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		<title>How Western Media Enable Islamic Terrorism</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2014 05:45:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raymond Ibrahim]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The same lies and distortions shielding Islam “over there” have come “over here.”]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/la-epa-egypt-unrest2-jpg-20130819.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247776" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/la-epa-egypt-unrest2-jpg-20130819-450x300.jpg" alt="la-epa-egypt-unrest2-jpg-20130819" width="315" height="210" /></a>If the West is experiencing a rise in the sort of terror attacks that are endemic to the Islamic world—<a href="http://www.wthr.com/story/26416131/2014/08/31/3-columbus-churches-vandalized-with-graffiti-overnight"><span style="color: #0433ff;">church attacks</span></a>, <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/muslims-sexually-enslaving-children-a-global-phenomenon/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">sex-slavery</span></a> and <a href="http://midnightwatcher.wordpress.com/2014/10/07/isis-plot-to-behead-people-on-uk-streets-disrupted-after-police-arrest-four-islamic-terrorists-in-london/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">beheadings</span></a>—it was only natural that the same mainstream media that habitually conceals such atrocities, especially against Christians and other minorities under Islam, would also conceal the reality of jihadi aspirations on Western soil.</p>
<p>As The <a href="http://www.thecommentator.com/article/5433/australia_tragicomic_west_stresses_danger_of_islamophobia"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Commentator</span></a> reports:</p>
<blockquote><p>[T]he level of the [media] grovelling after the tragic and deadly saga in Sydney Australia over the last 24 hours has been astounding.</p>
<p>At the time of writing, <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-30490696"><span style="color: #0433ff;">the lead story on the BBC website</span></a> is of course about that very tragedy, in which an Islamist fanatic took a random group hostage in a cafe, ultimately killing two of them.</p>
<p>He did this in the name of Islam. But you wouldn&#8217;t get that impression if you started to read the BBC&#8217;s lead story, which astoundingly managed to avoid mentioning the words Islam, Islamic, Islamist, Muslim, or any derivations thereof for a full 16 paragraphs. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/16/world/asia/sydney-australia-hostages.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">The New York Times</span></a>, which led by calling the terrorist, Man Haron Monis an &#8220;armed man&#8221;, waited until paragraph 11.</p>
<p>In the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2014/dec/15/sydney-siege-ends-police-storm-lindt-cafe-hostages-run-out"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Guardian&#8217;s main story</span></a> &#8211; whose lead paragraph simply referred to a &#8220;gunman&#8221; &#8212; you had to wait until paragraph 24.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;d have blinked, you&#8217;d have missed it.</p>
<p>….</p>
<p>In the wider media, reports about Muslim fears of a &#8220;backlash&#8221; have been all but ubiquitous.</p></blockquote>
<p>If these are the lengths that Western mainstream media go to dissemble about the Islamic-inspired slaughter of Western peoples, it should now be clear why the ubiquitous Muslim persecution of those unfashionable Christian minorities is also practically unknown by those who follow Western mainstream media.</p>
<p>As with the Sydney attack, media headlines say it all. The 2011 New Year’s Eve Coptic church attack that left 28 dead appeared under vague headlines: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/04/world/middleeast/04egypt.html?_r=0"><span style="color: #0433ff;">“Clashes grow as Egyptians remain angry after attack,”</span></a> was the <i>New York Times</i>’ headline; and “<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/01/AR2011010102697.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Christians clash with police in Egypt after attack on churchgoers kills 21</span></a>” was the <i>Washington Post</i>’s—as if frustrated and harried Christians lashing out against their oppressors is the “big news,” not the unprovoked atrocity itself; as if their angry reaction “evens” everything up.</p>
<p>Similarly, the <i>Los Angeles Times</i> partially told the story of an Egyptian off-duty police officer who, after <a href="http://www1.adnkronos.com/IGN/Aki/English/Security/Egypt-Christian-shot-dead-and-several-others-injured-in-train-attack_311526616347.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">identifying Copts by their crosses</span></a> on a train, opened fire on them, killing one, while screaming “Allahu Akbar”—but to exonerate the persecution, as caught by the report’s headline: <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2011/01/egypt-eyewitness-claims-train-attacker-did-not-target-copts-state-media-say.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">“Eyewitness claims train attacker did not target Copts, state media say.”</span></a></p>
<p>A February 2012 NPR report titled “<a href="http://www.npr.org/2012/02/25/147370689/in-egypt-christian-muslim-tension-is-on-the-rise"><span style="color: #0433ff;">In Egypt, Christian-Muslim Tension is on the Rise</span></a>,” while meant to familiarize readers with the situation of Egypt’s Christians, prompts more questions than answers them: “In Egypt, growing tensions between Muslims and Christians have led to sporadic violence [initiated by whom?]. Many Egyptians blame the interreligious strife on hooligans [who?] taking advantage of absent or weak security forces. Others believe it’s because of a deep-seated mistrust between Muslims and the minority Christian community [what are the sources of this “mistrust”?].”</p>
<p>The photo accompanying the story is of angry Christians holding a cross aloft—not Muslims destroying crosses, which is what prompted the former to this display of Christian solidarity.</p>
<p>Blurring the line between victim and oppressor—recall the fear of “<a href="http://www.islamist-watch.org/blog/2014/12/new-fbi-hate-crime-stats-another-blow-to-islamist"><span style="color: #0433ff;">anti-Muslim backlashes</span></a>” whenever a Muslim terrorizes “infidels” in the West—also applies to the media’s reporting on Muslim persecution of Christians.</p>
<p>A February 2012 <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-17169935"><span style="color: #0433ff;">BBC report</span></a> on a church attack in Nigeria that left three Christians dead, including a toddler, objectively states the bare bone facts in one sentence.  Then it jumps to apparently the <i>really</i> big news: that “the bombing sparked a riot by Christian youths, with reports that at least two Muslims were killed in the violence. The two men were dragged off their bikes after being stopped at a roadblock set up by the rioters, police said. A row of Muslim-owned shops was also burned…”</p>
<p>The report goes on and on, with an entire section about “very angry” Christians till one confuses victims with persecutors, forgetting what the Christians are “very angry” about in the first place: nonstop terror attacks on their churches and the slaughter of their women and children.</p>
<p>A <i>New York Times</i> report that appeared on December 25, 2011—the day after Boko Haram bombed several churches during Christmas Eve services, leaving some 40 dead—said that such church bombings threaten “to exploit the already frayed relations between Nigeria’s nearly evenly split populations of Christians and Muslims…”  Such an assertion suggests that both Christians and Muslims are equally motivated by religious hostility—even as one seeks in vain for Christian terror organizations that bomb mosques in Nigeria to screams of “Christ is Great!”</p>
<p>Indeed, Boko Haram has <a href="http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/nigeria-boko-haram-torch-185-churches-captured-towns-borno-adamawa-1468763"><span style="color: #0433ff;">torched 185 churches</span></a>—to say nothing of the countless Christians beheaded—in just the last few months alone.</p>
<p>Continuing to grasp for straws, the same NYT report suggests that the Nigerian government’s “heavy-handed” response to Boko Haram is responsible for its terror, and even manages to invoke another mainstream media favorite: the poverty-causes-terrorism myth.</p>
<p>Whether Muslim mayhem is taking place in the Islamic or Western worlds, the mainstream media shows remarkable consistency in employing an arsenal of semantic games, key phrases, convenient omissions, and moral relativism to portray such violence as a product of anything and everything—political and historical grievances, “Islamophobia,” individual insanity, poverty and ignorance, territorial disputes—not Islam.</p>
<p>As such, Western mainstream media keep Western majorities in the dark about the Islamic threat, here and abroad.  Thus the “MSM” protects and enables the Islamic agenda—irrespective of whether its distortions are a product of intent, political correctness, or sheer stupidity.</p>
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		<title>The &#8216;Cycle of Violence&#8217; Fantasy in the Middle East</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2014 05:12:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Steven Plaut]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagining how the media would have reported on WWII using today's logic regarding Israel. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/19366_1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247188" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/19366_1.jpg" alt="19366_1" width="283" height="203" /></a>Ernst Eduard vom Rath was a German diplomat representing the Third Reich in <span style="color: #000000;">Paris in 1938.  </span>In November of that year he was shot and mortally wounded by a 17-year-old <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Jew"><span style="color: #0b1480;">Polish Jewish</span></a> youth, <a href="http://www.roizen.com/ron/grynszpan.htm"><span style="color: #0b1480;">Herschel</span><span style="color: #0433ff;">Grynszpan</span></a><span style="color: #000000;">, who had been living in Germany.</span>  Vom Rath was 29 years old.  Ironically, vom Rath had earlier expressed anti-Nazi sympathies, evidently based on the Nazi treatment of Jews, and was under Gestapo investigation at the time for being politically unreliable.  He died of his wounds two days after being shot.  Hitler used the assassination <a href="http://www.holocaustandhumanity.org/kristallnacht/events-leading-up-to-kristallnacht/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">as an excuse to launch Kristallnacht</span></a>, a pogrom against German Jews, shortly after the death.<span style="color: #000000;">   My father attended school with <a href="http://www.roizen.com/ron/grynszpan.htm"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Grynszpan</span></a> and knew him casually; Dad escaped to America by the time of the assassination.</span></p>
<p>Now try to imagine how the Western media would report World War II if they were using the exact same rules of journalism that they apply to the Arab-Israeli conflict.   The assassination of vom Rath by a Jewish youth would be universally held up to illustrate that the German-Jewish conflict was a circle of violence, an ongoing bloody conflict whose roots are so old that no one remembers them, a conflict where each side claims it is retaliating for the violence that the other side perpetrated, a conflict whose causes are all blurred by eons of history.  Sure the Germans were murdering Jews, but then there was the vom Rath assassination, proving the violence was two-directional, symmetric.  Close investigation could probably find a few other examples of Jews using violence against Germans.  Innocent lives are being lost on both sides.  Such senseless tragedy.  Why can&#8217;t both sides just live and let live?</p>
<p>Of course, such a representation of World War II would not only be an absurdity but also an obscenity.   World War II was not about a &#8220;cycle of violence&#8221; between Germans and Jews.  It was unambiguously a campaign of annihilation and oppression of Jews committed by Germans.  The fact that one can identify a handful of outlier events such as the assassination of vom Rath does not convey any symmetry to the &#8220;conflict.&#8221;   Indeed to misrepresent the Nazi campaign of extermination against Jews as some sort of &#8220;symmetric&#8221; pair of movements of violence would be proof that the person so misrepresenting the situation was a Nazi-sympathizer and an anti-Semite.</p>
<p>The Middle East conflict is not a cycle of violence.  It is not a &#8220;symmetric&#8221; campaign of retaliation by Jews against Arabs and Arabs against Jews.  The Middle East conflict is as unambiguously a unidirectional campaign of violence and atrocities as was World War II.  It is about Arabs murdering Jews and not the inverse.  It is about Arabs seeking to deny Jews their human rights and their right to self-determination, and not the inverse.  The Middle East conflict consists of a century of atrocities perpetrated by Arabs against Jews.</p>
<p>But the Western media are willing to go to extreme lengths to force the conflict into the prism of symmetry and the &#8220;cycle of violence&#8221; fantasy.  Several months ago a Palestinian Arab teenager from East Jerusalem, <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Blogs/Message.aspx/5936#.VIhy7DGUf-o"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Mohammed Abu Khdair, age 17,  was kidnapped and murdered</span></a> by a Jew.  The Jew was mentally ill and believed himself to be the messiah.   He was arrested and jailed by Israel.  The killer did not represent anyone, was not sponsored by anyone, and no one in Israel cheered his crime.  The killing of Abu Khdair came shortly after three Jewish teenagers were murdered by the Hamas in a well-planned operation.  That was an operation sponsored, financed and planned by the Hamas and cheered by most &#8220;Palestinians&#8221; and by many Israeli Arabs.   Many passed around candies in celebration.</p>
<p>Since the death of Abu Khdair, the media have exploited the case to sell their &#8220;symmetry cycle of violence&#8221; snake oil.  True, the &#8220;Palestinians&#8221; murder Jewish children all the time but here we have a single incident of an inverted crime, an Arab teenager murdered by a Jew.  The media obsession is far more than a postman-biting-dog stroke of interest in uncharacteristic news stories.  The media have used the death to manufacture the symmetry fiction and spread it.   After all, if it is symmetric, then both sides are wrong, which means both sides are right, which means there is no right and wrong about which to worry our pretty little heads.</p>
<p>The killing of Abu Khdair was as characteristic of the Middle East conflict as the killing of vom Rath was representative of the events comprising World War II.  And it is hardly the only &#8220;vom Rath anomaly&#8221; that drives the reporting of the anti-Israel media.   This week <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/188478#.VIh7tTGUf-o"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Ziad Abu Ein</span></a>, a terrorist murderer serving as a Palestinian Authority &#8220;cabinet minister,&#8221; died from a heart attack after being confronted by Israeli troops.   You see, the media are bleating in unison?  It is not just Palestinians who murder Israelis!</p>
<p>Arabs in the West Bank vandalize Jewish property so often that it is generally never even reported as news, even in the Israeli media, because it is so commonplace.  Arson attacks and vandalism of synagogues by Arabs are so frequent that they rarely make it out of the back pages.  But if a handful of teenage Jewish delinquents vandalize some Arab vehicles or paint graffiti on Arab buildings, not only is this highlighted on the front pages, but it is denounced as evidence of Jewish terrorism.  The media, including the Israeli leftist media, scream that such incidents are hate crimes.  Demands are made to define the graffiti painters as a terrorist organization.</p>
<p>Rock throwing by Arabs at Jews in Israel is even less likely to make it into the press or news or even the social media.   But if Arabs allege that some Jewish &#8220;settlers&#8221; threw some rocks at Arab cars or houses, then stop the presses!   All other news must be removed to page 3.  Arabs in the West bank vandalize Jewish property, including agricultural produce, more frequently than the sun shines in the Middle East.  No one hears about it because it is not considered &#8220;news.&#8221;  After all, dogs chasing postmen are just not very interesting or newsworthy.  But let some Arabs or leftists allege that Jewish &#8220;settlers&#8221; have vandalized some West Bank Arab olive trees and the media shrieks are deafening.  So deafening, in fact, that they drown out reporting about some cases of  Arabs and leftists <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/10/16/did-palestinians-destroy-their-own-olive-trees-and-then-blame-israel-settlers-say-they-have-the-video-to-prove-it/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">intentionally vandalizing</span></a> Arab olive trees as <a href="https://anneinpt.wordpress.com/2012/10/16/slandering-israel-palestinians-and-leftists-filmed-cutting-down-their-own-olive-trees/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">provocations to be blamed</span></a> on &#8220;settlers.&#8221;   And it goes without saying that the firing of thousands of rockets by Gaza terrorists at Israeli civilians is never important enough to be reported as news.  But let Israel fire back at the savages and there &#8211; you see &#8211; we are back in the symmetric cycle of violence.</p>
<p>The symmetry perversion has been played up by the media for so long that few can even keep straight the fundamental underlying truths behind the conflict.  There is a war in the Middle East because the Arabs, controlling territory nearly twice that of the United States (including Alaska), are unwilling for the Jews to control their own state smaller than New Jersey.  The Middle East conflict is not about unwillingness on the part of Jews to accept self-determination for Arabs, but rather by unwillingness on the part of Arabs to accept self-determination for Jews.  Middle East violence is about the campaign of terrorist aggression by the Arab world, including its &#8220;Palestinian&#8221; playthings, to murder as many Jewish children and other civilians as possible.  The number of innocent Palestinian civilians intentionally murdered by Israel is precisely zero.  Palestinians get killed when Israel shoots back and retaliates for Arab terror and aggression and rocket attacks.  When Arabs do not attack Jews, the Jews do not shoot back.  There is no anti-Arab Jewish terrorism.</p>
<p>Arab terrorism is not caused by Israeli &#8220;occupation&#8221; but rather by the removal of Israeli occupation.  The &#8220;Palestinians&#8221; have about as legitimate a claim to statehood and independence as did the Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia.   Granting &#8220;Palestinians&#8221; independence will have precisely the same effect as did the granting &#8220;self-determination&#8221; to the Sudeten Germans.  The only reason Arabs demand that the &#8220;Palestinians&#8221; be granted a state is in order to use it to launch an all-out war of annihilation and terror against what would be the rump Israel.</p>
<p>Israel is the only country in the Middle East that is NOT an apartheid regime.  The only Arabs in the Middle East enjoying human rights are those living under Israeli  rule.   The treatment of Arabs by Israel is at least a thousand times better than the treatment of Arabs by Arab regimes.   The &#8220;stateless Palestinians&#8221; are Arabs, and Arabs control 22 states.   No one is stopping any Arabs uncomfortable about living in a Jewish state from moving to any of those 22 states and taking all their assets and wealth with them.  The Middle East conflict is about injustices perpetrated by Arabs against Jews and not the other way around.</p>
<p>None of this belies the possibility that if one seeks hard enough one can find incidents in which some Jews behave badly towards some Arabs.  Just as Hershel Grynszpan may have murdered the wrong German.  But that hardly makes the Middle East conflict a symmetric cycle of violence and injustice.  There was a handful of white slaves owned by slaveholders in the American south before the Civil War and there were <a href="http://www.theroot.com/articles/history/2013/03/black_slave_owners_did_they_exist.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">small numbers of black slave-owners</span></a>.   Using that to paint pre-Emancipation slavery as a symmetry of black and white slaves with black and white slave-owners would of course by an obscenity.   Use of the assassination of vom Rath to create fictional symmetry would be even worse.  But nothing can compete with the malicious, repugnant, and perfidious distortion of the Middle East conflict by the media as a symmetric conflict and a cycle of violence.</p>
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		<title>11 Facts About the Eric Garner Case the Media Won&#8217;t Tell You</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2014 05:38:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jim Meyers]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The evidence that doesn't fit the leftist narrative. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/gar.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-246787" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/gar-232x350.jpg" alt="gar" width="232" height="350" /></a><strong>Reprinted from <a href="http://www.newsmax.com/">Newsmax.com</a>.</strong></p>
<p>Sources in the mainstream media expressed outrage after a grand jury declined to indict a New York City policeman in the death of Eric Garner, but there are 11 significant facts that many of them have chosen to overlook:</p>
<p>1. There is no doubt that Garner was resisting an arrest for illegally selling untaxed cigarettes. Former New York City Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik put it succinctly: &#8220;You cannot resist arrest. If Eric Garner did not resist arrest, the outcome of this case would have been very different,&#8221; he told Newsmax. &#8220;He wouldn&#8217;t be dead today.</p>
<p>&#8220;Regardless of what the arrest was for, the officers don&#8217;t have the ability to say, &#8216;Well, this is a minor arrest, so we&#8217;re just going to ignore you.&#8217;&#8221;</p>
<p>2. The video of the July 17 incident clearly shows Garner, an African-American, swatting away the arms of a white officer seeking to take him into custody, telling him: &#8220;Don&#8217;t touch me!&#8221;</p>
<p>3. Garner, 43, had history of more than 30 arrests dating back to 1980, on charges including assault and grand larceny.</p>
<p>4. At the time of his death, Garner was out on bail after being charged with illegally selling cigarettes, driving without a license, marijuana possession and false impersonation.</p>
<p>5. The chokehold that Patrolman Daniel Pantaleo put on Garner was reported to have contributed to his death. But Garner, who was 6-foot-3 and weighed 350 pounds, suffered from a number of health problems, including heart disease, severe asthma, diabetes, obesity, and sleep apnea. Pantaleo&#8217;s attorney and police union officials argued that Garner&#8217;s poor health was the main cause of his death.</p>
<p>6. Garner did not die at the scene of the confrontation. He suffered cardiac arrest in the ambulance taking him to the hospital and was pronounced dead about an hour later.</p>
<p>7. Much has been made of the fact that the use of chokeholds by police is prohibited in New York City. But officers reportedly still use them. Between 2009 and mid-2014, the Civilian Complaint Review Board received 1,128 chokehold allegations.</p>
<p>Patrick Lynch, president of the New York City Patrolmen&#8217;s Benevolent Association, said: &#8220;It was clear that the officer&#8217;s intention was to do nothing more than take Mr. Garner into custody as instructed, and that he used the takedown technique that he learned in the academy when Mr. Garner refused.&#8221;</p>
<p>8. The grand jury began hearing the case on Sept. 29 and did not reach a decision until Wednesday, so there is much testimony that was presented that has not been made public.</p>
<p>9. The 23-member grand jury included nine non-white jurors.</p>
<p>10. In order to find Officer Pantaleo criminally negligent, the grand jury would have had to determine that he knew there was a &#8220;substantial risk&#8221; that Garner would have died due to the takedown.</p>
<p>11. Less than a month after Garner&#8217;s death, Ramsey Orta, who shot the much-viewed videotape of the encounter, was indicted on weapons charges. Police alleged that Orta had slipped a .25-caliber handgun into a teenage accomplice&#8217;s waistband outside a New York hotel.</p>
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		<title>Andrew Klavan: How the Media See the Midterms</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2014 05:57:05 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><span style="color: #000000;">In this special episode, our</span><span style="color: #000000;"> yes-he&#8217;s-happily-married-ladies host examines how the wise sages of main stream media covered, or didn&#8217;t cover, the recent mid-term elections. See the video and transcript below. </span></strong></p>
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<p style="color: #000000;">I’m Andrew Klavan and this is the Revolting Truth.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">The political landscape has changed and now that some time has passed, let’s try to get at the deeper meaning of the midterm elections.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">In the final results, Republicans won eleventy hundred Senate seats out of a possible thirty-three, and approximately a gazillion governorships including four in the seven states that only exist in Barack Obama’s imagination.  I know many of you untrained amateur political hobbyists out there may feel this means that voters have repudiated the Obama presidency&#8230;  and then thrown it to the ground and stomped on it&#8230;  then set it on fire&#8230;  and then mocked its dying agonies&#8230;  while feeding the flames with crumpled Hope posters&#8230;  that once seemed to promise so very, very much and now are only ashes.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">And yet President Obama himself says he still believes he has the love of a grateful nation. The nation is Iran but Iranians are people too, some of them.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">To separate the facts from the things the president says, let’s turn to the sharp-eyed, clear-eyed, blue-eyed, google-eyed experts who populate the mainstream media.  Only their incisive analysis can help us reach the revolting truth.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">For instance, the mainstream Washington Post determined that this was a so-called Seinfeld election that was about nothing, whereas the mainstream Daily Beast allowed it was more of a Seinfeld election that was actually about nothing.  Mainstream New York magazine said this was really a Seinfeld election about nothing but mainstream columnists at CNN, Huffington Post and USA Today said this looked to them like a Seinfeld election and was about nothing.  This, of course, is as opposed to being, say, a screw-off-leftist-jackass election that was about telling leftist jackasses to screw off.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">The mainstream New York Times, a former newspaper, ran an op-ed saying there shouldn’t be any mid-term elections, while mainstream ABC, CBS and NBC simply pretended there weren’t any.  According to our friends at the Media Research Center, mainstream ABC World News Tonight went seven weeks in September and October without running a single story about the midterms, while mainstream NBC and CBS ran only a tiny percentage of the number of stories they ran before the Democrat midterm victory in 2006.  Network news executives were asked why they barely covered the upcoming Republican tsunami but they couldn’t hear the question because they had their fingers in their ears and were singing lalala very loudly.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">But in the wake of the crushing, excoriating, devastating, humiliating, crushing and humiliating and devastating and humiliating rejection of Obama and the Democrat agenda, mainstream news commentators were quick to explain how Republicans winning elections meant Republicans were losing elections.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Matthew Dowd from the mainstream ABC News network said the Republican election triumph left the Republican brand “still very damaged,” whereas Jim Vanderhei of the mainstream website Politico said the GOP victory will put the party in “a hell of a jam” and Mika Brzezinski at the extremely mainstream MSNBC said the Republican wave will hurt Republicans because it will “embolden their self-destructive ways.”</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">And while Republicans did crush the Democrats&#8230; and did see them driven before them while hearing the lamentations of their women, Ben Smith of the mainstream website Buzzfeed said the elections meant surprisingly little, while Chris Cillizza at the still mainstream Washington Post called the elections “boring, vapid and inconsequential.”  Chris Matthews made the following face.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">So there you have it:  according to the mainstream media, the midterms were elections about nothing that shouldn’t have been allowed and didn’t really happen but if they did they didn’t matter and Republicans lost them even if they won.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Now some of you may say this sort of election analysis only proves that so-called mainstream journalists are really just a bunch of ideologically corrupt leftist shills seeking to twist the facts to advance an extremist agenda that’s completely out of keeping with the founding principles of the United States.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">I’m Andrew Klavan with the Revolting Truth.</p>
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		<title>Quakers, Ferguson and Palestinians</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2014 05:10:53 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/gaza_ferguson.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245047" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/gaza_ferguson-450x299.jpg" alt="Pro-Palestinian protesters take part in a demonstration against the violence in the Gaza strip, in Lyon" width="296" height="197" /></a>The multimillion dollar American Friends Service Committee, with offices in several dozen U.S. cities and 14 other countries, is the nearly century old political advocacy arm of Quakers in the U.S. Rooted in the Quaker pacifist tradition, AFSC advocates a form of &#8220;peace&#8221; that has aligned it with countless dubious international causes over the decades, usually anti-American, anti-Western and often anti-Israel.</p>
<p>AFSC touts accommodation of Iran, for example, naturally more concerned about U.S. or Israeli military action than about a nuclear armed Iran. And AFSC endorses Palestinian nationalism in ways that of course demonize Israel while minimizing Palestinian terror.</p>
<p>But AFSC offered a somewhat new twist when recently highlighting a young Palestinian-American activist&#8217;s solidarity visit to, and arrest in, racially charged Ferguson, Missouri.</p>
<p>&#8220;When Mike Brown was murdered in Ferguson my people in Gaza were being slaughtered by Israel in Operation Protective Edge,&#8221; <a href="http://afsc.org/friends/ferguson-i-am-reminded-palestine">explained Bassem Masri</a> on AFSC&#8217;s blog.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;The timing of the two events woke up a lot of people. When Mike was killed, much of the media started demonizing him and the protestors, often the same sources that blamed Palestinians for their own deaths in Gaza. People naturally saw the connections.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Masri, a self-described “pissed off citizen,&#8221; said Americans have long &#8220;maligned&#8221; the Palestinian struggle for liberation, but at least the people of Ferguson now understand their common struggle.</p>
<p>&#8220;On those terrible nights in Ferguson when the police were attacking peaceful civilians with tear gas, Palestinians under Israeli occupation offered advice on how to deal with the effects of the gas,&#8221; Masri recounted.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Facing violence from an occupying force, whether in Palestine or Ferguson, forges a mindset that demands resistance and standing up for one’s community. When the police used military tanks and checkpoints to imprison the residents of Ferguson, I was reminded of life in the West Bank where I saw the Israeli military use the same tactics of repression.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Masri said while in Ferguson for protests he&#8217;s been &#8220;tear gassed, shot at with rubber bullets, and physically assaulted by the police&#8221; before his eventual imprisonment and &#8220;interrogation,&#8221; apparently just like his kindred on the West Bank. The commonality between the the two similar oppressions, he concluded, is clear: racism.</p>
<p>Arrested at a Walmart with a dozen other demonstrators, Masri was, unlike others, jailed over night, for having spat at a police officer. He denied the charge, admitting that he &#8220;curses and levels vulgar insults at police officers,&#8221; as evidently confirmed proudly on his own film, but no spitting. According to him, the police contrived the charge so as to browbeat him into becoming their &#8220;collaborator&#8221; against fellow resistance fighters, which naturally he bravely declined.</p>
<p>No doubt Masri enjoys the street theater, and no doubt the chronically aggrieved AFSC was moved by the shared struggles of Ferguson and the West Bank.  The ostensible Israeli repressions of Palestinians are virtually the only form of human rights abuses that typically interest Religious Left outlets like AFSC. But if the West Bank is egregiously suffering, it was not illustrated by a <a href="http://www.pewglobal.org/2014/10/30/people-in-emerging-markets-catch-up-to-advanced-economies-in-life-satisfaction/">Pew Research global survey</a> of health and happiness in various countries, including the Palestinian Territories that released only days after Masri&#8217;s vivid report for AFSC.</p>
<p>According to the Pew study, Palestinians see themselves as better off compared to five years ago at higher rates than do other Arab countries like Egypt, Jordan and Tunisia. Forty three percent of Palestinians said they were better, compared to 36 percent of Tunisians. Palestinians also reported higher satisfaction with their health, safety, education, standard of living and jobs than did Jordanians and Egyptians. Twice as many Palestinians reported overall happiness than did Jordanians, and Palestinians were nearly four times likelier to be happy than Egyptians. They were one third likelier to be happy than Tunisians.</p>
<p>None of which proves or even suggests that the Palestinians are living in Nirvana. But living standards and quality of life are better on the West Bank than in much of the developing world. Palestinians receive more international aid per capita than almost any other people group. There also likely are per capita more international human rights monitors among the Palestinians, from anti-Israel groups like AFSC, than almost anywhere else in the world.</p>
<p>Unsurprisingly, the AFSC blog, for which Masri wrote, features a special &#8220;Israel/Palestine&#8221; section, an honor not accorded to any other region. For the Religious Left, Israeli infractions against Palestinians merit very special attention.</p>
<p>Masri&#8217;s and AFSC&#8217;s correlation of Israeli oppression with oppression in Ferguson fits the Religious Left narrative that Israel and America are uniquely set apart in their moral failures. As Masri explained:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Our goal is to dismantle apartheid regimes wherever they exist. That is the most important link between Palestine and Ferguson, and it is the link that will make both struggles stronger.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Palestinians Being Evicted in Gaza</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2014 05:10:05 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/eviction-notice.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-244700" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/eviction-notice-428x350.jpg" alt="eviction-notice" width="344" height="281" /></a>Once more, Gaza&#8217;s border is in flames.</p>
<p>Civilians  are being evicted from their homes, a curfew has been imposed, and a crossing that enables Gazans to leave has been closed. Yet the world is silent. Isn&#8217;t that strange?</p>
<p>Hundreds of residents along one of Gaza&#8217;s borders have suddenly been ordered to evacuate, on just two days&#8217; notice. Their homes are to be demolished. There is no talk of compensation. Why isn&#8217;t the United Nations Security Council denouncing this outrage?</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Because it is Egypt, and not Israel, that is doing the evicting. (See the New York Times, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/29/world/middleeast/egypt-orders-evacuation-along-gaza-border-to-thwart-militants.html">October 28 edition</a>.)</p>
<p>The Egyptians have decided they need a buffer zone along their border with Gaza. They don&#8217;t trust the Hamas regime, which they say has been assisting terrorists who have been attacking Egyptian soldiers in the Sinai. Apparently Cairo does not accept the Obama Administration scripted fiction that the new Hamas-PA government is run by &#8220;technocrats.&#8221; Egypt understands that a Hamas-appointed &#8220;technocrat&#8221; is, first and foremost, a functionary of Hamas.</p>
<p>So the bulldozers are rumbling in Rafah. As a result of the Israel-Egypt peace treaty of 1979, the city of Rafah was split in half. Part of it is on the Gaza side of the border. Residents in the &#8220;Egyptian&#8221; part of town are now being evicted willy-nilly, in order to make room for a buffer zone that will be nine miles long, and with water-filled trenches that will be more than 500 yards wide &#8212; that&#8217;s half a kilometer, or five football fields.</p>
<p>Yet nary a word of protest from the White House, nor any suggestion of delaying any U.S. arms deliveries to Egypt.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s not all. In response to the recent attacks in Sinai, the Egyptians have imposed a dawn-to-dusk curfew all along the Egypt-Gaza border. In other words, no resident of Rafah can leave his or her home after dark, for any reason.</p>
<p>Yet Thomas Friedman has not written any columns in the New York Times with heart-rending stories about Rafah  women being forced to give birth in unsanitary conditions because they can&#8217;t travel to the local hospital after sundown.</p>
<p>Egypt has also shut down the only crossing along the Egyptian side of the Gaza border. With the passageway closed, no Gazan can get out.</p>
<p>So where are the snarky political cartoonists depicting Gaza as a Holocaust-era ghetto? Nor is Secretary of State John Kerry warning of Egypt becoming ostracized and isolated in the world. Western academics are not threatening to boycott their Egyptian counterparts. J Street is not lobbying for U.S. intervention against this new assault on Arab civilians.</p>
<p>Could the hypocrisy of the international community be any more blatant?</p>
<p>Evidently, if they genuinely cared about the well-being of the residents of Rafah, the White House would be holding up arms to Egypt &#8212; exactly as it held up Hellfire missiles to Israel. If he were sincerely concerned about Arab lives, Thomas Friedman would be blasting the Egyptians on the op-ed page of the New York Times. If they truly wanted to help the evacuees, J Street&#8217;s lobbyists would be working overtime to get the Obama Administration to intervene against Cairo.</p>
<p>But the truth is that they don&#8217;t really care about the welfare of Arab civilians at all, unless there is an opportunity to bash Israel. When Arabs are mistreated by their fellow-Arabs, the State Department and the pundits and the &#8220;peace camp&#8221; fall silent.</p>
<p>So let&#8217;s all learn an important lesson from this experience. Israel and its supporters should stop worrying about the latest Thomas Friedman diatribe or the latest J Street conference or the latest unfriendly remarks by the Obama White House and the State Department. They will go on blaming Israel &#8212; and excusing Egypt and other Arab countries &#8212; no matter what. Nothing Israel does will ever satisfy them &#8212; so there&#8217;s no point in trying.</p>
<p><em>This article has been updated. </em></p>
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		<title>Why Obama Hates Netanyahu</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Israeli prime minster has become an honorary Republican.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/obama-evil-eye-2.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-244105" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/obama-evil-eye-2.jpg" alt="obama-evil-eye 2" width="297" height="232" /></a>Obama’s foreign policy was supposed to reboot America’s relationship with the rest of the world. Old allies would become people we occasionally talked to. Old enemies would become new allies. Goodbye Queen, hello Vladimir. Trade the Anglosphere for Latin America’s Marxist dictatorships. Replace allied governments in the Middle East with Islamists and call it a day for the Caliphate.</p>
<p>Very little of that went according to plan.</p>
<p>Obama is still stuck with Europe. The Middle East and Latin American leftists still hate America. The Arab Spring imploded. Japan, South Korea and India have conservative governments.</p>
<p>And then there’s Israel.</p>
<p>The original plan was to sideline Israel by focusing on the Muslim world. Instead of directly hammering Israel, the administration would transform the region around it. The American-Israeli relationship would implode not through conflict, but because the Muslim Brotherhood countries would take its place.</p>
<p>That didn’t work out too well. Instead of gracefully pivoting away, Obama loudly snubbed Netanyahu. A photo of him poking his finger in Netanyahu’s chest captured the atmosphere. Netanyahu delivered a speech that Congress cheered. And Obama came to see him as a domestic political opponent.</p>
<p>The torrent of anti-Israel leaks from the administration is a treatment usually reserved for political opponents. The snide remarks by White House spokesmen and the anonymous personal attacks on Netanyahu in the media echo domestic hate campaigns out of the White House like Operation Rushbo.</p>
<p>Netanyahu wasn’t just the leader of a country that the left hated. He had become an honorary Republican.</p>
<p>When Obama met with him, Netanyahu firmly but politely challenged him on policy. He has kept on doing so ever since, including during his most recent visit. At a time when most leaders had gotten the message about shunning Romney, Netanyahu was happy to give him a favorable reception. Netanyahu clearly wanted Romney to win and Obama clearly wished he could pull a Clinton and replace Netanyahu. But Netanyahu’s economic policies were working in exactly the same way that Obama’s weren’t.</p>
<p>The two men hate each other not only on a personal level, but also on a political level.</p>
<p>Netanyahu had successfully pushed through a modernization and privatization agenda that on this side of the ocean is associated with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper or Wisconsin governor Scott Walker. It’s likely what Romney would have done which is one more reason the two men got along so well. Obama’s visible loathing for Romney is of a piece with his hatred for Netanyahu.</p>
<p>He doesn’t just hate them. He hates what they stand for. That’s why Harper and Netanyahu get along so well. It’s part of why Obama and Netanyahu get along so badly.</p>
<p>But the bigger part of the conflict is neither personal nor political. Obama wanted to sideline Israel; instead he’s stuck dealing with it. Hillary’s lack of foreign policy ambition allowed the Jewish State to come through fairly well in Obama’s first term. For Hillary, being Secretary of State was just a stepping stone to the White House by making her rerun candidacy seem fresh. Her relationship with Israel was bad, but her first job was not to make any waves.</p>
<p>John Kerry ambitiously jumped into multiple foreign policy arenas. His bid for a deal between Israel and the PLO was a predictable disaster. And he took Obama along for the ride. It’s unknown if Obama blames Kerry for the mess that ensued when his proposals collapsed into war, but there’s little doubt that he now hates Netanyahu more than ever.</p>
<p>The war dragged Obama deep into the confusing political waters of the region. His attempt to back the Turkish and Qatari empowerment of Hamas in the negotiations ended with Egypt and the Saudis scoring a win. It was hardly Netanyahu’s fault that Obama once again chose to side with a state sponsor of terror, but it’s safer to blame Netanyahu for the humiliation than the leaders of Egypt and Saudi Arabia.</p>
<p>And then there’s Iran. Netanyahu remains the loudest voice against an Obama agreement to let Iran go nuclear. No matter how many talking heads defend the deal, he blows away all their hot air.</p>
<p>Not only did Obama fail to sideline Israel, but he’s stuck dealing with Netanyahu. And no matter how much he may view Netanyahu as an Israeli Romney, he can’t quite openly treat him like Romney because there are plenty of Jewish Democrats who still haven’t realized his true feelings for Israel.</p>
<p>Both men are stuck together. Egypt hates Obama more than it did before he overthrew its original government. Iraq and Syria are war zones. The Saudis are actively undermining Obama’s policies. Israel is still America’s best ally in the region and that interdependency frustrates him even more.</p>
<p>Obama wanted to destroy the American-Israeli relationship. Instead he’s entangled in it. He blames Netanyahu for the situation even though the mess is mostly of his own making.</p>
<p>Despite the myths about the vast powers of the lobby, Israel has never been at the heart of American foreign policy. And under Obama, it’s been on the outskirts in every sense of the word. Israel is back to being a major concern of American foreign policy mostly because of Obama’s massive failures in every other part of the region and Kerry’s belief that he could somehow succeed where everyone else failed.</p>
<p>Netanyahu’s presence reminds Obama of his own failures. If everything had gone according to plan, America would be experiencing a new age of amity with the Muslim world. Instead he’s stuck bombing Iraq and reaffirming the special relationship with Israel almost as if he were on Bush’s fourth term.</p>
<p>It’s not the way that the international flavor of Hope and Change was supposed to taste.</p>
<p>Obama hates Israel. He hates Netanyahu. And their continuing presence in Washington D.C. reminds him of his inability to transform American foreign policy. Their very existence humiliates him.</p>
<p>He knows that directly lashing out at Israel would alienate the Jewish supporters he still needs. Despite his effort to displace pro-Israel voices with J Street, the Jewish community is still pro-Israel. And so he resorts to passive aggressive behavior like snubbing the Israeli Defense Minister or anonymous officials in the administration taunting Netanyahu as a “coward” and “chickens__t” in the media.</p>
<p>It takes a courageous administration to anonymously call the leader of a tiny country a coward. It’s childish behavior, but this is an administration of children overseen by a man whose response to his opponent’s accurate reading of the world situation was to taunt him about the “1980s” and “horses and bayonets.”</p>
<p>While Obama’s people anonymously taunt Netanyahu as a coward, it’s their boss who acts like a coward, stabbing Israel in the back, slandering its leader anonymously through the media and then trying to sell himself to Jewish donors as the Jewish State’s best friend in the White House.</p>
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		<title>Hysterical Media Tell Us to Calm Down</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2014 04:25:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Democrats now oppose the "politics of fear"?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Rachel-Maddow-on-Perry-indictment-081514-MSNBC-800x430.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-244093" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Rachel-Maddow-on-Perry-indictment-081514-MSNBC-800x430-450x333.jpg" alt="Rachel-Maddow-on-Perry-indictment-081514-MSNBC-800x430" width="318" height="235" /></a>In the past week, The New York Times has ridiculed Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Gov. Chris Christie for having &#8220;fed panic&#8221; by ordering quarantines for health workers arriving from Ebola-plagued countries.</p>
<p>NBC News&#8217; Brian Williams opened his broadcast last Friday announcing that the Obama administration was trying &#8220;to restrain the Ebola panic.&#8221;</p>
<p>MSNBC&#8217;s Rachel Maddow complained that the &#8220;hysteria&#8221; over Ebola was getting &#8220;stupider.&#8221;</p>
<p>I haven&#8217;t noticed any panic. If you want panic, review media coverage of the police shooting in Ferguson, Missouri. That hair-on-fire coverage was based entirely, it turns out, on the media&#8217;s gullibly swallowing inaccurate accounts of the incident.</p>
<p>For decades liberals have terrified soccer moms about a slew of imaginary terrors: global warming, Alar on apples, breast implants, heterosexual AIDS, nuclear war, and Republicans taking away their birth control.</p>
<p>Nannies rushed to grade schools to yank apples out of little children&#8217;s hands, elderly married couples got tested for AIDS, and students at Ivy League colleges demanded that their health departments stock cyanide pills in case of nuclear attack. (Because the Russkies were definitely hitting Ithaca, New York, and Providence, Rhode Island, first.)</p>
<p>And then, except for a few heterosexual AIDS victims &#8212; who also happened to be intravenous drug users &#8212; no American ever died from a single one of these liberal-hyped dangers. I do not recall, for example, ever hearing of a nurse acquiring AIDS from treating an AIDS patient, certainly not a nurse wearing a spacesuit, as the Ebola-infected nurses were.</p>
<p>Within the past few years, Rachel Maddow has been panicked about (among many, many other things):</p>
<p>&#8211; Right-wing hillbillies murdering census workers (the census worker committed suicide in an attempted insurance fraud);</p>
<p>&#8211; Republican budget cuts killing us when bridges collapse (the Minnesota bridge collapsed because of a design flaw, not budget cuts);</p>
<p>&#8211; Gun rights supporters plotting another Oklahoma City bombing (they had assembled on April 19, the anniversary of the bombing &#8212; which also happens to be the anniversary of the battles of Lexington and Concord).</p>
<p>But now, the political party that specializes in hysteria has suddenly become too-cool-for-school about a deadly disease being brought to our country for no reason. Oh, you big pussy, you won&#8217;t get Ebola.</p>
<p>Let the record reflect, Democrats now oppose &#8220;the politics of fear&#8221; &#8212; as NBC&#8217;s Chuck Todd dubbed concerns about Ebola.</p>
<p>Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire accused her Republican opponent, Scott Brown, of &#8220;fear-mongering&#8221; about Ebola, but she sure didn&#8217;t mind fear-mongering on health care. In order to pass the widely unpopular Obamacare, Shaheen carried on about insurance companies&#8217; obscene profits and hectored, &#8220;We cannot wait!&#8221;</p>
<p>The New York Daily News&#8217; Denis Hamill wrote five hysterical columns on Ferguson. One was titled, &#8220;Is this Selma in 1965?&#8221; But when it comes to a disease that kills more than half of the people it infects, he says, &#8220;Take a chill pill.&#8221;</p>
<p>How about telling the deranged protesters in Ferguson to &#8220;take a chill pill&#8221;?</p>
<p>After years of Republican candidates having to assure voters that it would require several million policemen to take away every woman&#8217;s birth control kit &#8212; but that was an excellent question! &#8212; it&#8217;s too much to have to listen to liberals scoff at a disease with a 70 percent fatality rate.</p>
<p>Ebola is a lot more dangerous than any of the fears whipped up by liberals. Peter Piot, the Flemish scientist who discovered Ebola in 1976, recently told the British Guardian:</p>
<p>&#8220;I always thought that Ebola, in comparison to AIDS or malaria, didn&#8217;t present much of a problem because the outbreaks were always brief and local. Around June it became clear to me that there was something fundamentally different about this outbreak. &#8230; We Flemish tend to be rather unemotional, but it was at that point that I began to get really worried.&#8221;</p>
<p>A few days ago, Piot described the screening being done at arrival airports as &#8220;not that effective, to be honest,,&#8221; adding, &#8220;The most cost-effective method is to screen people before they take the plane.&#8221;</p>
<p>(Speaking of which, where did the CDC&#8217;s Tom Frieden go? Does he have Ebola?)</p>
<p>It&#8217;s beyond idiotic for the media to keep condescendingly instructing Americans that they are more likely to die in a car accident, from food poisoning, skin cancer or heart disease, than from Ebola.</p>
<p>We know that. We have rationally accepted the tradeoffs in order to get places quickly, dine in restaurants, walk on the beach and eat steak. Those are risks prudently taken in exchange for something we deem more valuable.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s the upside of bringing Ebola here? And why on earth is the Obama administration preparing to import non-citizen Ebolees? It&#8217;s perfectly logical for Americans to ask, &#8220;What are we getting out of this?&#8221; But the only answer they get is: We can&#8217;t build a fence around the country!</p>
<p>We&#8217;re not seeing &#8220;panic.&#8221; What we&#8217;re seeing is rage that the country is having a deadly disease foist on it for no good reason.</p>
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		<title>A Bowla Ebola Idiocy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2014 04:54:07 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/1413172032725_wps_25_NBC_s_chief_medial_corres.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-243117" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/1413172032725_wps_25_NBC_s_chief_medial_corres-348x350.jpg" alt="1413172032725_wps_25_NBC_s_chief_medial_corres" width="247" height="248" /></a>On Monday, The Daily Mail reported that NBC&#8217;s chief medical correspondent, Nancy Snyderman, had a hankering for a bowl of soup from Peasant Grill in Hopewell Boro, New Jersey. So she hopped in her car with one of her crewmembers and headed over to the Grill. When she got to the restaurant, she had her crewmember run inside, grab the soup, and run back out.</p>
<p>There was only one problem: Both Snyderman and her crewmember were under mandatory quarantine for 21 days. That quarantine was a result of their journey to Liberia to cover the Ebola outbreak, a journey during which cameraman Ashoka Mukpo contracted the disease. The authorities made the quarantine mandatory after another of the crewmembers violated a voluntary quarantine last week.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s one thing for Liberian citizen Thomas Eric Duncan to carry around an Ebola-ridden woman, get on an airplane to Dallas, walk into a hospital with symptoms, and then walk out again. Such behavior can be attributed, at least in part, to ignorance. It&#8217;s another thing entirely for a highly educated medical professional to endanger those around her for some miso.</p>
<p>But that&#8217;s the world of the media, where the proper response to the possibility of contracting Ebola is, &#8220;Don&#8217;t you know who I am?&#8221; Double standards abound here; media members lather Americans into a frenzy over the threat of a disease that has, to date, claimed a grand total of one life in the United States. Then they go out for lunch in public after being told that they could be carrying the virus.</p>
<p>The Snyderman story is truly part of a broader egocentrism in the media. The media didn&#8217;t give one whit about the Internal Revenue Service targeting conservative non-profit applicants — but they went absolutely batty over the Department of Justice targeting reporters.</p>
<p>The media don&#8217;t seem to care very much about demands for transparency from the Obama administration by the American public — but they&#8217;re fighting mad about the Obama administration&#8217;s refusal to let them photograph him golfing. After all, it&#8217;s one thing for normal Americans to get stiffed, and quite another for our betters to feel the effects of government&#8217;s heavy hand.</p>
<p>The gap between the media elite and the general population has a deleterious impact on America&#8217;s political future. Media members seem to have no problem with incompetent government overreach so long as they prosper, which is why so few media members worry over Democratic proposals to limit First Amendment press freedoms to government-designated &#8220;journalists.&#8221;</p>
<p>The American people suffer thanks to this elitism. The days of the adversarial media are ending — most investigative journalism now falls to the blogosphere or the foreign press. The corrupt relationship between media and government means that Americans don&#8217;t find out about overreach and incompetence until far too late for them to do anything about it.</p>
<p>And so the gap grows. No wonder Snyderman went for soup while under quarantine. After all, it&#8217;s not like all those other customers work for NBC, or anything.</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2014 04:55:05 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/o-HILLARY-CLINTON-facebook.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-241469" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/o-HILLARY-CLINTON-facebook-450x332.jpg" alt="Key Speakers At The Clinton Global Initiative" width="313" height="231" /></a>The First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia described the reforms which resulted in the Prague Spring as &#8220;socialism with a human face.&#8221; The <i>New York Times</i> calls <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/even-the-new-york-times-vox-and-huffpo-pan-cbss-hillary-clinton-show-madam-secretary/">Madam Secretary</a>, CBS&#8217;s extremely expensive prime time contribution to the Hillary campaign, &#8220;Hillary with a human face.&#8221;</p>
<p>A network series can cost between $3 and $4 million an episode. Assuming that Madam Secretary runs even one season, instead of being canceled ignominiously like Commander in Chief, the 2005 attempt at giving Hillary a human face, it will cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $100 million.</p>
<p>That’s double the $46 million that Hillary’s campaign spent on TV ads against Obama and it gives the Hillary 2016 campaign over 20 hours of prime time network unpaid ad space. If the series lasts long enough to run through the whole campaign that will double to $200 million. But the Hillary 2016 campaign is expected to cost around $2 billion. CBS’s $100 million donation is only a drop in a big bucket.</p>
<p>There’s more than a whiff of Kim Jong-Il, Stalin and Saddam Hussein about needing so many actors to portray a current politician. But Madam Secretary reeks of political insecurity. A similar series about Obama would have been worshipful. Madam Secretary is nervously revisionist. It’s desperately trying to glue an appealing human face over the Hillary mask that Hillary Clinton wears over her real face.</p>
<p>Hillary won’t be able to get anyone to play Hillary Clinton once she actually runs for office. Lori McCreary, the executive producer of Madam Secretary, said <a href="http://dailysignal.com/2014/09/19/benghazi-moment-inspired-tvs-madam-secretary/">that she was inspired to create</a> the $100 million Hillary infomercial by watching the Benghazi hearings. Her obvious unspoken thought was that the scene of Hillary doing her best Khrushchev imitation while self-righteously covering up the brutal murder of four Americans would have gone much better if someone else had been playing Hillary.</p>
<p>Hillary isn’t very good at playing Hillary the way that Obama was at playing Obama. The Obama character was a charming rogue who could always find the right put down to dismiss criticisms of his inexperience and extremism. No one could have played the fake Obama better than the real Obama.</p>
<p>Hillary’s liberal supporters wish that she could play the Hillary of their imagination as well as Obama portrayed their imaginary Obama. Two years before the Hillary campaign, they recruited Geena Davis to be Hillary’s human face in Commander in Chief. Now they know that they can’t count on more than a season of Hillary TV so they waited this long to debut Tea Leoni as Hillary in Madam Secretary.</p>
<p>Hillary Clinton isn’t the first Clinton to get an airbrushed fictional Hollywood substitute. Rob Reiner and Aaron Sorkin debuted a fictionalized version of Bill Clinton’s sex scandals with The American President. Not only did Michael Douglas class up the Clintons by playing Bill, but he was conveniently enough a bachelor romancing a liberal woman of his own class. It had as much to do with the reality of Bill’s groping frenzies as Madam Secretary’s take on Benghazi has to do with Hillary shopping for bad art while leaving a band of unpaid Islamic terrorists to “protect” the diplomatic mission in Benghazi.</p>
<p>The American President, like Madam Secretary, understood that it had to get rid of Hillary.</p>
<p>The Democratic Party has once again built up an elaborate pageant around a candidate. Gender will be swapped in for race. It’s a massive production that began with Hillary <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/why-hillary-clinton-will-lose-again/">receiving virtually every award known to man</a> and is meant to end with her political coronation that will secure the party’s image as progressive barrier-breakers. But Hillary doesn’t seem to know her lines and neither do her stand ins.</p>
<p>A professional actress playing Hillary could do better, but even Hillary substitutes don’t come out that much more popular than Hillary.</p>
<p>The Hillary Clinton book, written by someone else, was a flop. The Hillary Clinton book tour to sell the book was also a flop. The reviews are in for Madam Secretary and the word on the critic street is flopsville. No one really likes watching propaganda infomercials that take no risks and offer no rewards.</p>
<p>Commander in Chief went through three showrunners and barely one season. Madam Secretary will try to wring as much sympathy as it can out of her confrontations with the mean Dick Cheney substitute, scenes of her shoveling horse manure (all-too appropriate) and trying to balance work and family, but there’s only so much Hillary cynicism that even liberal television critics seem to be able to stomach.</p>
<p>The <i>Huffington Post</i> describes Madam Secretary as “contrived, predictable and seemingly allergic to ambiguity and subtext.” That’s also a really good description of Hillary Clinton. The two fictional Hillary Clintons, played by Tea Leoni and Hillary Clinton, have that much in common. They’re shallow creatures who would rather fish for sympathy votes and ratings than actually stand on their own merits</p>
<p>At press events, Tea Leoni insists that her Hillary lookalike is really based on Henry Kissinger. Hillary Clinton launched a book tour with stops at the Hamptons by claiming to have been flat broke. There’s something about being Hillary that makes one snap and tell crazy lies because the truth is just too awful.</p>
<p>The truth is that CBS, whose <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/cbss-hillary-clinton-show-madam-secretary-to-ref-benghazi/">boss was a big Hillary donor</a> last time around, is dropping a fortune on an illegal campaign commercial for a mediocre candidate who has never held any public office that she didn’t receive based on her husband’s political connections. The truth is that Hillary Clinton’s politics are both radical and boring and covering them up along with her corrupt dealings has made her paranoid.</p>
<p>The biggest threat to the creators of Hillary infomercials has been Hillary. Hillary Clinton disapproves of experiments to create a Hillary with a human face the way that Moscow disapproved of efforts to create Socialism with a human face. Like Brezhnev, Hillary responded by sending in the tanks.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/lights-camera-hillary/">CNN tried to develop a Hillary documentary</a>. <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/cnn-joins-nbc-in-producing-hillary-propaganda-flick/">NBC wanted to air a Hillary Clinton miniseries</a> which would have tasked Diane Lane with giving Hillary a human face. CNN and NBC were forced to abort after threats from David Brock, Hillary’s paranoid Media Matters attack dog, ended the Hillary Spring.</p>
<p>As the temperatures fall and the leaves die on the trees, CBS’s Madam Secretary is all that’s left.</p>
<p>Charles Ferguson, the leftist hack behind the CNN doc, attempted to reach Hillary to speak with her. <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/cnn-hillary-documentarian-calls-cancellation-of-film-a-victory-for-the-clintons/">&#8221; He was told</a>, “Over my dead body.”</p>
<p>That’s the real Hillary and it’s why she so desperately needs a human face. The real Hillary isn’t a mother figure. She’s <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/hillary-clinton-helped-child-rapist-get-off-attacked-12-year-old-victim/">the lawyer who laughed about how she freed the rapist</a> of a 12-year girl who had been beaten into a coma. The real Hillary isn’t the open box thinker of Madam Secretary; she’s a hack who did her best to stay under the radar during her time as Secretary of State to protect her political ambitions.</p>
<p>Hillary is a creature of masks because what is underneath is both banal and evil. Socialism with a human face from the Communist Party didn’t fix Communism. Sticking Tea Leoni, Geena Davis or Diane Lane’s face on Hillary Clinton won’t make her human. It makes her an inhuman Hollywood Frankencreation.</p>
<p>Obama could play Hollywood’s idea of a fictional president. Hillary Clinton just freezes up and her smile turns into a grimace as she sits waiting for an assistant to feed her the next scripted line.</p>
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		<title>&#8216;Hold On, They Got a White Dude&#8217; in Memphis</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2014 04:15:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Colin Flaherty]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Laughter accompanies a black mob beating a white victim into unconsciousness. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/zx1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-240495" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/zx1-355x350.jpg" alt="zx" width="279" height="275" /></a>“Hold on, they got a white dude.” And it sure seemed like fun &#8212; if the laughing and shrieking on this latest video of black mob violence is any indication.</p>
<p>This racial mayhem happened <span tabindex="0" data-term="goog_28276789">Saturday</span> night in Memphis at a Kroger’s department store. <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/hold-got-white-dude-three-unconscious/">WMCA Channel 5 out of Jackson</a>, Mississippi picks up the story, all of it except the central organizing feature of the violence: All of the hundreds of people involved in the mayhem and violence are black. Except the victims. They are white:</p>
<p>&#8220;Three people were jumped by a large group of teenagers who were chanting &#8216;fam mob.&#8217;&#8221; The group, who came from CiCi&#8217;s Pizza, reportedly attacked a 25-year-old customer as he left his car to enter Kroger. Two employees, ages 17 and 18, were attacked while trying to stop the fight. Both were &#8220;struck several times in the head and face, while being knocked to the ground.&#8221; The victims say large pumpkins were thrown at their heads. They both eventually were knocked unconscious.”</p>
<p>However serious it seemed to the victims, the predators and their videographer were having a good time. Laughing and running.</p>
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<p>Former prison psychologist Marlin Newburn has been on the front lines of racial violence for more than 30 years. Newburn said the laughing is part of the large-scale violence, something he has seen many times before:</p>
<p>“These predators were merely living out their preferred lifestyle, a primary part of the black culture, as opposed to a subculture,” said Newburn. “This lifestyle of one of sadistic and primitive impulse where they believe themselves to be 10 feet tall, bullet proof, very smart, good looking, gifted, and tougher than anyone. If you&#8217;re thinking that&#8217;s the narcissism common among pre-adolescent children, ages 6 through 12 inclusive, you&#8217;d be correct.”</p>
<blockquote><p>This population lives without any sense of personal responsibility or boundaries with others. When assaulting or killing someone, the absence of a conscience is considered among their peers as an indicator of strength and power. Expressing joy in the process only heightens their street cred. Most all are functionally illiterate, but one lesson most all of them have learned from their elders, beginning in their earliest years, is to hate white people.</p></blockquote>
<p>This video of large scale black mob violence in Memphis comes just a few days after news of a similar incident — with a smaller crowd — became public in Milwaukee. The outcome was different too.</p>
<p>Police say Carmon Powell was part of a group of black people who were robbing the largely white crowd in a Milwaukee entertainment district. At least 35 times over the last few months.</p>
<p>The local <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/hold-got-white-dude-three-unconscious/">Fox News affiliate reports</a> the details:</p>
<blockquote><p>“A criminal complaint says Powell was in a group of teens that admitted to carjackings and armed robberies in a four-day crime spree. One member of the group wanted to do just one more. They confronted a group of people near 2nd and National. One member of the robbery group fired at the victims. A victim took out his own 9MM and fired back — the robbers left.”</p>
<p>“Afterward, Powell remembered he left his backpack at the scene, he went back. The complaint says the victims were still hiding behind cars, Powell reached into his bag and walked towards them. Fearing Powell was retrieving a gun, the victims fired one shot striking Powell.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Powell’s Facebook page is littered with him brandishing various weapons, including an AK-47. A combat rifle.</p>
<p>Just a month ago, Joshua Drake, another member of the mob, was shot trying to rob a Milwaukee boutique. The manager of the store, Lupe Aguilar, had recently bought a gun and used it to defend herself and kill Drake.</p>
<p><a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/hold-got-white-dude-three-unconscious/">A day before Drake tried to rob the boutique, he told his friends</a> he was getting his life together.  He had a lengthy criminal history.</p>
<p>It was the third robbery at the store within a month.</p>
<p>There have not been any since.</p>
<p>Immediately prior to the latest fatal shooting of the miscreant, this mob ran into another <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/hold-got-white-dude-three-unconscious/">Milwaukee woman, who was lucky to escape with her life. Fox News in Milwaukee </a>was the only station who thought it important enough to track her down:</p>
<p>“He was at my side with a gun at point-blank range,” the woman says.</p>
<p>“She says she picked up a friend early <span tabindex="0" data-term="goog_28276790">Monday</span> morning, September 1st.&#8221; In an instant, a gun was at her head. “He said ‘don’t move.’ He opened the door and said, ‘Give me everything you have,&#8217;” the woman said.”</p>
<p>“Two other teens went to attack her friend — a theology student who began to pray.”</p>
<p>“Neither had much money to give the teens. The woman says two other teens yelled to the boy who held her at gunpoint. “It was just — ‘shoot them. They have nothing. Just shoot them. Kill them,&#8217;” the woman says. The woman says the teens took her cell phone. She says she begged for her life, as the mother of a young boy.”</p>
<p>“The phone they had had a picture of my son as the backdrop and I said ‘that little boy on the phone — he’s five,&#8217;” the woman said.</p>
<p>The woman says the group of teens took off.</p>
<p>The Powell shooting is at least the fourth perpetrator of black-on-white violence killed in Milwaukee this year. In March, a group of black people held down and beat a maintenance worker in Milwaukee with a baseball bat.</p>
<p>He shot and killed two of them.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2014 04:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Noah Beck]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gaza remains the West's blind spot, even though the Hamas-ISIS parallels are glaringly obvious.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/terrorism-2.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-240212" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/terrorism-2-450x337.jpg" alt="terrorism-2" width="279" height="209" /></a>The ISIS beheadings of two U.S. journalists within two weeks &#8212; first James Foley and now Steven Satloff &#8212; have raised alarm bells in the West about Islamist threats. But Israel has been facing this specter for decades and – given Israel’s proximity to the Islamist threat – the Jewish state is the canary in the coal mine for the West. But Gaza seems to be the Western blind spot, even though the Hamas-ISIS parallels are glaringly obvious.</p>
<p>Since beheadings are the current media focus, and ISIS has beheaded infants, it’s worth noting that <a href="http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/5110.htm">Hamas praised the 2011 Itamar murders</a>, which involved <a href="http://www.thejc.com/news/israel-news/62769/fogel-murderers-family-praises-hero-killer">the decapitation of a baby</a>. Islamist beheadings should surprise no one, given that they’ve been happening for much of (and despite) modernity – perhaps because “Islam is the only major world religion today that is cited…to legitimize beheadings,” <a href="http://www.meforum.org/713/beheading-in-the-name-of-islam">according to this study.</a></p>
<p>While there have been no reported Hamas beheadings of journalists, the similarities between Hamas and ISIS are more important than their differences.</p>
<p>Both would like to establish a Caliphate. Hamas Interior Minister declared as much in <a href="http://www.memri.org/clip/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/4063.htm">this 2013 speech</a>.</p>
<p>Both gain and keep power through savagery and fear. Hamas rose to power in Gaza thanks to its violent, 2007 coup, and<a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-says-it-foiled-hamas-plan-for-coup-against-pa-in-west-bank/"> recently planned a second putsch (in the West Bank)</a>. Hamas famously <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/palestinian-horror-2-thrown-death-article-1.222464">threw its political opponents off rooftops</a>.</p>
<p>Like ISIS, Hamas uses <a href="http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/teaching-terror-how-hamas-radicalizes-palestinian-society">clinics, schools, mosques, and charities to gain legitimacy</a>, and <a href="http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=455">inculcates children with the values of jihadi terror</a>. A Vice documentary exposed how <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/vice-isis-video-child-indoctrination-2014-8">ISIS indoctrinates and uses children for war</a>, but Hamas has been doing so for years, educating <a href="http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=846">children to worship death</a> and <a href="http://www.thetower.org/hamas-training-tens-of-thousands-of-child-soldiers/">using child soldiers</a>.</p>
<p>Hamas’ use of human shields has been widely documented (and proven very effective in <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/middle-east-unrest/public-support-israel-shifting-amid-gaza-war-britain-warns-n168366">turning public opinion against Israel</a> by exponentially increasing Gazan civilian casualties). ISIS used <a href="http://www.aina.org/news/20140806040459.htm">500 Yazidi captives</a> and <a href="http://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/iraqonthebrink/isis-may-use-39-indian-hostages-as-human-shields-fears-govt/article1-1232180.aspx">39 abducted Indians</a> as human shields.</p>
<p>ISIS is known for its expulsion of Christians from Mosul and its genocidal <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/08/19/us-iraq-security-yazidis-survivor-idUSKBN0GJ1A620140819?irpc=932">murder of Yazidis</a> and<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/19/world/meast/christians-flee-mosul-iraq/"> Christians who refuse to convert to Islam or pay the jizyah</a>. Hamas would undoubtedly behave the same way towards the religious minorities within its reach, if Israeli Jews didn’t have the protection of a superior military, and if Hamas didn’t depend on international donations to Gaza that might dry up after a wholesale slaughter of the tiny Christian community there. But even with these checks on Hamas’ brutality, Hamas regularly practices and preaches religious hatred. For years, <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/126388#.U_Gb7vldXHQ">Hamas has attacked Christians</a>, including <a href="http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/insideisrael/2009/December/Rights-Group-Hamas-Desecrated-Christian-Graves-/">defiling Christian graves, abducting and murdering Christians</a>, and more recently <a href="http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/insideisrael/2014/august/gaza-bishop-hamas-used-church-to-fire-rockets-/">using a Gazan church to launch rockets at Israel</a>. Hamas preaches <a href="http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&amp;doc_id=8091">hateful incitement against Jews</a>, has <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2008/09/74666/">desecrated Jewish holy sites</a>, and has <a href="http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/foreignpolicy/terrorism/palestinian/pages/hamas%20terror%20attacks%2022-mar-2004.aspx">murdered hundreds of Jews in terrorist attacks</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/vanessa-thevathasan/the-modus-operandi-of-isi_b_5680968.html">ISIS uses Sharia to justify its barbaric treatment of women</a>. Also enamored with Sharia, Hamas treats women as<a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/un-cancels-gaza-marathon-over-hamas-ban-on-women/"> second-class citizens</a> and <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2014/03/upsurge-palestinian-honour-killings-gaza-201432372831899701.html">endorses honor killings</a>.</p>
<p>Like ISIS, Hamas <a href="http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/5296.htm">advocates the death penalty for homosexuals</a>, lets <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/oct/24/gaza-theme-park-attack-arson">Islamic morality police govern</a> economic activity, and <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/127508">punishes crime with lashings, amputations, and executions</a>. There have been no broadcast beheadings of homosexuals by ISIS yet, but such horrors can’t be far off, given that ISIS fighters <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2702701/British-ISIS-fighter-Syria-told-Panorama-wants-suicide-bomber-convicted-twice-spreading-hatred-against-gay-people.html">include gay-hating Westerners</a>.</p>
<p>Hamas <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/03/world/middleeast/03gaza.html">condemned the assassination of Osama Bin Laden</a> and ISIS aspires to surpass him.</p>
<p>Yet, astonishingly, <a href="http://pjmedia.com/ronradosh/2014/07/09/as-hamas-attacks-israel-with-rockets-the-obama-administration-and-the-liberals-call-for-israeli-restraint/">President Obama and liberals have continually called for restraint</a> when Israel’s military has confronted Hamas (after Hamas’ countless attacks against Israeli civilians) and Obama has pressed Israel to negotiate with Hamas (as if the U.S. would ever negotiate with ISIS). Worse still, the Obama administration <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/john-kerry-the-betrayal/">tried to advance Hamas’ negotiating position</a> and recently <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-us-secretly-agreed-on-gradual-easing-of-gaza-blockade/">pressured Israel into letting Hamas keep its military capabilities</a>. Given the opportunity to obliterate ISIS’ terrorist infrastructure, would the U.S. ever spare any part of it?</p>
<p>Even more troubling – in terms of the perils involved – is Obama’s feckless strategy towards the Iranian regime, which is the world’s chief sponsor of Islamist terrorist groups (including Hamas and Hezbollah). Like so many Islamist terrorist organizations, Iran <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/08/12/iran-s-new-gay-executions.html">executes homosexuals</a>; <a href="http://www.awid.org/Library/The-Status-of-Violence-Against-Women-in-Islamic-Republic-of-Iran">mistreats women</a>; <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/03/21/irans-regime-targets-evangelical-christians-as-national-security-threat/">persecutes religious minorities</a>; employs barbaric, <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/06/05/embracing-stone-age-iran-retains-medieval-penalty-for-adultery/">Sharia-law punishments</a> (like amputation and stoning); and <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-devito/post_2729_b_1140289.html">brutalizes political dissenters (among myriad other human rights violations)</a>. But unlike the terrorist organizations, Iran could theoretically acquire a nuclear weapons capability <a href="http://www.iranwatch.org/our-publications/articles-reports/irans-nuclear-timetable">in under two months</a>. Imagine an Islamist state, which openly supports Islamist terrorists, possessing nukes. Alarmingly, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/iran-nuclear-negotiations-extended-deadline-obama-boxed-in-2014-7">Obama’s overall approach and eagerness to negotiate any deal he can get</a> with Iran have signaled weakness in a region that respects only strength. As if to laugh at Obama’s naiveté, <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/aug/18/despite-less-sanctions-iran-backs-hamas/">the Iranian regime has continued supporting Hamas despite the sanctions relief that Obama delivered</a> to the Islamic Republic. Obama’s meek and misguided policy has only emboldened the Iranian regime, improved its economic condition, and given diplomatic cover to Iran’s nuclear program.</p>
<p>Islamist groups like ISIS, al-Qaeda, Boko Haram, and Iran-backed Hamas and Hezbollah, all seek the destruction of Western values and civilization. The pursuit of nukes by the Islamist state of Iran – which could eventually enable nuclear terrorism by Iran’s jihadi proxies – poses the greatest threat of all. The West ignores these facts at its peril, and should therefore support Israel’s war against Hamas, and its efforts against Iranian nukes, just as the U.S. has rightly (albeit tardily and minimally) supported the Kurds in their fight against ISIS.</p>
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		<title>The &#8216;War on Black People&#8217;: But Who Is Winning?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2014 04:35:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Colin Flaherty]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The horror in St. Louis the media refuses to tell the truth about. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/wgb.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-240207" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/wgb-231x350.jpg" alt="wgb" width="231" height="350" /></a>St. Louis is now Ground Zero for the “war on black males&#8221;: So named by Spike Lee after a white cop shot a black teenager, unleashing ten days of riots and rage and free shopping in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson.</p>
<p>But here is what Spike Lee did not say: Black people are winning the war. At least in St. Louis.</p>
<p>Black-on-white crime is an everyday fact of life in this once vibrant city. And more and more people — the ones who are left, anyway — are wondering why local media refuse to tell the truth about it.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/war-black-people-st-louis-winning/">latest example came Sunday evening</a>. A group of black people on bicycles surrounded, threatened, and robbed two horse-drawn carriages — the kind you find in the nicer parts of town where tourists congregate.</p>
<p>A place where black mob violence used to be rare. Not anymore. Not for a long time. Not in St. Louis.</p>
<p>The local CBS affiliate reported that two suspects have been arrested, and the owner of the carriage company put on a brave front, saying crime is unusual in that part of St. Louis:</p>
<blockquote><p>“We’ve been there seven nights a week for 35 years and never had an issue with anything,” Jerry Kirk says. “This is the first time that we’ve ever had an incident this way, and I’m not aware that there’s ever been an incident like this ever before.”</p></blockquote>
<p>To its credit, the news station allowed readers in the comments section to tell the full story of racial violence and denial that its own reporter did not — or could not — say. And they did, by the hundreds:</p>
<blockquote><p>“I&#8217;m from St. Louis,” said one reader at the CBS St. Louis web site. “This happened in the big tourist area called the Riverfront, right along the Mississippi. Right across the river is East St. Louis, Illinois, totally crime ridden. The truth is that rampaging &#8220;teen&#8221; boys come streaming across the bridge all the time to beat people, rob them and terrorize families, especially during big festivals. Yes, I&#8217;ve seen it personally and it was damned scary. I&#8217;m shocked to hear this carriage owner say this has never happened to his employees before. They&#8217;re either very, very lucky, or he&#8217;s lying. The area needs cops stationed down there along the Riverfront 24/7. Thank God Missouri finally has concealed carry.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Many of the readers wondered why it was so easy to report on the racial angle in the Ferguson shooting, and so difficult thereafter. “Nice to see Missouri&#8217;s back to normal after all that awful, awful White Racism of the past few weeks,” said another.</p>
<p><a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/war-black-people-st-louis-winning/">From the Arch to the Delmar Loop to the Riverfront</a>, readers of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1938067061/ref=as_sl_pc_tf_lc?tag=10grebooforme-20&amp;camp=213381&amp;creative=390973&amp;linkCode=as4&amp;creativeASIN=1938067061&amp;adid=0B7BJWTS1S02ZNHW0SF7&amp;&amp;ref-refURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwhitegirlbleedalot.com%2Fwar-black-people-st-louis-winning%2F">White Girl Bleed a Lot: The return of racial violence to America and how the media ignore it</a> know that black mob violence happens often but is reported rarely.</p>
<p>St. Louis is often credited as being the birthplace of the Knockout Game, where black people attack non-black people for spite or fun. Sometimes throwing in a bit of robbery. Local judge Jennifer Joyce said one man alone was responsible for 300 cases of the knockout attacks.</p>
<p>The mayor even stumbled across a case of the Knockout game: When the suspects went to trial, the main witness mysteriously decided not to show up. “Free my TKO Boys,” they exclaimed on Facebook as they celebrated.</p>
<p>One of the freed suspects was shot dead a year later, while breaking into a home. His grandfather said the 15-year-old was a good boy, “just like Trayvon.”</p>
<p>The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is on the front lines of this war on black people — determined not to let anyone know there is a war of any kind. Or if there is, it is pretty much normal. Back when the Knockout Game was only a regional phenomena, the Post dispatch said anyone playing it displayed a “sociopathic lack of empathy.”</p>
<p>Ready for some world-class moral equivalence: “On the other hand, the more you think about it, it perfectly captures today’s zeitgeist, the spirit of the times,” said the editorial. “Why not let 50 million people go without health insurance? Why not tilt the table so all the money runs down to one end? You don’t know them, so why care about hurting them? It’s not like you punched them in the head.”</p>
<p>Hat tip to the <a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2011/11/gross-st-louis-post-dispatch-defends-deadly-knock-out-game-as-just-a-spirit-of-the-times/">Gateway Pundit, a St. Louis web site that figured this one out</a>: Being against Obama Care is a sure sign of a sociopathic lack of empathy that leads to violence.</p>
<p>Back to the war reporting:</p>
<p>On July 4, 2013, in downtown <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/black-mob-violence-in-st-louis/">St. Louis, a black mob described as “sea of people”</a> assaulted several employees and patrons of local shops after the fireworks. According to the local NBC affiliate:</p>
<blockquote><p>Joe Stapf says he was ambushed and attacked while he was talking on his cell phone in the alley behind Robust during his break. He was talking to his girlfriend when one teenager punched him in the face and ran off. Then more teens started attacking him for no apparent reason.</p>
<p>He says they took off without stealing anything.</p>
<p>Stapf’s girlfriend suffered a similar, Knockout Game attack in January. <sup><sup>[i]</sup></sup></p></blockquote>
<p>Another employee in the upscale district reported a “mob of kids” stealing cell phones, throwing chairs, vandalizing cars, and assaulting people.</p>
<p>The Post-Dispatch described more holiday mayhem in the first paragraph of its story on July 4: “A group of security guards were attacked with fireworks and then one was hit by a vehicle during an incident Thursday night, police say.”</p>
<p>No one was arrested. So it never happened.</p>
<p>Commentators at local news sites are frequently upset at the frequency of this black mob violence in St. Louis. And how the local media continue to ignore it. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch leads the way in shutting down the comments section if the story involves racial violence. But the local TV stations often keep the comments open. After the Fourth of July 2013 race riot in St. Louis that no one called a race riot, Greg Rodey posted on the local NBC web site:</p>
<blockquote><p>“Just like the &#8216;kids&#8217; that attacked the Wisconsin state fair goers , the &#8216;youths&#8217; that mobbed a Peoria neighborhood, and the &#8216;teens&#8217; who beat a white girl into convulsions on a school bus in Ocala. Look it up. Maybe if we just keep ignoring the elephant in the corner, it will just go away. Right, media?”</p></blockquote>
<p>In the entertainment district known as the Delmar Loop, large groups of black people regularly rampage through the area, beating, stealing, shooting, terrorizing. All the while leaving the St. Louis shopkeepers and white hipsters clueless about what is happening. And why.</p>
<p>The headlines tell the story: “Thefts at outdoor restaurants a concern in Delmar Loop,” said KMOV.</p>
<p>“Massive fight, shots fired on Delmar Loop,” said KSDK.</p>
<p>And of course, lots of the violence is on video: “Delmar Loop shots fired caught on tape,” said KSDK.</p>
<p>How many headlines do you want? That is how many there are. With many of the stories containing the now familiar refrain: &#8220;Oh yeah, that has been happening here a long time.&#8221;</p>
<p>One black St. Louis talk show host said violence in The Loops was easy to understand: Black people are creating mayhem because the clubs have not “reached out” and made the black people feel welcome.</p>
<p>So they riot.</p>
<p>As they did in a St. Louis mall following the shooting in Ferguson. Only no one called that a riot. They called it a large fight.</p>
<p>One of the more violent groups goes by the name of the Obama Boyz.</p>
<p>Whatever they call themselves, local business and media leaders are desperate that people somehow accept this new normal of regular black mob violence. A normal where the black criminals are winning. And everyone pretends not to notice.</p>
<p>If the comments on local news stories are any judge, more and more folks in St. Louis say that is not working. Not anymore.</p>
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		<title>Media Diversionary Tactics in Ferguson and Gaza</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2014 04:11:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[William Kilpatrick]]></dc:creator>
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<p>We hear a lot from the media about Israel’s disproportionate response to attacks from Hamas, but it may be time to focus on the media’s own disproportionate response to certain events.</p>
<p>Take the incident of the missing Malaysian airliner. Big story? Yes. But CNN’s decision to give it round-the-clock coverage for two solid months seems a little excessive, until you remember that there was an even bigger story unfolding around the same time—the Russian takeover of Crimea. The annexation of Crimea, the threat to the rest of Ukraine, and the possible re-ignition of the Cold War was a major historical event. It was also bad news for the Obama administration and its narrative that relations with Russia had been reset, tranquility had been established, and our military could be safely scaled back. It is in that context that CNN’s decision to refocus our attention to the possible whereabouts of the airliner should be understood.</p>
<p>The media’s current focus on the shooting of a black teenager by a white policeman in Ferguson, Missouri seems also designed to divert attention away from the big picture. The story provides an opportunity to shift the spotlight away from a number of other stories that reflect badly on the current administration—the failure of Obama’s Iraq policy, the inability to control the southern border, the IRS scandal, the President’s serial vacations, and the possibility of a Russian invasion of Ukraine. One might justifiably conclude that much of the media attention to Ferguson is fueled by ulterior motives.</p>
<p>By focusing on Ferguson, the media (with CNN once again playing a lead role) managed to blow it up into a much bigger story than it might otherwise have been. All that business about the IRS and the Mexican border suddenly faded from sight. And even though the coverage focused on the death of a young black American, it still managed to draw attention away from the major risk to young black Americans, in favor of a narrative which suggests that white racism is the root cause of black troubles. According to the established formula, America has never overcome the heritage of its “troubled racist past,” blacks are still the victims of unjust discrimination, and black youth live in constant fear of white police.</p>
<p>While that narrative was still valid in the fifties and sixties, it is now well past its expiration date. In Chicago this past weekend, seven people were killed and twenty-nine others wounded due to gun violence. All of the victims were black—most of them young. This is about par for a weekend in Chicago. And similar incidences of black-on-black violence occur every week in Philadelphia, Detroit, Baltimore, Atlanta, and New York—not to mention St. Louis, which is right next door to Ferguson. Many of the most violent cities have black mayors, black city councilmen, and black police chiefs. That’s a bit inconvenient for the press because it doesn’t fit into the white racism narrative, but the media stick to their story nonetheless. Yet the causes of black violence have been extensively studied by sociologists and criminologists, and they have been telling us for decades that the root cause is the breakdown of the black family due to high rates of illegitimacy.</p>
<p>If the mainstream media people were as concerned as they profess to be about the lives of young blacks, we would see numerous TV specials about the black family crisis, and instead of sending platoons of reporters and cameramen to Ferguson, CNN would dispatch them to cover the daily mayhem in Chicago. But that would require revising and updating the narrative that has served the media so well, and that, apparently, is just too much trouble.</p>
<p>Not only is the narrative about white racism dishonest, it’s destructive. It encourages grievances, keeps racial tensions alive, and perpetuates violent behavior. In short, the media’s favored formula is a self-fulfilling prophecy that only serves to guarantee a more polarized society.</p>
<p>On the other hand, the media’s distortion of the Ferguson affair does serve one useful purpose. It alerts us to the possibility that other stories are being handled in the same unbalanced way. The biggest story in the world today is the resurgence of Islam. And by-and-large, that story is being managed in the same dishonest fashion.</p>
<p>Which brings us back to the point where we started—the media’s lopsided attention to Israel’s supposedly disproportionate response to Hamas. The similarities to the media’s handling of the Ferguson situation are hard to miss. Some of the same reporters who were embedded in Gaza are now embedded in Ferguson. The media’s concern over innocent civilians in Gaza has now shifted to an innocent teenager in Missouri. And just as the blame for the troubles in Gaza is assigned to the disproportionate Israeli response, the problems in Ferguson and elsewhere are blamed on disproportionate encounters between well-armed cops and unarmed youth. The narrative is also the same. According to the media’s one-size-fits-all explanation, both rockets fired from Gaza and projectiles hurled at Ferguson store windows are caused by poverty and institutional oppression.</p>
<p>Moreover, in both cases, the media is being played like a violin—in Missouri by professional race-baiters and grievance-mongers, in Gaza by Palestinian propagandists who seem more media-savvy than the media itself, and who are adept at staging fake atrocity photo-ops which they know will be obligingly transmitted to TV screens across the world. Just as riots in Missouri feed on media attention, so does violence in Palestine.</p>
<p>But why, exactly, is Palestine given so much attention?</p>
<p>The other, and most irresponsible, aspect of the media’s disproportionate coverage is that in both cases, the stories are used to keep the public’s eye off the larger picture. The larger story that is being kept off-stage in Ferguson is the breakdown of the black family. The larger story in the Israeli-Hamas conflict is that the root cause of the troubles is Islam itself. You might prefer to say that the trouble lies in a violent and anti-Semitic interpretation of Islam, but that interpretation is now widespread. As I <a href="http://www.realclearreligion.org/articles/2014/08/09/when_christians_blame_israel.html">wrote recently</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Muslims are attacking non-Muslims in Syria, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nigeria, Kenya, Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia, the Ivory Coast, Mali, Libya, Indonesia, Malaysia, India, the Philippines, and Thailand. There are no Jews to speak of in these places. So you can’t blame the violence on them. Given the propensity of Muslims to attack their neighbors, what are the chances that in the one place on earth where a Jewish government and an Islamist government are in conflict, it’s the Jews who are largely at fault?</p></blockquote>
<p>The media coverage of jihadist activities in most of the above-mentioned places is minimal. So also is the coverage of Muslim attacks on Jews in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, England, and Australia. Nor will you hear much about the rocks, bottles, bricks, and Molotov cocktails thrown during the numerous Muslim riots in the EU and UK.</p>
<p>Likewise, just as the media avoids telling the story of black-on-black violence, it rarely focuses on the fact that the vast majority of Muslim deaths worldwide are caused by other Muslims. To do so would undermine the established narrative that Islam is a religion of peace and justice.</p>
<p>Thus, the obsessive concentration on Israel and Hamas. And thus, when the media does attend to hard-to-ignore cases of Islamic jihad, they are forced to pretend that each occurrence is an unusual departure from true Islam. For example, reporters treat the atrocities committed by ISIS—the beheadings, the sex slavery, the forced conversions, the payment of the <em>jizya</em>—as though they were exotic new phenomena, when, in fact, they were all integral elements of Islamic expansion for more than twelve hundred years.</p>
<p>When you step back from the Israel-Hamas conflict to get a broader view, you notice that groups like Hamas, ISIS, Boko Haram, al-Qaeda, and Al-Shabaab not only have much in common with each other, they share in a common heritage and a common devotion to Islam. The media, however, is trapped in a narrative that says otherwise. Hence, the need to put the onus on Israel. The thought that the violence emanating from Gaza is part of a worldwide movement to re-establish a seventh-century theocracy is a thought they dare not entertain.</p>
<p>Americans, including many black Americans, are catching on to the game the media is playing with race relations in America. Let’s hope that they will soon catch on to the very similar game being played in the Middle East.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2728624/How-democracy-treating-guys-ISIS-militants-social-media-encourage-Ferguson-protesters-embrace-Islamic-extremism.html"><em>Daily Mail</em></a> reports that “ISIS militants and their supporters are using social media to encourage protesters in Ferguson to embrace radical Islam and fight against the U.S. government.” Ironically, the jihadist social media campaign to win over black Americans relies on the very same narrative pushed by the mainstream media. According to a <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/08/21/even-islamist-fighters-in-syria-and-iraq-are-obsessing-over-ferguson/"><em>Washington Post</em></a> article, “One argument they’ve been making for years is that racism and discrimination are rampant in some parts of the West, and they’re hoping the Ferguson riots could help recruit black Americans.” According to one fan of the Islamic State interviewed for the piece, “In Islam there is no racism, and we think black people will wake up and follow the example of Malcolm X…” Some social media users put the matter more bluntly. One typical message reads: “Blacks in #Ferguson, there’s an alternative to this indignity: pick yourselves up with Islam, like #IS in #Iraq.”</p>
<p>Now that the media’s dishonest narrative has been picked up by ISIS and friends, it’s high time for them to reconsider the dangerous game they have been playing.</p>
<p><strong>William Kilpatrick is the author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Christianity-Islam-Atheism-Struggle-Soul/dp/158617696X/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1405380125&amp;sr=1-2&amp;keywords=Christianity%2C+Islam+and+Atheism"><em>Christianity, Islam, and Atheism: The Struggle for the Soul of the West</em></a>. His work is supported in part by the Shillman Foundation.</strong></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why courageous truth-tellers like actor Jon Voight are vital to Israel's cause against Hamas. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/40482_pro.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-239657" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/40482_pro.jpg" alt="40482_pro" width="280" height="250" /></a></span><em>Originally published by the <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Our-world-Embracing-the-obvious-truth-372428">Jerusalem Post</a>. </em></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">It isn’t hard to understand the truth about Israel and Hamas.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Four-year-old Daniel Tragerman was murdered on Friday afternoon in his home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz by Hamas terrorists.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">They shot him with a mortar launched from a school in Gaza’s Zeitoun neighborhood. At the time of the launch, the school was filled with civilians who had fled to the school for shelter.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">They fled to the school for shelter because they were forced to vacate their homes.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">They were forced to vacate their homes because Hamas terrorists were launching mortars and rockets at Israeli civilian sites, like Daniel Tragerman’s home, from their apartment buildings.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The moral and ideological divide between Israel and Hamas is so self-evident that the only way to ignore it is by embracing and cultivating ignorance.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">This week Richard Behar published an in-depth investigative report in Forbes documenting how the US media is doing just that. As Behar demonstrated, the media is collaborating with Hamas in its war against Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Behar cited example after example of how the US media, led by The New York Times have systematically ignored, obfuscated and downplayed Hamas’s war crimes while swallowing whole its bogus statistics and accusations against Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The greatest threat to faux reporters like the New York Times Israel bureau chief Jodi Rudoren and her colleagues are people who refuse to accept their distortions and insist that the truth be told.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The most dangerous of the truth tellers are the non- Jews who stand up for Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">This week, former British Labour MP Denis MacShane published an op-ed in Haaretz where he spoke to this point. MacShane argued that for Israel to win the information war being waged against it must cultivate non-Jewish defenders.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In his words, “The British media&#8230; is awash with defenders of Hamas and Palestinian resistance. Hardly any are Muslims. In contrast, the prominent journalists – Jonathan Freedland, Daniel Finkelstein, Melanie Phillips, David Aaronovich – who support Israel are, well, Jews.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">MacShane argued that because they are Jews, readers dismiss them.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">They “shrug their shoulders and think privately: ‘They would say that, wouldn’t they.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Israel has an enormous reserve of support among non-Jews. But due to the mainstream media’s commitment to dishonesty and deliberate cultivation of public ignorance and moral blindness in their coverage of Israel, for many, the price of defending Israel is becoming prohibitive.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Israel’s enemies in the West do their best to reinforce this perception.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Consider the case of Jon Voight.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The celebrated Oscar-winning actor is an outspoken champion of Israel. Earlier this month, Voight published an open letter to Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem in Variety where he harshly criticized the Spanish performers for their public statement condemning Israel and siding with Hamas in its war against the Jewish state.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In his words, “I am heartsick that people like Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem could incite anti-Semitism all over the world and are oblivious to the damage they have caused.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Voight was viciously attacked for speaking out.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Last week, two UCLA professors, Mark LeVine and Gil Hochberg, co-authored an article published in The Huffington Post assaulting him for his views and his temerity to suggest that Israel is a moral, embattled democracy fighting genocidal forces committed to its destruction.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The two Jewish academics are supporters of the anti-Israel boycott, divestment and sanctions movement.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The principal aim of the BDS movement is to make it socially unacceptable to support Israel. In 2010 LeVine and Hochberg signed a petition calling for California state universities to divest from companies that do business with Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Online Hollywood commentators, such as Deadline’s Nellie Andreeva, opined that Voight, who was nominated for an Emmy Award for his role in Showtime’s Ray Donovan series, was liable to lose his Emmy bid due to his support for Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Hochberg and LeVine’s assault on Voight was a long-winded voyage into the post-Zionist and anti-Zionist literary moonscape. Their principal criticism of Voight was that he refuses to accept this intellectual wasteland’s rejection of the known facts of history.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Voight is not an academic, nor has he ever claimed to be an expert on Middle Eastern history. He is a non-Jewish American concerned about the future of America.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">That is why he stands with Israel. Voight recognizes that when Israel is under assault, and its right to defend itself is denied while terrorists are supported, the US is endangered. And so he feels compelled to speak out, regardless of the price.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In his response to the threats to deny him the Emmy due to his support for Israel Voight told USA Today, “I’m not speaking to get awards. I’m speaking because I’m concerned about my grandchildren and the life they’re going to live, and the country they’re coming in to. I want to protect them.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Another non-Jewish champion of Israel is former US senator and Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum. Both during his tenure in the Senate and since, Santorum has spoken out strongly against Iran’s nuclear program, insisting that it is a serious threat not only to Israel, but to the US itself.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Like Voight, Santorum recognizes that the fate of the US is directly tied to the fate of Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">For his trenchant support for Israel, and his outspoken concern about Iran’s nuclear program, as well as his support for domestic issues where he has not shied away from taking controversial, inconvenient position, Santorum’s critics have demonized him.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">But undaunted, he continues to speak out.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Last week, Santorum led a solidarity mission to Israel. The majority of his colleagues were non-Jewish opinion shapers from Iowa, the first state to hold Republican presidential contests. Santorum explained that his goal in coming to Israel was not simply to show Israelis that the American people support us. It was to build support among Republicans in Iowa for a robust US engagement in foreign affairs based on supporting Israel, fighting America’s enemies and preventing the forces of hatred, like Hamas and Iran, from expanding their power.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Santorum’s chief concern is that weary of foreign policy failures, more and more Republicans are embracing the isolationism most identified with Senator Rand Paul. Paul is currently polling well in Iowa.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Over the weekend Paul referred to Hillary Clinton as “a war hawk,” and said, “I think the American public is coming more and more to where I am.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Santorum is convinced that if Iowans are educated about the nature of the threats emanating from the region, and of Israel’s singular contribution to the cause of freedom and stability, their position can become the basis for a Republican foreign policy that rejects isolationism and embraces US leadership in world affairs as the only way to secure the US and strengthen its embattled allies.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In other words, like Voight, Santorum’s support for Israel is rooted in his concern about America, and its future. Like Voight, Santorum recognizes that the growing penchant among elite opinion shapers to ignore truth in the pursuit of moral relativism and fake sophistication or isolationism constitutes a danger to America.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">This week the New York Times descended to yet another low, reporting as fact totally unsubstantiated accusations by the son of a senior Hamas terrorist that Israel tortured him and used him as a human shield during a brief incarceration.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">But it appears that the jig may be winding down.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">More and more people are following the lead of men like Voight and Santorum, and insisting that the truth be told.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">This week more than 190 Hollywood luminaries followed Voight’s courageous lead and signed a public statement condemning Hamas.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Quin Hillyer, a reporter for National Review who accompanied Santorum on his mission, wrote Monday, “My visit to Israel last week confirmed that Iran and its fellow jihadists have good reason to see Israel and the United States in the same light. Israelis and Americans share the same humane, Western values&#8230;</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">“Israel is an oasis in a desert – in the physical, topographical sense but also metaphorically. It’s an oasis of reason, human decency and justice appropriately grounded in mercy.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">MacShane is right. It is vital for more non-Jews, who refuse to deny the truth that screams out to be told, to stand up to the lies and publicly stand with Israel. It is the job of Israel and Jewish communities throughout the world to empower them by among other things, reducing the power of Israel’s enemies to make them pay a price for their decency.</span></p>
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		<title>A Place Where Every Week Is &#8216;Shark Week&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2014 04:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/gh1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-239457" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/gh1-450x299.jpg" alt="gh" width="274" height="182" /></a>The Discovery Channel just ran another of its wildly popular “Shark Weeks” without mentioning what is probably the shark attack capital of the Western hemisphere—the Florida straits.</p>
<p>“Getting attacked by a shark just might be the scariest event in nature!” gasped a Discovery Channel narrator during Shark Week. “Australia recorded 56 fatal shark attacks between 1956 and 2008!”he gasped again<em>. </em>“Find out what it&#8217;s like from people who&#8217;ve lived to tell the tale!”</p>
<p>So the Discovery Channel goes back over half a century and to a distant continent to interview the victims and dramatize the attacks. But why the distant timeline and setting, ask many people in south Florida?</p>
<p>“The Florida Straits probably record 56 fatal shark attacks <em>every few years</em>,” says Matt Lawrence, who spent years rescuing desperate Cuban rafters. &#8220;Probably every <em>month</em> during the early &#8217;90s,” adds Bay of Pigs vet Arturo Cobo who ran the rafter rescue center in Key West and for years heard the sobbing, gut-gripping details of these attacks almost daily.</p>
<p>“Something was moving in this raft,” recalls an airborne rescuer.</p>
<blockquote><p>So I went in lower. The water all around the raft was turning red…the cloud spreading. Then I saw the shark—about the same length as the raft. The rafter was in fact a Cuban woman in her early twenties. Upon her rescue we found she had two bullet wounds in her legs from Castro’s frontier police. All others in the raft, including two infants had died, as did the shark, from being repeatedly stabbed by the pointed end of a broken oar by Maria. The Shark had bitten the oar in half as Maria pounded him&#8230;I started flying rescue missions full-time after that.</p></blockquote>
<p>“The boys’ father, delirious from thirst and exposure, finally jumped in the water,” recalls another rescuer.</p>
<blockquote><p>So the sons threw him a rope tied to the raft and he clutched it. They turned away for a second, slightly relieved—but only to spot a huge shark approaching, then another. Soon an entire school surrounded the raft and they ripped into their father…The water turned red as their father was eaten alive….. I can tell you from decades of and heart-breaking work from our center here in Key West that in the <a href="http://www.encounterbooks.com/books/the-longest-romance-the-mainstream-media-and-fidel-castro/">Florida straits every week is shark week.</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Were the “root cause” of this drama and horror more politically-correct can you imagine its popularity in movies? Docudramas? Reality TV? But as usual, Castro also escapes censure for this form of torture and mass-murder.</p>
<p>The waters surrounding Cuba are famed for their hordes of sharks. Most people entering them for extended periods (all those showboat swimmers and surfers) insist on a defense against them. Yet a quarter to a half million Cubans have crossed these waters with little between them and the sharks than thin rubber or canvas &#8212; and knowing the odds were close to 50-50 that their craft would overturn or crumble.</p>
<p>Not that (given the media silence) most of you would have any reason to know this, but right off the <em>southern</em> Florida coast an estimated  70,000-80,000 people have perished since 1961 on the high seas, a large but unknown number of these at the hands (jaws, actually) of sharks. To this day most airborne rescuers report seeing sharks in the vicinity of most Cuban rafters. Many have observed attacks. Most survivors mention sharks and shark attacks often during their terrible voyage.</p>
<p>So here’s one of America’s most populous states and one bounded by beaches crammed with tourists. You’d really think this setting right off the U.S. coast could provide the Discovery Channel with material much more dramatic and relevant (titillating) for its U.S. audience. But where’s the Discovery Channel on this?</p>
<p>Perhaps the Discovery Channel’s budgets remain unscathed by Obama-nomics and the expense of flying production crews to Australia, South Africa, etc. rather than to Miami seems trivial?</p>
<p>On the other hand, upon viewing a Shark Week segment set in Florida, some viewers might ask: “But why is it that for over half a century so many thousands of people have risked the &#8216;scariest event in nature&#8217; in the Florida straits?”</p>
<p>Ah! And there’s the rub.</p>
<p>The Discovery Channel, you see, is a major business partner of the Castro regime. So such a show would probably not sit well with their communist client. When it comes to the U.S. media and U.S. celebrities, after all, this communist client is much more accustomed to seeing such items as Newsweek hailing Cuba as among the “best countries in the world to live,” to hearing Jack Nicholson hail Castro’s Stalinist fiefdom as “a paradise” and to hear Bonnie Raitt commemorate Cuba in song as a “Happy Little Island!”</p>
<p>Never mind that <em>ten to twenty times</em> as many people have died attempting to flee Castro’s Cuba as died trying to flee East Germany, who—best we can tell &#8212; won no awards from Newsweek for its “quality of life.” What makes these stats even worse is that prior to Castroism Cuba took in immigrants at a higher rate than did the U.S. And mostly from Europe. Indeed more Americans lived in Cuba than Cubans in the U.S.</p>
<p>The Discovery Channel’s “Buena Vista Fishing Videos” dramatizes their business partnership with Castro. This show features sport-fishing videos filmed in full partnership with the Stalinist regime’s ministry of tourism. These attract a large number of well-heeled sport fishermen from around the world to Cuba’s “unspoiled” and “fish-filled” coastal waters.</p>
<p>By the simple diktat of banning boat ownership under penalty of torture chamber and/or firing-squad for everyone except top-regime officials many other nations could boast fishing grounds every bit as “unspoiled” as those surrounding the Castro brothers’ fiefdom.</p>
<p>He&#8217;d be loath to admit it, being a Che-T-shirt-wearer and all, but Eric Burdon of the Animals wrote a song that resounds with many Cubans: <em>&#8220;We gotta get outta this place &#8212; if it&#8217;s the last thing we ever do!&#8221; </em></p>
<p>The last thing, indeed, for an estimated one-in-three of the desperate Cuban escapes during the &#8217;60s, &#8217;70s and &#8217;80s. This is according to a study by the late Cuban-American scholar Dr. Armando Lago. A consistently hot item on Cuba&#8217;s black market is used motor oil: poor man&#8217;s shark-repellent, they call it. Perhaps for a few minutes. I suppose we all cling to false hopes when desperate. And people get no more desperate than <a href="http://www.encounterbooks.com/books/the-longest-romance-the-mainstream-media-and-fidel-castro/">when striving to flee the handiwork of Newsweek’s “quality-of-life” winner.</a></p>
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		<title>A Former Community Organizer&#8217;s View of Ferguson</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2014 04:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Y. Kerry Sara]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How Obama's destructive legacy is reflected in the Missouri lynch mob. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/ferguson-masked-protesters-AP.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-239249" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/ferguson-masked-protesters-AP-450x337.jpg" alt="ferguson-masked-protesters-AP" width="320" height="240" /></a>For the past several days I have been watching news reports on the mayhem that is happening in Ferguson, Missouri.</p>
<p>Personally, I have tried to ignore the events going on there since 18-year-old Michael Brown was shot by Officer Darren Wilson.  Michael Brown was shot after he robbed a convenience store on August 9<sup>th </sup>2014.  Officer Wilson shot Brown after Brown assaulted Wilson subsequent to the officer approaching the suspect while responding to the robbery call via emergency communication.</p>
<p>The reason I attempted to ignore the situation is that it reminds me of my days when I was working as a community organizer for the ACLU in Buffalo, New York.  It is a period in my life that I would rather forget.</p>
<p>I had the task of working on cases of police brutality.  When an incident would happen between the police and a suspect or group of suspects, protests would invariably begin.  The protesters would allege police brutality or misconduct.  The media would get involved and many “leaders” and “activists” would make wild and irresponsible charges against anyone who did not fall in line with the radical ideology of the organizers of the protests.</p>
<p>Does any of this sound familiar?</p>
<p>However, I did not expect the situation in Ferguson to spiral out of control like it has.</p>
<p>Why are black Americans reacting to this incident with so much anger and violence?  Michael Brown was obviously a dangerous young criminal who assaulted both a store clerk and a police officer.</p>
<p>The distress of so many black people goes beyond who Michael Brown was or what he was doing at the time of his death.</p>
<p>What everyone seems to be missing is that after 6 years of the historic election of the first African-American to the office of the President of the United States, many young black people still have a highly adversarial relationship with sources of civil authority and American society.</p>
<p>I vividly remember the emotional feeling that was present in the atmosphere right after President Obama won the election in November of 2008.  I was one of the few people in my community who did not support Barack Obama when he was running for President.  Furthermore, I was the <i>only</i> black person that I knew who favored Senator McCain over Senator Obama.</p>
<p>Nonetheless, when I stepped out of the door of my apartment building on the morning of November 5, 2008 I immediately sensed that the world was somehow different.  I could <i>literally see</i> the pride and happiness in the faces of other black people that I came across that day.</p>
<p>When I visited a coffee shop that morning for my daily caffeine fix, there was a white woman who was sitting at one of the café tables talking to another white woman about the historic significance of what happened the night before.  One of the women was <i>crying tears of joy</i>.</p>
<p>President-elect Barack Obama had so enthralled a segment of citizens with his message of hope and change that many people actually believed in the prospective future of our country and anticipated that many positive changes were soon to come.</p>
<p>I remember thinking to myself: <i>“Maybe I am wrong about Barack Obama and what I think he represents.”</i></p>
<p>Fast forward 6 years to August 2014.</p>
<p>The almost universal African-American support for Senator Barack Obama in 2008 has dissipated to a degree. It is important to note this phenomenon because the black leadership class of the country from <i>both sides</i> of the political spectrum &#8212; not just the right wing &#8212; are questioning the impact and legacy of Barack Obama’s presidency.</p>
<p>Many black citizens think that the President is indifferent to the plight of poor people in the United States. President Obama is silent on the breakdown of family values and civil society in the black community until an incident like the shooting death of Michael Brown forces him to focus on the decline of community standards and moral behavior.</p>
<p>It is under the tenure of the first black President that poor black families are seeing their chances of moving up the income ladder into the middle class disappear before their eyes.  Black parents are observing that their children are being born into poverty and realizing that they are likely to die in poverty.  African-American families are not living the American Dream.  Generation after generation are stuck in a practical social nightmare.</p>
<p>This is the political and social environment that manifests itself in our country after six years of President Obama’s administration.  It is this environment that creates fertile ground for race-baiting organizations like the New Black Panther Party and the Nation of Islam to plant seeds of hate among the other rabble rousers showing up in Ferguson, Missouri.</p>
<p>In light of what is happening on the ground in Missouri we have to wonder how many of the people who are causing the problems in the region bought into the President’s message of hope and change back in 2008.</p>
<p>Now some of those self-same individuals are fueling what investigative reporter Matthew Vadum called “a vicious war against civil society in Ferguson.”</p>
<p>It is without doubt that many of the troublemakers in Ferguson today supported Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012, and not only because he was black.  They also genuinely believed that he would develop legislative policies and social programs that would help African-American communities and the poor people of this nation.</p>
<p>Now, that hope and belief has transformed into racially motivated violence and anger.</p>
<p>The President has not only failed the black community.  He has unwittingly pitted black and Hispanic poor and disenfranchised communities against one another through his inaction on the illegal immigration issue.  He has attempted to out-flank congressional Republicans in the realm of public opinion by using the Hispanic community as a political wedge.</p>
<p>There is something about the philosophical makeup and social structure of American black communities that makes young black men like Michael Brown choose the route of criminal activity and social exclusion over integration into the mainstream of our society.</p>
<p>There is no one in the urban communities to warn young people like Mr. Brown of the consequences of behaving like a felon.  Someone should have told him that the gangster rap music that he loved so much is full of messages that either has no basis in objective reality or will bring direct problems to the individuals who choose to believe in those ideas.</p>
<p>If you choose to behave like a criminal you are subject to being detained, arrested, assailed or killed by members of the police department.</p>
<p>This is a most basic fact of living in a civil society that anyone with a head on his shoulders should be able to understand.  Yet many African-American men make the choice to believe that the rules of society do not apply to them.</p>
<p>If there is any group of people that the President should have been desperately trying to reach with his message of hope and change it is young men like Michael Brown.</p>
<p>Instead, many of them are currently in the streets of Ferguson, Missouri engaging in violence and causing mischief and mayhem.</p>
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		<title>A Pound of White Flesh</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2014 04:59:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The beginning of getting Ferguson right is to call it by its right name.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/ferguson-protests.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-239175" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/ferguson-protests-450x253.jpg" alt="ferguson-protests" width="288" height="162" /></a>Why isn’t anyone speaking the most obvious and most disturbing truth about what has been taking place in Ferguson? This is a lynch mob. It is unconcerned with the facts, impatient with due process, and it wants a severely injured officer who is probably the victim of a vicious criminal thug, indicted, tried and convicted or else. And the reason it wants him convicted is that he is white. This lynch mob even wants the prosecutor removed because his father was the victim of a black criminal 50 years ago.</p>
<p>This thuggery would be seen as classic lynch mob behavior except that it is composed mainly of blacks and its leaders include the Democrat Attorney General of the United States and the Democratic Governor the state of Missouri (on second thought this not so unusual). The mob is inflamed and abetted by an anti-white media that accepts the unfounded, actually ludicrous idea that unarmed black teens are regularly shot down in the streets by white police officers who are protected by a white supremacist power structure. As Bill O’Reilly courageously pointed out, there are approximately 12 million arrests every year in America and only 400 police shootings – and how many of these inspire criminal riots in the streets? Moreover, as O’Reilly did not mention, crime statistics show that a white person is 25 <em>times</em> more likely to be the victim of a violent crime committed by a black person than vice versa.</p>
<p>What is truly remarkable about the nation’s tolerance for the new lynch mobs is that they have lasted for decades without drawing an appropriate moral disapprobation. Here are three recent cases: The destruction of the career and fortune of Paula Deen, a white supporter of President Obama, over a remark she made to her husband in private after being mugged by a black criminal twenty-five years earlier; the public lynching of three innocent Duke LaCrosse players, also led by Sharpton and Jackson, the nation’s most notorious lynch mob leaders; the rush to judgment and demand for conviction and punishment of George Zimmerman, falsely portrayed as a “white Hispanic” to make him culpable. And one could go on and on.</p>
<p>The truth is that American culture has been tragically warped by the political left, which fervently believes that whites are guilty before the fact and blacks are innocent even after the fact. The chief law enforcement officer of the land has shown himself to be a devotee of this creed, over and over. The racial morality play of white supremacy and black oppression is perhaps the most crucial melodrama the left lives by, and can’t give up. But conservatives are also too timid and apparently too haunted by guilts of the increasingly distant past to fight back.</p>
<p>All this has created an ongoing spectacle that encourages the criminal violence from blacks that we are witnessing in the streets of Ferguson, and the obscene libels that are issuing from the mouths of so-called civil rights leaders, Democratic officials and MSNBC radicals targeting white people. In truth, white people, who recently elected and re-elected the first black president, are far more put upon and victimized by black thugs like Michael Brown than they are models for the racially vicious caricatures contrived by the leftwing lobby and its lynch-happy followers.</p>
<p>It is time for this corrosive and destructive mythology to be challenged by more Americans than just Bill O’Reilly and (less forthrightly) the Fox network. It is time for people who think of themselves as liberals to liberate themselves from the false narratives of white culpability and black innocence and start judging people as individuals and assessing them through the facts. It’s time for Americans to return to the traditions that created this pluralistic miracle, the fairest and most equitable nation in history. It was the principles of the American founding that inspired Martin Luther King and gave birth to the Civil Rights Acts which ended racial categories and preferences in America’s institutional life until the political left and the Democratic Party started putting them back in. The emergence of a civil rights movement that behaves like a lynch mob is integrally related to the tolerance of racial arsonists like Jackson and Sharpton and to lawless, racist mobs that will only be satisfied by a pound of white flesh.</p>
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		<title>Fix Ferguson by Getting Rid of the Media</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2014 04:57:50 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Ferguson.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-239190" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Ferguson-450x252.png" alt="Ferguson" width="282" height="158" /></a>If there’s a problem in America or anywhere in the world, inflicting the media on it can only make it worse. By some accounts there are more reporters in Ferguson than there are protesters. That may be why the protesters ran for cover behind the media after throwing bottles of urine at the police.</p>
<p>There are so many reporters in Ferguson that the rioters and looters can use them as human shields. You just wouldn’t know it because they don’t take pictures of each other. The occasional photos of media scrums around a crying woman in the Middle East or an angry protester in Ferguson reveal the artificiality of the event. It’s okay to have one reporter in front of a camera, but when there are so many reporters at an event that they outnumber everyone else, the whole thing starts looking like a movie set on which events are staged for the entertainment and profit of the producers.</p>
<p>Remember that every time you see a masked protester caught in the act of throwing a rock or a loving couple huddled in fear of dark masked shapes in riot gear, these images are as artificial and posed as anything in an Abercrombie and Fitch catalog.</p>
<p>They show you what is in front of the camera, not what is behind it.</p>
<p>Look through the news reports of riots anywhere and you’ll see the same poses repeat across continents and generations. The rioters are different people with different causes and agendas, but the photos of them are being taken and selected by the same people from the same news agencies.</p>
<p>There is never anything new on the news because the media has a pre-existing formula for handling any event. What we think of as the newspaper or the evening news just plugs actual news into its formula and turns it into propaganda.</p>
<p>The national news network and the newspaper of record tell the same few stories just like Hollywood makes the same movies, even if they seem to feature different characters and places. That’s because the formula doesn’t change. The formula is what we are getting from Ferguson’s mob of professional and amateur reporters each fighting for the chance to retell the same story to the same audience.</p>
<p>Calling the packed masses of angry leftists in Ferguson “reporters” is a little unfair. Even the term media is mostly meaningless. Ferguson is packed with reporters from national and local news networks. Alongside them are crews from enemy state propaganda outlets like Al Jazeera and RT. And they’re the cream of the crop compared to Vice, Infowars and activists with digital cameras selling what they shoot to anyone who will buy it.</p>
<p>Every young leftist who is afraid of going Syria or Gaza has come down to Ferguson to pad his Instagram with something besides photos of last night’s dinner. Activism is to today’s privileged liberal youth what taking a year off to tour Europe used to be to their parents and grandparents. Instead of backpacking through France, they pop some camera gear into their messenger bags and head down to Ferguson to link hands with another Evergreen or Vassar grad while shouting about justice before posing for selfies.</p>
<p>This groundbreaking activism will be a jumping off point for their actual careers in the media where all the Evergreen and Vassar grads will meet once again, except they’ll be wearing suits or power suits and reading from a prepared script and reminiscing about the good times shouting at the cops back in 2014.</p>
<p>The problem in Ferguson revolves around the media the way that the earth revolves around the sun.</p>
<p>There’s no point in marching around and shaking your fists if no one is paying attention to you. The riots and looting will continue for as long as there are correspondents there to shove cameras into angry faces while asking them what it is that they are so angry about. And if they aren’t angry yet, they’ll find something to be angry about if they want to be on the evening news.</p>
<p>Your evening news is no different than reality television. The impromptu performers know what is expected of them and the producers and writers know the story that they want to tell. The rest is improvisation which will be polished and assembled into a more coherent story in post-production.</p>
<p>Most in this media savvy age already know what is expected of them. If they meet Jay Leno with a camera, they know that giving the dumbest possible answer to his questions about history is the way to get on television. If they’re cast on a reality show, they know that behaving like unhinged lunatics will keep the camera on them as long as possible. And if they’re in Ferguson, they know to shout about justice and peace while making death threats because that’s what will get them on television.</p>
<p>Whether it’s reporting on race riots or mass killings, the media perpetuates the behavior that it’s decrying because it delivers ratings and serves its political agenda. Most of the time its talking heads denounce a problem that has always existed and then move on to the next topic. That’s destructive because we are constantly “rediscovering” problems that have never gone away. But it’s even worse when the media camps out and refuses to go away.</p>
<p>Just ask the Israelis.</p>
<p>Thirty years ago international correspondents were paying small boys to throw rocks at Israeli tanks. These days the rocks have been replaced by rockets and the media carefully edits the footage to show the Israeli response not the Hamas attack. The ratings go through the roof and so do the rockets.</p>
<p>The conflict is an open wound because, like Ferguson, it attracted every reporter, stringer and random activist with a camera and a sociology degree to chronicle it. And if there’s no violence, then there’s nothing to chronicle. When terrorists attack Israel, they know that a media army will be there to tell the world their side of the story giving them every possible reason to use violence to control world opinion.</p>
<p>When the media colonizes a conflict, it turns into an open wound that can never heal because healing is a nice short term story, but conflict is an even better long term story. That’s what it is doing in Ferguson.</p>
<p>If Ferguson had never become a national story, the violence would already be over and the kids would be headed to school. But the violence can’t end as long as the media keeps rewarding the violent with attention and encouragement. The very presence of the media encourages protests by promising that an extra-legal option to shortcut the process will give them what they want. And Governor Nixon has already all but promised it to them. And that too is just another way of perpetuating the violence.</p>
<p>The media can be defeated. Its mass of scribblers, photographers and teleprompter readers follows the smell of blood. If a wound is open, they will tear it open and keep it from closing. But if the wound is closed, they have to pack up their tents and go find another bloody mess to feast on.</p>
<p>Don’t reason with them. Making the mistake of trying to win the media over is even more useless. All you can do is cut off their supply by shutting down the conflict as hard and fast as possible. The short term publicity will be ugly, but an ugly media day is better than a bad media month or year.</p>
<p>Conflict is the vital fluid of any narrative. Take away the conflict and there is no longer a story. Without a bleeding wound, the swarming media mobs toting cameras, microphones and iPads will follow the trail of blood to their next story.</p>
<p>And then they will become someone else’s problem.</p>
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		<title>Why Israel Is Losing the Information War</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[... And how the Jewish State can turn the tide. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/140715-israel-gaza-mn-1320_4ba1ac462baa0652825d71dafe7823a4.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-239111" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/140715-israel-gaza-mn-1320_4ba1ac462baa0652825d71dafe7823a4-424x350.jpg" alt="140715-israel-gaza-mn-1320_4ba1ac462baa0652825d71dafe7823a4" width="298" height="246" /></a>Originally published by the <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Column-One-Why-Israel-is-losing-the-information-war-371615">Jerusalem Post</a>. </em></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">For most Israelis, the international discourse on Gaza is unintelligible.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Here we were going along, minding our own business.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Then on a clear night in June, apropos of nothing, Palestinian terrorists stole, murdered and hid the bodies of three of our children as they made their way home from school.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Before we could catch our breath from that atrocity, they began shelling our major population centers with thousands of rockets, missiles and mortars, and infiltrated our communities along the border with Gaza through underground tunnels to kidnap and murder us.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">And as the Palestinians did all of these things, they used their civilian population and the foreign press corps as human sandbags. They ordered their own people not to evacuate their homes from which Hamas, Fatah and Islamic Jihad terrorists launched their missiles, rockets and mortars at Israel. And they launched missiles at Israeli cities from outside the hotel where the foreign reporters were staying.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">It doesn’t take a PhD to understand what the game is. And Israelis – even many with PhDs – understand what is happening.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">This is why so many Israelis are up in arms about our government’s failure to impact the wall of lies that comprises the discourse on Israel in the Western world.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The knee-jerk reaction of many Israelis to the sight of UN officials, CNN anchors and </span><em style="color: #000000;">New York Times</em><span style="color: #000000;"> reporters accusing us of committing war crimes is to blame ourselves.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Our hasbara (public diplomacy) is a catastrophe, our defenders are incompetent idiots, we moan and scream.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">But the truth is not so simple. Our speakers have gotten much better over the past several years. Some, like ambassadors Ron Dermer and Ron Prosor and IDF Lt. Col. Peter Lerner, are excellent.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Israel’s public diplomacy efforts have been unsuccessful in penetrating, let alone dismantling the edifice of lies that constitutes the Western narrative about the Palestinian war against us because our underlying strategy for contending with it is directed at the wrong goal.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Our PR gurus defined our hasbara goal as getting our story out effectively. To do so, Israel has operated on two parallel tracks. First, we have tried to adjust our policies to adhere to what we perceive as the West’s demands.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">We have employed measures unprecedented in military history to protect the Palestinians from their elected leaders who use them as fodder in their propaganda war against Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">There is no precedent in the history of warfare to Israel’s practice of warning Palestinians when it is about to attack civilian installations that Hamas has unlawfully used to attack Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Moreover, Israel has accepted interpretations of the laws of war – such as the specious assertion that Israel is required to provide free electricity to Gaza – that have no relationship whatsoever to international law.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The second component of getting out our story has been developing the sort of glitzy, media-friendly PR apparatus that everybody who is everybody says is the be all and end all of a successful media strategy. There is no foreign press corps more coddled than the foreign press corps in Israel. No government is more active on social media sites than Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">And yet, for all of our efforts, the UN Human Rights Committee appointed an open hater of Israel who doesn’t have a problem with Hamas to run a phony investigation of the IDF’s imaginary war crimes.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">For all our efforts, </span><em style="color: #000000;">The New York Times</em><span style="color: #000000;">, MSNBC, the European media, CNN and all the rest demonize our soldiers and leaders. They ignore the fact that everything Hamas and its allies in Fatah and Islamic Jihad do is a war crime – from calling for the annihilation of Israel to shooting rockets at civilian population centers, to shooting rockets at civilian population centers from hospitals and from outside the hotel where their reporters are staying in Gaza.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">So desperate are we for any truth in reporting that we seize as a major victory the fact that a Wall Street Journal reporter was nice enough to Tweet the fact that he interviewed a Hamas leader in Shifa hospital.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">A casual glance at the mountain of distorted and simply false stories reported about Israel and its enemies makes clear that at a minimum, most of the Western media don’t care about the truth. The fact that they sent reporters to Israel and Gaza doesn’t mean they wanted those reporters to publish what is going on.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The reporters knew what they were supposed to say before they even got on a plane to Israel. True, Hamas has openly acknowledged that it prohibited the foreign press from filming its terrorists and their war crimes. But with rare exceptions, the media had no problem with Hamas’s rules.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">So too, the UN Human Rights Council didn’t decide to form a commission of inquiry to criminalize Israel because we weren’t good enough at showing the lengths we go to protect Gazans from their elected leaders. And the UNHRC didn’t appoint William Schabas, who has called for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to be tried for war crimes, to lead its star chamber because it didn’t get the press release proving that Israel acts in compliance with international law.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The media, the US State Department and the UN attack Israel for crimes that Hamas commits because they are wedded to a narrative in which Israel is to blame for its enemies’ desire to destroy it.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As the UN, </span><em style="color: #000000;">The </em><em style="color: #000000;">New York Times</em><span style="color: #000000;"> and President Barack Obama see it, Israel is to blame because it is inherently guilty by its nature.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The White House and State Department can accuse Israel of conducting a “totally indefensible” and “disgraceful” strike against an UNRWA school, when no such strike occurred, and if it had occurred it would have been totally defensible, because as far as they are concerned, as Martin Indyk claimed in May, Israel’s right to exist is conditional on our willingness to accept their belief that we are inherently morally deformed and in need of direction by our betters.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Netanyahu is Schabas’s “favorite [to be placed] in the dock of the International Criminal Court,” because Netanyahu is the elected leader of the morally deformed Jewish state.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Given this situation, it is clear that Israel’s public diplomacy efforts are directed toward the wrong goal.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The goal of hasbara cannot be to educate the likes of </span><em style="color: #000000;">The </em><em style="color: #000000;">New York Times</em><span style="color: #000000;">’ bureau chief Jodi Rudoren about the truth because the problem isn’t one of ignorance. The problem is that they consider the truth an impediment to their goal of reporting the narrative of Israeli criminality.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Rather than striving to educate, we must work to manipulate the Rudorens of the world into covering the truth.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">For instance, there is no reason to provide reporters clearly dedicated to hiding the truth with access to national leaders and military commanders. Let them find their own sources. Israel is a free country. There is no reason for </span><em style="color: #000000;">The </em><em style="color: #000000;">New York Times</em><span style="color: #000000;"> to be invited to a press briefing by IDF commanders.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Another critical element of a strategy for forcing hostile media and international agencies to contend with the truth is to create events that they can’t ignore.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">For instance, the chief military prosecutor together with the state prosecution should indict Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Fatah leaders on war crimes charges and the relevant Israeli courts should begin adjudicating the cases.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The Knesset should begin deliberations on a bill to strip UNRWA of its legal immunity as a first step towards bringing its personnel up on charges of providing material support for terrorism.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">True, such actions will be met with howls of condemnation and hysterical reproaches from all the usual suspects.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">But at least they will be talking about Palestinian war crimes. At least they will be forced to acknowledge that UNRWA is a force of destabilization and radicalization, not of stabilization and moderation in the Arab conflict with Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Our leaders and spokespeople cannot win the information war by devoting themselves to pointing out the West’s hypocrisy and double standards, or the rank mendaciousness and bigotry that stands at the core of their approach to Israel. No one ever won a war by only playing defense. And we won’t win this one by explaining why we aren’t war criminals.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">We will only begin to make progress when we define the goal of our hasbara as forcing an unwilling media and international community to discuss the truth by taking deliberate actions that will make it impossible for them to ignore it.</span></p>
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