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		<title>You Can Kill, But Not Murder</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2014 05:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dennis Prager]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why there's no biblical basis for pacifism. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Keith-Breeze-Ten-Commandments.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-246498" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Keith-Breeze-Ten-Commandments-421x350.jpg" alt="Keith Breeze Ten Commandments" width="303" height="252" /></a>That is the King James translation of the sixth commandment. It is a magnificent translation. But this one has led to much moral confusion.</p>
<p>Yesterday, PragerUniversity.com, which has had more than 20 million views this year, released 11 courses (each five-minutes long) — the Ten Commandments and an introduction.</p>
<p>The reason we made these video courses is that I believe that everything we need to make a good world and rid ourselves of evil is contained in the Ten Commandments.</p>
<p>For the next few weeks, my column will be selected transcripts of the courses, all of which I present.</p>
<p>Whatever your faith, or if you have no faith, I invite you to watch the videos at www.prageru.com — from the introduction through the tenth, or any of the Ten. They are cleverly animated with text and graphics.</p>
<p>Here is the text of commandment six — explaining why the King James translation is wrong:</p>
<p>You would think that of all the Ten Commandments the one that needs the least explaining is the sixth, because it seems so clear. It is the one that the King James Bible, the most widely used English translation of the Bible, translates as, &#8220;Thou shall not kill.&#8221;</p>
<p>Yet, the truth is the quite the opposite. This is probably the least well understood of the Ten Commandments. The reason is that the Hebrew original does not say, &#8220;Do not kill.&#8221; It says, &#8220;Do not murder.&#8221; Both Hebrew and English have two words for taking a life — one is &#8220;kill&#8221; (harag, in Hebrew) and the other is &#8220;murder&#8221; (ratzach in Hebrew).</p>
<p>The difference between the two is enormous. Kill means:</p>
<p>1) Taking any life — whether of a human being or an animal.</p>
<p>2) Taking a human life deliberately or by accident.</p>
<p>3) Taking a human life legally or illegally, morally or immorally.</p>
<p>On the other hand, murder can only mean one thing: The illegal or immoral taking of a human life. That&#8217;s why we say, &#8220;I killed a mosquito,&#8221; not, &#8220;I murdered a mosquito.&#8221; And that&#8217;s why we would say that &#8220;the worker was accidentally killed,&#8221; not that &#8220;the worker was accidentally murdered.&#8221;</p>
<p>So why did the King James translation of the Bible use the word &#8220;kill&#8221; rather than &#8220;murder&#8221;? Because 400 years ago, when the translation was made, &#8220;kill&#8221; was synonymous with &#8220;murder.&#8221; As a result, some people don&#8217;t realize that English has changed since 1610 and therefore think that the Ten Commandments prohibits all killing.</p>
<p>But, of course, it doesn&#8217;t. If the Ten Commandments forbade killing, we would all have to be vegetarians, as killing animals would be prohibited. And we would all have to be pacifists — since we could not kill even in self-defense.</p>
<p>However, you don&#8217;t have to know how the English language has evolved to understand that the Ten Commandments could not have prohibited all killing.</p>
<p>The very same part of the Bible that contains the Ten Commandments — the Five Books of Moses, the Torah as it is known by Jews — commands the death penalty for murder, allows killing in war, prescribes animal sacrifice and allows eating meat.</p>
<p>A correct understanding of the commandment against murder is crucial because, while virtually every modern translation correctly translates the commandment as &#8220;Do not murder,&#8221; many people cite the King James translation to justify two positions that have no biblical basis: opposition to capital punishment and pacifism.</p>
<p>Regarding capital punishment and the Bible, as I note in my Prager University course on capital punishment, the only law that appears in each one of the Five Books of Moses is that murderers be put to death. Opponents of the death penalty are free to hold the view that all murderers should be allowed to live. But they are not free to cite the Bible to support their view.</p>
<p>Yet, many do. And they always cite the Commandment, &#8220;Do not kill.&#8221; But that, as should now be abundantly clear, is not what the commandment says, and it is therefore an invalid argument.</p>
<p>As regards pacifism, the belief that it is always wrong to kill a human being, again, anyone is free to hold this position, as immoral as it may be. And what other word than &#8220;immoral&#8221; can one use to describe forbidding the killing of someone who is in the process of murdering innocent men, women and children, in, let&#8217;s say, a movie theater or a school?</p>
<p>But it is dishonest to cite the commandment against murder to justify pacifism.</p>
<p>There is moral killing — most obviously when done in self-defense against an aggressor — and there is immoral killing. And the word for that is &#8220;murder.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Ten Commandments are portrayed on two tablets. The five commandments on the second tablet all concern our treatment of fellow human beings.</p>
<p>The first one on that list is &#8220;Do not murder.&#8221; Why? Because murder is the worst act a person can commit. The other four commandments — prohibiting stealing, adultery, giving false testimony and coveting, are all serious offenses.</p>
<p>But murder leads the list because deliberately taking the life of an innocent person is the most terrible thing we can do. That is why it is so important to understand that the commandment prohibits murder, not all killing. When people liken killing in self-defense to murder — such as when they equate killing the terrorist who is murdering people with the murders that the terrorist is committing — all they are doing is reducing the evil that murder is. And when they use the Ten Commandments to justify that position, all they are doing is making the Ten Commandments, the moral foundation of Western Civilization, morally irrelevant.</p>
<p>The next time you hear someone cite, &#8220;Do not kill&#8221; when quoting the sixth commandment, gently but firmly explain that it actually says, &#8220;Do not murder.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Responding to the Slaughter</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2014 05:26:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caroline Glick]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Immediate measures Israel should take to stop the Islamic jihad against the Jewish people. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/635518979796654817-GTY-459169342.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245746" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/635518979796654817-GTY-459169342-450x337.jpg" alt="635518979796654817-GTY-459169342" width="395" height="296" /></a>Originally published by the <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Column-One-Responding-to-the-slaughter-382423">Jerusalem Post</a>. </em></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">What we are seeing in Jerusalem today is not simply Palestinian terrorism. It is Islamic jihad. No one likes to admit it. The television reporters insist that this is the worst possible scenario because there is no way to placate it.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">There is no way to reason with it.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">So what else is new? The horrible truth is that all of the anti-Jewish slaughters perpetrated by our Arab neighbors have been motivated to greater or lesser degrees by Islamic Jew-hatred. The only difference between the past hundred years and now is that today our appeasement-oriented elite is finding it harder to pretend away the obvious fact that we cannot placate our enemies.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">No “provocation” by Jews drove two Jerusalem Arabs to pick up meat cleavers and a rifle and slaughter rabbis in worship like sheep and then mutilate their bodies.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">No “frustration” with a “lack of progress” in the “peace process,” can motivate people to run over Jewish babies or attempt to assassinate a Jewish civil rights activist.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The reason that these terrorists have decided to kill Jews is that they take offense at the fact that in Israel, Jews are free. They take offense because all their lives they have been taught that Jews should live at their mercy, or die by their sword.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">They do so because they believe, as former Jordanian MP Ya’qub Qarash said on Palestinian television last week, that Christians and Muslims should work together to forbid the presence of Jews in “Palestine” and guarantee that “not a single Jew will remain in Jerusalem.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Our neighbors are taught that Muhammad, the founder of Islam, signed the treaty of Hudaybiyah in 628 as a ploy to buy time during which he would change the balance of power between his army and the Jews of Kuraish. And 10 years later, once his army gained the upper hand, he annihilated the Jews.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Throughout the 130-year history of modern Zionism, Islamic Jew-hatred has been restrained by two forces: the desire of many Arabs to live at peace with their Jewish neighbors; and the ability of Israeli authorities and before them, British authorities, to deter the local Arab Muslims from attacking.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The monopoly on Arab Muslim leadership has always belonged to the intolerant bigots. Support for coexistence has always been the choice of individuals.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Haj Amin el-Husseini’s first act as the founder of the Palestinian Arab identity was to translate The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and serialize them in the local press.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">During the Arab jihad of 1936-1939, Husseini’s gangs of murderers killed more Arabs than the British did. He targeted those who sought peaceful coexistence with the Jews.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">His successor Yasser Arafat followed his example.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">During the 1988-1991 Palestinian uprising, the PLO killed more Palestinians than the IDF did. Like Husseini, Arafat targeted Palestinians who worked with Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Since Israel imprudently embraced Arafat and the PLO in 1993 and permitted them to govern the Palestinians in Judea, Samaria and Gaza, and exert direct influence and coercive power over the Arabs of Jerusalem, the Palestinian Authority’s governing institutions have used all the tools at their disposal to silence those who support peaceful coexistence with Israel, and indoctrinate the general public in Islamic and racial Jew-hatred.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Much has been made of the recent spike in incitement of violence by Palestinian leaders led by Arafat’s successor Mahmoud Abbas. But the flames Abbas and his comrades are throwing would not cause such conflagrations if they hadn’t already indoctrinated their audience to desire the destruction of the Jews.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">You cannot solicit murder among those who haven’t been taught that committing murder is an act of heroism.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Today Israel must take swift, effective action to stop the slaughter. The damage that has been done to the psyches of the Arabs of Jerusalem and their brethren in Judea, Samaria and Gaza, cannot be repaired in a timeline relevant to the task of preventing the next massacre.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">This means that for the time being, on the tactical level, Israel’s only play is strengthening its deterrence.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Israel faces two major constraints in meeting this challenge.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">First, the European Union and the Obama administration, as well as the US foreign policy elite, are obsessively committed to a policy of empowering the Palestinians against Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The Spanish parliament’s decision to go ahead with its planned vote to recognize the “State of Palestine,” just hours after the massacre at the Bnei Torah Kehillat Yaakov synagogue in Jerusalem’s Har Nof neighborhood shows that the EU’s dedication to strengthening the Palestinians against Israel is entirely unrelated to events on the ground.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">They don’t care who the Palestinians are or what they do. For their own reasons they have made supporting the Palestinians at Israel’s expense their top foreign policy priority.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Similarly, US President Barack Obama couldn’t contain his compulsion to pressure Israel even in his statement condemning the massacre. Even there, Obama called on Israelis and Palestinians equally to restrain themselves.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Obama’s unabated hostility toward Israel was brought to bear on Tuesday afternoon when the State Department restated its rejection of Jewish property rights in Jerusalem and its desire to see the homes of terrorist murderers left intact for the welfare of their terror-supporting families.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">On Tuesday, Israel’s social media outlets were filled with angry rebukes of Western media outlets from CNN to MSNBC to CBS, to the BBC. All these networks, and many others, did everything in their power to explain away the synagogue slaughter as just another instance of a cycle of violence. That is, they all sought to frame the discussion in a way that would lead their viewers to the conclusion that the slaughter of praying rabbis was justified.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">While appalling, the coverage was not the least surprising. The Western elite media’s devotion to their false narrative of Israeli culpability for all the problems in the region is absolute. Networks would rather wreck their professional reputations than tell the truth.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Together with the EU, the American policy elite and the Obama administration, the media place Israel’s leaders in a bind. Every step they take to defend the country and protect the rights of Jews meets with automatic and libelous condemnation.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The other impediment Israel faces in deterring anti-Jewish violence against its citizenry is its own weakness. Since the inception of the phony peace process, Israel has continuously rewarded the Palestinians for their murderous violence against its citizenry.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">From Israel’s transfer of control over all the Palestinian population centers in Judea and Samaria, to its forcible expulsion of its own people from Gaza, to its repeated releases of terrorists from prison, to its continued transfer of hundreds of millions of shekels in tax revenues to the PA, Israel has showed the Palestinians at every turn that far from being punished for murdering Jews, they will be rewarded for doing so.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Given the US and European support for the Palestinians, Israeli declarations that there will be no future releases of terrorists have no credibility. If terrorists aren’t killed on the spot, they can assume that they will eventually be released; if not in exchange for an Israeli hostage, Israel will release them in an attempt to placate the White House.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">But even with these constraints on its actions, Israel can take steps to deter its hate-filled enemies from attacking.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Since the current campaign of murder is being carried out by terrorists largely acting on their own accord, the measures Israel adopts to stop the attacks should be directed primarily against individual terrorists. As for action against the PA, it needs to be credible, consistent and directed to where it will hurt Palestinian leaders the most: their wallets.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">With regard to the individual terrorists, the government has made much of its intention to destroy the homes of terrorists. While it sounds good, there is limited evidence of the effectiveness of this punitive measure, which is a relic of the British Mandate.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Rather than destroy their homes, Israel should adopt the US anti-narcotics policy of asset seizure.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">All assets directly or indirectly tied to terrorists, including their homes and any other structure where they planned their crimes, and all remittances to them, should be seized and transferred to their victims, to do with what they will.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">If Israel hands over the homes of the synagogue butchers to the 24 orphans of Rabbi Moshe Twersky, Rabbi Kalman Levine, Rabbi Aryeh Kupinsky and Rabbi Avraham Goldberg, not only will justice be served. The children’s inheritance of the homes of their fathers’ killers will send a clear and demoralizing message to other would-be killers.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Not only will their atrocities fail to remove the Jews from Israel. Every terrorist will contribute to the Zionist project by donating his home to the Jewish settlement enterprise.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Just as Israel has repeatedly buckled under US pressure to release terrorists from jail, so it has bowed to US pressure to continue to fund the PA by transferring the tax revenues it collects on goods imported to the PA.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Assuming that the government is too weak to stand up to the Americans, at a minimum it can see that the money is properly used.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">To that end, the Knesset should pass a law permitting Israeli terror victims to sue the PA for actual and punitive damages in Israel courts. The sums awarded to the victims should be taken from the tax revenues Israel collects for the PA. The law should apply retroactively to all victims of Palestinian terror carried out since the establishment of the PA in May 1994.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Not only should the law permit Israeli terror victims to sue the PA. It should dictate actions the Justice Ministry must take to assist them in bringing suit.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Israel should also revoke citizenship and residency rights not only from terrorists themselves, but from those who enjoy citizenship and residency rights by dint of their relationship with the terrorists.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Wives who received Israeli residency or citizenship rights though marriage to terrorists should have their rights revoked, as should the children of the terrorists.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Since Tuesday’s massacre, aside from Abbas’s phony condemnation, the Palestinian leadership and public from Fatah to Hamas have been unanimous in their praise for the atrocity.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Today Israel is powerless to influence the hearts of our Arab neighbors. But we can influence their minds. We can deter them from attacking us.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The actions set forth above: asset seizure, revenue seizure and citizenship/residency abrogation for terrorists and their dependents are steps that Israel can take today, despite the hostile international climate.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">If the government and Knesset adopt these measures, they will rectify some of the damage Israel has inflicted on itself by showing the Palestinians over two decades that they will be rewarded for their aggression.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">If our leaders fail to take these or similar actions, and suffice with complaining about incitement, their condemnations of the murder of Jews will ring as hollow as those sounded by the BBC, Obama and Abbas.</span></p>
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		<title>Palestinian Bloodlust Unleashed</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2014 05:58:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Klein]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ShowImage.ashx_.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245561" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ShowImage.ashx_-450x314.jpg" alt="ShowImage.ashx" width="358" height="250" /></a>Two Palestinian thugs, armed with cleavers, knives and a gun, invaded an orthodox synagogue in West Jerusalem early Tuesday during morning prayers, and proceeded to murder four Jewish worshippers in cold blood. At least a dozen others were wounded. Three of the murder victims were American citizens. The fourth was a British citizen. Three of the victims were also rabbis. Israeli police, arriving at the scene of the horrific massacre and exchanging gunfire with the Palestinians as they tried to escape, shot the murderers to death. But the horrible images of the slain and wounded worshippers with blood everywhere, drenching holy books, prayer shawls and walls of the synagogue, will live on for a very long time.</p>
<p>“To see Jews wearing tefillin and wrapped in the tallit lying in pools of blood, I wondered if I was imagining scenes from the Holocaust,” said Yehuda Meshi Zahav, the veteran leader of a religious emergency-response team as quoted by the <i>New York Times. </i>“It was a massacre of Jews at prayer.”</p>
<p>At least ten Jews have now been run over by cars and killed, or have been stabbed to death by Palestinians during the last month. Call this latest spate of violence the &#8220;Car Intifada,&#8221; as some Palestinian social media refer to it with a song by that name, or the &#8220;Knife Intifada,&#8221; as other Palestinians have coined it. Either way, Palestinian leaders have Jewish blood on their hands after exhorting their followers to commit such violent acts. The inciters to murder are as guilty as the murderers themselves.</p>
<p>Predictably, Hamas praised the cowardly synagogue attack as a “heroic” act. Hamas&#8217;s leadership claimed that the brutal murders were justified as legitimate responses to Israeli actions. “There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad. Initiatives proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time,” a spokesman for Hamas declared. Senior Hamas official Ghazi Hamad told Al Jazeera International to expect “more revolution in Jerusalem, and more uprising.&#8221;</p>
<p>A Hamas official posted <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ana.hor.bahaayaseen/photos/a.634911186630127.1073741830.263328473788402/671934452927800/?type=1"><span style="color: #0463c1;">an image of a grotesque poster</span></a> depicting the attack on his Facebook page. It showed Palestinians brandishing guns and a bloodied knife rampaging through a synagogue with bodies of Jews strewn on the floor and other Jews trying to flee the terror. In the evil perverted minds of Hamas jihadists and their ilk, the killing of Jews even while praying in their own synagogue far removed from the Temple Mount is a cause for great celebration.</p>
<p>Palestinian Authority President Abbas, whose talk of a &#8220;religious war&#8221; and other incendiary rhetoric helped to incite the latest in a series of violent attacks against Jewish civilians in Jerusalem and elsewhere, issued a formulaic condemnation of the synagogue killings. At the same time he continued his lie-ridden rant against Israelis:</p>
<blockquote><p>The president always condemns killings of civilians from any party whatsoever, and condemns the killing of worshipers today in one of the houses of worship in West Jerusalem, and also denounces all violent acts no matter what their source is, and demands an end to the ongoing incursions into the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the provocative acts by Israeli settlers as well as incitement by some Israeli ministers.</p>
<p>The presidency also confirms that it is time to end the occupation and end the causes of tension and violence, affirming our commitment to a just-based solution on the basis of a two-state solution, in accordance with the resolutions of international legitimacy, and maintain an atmosphere of calm and understandings that have been made with King Abdullah II and American Secretary of State John Kerry in Amman.</p></blockquote>
<p>Meanwhile, official Palestinian Authority television is reported to have broadcast disgusting images of Bethlehem residents handing out candy in the streets, to celebrate the attack. And an official spokesman for Abbas’s Fatah party, Ahmed Assaf, said that “the Jerusalem operation was a natural response to the Israeli violations.”</p>
<p>Secretary of State Kerry, who just a few days ago expressed his belief that tensions in Jerusalem were beginning to de-escalate, issued a strong condemnation of the synagogue murders. “To have this kind of act, which is a pure result of incitement, of calls for ‘days of rage,’ of just irresponsibility, is unacceptable,” Kerry said. “The Palestinian leadership must condemn this and they must begin to take serious steps to restrain any kind of incitement …This simply has no place in human behavior and we need to hear from leaders who are going to lead their people to a different place.”</p>
<p>Clearly, Abbas and his henchmen have not gotten Kerry’s message. And Hamas seeks to characterize the synagogue slaughters as delivering a very different type of message. Mushir al-Masri, a Hamas spokesman, wrote in a Facebook post: “We have the full right to revenge for the blood of our martyrs in all possible means.”</p>
<p>For his part, President Obama did personally condemn the bloody slaughters, saying “there is and can be no justification for such attacks against innocent civilians.” But, as usual, Obama tried to link an act of pure evil &#8212; the shedding of innocent blood of worshippers in their holy place of prayer &#8211; to the failed peace negotiations. He said that &#8220;it is all the more important for Israeli and Palestinian leaders and ordinary citizens to work cooperatively together to lower tensions, reject violence and seek a path forward towards peace.” Obama also continued his false moral equivalency narrative by noting that there has been violence committed on both sides. &#8220;Too many Israelis have died, too many Palestinians have died,” Obama said. That’s true, but it is the Palestinians who are at fault. They have rejected real peace, from the original United Nations two-state partition solution more than six decades ago until now, and have instead conducted a relentless campaign of violence against Jewish civilians.</p>
<p>The failed peace talks, the building of additional Jewish housing in Jewish neighborhoods of Jerusalem and the lies about purported Israeli plans to interfere with Muslim worship and invade their mosques serve only as pretexts for Palestinians to satiate their never-ending lust for Jewish blood. Obama’s anti-Israel bias blinds him to the incontrovertible fact that Palestinian leaders have refused to work together with Israeli leaders to lower tensions and reject violence as he has suggested. Only Israel is trying in good faith to lower the temperature and prevent a conflagration. Indeed, while Hamas leaders and Abbas have incited violence with blatant lies about alleged Israeli plans to attack the al-Aqsa Mosque, Prime Minister Netanyahu has tried to de-escalate tensions by even continuing to prevent Jews from exercising their fundamental human right to worship freely wherever they wish, including on the Temple Mount, Judaism’s holiest site.</p>
<p>However, Prime Minister Netanyahu’s patience has just about run out. Now Jews cannot even pray safely in their own synagogues in the uncontested area of West Jerusalem. Such pathological Palestinian behavior must be stopped once and for all.</p>
<p>“This is the direct result of the incitement being led by Hamas and Abu Mazen [Palestinian Authority - PA President Mahmoud Abbas], incitement which the international community is irresponsibly ignoring,” Prime Minister Netanyahu said. “We will respond with a heavy hand to the brutal murder of Jews who came to pray and were met by reprehensible murderers. We will respond harshly,” he added.</p>
<p>The prime minister called for national unity in fighting against &#8220;those human animals who committed this massacre&#8221; and against Hamas, the Islamic movement, the Palestinian Authority and whomever else &#8220;disseminate libels against the state of Israel.&#8221;</p>
<p>Demolition of the Palestinian murderers’ homes and arrests of any and all accomplices are first steps. Security will be beefed up all around Jerusalem. More restrictions may be needed on freedom of movement among at least certain segments of the Palestinian population living in Jerusalem. The two killers were residents of East Jerusalem who carried Israeli identification cards allowing them to travel throughout Israel. They also worked in Jewish neighborhoods. In addition, Israeli officials should bring pressure to bear on social media providers such as Facebook to monitor and immediately remove the kind of hate speech inciting violence against Jews, including babies, on sites that Palestinians are regularly frequenting. If necessary, Israel should use its technological prowess to block access to such sites.</p>
<p>Whatever measures Israel takes to protect its citizens against the Palestinians’ bloodlust should be fully supported by the United States. Anti-Israel resolutions at the UN Security Council should be vetoed. UN Human Rights Council kangaroo investigations of alleged Israeli “crimes” should be met with U.S. withdrawal from this farcical body and de-funding. But that is not likely to happen, since President Obama’s thinking is in synch with the anti-Israel, moral equivalency mindset of the UN. When I asked the United Nations High Commissioner for Human rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein for his comment on the Jerusalem synagogue slaughters, he responded in a similar fashion to President Obama’s statement. He condemned any killings of civilians and said he hoped that calm can be restored. He would not criticize the incitements to violence by Hamas and other Palestinian leaders.</p>
<p>If, as expected, the Obama administration continues its campaign to undermine Prime Minister Netanyahu, rather than wholeheartedly support his fight against ISIS look-alikes such as Hamas and other Palestinian murderers of innocent civilians, the prime minister should go over Obama’s head and take his case directly to the American people. His message should be that Israel and America are fighting the same enemy. Israel’s battles against the Palestinian jihadists are inextricably linked with America’s fight against ISIS and other jihadists worldwide who want to destroy the freedoms we take for granted. He can start with a speech to a joint session of Congress, which large bipartisan majorities in both houses of Congress would welcome, even if President Obama is displeased.</p>
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		<title>Releasing Criminally Convicted Illegals onto Our Streets</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2014 04:54:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arnold Ahlert]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Killers and sexual predators let loose in America. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/arrests1-25855073b79ecfce6f39e800d04801e52308fc1d-s6-c30.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-243680" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/arrests1-25855073b79ecfce6f39e800d04801e52308fc1d-s6-c30-450x337.jpg" alt="arrests1-25855073b79ecfce6f39e800d04801e52308fc1d-s6-c30" width="355" height="266" /></a>In a <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/10/22/immigration-detainees-released-criminal-records/17714925/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">revelation</span></a> that will surprise almost no one at this point, the Obama administration has been caught in another lie. Records obtained by <i>USA Today</i> contradict the administration’s assertions the 2,228 people freed from immigration jails in 2013 only included those with minor criminal records. Instead, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials released a number of illegal aliens facing serious criminal charges that include &#8220;kidnapping, sexual assault, drug trafficking and homicide,” the paper reports.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Despite last year’s furor surrounding the release, the administration continued to insist that only &#8220;<a href="http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1312297-redacted-part3.html#document/p18/a183451"><span style="color: #1255cc;">low-risk offenders who do not have serious criminal records</span></a>,” had been set free. That statement was part of the hundreds of emails and spreadsheets obtained by the newspaper showing that while two-thirds of those released had no criminal records, several had significant criminal records.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">These realities blatantly contradict <a href="http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CHRG-113hhrg80066/pdf/CHRG-113hhrg80066.pdf"><span style="color: #1255cc;">testimony</span></a> by then-ICE Director John Morton before the House Judiciary Committee on March 19, 2013. Morton assured the Committee there were “no mass releases of dangerous criminals underway or any planned for the future, just efforts to live within our budget.&#8221; He also had the following exchange with Rep. J. Randy Forbes (R-VA):</p>
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<p style="color: #232323;">Forbes: Let me ask you this question. On the aggravated felonies that you talked about, I am looking at the list here, and I am just running through a couple of them. But no one on that list was charged or convicted with murder, rape, or sexual abuse of a minor, were they?</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Morton: They were not.</p>
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<p style="color: #232323;"><i>USA Today, </i>which obtained the ICE data via a Freedom of Information Act request, reveals the fraudulence of Morton’s claims, noting there was &#8220;one person in Texas charged with aggravated kidnapping and sexually assaulting a child, as well as others charged with armed assaults or assaulting police officers,” the paper states. &#8220;Another immigrant released from Miami had been charged with conspiracy to commit homicide. Two detainees from Boston had been charged with aggravated assault using a weapon.&#8221;</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Lying aside, the reference to living within ICE’s budget is a key component of the discussion. Morton, the Obama administration, Democrats, and their media cheerleaders would all like Americans to believe the “draconian” budget cuts engendered by sequestration left the agency no other choice. Those “cuts&#8221; represented just over 2 percent of the 2013 budget, while federal spending in 2013 was <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/341106/sequester-proportion-yuval-levin"><span style="color: #1255cc;">$15 billion</span></a> <i>higher</i> than in 2012.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Nonetheless, the Obama administration sought to portray the sequester as the ultimate undoing of American’s massive welfare state. Thus a massive scare campaign was promoted, including <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/president-obamas-sequester-sleight-of-hand/2013/05/02/35155df0-b28f-11e2-9a98-4be1688d7d84_story.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">warnings</span></a> from Obama that thousands of layoffs would ensue, airport delays would be massive, hundreds of thousands of Americans would lose access to healthcare, meat would not be properly inspected, federal prosecutors would have to close cases allowing criminals to go free, immigration control would be forced to allow more illegal aliens to enter the country—and ICE would be forced to undertake &#8220;a mass release of immigrants,” <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/27/us/immigrants-released-ahead-of-automatic-budget-cuts.html?_r=0"><span style="color: #1255cc;">warned</span></a> the <i>New York Times</i>.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Thus it was completely unsurprising that <i>USA Today </i>would frame the ICE’s unconscionable felon release program as one engendered by an agency faced with &#8220;steep, across-the-government spending cuts in February 2013.” ICE spokeswoman Gillian Christensen maintained the ongoing charade, insisting that &#8220;discretionary releases made by ICE were of low-level offenders. However, the releases involving individuals with more significant criminal histories were, by and large, dictated by special circumstances outside of the agency&#8217;s control.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Those special circumstances were not explained.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The former head of ICE&#8217;s detention operation, Gary Mead, doubled down as well, insisting there was no deliberate attempt to deceive the public. He claimed the release of the 2,228 detainees happened so quickly ICE managers were unaware of who they freed until they heard about it in the media. &#8220;We had been asking for some time whether we would have enough money to sustain the level of detention we had, and we didn&#8217;t get an answer,&#8221; Mead said. &#8220;When we did get an answer, it was that we had to start releasing people today.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Inspector General (IG) also circled the wagons. Despite reporting in August that ICE’s cost-cutting efforts were so rushed and mismanaged the agency never informed then-DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano or the White House of the mishandled detainee release, the IG’s audit ultimately concluded the agency had acted “appropriately” when determining who should be freed.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">At the congressional hearing, Morton confirmed that ICE’s blasé attitude regarding illegal alien criminal records started right at the top, telling Rep. Forbes that while he had “reviewed the summaries of all 2,228” he had “not looked at the actual conviction records personally on such a number.” Furthermore, he inadvertently revealed the conclusion reached by the IG was nonsensical: under questioning, he couldn’t explain why the agency had made no preparation whatsoever for the sequester before January 2013, despite the fact that it had been passed in August of 2011.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Morton also revealed something else equally as telling. When asked if he opposed statutory language in the 2012 and 2013 budget requests mandating that ICE maintain at least 34,000 detention beds on a daily basis, Morton acknowledged that President Obama’s budget called for a lower number of 32,800 beds. The Appropriations Committee eventually insisted otherwise, maintaining the 34,000 bed limit. In other words it was Obama himself who sought to hamstring ICE even more than the sequester ostensibly did.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The would be the very same sequester that was <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/obamas-fanciful-claim-that-congress-proposed-the-sequester/2012/10/25/8651dc6a-1eed-11e2-ba31-3083ca97c314_blog.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Obama’s idea</span></a>, all denials to the contrary notwithstanding.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Of the 2,228 detainees released, 629 had criminal records, according to Morton’s testimony. Yet he characterized those released as people charged with misdemeanors &#8220;or other criminals whose prior conviction did not pose a violent threat to public safety.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">This story is undoubtedly a revelation for many Americans. Unfortunately, it represents the proverbial tip of the iceberg. Last May, the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) released a detailed <a href="http://cis.org/ICE-Document-Details-36000-Criminal-Aliens-Release-in-2013"><span style="color: #1255cc;">report</span></a> revealing that in 2013, ICE freed an eye-popping <i>36,007 criminal aliens</i> &#8220;convicted of hundreds of violent and serious crimes, including homicide, sexual assault, kidnapping, and aggravated assault.” CIS further explained that the “vast majority of these releases from ICE custody were discretionary, not required by law,” and in some cases &#8220;apparently contrary to law.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">At the time, Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) framed that release in no uncertain terms. “This would be considered the worst prison break in American history, except it was sanctioned by the president and perpetrated by our own immigration officials,” he declared.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">And while the left-leaning <i>USA Today,</i> which referred to the 2,228 released individual as “undocumented immigrants” rather than the illegal aliens that they truly are, provides nothing more than the aforementioned handful of details regarding their criminal records, CIS was far more forthcoming. The 36,007 convicted criminal aliens released accounted for a whopping 88,000 convictions that included 193 for homicide, 436 for sexual assault, 303 for kidnapping, and 1,075 for aggravated assaults. Other offenses apparently considered “non-serious” by ICE included 1,160 stolen vehicle convictions, 9,187 dangerous drug convictions, 16,070 drunk or drugged driving convictions, and 303 flight escape convictions.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Adding insult to injury, CIS further noted that &#8220;ICE declined to bring immigration charges in 68,000 cases of criminal aliens they encountered in 2013.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">It is critical to remember the same Obama administration orchestrating this chaos is the one that plans to allow as many as 100,000 Haitians entry in to the United States in 2015 <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/oct/17/obama-admin-to-allow-haitians-into-us-before-visas/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">without a visa</span></a> under its Haitian Family Reunification Parole Program. This &#8220;irresponsible overreach of the executive branch’s authority” as Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) characterizes it, will be followed shortly after the 2014 election by the president’s <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/08/25/Report-Obama-Expected-to-Enact-Exec-Amnesty-for-Nearly-5-Million-Illegals-After-European-Trip-Next-Week"><span style="color: #1255cc;">promise</span></a> to grant amnesty to millions of illegals again via executive order, possibly precipitating the most serious constitutional crisis in modern history.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">And make no mistake: it is a constitutional crisis <i>wholeheartedly supported</i> by a Democratic Party more than willing to sell out millions of American citizens and legal immigrants in a fevered quest for unassailable power.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;"> “Well, look, here’s the bottom line,” <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-dems-running-away-him-these-are-all-folks-who-vote-me_816522.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">said</span></a> Obama during a recent interview with Al Sharpton. “We’ve got a tough (election) map. A lot of the states that are contested this time are states that I didn’t win. And so some of the candidates there, you know, it is difficult for them to have me in the state because the Republicans will use that to try to fan Republican turn-out. The bottom line is, though, these are all <i>folks who vote with me”</i> (italics mine). Truer words were never spoken, and Americans heading to the voting booth should take them to heart.</p>
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		<title>UCLA’s New Cover Girl</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2014 04:45:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ron Radosh]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A radical who received the "International Lenin Peace Prize" gets the honor. ]]></description>
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<p>Look whose photo graces the campus of UCLA, meant to be an inspiration to incoming students. The woman in the photo is standing above the slogan: “We Question.” On the right-hand side, in small letters, students are informed that they are “the optimists.”</p>
<p>This banner adds to the shadow that today is cast over so many of our major universities.</p>
<p>For those who can’t identify her, the photo depicts Angela Davis, the notorious former Communist Party USA leader who, beginning in the ’60s, molded together black nationalism with Marxism-Leninism. She created a heady brew for recruiting new cadre into the CP and the original Black Panther Party of Huey Newton.</p>
<p>Some optimist! Davis believed in the triumph of Communism.</p>
<p>For her loyalty to the Soviet Union and its foreign policies, in 1972 she was awarded a Lenin Centenary Medal in the Soviet Union, after which she spoke to thousands at an outdoor rally in Moscow. Next, speaking at a factory in Kirov, Davis praised the workers for not using “products of labor [to fuel] the irrational drive for capitalist profits as it is used in our country.”</p>
<p>As she left Moscow and went up the stairs to enter her plane, she yelled out with a clenched fist: “Long live the science of Marxism-Leninism.” There is not an iota of evidence that she questioned anything about the dreary reality in the Soviet Union and their Eastern European client states.</p>
<p>Davis also received the International Lenin Peace Prize — formerly called the Stalin Peace Prize — from the STASI state of East Germany in 1979. She was awarded it for supposedly strengthening “peace among peoples,” but it was actually for her continued fidelity to the Soviet bloc, which to her represented the future of humanity.</p>
<p>Not only did she not “question” authority, Davis openly defended the repressive measures of the Communist states by endorsing their imprisonment of dissident intellectuals. When the Soviet Union invaded Czechoslovakia to crush the movement for “socialism with a human face” that the citizens of the country believed they could pull off without Soviet intervention, Davis strenuously supported the invasion that was forthcoming.</p>
<p>In 1970, she was implicated in a plot to free her imprisoned lover, black revolutionary George Jackson, whose brother took over a Marin County courtroom and took the judge hostage, as well as an assistant DA and two jurors.</p>
<p>After a gun battle, the judge was murdered by a shotgun owned by Davis.</p>
<p>Davis then fled, assumed different aliases, and disguised how she looked. She was brought to trial, and to great amazement of those who believed no black could get a fair trial in the U.S., the jury found her innocent. As it turned out, the jurors were all defenders of Davis. One juror even faced TV news cameras and gave the clenched-fist salute, indicating their lack of objectivity or intent to evaluate the evidence.</p>
<p>After the jury’s acquittal of Davis, Pelikan wrote: “Try to help [the imprisoned Czech dissidents] so they can defend themselves against their accusers as you have been able to do in your country.” His plea fell on deaf ears. She had a close friend, another black female American Communist Party leader, tell the press that Davis believed that the critics of the Czech regime were counter-revolutionaries who were undermining socialism, and therefore were undeserving of support.</p>
<p>Davis’ entire life reveals a woman who, rather than question authority, uses her skills to attack the very democracy she lives in — which allowed her to teach at a university, obtain highly paid speaking engagements, and publish scores of books attacking the American government.</p>
<p>After 9/11, Davis said: “The United States significantly contributed to conditions that led to the violence on September 11.” As for demands that she not be allowed to speak, she said in a campus speech at Keene State College in New Hampshire that she finds it “bizarre, if freedom is being defended, that it is necessary to curtail freedom in order to defend freedom.”</p>
<p>As we have seen, she had a very different view when it came to defending freedom in the so-called “people’s democracies.”</p>
<p>From the ’60s to the present, Angela Davis has been a thoughtless propagandist for every far Left cause one can imagine. How did she ever become a Communist and believe in the Leninist theory of “dialectical materialism” and all of its mumbo-jumbo? The answer comes from the high school which she attended — Elisabeth Irwin H.S., the upper level division of the famed private school the Little Red School House, referred to by its critics with an additional three words: “for little Reds.”</p>
<p>I attended the same high school to which Davis got a scholarship and then moved from her middle-class black home in Birmingham, Alabama, to attend in New York City. There she was taught history by its longstanding history teacher, a man named Harold Kirshner — the very same man who taught me that “dialectical materialism is a science” and that Marxism explained the world. The author of a recent <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Little-Red-Passionate-through-Sixties-ebook/dp/B00B3M3XOE/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1413306346&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=Dina+Hampton" rel="external">book</a> <sup>[2]</sup> about the high school writes that it was the same Kirshner who “effected a life-altering transformation in Davis” by assigning her the works of Marx and Engels. The effect it had, Davis said, hit her “like a bolt of lightning.” After that she graduated from Kirshner to taking a class from the official CP “historian” Herbert Aptheker at a Communist school he had set up in the city.</p>
<p>One might ask: Why is Davis so important? The answer is that today’s cultural elites, like whoever at UCLA decided to adorn the campus with her photo, treat any rebel — even a dogmatic ideologue like Angela Davis — as a leader from which students can learn valuable lessons. It is these academics who treat her as both a saint and a leader, and who constantly invite her to give major speeches on our campuses which they urge their students to attend.</p>
<p>To herald Angela Davis as a person who questions anything reveals the mindset of our university administrators, and is itself more evidence of the decline of standards at our major colleges and universities. Expect Ms. Davis to be a graduation speaker sometime in UCLA’s future. That is the logical next step in helping Angela Davis lead her march to a communist future via “the long march through the existing institutions.”</p>
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		<title>The Obama Doctrine: Undermine the Military, Coddle Enemies and Distance Friends</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2014 04:35:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two cases of injustice toward soldiers highlight the administration's warped priorities. ]]></description>
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<p>On October 1, former Navy Lieutenant Commander and 22-year veteran Montel Williams <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/blog/2014/10/01/watch-montel-williamss-emotional-plea-for-president-obama-to-save-sgt-tahmooressi/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">addressed</span></a> a congressional committee on the subject of Afghan war veteran and US marine, Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi. Tahmooressi was imprisoned by Mexican authorities in March 2014 after mistakenly veering into Mexican territory while driving along a poorly lit section of the border and was found to be in possession of firearms, illegal under Mexican law, but permitted under US law. In an impassioned plea punctuated by heartfelt emotion, Williams drew the logical conclusion concerning the Obama administration’s handling of the matter – that the government is unconcerned about the fate of its soldiers.</p>
<p>For six months, the administration has allowed a marine, diagnosed with PTSD, to languish in a Mexican jail when one phone call from the Commander-in-Chief could liberate him. Instead, the administration has allowed Tahmooressi’s case to wind its way through the notoriously corrupt and bureaucratic Mexican justice system. While the administration’s handling – or rather mishandling – of the Tahmooressi case can at best be described as neglectful, its handling of the case involving another US soldier is downright Kafkaesque and malevolent.</p>
<p>In July 2012 First Lieutenant and platoon commander Clint Lorance was leading his platoon on a patrol in Kandahar in an area known to be a hotbed of insurgent activity. Lt. Lorance was informed by pilots who reconnoitered the area that motorcycle-mounted Taliban terrorists were active in the vicinity. The Taliban routinely employ motorcycles to track US patrols. Moments later, Lorance spotted Afghans riding motorcycles near his patrol. With the information that he already had at his disposal and with the safety of his platoon being paramount, Lorance immediately made a command decision during the fog of war and ordered one of his snipers to neutralize what he considered to be a threat to the well-being of his men. Two Afghans, later found to be unarmed, were killed.</p>
<p>What happened next could have been taken out of a chapter from Orwell’s 1984. Shortly following the incident, Lorance was stripped of his weapon and assigned a desk job. In January 2013, he was charged with murder in connection with the incident and in August 2013, a military court found him <a href="http://nation.foxnews.com/2013/10/15/allen-west-obamas-military-contempt-outrageous-treatment-clint-lorance"><span style="color: #0433ff;">guilty of murder</span></a> and violating the army’s Rules of Engagement and handed down a 20-year sentence.</p>
<p>Lorance is a hero who volunteered to put his life on the line for the cause of freedom and to serve his nation. His lengthy army service has shown him to be nothing but an <a href="http://www.freeclintlorance.com/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">exemplary soldier</span></a> whose service record is peppered with commendations and citations. But instead of being treated like a hero, he is treated like a criminal by the very government he swore to protect.</p>
<p>Nothing saps the morale of an army more than knowing that its government doesn’t have its back. This case, as well as the Tahmooressi case, demonstrates with utmost clarity that the Obama administration at best, doesn’t give a damn about its soldiers. A more cynical approach would suggest that the administration is actually working to undermine the morale of its troops.</p>
<p>Some might find these truths too hard to swallow. After all, why would the president keep the United States embroiled in the longest war of its history and then work to actively undermine the ability of the United States servicemen and women to perform their mission? A logical question, indeed. But when one takes a closer look at Obama’s foreign policy, where <a href="http://online.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704416904575121710380216280"><span style="color: #0433ff;">enemies are coddled</span></a> and <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/ari-lieberman/obama-vs-netanyahu/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">friends are distanced</span></a>, nothing this administration does seems logical.</p>
<p>Consider also the case of Bowe Bergdahl, a <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/08/04/bergdahl-roommate-chairman-of-joint-chiefs-told-us-bowe-was-a-deserter/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">confirmed deserter</span></a> and possible collaborator, who placed members of his own unit in jeopardy after they launched a frantic search for him. The Obama administration, without informing Congress, released five hardened Taliban terrorists, who will likely return to terror and place additional US personnel in danger, to gain Bergdahl’s release. Heroes are prosecuted and allowed to languish in foreign prisons while Obama places his priorities on releasing deserters for hardened criminals.</p>
<p>During his impassioned address to the committee, Montel informed the members that his 21-year-old son had asked him if he should join the military, to which he responded, “No, because our government doesn’t respect you enough.” Sadly, Montel’s assessment hits the proverbial nail squarely on its head.</p>
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		<title>The Nation of Islam and the Murder of Phillip Cardillo</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2014 04:36:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ernie Naspretto]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The abhorrent execution of an NYPD police officer -- and the Left's shameless cover-up. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/ds.gif"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-238426" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/ds-259x350.gif" alt="ds" width="259" height="350" /></a>The NYPD has had more than its share of tragedies coupled with travesties throughout its history, everything from the legendary Lieutenant Joseph Petrosino being shot to death in an ambush in Sicily in 1909 because the police commissioner blew his cover by telling the press of his mission to identify members of the mafia, to the infamous Black Liberation Army murders of radio car partners in the early &#8217;70’s, to the assassination of rookie cop Ed Byrne in 1988 as he sat in a radio car guarding the home of a witness in a major drug case in Jamaica, Queens. But the single most abhorrent police officer murder in this city’s history is that of Phillip Cardillo in Harlem’s 28<sup>th</sup> precinct on April 14th, 1972.</p>
<p>While this murder has been basically thrown into the collective history of cops dying in the line of duty, with no specific “asterisk” relating to the internal department turmoil and incredible wimpy political posturing of the then-mayor and his police commissioner, Officer Cardillo’s death has left an indelible wound on every cop from that time. Even officers who weren’t yet born at the time of Phillip Cardillo’s killing express outrage when they learn the circumstances of his murder.</p>
<p>Cardillo and his partner, Vito Navarro, were the first to respond to what turned out to be a phony 10-13, an officer in need of urgent help, that came from within the Nation of Islam Harlem Mosque located on West 116th Street. Upon entering the facility, the responding officers were met with approximately 15 to 20 men who assaulted them, stripped Cardillo of his gun and shot him at point blank range.</p>
<p>A street riot involving cops, mosque members and people on the street broke out shortly after the shooting. “I happened to be on the FDR drive when I heard the news on the radio, 1010 WINS. I got off at 125th Street and headed toward 116th,” said retired Detective Al Sheppard, who was off duty and wanted to respond to the scene but never made it. “People were rioting. They surrounded my Volkswagen and started to shake it. I had to get out of there, otherwise I was going to start shooting.”</p>
<p>Phillip Cardillo, 31, died six days later, leaving a young wife and three small children.</p>
<p>The immediate investigation was hampered by Mayor John Lindsay, who was more concerned about appeasing the public and protecting his image, as he was preparing for an unrealistic run for president, and Police Commissioner Patrick V. Murphy, who saw himself as a new-breed intellectual, progressive police executive (but in reality, couldn’t catch a burglar in a phone booth). Then-rookie Congressman Charles Rangel was also present at the scene and warned that riots would ensue if cops did not immediately leave the area.</p>
<p>Also in this mix was Benjamin Ward, who would eventually be appointed by Mayor Ed Koch to be the city’s first black police commissioner. Ward was the Deputy Commissioner of Community Affairs at the time and, prompted by Rangel, was quite instrumental in releasing 16 suspects who were being held by detectives for questioning. The release of the suspects caused a substantial setback in the investigation, necessitating a great deal of investigative back-tracking and catching up, resulting in invaluable evidence being lost and two failed prosecutions.</p>
<p>“Years later (retired Chief of Detectives) Al Seedman and I were having a few drinks and he opened up,” recalled Detective Al Sheppard. “He blamed Lindsay, Murphy and Ward for everything. He was forced to give the order to let these guys go,” Sheppard said.</p>
<p>On the receiving end of Seedman’s forced order was Detective Sonny Grosso, the real life “French Connection” cop and eventual TV/movie producer of classic cop shows like Kojak and Baretta. “This brings me back to a very bad time,” Grosso said.</p>
<blockquote><p>It was my last major case. We had 16 suspects being held in the basement of the mosque. The shooter was definitely among them. Seedman orders me to release them and give them cards with the address of the 28th precinct because Ward said he’d arrange for all of them to show up. Surprise! Not one showed up. I gave Seedman a look and he said, &#8220;Don’t shoot the messenger. We do what we’re told in this department.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Grosso, who went on to co-write the book <em>Murder at the Harlem Mosque</em> detailing the Cardillo story, vividly recounts the scene that day and laments, “They (the mayor and police hierarchy) allowed the mosque members to destroy the crime scene. They actually had their members mopping up Phil’s blood.” Grosso eventually had his movie contacts reconstruct the mosque hallway in a studio to assist the first cops on the scene in remembering who was where and who did what.</p>
<p>“I have never seen such a display of prejudice and bigotry in my life,” Grosso said.</p>
<blockquote><p>If this incident happened anywhere else, St. Patrick’s Cathedral or any other religious institution, there would’ve been no problem in fully investigating this murder and convicting the shooter. They would’ve said, ‘Come on in. What do you need?’ But Lindsay wanted to be able to say as a presidential candidate that New York had no race riots like other cities.</p></blockquote>
<p>Mayor Lindsay and Commissioner Murphy skipped Cardillo’s funeral. Benjamin Ward actually apologized to the leaders of the mosque. And an unrepentant Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan would later state that the officers &#8220;charged into our temple like criminals and were treated like criminals.&#8221; The then-commanding officer of the 28<sup>th</sup> precinct, Inspector John Haugh, by all accounts a rising star in the NYPD, abruptly resigned in disgust.</p>
<p>In 1992, young cops assigned to the 28th precinct, virtually none of whom were on the job when Cardillo was murdered, held a poignant 20<sup>th</sup> anniversary commemoration that was hampered by events that eerily resembled the turmoil and politics of 1972.</p>
<p>“I was naïve. I thought all the big brass would eagerly attend,” said Luigi Moneta, who was a young cop at the time and would eventually retire as a lieutenant. “The mayor (David Dinkins), and the commissioner (Lee Brown) didn’t come. The borough commander didn’t even come.”</p>
<p>That commemoration by the next generation of NYPD cops helped trigger an annual motorcycle ride sponsored by the Blue Knights every April around the anniversary of Cardillo’s murder. The ride has attracted approximately 400 cops on motorcycles who begin on Long Island, lay a wreath at Cardillo’s gravesite, and continue through Harlem right past the mosque, ending at the 28th precinct.</p>
<p>The Cardillo case recently galvanized cops once again. The NYPD will open a new state of the art police academy in Whitestone, Queens, within the year. Its library will be named after Benjamin Ward, despite his less-than-stellar legacy in the department. Police unions and many fraternal organizations have expressed outrage because there is no street, pole, sign, hallway or anything named after Phil Cardillo, yet an individual who was instrumental in allowing his killer to go free will be honored.</p>
<p>Defending a $40 million settlement to the men convicted in the infamous 1989 Central Park jogger case, Mayor Bill de Blasio said, &#8220;An injustice was done and we have a moral obligation to respond to that injustice.&#8221; Well, under that same theory, the street in front of the new police academy should be named “Police Officer Phillip Cardillo Way.” That simple corrective action will probably cost less than $100 for the street signs.</p>
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		<title>Ringleader Admits: Hamas Funded Kidnapping and Murder of Israeli Teens</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2014 04:50:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Inconvenient admissions contradict media’s spin exonerating Hamas.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/140630183743-israeli-teens-found-dead-story-top.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-238115" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/140630183743-israeli-teens-found-dead-story-top-450x253.jpg" alt="140630183743-israeli-teens-found-dead-story-top" width="288" height="162" /></a>Media bias against Israel continues apace.  Even the recent apparent confirmation from the alleged ringleader that Hamas funded the abduction of the three murdered Israeli teenagers this past June gets hardly a mention or is derided in the press.</p>
<p>Some mainstream media outlets were quick from the get-go to cast the kidnapping and murder of the Israeli teenagers as essentially a rogue operation undertaken without Hamas authorization or backing. New York Magazine, for example, published an article on July 25, 2014 entitled “It Turns Out Hamas May Not Have Kidnapped and Killed the 3 Israeli Teens After All.”</p>
<p>Buzzfeed posted an article late last month that essentially exonerated Hamas of any responsibility, citing unnamed Israeli sources to back up its claim.</p>
<p>Al Jazeera, which former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said offers &#8220;real news,&#8221; published an article last month charging, without any evidence to support its accusation, that “Israel knew full well that neither Hamas nor its armed wing (al-Qassam Brigades) were behind the boys’ disappearance.”</p>
<p>Then came along Hussam Qawasmeh, the alleged ringleader of the kidnapping operation whom Israeli authorities now have in custody. He is reported to have pointed the finger at Hamas jihadists in Gaza as the source of the money to pay for the operation.</p>
<p>Instead of objectively writing about Qawasmeh’s reported reference to Hamas’s involvement, Buzzfeed chose on August 6<sup>th</sup> to compound its biased anti-Israel reporting. It focused in its lead paragraph on accusations by Qawasmeh’s lawyer and relative working on the case that Qawasmeh’s statement was obtained as a result of “heavy torture.” Buzzfeed devoted substantial space for Qawasmeh’s lawyer to air his dismissal of any Hamas connection. “Israel is trying to tie this to Gaza, by saying the money for the operation came from Gaza,” the lawyer said. “But that is not exactly true. This is something they [Qawasmeh’s family] could have planned to boost their own family’s name, for their own motives.”</p>
<p>Incredibly, Buzzfeed also quoted Ala Rimawi, a Hamas member in the West Bank, who unsurprisingly disputed any involvement of Hamas in the kidnappings and murders:</p>
<blockquote><p>“It is obvious that what happened in Hebron was an individual incident. If it had been organized by Hamas, the kidnappers would not have been allowed to kill the three boys — they would have wanted to keep them alive in order to bargain and try to use them to release prisoners.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Al Jazeera did not see fit to retract its previous unsubstantiated accusations of fabrication against Israel despite Qawasmeh’s reported revelation of Hamas funding. Rather than offer the “real news” that Hillary Clinton credited al Jazeera with providing, this propaganda outlet controlled by Hamas backer, Qatar, continues to cast Hamas in the most favorable light and Israel as the villain.</p>
<p>The New York Times published on June 17<sup>th</sup> what it purported to be a news article on the abduction under the headline “Abduction of Young Israeli Hitchhikers Spurs Debate on Conduct.”  Mind you, this headline was not referring to Hamas’s conduct. It was a reference to the “conduct of Jewish settlers in the West Bank — particularly what many consider the cavalier practice of hitchhiking.”  In other words, blame the victims for their “cavalier” behavior.</p>
<p>When it came to reporting about Qawasmeh’s capture and reported statement regarding Hamas funding of the abduction, the New York Times buried the story on p. 9 of its August 6<sup>th</sup> print edition.</p>
<p>The Times’ Jerusalem bureau chief Jodi Rudoren has consistently cast Israel in an unfavorable light. One of her most blatantly biased articles was entitled “In Gaza, Epithets Are Fired and Euphemisms Give Shelter,” which appeared on p.1 of the July 21<sup>st</sup> print edition of the New York Times. More than three times as much space in Rudoren&#8217;s article “focused on Israel allegedly demonizing and inciting against Hamas (509 words) than on Hamas engaged in PR efforts, boasts or threats to Israel (149 words),” according to an analysis done by the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America.</p>
<p>“With her inversion of reality, selective citations, withholding of relevant and crucial information, and the sort of hollow comparisons that any elementary social science student would recognize as invalid and flawed, Rudoren&#8217;s ‘analysis’ is an example of shoddy, biased journalism at its worst,” the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America concluded.</p>
<p>Rudoren showed her pro-Palestinian leanings when she first took on the Jerusalem bureau chief post, in her exchange of tweets with Ali Abuminah, a Palestinian-American anti-Israel activist who has advocated for a third intifada:</p>
<blockquote><p>Ali Abunimah @AliAbunimah  · 14 Feb 2012</p>
<p>As new @nytimes bureau chief, Jodi @Rudoren will get to move into this lovely property stolen from Palestinians in 1948 http://electronicintifada.net/content/ny-times-jerusalem-property-makes-it-protagonist-palestine-conflict/8705 …</p>
<p>Jodi Rudoren@rudoren   @AliAbunimah Hey there. Would love to chat sometime. About things other than the house. My friend Kareem Fahim says good things</p></blockquote>
<p>Rudoren’s “friend” Kareem Fahim, who also reports for the New York Times, has written critically of Arab nations’ apparent support for Israel over Hamas.  Writing from Cairo, Fahim expressed shock that “Egypt even blamed Hamas, the Islamist movement in Gaza, rather than Israel, for dozens of Palestinian deaths.” But then again, why listen to those who know the jihadists’ murderous ways the best?</p>
<p>Such coverage tends to treat the conduct of the latest war in Gaza by Israel and Hamas as morally equivalent at best. Often, Israel is painted as the prime violator of international law. The reason often cited by Israel bashers for portraying Israel this way is the supposed “disproportionate” force used by Israel to conduct attacks in civilian neighborhoods where Hamas militants hide and keep their weapons, causing the loss of hundreds of innocent Palestinian lives. Hamas is portrayed as the underdog, which is resisting the “occupying power.”</p>
<p>The Associated Press, for example, sent out the following tweet on July 29th, criticizing members of Congress for daring to support Israel over Hamas: <sup> </sup>“As much of world watches Gaza war in horror, members of Congress fall over each other to support Israel.” Apparently, someone at the Associated Press realized that this tweet may have gone too far since it was retracted a few hours later.</p>
<p>CNN came under criticism from Israel’s Ambassador to the U.S. Ron Dermer for not reporting in an even-handed manner. Ambassador Dermer properly noted CNN’s failure to state that Hamas was storing rockets in United Nations schools as part of its reporting on Israeli military activities in Gaza, including the alleged Israeli shelling of a UN school.</p>
<p>It is true that Israel is militarily superior to Hamas. It is also true that, in the course of Israel’s military operation in Gaza to destroy the tunnels and rockets being used by Hamas to deliberately target Israeli civilians, a substantial number of Palestinians have lost their lives, including civilians.  And yes, Israel does have the technology to protect its own citizens from Hamas’s indiscriminate rocket attacks. Iron Dome has helped to keep Israeli civilian deaths to a minimum.</p>
<p>Some in the mainstream media seem to think that the lopsided comparison of the very low number of Israeli casualties with the far larger number of Palestinian casualties resulting from the fighting in Gaza proves Israel’s culpability. It’s just not a fair fight, they believe. And they get support for that bizarre point of view from senior United Nations officials and world leaders who regularly condemn Israel for alleged “war crimes.” As reported by Breitbart, for example, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay had the audacity to recently criticize Israel for refusing to share its Iron Dome technology with the “governing authority” of Gaza – i.e., Hamas. &#8220;No such protection has been provided to Gazans against the shelling,” she is reported to have declared.</p>
<p>If Hamas were not deliberately using the civilian Gaza population as human shields and had accepted the Egyptian ceasefire proposal weeks ago that it has now tentatively accepted, ninety percent of the fatalities in Gaza could have been avoided. The mainstream media prefers to show dramatic pictures of Palestinian women and children caught in the cross-fire, implying, or sometimes stating explicitly, that it is all Israel’s fault. There is hardly any intellectually honest attempt among many journalists and analysts covering the Gaza conflict to grapple with what Hamas has done to bring those tragic circumstances about. And Hamas has threatened to end the current ceasefire and attack Israelis with even more powerful rockets if its demands are not met. If that happens and Israel is forced to resume its ground operations in Gaza in order to protect its civilians from indiscriminate attacks, guess who will be blamed for the consequences?</p>
<p>Despite the United Nation’s repeated demonstrations of bias against Israel, reporters often take their numbers of civilian Palestinian casualties from the UN, which in turn relies on data from the Hamas-run health ministry and from various human rights groups who generally oppose Israel’s policies towards the Palestinians.</p>
<p>Moreover, the mainstream media often parrots condemnations of Israel by UN officials and world leaders and opinion-makers without considering the full context of Hamas’s urban war strategy to exploit Gazan civilian deaths for propaganda purposes.</p>
<p>Incredibly, for example, there has been scant reporting of what appears to be a Hamas manual on urban warfare entitled “Introduction to the City War,” which the Israeli military said it seized. The New York Post did report on it, but it was in a distinct minority.</p>
<p>“The destruction of civilian homes: This increases the hatred of the citizens toward the attackers and increases their gathering around [to support] the city defenders,” the manual stated, according to the Israeli Defense Force. “The soldiers and [IDF] commanders must limit their use of weapons and tactics that lead to the harm and unnecessary loss of people and [destruction of] civilian facilities. It is difficult for them to get the most use out of their firearms, especially of supporting fire [e.g. artillery].”</p>
<p>This document does need to be independently verified as genuine. But the quotes above are certainly consistent with Hamas’s pattern of conduct, in which it operates in heavily populated areas and attempts to draw Israeli fire in response to Hamas military action in the vicinity of UN schools and the like. The silence of the mainstream media in essentially ignoring the existence of the alleged Hamas manual is deafening. Indeed, it shows yet again the complicity of much of the mainstream media in Hamas’s propaganda war.</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthew Vadum]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is Obama's refusal to secure the border to blame for Agent Javier Vega's death?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/JAVIER-VEGA-JR-and-father-off-duty-bp-agent-killed-while-fishing.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-238069" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/JAVIER-VEGA-JR-and-father-off-duty-bp-agent-killed-while-fishing.jpg" alt="JAVIER-VEGA-JR-and-father-off-duty-bp-agent-killed-while-fishing" width="292" height="219" /></a><span class="zw-portion">The brutal slaying of a U.S. Border Patrol agent by illegal aliens </span><span class="zw-portion">highlights the perils of the Obama administration&#8217;s </span><span class="zw-portion" style="font-style: italic;">de facto</span><span class="zw-portion"> open borders policy that has transformed the nation&#8217;s southern boundary into a taxpayer-funded welcome center for desperately poor unskilled and low-skill workers, sick children, welfare mooches, and violent criminal gang members.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">This horrific crime happened not too far from the same border that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) sedately insisted was &#8220;secure.&#8221;</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">&#8220;We hear a lot on TV that the border is secure, that the border is safer and that couldn&#8217;t be any farther from being true</span><span class="zw-portion">,&#8221; </span><span class="zw-portion">Chris </span><span class="zw-portion">Cabrera</span><span class="zw-portion">, vice president of </span><span class="zw-portion">Local 3307 of the </span><span class="zw-portion">National Border Patrol</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">Council </span><a style="color: blue;" title="" href="http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/65132" target="_blank"><span class="zw-portion link">told</span></a><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">Neil Cavuto of Fox News.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">&#8220;</span><span class="zw-portion">It seems to be getting more and more dangerous as the days go by</span><span class="zw-portion">. </span><span class="zw-portion">It seems with all of this talk about amnesty or comprehensive immigration reform, getting [legislation] through</span><span class="zw-portion">,</span><span class="zw-portion"> people seem to be more and more desperate to get into this country.&#8221;</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">While off duty this past Sunday, Border Patrol Agent </span><span class="zw-portion">Javier Vega</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">Jr.</span><span class="zw-portion">, just 36 years old, died in south Texas, </span><a style="color: blue;" title="" href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/08/04/the-heartbreaking-words-police-say-slain-off-duty-border-patrol-agent-told-his-dad-after-they-were-attacked/" target="_blank"><span class="zw-portion link">gunned down</span></a><span class="zw-portion"> by two illegal immigrants trying to rob him while he was on a fishing outing. He was murdered in </span><span class="zw-portion">front of his family, including his two children and parents.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">The </span><span class="zw-portion" style="font-style: italic;">bandidos</span><span class="zw-portion"> ordered the family to get on the ground and were surprised to discover that Vega and his father were armed, unlike the typically helpless victims in Mexico and other Latin American countries where life is cheap and privately owned firearms are forbidden or severely regulated.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Vega suffered a mortal wound in the chest during the bungled attack, but as life drained out of his mangled body he pleaded with his dad to &#8220;keep shooting.&#8221; </span><span class="zw-portion">Vega&#8217;s father </span><span class="zw-portion">took a non-fatal shot in the hip</span><span class="zw-portion"> and his </span><span class="zw-portion">mother picked up an AR-15 rifle and fired upon the killers&#8217; vehicle, hitting it several times as the two assailants fled the scene. The vehicle apparently broke down and was found abandoned a few miles from the site of the shooting.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Other robberies that fit the same pattern as the Vega case had been taking place locally, police said.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Willacy County, Texas Sheriff Larry Spence, who has held his post for nearly three decades, said the crime was heartbreaking. </span><span class="zw-portion">“</span><span class="zw-portion">I called out a prayer asking the Lord, help us resolve this and five hours later, we found the individuals,</span><span class="zw-portion">” </span><span class="zw-portion">he </span><span class="zw-portion">said.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">The </span><span class="zw-portion">National Border Patrol Council</span><span class="zw-portion"> praised Border Patrol agents and other law enforcement officials for apprehending the killers. &#8220;It is through their professionalism and tenacity that the wretched animals who committed this crime will face the full measure of Texas justice.&#8221; The Council created a memorial fund for Vega&#8217;s surviving family members.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Cabrera </span><a style="color: blue;" title="" href="http://m.townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2014/08/07/national-border-patrol-council-vice-president-the-border-is-getting-more-dangerous-n1875904" target="_blank"><span class="zw-portion link">complained</span></a><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">about the strictures the Obama administration places on border guards, explained his lack of surprise at the illegal alien status of the two suspects.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">&#8220;Unfortunately it&#8217;s not surprising to me, the laws that we have on the books aren&#8217;t enforced the way that they need to be</span><span class="zw-portion">,&#8221; he said</span><span class="zw-portion">.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">&#8220;</span><span class="zw-portion">The time served, the detention time that they&#8217;re giving is often very short,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s frustrating to see and then when something like this happens, whether or not it&#8217;s a Border Patrol agent that gets killed, there&#8217;s multiple people killed everyday, some of them by illegals and it&#8217;s just frustrating.&#8221;</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">The NBPC </span><a style="color: blue;" title="" href="http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-Texas/2014/08/06/Slain-Border-Patrol-Agents-Blood-On-Hands-of-Congress-and-President-Says-Union" target="_blank"><span class="zw-portion link">expressed</span></a><span class="zw-portion"> its members&#8217; outrage at the Vega murder</span><span class="zw-portion"> on its official Twitter account, stating,</span><span class="zw-portion"> “</span><span class="zw-portion">Border Patrol Agent Javier Vega: MURDERED by two illegal aliens. Victim of lax border enforcement. Blood on hands of Congress and President.</span><span class="zw-portion">”</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">The suspects in the killing have long rap sheets.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Gustavo Tijerina</span><span class="zw-portion">, who also uses the surname Tijerina-Sandoval,</span><span class="zw-portion"> was reportedly arrested on at least four occasions from 2007 to 2010 for illegally entering the U.S. He pleaded guilty to illegal entry on July 9, 2007 and was sentenced to 30 days with credit for time served, plus a $10 fee. Oct. 4 that year he was convicted of the same offense, and was given a 60-day sentence plus a $10 fee. According to court records, he waded his way through the Rio Grande River. On Oct. 25, 2008 he illegally entered the country the same watery way again. Next month he was sentenced to 90 days and handed another $10 fine to pay.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">On Dec. 15, 2009, a grand jury indicted Tijerina on illegal entry charges. </span><span class="zw-portion">The indictment</span><span class="zw-portion"> stated that he</span><span class="zw-portion"> &#8220;had previously been denied admission, excluded, deported and removed, knowing and unlawfully was present in the United States having been found near Edinburg, Texas.&#8221; </span><span class="zw-portion">He failed to secure the consent of the U.S. attorney general and homeland security security to seek lawful admission to the country. At some point a warrant was issued for his arrest. It indicated he could receive as much as 20 years imprisonment and a $250,000 fine. Tijerina was held by authorities without bond on Jan. 26, 2010, and sentenced to a nine-month jail term and given a $100 fine.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Hernandez&#8217;s rap sheet is less expansive. He has reportedly been removed from the U.S. just twice for unauthorized entry.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Tijerina</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">and</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">Hernandez </span><span class="zw-portion">were arraigned this week. After reportedly confessing their crimes, they were denied bail and now stand formally accused of </span><span class="zw-portion">capital murder of a peace officer, attempted murder, and </span><span class="zw-portion">some</span><span class="zw-portion"> lesser charges.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Sheriff Spence said the two men told him that they did not know their victim was an off-duty Border Patrol agent. </span><span class="zw-portion">&#8220;They do now,&#8221; he </span><span class="zw-portion">added.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">The men were </span><a style="color: blue;" title="" href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/08/04/the-heartbreaking-words-police-say-slain-off-duty-border-patrol-agent-told-his-dad-after-they-were-attacked/" target="_blank"><span class="zw-portion link">caught</span></a><span class="zw-portion"> in a shed behind the home of a local man</span><span class="zw-portion">. When they were informed that their now-dead victim was a Border Patrol officer, they reacted with &#8220;shock and concern,&#8221; Spence said.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">The two men are probably connected to organized crime, he added.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">&#8220;They claim to have been involved in other incidents, this means you&#8217;ve got stolen vehicles going into Mexico,&#8221; </span><span class="zw-portion">Spence</span><span class="zw-portion"> said.</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">&#8220;Everything is going to be cartel-related, there&#8217;s a connection somehow.</span><span class="zw-portion">&#8220;</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">&#8220;This is not the first episode of border violence in Willacy County but it&#8217;s the first time someone&#8217;s been killed,&#8221; </span><span class="zw-portion">the sheriff</span><span class="zw-portion"> said.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Vega isn&#8217;t the only Border Patrolman to be murdered in the Obama era.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Brian Terry was </span><a style="color: blue;" title="" href="http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2014/08/01/second-brian-terry-murder-suspect-extradited-us/13448915/" target="_blank"><span class="zw-portion link">shot and killed</span></a><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">by illegal aliens in December 2010 while on patrol in the desert near Nogales, Ariz. The foreign gunmen had obtained firearms from the U.S. government as part of President Obama&#8217;s morally reprehensible Fast and Furious program. Under the program Mexican gangsters were provided with guns by the U.S. in the hope that they would go on a killing spree that would whip up public hysteria that might have led to a crackdown on gun ownership.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Terry died during a firefight after having suffering the bad luck of coming across a so-called rip crew. These criminal gangs steal illicit drugs that have already been smuggled into the United States. (This means illegals illegally steal illegal drugs from others who have illegally snuck them into the country.)</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">The U.S.-Mexico border has become increasingly anarchic since the Obama regime took over. It </span><a style="color: blue;" title="" href="http://freebeacon.com/issues/border-crisis-illegal-immigrant-children-include-ms-13-gang-members/" target="_blank"><span class="zw-portion link">has become</span></a><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">a recruiting center for Latin American criminal gangs, according to the Border Patrolmen&#8217;s labor union.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">“</span><span class="zw-portion">We know the cartels were exploiting this and continue to exploit this crisis in south Texas, it makes sense that MS-13 and other gangs would do the same,</span><span class="zw-portion">” </span><span class="zw-portion">Shawn </span><span class="zw-portion">Moran</span><span class="zw-portion">, national v</span><span class="zw-portion">ice </span><span class="zw-portion">p</span><span class="zw-portion">resident of the </span><span class="zw-portion">17,000-member </span><span class="zw-portion">National Border Patrol Council </span><span class="zw-portion">told Fox News.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">MS-13 (the MS stands for </span><span class="zw-portion" style="font-style: italic;">Mara Salvatrucha</span><span class="zw-portion">, apparently a reference to El Salvador) has been taking advantage of a Red Cross telephone bank on the border that was created to help unaccompanied illegal alien minors to reach relatives. </span><span class="zw-portion">“</span><span class="zw-portion">These phones are being utilized by gang members to recruit, to enlist, to pressure people, other juveniles into joining the MS-13 gang</span><span class="zw-portion">,&#8221; Moran said.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Because border officials are required to treat minors with kid gloves, they are unable to separate gang members from other detainees.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">“</span><span class="zw-portion">We</span><span class="zw-portion">’</span><span class="zw-portion">re being told we have to look the other way</span><span class="zw-portion">,&#8221; Moran explained.</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">&#8220;</span><span class="zw-portion">If we see gang tattoos, we</span><span class="zw-portion">’</span><span class="zw-portion">re not allowed to treat them any differently than anybody else applying to be allowed to stay here or to apply for asylum.</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">It</span><span class="zw-portion">’</span><span class="zw-portion">s a security issue that we feel could really snowball out of control and it would put agents at risk. It puts the other detainees at risk</span><span class="zw-portion">.&#8221;</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">MS-13 is </span><span class="zw-portion">“</span><span class="zw-portion">one of the biggest threats we face on our southern border</span><span class="zw-portion">,&#8221; he said. &#8220;</span><span class="zw-portion">They do not hesitate to use extreme violence if necessary. They are considered one of the top threats to border patrol agents.</span><span class="zw-portion">”</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Juveniles, apparently including MS-13 members, are being shipped all over America by the Obama administration. Patriots in some communities have organized to prevent their relocation, with some success.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Meanwhile, KRGV in Weslaco, Texas is </span><a style="color: blue;" title="" href="http://www.krgv.com/mobile/news/2-accused-of-assaulting-border-patrol-agent/?test3" target="_blank"><span class="zw-portion link">reporting</span></a><span class="zw-portion"> that two Honduran men suspected of being in the U.S. illegally have been arrested in the beating of another Border Patrol officer. Investigators say </span><span class="zw-portion">Nelson Chavarria-Ramos punched the </span><span class="zw-portion">officer</span><span class="zw-portion"> in the face</span><span class="zw-portion"> several times as </span><span class="zw-portion">Marco Avelar-Gomez</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">held down </span><span class="zw-portion">the legs of the victim. </span><span class="zw-portion">The agent</span><span class="zw-portion">, whose name was not provided in the news report,</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">somehow </span><span class="zw-portion">arrest</span><span class="zw-portion">ed</span><span class="zw-portion"> the </span><span class="zw-portion">duo</span><span class="zw-portion">.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">This is just the beginning, of course.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">The ongoing assault on the Border Patrol is completely preventable. Evidence strongly suggests it is part of President Obama&#8217;s plan to cause chaos on the border as part of his larger assault on the nation&#8217;s free institutions. Obama&#8217;s policies encourage illegal aliens, including gang members and other violent criminals that are part of the Democratic Party&#8217;s natural constituency, to invade the United States in record numbers.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">It is a kind of Mariela boatlift in reverse in which the U.S. president is aggressively recruiting and importing the dregs of Latin American society into the U.S.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">It is taking a grave toll on the people of the United States.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">As Breitbart News </span><a style="color: blue;" title="" href="http://tiny.iavian.net/2oow" target="_blank"><span class="zw-portion link">reports</span></a><span class="zw-portion">, a new report from the U.S. Department of Justice states that roughly half of all federal criminal cases in 2013 were filed in regions close to the southern border.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">To no one&#8217;s surprise, the news report states:</span></p>
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<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">During </span><span class="zw-portion">[Fiscal Year] </span><span class="zw-portion">2013, U.S. Attorney&#8217;s offices filed a total of 61,529 criminal cases against defendants, according to the DOJ. Regions along the border each had more convictions than in any other district. 6,341 cases were filed in Western Texas, suggesting it is home to the country&#8217;s most severe crime patterns. 6,130 cases were filed in Southern Texas; 4,848 were filed in Southern California; 3,889 were filed in New Mexico; and 3,538 were filed in Arizona.</span></p>
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<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">The lawlessness will continue and undoubtedly escalate in the remaining two and a half years of Obama&#8217;s term of office.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">More Border Patrol deaths are inevitable thanks to the dangerous policies of this malevolent administration.</span></p>
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		<title>Fighting Enemies from Within and Without</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2014 04:54:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caroline Glick]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why the murder of Muhammad Khdeir must not prevent Israel from dealing decisively with Hamas. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/000_Nic6345898-e1404485005909-635x357.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-235925" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/000_Nic6345898-e1404485005909-635x357-423x350.jpg" alt="000_Nic6345898-e1404485005909-635x357" width="282" height="233" /></a>Originally published by the <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Our-World-Fighting-enemies-from-within-and-without-362004">Jerusalem Post</a>. </em></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Sixteen-year-old Muhammad Abu Khdeir was doing his own thing last Tuesday when he was abducted by Jewish terrorists, who slaughtered him. They killed him because he was an Arab, and they are racist murderers.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The police made solving Abu Khdeir’s murder a top priority. In less than a week, they had six suspects in custody. Three confessed to the murder.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">There are dark forces at work in Israeli society. They need to be dealt with.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">And they will be dealt with harshly.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">They will be dealt with harshly because there is no significant sector in Israeli society that supports terrorism.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">There is no Jewish tradition that condones or calls for the murder of innocents. In Jewish tradition, the line between protecting society from its enemies and committing murder is long, wide, unmistakable and unmoving.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">This is why, for instance, at the memorial service for 20-year-old Shelly Dadon, who was murdered by an Israeli Arab terrorist from the Galilee in early May, the placards held up by the 2,000 participants called for the police to protect the public.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">“Our blood is not worthless,” “Today it’s Shelly, tomorrow it could be you,” and, “Death penalty for murderers,” they read.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Not surprisingly, when on Sunday the police revealed both that they had arrested Abu Khdeir’s Jewish killers and that they had arrested Dadon’s Muslim murderer, public interest in the former story far surpassed interest in the latter.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The story of an Israeli Muslim terrorist murdering an Israeli Jewish woman is a dog bites man story.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The story of Israeli Jewish terrorists murdering an Israeli Muslim teenager is a man bites dog story.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The same goes for violent rioting.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The anti-terror demonstration in Jerusalem scheduled for last Tuesday quickly became a violent anti-Arab riot with rioters assaulting helpless Arab passersby. The police arrested 47 Jewish rioters. And the public as a whole condemned them.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Without public support, such deviant behavior has little longevity. Mob violence, as a general rule, plays to the audience at home. With no public support, the riots were over after one night.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In contrast, Jerusalem Arabs began rioting on Wednesday night. The riots spread to the north and south of the country by the end of the week. And there seems to be no end in sight.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">There are several factors prolonging them. The most troubling is the depraved state of Arab society – both Palestinian Arab and Israeli Arab.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Whereas aside from fascist soccer fan clubs there are no significant Israeli Jewish groups that condone terrorism or racial violence, hatred of Israel and support for terrorism and the destruction of the Jewish state are widespread among Israeli Arab leaders and the general Arab public.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As for the Palestinians, there are no significant forces in Palestinian society calling for peaceful coexistence with Israel. The only voices celebrated are those calling for murdering Jews and destroying the Jewish state.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">There is also the issue of the unfortunate timing the current violence.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The month of Ramadan has only just begun. During Ramadan, Muslims generally sleep during the day, wake up in the evening to eat and stay up all night long. With the widespread societal support for committing violence against Jews, rioting after the holiday meal is an attractive option for young people.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Moreover, we are in the midst of summer vacation. Teenagers with nothing to do can easily keep rioting through the night until school starts on September 1.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Monday night was witness to some encouraging signs. Several Arab mayors took to the streets to discourage continued rioting. The mayor of Kalansuwa, whose residents firebombed Jewish cars over the weekend and beat their drivers, began cleaning up the road. But the rioting is far from a spent force.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Beyond the local cause for their continuation, there are the outside forces itching to take over the action.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Israeli Arabs do not operate in a vacuum.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">If the rioting continues, the current situation, in which much of the violence is spontaneous and locally organized, is not likely to last.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In 1987, the Palestinian uprising began as a spontaneous riot in Gaza City following a traffic accident involving an Israeli driver. At the time, from its distant base in Tunis, the PLO was searching for a way to be relevant.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Yasser Arafat and his goons quickly seized on the riots in the territories and took control of them through a campaign of bribery, extortion and murder.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Today Fatah and Hamas are in the midst of a power struggle. Each is keen to take control of the riots to assert supremacy over the other.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In Fatah’s case the effort still appears limited to incitement. On Monday for instance, Fatah’s Facebook page addressed Israel saying, “Sons of Zion, this is an oath to the Lord of the Heavens: Prepare all the body bags you can for your body parts.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As Palestinian Media Watch has reported, this post was of a piece with other posts Fatah has published in the past week, all making clear that Fatah supports the riots and wishes to subsume them into a larger Fatah-led terror campaign against Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Hamas today faces severe challenges.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Egypt is starving Hamas by blocking the smuggling tunnels from Egypt to Gaza. Fatah is starving Hamas by refusing to pay its employees’ salaries.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Internally Hamas in Gaza is facing a growing challenge from Islamic Jihad on the one hand and al-Qaida and ISIS affiliated terror cells on the other.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As Hamas sees it, no doubt rightly, the best way to rally its people behind it, weaken Fatah and alleviate Egypt’s stranglehold of Gaza is to go to war against the Jews. Operationally, it believes that it has a momentary advantage because a significant number of Israeli forces are tied down in Judea and Samaria.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The Netanyahu government gave Hamas good reason to believe it should press its perceived advantage.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">By openly calling last Thursday for a cease-fire with Hamas, the government demonstrated severe weakness at a critical moment. It is not at all surprising that by Monday Hamas had escalated its attacks and extended the range of the rockets it has deployed to the outskirts of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Nor is it surprising that by Monday night, the government was compelled to launch Operation Protective Edge to destroy Hamas’s missile arsenal.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The Jewish terrorists who murdered Abu Khdeir have made a bad situation much worse for Israel. The largely anti-Semitic international community had difficulty denying Israel’s right to self-defense after Naftali Fraenkel, Gil-Ad Shaer and Eyal Yifrah’s bodies were found last Monday.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Now, despite the obvious differences between Israel and its Arab neighbors, the man-bites-dog story these Jewish terrorists created has relegated Israel again to its normal position of defendant in the continuous Kafkaesque trial that is the Jewish state’s diplomatic fate.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Unfortunately, we cannot stand down because we are mortified by the sick margins of our society.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">We must build on these first signs of remorse and quell the Israeli Arab riots as quickly as possible. Aside from their obvious human toll, every day the riots continue, the prospect of Palestinian terror groups taking over and directing the violence expands.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">So too, Israel has no choice but to fight another round of war with Hamas. And it must win this one decisively.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">It would have been far more advantageous if Israel could have sat back and watched as Hamas and its foes destroyed one another. But this is not an option. Hamas is determined to fight. Israel must defeat it.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Once the dust has settled, or even as it continues to storm, Israel will have to deal with our Jewish terrorist problem.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The weeds of our society must be uprooted. And we must take action to heal Israeli Arab society. We cannot repeat the mistake we made in 2000, by appointing a commission that strengthened the most dangerous forces in Israeli Arab society in an attempt to appease them.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">We must build on the actions of the Arab mayors who have begun to stand up to the rioters and actively encourage Israeli Arabs to integrate into Israeli society while enforcing the laws without prejudice against those who incite, condone, facilitate, organize or otherwise abet mob violence and irredentism among Israeli Arab society.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Israel faces a difficult, violent period ahead. But there are certain imperatives of freedom that we cannot shirk.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Defeating enemies – from within and without – who act to destroy us is one of them.</span></p>
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		<title>Some Questions for Some People</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2014 04:25:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Steven Plaut]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Will the Left call for understanding for the killers of Mohammad Abu Khdeir?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/531361333.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-235817" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/531361333-420x350.jpg" alt="PALESTINIAN-ISRAEL-CONFLICT-KIDNAPPING-FUNERAL" width="304" height="253" /></a>The police in Israel are claiming they have solved the murder of  the Arab teenager Mohammad Abu Khdeir, claiming six Jewish youths were arrested and three confessed.  Maybe.  Since there have been numerous cases of arrests of &#8220;Tag Mechir&#8221; (Price Tag) people where the police subsequently admitted it had no case and the arrested were released, it behooves us to wait patiently to see how this works itself out.</p>
<p>But in the meantime, I think we should all be asking some tough questions and demanding answers from some interesting people.</p>
<p>Some questions for some people:</p>
<p>For Hanin Zoabi. the ARab fascist member of the Israeli parliament, having proclaimed that the kidnapping and murder of three Jewish teenagers is definitely not terrorism, will you now be proclaiming that the kidnapping and murder of teenager Mohammad Abu Khdeir is similarly not terror?</p>
<p>For the editors of the NY Times, Washington Post, BBC, Haaretz and Yediot Ahronot: will you be referring to the murderers of Mohammad Abu Khdeir as activists and militants? Noting that one man&#8217;s terrorist is just another man&#8217;s freedom fighter?</p>
<p>Will Israel&#8217;s tenured Left refer to the jailed murderers as political prisoners?   Will they insist that they be released from prison as a goodwill gesture, since one can only make peace with one&#8217;s enemies, not with one&#8217;s friends?</p>
<p>For Israeli leftists: will you be proclaiming that the acts by the murderers of Mohammad Abu Khdeir must be understood against the background of their grievances and sufferings?</p>
<p>For the Palestinians of Hebron and Ramallah: got any candies and sweets left over from the celebrations over the murders of the three Jewish teenagers that you&#8217;d like to share now?</p>
<p>For Bibi Netanyahu: will the alleged murderers of Mohammad Abu Khdeir, if they are convicted, be invited to sign up for university degree studies at the Open University and through distance learning while in prison? How about conjugal visits and nice DVDs?</p>
<p>Will the University of Haifa set up a special law clinic to provide free legal counsel to the arrested alleged murderers of  Mohammad Abu Khdeir?</p>
<p>Will the Obama Administration rule that donations to the alleged murderers of Mohammad Abu Khdeir be made tax deductible?</p>
<p>Will the International Solidarity Movement hold protests in front of the prisons where the alleged perps are being held to demand that they be released?</p>
<p>Will the world media refer to the killers of Mohammad Abu Khdeir as being unfortunates swept up in the cycle of violence?</p>
<p>Will college campus in the US hold rallies of solidarity with the perps and march with anti-Abu-Khdeir banners reading, &#8220;No Justice, No Peace!&#8221;</p>
<p>Will leftist professors in Israel demand that streets be named after the alleged killers of  Mohammad Abu Khdeir?</p>
<p>Will the caring class demand that any of the alleged perps who are minors be tried in family court?</p>
<p>Will the Israeli government follow the lead of the Palestinian Authority and pay large subsidies to the families of the alleged perps?</p>
<p>Will the Western press make sure that every story about the murder of Abu Khdeir emphasize the fact that he was living in &#8220;disputed territory&#8221; which he was occupying against the will of the murderers?</p>
<p>Will leftist Professors Zeev Sternhell and Moshe ZImmerman of the Hebrew University dismiss Abu Khdeir as a member of the Hitler youth?</p>
<p><span style="color: #222222;">Will the Western media and politicians all proclaim that the murder was justifiable or at least understandable because the perps believed that the murdered child was occupying land that properly belongs to the perps?</span></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dispelling the myth of the "cycle of violence" in the Arab-Israeli conflict. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/6b682571-56c4-4ad7-adc6-c762abf878af-620x372.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-235713" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/6b682571-56c4-4ad7-adc6-c762abf878af-620x372-387x350.jpg" alt="Thousands attend funeral of Mohammad Abu Khdeir in Shu'afat" width="266" height="241" /></a>Scenes all too familiar from the Arab conflict with Israel have followed the murder last Wednesday of a 16-year-old Palestinian, Mohammed Abu Khdeir. Mourners at his funeral chanting the Muslim war-cry “Allahu Akbar” as they carry the boy’s open coffin, the crowd shouting slogans like “Intifada rise up” and “America and Israel are the terrorists,” banners representing terrorist organizations like Hamas and Islamic Jihad waving above the crowd, gangs of “youths” attacking Israeli police throughout East Jerusalem, barrages of rockets fired from Gaza into Israel, and the usual condemnations of Israel and calls for “restraint” from the “international community” – all sadly are business as usual. And the “business” is the demonization of Israel and the obscene double standards indulged by too many in the West.</p>
<p>The Israeli authorities have quickly tracked down and arrested 6 Israeli minors as suspects in the killing, even as the killers of the Israelis are still at large.  Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu said, <span style="color: #272727;">“We do not differentiate between terrorists, and we will respond to all of them.”</span> The speed of the arrest, and Netanyahu’s unequivocal identification of the crime as an act of terrorism, should underline the differences between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, which seemingly is making little effort to hunt down the main killers of the 3 Israelis, and the Authority’s political partner Hamas, which praised the killings. As Netanyahu pointed out, <span style="color: #272727;">“The murderers [of the Israelis] came from the territory controlled by the Palestinian Authority; they returned to territory controlled by the Palestinian Authority. Therefore, the Palestinian Authority is obliged to do everything in its power to find them, just as we did, just as our security forces located the suspects in the murder of Muhammad Abu Khdeir within a matter of days.”</span></p>
<p>But Israel’s enemies are unlikely to draw the proper conclusion from this contrast, or even take time to note how comparatively rare such violence on the part of Israelis is compared to the thousands of Israelis murdered by Palestinian Arabs over the decades. Rather,<i> </i>the moral and intellectual idiocy of the “cycle of violence” meme will determine reactions to this murder on the part of those too lazy or timid to choose a side, even as they hold Israel up to standards of behavior and forbearance no other country would accept. But there are good and bad sides in this conflict, and which side has the moral high ground can be seen by comparing further the reactions of each to the recent murders.</p>
<p style="color: #272727;"><span style="color: #000000;">Listen, for example, to the response of Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas to the kidnapping of the Israeli teens, delivered at a meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation in Saudi Arabia: </span>“Those who kidnapped the three Israeli teenagers want to destroy us. First and foremost [these teenagers] are human beings like us. It is our responsibility to search for them and to return them to their families. We will hold their kidnappers accountable, whoever they are.”</p>
<p style="color: #272727;">For those impressed by these comments, notice that the first sentence condemns the kidnapping not as a moral evil or a terrorist act, but as a tactical blunder damaging the Palestinian Arab program of destroying Israel by “stages.” Bad p.r. is the problem, not the evil of terrorism or the deaths of 3 innocent teenagers. This sort of comment is consistent with Abbas’s past habit of joining general condemnations of terrorist acts to complaints about their bad timing or damage to Palestinian interests. Speaking of the Second Intifada and its brutal terrorism, Abbas commented, <span style="color: #000000;">“If we do a calculation we will see that without any doubt what we lost was big and what we gained was small.” Later, speaking out against a rocket attack from Gaza, he said, “This is not the time for this kind of attack,” which suggests there <i>is</i> a time for shooting rockets at women and children. That is, blowing up innocents is not <i>wrong</i>, just inefficient at that particular time for achieving the long-term goal of a Palestinian state that eventually will include the territory of Israel.</span></p>
<p>But the larger context of Abbas’ crocodile tears is his own history of complicity in Jew-hatred and terror, and the PA’s program of genocidal incitement institutionalized in school curricula and popular culture. This is the man who evidence suggests financed the 1972 PLO massacre of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics, and who, according to the mastermind of that attack, kissed the murderers on the cheek and wished them luck. This is the man whose 1983 doctoral dissertation claimed that Zionists collaborated with the Nazis to murder Jews in order to create sympathy for creating the state of Israel, and asserted that fewer than a million Jews had been murdered in the Holocaust. This is the <span style="color: #272727;">alleged “moderate” who named a public square in Ramallah after a terrorist who in 1978 killed 38 Israelis, including 13 children. This is the leader whose government pays stipends to terrorist murderers and their families. And this is the head of state who has welcomed the genocidal terrorist outfit Hamas, which has praised the killing of the 3 Israelis, into his government. If, as appears certain, members of Hamas murdered the Israelis, does anyone believe that Abbas will “hold them responsible, whoever they are”?</span></p>
<p style="color: #272727;">Now compare Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu’s comments on the murder of the Palestinian boy before the arrests of the 6 suspects: “We don’t know yet the motives or the identities of the perpetrators, but we will. We will bring to justice the criminals responsible for this despicable crime, whoever they may be. Murder, riots, incitement, vigilantism — they have no place in our democracy.” A categorical condemnation of violence, not a statement of how such a crime harms his government or Israel, and a pledge quickly fulfilled in the swift arrest of 6 suspects. One sees the same contrast between Israel’s response to a brief anti-Arab protest, and the low profile of the PA police – armed and trained, by the way, by the U.S. – during the violence roiling Jerusalem and the West Bank:</p>
<blockquote><p>Dozens of Israelis had protested in Jerusalem on Tuesday night against the kidnap and killing of the Israeli teens, and there were reports some had shouted ‘death to the Arabs’ at one of these demonstrations. Jerusalem District Police deployed units to the field to prevent the assault of Arab residents and police confirmed that there was an explosive confrontation between inflamed protesters seeking revenge and the Arab population.</p>
<p>Police forces managed to rescue eight Arabs from the mob and arrested 47 on charges of public disorder, attempted assault of Arab minors, assaulting police officers, and property damage.</p></blockquote>
<p>No major press reports of PA police helping the Israelis keep order or arresting their own people for attacking Israeli citizens and police, let alone actively seeking to find the murderers of the 3 teens. Indeed, the U.S.-funded and trained force has over the years been <a href="http://www.meforum.org/1926/does-foreign-aid-fuel-palestinian-violence"><span style="color: #0433ff;">complicit</span></a> in terrorist violence. And more recently, as part of the rapprochement between the PA and Hamas, <span style="color: #1a1a1a;">3,000 PA police officers were sent to Gaza. We can be skeptical that they are there to prevent the various jihadist gangs from firing rockets against Israeli civilians.</span></p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">These obvious differences between the responses to 2 heinous acts on the part of the people and governments of each side demonstrate that in this conflict moral equivalence is moral idiocy. The truth of history is that a people established under international law on the land of their ancestors have been assaulted, attacked, and invaded by the descendants of conquerors, colonists, and immigrants. In the midst of this existential threat and level of brutal violence against civilians, Israel has stayed true to its liberal democratic foundations and moral code even as it defends itself against a people filled with genocidal hatred. That many in the West cannot acknowledge this simple fact and instead hide behind “cycle of violence” evasions–– when they are not just indulging camouflaged anti-Semitism that always blames Israel–– is testimony to the moral rot of a decadent culture.</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ari Lieberman]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/israel-mourning_2959828b.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-235525" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/israel-mourning_2959828b-450x280.jpg" alt="israel-mourning_2959828b" width="257" height="160" /></a>On June 12, three unsuspecting Israeli teens, one of whom had U.S. citizenship, were kidnapped and cold-bloodedly murdered minutes later by two Arabs affiliated with the Hamas terrorist organization. Eighteen days later, their lifeless bodies were found partly buried in a field in southern Judea.</p>
<p>Three days after the kidnapping, Secretary of State John Kerry <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Pillar-of-Defense/Kerry-calls-kidnapping-of-Israelis-despicable-terrorist-act-359404"><span style="color: #0433ff;">belatedly condemned</span></a> the criminal action and referred to it as a &#8220;despicable terrorist act.&#8221; The Secretary however, qualified his statement and was careful not to point fingers and lay blame at any specific entity though it was abundantly clear that Hamas was culpable.</p>
<p>The White House’s response to the abduction was even more deplorable. There simply was none. Despite strong bipartisan congressional condemnation of the kidnapping, the President maintained his <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/181898"><span style="color: #0433ff;">cold silence</span></a> on the issue as if to convey his disdain for the Jewish State. The President’s posture stands in marked contrast to his reaction to the abduction of Nigerian school girls by the Boko Haram terrorist group when he expressed instant outrage.</p>
<p>As if to add insult to injury, the White House issued an <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-official-slams-kerry-after-condemnation-of-arab-teens-death/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">immediate condemnation</span></a> of the killing of an Arab youth, 16-year-old Mohammed Abu Khdeir, in Jerusalem on July 2, calling it “heinous” while Kerry announced that, “There are no words to convey adequately our condolences to the Palestinian people.”</p>
<p>The obvious disparity and manner in which Obama chose to address the two incidents speaks volumes about the visceral dislike this President maintains for Israel. As Israel’s closest ally, one would have expected an immediate condemnation of the snatching of three teens and expression of sympathy and solidarity. Instead, Israel was treated to vacillation from the Secretary of State and stone-cold silence from the White House. It took Obama eighteen long days to break his silence on the matter and even then, the White House statement was accompanied by calls for “restraint” as if the issuance of a condemnation was an afterthought.</p>
<p>What is even more astounding is the fact that the motive for the killing of the Arab teen is uncertain and there is speculation that his murder may have been carried out by his own kinsmen. Israeli police are still investigating but there is some indication that the teen’s alleged <a href="http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/07/02/analysis-arab-sex-and-arab-terror/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">sexual orientation</span></a> may have been the motive for his killing by disapproving Muslims. A senior Israeli police official noted that the police are <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/182432"><span style="color: #0433ff;">well acquainted</span></a> with the teen’s family and would not discount the possibility that he was kidnapped and murdered by rival Arab clans, an all-too often occurrence in the Arab world.</p>
<p>Both theories – Arab murder where sexuality is the underlying factor or inter-Arab clan killing – are certainly equally if not more plausible than the so-called “revenge killing” theory, which posits that the killing was carried out in retaliation for the abduction and murder of the three Israeli youths. Arab clan killing is an everyday occurrence in the Mideast and there’s perhaps nothing that drives an Islamist crazier than the mere mention of homosexuality, except perhaps for the presence of Jews or “Crusaders” in “Muslim lands.”</p>
<p>“President” Abbas, the unelected Palestinian strongman, wishing to steal the narrative and deflect attention away from the murderous nature of his regime, immediately blamed “Israeli settlers” for the atrocity despite the fact that there is not a shred of evidence to support such a convoluted theory.</p>
<p>But to Abbas and his White House cronies, facts are irrelevant. Evidence is irrelevant. Investigations which point to a motive harmful to the Palestinian narrative are irrelevant.</p>
<p>Abbas’s reaction to the killing of Abu Khdeir is nothing if not predictable. His goal is to lie, cheat and obfuscate in an attempt to stoke the flames of hate and confuse an uninformed and naive Western audience. But the White House’s immediate condemnation, without adequately assessing the facts, represents the epitome of irresponsibility. It bolsters Abbas and leads to excited Arab street violence. A cynic would say that this is precisely what the White House desires. In fact, one need not be a cynic to draw this conclusion.</p>
<p>The administration’s underhanded attempts to foment unrest among West Bank Palestinians are not without precedent. In March 2010, the administration’s <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/17/world/middleeast/17mideast.html?_r=0"><span style="color: #0433ff;">public condemnation and rebuke</span></a> of Prime Minister Netanyahu over land development in consensus areas was the impetus behind scattered protests among Palestinians in East Jerusalem and other areas administered by Israel. Then again in November 2013, Kerry warned of Israel’s impending isolation and the prospect of Arab violence and unrest in Judea and Samaria if the “peace talks” failed and repeated those absurd assertions in the hope that those harmful statements against a loyal ally would materialize into a <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-Politics/Israeli-protesters-condemn-Kerrys-remarks-over-3rd-intifada-at-US-Consulate-331178"><span style="color: #0433ff;">self-fulfilling prophecy</span></a>. Indeed, following Kerry’s comments, a firebomb was lobbed by Arabs at a car carrying civilian passengers resulting in injury to its occupants.</p>
<p>The Palestinian on the street takes his que from the Palestinian leadership who in turn, take their que from the prevailing winds of Washington, which are invariably hostile to Israel these days. The disparate treatment and manner in which the administration handled – or rather mishandled – the kidnapping-murder of three innocent kids, simply because they were Jews and the alacrity of the administration’s condemnation of an Arab youth killed under mysterious and yet to be determined circumstances, speaks volumes about President Obama’s nefarious agenda when it comes to Israel, the Mideast’s only stable, vibrant and thriving democracy.</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caroline Glick]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[U.S. funding of Palestinian terrorists must cease. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Abbas-says-no-to-obama-on-3-issues.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-235408" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Abbas-says-no-to-obama-on-3-issues-443x350.jpg" alt="Abbas-says-no-to-obama-on-3-issues" width="291" height="230" /></a>Originally published by the <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Our-World-The-time-has-come-for-America-to-stand-up-361191">Jerusalem Post</a>. </em></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Eyal Yifrah, Gil-Ad Shaer and Naftali Fraenkel were teenagers. They were abducted and brutally murdered by Palestinian terrorists from Hamas, a partner in the Palestinian Authority’s unity government, and a terrorist organization dedicated to the annihilation of Israel and the Jewish people.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The teens’ abduction and murder was supported by Palestinian society as a whole. While Israelis were united as never before in worry and prayer for the missing boys, Palestinian society was united in its expressed delight at the abduction and murder of the boys.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The government’s response to this war crime, and to the support Palestinian society as a whole provides war criminals while reveling in their atrocities, will be significant. The vast majority of Israelis recognizes that maintaining faith with the mordant peace process can no longer be justified. Fatah and Hamas are equally dedicated to our destruction. By continuing to empower and legitimize the PA, Israel is facilitating its debilitation and victimization.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">By legitimizing the PA, Israel has enabled the PA to conduct a massive campaign throughout the world to destroy Israel’s moral, legal and diplomatic standing.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The international community’s indifferent response to the Palestinian abduction of the boys demonstrated how far the Palestinian campaign to deny the legitimacy of Israel and to dehumanize Israelis has advanced.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton took five days to issue a milquetoast condemnation of their abduction. But as execrable as Ashton’s silence was, US President Barack Obama’s response was even worse.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Obama waited for the boys’ bodies to be found before ever mentioning them. And when he finally spoke, he made no distinction between Israel, the victim of this war crime, and the Palestinians who facilitated, perpetrated and celebrated this war crime.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In Obama’s words, “From the outset, I have offered our full support to Israel and the Palestinian Authority to find the perpetrators of this crime and bring them to justice, and I encourage Israel and the Palestinian Authority to continue working together in that effort. I also urge all parties to refrain from steps that could further destabilize the situation.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki’s reaction to the Israel’s discovery of the boys’ bodies was even more offensive than the president’s refusal to draw a distinction between the victim and the perpetrator.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Diminishing the cold-blooded murder of the boys by Palestinian savages to the level of a mere “tragedy,” Psaki said that the cooperation must continue between Israeli security forces and Palestinian terrorists “despite the pain on the ground.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Not the pain inflicted on Israelis by the Palestinians who kidnapped and murdered and who overwhelmingly supported and celebrated the teens’ abduction and murder. Rather, in Psaki’s world, a general, amorphous “pain on the ground.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Under questioning by AP reporter Matt Lee, Psaki defended the PA’s Fatah- Hamas government and claimed that its members “are making every effort” to abide by US requirements, including the rejection of violence.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Now it is true that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas did once condemn the kidnapping of the teens, and called for his Hamas governing partners to free them. But after he was attacked from all corners of the PA and Palestinian society, he quickly backtracked.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Abbas blamed Israel for the abduction, and accused it of killing “Palestinian teenagers in cold blood.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">It is also true that the media and the Obama administration have repeatedly claimed that PA security forces assisted Israel in locating the teenagers. But if such assistance was provided, it was not helpful. The bodies were found by Israelis, based on intelligence gleaned by Israeli forces in Israeli operations.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">So why is the administration pretending otherwise? Obama and Psaki are not motivated primarily by their increasingly apparent antipathy for the Jewish state. They are trying to avoid having to abide by US law.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Standing legislation prohibits the US government from funding foreign terror organizations. Hamas is an officially designated foreign terror organization. If Fatah were ever treated on the basis of its actions, it would also be labeled a foreign terror organization because according to US law, it meets all the criteria for such a designation.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">And at any rate, Hamas’s participation in the Palestinian government makes it illegal for the US to transfer any funds or grant any political recognition to the Palestinian government.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Since Obama and Psaki and their colleagues are aware of this fact, they have chosen to lie in order to protect the Hamas-Fatah government from the letter of US law.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">This situation is simply unacceptable. The facts are incontrovertible. Thorough the actions of Fatah terrorists and Hamas terrorists, PA is a terrorist organization.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Even if Abbas were sincere in his devotion to peace with Israel – and clearly he is not – he would be nothing more than a figurehead at the top of a governing apparatus, and of a society as a whole that is dedicated to the eradication of Israel and the genocide of the Jewish people.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Every year the US gives the PA up to $500 million in aid. At this point, it is impossible to rationally argue that aid to the PA advances the cause of peace, which is supposed to be the point of the aid.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The PA – including Abbas – refuses to recognize Israel’s right to exist. The PA denies Jewish nationhood. It fabricates Jewish history. And the PA – led by Abbas – supports, facilitates and engages in terrorism against Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">US assistance to the PA is instrumental to Palestinian efforts. The PA uses the legitimacy afforded it by US political and economic support to advance its campaign to delegitimize Israel and legitimize its destruction and the murder of its citizens.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In other words, every dollar the US gives the PA advances the goal of destroying Israel. By continuing to support the PA despite its actions, the US is making a singular contribution to the dehumanization of Jews and the destruction of our state.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Obama’s silence during the 18 days the teens were missing, and his hostile and duplicitous statement after their mutilated bodies were found makes clear that he remains committed to continuing this contribution.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In acting in this way, Obama stands in opposition to the will of the American people, who do not wish to contribute to the destruction of Israel. Consequently, the time has come for the people’s representatives in Congress to take action to remedy this unacceptable state of affairs.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">To some extent, Congress already has stepped in. Last week the House of Representatives Subcommittee on State and Foreign Operations, which is responsible for allocating aid to the PA, did not include aid to the PA in the appropriations bill for 2015. The sub-committee’s counterpart in the Senate took a similar, if less forceful step.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Yet despite these actions, both the House and Senate bills assume that the aid will be restored and so they include stipulations for what Obama must do to waive Congressional limits on aid.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">This is very problematic. By assuming that aid will be allocated, US lawmakers take for granted that US law will be broken, and indeed, they green-light such unlawful and repugnant actions.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Immediately after the boys were taken, Reps. Michele Bachmann and Trent Franks co-authored a House resolution defining the PA as a foreign terrorist organization.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As Rep. Franks said on June 12, “All US assistance to the Palestinian Authority should have been be suspended years ago, but openly joining a terrorist organization that kills women and children simply because they are Jewish should convince even the Obama administration to wake up and defund this madness.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Obviously, the Obama administration remains unconvinced – and undaunted by the resolution, despite the fact that it now enjoys more than a score of co-sponsors, including two Democrats. Obama may continue to fund the PA no matter what Congress does. But only Congress can take action that has a chance of ending US support for the destruction of Israel. If Congress were to transform the language of the Bachmann-Franks resolution into a bill and pass it as a rider on an appropriations bill, then like the Boland Amendment of the 1980s, it could force the executive branch to heel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The cold-blooded murder of Fraenkel, Shaer and Yifrah requires Israel to stop playing a sucker’s game. The PA is not our partner. It is our enemy.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The US is not our enemy. It is our friend. The American people are our friends.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The time has come for our friends to also take action and stop funding and supporting our enemy and his efforts to destroy us.</span></p>
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		<title>It’s Not the &#8216;Occupation&#8217; &#8212;- It’s Islam</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2014 04:55:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The real motivation behind the brutal killing of the three teens in Israel. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/451519560.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-235333" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/451519560-450x300.jpg" alt="ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS-CONFLICT-KIDNAPPING" width="320" height="213" /></a>The bodies of three murdered Israeli teenagers, 16-year-old Naftali who liked to play basketball, 16-year-old Gilad who had just finished a scuba diving course and 19-year-old Eyal with his guitar, will be met by the same ghastly parade of pallbearers who accompany every victim of terrorism.</p>
<p>The reporters will scribble down something about “settlements” and the “Cycle of Violence.” The diplomats will urge restraint and remind everyone that the only solution can be found through negotiations with the terrorists. And the pundits will put it all into perspective burying them under layers of words and weighting their coffins down with stones of forgetfulness.</p>
<p>But all the empty words about the “Occupation” and the “Cycle of Violence,” the invocation of a peaceful solution that is always about to arrive, but never does, and the maps that cede more territory to terrorists are addressing a problem that doesn’t exist.</p>
<p>It’s not about physical territory. It’s about spiritual territory. It’s not about nationalism. It’s about Islamism.</p>
<p>It’s not about the “Occupation.” It’s about Islam.</p>
<p>“I raised my children on the knees of the [Islamic] religion, they are religious guys, honest and clean-handed, and their goal is to bring the victory of Islam,” the mother of one of the Hamas killers said.</p>
<p>Not a Palestinian nation. Not a Two State Solution. Not forty percent of this and sixty percent of that.</p>
<p>The victory of Islam.</p>
<p>Naftali, Gilad and Eyal were murdered for the same reason that countless people have been killed in Syria, Iraq, Egypt, Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan.</p>
<p>Not to mention the United Kingdom and the United States.</p>
<p>They were murdered in the name of a religious war that has been going on for over a thousand years. Muslims did not suddenly begin killing Jews in 1948 or 1929. They did not begin killing Christians over American foreign policy or the oil business.</p>
<p>Muslims did not begin killing Jews and Christians over foreign policy. They began persecuting and killing their Christian and Jewish neighbors because their religion told them to.</p>
<p>Hamas, the terror group that murdered the three teens, is not a Palestinian nationalist organization, though it occasionally plays the part. Its charter begins with Allah and ends with Allah. Article Five of its charter states that the group extends to “wherever on earth there are Muslims, who adopt Islam as their way of life.”</p>
<p>Its goal is to create an Islamic state. Everything else is secondary.</p>
<p>The Hamas charter describes it as part of the worldwide “Muslim Brotherhood Movement.” Brotherhood terrorists kill Jews in Israel for the same reason that they kill Shiites in Syria or Christian Copts in Egypt.</p>
<p>Article Seven of the Hamas charter concludes with the infamous Islamic Hadith which proclaims that the Muslim end times will come only when “Muslims will fight the Jews (and kill them); until the Jews hide behind rocks and trees, which will cry: O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, come on and kill him!”</p>
<p>Aside from the obvious genocidal bigotry, this is a quote from a text that is over a thousand years old. Its author was not preaching the mass murder of Jews because of settlements in the West Bank. At the time Muslims had subjugated and ruled over the Jewish population of the Middle East. The Jews were no threat to them. The idea of a Jewish army was as ridiculous as traveling to the moon.</p>
<p>The hatred that leaks out of that text has nothing to do with Israel and everything to do with Islam.</p>
<p>The insistence on a foreign policy explanation for Muslim anti-Semitism is as ahistorical as claiming that Hitler only hated Jews because of the Yom Kippur War. Except that at least both of these events took place in the twentieth century. Islam has been hating and persecuting Jews for over 1300 years before the rebirth of the modern State of Israel.</p>
<p>There are two ways of looking at the worldwide plague of Muslim terrorism. One is to treat every Islamic conflict with Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus and a dozen other religions as being due to some local political grievance of recent vintage. The other is to understand them as local expressions of a historical religious war and the continuation of the wave of conquests that made Islam into a worldwide religion.</p>
<p>We can be like the six blind men feeling around the Islamic elephant and assuming that its trunk and tusks are entirely separate phenomena. Or we can open our eyes and see the elephant in the room.</p>
<p>Hamas’ charter begins with the Koran’s praise for Muslims “as the best people” and damns Christians and Jews to be “smitten with abasement” for having “incurred the wrath of Allah.”</p>
<p>This is not a statement of Palestinian nationalism. It’s Islamic supremacism.</p>
<p>There is nothing negotiable about supremacism. Supremacism cannot be appeased. Supremacism does not want a piece of the pie. It wants the whole pie. The allies learned that the hard way with Hitler. So did the countless kingdoms that attempted to live in peace with the armies of the Mohammedan conquerors.</p>
<p>If Israel had never existed, Hamas would still exist, just as the other branches of the Muslim Brotherhood exist elsewhere throughout the Middle East. Even if Zionism did not exist, the Muslim Brotherhood would persecute the Jews under its control, just like the Christians in Egypt and Syria.</p>
<p>If Netanyahu, Sharon, Begin and a thousand other Israeli villains of the apologists of Islam had never been born, the followers of Mohammed would have gone on killing Jews just as they had for over a thousand years.</p>
<p>If the blue and white had never waved over Jerusalem, if Jews had remained as downtrodden and persecuted in the lands of Islam as the Copts and the Zoroastrians, Naftali, Gilad and Eyal would still have been murdered by two killers who were raised by their mothers to usher in “the victory of Islam.”</p>
<p>There is no political solution to a supremacist conflict. There is no amount of withdrawals that can make bigotry go away. If a thousand years of Jewish humiliation and persecution did not satisfy the ancestors of the murderers of those three teenagers, how will handing over part of Jerusalem do the job?</p>
<p>Solutions begin with truth. The truth is that Islamic violence against Jews is not recent or exceptional. The murder of Jews by Muslims, whether in Israel or Belgium, is not any different than the Muslim butchery of Christians. Hindus, Buddhists and even minority Muslim splinter faiths. These conflicts cannot be resolved through appeasement. They can only be addressed through resistance.</p>
<p>It is not the victims of a thousand year old supremacist campaign who need to appease their conquerors. It is the conquerors who must come to terms with the horrors that they have inflicted through a campaign of colonialism and ethnic cleansing and seek the forgiveness of their victims.</p>
<p>There can be no peace until Muslims understand that the Mohammedan conquests were a genocidal atrocity that destroyed entire peoples and cultures. Only then can they honestly condemn ISIS for trying to repeat those atrocities. And only then will they be able to live in peace with the rest of the world.</p>
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		<title>Torturing Murderers to Death for the Greater Good</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2014 04:33:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Left’s cruel war against the death penalty.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Nebraskas_electric_chair.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-226256 alignleft" alt="Electric Chair Doctor" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Nebraskas_electric_chair.jpg" width="167" height="241" /></a>The return of the electric chair has death penalty opponents papering the walls with outraged press releases even though they’re the ones responsible for bringing ‘Old Sparky’ back.</span></p>
<p>Opponents of the death penalty made the most of Clayton Lockett’s prolonged death, but it wasn’t the state that made his death slow and painful. The liberal activists who rushed out to claim that Lockett’s death proved that the death penalty was a cruel punishment had deliberately made it that way.</p>
<p>Oklahoma was forced to use a new and untried drug cocktail to put down the brutal murderer and rapist because death penalty opponents had cut off the supply of reliable pharmaceuticals. Due to pressure by domestic activists and the European Union on pharmaceutical companies, states have been forced to secretly assemble drug cocktails of medications without the knowledge of their manufacturers. Each lawsuit filed by the pro-criminal lobby risks revealing the means by which a medication was obtained and shutting down its supply channel.</p>
<p>Executions in the United States are rare and a tiny part of the market for pharmaceutical companies who would rather please liberal regulators and the medical establishment.  While prison systems work to ease the suffering of condemned prisoners, the death penalty activists who claim to care about them labor night and day to make their executions as painful as possible.</p>
<p>There is a method to their cruelty.</p>
<p>In 2008, the Supreme Court ruled that lethal injection did not represent cruel and unusual punishment. The question hinged in part on the risk of pain through the procedure. In 2010, the American Board of Anesthesiologists warned it would decertify any anesthesiologist participating in the death penalty. Then the supply of sodium thiopental, the medication mentioned in the ruling, was cut off.</p>
<p>The goal was to raise the “substantial risk” of serious pain in lethal injections and move the Supreme Court toward outlawing or suspending the death penalty. The worse an execution went, the more likely it was that future executions would be stopped based on the risk of it happening again. By making lethal injection as messy as possible, the pro-criminal lobby was torturing killers now to save future killers.</p>
<p>Lockett’s execution showcased the left’s warped morality and brought its goal closer.</p>
<p>European countries continue to use sodium thiopental, whose export to the United States they refuse to allow because of the death penalty, to kill their own people.</p>
<p>Belgium, which uses sodium thiopental for euthanasia, voted to euthanize children. The Netherlands, which employs sodium thiopental for the same purpose, permits killing children over the age of twelve. The last “minor” executed in the US was a man in his thirties who at the age of seventeen had set a couple on fire after locking them in the trunk of their own car.</p>
<p>In the UK, which was the first to cut off the supply of sodium thiopental, the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists proposed “active euthanasia” for disabled children because, “A very disabled child can mean a disabled family.”</p>
<p>European countries condemn the cruelty of lethal injection for murderers, but use the same method to kill their children. Despite their posturing over the death penalty they are not our moral superiors. Like their Third Reich counterparts who also murdered sick and disabled children, they are on the same moral level as the murderers we execute.</p>
<p>It’s no wonder they oppose the death penalty.</p>
<p>Driven by that same foul mix of self-righteousness and sadism, death penalty opponents want to make executions appear as grotesque as possible so that voters, politicians, judges and juries will be more reluctant to follow through when the electric chair replaces the needle.</p>
<p>But they don’t intend to stop there.</p>
<p>While some opponents of the death penalty act on religious grounds, most are pro-criminal advocates. Their agenda is to damage the justice system as much as possible through lawfare that exploits its weak points. They believe that the criminal justice system is a capitalist tool for protecting private property and oppressing minorities. Their lawfare seeks to overload the criminal justice system and make every phase of it as expensive and burdensome as possible so as to discourage and limit its use.</p>
<p>Outlawing the death penalty is only one step in their campaign to free as many criminals as possible.</p>
<p>After California’s death penalty was shut down by a Clinton judge, more Federal judges stepped in ordering California to release 46,000 prisoners after ruling that prison overcrowding was, like the death penalty, cruel and unusual punishment.</p>
<p>Supreme Court Justice Alito warned that “the majority is gambling with the safety of the people of California.”</p>
<p>A quarter of California prisoners are lifers and so the state has gone from tough sentencing laws supported by the voters to a judicial activism forcing it to free 1,400 lifers in the past three years.</p>
<p>81% of California lifers are murderers. 10% are attempted murderers. 6% are rapists.</p>
<p>After 2008, 3,000 lifers were freed; over 1,000 more than had been freed in three decades. Governor Jerry Brown has been responsible for the lowest rate of parole denials of all three previous governors.</p>
<p>The overcrowding ruling was a means of extracting murderers from prison, just as the death penalty ruling was a means of keeping them alive. The endgame for the pro-criminal lobby, whether its members call themselves death penalty opponents or prison reform activists, is to free criminals.</p>
<p>California shows that for the pro-criminal lobby the next step after the death penalty is revolving door prisons for murderers and rapists. Obama has been doing his part to help free drug dealers and crackheads through what his attorney general, euphemistically, calls sentencing reform, but at the state level this is a war fought by leftist lawyers and radical foundations against the families of their victims.</p>
<p>Violent crime rates in the US have dropped sharply because increased prison sentences took career criminals off the street. Average time served for violent criminals increased by 37%. The $10 billion cost criticized by the pro-criminal lobby was modest compared to the savings in human lives and budgets when the murder rate was nearly cut in half.</p>
<p>There were 20,000 fewer rapes, 300,000 fewer aggravated assaults and 270,000 fewer robberies.</p>
<p>These successes gave the public a false sense of security leading to decreased support for the death penalty and increased support for pro-criminal leniencies. Like a patient who wants to stop taking antibiotics because he feels better, some forgot that crime hadn’t been solved; only locked behind bars.</p>
<p>Once crime rates rebound under the impact of the pro-criminal “reforms”, the backlash will lead to a return to harsh penalties. Meanwhile tens of thousands will suffer until the effects kick in on a large enough scale to destroy any public support for the pro-criminal lobby and its killer clients. And then the only legacy of their efforts will be the corpses stacked in morgues and rape victims in hospitals.</p>
<p>Victims of their cruel war against life sentences and the death penalty.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2014 04:10:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ann Coulter]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The details of Clayton Lockett's heinous crimes that the media refuses to tell. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/stephanie_neiman-450x300.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-225034" alt="stephanie_neiman-450x300" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/stephanie_neiman-450x300.jpg" width="360" height="240" /></a>The next time liberals get indignant when we say they care more about criminals than the victims of crime, remember their hysterical weeping over Clayton Lockett. I refer, of course, to the vile rapist-murderer, whose execution last week is getting more press than Chris Christie&#8217;s bridge scandal.</p>
<p>This week we will review some facts about the case that The New York Times edited out of its capacious articles on Lockett. This is the information that was not fit to print. Next week, we&#8217;ll discuss the death penalty, with particular reference to Clayton Lockett.</p>
<p>The main category of facts you won&#8217;t read about Lockett in the Times, or elsewhere in the NFM (Non-Fox Media), is what he did to his victims &#8212; which is to say, his last four victims. It may surprise you to learn that Locket had a long felony record.</p>
<p>In 1999, Lockett and two confederates broke into Bobby Bornt&#8217;s house to rob him. Bornt recognized Lockett as the man he had hired a few weeks earlier to cover a tattoo.</p>
<p>Lockett savagely beat Bornt for 15 minutes with a shotgun, as Bornt&#8217;s 9-month old son wailed in the next room. The three men bound Bornt&#8217;s hands together with duct tape and set about searching his home for something to steal. Indeed, Lockett pushed Bornt off the couch, complaining that he was bleeding too much into what he called &#8220;my couch.&#8221;</p>
<p>About that time, Bornt&#8217;s friend, Summer Hair, showed up to invite him to a party. The thieves pulled her inside, threw her against a wall and hit her, holding a gun to her head until she called her friend waiting in the truck outside, to tell her to come inside. That was Stephanie Neiman.</p>
<p>Stephanie walked in, and she, too, was beaten until she relinquished the keys to her truck. All three victims were locked in the bedroom with Bornt&#8217;s infant child, while Lockett and Co. ransacked the home, pausing only to pull Hair out and gang-rape her. One of Lockett&#8217;s crew orally sodomized her, then vaginally raped her. Lockett raped her vaginally, anally and orally.</p>
<p>Lockett directed one of his conspirators to steal a shovel from Bornt, loaded them all up in Bornt and Neiman&#8217;s trucks and drove to a remote area. Lockett took Hair from one of the trucks and again raped her vaginally and orally. He returned her to the truck, where the third man forced her to perform oral sex on him.</p>
<p>(Let&#8217;s pause here to reflect on The New York Times&#8217; hysteria over <a href="http://www.city-journal.org/2008/18_1_campus_rape.html">hazy date rape allegations</a> by drunk coeds on college campuses.)</p>
<p>Lockett demanded that his victims promise not to tell the police what he had done. Bornt and Hair promised, but Stephanie would not, so he yanked her out of the truck and directed one of his confederates to start digging a grave.</p>
<p>(He later told the police that he wanted to kill all three adult victims so that his parole officer wouldn&#8217;t find out he had left the county.)</p>
<p>Stephanie stood by the grave being dug for her for 20 minutes. Lockett shot her, but his gun jammed. So he walked back to the truck to fix it, listening to Stephanie cry, &#8220;Oh God! Please! Please!&#8221; The three men laughed at her.</p>
<p>Then he returned and shot her again. But Stephanie was still breathing &#8212; so Lockett told the others to bury her anyway. She coughed as dirt was heaped on her face. She was buried alive.</p>
<p>Lockett warned Bornt and Hair that they&#8217;d be murdered, too, if they went to the police, then drove them back to Bornt&#8217;s house. Bornt and Hair reported the rapes, kidnapping and murder the next day. One of Lockett&#8217;s accomplices quickly confessed and brought the cops to Stephanie&#8217;s body.</p>
<p>These facts are not contested by Lockett, who, as he wrote in a letter from prison, &#8220;told that fool&#8221; &#8212; the district attorney &#8212; &#8220;I did shoot that bitch.&#8221;</p>
<p>All four adults who lived through the evening with Lockett &#8220;snitched&#8221; on him &#8212; his two co-conspirators, as well as the two victims. (For this, he strove mightily from prison to orchestrate hits on all four of them &#8212; letters that came in handy during his clemency appeal!)</p>
<p>A jury sentenced Lockett to death, but he lived for another 15 years after committing these savage crimes, during which time he was fed, housed and given medical treatment by the generous people of Oklahoma.</p>
<p>In addition to plotting hits against the four witnesses against him, while in prison, Lockett repeatedly threatened guards, was caught with homemade weapons, destroyed prison property, and threw feces and urine at officers bringing him food.</p>
<p>When called to account for his attack on one prison guard, he explained, &#8220;F-ck this kangaroo court, next time it will be a knife.&#8221; Four days later, he was caught with an 11-inch shank and 23-inch club in his cell.</p>
<p>Another time, when a homemade shiv was found on Lockett, he told the officer, &#8220;You know that I could have stuck this in your f-cking heart.&#8221;</p>
<p>Lockett was so violent that other prisoners refused to be housed in the same cell with him, even though they could be punished for their refusal.</p>
<p>In letters from prison, Lockett said that he planned to &#8220;put a bullet in&#8221; Bornt. He wrote to his aunt &#8212; the mother of one of his accomplices &#8212; warning her that his &#8220;homeboys&#8221; in prison are &#8220;waiting on him.&#8221;</p>
<p>Lockett also planned to kill his ex-girlfriend, of whom he said, &#8220;She was gone&#8221; (going to) &#8220;get done real, real bad! And she still is. Her ass better get the fucc out of Perry&#8221; (Oklahoma) &#8220;cause my little brother coming down here from San Diego and niggaz think I was crazy then wait till cuzz get here! He already on the run from New Orleans for murder.&#8221;</p>
<p>New York Times editors may not have slept well after Lockett&#8217;s execution, but Bornt, Hair and about a dozen other specific individuals surely did.</p>
<p>In letters to the under-sheriff, Lockett bragged about his gang affiliations, his previous crimes and his intention to murder Bornt and Hair. &#8220;Cuzz Im a California Hoover Crip!&#8221; he says. &#8220;We don&#8217;t get down at all like these Hooverz from Oklahoma. Why you think so many niggaz beat cases out that way? Cause Im an assassin &#8212; point blank!&#8221;</p>
<p>This is the murderer whose recent execution has thrown liberals into deep despair.</p>
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		<title>American Indian Murder, Inc.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2014 04:45:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lloyd Billingsley]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How leaders of the American Indian Movement viewed the Black Panthers as their model -- and the death and destruction they wreaked. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/ant.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-224569" alt="ant" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/ant.jpg" width="222" height="262" /></a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Readers of the </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">New York Times</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> magazine on April 25, 2014 might have been surprised at a </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/27/magazine/who-killed-anna-mae.html?ref=magazine&amp;_r=2">story by Eric Konigsberg</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> on the 1976 murder of Anna Aquash. The article of nearly 5,500 words came headlined “Who Killed Anna Mae?” and the answer solves the question why it took nearly forty years for such a piece to appear.</span></p>
<p>Konigsberg, a former reporter for the <i>New York Times</i> and author of <i>Blood Relation</i>, explains that a South Dakota rancher found the badly decomposed body of a woman who had been shot at close range through the back of the head. The victim was Anna Mae Pictou Aquash, a key player in the American Indian Movement, a “radical” group of Native American militants founded in 1968, the same year as the Black Panthers, “the movement’s model.”</p>
<p>Konigsberg is right about that but after all this time many readers may be as unfamiliar with these groups as they are with Anna Aquash. The Black Panthers and AIM both saw America as intrinsically oppressive and racist, with racism part and parcel of government, the military and law enforcement. Both movements demonized a “white” American governing establishment and saw revolutionary violence and separatism as the only path to change.</p>
<p>“These white people think this country belongs to them,” Anna Aquash once wrote. She was a Mikmaq Indian from Canada who came south to join with AIM and fight the “raggedy-ass pilgrims” who took the land from the Indians back in the day. In 1973 at Wounded Knee, where the US Cavalry killed 200 Indians in 1890, AIM took up arms in a 10-week standoff with the National Guard, the U.S. Marshals Service and the FBI. There at Wounded Knee Anna Aquash met Dennis Banks, along with Russell Means AIM’s most high-profile leader.</p>
<p>Aquash was having an affair with Banks when he was still involved in a common-law marriage with Darlene “Kamook” Nichols. That did not sit well with some movement women of different tribal affiliations, and they saw the affair as a threat to AIM’s stability. At the same time, Konigsberg notes AIM had become “a vortex of paranoia” with factions charging that some members were “pigs” and collaborators.</p>
<p>As Konigsberg has it, Aquash was aware that some thought she was a turncoat. When she and Nichols were jailed, Aquash said she feared for her life. When Aquash was swiftly released on bail, some saw that as evidence of collaboration. Then in 1976 she turned up dead, shot through the back of the head. As <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2010/arnold-ahlert/murder-in-the-american-indian-movement-30-years-later/">this piece shows</a>, it was some time before the case landed in court.</p>
<p>For AIM she was another “lost soldier” in the ongoing war against an oppressive, white racist government. The party line was that the FBI had set up the murder of Aquash to scare and destabilize AIM, but in his investigations Konigsberg found otherwise. Over the last decade, he wrote, “several teams of state and federal attorneys in South Dakota have established that her killing was in fact an inside job, orchestrated by AIM members who believed she was working as an FBI informer.”</p>
<p>Konigsberg finds no evidence that Aquash was an FBI snitch but makes a convincing case that AIM ordered the hit. The story jostles with characters like Marlon Brando and <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/January%202000.pdf">Leonard Peltier</a>, now in prison for killing two FBI agents. The narrative also explains the reluctance to explore murders by militant radicals on the left. As Konigsberg shows, the nation was busy romanticizing and protecting the AIM leaders.</p>
<p>Dennis Banks and Russell Means were “telegenic spokesmen in traditional braids, buckskin fringe and cowboy boots.” They would publish memoirs, appear in Hollywood films such as <i>The Last of the Mohicans</i>, and find themselves showcased on college campuses. As Konigsberg recalls, Andy Warhol rendered a portrait of Means and the <i>Los Angeles Times</i> dubbed Means and Banks “the two most famous Indians since Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse.”</p>
<p>Dennis Banks was acquitted of charges over Wounded Knee but convicted of riot and assault over a courthouse gun battle at Custer, South Dakota. Rather than serve time, Banks fled to California. There Governor <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2009/lloyd-billingsley/brown-is-back-by-lloyd-billingsley/">Jerry Brown refused to extradite him</a>. Banks took full advantage of the protection by studying at UC Davis, teaching at Stanford, and serving as <a href="http://special.pacificresearch.org/pub/cap/2005/cap_05-02-10.html">chancellor of Deganawidah-Quetzecoatl University</a> (DQU), a ramshackle outfit near Sacramento.</p>
<p>In 1983, after the election of governor George Deukmejian, Banks fled to a reservation in New York. The intrepid Konigsberg recently tracked him down at his A-frame in Minnesota. The writer asked Banks if he would have advocated killing AIM traitors? He said might not participate directly ““But I would say, ‘Take care of this.’ Or, ‘Take the guy out, and I don’t want to see him again.’”</p>
<p>Further, Banks said, “There are no secrets and questions left. If there’s a burning house, no one gives an order to put out the fire. Someone just goes and does it. It was people who fell into an idea.” That “idea” would be revolutionary violence in the style of the Black Panthers, AIM’s model as Konigsberg explains.</p>
<p>The Black Panther Party for Self Defense emerged in 1966 as a revolutionary movement led by Huey Newton, Bobby Seale and Eldridge Cleaver (<i>Soul on Ice</i>). The Panthers duly became an icon the sixties counterculture but those who defended the group neglected their victims, such as Betty Van Patter.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.salon.com/1999/12/13/betty/">David Horowitz hired Van Patter</a> to keep the books for the Educational Opportunities Corp., which ran a school for children of the Black Panthers. Betty Van Patter soon disappeared and “by the time the police fished her battered body out of San Francisco Bay in January 1975, I knew that her killers were the Panthers themselves.” Horowitz subsequently discovered that “the Panthers had killed more than a dozen people in the course of conducting extortion, prostitution and drug rackets in the Oakland ghetto. While these criminal activities were taking place, the group enjoyed the support of the American left, the Democratic Party.” As he notes, in 1970 Hillary Rodham Clinton helped organize demonstrations to <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2010/nichole-hungerford/from-the-writings-of-david-horowitz-april-29-2010/">stop the trial of Black Panther leaders</a> “who had tortured and then executed a black youth named Alex Rackley.” His crime? The Panthers suspected he was an informer.</p>
<p>Eldridge Cleaver, the most articulate of the Panther vanguard, said in his last televised interview that “<a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2010/david-swindle/from-the-writings-of-david-horowitz-march-29-2010/">if people had listened to Huey Newton and me in the 1960s, there would have been a holocaust in this country.”</a> As Horowitz noted, “Here is the beginning of any real understanding of what the radical left and its Black Panther vanguard were about in the Sixties.”</p>
<p>The AIM vanguard was about the same thing but politicians, filmmakers and journalists still miss the significance. That’s why the authorities decline to pursue murder cases involving sixties radicals and why articles about their victims are so hard to find. And that’s why the story of AIM murder victim Anna Aquash took so long to appear in the <i>New York Times</i> magazine.</p>
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		<title>Muslim Brotherhood Supporters Slaughter Christian Woman</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2014 04:35:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raymond Ibrahim]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friday: the day of Muslim prayers -- and infidel bloodshed. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/mary-coptic-martyr.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-222361" alt="mary-coptic-martyr" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/mary-coptic-martyr-450x290.jpg" width="315" height="203" /></a>On Friday, March 28, in Ain Shams, a suburb of Cairo, Muslim Brotherhood supporters attacked the Virgin Mary and Archangel Michael Coptic Orthodox Church, including by opening fire on it and setting parked cars aflame.  Four people died.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">One of the slain, a young Coptic woman, was savagely mauled and molested before being murdered—simply because her cross identified her as a Christian to the Brotherhood rioters.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">According to an eyewitness who discussed the entire event on the Egyptian program, </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcFmEDb19y0&amp;feature=youtu.be&amp;hd=1">90 Minutes</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, Mary Sameh George was parking by the church to deliver medicine to a sickly, elderly woman:</span></p>
<blockquote><p>Once they saw that she was a Christian [because of the cross hanging on her rear view mirror], they jumped on top of the car, to the point that the vehicle was no longer visible. The roof of the car collapsed in.  When they realized that she was starting to die, they pulled her out of the car and started pounding on her and pulling her hair—to the point that portions of her hair and scalp came off.  They kept beating her, kicking her, stabbing her with any object or weapon they could find….  Throughout [her ordeal] she tried to protect her face, giving her back to the attackers, till one of them came and stabbed her right in the back, near the heart, finishing her off.  Then another came and grabbed her by the hair, shaking her head, and with the other hand slit her throat.  Another pulled her pants off, to the point that she was totally naked.</p></blockquote>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The eyewitness, as well as </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.vetogate.com/932616">many others</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> who have since appeared on videos, complained about Egyptian State Security and how it did not intervene—just like under Morsi, when </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/an-islamic-declaration-of-war-on-christianity/">St. Mark Cathedral was besieged</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, even as </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/scandal-morsi-government-permits-savage-attack-on-st-mark-cathedral/">security stood by</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">—how it knows exactly who the murderers are, and how one of Mary’s murderers, whom “everyone reported to Security,” was simply relaxing in his home, not even hiding.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Added the eyewitness: “Let me tell you, here in Ain Shams, we [Christians] know that every Friday is a day of death; that the day after Friday, Saturday, we’ll be carried to the morgue!”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In fact, the overwhelming majority of attacks on Egypt’s Christians occur on Friday—the day when pious Muslims meet in mosque for prayers and to hear sermons.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The significance of this fact can only be understood by analogy: what if Christians were especially violent to non-Christian minorities on Sunday—right after they got out of church?  What would that say about what goes on in Christian churches?</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">What </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">does</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> it say about what goes on in Muslim mosques?</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">A video of Mary’s family members has one woman screaming out the following words—which may be of interest to some Americans:</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">A message to [U.S. President Barack] Obama, who is calling for the Brotherhood to return to power again.   I want to tell him, have mercy, enough is enough!  </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/obamas-brother-muslim-brotherhood-leader/">His brother</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> is in the </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/exposed-the-muslim-brotherhoodal-qaeda-connection/">al-Qaeda organization</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">!  Why do you want to destroy Egypt?….Egypt will remain whether you, the Brotherhood, or anyone else likes it or not!</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">She was referring to something that is as well known in Egypt as it is little known in the United States: that the Obama administration is </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/john-mccain-proves-u-s-leadership-allied-to-muslim-brotherhood/">a sponsor of the Muslim Brotherhood</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, which itself is connected to </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/exposed-the-muslim-brotherhoodal-qaeda-connection/">al-Qaeda</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The rest of the video portrays some of Mary’s other family members—many in tears and near hysteria—prompting one to wonder: where is the U.S media?  I have not seen a word on this latest Islamic attack on a church and Christians on BBC, CNN, or any of the so-called “mainstream media”?  Why is that?  They had no problem constantly showing us (over and over again) a video clip of a hysterical female relative of a member of Malaysian flight MH370.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The mainstream media is silent because Muslim persecution of Christians in general—Obama-sponsored Muslim Brotherhood in particular—</span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/why-the-media-doesnt-cover-jihadist-attacks-on-middle-east-christians/">throws a huge wrench in that narrative</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">After all, how many Americans ever heard of the </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/largest-massacre-of-christians-in-syria-ignored/">largest massacre of Syrian Christians by U.S.-supported Islamic rebels</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">?</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Responding to this latest murder of a Christian, Coptic Bishop Raphaeil </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/coptic-woman-martyred-for-the-cross-body-torn/">wrote</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">:</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Oh how lucky you are, Mary, you who are beloved of Christ.  They tore your body because of the Cross.  Yet they offered you the greatest service and gave you a name of honor as one who has attained the crown of martyrdom.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">More poignantly, the bishop quoted Christ in the Bible, “Yes, the time is coming that whoever kills you will think that he offers God service” (John 16:2)—a reference to the fact that</span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1621570258/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1621570258&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=uhurnetw-20"> the Muslims slaughtering the followers of Christ all around the world</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> quite often believe they are doing God’s (or Allah’s) work.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Hence why anecdotes such as Friday’s are becoming immensely regular in the Muslim world. Indeed, only a few months ago, two other Coptic Christian girls — both also named “Mary” — were slain when </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/murdered-christian-children-the-price-of-obamas-pro-brotherhood-jihad/">Brotherhood supporters opened fire on yet another church</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Such is the dramatic, eye-opening, and medieval world outside U.S. borders that that the “powers that be” do not want you to know about—for only their </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/surreal-and-suicidal-modern-western-histories-of-islam/">well-crafted, self-serving narratives must prevail</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">.</span></p>
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		<title>Can a Beauty Queen&#8217;s Murder Bring Down Socialism?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jan 2014 05:20:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Paulin]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/1389123169_monica-spear-467.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-216532" alt="1389123169_monica-spear-467" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/1389123169_monica-spear-467-408x350.jpg" width="286" height="245" /></a>Beauty queens are revered in Venezuela, none more so than those crowned &#8220;Miss Venezuela.&#8221; So when a beloved former &#8220;Miss&#8221; named Mónica Spear and her ex-husband were murdered by highway bandits, the crime sparked national outrage &#8212; touching off street protests, non-stop media coverage, and an ongoing national conversation about the socialist government&#8217;s failure to stop a runaway murder epidemic.</p>
<p>Now, outrage over the murders is prompting many Venezuelans to confront the contradictions of Venezuela-style socialism. One of the biggest ironies: violent crime has exploded since President Hugo Chávez, a firebrand leftist, took office 15 years ago. This has happened, moreover, as capitalism has increasingly been dismantled – supposedly replaced by more economic equality and “social justice” in the oil-rich yet impoverished South American nation.</p>
<p>Chávez, who died last March of cancer, coined the term “21<sup>st</sup> Century socialism.” He contended it would reverse corruption-riddled Venezuela&#8217;s long economic decline, as would his strategy of pursing anti-American alliances. But as fallout continues over the high-profile murders, many Venezuelans are becoming more cynical about President Nicolás Maduro&#8217;s socialist agenda as tens of thousands of Venezuelans are being murdered annually. Maduro, Chávez&#8217;s hand-picked successor, is grappling with food shortages, falling oil prices, and annual inflation topping 50%. He rules a politically polarized country where just over 50 percent of voters support his leftist agenda. He possesses neither Chávez&#8217;s charisma nor mystical connection to Venezuela&#8217;s poor majority.</p>
<p>Spear, crowned &#8220;Miss Venezuela&#8221; in 2004, died in a hail of gunfire on a dark highway on Monday, January 6, with ex-husband Henry Thomas Berry, a 39-year-old British citizen who specialized in adventure tourism at a local travel agency. Their 5-year-old daughter suffered a leg wound.</p>
<p>Police said several bandits laid sharp objects on the road that flattened the car&#8217;s tires; other reports said the car was disabled after hitting a pothole &#8212; a common problem on poorly maintained roads. The couple locked themselves in their car as the bandits showed up, but to no avail: Six shots were fired as a tow-truck arrived. The couple&#8217;s ill-fated holiday in the spectacular mountains and plains of western Venezuela had been intended to give them a new start together.</p>
<p>With Spear and Berry&#8217;s murders, Venezuela&#8217;s skyrocketing murder rate suddenly has human faces – and President Maduro is on the defensive. He&#8217;d been focusing on deepening “21<sup>st</sup> Century socialism.” This included an “<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/09/us-venezuela-election-idUSBRE9B707720131209">economic offensive</a>” against the commercial class: from owners of supermarkets to electronics stores to car dealerships – all were being ordered to offer government-set “fair prices.” And before November&#8217;s make-or-break municipal elections, he&#8217;d won votes by taking bread-and-circuses populism to <a href="http://bigcarnival.blogspot.com/2013/11/hugo-chavezs-successor-takes-bread-and.html">new heights</a>, tacitly giving Christmas shoppers, as some observers saw it, a green light to loot electronics stores. &#8220;We&#8217;re doing this for the good of the nation,&#8221; he said. “Let nothing remain in stock!” A number of retailers were jailed &#8212; accused of speculating, hoarding, and unfair lending.</p>
<p>Now, sensing political trouble over Spear and Berry&#8217;s murders, Maduro is shifting his attention away from his “economic offensive.” He&#8217;s instead calling for an unprecedented <a href="http://globovision.com/articulo/gobierno-iniciara-gira-por-el-pais-para-definir-estrategias-de-seguridad">anti-crime program</a>, and he <a href="http://globovision.com/articulo/gobernadores-alcaldes-y-gobierno-se-reunen-para-corregir-detalles-en-planes-contra-el-hampa">recently met </a>with big-city mayors, governors, and administration officials to come up with a plan. Details remain sketchy. But hopefully, Maduro will focus on improving the nation&#8217;s often corrupt and inefficient police forces and criminal-justice system. In the past, he and Chávez had believed socialism would address what they believed were crime&#8217;s root causes: capitalism and class-conflict; poverty and economic inequality &#8212; and even violent American movies shown on Venezuelan television and movie theaters.</p>
<p>Venezuela suffered the world&#8217;s fourth highest murder rate in 2010 after Honduras, El Salvador, and Jamaica, according to United Nation&#8217;s <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/Latin-America-Monitor/2014/0107/Murder-of-former-Miss-Venezuela-spotlights-country-s-rampant-crime">statistics</a>. Official Venezuelan crime statistics are non-existent: the government stopped providing them ten years ago. But sociologist Roberto Briceño León, president of the Venezuelan Observatory on Violence, a watchdog group, estimates that yearly homicides have increased 427% since Hugo Chávez was elected president in 1998, after campaigning on a platform to seek a “third way” between socialism and capitalism, and to reverse rampant corruption and declining living standards. “In 1998, we had 4,550 homicides in the country, but we closed the past year with 24,000,” Briceño León recently <a href="http://globovision.com/articulo/briceno-leon-el-crimen-de-spear-le-puso-rostro-a-miles-de-personas-que-fallecen-en-manos-de-la-violencia">told Globovision</a>, a Caracas television channel, in a segment about the Spear and Berry murders. To put those grim murder numbers into perspective: war-torn Iraq&#8217;s population is comparable in size to Venezuela&#8217;s, yet it suffered 7,800 killings in 2013 &#8212; about one third of Venezuela&#8217;s homicides. “A third of our murders, and yet the international community says absolutely nothing about the violence in Venezuela. Shame on them,” wrote Juan Cristobal Nagel, an opposition blogger at <a href="http://caracaschronicles.com/">Caracas Chronicles</a>.</p>
<p>To outraged Venezuelans, the couple&#8217;s murders were especially tragic because their lives were caught up with the rise and fall of the Venezuelan dream – an ideal that existed from the 1970s to mid-80s, the era of “Saudi Venezuela” when oil prices were soaring. Berry&#8217;s British parents had immigrated to Venezuela more than 40 years ago, when Caracas was a charming place known as the “city of red roofs.” His father was a mathematics professor at Simón Bolívar University. Spear, a fifth runner-up in the Miss Universe pageant, went on to because a successful soap-opera actress for the Spanish-language Telemundo network. In 2011, she had moved to Florida, one of more than 500,000 Venezuelan now <a href="http://www.eluniversal.com/nacional-y-politica/140113/crece-numero-de-venezolanos-que-emigran-y-solicitan-refugio">living aboard </a>to escape Venezuela-style socialism. Many are members of the business and professional classes, people whom class-warrior Chávez saw as part the problems ailing Venezuela.</p>
<p>Police investigating Spear and Berry&#8217;s murders quickly rounded up nine suspects who were part of a gang that preyed on motorists; they were carrying credit cards and a digital camera that belonged to the couple. It was splendid police work. But to most Venezuelans it underscored that their country, even under “21<sup>st</sup> Century socialism,” has two standards of justice: one for the well-connected and famous, and the other for ordinary Venezuelans, observed Briceño León, the sociologist. Indeed, most Venezuelans doubt that police would have expended such an effort for ordinary Venezuelans, he explained. &#8220;People can commit crimes without any consequences,&#8221; sociologist Luis Cedeño, director of civic group Active Peace, <a href="http://globovision.com/articulo/sociologo-en-venezuela-las-personas-pueden-delinquir-sin-ningun-tipo-de-consecuencias">told Globovision</a>.</p>
<p>Whatever crime-reduction plan President Maduro implements will face a major problem: Venezuela is broke. Draconian currency exchange and price controls have left many supermarket shelves empty; even toilet party is in short supply. Attracting significant foreign investment is not an option &#8212; not after Chávez nationalized large swaths of the economy. Recently, Bloomberg News <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-09/venezuela-in-data-denial-after-inflation-tops-50-andes-credit.html">reported</a> that Venezuela&#8217;s “economic distress is so acute that the central bank stopped releasing regular statistics for the first time ever, threatening to increase borrowing costs further as the nation faces $10 billion of financing needs.” Benjamin Wang, a money manager at PineBridge Investments LLC, was quoted as saying: “There’s no transparent data to measure the risk.”</p>
<p>As the fallout over the death of a beauty queen plays out, cynicism is likely to grow toward Venezuela-style socialism. So will murder, corruption, and economic decline. How ironic that a beauty queen&#8217;s death may serve as a catalyst for positive change that opposition candidates have been unable to achieve by defeating Hugo Chávez or Nicolás Maduro at the polls.</p>
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