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		<title>An American Joins the &#8216;PC Terrorists&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2014 05:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Moshe Phillips and Benyamin Korn]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some terrorists are more sympathetic than others -- especially if their victims are Jewish Israelis. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/1753084290.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-244425" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/1753084290.jpg" alt="1753084290" width="300" height="173" /></a>Another young American man has given his life while fighting in the ranks of Islamist terrorists abroad. But this time, instead of being met with universal condemnations and scorn, the young terrorist is being greeted with sympathetic news accounts and &#8220;even-handed&#8221; statements from the State Department &#8212; all because he joined the politically correct terrorists, that is, the Palestinians.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Just think. When Eric Harroun of Arizona joined an Al Qaeda group fighting in Syria last year, he was arrested as soon as he tried to re-enter the United States.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">When Douglas McCain of Minnesota was killed in August while taking part in an ISIS attack in Syria, a senior Obama administration official told NBC that &#8220;the threat we are most concerned about to the homeland is that of fighters like this returning to the U.S. and committing acts of terrorism.&#8221;</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">When three young Muslim women from Colorado were caught on their way to try to join ISIS, the Obama administration strongly condemned them.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">But when U.S. citizen Orwa Abdel Hammad, a former resident of New Orleans, took part in an Islamist terrorist attack in the Middle East in October, the response from the Obama administration was oh so different.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Hammad was a Palestinian Arab with American citizenship. On Friday, October 24, decided to take part in the wave of Islamist violence against Jews that has been engulfing Israel in recent weeks.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Hammad positioned himself alongside Highway 60, north of Jerusalem, and prepared a Molotov cocktail. Spotting an approaching Israeli motorist, Hammad rose to hurl the flaming bottle of gasoline. The goal was to set the Israeli car on fire, so that its drivers and passengers would be burned alive.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Because they were Jews.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Fortunately, Israeli soldiers on a stakeout shot Hammad dead.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">It turns out that Hammad was the cousin of a Palestinian terrorist who murdered ten Israelis in an attack in 2002. He was the nephew of a terrorist who died in a terrorist attack in 1989. And one of Hammad&#8217;s own cousins admitted to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz that he and Hammad were among a group of Palestinian Arabs who were taking part in attacks on Israeli motorists.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The New York Times&#8217; account of the attack did not mention anything about Hammad&#8217;s quite relevant family lineage or his cousin&#8217;s testimony. The Times&#8217; headline on the story began &#8220;Israeli Troops Kill Palestinian Teenager…&#8221; &#8211;not &#8220;Palestinian Teenager Tries to Burn Israelis Alive…&#8221;</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">And while the dead terrorist Douglas McCain was denounced by the Obama administration as a grave threat to America, the dead terrorist Orwa Hammad was warmly embraced by the Obama administration.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki announced that the administration had sent its &#8220;deepest condolences&#8221; to the Hammad family. Psaki demanded that the Israeli government undertake &#8220;a speedy and transparent investigation&#8221; of the killing of Hammad. She called on &#8220;all parties to help restore calm and avoid escalating tensions in the wake of the tragic recent incidents in Jerusalem and the West Bank.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Psaki in no way called on the Palestinian Authority &#8212; in whose territory Hammad resided &#8212; to investigate its young people who are trying to burn Israelis alive.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Nor did Psaki make any distinction between Palestinian terrorists and Israelis acting in self-defense. Instead, it was the fearsomely familiar Obama moral equivalency: &#8220;all parties&#8221; should be &#8220;calm&#8221;; &#8220;all parties&#8221; should &#8220;avoid escalating tensions.&#8221;</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Psaki called the killing of Orwa Hammad &#8220;tragic.&#8221;</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">She got her tragedies wrong.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">It&#8217;s a tragedy that the Palestinian Authority actively incites its young people to try to murder Israelis.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">It&#8217;s a tragedy when American citizens take part in Islamist terrorism, whether in Syria or Israel.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">And it&#8217;s a tragedy &#8212; actually, an outrage &#8212; when the United States government cannot distinguish between victim and aggressor, between right and wrong, or between good and evil.</p>
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		<title>Hands Up, Don&#8217;t Loot</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2014 04:50:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The militarization of the police was a response to left-wing terror.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/ferg.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-238922" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/ferg-450x253.jpg" alt="ferg" width="285" height="160" /></a>The interior of the Ferguson Market and Liquor Store is littered with broken bottles and scattered snacks. Despite the plywood boards covering the windows and doors, looters with their faces covered in bandanas helped themselves to anything they could find as those who came to memorialize Michael Brown carried on his work.</p>
<p>The violence in Ferguson didn&#8217;t begin when a police officer shot Michael Brown. It began when a 300 lb thug robbed the Ferguson Market and abused a clerk. The release of the video showing the obese criminal assaulting the clerk led to a terrified statement from the store manager that he had not called the police and had nothing to do with the release of the video.</p>
<p>“They kill us if they think we are responsible,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>That is what this conflict is about. The police exist so that Ferguson Market and a hundred other stores can do business without being robbed or murdered. Darren Wilson, the officer who shot Michael Brown, was holding down the thin line that makes it possible for stores to stay open.</p>
<p>When the police pulled back, the rioting and looting began in earnest. Governor Nixon, a critic of the police was forced to turn to the National Guard. The police were never the problem. The looters and rioters were.</p>
<p>The photos of protesters with their hands in the air confronting police in riot gear told a very misleading story. But the real story was sitting in a video held by the Ferguson police and the Justice Department. It was the video of Michael Brown assaulting a clerk at Ferguson Market.</p>
<p>The Justice Department and Governor Nixon did not want the video released because it put the emphasis back where it should have been all along. This was not a conflict between Michael Brown and the police. It was a conflict between Michael Brown and a Ferguson Market worker.</p>
<p>We are all that worker.</p>
<p>Any of us can be targeted by a Michael Brown at any time. Every week delivers up fresh new victims of the knockout game. A pregnant woman. An elderly man. A child.</p>
<p>The police are the common defense we use to protect ourselves against the kind of society where store workers have to fear being killed. They are not perfect, but they are far better than the rule of the Michael Browns who take what they want and attack anyone who tries to stop them.</p>
<p>In Ferguson there was a choice between looters wandering around shouting &#8220;Hands Up, Don&#8217;t Shoot&#8221; and ordinary citizens crying out &#8220;Hands Up, Don&#8217;t Loot&#8221;. Shouting &#8220;Hands Up, Don&#8217;t Shoot&#8221; at a police officer might work. Shouting &#8220;Hands Up, Don&#8217;t Loot” at a looter won’t.</p>
<p>And that is why we have police forces. As flawed as they are, they follow some rules. The looters follow no rules at all.</p>
<p>Despite all the talk about the militarization of the police, there is very little discussion of why. The police and the prisons are a societal immune response to an infection</p>
<p>Talking about the immune response as if it exists entirely apart from the infection is how we ended up with hysterical coverage of the unarmed teen shot in the back by a crazed racist officer. Not only was the media take on the story a lie, but it removed the context of the crime from the response to the crime. That was what made Brown&#8217;s shooting seem senseless and insane.</p>
<p>Stripping away the rioting and looting from the police in riot gear made the law enforcement response seem deranged and insane. It&#8217;s only when we see the rioting, the looting and the arson, the shots fired and Molotov cocktails thrown that the heavy gear suddenly has a context.</p>
<p>This is a trick that the left has been playing for a very long time. In Ferguson or Gaza, in Afghanistan or New York, it focuses on what soldiers and police do without the context of what they are responding to. Watch a few hours of media coverage from Gaza and you’ll conclude that Israel is fighting a war against crying children. Without footage of Hamas terrorists or Israeli children under fire, the Israelis seem like murderous lunatics.</p>
<p>And that is exactly what the media wants you to think.</p>
<p>If the United States continues bombing ISIS, the media will stop showing photos of crying Yazidi refugees and instead show us the crying Sunni Muslim children of the families in Mosul who support ISIS. And then the United States will be accused of murdering crying children for no reason at all.</p>
<p>This happens all the time.</p>
<p>The media gave us every detail of Clayton Lockett&#8217;s suffering after his botched execution. It didn&#8217;t tell us how he raped one teenage girl and shot her friend and buried her alive while she begged for her life. It didn&#8217;t even tell us that Lockett died horribly because opponents of the death penalty had been working overtime to cut off the supply of reliable lethal injection drugs.</p>
<p>Without that context, the justice system seemed monstrous for making a man suffer while the monster was passed off as the innocent victim of the senseless brutality of the system.</p>
<p>All systems and people are flawed, but our law enforcement and military are reactive. When we don&#8217;t talk about what they are reacting to, then there is nothing meaningful to say.</p>
<p>We have SWAT teams because of race riots and urban guerrilla warfare. Without Watts, the Black Panthers and the SLA, the police militarization would probably never have existed.</p>
<p>The militarization of the police was a response to left-wing violence and terror.</p>
<p>If the left hadn&#8217;t spent much of the last century inciting race riots and setting up terrorist groups, there wouldn&#8217;t be police officers armed for war.</p>
<p>If not for the left&#8217;s disastrous social experiments, the War on Drugs would never have been necessary.</p>
<p>Finally, if the left hadn&#8217;t shifted immigration over to the Third World while sympathizing with Islamic terrorists, September 11 and its law enforcement and military aftermath would never have been necessary.</p>
<p>This is why the left tears away the context from a crisis. If we began to genuinely discuss why there are police officers dressed like soldiers or TSA agents examining your shoes, the line would trace all the way back to the left.</p>
<p>Communists realized how useful race riots and the authoritarian backlash could be to their agenda. Terrorists don&#8217;t just aim for the target; they also exploit the fallout to polarize a society.</p>
<p>That is what the left has been doing for generations since.</p>
<p>From the Weathermen to September 11, the left polarized the response while removing the context. The left plants the bombs and then acts as if the security men running around are insane fascists.</p>
<p>Ferguson is more of the same. The left&#8217;s army of activists and reporters troop down to the city. The activists start the violence while the reporters dramatize it. The coverage polarizes Americans and gives the left another hook for hanging on to power long after its economic policies have been as thoroughly discredited as those of the Soviet Union.</p>
<p>The left isn&#8217;t just covering up for the rioters and the looters, the terrorists and the murderers. It is covering up its own role.</p>
<p>That is why its cultural apparatus snips away the context, reacting to the reaction as if it were the cause. The left keeps yammering about finding the root cause, but it is the root cause.</p>
<p>The root cause isn&#8217;t poverty. It&#8217;s not racism. It&#8217;s the left.</p>
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		<title>Muslim &#8216;Inferiority Complex&#8217; Kills Christians</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 16:26:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Days ago in Egypt, throngs of Muslims (henceforth, &#8220;Islamists&#8221;), estimated at 3,000, fired guns and rifles and hurled Molotov cocktails at Coptic churches, homes, and businesses in the Imbaba region near Cairo: twelve Christians were killed—some shot by snipers atop rooftops—232 injured; three churches were set aflame to cries of &#8220;Allahu Akbar,&#8221; while Coptic homes [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Days ago in Egypt, <a href="http://www.aina.org/news/20110508144114.htm">throngs of Muslims</a> (henceforth, &#8220;Islamists&#8221;), estimated at 3,000, fired guns and rifles and hurled Molotov cocktails at Coptic churches, homes, and businesses in the Imbaba region near Cairo: twelve Christians were killed—some shot by snipers atop rooftops—232 injured; three churches were <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_aAvnDih-U&amp;feature=player_embedded#at=34">set aflame</a> to cries of &#8220;Allahu Akbar,&#8221; while Coptic homes were looted and torched.</p>
<div id="attachment_93197" style="width: 332px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img class="size-full wp-image-93197   " title="Imbaba church burns" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/mpoc.jpg" alt="" width="322" height="194" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Imbaba church burns</p></div>
<p>As <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/8081/coptic-persecution-mubarak">usual</a>, Egyptian authority did little to stop this latest rampage. According to eyewitnesses, though the mob opened fire around 5:30 p.m., the military did not arrive till 10 p.m., providing ample time to terrorize the Copts. One priest said &#8220;I called everyone, but no one bothered to come. I mourn all those young people who died,&#8221; naively adding &#8220;We now must ask for international protection.&#8221; Noting that this attack is unprecedented in scope, Muslim liberal writer Nabil Sharaf el Din said &#8220;The army is either incapable [of stopping anti-Christian violence] or is an accomplice to the Salafis [Islamists].&#8221;</p>
<p>So what triggered this latest bit of Salafi savagery—or, as the <a href="http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/01/17/egypts-sectarian-strife/">MSM</a> calls it, &#8220;<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/09/us-egypt-violence-idUSTRE7281ST20110309">sectarian strife</a>&#8220;? Islamists claim that a Christian girl converted to Islam and the Coptic Church responded by abducting her and torturing her into renouncing Islam. Hence, the wild rampage was part of a &#8220;rescue&#8221; effort.</p>
<p>This issue of Christian women supposedly converting to Islam only to be kidnapped by the Coptic Church is the Islamists&#8217; latest excuse to make Coptic life a living hell (especially ironic since the <a href="http://www.copts.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=695&amp;Itemid=2">well-documented reality</a> in Egypt is the opposite: Muslims regularly kidnap and force Christian women to convert to Islam). Indeed, days before this rampage, thousands of Islamists marched in front of St. Mark Cathedral, Coptic Pope Shenouda&#8217;s residence, demanding the &#8220;release&#8221; of other Christian women—two wives of clergy, whom Muslims insist also converted to Islam only to be abducted and tormented by the Coptic Church to return to Christianity.</p>
<p>(The notion of torturing women into returning to their original religion obviously comports well with Muslim logic: aside from the other Sharia schools which recommend outright execution of apostates, the &#8220;liberal&#8221; Hanafi school, which is dominant in Egypt, maintains that apostate women should merely be imprisoned and beaten till they come to their senses and return to Islam.)</p>
<p>That these Coptic women have publicly insisted that they never converted to Islam does not seem to matter much; one of them, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=camelia+shehata&amp;aq=f">Camelia Shehata</a>, appeared on video months ago proclaiming that she will &#8220;live and die as a Christian&#8221;; she <a href="http://islamexplained.com/UVG/UVG_video_player/TabId/89/VideoId/713/214----------.aspx">appeared again</a> last week with her priest husband and young child, emphatically denying that she ever converted to Islam, imploring Muslims to leave them in peace.</p>
<p>This supposedly &#8220;chivalrous&#8221; behavior—&#8221;rescuing&#8221; damsel converts to Islam even when they insist on never converting—highlights the Islamic world&#8217;s obsession with the issue of conversion: while it is known that those who convert out, the apostates, should be put to death, few people are aware that those who convert in—against their will or not, based on false rumors or not—are a great source of validation for Islam, and thus must be secured.</p>
<p>Even the West has become involved in this obsession—such as the persistent rumor that the late <a href="http://www.answering-islam.org/Hoaxes/cousteau.html">Jacque Cousteau</a> embraced Islam, prompting the Cousteau foundation to issue a letter insisting its founder never converted, and lived and died as a Catholic Christian.</p>
<p>Indeed, a new Arabic book, <a href="http://www.asharqalarabi.org.uk/markaz/m_kutob-24-10-10-1.htm"><em>Al-Quran Yaqum Wahdu</em></a>—which consists of 33 anecdotes of Western intellectuals converting to Islam after supposedly being bowled over by the truths of the Koran—lists Cousteau and Islam critic Henryk Broder as its very first two examples, despite the fact that, back in the real world, everyone knows they never converted. One is left wondering how many, if any, of the other 31 anecdotes are true.</p>
<p>In an insightful <a href="http://www.almasry-alyoum.com/article2.aspx?ArticleID=264894&amp;IssueID=1852">Arabic op-ed</a>—see my <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/9584/the-muslim-world-inferiority-complex">complete translation here</a>—Muslim intellectual Khaled Montaser elaborates on why Muslims are obsessed with converts:</p>
<p>We Muslims have an inferiority complex…feeling that our Islamic religion needs constant, practically daily, confirmation by way of Europeans and Americans converting to Islam. What rapturous joy takes us when a European or American announces their [conversion to] Islam—proof that we are in a constant state of fear, alarm, and chronic anticipation for Western validation or American confirmation that our religion is &#8220;okay.&#8221;</p>
<p>Discussing how the Arab world exulted when it erroneously thought that the German writer Henryk Broder had accepted Islam—based on sarcastic remarks he had made—Montaser wrote &#8220;but we are a people incapable of comprehending sarcasm, since it requires a bit of thinking and intellectualizing. And we read with great speed and a hopeful eye, not an eye for truth or reality. Some of us are struck with blindness when we read things that go against our hopes.&#8221;</p>
<p>And there it is: just as Islamists refuse to face reality concerning so-called Western converts, so do they refuse to face reality concerning so-called Coptic converts to Islam. The only difference, of course, is that Copts live under Islamic authority—hence, all the death and destruction visited upon Egypt&#8217;s indigenous Christians whenever Islam&#8217;s inferiority complex flares up.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Has Kristallnacht arrived in Scandanavia?]]></description>
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<p>In the Copenhagen township of Nørrebro that has been solidly in Muslim hands <a href="http://www.pi-news.net/index.php?s=N%C3%B8rrebro" target="_blank">for a long time</a>, Jews must hide their faith in order to avoid persecution. <a href="http://diepresse.com/home/politik/aussenpolitik/546769/index.do?_vl_backlink=/home/politik/aussenpolitik/index.do" target="_blank">Yellow stars get stuck to the backs</a> of Norwegian schoolchildren, and the teachers don’t intervene. In the “enriched” Swedish town of Malmö, many Jewish families have already fled (<a href="http://www.pi-news.org/2010/02/hate-jews-fleeing-from-malmoe/" target="_blank">PI reported</a>).</p>
<p>In all of Scandinavia, the persecution of Jews by “persons from the Near East” has increased enormously. The <em>Frankfurter Rundschau</em> <a href="http://www.fr-online.de/top_news/2430283_Hass-auf-Juden-in-Skandinavien-Gelbe-Sterne-auf-den-Ruecken.html" target="_blank">reports</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>The attacks escalated in the previous year, when 200 Jewish demonstrators held rallies for peace and compassion for the civilian victims of both sides but were hounded out of the place by an even larger group of Palestinian counter-demonstrators with rocks, bottles and Molotov cocktails</p>
<p>Teachers and parents reported on Norwegian TV that the class instruction about the Holocaust was boycotted and statements like “The Jews were behind 9/11″ went unanswered. When one pupil complained that he was mortally threatened because he was a “Jewish pig,” the teacher dismissed him with the statement that these things could happen to anyone.</p></blockquote>
<p>Okaaaay. So, we are daily insulted with “Jewish pigs,” mortally threatened, and “halal-”murdered… The non-intervening teachers are simply fostering their own festering anti-Jewish sentiments and building themselves up in their own conceits with “acceptance of cultural distinctions” and their “tolerance.”</p>
<p>It’s better as a secret Jew hater to wash one’s hands in the innocence of Political Correctness, and let the Jews accuse “persons from the Near East” as fair game.</p>
<p><strong>To watch on a video on this subject, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fC-QjF9RKI&amp;feature=player_embedded#">click here</a>.</strong></p>
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		<title>Israel’s Latest Sin—Honoring Its Heritage</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Palestinian bullying continues.]]></description>
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<p>When the Israeli cabinet announced the other day that the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron, and Rachel’s Tomb in Bethlehem, would be included in a list of Israeli “heritage” sites, it touched off a wave of Palestinian violence and threats—along with diplomatic protests that were all too concordant with the Palestinian bullying.</p>
<p>Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has launched the “heritage” program as a way of strengthening Israelis’ connection with their Jewish and Zionist roots, initially left the two West Bank sites (though other West Bank sites were included) off the list, apparently fearing various kinds of fallout. Netanyahu was only persuaded to include them at the last minute by Shas, a religious party that is part of his coalition.</p>
<p>Sure enough, the West Bank <a href="http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/ipc_e074.htm">heated up</a> with an increase in rocks and Molotov cocktails thrown at Israeli vehicles, and, particularly, daily disturbances in Hebron, where crowds of Palestinians burned tires and threw rocks and bottles at Israeli soldiers. By Sunday the disturbances had <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=169829">spread to Jerusalem</a>.</p>
<p>On the verbal plane a spokesman for the Gaza-based Islamic Jihad terror organization <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3853720,00.html">declared</a> that “If the Israelis continue to damage our mosques and holy places, we will respond [i.e., mount terror attacks] within the Zionist territory”—alluding to the fact that the Cave of the Patriarchs is a compound with a mosque as well as a synagogue, while Rachel’s Tomb has recently been claimed to be a mosque as well.</p>
<p>Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas prime minister in Gaza, <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3853485,00.html">piped up</a> with “Jerusalem is ours, the land is ours, and God is with us. We will not accept these decisions….” And Mahmoud Abbas, president of the official, West Bank-based Palestinian Authority and considered secular and a moderate, was hardly more moderate in his reaction, calling the decision to add the two sites to the heritage list “a serious provocation which may lead to a religious war.”</p>
<p>The U.S., too, <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9E2SBTG1&amp;show_article=1">voiced its objection</a> as “State Department spokesman Mark Toner said the administration viewed the move as ‘provocative’ and unhelpful to the goal of getting the two sides back to the table,” and that “U.S. displeasure with the designations of the Cave of the Patriarchs in the flashpoint town of Hebron and the traditional tomb of the biblical matriarch Rachel in Bethlehem had been conveyed to senior Israeli officials by American diplomats.”</p>
<p>UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon also <a href="http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=33884">complained</a>, and EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton <a href="http://www.ejpress.org/article/42603">said</a> “the European Union calls on Israel to refrain from provocative acts.”</p>
<p>On the Israeli side, a particularly indignant rejoinder came from Vice Prime Minister Silvan Shalom, who <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3853720,00.html">called</a> Abbas’s statement:</p>
<blockquote><p>“insolent and outrageous and another attempt to rewrite history. The Cave of the Patriarchs, like Rachel’s Tomb, are Jewish heritage sites pointing to the deep 3,700-year affiliation of the people of Israel to their land.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>“The people of Israel’s affiliation to the land did not begin—as the Palestinians are trying to claim—in the past 100 years, but when the Cave of the Patriarchs was bought by Abraham from Ephron the Hittite for 400 silver shekels and Rachel’s Tomb was purchased for a full price in the Binyamin region.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>“They are both still mentioned in the Torah in the Book of Genesis, and no one can take that away from the people of Israel. The wild Palestinian attack is aimed at…rewriting history. This is a continuation of their ideological objection to recognizing Israel as a Jewish state.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Netanyahu, for his part, was more conciliatory, <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3854186,00.html">stressing</a> Israel’s commitment to religious freedom and that “this policy is implemented in the Cave of the Patriarchs as well, where the State is working constantly to guarantee appropriate prayer conditions for [both] Jews and Muslims.”</p>
<p>A few observations are in order. First, Israel did not announce that it was <em>annexing</em> the two sites, only that they had been added to a list designated for renovations and for encouraging <em>visits</em> by Israelis. Treating these two sites as major foci of the Jewish heritage is not a political statement; it is simply, as Shalom emphasized, a recognition of reality. But whoever envisions the purported “two-state solution” as one in which even minimal Jewish rights would be upheld within the Palestinian state should take note of the contempt toward Jewish history and values that was, once again, displayed by Palestinians this week.</p>
<p>Second, as alluded to by Netanyahu, Israel’s record in terms of honoring non-Jewish religious rights in the West Bank and Jerusalem is indeed exemplary—or even goes too far. On the Temple Mount in Jerusalem,  Israel grants administrative control to the Muslim Waqf, which allows non-Muslims to visit there only at restricted hours. In Hebron and elsewhere, Muslims have had full freedom of worship; while other Jewish sites in Nablus and Jericho have been damaged and desecrated. That the Palestinian behavior this week stems from an Islamic supremacism that Israel, with its democratic norms, is unable to appease—is a bit more reality than Israel’s diplomatic critics want to contemplate.</p>
<p>And so, while the U.S., UN, and EU rebukes come as no great surprise, they are of a piece with a long-held axiom that when such “Israeli-Palestinian tensions” emerge, the side that bullies and threatens war gets the nod while the side capable of upholding pluralism gets censured.</p>
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		<title>The Mullahs Make the Green Revolution Invisible to the Media</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:13:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan Mauro]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A group of Senators race to support the opposition as their struggle continues.]]></description>
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<p>On the 31<sup>st</sup> anniversary of the coming to power of the current Iranian regime, Khamenei and Ahmadinejad have successfully used unprecedented measures to make some Western media outlets lose faith in the opposition’s fight for freedom and democracy.</p>
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<p><em>TIME Magazine</em> <a href="http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1963656,00.html?iid=tsmodule">asks</a>, “Where was the opposition?” <em>The Daily Mail</em> has run a <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1250127/Iran-Revolution-day-protests-Islamic-Republic-nuclear-state.html">report</a> quoting a protestor declaring February 11 a day of victory for the regime and detailing the failure of the Green Movement to mobilize.<em> The Los Angeles Times</em> <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-fg-iran-protests12-2010feb12,0,2941207.story">says</a> the pro-regime rally “overshadow[ed]” the opposition that “failed to derail” the regime’s agenda for the day.</p>
<p>From these articles, you’d think that the Green Revolution had fizzled and was on its way out. Reports from Iranians, though, paint a more hopeful picture of continued resistance in the face of security measures nearly insurmountable without active Western support.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.planet-iran.com/">Planet-Iran&#8217;s</a> live-blogging <a href="http://planet-iran.com/index.php/news/9437">revealed</a> that overnight in Tehran and in the morning in Tabriz, demonstrators disabled P.A. systems and loudspeakers set up by the regime to drown out their chants with pro-regime propaganda. A bus carrying members of the Basiji to Tehran was set ablaze, resulting in a violent battle.  Despite the huge security presence, helmets and motorcycles belonging to the suppressive forces were seen on fire. Molotov cocktails were thrown in Golestan Province and Khamenei’s photo was burned in Shiraz. At one time, about 10,000 Iranians in Tehran gathered and <a href="http://www.worldthreats.com/?p=2126">marched</a> towards Evin Prison, the notorious torture house reserved for the worst political prisoners. Other video of the demonstrations that <em>TIME</em> and other outlets missed can be seen at the <em>Wall Street Journal</em> <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/dispatch/">website</a> and the <a href="http://homylafayette.blogspot.com/">Homylafayette blog.</a> One <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJEb447ABh4&amp;feature=player_embedded">video</a> even shows the demonstrators emerging victorious from a clash with the attacking security forces.</p>
<p>The regime’s measures to discredit the opposition are actually a testament to the movement’s strength. Tanks, armored personnel vehicles, and two water cannons imported from China had to be <a href="http://planet-iran.com/index.php/news/9437">stationed</a> to protect the Iranian Broadcasting Network T.V. station from being seized, as crowds of Iranians have marched towards it frequently in the past. Many posters of Khomeini, Khamenei and Ahmadinejad were <a href="http://www.worldthreats.com/?p=2119">removed</a> so that they wouldn’t be seen getting burnt and ripped apart.</p>
<p>Mousavi, Karroubi, and Mousavi’s wife were assaulted when they tried to join the protestors. The Internet was dramatically slowed down and some e-mail communication was blocked as the regime moves to <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/02/10/iran-shuts-gmail-announces-national-e-mail-service/">start</a> a government-controlled service. Cell phones went dead and social networking sites were blocked. Some people <a href="http://www.worldthreats.com/?p=2124">reported</a> receiving phone calls directly from the Ministry of Intelligence and Security warning that they were being monitored and would be arrested if they protested. One interesting account I received from Iran shows the regime’s paranoia and/or an act of subtle disobedience by the pro-regime forces. Security personnel carrying an Iranian flag measuring between 300 and 400 meters long were attacked by other security forces because only the green part of the flag could be seen.</p>
<p>A key part of the regime’s effort to demoralize the opposition and make the West think their momentum has been lost was to stage a massive pro-regime rally. This rally should not be seen as evidence of the government’s enduring strength, but of a desperate measure to maintain some level of confidence on the part of the regime’s dwindling proponents. Foreign reporters were <a href="http://www.worldthreats.com/?p=2126">bussed</a> directly to Azadi Square where Ahmadinejad spoke so they wouldn’t witness the opposition activity in the other areas of Tehran.</p>
<p>Michael Ledeen <a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/michaelledeen/2010/02/10/another-showdown-at-the-mullahs-corral/">says</a> that he believed that “the Iranian regime has assembled the largest armed force in history to protect it.” This rally was not an event representative of Iran’s people, but an assembly of the regime’s employees, soldiers and thugs. The Defense Ministry <a href="http://www.worldthreats.com/?p=2128">gave</a> those that attended meat, chicken and rice (see video <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2p7aSXEpsyI">here</a>). Cake, fruit juice, mineral water and lunch were also being distributed at Tehran  University to those changing “Death to Sarkozy” and “Death to France.” According to a <a href="http://www.worldthreats.com/?p=2128">report</a> I received from inside Iran, school children were recruited to join the marches to expand their numbers and male students at a junior high school in Qods  Town were offered a free trip to Qom and extra credit if they attended the rally.</p>
<p>The success of the pro-regime rally means several things. First, that despite having more than enough forces to carry out a massacre, the regime did not. They either felt it was unnecessary or not an option because of the popular backlash that would result. Either way, this assembly was a sign of fear, and the reluctance of the regime to take even more brutal measures shows they question the loyalty of their security forces. On the down side, it does mean that the security forces still have not fractured to the point where the regime cannot put together a strong line of defense.</p>
<p>This does not mean that the security forces aren’t becoming weaker, or that they will not collapse if a full-fledged confrontation with the people ensues. Nearly a third of Tehran’s 5,000 police officers have been fired, <a href="http://www.worldthreats.com/?p=2067">forcing</a> the regime to bring in 700-900 civilians desperate for food and money during times of exceptionally high instability. The report on this development has several key quotes from police officers. Even those that oppose regime change act with disgust in response to the government’s violence, reflecting how the opposition movement spans across political ideologies.</p>
<p>Officers of the Army and the elite Revolutionary Guards have been arrested for opposing the government’s oppression. During the Ashura protests, security forces from outside the capital had to be brought in, showing that the regime’s loyalists are over-extended. Many of the Revolutionary Guards are said to be conscripts and it is questionable if they’d engage in wholesale massacres. As Ali Alfoneh <a href="http://www.realclearworld.com/articles/2010/02/06/is_the_basij_irans_weak_spot_97529.html">points out</a>, “The last time regular IRGC personnel were ordered to move against demonstrators was in Qazvin in 1994; the unit in question refused to go.”</p>
<p>Unfortunately, the ability of the regime to block the flow of information and communications and their success in preventing the crowds of demonstrators from merging together means the fight is not over and is becoming more difficult. Luckily for the Iranian people and all those threatened by the regime, a group of Senators know what must be done.</p>
<p>Senator McCain and Lieberman have proposed legislation that would require President Obama to provide a list of officials engaging in human rights abuses within 90 days, allowing their assets to be frozen and other sanctions to be enacted. Senators Brownback and Cornyn have <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/protests-iran">proposed</a> separate legislation that paves the way for the creation of an ambassador-level post for a special envoy for human rights in Iran, the providing of non-violent material to the opposition, and it requires that once a transitional government is formed that the U.S. government establish a plan to support it.</p>
<p>Congress recently approved the Iran Refined Petroleum Sanctions Act, allowing President Obama to sanction companies providing the regime with petroleum-based products like gasoline, which they are heavily dependent upon imports for. If such sanctions are imposed and the two new pieces of legislation are passed, the opposition’s chances of success will be dramatically improved. There will be debate about how much non-violent material support we can afford to provide with the current deficit, but there can be no greater investment than in the internal overthrow of the current Iranian regime and its replacement with a democracy.</p>
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