will repeal sanctions, fight against ISIS, and preserve the rule of Iran’s client Bashar al Assad as long as Iran agrees to a deal on nuclear weapons. But what will the United States get in return? In the best-case scenario—which is far from assured—Iran’s bomb-making abilities will be hindered by the deal they sign. But even an Iran without the bomb cannot be relied on to make the Middle East less conflict-riven, unless we are aiming at the kind of stability famously mocked by Tacitus: They make a desert and call it peace. Iranian actions speak for themselves: support for Hezbollah, with its hundred thousand weapons aimed at Israel, and support for Assad, who has massacred his people endlessly and thrown massive numbers of them into concentration camps. Anyone who looks at the Syrian defector “Caesar” ’s <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/07/31/syrian-defector-assad-poised-to-torture-and-murder-150-000-more.html" rel="external">photographs</a> of the thousands of starved, mutilated bodies produced by Syria’s bloodthirsty optometrist-in-chief, which are now on permanent exhibition at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, a few blocks from the White House that has refused to grasp their meaning, will ask the same question: Don’t these Arab bodies, resembling so exactly the bodies of Jews at Auschwitz, have the same call on our conscience?</p>
<p>One thing is certain: If Khamanei and Rouhani are given a larger role in the Middle East, they will not serve U.S. interests, nor those of the majority of Muslims. They will serve their own interests, which are inimical to ours. We still have not learned the major lesson of 20th-century history so adeptly conveyed by Motadel and Ihrig: Western leaders who try to get Islam on their side through propaganda and favors will be unpleasantly surprised.</p>
<p class="story-author-bio"><em>David Mikics is the author, most recently, of</em> <a href="http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674724723">Slow Reading in a Hurried Age</a><em>. He lives in Brooklyn and Houston, where he is John and Rebecca Moores Professor of English at the University of Houston.</em></p>
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		<title>The Stalin-Hitler Pact Turns 75</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why a memorial would be useful for Vladimir Putin, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/genocide_template_clip_image002.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-239136" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/genocide_template_clip_image002.jpg" alt="genocide_template_clip_image002" width="306" height="267" /></a>In June, Western democratic leaders invited Vladimir Putin to the 70th anniversary of D-Day memorial in France, but there’s no good reason he should have been there. Putin is an autocrat, not a democrat. He laments the demise of the Soviet Union, a dictatorship that played no role in the D-Day operation. And since Putin is now conducting an incremental invasion of Ukraine, a different memorial would be more suitable. As it happens, this one is long overdue and remains shrouded in ignorance.</p>
<p>Seventy-five years ago, on August 23, 1939, the USSR and Nazi Germany became allies through the Stalin-Hitler Pact. Joachim von Ribbentrop signed for Hitler and Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav Molotov signed on behalf of Stalin. Molotov said that Hitlerism was “a matter of taste,” and that it was “not only senseless, but criminal” to wage war on Hitler “camouflaged as a fight for democracy.” Though often described as a “non-aggression pact,” the reverse was true.</p>
<p>The month after the Pact, Stalin and Hitler both invaded Poland, starting World War II. The Pact also gave Stalin control of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, which he retained after the war, along with other conquests such as Czechoslovakia, Hungary and what became the German Democrat Republic, the regime that made emigration an exciting experience.</p>
<p>While the pact was in effect, Soviet and Nazi intelligence agencies worked together and American Communists did everything in their power to keep the United States from coming to Britain’s aid. During the Pact, the Soviets murdered 22,000 Polish officers in the Katyn forest. That came at the direct order of Stalin, as Russia now acknowledges. Less well known is the reality that Stalin also handed over German Jewish Communists to Hitler’s Gestapo. At the Nuremberg trials after the war, Joachim von Ribbentrop was convicted for signing the Pact while Molotov, who signed for Stalin, sat in the accuser’s chair. So Stalin and his gang got away with it.</p>
<p>A Nazi-Soviet Pact memorial would be a great opportunity for Putin to express his admiration for Stalin. Maybe he could provide some enlightenment on what happened to the Jews Stalin handed over to Hitler. And as a former KGB man, maybe he could bring out more details of Soviet-Nazi intelligence cooperation during the Pact. This could be a shining moment for Putin, but the memorial would also do others some good.</p>
<p>American educators, for example, could familiarize themselves with these events and gauge the depths of their ignorance and denial. Some might even decide to make the Stalin-Hitler Pact into a college course. That would tell students something they don’t know. American politicians would also benefit.</p>
<p>It’s a good bet that most of them, regardless of party, know little if anything about the Stalin-Hitler Pact. A 75th anniversary memorial would help educate them, and would be particularly relevant for Barack Obama, President of the United States. He could use the memorial to expand on one of his mentors.</p>
<p>That would be Frank Marshall Davis, an orthodox Stalinist of exceptional ferocity, with an absolutely sulfuric hatred of the United States. Davis joined the Communist Party USA after the Pact was signed, at the same time others were leaving the ranks, never to return. The Pact memorial would be an opportunity for Obama to provide a full profile of the man his handlers disguised simply as “Frank” in &#8220;Dreams From My Father.&#8221; If Frank Marshall Davis ever believed, said, or did anything with which Obama disagreed, a Stalin-Hitler Pact memorial would be the ideal time to set the record straight. After all, the Obama administration is the most transparent in history, with not a smidgeon of corruption. And of course, it would be another photo op he could use to raise funds. He could even bring along his travelling studio audience.</p>
<p>Former First Lady and current presidential candidate Hillary Clinton could also benefit. One of her mentors is Robert Treuhaft, a Stalinist lawyer who joined the Communist Party USA after the Stalin-Hitler Pact and served faithfully in the USSR’s alibi armory. Hillary Clinton, who interned for Treuhaft, could use a Pact memorial to clarify Treuhaft’s career, and explain why he left the Communist Party in 1958, as he claimed. And she could go on record if she ever disagreed with anything her Stalinist mentor believed, said or did.</p>
<p>That could prove enlightening, but as with Benghazi she might just say “what does it matter?” Actually, it matters quite a bit, especially for someone who wants to be president, and the one who already is.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/tt.gif"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-226450" alt="tt" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/tt-450x257.gif" width="315" height="180" /></a><strong>In the latest FIREWALL, Bill shows why you don&#8217;t have to look very far very back at all to see ugly echoes of an ugly time. See video and transcript below:</strong></p>
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<blockquote><p>THE WOLF, THE BEAR and THE LAMBS</p>
<p>Hi everybody – I’m Bill Whittle and this is the Firewall!</p>
<p>One of the complaints leveled against Conservatives by Progressives is that we’re always looking backwards. Why always so locked in the past? Why so obsessed with history? Why always looking behind us? Why not look forward?</p>
<p>There’s actually a very simple explanation for that. You see, the past exists. And the future doesn’t. Not yet, anyway. That’s why progress isn’t always good. We could be progressing forward off a cliff. Or into the room where the murderer is hiding. Or out into the water where the shark is. And since we can’t know where we are going, the best we can do is to see if we can learn anything from where we have been.</p>
<p>And you don’t have to look far – not these days. No sir.</p>
<p>Vladimir Putin recently announced that Russia would seek a diplomatic solution to the crisis in Crimea. And the Western intellectuals – “intellectuals” is Latin for “cowards” &#8212;  just swooned. A diplomatic solution!</p>
<p>All throughout the mid to late thirties, the Wolf – Adolph Hitler, it was a codename that he kept for his entire career as Fuehrer / Dictator – bullied people and broke things. And the decent, civilized leader of England and France and simply wrung their hands, and wrote harshly worded diplomatic cables, and made vague threats of sanctions, and all the rest.</p>
<p>Hitler didn’t play the West like a violin: he played them like a light switch. Threaten violence, offer peace. Threaten violence, offer peace. Make outrageous demands; invade other countries; backdate the moral argument by claiming your are simply protecting your own ethnic populations against imagined and then invented foreign oppression, et cetera and so on and you know the drill. Well, some of us do, anyway.</p>
<p>Two days ago, skipping through my satellite comedy channels – where I keep the BBC – I came in on the end of an interview with an Estonian defense minister, who proceeded to remind Vladimir Putin – the Bear &#8212; that Estonia was part of NATO, while the Ukraine is not. And the BBC interviewer leapt in, in tones of contempt and panic, protesting in a panic that that sort of language was counterproductive because it only antagonizes and offends Moscow. You don’t want to make them angry. It’s better to be nice to them before they overrun your country – you get a higher position in the slave government that way, and maybe they will shoot you last.</p>
<p>Now: both the Wolf and the Bear have a lot in common. Both were from humble beginnings, and both survived and clawed their way to becoming leaders of great nations by cunning and ruthlessness and the predator’s skill at finding weakness in their prey. Both without question have personally ordered the murder of political opponents. Both – and this is important – led nations that were filled with bitterness over lost glory, both fostered intense hatred of outsiders, and both promised to restore their national honor through military conquest. And most importantly, both the Wolf and the Bear represent nations with the exceedingly dangerous combination of resentment, envy, shame and unspoken but pervasive inferiority. That is a dangerous combination.</p>
<p>Opposing the Wolf and the Bear? Two Lambs.</p>
<p>Facing the Wolf: Neville Chamberlain, a proud, self-centered man, consumed with his own sense of self-importance: not terribly perceptive, or terribly interested in much of anything other than his own place in history as a result of his domestic social reforms.</p>
<p>Facing the Bear: ditto.</p>
<p>Hitler saw a vain and timid man who clutched at a piece of paper so that he didn’t have to look at what was behind it.  Putin sees a man-child, who is put in his place by one of the women that have always told him what to do.</p>
<p>Now, unknown to the cowards of Munich – in fact, not discovered until the flames of civilization had been put out and the wreckage of the world cleared – we have information from our look backwards. Because after the Lion replaced the Lamb and the Wolf was finally beaten, records came to light from OKW &#8212; Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, the German High Command.</p>
<p>Before Poland, before Czechoslovakia, before the Sudatenland… before the annexation of Austria – before all of the threats of violence followed by offers of peace: Adolf Hitler dipped his toe in the water of western resolve by sending a few lightly armed troops into the demilitarized Rhineland in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. We learned after the war from the records of the mortified, horrified German generals that had the French or the British put so much as a platoon, or a marching band, or perhaps even a single policeman who refused to get out of the way – had there been any resistance at all the Generals would have ordered their troops back to Germany and Hitler would have been overthrown. Could a platoon, or a single policeman have stopped World War II? Yes. Without question. Hitler himself admitted it.</p>
<p>When the Wolf went into the Rhineland, France and Britain were immeasurably superior to Germany, militarily. Even if the Germans had not backed down, the Allies would have brushed them aside in a few days. But in the three years between the Rhineland and the start of World War II in Europe, the Wolf got stronger and stronger, as the Lambs got weaker and weaker. Those of us backward-lookers see the Bear arming daily, as we make drastic cuts in our defense forces, and it looks sickeningly familiar to us as we bleat in impotent protest.</p>
<p>But Wolves – and Bears – know what lambs sound like. And those of us who do, in fact, learn the lessons of history will have to stand by once again and watch as those who don’t are doomed to repeat it.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>CAIR Reacts to Megyn Kelly&#8217;s Epic Smackdown</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2014 04:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Muslim "civil rights" group responds to getting steamrolled, not once, but twice, on The Kelly File. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/cair.gif"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-222791" alt="cair" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/cair.gif" width="400" height="230" /></a>CAIR has been attempting to block a new film (<a href="http://www.honordiaries.com"><i>The Honor Diaries</i></a>) that draws attention to the plight of women under Islam.</p>
<p>The following parody crystallizes the key issues involved &#8212; and offers food for thought to the Muslim &#8220;civil rights&#8221; group about how it may consider effectively contributing to dialogue and human rights in the future:</p>
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		<title>Crimea 2014:  Czechoslovakia 1938 Redux</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2014 04:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this drama, Putin plays Hitler while Obama is Chamberlain.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/crim1.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-220924" alt="crim" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/crim1.jpg" width="325" height="220" /></a>The recent standoff in the Crimea between Russia and the Ukraine is reminiscent of the tactics employed by Germany to bring pre-World War II Europe under the Nazi heel. Hitler amassed troops around the German-Czechoslovak border, the Czechs sought to effectuate their treaties with western allies, Britain’s Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain rushed to Germany to appeal to Hitler to avoid aggression and, in an effort to prevent a war, sacrificed Czechoslovakia on the altar of appeasement. The weakness of the west was on display and only served to whet Hitler’s appetite for further aggression.</p>
<p>In the current drama, the Ukraine is like the former Czechoslovakia, Crimea is the Sudetenland, Russia’s President Putin reminds us of Nazi Germany’s Hitler, and Chamberlain’s role is being played by Obama. True, circumstances in this conflict are somewhat different, and Putin has not slaughtered millions the way Hitler did, but the ostensible roles played by Putin and Obama are not that different from that of Hitler and Chamberlain.</p>
<p>The <i>Long Beach Press Telegram</i> reported on March 4, 2014 that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton compared Vladimir Putin’s actions in the Ukraine to those of Adolf Hitler’s in Nazi Germany. She said that “Putin’s desire to protect minority Russians in Ukraine is reminiscent of Hitler’s actions to protect ethnic Germans outside Germany.”</p>
<p>In order to restore the Soviet Empire that existed before the USSR crumbled in 1991, Vladimir Putin set out to intimidate former Soviet republics to submit to Russia’s control, or at the very least, come under its sphere of influence. He waged war against Georgia in 2008, and according to former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, “Russia is looking for a <a title="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/03/03/russia-is-looking-for-a-hot-war-says-georgia-s-former-president.html" href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/03/03/russia-is-looking-for-a-hot-war-says-georgia-s-former-president.html" target="_blank">hot war</a>” against the Ukraine. Putin has sought to prevent the states of the former Soviet Union from joining the West. In the case of the Ukraine, he is seeking to take action to insure against the possibility of their joining the European Union, and eventually integrating into Europe.</p>
<p>WikiLeaks cables reveal that Saakashvili stressed repeatedly that he expected Russia to follow its 2008 invasion of Georgia with intervention in Crimea. He predicted that Russia would <a title="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/03/03/russia-is-looking-for-a-hot-war-says-georgia-s-former-president.html" href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/03/03/russia-is-looking-for-a-hot-war-says-georgia-s-former-president.html" target="_blank">incite tension</a> in the Crimean peninsula, then make a generous offer to Yanukovych (presumed as the next president and now deposed and presumably in Russia) to help solve the problem. Saakashvili said that Putin wants to put pressure on the Ukraine and Georgia, thereby sending a warning to others in the former Soviet Union to behave. Putin’s incitement of the Crimean Russians is akin to the tactics Hitler employed when he incited the Sudeten Germans against the democratic state of Czechoslovakia.</p>
<p>In 1954, then Secretary General of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union, and the leader of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev, handed Crimea over to the Ukraine. Khrushchev, who was born in the Ukraine and had worked in the mines of Donetsk and whose wife Nina was from western Ukraine, had a deep connection to the Ukrainian soil. He awarded Crimea to the Ukraine because he believed that area had unjustly suffered from Stalin’s Holodomor, the brutal artificial famine imposed by Stalin’s regime on the Soviet Ukraine and areas made up of ethnic Ukrainians from 1932-33, during which millions of Ukrainians died. This political move was an example of Khrushchev’s de-Stalinization plan.</p>
<p>In the current crisis between Russia and the Ukraine, Russian President Putin has used the “protection” of ethnic Russians as a pretext<b> </b>to retake the Crimea and perhaps the eastern part of the Ukraine and annex it to Russia. In the meantime, Moscow is trying to destabilize the new Ukrainian government in Kiev. Putin, like Hitler, is counting on western weakness, especially American. He knows that Obama, like Chamberlain, is desperately trying to avoid conflict, and seeks instead the appeasement of rogue and terror-sponsoring nations like Iran, and bullies like Russia and China.</p>
<p>The American reaction to Putin’s military moves in Crimea has been pathetically weak. Secretary of State John Kerry uttered a few obligatory words and was dispatched to Kiev. No meaningful action however, has taken place. Obama has not yet called for a special session of the U.N. Security Council to condemn Russian aggression, and neither has NATO.  Boycotting the G-8 in Sochi will not impress Putin nor change his course of action while economic threats by the U.S. might restrain Putin. An <a title="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/mar/03/ukraine-crisis-hits-stock-markets-as-russia-hikes-interest-rates-business-live" href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/mar/03/ukraine-crisis-hits-stock-markets-as-russia-hikes-interest-rates-business-live" target="_blank">11% decline</a> in the Russian market and the potential imposition of an asset freeze might have an impact on Putin’s moves. At a press conference earlier this week, Putin appeared to be less strident, and at the very least, seemed to walk away from the brink.</p>
<p>The Obama administration clearly wants to avoid a confrontation with Russia. It would be useful for the Obama administration to recall the Cuban Missile Crisis, when President John F. Kennedy imposed a naval blockade and put the U.S. armed forces on alert. The Soviet Union backed down, and the crisis ended. U.S. determination saved the day. America under Obama is seen increasingly as disengaged and weak, positions that may result in further aggression and ultimately war. Ironically, during the same week Putin moved against the Ukraine in Crimea, the Obama administration unveiled its plans to reduce the U.S. military to its smallest size since WWII.</p>
<p>Andrew Palashewsky, a Ukrainian-American political activist had this to say, “Russian imperial ambitions transcended politics. The Tsarist Empire was expansionist and craved control of the Ukraine. Soviet policy was nominally anti-nationalist, attempting to subsume all other nationalities under the internationalist banner of Communism. But, this was actually just a cover for Russian imperialism and chauvinism. National cultures and languages were repressed in favor of Russification, that stressed the adoption of the Russian language and culture. Today, former KGB Colonel, post-Communist Vladimir Putin, ever conscious of Russia’s status, acts like a neo-fascist, coveting Ukraine’s natural riches, and bolstering his mission to recreate the Russian Empire.”</p>
<p>America and the West have a moral obligation to protect the Ukraine. Following the demise of the Soviet Union, Ukraine agreed to return the nuclear weapons stationed<b> </b>in its territory to Russia in order to prevent any nuclear proliferation. In exchange, Ukrainian leaders at the time sought solid security guarantees from the U.S. and the U.K. Although the “Budapest Memorandum,” as the agreement is called, does not require the U.S. to go to war over the Ukraine, if Obama abandons the Ukraine the way Chamberlain sacrificed Czechoslovakia, and the Ukraine ends up losing Crimea and its eastern Ukraine to Russia, logic dictates that such moves would bring an end to any non-proliferation of weapons. Realistically, if the Ukraine still possessed its nuclear weapons, it would probably have been able to hold on to the Crimea. Instead, they have a worthless piece of paper.</p>
<p>As the Crimea crisis unfolds, it brings back images of the 1938 Czechoslovak crisis. It is becoming more evident that Russia’s Putin has adopted some of Hitler’s tactics, and like Nazi Germany, he is counting on the West’s weakness, and its unwillingness to respond in a forceful way against his aggression. Obama’s statement that a “Crimea <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/06/ukraine-crisis-russia-crimea-eu-un-live">referendum</a> violates international law” is unhelpful. A referendum conducted fairly would settle the issue in Crimea, albeit, without the presence of Russian troops.</p>
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		<title>Reductio ad Hillaryum</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2014 04:20:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lloyd Billingsley]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why Hillary evoked memories of Hitler, but not Stalin, on the Ukrainian crisis.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/9430680.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-220661" alt="9430680" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/9430680-439x350.jpg" width="307" height="245" /></a>Hillary Clinton has waded into the Ukrainian crisis by invoking history. Referring to Vladimir Putin’s plans to provide passports to Russians outside the nation’s borders, she said:</span></p>
<p><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/03/05/hillary-clinton-says-putins-action-are-like-what-hitler-did-back-in-the-30s/">“Now if this sounds familiar, it’s what Hitler did back in the ‘30s.”</a></p>
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<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">She continued:</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">All the Germans that were. . . the ethnic Germans, the Germans by ancestry who were in places like Czechoslovakia and Romania and other places, Hitler kept saying they’re not being treated right. I must go and protect my people, and that’s what’s gotten everybody so nervous.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The former First Lady, a likely presidential candidate in 2016, is right about Hitler’s tactics but she ignores the “back in the &#8217;30s” history most applicable to Ukraine. The shot-caller back then was Joseph Stalin, and he set out to crush all vestiges of Ukrainian nationalism, as Russian tyrants had done for ages. </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/lloyd-billingsley/soft-pedaling-stalinist-genocide/">Stalin had a different plan &#8212; known as genocide</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In his forced collectivization campaign, Stalin raised Ukraine’s grain procurement quotas by 44 percent. That meant that there would not be enough grain to feed the people, but to make sure, Stalin also deployed regular troops and secret police units in a merciless war of attrition. And that condemned millions to death by starvation. That is genocide by any standard, but for Stalin it was a big success. As one of his commanders said, it showed the Ukrainians “who is the master here.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">That’s what Stalin did “back in the &#8217;30s” but Hillary Clinton ignored it entirely. Neither did she mention that in 1939 Stalin signed a pact with Hitler, and that the two dictators jointly invaded Poland. Poles remember that, and Ukrainians remember Stalin all too well, unlike American politicians.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Back in the 1930s Americans were not well informed about Stalinist genocide because of deliberate deception by Walter Duranty of the </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">New York Times. </i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">At the very time Stalin was starving millions to death Duranty wrote that the Ukraine was a veritable cornucopia, flowing with milk and honey. In Duranty’s narrative famine was impossible under the scientific, planned economy of the USSR and the wise leadership of Stalin. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Duranty was fond of saying, “You can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs” and “I put my money on Stalin.” Something similar is going on now.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Vladimir Putin laments the demise of the USSR and on his watch Stalin has been experiencing a revival. During the recent winter Olympics at Sochi, where Stalin’s villa has been carefully maintained, a Russian student told NBC that “Stalin took Russia to next level.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Putin doubtless believes that and, as Hillary Clinton also said, Putin “believes his mission is to restore Russian greatness,” including control of former Soviet Union countries. “When he looks at Ukraine, he sees a place that he believes is by its very nature part of Mother Russia.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">That is true and imperialism is the highest stage of Putinism. Hillary Clinton won’t stop it by talking about Hitler. President Obama won’t stop it by essentially giving Putin everything he wants. And leftist Democrats like Dennis Kucinich won’t stop it by </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/russia-ukraine-covert-operations-Dennis-Kuchinich/2014/03/04/id/556082">blaming the Ukraine crisis on the United States</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">. That’s why in Ukraine, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, everybody is so nervous.</span></p>
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		<title>Israel in 1968 &amp; 2014: The Jews Are Alone</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Revisiting a prescient article by philosopher Eric Hoffer published just after the Six-Day War.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/ds-6day_war-41.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-218536" alt="ds-6day_war-41" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/ds-6day_war-41.jpg" width="222" height="211" /></a>In 1968, a longshoreman named Eric Hoffer wrote an amazing op-ed in the <em>LA Times</em>, which is as relevant today as it was then. He was a non-Jewish American social philosopher who wrote newspaper columns, as well as books. He died in 1983, after writing nine books and winning the Presidential Medal of Freedom. His first book, The True Believer, published in 1951, is widely recognized as a classic.  Eric Hoffer was one of the most influential American philosophers and free thinkers of the 20th Century. </span></p>
<p>Acclaimed for his thoughts on fanaticism, Hoffer&#8217;s <em>LA</em> <em>Times</em> column from May 26, 1968 is worth rereading. Entitled “Israel’s peculiar position,” he said:</p>
<blockquote><p>The Jews are a peculiar people: things permitted to other nations are forbidden to the Jews. Other nations drive out thousands, even millions of people and there is no refugee problem. Russia did it, Poland and Czechoslovakia did it.  Turkey threw out a million Greeks and Algeria a million Frenchman. Indonesia threw out heaven knows how many Chinese and no one says a word about refugees. But in the case of Israel, the displaced Arabs have become eternal refugees. Everyone insists that Israel must take back every single one.</p></blockquote>
<p>Indeed, today in the year 2014 we hear about the Palestinian Arab claim for the right of return – yet no one discusses the one million Jews from Arab and Muslim states, who were forced to flee persecution, imprisonment and pogroms. While there is so much talk today about the need for refugees to be protected, Jewish refugees naturally are ignored.</p>
<p>Hoffer further states:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>Other nations when victorious on the battlefield dictate peace terms. But when Israel is victorious, it must sue for peace. Everyone expects the Jews to be the only real Christians in this world. Other nations, when they are defeated, survive and recover but should Israel be defeated it would be destroyed. Had Nasser triumphed last June [1967], he would have wiped Israel off the map, and no one would have lifted a finger to save the Jews.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>The facts are simply that in 1967, Israel tried desperately to avoid war, endlessly tried to avert it, and this young nation faced threats from the entire world. Israel won the defensive war, and indeed, to the victors go the spoils &#8212; even when they are Jewish.</p>
<p>In 1967, Hoffer said,<i> </i></p>
<blockquote><p><i>There is a cry of outrage all over the world when people die in Vietnam or when two Blacks are executed in Rhodesia. But, when Hitler slaughtered Jews no one demonstrated against him.  The Swedes, who were ready to break off diplomatic relations with America because of what we did in Vietnam, did not let out a peep when Hitler was slaughtering Jews. They sent Hitler choice iron ore, and ball bearings, and serviced his troops in Norway. The Jews are alone in the world.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>Indeed, in February 2014, in Central Africa, 800,000 Muslims have fled their homes, and an entire nation’s Muslims are endangered.  It’s not news – yet every time the Jews lift a finger to protect themselves, the world goes nuts.  As it was in 1968 when Hoffer wrote this article it is in the year 2014, when the world endlessly condemns and criticizes Israel – the Jews are alone in the world.</p>
<p>As Hoffer concluded, “I have a premonition that will not leave me; as it goes with Israel so will it go with all of us. Should Israel perish, the Holocaust will be upon us all.”<i> </i>Indeed, the enemies of Israel remain the enemies of America – there’s big Satan and little Satan for the Muslim fundamentalists.</p>
<p>And I, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ronn-torossian/">Ronn Torossian</a>, realize that history often repeats itself – and this article from 1968 is just as relevant in 2014 as it was then.</p>
<p>Hoffer said in a later interview that</p>
<blockquote><p>A world that did not lift a finger when Hitler was wiping out six million Jewish men, women, and children is now saying that the Jewish state of Israel will not survive if it does not come to terms with the Arabs. My feeling is that no one in this universe has the right and the competence to tell Israel what it has to do in order to survive. On the contrary, it is Israel that can tell us what to do. It can tell us that we shall not survive if we do not cultivate and celebrate courage, if we coddle traitors and deserters, bargain with terrorists, court enemies, and scorn friends.</p></blockquote>
<p>President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry should heed these words – and stop kowtowing to terrorists.  They’d also do well to leave Israel alone – Israel remains the only country in the world that suffers universal criticism and condemnation.</p>
<p>Just last year Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the international community of &#8220;deafening silence&#8221; in response to Hamas threatening to destroy Israel.  As Netanyahu said: “This weekend the leader of Hamas, sitting next to the Hamas leader of Gaza, a man who praised Osama Bin Laden, this weekend openly called for the destruction of Israel. Where was the outrage? Where were the U.N. resolutions? Where was President Abbas? Why weren&#8217;t Palestinian diplomats summoned to European and other capitals to explain why the PA president not only refused to condemn this but actually declared his intention to unite with Hamas? There was nothing. There was silence and it was deafening silence.&#8221;</p>
<p>Indeed, today as in 1968, Israel is very much alone.</p>
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		<title>What Churchill Would Make of Obama’s Iran Appeasement</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jan 2014 05:16:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Believing in Nazi Germany and Iran.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/iran_missiles0904141-1024x682.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-216643" alt="iran_missiles0904141-1024x682" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/iran_missiles0904141-1024x682-450x340.jpg" width="324" height="245" /></a>In the fall of ’38, the motion was submitted to approve the government’s policy “by which war was averted in the recent crisis and supports their efforts to secure a lasting peace.&#8221;</p>
<p>The policy was the carving up of Czechoslovakia and the war being averted was World War II. Of that, Winston Churchill said, “Britain and France had to choose between war and dishonour. They chose dishonour. They will have war.”</p>
<p>Echoing that old Munich motion, the pro-Iran left is calling the nuclear deal that lets Iran keep its nukes and its targets their Geiger counters, Obama’s “achievement”. Any Democrat who challenges it is accused of obstructing the only foreign affairs achievement Obama can claim.</p>
<p>“Cory Booker wants to torpedo a major Obama achievement,” the New Republic shrieked. On MSNBC, Chris Hayes accused sixteen Democratic senators who wanted tougher measures on Iran of seeking a war to sabotage “Obama’s greatest foreign policy achievement” out of “fear” of the Israeli lobby.</p>
<p>Hayes and MSNBC were only echoing another famous Democrat, Joseph P. Kennedy, who warned of opposition to Munich by “Jew media” making noises meant to “set a match to the fuse of the world.”</p>
<p>Samuel Hoare, the Home Secretary, of whom King George V said, &#8220;No more coals to Newcastle, no more Hoares to Paris&#8221;, warned against those who wanted a sterner tone to bring an end to Hitler’s program of conquest as today’s Hoares warn against those who want to bring an end to Iran’s nuclear program.</p>
<p>“If at the very time when we were attempting… to obtain a peaceful settlement, we had accepted the advice of those who said you must face Herr Hitler with a public ultimatum,” Hoare warned. “If we had made an ultimatum… Europe would to-day have been plunged into a world war.”</p>
<p>Today the Hoares warn that stiffening sanctions against Iran and demanding an end to its nuclear program will lead to war. For years, the Hoares of the Democratic Party insisted sanctions were the only way to prevent Iran from going nuclear. Now the Hoares say sanctions will alienate Iran and lead to war.</p>
<p>Obama spokesman Jay Carney said the alternative to the nuclear deal would be war. Bernadette Meehan, a spokeswoman for the National Security Council, warned that the failure of the deal will force Obama to, “choose between military options or allowing Iran’s nuclear program to continue.”</p>
<p>Since the deal allows Iran’s nuclear program to continue, it’s a buffet of three choices, all three of which lead to conflict of some kind. The only variations are in the date and in the capabilities of the enemy.</p>
<p>That was the problem with Munich.</p>
<p>Hitler had already been making plans for a war with Britain and France that would commence three or four years after finishing off Czechoslovakia. The only thing that the Munich Agreement accomplished was to speed up Hitler’s timetable from three years to one by letting him finish his business with the Czechs earlier than he had planned.</p>
<p>Winston Churchill spoke. &#8220;I will&#8230; begin by saying the most unpopular and most unwelcome thing&#8230; we have sustained a total and unmitigated defeat.&#8221;</p>
<p>Lady Astor, whose Nazi sympathies were infamous, interrupted him with a cry of “Nonsense”.  The Member for Berlin had written to Joseph P. Kennedy that Hitler would have to do more than “give a rough time” to “the killers of Christ” before she would launch &#8220;Armageddon to save them.”</p>
<p>“The wheel of history swings round,” she wrote. “Who are we to stand in the way of the future?”</p>
<p>Churchill, like William F. Buckley, believed however in standing athwart the history of totalitarians, their Reichs, their People’s Republics and their Caliphates and yelling stop.</p>
<p>“£1 was demanded at the pistol&#8217;s point. When it was given, £2 were demanded at the pistol&#8217;s point,” Churchill retorted. “Finally, the dictator consented to take £1 17s. 6d. and the rest in promises of good will for the future.”</p>
<p>That is the sum of all negotiations with totalitarians, whether it is with Nazi Germany, Communist Russia or Islamist Iran.</p>
<p>“Iran’s leaders should understand that I do not have a policy of containment; I have a policy to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon,” Obama said in 2012. Now there isn’t even a policy of containment.</p>
<p>Obama’s foreign policy achievement consists of letting Iran do nearly everything nuclear it wants in the hopes that it won’t go all the way. Containment has given way to appeasement. Iran gets nine tenths of its nuclear ambitions at gunpoint in the deal and will take the rest when it pleases at nukepoint.</p>
<p>“We have been reduced in those five years from a position of security so overwhelming and so unchallengeable that we never cared to think about it,” Churchill said, “reduced in five years from a position safe and unchallenged to where we stand now.”</p>
<p>In five years of Obama, the United States has also been reduced, its security stripped away and sold to win the approval of its enemies. It’s locked into the same policy of offering worthless security guarantees to its allies and then selling those allies down the river to prevent them from calling on those guarantees and exposing their worthlessness.</p>
<p>That was the Chamberlain policy that Churchill was denouncing. That is the Obama policy with his chalkboard of worthless red lines whose bluffing powers he is determined to protect.</p>
<p>&#8220;Having secured resources which will greatly diminish, if not entirely remove, the deterrent of a naval blockade, the rulers of Nazi Germany will have a free choice open to them in what direction they will turn their eyes,&#8221; Churchill said.</p>
<p>Similarly the nuclear deal cuts off most options for America and its allies and endows Iran with a great many options. And once it does have nuclear weapons, its options will be nearly unlimited.</p>
<p>Chamberlain’s rejoinder to Churchill reduced a practical problem to a philosophical one.</p>
<p>&#8220;It seems to me that there are really only two possible alternatives. One of them is to base yourself upon the view that… friendly relation… with totalitarian States are impossible, that the assurances which have been given to me personally are worthless, that they have sinister designs and that they are bent upon the domination of Europe,” he said, reciting true facts with the air of a conspiracy theory.</p>
<p>If that were indeed the case, Chamberlain argued, “There is no future hope for civilisation or for any of the things that make life worth living.”</p>
<p>Peace stopped being a rational program and became a philosophical one. A world where dictators could not be successfully appeased was not a world worth living in. The appeasement of Iran follows that same self-pitying mysticism.</p>
<p>For Churchill negotiations were a practical policy with a practical end, but supporters of appeasement had made negotiations into a moral absolute so that practical issues could be ignored and the dismantling of Czechoslovakia could be rationalized for the greater good of peace.</p>
<p>Any contradictory information was drowned in enthusiasm for peace with Hitler, which became indistinguishable from enthusiasm for Hitler.</p>
<p>If peace depended on Hitler and the entire hope of civilization rested on Hitler’s willingness to live in peace, the Chamberlains and their Hoares had to believe in Hitler to believe that life was worth living.</p>
<p>Their modern counterparts substitute the Supreme Leader of Iran for the Fuehrer, or leader, of Nazi Germany, but otherwise they make the same mistake.</p>
<p>To believe in world peace, they must believe in Hitler, in Stalin and in Khamenei and believe that regimes which ceaselessly talk of war, build weapons of war and torture and murder their own people on a whim somehow share their hopes for peace.</p>
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<p>Don&#8217;t miss <strong>Ann-Marie Murrell</strong>&#8216;s video interview with <strong>Daniel Greenfield</strong> on <em>Robert Gates’ Revelations Confirm Horowitz&#8217;s “Party of Defeat,”</em> <em>Abandoning Iraq, </em><em> How Americans Died For a War Obama Didn&#8217;t Believe In</em>, <em>The Release of Terrorist Lawyer Lynne Stewart</em>, <em></em>and much, much more:</p>
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<p><em>Originally published by the <a href="http://www.hoover.org/publications/defining-ideas/article/165326">Hoover Institution</a>. </em></p>
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<p>During the recent foreign policy crises over Syria’s use of chemical weapons and the Obama administration’s negotiations with Iran, the Munich analogy was heard from both sides of the political spectrum. Arguing for airstrikes against Syria’s Bashar al-Assad, Secretary of State John Kerry warned that the nation faced a “Munich moment.” A few months later, numerous critics of Barack Obama’s diplomatic discussions with Iran evoked Neville Chamberlain’s naïve negotiations with Adolph Hitler. “This wretched deal,” Middle East historian Daniel Pipes said, “offers one of those rare occasions when comparison with Neville Chamberlain in Munich in 1938 is valid.” The widespread resort to the Munich analogy raises the question: When, if ever, are historical analogies useful for understanding present circumstances?</p>
<p>Since the time of the ancient Greeks and Romans, one important purpose of describing historical events was to provide models for posterity. Around 395 B.C., Thucydides wrote that his history was for “those inquirers who desire an exact knowledge of the past as an aid to the understanding of the future, which in the course of human things must resemble if it does not reflect it.” Thus he proclaimed his history to be “a possession for all time.” Nearly four centuries later, the Roman historian Livy wrote his history of the Roman Republic from its foundations to Augustus in order to show “what to imitate,” and to “mark for avoidance what is shameful in the conception and shameful in the result.”</p>
<p>Both historians believed the past could inform and instruct the present because they assumed that human nature would remain constant in its passions, weaknesses, and interests despite changes in the political, social, or technological environment. As Thucydides writes of the horrors of revolution and civil war, “The sufferings . . . were many and terrible, such as have occurred and always will occur as long as the nature of mankind remains the same; though in severer or milder form, and varying in their symptoms, according to the variety of the particular cases.” Good history must take into account that “variety of the particular cases,” but an unchanging human nature will over time and space work similar effects. The past, then, can provide analogies for the present, provided they are based on “exact knowledge,” and the “variety of particular cases” is respected.</p>
<p>In contrast, the modern idea of progress––the notion that greater knowledge of human motivation and behavior, and more sophisticated technology, are changing and improving human nature––suggests that events of the past have little utility in describing the present, and so every historical analogy is at some level false. The differences between two events separated by time and different levels of intellectual and technological sophistication will necessarily outweigh any usefulness. The progressive improvement of human nature, however, is a cultural idea, not a scientific fact. If the gruesome twentieth century shows us anything, it is that the destructive passions, irrational motives, and dangerous weaknesses of human nature still persist. As long as the important differences between past and present events are respected, the similarities can be useful for understanding our own predicaments.</p>
<p>An example of a historical analogy that failed because it neglected important differences was one popular among those supporting the Bush Doctrine during the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Bush Doctrine was embodied in the president’s 2005 inaugural speech: “The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world.” Promoting democracy and political freedom in the Middle East was believed to be the way to eliminate the political, social, and economic dysfunctions that presumably breed Islamic terrorism. Supporters of this view frequently invoked the transformation of Germany, Japan, and the Soviet Union from aggressive tyrannies into peaceful democracies to argue for nation building in the Muslim Middle East.</p>
<p>Natan Sharansky, a former Soviet dissident and political prisoner, used this analogy in his 2004 book <em>The Case for Democracy</em>, which was an important influence on President Bush’s thinking<em>.</em> Yet in citing the examples of Russia, Germany, and Japan as proof that democracy could take root in any cultural soil, including in Iraq and Afghanistan, Sharansky overlooked some key differences. Under Soviet communism, a highly religious Russian people were subjected to an atheist regime radically at odds with the beliefs of the masses. Communism could only promise material goods, and when it serially failed to do so, it collapsed. As for Germany and Japan, both countries were devastated by World War II, their cities and industries destroyed, the ruins standing as stark reminders of the folly of the political ideologies that wreaked such havoc. Both countries were occupied for years by the victors, who had the power and scope to build a new political order enforced by the occupying troops. As political philosopher Michael Mandelbaum reminds us, in Germany and Japan, democracy was introduced at gunpoint.</p>
<p>In Iraq and Afghanistan, neither of these important conditions existed when U.S. forces invaded. The leaders of these countries are Muslim, thus establishing an important connection with the mass of their people. Unlike Nazism and communism, which were political fads, Islam is the faith of 1.5 billion people, and boasts a proud, fourteen-centuries-long history of success and conquest. For millions of pious Muslims, the answer to their modern difficulties lies not in embracing a foreign political system like democracy, but in returning to the purity of faith that created one of the world’s greatest empires. Moreover, no Muslim country has suffered the dramatic physical destruction that Germany and Japan did, which would illuminate the costs of Islam’s failure to adapt to the modern world. Finally, such analogies downplay the complex social and economic values, habits, and attitudes––many contrary to traditional Islamic doctrine––that are the preconditions for a truly democratic regime.</p>
<p>More recently, people are invoking the Munich analogy to describe the Syria and Iran crises. But these critics of Obama’s foreign policy misunderstand the Munich negotiations and their context. The <em>Wall Street Journal</em>’s Bret Stephens, arguing that Obama’s agreement with Iran is worse than the English and French betrayal of Czechoslovakia, based his assessment on his belief that “neither Neville Chamberlain nor [French prime minister] Édouard Daladier had the public support or military wherewithal to stand up to Hitler in September 1938. Britain had just 384,000 men in its regular army; the first Spitfire aircraft only entered RAF service that summer. ‘Peace for our time’ it was not, but at least appeasement bought the West a year to rearm.”</p>
<p>Stephens, however, is missing an important historical detail that calls into question this interpretation. France in fact did have the “military wherewithal” to fight the Germans. The Maginot line had 860,000 soldiers manning it––nearly six times the number of Germans on the unfinished “Western Wall” of defensive fortifications facing the French—and another 400,000 troops elsewhere in France. Any move east by the French would have presented Germany with a two-front war it was not prepared to fight. Nor would Czechoslovakia have been an easy foe for Hitler. As Churchill wrote in <em>The Gathering Storm, </em>the Czechs had “a million and a half men armed behind the strongest fortress line in Europe [in the mountainous Sudetenland on Germany’s eastern border] and equipped by a highly organized and powerful industrial machine,” including the Skoda works, “the second most important arsenal in Central Europe.” Finally, the web of military agreements among England, France, Poland, and the Soviet Union was dependent on England backing France, which would not fight otherwise, and without the French, the Poles and the Soviets would not fight either. Had England lived up to its commitment to France, Hitler would have faced a two-front war against the overwhelming combined military superiority of the Allies. And he would have lost.</p>
<p>The lessons of Munich, and its value as a historical analogy, have nothing to do with a material calculation. Rather, the capitulation of the British and the French illustrates the perennial truth that conflict is about morale. On that point Stephens is correct when he writes that Chamberlain and Daladier did not have “public support,” and he emphasizes the role of morale in foreign policy. A people who have lost the confidence in the goodness of their way of life will not be saved by the material superiority of arms or money. And, as Munich also shows, that failure of nerve will not be mitigated by diplomatic negotiations. Talking to an enemy bent on aggression will only buy him time for achieving his aims. Thus Munich exposes the fallacy of diplomatic engagement that periodically has compromised Western foreign policy. Rather than a means of avoiding the unavoidable brutal costs of conflict, diplomatic words often create the illusion of action, while in reality avoiding the necessary military deeds. For diplomacy to work, the enemy must believe that his opponent will use punishing force to back up the agreement.</p>
<p>This truth gives force to the Munich analogy when applied to diplomacy with Iran. Hitler correctly judged that what he called the “little worms” of Munich, France and England, would not use such force, and were only looking for a politically palatable way to avoid a war. Similarly today, the mullahs in Iran are confident that America will not use force to stop the nuclear weapons program. Iran’s leaders are shrewd enough to understand that the Obama administration needs a diplomatic fig leaf to hide its capitulation to their nuclear ambitions, given his doubts about the rightness of America’s global dominance, and the war-weariness evident among the American people. Unfortunately, this deal allows the Iranians to continue spinning the centrifuges and inching ever closer to the capacity quickly to build a nuclear weapon, even as they receive the much needed funds that will come from sanctions relief.</p>
<p>The weakening faith in American goodness that afflicts millions of Americans, and the use of diplomacy to camouflage that failure of nerve and provide political cover for the leaders charged with protecting our security and interests, are a reprise of England and France’s sacrifice of Czechoslovakia in 1938. That similarity and the lessons it can teach about the dangers of the collapse of national morale and the risky reliance on words rather than deeds are what continue to make Munich a useful historical analogy.</p>
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		<title>From Munich to Geneva = Lesson Unlearned</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Nov 2013 05:10:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to a nuclearized Middle East.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/rouh_edited-1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-211874" alt="rouh_edited-1" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/rouh_edited-1.jpg" width="280" height="252" /></a>Over the weekend of November 23-24, 2013, a deal was struck between the 5+1 powers and Iran. The deal was consummated following secret negotiations in Amman Jordan, between US and Iranian diplomats. The Obama administration’s eagerness to embrace the deal with Iran and its new president Hassan Rouhani, is transparent. Sadly, it is reminiscent of an earlier negotiation that took place between Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany and the western powers of Britain and France, in September,1938, known as the Munich Agreement. Now, as then, regime change was not the goal. The western powers have considered easing tensions in the region, and will get instead a nuclearized Middle East. In 1938, they sought to appease a rogue nation in order to prevent a war, and received instead a World War.</p>
<p>It is interesting to note that the talking heads appearing on ABC, CBS, CNN, and Fox, (to name a few), have discussed the variables of the agreement. Some supported it, yet others felt it was shortcoming and would enable Iran to continue to enrich uranium, and add centrifuges, and ultimately build a nuclear bomb. Few if any however, discussed the need for a regime change in Iran. What the White House and media have done in addition to the flawed interim agreement, is to legitimize the Islamic Republic, a regime that oppresses its own people, persecutes Sunni-Muslims and other minorities, such as the Baha’is, Christians and Jews. In addition, the Tehran regime is a global sponsor of terrorism.</p>
<p>Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called the deal with Iran “an <a href="http://www.latimes.com/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-netanyahu-israel-iran-deal-mistake-20131124,0,59571.story#axzz2lmK27k4r">historic mistake</a>,” and added that it “makes the world a much more dangerous place.” Netanyahu said that Israel will not be bound by it. He pointed out that the sanctions imposed on Iran offered the “best chance for a peaceful solution.” He told the Knesset that, “Israel has the right to defend itself by itself, and emphasized that Israel will not allow Iran to develop a military nuclear capability. For Israel, it signifies mortal danger and an existential threat.</p>
<p>On a previous weekend, Netanyahu asserted that “<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-18/obama-defends-iran-dealmaking-amid-dispute-over-relief.html">easing the sanctions</a> would endanger the whole sanctions regime that took years to make.” In an interview with CNN’s State of the Union program he added, “You are going to get investors, companies, and countries scrambling one after the other to try to get deals with Iran, because economies and prices work on future expectations.” Netanyahu has proposed that Iran surrender some of its uranium stockpiles, which it has already been enriched, so that Tehran won’t have the fissile material needed for a nuclear weapon. He also declared that Israel does not trust Iran to cooperate in subsequent negotiations.</p>
<p>Recently, President Rouhani proposed that Iran will end its uranium enrichment at the 20% level in exchange for receiving fuel for its nuclear reactor, allegedly to manufacture medical drugs. Israel views Rouhani’s proposal as a cheap ploy. Jerusalem contends that isotopes needed for medical drugs could be obtained in the free market, and do not require a nuclear reactor. In his charm offensive towards the west, Rouhani has promised that Iran would never develop a nuclear weapon, but at the same time he insisted that Iran must retain the right to enrich uranium. And, while PM Netanyahu called Rouhani’s claims “fraudulent,” others might call him a “taqiyyah artist,” which Encyclopedia Britannica explains as “the practice of concealing one’s belief,” or simply put, lying and deceiving the enemy.</p>
<p>The Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei stated on Wednesday, November 20, 2013, that Iran will not give up the right to enrich uranium. Speaking to the Basij force which is controlled by the Revolutionary Guard, Khamenei declared “There are <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57613135/iran-nuclear-talks-resume-with-ayatollah-khameneis-blessing-and-a-warning-over-red-lines/">red lines</a>. There are limits. These limits must be observed.” He declared that Israel is doomed to fail and characterized the “Zionist regime” as the “sinister, unclean rabid dog of the region” and added that “<a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-unpleasantly-surprised-by-us-silence-on-khameneis-vicious-speech/">Israelis cannot be called human beings</a>.” The last regime to charge that Jews were not human beings was Nazi Germany. The world ignored it then and it helped facilitate the Holocaust.  Once again, the US and the European powers have chosen to ignore the leader’s vulgar statements, and signed a deal with his regime.</p>
<p>Iran’s Islamic Republic has a pretty murky record on trust. It has cheated the international community, and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) regarding its nuclear facilities. It took Iranian defectors and opposition leaders to reveal the truth about Iran’s nuclear program, and the existence of hidden nuclear facilities in Arak (heavy water facility) and a uranium enrichment plant in Natanz. The IAEA also revealed Iran’s policy of deception and lies, and in October, 2003, it served Iran with an ultimatum to come clean on its nuclear program. Another ultimatum in 2004 ordered Iran to cease its uranium enrichment. All of these ultimatums had little effect on Iran, which was aided by the Egyptian head of the IAEA, Muhammad el-Baradei. IAEA warnings were not followed by sanctions, and it encouraged Tehran to continue with its tactics of revealing one facility while hiding two others from the international community.</p>
<p>Writing in the <i>Wall Street Journal </i>(11/19/2013), Claudia Rosett pointed out that “Mr. Kerry and his team have yet to address one of the biggest challenges: the example set by North Korea, which over the past two decades has shown the world – Iran, not least – how a rogue state can exploit <a href="http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304439804579207422182734460">over-eager western diplomacy</a> to haggle and cheat its way to the nuclear bomb.” The Tehran regime is just as much a rogue state as North Korea. It is the premier terror-sponsoring state in the world, with a doomsday ideology that believes in order to usher in the coming of the Mehdi (Shiite messiah), “hidden imam,” an Armageddon must occur, which will wipe out the non-believers, first and foremost the big and little Satan, namely the US and Israel. While America is too big, too far, and too strong for Iran to tackle, Israel is close, small, and perceived as weak. Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahamdinejad declared his vision of a world without Zionism and stated on October 27, 2005, “that Israel must be <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/26/world/africa/26iht-iran.html?_r=0">wiped off the map</a>.”</p>
<p>The Tehran regime may or may not adhere to the interim agreement. Regardless, it continues to be a dangerous regime that threatens genocide and fosters instability in the region. The only way to regain peace and stability in the region is by affecting a regime change in Iran. The majority of Iran’s population would welcome it, and the Sunni minorities (Kurds, Baluchis, and Ahwazi Arabs) who are locked in combat with the regime, would opt for peace. The Arab Gulf states would be relieved, and cancel their plans to nuclearize. Active support for opposition groups in Iran and tough sanctions might very well bring down the regime. This should be the goal of the Western governments. The interim agreement does the opposite. It strengthens the regime’s grip on the Iranian people.</p>
<p>The Obama administration’s efforts to disengage the US from conflict by appeasing dangerous foes such as Iran will surely bring consequences that cannot be imagined. The Obama administration’s failure to act on the Red Line it presented to Assad of Syria on his use of chemical weapons, served to encourage Iranian President Rouhani. It has emboldened his negotiators to demand relief from western sanctions while Tehran refuses to refrain from uranium enrichment. Iran continues to develop its strategic nuclear weapons. In short, we are living through a repeat of the 1938 Munich Agreement, which sacrificed Czechoslovakia on the altar of “peace in our time” as proclaimed by Neville Chamberlain. It cost humanity 60 million dead souls. Nazi Germany was unrestrained by western weakness, and so is Iran.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Nov 2013 05:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Munich</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Nov 2013 05:56:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bruce Thornton]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[History repeats itself -- will the same atrocities follow? ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/143022.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-211663" alt="143022" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/143022-406x350.jpg" width="284" height="245" /></a>The interim agreement negotiated by the Security Council and Germany with Iran is a serious advance toward what Winston Churchill <a href="http://www.winstonchurchill.org/learn/speeches/speeches-of-winston-churchill/101-the-munich-agreement">called</a> the Munich agreement: “a total and unmitigated defeat” and a “disaster of the first magnitude.” Nothing in the agreement guarantees that Iran will fulfill its promises, or that inspectors will be allowed access to all of Iran’s enrichment facilities, let alone its secret sites, or that serious consequences will follow violations of the terms of the agreement. The agreement does nothing to force Iran to come clean on, let alone dismantle, all its weapons facilities, or to reverse Iran’s capacity to enrich uranium––indeed, it is arguably a de facto recognition of Iran’s right to do so. In exchange for signing, Iran will gain access to multiple billions of dollars in sanction relief, and 6 more months to spin the centrifuges, confident that sanctions once relaxed are unlikely to be reimposed.</span></b></p>
<p>No wonder they are celebrating in Tehran. And for good reason, given how much they will receive and how little they have promised. It reminds me of Churchill’s metaphor in the same speech when he refuted the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s claim that Hitler had been made to “retract.” In fact, Churchill said of the three meetings between Chamberlain and Hitler,  “£1 was demanded at the pistol’s point. When it was given, £2 were demanded at the pistol’s point. Finally, the dictator consented to take £1 17s. 6d. and the rest in promises of goodwill for the future.”</p>
<p>So much is obvious, even to many Democrats in Congress, who may join with Republicans to stop this quantum leap towards full-blown appeasement and a nuclear-armed Iran when in 6 months some “comprehensive” appeasing agreement is proffered. What remains to be seen is whether the American people will become as worried over this disaster as they have been angry over Obamacare. Weary of war, and seemingly indifferent to the squandering of lives in Iraq and Afghanistan wrought by Obama’s hasty and feckless withdrawal from those countries, Americans may feel about the Middle East and its complex hatreds and rivalries as Chamberlain did about the crisis in Czechoslovakia–– “a quarrel in a far-away country between people of whom we know nothing.”</p>
<p>Such shortsightedness is dangerous not just to our ally Israel. For years Europe––and now it appears America too––has tried to force Israel into the role of Czechoslovakia in the Munich crisis in order to appease Palestinian Arab aggression and violence. In 1938 politicians in France and England were impatient with the Czechs’ desire to maintain their sovereignty and ensure their security against an aggressor on their borders. Every outrageous demand made by Hitler and his stooges in the Sudetenland was met with scolding of the Czechs for their intransigence. The French warned the Czechs not to be “unreasonable,” the British thought they needed “to get a real twist of the screw,” the English minister in Prague advised Czech president Edvard Benes to “go forthwith to the very limit of concession,” English Foreign Minister Lord Halifax told the Czechs that “in the interests of international peace every possible step should be taken to remove the cause of friction or even of conflict,” and both French and English diplomats urged the Czechs to accept the dismemberment of their country “before producing a situation for which France and Britain could take no responsibility.” Faced with a ruthless aggressor, the victim was bullied into committing suicide by its so-called allies.</p>
<p>How similar to the shameless pressure on Israel from the Western powers and the Obama administration. They have scolded and bullied Israel over “settlements” and the so-called “occupation” of lands that were the homeland of the Jewish people for two millennia. They have urged Israeli acquiescence to the specious “two-state solution” and respect for “Palestinian self-determination.” They have pressed negotiations with and concessions to enemies that have made plain in word and bloody deed their goal of “wiping Israel off the map,” as an ex-president of Iran once said, and as every Friday imams across the Muslim Middle East preach to their flocks. Once more Churchill is instructive: “We in this country, as in other Liberal and democratic countries, have a perfect right to exalt the principle of self-determination, but it comes ill out of the mouths of those in totalitarian states who deny even the smallest element of toleration to every section and creed within their bounds.” Yet this current agreement, which de facto concedes to Iran the right to create the weapons that can turn these threats to reality, ignores the true nature of Israel’s intolerant enemies, and the security concerns of the most vulnerable state in the region.</p>
<p>On the contrary, Obama is pressuring Israel to forbear and trust the oft violated and broken promises of a mortal enemy, just as France and England in 1938 ignored Hitler’s threats at the Nuremberg party-rally that no agreements would be reached with an “irreconcilable” enemy. It would be dangerous for Americans sick of this seemingly far-away conflict to buy into this false narrative that blames Israeli “intransigence” and “occupation” over a “Palestinian homeland” for Muslim terrorism and violence that are in fact rooted in Islamic doctrine and evidenced by the record of history.</p>
<p>Worse yet, it would be equally dangerous to think that the comparison of the current appeasement of Iran with Munich is false because we Americans do not face an existential threat from an enemy as militarily powerful as we, or that, to paraphrase Churchill, “nothing vitally affecting us [is] at stake.” If Iran becomes a nuclear power, there will not be a world war like the one that was spawned by Munich and that cost 50 million lives. But we will indeed be vitally affected. The on-going conflicts of Sunni against Shiites, jihadists against autocrats, and everyone against Israel will be intensified and magnified immeasurably by Iran’s possession of nuclear weapons and the regional proliferation to follow––assuming Israel does not strike the facilities and set back the program, with violent and disordering blowback that can only be imagined.</p>
<p>And make no mistake, this violence and disorder will indeed affect our interests and security. We may be nearing energy independence, but in a globalized economy, the rest of the world with whom we trade will still be dependent on Middle Eastern oil, and the disruption to their economies from oil shortages and a shut-down of the straits of Hormuz will affect our own, which is still struggling with unemployment, rising debt, and run-away entitlement spending. Nor should we dismiss as fantastic the possibility that Iran, the world’s foremost supporter of terrorism with 35 years of American blood on its hands, will hand off dirty bombs to one of its many jihadist affiliates for attacks on our homeland. Who on September 10, 2001 believed that terrorists armed with box-cutters would level the World Trade Center? Total war will not follow from Iran’s possession of nuclear weapons, but an insidious degradation of our security will, until another terrorist attacks breeds more war, more compromises of our individual freedoms, more erosion of our morale and will, and more appeasement, the consequences of which will be borne by our children and grandchildren.</p>
<p>Finally, this deal signals once again that under Obama America is now considered weak and cowardly, uninterested in acting on the global responsibilities that necessarily have attended its unprecedented wealth and power, and eager for retreat and withdrawal no matter how dangerous the long-term consequences. Here too we resemble the British as Churchill described them in his Munich speech: “We have been reduced in those five years [since Hitler’s rise to power] from a position of security so overwhelming and so unchallengeable that we never cared to think about it. We have been reduced from a position where the very word ‘war’ was considered one which could be used only by persons qualifying for a lunatic asylum. We have been reduced from a position of safety and power––power to do good, power to be generous to a beaten foe, power to make terms with Germany, power to give her proper redress for her grievances, power to stop her arming if we chose, power to take any step in strength or mercy or justice which we thought right––reduced in five years from a position safe and unchallenged to where we stand now.” All diplomacy and negotiation with our foes depends on their belief that we back our agreements with punishing force. Today both our friends and enemies no longer believe that we have the will or courage to back our words with deeds.</p>
<p>Only the American people can stop the unfolding disaster of the agreement with Iran, and only by the means Churchill recommended to his countrymen: with “a supreme recovery of moral health and martial vigor, we arise again and take our stand for freedom as in the olden time.”</p>
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<p>Where did the Saudi monarchy come by a Hitler dagger? That <a href="http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2013/11/1107-links-pt2-lies-of-protest-tourism.html">would be from the t</a>ime our<a href="http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/11/01/the_us_saudi_royal_rumble"> close ally tried to cut a deal with</a> Hitler to kill Jews.</p>
<blockquote><p>In early 1939, a Saudi delegation went to Nazi Germany to negotiate an arms agreement, part of which would have been diverted to Palestinian Arabs fighting Jewish immigrants in the British mandate of Palestine. At least some of the Saudi group met Adolf Hitler at his mountain top hideaway at Berchtesgaden.</p>
<p>German arms never reached the kingdom &#8212; or Palestine &#8211; as the Saudis could not afford to consummate the deal (that was in the days before the oil revenues started flowing in). However, King Abdullah still treasures a dagger given as a gift from the Fuhrer himself, and occasionally shows it off to guests.</p>
<p>Visiting U.S. officials are briefed in advance so they can display appropriate diplomatic sang-froid if Abdullah points out the memento.</p></blockquote>
<p>No word on whether King Abdullah ever let Barack Obama play with his dagger.</p>
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		<title>Muslim Brotherhood Compares Egyptian Generals to Hitler, Makes them More Popular</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2013 21:13:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>In a confusing misstep, the <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/10/03/egypt-muslim-brotherhood-blasts-military-ahead-rally/">Muslim Brotherhood issued a statement</a> comparing the Egyptian military to Hitler, the Emperor Nero and Genghis Khan&#8217;s grandson.</p>
<p>Also it urged Egyptian soldiers to rebel against their commanders and come over to the side that wants to ban liquor, women walking around with uncovered faces and any reason to live. Considering the temperament of the average soldier, this strategy may backfire on them.</p>
<p>Going Godwin&#8217;s Law and playing the Hitler Card may be the worst strategic misstep yet as Hitler is actually pretty popular in Egypt.</p>
<blockquote><p>Hitler&#8217;s Mein Kampf is on sale in Cairo, both in well-known bookstores and on the streets around Midan Tahrir, the city&#8217;s chaotic main square. The Arabic translation sits beside the reams of religious books, as well as works on Saddam Hussein, al-Qaida in Iraq mastermind Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, and Osama bin Laden.</p>
<p>The fair also has its darker sides, with anti-Christian polemics advocating conversion to Islam as the only solution to a flawed religion and of course plenty of editions of Adolf Hitler&#8217;s &#8220;Mein Kampf&#8221; for sale.</p>
<p>&#8220;It makes up a big part of our success, especially among the 18 to 25 crowd,&#8221; said Mahmud Abdallah of the Syrian-Egyptian Dar al-Kitab al-Arabi publishing house.</p></blockquote>
<p>The Muslim Brotherhood risks losing the core 18-25 audience. And the Muslim Brotherhood&#8217;s position is stranger considering how <a href="http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2008/01/islamism-hamas-and-al-quedas-nazi-roots.html">traditionally close it&#8217;s been to Hitler</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>“This burgeoning Islamist movement was subsidized with German funds,” Küntzel writes. “These contributions enabled the Muslim Brotherhood to set up a printing plant with 24 employees and use the most up-to-date propaganda methods.” The Muslim Brotherhood, Küntzel goes on, was a crucial distributor of Arabic translations of “Mein Kampf” and the “Protocols.” Across the Arab world, he states, Nazi methods and ideology whipped up anti-Zionist fervor, and the effects of this concerted campaign are still being felt today.</p>
<p>The Brotherhood&#8217;s campaign used not only Nazi-like patterns of action and slogans but also German funding. As the historian Brynjar Lia recounts in his monograph on the Brotherhood, &#8220;Documents seized in the flat of Wilhelm Stellbogen, the Director of the German News Agency affiliated to the German Legation in Cairo, show that prior to October 1939 the Muslim Brothers received subsidies from this organization.</p></blockquote>
<p>So all those Mein Kampfs can be credited to the Muslim Brotherhood which found a useful patron in Adolf Hitler. And has always been positive about his work.</p>
<p>Not too long ago, the Muslim Brotherhood&#8217;s Qaradawi claimed that Hitler had been acting as an agent of Allah. <a href="http://globalmbreport.com/?p=1312">Sort of like Mohammed Atta</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Throughout history, Allah has imposed upon the [Jews] people who would punish them for their corruption. The last punishment was carried out by Hitler. By means of all the things he did to them – even though they exaggerated this issue – he managed to put them in their place. This was divine punishment for them. Allah willing, the next time will be at the hand of the believers.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Now suddenly the Muslim Brotherhood has turned on Hitler. And on Genghis Khan&#8217;s grandson. And the Emperor Nero. At least that one is easy to understand.</p>
<p>Islam forbids playing stringed instruments. It is however a big fan of killing Jews.</p>
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		<title>John Kerry: Face of Defeat</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Sep 2013 04:18:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arnold Ahlert]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The poster boy of Obama's incompetence and untrustworthiness on the world stage. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/pic_edited-2.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-203181" alt="pic_edited-2" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/pic_edited-2-422x350.jpg" width="295" height="245" /></a>A <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2408805/John-Kerrys-cosy-dinner-Syrias-Hitler-Secretary-State-Assad-pictured-dining-Damascus.html">picture</a> of John Kerry has recently resurfaced that exemplifies the quality of his judgement and the reality of his long relationship with Syrian dictator Bashar Assad. The same man Kerry compares to Adolf Hitler and Saddam Hussein today was Kerry&#8217;s dining partner in 2009. The picture was taken at time when Kerry and a number of other Democrats, eager to spurn the Bush administration post-Iraq, were pushing the notion that Assad could be a potential partner in bringing peace to the Middle East. If such a colossal mistake represented an anomaly in Kerry&#8217;s career, it might be understandable. It does not, however. Kerry in fact has a long track record of supporting totalitarians and killers that makes him an embarrassment on the world stage.</p>
<p>After serving in Vietnam as a swift boat captain, Kerry immediately embraced the anti-war movement diametrically opposed to that service. In 1970, Kerry <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2004/08/did_navy_lt_kerry_violate_the.html">met</a> with the North Vietnamese and Vietcong delegations in Paris, to discuss their peace proposals. He was unconcerned his effort bordered on violating the Uniform Code of Military Justice, which holds accountable any person who “without proper authority, knowingly harbors or protects or gives intelligence to or communicates or corresponds with or holds any intercourse with the enemy, either directly or indirectly.” Kerry was especially enchanted with eight points offered by Madame Nguyen Thi Binh, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lenin_Peace_Prize_recipients">winner</a> of the Lenin Peace Prize, urging the U.S. Senate to adopt them. Kerry also became a spokesman and organizer for Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW), a group that signed a &#8220;People&#8217;s Peace Treaty&#8221; aligning itself with the Viet Cong&#8217;s conditions for ending the war. Kerry approved of that treaty as well.</p>
<p>Yet the most despicable part of Kerry&#8217;s anti-war efforts occurred in 1971. Representing the VVAW, Kerry <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/10/investigate_the_winter_soldier.html">testified</a> before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, relaying the <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/10/investigate_the_winter_soldier.html">still-unproven</a> claims of 150 Vietnam veterans who supposedly said “they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam in addition to the normal ravage of war.&#8221; Kerry further asserted that these were &#8220;not isolated incidents but crimes committed on a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command.&#8221;</p>
<p>Yet there is one quote from those hearings that highlights Kerry&#8217;s “evolving” judgement regarding intervention in Syria. &#8220;In our opinion, and from our experience, there is nothing in South Vietnam which could happen that realistically threatens the United States of America,&#8221; Kerry insisted at the time.</p>
<p>In the ensuing years, Kerry embraced a number of other dubious causes and despicable characters. In 1983, a year before becoming Senator, he denounced the invasion of Grenada that <a href="http://www.military.com/Resources/HistorySubmittedFileView?file=history_grenada.htm">resulted</a> in the rescue of American medical students, as well as the overthrow the Communist regime that had seized power there. Kerry likened it to a &#8220;bully’s show of force against a weak Third World nation.&#8221; In 1985 he met with Nicaragua&#8217;s communist Sandinista government leader Daniel Ortega, in an effort to undermine President Reagan&#8217;s attempt to buttress the Contra freedom fighters. At the time, Kerry noted he was willing to take a chance on the &#8220;good faith of the Sandinistas.” Soon after, Ortega received a $200 million loan from the Soviet Union. After Ortega was defeated by Violeta Chamorro in 1990, Kerry insisted that the U.S. effort to aid the Contras had nothing to do with it, labeling it &#8220;an irrelevant debate right now.&#8221;</p>
<p>In 1991, Kerry chaired the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs, created to explore the possibility that Americans might still be held by the Communist Vietnamese government. Yet as U.S. Veteran Dispatch <a href="http://www.usvetdsp.com/story10.htm">puts</a> it, &#8220;no one in the United States Senate pushed harder to bury the POW/MIA issue,&#8221; than Kerry, who &#8220;never missed a chance to propaganderize (sic) and distort the facts in favor of Hanoi.&#8221;</p>
<p>And despite his impassioned speech in Congress last week advocating the right of the president to unilaterally act on his own if Congress doesn&#8217;t approve of striking out at Assad, Kerry <a href="http://www.questia.com/library/1G1-117035670/john-kerry-radical-internationalist-though-john">claimed</a> in his 2003 book, <i>A Call to Service,</i> that &#8220;multilateral organizations are vehicles for the promotion of our ideals and interests around the world.&#8221; This echoed his contention from 1970. &#8220;I&#8217;m an internationalist,&#8221; Kerry told the Harvard Crimson at the time. &#8220;I’d like to see our troops dispersed through the world only at the directive of the United Nations.&#8221; Kerry later disavowed that remark in a 2004 interview with the late Tim Russert. Yet that interview, coupled with his earlier career underscores an unpleasant reality: our current Secretary of State&#8217;s judgement is seriously lacking.</p>
<p>Which brings us to Kerry&#8217;s longstanding relationship with Bashar Assad, the man he currently calls a &#8220;thug&#8221; and a &#8220;murderer,&#8221; even as he insists that &#8220;history would judge us all extraordinarily harshly if we turned a blind eye to a dictator.&#8221;</p>
<p>No one turned a blinder eye to Assad than Kerry himself. As the <i>Washington Free Beacon</i> <a href="http://freebeacon.com/an-affair-to-remember/">noted</a> in 2012, Kerry has spent the last ten years as the &#8220;highest-ranking apologist in American politics for Syria’s Assad regime.&#8221;</p>
<p>Kerry&#8217;s efforts began in 2003 when he helped to undermine the Bush administration&#8217;s efforts to isolate Syria after their attempt to diplomatically engage Assad failed. Between 2009, when the above picture in the <i>Mail</i> was taken, and 2011, Kerry <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/12/16/generous-remember-john-kerrys-praise-of-syrian-dictator-assad/">visited</a> Assad five times.</p>
<p>During his visit in February 2009 shortly after Barack Obama&#8217;s inauguration, Kerry was <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/senator-kerry-syria-willing-to-help-achieve-palestinian-unity-1.270630">sure</a> that Assad would take advantage of the &#8220;hope and change&#8221; era that had descended upon Washington. &#8220;I believe very deeply that this is an important moment of change, a moment of potential transformation, not just in the relationship between the United States and Syria but in the relationship of the region,&#8221; Kerry crowed. He even believed Assad would aid the so-called peace process, contending that &#8220;Syria could be, in fact, very helpful in helping to bring about a unity government,&#8221; between Fatah and Hamas.</p>
<p>Kerry also used the occasion to bash the former administration. ”Unlike the Bush administration that believed you could simply tell people what to do and walk away and wait for them to do it, we believe you have to engage in a discussion,” he said. ”So we are going to renew diplomacy but without any illusion, without any naivety, without any misplaced belief that, just by talking, things will automatically happen.”</p>
<p>Of course, this is precisely the policy the Obama administration has pursued in the Middle East for five years with disastrous results.</p>
<p>A year later, Kerry was back in Damascus trying to revive the stalled peace process. And once again, he was <a href="http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2010/04/01/104671.html">effusive</a> regarding Assad and his nation&#8217;s role in the effort. &#8220;Syria is an essential player in bringing peace and stability to the region,&#8221; Kerry said, following a meeting with Assad&#8211;even he called on Syria to stop supplying weapons to Hezbollah. He further insisted that the Obama administration&#8217;s effort to appoint the first U.S. ambassador to Damascus in five years was &#8220;evidence that engagement with Syria is a priority at the highest levels of our government.&#8221; (The Bush administration had withdrawn the U.S. ambassador in 2005, following the assassination of Lebanon’s former premier Rafiq Hariri, in a car bombing most likely orchestrated by the Assad regime).</p>
<p>Seven months later a Wikileaks cable <a href="http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/11/29/wikileaked_john_kerry_calls_for_israel_to_cede_golan_heights_and_east_jerusalem">revealed</a> that Kerry told Qatari leaders Prime Minister Hamad bin Jassim Al Thani, and the Emir of Qatar, Hamad bin Khalifa, the Golan Heights should be returned to Syria, and that a final agreement of the peace process must include a Palestinian state with a capital in East Jerusalem.</p>
<p>Kerry&#8217;s delusions remained remarkably consistent through 2011, even as the Middle East began unraveling in what Kerry and his fellow travelers in government and the media famously mislabeled the &#8220;Arab Spring.&#8221; In a <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444025204577544891777555840.html">column</a> for the <i>Wall Street Journal,</i> Bret Stephens recalled that Kerry had characterized Assad as a man of his word &#8220;who had been very generous with me.&#8221; Kerry further insisted that “Syria will move; Syria will change as it embraces a legitimate relationship with the United States.”</p>
<p>More than 100,000 deaths later, Syria has certainly changed. So has the man who during his anti-Reagan, pro-Sandinista days took a <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/node/210519/print">diametrically opposed</a> position to the one he&#8217;s taking now. &#8220;Our foreign policy should represent the democratic values that have made our country great, not subvert those values by funding terrorism to overthrow governments of other countries,” Kerry said.</p>
<p>That would be the same John Kerry who is now more than willing to abet al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood in the effort to punish Assad.</p>
<p>Even worse, yesterday Kerry upped the ante, <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/sep/3/kerry-no-doubt-assad-used-weapons-civilians/">refusing</a> to rule out the possibility that the U.S. would put troops on the ground in Syria. &#8220;I don’t want to take off the table an option that might or might not be available to the president that might secure our country,” he said, offering a hypothetical scenario of securing chemical weapons to prevent terrorists from obtaining them. Yet he immediately flip-flopped, saying that the administration will accept whatever limits Congress places on them to make sure the U.S. isn&#8217;t drawn into the civil war. Kerry then sought to immunize Obama from  his ill-advised &#8220;red line&#8221; that is the primary impetus for this political drama. “This debate is about the world’s red line. It’s about humanity’s red line. And it’s a red line that anybody with a conscience ought to draw,” he insisted.</p>
<p>Apparently much of the American public has no conscience. The average of four separate polls taken on public support for airstrikes (much less boots on the ground) <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/03/syria-airstrike-polls_n_3861639.html">show</a> that only 33 percent of Americans are in favor of the effort, while an average of 49.5 percent of the public are opposed.</p>
<p>Ironically, Kerry who accused his critics of “armchair isolationism” played a major role in solidifying American resistance to <i>any</i> Middle East intervention. As co-authors David Horowitz and Ben Johnson noted in their book, &#8220;Party of Defeat: How Democrats and Radicals Undermined America&#8217;s War on Terror Before and After 9/11,&#8221; when Kerry saw radical anti-war leftist Howard Dean vault to the head of the pack of Democratic presidential nominees in 2003, followed by the equally anti-war Dennis Kucinich, Kerry suddenly decided he was against an Iraq war he formerly supported. Thus, the man who now demands a Syrian vote based on conscience, abandoned his own in a pursuit of greater political glory.</p>
<p>In short, John Kerry is a man whose judgement with regard to America&#8217;s enemies is utterly lacking, and whose &#8220;principles&#8221; can be easily cast aside for the sake of political expediency.</p>
<p>Yesterday, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey <a href="http://freebeacon.com/dempsey-cant-say-what-u-s-is-seeking-in-syria/">summed up</a> Kerry&#8217;s current logic. Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) asked the General what the administration &#8220;was seeking&#8221; in Syria. &#8220;I can’t answer that, what we’re seeking,&#8221; Dempsey replied. Neither can our clueless Secretary of State, even as he personifies the Obama administration&#8217;s weakness, incompetence and untrustworthiness.</p>
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		<title>The Hand of God: How My Father Survived the Nazi-Inspired Farhud, Part I</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tiffany Gabbay]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The poisonous barbs of Hitler’s Final Solution were not confined solely to Europe.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Arabic-Language-Mein-Kampf1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-200795" alt="Arabic-Language-Mein-Kampf" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Arabic-Language-Mein-Kampf1.jpg" width="320" height="248" /></a><i>Tiffany Gabbay’s article below was originally published by TheBlaze in December, 2012. FrontPage is reprinting this piece as a two-part series to serve as a primer for a future series of articles that will highlight the plight of the “forgotten refugees” (Jewish refugees) who fled persecution, oppression, dhimmitude, pogroms, and eventually, exile, throughout the Middle East and Maghreb. </i></p>
<p><strong>Reprinted from <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/">TheBlaze.com</a>.</strong></p>
<p>There are few chapters in history that have ever revealed the face of evil or were wrought in more human suffering and degradation than the Shoah. What many do not realize, however, is that the poisonous barbs of Hitler’s Final Solution were not confined solely to Europe, but stretched far beyond to the East, where my father, and <i>his</i> father were born.</p>
<p><b>Abba</b></p>
<p>My father, Joseph Gabbay, was an Israeli hero who served proudly and<i> bravely</i> in the Jewish State’s War of Independence in 1948. From as early as I can remember, he would tell me stories of his journey from a life of wealth and privilege in Iraq, embraced by the warmth of family and educated at the prestigious Alliance School, to a humble, solitary existence of labor and study on a kibbutz in Haifa where he first learned to speak Hebrew and would later prepare for war.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Gabbay-Family-in-Iraq.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-200768 aligncenter" alt="Gabbay Family in Iraq" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Gabbay-Family-in-Iraq.jpg" width="400" height="614" /></a></p>
<p>As I grew older, and my “Abba” (father) felt I was mature enough to handle greater truths, his stories became more piquant, filled with details of his pains and struggles, joys and triumphs. Each retold memory was imbued with a sense of pride and humility; reverence and awe at how he and his lonsmen in battle, so severely outnumbered, were at the mercy of the “Hand of God.” For as much as he witnessed, although his own blood had been spilled, my father would never have traded it for the world. He was a <i>part</i> of Israel. And so, too, became I.</p>
<p>Though it was clear Abba restrained himself a great deal, never wishing to frighten me with the disturbing details of the horrors he endured, he said <i>enough</i>. I knew he suffered. The greatest, kindest man I have ever known, who was filled with an infectious light and beloved by all he encountered, was forced to survive a barbarism few, save those who have faced evil in war, could fathom even in the darkest recesses of the mind.</p>
<p>Some of the most poignant of my father’s true stories revolved around two fateful operations during the War of Independence. They are as relevant today as they were then. But to get to that story, I must first tell you how my father came to <i>be</i> an Israeli.</p>
<p><b>Baghdad</b></p>
<p>My father was born in Baghdad, as was his father before him. In fact, our family lineage can be traced back to Babylonian times. Throughout history, various forces came to rule over Iraq, from the Ottomans, to the Mongols, to the British, but in all its incarnations there was only one constant. Indeed, since the 6th century BCE, the Jewish people maintained a consistent and deeply influential presence in Babylon over 1,000 years before Islam arrived.</p>
<p>In my grandfather’s prime, Iraq fell under the auspices of the British Mandate and Jews, who until then were vehemently discriminated against, finally became recognized as full-fledged citizens. They were given the right to vote, hold political office and indeed, attain their rightful place in society.</p>
<p>Although the British Mandate of Iraq officially ended in 1930, the Baghdad of my father’s childhood was still highly influenced by the monarchy and was a flourishing metropolis if ever there was one. Members of the city’s established Jewish community, which comprised 40 percent of Baghdad’s population, along with its Christian counterpart, played an indispensable role in shaping the land into a thriving paradise that enjoyed economic, agricultural and societal prosperity.</p>
<p>Still, as they are wont to do, the primitivism and tribalism, the jealousy and loathing, the <i>anti-Semitism</i> that has long-served as hallmarks of the Arab world, reared its ugly head eventually. It was not before long that a pro-Nazi prime minister took hold of the kingdom and, just like that, the nearly three millennia-old Iraqi Jewish community was faced with outright extinction (sound familiar?).</p>
<p>Many, including some students of history are unaware of the fact that the Holocaust was not confined solely to Europe, but that its reach stretched as far as the Middle East and North Africa. While Arabs certainly needed no help fomenting hatred of their Jewish neighbors, it was Adolf Hitler who solidified, in their minds, the belief that the genocide they had always dreamed of was actually<i> attainable</i>. As the Final Solution raged in the West, Muslims in the East saw Hitler’s Third Reich as the model to emulate. And so they tried.</p>
<p><strong>See Part II in Monday&#8217;s edition.</strong></p>
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		<title>UNRWA Dean Finds Inspiration in Hitler</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Aug 2013 14:12:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In June, Obama decided to kick in an extra $123 million to the UNRWA bringing the total contribution for 2013 to $244.5 million. ]]></description>
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<p>The UNRWA is a UN agency dedicated solely to the perpetual Palestinian refugees. It <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-Ed-Contributors/Whose-taxpayers-fund-UNRWA-322135">has a 900 million dollar budget</a> and America is its single biggest donor.</p>
<p>In June, <a href="http://unispal.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/0/48EB4F8A6390D8FD85257B8E005CA18A">Obama decided to kick in an extra $123 million</a> to the UNRWA bringing the total contribution for 2013 to $244.5 million. And 2013 isn&#8217;t over yet.</p>
<p>So what kind of things does all that money help pay for? Education. Like <a href="http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2013/08/unrwa-dean-of-education-posts-hitler.html">this kind of education</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Dr. Fares Haider is the Dean of Student Affairs for UNRWA in Jordan. Here is a poster he placed on his personal Facebook page:</p>
<p>The text says &#8220;&#8216;The two most important rules in order to be successful &#8211; the first: never give up. The second: remember the first rule&#8217;. Adolph Hitler&#8221;</p>
<p>He captioned it &#8220;Military rules for success &#8230; good morning all.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>If you&#8217;re a bunch of terrorists who became homeless after trying and failing to wipe out the Jewish people&#8230; do you really want to take advice on not giving up from Adolf Hitler, the guy whose refusal to give up killing people led to a crushing defeat?</p>
<p>Also didn&#8217;t Hitler kill himself? Isn&#8217;t that the definition of giving up?</p>
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		<title>The Red Fascism of Colonel Chavez</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2013 04:15:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vladimir Tismaneanu]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why the Venezuelan comandante was the real successor of Stalin and Hitler.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Ahmadinejad_chavez.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-191263" alt="Venezuela's President Chavez speaks next to Iran's President Ahmadinejad during an agreement-signing ceremony in Tehran" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Ahmadinejad_chavez-450x330.jpg" width="315" height="231" /></a>What are the legacies of chavismo? Shameless demagogy, rampant poverty, duplicitous kleptocracy, strident chauvinism, ubiquitous propaganda, demonization of political opponents, a delusional police state pretending, like Castro&#8217;s Cuba, to embody the behests of History. Hugo Chavez (1954-2013) was the most strident voice of the new anti-western and anti-democratic front. By the end of his life (he passed away on March 5, precisely sixty years after Stalin’s demise), the Venezuelan comandante, compromised in his own country, was increasingly prone to engage in external adventures.</p>
<p>Not unlike Che Guevara&#8211;Che’s daughter Aleida is the author of a hagiography about Chavez&#8211;the Venezuelan leader dreamed of himself as the reincarnation of Bolivar, Jose Marti, Lenin, and even Evita Peron (a few years ago, Chavez proclaimed: “Evita died on July 26,1952. Only two days later, on July 28, 1954 I was born. Imagine!”) As the ridicule does not kill, Chavez launched a campaign to unearth Bolivar’s bones in order to demonstrate that El Libertador was poisoned bya reactionary conspiracy. In 2008, voicing his hostility to Colombia’s democratic regime, Chavez called  the neighbouring country “Latin America’s Israel.”</p>
<p>In this crusade, the narco-terrorism of the FARC guerillas, colluded with Chavez’ delirious petro-populism. Combining grotesque bufoonery, political farce, and the most obscene demagogy, Chavez symbolized leftist opportunism in its most aggressive form. We deal with red Fascism, because Chavez’s methods and aspirations did not differ essentially from those of Mussolini; statism, cult of personality, tribalist collectivism, indigenista messianism, the annihilation of political rivals, and the persecution of any source of civic autonomy. As in Eastern Europe before the revolutions of 1989, civil society has become the main enemy of the dictatorship.  Like Eastern Europe’s Leninist dinosaurs, Chavez indulged in endless, systematic lying.</p>
<p>The ally of the Castro brothers started his career as a demagogue of Peronista orientation. His affinities linked him to the far right; irrationalism, exacerbated nationalism, fascination with occultism, militarism, and political shamanism. Gradually, he absorbed the obsessions of the far left and discovered in the anti-imperialist rhetoric a self-aggrandizing platform able to catapult him as a prophet of the new tercermundismo.</p>
<p>Years ago, noted Venezuelan political thinker Carlos Rangel (1929-1988) wrote an illuminating book about Latin America’s revolutionary myths (&#8220;Del Buen Salvaje al buen Revolucionario,” translated into English as &#8220;The Latin Americans. The Love-Hate Relationship with the US.”) Rangel diagnosed the resentful grammar underlying the utopian Castro-Guevarist project. If we think of the youth years of Lenin, Trotsky or Stalin, it is hard not to notice precisely this contempt for the rule of law (&#8220;Rechtstaat”). The same can be said about the declassé young Hitler in a multi-ethnic Vienna, a city open to bourgeois modernity. These revolutionaries were in fact viscerally anti-conservative: they loathed pluralist values, procedural parliamentarism, and religion appeared to them as a form of mental enslavement. There is a whole literature about the socialist roots of Fascism.</p>
<p>We notice the emergence of a new International (exalting &#8220;el nuevo socialismo del siglo 21”) opposed not only to the United States (no matter who is the president, George W. Bush or Barack Obama), but hostile to the free market and to the economic, political, and cultural project based on the recognition of human rights.</p>
<p>We hear passionately humanitarian denunciations of the treatment of Islamicist prisoners in Guantanamo, but very little about the fact that on the same island, in Cuba, whoever dares to oppose the police dictatorship suffers ruthless persecutions. With his phantasmagorical ideas about “Bolivarian Socialism”, colonel Chavez epitomized the effort to regroup and resuscitate the leftist attempt to delegitimize and abolish pluralism.</p>
<p>In another book written by Rangel about Third World mythologies (with a foreword, as for the previous one by the late French political thinker Jean-François Revel) we find a seminal analysis of socialism as a doctrine intimately related to Fascism in terms of rejecting capitalism as “plutocratic,” “soulless,” and “mercantile”. Both politcal religions –Communism and Fascism- promised to accomplish <i>hic ad nunc</i> the perfect community. In the words of political philosopher Eric Voegelin, they tried to immanentize the Eschaton. This meant to condemn human beings to State-dictated happiness. As Rangel put it: “It was not at all an accident that Joseph Goebbels oscillated for a while between Communism and Nazism: he realized that both ideologies were equally compatible with his own inclination for a nationalist and authoritarian government that would save the country from what he saw as the decadent liberalism of the Weimar Republic.”</p>
<p>Colonel Chavez’ red Fascism was welcomed by the most diverse circles: from Iranian Islamiscist theocrat Ahmadinejad to the unreconstructed Sandinista Marxist Daniel Ortega. The frantic search for the New Man, anti-Occidentalism, anti-Semitism, and the utopian-revolutionary hubris made Hugo Chavez the real successor of Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Guevara, and Fidel Castro.</p>
<p><strong>Vladimir Tismaneanu is professor of politics at the University of Maryland and the author of numerous books including &#8220;<em>Reinventing Politics: Eastern Europe from Stalin to Havel</em>,&#8221; &#8220;<em>Fantasies of Salvation: Democracy, Nationalism, and Myth in Post-Communist Europe,&#8221;</em> and &#8220;<a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/jamie-glazov/the-devil-in-history/"><em>The Devil in History: Communism, Fascism, and Some Lessons of the Twentieth Century</em></a>.” The views presented in his articles are his and do not represent any institution.</strong></p>
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		<title>The Palestinian Lie Machine Welcomes Obama, Defames America and Declares Its Love For Hitler</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 04:33:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Official PA daily praises Nazism ahead of the president's visit. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/itamar-marcus-and-nan-jacques-zilberdik/the-palestinian-lie-machine-welcomes-obama-defames-america-and-declares-its-love-for-hitler/c7-fatah/" rel="attachment wp-att-182316"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-182316" title="C7 Fatah" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/C7-Fatah.jpg" alt="" width="248" height="198" /></a>Reprinted from <a href="http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&amp;doc_id=8684">Palestinian Media Watch</a>. </strong></p>
<p>Two days before US President Barack Obama&#8217;s visit to Israel and the PA, the official PA daily chose to print anti-American hate speech along with pro-Hitler comments in an op-ed:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Our history is replete with lies&#8230; [including] the lie about Al-Qaeda and the September 11 events, which asserted that Muslim terrorists committed it, and that it was not an internal American action by the Freemasons.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>The op-ed further implies that Hitler was greater than both Churchill and Roosevelt, who were &#8220;alcoholics&#8221;:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Churchill and Roosevelt were alcoholics, and in their youth were questioned more than once about brawls they started in bars, while Hitler hated alcohol and was not addicted to it. He used to go to sleep early and wake up early, and was very organized. These facts have been turned upside down as well, and Satan has been dressed with angels&#8217; wings.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>The PA daily op-ed further asserts that negative attitudes toward Nazism are not objective but the result of the West&#8217;s victory:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Had Hitler won, Nazism would be an honor that people would be competing to belong to, and not a disgrace punishable by law.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.palwatch.org/"><strong>Palestinian Media Watch</strong></a> has documented <a href="http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=623"><strong>anti-US messages</strong></a> promoted by the PA. PMW has also documented the PA&#8217;s praise for the <a href="http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=818"><strong>September 11 terror attacks</strong></a>.</p>
<p><strong><em>The following is a longer excerpt from the op-ed printed in the official PA daily:</em></strong></p>
<p><em>Op-ed by Hassan Ouda Abu Zaher:</em></p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8216;History is a great lie written by the victors&#8217; &#8211; said Napoleon Bonaparte, the source of dubious historical writing and father of Freemasonry in France. If so, is the history planted in us through TV and the standard educational curriculum indeed true? The source of this history is the West &#8211; the victor ever since the fall of Andalusia (Muslim Spain)! &#8230;Our history is replete with lies, from lies about the corrupt [Caliph] Harun Al-Rashid, which ignore the sources indicating that he dedicated one year to pilgrimage [to Mecca] and one year to Jihad (i.e., he was a good Muslim), to the lie about Al-Qaeda and the Sept. 11 events, which asserted that Muslim terrorists committed it, and that it was not an internal American action by the Freemasons, which was mentioned in the Illuminati game cards ten years before it took place, and in over 15 Zionist and Freemason Hollywood-produced films in the 1990s. The method of repeating [the lies] over and over has authenticated false facts. Had Hitler won, Nazism would be an honor that people would be competing to belong to, and not a disgrace punishable by law. Churchill and Roosevelt were alcoholics, and in their youth were questioned more than once about brawls they started in bars, while Hitler hated alcohol and was not addicted to it. He used to go to sleep early and wake up early, and was very organized. These facts have been turned upside down as well, and Satan has been dressed with angels&#8217; wings&#8230;&#8221;</p></blockquote>
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		<title>From #MeinKampf to #MyJihad</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2013 04:45:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The enemy’s latest jihad plot is to hide the true meaning of jihad, with our help.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You may have noticed the <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/01/07/my-jihad-cair-ad-campaign-tries-to-rebrand-jihad-as-a-positive-word/">#MyJihad ad campaign</a> that the jihadist front group CAIR has been pushing down our throats recently. For years, we’ve been hearing the Big Lie that “Islam means peace.” Now comes the Big Lie that jihad means whatever you personally want it to mean. Here are some examples from the enemy’s latest plot to keep us in the dark about what they’re up to:</p>
<p>“#MyJihad is to build friendships across the aisle. What’s yours?”</p>
<p>#MyJihad is to be united in our diversity. What’s yours?”</p>
<p>#MyJihad is to break stereotypes with humor. What’s yours?”</p>
<p>“My Jihad is to stay fit despite my busy schedule. What’s yours?”</p>
<p>With that in mind, here’s the jihad of <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/bosch-fawstin/islams-favorite-infidel/">Islam’s Favorite Infidel</a>…</p>
<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/bosch-fawstin/from-meinkampf-to-myjihad/myjihad-hitler-small/" rel="attachment wp-att-181545"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-181545" title="#MyJihad-hitler-small" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/MyJihad-hitler-small.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="287" /></a></p>
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<p align="center"><strong>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- ANNOUNCEMENT &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;</strong></p>
<p>As I often say, <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2011/bosch-fawstin/non-muslim-muslims-and-the-jihad-against-the-west/">my name is Bosch and I’m a    ̶r̶e̶c̶o̶v̶e̶r̶i̶n̶g-̶ recovered Muslim.</a></p>
<p>I will be speaking at The University of Baltimore on Islam, Pigman &amp; Free Speech.</p>
<p>Come join me on March 26 at my talk for The Federalist Society at The University of Baltimore School of Law. I’ll be talking about my Muslim background and how, after 9/11, it had a lot to do with the creation of my anti-jihad superhero, Pigman. The main thrust of my talk will be about the The First Amendment and how crucially important it is to America and to me personally. See the below poster for more info and check out <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/462015610535643/">the Facebook page of the event</a> for further details.</p>
<p>Hope to see some of you there.</p>
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