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		<title>Sanction Relief Empowering the Mullahs, Not Citizens</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2014 05:10:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Majid Rafizadeh]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A year later, the verdict is in on Obama's dirty deal with Iran. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/iran_2677161b.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-248111" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/iran_2677161b-450x350.jpg" alt="iran_2677161b" width="319" height="248" /></a>There has always been an argument claiming that economic sanctions normally do not yield any result due to the notion that economic sanctions do not target the ruling elite and governmental official, but the ordinary people. This argument is partially accurate.</p>
<p>Nevertheless, we need to remember that some targeted economic sanctions against the Islamic Republic (particularly the sanctions in oil and gas sectors and financial and bank institutions) did endanger the hold on power of the ruling cleric in Iran, particularly the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. That was the primary reason behind pushing the Iranian politicians to come to the negotiation table in nuclear talks.</p>
<p>On the other hand, the other side of the argument is that if economic sanctions are lifted, the major beneficiaries would be the ordinary people and the civilians. This argument would be accurate if the political and economic system of the given state is democratic, allows open opportunities for all, encourages the private sector, allows transparency, and holds those corrupt officials who commit illegal economic dealings accountable.</p>
<p>The Iranian political and economic system is devoid of the aforementioned standards. In fact, in states which the political system is mainly authoritarian or theocratic, and the economic system is monopolized by few people at top and is state controlled, any increase of wealth or flow of money will inevitably strengthening the ruling elite rather than the ordinary people.</p>
<p>To substantiate this argument, let us take a look on the ground in the Islamic Republic after the sanctions relief.</p>
<p>At the beginning, a majority of Iranian people were hoping that economic sanctions relief would alleviate their suffering, improve their standards of living, and push many families above the poverty line. Almost a year has passed since the Iranian government has been receiving sanctions relief.</p>
<p>After the interim nuclear deal and extension of the negotiations between the six world powers (known as the P5+1: China, France, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States) and the Islamic Republic, the Iranian government had received an estimated $7 billion.  Iran continues to receive approximately $700 million every month under the extension deal.</p>
<p>In addition, there has been some sanction suspension with respects to some of Iran’s major industries, including Iran’s auto sector, gold and precious metals, as well as Iran’s petrochemical exports. The Iranian currency, the rial, has appreciated due to the sanctions relief, Iran’s oil and non-oil exports have <a href="http://ameinfo.com/blog/finance-and-economy/irans-non-oil-exports-increase-28-per-cent/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">increased</span></a>, its economy is showing signs of stabilization, Tehran’s stock exchange has soared and Iran’s exports and business dealings with several countries have ratcheted up.</p>
<p>The suspension of sanctions has definitely given both psychological and financial support to the Iranian government.  But the real question is how this money is being spent and which institutions benefit primarily from this sanctions relief. Are ordinary people benefiting from these sanctions relief and flow of money?</p>
<p>Nevertheless, some Iranian civilians have begun to believe that even economic sanctions relief or even the lifting of the whole economic sanctions regime from the Iranian government are not going to assist civilians, their financial day-to-day activities, or bring concrete changes on the ground.</p>
<p>Four major institutions are benefiting mostly from the economic sanctions relief: Iran’s military-industrial complex, the Office of the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, a few top business figures who are connected with the government, and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), through either legal and <a href="http://www.iranfocus.com/en/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=20355:irgcs-dominance-over-irans-politics-and-economy--part-1&amp;catid=29&amp;Itemid=121"><span style="color: #0433ff;">illegal</span></a> imports and exports.</p>
<p>For example, the IRGC controls and owns a considerable amount of shares in the aforementioned industries which have witnessed sanctions relief. In the petrochemical industry, The IRGC military-industrial complex <a href="http://www.iranfocus.com/en/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=20355:irgcs-dominance-over-irans-politics-and-economy--part-1&amp;catid=29&amp;Itemid=121"><span style="color: #0433ff;">owns</span></a> Zagros Petrochemicals; 40% of Pars Petrochemical Company, part of Arak Petrochemicals; 25% of Kermanshah Petrochemicals; as well as 19% of the shares of Maroun Petrochemicals.</p>
<p>This phenomenon of the monopolization of the economy applies in other sectors of Iran’s economy as well.  When it comes to Iran’s economic system, the Supreme Leader and IRGC do have a considerable amount of control and shares in almost all industries <a href="http://www.iranfocus.com/en/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=20355:irgcs-dominance-over-irans-politics-and-economy--part-1&amp;catid=29&amp;Itemid=121"><span style="color: #0433ff;">including</span></a> financial institutions and banks, the transportation industry, automobile manufacturing, mining, commerce, and oil and gas sectors.</p>
<p>As a result, these types of sanctions relief will mostly benefit the ruling elite, primarily the Supreme Leader and Iran’s military-industrial complex, IRGC. Iranian people will hardly observe any benefits from this economic sanctions relief or lifting of economic sanctions.</p>
<p>It appears that the easing of sanctions are strengthening the ruling elite without any sign of redistribution of wealth. This is predominantly due to the fact Iran’s economic system is a state and military controlled system, it lacks transparency, as well as the reality that it is crippled with <a href="http://www.rferl.org/content/article/1144661.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">widespread corruption</span></a> by the ruling elite and few on top.</p>
<p>If the intention of economic sanctions relief is to assist the Iranian people and alleviate their suffering, there ought to be more efficient approaches to develop some types of targeted sanctions relief (for example, being directed at Iran’s educational system, health care, etc.) which aim at empowering Iranian civilians and primarily the middle class.</p>
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		<title>The Arabs&#8217; Betrayal of the Palestinians</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 04:25:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Puder]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why the Palestinians' biggest supporters refuse to pay the millions of dollars they pledged.  ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/joseph-puder/why-the-arab-states-have-failed-the-palestinians/picture-3-41/" rel="attachment wp-att-173300"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-173300" title="Picture 3" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Picture-3-450x323.png" alt="" width="270" height="194" /></a>At least one Palestinian leader is honest enough to blame his &#8220;brotherly&#8221; Arab states for the cash crisis faced by the Palestinian Authority (PA) in Ramallah.  PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, in an interview with the <a href="http://bigstory.ap.org/article/ap-interview-palestinian-pm-blasts-arab-donors">Associated Press</a> on Sunday, January 6, 2013 complained of an immense financial crisis in the PA, largely due to the Arab countries&#8217; failure to dispatch promised millions of dollars in aid.  Ironically, it is the Jewish state of Israel that the Palestinians regularly vilify and seek to destroy, which hitherto, provided the financial wherewithal to the PA by transferring $100 million in tax rebates to Ramallah, an amount that covers a third of the PA monthly operating costs.</p>
<p>On November 29, 2012, the U.N. General Assembly upgraded the Palestinian status to non-member observer state, and last week the U.N. changed the way it refers to Palestinians from merely being “Palestine” to the “State of Palestine.”  Israel hoped to negotiate in good faith with the Palestinian Authority and its President, Mahmoud Abbas, but the Palestinians circumvented the peace process by going directly to the U.N. in defiance of the Obama administration and Israel. That resulted in Israel cutting off subventions of $100 million to the PA coffers.  The Israeli government withheld the money to settle the PA debt to Israeli companies.</p>
<p>Mahmoud Abbas, not content with changing how the U.N. now refers to Palestine, has ordered the words “Palestinian Authority,” the current operative designation, to be changed to the “<a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4329200,00.html">State of Palestine</a>” on all public documents in Palestinian-controlled areas, including ID cards, driver licenses, and passports.</p>
<p>While Abbas is busy with conferring new titles on his PA, his Prime Minister Salam Fayyad has to deal with the PA insolvency.  The 22-nation Arab League promised to make up the funds Israel cut off in December.  Mohammed Sobeih, an Arab League official, claimed that letters have gone out to individual member states, urging them to pay the promised $100 million.  Fayyad, however, contended that PA financial problems rest with the delinquent Arab donors who failed to fulfill their pledge of support in accordance with Arab League resolutions.  Fayyad made it clear that the EU and the U.S. have delivered on their commitments to the Palestinians, but he accuses the Arab states of not meeting their pledges.</p>
<p>The Arab states have stuck to the familiar rhetoric of Western responsibility for the Palestinian plight, and therefore the West should pay for the Palestinian Authority upkeep as well as the Palestinian Arab refugees cared for by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA).  In fact, it was the Palestinian leadership and leaders of Arab states that encouraged the Palestinian plight in 1948, and are largely responsible for the Palestinian refugee problem.  The Arab states moreover, refused to absorb the Palestinians, and have used them for propaganda purposes.  Kuwait has expelled 450,000 Palestinians in the aftermath of the 1991 Gulf War, while Egypt, Lebanon, and Syria have refrained from giving the Palestinians citizenship.  It is the same Arab states who have encouraged the Palestinians to resist accommodation with the Jewish State, and gave lip-service to the Palestinian cause, while they fall short on deeds when it comes to helping the Palestinians.</p>
<p>The Washington Institute for Near East Policy <a href="http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/supporting-the-palestinian-authority-will-the-oil-rich-arabs-pay-up">2005 report</a> revealed that “Arab states pledged $999 million in aid for 2004, of which $572 million was pledged by Arab members of OPEC (other than Iraq). Only $107 million of this aid was actually delivered. That left $892 million still owed by Arab states, including $467 million from OPEC members (other than Iraq).  The largest amounts pledged, but not delivered, were from Libya ($148 million), Kuwait ($140 million), Iraq ($132 million pledged while Saddam Hussein was still in power), Egypt ($105 million), and Algeria ($86 million).”</p>
<p>According to Fayyad, the PA has reached a critical point at which it is unable to pay the salaries of about 150,000 government employees.  Fayyad pointed out to the Associated Press that as a result of the crunch, the number of poor Palestinians will increase to <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/01/06/ap-interview-palestinian-pm-blames-arab-donors-for-cash-crisis-warns-1-million/">50%</a> of the PA population. Additionally, private banks will no longer extend loans to the government, while the PA deficit is effectively over $1.5 billion.</p>
<p>The Palestinian Authority or as Mahmoud Abbas wants it called, the &#8220;State of Palestine&#8221; is unsustainable without foreign support.  Not being endowed with oil or any other natural resources, the Palestinians, led by Yasser Arafat, aggravated their situation further by launching an Intifada against Israel in September, 2000.  It resulted in Israel restricting Palestinian movement, including work permits inside Israel, and impacted trade.  The PA depends on foreign aid and is seemingly unable to wean itself off.</p>
<p>At the core of the PA economic problems is the use of public sector employment as a mechanism for political patronage as well as local job creation.  The public sector alone continues to expand while investments in the private sector are virtually non-existent; this causes an imbalance that outstrips fiscal revenues.</p>
<p>A World Bank report (December 2004) concluded that the PA “needs to <a href="http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTWESTBANKGAZA/Resources/WBG-Overview-e.pdf">reinvigorate</a> its program of governance reform in order to create an internal environment more attractive to private investors.  Doing that will require that the PA complete the cycle of popular elections it has embarked on, control lawlessness, develop a solid judicial system and address concerns about transparency and corruption.”</p>
<p>As America is edging toward a financial cliff, and the EU-zone is in deep financial trouble, it is time to demand that the Arab/Muslim world take care of the Palestinians&#8217; financial needs.  America and the Europeans can no longer afford to be on a &#8220;guilt trip,&#8221; and pay the lion’s share of the PA budget.  This was concluded long before the 2008 recession hit America and the West.  The late Rep. Tom Lantos (D-CA), a senior member of the House International Relations Committee, said (February 10, 2005) that he would “condition U.S. aid to the Palestinians on oil-rich Arab ‘deadbeats’ making good on their own promised contributions.”  Rep. Lantos’ statement was endorsed by the former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger who said, &#8220;I think it is <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/congressman-oil-rich-arab-states-should-match-u-s-aid-to-pa-1.149865">reasonabl</a>e that the surrounding Arab states that have resources should at least match U.S. support.”</p>
<p>Pan-Arabism is a figment of the imagination with respect to the Palestinians. The plight of the Palestinians is used by the Arab regimes only when it can promote their political ends.  These regimes champion the Palestinian cause mostly as a way to attack Israel. This serves to draw away attention from the misery of their people, and conversely, hide the success of the tiny Jewish state.  The Arab regimes refuse to criticize one another or admit to their ill treatment of the Palestinians, and their hypocrisy is revealed in the deafening silence when the plight of the Palestinians no longer suits their needs. The Arab antagonism towards integrating Palestinian refugees into their societies has led to the denial of basic Palestinian rights to work and live, and in some cases has culminated in the outright violent expulsion of Palestinian families.</p>
<p>The welfare of the Palestinian people depends on responsible leaders able to focus on economic prosperity instead of seeking to eliminate the Jewish state.  In fact, only close economic cooperation with Israel, which entails an end to terror and hate by the Palestinians, will bring about economic growth and political stability.  It will also end Palestinian dependency on Western charity and on the Arab states that failed them.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[The longstanding terror ties of the Turkish group that organized the Gaza-bound flotilla.]]></description>
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<p>The Foundation for Human Rights and Freedom and Humanitarian Relief (better known by its Turkish acronym, IHH) is the group that organized the six-ship flotilla which recently tried, without success, to sail all the way to Gaza. <a href="http://www.rightsidenews.com/2010060110406/global-terrorism/ihhinsani-yardim-vakfi.html">Established</a> in Turkey in 1992, the Foundation sends <a href="http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/hamas_e105.htm">aid</a> to distressed areas throughout the Middle East – in the form of food, medicine, vocational education, and building supplies. A prime destination for this aid is Gaza, where – according to IHH – Palestinians are being oppressed by an unjustified Israeli naval blockade. (For the record, that blockade was put in place to prevent <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6204">Hamas</a>, which controls Gaza politically and has fired thousands of rockets into southern Israeli towns in recent years, from importing additional weaponry from Iran and other allies abroad.)</p>
<p>For several days last week, as the flotilla approached Gaza, Israel issued warnings that the ships would not be permitted to reach their destination without first submitting to an inspection of their cargoes – to ensure that no weaponry was being transported. But when the respective crews of the vessels refused to comply, Israeli commandos took action and intercepted the flotilla in the early morning hours of May 31. The IHH-affiliated activists responded with violence, instantly attacking the commandos with knives and clubs, and throwing one of them overboard. In the melee that ensued, ten activists were killed and seven Israeli soldiers were wounded. How could this be? How can we be expected to believe that a well-meaning “humanitarian relief” group would ever behave in a manner that might provoke violent reprisals from Israeli troops? A more thorough examination of IHH&#8217;s history and affiliations explains everything.</p>
<p>While IHH is indeed <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/7790919/Gaza-flotilla-the-Free-Gaza-Movement-and-the-IHH.html">involved</a> in the aforementioned humanitarian endeavors, its overall objectives are much broader. Belying the <a href="http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/hamas_e105.htm">dove of peace</a> whose image appears on its logo, IHH overtly supports <a href="http://docs.google.com/groupProfile.asp%3Fgrpid=6204">Hamas</a>, is <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/7790919/Gaza-flotilla-the-Free-Gaza-Movement-and-the-IHH.html">sympathetic</a> to <a href="http://docs.google.com/groupProfile.asp%3Fgrpid=6211">al Qaeda</a>, and maintained regular contact with al Qaeda cells and the Sunni insurgency during the bloodiest stretches of the Iraq War. Moreover, IHH has <a href="http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/hamas_e105.htm">supported jihadist terror networks </a>not only in Iraq, but also in Bosnia, Syria, Afghanistan, and Chechnya. <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/7790919/Gaza-flotilla-the-Free-Gaza-Movement-and-the-IHH.html">According to</a> Carnegie Endowment analyst Henri Barkey, IHH is “an Islamist organization” that “has been deeply involved with Hamas for some time.” A 2006 <a href="http://www.diis.dk/graphics/Publications/WP2006/DIIS%20WP%202006-7.web.pdf">report</a> by the Danish Institute for International Studies characterized IHH as one of many “charitable front groups that provide support to Al-Qaida” and the global jihad.</p>
<p>Is the IHH beginning to sound less and less like a “humanitarian relief” group? Let&#8217;s look a little deeper still.</p>
<p>According to a French intelligence report, <a href="http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/hamas_e105.htm">in the mid-1990s</a> IHH leader Bülent Yildirim was directly involved in recruiting “veteran soldiers” to organize jihad activities, and in dispatching IHH operatives to war zones in Islamic countries to gain combat experience. The report also stated that IHH had transferred money as well as “caches of firearms, knives and pre-fabricated explosives” to Muslim fighters in those countries. Given this track record, can Israel&#8217;s concern about the contents of the IHH flotilla cargoes really be considered excessive or unwarranted?</p>
<p>In 1996, IHH continued to burnish its credentials as a “humanitarian relief” organization when an examination of its <a href="http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/hamas_e105.htm">telephone records</a> showed that repeated calls had been made to an al Qaeda guest house in Milan and to Algerian terrorists operating in Europe. That same year, the U.S. government formally <a href="http://www.rightsidenews.com/2010060110406/global-terrorism/ihhinsani-yardim-vakfi.html">identified</a> IHH as having connections to extremist groups in Iran and Algeria.</p>
<p>In December 1997, Turkish authorities, acting on a tip from sources claiming that IHH leaders had purchased automatic weapons from other regional Islamic militant groups, <a href="http://globalmbreport.org/?p=3080">initiated a domestic criminal investigation</a> of IHH. A thorough search of the organization&#8217;s Istanbul bureau uncovered a large assortment of firearms, explosives, bomb-making instructions, and a “jihad flag.” In addition, Turkish authorities seized a host of IHH documents whose contents ultimately led investigators to conclude that the group&#8217;s members “were going to fight in Afghanistan, Bosnia, and Chechnya.”</p>
<p>Near the end of 2000, IHH <a href="http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/hamas_e105.htm">organized protests</a> against proposals to overthrow that humanitarian icon, Iraqi President <a href="http://docs.google.com/individualProfile.asp%3Findid=1344">Saddam Hussein</a>; American and Israeli flags were burned at these rallies.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/case_docs/312.pdf">During the April 2001 trial</a> of would-be “millennium bomber” Ahmed Ressam, it was revealed that IHH had played an “important role” in the plot to blow up Los Angeles International Airport on December 31, 1999. Some reasonable observers might contend that to classify such a pursuit under the heading of “humanitarian relief” would require an unduly broad definition of that term.</p>
<p>In 2002, investigators <a href="http://globalmbreport.org/?p=3080">found</a> correspondences from IHH in the offices of the <a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hTJnY7GO7_oJ:globalmbreport.com/?p=2634+">Success Foundation</a>, a <a href="http://docs.google.com/groupProfile.asp%3Fgrpid=6386">Muslim Brotherhood</a>-affiliated organization whose Secretary was <a href="http://docs.google.com/individualProfile.asp%3Findid=1311">Abdul Rahman Alamoudi</a>. For the record: The Brotherhood was the ideological forebear of Hamas and al Qaeda; it supports jihad; and it seeks to impose shari&#8217;a law on the entire civilized world.  Mr. Alamoudi, for his part, is currently serving a prison term of nearly a quarter-century for his role as a funder of international terrorism. He is best known for having proudly declared himself to be a passionate supporter of Hamas and <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6256">Hezbollah</a>. The connections to “humanitarian relief” seem rather tenuous here.</p>
<p><a href="http://globalmbreport.org/?p=3080">According to</a> a <a href="http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/pdf/hamas_e105.pdf">report</a> issued by a website close to Israeli military intelligence: “[S]ince Hamas took over the Gaza Strip, IHH has supported Hamas’ propaganda campaigns by organizing public support conferences in Turkey.” The report also states that IHH continues to operate widely throughout Gaza and to funnel large sums of money to support the Hamas infrastructure.</p>
<p>In January 2008, an IHH <a href="http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/hamas_e105.htm">delegation</a> met with Ahmed Bahar, chairman of Hamas’ council in the Gaza Strip. At the meeting, the delegation not only boasted about the large amount of financial support it had given Hamas during the preceding year, but also declared its intent to double that sum in the future. Once again, we are left to wonder how any of this falls under the rubric of “humanitarian relief.”</p>
<p>In 2008 Israel <a href="http://globalmbreport.com/?p=962">banned</a> IHH from the country because of the organization&#8217;s membership in the “Union of Good” (UOG), a Hamas-founded <a href="http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/html/final/eng/sib/2_05/funds.htm">umbrella coalition</a> comprised of more than 50 Islamic charities (most of which are associated with the global Muslim Brotherhood) that channel money and goods to Hamas-affiliated institutions. In December 2008, the U.S. government <a href="http://www.ustreas.gov/press/releases/hp1267.htm">designated</a> UOG as a <a href="http://globalmbreport.org/?p=3080">terrorist entity</a> that was guilty of “diverting” donations that were intended for “social welfare and other charitable services,” and using those funds “to strengthen Hamas’ political and military position.”</p>
<p>In January 2009, IHH head Bülent Yildirim <a href="http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/hamas_e105.htm">met</a> with <a href="http://docs.google.com/individualProfile.asp%3Findid=793">Khaled Mash&#8217;al</a>, chairman of Hamas’ political bureau in Damascus, and Mash&#8217;al thanked Yildirim for the support of his organization.</p>
<p>In <a href="http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/hamas_e105.htm">November 2009</a> IHH activist Izzat Shahin transferred tens of thousands of American dollars from IHH to the Islamic Charitable Society (in Hebron) and Al-Tadhamun (in Nablus), two of Hamas’ most important front groups posing as “charitable societies.”</p>
<p>This, then, is the IHH: a pack of anti-Semitic supporters of terrorism, cloaking themselves in the vestments of victimhood, and bleating to the world about how unfairly they have been treated by the very nation whose extermination they have worked long and hard to bring about. It&#8217;s actually a story that has become quite familiar.</p>
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		<title>John McCain: I was Misled on Bank Bailout &#8211; Arizona Republic</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Under growing pressure from conservatives and “tea party” activists, Sen. John McCain of Arizona is having to defend his record of supporting the government’s massive bailout of the financial system. In response to criticism from opponents seeking to defeat him in the Aug. 24 Republican primary, the four-term senator says he was misled by then-Treasury [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Under growing pressure from conservatives and “tea party” activists, Sen. John McCain of Arizona is having to defend his record of supporting the government’s massive bailout of the financial system.</p>
<p>In response to criticism from opponents seeking to defeat him in the Aug. 24 Republican primary, the four-term senator says he was misled by then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. McCain said the pair assured him that the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program would focus on what was seen as the cause of the financial crisis, the housing meltdown.</p>
<p><em><strong><a href="http://www.azcentral.com/news/election/azelections/articles/2010/02/22/20100222mccain-tarp0222.html" target="_blank">Read the whole thing.</a></strong></em></p>
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		<title>Newt Gingrich and John Goodman: Ten GOP Health Ideas for Obama &#8211; WSJ.com</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;If you have a better idea, show it to me.&#8221; That was President Barack Obama&#8217;s challenge two weeks ago to House Republicans regarding health-care reform. He has since called for a bipartisan forum, not to start over on health reform but to &#8220;move forward&#8221; on the &#8220;best ideas that are out there.&#8221;The best ideas out [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;If you have a better idea, show it to me.&#8221; That was President Barack Obama&#8217;s challenge two weeks ago to House Republicans regarding health-care reform. He has since called for a bipartisan forum, not to start over on health reform but to &#8220;move forward&#8221; on the &#8220;best ideas that are out there.&#8221;The best ideas out there are not those that were passed by the House and Senate last year, which consist of more spending, more regulations and more bureaucracy. If the president is serious about building a system that delivers more quality choices at lower cost for every American, here&amp;apos;s where he should start:• Make insurance affordable. The current taxation of health insurance is arbitrary and unfair, giving lavish subsidies to some, like those who get Cadillac coverage from their employers, and almost no relief to people who have to buy their own. More equitable tax treatment would lower costs for individuals and families. Many health economists conclude that tax relief for health insurance should be a fixed-dollar amount, independent of the amount of insurance purchased. A step in the right direction would be to give Americans the choice of a generous tax credit or the ability to deduct the value of their health insurance up to a certain amount.</p>
<p>via <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704820904575055190217079952.html">Newt Gingrich and John Goodman: Ten GOP Health Ideas for Obama &#8211; WSJ.com</a>.</p>
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		<title>The Railroading of Geert Wilders</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Netherlands leaves justice behind.]]></description>
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<p>The Stalinist-show-trial aspect of the Geert Wilders “hate speech” trial in the Netherlands was thrown into sharp relief last week when the Amsterdam District Court refused to allow Wilders to call fifteen of the eighteen witnesses he had hoped to bring forward in his defense. Wilders in response was characteristically direct: “This Court is not interested in the truth. This Court doesn’t want me to have a fair trial. I can’t have any respect for this. This Court would not be out of place in a dictatorship.”</p>
<p>The three witnesses the court allowed Wilders are the Dutch Islamic scholars Hans Jansen and Simon Admiraal, along with the Wafa Sultan. Hans Jansen’s work on Islam is superb and groundbreaking, and he will be an excellent witness, as will Admiraal and the exemplary freedom fighter Wafa Sultan.</p>
<p>Nonetheless, this decision indicates the hollowness of Dutch justice and the court’s bias against Wilders. For some who would have been Wilders’s most effective witnesses were disallowed. He had wanted to call Mohammed Bouyeri, the murderer of Theo Van Gogh.</p>
<p>Why Bouyeri? Wilders, in the bizarre inquisition that has replaced justice in the Dutch courts, is accused of offending Muslims by pointing out that Muslims invoke the Qur’an and Muhammad’s example to justify violence. However, Bouyeri quoted the Qur’an in the note threatening Wilders and others that he stabbed into Van Gogh’s body, and invoked the Qur’an repeatedly during his trial as well. “Kill them, and Allah will help you and guide your hand,” he said. “There’s no room there for doubt or interpretation there.”</p>
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<p>Bouyeri would have proven Wilders’ point immediately: he is simply telling the truth about how Islamic teachings incite all too many Muslims to violence – and if telling the truth is now illegal in the Netherlands, so much the worse for the Netherlands. By disallowing Wilders from calling Bouyeri and others, the court has hindered Wilders’ ability to make this case – suggesting (and by no means for the first time) that the Dutch authorities are determined to convict Wilders, and are not going to let any inconvenient facts get in the way of their doing so.</p>
<p>It is not exaggerating to say that the Geert Wilders trial is a defining moment in the history of Western civilization. One would have to go back centuries to find a court case with as much significance for the future course of the free world. If the farrago of “hate” charges against Wilders stick, and he is convicted, it will herald the end of the freedom of speech in the West, as a precedent will have been set that other Western nations (urged on by the Organization of the Islamic Conference, which is the organization most responsible for the global assault on free speech) will be certain to follow. The era of enlightenment and the understanding that all human beings are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights will be definitively drawing to a close, and a new darkness will descend over Europe and the free world in general. For once the precedent is established that a man can be jailed and destroyed for offending a privileged class, the idea that every human being has rights that cannot be infringed will be damaged beyond repair.</p>
<p>And even if Wilders prevails, enough damage has been done already. The Dutch law (and there are others like it in other Western countries) that stipulates that someone can actually be tried and jailed for offending another person will remain on the books. Other trials will follow. The law will be used by the governing elites who developed it in order to maintain their power and silence independent and dissenting voices.</p>
<p>For that is, of course, the point of all this. The Dutch authorities stand arrayed on one side, with Wilders standing alone on the other. Yet despite the fact that he has nothing like their numbers, wealth, or resources, he threatens to topple their entire multicultural house of cards – for he has on his side a weapon that all of their power cannot defeat, the weapon of truth. And so they are desperate to silence him, and end forever his truth-telling about jihad and Islamic supremacism.</p>
<p>Yet even if they do silence him, the truth will still be the truth. They will not be able to obliterate it forever. But will they be able to help initiate a long, perhaps centuries long, period of darkness and oppression in Europe and its civilizational children?</p>
<p>Certainly.</p>
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		<title>For Bigots, Israel Can Do No Right</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jew-haters condemn Israel for giving aid to Haiti.]]></description>
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<p>As most objective observers throughout the world marvel at <a href="http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/world/2010/01/18/dnt.cohen.haiti.patients.dying.cnn.html">Israel ’s efficiency and generosity</a> in leading the medical aid efforts in Haiti , some bigots insist on using these efforts as an occasion to continue their attack on the Jewish state.  Both the neo-Nazi hard right and the neo-Stalinist hard left cannot help but to demonize Israel, regardless of what Israel does.</p>
<p>The neo-Nazi website ReportersNotebook.com features a blog entitled <em>The Zionization of Disaster Relief.</em> It accuses Israel of “exploiting the suffering of poor, defenseless Haitians on behalf of Israeli Triumphalism.”  It complains that Israel is rendering medical aid to Haiti only to deflect attention from its crimes against the Palestinians.</p>
<p>The hard left, even in a Israel , complains that Israel should not be sending medical assistance to such a faraway place.  Instead it should be sending it to nearby Gaza .</p>
<p>Even the New York Times, in an otherwise thoughtful analysis of the controversiality of the aid among some Israelis, failed to note the difference between Israel sending its limited resources to faraway Haiti and to nearby Gaza.   Haiti is not at war with Israel .   Haiti has not pledged itself to Israel ’s destruction.   Haiti has not fired 8,000 rockets at Israeli civilians.   Gaza , on the other hand, has a popularly elected government that has done and continues to do all of the above.  Moreover, there is no comparison between the tens of thousands of Haitians who have died from a natural disaster, and the people of Gaza who suffer far less from what is, essentially, a self-inflicted wound.</p>
<p>Nor do the perennial enemies of Israel emphasize the comparison between tiny and resource-poor Israel , on the one hand, and the enormous and resource-rich Arab and Muslim nations, on the other hand.  While Israel digs deeply into its treasury and manpower to send medical assistance a quarter of the way around the world, Arab and Muslim nations are generally missing in action when it comes to relief efforts.  This is true not only in Haiti , which is a Catholic nation, but it was equally true when tsunamis and other natural disasters have devastated Muslim nations.</p>
<p>For those who argue that Israel is sending this aid to Haiti for its own selfish reasons, there are two answers.  First the realpolitik answer:  All nations have interests; and all act, at least in part, out of self interest.  When the United States government is asked by Americans to justify its multibillion dollar foreign aid grants, it generally responds by arguing that these grants are serving the interests of the United States .  When it comes to Israel , however, a double standard is always applied.   Israel must act <span style="text-decoration: underline;">only</span> out of altruistic motives, while all other countries are entitled to leven altruism with self interest.  The second answer is that Israel is doing far more in Haiti than would be required to satisfy its self interests.  It is sending more aid per capita than any country in the world.  It is doing it with extraordinary efficiency and real impact.  Isn’t it at least possible that the millennia-long Jewish tradition of tzadakah—that is charity based on justice—is at least part of the explanation for Israel ’s generosity?</p>
<p>The fact that so many Israelis are advocating medical and other assistance to Gaza , certainly supports this latter theory.  Has any other country in the history of the world ever provided medical and other assistance to a people with whom it is at war—to people who continue to support rocket attacks and other forms of terrorism against its own civilians?  Again, a double standard.  The reality is that Israel will be extremely generous to the people of Gaza if and when they stop supporting attacks on Israeli civilians, stop making martyrs of their suicide murders, and stop encouraging their children to don suicide vests.  Contrast Gaza with the West Bank , which today has an improving economy, better travel conditions and among the best health care available in any Arab or Muslim country in the area.  The peace dividend the Palestinian people will reap from making peace with Israel is incalculable.</p>
<p>So continue to criticize Israel when it fails to live up to generally applicable international standards, but praise it when it exceeds those standards in rendering aid that has saved and will continue to save many lives.   Israel will continue to send disaster relief regardless of how the world reacts to it because Israelis understand how it feels to be subject to disasters.  But fairness requires that Israel not be condemned for its humanitarian efforts, and that its rendering of aid to Haiti not be used as yet another occasion for applying a double standard to its actions.</p>
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		<title>The UN Shines in Haiti</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 05:05:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Klein]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite the worst loss of life in its history, the UN has led humanitarian efforts in the earthquake-shattered nation. ]]></description>
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<p>This week’s <a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/01/14/haiti-earthquake-left-100-000-dead-in-60-seconds-and-toll-could-reach-500-000-warning-graphic-content-115875-21965474/">earthquake in Haiti</a> has been a catastrophe for the island nation, with hundreds of thousands feared dead. Less well documented but equally tragic is that relief organizations, including the United Nations, have also been swept up in the disaster’s wake.</p>
<p>The United Nations has suffered its <a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d577a796-0174-11df-8c54-00144feabdc0.html">worst loss of life</a> from a single incident in its history as a result of the January 12 earthquake. As of this writing, the United Nations has reported the loss of 36 lives of its personnel – 13 civilians, 4 policemen and 19 members of the UN military peacekeeping force. At least 150 members of the UN international staff in Haiti remain unaccounted for, including some of the most senior UN officials there. Some UN personnel remain under the rubble that was once the UN’s headquarters building in Haiti, the Christopher Hotel. Half of the Christopher Hotel has totally collapsed.</p>
<p>All the while, to the credit of the UN personnel operating as best they can on the ground, they have redoubled their efforts to maintain order and to deliver humanitarian aid to the earthquake survivors literally living in the streets. Despite the loss of life in its own ranks, the United Nations has been coordinating all rescue, safety and humanitarian efforts in Haiti.</p>
<p>Search and rescue teams have been using dogs and electronic sensing equipment to try to find survivors. There have been at least 8 live rescues of UN personnel, including an Estonian bodyguard who was located when scratching sounds were heard. He was given water through a rubber pipe, and was extracted from the rubble in reasonably good shape.</p>
<p>Reporting via video link from Haiti&#8217;s capital Port-au-Prince, UN humanitarian coordinator in Haiti, Kim Bolduc and senior UN official David Wimhurst described their own harrowing escapes and the human devastation that they observed all around them. There were many dead bodies piled up on the streets, with the injured lying in the road “in a state of shock.” The capital, they said, resembled a “ghost town.” Bolduc and Wimhurst could not confirm reports that fatalities in Haiti have exceeded 100,000, but they said they would not be surprised if that turned out to be the case.</p>
<p>Amidst all of this carnage, Haitian President Rene Preval has taken no observable leadership role. He managed to create more confusion when he claimed, without any apparent confirmation, that the head of the peacekeeping mission in Haiti, Hedi Annabi of Tunisia, was dead. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon told reporters on Thursday that he had no information on which to conclude that Annabi was in fact dead and could not reach Preval to determine the basis of Preval’s assertion.</p>
<p>The Haitian police have been nowhere to be found, according to the UN officials reporting from Haiti. The UN forces, supported by U.S. Marines sent by President Obama, will shoulder the burden of preventing mayhem as tensions rise in the capital and elsewhere in Haiti. A question unanswered by UN officials was whether the Marines would be expected to operate under UN command. Nor was there any clarification of the rules of engagement for the UN forces if serious rioting were to break out. For example, would live ammunition be used as it was last November, which resulted in injuries to civilians?</p>
<p>These questions and others will require answers sooner or later. However, the United Nations deserves full support at this critical hour for Haiti. In disastrous conditions, the bravery, dedication and sacrifice being shown by the UN personnel on the ground in Haiti have been astounding.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is the religious Left trying to atone for its sin of supporting communist tyranny?]]></description>
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<p>The National Council of Churches (NCC) has dispatched its 2009 Christmas card and end of the year solicitation, advertising its “ecumenical efforts for our common witness in this fragile world.”  It asserts that the NCC “makes visible the gift of our unity in Christ” through fighting for “adequate health care” (i.e. Obamacare), speaking out on behalf of the poor (demanding an ever expanding Welfare State), and advancing “economic, gender and racial justice.”  It also touts its increasing Jewish-Christian and Muslim-Christian dialogues, though probably the focus is more on the latter, almost always accompanied by silence about human rights in Islamic culture.</p>
<p>More telling was the art for the NCC Christmas card.  It features a Nativity scene by a Vietnamese artist, Le Van Tai, whom the card explains was resettled as a refugee in Australia in 1985 after spending four years in a Hong Kong refugee camp.   He was not reunited with his wife and family until 1992.  Le created his Nativity scene while in the Hong Kong camp, with encouragement from the Hong Kong Fellowship of Christian Artists.</p>
<p>Why did Le flee Vietnam to endure 4 years in a refugee camp?  Why was he separated from his family for 11 years?  How did he get to Hong Kong?  Of course, the NCC Christmas card does not answer these uncomfortable questions.    During the late 1970’s and early 1980’s, nearly 2 million South Vietnamese escaped their new communist rulers by risking their lives on rickety boats that departed into the South China Sea at night, evading communist gun boats.  About one third of the escapees died at sea, by drowning, exposure, or piracy.    The more fortunate ones eventually got to places like Hong Kong, where they hoped for eventual resettlement in America, Australia, or elsewhere in the West.</p>
<p>Presumably Le escaped capture, had a sturdy boat, avoided pirates, and arrived in Hong Kong safely.  But he still had to languish for 4 years in a camp.  And he endured an 11 year separation from his family in Vietnam, whose communist tyrants were not always eager to allow wives, parents and children of capitalist-loving escaped boat people to rejoin their loved ones in the West, except for a price.  What would compel a Vietnamese to risk the nightmare of unsafe travel on the South China Sea, with a 30 percent chance of death, not to mention an uncertain future in a camp and years of separation from family?</p>
<p>Of course, the NCC’s Christmas card would not explain.  But after Communist North Vietnam’s “liberation” of South Vietnam in 1975, a vicious and impoverishing dictatorship was installed.  It did not murder millions as their Communist Cambodian neighbors did.   But the Vietnamese Communists did imprison over 1 million in re-education camps, and they did murder tens of thousands of suspected counter revolutionaries, not to mention enslaving an entire nation under a one party state that banned political opposition, religious freedom, private property, and free speech.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, what was the justice-seeking NCC saying about Communist-ruled Vietnam while hundreds of thousands of desperate refugees like Le were trying to escape for their lives, especially to avoid reeducation camps?   In 1977, NCC relief officials testified before a U.S. Congressional committee about a Vietnamese reeducation camp they had visited, which they likened to a “small tropical resort.”  They were much “impressed” by Vietnam’s “prudent policy” educating its people for their “new role in society.”  They further noted that the “entire process of reeducation is one reflecting the government’s commitment to encouraging and enabling people to exercise their rights, restored as full participants in Vietnam’s future.”</p>
<p>One NCC relief official even commended Vietnamese “reeducation camps” for helping “former [South Vietnamese] officers” be ”reconstituted back into society as full citizens.”   He contrasted this seamless process with ugly America, where “draft dodgers or deserters have not yet found that means to become full participants back in U.s. society.”  He concluded:  “As a churchperson, I would have to identify with the Vietnamese as those who have chosen the better way to heal the wounds of war.”</p>
<p>The head of the NCC relief agency in 1977 joined with then NCC President United Methodist Bishop James Armstrong to sign a <em>New York Times</em> ad defending the “present government of Vietnam,” which “should be hailed for its moderation and for its extraordinary effort to achieve reconciliation among all of its people.”   The NCC’s relief arm even channeled at least half a million dollars to Vietnam’s “New Economic Zones,” where South Vietnamese were forcibly herded as part of their involuntary integration into communism.</p>
<p>An NCC relief brochure of that time hailed the new Communist Vietnam as a “nation of dedicated people, hard at work, and enthusiastically building a new society from the rubble of war…’without bitterness or rancor, and eager for friendship with the United States.”   An NCC relief delegation visited Vietnam and afterwards bubbled with praise for Communist Vietnam for its “pioneering, new-nation spirit,” its “healthier economy,” its work for the “welfare of its people.”  Concluded one gullible NCC official:  “It would bring a lump to your throat to see them cooperating and working together.”  One NCC official even condemned fleeing Vietnamese refugees:  “Every country is entitled to its own people.”</p>
<p>Thankfully, Le did not share the NCC official’s view that he rightfully was the property of the Communist Vietnamese government.  He courageously escaped, enduring who knows what horrors, and survived to become an artist and poet apparently living comfortably in Australia with his family.  His painting of the Nativity, with a South Pacific motif, is quite good.  The NCC Christmas card, in featuring the picture, cites the Scripture from James 1:17:   “Every generous act of giving, with every perfect gift, is from above…”   By spotlighting Le’s work, is the NCC perhaps subtly atoning for its sins?</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>PRESIDENT OBAMA should not lament but sigh in relief that Iran has rejected his nuclear deal, which was ill conceived from the start. Under the deal, which was formally offered through the United Nations, Iran was to surrender some 2,600 pounds of lightly enriched uranium some three-quarters of its known stockpile to Russia, and the next year get back a supply of uranium fuel sufficient to run its Tehran research reactor for three decades. The proposal did not require Iran to halt its enrichment program, despite several United Nations Security Council resolutions demanding such a moratorium.Iran was thus to be rewarded with much-coveted reactor fuel despite violating international law. Within a year, or sooner in light of its expanding enrichment program, Iran would almost certainly have replenished and augmented its stockpile of enriched uranium, nullifying any ostensible nonproliferation benefit of the deal.</p>
<p>via <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/24/opinion/24kuperman.html?pagewanted=1&amp;_r=3">Op-Ed Contributor &#8211; There’s Only One Way to Stop Iran &#8211; NYTimes.com</a>.</p>
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