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		<title>A UN Timetable for Israel’s Destruction</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2014 05:53:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Klein]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And Obama's betrayal. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/rtr4hxon.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247524" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/rtr4hxon-410x350.jpg" alt="rtr4hxon" width="302" height="258" /></a>The Obama administration is shamelessly outsourcing the United States&#8217; historic leadership in facilitating negotiations between the Palestinians and Israel of a workable, secure two-state solution to the United Nations and European governments. In putting its trust in these two centers of anti-Israel sentiment, the Obama administration refuses to say categorically that it would veto a UN Security Council resolution setting some sort of deadline for the creation of a Palestinian state and Israeli withdrawal to the pre-June 1967 lines.</p>
<p>In the words of an unnamed senior U.S. State Department official quoted by Reuters, &#8220;These things are all very much in flux, it&#8217;s not as if we&#8217;re being asked to take a position on any particular Security Council resolution right now. It would be premature for us to discuss documents that are of uncertain status right now.&#8221;</p>
<p>Any Security Council resolution the Obama administration would agree to, which imposes pressure only on Israel to make more unilateral concessions for an illusionary “peace,” will serve to legitimize a United Nations timetable for Israel’s surrender to forces that wish to destroy it. The Gaza debacle following Israel’s decision to unilaterally withdraw from Gaza in 2005 and give the Palestinians a chance to build a prototype Palestinian state illustrates the danger Israel would face from being pressured into more withdrawals at this time.</p>
<p>The Palestinian Authority leadership is pressing for action on just such a Security Council resolution as early as this Wednesday, according to a Palestine Liberation Organization official and Palestinian U.N. Ambassador Riyad Mansour. The Palestinian resolution, to be sponsored by Jordan (a non-permanent member of the Security Council), would reportedly set a two year deadline for complete Israeli withdrawal from all “occupied” territories, although Jordan’s UN ambassador told reporters it was news to her that any action to vote on the resolution would be taken as soon as the Palestinians are demanding. There is some speculation amongst UN insiders that a vote on a Palestinian resolution could be put off until early in the new year. The Security Council makeup will then be even more inclined towards the Palestinian position, because Malaysia will be replacing South Korea as a non-permanent member of the Security Council.</p>
<p>The Palestinians are finding a very receptive audience in Europe for their use of the United Nations to sidestep direct negotiations with Israel. As the tide of anti-Semitism is rising to the surface and spreading once again throughout Europe, a number of European countries&#8217; parliaments have adopted non-binding resolutions calling upon their respective governments to recognize a Palestinian state. Sweden went further with official recognition of a state of Palestine. France, a permanent member of the UN Security Council, is taking the lead in crafting a European version of a Palestinian state resolution. The idea reportedly would be to set out an expectation for a final peace agreement to achieve a two-state solution within two years. During the two year interval, the United Nations might accord full UN membership rights to an officially recognized Palestinian state. The text is still a subject of consultations in European capitals, according to the United Kingdom&#8217;s UN Ambassador Lyall Grant.</p>
<p>The Obama administration, which would like nothing better than to see its nemesis Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defeated in the upcoming March 2015 Israeli elections, is calibrating a position that appears intended to send a pointed message to the Israeli electorate. This message is not to count on the administration standing steadfastly with Israel on sensitive security concerns if Prime Minister Netanyahu is re-elected. The Obama administration is willing to consider a &#8220;compromise&#8221; Security Council resolution to pressure Israel into resuming negotiations against a backdrop of a framework withdrawal timetable, so that the administration can say it did all it can to avoid an immediate two year deadline and thereby not have to use its veto power to “protect” Israel.</p>
<p>Thus, Secretary of State John Kerry is meeting early this week with European foreign ministers, Arab League officials, and Israeli and Palestinian officials to &#8220;hear from and engage with other stakeholders&#8230;and to the best of our ability work toward a common path forward,&#8221; according to a senior State Department official.</p>
<p>Israeli civilians under relentless attack by Palestinian jihadists are the main &#8220;stakeholders&#8221; whom the United States should be worried about. If there is to be a &#8220;common path forward&#8221; to peace, it requires Palestinian negotiating partners who are willing to publicly give up their claim to a right of return of millions of so-called Palestinian refugees to pre-June 1967 Israeli cities and towns, and who recognize Israel&#8217;s right to self-determination as a Jewish state that can co-exist securely side by side with a peaceful Palestinian state. There has been no such partner to engage in genuine negotiations for more than six decades. There remains no such partner today, nor is there likely to be one in the foreseeable future.</p>
<p>Hamas has made clear its intention time again, by word and deed, to destroy the state of Israel and kill as many Jews as possible. Following, for example, are excerpts from an interview with Hamas MP and cleric Yunis Al-Astal, which aired on Al-Aqsa TV on May 11, 2011 (courtesy of MEMRI):</p>
<blockquote><p>The [Jews] are brought in droves to Palestine so that the Palestinians – and the Islamic nation behind them – will have the honor of annihilating the evil of this gang…All the predators, all the birds of prey, all the dangerous reptiles and insects, and all the lethal bacteria are far less dangerous than the Jews…When Palestine is liberated and its people return to it, and the entire region, with the grace of Allah, will have turned into the United States of Islam, the land of Palestine will become the capital of the Islamic Caliphate, and all these countries will turn into states within the Caliphate.</p></blockquote>
<p>Hamas’s barrage of rocket attacks launched from Gaza against Israeli civilians since Hamas took control of Gaza in 2007 attests to its deadly intentions. Just last Sunday, Hamas marked its 27<sup>th</sup> anniversary by parading 2,000 of its armed fighters and truck-mounted rockets. A senior Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya said: &#8216;This illusion called Israel will be removed.”</p>
<p>Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has thrown in his lot with Hamas in forming a so-called “unity reconciliation” government and has himself incited sectarian violence in and around Jerusalem with incendiary rhetoric.  But even Abbas has expressed frustration with what he called Hamas’s continued “shadow government&#8230; running the territory&#8221; in Gaza on its own.</p>
<p>In the real world, which is alien to the United Nations, the Arab world, European governments and the Obama administration, simply saying something is so doesn&#8217;t make it so. Diplomatic recognition of a Palestinian state does not change the reality on the ground. Nor does a pie-in-the-sky declaration of a “unity” or “reconciliation” Palestinian government that exists only on paper. For example, in delivering his regular briefing to the Security Council on the situation in the Middle East, Robert Serry, the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, admitted to Security Council members on December 15<sup>th</sup> the lack of a functioning Palestinian reconciliation unity government to replace Hamas’s governance in Gaza. He said that delivery of thousands of tons of construction materials into Gaza is being permitted by Israel under the temporary Gaza Reconstruction Mechanism agreed upon by Israel, the so-called Palestinian Government of National Consensus and the UN, even though the “Government of National Consensus in Gaza has still not taken up its rightful governance and security function” that is a critical part of the arrangement.</p>
<p>The Palestinians’ own internal power struggle between Hamas, which governs Gaza, and the Palestinian Authority, which currently dominates the West Bank, means that there is no real unified state government apparatus. Hamas won’t give up its military control in Gaza and is seeking to expand its influence in the West Bank at the Palestinian Authority’s expense. There can be no real foundation for a workable Palestinian state under international law when there is no single governing authority in a position to effectively exert sovereign control over all of a putative Palestinian state’s territory and people. Nor can there be a real state under international law that does not have the capacity to ensure compliance with any bilateral or international agreements such a state may enter into in the future.</p>
<p>No matter what kind of “common path” Secretary of State Kerry thinks he can achieve with the Palestinians and their Arab and European supporters on a Security Council timetable resolution, Israel must reject the path of forced withdrawal that could lead to its own destruction. As Prime Minister Netanyahu said during the regular Israeli cabinet meeting on Sunday, a UN Security Council-imposed deadline for Israeli withdrawal to the pre-June 1967 lines would bring &#8220;Islamic extremists to the suburbs of Tel Aviv and to the heart of Jerusalem. We will not allow this. We will rebuff this forcefully and responsibly. Let there be no doubt, this will be rejected.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Generous Deal With the Mullahs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2014 05:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Majid Rafizadeh]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Winner: Islamic Republic.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Rouhani_1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245717" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Rouhani_1-431x350.jpg" alt="Rouhani_1" width="337" height="274" /></a>There are two issues which have become crystal clear about the nuclear talks with Iran. First of all, the Obama administration wants to reach a final nuclear deal regardless of how flimsy and weak the comprehensive nuclear deal might be and regardless of whether the ultimate nuclear deal will leave the Islamic Republic with a path to obtain nuclear capabilities and lift economic and political sanctions.</p>
<p>Secondly, the Iranian leaders have masterfully captured the weakness of the Obama administration and its desperation to strike a final nuclear deal. As a result, Iran’s foreign minister, Javad Zarif, has been playing with the naiveté of the Obama administration by taking a tough stand and pointing out that Tehran will resist the “excessive demands” over its nuclear program. In other words, Iranian leaders are looking for a diluted, flimsy and sweet nuclear deal that would allow them to pursue their path to become a nuclear state and would help them phase out the economic and political sanctions as quickly as possible.</p>
<p>In the intense final few days of nuclear talks, the destiny of a historic nuclear deal and the outcome of the concentrated international negotiations over the future of Iran’s nuclear program will be determined. The deadline for nuclear talks between Iran and the P5+1 (China, France, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States) is approaching a deadline of 24 November.</p>
<p>There are some crucial hurdles which are still unresolved. These barriers are the process and phases through which sanction will be lifted as well as limitation on uranium enrichment, reducing the stockpile of already-enriched uranium, and the number of centrifuges that the Islamic Republic can retain. The Islamic Republic currently holds approximately 19,000 centrifuges. However, the Obama administration appears to be willing to ignore these gaps in order to save face by striking a deal and in order to add to his questionable and superficial records of Middle East achievements.</p>
<p>Although many scholars, politicians and policy analysts thought that the interim nuclear deal was far off and out of reach last year, the Obama administration, which desperately needed the interim nuclear deal, gave a significant amount of concessions and “closed the gaps” in the eleventh hours in order to persuade the Islamic Republic to sign the short term deal and reach an accord. This might occur again in the face of the final nuclear deal.</p>
<p>President Obama and Secretary of the State John Kerry will robustly push for any kind of final nuclear deal in order to avoid the post-failure consequences of the comprehensive nuclear deal and years of negotiations. The Obama administration has long been reluctant to carry out particular robust foreign policies such as ratcheting up political and economic sanctions on Iran and further isolating the Islamic Republic for  its nuclear defiance.</p>
<p>In addition, the other reason for the White House&#8217;s weak and desperate position to reach a final nuclear deal, is that the Obama administration&#8217;s attempts to create a narrative domestically that the spending of a considerable amount of political capital, months of negotiations, release of billions of dollars to the Iranian government, and diplomacy have “worked.” As a result, in order to avert any criticism, President Obama and John Kerry are willing to jeopardize the security threat that a nuclear state of Iran might pose to the Middle East.</p>
<p>On the other hand, whether the nuclear talks fail or succeed, the Islamic Republic will come out of this game as a winner. The major winner of the success or failure of nuclear talks will be Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamnenei. Shrewdly and masterfully, Khamenei placed himself in a position to not lose his legitimacy and credibility whether the nuclear talks succeed or scuttle. On the one hand, Khamenei has been arguing that he does not trust the United States and these nuclear negotiations, while he has been willing to give his blessing and a chance to President Rouhani, Foreign Minister Javad Zarif and their technocrat team to pursue their objectives with these nuclear talks. As a result, if nuclear talks fail, the Supreme Leader will argue that he told them so from the beginning, and if the nuclear talks succeed, he will get credit for being flexible and giving the president a chance. In addition, the Supreme leader has reached his economic, hegemonic, and political objectives in the meantime.</p>
<p>In case of failure, the Iranian leaders have already received billions of dollars, they bought more time to stabilize their economy, regain the value of their currency, reduce inflation, and further consolidate the hold on power of the ruling clerics. In addition Russia, China and some other Asian countries, and European companies have ratcheted up their economic and business deals with the Islamic Republic, particularly in the oil sector due to the prospects of these nuclear talks in the last year. In either ways, the ruling politicians of the Islamic republic will emerge as the winners.</p>
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		<title>Are You There Allah? It&#8217;s Me, John Kerry</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2014 05:40:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The secretary of state turns enforcer for Islamic supremacism.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/kerry.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-244353" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/kerry-430x350.png" alt="kerry" width="335" height="273" /></a>A week before the anniversary of September 11, <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/kerry-god-commands-me-to-protect-muslim-countries-from-global-warming-video/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">John Kerry announced</span></a> that he had been given a divine mission to protect Muslim countries from Global Warming.</p>
<p>The Secretary of State had spent September arguing that the Islamic State was Un-Islamic. He told the House Committee on Foreign Affairs that it was a war against the “enemy of Islam.” Kerry was so eager to go native that he even switched from calling the Islamic State by the acronym of ISIL and instead joined Muslim governments in calling it by the more insulting Daesh.</p>
<p>The distinction made by Daesh is only intelligible to Arab Muslims, but our foreign policy has gone native by increasingly becoming obsessed with what they think, rather than what we think and what we need.</p>
<p>Some members of the Obama team had been accused of secretly converting to Islam, but only Kerry, whom no one had ever accused of believing in anything, seems eager to play a poor man’s Sheikh.</p>
<p>Kerry’s freelance Islamic lectures are as offensive as they are clueless.</p>
<p>When it came to the Mohammedan practice of enslaving non-Muslim women as sex slaves, Kerry insisted that the Islamic State’s claim that its actions were sanctioned by Islamic law was just as bad as the actual rapes. No doubt the Yazidi and Christian women who were being raped by Muslims would have agreed with the Secretary of State that their plight was just as terrible as the defamation of Islam.</p>
<p>After meeting with Muslim leaders, Kerry insisted that we had to delegitimize ISIS as Un-Islamic and “begin to put real Islam out there.”</p>
<p>It’s not the job of the Secretary of State to “put real Islam out there” and in deciding which Islam was the real Islam, Ayatollah John was functioning as an unlicensed Muslim leader.</p>
<p>ISIS Jihadists are denounced as Takfiris for declaring other Muslims to be infidels. Ayatollah John receives communion at the Paulist Center and then moonlights as a Muslim Takfiri by claiming that the Takfiris of ISIS are infidels.</p>
<p>This is the trap of “moderate Islam.” Once we distinguish a “good Islam” from a “bad Islam,” we have established the “good Islam” as a state religion. And then we have to support it and enforce its laws. Few leaders demonstrate the folly of trying to defeat Islamic terrorism by embracing Islam better than the Ayatollah of State.</p>
<p>Ayatollah John has not restricted his freelance Fatwas to disputes within Islam. Instead he has taken sides in religious disputes between Muslims and non-Muslims.</p>
<p><span style="color: #0433ff;"><a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/kerry-says-only-muslims-not-jews-should-be-allowed-to-pray-at-jewish-holy-site/">Kerry escalated his Jihad</a></span> by demanding that the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, the holiest site in Judaism, be opened exclusively to Muslim prayer while banning Jews from being able to pray there.</p>
<p>After violence by Muslim settlers in Jerusalem, Kerry insisted that “The Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount must be re-opened to Muslim worshipers.”</p>
<p>“I support the long-standing practices regarding non-Muslim visitors to the site, consistent with respect for the status quo arrangements governing religious observance there,” he added.</p>
<p>That status quo was imposed because of the fallout from the Muslim occupation of Jerusalem and bans Jews from praying at their own holy site.</p>
<p>The United States does not believe that non-Muslims have fewer religious rights than Muslims. It does not believe that prayer is the privilege of any single group. That is an Islamic belief and the Secretary of State was starting to sound like an honorary member of ISIS.</p>
<p>In the Senate, Kerry had co-sponsored a resolution which stated that, “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.” Now Kerry was proposing that Jerusalem should be divided under Muslim rule with Judaism being accorded the same inferior status as any other infidel religion.</p>
<p>It was an extraordinary statement from the Secretary of State of a country that values religious freedom.</p>
<p>It wasn’t all that long ago that Kerry had been running for office and telling Jewish audiences of his visit to Masada, the Israeli fortress where the Jewish rebels had made their last stand against Rome.</p>
<p>“I&#8217;ve climbed to the top of Masada,” Kerry had told Palm Beach voters, and described yelling, “Am Yisrael Chai” (The people of Israel live) from the cliff. He also promised that he would do a better job than Bush of stopping Arab countries from funding terrorism.</p>
<p>Since then Kerry has continued telling the same story in front of every Jewish audience. Just last year he repeated the story and claimed “[t]hat’s why, my friends, you have a secretary of state who gets it.”</p>
<p>Now he told a Muslim audience that the leaders of the Arab countries that fund Muslim terrorism had told him that Israel was responsible for the Islamic State’s recruitment of Muslim terrorists. There’s no question that John Kerry gets it. But with Kerry, it’s always a question of just what it is he gets.</p>
<p>Senator Kerry had signed on to multiple resolutions calling for a united Jerusalem, along with the Jerusalem Embassy Act. As Senator, he had called “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;</p>
<p>As Secretary of State, he’s ignoring his own words.  Kerry, like Biden and Obama, was for a united Jerusalem before he was against it.</p>
<p>A few years ago, Kerry <a href="http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_direct_link.cfm/blog_id/30423"><span style="color: #0433ff;">had been shouting</span></a> “Allahu Akbar,” the battle cry that had originated with the <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/no-john-allah-akbar-does-not-mean-thank-god-and-it-matters/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Mohammedan ethnic cleansing of Jews</span></a>, with Imam Abdullah Farooq who had told his followers to “pick up the gun and the sword.”</p>
<p>When it came to a choice between Allahu Akbar and Am Yisrael Chai, between the sword of Islam and the prayer book of Judaism, John Kerry turned away from Masada and toward Mecca.</p>
<p>No non-Muslim may enter the Muslim holy city of Mecca. Kerry is fighting to turn Jerusalem into Mecca.</p>
<p>Masada had been the last stronghold of the Great Revolt of Israel against Rome. That rebellion had collapsed with the fall of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Second Temple clearing the way for the eventual Muslim occupation of the Temple Mount. The Romans had brought in Arab auxiliaries to do the killing. The collapse of the Roman Empire opened the door for the Muslim occupation of Israel.</p>
<p>Even the “Palestinian” brand under which Arab Muslims have laid claim to Israel is an artifact of the Roman era.</p>
<p>To stand at Masada is to reject the legacy of religious persecution of the indigenous Jewish people by the Roman Empire and the Muslim Caliphate. Instead John Kerry has chosen to champion Islamic notions of religious inferiority under which Jews do not have religious freedom in Jerusalem.</p>
<p>When Jordan annexed Jerusalem, Jews were forbidden from praying at the site of their former temple. Under the Caliphate, Jews were forbidden from even ascending past the seventh step at the Cave of the Patriarchs where Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and their wives are buried.</p>
<p>Will John Kerry make a case for once again banning Jews from ascending past the seventh step?</p>
<p>Instead of religious freedom, the Secretary of State is promoting the Apartheid laws of Islam.</p>
<p>John Kerry doesn’t have the right to use the United States government to enforce Islamic supremacism. He can be an Ayatollah, a Mullah or an Imam. Or he can be the Secretary of State of the United States.</p>
<p>He can’t be both.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[The mission isn’t to destroy ISIS, it’s to protect Obama.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/891200dd-3d37-4ebc-921d-41ee28604d23-620x372.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-241306" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/891200dd-3d37-4ebc-921d-41ee28604d23-620x372-413x350.jpg" alt="891200dd-3d37-4ebc-921d-41ee28604d23-620x372" width="347" height="294" /></a>Secretary of State John Kerry didn’t appear before the Senate </span><span class="zw-portion">Foreign Relations Committee</span><span class="zw-portion"> to lay out an offensive strategy for defeating ISIS</span><span class="zw-portion">. Instead his real mission was </span><span class="zw-portion">a defensive strategy to protect Obama from critics on the right and the left.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Obama’s delayed strategy hasn’t won over liberals and conservatives. It certainly hasn’t won over the American people. For the first time, Obama’s counterterrorism policy no longer has the support of a majority of Americans. Americans don’t believe that Obama can keep them safe. They suspect that he’s just trying to protect the last shreds of his fading popularity</span><span class="zw-portion"> by bombing ISIS</span><span class="zw-portion">. And they’re right.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Kerry was on the defensive from the first, </span><span class="zw-portion">appeasing</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">Code </span><span class="zw-portion">Pink protesters there in support of ISIS, as they have in the past shown up in support of Hamas, and </span><span class="zw-portion">then taking fire from</span><span class="zw-portion"> members of the Senate from both parties.  </span><span class="zw-portion">He began his statement by appeasing Code Pink and ended it by appeasing Islam.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">His statement was layered with television friendly talking points. “We do have a clear strategy,” he insisted. The d</span><span class="zw-portion">efensive statement wa</span><span class="zw-portion">s a reference to Obama’s own disavowal of a strategy. Since then Obama, Kerry and countless administration personnel have insisted that there </span><span class="zw-portion">really </span><span class="zw-portion">is a strategy.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Defending Obama against accusations that his delayed response had allowed ISIS to become a major threat, he claimed that, “</span><span class="zw-portion">Early this summer the ISIL threat accelerated when it effectively erased the Iraq-Syria border and the Mosul Dam fell. The President acted immediately.</span><span class="zw-portion">”</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">“Immediately” makes Obama sound proactive. Kerry’s testimony was full of similarly active language. </span><span class="zw-portion">He used the word “immediately” three times in close succession. </span><span class="zw-portion">But cheap marketing tricks can’t cover up the fact that Obama’s “immediately” kicked in when ISIS was </span><span class="zw-portion">marching on</span><span class="zw-portion"> Baghdad. That “immediately” sounds a lot like “the horse ran away and we immediately shut the burn door.” If you wait until an Al Qaeda spinoff has nearly taken over two countries, then there’s nothing immediate about your actions.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Kerry’s statement </span><span class="zw-portion">wa</span><span class="zw-portion">s f</span><span class="zw-portion">illed with</span><span class="zw-portion"> such delayed immediacies. “</span><span class="zw-portion">Deliberately and decisively, we further surged the ISR missions immediately</span><span class="zw-portion">,” he told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">In fact there was nothing decisive or immediate about it.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Obama significantly delayed the rescue of the hostages leading to the televised beheadings. He responded with air strikes only when actual genocide had begun taking place and Iraq appeared to be on the verge of falling to ISIS.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">There’s nothing immediate about any of that.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">After boasting of the “immediacy” of the response, Kerry then walked that back claiming that the response was delayed in order to create an inclusive Iraqi government and assemble an international </span><span class="zw-portion">coalition. The international coalition consists of countries whose leaders are willing to be photographed with John Kerry.</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">Some might say that’s a more serious sacrifice than actually sending troops into battle.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Or as Kerry said in his testimony, “</span><span class="zw-portion">There are more than 50 countries that already have agreed or are now doing something. Not every country will decide that their role is to have some kind of military engagement, but every country can do something</span><span class="zw-portion">.”</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Where Bush had managed to assemble a coalition of countries willing to send ground troops, Obama and Kerry have assembled a coalition of countries for a war that won’t actually fight in the war, but will do something. What is that somet</span><span class="zw-portion">hing? It could be anything. It’s the “Do Something” coalition.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Like everything about Kerry’s testimony, the only strategy involved i</span><span class="zw-portion">s</span><span class="zw-portion"> domestic political gamesmanship.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">The 50 number isn’t a coincidence. The </span><span class="zw-portion">“</span><span class="zw-portion">Coalition of the </span><span class="zw-portion">Willing</span><span class="zw-portion">”</span><span class="zw-portion"> had 49 members. Obama is trying to show that he can go one country more. Even if unli</span><span class="zw-portion">ke the “Coalition of the </span><span class="zw-portion">Willing</span><span class="zw-portion">”</span><span class="zw-portion"> its members won’t fight or do much of anything. But they will do “something” even if it’s issuing a press release and that will allow the media to claim that Obama has assembled a larger coalition than George W. Bush did.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">By one</span><span class="zw-portion"> country</span><span class="zw-portion">.</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">Of such petty cynicism is the anti-ISIS strategy woven.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Kerry waxed enthusiastic about the accomplishments of the “inclusive” government. “</span><span class="zw-portion">The result is something also for Iraq that it’s never seen before in its history: an election deemed credible by the United Nations followed by a peaceful transition of power without any U.S. troops on the ground.</span><span class="zw-portion">”</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">And all it took was ISIS on the front lawn of Baghdad. By “peaceful transition of power”, Kerry means a transition in which th</span><span class="zw-portion">e sitting Prime Minister deployed</span><span class="zw-portion"> troops and has to be forced out by one of his own clerics</span><span class="zw-portion">. That’s not</span><span class="zw-portion"> the </span><span class="zw-portion">peaceful </span><span class="zw-portion">triumph of democracy that Kerry seems to think</span><span class="zw-portion"> it is</span><span class="zw-portion">.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">W</span><span class="zw-portion">hile US troops were not on the ground (unless you count the nearly 1,000 that officially are), the only reason </span><span class="zw-portion">for the transition was</span><span class="zw-portion"> i</span><span class="zw-portion">n exchange for US military intervention. It’s a little cynical of Kerry to claim that using the promise of military intervention is </span><span class="zw-portion">more democratic</span><span class="zw-portion"> than having US troops on the ground.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">The withdrawal from Iraq, according to Obama, would lead to an inclusive government. But instead it took the return of the United States to Iraq to bring that inclusive government into being. If Kerry were honest, he would admit that the transition actually disproves the entire Iraq policy that his boss </span><span class="zw-portion">used as his election platform</span><span class="zw-portion">. Instead he acts as if it somehow proves him right.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Kerry needs to claim some sort of diplomatic accomplishment to explain the failure to act. </span><span class="zw-portion">The Democrats</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">have </span><span class="zw-portion">become comfortable with diplomatic rhetoric and uncomfortable with the use of force. Obama’s approval ratings have tumbled because he is incapable of offering strong wartime leadership. </span><span class="zw-portion"> </span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">But no speech on ISIS by any member of the administration would be complete without more Islamic revisionism.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">And </span><span class="zw-portion">Secretary of State John Kerry certainly did not disappoint.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Kerry fumed that ISIS were “</span><span class="zw-portion">cold-blooded killers marauding across the Middle East making a mockery of a peaceful religion.</span><span class="zw-portion">” He asserted that the </span><span class="zw-portion">“</span><span class="zw-portion">Do Something</span><span class="zw-portion">”</span><span class="zw-portion"> coalition was about exposing ISIS as un-Islamic.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">“</span><span class="zw-portion">This mission isn’t just about taking out an enemy on the battlefield; it’s about taking out a network, decimating and discrediting a militant cult masquerading as a religi</span><span class="zw-portion">ous movement,” he said.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">“</span><span class="zw-portion">We must continue to repudiate the gross distortion of Islam that ISIL is spreading</span><span class="zw-portion">,” Kerry whined. That would be the gross distortion </span><span class="zw-portion">spread by</span><span class="zw-portion"> Mohammed and </span><span class="zw-portion">his followers through </span><span class="zw-portion">the Koran.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Repudiating it would be a good start, but it would also be considered blasphemy. And the followers of Islam, like ISIS, respond to such repudiations with threats of violence and actual violence.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">The real mission of the “Do Something” coalition isn’t to destroy </span><span class="zw-portion">ISIS;</span><span class="zw-portion"> it is to protect the reputation of Islam. Kerry’s real mission in the Senate wasn’t to lay out a strategy for defeating ISIS, but to protect the reputation of Obama. If the strategy is out to lunch and the mission </span><span class="zw-portion">seems</span><span class="zw-portion"> vague, it’s because the real action isn’t taking place in Iraq, but in Washington. It’s not about defeating ISIS. It’s about perpetuating the disastrous policies that allowed it to become so big and so powerful.</span></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[The administration can’t agree on what it needs to find a strategy for.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/obama-0828.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-241123" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/obama-0828-432x350.jpg" alt="obama-0828" width="344" height="279" /></a>Bill Clinton was ambiguous about the definition of “sex” and “is.” Barack Obama is uncertain about what the definition of “war” might be.</p>
<p>And wars are central to the duties of the man in the White House.</p>
<p>Whether or not we’re in a war depends on who you ask and on which day of the week you ask him. Secretary of State John Kerry said that bombing ISIS in two countries wasn’t a war. After the White House spokesman said it is a war, Kerry agreed that maybe it might be a war after all.</p>
<p>Forget about finding a strategy, this administration can’t even agree on whether the thing that it needs to find a strategy for is a war.</p>
<p>Democrats don’t like the “W” word. They bomb more countries than Republicans do, but they find a prettier name for it.</p>
<p>One of the first things that Obama did in Iraq was to change the name of the war. It was no longer Operation Iraqi Freedom. It was now Operation New Dawn. Even though there were 50,000 troops in Iraq, the combat mission was officially over. The 50,000 were renamed “Advise and Assist” brigades.</p>
<p>As John and Yoko said, the “W” word really could be over if you wanted it to be. Or pretended it was.</p>
<p>Obama bombed Libya to implement regime change, but no one called it a war. It was just one of those things where we dropped a lot of bombs on another country in coordination with rebels on the ground to help them take over that country. Definitely not a war. Possibly one of those “man-caused disasters.”</p>
<p>At least that was how Obama Inc. tried to rename terrorism in the early heady days of hope and change.</p>
<p>A compulsive need to avoid calling things what they are is an obvious form of denial. But when a politician at the head of a government begins behaving in that shifty way, it’s also deeply dishonest.</p>
<p>Democrats could defend Bill Clinton’s need to lie about what they termed his private life, but even they can’t defend an administration that plays Clintonesque word games with something as big as a war.</p>
<p>We are currently not in a war with the Islamic State, which according to this administration is neither Islamic nor a State, with a strategy of possibly destroying them (unless that doesn’t work out and then we’ll settle for degrading them) and we are backed in this non-war by a coalition of Muslim nations that can’t as of yet be named, but which have possibly pledged to help us with certain undetermined things.</p>
<p>These undetermined things include aiding the Syrian Islamist rebels, some of whom are fighting alongside ISIS, some of whom are fighting ISIS and some of whom switch back and forth based on their mood, the latest shipment of TOW missiles from the CIA and how much the Saudis are paying them.</p>
<p>We don’t know a lot more about the war, which may or may not be a war, than we know about it.</p>
<p>And that’s the problem.</p>
<p>Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was mocked for talking about “known unknowns” and “unknown unknowns” by people who are too stupid to realize that their ignorance has turned the world around them into “unknown unknowns.”</p>
<p>Obama’s culture of denial, his charm bracelets of Orwellian synonyms for conflict that seem to have been invented by a bureaucrat with no sense of humor, turn everything into unknown unknowns. If we can’t even properly define what we’re doing, how can we do it at all? If we can’t even admit that we’re fighting a war and that ISIS is inspired by Islam, how can we beat an enemy that we can’t fight or name?</p>
<p>For the longest time this administration refused to admit that ISIS was a threat or that it was at war with us. Only when the Jihadists were preparing to knock on the doors of the US embassy in Baghdad, was it finally able, after a delay of some weeks, to use the “W” word.</p>
<p>What you call something is important. Ideologues, like the kind that fill the ranks of Obama Inc, think that changing a name changes reality. It doesn’t. A rose will still be the same plant by any other name and ISIS will still be the same band of Islamic headchoppers even if you insist on referring to them as a junior varsity team of man-caused disasters belonging to no particular faith or religion.</p>
<p>It’s your awareness of reality that changes.</p>
<p>Casinos and credit card companies use substitution to diminish your awareness that you are spending money.  Drug companies play soothing music and show pastoral scenes while telling you the lethal side effects. Car salesmen and cable companies avoid giving you the full amount that you’ll be paying.</p>
<p>Obama has a bad habit of using these same tactics. His administration tried to make the illegal war in Libya look good by refusing to call it a war and comparing the cost to the Iraq War using bogus figures. It tried to erase the existence of terrorism by refusing to use the word to describe terrorist attacks that were taking place, whether at Fort Hood or in Benghazi.</p>
<p>His tactics showed that he didn’t believe that the problem was terrorism, but the overreaction of Americans to terrorism. All he had to do whitewash every attack as an isolated incident that had nothing to do with Islamic terrorism and then Americans would cease to be aware of terrorism. If Iraq were to vanish from the evening news, no one would know that Al Qaeda there was getting bigger and bolder.</p>
<p>In the latest leaked private conversations printed in the <i>New York Times</i>, Obama whines and mopes, he blasts critics and denies that his policies have failed. Despite his muscular rhetoric in public, in private he complains that he is being stampeded into bombing ISIS. It’s a revealing conversation because it shows a man who believes that his failures are not the problem. It’s other people becoming aware of those failures that concerns him and forces him into addressing them. ISIS isn’t the problem: America is.</p>
<p>ISIS is to Obama as Monica was to Bill Clinton. They’re both the dirty little secrets of powerful men that they did everything possible to hide. And once that was no longer an option, they quibbled over words.</p>
<p>Denial only works until reality forcibly intrudes. Even with a friendly media, the philandering of the President of the United States couldn’t continue indefinitely. And even with a friendly media, the rise of a new generation of Al Qaeda after the Arab Spring wouldn’t stay buried in the back pages forever.</p>
<p>It was only a matter of time until everyone knew.</p>
<p>Futile exercises like debating the meaning of “War” are delaying tactics. People are not interested in abstractions like the meaning of “Is,” “War,” “Sex” or “You can keep your doctor.” They take words at their common meaning. If bombs are falling, it’s a war. And if it’s a war, then it has to be won.</p>
<p>Democrats don’t believe in wars now because they don’t believe in winning. Instead of wars, they spend a lot of time on “interventions” as if dropping tons of explosives on a country is like telling your drunk cousin to stop drinking. They never win any of these interventions and that’s fine because Americans don’t really care what happens in Yugoslavia, Haiti or Somalia.</p>
<p>But on September 11, thousands were murdered in one day.  The Democrats don’t like calling what happened on that day an act of war. Americans however know it’s a war and are determined to win it.</p>
<p>Obama was guiding Americans away from the awareness that we were in a war. In wars, someone wins and someone loses. If he refused to call it a war, maybe we wouldn’t realize that we were losing.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[How the president is working to strengthen Israel's enemies. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/hamas-fatah.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-238171" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/hamas-fatah-350x350.jpg" alt="Palestinians Continue Peace Talks In Mecca" width="267" height="267" /></a>Originally published by the <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/COLUMN-ONE-Obamas-new-plan-for-Hamas-370422">Jerusalem Post</a>. </em></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">President Barack Obama has a plan.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">He wants to use the cease-fire talks in Cairo to strengthen Fatah.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In remarks Wednesday, Obama said, “I have no sympathy for Hamas. I have great sympathy for some of the work that has been done in cooperation with Israel and the international community by the Palestinian Authority. And they’ve shown themselves to be responsible. They have recognized Israel. They are prepared to move forward to arrive at a two-state solution. I think [PA Chairman and Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas, a.k.a.] Abu Mazen is sincere in his desire for peace.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Obama’s plans for the cease-fire were spelled out in detail the day before in a column by Washington Post columnist David Ignatius. There Ignatius claimed that Secretary of State John Kerry has abandoned his previous position on the cease-fire. That position was harshly criticized by Israeli leaders and US media heavyweights, including Ignatius himself, for its clear bias in favor of Hamas.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In contrast to Kerry’s previous adoption of all of Hamas’s demands as official US positions, Ignatius wrote that “over the past week, [Kerry] has been crafting a cease-fire plan that seeks to stabilize Gaza under the leadership of Abbas and the moderate Palestinian Authority&#8230;. [The PA] (with the support of the international community) would have overall responsibility for the rehabilitation of Gaza.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Ignatius continued, “The thrust of Kerry’s new plan is to leverage Hamas’s unity pact with Fatah and its pledge to transfer authority in Gaza to the [PA]. As a first step, the Palestinian Authority and its US-trained security service would assume responsibility for policing the Rafah crossing from Gaza into Egypt, as well as the passages into Israel.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Fatah, Ignatius said, “would begin paying the salaries of Palestinian civil servants in Gaza, assuming that the details could be worked out. The agreement might also move toward disarmament of all terrorist groups in Gaza.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">By empowering Fatah in this way, Ignatius explained, Kerry – and Obama – are “now headed in the right direction – away from strengthening Hamas and toward empowering the moderates on whom hopes for a more stable and secure Gaza depend.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Ignatius then turned to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and challenged him to join with Kerry and agree “to truly open Gaza to the free flow of people and goods in return for disarming the terrorist groups.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">While the administration’s new plan sounds nice in theory, it has one basic problem.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Hamas and Fatah are partners. Hamas’s demands are Fatah’s demands. Hamas’s goals are Fatah’s goals. Giving Fatah control of the borders means giving Hamas control of the borders.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Abbas said himself in a speech broadcast on the PA’s official station in December 2009, as he was trying to form the sort of Fatah-Hamas unity government that he established in April, “There is no disagreement between us [Fatah and Hamas]: About belief? None! About policy? None! About resistance? None!” Earlier this week The Jerusalem Post’s Khaled Abu Toameh explained that almost from the outset of the war, Hamas and Fatah have been working in perfect harmony.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Fatah officials have served as Hamas’s spokesmen to the Western media.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As Hamas conducted its terrorist war against Israel, Abbas led the diplomatic war against Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Moreover, Abu Toameh reported that during the course of the hostilities, Fatah paid the salaries of Hamas members.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Due to Hamas’s designation as a foreign terrorist organization, continued funding of the PA is illegal under US counterterror statutes. Fearing that Congress would move to enforce the law and end US aid to the PA, before the war Fatah refused to pay Hamas’s membership.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">For whatever reason, Abbas and his comrades are no longer concerned that financing their terrorist partners from their donor-financed budget will endanger the US’s annual gift of $440 million.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">From the outset of Hamas’s campaign against Israel, Fatah militias in Gaza participated in the mortar and rocket attacks against Israel. And far from trying to hide this fact, Fatah’s leadership reveled in it. They posted news of Fatah’s mortar attacks on Israel on their official social media sites.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Fatah published a poster on its official Fatah Facebook page on July 9 under the title “Brothers in Arms.” The poster depicted terrorists from Fatah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad and read, “One God, on homeland, one enemy, one goal.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As for the cease-fire talks, last month Abbas traveled to Qatar where he met with Hamas terror master Khaled Mashaal. The result of the meeting was a coordinated Palestinian position regarding cease-fire demands. Those demands, which require Israel and Egypt to open the borders, are silent on the issue of demilitarizing Gaza. This is the unified position of the Palestinian delegation to the ceasefire talks in Cairo which Obama noted hopefully, is being led by Fatah.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In other words, Obama’s new position on the cease-fire terms is the same position he has held from the outset. He supports Hamas’s extortionist demands from Israel and Egypt to open Gaza’s borders in order to enable the terror group to resupply and rebuild its terror infrastructure.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The only thing that is new about his current stand is that now he supports bringing Hamas’s supposedly moderate partners in Fatah in as window dressing.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">For those who have been willing to pay attention to Abbas’s actions and those of his Fatah comrades, nothing in their behavior during the war has been remotely surprising.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Since the PA was established in 1994, Fatah and Hamas have had a cooperative relationship. The only times that Fatah has fought Hamas have been when Fatah felt directly threatened by Hamas. And the moment that perceived threat abated, Fatah ended its operations and restored its cooperation with Hamas.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Abu Toameh reported that in the latest war, Abbas instructed his security commanders to suspend their operations against Hamas in Judea and Samaria. After all, they are his partners, not his rivals.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Beyond that, Fatah supports weapons smuggling across the Egyptian border. Having Fatah in charge of the border crossings would not prevent Hamas and Islamic Jihad from replenishing their arsenals and rebuilding their tunnels of death. It will enable them to do so.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">And again, we know this from the PA/Fatah’s track record.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">From the start of the Palestinian terror war in September 2000 until Hamas ejected Fatah from Gaza in June 2007, Fatah was in control of the borders with Israel and Egypt. During this period, it engineered the weapons smuggling operations into Gaza. The Iranian weapons ship Karine-A that Israeli naval commandos intercepted in the Red Sea en route to Gaza in January 2003 was commanded by the deputy head of the PA’s naval force, a member of Fatah. The weapons deal was negotiated with Yasser Arafat’s paymaster Fuad Shubaki.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Tunnel building began during Fatah’s period of control over Gaza. When then Cpl. Gilad Schalit was abducted from Israel to Gaza in June 2006 by terrorists who entered his base from an underground tunnel that traversed the border, Fatah, led by Abbas, still controlled Gaza.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As for those Fatah military forces trained by the US military, they are no better than the Iraqi military forces the Americans trained.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">When Hamas threw Fatah out of Gaza in 2007, Fatah’s US-trained troops and officers were the first to flee.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The counterterror training US military trainers lavished on them had no impact on their willingness to stand their ground against Hamas. They didn’t even try to fight.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">And yet, Obama’s plan is to bring these same Fatah forces back to Gaza. He and Kerry (and Ignatius), want Israel to believe that these Fatah forces will demilitarize Hamas in exchange for open borders, which they will secure and prevent Hamas from using as a means to rebuild its arsenals and replenish its financing.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Not that they weren’t clear before, but two things became blindingly obvious during the war.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">First, Hamas is very bad. It really and truly is dedicated to Israel’s destruction. It is willing to engage in Palestinian child sacrifice in order to kill Jews. It used all the aid it received, all the money, all the concrete to build a terror infrastructure and missile arsenal dedicated to killing Jews.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Nothing else matters to Hamas leaders, not Gaza, not Palestine, not their mothers and children.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">There is no way for Israel to reach a long term non-aggression pact with Hamas. It can only be defeated through direct military operations and attrition.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The other thing we learned was that Israel simply cannot, under any circumstances, consider withdrawing from Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem. Netanyahu made this point explicitly in his press conference at the outset of the war. He explained, “If we were to pull out of Judea and Samaria like they tell us to there’d be a possibility of thousands of tunnels” being dug to attack Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Netanyahu noted that the Palestinians dug 1,200 tunnels under Gaza’s 14-kilometer-long border with Egypt.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Judea and Samaria, he continued, are 20 times the size of Gaza, and Israel is not prepared “to create another 20 Gazas.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As soon as the cease-fire began, the Israeli Left reverted to type. The media began pillorying Netanyahu for not viewing the war with Hamas as an opportunity for a diplomatic breakthrough with Abbas and Fatah.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Netanyahu, they accuse, tricked them. He wasn’t weakening Hamas to strengthen Abbas.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">He was simply weakening Hamas so that it couldn’t harm Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Netanyahu’s erred during the fighting when he made the demilitarization of Gaza a declared war aim. By doing so he opened the door for the Left, the White House and the EU to begin spewing their absurd lies about Fatah as a credible, moderate force that can be depended on – with their taxpayer dollars and euros – to demilitarize Gaza.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In his remarks, Obama indicated that the world – that is the US and Europe – must be involved in any cease-fire deal related to Gaza. And for the privilege of having them on board, Israel needs to accept Hamas-Fatah’s demand for open borders.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">But the truth is that the US and the EU are completely unnecessary. Israel and Egypt can secure the borders. And if the Americans and Europeans are concerned for the welfare of the people of Gaza, they can transfer their aid to Israel, which can distribute it to those who need assistance rather than handing it over to Hamas.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The reason Netanyahu isn’t trying to use the war in Gaza to promote a wider peace with Fatah is because Fatah is not interested in peace with Israel. As it showed again during the war, Fatah is Hamas’s partner, not Israel’s. And any deal with Fatah is a deal that strengthens Hamas.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Ignatius is wrong. The administration still backs Hamas’s demands against Israel. It just updated the talking points to align with Ignatius’s entirely incorrect preconceived notions about the nature of Fatah.</span></p>
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		<title>Only Hamas’ Defeat Will Bring Peace</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2014 04:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Puder]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And why Iran, Qatar and Turkey are part of the problem. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/hamas.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-237988" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/hamas.jpg" alt="hamas" width="282" height="184" /></a>As the 72-hour cease-fire began on Tuesday, August 5, 2014, Israel began its withdrawal from Gaza, but Israel Defense Forces (IDF) remained on alert, ready to re-launch its attack if Hamas’ rocket fire continued. While a clear majority of the Israeli public backed Prime Minister Netanyahu’s government military campaign to dismantle Hamas’ ability to operate against Israel, growing pressure from the U.S. administration to scale back the IDF operations prompted Netanyahu to go ahead with another cease-fire.</p>
<p>The previously drafted cease-fire plan Secretary of State John Kerry submitted to Jerusalem ignored the interests of moderate Arab states such as Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and of course Israel. It placed Israel, the most reliable U.S. ally in the Middle East, on the same level as Hamas, a terrorist group designated as such by the U.S. State Department.</p>
<p>Qatar is Hamas’ chief financial donor, whose donations enable it to purchase Iranian missiles, build tunnels, and other weapons of terror. Qatar, along with Turkey, whose Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan called Zionism (the Jewish national liberation movement) “a crime against humanity,” seems to have been the Obama administration’s chosen interlocutors.</p>
<p>Israeli Knesset (Parliament) members both on the left and right of the political spectrum found themselves with a conundrum. While seeking to grant the wishes of Israel’s closest and most important ally &#8211; the U.S. &#8211; to end the military operations in Gaza, they were stunned by the Obama Administrations pro-Hamas tilt, and its Muslim Brotherhood allies &#8211; Qatar and Turkey. Labor party MK Nachman Shai joined right-wing MK’s in opposition to the U.S. cease-fire initiative. Shai stated that President Obama’s insistence on stopping the fighting now will prevent Israel from achieving the military objectives of this campaign. If Israel can’t destroy the tunnels and the war-making infrastructure of Hamas, Israel will rightfully end the campaign with a sense of loss.</p>
<p>Deputy Minister of Transportation and Road Safety, Tzipi Hotovely declared on Monday (7/28/2014) “The U.S. proposal for a cease-fire serves only the interests of Hamas.” She added, “For the first time in years, the Israeli public is decisively behind the government in supporting the <a href="http://www.nrg.co.il/Scripts">continuation</a> of the IDF operation (Protective Edge) in Gaza. The Israeli government must bring about a change in the rules of the game, and bring about the defeat of Hamas.”</p>
<p>Among President Barack Obama’s advisors on the national security team are some who firmly believe that the Muslim Brotherhood is a moderate Muslim movement that should be used as a counterweight to Al-Qaeda and its affiliates. It is for this reason that the Obama administration has turned to the Muslim Brotherhood-led regimes of Qatar and Turkey, to negotiate a cease-fire in Gaza between Israel and the Muslim Brotherhood Hamas terrorist group.</p>
<p>ABC-TV’s Jonathan Karl reported on 2/10/2011 that “Director of National Intelligence James Clapper raised some eyebrows today at a House Intelligence Committee hearing when he described the Muslim Brotherhood as a “largely secular” organization. The term ‘Muslim Brotherhood,’ is an umbrella term for a variety of movements, in the case of Egypt, a very heterogeneous group, largely secular, which has eschewed violence and has decried Al Qaeda as a perversion of Islam…” Gaza based Hamas is an affiliate of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood.</p>
<p>According to U.S. retired Admiral James Lyons (Washington Times 2/13/2013), John O. Brennan, appointed by President Obama to head the CIA, and formerly key counterterrorism advisor to President Obama, is of concern.</p>
<p>Admiral Lyons pointed out that “<a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/john-o-brennan/">Brennan</a>’s track record of empowering the <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/muslim-brotherhood/">Muslim Brotherhood</a> both domestically and abroad allowed the jihadist enemy access to the highest level of government under the stealth guise of ‘nonviolent outreach partners.’ For example, terrorists like Nihad Awad, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations who has been linked to Hamas and leaders from the Islamic Society of North America, unindicted co-conspirators from the Holy Land Foundation trial in 2008, and work with national security staff providing input to U.S. counterterrorism strategies. That is hardly comforting. It cannot be denied that U.S. policy on Islam, Shariah law and the <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/muslim-brotherhood/">Muslim Brotherhood</a> in particular has undergone a sea change during the time <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/john-o-brennan/">Mr. Brennan</a> has had influence on our national security.”</p>
<p>Admiral Lyons contends that Obama’s appointee as Defense Secretary, Chuck Hagel, has a lot to answer for. “His position on our defense budget and his appearance on Al-Jazeera where he characterized the United States as a bully in world affairs are more than troubling. As an aside, Al-Jazeera is owned by the government of Qatar, which has now been revealed as a major contributor to the Atlantic Council when <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/chuck-hagel/">Hagel</a> was the chairman, according to Cliff Kincaid, the director of the Center for Investigative Journalism.” In addition, “<a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/chuck-hagel/">Hagel</a>’s stated position on direct negotiations with Iran with no preconditions is also of concern, as is his position on our only true ally in the Middle East &#8211; Israel.”</p>
<p>While John Kerry may be on a genuine quest for a cease-fire and a diplomatic settlement in Gaza, the Turkish government of Tayyip Erdogan has approved a new provocative measure against Israel. A new flotilla called “Freedom Flotilla II” will sail to Gaza to provide “humanitarian assistance” with the support of the Turkish navy. The organizers of the Flotilla are the same Islamist organization IHH, ideologically close to Erdogan’s Islamist AK party. Apparently, Erdogan seeks a military confrontation with Israel, since the IHH flotilla would have to be inspected by Israeli naval vessels. Erdogan, the very person President Obama considers a “peacemaker,” charged Israel last week of committing “<a href="http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=9341">barbarism worse than Hitler</a>.” He added, “Since Israel’s creation in 1948, we have been witnessing this attempt at systematic genocide every day and every month. But above all, we are witnessing this attempt at systematic genocide every Ramadan.” This is clear and unmistakable anti-Semitic incitement that should draw wide condemnation starting with President Obama.</p>
<p>Qatar in the meantime, signed a deal with the U.S. to buy Patriot missiles and Apache attack helicopters. The deal is estimated to be worth $11 billion. Defense secretary Chuck Hagel signed the weapons agreement with Qatar Minister of State for Defense Hamad bin Ali al-Atiyah on July 14, 2014. Now the question is will some of the weapons purchased find their way to Gaza?</p>
<p>The Obama administration, by its actions hitherto appeared to be unable to distinguish between the ‘good guys and the bad guys’ in the Middle East. With all his good intentions Kerry’s push for the cease-fire between Israel and Hamas, and the impending Cairo talks may be for naught. Iran, Qatar and Turkey are preparing Hamas for the next round with Israel. In the final analysis, only a Hamas that is militarily defeated and politically neutered can provide a chance peace for both Palestinians and Israelis.</p>
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		<title>Fighting Without Silver Bullets</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2014 04:50:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caroline Glick]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No easy answers for Israel. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/f140419ns85-1-e1405849325482.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-237936" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/f140419ns85-1-e1405849325482-426x350.jpg" alt="f140419ns85-1-e1405849325482" width="242" height="199" /></a>Originally published by the <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Our-World-Fighting-without-silver-bullets-370171">Jerusalem Post</a>. </em></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Hours before Israel accepted the Egyptian-brokered cease-fire deal on Monday night, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu traveled to the south to try to allay the fears of area residents.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">It’s not at all clear how successful he was.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Residents of the communities bordering the Gaza Strip who evacuated their homes are skeptical of the IDF’s claims that it is safe for them to return.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In an interview with NRG website, Yael Paz-Lahiany, a mother of three young children from Kibbutz Nahal Oz just across the border from Gaza professed profound confusion and concern.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">“I really don’t understand what is happening here and don’t know what to think. Just on Saturday we had 10 red alerts at Nahal Oz and I don’t know what to say. I also don’t understand what the prime minister said [Saturday].</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">I just know that I am staying at Kibbutz Dorot, and here too they are operating on emergency footing, the nurseries are only partially open, and no one is going back to normal. So if 10 kilometers from Gaza they haven’t returned to their routine, how are we supposed to go back to our lives 800 meters from the wire?” Israel’s operations in Gaza so far have been based on the hope that Hamas can be convinced to stand down.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Israel has destroyed its tunnels. The IDF killed hundreds of Hamas terrorists. The IDF destroyed Hamas’s bases.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Hamas’s missile arsenal is depleted. Its leaders are safe only so long as they remain hidden in their illegal bunkers under Shifa hospital. Hamas remains cash strapped and without access to resupply from Iran or other allies.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Assuming that Hamas maintains the 72-hour ceasefire that it requested, in negotiations that may ensue for a more detailed cease-fire agreement if the US is unable to coerce Israel and Egypt into agreeing to open the borders and save Hamas, Hamas will be destroyed through attrition.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">If this happens, Israel will have won a great victory.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">But if Hamas continues to attack southern communities at any level Israel will have no choice. It will have to send its forces back into Gaza with the mission of retaking control there.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">There is only one thing worse than reasserting Israel’s military control over Gaza: Losing southern Israel. So long as residents of the south fear returning to their homes, Israel is losing southern Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">This looming prospect of having to retake Gaza would be bad enough if Israel only had to concern itself with Gaza. But Israel enjoys no such luxury.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Far more dangerous than Hamas is Hezbollah. Whereas Hamas’s missiles are unguided, Hezbollah has guided missiles that are capable of reaching every centimeter of Israeli territory. And their payloads are big enough to destroy high-rise buildings.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Unlike Hamas, Hezbollah has anti-aircraft missiles and anti-ship missiles capable of disrupting air and naval operations.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Hezbollah has drones that it has launched successfully.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">And the possibility that Hezbollah has some level of unconventional weapons cannot be ruled out.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Hezbollah commanders and fighters have gained massive experience fighting in Syria and Iraq. They have sophisticated intelligence gathering capabilities including human intelligence and signals intelligence assets.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">They have advanced command and control systems.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">And by all accounts, Hamas’s terror tunnels are nothing in comparison to Hezbollah’s extensive network of tunnels that run beneath the border with Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Hezbollah’s announced war plans involve invading and taking control over communities in the Upper Galilee.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In the face of Hamas’s repeated aggression in recent years, many Israelis are now looking wistfully at our quiet northern border. It was the massive destruction Israel wreaked on Lebanon during the 2006 war, they say, that is responsible for this tranquility. We deterred Hezbollah.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Unfortunately, this is dangerous nonsense that bespeaks a fundamental refusal by those that express this view to reconcile themselves with the nature of Hezbollah and its decision making process.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Hezbollah’s decision to go to war in 2006 was made in Tehran, by Hezbollah’s Iranian masters. The decision not to go to war since has also been made by Tehran.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Tehran decided to deploy Hezbollah to Iraq and Syria.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">And Tehran will decide, based on its own sense of priorities, when Hezbollah and its massive arsenal of terror should attack Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The only way that Israel’s operations in 2006 have impacted Hezbollah’s future aggression is by enabling it. Israel agreed to a cease-fire that enabled Hezbollah to rearm, reassert control over southern Lebanon and expand its influence over the Lebanese military and state. Had Israel routed Hezbollah in 2006 or refused to accept the pro-Hezbollah cease-fire terms embodied in UN Security Council resolution 1701 then the situation would be different.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">This brings us to Iran, the hidden hand behind the 2006 war, and at least to some degree behind the present war with Gaza, and the direct threat that it constitutes for Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Last month US President Barack Obama bought himself and Iran four more months. Iran can continue to develop its nuclear weapons until after the US midterm election unconstrained by international scrutiny.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Obama can pretend for four more months that he is going to achieve a nuclear deal that will prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Israel however, was not given four months.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Without the Iranian nuclear umbrella, Iran’s terror proxies in Gaza were able to develop weapons to attack nearly the entire country. What will they develop if that nuclear umbrella is instated? Prime Minister Netanyahu is correct. Iran’s nuclear weapons program is an existential threat to Israel. And it needs to be wiped out.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Given the threats from Lebanon and Iran, it is clear that Israel’s decision to try to limit its operations in Gaza was necessary. Israel cannot afford to tie its forces down indefinitely. And if Israel is forced to retake control over Gaza, it will need to deploy its forces in such a way that it maintains sufficient reserve capacity to handle Gaza, Lebanon and Iran simultaneously.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">This would be challenging enough under the best of circumstances. Unfortunately, the situation is made all the more complicated by the Obama administration’s strategic aim of appeasing Iran by enabling it to develop nuclear weapons and by siding with Hamas against Israel and the US’s traditional Sunni Arab allies.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The administration’s unswerving devotion to this policy aim was again clarified on Monday when Palestinian sources at the Cairo talks told the media that the US had again joined forces with Hamas-supporting Qatar to achieve an alternate cease-fire, undercutting Egyptian efforts and giving Hamas reason to walk away from the table.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Just last week the US media lambasted Secretary of State John Kerry for supporting Hamas against Israel in cease-fire negotiations. The fact that the Obama administration continues to act in this manner suggests that it is completely committed to this course of action.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Israel can cope with all of these challenges and surmount them. But it won’t be easy.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In recent days a spate of government ministers and foreign supporters have recommended bevy of options that involve getting someone else to deal with Hamas for Israel. Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman said Monday that Gaza should become a UN mandate.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Justice Minister Tzipi Livni and her colleagues on the Left, joined by former Bush administration deputy national security adviser Elliott Abrams say that Fatah can be brought into Gaza to fight Hamas for Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">These suggestions are all based on wishful thinking and an extraordinary capacity to ignore reality.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The UN is institutionally committed to delegitimizing and ultimately destroying Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Fatah can only come into Gaza after Hamas has been destroyed completely and driven from leadership by Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Under any other circumstance, Fatah will collaborate with Hamas against Israel, as it has always done. And if Hamas is routed and destroyed Fatah would only destabilize the situation.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The time has come for us to recognize that there are no easy answers for Israel. IDF operations in Gaza in recent weeks have dealt a harsh blow to Hamas. Perhaps the terror commanders have been deterred. Perhaps not.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Whatever the case may be, if Israel and Egypt are able to continue to block US attempts to open the borders for Hamas resupply until Kerry gets swept up in another major crisis, then Hamas can be defeated through attrition.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">If not, then Israel will have no choice but to retake control of Gaza while maintaining enough forces in reserve to respond to a second front in the North, and finally end Iran’s dream of becoming a nuclear power.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">There are no silver bullets. The price of freedom is hard work and vigilance.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Only if we act in full cognizance of the gravity of the moment and the absence of easy answers will we navigate the minefield we find ourselves in successfully and restore the safety of the south, the north, the east and the center of the country. </span></p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2014 04:05:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ronn Torossian]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Jewish State faces fire from more than one front. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #2f2d2f;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/aPH2008011001836.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-237732" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/aPH2008011001836.jpg" alt="NA-PETRAEUS" width="290" height="247" /></a>After the American-forced cease-fire, which caused the death of two Israeli soldiers, and saw one kidnapping, media reports that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu advised the White House that the Obama administration should not &#8220;ever second guess me again” regarding Hamas.  Netanyahu further noted that he should be “trusted” on the nature of Hamas, and demanded that the United States now support Israel in Gaza.</p>
<p style="color: #2f2d2f;">Obama will not support Israel – but perhaps from a <a href="http://www.5wpr.com/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">Public Relations</span></a> standpoint, Netanyahu will score some points. The United States pressured Israel – and now that the cease-fire has been broken by Hamas, resulting in death the consequences from America will be exactly and precisely… zero.  None. Nothing. Nada.  Sort of like the red line in Syria. Obama is impotent – and Israel must act. Laughingly, Obama condemned “outrageous” violations of a cease-fire, and demanded the release of the kidnapped Israeli soldier. Perhaps there will be a harsh twitter campaign from the state department?</p>
<p style="color: #323333;">America’s pressure has been despicable. In 2014, <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/ronn-torossian/john-kerrys-blackmail/"><span style="color: #800d00;">John Kerry tried blackmailing</span></a> and bullying, claiming, “[F]or Israel there is an increasing de-legitimization campaign that has been building up. People are very sensitive to it, there is talk of boycott and other kinds of things. Are we all going to be better with all of that?” His blackmail failed – although Obama pushed a boycott of Israel’s airport recently by closing down the International airport. In November 2013, Kerry encouraged Arab violence against Israel when he asked, “I mean, does Israel want a third intifada?” As Israel is attacked by terrorists daily, America pressures Israel.  Israel must not and will not give in to terror.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;"><span style="color: #323333;">As <a href="http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/focus-on-dead-syrians-not-the-non-radical-danny-danon/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">Danny Danon, an Israeli Knesset Member</span></a> said this week, </span>&#8220;We need a ceasefire from the attacks coming from Obama and the government in Washington. Just as the US fought with determination against the Taliban, we must continue hitting Hamas and destroying the infrastructure of terror. We need to withstand the pressure on us and worry about the interests of the State of Israel.&#8221;</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">History is being repeated. America condemned Israel in 1981 when they destroyed the Iraqi nuclear reactor &#8220;Osirak.”  As history later showed, Israel destroying the reactors was in America’s best interest.  <i>Today, too must Israel resist American pressure – for the sake of Israel and America. Crushing extremist terrorists is in the best interest of the Western world.</i></p>
<p style="color: #232323;">In 1981,<i> </i>Prime Minister Menachem Begin wrote a note to the American President, which stated in part that “You have no moral right to preach to us about civilian casualties. We have read the history of World War Two and we know what happened to civilians when you took action against an enemy. We have also read the history of the Vietnam War and your phrase &#8216;body-count.&#8217; We always make efforts to avoid hitting civilian populations, but sometimes it is unavoidable – as was the case in our bombing of the PLO headquarters. W<span style="color: #4e4e4e;">e sometimes risk the lives of our soldiers to avoid civilian casualties.” <i>Every single word remains relevant today.</i></span></p>
<p style="color: #4e4e4e;"><span style="color: #232323;">Begin continued in stating, “<a href="http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/hey-john-kerry-israel-is-no-banana-republic-or-vassal-state/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">Are we a vassal state of yours? Are we a banana republic?</span></a> Are we youths of fourteen who, if they don’t behave properly, are slapped across the fingers? </span>Let me tell you who this government is composed of. It is composed of people whose lives were spent in resistance, in fighting and in suffering. You will not frighten us with &#8216;punishments.&#8217; He who threatens us will find us deaf to his threats. We are only prepared to listen to rational arguments.”</p>
<p style="color: #4e4e4e;">“The people of Israel has lived 3,700 years without a memorandum of understanding with America – and it will continue to live for another 3,700.” “Our forefathers went to the stake rather than &#8216;rescind&#8217; their faith. We are not going to the stake. Thank God. We have enough strength to defend our independence and to defend our rights.”</p>
<p style="color: #4e4e4e;">A sane American foreign policy would dictate that crushing terrorists who hate the West is in their best interest.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2014 04:54:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caroline Glick]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What Israel must do to win its war against Hamas -- and the Obama administration. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/IDF-Tank-Operation-protective-Edge-.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-237656" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/IDF-Tank-Operation-protective-Edge-.jpg" alt="IDF-Tank-Operation-protective-Edge-" width="279" height="245" /></a>Originally published by the <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Column-one-Israels-endgame-in-Gaza-369651">Jerusalem Post</a>. </em></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">The fighting is still raging in Gaza. Each day the IDF destroys more and more tunnels and other terrorist infrastructure. Each day, we discover new facets of Hamas’s depravity.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The three soldiers from the Maglan commando unit who were killed on Tuesday in the southern Gaza Strip, were buried in the rubble of a UN clinic. They entered the building to seal a terror tunnel whose entry shaft was located inside the clinic.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">A Hamas terrorist was inside the tunnel waiting for them. He detonated the building. Works out that Hamas had booby-trapped the structure, hiding 12 barrels with 80 kg. of explosives each, in a wall.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In a press briefing following the bombing, the commander of the Gaza Division reported that to date Hamas has used more than a thousand improvised explosive devices. Its bombs have destroyed thousands of buildings in the Gaza Strip.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">OC Southern Command Maj.-Gen. Sami Turgeman told reporters that with the amount of concrete Hamas used in its tunnels it could have built 100 kindergartens, two hospitals, 20 schools and 20 clinics.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Clearly Hamas’s priorities do not include economic or social development projects for the residents of the area. Dual use materials will always be used first for terrorist purposes. Concern for the welfare of Gaza’s citizenry is at best a distant second.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Indeed, the terror group’s practice of using clinics, kindergartens, schools, hospitals and mosques as weapons storage areas, missile launching sites and command centers makes clear that the welfare of Gaza residents doesn’t even rank in Hamas’s list of organizational goals. As a consequence, the concept of providing “humanitarian aid” to Gaza with Hamas in power is laughable. Every smidgen of aid it receives will go to Hamas’s war machine.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">And this brings us to the heart of the matter.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Even in the midst of the fighting it is apparent that we are moving toward the endgame.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The question is, what is the desired end-state? How will we know if we have won? Certainly following America’s lead is not an option. Indeed, the Obama administration is the greatest constraint Israel faces today on its road to victory.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">From the actions and words of senior administration officials, it is easy to ascertain where President Barack Obama wants this conflict to end.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">First, the administration wants Hamas to remain armed and in control of Gaza. This point was made clear by Lt.-Gen. Michael Flynn, who heads the US Defense Intelligence Agency. In congressional testimony Flynn told US lawmakers, “If Hamas were destroyed and gone, we would probably end up with something much worse.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">This of course is absurd. Hamas wants to kill every Jew in the world. As a practical matter then, it is impossible for any successor regime to be worse. But from Israel’s perspective, more important than discovering that the head of the DIA is an idiot, is Flynn’s revelation that the US wishes to save Hamas from Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The administration’s other positions have all been aligned with this strategic goal of maintaining Hamas in power. Both the US draft cease-fire agreement that Israel rejected, and the White House readout of President Obama’s telephone conversation with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Sunday night made clear that the US wants Hamas to be able to prosper.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Secretary of State John Kerry’s cease-fire proposal was explicit on this issue.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">A permanent cease-fire deal, it read, must include “arrangements to secure the opening of the crossings, allow the entry of goods and people and&#8230; transfer funds to Gaza for the payment of salaries for public employees&#8230; ” The last component of the administration’s desired end-state of the war is to use it as a means to force Israel to concede land to the Palestinians in Judea and Samaria, or at least use Israel’s refusal to do so as a means for blaming Israel for continued Palestinian aggression.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Obama made this clear in his conversation with Netanyahu. As the White House’s summary of the conversation reported, “The president stressed the US view that, ultimately, any lasting solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict must ensure the disarmament of terrorist groups and the demilitarization of Gaza.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In other words, the Palestinians will keep shooting until Israel coughs up Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem, and Obama is okay with that.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">To summarize, the Obama administration wishes to end the war with Hamas armed and in charge of Gaza, enjoying open borders to the world, and rolling in the dough of international donor dollars and euros, and so in a position to replenish its arsenals and rebuild its tunnels.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The US seeks as well to use this end-state as a means of reinstating its pressure on Israel to surrender land in Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem to the Palestinians.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Israel’s end-state is of course entirely different. Indeed, if the US gets what it wants, then Israel will have lost the war.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The question is, given that this is the US’s position, what can Israel do to win? As the scandalous Federal Aviation Administration flight ban last week made clear, the administration has effectively limitless means to harm Israel. The ban served to instill massive uncertainty into Israel’s export- and tourism-based economy. As Israeli leaders noted, it was the greatest gift to terrorists the US had ever given. Moreover, it was unwarranted and prejudicial.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Whereas the FAA claimed that it acted out of an abundance of caution after a Hamas missile landed a mile from Ben-Gurion Airport, the fact is that such caution exists nowhere else. There is no FAA flight ban on Pakistan, where a civilian aircraft was shot down last month, or in Ukraine. There is no FAA flight ban in Afghanistan or Yemen. Clearly a double standard was used against Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">And predictably, when US Sen. Ted Cruz stood up to the administration and demanded an explanation of the FAA’s action and its use of a double standard against Israel, the State Department accused him of lack of concern for US air carriers and passengers.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">It was a testament to Cruz’s moral courage that he was willing to risk being wrongly accused of reckless indifference to the safety of US airline passengers in order to decry the administration’s prejudicial treatment of Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">And while Sen. Cruz played a central role in revoking the flight ban after 36 hours, the act itself showed how easy it is for the US to hurt Israel without openly attacking it. Other punitive actions have already been undertaken.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">While the administration acts in accordance with congressional will and resupplies the IDF and increases the US investment in Iron Dome, it has stopped providing visa services to Israelis interested in traveling to the US. According to I24 News, the US Embassy in Tel Aviv is not issuing travel visas except in emergency circumstances, due to staff reductions during the war.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In light of the constraints Israel faces from the administration, certain operational goals that might otherwise have been achievable must be ruled out. Other actions that might have been reasonable, make no sense, under the circumstances.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The government has determined that the ground operation will go on until the tunnels are destroyed. Whether the operation takes days or weeks or longer, Netanyahu has made it clear that Israel will continue to operate on the ground – even in the framework of a cease-fire – to destroy Hamas’s tunnels.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">If we assume that Netanyahu and his ministers will continue to withstand US pressure and continue the operation until it has been completed, the question becomes, what happens then? To neutralize Hamas as a military threat in the future, Israel only needs to secure one goal: In any cease-fire arrangement, Gaza’s borders must remain sealed.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Egypt must continue to prevent smuggling from Sinai to Gaza.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Israel must maintain its naval blockade.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Gaza must remain cut off from the international banking system.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Hamas is fighting to open these borders. And if it makes any gains in this area, Hamas will win. Assuming Israel destroys all or most of Hamas’s offensive capabilities before the fighting ends, the only way to keep Hamas from fighting again is to prevent it from resupplying.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">To achieve its goal of keeping Gaza’s borders shut, Israel needs to do two things. First, it needs to complete its operations on the ground as quickly as possible. The faster the IDF removes our ground forces from Gaza the more difficult it will be for Obama to demand that Israel end its maritime blockade of the Gaza coast.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Second, Israel must avoid any cease-fire agreement that involves any international supervision or presence in Gaza. The best option for Israel would be a cease-fire in the form of a letter from Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas setting out broad conditions of a cease-fire arrangement.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Any cease-fire that involves US guarantees or supervision or international guarantees or supervision will be an invitation for renewed pressure on Israel and Egypt to open the borders of Gaza and allow Hamas to rebuild its machinery of murder.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The same is the case for international peacekeepers.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Any agreement that involves the deployment of foreign forces to Gaza for any purpose is an agreement that imports human shields to Gaza. As has been Hezbollah’s practice with UN forces in south Lebanon for the past four decades, foreign forces will not interfere with any Hamas operations, but through their very presence in on the ground, they will impede the IDF’s capacity to fight Hamas in the event that such operations becomes necessary.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Netanyahu has stated that Israel’s seeks the demilitarization of Gaza. There are only two ways to achieve that goal – through the reinstitution of Israeli military control over Gaza, and through attrition.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In light of the Obama administration’s support for Hamas’s war goals and actions it has already undertaken to undermine Israel’s war effort, it is fairly clear that it would be unwise for Israel to reconquer Gaza at this time. The price Obama would extract for such a move would in all likelihood outweigh the benefits Israel would gain from physically damaging Hamas directly.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The other option – demilitarization through attrition – is consequently Israel’s strongest option for a victorious endgame today. And attrition can only be secured if Gaza’s borders remain sealed.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">War is an ugly thing. War with terrorist murderers who lack a shred of human decency is a very ugly thing.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">There are no guarantees that Israel will not have to fight again. And if Obama gets even some of what he is demanding, Israel will have to fight again, and soon.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Under these circumstances, Israel’s best bet is to destroy the tunnels quickly and secure cease-fire terms that keep Gaza isolated to reduce to a minimum Hamas’s ability to fight again.</span></p>
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		<title>Obama and Kerry Pressure Israel to Leave Hamas Alone</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2014 04:50:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A look at the Jewish state's choices for its survival.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/kerry-obama.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-237246" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/kerry-obama.jpg" alt="kerry-obama" width="390" height="220" /></a>President Obama is seeking to pressure Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu into agreeing to an immediate unconditional ceasefire. In a phone call on Sunday, Obama reportedly told the Israeli prime minister that such a ceasefire was “a strategic imperative.” Obama specifically referred to the ceasefire proposed by Secretary of State John Kerry, which Israel’s security cabinet rejected unanimously last Friday.</p>
<p>Israel has been willing to observe several humanitarian pauses, primarily on a unilateral basis. Hamas went along with one 24-hour pause during the first part of the weekend and then resumed its rocket firings. After Hamas proposed its own additional 24-hour pause on Sunday, which Israel was willing to accept, Hamas nevertheless kept firing its rockets.</p>
<p>Kerry’s proposal was inadequate to protect Israel’s security concerns. It would have left the remaining tunnels used by Hamas to infiltrate Israel in place, which Israel simply could not accept. According to a leaked draft document of the proposal that both Aljazeera and Haaretz were reported to have obtained, Kerry’s ceasefire proposal skirted the specific concerns raised by Israel about allowing the tunnels to remain intact and letting Hamas keep its weapons stockpiles. Instead, it focused on opening the border crossings, with no specific security monitoring plan in place to ensure that Hamas would not build up its military capabilities even further. It called for the “withdrawal of IDF from Gaza Strip” and the end to any “military or security targeting of each other.” With the IDF gone and no more “security targeting,” that means the tunnels and remaining rockets would stay put for Hamas’s later use.</p>
<p>Moreover, under the Kerry proposal, the parties would begin discussing, within 48 hours of cessation of fighting, much of the Hamas agenda:</p>
<blockquote><p>“arrangements to secure the opening of border and non-border crossings, allow the entry of goods and people and ensure the social and economic livelihood of the Palestinian people living in Gaza, including fishing rights up to 12nm, transfer funds to Gaza for the payment of salaries for public employees, and address security issues.”</p></blockquote>
<p>After Kerry continued his discussions in Paris with foreign ministers from two of the leading Hamas supporting countries, Turkey and Qatar, President Obama tried to put the squeeze on Prime Minister Netanyahu to effectively leave the Israeli people exposed to more rocket fire and Hamas infiltration into Israel from their remaining intact tunnels. Obama and Kerry are so eager to seek peace at any cost that they evidently did not include representatives from Egypt or even from the Palestinian Authority in the high level Paris discussions. As a result, even the Palestinian Authority is disgusted with the Obama administration. Walid Assad, one of the spokespersons of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, complained of Kerry’s “appeasement” of Qatar and Turkey.</p>
<p>The Obama administration’s deference to Qatar, home to a major U.S. air base, is no doubt motivated in part by all the money that Qatar has committed just recently to spend on purchasing Apache attack helicopters, Patriot missile defense batteries and anti-tank Javelin missiles. An $11 billion deal was announced on July 14<sup>th</sup>. Qatar provides support to Hamas and other jihadists threatening peace and security in the region. Apparently, the Obama administration is not worried or does not care that some of those missiles and helicopters could well find their way to the wrong hands.</p>
<p>As for Turkey, President Obama considers its Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan to be his “personal friend.” Obama’s buddy is the same guy who just a few days ago said that “You can see what Israel does to Palestine, to Gaza right now, surpasses what Hitler did to them. We do not accept this persecution, the massacre, the genocide by Israel.” Obama let this scurrilous remark pass without a word of rebuke in defense of America’s closest ally in the Middle East. And it comes from the leader of the same country that committed genocide against the Armenians and has illegally invaded and occupied northern Cyprus.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the Turkish Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief (IHH) is planning another effort to break Israel’s lawful sea blockade of Gaza. The last one back in 2010 led to a violent confrontation with the Israeli Defense Force. This time, according to the IHH, it will have the protection of the Turkish navy.</p>
<p>While Obama was on the phone Sunday pressuring Israel’s leader to cave in to the demands of Hamas’s Turkish and Qatari protectors, Hamas’s political leader Khaled Meshaal, living in luxury in Qatar, received a phone call of assurance on Sunday from Hamas’s main arms supplier, Iran. Ali Shamkhani, Secretary of Iran’s National Security Council, is reported to have told Meshaal not to worry about depleting Hamas’s stockpile of weapons. More will be on the way.</p>
<p>DebkaFile has advanced a very plausible theory as to why Obama and Kerry are tilting towards the Qatar-Turkey axis, which is trying to protect Hamas’s ability to live and fight another day. At the same time, Obama and Kerry are tilting against the Israel-Egypt-Saudi Arabia triumvirate, who are united in their resolve to severely curtail the threat that Hamas poses in the region once and for all. It is all about Iran. According to DebkaFile’s analysis:</p>
<blockquote><p>“So why is the Obama administration shoving this powerful coalition out of his way and building a rival alliance to counter it?</p>
<p>Its primary motive is fear that if this group is allowed to make the Israeli operation in the Gaza Strip a success, it will become the springboard for its next move, a victorious assault on Iran.</p>
<p>This sequence of events would totally derail current US Middle East policy, which hinges on détente with Tehran, Obama’s advisers warn him, and even jeopardize his strategy for bringing the nuclear negotiations between the six world powers and Iran to a successful conclusion.”</p></blockquote>
<p>The Obama administration just last week agreed to a four month extension of the negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program. It does not want anything to possibly get in its way of making a deal with Iran.</p>
<p>If Prime Minister Netanyahu does not give in to the Obama administration pressure, it is quite possible that the administration will back a UN Security Council resolution proposed by Jordan directing that there be an unconditional immediate ceasefire and that the border crossings be opened. Israel will then be forced to choose between doing what it has to do to protect its citizens and bowing to the so-called “international community’s” edict. The Jewish state has no choice but to follow its own course for its survival.</p>
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		<title>Video: Jon Voight Slams Obama, Kerry At Pro-Israel Rally</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2014 04:20:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Obama &amp; Kerry’s First Foreign Policy Success</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2014 04:16:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ronn Torossian]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An administration achieves banning flights to Israel -- while simultaneously continuing to fund Hamas.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #323333;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Obama-Kerry.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-237031" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Obama-Kerry-450x316.jpg" alt="Obama-Kerry" width="286" height="201" /></a>Currently, we are witnessing the first time that President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry have achieved precisely what they detailed, described and worked on in the realm of foreign policy.  With terrorists attacking Israel by the minute, the international world condemning Israel, and the <span style="color: #000000;">Obama Administration’s (now-lifted) decision to ban flights to Israel, while simultaneously continuing to fund Hamas, a terrorist organization, the words described by America’s leaders have indeed come true.</span></p>
<p style="color: #323333;">In February, <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/ronn-torossian/john-kerrys-blackmail/"><span style="color: #0194d2;">John Kerry tried blackmailing</span></a> and bullying claiming, “[F]or Israel there is an increasing de-legitimization campaign that has been building up. People are very sensitive to it, there is talk of boycott and other kinds of things. Are we all going to be better with all of that?”  Kerry predicted a “high risk” of increased boycotts and a higher likelihood of international isolation for Israel if peace talks broke down.  Precisely what the Obama Administration prescribed for Israel with the travel ban <i>(and ongoing travel warnings) </i>– as the FAA still permits flights into Ukraine, <span style="color: #000000;">Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Yemen.</span></p>
<p style="color: #323333;">As Senator Ted Cruz stated, <span style="color: #000000;">“The facts suggest that President Obama has just used a federal regulatory agency to launch an economic boycott on Israel, in order to try to force our ally to comply with his foreign-policy demands.”  Fitting for his statements in </span>November 2013, when Kerry said that Israel’s “isolation” would be its own fault if a peace deal with the Palestinians falls through. Kerry further warned the Israelis that “the alternative to getting back to the talks is the potential of chaos.”  Now as Israel refuses to give in to a terrorist organization devoted to destroying the nation, we see the Obama Administration banning flights to Israel.  Chaos and isolation. Are Kerry and Obama rejoicing?  <i>Still have Israel’s back Mr. President?</i></p>
<p>Senator Ted Cruz wisely said,</p>
<blockquote><p>[S]ecurity concerns in Israel are hardly breaking news, and given the exceptional challenge Israel faces, Ben Gurion has rightly earned the reputation as one of the safest airports in the world due to the aggressive security measures implemented by the Israeli government. Given that some 2,000 rockets have been fired into Israel over the last six weeks, many of them at Tel Aviv, it seems curious to choose yesterday at noon to announce a flight ban, especially as the Obama Administration had to be aware of the punitive nature of this action.</p></blockquote>
<p>Cruz added,</p>
<blockquote><p>Today we have similar noxious efforts by the Boycott, Divest, Sanction or ‘BDS’ movement, which seeks to punish Israel for the fact that the militant terrorist elements embraced by the Palestinian Authority make any peace deal an intolerable security risk to Israel at this time. But the Obama Administration has refused to robustly denounce this effort to undermine our ally. Instead, Secretary of State John Kerry issued a veiled threat last February when he encouraged boycotts of Israel and said that absent serious Israeli concessions at the negotiating table, Israel’s economic prosperity was &#8220;not sustainable&#8221; and &#8220;illusory.&#8221;</p>
<p>Secretary Kerry unfortunately reprised this theme just this April, when he threatened that Israel risked becoming an &#8220;apartheid state&#8221; if Israel did not submit to his chosen solution to the Israel-Palestinian crisis.</p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #323333;">This Administration has overseen an IRS which unfairly targeted and audited conservative organizations during the 2012 election. <span style="color: #000000;">Billionaire conservative </span>Sheldon Adelson suggested before Obama was re-elected, a second Obama term would bring government “vilification of people that were against him.”  This PR agency owner says it sure seems like it.</p>
<p style="color: #323333;">Targeting Israel seems to be the same – an attack upon those who don’t go along with the Obama way of doing things.</p>
<p style="color: #323333;">Isolating Israel encourages and rewards terror – and harms America and Israel.</p>
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		<title>Israel Batters Hamas &#8212;- Kerry to the Rescue</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2014 04:39:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With Israel's enemies watching, the Obama administration undermines the Gaza war effort. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/F140711HP36.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-236737" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/F140711HP36-450x335.jpg" alt="." width="250" height="186" /></a>As of Sunday evening, on Day 13 of Operation Protective Edge, Hamas was still fighting on against Israel, although its prospects didn’t look good.</p>
<p>With Hamas’s rocket fire on Israel intensifying two weeks ago, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, with Iran’s nuclear program the main thing on his plate, kept ordering only small-scale retaliatory strikes from the air, hoping to avoid a larger conflict. But Hamas kept firing—more and more. So Israel launched Operation Protective Edge—but still tried to keep it limited, without boots on the ground in Gaza.</p>
<p>On Wednesday morning Netanyahu made an adroit move, publicly accepting an Egyptian ceasefire proposal. Hamas turned it down flat. Netanyahu, who told the Israeli public in a televised address on Sunday evening that he has been in constant contact with the leaders of the U.S., Canada, Britain, Germany, France, and other countries, undoubtedly drove that point home to them.</p>
<p>With Israel’s diplomatic position strengthened, and with Arab media <a href="http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/8073.htm"><span style="color: #0433ff;">growing harshly critical of Hamas</span></a>, Hamas responded by…escalating the war. On Thursday at dawn the Israeli army <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/tunnel-infiltration-thwarted-near-kibbutz-sufa/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">spotted and repelled</span></a> a group of 13 Hamas terrorists who had infiltrated into Israel through a tunnel from Gaza, on their way to perpetrate a massacre at nearby Kibbutz Sufa. The near-catastrophe was a pivotal moment that put an end to Israel’s boots-on-the-ground debate.</p>
<p>On Thursday night Israeli infantry, tank, and engineering units entered Gaza. The stated goal was to find the tunnels along the border—in which Hamas has invested vast sums and years of work—and destroy them, removing an intolerable danger of murderous attacks and kidnappings from residents of southern Israel.</p>
<p>In his speech Sunday evening Netanyahu spoke of somewhat broader aims—“an extended period of calm and security” and “inflicting serious damage” on Hamas and other terror groups in Gaza. While the IDF has indeed been finding and destroying tunnels, Sunday also found it locked in heavy fighting in the Shejaia neighborhood of Gaza City, a Hamas stronghold.</p>
<p>Which brings one to the issue of casualties.</p>
<p>People who complain of “asymmetry” and “disproportion”—meaning that something has to be wrong because Israelis aren’t dying—could feel somewhat better on Sunday evening, as the IDF <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,l-4547088,00.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">officially announced</span></a> that the total of soldiers killed since Israel invaded Gaza on Thursday night now stood at 18, 13 of them in the previous 24 hours. As for the Palestinian side, the death toll since the war started <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,l-4547139,00.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">reportedly</span></a> came to over 400, including 65 in the fighting in Shejaia on Sunday.</p>
<p>On the Israeli side, sensitivity to casualties is particularly high, and Netanyahu devoted a good part of his speech to the issue on Sunday evening. But with most of Israel under constant rocket fire for almost two weeks, and ongoing infiltration attempts from Gaza, Israelis will tolerate the casualties because they know the alternative is an Israel that is no longer viable.</p>
<p>Palestinian casualties are, of course, a different matter—the cause célèbre not only of Israel-bashers but also of Western governments that typically start pressuring Israel for a ceasefire as soon as it starts seriously fighting Palestinian terror.</p>
<p>The reasons for the “asymmetry” between Israeli and Palestinian casualties should be clear by now to anyone who is informed and has a conscience. Israel invests vast sums to protect its citizens, particularly with the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/israel-shoots-down-hamas-drone/2014/07/14/991c46da-0b47-11e4-b8e5-d0de80767fc2_story.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Iron Dome missile-defense system</span></a>; Hamas positions weapons stockpiles and command centers in and under mosques, schools, and hospitals. Israel goes to extraordinary lengths to warn Gazans of impending strikes, and encourages them to leave conflict zones; Hamas <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/news.aspx/182741#.U8wgtECWmSo"><span style="color: #0433ff;">orders them to stay where they are</span></a>.</p>
<p>It gets down to the moral difference between a democratic state with a Jewish ethos and a terror organization with a jihadist ethos. But it’s a distinction to which the world seems particularly resistant.</p>
<p>There were already signs of trouble on Sunday when U.S. secretary of state John Kerry—who has <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10979052/john-kerry-caught-on-open-microphone-discussing-israels-gaza-offensive-in-candid-terms.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">publicly made statements</span></a> supportive of Israel and critical of Hamas—was <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10979052/john-kerry-caught-on-open-microphone-discussing-israels-gaza-offensive-in-candid-terms.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">caught in an open-mike moment</span></a> bitterly criticizing Israel for Palestinian casualties and implying that he needed to come to the rescue.</p>
<p>A short time later President Obama chimed in with a <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/20/obama-netanyahu-call_n_5603794.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">call in a similar spirit</span></a> to Netanyahu—in which he announced that Kerry was on his way.</p>
<p>Hamas is isolated, despised by most of the Arab world, caught in a vise between Israel and the fiercely anti-Hamas regime of Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi in Egypt, inconsequentially supported by Turkey and Qatar, and in serious danger of sustaining a major, lasting blow.</p>
<p>A decisive Israeli win in this war will bolster Israel’s deterrence, discourage its jihadist foe Hizballah to the north, and demonstrate to the region that ideological jihad is a losing proposition and no match for Western military prowess. Obama’s “concern” and Kerry’s impending arrival are, then, very worrying.</p>
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		<title>It’s Jew-Hatred, Stupid</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2014 04:28:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why Kerry’s peace negotiations were always doomed to fail.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/john-kerry1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-234981" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/john-kerry1-450x303.jpg" alt="john-kerry" width="275" height="185" /></a>The disheartening, though not entirely surprising, breakdown of talks between Israel and the Palestinians marked yet another failure by the two sides to come closer to an agreement that would usher the way for a Palestinian state. Yet, no sooner had the talks collapsed than blame was being assigned by both Secretary of State John Kerry and chief U.S. negotiator Martin Indyk—and naturally it was Israel that bore the brunt of their criticism. Echoing the sentiments of Palestinian leadership itself, Kerry and Indyk pointed to the dreaded settlements as the principal sticking point of the talks, with Indyk suggesting that Israel’s approval of new housing units in the Gilo neighborhood Jerusalem would, as he put it, “drive Israel into an irreversible binational reality.”</p>
<p>Secretary Kerry had the same complaint, insisting that Prime Minister Netanyahu’s refusal to release the final third of Palestinian prisoners, coupled with the provocative new building plans, were the Israeli actions that blew up the nine months of negotiations.</p>
<p>On one development even the State Department was less than enthusiastic: the reconciliation agreement reached by the Palestinian Authority and Hamas, announced at the end of April, which State’s spokeswoman, Jen Psaki, deemed “disappointing” and the timing “troubling.” Even diplomats have to face certain truths, and Ms. Psaki had to begrudgingly admit that, in her words uttered with breathtaking understatement, “It’s hard to see how Israel can be expected to negotiate with a government that does not believe in its right to exist.”</p>
<p>Diplomacy involving Israel and the Palestinians invariably reaches this point—the thorny and slippery intersection of the politically possible and the diplomatically desired, with the inevitable result being that it is Israel made to be seen as the guilty party in having talks collapse, regardless of the actual events leading up to such a failure. Without even the barest amount of self awareness of how the inability to hold the Palestinians responsible for any major acts of concessions for strategic negotiation, U.S. diplomacy is continually based on the assumption that it is Israel—and only Israel—that is going to make negotiation move forward, and that it is Israel, and only Israel, that has the will and ability to make changes in policy and any concessions necessary to satisfy the Palestinian’s maximalist demands.</p>
<p>As a result, and as the Palestinians have cleverly figured out, Israel is made to release terrorist prisoners, agreed to land swaps, or to deliver any number of other painful concessions, just to further engage the Palestinians and keep them at the bargaining table.</p>
<p>While it may be comforting and diplomatically expedient for Secretary Kerry to insist that it is Israel’s fault when things go awry, or that Israel alone has the ability to do things and make concessions for peace, the idea that it is the settlements, or the number of murderers released to the Palestinians, or any other of the various issues of which Israel is always accused that is actually causing the logjam in the peace talks is simply naive and overlooks some far more lethal, pernicious, and ideologically-driven, far more intractable issues underlying negotiations between the Jewish state and its Palestinian foes.</p>
<p>What any honest observer of the history of conflict between Israel and its Arab neighbors knows well, the Palestinians have been strident and inflexible in their maximalist demands, not to mention their intractability on such non-starters as the so-called “right of return,” the division of Jerusalem, and the proclaimed requirement that the Palestinian state will be judenrein, that, as Mahmoud Abbas himself has repeated, not one Jew will be allowed to live in the new Palestinian state.</p>
<p>But the unity pact between Fatah and Hamas brings to the surface a far more pernicious aspect, something that neither Prime Minister Netanyahu, Secretary Kerry, nor any other diplomat is likely to finesse in negotiations in Jerusalem, Ramallah, or Washington. While the State Department is quick to condemn the building of new apartments in Gilo, or hector the Israelis for not releasing Arab murderers in exchange for the possibility of continued talks, its seems to have been wilfully blind in not recognizing that the foundational document by which Hamas was established—the 1988 Hamas Charter—is animated with genocidal Jew-hatred, replete with a global strategy to extirpate Israel and murderous tactics based on millennial dreams of apocalyptic jihad.</p>
<p>There is, tellingly, no discussion in the Hamas Charter about the location of future borders or peaceful co-existence between a Jewish state and a new Palestinian one. There is certainly no recognition by Hamas of Israel being a legitimate state, or one that will prevail, let alone one that is a sovereign power on what is thought to be now and forever holy Muslim land. In the first place, according to Hamas, the circumstances through which the “Zionist regime” was hoisted on the world through the perfidy of the treacherous Jews is, in the honor/shame culture of the Middle East, an open wound on the Islamic world, a situation which demands jihad to restore the sanctity of Islamic land and rid the world of the festering sore that is Israel. “[T]he land of Palestine is an Islamic Waqf [Islamic religious endowment] consecrated for future Moslem generations until Judgment Day,” the Charter proclaims. “The day that enemies usurp part of Moslem land, Jihad becomes the individual duty of every Moslem,” stipulating that jihad is not only a tactical choice for ridding Palestine of the Zionist interloper, it is seen as a religious duty; in fact, it is demanded of true believers. Article 8 of the Charter contains the virulent, but clear, language of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood which has become the Hamas slogan: “Allah is its target, the Prophet is its model, the Koran its Constitution; Jihad is its path, and death for the sake of Allah is the loftiest of its wishes.”</p>
<p>What should be more troubling to diplomats embroiled in this particular debate is the Charter’s Article 13, which is extremely clear—in a way that the more disingenuous Mr. Abbas is <em>not</em> when speaking to Western audiences—in stating its objection to any solution <em>other</em> than jihad. The division of what is perceived to be Muslim land is totally unacceptable; in fact, it is a violation of Allah’s will. Thus, for Hamas, peace talks and negotiating for borders or land swaps are completely inconceivable concessions. Jihad to eliminate the Zionist presence is the only acceptable tactic. “Initiatives, and so-called peaceful solutions and international conferences, are in contradiction to the principles of the Islamic Resistance Movement,” the Article states. “Abusing any part of Palestine is abuse against part of religion. Nationalism of the Islamic Resistance Movement is part of its religion . . . There is no solution to the Palestinian question except by Jihad. All initiatives, proposals, and International Conferences are a waste of time and vain endeavors.”</p>
<p>Mr. Netanyahu has been goading the Palestinian leadership for some time to state that they recognize Israel as a Jewish state, a recognition that has heretofore not been forthcoming. But both the Palestinian Authority and Hamas have obviously already recognized that Israel is Jewish state—and therein lies the very reason for the annihilationist hatred they have for it. What they have not, and will not, acknowledge is the <em>legitimacy </em>of a Jewish state, even if they are aware of its actual existence—something they have had to confront for over 60 years. In fact, the existence of a sovereign Jewish entity in the beating heart of the Islamic ummah is doubly intolerable: first, for being a non-Muslim, dhimmi state with political autonomy and military strength, and second, more significantly, for being what is perceived to be a murderous, immoral, illegitimate regime existing for the benefit of and providing temporary nationhood to the most hated of beings—the Jews.</p>
<p>The Charter’s Article 7, specifically, contains the oft-cited hadith which exhorts Muslims to seek out and murder Jews specifically as a sacred obligation. Islamic teaching depicts Jews as the descendants of “monkeys and pigs,” treacherous deceivers, manipulative barbarians and thieves who attempted to murder the prophets, and who are satanic, murderous, unlawful occupiers of holy Muslim land whose elimination is sacralized in Koranic and hadithic precepts.  “. . . The Islamic Resistance Movement aspires to realize the promise of Allah, no matter how long it takes,” Article 7 reads. “The Prophet, Allah&#8217;s prayer and peace be upon him, says: ‘The hour of judgment shall not come until the Muslims fight the Jews and kill them, so that the Jews hide behind trees and stones, and each tree and stone will say: “Oh Muslim, oh servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him,” except for the Gharqad tree, for it is the tree of the Jews.’”</p>
<p>The same genocidal Jew-hatred embedded in the Hamas Charter lives on and animates the public broadcasts and speeches of Hamas leadership. In 2010, for example, Mahmoud al-Zahar, Hamas Foreign Minister, informed the Jews of Israel that “[they] have no future among the nations of the world. [They] are headed for annihilation.” Appearing on Hamas-sponsored TV, Yunis al-Astal, a Hamas member of the Palestinian legislature, informed his rapt viewers that “all the dangerous predators, all the birds of prey, all the dangerous reptiles and insects, and all the lethal bacteria are far less dangerous than the Jews. In just a few years, all the Zionists . . . will realize that their arrival in Palestine was for the purpose of the great massacre, by means of which Allah wants to relieve humanity of their evil.”</p>
<p>In a February 2010 statement, Abdallah Jarbu, a member of the Hamas government, suggested that “the Jews are thieves and aggressors. They are a foreign bacteria—a microbe unparalleled in the world. May He [Allah] annihilate this filthy people. I condemn whoever believes that they are human beings. They are not human beings. They are not people.”</p>
<p>It is no surprise that in a culture marinated in Jew-hatred, where Jews are debased, portrayed as a subhuman species, bacteria, a disease, fomenters of wars and strife—in fact, the enemies of God and mankind—the annihilation of Jews would therefore become not only a reasonable goal but a desired outcome. Who would <em>not</em> exterminate Jews if they pose such threats to mankind and Islam specifically? Who would ever make peace with the eternal enemies of Allah, let alone negotiate a peace and borders for a new Arab state with them? And would not those jihadis who immolate themselves to murder Jews in the name of Allah be celebrated as <em>shahids</em>, martyrs, and have town squares and summer camps named for them and their bravery, exactly as they are in the West Bank by Palestinian leadership now?</p>
<p>Honoring those who murder Jews continues unabated, even within the newly-formed unity government formed by Palestinian Authority and Hamas “technocrats.” In May, the PA and Hamas jointly lauded Izz Al-Din Al-Masri, the homicidal maniac who, in 2001, immolated himself in a Jerusalem Sbarro pizza shop, murdering 15 Jews (seven of them children) and wounding many others. When Al-Masri’s body was recently returned by Israel to the PA, Hamas and the PA used the occasion to shower honor and praise on someone who was successful in deliberately exterminating Jews. In fact, the event symbolized the new relationship between the two Palestinian factions, united in genocidal hatred of Jews. “The popular gathering around the blood of Izz Al-Din Al-Masri is an honest and true expression of our people’s yearning for national unity [between Fatah and Hamas],” the groups proclaimed, seemingly without embarrassment for their mental disorder, “and unity of action.”</p>
<p>Hamas’s Al-Aqsa TV broadcast the symbolic meaning of the martyrdom of this murderer of Jews, reporting that, “Izz Al-Din Al-Masri ascended to Paradise in a Martyrdom-seeking operation he carried out in the Sbarro restaurant in Jerusalem, where he gave the Zionists a taste of humiliation after killing 19 [sic] Zionists and wounding dozens . . . The citizens expressed their pride in Izz Al-Din’s heroism, along with the thousands who gathered to accompany him on his final journey, and they did not forget all those who played a role in this operation.”</p>
<p>If Jews are the most wretched of humans, and the “liberation” of all of Palestine—including present-day Israel—is considered a sacred duty and religious obligation, then the murder of Jews must, and will continue in this millennial apocalyptic struggle in which Hamas sees itself playing a central role. At a ceremony marking the twenty-fourth anniversary of the founding of Hamasthe head of the organization, Ismail Haniyeh,for example,asserted“that the armed resistance and the armed struggle are the path and the strategic choice for liberating the Palestinian land, from the [Mediterranean] sea to the [Jordan] river, and for the expulsion of the invaders and usurpers [Israel] from the blessed land of Palestine. The Hamas movement will lead Intifada after Intifada until we liberate Palestine—all of Palestine, Allah willing.”The creation of a Palestinian state is not even of central importance in this holy war against the enemies of Islam—primary among the kafirs, unbelievers, the Jews. A Palestinian unity government that is comprised of a faction with a foundational, sacralized hatred for and impulse to annihilate Jews can never, obviously, sit at a negotiating table with Israel to outline the borders of a new Palestinian state.</p>
<p>In 2006, weeks after Hamas was overwhelmingly voted into office and became influential in Palestinian politics, a grisly video was posted on its web site by a soon-to-be homicide bomber, revealing the morally-depraved ideology that jihad has wrought and suggesting that a peaceful settlement is not even a likely prospect. “My message to the loathed Jews is that there is no god but Allah, we will chase you everywhere! We are a nation that drinks blood, and we know that there is no blood better than the blood of Jews. We will not leave you alone until we have quenched our thirst with your blood, and our children’s thirst with your blood.”</p>
<p>If Secretary Kerry wonders why the negotiations between the Palestinians and the Israelis suddenly went “poof,” as he put it, it might be useful for him to consider whether the problem lies with the building of some apartments for Jews in the capital of the Jewish state or with a genocidal ideology which is already intent on inculcating a new generation of <em>shahids</em> dedicated to slaughtering the residents of those new apartments simply because they are, in fact, Jews.</p>
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		<title>Hamas Gains Ground &#8212;- And Washington Approves</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2014 04:50:48 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/hamas.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-233397" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/hamas-450x298.jpg" alt="MIDEAST ISRAEL PALESTINIANS" width="307" height="203" /></a>Buzzfeed</i> <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/sheerafrenkel/the-us-has-been-speaking-to-hamas-through-backchannels-for-o"><span style="color: #0433ff;">reports</span></a> that during the six-month run-up to this week’s announcement of a Fatah-Hamas unity government, Obama-administration officials were holding “secret back-channel talks with Hamas” to discuss its role in this government.</p>
<p><i>Buzzfeed</i> quotes a “U.S. official familiar with the talks” as saying: “Our administration needed to hear from them that this unity government would move toward democratic elections, and toward a more peaceful resolution with the entire region.”</p>
<p>State Department deputy spokesman Marie Harf told <i>Buzzfeed</i>: “These assertions are completely untrue. There is no such back channel. Our position on Hamas has not changed.”</p>
<p>In any case, very soon after the new Palestinian government <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/palestinians-form-new-unity-government-including-hamas/2014/06/02/c681d5c6-ea46-11e3-9f5c-9075d5508f0a_story.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">was announced</span></a> on Monday, Secretary of State John Kerry <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/03/world/middleeast/abbas-swears-in-a-new-palestinian-government.html?_r=1"><span style="color: #0433ff;">told</span></a> Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu that the administration would “work with the new Palestinian government while continuing to watch it closely.”</p>
<p>Israel <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.596839"><span style="color: #0433ff;">expressed</span></a> “deep disappointment.” Its ambassador to the U.S., Ron Dermer, noted that Hamas is “a terrorist organization responsible for the murder of many hundreds of Israelis, which has fired thousands of rockets at Israeli cities, and which remains committed to Israel’s destruction.” Netanyahu <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymghp73i5ca"><span style="color: #0433ff;">recorded a statement</span></a> saying he was “deeply troubled” by the U.S. decision.</p>
<p>In a <a href="http://www.rubio.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?id=e7771ddd-d26f-481e-81f3-19ec3ff1c80f"><span style="color: #0433ff;">letter to Kerry</span></a>, Republican senators Marco Rubio and Mark Kirk noted that: “Current U.S. law is clear—any government over which an unreformed Hamas exercises undue influence and which emerges from a Fatah/Hamas deal is not an appropriate recipient of U.S. assistance.”</p>
<p>For a few reasons—despite the State Department’s denial—the <i>Buzzfeed</i> report of secret U.S.-Hamas talks has considerable plausibility.</p>
<p>First, there is the alacrity with which Kerry announced the U.S. intention to “work with” the new government. Not even a day or two for deliberations before reaching a decision.</p>
<p>Second is the fact that Hamas is an offshoot of the Egyptian-based Muslim Brotherhood, and the administration’s sympathy for that body is well known. The administration favored its takeover of Egypt from the deposed Mubarak regime, supported it during the year it was in power, and sharply objected to its removal by the Egyptian army backed by a massive popular revolt.</p>
<p>And third, the new Fatah-Hamas government appears carefully crafted to, as Rubio and Kirk put it, make an “end run around” U.S. law. It’s composed of 18 “technocratic” ministers with no explicit Hamas affiliation, and Mahmoud Abbas, leader of Fatah and the West Bank Palestinian Authority, announced that this government would uphold principles of recognizing Israel and avoiding violence.</p>
<p>Even so, as Lee Smith <a href="http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/174994/palestinian-authority-hamas"><span style="color: #0433ff;">notes</span></a>, U.S. acceptance of this government</p>
<blockquote><p><i>is against the letter of U.S. law—indeed, a number of U.S. laws. The 2006 </i><a href="https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/109/s2370/text"><span style="color: #0433ff;"><i>Palestinian Anti-Terrorism Act</i></span></a><i>, for instance, prohibits any U.S. funds from going to Hamas, Hamas-controlled entities, or a power-sharing PA government that includes Hamas as a member, or results from an agreement with Hamas. Most recently, the 2014 Consolidated Appropriations Act prohibits “assistance to Hamas or any entity effectively controlled by Hamas, any power-sharing government of which Hamas is member, or that results from an agreement with Hamas and over which Hamas exercises undue influence.”</i></p></blockquote>
<p>For the Obama administration, though, these may just be legal niceties. The new government is, indeed—as the “official” mentioned to <i>Buzzfeed</i>—supposed to hold democratic elections in both the West Bank and Gaza in six months, enabling both Fatah and Hamas to participate.</p>
<p>Neither the Obama administration nor the European Union—which, of course, also lost no time <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/news.aspx/181362#.U5CMAHaWmSo"><span style="color: #0433ff;">welcoming</span></a> the new government—is likely, then, to heed a <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/hamas-opts-for-the-hezbollah-model/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">warning</span></a> about it by veteran Israeli Arab-affairs analyst Ehud Yaari. Yaari’s warning carries special weight since he knows the turf well and is in no way a member of the Israeli right or a partisan of the Netanyahu government.</p>
<p>Yaari reports that</p>
<blockquote><p><i>Hamas leaders held a number of meetings in recent weeks with Iranian officials in Tehran and Hezbollah leaders in Beirut. There, the group’s representatives were advised to adopt a more ambitious plan than merely defending Gaza, namely, by contesting Fatah in its own West Bank territory instead. Hezbollah’s modus operandi in Lebanon—which can be summed up as “add ballots to your bullets” —was pushed as a model to be emulated.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>Yaari warns that this could lead to</p>
<blockquote><p><i>[t]he emergence of a Hezbollah model in the Palestinian Authority…. If the current electoral and transitional timetable holds, by this time next year Hamas could have not only an intact military force and terrorist agenda in Gaza, but also a solid foothold in the West Bank and at least a say in—if not veto power over—[PA] decisions. In that case, a new system would take shape in the Palestinian territories in which an armed-to-the-teeth political party gradually overshadows the central government and begins to take over numerous institutions.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>We may still be quite a way from that point; first, unlike all previous attempts at Fatah-Hamas “unity,” the current arrangement would have to hold water, leading up to the successful conduct of elections. But already at this stage, Yaari asserts,</p>
<blockquote><p><i>Western countries quick to endorse the Hamas-Fatah reconciliation should be aware of what is really happening here: Instead of the PA regaining its “southern provinces” in Gaza, it is in fact Hamas reentering the “northern provinces” in the West Bank.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>The questions Israel needs to confront are whether that development really troubles “Western countries,” and how it can go about handling the crisis without Western support.</p>
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		<title>Obama’s Foreign Policy: One Big Coverup</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2014 04:55:28 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/carn.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-225093" alt="carn" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/carn-450x262.jpg" width="360" height="210" /></a>Obama will eventually adopt the Russian line on Ukraine if for no other reason than to avoid exposing his own impotence. It’s why Obama has adopted the Iranian position on its nuclear weapons program, accepted Russia’s Syrian WMD deal and why Kerry and his cronies are busy blaming Israel for the collapse of peace negotiations that were actually sabotaged by the PLO leader.</p>
<p>If you can’t beat them, join them. And Obama can’t beat them. Joining them is his only option.</p>
<p>The culture wars and media firing squads, the SEIU members who shepherd the elderly and infirm to voting booths, the illegal aliens who vote three times because voter ID is racist, are excellent tools for defeating Republicans; but they don’t impress Vladimir Putin or the Islamic militias of Benghazi.</p>
<p>Whatever else went down there, Benghazi had to be covered up because it was easier to join the Muslim mobs burning American flags by throwing a Coptic Christian into jail and filming an apology. It was easier than sending in the Marines or even the drones. It was easier to do nothing, prep for a debate with the real enemy, Mitt Romney, before flying off to party in Vegas.</p>
<p>Obama has preemptively surrendered to anyone and everyone. Even countries he opposes on an ideological basis have discovered that if they slap him around long enough, he will come around.</p>
<p>It just takes a little longer.</p>
<p>Egypt held the line, despite the threats from the State Department and the White House, until Obama decided that it was easier to give in to General Al-Sisi. The condemnations still come, but the Apaches are also on their way.</p>
<p>Despite Obama’s commitment to the Muslim Brotherhood, he blinked.</p>
<p>Obama declared a red line on Syria. Assad is still in power and the red line is crumpled up in an Oval Office desk along with a dozen candy bar wrappers and a dented Nobel Peace Prize.</p>
<p>It’s easier for Obama to surrender and pretend that was his policy all along than to put up a fight. It’s easier for him to side with Israel’s enemies than with the Jewish State. It was easier for him to appease Putin before the invasion of Ukraine, now it’s easier for him to throw out a few hashtags and stay well away from the fighting and then at an opportune moment, pressure Ukraine into accepting whatever deal the Russians put forward.</p>
<p>Putin knows it and that’s why his people are humiliating Hagel and Kerry to up the ante for the final concessions. Ukraine, like Israel, like so many other allies, will be forced to pay a high price to cover up the ego and incompetence of Barack Obama.</p>
<p>Obama’s foreign policy is one big cover up. From Europe to Asia to the Middle East, allies are sacrificed, positions are abandoned and credibility is set on fire to convince Americans that their leader knows what he’s doing. To avoid ever losing a fight and being seen as a loser, he preemptively surrenders.</p>
<p>The media’s story is that Obama meant to do these things. He meant to reverse himself on military aid to Egypt. He meant to set a worthless red line on Syria. He meant to protect Ukraine with hashtags. He meant to do nothing about Benghazi.</p>
<p>Some presidents cultivated a policy of strategic ambiguity to keep the country’s enemies off balance. Obama does it to keep Americans off balance about what he really did and what he really meant.</p>
<p>Obama makes sure to take at least two positions on every foreign policy issue. He evolves and then devolves and evolves again. He was for calling Benghazi a terrorist attack after he was against it. He was against dealing with Assad, before he was for it. He was against containing Iran before he was for it, before he jettisoned containment and skipped straight to embracing a nuclear Iran.</p>
<p>He issues statements that sound bold and decisive, but with just enough wriggle room to allow for a sellout. There’s enough equivocation to cover the ass of the naked emperor no matter what happens. Even while his people were pushing the lie that the Benghazi attack happened because of a YouTube protest, not terrorism, a general aside about “Acts of Terror” was inserted into the Rose Garden speech to cover him against the day when the truth could no longer be denied.</p>
<p>Obama’s speeches are full of double meanings and ambiguities. He came out in favor of a united Jerusalem, only to then explain that he didn’t mean it would be united by Israel. His “Red Line” comments on Syria were so ridiculously ambiguous with the outcome being, “That would change my calculus,” that they meant absolutely nothing at all.</p>
<p>It was the media that took the comments seriously and ended up with egg on its fedora.</p>
<p>Benghazi wasn’t an aberration. It was typical of his foreign policy. It was the policy of Hillary Clinton who liked to talk tough, saying of Gaddafi, “We came, we saw, he died”, while her spokesman called Assad a “dead man walking”, but when push came to shove, she abandoned her people to die without asking for military aid.</p>
<p>She polished her resume, they went, they died.</p>
<p>Democrats complain when Republicans talk about Benghazi. But why don’t we talk about Obama’s foreign policy? Why don’t we talk about the botched war in Afghanistan, his failure to stand up for the Green Movement in Iran, his push for the Islamist Arab Spring, his fumbling in Syria and his poor relations with traditional US allies in the Middle East?</p>
<p>Why can’t we talk about his many lies about Al Qaeda, beginning with selling the disastrous Afghan surge as a platform for defeating Al Qaeda in a place that it had mostly abandoned, only to then declare victory over an Al Qaeda that had hardly been there?</p>
<p>Did Obama sacrifice 1,600 Americans in Afghanistan in a phony campaign for an election talking point?</p>
<p>Is there any part of Obama’s universally disastrous foreign policy that we can talk about? Or is it all one big cover up?</p>
<p>Obama’s problem isn’t just that he sympathizes with terrorists and has a distaste for national power and the military, but that everything he does falls apart.</p>
<p>There is no national conversation about foreign policy or even domestic policy the way that there was during the days of Bush and Clinton. Instead we talk about Obama. Media coverage focuses on his celebrity, his political enemies and his plans for the future in purely personal terms.</p>
<p>The past is a foreign country. And the media doesn’t travel there. The results of his policies at home and abroad are a mystery. The media won’t tell us what happened two years ago or three years ago, so it pivots to the latest racial outrage or hashtag.</p>
<p>Benghazi is one of the many disasters left in his wake and his defenders insist that it go unexamined and the process of covering it up, which began while the bodies were still warm, go unnoticed.</p>
<p>The Obama illusion falls apart if you look at it from any angle other than the front. If you look behind it, there are flames, burning buildings, screams and political hacks who call each other “dude” making up lies about why it happened before moving on to pushing a news story about his wife’s latest hairstyle, their latest vacation or the latest celebrity they were photographed with.</p>
<p>Benghazi is an important part of the conversation that we need to have. But it doesn’t end there.</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2014 04:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
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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/o-HASSAN-ROUHANI-VICTORY-IN-MODERATION-facebook.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-224778" alt="Hasan Rowhani" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/o-HASSAN-ROUHANI-VICTORY-IN-MODERATION-facebook-422x350.jpg" width="295" height="245" /></a>The nuclear talks between the Islamic Republic of Iran and six world powers (P5+1: China, France, Germany, Russia, and the United Kingdom) have inched forward toward the permanent nuclear deal and the removal of all economic sanctions against the Iranian regime.</span></p>
<p>Some proponents of the Iranian regime in the West and in Iran have been spreading a specific interest-driven narrative by pointing out that if a final nuclear is achieved, Iranian leaders are more likely to tone down their ideological and regional hegemonic ambitions as well.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">According to this argument, if a permanent nuclear deal is achieved, and if the diplomatic thaw between Tehran and Washington continues, Iran’s foreign policies in the region will not turn more aggressive or interventionist regarding regional and foreign policies. As a result, other countries should not be concerned about Iran’s policies and they should push for a final nuclear deal and the removal of sanctions.</span></p>
<p>In other words, those who advocate for Rouhani’s government and the Islamic Republic contend that Iranian leaders will instead become more cooperative, conciliatory, and will decrease their hegemonic ambitions and policies in the region.</p>
<p>This view fails to take into account the realities on the ground. Since the interim nuclear deal has been reached, the Islamic Republic has become more emboldened to achieve its ideological, geopolitical, and regional hegemonic ambitions. Some of the sanctions relief and billions of dollars that the Iranian regime has received from the United States and international community has empowered its assertive and aggressive stance.</p>
<p>According to Lieutenant Commander of Khatam al-Anbia Air Defense Base General Ali Reza Sabahi-Fard, Iran is rapidly upgrading its defense system. And as Commander of the Army Ground Force Brigadier General Ahmad Reza Pourdastan announced last week, Iran&#8217;s Ground Force has test-fired new mid-range ballistic missiles and has equipped S-200 air defense system with new missiles. The S-200 system is characterized as having much longer-range capabilities as compared to previous missile systems.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">According to Reuters, Iran’s military is planning to target a mock-up American aircraft carrier. The newspaper </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Haft-e Sobh</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> daily quoted Adm. Ali Fadavi, navy chief of the powerful Revolutionary Guards, as saying, &#8220;target the carrier in the trainings, after it is completed.&#8221; Accordingly, Adm. Fadavi pointed out, &#8220;We should learn about weaknesses and strengths of our enemy.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Recently, Iran&#8217;s National Army Day orchestrated a large-scale military parade through the capital, Tehran, where fighter jets and military technology manufactured by Russia and other countries, were part of the show. Iranian leaders have made clear that their military capabilities and their missile systems are non-negotiable in the nuclear talks. The United States and other members have also overlooked this threat, and are instead focusing on reaching a final nuclear deal.</span></p>
<p>Due to the recent sanction relief, several countries, including Turkey, China, Germany, and Austria, have boosted or are planning to boost their economic ties with the Islamic Republic. Iran’s oil exports, in legal or black markets, have also significantly increased.</p>
<p>The case that Iran’s desire for regional supremacy will be tempered if a permanent nuclear deal is sealed, and if the U.S. and Iran thawed diplomatic relations, does not take into account the underlying geopolitical and economic fundamentals, as well as historical context of the Islamic Republic.</p>
<p>The view claiming that Iran’s ideological and hegemonic ambitions will diminish if a final nuclear deal is reached is very unsophisticated and naïve. Even when Iran’s nuclear program was not in the spotlight, for example in the 1980s and early 1990s, the Islamic Republic was at its peak in meddling in other countries&#8217; domestic affairs and showed no sign of tempering its aspiration for regional supremacy.</p>
<p>In fact, these were the times that the Iranian leaders were notably and outstandingly attempting to alter the regional balance of power in its interest by intervening in Lebanon, giving birth to one of the most formidable Shiite non-state actors, Hezbollah, fighting with Israel through its proxies, forming one of the most long-standing Middle Eastern alliances with the Syrian government, and continuing the war in Iraq for an extra six years despite the fact it was offered full compensation by other countries to cease the war.</p>
<p>More recently, even after reaching a preliminary nuclear deal, the Islamic Republic has shown no sign of tempering its foreign policies when it comes to affecting the domestic politics of other countries including Yemen, Syria, Bahrain, and Lebanon. The Yemeni president pointed out in an interview, “Unfortunately, Iran still meddles in Yemen whether by supporting the separatist [Southern] Movement or some religious groups in the north.” He asked the Shiite-dominated Iran to “keep its hands off Yemen” and to halt giving support to “armed groups” in the country. Reportedly, the Houthis are receiving Iranian support, and have been capable of dominating the northern Yemeni province of Saada. Asir, the Saudi province, borders the Yemeni Shiite rebel strongholds.</p>
<p>The second part of the argument made by the proponents of Rouhani’s government and the Islamic Republic is very simplistic in the sense that it overlooks the sophistication and complexity of Iran’s politics in Middle East.</p>
<p>The reason that other countries are not concerned about Iran’s foreign policies in the region if a final nuclear deal is reached (as well as in case Iran tempers its policies and regional geopolitical position), is that they take no notice of the Middle Eastern political chessboard and the Islamic Republic’s role in this political jigsaw puzzle.</p>
<p>The issue is that Iran’s nuclear file has been filled up with frequent clandestine nuclear sites revealed by external governments and organizations, a robust determination to become a nuclear power, non-transparency, secrecy, and a lack of clarity about Iran’s nuclear developments. How can other nations accept these terms of security if another country in the region is on the verge of significantly tipping the balance of power in its favor through reaching a breakaway nuclear capacity?</p>
<p>Most likely, the permanent nuclear deal will leave the Islamic Republic with some breathing space to pursue its nuclear ambitions and achieve its objectives and nuclear breakthrough. If this occurs, the chessboard that is the Middle East will witness a critical reshaping in favor of the nuclear state. This will naturally be followed by a nuclear arms race and competition in the region, which will further destabilize the region and its security. In addition, the nuclear deterrence will boost and facilitate Tehran’s regional ambitions from economic, geopolitical, and strategic prisms.</p>
<p>Even if an efficient permanent nuclear deal is reached between the P5+1 and Iran, should other countries, as some policy analysts and proponents of Rouhani’s government argue, not be concerned about Iran’s regional hegemonic ambitions? It is very unrealistic and naïve to argue that the Islamic Republic will temper its ideological and regional hegemonic ambitions even if a permanent nuclear deal is reached and even if Washington and Tehran mend diplomatic ties. Iran is strongly involved in influencing the domestic affairs of other countries, through founding or backing some Shiite groups, which makes a shift in Tehran’s regional policies inconceivable. Furthermore, Tehran’s regional policies are not only aimed at achieving geopolitical and economic supremacy, but also founded on ideological landscapes, attempting to spread the Shiite version of Islam through either political movements or well-established religious seminary centers such as in the city of Qom.</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ari Lieberman]]></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/2014/05/140424_john_kerry_gty_6051.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-224655" alt="John Kerry Makes Statement On Ukraine At U.S. State Department" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/140424_john_kerry_gty_6051.jpg" width="293" height="225" /></a>As John Kerry continues to engage in </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/kerry-denies-calling-israel-an-apartheid-state/">damage control</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> for his recent pernicious remarks absurdly suggesting (on Holocaust Remembrance Day, no less) that Israel could morph into an “Apartheid state,” there can no longer be any doubt about Kerry’s nefarious intentions regarding Israel. By adopting the narrative espoused by the most rabid of Israel-haters, his credibility as a neutral interlocutor has, at best, been severely compromised. More importantly, his words, once uttered, will reverberate in anti-Israel circles like an echo chamber and will only serve to lend credibility to this ugly falsehood.</span></p>
<p>Kerry’s latest closed-door screed to world leaders at the Trilateral Commission represents but one of a series of anti-Israel invectives invoked by the Secretary throughout the years.  Who among us can forget Kerry’s characterization of Syria’s Bashar Assad as a “<a href="http://dailycaller.com/2010/11/29/wikileaked-john-kerry-calls-for-israel-to-cede-golan-heights-and-east-jerusalem/">man who wants change</a>”? I’m sure there are 160,000 dead Syrians and their families who might take exception to that. Kerry of course also advocated the return of the strategic Golan Heights, a region which before its capture in 1967 served as a platform for Syrian artillery barrages on Israel’s Galilee towns and villages below. Had Israel heeded Kerry’s suggestion, al-Qaida would now be doing laps in the Sea of Galilee.</p>
<p>There is certainly no shortage of examples highlighting Kerry’s perniciousness when it comes to Israel. A good accounting of some of his past asinine comments can be found <a href="http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/04/29/say-what-top-10-controversial-kerry-comments-on-israel/">here</a> in “Top Ten” format. But Kerry’s observations this time around were beyond the pale, even for Kerry and evoked sharp rebuke from all sides of the political spectrum.</p>
<p>Obama ally Senator Barbra Boxer termed Kerry&#8217;s statements as “nonsensical and ridiculous” while fellow Democrat Nita Lowey characterized Kerry’s comments as “Inflammatory rhetoric… irresponsible, inaccurate &amp; counterproductive.” Republicans were even more critical with some calling for Kerry’s immediate resignation. Liberals and conservatives immediately recognized the malevolence of Kerry’s words and spoke in unison against them proving that reason and sanity still prevail in America.</p>
<p>But there were still a few holdouts that, either out of sheer ignorance or something more malevolent characterized Kerry’s offensive comments as part of legitimate discourse on the Arab-Israeli dispute. One such holdout came from Washington Post columnist <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2014/04/29/kerry-apartheid-controversy-shows-limits-on-debate-over-israel/">Paul Waldman</a> who argued that while Israel was currently a democracy, it could conceivably turn into the type of state referenced by the Secretary if matters continued on the same trajectory.</p>
<p>His argument is premised on two fallacious assumptions. First, he asserts that Palestinians are “under Israeli rule” and second, he alleges that given current demographic patterns, Palestinian Arabs will outnumber Jews and &#8212; <em>poof! </em>&#8211; (to borrow a phrase) the minority will control the majority.</p>
<p>I will assume good faith and classify Waldman as ignorant rather than a partisan hater, but either way, Waldman’s theory is sheer hogwash. Israel completely withdrew from the Gaza Strip in 2005 and that territory, with its estimated 1.4 million Palestinians, is currently controlled and governed by the Hamas terrorist entity. There is no longer a single Jew residing in Gaza and Gaza’s Christian population has, as a result of <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/26/us-palestinians-christians-conversion-idUSBRE86P0J420120726">Islamist persecution</a>, been reduced to a paltry 2,500 souls. Talk about Apartheid.</p>
<p>That leaves us with Judea and Samaria or the so-called &#8220;West Bank,&#8221; and according to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), a partisan arm of the Palestinian Authority, there are 2.6 million Palestinians residing there. However, this figure is vastly <a href="http://www.algemeiner.com/2013/04/08/israel%E2%80%99s-jewish-demography-defies-projections/">overinflated</a> and includes 400,000 people who permanently reside overseas and another 300,000 East Jerusalem residents who have already been counted and included by Israel’s central bureau of statistics. Thus, the total number of Palestinians residing in the West Bank is closer to 1.9 million and the figure could be even less given the PCBS’s less-than-stellar record of impartiality.</p>
<p>Pursuant to the Oslo Accords and subsequent understandings Israel has already ceded some 40% of the West Bank to the Palestinians. These areas are referred to as Area A (full Palestinian authority) and Area B (full Palestinian civilian authority and Israeli security authority). Some 97% of all West Bank Palestinians reside in either Area A or Area B. The remaining 3%, some 57,000 residents, reside in Area C, which is under complete Israeli jurisdiction. These facts put the lie to the claim that Israel “rules” the Palestinians. The vast majority of Palestinians are in fact ruled by either the Islamist Hamas theocracy or the Palestinian Authority headed by Palestinian strongman, Mahmoud Abbas, whose four year term of office ended five years ago.</p>
<p>As for demographic patterns, we’ve been hearing about the demographic boogeyman for nearly five decades and the ratio between Jewish Israelis and Palestinian Arabs has remained relatively unchanged. In fact, <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-Ed-Contributors/Israels-fast-evolving-demography-320574">recent empirical data</a> suggests that demographic patterns actually favor Israel with Jewish birthrates exceeding those of the Palestinians. There has also been a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra879tN9pAA">surge of Palestinian emigration</a> from Judea and Samaria with 10,000 to 17,000 leaving each year.</p>
<p>There is no question that Kerry is familiar with the above-noted statistics but raw numbers and facts are meaningless to him. Kerry has gone from Secretary of State to a shill for the Palestinian cause and with his intemperate words and actions, has irreparably sabotaged the peace process and severely undermined an alliance that has endured for nearly seven decades.</p>
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