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		<title>Congressmen Call for Report on Qatar&#8217;s Links to Terrorism</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2014 14:14:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an important first step.]]></description>
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<p>Qatar has been the X factor in the Arab Spring.</p>
<p>Its heavy investments in Europe and aggressive backing of terrorist groups from Hamas to the Muslim Brotherhood to ISIS has had a major impact on the region. It&#8217;s an impact that no one talks about because Qatar, like Saudi Arabia, is officially an ally.</p>
<p>But <a href="http://www.thetower.org/1378oc-lawmakers-demand-treasury-take-all-necessary-measures-against-hamas-supporters-qatar-turkey/">this is an important first step</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>A bipartisan group of lawmakers on Tuesday urged the Treasury Department take additional measures to sanction individuals and groups – including countries – providing financial and material support to Hamas.</p>
<p>24 of the 29 members of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Middle East and its Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation and Trade blasted regional players – including Iran, Qatar, and Turkey – for supporting the Palestinian terror group and called on the Treasury Department to take “all necessary measures” against the offending countries.</p>
<p>Tuesday’s letter demanded that Treasury produce a report detailing the level of support within Qatar for terrorist groups.</p>
<p>Both Qatar and Turkey have since the beginning of the year found themselves engulfed by scandals linked to their consolidation – along with Sunni extremist groups including the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, Al Qaeda, and ISIS – into one of three regional blocs.</p></blockquote>
<p>If nothing else, it serves notice to Qatar that its shield is failing.</p>
<blockquote><p>The letter concludes by asking Treasury to produce &#8220;specific public updates on Treasury’s discussions with the Qatari government on previously designated, Qatar-based terrorist financiers that the Qataris have yet to act upon.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>That information should be interesting.</p>
<p>The signers are bipartisan. It&#8217;s hard to think of anything else that could get both Joe Wilson and Alan Grayson on board.</p>
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		<title>Kerry, Qatar and the Poisonous Tree</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2014 04:55:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caroline Glick]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington's alarming alliance with jihad supporters -- and how it undermines the cause against the Islamic State. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/132156075_21n2.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-243919" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/132156075_21n2-450x335.jpg" alt="132156075_21n" width="305" height="227" /></a>Originally published by the <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Kerry-Qatar-and-the-poisonous-tree-379979">Jerusalem Post</a>. </em></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">It would be interesting to know which Arab leaders are telling US Secretary of State John Kerry that the absence of peace between Israel and the Palestinians is “a cause of recruitment” to Islamic State.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Is that something he is hearing from Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani? The Qatari leader, whose kingdom has been cited by the US Treasury Department as a major funder of Islamic State (IS), is certainly one of Kerry’s favorite regional leaders.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">If Thani did blame Israel for the rise of IS, then his statement would constitute yet another instance of the double game Qatar has been playing with the Americans. On the one hand, the regime is financing jihad, and other the other hand, it pretends to side with the West against the jihad that it is funding.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">This is certainly the case in Jerusalem.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">According to an investigative report published Friday in Yisrael Hayom, Qatar is financing the violence in the capital. Veteran Jerusalem affairs reporter Nadav Shragai wrote that the Islamic rioters who daily attack Jewish visitors and police forces on the Temple Mount are paid by Qatar through the Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The Qatari government and other Islamic funds are transferring vast sums of money to the Islamic Movement’s radical northern branch headed by Sheikh Ra’ed Salah. The Islamic Movement in turn is paying thousands of shekels every month to hundreds of women and men, mainly Muslim Israeli citizens, who call themselves the Murbitat.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The Murbitat presents itself as an Islamic prayer group, but according to Shragai, the group’s job is to harass Jews and police on the Temple Mount. They scream and curse at Jewish visitors and in recent months have escalated their violence against them, and their police escorts. These violent attacks include assaults with rocks, firebombs and firecrackers.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">To prevent the police from blocking their entry to the Mount, members of the Murbitat enter the mosques in times of relative calm and then remain there for weeks at a time. The women are used as well to smuggle firecrackers and other weaponry onto the Temple Mount by hiding them in their burkas.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In a report published Sunday by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Palestinian affairs researcher Pinchas Inbari explained the goals of the violence.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The riots and assaults on the Temple Mount have two goals. First, they aim to incite the Islamic world against Israel and return attention to the Palestinians. And second, they seek to destabilize the regimes in Egypt and Jordan.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Regarding the goal of galvanizing support for jihad by attacking Israel, Inbari recalled how immediately after longtime Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak was overthrown in February 2011, the Muslim Brotherhood’s most influential cleric, Qatar-based Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi, gave a speech at a mass rally in Cairo and called for the Muslims to march on Jerusalem.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The rally was organized by the Muslim Brotherhood and attended by two million people. It marked the first time that Qaradawi had returned to Egypt since he was forced to flee in the 1960s for his support for jihad.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">From Doha, Qaradawi has become the most influential cleric on the regime-controlled Al Jazeera satellite network. As such, he has become the most important Islamic cleric in the Sunni Islamic world.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As Inbari noted, following his speech in Cairo Qaradawi authored a book titled </span><em style="color: #000000;">Jerusalem: The Problem of Every Muslim</em><span style="color: #000000;">, in which he restated his call for an Islamic conquest of the city.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Saleh, who is extremely close to Qaradawi, stated that “Jerusalem is the capital of the imminently approaching Islamic Caliphate.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In other words, the Palestinians and their Qatari financiers are seeking to galvanize the forces of global jihad, including IS, to view the Palestinian war against Israel and the Jews as the centerpiece of the jihad.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">These efforts are backed by both Fatah and Hamas, who are competing for Qatari money. Fatah chief and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas resonated the claims of the most radical jihadists when earlier this month he referred to Jews on the Temple Mount as “herds of cattle,” and called on Muslims to attack them for they “desecrate” the holy site simply by being there.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Doha-based Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal called on the Palestinians “to defend Jerusalem and al-Aksa, and on the Muslim nation to send a painful message of rage to the world.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As to the goal of using the violence on the Temple Mount to destabilize Egypt and Jordan, Inbari noted that efforts to intensify violence in Jerusalem have grown since the Egyptian military overthrew Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood regime in July 2013. “Presumably,” Inbari argues, “Qatar tried indirectly to help the Brotherhood in Egypt by inspiring support for them on the Jerusalem issue.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The Jordanian regime even more acutely is threatened by the violence on the Temple Mount. Israel recognized Jordan as the custodian of the Temple Mount in its peace treaty with the Hashemite Kingdom. The Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan has capitalized on the violence on the Temple Mount to condemn the regime for what it claims is its failure to protect al-Aksa from the Jews.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In contending with the violence in Judaism’s holiest site, and throughout its capital city, the Israeli government is caught in a trap.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">While telling their fellow Muslims that they must wage a jihad for Jerusalem, Fatah and Hamas as well as the Israeli Islamic Movement tell Western leaders that their violence against Jews in the city owes to actions that Israel has taken to safeguard the lives and civil rights of Jews.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">To appease these specific purported grievances, the Palestinians demand that Israel deny protection and civil rights to Jews by among other things, denying Jews the freedom to visit the Temple Mount and denying Jews property rights in Jerusalem.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Rather than recognize that they are being played by double-speaking Palestinians and their jihadist supporters, Washington and Brussels are going along with their deceit. Both the Obama administration and the EU firmly side with the Palestinian demand that Jews be denied civil rights in Jerusalem. Both have condemned and threatened Israel for not preventing Jews from lawfully purchasing homes in Silwan and for allowing contractors to build homes for Jews in Jewish neighborhoods of Jerusalem.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">This places the Israeli government in an impossible position. It is being attacked by jihadist forces who seek its destruction. It is told by Washington and Europe that if it doesn’t appease those who cannot be appeased by denying protection and civil rights to Jews, then it will lose whatever is left of its good relations with the US and Europe.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">And this brings us back to Kerry’s claim that Arab leaders are blaming Israel for the rise of Islamic State.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As IS forces draw closer to Baghdad and expand their control over Anbar Province in Iraq, it is becoming more and more apparent that the US-led campaign against the terrorist army is failing.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">To a significant degree, Washington’s inability to forge a coherent and feasible strategy for containing and defeating IS owes to its refusal to understand the nature of the enemy and its goals.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">What we see in Qatar’s financing of the violence on the Temple Mount is that the same forces that are financing IS are financing the violence against Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The goal of IS is the establishment of a global Islamic empire. The first targets on its target list are Sunni Mus &#8211; lim states that oppose the Muslim Brotherhood.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The goal of the Islamic violence on the Temple Mount and throughout Jerusalem is to overthrow regional regimes that oppose the Muslim Brotherhood while igniting a pan-Islamic war against the Jewish state.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">By insinuating that Israel is to blame for IS’s rise to power, Kerry was not simply blaming the victim. He was empowering the aggressor.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">For the West to defeat IS, it first needs to recognize that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was right when he said at the UN last month that IS and Hamas – and increasingly Qatari-financed Fatah – are “branches of the same poisonous tree.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">With his announcement Monday that the government had approved the construction of 1,250 new housing units in Jewish neighborhoods in Jerusalem, Netanyahu showed that Israel prefers freedom and security to good relations with Washington and Brussels.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Washington and Brussels need understand that by forcing Israel to make that choice, they are hurting themselves and the cause of their own freedom and security far more than they are harming Israel.</span></p>
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		<title>PR Agency Proclaims: Israel Is Controversial, Muslim Brotherhood Is Not</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2014 04:20:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ronn Torossian]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The bigotry and double standards of one of the nation's leading PR firms. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/eg_mbrhd.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-241753" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/eg_mbrhd.jpg" alt="eg_mbrhd" width="258" height="179" /></a>The world of public relations is filled with constant pressures and moving parts. As <a href="http://everything-pr.com/ronn-torossian-of-5wpr/229441/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">CEO of one of the largest US PR firms</span></a>, I know and understand the intricacies of spin.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Last week, the<b> </b>Emirate of Qatar hired one of the world’s largest PR agencies, Portland Communications, “for a communications/political push targeted at Congress and federal agencies to improve ties with the United States.” Qatar follows sharia law and has numerous human rights issues. On the heels of that partnership comes the revelation that <a href="http://www.fara.gov/docs/6227-Exhibit-AB-20140918-5.pdf"><span style="color: #1255cc;">recently released federal government filings</span></a><span style="color: #29303b;"> indicate that </span>Burson-Marsteller, one of the world’s leading PR firms has been hired to improve the foreign image of Tunisia’s Ennahda Party, a Muslim Brotherhood-inspired organization. The Ennahda Party has good reasons to have close American ties given the upheaval Islamist-backed governments have caused in the Middle East.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">While paying homage to Middle Eastern money isn’t an anomaly to only the PR industry, the shock is that the same firm taking money from the Muslim Brotherhood refused to work for Israel, calling the Jewish State “highly controversial.” Sigurd Grytten, Managing Director of Burson-Marsteller, refused Israel’s request for a meeting, explaining, “We will not deliver tender to such a project … we are running a commercial venture. If we accept this project, this will create a great amount of negative reactions … Israel is a particularly controversial project.”</p>
<p style="color: #1255cc;"><a href="http://www.jpost.com/Features/In-Thespotlight/Tunisias-Islamist-party-A-wolf-in-sheeps-clothing">As a Jerusalem Post editorial on the Ennahda Party described,</a></p>
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<p style="color: #232323;">[T]he movement’s members have been implicated in both incitement and violent actions against Tunisian and foreign targets. The party supported the 1979 embassy takeover in Iran, and evidence suggests it was responsible for bombing four tourist hotels in the 1980s.</p>
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<p style="color: #232323;">A party leader “called for attacks on US interests in the Middle East in response to America’s invasion of Iraq in the Gulf War,” and more recently, the organization spoke of &#8220;victory&#8221; of the Palestinian resistance in Gaza, and opposes relations with Israel.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">In the eyes of my peers in the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Ronn-Torossian/e/B005DOQIPO"><span style="color: #1255cc;">PR industry</span></a><span style="color: #323333;">, </span>a party inspired by the Muslim Brotherhood is mainstream – and Israel is “a particularly controversial project.” Fascinating times we live in.</p>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Self-Defeating Fight</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2014 04:40:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caroline Glick]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why the world thinks America is fighting to lose against Islamic State. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #000000;"><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/WireAP_0bae6af261174ccc93186590385b497b_16x9_992.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-241098" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/WireAP_0bae6af261174ccc93186590385b497b_16x9_992-432x350.jpg" alt="WireAP_0bae6af261174ccc93186590385b497b_16x9_992" width="315" height="255" /></a>Originally published by the <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Obamas-self-defeating-fight-375428">Jerusalem Post</a>. </em></p>
<p style="color: #000000;">The United States has a problem with Islamic State. Its problem is that it refuses to acknowledge why Islamic State is a problem.</p>
<p>The problem with Islamic State is not that it is brutal. Plenty of regimes are brutal.</p>
<p>Islamic State poses two challenges for the US. First, unlike the Saudis and even the Iranians, IS actively recruits Americans and other Westerners to join its lines.</p>
<p>This is a problem because these Americans and other Westerners have embraced an ideology that is viciously hostile to every aspect of Western civilization.</p>
<p>Last Friday, Buzz Feed published a compilation of social media posts published by Western women who have left their homes in Chicago and London and other hometowns to join IS in Syria.</p>
<p>As these women’s social media posts demonstrate, the act of leaving the West and joining IS involves rejecting everything the West is and everything it represents and embracing a culture of violence, murder and degradation.</p>
<p>In the first instance, the women who leave the West to join IS have no qualms about entering a society in which they have no rights. They are happy covering themselves in black from head to toe. They have no problem casting their lot with a society that prohibits females from leaving their homes without male escorts.</p>
<p>They have no problem sharing their husband with other wives. They don’t mind because they believe that in doing so, they are advancing the cause of Islam and Allah.</p>
<p>As the women described it, the hardest part about joining the jihad is breaking the news to your parents back home. But, as one recruiter soothed, “As long as you are firm and you know that this is all for the sake of Allah then nothing can shake you inshalah.”</p>
<p>Firm in their belief that they are part of something holy, the British, American and European jihadistas are completely at ease with IS violence. In one post, a woman nonchalantly described seeing a Yazidi slave girl.</p>
<p>“Walked into a room, gave salam to everyone in the room to find out there was a yazidi slave girl there as well.. she replied to my salam.”</p>
<p>Other posts discussed walking past people getting their hands chopped off and seeing dead bodies on the street. Islamic State’s beheadings of American and British hostages are a cause for celebration.</p>
<p>Their pride at the beheadings of James Foley and others is part and parcel of their hatred for the US and the West. As they see it, destroying the US and the West is a central goal of IS.</p>
<p>As one of the women put it, “Know this Cameron/ Obama, you and your countries will be beneath our feet and your kufr will be destroyed, this is a promise from Allah that we have no doubt over&#8230;. This Islamic empire shall be known and feared world wide and we will follow none other than the law of the one and the only ilah!” These women do not feel at all isolated. And they have no reason to. They are surrounded by other Westerners who joined IS for the same reasons they did.</p>
<p>In one recruitment post, Western women were told that not knowing Arabic is no reason to stay home.</p>
<p>“You can still survive if you don’t speak Arabic. You can find almost every race and nationality here.”</p>
<p>The presence of Westerners in IS, indeed, IS’s aggressive efforts to recruit Westerners wouldn’t pose much of a problem for the US if it were willing to secure its borders and recognize the root of the problem.</p>
<p>But as US President Barack Obama made clear over the summer, and indeed since he first took office six years ago, he opposes any effort to secure the US border with Mexico. If these jihadists can get to Mexico, they will, in all likelihood, have no problem coming to America.</p>
<p>But even if the US were to secure its southern border, it would still be unable to prevent these jihadists from returning to attack. The policy of the US government is to deny the existence of a jihadist threat by, among other thing, denying the existence of the ideology of Islamic jihad.</p>
<p>When President Barack Obama insisted last Wednesday that Islamic State is not Islamic, he told all the Westerners who are now proud mujihadin that they shouldn’t worry about coming home. They won’t be screened. As far as the US is concerned their Islamic jihad ideology doesn’t exist.</p>
<p>So whereas every passenger arriving in the US from Liberia can be screened for Ebola, no one will be screened for exposure to jihadist thought.</p>
<p>And this brings us to the second problem IS poses to the US.</p>
<p>As a rising force in the Middle East, IS threatens US allies and it threatens global trade. To prevent its allies from being overthrown and to prevent shocks to the international economy, at a minimum, the US needs to contain IS. And given the threat the Westerners joining the terror army constitute, and Washington’s unwillingness to stop them at the border, in all likelihood, the US needs to destroy IS where it stands.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, there is no reason to believe that the US is willing or able to either contain or defeat IS.</p>
<p>As US Maj. Gen. (ret.) Robert Scales wrote over the weekend in The Wall Street Journal, from a military perspective, IS is little different from all the guerrilla forces the US has faced in battle since the Korean War. Scales argues that in all previous such engagements, the outcomes have been discouraging because the US lacks the will to take the battle to the societies that feed them or use its firepower to its full potential out of fear of killing civilians.</p>
<p>Clearly this remains the case today.</p>
<p>Moreover, as Angelo Codevilla explained last month in The Federalist, to truly dry up the swamp feeding IS, it is necessary to take the war to its state sponsors – first and foremost Turkey and Qatar.</p>
<p>In his words, “The first strike against the IS must be aimed at its sources of material support. Turkey and Qatar are very much part of the global economy&#8230; If&#8230;</p>
<p>the United States decides to kill the IS, it can simply inform Turkey, Qatar, and the world it will have zero economic dealings with these countries and with any country that has any economic dealing with them, unless these countries cease any and all relations with the IS.”</p>
<p>Yet, as we saw on the ground this weekend with US Secretary of State John Kerry’s failed mission to secure Turkish support for the US campaign against IS, the administration has no intention of taking the war to IS’s state sponsors, without which it would be just another jihadi militia jockeying for power in Syria.</p>
<p>And this leaves us with the administration’s plan to assemble a coalition of the willing that will provide the foot soldiers for the US air war against Islamic State.</p>
<p>After a week of talks and shuttle diplomacy, aside from Australia, no one has committed forces. Germany, Britain and France have either refused to participate or have yet to make clear what they are willing to do.</p>
<p>The Kurds will not fight for anything but Kurdistan. The Iraqi Army is a fiction. The Iraqi Sunnis support IS far more than they trust the Americans.</p>
<p>Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan will either cheer the US on from a distance, or in the best-case scenario, provide logistical support for its operations.</p>
<p>It isn’t just that these states have already been burned by Obama whether through his support for the Muslim Brotherhood and the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak and Muammar Gaddafi. And it isn’t simply that they saw that the US left them hanging in Syria.</p>
<p>They see Obama’s “strategy” for fighting IS – ignoring the Islamic belief system that underpins every aspect of its existence, and expecting other armies to fight and die to accomplish the goal while the US turns a blind eye to Turkey’s and Qatar’s continued sponsorship of Islamic State. They see this strategy and they are convinced America is fighting to lose. Why should they go down with it? Islamic State is a challenging foe. To defeat it, the US must be willing to confront Islamism. And it must be willing to fight to win. In the absence of such determination, it will fight and lose, in the region and at home, with no allies at its side.<br />
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2014 14:36:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>Sure <a href="http://vladtepesblog.com/2014/09/07/islam-and-the-west-links-3-for-sept-7-2014/">we deport Nazi war </a>criminals. But<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2746647/British-jihadis-Iraq-Syria-encouraged-come-home-says-former-MI6-chief.html#ixzz3Cf1wvZHZ"> let&#8217;s invite ISIS war criminals in.</a></p>
<blockquote><p>British jihadis in Iraq and Syria should be encouraged to return home, a counter-terrorism expert said today. Richard Barrett, a former MI6 global counter-terrorism director, said repentant fighters must know ‘there is a place for them back at home’. His comments come after it was revealed some UK jihadis fighting in Syria want to come home after becoming disillusioned with the conflict.</p>
<p>Mr Barrett, 65, told The Observer: ‘Many of the people who have been most successful in undermining the terrorist narrative are themselves ex-extremists.&#8217;</p></blockquote>
<p>So are the people most successful in blowing things up. And since the UK, like the US, has a long history of not being able to tell so-called extremists and moderates apart, largely because these terms are Western liberal attempts to make sense of Islamic theology and tactics which doesn&#8217;t align along such lines, this can only end well.</p>
<p>But here&#8217;s a few more facts about Dick Barrett from the wiki. See if you can tell how they connect&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>1. Barrett is a recognized global expert on terrorism who frequently appears as a panelist in related conferences and whose commentary is regularly featured in the press.</p>
<p>2. Barrett also served as Director of Global Counter Terrorism Operations for the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) both before and after the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States</p>
<p>3. Mr. Barrett was also a founding member of the United Nations Counter Terrorism Implementation Task Force (CTITF), which was established in 2005 to promote the UN Global Counter Terrorism Strategy adopted by the General Assembly in 2006.</p>
<p>4. He is the author of several articles and commentaries including op-eds for The Guardian, The New York Times, The Financial Times and The International Herald Tribune.</p>
<p>5. Barrett sits on the boards of the <strong>Qatar</strong> International Academy for Security Studies in Doha</p></blockquote>
<p>All terror roads lead back to Qatar.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2014 13:22:48 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>Qatar has been running on all the positive publicity it could buy for decades. But lately it&#8217;s been hitting a rough patch as its links to terrorism have been leaking even into its mainstream media clients.</p>
<p>Now Israel&#8217;s UN Ambassador has a<a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/israels-un-envoy-stop-qatari-terrorism-funding/"> hard hitting piece calling for isolating Qatar.</a></p>
<blockquote><p>The emirate has also used the Arabic service of Al Jazeera news network to spread radical messages that have inflamed sectarian divides. In the early days of the Arab Spring, Al Jazeera’s coverage of popular uprisings earned the network millions of new followers and solidified its status as a mainstream global news network. Qatar capitalized on this popularity by advancing its own agenda — namely, using the Arabic network to promote the views of extremists who were undermining the region’s more pragmatic elements. In particular, Qatar’s open support for the Muslim Brotherhood angered its gulf state neighbors. In March, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain recalled their ambassadors from Doha in protest.</p>
<p>This hasn’t stopped the Persian Gulf monarchy from serving as a Club Med for terrorists. It harbors leading Islamist radicals like the spiritual leader of the global Muslim Brotherhood, Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, who issued a religious fatwa endorsing suicide attacks, and the Doha-based history professor Abdul Rahman Omeir al-Naimi, whom the United States Department of Treasury has named as a “terrorist financier” for Al Qaeda. Qatar also funds a life of luxury for Khaled Meshal, the fugitive leader of Hamas&#8230;</p>
<p>It is time for the world to wake up and smell the gas fumes. Qatar has spared no cost to dress up its country as a liberal, progressive society, yet at its core, the micro monarchy is aggressively financing radical Islamist movements. In light of the emirate’s unabashed support for terrorism, one has to question FIFA’s decision to reward Qatar with the 2022 World Cup.</p>
<p>Qatar’s continued sponsorship of Hamas all but guarantees that, whatever happens in this round of hostilities, the terrorist group will rearm and renew hostilities with Israel. The only way forward is to isolate Hamas’s last major backer. Given Qatar’s considerable affluence and influence, this is an uncomfortable prospect for many Western nations, yet they must recognize that Qatar is not a part of the solution but a significant part of the problem.</p></blockquote>
<p>Qatar has become an even bigger state sponsor of terrorism than Saudi Arabia&#8230; and that really says something.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2014 04:45:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caroline Glick]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why erstwhile enemies are joining forces in the Middle East. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/hamas1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-239276" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/hamas1-397x350.jpg" alt="Military Ceremony in Gaza" width="271" height="239" /></a>Originally published by the <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/COLUMN-ONE-Understanding-the-Israeli-Egyptian-Saudi-alliance-371891">Jerusalem Post</a>. </em></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Hamas’s war with Israel is not a stand-alone event. It is happening in the context of the vast changes that are casting asunder old patterns of behavior and strategic understandings as actors in the region begin to reassess the threats they face.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Hamas was once funded by Saudi Arabia and enabled by Egypt. Now the regimes of these countries view it as part of a larger axis of Sunni jihad that threatens not only Israel, but them.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, and its state sponsors Qatar and Turkey, are the key members of this alliance structure. Without their support Hamas would have gone down with the Muslim Brotherhood regime in Egypt last summer. As it stands, all view Hamas’s war with Israel as a means of reinstating the Brotherhood to power in that country.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">To achieve a Hamas victory, Turkey, Qatar and the Muslim Brotherhood are using Western support for Hamas against Israel. If the US and the EU are able to coerce Egypt and Israel to open their borders with Gaza, then the Western powers will hand the jihadist axis a strategic victory.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The implications of such a victory would be dire.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Hamas is ideologically indistinguishable from Islamic State. Like Islamic State, Hamas has developed mass slaughter and psychological terrorization as the primary tools in its military doctrine. If the US and the EU force Israel and Egypt to open Gaza’s borders, they will enable Hamas to achieve strategic and political stability in Gaza. As a consequence, a post-war Gaza will quickly become a local version of Islamic State-controlled Mosul.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In the first instance, such a development will render life in southern Israel too imperiled to sustain. The Western Negev, and perhaps Beersheba, Ashkelon and Ashdod, will become uninhabitable.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Then there is Judea and Samaria. If, as the US demands, Israel allows Gaza to reconnect with Judea and Samaria, in short order Hamas will dominate the areas. Militarily, the transfer of even a few of the thousands of rocket-propelled grenades Hamas has in Gaza will imperil military forces and civilians alike.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">IDF armored vehicles and armored civilian buses will be blown to smithereens.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Whereas operating from Gaza, Hamas needed the assistance of the Obama administration and the Federal Aviation Administration to shut down Ben-Gurion Airport, from Judea and Samaria, all Hamas would require are a couple of hand-held mortars.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Jordan will also be directly threatened.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">From Egypt’s perspective, a Hamas victory in the war with Israel that connects Gaza to Sinai will strengthen the Muslim Brotherhood and its Islamic State and other allies. Such a development represents a critical threat to the regime.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">And this brings us to Islamic State itself. It couldn’t have grown to its current monstrous proportions without the support of Qatar and Turkey.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Islamic State is obviously interested in expanding its conquests. Since it views itself as a state, its next move must be one that enables it to take over a national economy. The raid on Mosul’s central bank will not suffice to finance its operations for very long.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">At this point, Islamic State wishes to avoid an all-out confrontation with Iran, so moving into southern Iraq is probably not in the cards. US forces in Kuwait, and the strength and unity of purpose of the Jordanian military, probably take both kingdoms off Islamic State’s chopping block for now.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">This leaves Saudi Arabia, or parts of it, as a likely next target for Islamic State expansion.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Islamic State’s current operations in Lebanon, which threaten the Saudi-supported regime there, indicate that Lebanon, at a minimum, is also at grave risk.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Then there is Iran. Iran is not a member of the Sunni jihadist axis. But when it comes to Israel and the non-jihadist regimes, it has cooperated with it.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Iran has funded, trained and armed Hamas for the past decade. It views Hamas’s war with Israel in the same light as it viewed its Lebanese proxy Hezbollah’s war with Israel eight years ago.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Both in Iraq and Syria, Iran and Islamic State have shown little interest in making one another their primary target. Turkey and Qatar have often served as Iran’s supporters in the Sunni world.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">This is the context in which Israel is fighting its war with Hamas. And due to this context, two interrelated strategically significant events have occurred since the war began.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The first relates to the US.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The Obama administration’s decision to side with the members of the jihadist axis against Israel by adopting their demand to open Gaza’s borders with Israel and Egypt has served as the final nail in the coffin of America’s strategic credibility among its traditional regional allies.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As the US has stood with Hamas, it has also maintained its pursuit of a nuclear deal with Iran. The US’s position in these talks is to enable the mullocracy to follow North Korea’s path to a nuclear arsenal. The non-jihadist Sunni states share Israel’s conviction that they cannot survive a nuclear armed Iran.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Finally, President Barack Obama’s refusal to date to take offensive action to destroy Islamic State in Iraq and Syria demonstrates to Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf states that under Obama, the US would rather allow Islamic State to expand into their territory and destroy them than return US military forces to Iraq.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In other words, Obama’s pro-Hamas-, pro-Iran- and pro-Muslim Brotherhood-axis policies, along with his refusal to date to take effective action in Iraq and Syria to obliterate Islamic State, have convinced the US’s traditional allies that for the next two-and-a-half years, not only can they not rely on the US, they cannot discount the possibility of the US taking actions that harm them.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">It is in the face of the US’s shift of allegiances under Obama that the non-jihadist Sunni regimes have begun to reevaluate their ties to Israel. Until the Obama presidency, the Saudis and Egyptians felt secure in their alliance with the US. Consequently, they never felt it necessary or even desirable to consider Israel as a strategic partner.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Under the US’s strategic protection, the traditional Sunni regimes had the luxury of maintaining their support for Palestinian terrorists and rejecting the notion of strategic cooperation with Israel, whether against Iran, al-Qaida or any other common foe.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">So sequestered by the US, Israel became convinced that the only way it could enjoy any benefit from its shared strategic interests with its neighbors was by first bowing to the US’s long-held obsession with strengthening the PLO. This has involved surrendering land, political legitimacy and money to the terror group still committed to Israel’s destruction.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The war with Hamas has changed all of this.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The partnership that has emerged in this war between Israel, Egypt and Saudi Arabia is a direct consequence of Obama’s abandonment of the US’s traditional allies. Recognizing the threat that Hamas, as a component part of the Sunni jihadist alliance, constitutes for their own regimes, and in the absence of American support for Israel, Egypt and Saudi Arabia have worked with Israel to defeat Hamas and keep Gaza’s borders sealed.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Most Israelis have yet to grasp the strategic significance of this emerging alliance. This owes in large part to the Left’s domination of the public discourse.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The Israeli Left sees this new partnership. But it fails to understand its basis or significance. For the Left, all developments lead to the same conclusion: Whatever happens, Israel must strengthen the PLO by strengthening Palestinian Authority Chairman and PLO chief Mahmoud Abbas.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Failing to recognize the basis for Israel’s emerging strategic partnership, led by Finance Minister Yair Lapid and Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, the Left is advocating using our new ties with Saudi Arabia and Egypt as a means of strengthening Abbas by organizing a regional peace conference.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">What they fail to understand is that such a move would destroy the partnership.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Israel’s strategic cooperation with Egypt and Saudi Arabia owes to their shared interests. It cannot extend beyond them. And they have no shared interests in regard to the PLO.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Threatened by the axis of jihad, no Muslim government can be seen publicly with Israelis. Asking Egyptian and Saudi leaders to have their pictures taken with Israelis is like asking them to sign their own death warrants.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Moreover, Israel’s required end-state in negotiations with the PLO – defensible borders and recognition of its sovereign rights to Jerusalem – is something that no Muslim regime can publicly accept – especially now.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">So far from building on our new cooperative relationship, if the government heeds the Left’s advice and uses our incipient ties with the Saudis and Egyptians to strengthen the PLO, it will highlight and exacerbate conflicting interests and so destroy the partnership.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Moreover, the fact is that the PLO can play no constructive role for any of the sides in weakening our common foes. As he has for the past decade, during the current war Abbas has demonstrated that he is utterly worthless in the fight against the forces of jihad – both of the Sunni and Shi’ite variety.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">At least for the duration of Obama’s presidency the interests that Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Israel share in preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons and defeating the Muslim Brotherhood/Islamic State as military and political threats can only be advanced through joint action.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The Obama administration would have forced Israel to bow to Hamas’s demands weeks ago if the Egyptians and Saudis hadn’t opposed a Hamas victory.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Without Israeli military action, Iran will become a nuclear power. In light of the US’s backing of Iran’s nuclear program, such an Israeli operation is effectively impossible without regional support.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As to Islamic State, right now the US is interested in cooperating with Iran in fighting the barbaric force.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In exchange for Iranian cooperation, the US is liable to cede Basra and the Shatt al-Arab to Iran.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Effective cooperation between Israel, the Kurds and the Sunnis could contain, and perhaps defeat, Islamic State while reducing Iran’s chances of securing the strategically vital waterway.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Since the emerging partnership between Israel, Egypt and Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the Obama administration’s destruction of US strategic credibility, it is fairly clear that if properly managed, it can last until January 2017. Until then, in all likelihood, the US will be unwilling and unable to rebuild its reputation.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">And until then, the parties are unlikely to find alternative means of securing their interests that are more effective than joint action.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Given the stakes, and the complementary capabilities of the various parties, Israel’s primary task today must be to work quietly and diligently with the Saudis and Egyptians to expand on their joint achievements in Gaza.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The Israeli-Egyptian-Saudi alliance can ensure that all members survive the Obama era. And if lasts into the next administration, it will place all of its members on more secure footing with the US, whether or not a new administration decides to rebuild the US alliance structure in the Middle East.</span></p>
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		<title>Are CNN&#8217;s Fake Qatari News Stories Blurring the Lines?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>The Qatari tyranny isn&#8217;t just satisfied with running Al Jazeera as its international state propaganda network. It&#8217;s also pushing a string of advertisements disguised as news stories on the CNN website.</p>
<p>And with CNN already facing criticism of conflicts of interest, <a href="http://israelmatzav.blogspot.com/2014/08/is-this-why-cnns-coverage-is-biased.html">the resemblance of the Qatari ads to CNN</a> news stories doesn&#8217;t help.</p>
<p>While CNN does label the Qatari content as an &#8220;advertisement feature&#8221; both in the URL and a bar, the <a href="http://advertisementfeature.cnn.com/qatar-foundation/">design language and content </a>of the Qatari material makes it appear to be CNN news stories.</p>
<p>The Qatari news stories cover the entire page. They use news story design language and the whole thing appears under a CNN banner.</p>
<p>CNN adds a disclaimer at the bottom &#8220;*This special advertising page is not a part of CNN editorial content&#8221;, but it&#8217;s doubtful that anyone is going to notice.</p>
<p>Furthermore the content comes up under CNN in search engines giving it an added layer of credibility.</p>
<p>Advertising like this does not come cheap and Qatar appears to have been putting quite a bit of money into CNN. Aside from this Qatar Airways sponsored special CNN coverage on flight. (Qatar Airways is state owned by the Qatari tyrant.)</p>
<p>Furthermore <a href="http://www.hughhewitt.com/soledad-obrien-defends-taking-money-qatars-al-jazeera/">CNN continues broadcasting content </a>from Soledad O&#8217;Brien, an Al Jazeera employee.</p>
<p>The question is how much money is Qatar pumping into CNN and what impact is it having on the news network&#8217;s journalism?</p>
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		<title>Gaza Flotilla Terrorists Set Sail Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2014 04:50:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arnold Ahlert]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/mavi-marmara.jpg"><img class="alignleft wp-image-237293 " src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/mavi-marmara-422x350.jpg" alt="mavi marmara" width="269" height="223" /></a>Apparently more than willing to pour gasoline on an already raging fire, an anti-Israeli Turkish relief organization, IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation, is organizing a “Freedom Flotilla II” to bring “humanitarian&#8221; supplies to the Gaza strip. The IHH is the organization responsible for the last attempt to break the Israeli naval blockade of Gaza in a self-inflicted disaster that saw nine Hamas-affiliated terrorists <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/183398#.U9ZR46jFm3c"><span style="color: #1255cc;">killed</span></a> by Israeli commandos, who were attacked when they attempted to board the Mavi Marmara. IHH chairman Bulent Yildrim <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/183398#.U9ZR46jFm3c"><span style="color: #1255cc;">warns</span></a> that this time, the flotilla will be accompanied by Turkish Navy vessels to “protect us from any potential attack.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">As of now, no firm date has been set for this latest effort to incite a violent confrontation with the Jewish State, but Yildrim insists that once the necessary permit from the authorities in Ankara is approved, the activists will set sail. Yildrim is inviting activists who participated in the 2010 trip to join the cause. The military component is based on a demand by Yildrim  that the Turkish government provide protection for its own citizens.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The move reflects the increasing deterioration of Turkish-Israeli relations, already severely damaged by the 2010 attempt by the Freedom Flotilla I to challenge Israel’s right to block weaponry from entering the Gaza strip.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">After the incident aboard the Mavi Marmara, a 2011 UN <a href="http://www.un.org/News/dh/infocus/middle_east/Gaza_Flotilla_Panel_Report.pdf"><span style="color: #1255cc;">report</span></a> by the Palmer Commission concluded Israel was within its legal rights to form the blockade. The report further noted that the naval blockade &#8220;was imposed as a legitimate security measure in order to prevent weapons from entering Gaza by sea and its implementation complied with the requirements of international law,&#8221; that &#8220;the flotilla acted recklessly in attempting to breach the naval blockade,&#8221; and that there were &#8220;serious questions about the conduct, true nature and objectives of the flotilla organizers, particularly IHH.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">And while the report also concluded that Israel’s boarding of the Mavi Marmara was “excessive and unreasonable,” it noted that &#8220;Israeli Defense Forces personnel faced significant, organized and violent resistance from a group of passengers when they boarded the Mavi Marmara requiring them to use force for their own protection.” The panel further recommended that those involved &#8220;should consult directly and make every effort to avoid a repetition of the incident.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">That isn’t likely to happen. After the incident and subsequent report, Turkey <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/183398#.U9ZbKqjFm3d"><span style="color: #1255cc;">ejected</span></a> Israel’s ambassador and recalled its own, but refrained from severing economic ties. But on July 19, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan <a href="http://bigstory.ap.org/article/erdogan-says-israel-more-barbaric-hitler"><span style="color: #1255cc;">accused</span></a> Israel of &#8220;barbarism that surpasses Hitler,” regarding its military incursion into Gaza. He further insisted the Jewish State was guilty of using “disproportionate force” that has &#8220;derailed efforts to normalize Turkish-Israeli ties,” according to the Associated Press. Erdogan is running for the presidency in elections that will be held next month.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">In an interview with <i>The Jerusalem Post</i>, Harold Rhode, a senior fellow at the New-York-based Gatestone Institute and a former adviser on Islamic affairs in the office of the American secretary of defense, insisted that the “real issue” in the current conflict is the effort by Turkey and Qatar to throw their support behind the Muslim Brotherhood and its spawn, Hamas. “Erdogan has been associated with the Muslim Brotherhood long before he was prime minister,” Rhode said further explaining that Erdogan &#8220;is doing whatever he can to help Hamas.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">One could make the case the Obama administration is doing the same thing. According to the <i>Times of Israel</i> that nation&#8217;s <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/kerry-completely-capitulated-to-hamas-in-ceasefire-proposal-says-israel/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">unanimous rejection</span></a> of Secretary of State John Kerry’s cease fire plan was so ferocious, it was kept quiet in order to avoid &#8220;an open diplomatic confrontation with the United States.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Kerry followed up that visit with one to Paris, where he talked with representatives of none other than Qatar and Turkey, while representatives from Israel, the PLO and Egypt remained uninvited to the table. That would be the same Qatar and Turkey that Israel TV Channel 2’s Middle East analyst Ehud Ya’ari referred to as “Hamas’s lawyers,” and the same nation of Qatar that signed an $11 billion <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/14/us-usa-qatar-idUSKBN0FJ2M820140714"><span style="color: #1255cc;">arms deal</span></a> with the Obama administration that will provide them with Apache attack helicopters, as well as Patriot and Javelin air-defense systems.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Last Friday, Deputy State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf <a href="http://www.dailysabah.com/politics/2014/07/25/turkey-key-to-gaza-ceasefire-says-us"><span style="color: #1255cc;">insisted</span></a> Kerry’s regular contact with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu was necessary because Davutoğlu &#8220;is a key player in the region and has some leverage he can bring to bear on the situation. They have a relationship with Hamas. I mean, they can, you know, have conversations that we can&#8217;t.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">What conversations are those? On Twitter, Davutoğlu stated that he would talk to &#8220;Palestinian parties with the aim of ensuring that merciless attacks targeting our Palestinian brothers come to an immediate end.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Two days later, the Obama administration <a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/kerry-accused-promoting-hamas-ceasefire-demands-prompted-qatar-and"><span style="color: #1255cc;">disputed</span></a> the idea that Kerry was pushing a Gaza cease fire plan promoted by Qatar and Turkey. An administration spokesman also disputed the notion that Kerry’s rejected plan was a formal proposal, characterizing it as a draft framework presented for Israeli input and commentary.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">President Obama demonstrated an equal amount of contempt for the realities of an Israeli nation that must not only deal with a missile threat exacerbated by a new secret <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/palestinianauthority/10992921/Hamas-and-North-Korea-in-secret-arms-deal.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">arms deal</span></a> between Hamas and North Korea, but a <a href="http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/180007/concrete-facts-about-hamas#undefined"><span style="color: #1255cc;">system of tunnels</span></a> so extensive and sophisticated, they represent an existential threat to Israel’s survival. In a phone call to Netanyahu, Obama called for “an immediate, unconditional humanitarian ceasefire that ends hostilities now and leads to a permanent cessation of hostilities.” The White House further revealed that the president “reiterated the United States’ serious and growing concern about the rising number of Palestinian civilian deaths and the loss of Israeli lives, as well as the worsening humanitarian situation in Gaza.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">In other words, the Obama administration couldn’t care less about leaving Israel completely vulnerable to a tunnel system that could render the Iron Dome, the nation’s most effective defensive weapon, obsolete. On Monday, a senior IDF official claimed Israel was in <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/183423#.U9aAmKjFm3c"><span style="color: #1255cc;">possession</span></a> of  all the attack tunnels, but that contention was disputed by Hamas spokesman Mushir al-Masri who claimed Israel has <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Operation-Protective-Edge/Hamas-spokesman-Israel-has-reached-only-a-fraction-of-the-tunnels-369157"><span style="color: #1255cc;">reached</span></a> &#8220;only a fraction” of them. &#8220;We are convinced that our people are on the brink of liberation,&#8221; Masri added.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">It is a liberation that IHH intends to facilitate with the possible aid of the Turkish government—and perhaps Obama’s blessing as well. Among the Kerry proposals that reportedly “horrified” the Israeli Cabinet, aside from the idea that Israel accept Hamas’s demands for the opening of border crossings into Gaza, and the opening of a post-war funding channel for Hamas (while the <a href="http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/180007/concrete-facts-about-hamas#undefined"><span style="color: #1255cc;">vast network</span></a> of terror tunnels <i>with exits located in Israel </i>was ignored) was the construction of a Gazan seaport.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The maliciousness of such an idea cannot be overstated. When Israel unilaterally ceded Gaza to the Palestinians in 2005, it <a href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/alanjohnson/100280272/its-time-to-bust-the-israeli-blockade-led-to-hamas-rockets-myth/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">signed</span></a> an <a href="http://www.eubam-rafah.eu/files/Agreement%20on%20Movement%20and%20Access.pdf"><span style="color: #1255cc;">Agreement on Movement and Access</span></a> with the Palestinian Authority. It gave the Palestinians <i>full</i> control over their borders, permitting imports and exports, and included an approval for building a seaport. It was only after Hamas launch a murderous coup against the PLO in 2007 that Israel—as well as Egypt&#8211;reimposed border restrictions aimed at keeping the <a href="http://www.state.gov/j/ct/rls/other/des/123085.htm"><span style="color: #1255cc;">U.S.-designated</span></a> terrorist group from arming itself. The naval blockade was reinstated, and its necessity was made evident as recently as last March. That&#8217;s when Israel <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-26451421"><span style="color: #1255cc;">seized</span></a> a ship carrying M-302 surface-to-surface missiles that were flown to Iran from Syria before being loaded aboard the ship headed for Gaza. At the time the IDF revealed this was not the first arms-smuggling ship it had intercepted, but one &#8220;distinguished by the lethality and quality of its cargo.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">That reality apparently did nothing to dissuade the Obama administration. During a joint appearance with Kerry last week, Khalid bin Mohamed al-Attiyah of Qatar <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/27/world/middleeast/israel-extends-cease-fire-in-gaza-a-un-request-rejected-by-hamas.html?_r=0"><span style="color: #1255cc;">insisted</span></a> Gaza “deserves” its own seaport, even “if it’s under international supervision.” The utter impotency of such supervision was laid bare on July 18, when the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) <a href="http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/07/18/israels-un-ambassador-says-likely-more-hamas-missiles-at-unrwa-facilities/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">discovered</span></a> 20 Hamas-owned missiles in one of their very own Gazan schools—and returned them to Hamas two days later. Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Ron Prosor illuminated the reality of international monitoring, at least with regard to Israel. “For years, we told you about the thousands of rockets that Hamas was smuggling into Gaza,” he said. &#8220;We were met with silence. Time and again we called on the international community to condemn the rocket fire and we were met with silence.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The silence surrounding the true nature of IHH is also deafening. Despite its self-promotion as solely a humanitarian organization, Carnegie Endowment analyst Henri Barkey <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/7790919/Gaza-flotilla-the-Free-Gaza-Movement-and-the-IHH.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">illuminated</span></a> its greater agenda. &#8220;It&#8217;s an Islamist organization as it has been deeply involved with Hamas for some time,” he explained. Barkey&#8217;s contention echoed a 2006 <a href="http://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/84554/1/DIIS2006-07.pdf"><span style="color: #1255cc;">report</span></a> by the Danish Institute for International Studies characterizing IHH as one of many “charitable front groups that provide support to al Qaeda” and the global jihad. France’s former top counterterrorism judge, Jean-Louis Bruguiere,<a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/keyword/Jean_Louis-Bruguiere"><span style="color: #1255cc;"> noted</span></a> that his own investigation of IHH in the 1990s revealed they &#8220;were basically helping al-Qaida when bin Laden started to want to target U.S. soil,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Even more important, information <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Erdogan-and-Turkish-government-supported-IHH"><span style="color: #1255cc;">acquired</span></a> in 2011 by Israel&#8217;s Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center (ITIC) revealed that Erdogan actively supported the first flotilla. “Without (IHH’s) support, he would not have been elected prime minister,” the ITIC report declared, further noting that a fourth of senior IHH staff members had served, or were serving, in senior position in Erdogan’s AKP political party.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Prior to the first flotilla’s interception by Israel, Yildrim made his organization’s genuine intentions clear, <a href="http://www.jcpa.org/text/Turkey_Muslim_Brotherhood.pdf"><span style="color: #1255cc;">vowing</span></a> to “break the siege,” adding if Jerusalem “will be in Muslim hands, the whole world will to be in Muslim hands…. The present rulers of Jerusalem are the Jews, the Zionists. All the suffering and the evil in the world today is a result of that. Therefore Jerusalem must be liberated.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">This is the reality behind the first attempt to break the Israeli blockade. If the Turkish Navy supports Freedom Flotilla II, war between Israel and Turkey becomes a real possibility. If such hostilities come to pass, one is left to wonder which side the Obama administration will support. Demanding that Israel cease hostilities even as Hamas retains the capability to threaten the Jewish State’s existence—and even after Israel unilaterally <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/07/28/Obama-Demands-Israel-Agree-To-Ceasefire"><span style="color: #1255cc;">agreed</span></a> to five cease fires Hamas either rejected or violated—sends a troubling message.</p>
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		<title>Kerry Was Against Qatar Funding Hamas, Before He Was For It</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Qatar became infamous for smuggling weapons to Jihadists in Libya and Syria]]></description>
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<p>Can we at least hope that Qatar hasn&#8217;t gotten around to putting the Stinger missiles it wasn&#8217;t supposed to have in Hamas&#8217; hands? And isn&#8217;t this entire Qatari push to open up Gaza a good way of getting weapons into the hands of Hamas?</p>
<p>Qatar became infamous for smuggling weapons to Jihadists in Libya and Syria with the complicity of Obama. Some of those weapons fell into the hands of the Taliban.</p>
<p>And now the terror state would love nothing more than to arm Hamas. <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Operation-Protective-Edge/US-rejects-criticism-of-Kerry-369117">With Obama&#8217;s complicity</a>. Again.</p>
<blockquote><p>The US has rejected Israeli criticism directed at Secretary of State John Kerry and his efforts to achieve a lasting ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.</p>
<p>Asked how the photo-op with the Qataris and Turks helps the US optics,  the senior US official said., “It’s a relationship-building game.”</p>
<p>The US does not approve of Qatar providing money to Hamas, but believes that this gives the Doha government leverage and the US needs a way to reach Hamas.</p>
<p>According to the US administration an “enduring” or “sustained” agreement means that Hamas would get a lifting of border restrictions and it would address Israel’s security concerns.</p></blockquote>
<p>Address is synonymous with ignore.</p>
<p>So Hamas will get rewarded for shelling Tel Aviv and murdering three Israeli boys. Meanwhile Obama, Kerry and the rest of the team absolutely oppose Qatar arming terrorists and yet keep letting Qatar use them as hand puppets.</p>
<p>We saw it with Qatar and the Taliban. Now we&#8217;re seeing it with Qatar and Hamas.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s bad enough that previous administrations outsourced their foreign policy to Saudi Arabia. Obama is outsourcing it to Qatar.</p>
<p>Meanwhile<a href="http://www.jpost.com/Operation-Protective-Edge/Palestinian-Authority-blasts-Kerry-for-appeasing-Qatar-Turkey-at-Ramallahs-expense-369091"> Egypt and the PLO aren&#8217;t too happy</a> about Kerry&#8217;s romance with Qatar.</p>
<blockquote><p>Palestinian officials in Ramallah on Sunday launched scathing attacks on US Secretary of State John Kerry and accused him of working to appease Qatar and Turkey at the expense of Egypt and the Palestinian Authority.</p>
<p>Walid Assaf, a former PA minister, pointed out that “this was the first meeting to discuss a Palestinian issue without Palestinian participation.”</p>
<p>Qatar has become the sole and legitimate representative of the Palestinian people, Assaf said with a tone of sarcasm.</p>
<p>PA President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah faction said in a statement: “Those who want Qatar or Turkey to represent them should leave and go live there.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Laura Rozen was shrieking on Twitter, while waving around a Qatari document from Al Jazeera, that Israel was lying about Kerry. Now the PLO has the same point of view.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s unfortunate that American foreign policy and chunks of the media are being held hostage by the Qatari state sponsors of terror.</p>
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		<title>Obama to the Rescue – of Hamas</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2014 04:56:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caroline Glick]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. pushes for an immediate ceasefire -- before Israel finishes its mission. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/palestinian-rockets-rain-down-on-israel-from-gaza.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-236893" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/palestinian-rockets-rain-down-on-israel-from-gaza-444x350.jpg" alt="palestinian-rockets-rain-down-on-israel-from-gaza" width="255" height="201" /></a>Originally published by the <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Obama-to-the-rescue-of-Hamas-368508">Jerusalem Post</a>. </em></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Operation Protective Edge is now two weeks old. Since the ground offensive began Thursday night, we have begun to get a better picture of just how dangerous Hamas has become in the nine years since Israel withdrew from the Gaza Strip. And what we have learned is that the time has come to take care of this problem. It cannot be allowed to fester or grow anymore.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">We have known for years that tunnels were a central component of Hamas’s logistical infrastructure.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">What began as the primary means of smuggling weapons, trainers and other war material from Hamas’s sponsors abroad developed rapidly into a strategic tool of offensive warfare against Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As we have seen from the heavily armed Hamas commando squads that have infiltrated into Israel from tunnels since the start of the current round of warfare, the first goal of these offensive tunnels is to deploy terrorists into Israel to massacre Israelis.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">But the tunnels facilitate other terror missions as well.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Israel has found tunnels with shafts rigged with bombs located directly under Israeli kindergartens.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">If the bombs had gone off, the buildings above would have been destroyed, taking the children down with them.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Other exposed shafts showed Hamas’s continued intense interest in hostage taking. In 2006 the terrorists who kidnapped Cpl. Gilad Schalit entered Israel and returned to Gaza through such a tunnel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Today the presence of sedatives and multiple sets of handcuffs for neutralizing hostages found in tunnel after tunnel indicate that Hamas intends to abduct several Israelis at once and spirit them back to Gaza.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In an interview with Channel 2 Monday evening, Minister Naftali Bennett spoke of a mother at Kibbutz Netiv Ha’asara who told him that her children wake her in the middle of the night and tell her that they hear digging beneath their beds.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As Bennett said, this state of affairs simply cannot continue. People cannot live in fear that there are terrorists burrowing beneath their homes, digging tunnels to murder or kidnap them.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">These tunnels must be found and destroyed not merely because they constitute a physical danger to thousands of Israelis. They must be located and destroyed, and Hamas’s capacity to rebuild them must be eliminated because the very idea that they exist makes a normal life impossible for those immediately threatened.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Hamas’s tunnels are also the key component of their command and control infrastructure inside Gaza.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Hamas’s political and military commanders are hiding in them. The reinforced bunkers and tunnel complexes enable Hamas’s senior leadership to move with relative freedom and continue planning and ordering attacks.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The sophistication of the tunnels and the malign intentions of Hamas are not in the least surprising.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">But Hamas’s rapid advances in both tunnel and missile technology are deeply worrisome. At a minimum, they indicate that if it is allowed to end the current round of fighting as a coherent, relatively well-armed terrorist army, Hamas will be able to rapidly rebuild and expand its capabilities.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas is not a stand-alone terror group. It is part of a much larger web of Islamic jihadist terror groups including al-Qaida and its affiliates as well as the Shi’ite Hezbollah. Like Hamas, all of these threaten several major Sunni Arab states.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Due to their recognition of the threat Hamas and its allies pose to the survivability of their regimes, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have taken the unprecedented step of supporting Israel’s efforts to defeat Hamas.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">They understand that a decisive Israeli blow against Hamas in Gaza will directly benefit them. Not only will Hamas be weakened, but its state sponsors and terrorist comrades will be weakened as well.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Presently, Hamas’s most outspoken state sponsors are Qatar and Turkey.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As Israel’s Calcalist newspaper reported earlier this week, Qatar is Hamas’s biggest and most important financier, a role it plays as well for ISIS, al Nusra, the Muslim Brotherhood and various jihadist groups in Libya.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Turkey for its part is aligned with the Muslim Brotherhood.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Like Qatar, Turkey has also been a major supporter of ISIS and al Nusra, as well as Hamas. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s slander against Israel has grown so hysterical in recent weeks that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who has been trying to downplay Turkey’s animosity, called him out on his open anti-Semitism.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">By Tuesday morning, IDF forces in Gaza had destroyed 23 tunnels. The number of additional tunnels is still unknown.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">While Israel had killed 183 terrorists, it appeared that most of the terrorists killed were in the low to middle ranks of Hamas’s leadership hierarchy.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Hamas’s senior commanders, as well as its political leadership have hunkered down in hidden tunnel complexes.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In other words, Israel is making good progress.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">But it hasn’t completed its missions. It needs several more days of hard fighting.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Recognizing this, Israel’s newfound Muslim allies have not been pushing for a cease-fire.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In contrast, the Obama administration is insisting on concluding a cease-fire immediately.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As Israel has uncovered the scope of Hamas’s infrastructure of murder and terror, the US has acted with the UN, Turkey and Qatar to pressure Israel (and Egypt) to agree to a cease-fire and so end IDF operations against Hamas before the mission is completed.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">To advance this goal, US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Cairo on Monday night with an aggressive plan to force on Israel a cease-fire Hamas and its state sponsors will accept.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As former ambassador to the US Michael Oren told the media, it is clear that neither Israel nor Egypt invited Kerry to come over. Their avoidance of Kerry signals clearly that the US’s two most important allies in the Middle East do not trust US President Barack Obama’s intentions.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">And their distrust is entirely reasonable.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The State Department has openly applauded Turkey and Qatar for their involvement in attempts to achieve a cease-fire. Last week Israeli officials alleged that the US was responsible for Hamas’s rejection of the Egyptian cease-fire proposal. By attempting to coerce Egypt to accept Qatar and Turkey as its partners in mediation, Obama signaled to Hamas’s leaders that they should hold out for a better deal.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Due to Turkey’s membership in NATO and the glamour of the Qatari royal family, many Westerners find it hard to believe that they are major sponsors of terrorism. But it is true. Turkey and Qatar are playing a double game.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">While sending his ambassador to Brussels for NATO meetings, Erdogan has been transforming Turkey from an open, pro-Western society allied with Israel into a closed, anti-Semitic and anti-American society that sponsors Hamas, ISIL, al Nusra and other terrorists groups.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As for Qatar, the tiny natural gas superpower presents itself to Americans as their greatest ally in the Muslim world. The emirate gives hundreds of millions of dollars to US universities to open campuses in Doha and pretends it is a progressive, open society, replete with debating societies.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Qatar hosts three major US military bases on its territory. And it is becoming one of the most important clients for US military contractors. Earlier this year Qatar signed an $11.4 billion dollar arms agreement with the US.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">At the same time, according to the Calacalist report, Qatar is the major bankroller of ISIS and al Nusra in Syria and Iraq. It gives $50 million a month to jihadists in Libya. It gives Hamas $100m. in annual aid. And in the past two years Doha has provided Hamas with an additional $620m. dollars, including $250m. it transferred to Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal’s personal bank account, and $350m. in military aid to Hamas, transferred after the Egyptian military forced the Muslim Brotherhood government from power last July.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Add to that the $100m. per year that Qatar pours into Al Jazeera’s satellite network – which has dedicated itself to undermining pro-Western Arab regimes while popularizing the likes of al-Qaida and Hamas, and Qatar is the largest financier of international jihad in the world.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Rather than notice that Qatar and Turkey are playing a double game, and treat them with suspicion, the Obama administration has embraced them.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Chances that Kerry will secure a cease-fire in the near future are small. In all likelihood, the government will be able to buy the time necessary to complete the mission in whole or large part. But the fact that the US has chosen at this juncture in the operation – with Israel enjoying unprecedented support from the most important Sunni states in the region – to side with Hamas and its state sponsors in their demand for an immediate cease-fire speaks volumes about the transformation of US foreign policy under Obama’s leadership.</span></p>
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		<title>Hillary Clinton Suggests Hamas Backer Mediate Between Israel and Hamas</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2014 20:29:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Qatar isn't just Hamas' lifeline. It's also Hillary's lifeline.]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://freebeacon.com/national-security/hillary-qatar-could-mediate-peace-process-between-israel-and-hamas/">It was either that or Iran</a>. And Iran has bought fewer Western politicians than Qatar.</p>
<blockquote><p>Clinton, during an interview with Charlie Rose, touted Qatar as a country that could play a constructive role in arbitrating peace between Hamas and Israel.</p>
<p>Qatar, which has served as Hamas’ chief financial lifeline, keeping the group afloat and facilitating its arms buildup, could convince Hamas to stop trying to kill Israeli citizens, Clinton claimed.</p></blockquote>
<p>Qatar isn&#8217;t just Hamas&#8217; lifeline. It&#8217;s also Hillary&#8217;s lifeline.</p>
<blockquote><p>The Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton Foundation has received between $1 million and $5 million from the government of Qatar.</p></blockquote>
<p>But Qatar doesn&#8217;t just limit itself to supporting Hamas.<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=129838"> It also supports Al Qaeda</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>American officials say the FBI and CIA just missed capturing the al Qaeda leader believed to have organized the 9/11 attacks — and now believed to be planning a new attack against Americans — because it appears he was protected and tipped off by a member of the royal family in Qatar, Abdullah Bin Khalid al-Thani.</p></blockquote>
<p>So Obama used Qatar to mediate with the Taliban which is how we got back one traitor for a bunch of top terrorists. Hillary is doubling down on mediation using a state sponsor of terrorism.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s a little preview of Hillary&#8217;s foreign policy on Israel.</p>
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		<title>Al Jazeera &#8220;Journalists&#8221; are Employees of State Sponsored Terror</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2014 16:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Al Jazeera employees are being treated like enemy agents because that's what they are.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_234710" style="width: 410px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/6a013487f321e0970c01538dec8e69970b.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-234710" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/6a013487f321e0970c01538dec8e69970b.jpg" alt="Overthrowing governments on behalf of this guy can end badly... who knew" width="400" height="250" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Overthrowing governments on behalf of this guy can end badly&#8230; who knew</p></div>
<p>Too many people have spent the last few years pretending to take Al Jazeera seriously as a media outlet. It&#8217;s not. Its employees are no more journalists than those of RT or Xinhua or the Soviet era Pravda.</p>
<p>Al Jazeera is a mouthpiece for Qatar, a tyrannical state that is notorious for sponsoring terrorists and had links to the attacks of September 11. Like the Saudis, Qatar is officially an ally. Unofficially it&#8217;s a state sponsor of terror.</p>
<p>In Egypt, Qatar helped the Muslim Brotherhood take over and cut all sorts of dirty deals with Morsi meant to turn Egypt into a puppet of the Al-Thanis. Al Jazeera was a key player in both the overthrow of the Egyptian government and in protecting the Morsi regime.</p>
<p>Yusuf Al-Qaradawi the Brotherhood&#8217;s homicidal preacher, appears on Al Jazeera from his hole in Qatar, delivering increasingly deranged rants.</p>
<p>So yes, to no one&#8217;s surprise, the new Egyptian government has thrown the book at Al Jazeera. Their employees are not journalists and anyone calling them that is being willfully dishonest.</p>
<p>Al Jazeera is not a media outlet. It&#8217;s a projection of state power by Qatar. If you participate in a political takeover of one country by another, you can expect to suffer the consequences if you&#8217;re stupid enough to stick around when the Egyptians take back their country.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s a vast gulf of difference between a CNN reporter and an Al Jazeera reporter. CNN doesn&#8217;t work for the US government.</p>
<p>Al Jazeera employees are agents of a hostile regime. They&#8217;re being treated like enemy agents because that&#8217;s what they are.</p>
<p>The new Egyptian government is not remotely tolerant of dissent, but neither was the Morsi regime that Al Jazeera fought to protect.</p>
<p>There is no reason whatsoever to have sympathy for advocates of one totalitarian regime being persecuted by another.</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2014 02:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama is hugging a regime that the Saudis think is too extreme.]]></description>
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<p>Obama Inc. keeps insisting that Qatar could be trusted when it was already concluded by the 9/11 Commission that the Islamist tyranny had ties to the attack on the United States.</p>
<p>Since then Qatar has become so out of control in its backing of Jihadists that it has been disavowed by Saudi Arabia and the UAE, but that just made Obama embrace it even harder.</p>
<p>Consider this. Obama is hugging a regime that the Saudis think is too extreme. That&#8217;s how bad things are. <a href="http://nypost.com/2014/06/08/how-the-taliban-got-their-hands-on-modern-us-missiles/">This latest revelation is no surprise at all. </a></p>
<p>The<a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/obama-administration-oversaw-arms-shipments-to-al-qaeda-in-libya/"> New York Times had already</a> let slip that even Obama Inc. was uncomfortable with whom the Qataris were arming.</p>
<blockquote><p>Within weeks of endorsing Qatar’s plan to send weapons there in spring 2011, the White House began receiving reports that they were going to Islamic militant groups. They were “more antidemocratic, more hard-line, closer to an extreme version of Islam” than the main rebel alliance in Libya, said a former Defense Department official.</p></blockquote>
<p>It&#8217;s called plausible deniability. <a href="http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=238865">Now we know what was being</a> denied.</p>
<blockquote><p>The Obama administration isn’t only giving the Taliban back its commanders — it’s giving them weapons.</p>
<p>Miliary records and sources reveal that on July 25, 2012, Taliban fighters in Kunar province successfully targeted a US Army CH-47 helicopter with a new generation Stinger missile.</p>
<p>The next day, an explosive ordnance disposal team arrived to pick through the wreckage and found unexploded pieces of a missile casing that could only belong to a Stinger missile.</p>
<p>Lodged in the right nacelle, they found one fragment that contained an entire serial number.</p>
<p>My sources in the US Special Operations community believe the Stinger fired against the Chinook was part of the same lot the CIA turned over to the ­Qataris in early 2011, weapons Hillary Rodham Clinton’s State Department intended for anti-Khadafy forces in Libya.</p>
<p>They believe the Qataris delivered between 50 and 60 of those same Stingers to the Taliban in early 2012, and an additional 200 SA-24 Igla-S surface-to-air missiles.</p>
<p>Qatar now is expected to hold five Taliban commanders released from Guantanamo for a year before allowing them to go to Afghanistan.</p></blockquote>
<p>Just to give you a sense of Kenneth Timmerman&#8217;s qualifications for writing about the subject&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>In the early 1980s, Timmerman became a Middle East correspondent for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and developed an expertise in the Middle East and the arms trade.</p>
<p>From 1985 to 1987, Timmerman was a correspondent for Defense and Armament Newsweek and Military Technology, covering the Iran–Iraq War and the arms industry in the Middle East.</p>
<p>From 1987 to 1993, Timmerman published the Middle East Defense News and was international correspondent for Defense Electronics.</p>
<p>In 1991, Timmerman published The Death Lobby: How the West Armed Iraq after the Gulf War. Timmerman advised the United Nations Special Commission for the Disarmament of Iraq on the location of weapons plants.</p>
<p>In 1998, he wrote a piece on Osama Bin Laden and his training camps in Afghanistan just before Al-Qaeda attacked two US embassies in Africa.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Filipino Pastors Tortured, Sentenced to Death in Muslim Qatar</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2014 18:04:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Qatar is the totalitarian state behind Al Jazeera. ]]></description>
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<p>Qatar is the totalitarian state behind Al Jazeera. It is closely entangled with Al Qaeda and other Islamic terrorist groups which is why Obama used it to arrange the Bergdahl deal.</p>
<p>This story is also a reminder of why non-Muslims and foreigners should be wary of<a href="http://injusticeinqatar.wordpress.com/"> traveling to Qatar</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>The ambassador of the Philippines to Qatar told Al Arabiya News on Friday that there are allegations of torture against three Filipinos being held in the Gulf state on espionage charges.</p>
<p>One man was sentenced to death and two to life in in prison this week after they were indicted of leaking information that could threaten the tiny rich state’s national security.</p>
<p>“All allegations of torture were relayed to Qatari officials, such as the Minister of Interior, the Attorney General and the Chairman of the National Human Rights Committee, all of whom promised to look into the matter,” the ambassador said.</p>
<p>He noted that the torture allegations were also raised in the lower court by the defense lawyer, “who argued that, in view of torture, their confessions were obtained involuntarily.”</p>
<p>“However, the court did not appreciate said fact,” Ambassador Relacion said.</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/global-filipino/05/26/14/families-pinoys-accused-spying-qatar-seek-help">According to the Qatari authorities</a>, the Filipino pastors were spying on its military. Considering that that the Philippines and Qatar don&#8217;t exactly share a border or common military concerns and that Qatar&#8217;s military largely consists of princelings smuggling American weapons to Jihadists, <a href="http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/362350/pinoyabroad/news/pinoy-sentenced-to-death-in-qatar-for-espionage-economic-sabotage">that&#8217;s not a terribly convincing claim</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>The Doha News said the three were charged of providing information “to intelligence officials in the Philippines about Qatar’s aircrafts, weaponry, maintenance and servicing records, as well as specific details about the names, ranks and phone numbers of staff members.”</p>
<p>The main defendant, the report said, allegedly received millions of riyals in exchange for spying services.</p>
<p>“He’s also alleged to have provided maps, internal reports and classified information about the Qatari Air Force base to Filipino officials, as well as recruiting the other two defendants, who worked in the engineering department of the first man’s company and were technicians at the air force base,” the report said.</p></blockquote>
<p>This is the type of information that the UAE or the Saudis might be interested, not the Philippines.</p>
<p>So what is this really about? There are two intersecting possibilities.</p>
<blockquote><p>The 3 Filipinos are pastors at a born-again church in Qatar.</p>
<p>According to 3 pastors of the church&#8217;s affiliate in the Philippines, they were also arrested with the 3 Filipinos in Qatar in 2010.</p>
<p>The pastors said there was a change in administration at Qatar Petroleum, and an investigation was being done. Since the Filipinos were close to the head of the company, who was about to be removed, they were also investigated.</p>
<p>According to the pastors, other members of the born-again church also experienced torture during interrorgation.</p></blockquote>
<p>Qatar, like every totalitarian petrostate, is notoriously corrupt and its princelings blame their crimes on foreigners. It certainly didn&#8217;t help that the foreigners were <a href="http://www.pinoy-ofw.com/news/1526-nine-filipinos-detained-in-qatar.html">not only Christians, but pastors</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Six of the detained Filipinos are bona-fide members of The Lord’s Hand Ministries, established in the Philippines in 1993 with principal church-office at 14 T. Concepcion Street, Marulas Valenzuela City, with satellites and churches in several cities, provinces and abroad, including one in Doha, Qatar.</p>
<p>Apilado went to Doha, Qatar, on March 5 for the purpose of visiting the church in Doha, to hold church trainings and to celebrate the anniversary of the church. He was also there to give spiritual-moral support and to encourage one of the church leaders, Abdallah Yousef Chua, who was so discouraged at that time owing to company-related problems.</p>
<p>According to the witnesses, on the dawn of March 28, between 1 and 2 a.m., people who identified themselves as Doha policemen barged in by destroying the front door of the villa where Apilado and other members of the church were staying.</p>
<p>The men arrested Chua, Domel Perez and Apilado. The detailed report of the incident was submitted immediately by their families to the Philippine Embassy to Qatar.</p>
<p>The three were allegedly detained in a safe house for almost a month. After the three’s arrest, other Filipinos were also picked up on different occasions for questioning and were likewise detained. The other Filipinos who were arrested include Ronald Ulep, Rafael Alamares, Renie Magcosta, Abner Penaranda, Boyet Salvosa and a certain Ibrahim.</p></blockquote>
<p>Chua was apparently a Muslim who converted to Christianity. He was not a Qatari, but his presence was a likely lightning rod.</p>
<p>Qatar is PR savvy enough not to hold a blasphemy trial, but it just does the same thing under the guise of national security.</p>
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		<title>Qatar Bought 2022 World Cup for $5 Million in Bribes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2014 17:47:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Qatar's Al Jazeera however insists that they did nothing wrong. ]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://www.dw.de/british-newspaper-the-sunday-times-alleges-corruption-in-qatari-world-cup-bid/a-17675014">How much does it cost an Islamic tyranny</a> linked to terrorists to buy a World Cup? It&#8217;s <a href="http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/uk_news/fifa/article1417325.ece">a bargain at a mere $5 million </a>FIFA officials are even cheaper than Olympic officials.</p>
<blockquote><p>In the investigation by The Sunday Times, the newspaper claims to have obtained millions of secret documents from a Fifa insider that prove Mohamed Bin Hammam made payments totalling $US5 million to football officials in return for support of Qatar&#8217;s 2022 World Cup bid.</p>
<p>Bin Hammam made dozens of payments of up to $200,000 (147,000 euros) to top football officials to secure votes for Qatar. He allegedly deposited the money through slush funds into accounts controlled by the presidents of 30 African football associations. He also allegedly hosted lavish events for African officials where he also handed out almost $400,000 in cash.</p>
<p>Bin Hammam resigned from his post in 2012 after being caught up in a corruption scandal surrounding his failed campaign for FIFA presidency in 2011.</p>
<p>The newspaper also accused Bin Hammam of funneling more than $1.6 million into bank accounts controlled by Jack Warner, the former vice-president of FIFA, $450,000 of which was paid before the vote for the World Cup, the Sunday Times said.</p>
<p>Warner resigned in 2011 to avoid investigation in a bribery scandal linked to Bin Hammam&#8217;s campaign for FIFA president. Warner was one of 22 people who awarded the 2018 World Cup to Russia and the 2022 tournament to Qatar.</p>
<p>Warner denies these claims saying that they are” baseless allegations based on innuendoes” and said the money he received from Bin Hammam was to help with losses he suffered during an earthquake in China.</p>
<p>The paper also alleges it has documents which prove Bin Hammam paid 305,000 euros ($446,959) to cover Oceania&#8217;s FIFA executive committee member Reynald Temarii&#8217;s legal expenses.</p>
<p>Temarii, from Tahiti, was unable to vote in the contest as he had already been suspended by Fifa after he was caught out by a Sunday Times sting asking bogus American bid officials for money in return for his support.</p></blockquote>
<p>Qatar&#8217;s Al Jazeera however insists that they did nothing wrong. Even if this forces a revote that goes against Qatar, the same practices will keep being implemented.</p>
<p>A few thousand workers may not die building up the infrastructure for the World Cup, but they&#8217;ll die for some other event that Qatar lures in. Qatar&#8217;s regime is rolling in money and it buys and corrupts anyone it wants.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s how it got Al Jazeera launched as a cable channel in the US. If it can  buy a former Vice President, is there anyone it can&#8217;t buy?</p>
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		<title>Islamic Tyranny w/122 Degree Temps Warns Female Soccer Cup Tourists not to Wear Shorts or Sleeveless Dresses</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2014 17:07:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Such foreigner behaviour conflicts with our traditions.”]]></description>
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<p>World Cup 2022 in Qatar, an Islamist tyranny mainly known for funding Al Jazeera and Al Qaeda, is going swimmingly.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/900-workers-already-dead-in-islamist-tyrannys-world-cup-construction/"> Hundreds if not thousands of workers are already dea</a>d, which is not surprising since the working conditions are technically slavery and<a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/soccer-president-admits-bringing-world-cup-to-islamist-country-w122-degree-temperatures-was-a-mistake/"> the weather has been known to hit</a> 122 degrees Fahrenheit and 50 degrees Celsius.</p>
<p>So now is the perfect time for Qatar to unveil its dress code for female tourists. It&#8217;s trying to pass it off as a &#8220;grass roots&#8221; campaign by female Qataris when it obviously hired some high-priced Western PR help to get this done.</p>
<p>All the &#8220;reflect your respect&#8221; (clearly a UK based agency) and &#8220;part of us&#8221; and &#8220;culture&#8221; language is however just a Hijab and underneath it <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/05/leggings-are-not-pants-qatar-warns-tourists">is another totalitarian Islamic state</a>.</p>
<p>A totalitarian state with 122 degree weather telling tourists they have to dress to Islamic norms. All the heatstroke cases are part of the &#8220;cultural&#8221; package.</p>
<blockquote><p>Wondering what to pack for your trip to Qatar? The authorities have these tips.</p>
<p>Qatar has launched a social media campaign urging tourists to dress “modestly” in public and respect the Islamic country’s values.</p>
<p>Along with a Twitter and Instagram account, “reflect your respect” leaflets are being handed out with diagrams of what is and is not acceptable.</p>
<p>“The amount of immodest clothing is growing in public places, especially shopping malls. Such foreigner behaviour conflicts with our traditions,” Nasser Al Maliki, the centre’s public relations chief told Gulf News.</p>
<p>Short dresses, sleeveless clothing and crop tops are banned for women, while men are also told not to wear shorts</p>
<p>“It is expected that you wear decent clothes and women should avoid wearing any garments that are too tight; too short or translucent such as mini-skirts or sleeveless dresses,” the Culture centre says.</p></blockquote>
<p>The problem is that Muslims want to have it both ways. They want Westerners to dress like them when they visit their countries, but they insist on their right to wear Burkas, Hijabs and other offensive Taliban clothing in Western jobs. And will sue companies that tell them that they can&#8217;t.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s Islamic Supremacist hypocrisy and it&#8217;s why Muslim settlers in the West are not integrating into their host societies.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s no equality in Islam. Muslims are determined have it their way in every setting. And that&#8217;s Supremacism.</p>
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		<title>Soccer President Admits World Cup in Islamist Country w/122 Degree Temperatures a Mistake</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2014 13:04:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[3,000 foreign workers will die in Qatar]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_225748" style="width: 460px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/107247362-1-522x293.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-225748" alt="FIFA World Cup 2018 &amp; 2022 Host Countries Announced" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/107247362-1-522x293-450x252.jpg" width="450" height="252" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">&#8220;Mine, mine, mine!&#8221;</p></div>
<p>Who knew holding the World Cup in Islamist hell would be a bad idea?</p>
<p>Some mistakes are minor. Others are really big. It&#8217;s estimated that as many as 3,000 foreign workers will die in Qatar working in preparation for the totalitarian Islamist country&#8217;s big event. Most of the workers who have died already, died of heart attacks.</p>
<p>And they probably won&#8217;t be the only ones because aside from being an Islamic dictatorship that sponsors terrorism, <a href="http://blazingcatfur.blogspot.ca/2014/05/sepp-blatter-fifa-made-mistake-awarding.html">Qatar is also really hot</a>.</p>
<p>Blatter had earlier suggested that gay people just shouldn&#8217;t do gay stuff, which is illegal under Islamic law. Maybe now he can propose that everyone just learn not to sweat.</p>
<blockquote><p>The temperature in Qatar between May and September ranges between 30°-50°C (86°-122°F) with humidity of 90%.</p>
<p>FIFA president Sepp Blatter has admitted that it was “a mistake” to choose Qatar to host the 2022 World Cup.</p>
<p>Blatter said that the technical report into Qatar’s bid had warned that it was too hot but despite that, FIFA’s executive committee had voted for the Middle Eastern country.</p></blockquote>
<p>I wonder why they voted for the parent dictatorship of Al Jazeera whose influence abroad is extensive through its investments.</p>
<blockquote><p>But<a href="http://news.sky.com/story/1262738/fifa-head-qatar-summer-world-cup-a-mistake"> Mr Blatter insisted Qatar </a>had not &#8220;bought&#8221; the World Cup: &#8220;No. I will never say they bought it,&#8221; he said.</p></blockquote>
<p>Euphemism noted.</p>
<blockquote><p>A statement claimed: &#8216;As explained in his answer to the journalist, the president reiterated that the decision to organise the World Cup in summer was an &#8220;error&#8221; based on the technical assessment report of the bid, which had highlighted the extremely hot temperatures in summer in Qatar.</p></blockquote>
<p>So FIFA couldn&#8217;t spend 5 minutes on Google to check temperatures. Clearly the research here was of the first caliber.</p>
<blockquote><p>In an interview with the Swiss television channel RTS Mr Blatter said: &#8220;We made a mistake. A mistake. You know we make lots of mistakes in life.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Really, really big mistakes. But nothing will be canceled&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>However, despite his admission, the FIFA chief will not change the World Cup’s destination, instead he will force through plans to run the 2022 tournament during the Qatari winter.</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2625217/French-FIFA-candidate-threatens-strip-Qatar-2022-World-Cup-succeeds-Blatter.html">Good luck with that becaus</a>e&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>The Frenchman who could follow Sepp Blatter as the most powerful figure in world football has promised that he will consider stripping Qatar of the 2022 World Cup if elected as the next FIFA president.</p>
<p>Frenchman Jerome Champagne, 55, a former diplomat and a long-serving senior FIFA insider until 2010, is the only person yet to make a formal declaration of candidacy for the presidential race next May.</p></blockquote>
<p>Time for the Islamic tyranny to start spending a lot more money or its attempt at buying the World Cup will be as much of a failure as Al Jazeera America.</p>
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		<title>Dubai Police Chief Declares Qatar Part of UAE</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2014 13:26:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[General Dahi Khalfan demanded his country “reclaim” Qatar.]]></description>
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<p>I would say this is an interesting development if Khalfan weren&#8217;t a notorious clown. You might remember him as the guy constantly on television &#8220;investigating&#8221; the supposed Israeli assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh.</p>
<p>Since then Khalfan has been aggressively challenging the Muslim Brotherhood and its Qatari backers, but this might be a step too far. Not that it would be a bad thing, but <a href="http://www.thetower.org/0094-leading-dubai-official-calls-qatar-part-of-the-uae/">I have trouble taking the idea seriously</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Tensions among members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have been further aggravated, when a top Dubai security official, General Dahi Khalfan stated that Qatar was the “eighth emirate” of the United Arab Emirates (UAE).</p>
<p>Last month Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the UAE withdrew their ambassadors from Qatar for “for interfering in other countries’ internal affairs.”</p>
<p>Qatar is an integral part of the UAE,” the outspoken Khalfan, a longtime critic of the Doha-backed Muslim Brotherhood, wrote on Twitter on Monday, demanding his country “reclaim” Qatar.</p>
<p>“We must put up signs on our borders with Qatar stating: ‘You are now entering the UAE’s eighth emirate,’” said Khalfan.</p></blockquote>
<p>Even Khalfan isn&#8217;t really talking about doing anything, but laying a meaningless territorial claim. Still it does show how much Qatar has infuriated its neighborhoods with its embrace of the Muslim Brotherhood.</p>
<p>The concluding unreported Tweet from Khalfan is that “Qatar should not be ‘a safe haven’ to the so-called ‘Muslim’ Brotherhood.”</p>
<p>Then, feeling bored, <a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/middle-east/10574-dubai-police-chief-accuses-kuwait-of-destroying-iraq">Khalfan decided to get into a Twitter</a> fight with Kuwait.</p>
<blockquote><p>The Dubai Chief of Police, Dhahi Khalfan, has accused the Gulf States, and especially Kuwait, of destroying Iraq, saying Kuwait&#8217;s unprecedented retaliation against former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein&#8217;s invasion of Kuwait left nearly a million Iraqi orphans.</p>
<p>On his personal Twitter account, Khalfan praised Hussein, saying: &#8220;Saddam, son of Iraq, stood in front of the gallows as a man who defeated all his opponents and showed respectable courage.&#8221;</p>
<p>This is Khalfan&#8217;s second verbal attack against Kuwait within a month. Previously, he had accused the state of funding the Muslim Brotherhood, leading some liberals to accuse him of McCarthyism, or making accusations of treason without proper regard for evidence.</p></blockquote>
<p>So Middle Eastern politics as usual.</p>
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		<title>900 Workers Already Dead in Islamist Tyranny&#8217;s World Cup Construction</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>Even the Saudis don&#8217;t want to have anything to do with Qatar. Hated in Egypt, despised in Dubai, the vicious Qatari Islamist tyranny that supports terror worldwide is still the toast of Europe for its hefty purses.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s why the soccer World Cup is coming to Qatar in 2022, <a href="http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/over-900-workers-have-already-died-building-qatars-world-cup-facilities-180950088/?no-ist">no matter how many bodies it takes</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>In 2022, Qatar will host the World Cup. The host city has already made some waves with its stadium shaped like a certain body part. But what you might not know is that, since 2012, about 900 workers have died while working on infrastructure in Qatar, in a building boom anticipating the World Cup.</p>
<p>Last month, the Guardian reported that over 400 Nepalese migrant workers had already died at building sites. Between 2010 and 2012 more than 700 workers from India lost their lives working on construction sites in Qatar, too. A report by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) says that if conditions don’t get any better, by the time the World Cup kicks off, at least 4,000 migrant workers will have died on the job.</p>
<p>For comparison, 25 construction workers died during the preparations for Sochi.</p></blockquote>
<p>It really says something when working conditions in Russia are wildly better than in your terrorist oil tyranny.</p>
<blockquote><p>Workers described forced labor in 50C (122F) heat, employers who retain salaries for several months and passports making it impossible for them to leave and being denied free drinking water. The investigation found sickness is endemic among workers living in overcrowded and insanitary conditions and hunger has been reported. Thirty Nepalese construction workers took refuge in the their country&#8217;s embassy and subsequently left the country, after they claimed they received no pay.</p>
<p>According to the ITUC, there are already 1.2 million migrant workers in Qatar, and about a million more will probably pour into the country to help with construction. These are essentially slaves.</p></blockquote>
<p>Saudi Arabia and the rest of the Gulfies replaced their old system of slavery in the sixties with migrant worker slavery.</p>
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