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		<title>Chairman of Joint Chiefs Breaks w/Kerry on Israeli War on Hamas</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2014 19:16:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>During Israel&#8217;s campaign against Hamas, the State Department repeatedly blasted Israel&#8217;s actions. John Kerry was <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/john-kerry-caught-on-mic-bashing-israels-anti-hamas-op-in-gaza/">caught on the microphone </a>mocking Israel.</p>
<blockquote><p>Seemingly oblivious to the Fox News camera in front of him and Fox News mic pinned on his lapel, America’s top diplomat harshly criticized the on-going Israeli operation in Gaza following news of Israeli army casualties and Palestinian civilian deaths.</p>
<p>“It’s a helluva pinpoint operation,” he told a top aide sarcastically over his cellphone. “It’s a helluva pinpoint operation.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>But the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, despite not being a war hero like Kerry,<a href="http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2014/11/us-joint-chiefs-chairman-schools.html#.VF0BNfmorJ8"> appears to have a different point of view</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Yesterday, Gen. Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, gave a lecture at the Carnegie Council for Ethics. He was asked by an audience member to comment on IDF&#8217;s ethics during Operation protective Edge, and here was his answer:</p>
<p>&#8220;I actually do think that Israel went to extraordinary lengths to limit collateral damage and civilian casualties. In fact, about 3 months ago we sent, we asked [IDF Chief of Staff] Benny [Gantz] if we could send a lessons learned team – one of the things we do better than anybody I think is learn – and we sent a team of senior officers and non-commissioned officers over to work with the IDF to get the lessons from that particular operation in Gaza.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;To include the measures they took to prevent civilian casualties and what they did with tunneling, because Hamas had become very nearly a subterranean society. And so, that caused the IDF some significant challenges. But they did some extraordinary things to try to limit civilian casualties to include calling out, making it known that they were going to destroy a particular structure. Even developed some techniques, they call it roof knocking, to have something knock on the roof, they would display leaflets to warn citizens and population to move away from where these tunnels.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;But look in this kind of conflict, where you are held to a standard that your enemy is not held to, you’re going to be criticized for civilian casualties. So I think if Benny were sitting here right now he would say to you we did everything we could and now we’ve learned from that mission and we think there are some other things we could do in the future and we will do those.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;The IDF is not interested in creating civilian casualties they’re interested in stopping the shooting of rockets and missiles, out of the Gaza Strip and in to Israel, and its an incredibly difficult environment, and I can say to you with confidence that I think that … they acted responsible.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Unlike administration officials, generals aren&#8217;t expect to praise Israel. They&#8217;re often critical of Israel. And Dempsey isn&#8217;t just praising Israel, he&#8217;s offering a professional opinion while mentioning that the US is trying to learn how to similarly limit civilian casualties.</p>
<p>Not the sort of thing you try to do if Israel is a bad example.</p>
<p>In reality, Israel is considered a canary in a coal mine when it comes to fighting terrorism, developing tactics and technology that the US then goes on to use. That&#8217;s something radical leftists frequently harp on, while more liberal critics conveniently ignore.</p>
<p>Dempsey sounds a lot like the UK&#8217;s Col. Kemp. I suspect that similar opinions would come from sober generals in different countries, including those that don&#8217;t like Israel. His comments however are politically inconvenient for an administration whose only tune is &#8220;Blame Israel&#8221;.</p>
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		<title>Kerry Blames Israel for ISIS Recruitment</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2014 04:55:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Klein]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/0717-Mideasfffft-Jordan-visit-John-Kerry_full_600.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-243614" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/0717-Mideasfffft-Jordan-visit-John-Kerry_full_600-420x350.jpg" alt="0717-Mideasfffft-Jordan-visit-John-Kerry_full_600" width="312" height="260" /></a>Secretary of State John Kerry</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">chose </span><a style="color: blue;" title="" href="http://www.state.gov/secretary/remarks/2014/10/233058.htm" target="_blank" data-href="http://www.state.gov/secretary/remarks/2014/10/233058.htm" data-type="1"><span class="zw-portion link" style="color: #0563c1;">a White House ceremony</span><span class="zw-portion" style="color: #0563c1;"> on October 16th</span></a><span class="zw-portion"> for the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha to </span><span class="zw-portion">regurgitate a false</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">theory </span><span class="zw-portion">link</span><span class="zw-portion">ing</span><span class="zw-portion"> the </span><span class="zw-portion">Israeli/Palestinian conflict </span><span class="zw-portion">with </span><span class="zw-portion">the increase of </span><span class="zw-portion">jihadist violence and </span><span class="zw-portion">recruitment</span><span class="zw-portion"> in the Middle East region</span><span class="zw-portion">.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">“As I went around and met with people in the course of our discussions about the ISIL [also referred to as ISIS or the Isla</span><span class="zw-portion">mic State]</span><span class="zw-portion"> coalition, the truth is we — t</span><span class="zw-portion">here wasn’t a leader I met with</span><span class="zw-portion">in the region who didn’t raise with me spontaneously the need to try to get peace between Israel and the Palestinians, because it was a cause of recruitment and of street anger and agitation that they felt</span><span class="zw-portion"> – and I see a lot of heads nodding – they had to respond to,” Kerry said. “And people need to understand the connection of that. And it has something to do with humiliation and denial and absence of dignity, and Eid celebrates the opposite of all of that.</span><span class="zw-portion">”</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">After Israeli Economic Minister Naftali Bennett sharply criticized Kerry’s statement, the State Department tried to walk it back, claiming, in the words of Deputy </span><span class="zw-portion">Spokesperson</span><span class="zw-portion"> Marie Harf</span><span class="zw-portion">,</span><span class="zw-portion"> that Kerry “did not make a link between the growth of ISIL and Israel, period.”</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">At best, Harf is telling only a half-truth. </span><span class="zw-portion">While Kerry did not explicitly state that it was </span><span class="zw-portion">his own </span><span class="zw-portion">view there was a link betwe</span><span class="zw-portion">en the growth of ISIS and the failure of the peace talks</span><span class="zw-portion"> or Israel</span><span class="zw-portion">, </span><span class="zw-portion">Kerry </span><span class="zw-portion">transmitted the linkage theory he heard from leaders in the region to a receptive audience at the White House. And he </span><span class="zw-portion">did not refute it. </span><span class="zw-portion">In fact, he lent credence to the linkage theory by saying that “people need to understand the connection.” </span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Kerry once again proved the truth of Mark Twain’s famous quip: &#8220;A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.&#8221;</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Indeed, Kerry has helped launch a series of lies against Israel during his term as Secretary of State. Last April, for example, he said that Israel was at risk of becoming “an apartheid state,” if it does not come to terms with the Palestinians. </span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">A</span><span class="zw-portion"> competent and honest Secretary of State – neither of which describe</span><span class="zw-portion">s</span><span class="zw-portion"> John Kerry – would not have </span><span class="zw-portion">repeated the falsehood of linking the failure of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks with the growth of ISIS and other jihadist movements</span><span class="zw-portion"> in the first place</span><span class="zw-portion">, </span><span class="zw-portion">unless he intended to set up this </span><span class="zw-portion">straw man</span><span class="zw-portion"> argument</span><span class="zw-portion"> in order</span><span class="zw-portion"> to </span><span class="zw-portion">immediately </span><span class="zw-portion">knock </span><span class="zw-portion">it </span><span class="zw-portion">down. </span><span class="zw-portion">What on earth does ISIS’s systematic massacre of Christians and Yazidis, rapes of women and children, and sexual slavery have to do with Kerry’s failed </span><span class="zw-portion">attempt to continue </span><span class="zw-portion">peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians? Absolutely nothing!</span><span class="zw-portion"> But Kerry </span><span class="zw-portion">shamelessly </span><span class="zw-portion">repeated the li</span><span class="zw-portion">e anyway.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">As one Israeli commentator observed</span><span class="zw-portion"> a few days after Kerry told the</span><span class="zw-portion"> Muslim</span><span class="zw-portion">s in his</span><span class="zw-portion"> audience what they wanted to hear, “Kerry didn’t mention that the astounding Saudi and Qatari assets invested in mosques around the world, including Europe, leads to radicalization. He didn’t come </span><span class="zw-portion">out against Qatar, which has become the primary funder of jihadi organizations. He doesn’t blame the institutionalized anti-Semitic incitement, which is growing in the Muslim world, including by Al-Jazeera.”</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Instead, Kerry pandered to his audience. He repeated President Obama’s claim that there is nothing Islamic about the Islamic State</span><span class="zw-portion">, even though ISIS’s atrocities find justification in the Koran and the Hadith (the sayings and deeds of the Islamic prophet Muhammad). Kerry</span><span class="zw-portion"> then assured the audience </span><span class="zw-portion">that </span><span class="zw-portion">the sectarian murders </span><span class="zw-portion">occurring regularly </span><span class="zw-portion">within the Muslim community </span><span class="zw-portion">today </span><span class="zw-portion">in the 21</span><span class="zw-portion">st</span><span class="zw-portion"> century can be compared with the Thirty Years’ War in 17</span><span class="zw-portion">th</span><span class="zw-portion"> century Europe that broke out initially between Protestant and Catholic states. The problem with such specious comparisons is that Muslims, unlike Catholics and Protestants, are still killing each other</span><span class="zw-portion">,</span><span class="zw-portion"> as well as Christians, Jews, Hindus, Yazidis, Zoroastrians and other “infidels</span><span class="zw-portion">,</span><span class="zw-portion">”</span><span class="zw-portion"> in massive numbers all over the world.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Hamas is the jihadist branch dedicated, in the words of its charter, to the destruction of the state of Israel and the killing of Jews wherever they can be found. Yet Kerry rarely mentions Hamas in his statements regarding the failed peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians</span><span class="zw-portion">. He </span><span class="zw-portion">has not insisted that </span><span class="zw-portion">effective measures be in place first to prevent the rearmament of Hamas as</span><span class="zw-portion"> a pre-condition for </span><span class="zw-portion">pouring millions of dollars of </span><span class="zw-portion">new aid the United States is pledging for reconstruction in Gaza</span><span class="zw-portion">, much less the disarmament of Hamas in Gaza</span><span class="zw-portion">.  </span><span class="zw-portion"> </span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Kerry’s willingness to turn a blind eye to the real culprit Hamas echoes the attitude of </span><span class="zw-portion">United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-m</span><span class="zw-portion">oon, who visited Gaza recently. </span><span class="zw-portion">During his visit, the Secretary General </span><span class="zw-portion">referred to Israel’s partial defensive blockade of Gaza as a “siege.” He said that lifting the “siege” and “easing movement restrictions” is “one of the most important issues… a basic human right for all the Palestinian people.”</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">“Siege” is defined in the Oxford Dictionaries as “a military operation in which enemy forces surround a town or building, cutting off essential supplies, with the aim of compelling the surrender of those inside.” Israel’s partial blockade of Gaza in response to relentless rocket attacks launched by Hamas and other jihadist groups from civilian centers in Gaza against civilian populations in Israel is anything but a siege. Israel withdrew from Gaza unilaterally in 2005 and turned over </span><span class="zw-portion">major </span><span class="zw-portion">security responsibilities at the border crossings to the Palestinian Autho</span><span class="zw-portion">ri</span><span class="zw-portion">ty</span><span class="zw-portion">. There was no blockade to speak of until Hamas seized power and turned Gaza into a launching pad for attacks against Israel. Even </span><span class="zw-portion">since </span><span class="zw-portion">then, Israel </span><span class="zw-portion">has </span><span class="zw-portion">permitted food and humanitarian aid to enter Gaza as well as construction materials for international projects</span><span class="zw-portion"> – the antithesis of a siege</span><span class="zw-portion">. </span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">I approached Secretary General Ban Ki-moon last week to ask him whether he would reconsider the use of the term “siege” in describing Israel’s partial blockade</span><span class="zw-portion">. He said he would think about</span><span class="zw-portion"> it.</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">In his remarks to the press the next day, Ban did not refer again to an Israeli “siege,” but he continued to castigate Israel for what transpired during the latest Gaza conflict with Hamas. Ban said that while he understood “the security threat from rockets above and tunnels below” that Israel was facing, Israel’s response and resulting “destruction in Gaza has left deep questions about proportionality.” </span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Ban also castigated Israel for </span><span class="zw-portion">shelling UN schools in Gaza,</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">while </span><span class="zw-portion">refusing to acknowledge</span><span class="zw-portion"> Israel’s allegation that</span><span class="zw-portion"> the UN </span><span class="zw-portion">returned</span><span class="zw-portion"> rockets found in UN school</span><span class="zw-portion">s</span><span class="zw-portion"> to Hamas. </span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Where the ant</span><span class="zw-portion">i</span><span class="zw-portion">-Israel bias of the Obama administration and the United Nations may converge is a UN Security Council resolution sought by Palestinian President Abbas and sponsored by Jordan</span><span class="zw-portion">,</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">which</span><span class="zw-portion"> would set a </span><span class="zw-portion">firm </span><span class="zw-portion">deadline </span><span class="zw-portion">for Israel </span><span class="zw-portion">to</span><span class="zw-portion"> withdraw from all Palestinian territories and end the “occupation.”</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">The precise wording</span><span class="zw-portion"> is currently being negotiated behind the scenes</span><span class="zw-portion">. </span><span class="zw-portion">C</span><span class="zw-portion">hief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat</span><span class="zw-portion"> has recommended that the Palestinian Authority end all security-related cooperation with Israel in the West Bank if the United States ends up vetoing the resolution. </span><span class="zw-portion">The Palestinians would also be likely to </span><span class="zw-portion">join more </span><span class="zw-portion">UN agencies and </span><span class="zw-portion">treaties</span><span class="zw-portion">,</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">as well as </span><span class="zw-portion">the International Criminal Court</span><span class="zw-portion"> where they would try to obtain prosecutions against Israeli leaders for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">If France and the United Kingdom dec</span><span class="zw-portion">ide to support some form of the timetable</span><span class="zw-portion"> resolution</span><span class="zw-portion"> for Israeli withdrawal</span><span class="zw-portion"> the Palestinians are seeking</span><span class="zw-portion">, the Obama administration – given its anti-Israel bias – may well decide </span><span class="zw-portion">ultimately </span><span class="zw-portion">to abstain</span><span class="zw-portion"> rather than exercise its veto power</span><span class="zw-portion">.</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">The UK parliament has already gone on record </span><span class="zw-portion">in a symbolic vote </span><span class="zw-portion">as supporting the recognition of a Palestinian state, following the Swedish government’s decision to </span><span class="zw-portion">actually </span><span class="zw-portion">do</span><span class="zw-portion"> just that</span><span class="zw-portion">. Other Eur</span><span class="zw-portion">opean Union countries may add themselves to the growing list of countries that are going along with this </span><span class="zw-portion">Palestinian state </span><span class="zw-portion">recognition </span><span class="zw-portion">trend</span><span class="zw-portion">, giving </span><span class="zw-portion">the Obama administration some political cover to abstain</span><span class="zw-portion"> on the timetable resolution</span><span class="zw-portion">. </span><span class="zw-portion">A </span><span class="zw-portion">vote </span><span class="zw-portion">on the resolution may be postponed </span><span class="zw-portion">until after the U.S. mid-term elections to give the Obama administration some</span><span class="zw-portion"> breathing room</span><span class="zw-portion">. </span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">In the meantime, </span><span class="zw-portion">John Kerry is reported to be scrambling to head off a Security Council resolution altogether by trying to put pressure on Israel to return to the negotiating table </span><span class="zw-portion">for direct talks with the Palestinians. He is meeting resistance from both sides. “</span><span class="zw-portion">We’re are not going back to negotiations unless there is some change in the rules to discuss the borders first,” said Fatah Central Committee member Dr. Nabil Shaath. “To continue to negotiate while the Israelis are eating up land is like suicide,” he said. </span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Kerry’s remarks </span><span class="zw-portion">at the White House </span><span class="zw-portion">Eid al-Adha </span><span class="zw-portion">ceremony, raising </span><span class="zw-portion">concerns among unnamed Middle East leaders regarding the purported linkage of the failure of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks and the rise of ISIS</span><span class="zw-portion">,</span><span class="zw-portion"> may be his Hail Mary pass</span><span class="zw-portion"> to</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">try and shame </span><span class="zw-portion">Israel </span><span class="zw-portion">publicly into returning t</span><span class="zw-portion">o the negotiating table and making</span><span class="zw-portion"> more concessions. That way, </span><span class="zw-portion">the Palestinians may decide to also resume direct negotiations and postpone seeking action on their </span><span class="zw-portion">proposed Security Council resolution</span><span class="zw-portion">, relieving</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">the Obama administration</span><span class="zw-portion"> of having to make a decision on which way to vote</span><span class="zw-portion">. If so, it is another counter-productive move by the Obama administration that will create even more distance with </span><span class="zw-portion">the one true democracy that has traditionally been our </span><span class="zw-portion">closest ally in the Middle East.</span></p>
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		<title>Kerry : Defaming Islam is as Bad as Rape</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sale and rape of women and girls is a lot worse than any supposed insult to Islam.]]></description>
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<p>The Islamic State is Un-Islamic. <a href="http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/us-isis-treatment-of-women-unacceptable-and-unislamic/2014/10/15/">But so is Islam</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry harshly condemned the treatment of women by the arch-terrorist organized death squad known as ISIS.</p>
<p>Kerry is horrified that ISIS “takes credit for the abduction, enslavement, rape, forced marriage and sale of several thousand Yezidi and other minority women and girls.”</p>
<p>&#8220;Just as despicably, ISIL rationalizes its abhorrent treatment of these women and girls by claiming it is somehow sanctioned by religion. Wrong. Dead wrong.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;ISIL does not represent Islam and Islam does not condone or honor such depravity. In fact, these actions are a reminder that ISIL is an enemy of Islam.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>I don&#8217;t really see that ISIS&#8217; supposed defamation of Islam is as bad as rape. Western elites are stuck in permanent hysteria over supposed Islamophobia, but the sale and rape of women and girls is a lot worse than any supposed insult to Islam.</p>
<p>Furthermore the Islamic State is not insulting Islam. Its religious scholars know Islam far better than a scholar of windsurfing like Kerry does. Kerry released a press release in response to an ISIS magazine explaining the Islamic basis for their actions.</p>
<p>If Kerry were really capable of debating the issue, he would have responded with citations from the Koran instead of hot air.</p>
<p>Mohammed, the prophet of Islam, enslaved and raped women. He married and raped a little girl. These facts are not in dispute.</p>
<p>His <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/kerry-is-wrong-selling-girls-as-sex-slaves-is-islam/">companions seized and looted property as well as people</a>. Mohammed pocketed a percentage of the things they stole and the people. The women were raped. Sometimes he chose to marry them if they converted to Islam to get some control over the sexual violence that the earliest followers of Islam had subjected them to.</p>
<p>ISIS is pure Islam. It&#8217;s naked Islam. It&#8217;s Islam as it was practiced by Mohammed and his followers.</p>
<blockquote><p>“We conquered Khaibar, took the captives, and the booty was collected. Dihya came and said, ‘O Allah’s Prophet! Give me a slave girl from the captives.’ The Prophet said, ‘Go and take any slave girl.’ He took Safiya bint Huyai. A man came to the Prophet and said, ‘O Allah’s Apostles! You gave Safiya bint Huyai to Dihya and she is the chief mistress of the tribes of Quraiza and An-Nadir and she befits none but you.’ So the Prophet said, ‘Bring him along with her.’ So Dihya came with her and when the Prophet saw her, he said to Dihya, ‘Take any slave girl other than her from the captives.’</p>
<p>Bukhari: 1:8:367</p>
<p>When Dihyah protested, wanting to keep Safiyah for himself, the Apostle traded for Safiyah by giving Dihyah her two cousins. The women of Khaybar were distributed among the Muslims.</p>
<p>Ishaq:511</p></blockquote>
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		<title>John Kerry’s Paean to the Religion of Peace</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2014 04:35:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Klein]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The "real face of Islam" according to the Secretary of State. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/kerry-syria-chemical-attack.si_.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-240304" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/kerry-syria-chemical-attack.si_-397x350.jpg" alt="kerry-syria-chemical-attack.si" width="276" height="243" /></a>Secretary of State John Kerry should have extended his Nantucket vacation.  That would have spared him and the nation from his embarrassing remarks praising Islam as a “peaceful religion based on the dignity of all human beings,” which he delivered just a day after ISIS released a video showing American journalist Steven Sotloff being beheaded.</p>
<p>Kerry was speaking at a ceremony honoring the State Department’s new special representative to Muslim communities, Shaarik Zafar. Rather than call on Muslim leaders around the world to publicly condemn ISIS in the strongest possible terms and do everything possible to counter ISIS’s recruitment campaign, ideology and financing, Kerry coddled them.</p>
<p>“I want to take advantage of this podium and of this moment to underscore as powerfully as I know how, that the face of Islam is not the butchers who killed Steven Sotloff. That’s ISIL,” Kerry said. He added that the real face of Islam is “one where Muslim communities are advocating for universal human rights and fundamental freedoms, including the most basic freedom to practice one’s faith openly and freely.”</p>
<p>Where exactly in Muslim-majority countries today is a non-Muslim free to practice his or her faith “openly and freely”?  Ten out of the sixteen countries deemed of particular concern regarding their abuses of religious freedom are Muslim nations, according to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom’s 2014 Annual Report. The governments of these countries engage in or tolerate particularly severe violations of religious freedom, the report states.</p>
<p>The Commission makes policy recommendations to the President, the Secretary of State, and Congress. Evidently, Kerry has not read the Commission report’s findings regarding the state of religious freedom in Muslim-majority countries or did not take them seriously.  It also appears that Kerry has not read or understood the implications of the Cairo Declaration of Human Rights, based on Sharia law, which is diametrically opposed to the principles underlying the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.</p>
<p>The Universal Declaration’s organizing principle is that “[A]ll human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.”</p>
<p>The Universal Declaration promotes the ideal that self-governing human beings all have certain inalienable rights such as the right to life and liberty, freedom of expression, and equality before the law. These universal rights apply to all human beings equally, whichever geographical location, country, race, culture or religion they belong to.</p>
<p>As the Islamic response to the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) foreign ministers adopted the Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam in 1990.</p>
<p>The Cairo Declaration reaffirmed “the civilizing and historical role of the Islamic Ummah which God made the best nation that has given mankind a universal and well-balanced civilization in which harmony is established between this life and the hereafter and knowledge is combined with faith.”  After reciting a litany of human rights that it pledged to protect, the Cairo Declaration subjected all of its protections to the requirements of Islamic law:</p>
<blockquote><p>Article 22 (a)</p>
<p>“Everyone shall have the right to express his opinion freely in such manner as would not be contrary to the principles of the Shari’ah.”</p>
<p>Article 24</p>
<p>“All the rights and freedoms stipulated in this Declaration are subject to the Islamic Shari&#8217;ah.”</p>
<p>Article 25</p>
<p>“The Islamic Shari&#8217;ah is the only source of reference for the explanation or clarification to any of the articles of this Declaration.”</p></blockquote>
<p>By making Islamic law the sole authority for defining the scope of human rights, the Cairo Declaration sanctioned limits on freedom of expression, discrimination against non-Muslims and women, and a prohibition against a Muslim’s conversion from Islam. Such restrictions are completely at odds with the fundamental human freedoms spelled out in the Universal Declaration.</p>
<p>“The reality,” Kerry said, “is that our faiths and our fates are inextricably linked.” He is right about that, but not for the reasons he suggests.  Jihadists with access to sophisticated weapons, money and willing recruits, including from the West, are seeking to determine our fates, which in their minds is a stark choice between subservience to Islam or death. The supremacism that permeates the Koran itself provides the jihadists with “moral” justification in their perverted world view. The sayings and actions of their Prophet Muhammad provide the jihadists with their roadmap. As an example, Islam’s prophet was quoted as saying, &#8220;Fight everyone in the way of Allah and kill those who disbelieve in Allah.&#8221; (Ibn Ishaq 992)</p>
<p>Secretary of State Kerry, perhaps suffering from a case of post-vacation sunstroke, used part of his remarks at the ceremony to connect what he called the “duty or responsibility” to confront climate change with the “scriptures, clearly, beginning in Genesis.” Then, remembering that he was speaking at a ceremony honoring his new special representative to Muslim communities, Kerry immediately tried to tie his elevation of climate change to Biblical heights with his concern for the fate of Muslims. He said that “Muslim-majority countries are among the most vulnerable.”  Right after that, he added: “Our response to this challenge ought to be rooted in a sense of stewardship of Earth. And for me and for many of us here today, that responsibility comes from God.”</p>
<p>The Koran quotes the Muslim supreme deity Allah as declaring:  “I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them.&#8221; (Koran 8:12) Is Allah the “God” whom Kerry looks to as the source of responsibility for our “stewardship of Earth”?</p>
<p>John Kerry takes his cue from President Obama. The president has focused his attention on the United States’ supposed failure to adequately protect Muslims’ human rights and recognize their sensibilities, instead of holding the Muslim world to account for its own problems. While ISIS’s barbarism does not represent the behavior of most Muslims, ISIS is not an isolated phenomenon as Obama and Kerry would try to have us believe. ISIS is an outgrowth of Islamic supremacism, which many so-called mainstream Muslim imams and teachers believe, preach and teach. They do so not only in Muslim-majority countries, but also in mosques and schools in the West. Until the United States leads the free world in directly confronting and defeating the ideological wellspring of jihad that feeds violent groups such as ISIS and stealth jihadists seeking to infiltrate our institutions from within, we will be deluding ourselves while playing whack-a-mole against the violent threat du jour.</p>
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		<title>Kerry was Against an Iraq Coalition Before He Was for It</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2014 14:12:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>Right now Kerry is championing an Iraq coalition,<a href="https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog"> but as Iowahawk reminds us</a>, he wasn&#8217;t all that fond of impromptu Iraq coalitions under Bush.</p>
<p>Kerry called the Iraq War coalition, a &#8220;trumped-up, so-called coalition of the bribed, the coerced, the bought, and the extorted.&#8221;</p>
<p>That would be the coalition for the war that he was in favor of, before he was against it.</p>
<p>Now Kerry is calling for a new coalition for Iraq. This one presumably won&#8217;t be trumped up, bribed, coerced or extorted. Or maybe it will. Because that&#8217;s life.</p>
<p>Kerry and the rest of the Dems pretended that they opposed any war based on anything less than full UN Security Council support. That was a lie and it was always a lie.</p>
<p>After Bush, Obama went on to fight in Libya without UN approval for regime change. Kerry supported that Coalition of the Willing.</p>
<p>The problem with the Dems at war or against war is that they have no fixed standards. They are entirely willing to say anything and do anything when it serves their interests.</p>
<p>And that&#8217;s true of more than just war.</p>
<p>Obama opposed executive orders and raising the debt limit when Bush was in office. He now abuses them in ways that Bush would never have conceived of.</p>
<p>While Republicans support air strikes on ISIS without accusing Obama of being an insane warmonger, if Mitt Romney were in the White House, you just know that suddenly there would be anti-war rallies broadcast on every news channel and a long line of Democrats would be appearing on Sunday news shows to warn that Romney is just making things worse and needs to let the UN handle it.</p>
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		<title>Hillary&#8217;s Hand in Hamas&#8217; Terror Tunnels</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2014 04:10:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Moshe Phillips and Benyamin Korn]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One accomplishment from Clinton's tenure as secretary of state. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/hillary1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-239435" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/hillary1-409x350.jpg" alt="hillary1" width="291" height="249" /></a>Much has been said and written about the terror tunnels that Hamas built in Gaza. But too little has been said about who it was that put the cement into Hamas’ hands, thus making the construction of the tunnels possible in the first place.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Until now.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">In a bombshell revelation, Dennis Ross, the senior Mideast policy adviser to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton from 2009 to 2011, has admitted that it was he who was assigned the task of pressuring Israel to ease up on its military blockade of Gaza, in the events after Israel&#8217;s withdrawal from that region in 2005.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">&#8220;I argued with Israeli leaders and security officials, telling them they needed to allow more construction materials, including cement, into Gaza so that housing, schools and basic infrastructure could be built,&#8221; Ross revealed in the Washington Post on August 10. &#8220;They countered that Hamas would misuse it, and they were right.&#8221;</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Not that Hillary&#8217;s State Department had been acting independently of the White House on the issue of cement. For example, Vice President Joe Biden told interviewer Charlie Rose, on Bloomberg TV in 2010: &#8220;We have put as much pressure and as much cajoling on Israel as we can to allow them to get building materials&#8221; and other forbidden items into Gaza.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">But now that Mrs. Clinton is attempting to distance herself from the president’s debacles in foreign affairs, Ross’s admission shows that it was she who sent her personal envoy to push for a policy that ultimately enabled Hamas to build the terror tunnels.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Israeli officials have long been justifiably concerned about the danger of dual-use items such as cement. On the one hand, cement could be used for innocent purposes such as home construction, in the hands of a peace-seeking, trustworthy government. But in the hands of untrustworthy elements &#8212; such as the Hamas terrorist regime that rules Gaza &#8212; it could also be used for other purposes. Such as terror tunnels.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">President Obama recently remarked, in his much-discussed interview with Thomas Friedman of the New York Times: &#8220;Because Israel is so capable militarily, I don’t worry about Israel’s survival.&#8221; Secretary Clinton evidently shared that dismissive attitude when she sent Ross on his mission to put cement into Hamas&#8217; hands.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">It seems Obama and Clinton forgot that Israel is the only country in the world that is threatened with annihilation by a nearby regime rushing to build nuclear weapons. Israel is the only country in the world that, in the space of just 65 years, has been forced to fight four major defensive wars and five smaller ones, in order to survive. Israel is the only country in the world whose next-door neighbors have built dozens of tunnels into Israel to perpetrate massacres of civilians.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Today, at least thirty-two terror tunnels later, we know that Clinton, Obama and Ross have been wrong, while Israel is right.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Hamas spent between $1-million and $10-million to build each of those tunnels, using as many as 350 truckloads of cement and other supplies per tunnel, according a report in to the Wall Street Journal, quoting Israeli military officials.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">And it is &#8220;likely that there are additional tunnels&#8221; that the Israelis have yet to uncover, according to the Journal’s report.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Instead of lethal purposes, the materials used for each tunnel could have built 86 homes, or 19 medical clinics, or seven mosques, or six schools. But Hamas had other priorities.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">And Secretary Clinton consciously turned a blind eye. Just as she turned a blind eye to other aggressive and anti-peace behavior by the Palestinians, such as the Palestinian Authority&#8217;s sheltering of known terrorists, its payments to imprisoned terrorists, the anti-Israel and anti-America propaganda that fills the PA-controlled media, and the anti-Semitic hatred in the textbooks used in the PA&#8217;s schools.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">What are the real-life consequences of ignoring such Palestinian actions? An entire generation of young Palestinians have grown up incited to hatred of Jews and Israel, and glorifying terrorists as heroes and martyrs.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">What are the real-life consequences of Mrs. Clinton putting cement into Hamas&#8217;s hands? The tunnels into Israel were used to carry out the kidnapping of Gilad Shalit and numerous other attacks in which Israelis were murdered. They were being prepared to carry out a mass coordinated attack on Israeli towns and kibbutzim, this year on Rosh Hashanah.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Imagine a scenario in which a surgeon decided that she wanted to employ a controversial and risky technique. She was warned repeatedly that it was too dangerous, but proceeded anyway and in the process nearly killed the patient. Surely that would be deemed malpractice. The surgeon probably would be barred from ever again practicing medicine.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Secretary of Stated Hillary Clinton committed diplomatic malpractice. Her own top aide has revealed that it was she who put the cement into Hamas&#8217; hands, even after Israel warned repeatedly that doing so was too dangerous. And Israel continues to suffer the consequences.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Another lesson of the Gaza war: Even as we condemn Hamas’ diversion of cement from the construction of housing to the construction of terror tunnels, let us not forget that it was Hillary Clinton who pushed through the policy that made those tunnels possible.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;"><em>[Moshe Phillips and Benyamin Korn are members of the board of the Religious Zionists of America. This article is part of a series. To view previous installments, please visit <a href="http://www.phillyreligiouszionists.org/lessons-from-the-gaza-war/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">http://www.phillyreligiouszionists.org/lessons-from-the-gaza-war/</span></a>.]</em></p>
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		<title>Obama and the U.N.’s Alternate Universe</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2014 04:55:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bruce Thornton]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The administration turns 2,500 years of human knowledge on foreign affairs on its head. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/PH2008011001836.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-237280 " src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/PH2008011001836.jpg" alt="NA-PETRAEUS" width="313" height="243" /></a>Barack Obama has managed to push American foreign policy into an alternate universe in which everything the human race has learned over the past 2500 years about human nature, aggression, and its deterrence has been stood on its head. He is not solely to blame for this. For 150 years the West had indulged the illusion that human nature is progressing away from our violent past toward a world of reason in which conflict can be resolved and negotiated away without force or the credible threat of force. But Obama and his foreign policy team have completely detached this idea, serially mugged by the violent reality of the last century, from any recognition of morality or even fact. The result is the disastrous decline in American global authority and influence.</p>
<p>The administration’s handling of the current war between Israel and Hamas is no doubt one of the most shameful examples of such a corruption of intellect and failure of moral nerve. Indeed, one has to go back to September 1938 and the despicable British and French abandonment of Czechoslovakia during the run-up to the Munich conference to find supposed allies treating a friend so shabbily and working on the side of its enemies. As Germany bullied and threatened Czechoslovakia, the British thought the solution was “for Prague to get a real twist of the screw,” while the French threatened that if the Czechs were “unreasonable” about defending their country, France “considered herself released from her bond.”</p>
<p>Fast-forward 76 years to Obama’s FAA forbidding U.S. flights to Ben Gurion airport, giving Hamas a propaganda victory; John Kerry’s off-mike mocking of Israel’s historically unprecedented attempts to avoid civilian casualties; and both Obama and Kerry pressuring Israel for “an immediate, unconditional humanitarian cease-fire,” which evokes England’s demand in 1938 that the Czechs “go forthwith to the very limit of concession.” The only effects of such a “cease fire” would be to rescue Hamas by leaving its remaining rockets and tunnels in place, and those already destroyed to be replenished by Iran and funded by the subsequent “humanitarian aid” that would flow into Gaza.</p>
<p>Yet Obama’s behavior today is more despicable than was England’s in 1938, even if it is unlikely to have consequences as globally destructive as Chamberlain’s appeasement. At that time Hitler was an autocrat and thug, yet he was the legitimately elected head of the biggest state in Europe. Hamas is nothing other than a tiny gang of fanatic murderers, a group sanctioned as a terrorist organization by our own State Department. Its major state sponsor, Iran, is identified by that same State Department as the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, with American blood on its hands for the last 35 years. Hamas’s charter identifies its purpose as the genocidal destruction of Israel, and the group has never shown any interest in the fantastical “two-state solution” or in living “side by side with Israel in peace.”</p>
<p>Only in an alternate universe does an American administration have even indirect diplomatic contact with such terrorists, or with its state sponsors and funders, let alone pressure a loyal and valuable ally into offering concessions to a common enemy, an outlaw that scorns the international laws of war, willingly sacrifices its own children and wives, and has made it clear that it does not ever want any accommodation with Israel, only its destruction. Only in an alternate universe does a liberal democracy ruled by law send $47 million to a gang of murderers, and indulge a cowardly moral equivalence that does not discriminate between genocidal terrorists and a legitimate state exercising its right to defense. Only in an alternate universe does a president who sends drones thousands of miles to kill terrorists and everybody around them, including 250 civilians by some <a href="http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2014/01/23/more-than-2400-dead-as-obamas-drone-campaign-marks-five-years/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">estimates</span></a>, criticize Israel’s “disproportionate response” when it seeks to destroy terrorists who live next door and rain rockets down on its people, and unlike Obama, it tells civilians the attack is on the way.</p>
<p>The bizarrerie, however, extends far beyond the morally bankrupt policies of the Obama administration. We also had this past weak another surreal spectacle at the laughably denominated U.N. Human Rights Council. It issued a resolution titled “Ensuring Respect for International Law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory,” which alone is replete with Orwellian distortions of reality, since Gaza is not “occupied” by the Israelis. They turned it over to the Palestinians in 2005, after dismantling 21 Israeli settlements in Gaza and 4 in Judea and Samaria. What they got in return has been over 11,000 rockets fired against their citizens.</p>
<p>As for “respect for international law,” other than a brief, general condemnation of Hamas’s barrage of rockets fired against Israel’s cities and civilians, the whole resolution focuses on Israel’s alleged violations, such as the “deliberate targeting of civilians and other protected persons and the perpetration of systematic, flagrant and widespread violations of applicable international humanitarian law and international human rights law in situations of armed conflict constitute grave breaches and a threat to international peace and security.” As Churchill said of Hitler’s preposterous lies about his bullying of the Austrian chancellor, “One can hardly find a more perfect specimen of humbug and hypocrisy . . . What is astounding is that it should have been regarded with anything but scorn by men and women of intelligence in any free country.”</p>
<p>Unfortunately, we don’t have leaders of Churchill’s calibre to expose the UNHRC’s nonsense and duplicity in its resolution. The word “deliberate” is a lie, of course. Civilians are dying in Gaza because Hamas deliberately and flagrantly uses them as shields, places its ammo dumps, rockets, and fighters in and under mosques, residences, hospitals, and schools, and prevents Gazans from heeding Israel’s many and varied warnings that a site is going to be destroyed, even <a href="https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=835910373087389&amp;id=213694968642269"><span style="color: #0433ff;">beating them</span></a> when they try to flee. As for violations of “international law,” Andrew McCarthy <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/383808/laws-war-matter-gaza-andrew-c-mccarthy"><span style="color: #0433ff;">details</span></a> specifically how everything Israel has done in its defence is consistent with international law, and everything the “unlawful combatants” of Hamas has done is in deliberate and flagrant violation of it.</p>
<p>But despite the clear and unambiguous truth that Israel is waging a legal defensive war, in the alternate universe of the U.N., the Human Rights Council votes “to urgently dispatch an independent, international commission of inquiry, to be appointed by the President of the Human Rights Council, to investigate all violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law” and “to establish the facts and circumstances of such violations and of the crimes perpetrated and to identify those responsible, to make recommendations, in particular on accountability measures.”</p>
<p>If such an investigation does take place, expect a reprise of the discredited Goldstone Report, issued by the U.N. after the Israelis’ 2008-9 Operation Cast Lead against Gaza’s rockets, and later renounced by its own author. As Goldstone himself admitted, the UNHRC’s “history of bias against Israel cannot be doubted,” so can we can expect this new report to slander Israel in order to prepare the way for international lawfare against its leaders, including war-crimes charges and suits filed in the International Court of Justice. But past history does not cut any ice in the alternate universe of the U.N. Where else could anyone pass with a straight face a resolution on human rights from a council that includes notorious human-rights violators like China, Congo, Cuba, Morocco, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela? At least the U.S. voted against the resolution, unlike Euro-weasels like France, Great Britain, Austria, Germany, and Italy, who bravely abstained.</p>
<p>Yes, we all know the U.N. is a morally bankrupt, corrupt congeries of international thugs and creeps, along with invertebrate Western states who mask their fear and appeasement with the Kabuki dance of international diplomacy. But only in an alternate universe does the U.S. spend one minute on a nakedly ideological outfit like the UNHRC, or give half a billion dollars a year to an organization like the U.N., the purpose of which is to damage America’s security and interests at every turn.</p>
<p>And let’s not forget the media. They report casualty numbers from the current conflict, including the number of civilians killed, without a caveat that these numbers come from Hamas or their U.N. minions, or that terrorists don’t wear uniforms and hence are frequently counted as “civilians.” The media abandon their critical faculties despite the Palestinian Arabs’ long history of <a href="http://arabisraeliconflict.info/arab-israel-facts/fact-7-palestinian-suffering"><span style="color: #0433ff;">exaggerating</span></a> such statistics, faking photogenic atrocities like the Jenin massacre and the IDF’s killing of Mohammed Dura, and tweeting gruesome images of dead women and children killed in other conflicts like <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/07/09/Pro-Hamas-Use-Pictures-From-Syria-Haiti-Against-Israel"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Syria</span></a>, or even taking scenes from horror <a href="http://pamelageller.com/2014/07/relying-bbc-propaganda-methods-hamas-uses-horror-film-still-fake-teenager-killed-gaza-israel.html/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">movies</span></a>, and claiming they happened in Gaza. Only in an alternate universe would a media presumably dedicated to getting the story right and distrustful of information it can’t confirm themselves repeat as fact what actually is propaganda, or at least preface such information with a statement like, “According to Hamas spokesmen” when reporting casualty numbers.</p>
<p>A foreign policy based on illusion leaves our country vulnerable to various global autocrats, thugs, and terrorists. Those shrewd, hard men (see Putin, Vladimir) know how to manipulate our delusions and exploit our weaknesses, particularly our leaders’ penchant for substituting diplomatic words for military deeds to serve their short-term political needs. This illusion of action creates complacency of the sort we experienced in the 90s, when we lived in an alternate reality where al Qaeda’s declarations of war and terrorist attacks were treated as criminal matters rather than acts of war. And we all remember how gruesomely we were reintroduced to reality.</p>
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		<title>Palestinians&#8217; Prize for Terror</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2014 04:58:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Klein]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/kerry-in-cairo.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-236874" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/kerry-in-cairo.jpg" alt="kerry-in-cairo" width="239" height="181" /></a>Secretary of State John Kerry – who was heard last Sunday on an open mike between Sunday TV appearances disparaging Israel’s efforts to limit civilian casualties in Gaza – arrived in Cairo on July 21st to frantically cobble together an immediate ceasefire. Seeking the help of Egypt and the United Nations, and even the Hamas-friendly countries of Turkey and Qatar, Kerry is looking for some kind of consensus by the major players in the region for a peace-at-any price formula. He is insisting on a premature ceasefire before Israel is able to find and destroy all the tunnels built under Palestinian civilians’ homes, schools and hospitals, which Hamas is using to hide its weapons and as bases from which to sneak its jihadists into Israel for the purpose of abducting or killing its citizens.</p>
<p>“The objective here is to get the fastest possible ceasefire. That doesn&#8217;t mean that it&#8217;s going to be fast, and it certainly doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s going to be easy, but that&#8217;s the goal,&#8221; a senior US official travelling with Kerry was quoted by AFP as saying on condition of anonymity.</p>
<p>Kerry is even throwing in additional money for Gaza to help seal the deal. On top of the half a billion dollars that the Obama administration is continuing to send to the Palestinian “unity” government in which Hamas is a partner, Kerry has just offered a $47 million bribe in the form of so-called “humanitarian” aid for Gaza. Some of the $47 million would flow through the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). This is the very same agency which found at least twenty Hamas rockets in one of its schools and which is reported to have returned those rockets to the “local authorities.” In Gaza, the “local authorities” are presently the Hamas operatives who govern Gaza. Presumably, UNRWA will be sharing the Kerry-provided windfall with those same “local authorities.”</p>
<p>As usual, while the Obama administration is prepared to reward the Palestinians, it seeks to pressure Israel into agreeing to a short term peace that will simply buy Hamas more time to build up an even greater arsenal of deadly weapons. Before Kerry left on his latest jaunt to Cairo, he was heard on the open mike issuing a not-so-subtle warning to Israel not to try the Obama administration’s patience. &#8220;I hope they don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s an invitation to go do more,” apparently referring to the Obama administration’s rhetorical support for Israel’s right of self-defense. “That better be the warning to them.&#8221;</p>
<p>After arriving in Cairo, Kerry acknowledged Israel’s right to defend its citizens from Hamas’s indiscriminate rocket attacks, but then added: “We are deeply concerned about the consequences.”</p>
<p>Those consequences are of Hamas’s own making. It is holding its own people hostage. It has rejected one ceasefire proposal after another, including a ceasefire proposed by Egypt last week that Israel had immediately accepted. Hamas also balked at extending the humanitarian pauses that the UN had brokered in order to enable relief to reach Palestinian civilians in need.  Hamas is insisting on entirely unacceptable conditions such as the end of the blockade and opening of border crossings by Israel and Egypt, as well as the release of Hamas operatives from Israeli prisons.</p>
<p>Indeed, Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas’s top leader in Gaza, offered this chilling promise of more bloodshed: “Gaza has decided to end the blockade by its blood and by its courage.”</p>
<p>More accurately, Hamas and its cohorts have decided to spill the blood of Palestinian children and other civilians whom they regard as pawns in their jihad to destroy the Jewish state – a goal enshrined in its founding charter. Israel is going after the tunnels, rockets and rocket launchers used by Hamas to target Israeli civilians for death. Israel is not trying to kill Palestinian civilians. To the contrary, Israel has repeatedly warned Palestinian civilians for their own safety to leave the areas that Hamas has deliberately chosen to place the entrances to those tunnels as well as the rockets and rocket launchers.</p>
<p>As Israel’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN said to the Security Council on July 22nd:</p>
<blockquote><p>What other nation supplies millions of tons of humanitarian aid or sets up a field hospital to treat the wounded on the other side even as its enemy fires on it indiscriminately?</p>
<p>What other nation sends messages to warn exactly where it will strike – giving the enemy time to set booby-traps and deploy snipers?</p>
<p>Israel spent four days warning Palestinians in northern Gaza that the military would soon enter their neighborhoods to uproot Hamas. That gave Hamas four days to prepare an assault on our troops.</p>
<p>Every time we drop a leaflet or make a phone call or send a text message warning of an imminent attack, we are endangering our soldiers so that we may keep their children safe.</p></blockquote>
<p>The Palestinian observer state representative Riyad Mansour did not even try to refute these incontrovertible points in his own statement to the Security Council. Instead, he pushed every emotional button he could, including reading off names and ages and holding up pictures of Palestinian children killed in Gaza in just the last few days. He neglected to mention that the blood of all of these children, shed since Hamas rejected the Egyptian ceasefire proposal last week, is on Hamas’s hands alone.</p>
<p>Yet President Obama is telling Israel that, since in his uniformed view Israel has done enough “significant damage” to Hamas’s military infrastructure, it’s time that Israel stop in its tracks for the sake of the civilians.</p>
<p>Hamas is also scoring a propaganda victory, thanks to the Obama administration’s decision to discourage travel by Americans to Israel.  Perhaps fearful of a repeat of the tragic downing of the Malaysian passenger plane over territory controlled by the armed pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine last week, the Federal Aviation Agency is also requiring all U.S. airlines to suspend their flights to Israel. This followed confirmation that at least one Hamas rocket landed near Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport. The FAA notice read:</p>
<blockquote><p>Due to the potentially hazardous situation created by the armed conflict in Israel and Gaza, all flight operations to/from Ben Gurion International Airport (LLBG) by US operators are prohibited until further advise.</p></blockquote>
<p>Some European countries are doing likewise.</p>
<p>This is a gift to Hamas, which is now able to brag that it has been able to bring a key portion of Israel’s economy to a virtual halt and effectively isolate Israel from the world air transportation system.</p>
<p>Nevertheless, Israel has little choice but to soldier on until Hamas’s tunnel network and military infrastructure are largely destroyed, whether it takes a week or two as currently estimated by former Israeli Deputy Defense Minister Dr. Ephraim Sneh, or longer. In the meantime, the current blockade and securing of the border crossings against the flow of all but truly humanitarian aid must continue. They cannot be eased so that Kerry can go home with a premature ceasefire in his pocket.</p>
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		<title>Kerry Tells Congress Iran Sanctions a Good Idea, State Dept Denies He Ever Said It</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2014 21:57:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The weird relationship between Kerry, Jen Psaki and Marie Harf keeps getting weirder.]]></description>
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<p>The weird relationship between Kerry and Jen Psaki and Marie Harf keeps getting weirder. Ever since Kerry became Secretary of State, they&#8217;ve been tagging along after him and denying that he said the things that he just said.</p>
<p>As bad as Jay Carney was, he generally didn&#8217;t just blatantly deny what Obama had just said had been said. <a href="http://freebeacon.com/national-security/state-dept-backtracks-after-kerry-suggests-new-iran-sanctions-needed/">That&#8217;s next level Baghdad Bobism</a>.</p>
<p>But it&#8217;s weirdly common when it comes to Kerry, Psaki and Harf. There was a major flare up of this during the talk of bombing Syria. Now there&#8217;s another flare up of it, <a href="http://freebeacon.com/national-security/state-dept-backtracks-after-kerry-suggests-new-iran-sanctions-needed/">as Adam Kredo at the Free Beacon reports</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Lawmakers came out swinging on Thursday afternoon after the State Department issued a blanket denial regarding statements that Secretary of State John Kerry made to members of Congress earlier that morning about the potential need for new sanctions on Iran.</p></blockquote>
<p>Those are Democratic Congressmen by the way. The State Department&#8217;s spokeswomen are calling members of their own party liars.</p>
<blockquote><p>Kerry was widely reported to have told a group of Jewish lawmakers Thursday morning that the administration is open to a new sanctions bill, as news emerged from Vienna that U.S. negotiators would likely be unable to force concessions from Tehran before the July 20 deadline for nuclear talks.</p>
<p>The administration’s narrative—which has long held that new pressure on Iran is not necessary in order to extract meaningful concessions from Iran—appeared to be in danger of unraveling by mid-Thursday after State Department officials went into damage control mode and vociferously denied that Kerry had made those statements.</p></blockquote>
<p>State could have tried spinning it a bit, the way they did over Syria, but instead they&#8217;re going full Baghdad Bob.</p>
<blockquote><p>Rep. Eliot Engel (D., N.Y.) proposed in the morning meeting that Congress should pass sanctions legislation that would only take effect if negotiators fail to reach a deal.</p>
<p>“Kerry said, ‘Well that might give us some additional leverage,’” recalled one member of Congress who was in the meeting and spoke to the Washington Free Beacon on background. “When [Kerry] said that, [Rep. Brad] Sherman said, ‘Secretary, that’s huge,’ and the secretary responded, ‘I’m going to check with the White House and see what the admin policy is.’”</p></blockquote>
<p>And they checked. And the policy is give Iran a big hug and deny everything.</p>
<blockquote><p>“I think there are times when members of Congress hear and project what they want to hear, but the secretary’s position hasn’t changed, and he certainly made that clear this morning,” Psaki told reporters in response to questions about the apparent policy schism.</p></blockquote>
<p>Sure.</p>
<p>But is this really crazy levels of lying or another attempt at positioning Kerry as the pro-Israel member of the administration to make his negotiating job easier?</p>
<p>That&#8217;s a somewhat interesting question.</p>
<p>Obama&#8217;s relationship with Israel and Jews is toxic. Hillary Clinton has been trying to distance herself from him. But this may be a more conscious game being played out to allow Kerry to fake distance himself as well. Obviously all three share the same anti-Israel politics. But Hillary doesn&#8217;t want American Jews thinking of her that way. And Kerry doesn&#8217;t want Israelis thinking of him that way.</p>
<p>So maybe this is more of the rogue Kerry that we have been seeing. Or maybe it&#8217;s a shell game that lets Kerry gesture pro-Israel while backing Obama to the hilt.</p>
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		<title>Kerry Admits: Iran Negotiations Not Working</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2014 04:35:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Majid Rafizadeh]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The subtext of the Secretary of State's recent op-ed. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/75971004_451204022.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-235952" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/75971004_451204022.jpg" alt="_75971004_451204022" width="283" height="239" /></a>In less than two week, the interim nuclear deal will expire, most likely without a final deal being struck between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the G5+1 (China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Germany).</p>
<p>The Islamic Republic has been given years to come clean and halt its ideological and regional hegemonic ambitions of obtaining nuclear weapons. Nevertheless, the Obama administration believes that we need to give the Islamic Republic another chance, trusting the ruling clerics and the theocracy.</p>
<p>The Ayatollah and Mullahs were given that chance, six months of negotiations, and sanctions relief in oil, metal, and financial sectors— including the flow of billions of dollars to their regime.</p>
<p>Secretary of State John Kerry wrote an op-ed in <i>The Washington Post</i> on Tuesday, pointing out that Iranian leaders have not yet made serious decisions although they have been engaged in the negotiations. Kerry wrote, “What will Iran choose? Despite many months of discussion, we don’t know yet. We do know that substantial gaps still exist between what Iran’s negotiators say they are willing to do and what they must do to achieve a comprehensive agreement. We also know that their public optimism about the potential outcome of these negotiations has not been matched, to date, by the positions they have articulated behind closed doors.”</p>
<p>What Kerry is saying is simple: Iran has been buying time and fooling us. It would have been much more sincere if Kerry would have made a straightforward statement, admitting that the Obama administration’s policies towards Iran’s nuclear defiance have failed. Kerry should have frankly said: The Islamic Republic of Iran is buying time to reach breakout nuclear capacity and obtain nuclear bombs, and they have been tricking us for decades.</p>
<p>Kerry appears to be pleading with the Islamic Republic to reach a final nuclear deal while attempting to give the nation a plentitude of incentives. For instance, Kerry wrote:</p>
<blockquote><p>If Iran is able to make these choices, there will be positive outcomes for the Iranian people and for their economy. Iran will be able to use its significant scientific know-how for international civil nuclear cooperation. Businesses could return to Iran, bringing much needed investment, jobs and many additional goods and services. Iran could have greater access to the international financial system. The result would be an Iranian economy that begins to grow at a significant and sustainable pace, boosting the standard of living among the Iranian population.</p></blockquote>
<p>In case a final nuclear deal is reached, why would the Secretary of State desire that a theocratic Islamist state— which is ranked the top in human rights abuses, gender discrimination, corruption, dictatorship, lack of freedom of speech, press, and assemble, oppressiveness, and the list goes— join the global economy and “have greater access to the international financial system”? Where are our values of respecting democracy, human rights, freedom of speech, press and civil liberties? Why would the Obama administration desire to strengthen the Islamic Republic— the ruthless cleric leaders, the Revolutionary Guard Corps, Shiite militia groups like the Basij, and subsequently Hezbollah, Hamas— by boosting their economy? How will he respond to millions of Iranian women and young people who are fighting against this Islamist theocracy? While many Iranian people view the United States as a model for democracy, what kind of message is John Kerry sending to these citizens? That we do not care about you?</p>
<p>What should the United States do if the negotiations failed? What policies should the Obama administration carry out in order to protects US citizens, preserve its national, strategic, geopolitical and economic interests as well as to support its regional allies, primarily Israel, from an Islamist state armed with nuclear weapons?</p>
<p>In his op-ed, Kerry answered this question: “If Iran is not ready to do so, international sanctions will tighten and Iran’s isolation will deepen.”</p>
<p>But is Kerry serious about this message? Absolutely not.</p>
<p>Based on the Obama administration’s policies, here is what is going to occur: If the negotiations between the Islamic Republic and the G5+1 failed, the Obama administration is going to push the international community to extend the interim nuclear deal. This means that the Mullahs and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei will score a victory. In other words, they will have more time to buy with more worthless negotiations, and they will have the required time to obtain the nuclear bomb.</p>
<p>Finally, thanks to Kerry and President Obama, whether a final nuclear deal is reached or not, the Islamist clerics and Iranian leaders come out as winners. If a final nuclear deal is reached, the deal is going to be a flimsy one that will leave a path for the Islamic Republic to obtain nuclear weapons, and Iran will be able to join the international economic system, pushing for their ideological and regional hegemonic power. If a final nuclear deal is not reached, the Islamic Republic will be able to buy more time through the extension and achieve its objectives as well.</p>
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		<title>Al Qaeda Hits Baghdad &#8212;- Obama Hits the Beach</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2014 04:58:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama can’t fight terrorism, but maybe he can beat the ocean.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/20080813-222218-pic-219988107_s640x448.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-234429" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/20080813-222218-pic-219988107_s640x448-450x315.jpg" alt="20080813-222218-pic-219988107_s640x448" width="279" height="195" /></a>&#8220;This was the moment,&#8221; Barack Obama had told the cheering audience in St. Paul, Minnesota. &#8220;When we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war.&#8221;</p>
<p>St. Paul has an Ocean Street. It has an Ocean Spa and Salon. It even has an Oceanaire Seafood Room. It does not however have an ocean. But with ObamaCare an unpopular subsidized failure, the few new jobs around being confined to a local McDonald&#8217;s and Al Qaeda taking over Iraq; Obama has nothing left to do but to go back to his old promise of defeating the rise of the ocean.</p>
<p>With Al Qaeda pressing in on Baghdad, Obama ruled out air strikes. He did however order the Department of Defense to assign a senior official to the <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/al-qaeda-approaches-baghdad-obama-orders-department-of-defense-to-fight-seafood-fraud/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">vital task of fighting mislabeled seafood</span></a>. While the Iraqi government was begging for air support, Obama instead issued an order in the name of the authority vested in him “by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America” to “ensure that seafood sold in the United States is legally and sustainably caught.”</p>
<p>The United States Constitution does not have much to say about sustainable seafood. The Founders liked their flounder and they disliked kings and emperors telling them where to fish.</p>
<p>King George III responded to Patrick Henry’s cry of “Give me liberty or give me death” with the Fisheries Bill which banned the fishermen of New England from the North Atlantic. A letter sent to a sea captain denounced it as, “A Bill so replete with inhumanity and cruelty… an everlasting stain on the annals of our pious Sovereign.”</p>
<p>But not even King George III would have contemplated creating a “national monument” consisting of 782,000 square miles of water. And despite being a monarch, he did not unilaterally issue a ban, rather parliament did. Even during the American Revolution, King George III was a more lawful and democratic monarch than Obama’s unilateral reign of royal executive orders.</p>
<p>Three percent of American tuna from the western and central Pacific comes from the waters of the latest national monument to Obama’s ideology. That means rising tuna prices which will hit working Americans, who already <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/if-you-like-your-food-you-can-keep-your-food/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">have trouble affording basic staples</span></a>, even harder in the wallet.</p>
<p>The average price of albacore in 2008 was $1.14 per pound. In 2011 it hit $1.94 per pound. It was amazing how much of a difference three years had made. And not just in the price of tuna.</p>
<p>In 2008, Al Qaeda in Iraq was on the run and its leaders were being killed off one by one. Now that same organization is besieging Baghdad under <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/joseph-klein/leader-of-jihadist-onslaught-in-iraq-released-on-obamas-watch/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">a terrorist leader released </span></a><span style="color: #0433ff;">by Barack</span> Obama.</p>
<p>Obama has declared war on fishermen in the Pacific Ocean, but the Constitution, which Obama had been ignoring as thoroughly as Al Qaeda in Iraq, mentions providing for the “common defense.” And it isn’t talking about sending out the troops to save the tuna from the fishermen.</p>
<p>While ISIS Jihadists were tweeting photos of severed Iraqi heads, John Kerry was tweeting photos of himself with Leonardo DiCaprio. It was hard to decide which was more gruesome, the corpses or the sight of the country’s top diplomat fawning over an environmentalist movie star while the greatest terrorist crisis of his administration was reaching a critical point.</p>
<p>As the Iraqi government begged for air strikes against Al Qaeda, Kerry instead held a Twitter chat to discuss the real national security threat.</p>
<p>Rising oceans.</p>
<p>Water level rise <a href="http://wattsupwiththat.com/2013/05/28/obama-was-rightthe-rise-of-the-oceans-began-to-slow/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">had begun slowing anyway</span></a>, for reasons having nothing to do with Obama. That may have been why Obama refused to acknowledge it.</p>
<p>Secretary of State John <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/john-kerry-discusses-whether-iraq-is-aware-of-global-warming/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Kerry convened #OceanChat</span></a> on Twitter to take questions about the great wavy threat of tidal terrorism. Most of the questions however came from people wondering why he was talking about the ocean and Leonardo DiCaprio instead of Al Qaeda.</p>
<p>“How is it you have time to chat with Iraq in flames?” one user asked him. “What happens to our ocean is int&#8217;l security issue,” Kerry replied.</p>
<p>Forget the terrorists and let’s fight the flounder.</p>
<p>&#8220;Any awareness of climate change in Iraq-Iran?&#8221; PBS&#8217; Bill Nye asked him. &#8220;There is awareness in the Middle East &#8211; a number of countries engaged in transition,&#8221; Kerry replied.</p>
<p>The Middle East is certainly in transition, but not to Global Warming awareness. Al Qaeda is building its own state, but it doesn’t have a policy on Global Warming. It does however have one on murdering Americans.</p>
<p>The rising oceans have yet to swallow St. Paul, Minnesota, but they have swallowed the Obama agenda. Obama has given up on doing the little things, like jobs, health care and defeating Al Qaeda, three things he was taking credit for just last month, and has refocused on the truly grandiose, controlling the oceans.</p>
<p>King Xerses, known to most Americans as the bejeweled self-proclaimed deity of the movie 300, ordered the whipping of the sea when it wouldn’t obey him. But Obama wants to whip the ocean. Mere mortals like Bush might fight Al Qaeda. Obama wants to take on an enemy that can be trusted not to fight back because it doesn’t even know that he’s there.</p>
<p>Battles are quantifiable things that have undeniable outcomes. You can instruct your press corps to claim victory when you are actually running away, as every ruler exercising unlimited power has, and as Obama did in Iraq and Afghanistan, but when the enemy takes the territory that you claimed was safe, it becomes harder for your media minions to claim that you actually won.</p>
<p>Unlike Al Qaeda, oceans don’t throw victory parades. They rise and fall as part of a rhythm that predates the kingdoms of man. They will persist in their rhythms uncaring and unheeding of the bureaucrats and regulators, the peddlers of Green Luddite science, the celebrities and politicians who claim to control their waters.</p>
<p>The ocean does all this without press releases. The Pacific will never mock Michelle Obama on Twitter the way that ISIS has and the Great Southern Ocean will never tweet photos of drowned Global Warming researchers who went to their deaths in its icy depths certain that the ice had melted. The mockery of the great deep is a more subtle and more enduring thing.</p>
<p>That is why it is politically safer to hit the beach than Al Qaeda. It’s easier to grandstand on saving the world from an imaginary catastrophe (at the bargain price of a few mere trillion) than to deal with a real threat.</p>
<p>After failing at jobs and health care, and abandoning the world to tyrants and terrorists, Obama has hitched up his pants to take on the ocean. And if the ocean doesn’t do what he tells it to, he can always send out the EPA’s crack SWAT team to have it whipped.</p>
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		<title>You Bet This Is Swiftboating</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2014 04:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ann Coulter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington's disturbing response to real servicemen telling the truth about a dishonorable comrade. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/bergdahl-videoSixteenByNine600.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-234383" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/bergdahl-videoSixteenByNine600.jpg" alt="bergdahl-videoSixteenByNine600" width="248" height="190" /></a>While the Obama administration tortures the Benghazi raid suspect into a false confession that a YouTube video made him attack our embassy, let&#8217;s review what his &#8220;capture&#8221; is meant to distract us from:</p>
<p>(1) The IRS&#8217; Lois Lerner claims her computer crashed, destroying all her emails to the White House, congressional Democrats and the Department of Justice, at the very height of the IRS&#8217; targeting of tea party groups. Six other IRS officials now claim their emails are also missing. (Have they tried shutting down their computers and restarting?)</p>
<p>Rosemary Woods erased part of a White House tape nearly half a century ago, and Chris Matthews is still talking about it.</p>
<p>(2) Soon after he became president, Obama pulled every last troop out of Iraq, despite the fact that the war was over and we had won. Now Iraq is on fire, torn apart by terrorist invaders. We still have more than 100,000 troops in defeated Axis powers Germany, Italy and Japan. But Obama couldn&#8217;t leave a few troops in Iraq simply to preserve our victory. Now it&#8217;s gone.</p>
<p>(3) In the worse deal in history, Obama traded five hardened terrorists &#8212; specifically chosen by the Taliban &#8212; for an American who is a probable deserter.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t whine about not &#8220;knowing&#8221; if Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl was a deserter. It&#8217;s not a big secret. The Pentagon investigated Bergdahl&#8217;s disappearance back in 2010 and concluded that he had walked away from his unit of his own free will. This guy did everything but fill out one of those &#8220;change of address&#8221; postcards redirecting his mail to the local Taliban post office.</p>
<p>The left has reacted to the embarrassing truth about Bergdahl by:</p>
<p>(a) Denouncing Republican congressmen who initially posted happy tweets about Bergdahl&#8217;s release, and then deleted those tweets &#8212; probably on orders from Fox News!</p>
<p>(b) Accusing Bergdahl&#8217;s displeased Army comrades of &#8220;swiftboating.&#8221;</p>
<p>Yes, exactly. This is precisely what &#8220;swiftboating&#8221; is: The truth about a serviceman from the people who actually served with him. Similarly, the attacks on John Kerry came from the men he served with, not the Republican Party.</p>
<p>To the contrary, John McCain, who never served with Kerry, called the Swiftboat Veterans for Truth &#8220;dishonest and dishonorable.&#8221; (You nominated him!) President Bush requested that they take their ads off TV.</p>
<p>The only prominent Republican to defend the Swifties was former Sen. Bob Dole &#8212; a genuine World War II hero &#8212; who told CNN:</p>
<p>&#8220;One day (Kerry&#8217;s) saying that we were shooting civilians, cutting off their ears, cutting off their heads, throwing away his medals or his ribbons. The next day he&#8217;s standing there, &#8216;I want to be president because I&#8217;m a Vietnam veteran.&#8217; Maybe he should apologize to all the other 2.5 million veterans who served. He wasn&#8217;t the only one in Vietnam.&#8221;</p>
<p>It is precisely because the truth about Bergdahl didn&#8217;t come out until after he had been released that Republican members of Congress initially sent out those &#8220;Welcome back!&#8221; tweets. They didn&#8217;t know the truth about Bergdahl, and neither did most people, until his fellow soldiers spoke up. Even people in his own hometown ended up canceling a Bergdahl homecoming celebration in response to the accusations of his platoon.</p>
<p>Bergdahl&#8217;s comeuppance didn&#8217;t come from some right-wing Wizard of Oz in the fevered brains of MSNBC hosts: It came from members of Bergdahl&#8217;s own unit in Afghanistan.</p>
<p>The reason these soldiers hadn&#8217;t said anything until Bergdahl&#8217;s release was that, as a condition of leaving Afghanistan, they were required to sign gag orders prohibiting them from discussing Bergdahl. (It&#8217;s strange; liberals usually don&#8217;t like gag orders, but they don&#8217;t seem to mind this one.)</p>
<p>After Bergdahl&#8217;s release &#8212; heralded by a ceremony in the Rose Garden that included a shout-out to the Taliban &#8212; the soldiers decided those agreements were moot.</p>
<p>It apparently never occurred to Obama that the troops Bergdahl abandoned would not be popping champagne corks at the news of his release. (Nor did it occur to Rolling Stone. The 2012 article about Bergdahl spoke of the &#8220;hope&#8221; of Bowe&#8217;s old unit that &#8220;a deal could get done&#8221; with the Taliban for his safe return. Remember the good old days when you could get reliable military intel from a left-wing music magazine written by half-brights?)</p>
<p>Democrats should just stop talking about the military. Whenever they do, they sound like Republican men talking about rape.</p>
<p>Democrat adventures with the military have included that ridiculous photo of little Mike Dukakis in the tank. There was Bill Clinton&#8217;s letter explaining that he needed a nuanced way to dodge the draft during Vietnam in order to &#8220;maintain my political viability.&#8221; We had John Kerry, who thought it would be a great idea to remind Americans that he was the guy who came back and crapped on his fellow soldiers in Vietnam. John Kerry, reporting for duty.</p>
<p>And now we have Obama, who gazes upon deserter Bowe Bergdahl and thinks his return will be a feel-good American story.</p>
<p>So maybe the guy deserted. Hasn&#8217;t Obama pushed girls, gays and transgenders on the military? Why the pushback this time?</p>
<p>The Democrats&#8217; only concept of how to support the troops is to treat them like their other constituent groups &#8212; single women, blacks and the poor &#8212; and offer them more government benefits.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m fairly certain what the troops would really prefer is to be left alone by liberals.</p>
<p>How about no free college tuition &#8212; and not forcing the military to accept open homosexuality? How about fewer increases in military pensions &#8212; and no Defense Department-funded transgender operation for gay traitor Bradley Manning? How about skimping on PTSD therapists &#8212; and no girl generals?</p>
<p>The military doesn&#8217;t ask for a lot. Soldiers just want to do their job, which is to kill people and break things, not to be nurturing to women, gays and traitors.</p>
<p>The troops don&#8217;t complain much, but when they do, there is nothing more devastating than a real &#8220;swift boating.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>As Al Qaeda Takes Over Iraq, Kerry Poses with Celebrities</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2014 14:42:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If Al Qaeda were dumping garbage in the ocean, John Kerry might pay attention.]]></description>
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<p>As Al Qaeda overruns Iraq, the man who was almost president is keeping a sharp focus on what really matters. The ocean? Which ocean. Don&#8217;t ask me.</p>
<p>Also celebrity appearances.</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>We’re kicking off <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23OurOcean2014&amp;src=hash">#OurOcean2014</a> because the threat to our ocean is too great to ignore. Join to make a difference: <a href="http://t.co/6VQtvjcEHp">http://t.co/6VQtvjcEHp</a></p>
<p>&mdash; John Kerry (@JohnKerry) <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnKerry/statuses/478523226633408514">June 16, 2014</a></p></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Look fwd to having <a href="https://twitter.com/LeoDiCaprio">@LeoDiCaprio</a> at <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23OurOcean2014&amp;src=hash">#OurOcean2014</a>. He&#39;s been an important advocate/partner to protect the health of our ocean.</p>
<p>&mdash; John Kerry (@JohnKerry) <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnKerry/statuses/477826985574797312">June 14, 2014</a></p></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" lang="en"><p>It’s an honor. This issue is very important: <a href="http://t.co/A1ueF8ZGFt">http://t.co/A1ueF8ZGFt</a> RT <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnKerry">@JohnKerry</a>: Look fwd to having <a href="https://twitter.com/LeoDiCaprio">@LeoDiCaprio</a> at <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23OurOcean2014&amp;src=hash">#OurOcean2014</a>.</p>
<p>&mdash; Leonardo DiCaprio (@LeoDiCaprio) <a href="https://twitter.com/LeoDiCaprio/statuses/477832094341533696">June 14, 2014</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>And not to be left out, here&#8217;s Kerry with Angelina Jolie</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Also thankful to Angelina Jolie. Her best role is 1 she plays in real life: fierce advocate for our common humanity. <a href="http://t.co/z52773mOAb">pic.twitter.com/z52773mOAb</a></p>
<p>&mdash; John Kerry (@JohnKerry) <a href="https://twitter.com/JohnKerry/statuses/477456080864178176">June 13, 2014</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>You might think that Iraq should be a priority, but no the priority is the &#8220;Ocean&#8221;. Our Ocean, complete with a creepy logo that looks like it came from a totalitarian future, is a project of the same State Department that is too bored to actually do its job.</p>
<p>Which of the oceans is it? Don&#8217;t ask Kerry. The site quotes Obama and eco-fraud Rachel Carson who killed more people than Stalin. Assorted idiots are encouraged to&#8230;&#8221;ask whether my seafood has been caught in a sustainable manner&#8221; and &#8220;not eat shark fin soup.&#8221;</p>
<p>Meanwhile Al Qaeda seized the city of Tal Afar as it continues its strategy of surrounding Baghdad. If only Al Qaeda were dumping garbage in the ocean, then John Kerry might pay attention.</p>
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		<title>John Kerry to Introduce George Soros at Security Forum</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2014 22:15:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>In 2004, <a href="http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=10924">George Soros went on a Jihad against Bush and for Kerry</a>, describing the election as the most important one in his lifetime.</p>
<p>Apparently including the Nazi Party elections in Germany, but then Soros has never been all that upset about those results since it led to what he described as &#8220;the most exciting time in his life&#8221; helping his Nazi master rob Jews.</p>
<p>Soros declared that he was so determined to help Hanoi John win t<a href="http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/president/2004-06-01-soros-cover_x.htm?csp=34">hat he would give his entire fortun</a>e to elect Kerry.</p>
<blockquote><p>Soros, a storied financial and political speculator, says another of his bets is about to pay off: more than $15 million against President Bush.</p>
<p>The Hungarian-born billionaire, who had vowed to spend more if necessary to deny the president re-election, says he&#8217;s contributed enough to achieve his goal. &#8220;There probably will be some further contributions, but I don&#8217;t expect any substantial increase,&#8221; he says in an interview. &#8220;Frankly, I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ll need to do a lot more. &#8230; I now take the defeat of Bush more or less for granted.&#8221;</p>
<p>Asked by The Washington Post whether he would trade his fortune to beat Bush, he replied, &#8220;If someone guaranteed it.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Soros got that bet wrong, but the structures set up by the former Nazi collaborator and notorious bigot, helped bring the Obama regime to power.</p>
<p>Now Kerry is returnin<a href="http://freebeacon.com/politics/critics-george-soros-using-political-connections-to-benefit-his-foreign-policy-goals/">g the favor by introducing Soros</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will introduce liberal megadonor George Soros at an open forum on Tuesday, the latest evidence of the billionaire using his political connections to benefit his investments and foreign policy goals, critics say.</p>
<p>Kerry will introduce Soros at the 1:30 p.m. forum on May 13 at the George C. Marshall Center, the Germany-based security and defense studies institute jointly operated by the U.S. Department of Defense and German Defense Ministry, according to a State Department event notice.</p>
<p>Soros will discuss “strengthening civil society, democracy and the world economy” with Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Douglas Frantz following Kerry’s introduction.</p></blockquote>
<p>Liberalism&#8217;s sugar daddy is all about strengthening the world economy. Just ask the UK. Or France, where he&#8217;s still wanted. And he just loves democracy. That&#8217;s why he buys elections.</p>
<blockquote><p>State Department deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf told the Washington Free Beacon that criticisms of Soros’ appearance at the event are “wholly ridiculous and have no basis in fact whatsoever.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Much like everything Marie Harf says.</p>
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		<title>Obama, You’re No Harry Truman</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/truman1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-225125" alt="truman1" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/truman1.jpg" width="320" height="214" /></a>President Obama </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/obama-wishes-israel-a-happy-independence-day/">congratulated</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> Israel on its 66</span><sup style="line-height: 1.5em;">th</sup><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> year of independence, referring to the Jewish State as a “diverse and vibrant democracy” and stressed the fact that the United States was the first country to recognize Israel after it declared its independence. Obama is a master of sound bites and his oratory on the subject strikes the right chord but it also raises the question: how would the United States have acted had Obama been president in 1948? Would he have had the fortitude and conviction of President Truman? Sadly, the answer is almost certainly no. His </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424053111904353504576568710341742174?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop&amp;mg=reno64-wsj&amp;url=http%253A%252F%252Fonline.wsj.com%252Farticle%252FSB10001424053111904353504576568710341742174.html%253Fmod%253DWSJ_Opinion_LEADTop">statements</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> as well as choice of advisors, from </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/04/09/john-kerry-says-mideast-peace-talks-went-poof-after-israel-declined-to-release-more-palestinian-prisoners/">John “<i>poof</i>” Kerry</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> to CIA director </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/01/07/controversial-comments-by-cia-director-nominee-john-brennan/">John <i>“al-Quds”</i> Brennan</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, leave no doubt that any attempt to recognize or assist Israel would have been met with an avalanche of overt hostility and promptly quashed.</span></p>
<p>No doubt the administration would have cautioned Israel to refrain from declaring statehood and would have termed any such declaration as a “provocation.” It would have urged Israel to “exercise restraint” when dealing with roadside ambushes and relentless onslaughts by Arab gangs. Kerry, who once infamously referred to Bashar Assad as “a man who wants change,” would have characterized Palestinian leader and Nazi collaborator Haj Amin el-Husseini in similar fashion. And of course, oil would have figured prominently into the equation.</p>
<p>Thankfully, it was a resolute, principled Truman who sat in the Oval Office on that fateful day and not a feckless Obama. Undoubtedly, Obama’s foreign policy would have mimicked the disastrous policies being pursued today, which have left American credibility in tatters and succeeded only in alienating allies.</p>
<p>Israel is a strong country and will weather the Obama storm. Relations with the next 2016 administration – Democrat or Republican – will pick up where they left off in 2008 and will remain excellent. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for our relations with the remaining countries in the region.</p>
<p>Before Obama, Egypt was firmly in the American camp and this had been the case since 1978 after it had inked a peace deal with Israel. But Obama then decided to betray longtime American ally Hosni Mubarak and hastened his ignominious downfall. Mubarak was without question a tyrant but his replacement, Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Morsi was even more so. And while Mubarak limited his tyranny to Egypt, Morsi exported it by cozying up to the various terrorist entities in the region including Hamas, Hezbollah and the Islamic Republic of Iran, further threatening regional stability.</p>
<p>Obama had the opportunity to redeem himself when Egyptian discontent with Morsi prompted the autocrat’s ouster and the downfall of the Muslim Brotherhood. But instead, the administration criticized the Egyptian military for facilitating the removal of a radical Islamist despot and canceled promised military aid desperately needed to combat Islamists in Sinai. This outrage <a href="http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/egypts-arms-deal-with-russia-potential-strategic-costs">pushed Egypt right into the hands of Putin</a> who waited patiently on the sidelines while the administration’s foreign policy fiasco took its natural course.</p>
<p>Iran is arguably today’s foremost cause of world instability. It is responsible for committing or attempting to commit acts of terror on 6 continents, actively supports anti-American terrorist groups, is knee-deep in the drug trade, subverts its neighbors and is on the cusp of obtaining nuclear weapons. Yet this need not have been the case.</p>
<p>In 2009, the Obama administration folded its hands and passively watched as Iranians took to the streets and bravely demonstrated against their country’s rigged elections. In the absence of American support, the unarmed demonstrators stood no chance against their government’s para-military thugs who brutally quelled the riots in short order through mass arrests, torture and cold-blooded murder. The administration, paralyzed by indecision, passed on a remarkable opportunity to rid the world of its number one menace.</p>
<p>The converse occurred in Libya where the United States played a pivotal role in toppling Kaddafi – an easy target – but did nothing to facilitate a smooth transition following his downfall. The administration, quick to criticize others for acting without an exit strategy, themselves had none. As consequence, Libya has turned into a haven for arm smugglers, al-Qaida, Ansar al-Sharia and a host of other Islamist groups and it was precisely this chaotic environment that ultimately led to the murder of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans.</p>
<p>And of course there is Syria, where the President comically boxed himself into a corner with an imaginary red line only to sheepishly backtrack and defer to none other than Russia’s ex-KGB man. In the meantime, the plan to remove Syria’s deadly chemical weapons stockpile has been marked by missed deadlines and extensions and notably, <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/10796150/Syria-chemical-weapons-how-the-Telegraph-found-evidence-of-chlorine-and-ammonia-gas-bombs.html">more chemical weapons attacks</a>. Obama’s vacillation in the face of a crime against humanity and his failure to provide weapons, early on, to more moderate elements of the Syrian resistance has strengthened the hand of Islamists and largely marginalized a once eclectic and inclusive opposition.</p>
<p>Thus in Libya, Syria, Egypt and Iran, the administration was presented with opportunities which it squandered. As a consequence, allies were alienated, credibility was shattered, influence was lost and most importantly, a chance to strengthen the hand of genuine reformers was wasted. Democracy in the Mideast is as distant as ever. Only in Israel does democracy thrive, but strangely, it is here where the administration has chosen to focus its <a href="http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2014/03/03/surprise-obama-kills-the-peace-process-netanyahu-abbas-jeffrey-goldberg/">misguided energies and hostility</a>.</p>
<p>Harry Truman was a visionary who took bold steps when needed and led when others followed. His resolute decision to use atomic weapons against an aggressor nation was a painful one but recognized as necessary to maintain the peace. Similarly, Truman demonstrated true statesmanship when, against the advice of some of the naysayers, opted to recognize the nascent state of Israel because he correctly identified the creation of Israel as one of the few hopeful and positive developments of that era. Regrettably, Obama presents himself as the exact opposite of Truman and his salutations to Israel on its 66<sup>th</sup> anniversary of statehood ring hollow.</p>
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		<title>An Open Letter to John Kerry</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2014 04:24:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/kerry.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-225041" alt="kerry" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/kerry-450x312.png" width="315" height="218" /></a>Dear John,</span></p>
<p>Every few years a messiah arrives in Jerusalem, shakes hands, makes demands and promises to make peace in our time. Then when the whole thing blows up in his face, he throws up his hands and flies back blaming the ungrateful Jews for not embracing his vision.</p>
<p>So many false messiahs have come before you, squinting against the bright sunshine, pounding the table at meetings, downing martinis and fantasizing about the Nobel Peace Prize that they were sure was waiting for them at the end.</p>
<p>And they left with nothing except sunburn and simmering rage.</p>
<p>Did you really think you would be any different? Were you so delusional that you imagined you could succeed where career diplomats with a lifetime of experience in the region had failed?</p>
<p>It&#8217;s not as if you had a good track record negotiating anything. Do you remember meeting Madame Binh in Paris? What about carrying Daniel Ortega&#8217;s peace offer after assuring everyone that he wasn&#8217;t a Communist? Right before he flew to Moscow. And let&#8217;s not gloss over your visit to Assad. Was that peace in the air or was it just the nerve gas?</p>
<p>I know you don&#8217;t have time to remember all your diplomatic triumphs. Or like Hillary, any of them.</p>
<p>You went to Paris to aid the Viet Cong. You went to Nicaragua to aid the FSLN terrorists. You went to Israel to aid the PLO. The USSR fell, but your old nostalgia for Communist guerrillas and killers hasn&#8217;t deserted you. It&#8217;s why you failed. And it&#8217;s why you&#8217;ll fail over and over again.</p>
<p>No matter what the PLO did, you blamed Israel. Just as no matter what the Viet Cong or the Sandinistas did, you blamed America.</p>
<p>The PLO can call for Israel&#8217;s destruction, champion terrorism and ally with Hamas, but your minions will still provide anonymous quotes saying that the PLO can&#8217;t be expected to negotiate while Israel possibly considers building houses in Jerusalem.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s a little thing like genocide compared to a house?</p>
<p>Israel is expected to free terrorists who murder elderly Holocaust survivors, but the delicate sensibilities of PLO terrorists are outraged whenever a Jewish family that they haven’t managed to murder yet moves into a home in Jerusalem.</p>
<p>Good negotiators can put their sympathies aside to achieve their goals. But no matter how many press releases you put out touting your special relationship with Israel, a relationship almost as special as the one your fellow Massachusetts senator had with a girl in a ‘67 Oldsmobile whose drowned corpse turned up the next day, you spoil it by threatening another intifada or calling Israel an Apartheid state.</p>
<p>You lack the basic criteria of a diplomat. You&#8217;re a bad liar.</p>
<p>You show up to provide moral support to the murderers and go home as their useful idiot. That was the pitiful function you served in Paris, in Nicaragua and in Israel. The only thing you ever did with your unsolicited interventions was make things worse. Your anti-war activism helped polarize a nation. Your Ortega intervention emboldened a terrorist group. And your peace initiative led to a unity agreement with Hamas.</p>
<p>After almost half a century, the only thing you ever do is make things worse. Any man with a scrap of decency looking back on a lifetime of diplomatic wreckage would have retired. Instead you finagled your way into becoming Secretary of State so you could fail on a grander scale.</p>
<p>The secret to your success as a lifelong failure is refusing to accept responsibility. You just throw someone else&#8217;s medals over the fence and blame someone else for your latest fiasco.</p>
<p>This time it&#8217;s Israel.</p>
<p>You told the Senate that the negotiations between Israel and the PLO broke down because the Jewish State didn&#8217;t release the latest set of murderers on time. There was no acknowledgement that Israel should not have been expected to release the murderers of civilians, including an elderly Holocaust survivor.</p>
<p>After releasing three sets of murderers, in exchange for nothing except the PLO showing up and continuing to make more demands, you decided that Israel was to blame because the fourth set of murderers wasn&#8217;t released on time.</p>
<p>And let&#8217;s not forget the popular &#8220;settlements&#8221; excuse. The settlement in question is Jerusalem; one of the oldest cities in the world. A city whose unity as the capital of Israel you endorsed on numerous occasions.</p>
<p>You cosponsored the Jerusalem Embassy Act which stated that the policy of the United States is that, &#8220;Jerusalem should remain an undivided city&#8221; and &#8220;Jerusalem should be recognized as the capital of the State of Israel&#8221;. You cosponsored Senate Consecutive Resolution 113 stating that &#8220;Jerusalem must remain an undivided city in which the rights of every ethnic and religious group are protected as they have been by Israel during the past twenty-five years.&#8221;</p>
<p>Is this ringing any bells?</p>
<p>How about Resolution 106 or Resolution 21 which ”Calls upon the President and the Secretary of State to publicly affirm as a matter of U.S. policy that Jerusalem must remain the undivided capital of Israel.&#8221; Or 1323 and 1322?</p>
<p>You co-sponsored all of them. Were you obstructing peace all these decades? Or are you obstructing peace now by turning your back on them?</p>
<p>You also co-sponsored Resolution 46 stating that the modern State of Israel is &#8220;the outgrowth of the existence of the historic Kingdom of Israel established three thousand years ago in the city of Jerusalem and in the land of Israel.&#8221;</p>
<p>You co-sponsored Resolution 522 with the same text in 2008. But that was a long 6 years ago.</p>
<p>During your presidential campaign, you released a paper in which you called Jerusalem, &#8220;Israel’s indisputable capital.&#8221; Now you&#8217;re disputing it.</p>
<p>Apparently you were for a united Jerusalem&#8230; before you were against it.</p>
<p>&#8220;As President, John Kerry will never force Israel to make concessions that compromise its security,&#8221; the paper said. &#8220;As President, John Kerry would not expect Israel to negotiate without a credible Palestinian partner for peace &#8211; something that unfortunately does not exist today.&#8221;</p>
<p>But you&#8217;re not President so you can&#8217;t be blamed for completely reversing those positions and insisting that Israel make concessions that compromise its security and negotiate with terrorists who sabotage every one of your futile attempts at peace negotiations. And then you stop by the Trilateral Commission and suggest, off the record, that Israel is becoming an Apartheid state.</p>
<p>Now you&#8217;re off sulking and plotting to unveil your peace plan which will gut Israel, carve up Jerusalem and give the PLO everything without obligating it to anything. But the terrorists you’re helping will sabotage it just like they sabotaged your peace negotiations, just like Daniel Ortega sabotaged your peace offer and just like the Viet Cong destroyed the credibility of their useful idiots.</p>
<p>Your Senate career is over; you hooked your dying star to a falling president and put your legacy in the hands of greasy killers who would sell their sister for a monopoly on American cigarettes. You would have been better off turning over Teresa&#8217;s money to Bernie Madoff and going to Afghanistan to negotiate in person with the Taliban.</p>
<p>Even while you&#8217;re warning Israel that it will be destroyed if it doesn&#8217;t listen to you, you have destroyed yourself. Had you retired from the Senate, you might have left with some dignity. Instead you will be a failed footnote in a failed administration.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a fitting fate for a man who worked to see his country fail to end his time as a miserable failure.</p>
<p>Whether it&#8217;s Ukraine, Syria or Israel, you have failed. And Japan and Korea are still coming up. Have another drink. Fly to another conference. Closet yourself with your advisers and rant about Israel. And when you do leave, you will blame those ungrateful Jews who wouldn&#8217;t do what you told them to.</p>
<p>But John, we weren&#8217;t the ones who did this to you. You did it to yourself. You can blame Israel all you like, but it&#8217;s not us. It&#8217;s you.</p>
<p>Sincerely,</p>
<p>The Jewish People</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Secretary of State slanders Israel -- but when will he speak of infidels' fate under Islam? ]]></description>
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<p>This week&#8217;s <em>Glazov Gang</em> was joined by Civil Rights Activist <b>Ernie White</b>, Hollywood Actor <b>Basil Hoffman</b> (“Rio I Love You”) and <b>Orestes Matacena, </b>a Filmmaker, (“Two de Force”).</p>
<p>They joined the show to discuss <em>The Real Apartheid John Kerry Won&#8217;t Name</em>, <em>The Declassified White House Benghazi Emails,</em> <em><a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Our-World-John-Kerrys-Jewish-best-friends-350734">John Kerry’s Jewish Best Friends</a>, Is Holding Lois Lerner in Contempt Un-American?, How Conservatives Must Fight, </em>and much, much more:</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2014 01:02:04 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>Is John Kerry the dumbest Secretary of State in American history? <a href="http://cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/kerry-rails-against-terrorists-they-don-t-offer-health-care-plan">It&#8217;s hard to say</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Secretary of State John Kerry at the weekend again pledged U.S. support for efforts to locate and rescue them.</p>
<p>“I will tell you, my friends, I have seen this scourge of terror across the planet, and so have you,” he continued. “They don’t offer anything except violence. They don’t offer a health care plan, they don’t offer schools. They don’t tell you how to build a nation, they don’t talk about how they will provide jobs. They just tell people, ‘You have to behave the way we tell you to,’ and they will punish you if you don’t.</p>
<p>“Our responsibility and the world’s responsibility is to stand up against that kind if nihilism,” Kerry said.</p></blockquote>
<p>This is like a speech written by a third grader. But at least Kerry got around to declaring Islam, nihilistic.</p>
<p>Terrorists however do offer health care plans and benefits. The Palestinian Authority and Kerry&#8217;s good buddy Abbas has an entire benefits program for terrorists&#8230; paid for by American taxpayers.</p>
<p>Hamas runs schools and health care clinics. The Muslim Brotherhood has its own social welfare agencies in Egypt.</p>
<p>Al Qaeda however still lags behind in corporate <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1322734/Osama-bin-Ladens-ex-pilot-left-Al-Qaeda-wouldnt-pay-healthcare.html">benefits including health care</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>A former member of Al Qaeda has claimed that he left the terror group after they failed to pay for his pregnant wife&#8217;s medical bills.</p>
<p>L&#8217;Houssaine Kherchtou testified at a terrorism trial in New York on Wednesday that he was disgruntled at the lack of health care and later began helping a U.S. investigation into two embassy bombings in Africa.</p>
<p>At an earlier trial in 2001, Kherchtou had testified that he was horrified to find out his wife was begging on the streets for money to pay for her cesarean section which cost $500 at a Sudanese hospital.</p>
<p>He said that he asked Al Qaeda to pay the medical bills but they refused. He testified that he decided to leave the group after the health care disagreement.</p></blockquote>
<p>If only there was AlQaedaCare. But in Iraq there is AlQaedaCare and it&#8217;s <a href="http://www.wired.com/2010/07/al-qaeda-in-iraqs-health-care-plan-stolen-blood-skilled-docs/">just as horrible as ObamaCare</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Pockets of insurgents are stealing blood supplies from local hospitals and blood banks in Iraq, often at gunpoint, and using the looted stockpiles to treat their own troops.</p>
<p>n Iraq, the thefts have actually been ongoing for years. The Times notes that, since at least 2005, Al Qaeda in Iraq fighters have raided hospitals — often the same ones several times — and stolen “large quantities of blood,” rather than risk arrest by bringing wounded group members in for treatment. These thefts often go on without interference from Iraqi security forces or hospital employees — many of whom “have members sympathetic to the insurgency.”</p>
<p>What’s unique about Al Qaeda in Iraq’s blood theft is that their medics might actually know how to use the vital fluid safely. As the Times reports, mismatched blood types can be life threatening — so looting blood and transfusing it without proper training is extremely risky. But Iraqi doctors say they’ve seen enough Al Qaeda torture victims “amputated in a very precise and skilled way,” to suspect the insurgents have well-trained doctors handling transfusions and other life-saving procedures.</p></blockquote>
<p>Maybe some of these folks can get refugee status and help Obama out on the death panels.</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2014 04:56:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caroline Glick]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The best response to the secretary of state's unprecedented bigotry is to reject his Israeli enablers. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/F100301FF20-e1375046321214.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-224400" alt="F100301FF20-e1375046321214" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/F100301FF20-e1375046321214-450x251.jpg" width="315" height="176" /></a>Originally published by the <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Our-World-John-Kerrys-Jewish-best-friends-350734">Jerusalem Post</a>. </em></p>
<p>Anti-Semitism is not a simple bigotry. It is a complex neurosis. It involves assigning malign intent to Jews where none exists on the one hand, and rejecting reason as a basis for understanding the world and operating within it on the other hand.</p>
<p>John Kerry’s recent use of the term “Apartheid” in reference to Israel’s future was an anti-Semitic act.</p>
<p>In remarks before the Trilateral Commission a few days after PLO chief Mahmoud Abbas signed a unity deal with the Hamas and Islamic Jihad terror groups, Kerry said that if Israel doesn’t cut a deal with the Palestinians soon, it will either cease to be a Jewish state or it will become “an apartheid state.”</p>
<p>Leave aside the fact that Kerry’s scenarios are based on phony demographic data. As I demonstrate in my book The Israeli Solution: A One-State Plan for Peace in the Middle East, Israel will maintain a strong and growing Jewish majority in a “unitary state” that includes the territory within the 1949 armistice lines and Judea and Samaria. But even if Kerry’s fictional data were correct, the only “Apartheid state” that has any chance of emerging is the Palestinian state that Kerry claims Israel’s survival depends on. The Palestinians demand that the territory that would comprise their state must be ethnically cleansed of all Jewish presence before they will agree to accept sovereign responsibility for it.</p>
<p>In other words, the future leaders of that state – from the PLO, Hamas and Islamic Jihad alike &#8212; are so imbued with genocidal Jew hatred that they insist that all 650,000 Jews living in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria must be forcibly ejected from their homes. These Jewish towns, cities and neighborhoods must all be emptied before the Palestinians whose cause Kerry so wildly champions will even agree to set up their Apartheid state.</p>
<p>According to the 1998 Rome Statute, Apartheid is a crime of intent, not of outcome. It is the malign intent of the Palestinians –across their political and ideological spectrum &#8212; to found a state predicated on anti-Jewish bigotry and ethnic cleansing. In stark contrast, no potential Israeli leader or faction has any intention of basing national policies on racial subjugation in any form.</p>
<p>By ignoring the fact that every Palestinian leader views Jews as a contaminant that must be blotted out from the territory the Palestinians seek to control, (before they will even agree to accept sovereign responsibility for it), while attributing to Jews malicious intent towards the Palestinians that no Israeli Jewish politician with a chance of leading the country harbors, Kerry is adopting a full-throated and comprehensive anti-Semitic position.</p>
<p>It is both untethered from reason and libelous of Jews.</p>
<p>Speaking to the Daily Beast about Kerry’s remarks on Sunday, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki was quick to use the “some of his best friends are Jewish,” defense.</p>
<p>In her words, “Secretary Kerry, like Justice Minister [Tzipi] Livni, and previous Israeli Prime Ministers [Ehud] Olmert and [Ehud] Barak, was reiterating why there’s no such thing as a one-state solution if you believe, as he does, in the principle of a Jewish state. He was talking about the kind of future Israel wants.”</p>
<p>So in order to justify his own anti-Semitism – and sell it to the American Jewish community – Kerry is engaging in vulgar partisan interference in the internal politics of another country. Indeed, Kerry went so far as to hint that if Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu is forced from power, and Kerry’s Jewish best friends replace him, then things will be wonderful.  In his words, if “there is a change of government or a change of heart, something will happen.” By inserting himself directly into the Israeli political arena, Kerry is working from his mediator Martin Indyk’s playbook.</p>
<p>Since his tenure as US ambassador to Israel during the Clinton administration, Indyk has played fast and dirty in Israeli politics, actively recruiting Israelis to influence Israeli public opinion to favor the Left while castigating non-leftist politicians and regular Israeli citizens as evil, stupid and destructive.</p>
<p>Livni, Olmert, Barak and others probably don’t share Kerry’s anti-Semitic sensitivities. Although their behavior enables foreigners like Kerry to embrace anti-Semitic positions, their actions are most likely informed by their egotistical obsessions with power. Livni, Olmert and Barak demonize their political opponents because the facts do not support their policies. The only card they have to play is the politics of personal destruction. And so they use it over and over again.</p>
<p>This worked in the past. That is why Olmert and Barak were able to form coalition governments. But the cumulative effects of the Palestinian terror war that began after Israel offered the PLO statehood at Camp David in 2000, the failure of the 2005 withdrawal from Gaza, and the 2006 war with Lebanon have brought about a situation where the Israeli public is no longer willing to buy what the Left is selling.</p>
<p>Realizing this, Barak, Livni and others have based their claim to political power on their favored status in the US. In Netanyahu’s previous government, Barak parlayed the support he received from the Obama administration into his senior position as Defense Minister. Today, Livni’s position as Justice Minister and chief negotiator with the PLO owes entirely to the support she receives from the Obama administration.</p>
<p>Neither Barak nor Livni ever lost sight of the cause for their political elevation, despite their electoral defeats.</p>
<p>Like Barak in Netanyahu’s previous government, today Livni provides Kerry and Indyk with “Israeli” cover for their anti-Israeli policies. And working with Kerry and Indyk, she is able to force herself and her popularly rejected policies on the elected government.</p>
<p>Livni – again, like Barak in Netanyahu’s previous government – has been able to hold her senior government position and exert influence over government policy by claiming that only her presence in the government is keeping the US at bay. According to this line of thinking, without her partnership, the Obama administration will turn on Israel.</p>
<p>Now that Kerry has given a full throated endorsement of anti-Semitic demagoguery, Livni’s leverage is vastly diminished. Since Kerry’s anti-Semitic statements show that Livni has failed to shield Israel from the Obama administration’s hostility, the rationale for her continued inclusion in the government has disappeared.</p>
<p>The same goes for the Obama administration’s favorite American Jewish group J Street. Since its formation in the lead up to the 2008 Presidential elections, J Street has served as the Obama administration’s chief supporter in the US Jewish community. J Street uses rhetorical devices that were relevant to the political realities of the 1990s to claim that it is both “pro-peace and pro-Israel.” Twenty years into the failed peace process, for Israeli ears at least, these slogans ring hollow.</p>
<p>But the real problem with J Street’s claim isn’t that its rhetoric is irrelevant. The real problem is that its rhetoric is deceptive.</p>
<p>J Street’s record has nothing to do with either supporting Israel or peace. Rather it has a record of continuous anti-Israel agitation. J Street has continuously provided American Jewish cover for the administration’s anti-Israel actions by calling for it to take even more extreme actions. These have included calling for the administration to support an anti-Israel resolution at the UN Security Council, and opposing sanctions against Iran for its illicit nuclear weapons program. J Street has embraced the PLO’s newest unity pact with Hamas and Islamic Jihad. And now it is defending Kerry for engaging in rank anti-Semitism with his “Apartheid” remarks.</p>
<p>J Street’s political action committee campaigns to defeat pro-Israel members of Congress. And its campus operation brings speakers to US university campuses that slander Israel and the IDF and call for the divestment of university campuses from businesses owned by Israelis.</p>
<p>On Wednesday, the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations is set to vote on J Street’s application to join the umbrella group as a “pro-peace, pro-Israel” organization.</p>
<p>Kerry’s “Apartheid” remarks are a watershed event. They represent the first time a sitting US Secretary of State has publically endorsed an anti-Semitic caricature of Jews and the Jewish state.</p>
<p>The best response that both the Israeli government and the Jewish community can give to Kerry’s act of unprecedented hostility and bigotry is to reject his Jewish enablers. Livni should be shown the door. And the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations should reject J Street’s bid for membership.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/YS-130409-08_wa.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-224422" alt="YS-130409-08_wa" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/YS-130409-08_wa.jpg" width="326" height="218" /></a>Yesterday was April 29, the US deadline for the Israeli-Palestinian talks that began nine months ago. Instead of marking the achievement of a peace agreement as planned, the deadline passed with the talks dead—for now, at least.</span></p>
<p>They were officially suspended by Israel last week after Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas and his Fatah signed a unity pact with Hamas, the explicitly jihadist-terrorist group now running Gaza. The Obama administration has given Israel’s response to that move lukewarm, tentative support.</p>
<p>Where things will go from here is not certain; the present state of affairs raises some questions.</p>
<p>First, is the Fatah-Hamas agreement authentic, and will it really lead to a Palestinian unity government? If one goes according to precedent—three previous Fatah-Hamas unity deals in 2007, 2011, and 2012, each of which collapsed quickly—then the chances are not high.</p>
<p>Among Israeli Arab-affairs commentators, Khaled Abu Toameh <a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4286/abbas-hamas-unity-goal">sees the agreement as</a></p>
<blockquote><p><i>a tactical move [by Abbas] aimed at putting pressure on Israel and the U.S. to accept his conditions for extending the peace talks after their April 29 deadline…. [There is no] sign that Hamas is willing to allow the Palestinian Authority security forces to return to the Gaza Strip, which fell into the hands of the Islamist movement in 2007…. Neither Hamas nor Fatah is interested in sharing power or sitting in the same government…. Abbas is now waiting to see what the U.S. Administration will offer him in return for rescinding his plan to join forces with Hamas….</i></p></blockquote>
<p>Avi Issacharoff, however, <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/in-stepping-down-from-government-hamas-plans-bid-for-greater-power/">suggests that Hamas</a>—now in difficult shape with Iran having scaled back support, Egypt having closed its smuggling tunnels from Sinai, and Israel pressuring it to put a stop to rocket attacks by small, even more radical Salafist groups—has decided to gamble by hitching itself to Fatah and hoping to win the Palestinian elections envisaged by the unity agreement in about another six months, thereby regaining rule in both the West Bank and Gaza.</p>
<p>That Hamas, a totalitarian movement, is really prepared to act with such self-abnegation and restraint, accepting a subordinate role in some “unity” framework, all in the hope of winning elections while risking a sharp decline in its fortunes if it loses them, does not seem likely. Issacharoff also does not explain what would be in it for Abbas. “Unity” with rambunctious Hamas has always failed him in the past, most dramatically in 2007 when it <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/14/world/middleeast/14mideast.html?_r=0">led to Fatah’s ouster from Gaza</a>.</p>
<p>In other words, the two Palestinian groups distrust each other and for good reason.</p>
<p>If, then, the current ostensible Fatah-Hamas rapprochement is destined to unravel—which, in the erratic Middle East, is not certain but probable—where will that leave the “diplomatic process” and U.S. and Israeli policy?</p>
<p>One possibility is that Abbas’s brinksmanship will succeed, with the U.S.—loath to see the “process” end—pushing for and eventually obtaining terms that Israel and the Palestinians—both of which want to stay in Washington’s good graces—will agree to as a basis for further talks.</p>
<p>If so, further rounds of pointless, sterile talks will be held, attended by the usual U.S.-Israeli frictions as Washington publicly berates and threatens Israel, until it turns out—once again—that even by <a href="http://besacenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/amidror-yaacov-pp242-recognition-of-jewish-israel-is-critical-for-palestinians-7-april-2014.pdf">agreeing to once-inconceivable concessions</a> the Netanyahu government cannot get the Palestinian side to reciprocate in coins of peace, compromise, and acceptance of Jewish sovereignty that it simply does not possess.</p>
<p>The other possibility is that, whether because the Obama administration is discouraged or because, even if it keeps trying, it can no longer bridge the gaps between the sides, the talks will not revive and all those—Washington officials, the Israeli left, and so on—for whom the “process” is an addictive lifeline will somehow have to survive without it.</p>
<p>Israel could then try emphasizing that the Palestinians in the West Bank already have autonomy, have rejected a state so many times that contemplating another massive effort to get them to accept one is madness, and that, given the condition of already-existing Arab states like Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Libya, and others, to think that creating yet another such state, this one on the outskirts of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, would somehow be a boon to Israel, the U.S., or the West does not pass the reality test to put it mildly.</p>
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