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		<title>Even the State Department Spokeswoman Thinks What She&#8217;s Saying is Ridiculous</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2014 17:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jen Psaki&#8217;s main job is to come out on stage and say ridiculous things to explain the ridiculous things that her bosses are doing. But even she thinks that they&#8217;re ridiculous.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s not my term for it. <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/12/04/video-state-dept-spokesperson-stuck-to-her-lines-until-she-thought-her-mic-was-off/?utm_source=TheBlaze.com&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=story&amp;utm_content=video-state-dept-spokesperson-stuck-to-her-lines-until-she-thought-her-mic-was-off">It&#8217;s her term for it.</a></p>
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<blockquote><p>U.S. State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki was seemingly caught on a hot mic calling one of her prepared statements on one of America’s policies on Egypt “ridiculous” following a press conference.</p>
<p>When reporters, including the Associated Press’ Matt Lee, pressed her to comment on the acquittal of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, she provided a pre-written response.</p>
<p>“Generally, we continue to believe that upholding impartial standards of accountability will advance the political consensus on which Egypt’s long-term stability and economic growth depends,” she said. “But beyond that, I would refer you to the Egyptian government.”</p>
<p>She refused to say anything further on the matter.</p>
<p>Psaki ended the conference and the lights dimmed. When she seemingly figured her mic was dead, she went off script.</p>
<p>“That Egypt line is ridiculous,” she appears to say.</p></blockquote>
<p>Psaki doesn&#8217;t believe that the Egypt line is ridiculous because she&#8217;s sensible, but because she wants a crackdown on Egypt. But while she gets to bash Israel all day long, Obama has bowed to Egypt and mostly given up the effort to put the Muslim Brotherhood terrorists back into power again. That apparently irks Psaki who would like to blast Egypt, but cooler heads have decided that the US is already really low on allies and alienating a major power in the region would be unwise.</p>
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		<title>Condemnations and Double Standards</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2014 05:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ari Lieberman]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What if Israel had destroyed 800 homes in Gaza instead of the Egyptians? ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/u-s-state-department-spokesperson-jen-psaki.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245399" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/u-s-state-department-spokesperson-jen-psaki-409x350.jpg" alt="u-s-state-department-spokesperson-jen-psaki" width="312" height="267" /></a>Let us engage in a brief thought experiment. Imagine three US service members disembarking off their ship docked in the Israeli port of Haifa. They paint the town but are suddenly and unexpectedly surrounded by a group of 12 or so hooligans, who yell epithets at them, call them “murderers,” throw garbage at them, rough them up and then place bags over their heads. Imagine further that the hoodlums are caught and arrested by Israeli authorities but are inexplicably released shortly thereafter.</p>
<p>Let us engage in another thought experiment. Imagine that Israel, under the pretext of ensuring its security, dynamites eight-hundred “Palestinian” homes. The Israelis argue that smuggling tunnels under some of those homes warrant drastic action and announce their intention to construct a barrier where those homes once stood, displacing ten-thousand residents.</p>
<p>These two incidents actually occurred but not in Israel. On November 12, in a sickening display of brute thuggery, three US sailors in Istanbul were <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/12/politics/turkey-navy-sailors-bags-over-heards/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">assaulted</span></a> by a group of Turkish nationalists. They were roughed up, humiliated, had bags stuffed over their heads and chased to chants of “Yankee go home.” Some of the suspects were apprehended and despite the fact that they showed little remorse, were inexplicably <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/11/13/turkish-nationalist-group-defiant-after-attack-on-us-navy-sailors/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">released</span></a> by Turkish authorities.</p>
<p>The second incident, involving the wanton <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/30/world/middleeast/egypt-sinai-peninsula-gaza-buffer-zone.html?_r=0"><span style="color: #0433ff;">destruction</span></a> of some eight-hundred homes and the displacement of some ten-thousand residents occurred in the Egyptian controlled part of Rafah that straddles the border between Sinai and the Hamas enclave of Gaza. It seems that the Egyptians had had enough of Hamas’s shenanigans and decided to act resolutely after as many as 31 Egyptian soldiers were killed in an attack that the Egyptian government blamed on Hamas.</p>
<p>Now let us return to our thought experiment. What was the State Department’s reaction to these two occurrences? In the latter example, there was simply no reaction, only silence. There were no condemnations from John Kerry, no claims by Jen Psaki that such drastic measures were disproportionate and no protests from Obama shills Ben Rhodes, <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/lecturing-us-on-security-as-the-rockets-fly-in/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Phillip Gordon</span></a> and Josh Earnest that such sweeping actions amount to collective punishment, are a source of regional instability and present obstacles to peace.</p>
<p>In the former case, the State Department did issue a condemnation but that’s as far as it went. The hooligans responsible for the cowardly attack took their cues directly from their anti-American, Islamist government. During his 12-year reign, President Recep Erdogan worked tirelessly to create a toxic environment conducive to such base anti-American displays. More astonishingly was the muted response from the State Department after the charges against those responsible for the assault were <a href="http://www.voanews.com/content/assault-sailors-highlights-turkish-anger-us/2519444.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">dropped</span></a>. The lawless message Turkey is conveying to the United States is clear; your servicemen and women can be humiliated and assaulted on Turkish soil with impunity.</p>
<p>Had any of these incidents occurred in Israel, the State Department would have been up in arms. If there’s any doubt about that assertion, consider Jen Psaki’s comments concerning Israel’s decision to <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/us-condemns-terrorist-home-demolition-directive/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">demolish the home</span></a> of a terrorist responsible for crushing a pedestrian with a stolen excavator in August.</p>
<p>Psaki condemned the Israeli decision stating that it amounted to “collective punishment.” In Psaki’s eyes, the destruction of 800 Rafah homes, most of which have no connection to illicit activity, suits the State Department just fine but the targeted demolition of a single home belonging to a confirmed depraved Palestinian terrorist amounts to “collective punishment.”</p>
<p>Now consider the administration’s lackadaisical response to the humiliation of its servicemen on Turkish soil and subsequent dropping of all charges against the culprits by Turkish prosecutors. The State Department’s silence on the matter is deafening. By contrast, when a Palestinian terrorist with U.S. citizenship was shot while throwing gasoline bombs at vehicular traffic, Obama’s State Department went into high gear expressing its “<a href="http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2014/10/233356.htm"><span style="color: #0433ff;">deepest condolences</span></a>” to the terrorist’s family and demanding a “speedy and transparent investigation” into the shooting.</p>
<p>It appears that the Obama administration, which treats friends like enemies and enemies like friends, has adopted one standard for Israel and another for the autocratic governments that surround it. While Russia invades Ukraine, Turkey absorbs chunks of Cyprus and China continues its ethnic cleansing and occupation of Tibet as well as creeping annexation of areas within the South and East China seas, the administration appears besotted by the idea of tearing Israel away from parts of its ancestral land and creating yet another hostile and dysfunctional Arab country right on Israel’s doorstep. The administration’s continued haranguing of one of its closest allies is indicative of the disdain Obama has for Israel and serves only to embolden its genocidal enemies.  But then again, maybe that’s precisely what he wants.</p>
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		<title>The U.S. State Department&#8217;s War on Israel</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2014 04:20:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ronn Torossian]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ISIS, Ebola ... and Israel building homes for Jews to live in. Guess what Obama has the greatest issue with? ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/deps.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-243962" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/deps-450x255.jpg" alt="deps" width="266" height="151" /></a>There is ISIS and <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/ronn-torossian/what-would-obama-do-if-ebola-came-from-israel/">there is Ebola</a> – and there is the small state of Israel that is building homes for Jews to live in.  And the latter is the big issue for America.</p>
<p>According to AFP,</p>
<blockquote><p>“The United States Monday blasted Israel for pledging to build 1,000 more Jewish homes in Jerusalem, saying any such move would be &#8220;incompatible&#8221; with peace efforts.”</p></blockquote>
<p>There’s a simple answer: “Go To Hell.” That is what must be told to the State Department by the Israeli Government – as the father of the Likud Party, <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/11816#.Ulm6DY3D-Uk">Ze’ev Jabotinsky, </a>said was the best retort to opponents of the Jewish people.</p>
<p>As Jabotinsky noted in 1911,</p>
<blockquote><p>“Instead of excessive apology and instead of turning our backs to the accusers – as there is nothing to apologize for, and nobody to apologize to – it is long overdue to respond to all current and future accusations, reproaches, suspicions, slanders and denunciations by simply folding our arms and loudly, clearly, coldly and calmly answer,&#8217;Go to Hell!&#8217;</p>
<p>Who are we, to make excuses to them; who are they to interrogate us? What is the purpose of this mock trial over the entire people where the sentence is known in advance? Our habit of constantly and zealously answering to any rabble has already done us a lot of harm and will do much more. The situation that has been created as a result, tragically confirms a well-known saying: &#8216;Qui s’excuse s’accuse&#8217; (He who apologizes condemns himself).</p>
<p>We think that our constant readiness to undergo a search without hesitation and to turn out our pockets will eventually convince mankind of our nobility; look what gentlemen we are–we do not have anything to hide! This is a terrible mistake. The real gentlemen are the people that will not allow anyone for any reason to search their apartments, their pockets or their souls. Only a person under surveillance is ready for a search at every moment. This is the only inevitable conclusion from our maniacal reaction to every reproach, to accept responsibility as a people for every action of a Jew, and to make excuses in front of everybody.</p>
<p>I consider this system to be false at its very root. We are hated not because we are blamed for everything, but we are blamed for everything because we are not loved.  We do not have to apologize for anything. We are a people as all other peoples; we do not have any intentions to be better than the rest. We do not have to account to anybody; we are not to sit for anybody’s examination and nobody is old enough to call on us to answer. We came before them.  We are what we are, we are good for ourselves, we will not change and we do not want to.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Israel as a nation is a modern miracle. After six million Jews were murdered while the world stood by and watched, a nation was created, but has been surrounded by enemies who have tried to destroy her from the very beginning of her existence.</p>
<p>Jews can live anywhere they want in America – why not in the Land of Israel?</p>
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		<title>State Dept. Rejects Netanyahu&#8217;s Mideast Diagnosis</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2014 04:51:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arnold Ahlert]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The administration throws the Israeli prime minister under the bus. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/tzenifer-psaki.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-242090" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/tzenifer-psaki-450x305.jpg" alt="tzenifer-psaki" width="329" height="223" /></a>In yet another tragic indication of Obama administration’s ideological obstinance, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki <a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/netanyahu-militant-islam-aims-dominate-world-state-dept-no-it-doesnt"><span style="color: #1255cc;">indicated</span></a> that Israel and the United States are not on the same page regarding the scope of Islamic terror.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The rift centers around Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Full-text-of-Prime-Minister-Netanyahus-UN-speech-376626"><span style="color: #1255cc;">speech</span></a> at the U.N. on Monday, during which he insisted that terrorist groups such as ISIS, Hamas, the Iranian regime, Hezbollah, al-Qaeda and Boko Haram share the same vision. &#8220;Some are radical Sunnis, some are radical Shi’ites,” he explained.</p>
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<p style="color: #232323;">Some want to restore a pre-medieval caliphate from the 7th century. Others want to trigger the apocalyptic return of an imam from the 9th century. They operate in different lands, they target different victims and they even kill each other in their quest for supremacy. But they all share a fanatic ideology. They all seek to create ever expanding enclaves of militant Islam where there is no freedom and no tolerance, where women are treated as chattel, Christians are decimated, and minorities are subjugated, sometimes given the stark choice: convert or die. For them, anyone can be an infidel, including fellow Muslims.</p>
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<p style="color: #232323;">Such a no-holds-barred assessment of the threat was too much for the White House. When Psaki was asked if they agreed with Netanyahu’s argument, her answer was distressingly clear. “We would not agree with that characterization, no,” she replied. Pressed on Netanyahu’s contention that ISIS and Hamas are cut from the same cloth, Psaki once again balked. She conceded that both groups are U.S.-designated terrorist organizations, but insisted that ISIS “poses a different threat to Western interests and to the United States. And that’s just a fact.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">She continued. “We don’t believe that Prime Minister Netanyahu or anyone else from Israel is suggesting that the United States launch a military campaign against Hamas, so we certainly – they are both designated terrorist organizations under the United States designations, but certainly we see differences in terms of the threat and otherwise,” she added.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Little wonder. In a <a href="http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/dpb/2014/06/227452.htm#PALESTINIANS"><span style="color: #1255cc;">press briefing</span></a> last June, Psaki was engaged in an Orwellian effort to defend the administration’s support for the newly formed Fatah-Hamas unity government. Psaki admitted that Hamas was responsible for launching attacks against Israel, but insisted the U.S. would continue supporting the new entity because &#8220;we made a decision as the United States Government that our assistance to the Palestinian Authority is important to the United States.”  Psaki also made it clear that such a schizophrenic stance was possible because PLO President Mahmoud Abbas &#8220;demanded that all the Palestinian factions remain committed to the ceasefire agreement that was signed in Cairo in 2012, and we expect the Palestinian Authority will do everything in its power to prevent attacks into Gaza – from Gaza into Israel.” One sentence later a bit of belated reality intruded. &#8220;But we acknowledge the reality that Hamas currently controls Gaza,” she said.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Netanyahu emphasized the absurdity of such myopia. &#8220;As Hamas&#8217;s charter makes clear, Hamas’s immediate goal is to destroy Israel,” he contended.</p>
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<p style="color: #232323;">But Hamas has a broader objective. They also want a caliphate. Hamas shares the global ambitions of its fellow militant Islamists. That’s why its supporters wildly cheered in the streets of Gaza as thousands of Americans were murdered on 9/11. And that&#8217;s why its leaders condemned the United States for killing Osama Bin Laden, whom they praised as a holy warrior. So when it comes to their ultimate goals, Hamas is ISIS and ISIS is Hamas.</p>
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<p style="color: #232323;">No doubt the administration was equally uncomfortable with Netanyahu’s comparison of militant Islam with Nazism because it once again revealed the wider scope of the threat. But his analogy was spot on. &#8220;The Nazis believed in a master race,” he said. “The militant Islamists believe in a master faith.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Netanyahu also stated who he believed would be in the best position to be the master of the master faith. “For 35 years, Iran has relentlessly pursued the global mission which was set forth by its founding ruler, Ayatollah Khomeini, in these words: We will export our revolution to the entire world. until the cry &#8216;There is no God but Allah&#8217; will echo throughout the world over… And ever since, the regime’s brutal enforcers, Iran&#8217;s Revolutionary Guards, have done exactly that,” he explained.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">He warned the world not to be fooled by &#8220;Iran’s manipulative charm offensive. It’s designed for one purpose, and for one purpose only: To lift the sanctions and remove the obstacles to Iran&#8217;s path to the bomb.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Unfortunately, it’s a charm offensive that appears to be working. Despite a report earlier this month by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) noting that Iran had <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/20/world/middleeast/us-hopes-face-saving-plan-offers-a-path-to-a-nuclear-pact-with-iran-.html?_r=1"><span style="color: #1255cc;">failed</span></a> to provide necessary information on agreed-upon work plans related to the possible military dimension of their nuclear program, a participant in the negotiations told the <i>New York Times</i> there is a&#8221;sense of desperation about coming up with ways to break the logjams, on the nuclear talks and the larger relationship.” The source also warned that &#8220;if we don’t figure this out in the next few months, it is not clear the opportunity is going to come again.” Toward that end, P5+1 (China, France, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States) negotiators are no longer demanding that Iran dismantle most of its 19,000 centrifuges. Instead they can simply disconnect the pipes that connect them.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Those would be the 19,000 centrifuges Iran has constructed over <a href="https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheet/Timeline-of-Nuclear-Diplomacy-With-Iran"><span style="color: #1255cc;">two decades</span></a>, including the last 11 years of fruitless negotiations aimed at stopping the process.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Unlike the Obama administration and their equally impotent partners, Netanyahu knows exactly such fruitlessness will lead. &#8220;Once Iran produces atomic bombs, all the charm and all the smiles will suddenly disappear,” he explains. &#8220;They’ll just vanish. It&#8217;s then that the ayatollahs will show their true face and unleash their aggressive fanaticism on the entire world. There is only one responsible course of action to address this threat: Iran&#8217;s nuclear military capabilities must be fully dismantled. Make no mistake – ISIS must be defeated. But to defeat ISIS and leave Iran as a threshold nuclear power is to win the battle and lose the war.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">What war? Psaki completely <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Politics-And-Diplomacy/US-disagrees-with-Netanyahu-on-Iran-ISIS-and-Hamas-376648"><span style="color: #1255cc;">rejected</span></a> Netanyahu’s characterization of Iran, insisting the Obama administration’s aim is to bring the world’s foremost state sponsor of terrorism into the international community, providing they can demonstrate their nuclear program is peaceful. &#8220;I can assure anyone that an agreement reached would not be based on a charm offensive or how that impacts us, but on the facts and the details,&#8221; she said. &#8220;And we’re not going to agree to a comprehensive agreement that doesn’t meet our standards and meet our threshold.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">As noted above, a threshold reduced to negotiations about plumbing is a threshold evolving decidedly in Iran’s favor.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The Obama administration also took pains to distance itself from Netanyahu’s characterization of the UN Human Rights Council as a &#8220;terrorist rights council&#8221; and an “oxymoron.” Yet Netanyahu’s description was again right on the mark. &#8220;We live in a world steeped in tyranny and terror, where gays are hanged from cranes in Tehran, political prisoners are executed in Gaza, young girls are abducted en masse in Nigeria and hundreds of thousands are butchered in Syria, Libya and Iraq,” he stated. &#8220;Yet nearly half, nearly half of the UN Human Rights Council&#8217;s resolutions focusing on a single country have been directed against Israel, the one true democracy in the Middle East.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Once again Psaki reflected the Obama administration’s determination to deny uncomfortable reality. &#8220;We have obviously voiced concerns when we have them about actions that are taken, but no, we would certainly not agree with that characterization,” she stated. “We don’t see the need for heated rhetoric. But obviously there are times when we certainly agree, and we’ve expressed concerns in the past as well about the same organization and how they operate.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Thus the Obama administration remains determined to maintain the rift between America and the Jewish State. Psaki’s latest statements are little more than an extension of Obama&#8217;s own <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/09/24/remarks-president-obama-address-united-nations-general-assembly"><span style="color: #1255cc;">speech</span></a> at the U.N. last week. The president went <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/obama-says-too-many-israelis-ready-abandon-peace-272903"><span style="color: #1255cc;">off-script</span></a> from printed remarks made available to reporters and claimed there were “too many Israelis ready to abandon the hard work of peace,” without even <i>mentioning</i> the Palestinian’s role in the latest conflict. Even more remarkably, he attempt to find moral equivalence between “rockets fired at innocent Israelis” and “Palestinian children taken from us in Gaza.” Netanyahu seemingly addressed this slander in the opening paragraph of his speech when he stated that one of the reasons he came to speak was “to expose the brazen lies spoken from this very podium against my country and against the brave soldiers who defend it.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Unfortunately for Netanyahu and Americans as well, brazen lying is part of this administration’s DNA. That has been made clearer than ever following the president’s “60 Minutes” <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/president-obama-60-minutes/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">interview</span></a> during which he sought to blame anyone but himself for the “unanticipated” rise of ISIS. The blowback has been precipitous. A Government Accountability Institute (GAI) report <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/09/29/Report-Obama-Has-Missed-Over-Half-His-Second-Term-Daily-Intel-Briefings"><span style="color: #1255cc;">reveals</span></a> Obama has missed nearly 58 percent of his daily intel briefs during his second term; the Washington Free Beacon reports he was repeatedly <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/389052/how-many-times-was-obama-warned-about-islamist-takeover-iraq-jim-geraghty"><span style="color: #1255cc;">warned</span></a> about the consequences of prematurely withdrawing from Iraq; and the <i>Daily Mail</i> cites an “administration insider” who says Obama had accurate intel about ISIS <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2774122/Obama-accurate-intelligence-ISIS-BEFORE-2012-election-says-administration-insider.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">prior</span></a> to the 2012 election.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Expect this pattern of revelations to continue, as it becomes ever more apparent that Obama’s penchant for throwing people under the bus will elicit return fire. In the meantime, the administration’s fantasy or winning a war from the air, while awaiting Arab &#8220;boots on the ground” that will never come, or arrive too late, produces tangibly deadly results. ISIS is <a href="http://nypost.com/2014/09/30/isis-push-fuels-massacre-fears-near-turkish-border/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">closing</span></a> in on the Kurdish city of Kobani near the Turkish border, they are only a mile from Baghdad, and they have reportedly <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/28/isis-al-qaida-air-strikes-syria"><span style="color: #1255cc;">rekindled</span></a> an alliance with Jabhat al-Nusra, Syria’s largest al-Qaeda group.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Yet it is Benjamin Netanyahu’s assessment of militant Islam’s scope that is the problem? Breathtaking.</p>
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		<title>State Department Proof Most Muslims Reject ISIS Fails So Hard</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2014 15:34:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Think Again Turn Away is the State Department&#8217;s attempt at outreach to Muslims to convince them not to become terrorists. It seems to only Tweet in English because its real target audience are non-Muslim Americans.</p>
<p>This Tweet is its attempt to prove that most Muslims oppose ISIS.</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" lang="en"><p>. <a href="https://twitter.com/Aalaw_">@Aalaw_</a> More proof that Muslims worldwide reject <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ISIS?src=hash">#ISIS</a> brutal ideology-ISIS stands alone <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/thinkagainturnaway?src=hash">#thinkagainturnaway</a> <a href="http://t.co/PCXvHPAJGH">pic.twitter.com/PCXvHPAJGH</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Think AgainTurn Away (@ThinkAgain_DOS) <a href="https://twitter.com/ThinkAgain_DOS/status/507966111288410112">September 5, 2014</a></p></blockquote>
<p><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
<p>The photo however isn&#8217;t from Iraq or Syria. It&#8217;s from a Benghazi protest against Ansar Al-Islam after the attack.</p>
<p>The Libyan flags are an obvious tell. The State Department however was insisting that Al Qaeda wasn&#8217;t involved. Now it almost seems to be suggesting that it is.</p>
<p>The &#8220;protest&#8221; largely <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/libya-responds-by-staging-fake-apology-rally/">consisted of identical misspelled</a> signs. </p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/muslims-apolgize-to-america1.jpg"><img src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/muslims-apolgize-to-america1-450x296.jpg" alt="muslims-apolgize-to-america1" width="450" height="296" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-240415" /></a></p>
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<p>A lot of liberals fastened on the scene at the time, but Benghazi today is held by Ansar Al-Sharia and other Jihadist groups&#8230; who control most of the country.</p>
<p>So the message here may not be what State actually seems to want.</p>
<p>The State Department&#8217;s Tweet did not attract any of the fabled moderate Muslims. Just a Muslim Jihadist named Hassan Nashwan Bahar from Minneapolis who claims to be a security PhD and spends a lot of time trolling Think Again, Turn Away.</p>
<p>And yes, he&#8217;s an ISIS fan.</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>After Allah&#39;s help this organization has enabled the Islamic Army to achieve some key successes on the battlefield. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ISIS?src=hash">#ISIS</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/IS?src=hash">#IS</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Hassan Nashwan Bahar (@HassanNBahar) <a href="https://twitter.com/HassanNBahar/status/508318931182825472">September 6, 2014</a></p></blockquote>
<p><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
<p>And then Unite Blue, a liberal Twitter spam factory, whose CA outlet is trying to help California Democrats, put in its 2 cents of trolling.</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" lang="en"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/ThinkAgain_DOS">@ThinkAgain_DOS</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/princessusOcare">@princessusOcare</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/Aalaw_">@Aalaw_</a> Any more than the current GOP represents most of America.</p>
<p>&mdash; Keep California Blue (@UniteBlueCA) <a href="https://twitter.com/UniteBlueCA/status/508438703069343745">September 7, 2014</a></p></blockquote>
<p><script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p>
<p>That was enormously helpful. </p>
<p>You&#8217;ll see a whole bunch of news puff pieces about how effective Think Again Turn Away is. Here&#8217;s how effective it really is.</p>
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		<title>State Department Spends $500K on &#8220;Lying to Congress&#8221; Training</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2014 18:13:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's worth every cent.]]></description>
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<p>Considering how much of the State Department&#8217;s vital work involves lying to Congress, <a href="http://weaselzippers.us/196009-state-department-spending-545k-on-testimony-coach-for-congressional-hearings/">you can see why it&#8217;s worth every cent</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>After suffering through a striking number of rough grillings at the hands of Congress, State Department officials have approved a contract worth up to $545,000 to help train themselves for how to brief lawmakers and to testify at hearings.</p>
<p>The contract with Orlando, Florida-based AMTIS, Inc. includes classes entitled “Communicating with Congress: Briefing and Testifying” and pays for one-on-one sessions to hold a mock hearing with questioners playing the role of lawmakers asking hard questions of the would-be witnesses.</p>
<p>Over the last two years, department officials have stumbled through hearings on their handling of the 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, been berated for failing to be able to lay out a new legal framework for the war on terror and seen one top campaign bundler for President Obama admit he’d never traveled to Argentina — the country he’d been nominated to serve in as U.S. ambassador.</p>
<p>State Department officials did not respond to questions about the contract by deadline on Thursday.</p></blockquote>
<p>Looks like they still haven&#8217;t completed their &#8220;Lying to the Media: Prevaricating and Falsifying&#8221; course.</p>
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		<title>During Benghazi Attack, Instead of Saving Americans, Hillary&#8217;s People Told YouTube to Take Down Video</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2014 21:40:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The State Department prioritized Muslim feelings over American lives.]]></description>
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<p>While Americans were fighting for their lives in Benghazi, Hillary&#8217;s State Department sprang into action to warn YouTube that Muslims were offended by a video. Their priority was not the lives of the Americans that their neglect had abandoned in a war zone, but protecting the hurt feelings of Muslims.</p>
<p><a href="http://weaselzippers.us/186928-white-houses-response-during-benghazi-attack-contact-youtube-over-anti-islam-video/">And censoring free speech</a>. That&#8217;s what a Hillary 3 AM phone call looks like.</p>
<blockquote><p>A still-classified State Department e-mail says that one of the first responses from the White House to the Benghazi attack was to contact YouTube to warn of the “ramifications” of allowing the posting of an anti-Islamic video.</p>
<p>The memo suggests that even as the attack was still underway — and before the CIA began the process of compiling talking points on its analysis of what happened — the White House believed it was in retaliation for a controversial video.</p>
<p>The subject line of the e-mail, which was sent at 9:11 p.m. Eastern Time on the night of the attack, is “Update on Response to actions – Libya.” The e-mail was written hours before the attack was over.</p>
<p>“White House is reaching out to U-Tube [sic] to advice ramification of the posting of the Pastor Jon video,” the e-mail reads, according to Issa.</p></blockquote>
<p>Why is an email to YouTube still classified? Because it&#8217;s embarrassing, and not just because whoever wrote it couldn&#8217;t spell YouTube, but because the State Department was acting like their favorite Turkish despot and prioritizing Muslim feelings over American lives.</p>
<p>And this is typical of how the State Department does things.</p>
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		<title>State Department Spends $5 Mil on Glasses, Says Benghazi Investigation is Waste of Money</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2014 15:24:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The State Department is defending its purchase of $79,000 worth of Obama's books.]]></description>
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<p>When bureaucrats who waste money like European royalty suddenly start getting protective of taxpayer money, you know something is up.</p>
<p>The State Department spokeswoman announced that <a href="http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=234387">investigating Benghazi is a waste of money</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Marie Harf, a State Department spokeswoman, told reporters a new investigation is not necessary, asking, “How many more taxpayer dollars are we going to spend trying to prove a political point that in 18 months they haven’t been able to prove?”</p></blockquote>
<p>Finally someone at the State Department is concerned about taxpayer money&#8230; when it comes to investigating the murder of four Americans.</p>
<p>Meanwhile <a href="http://blog.heritage.org/2013/12/09/state-department-waste-booze-crystal-and-a-million-dollar-stack-of-rocks/">here&#8217;s where what</a> the State Department under Hillary Clinton <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/dec/2/last-call-for-liquor-state-department-buys-180000-/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS">spent taxpayer money on</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Those records show the State Department bought $415,000 worth of alcohol in fiscal 2012, which was 25 percent more than the $331,000 spent in 2011 and more than triple the $118,000 spent in 2008.</p>
<p>All this liquor and wine requires proper drinkware, of course. Thus, the State Department raced to fill an order of $5 million just hours before the shutdown, buying 12,000 pieces of hand-blown crystal glassware—retailing up to $85 per glass.</p></blockquote>
<p>But<a href="http://netrightdaily.com/2012/06/your-government-at-waste-state-department-spends-16-5-million-on-2500-kindles/"> that was sensible compared</a> to&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>Kindles are just right for teaching English, the State Department thinks, which is why it bought 2,500 of them from Amazon in a $16.5 million no-bid contract.</p>
<p>That works out to $6,600 per Kindle Touch — a lot more than the $189 retail price.</p></blockquote>
<p>If only all that money wasn&#8217;t being wasted on investigating the murder of four Americans. <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/state-department-had-no-for-benghazi-security-here-is-what-it-did-have-for/">Look at all the things it could be spent on</a>&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>The U.S. State Department is defending its purchase of $79,000 worth of President Obama&#8217;s best-selling books.</p>
<p>It had $20,000 on a portrait of Obama. The US Embassy had $150,000 to spend on a book about the ambassador’s residence. The US Embassy in Austria had $150,000+ for a Chevy Volt and its charging station.</p>
<p>The New York Times reported in 2009 that Art in Embassies spends about $4.5 million a year for permanent art acquisitions.</p>
<p>The State Department also has a Chief Diversity Officer, whose job it is to warn that “holding the fort” is a racist phrase.</p></blockquote>
<p>Investigating Benghazi is also probably racist. And a waste of taxpayer money. Unlike what the <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/05/02/the-state-department-is-hiring-tutors-to-prep-for-congressional-hearings/">State Dept is spending cash on now</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p> The State Department is seeking a public relations firm to teach staff about dealing with congressional hearings.</p>
<p>In a letter to Kerry, Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) asked why State Department resources should be used to tutor department employees in handling questions from Congress, the Washington Post reported Friday.</p></blockquote>
<p>And no taxpayer money was wasted.</p>
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		<title>Soros Backed Marxist Media Group Got $364 Mil from US Gov</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2014 19:15:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ $124,400 to “sponsor the first-ever Palestinian social media conference.”]]></description>
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<p>But it&#8217;s<a href="http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=220261#more-220261"> all for a good cause</a>. Even if we&#8217;re <a href="http://mrc.org/articles/364-million-taxpayers-put-liberal-journalists-boots-ground-syria">not entirely sure what that cause</a> might be.</p>
<blockquote><p>Internews was founded by a self-described Marxist anti-war protester. It has received $1.7 million from Soros, which pales in comparison to the fat government checks it has received. In 2011 alone, it sucked up $52,350,784 in government grants, according to its 990 tax forms. This made up 92.4 percent of the $56,644,153 in total reported revenue for that year.</p>
<p>And 2011 wasn’t unusual. According to the Soros-funded Center for Public Integrity, “all but $1.6 million of the $26.7 million in revenue it [Internews] reported in 2004 came from the federal government.”</p>
<p>Yet Internews runs a massive international journalism organization with a surprisingly small media footprint. Already a presence in more than 90 countries, including hotspot regions like Egypt, Libya and the “Palestinian Territories,” Internews has branched out into the latest conflict area to dominate the world stage: Syria.</p>
<p>Hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars have gone to this little-known, liberal journalism nonprofit since 2002, but the government agencies responsible for funding Internews didn’t seem to know much about it at all. And they certainly don’t like answering questions about it.</p>
<p>Maybe they realize what they are paying for. Far from being politically neutral, Internews pushes a liberal agenda and has helped to found at least three other liberal organizations.</p>
<p>To put its $364,325,778 in federal funding in perspective, Internews has gotten an average of $83,122.46 from taxpayers per day during the past 12 years. That’s $83,000 every single day for 12 years.</p></blockquote>
<p>So what are we getting for all that money?</p>
<blockquote><p>The organization operates in more than 70 countries, with global partners including Al Quds University (a Palestinian University), Central European University (which has received at least $250 million from Soros since 2000) and the University of California Berkeley (one of the most liberal colleges in the United States).</p>
<p>More than $6.3 million in federal grants to Internews were designated for Palestinian organizations, including $124,400 to “sponsor the first-ever Palestinian social media conference.”</p></blockquote>
<p>The first-ever Palestinian social media conference. Just what the world needed.</p>
<blockquote><p>Like many other journalism groups, Internews also has close ties to George Soros. Internews has received $776,311 in Soros funds since 2000, and $1 million in seed money in the early ‘90s. The organization also has several former Soros employees on staff, including President and CEO Jeanne Bourgault, who used to be a consultant for the Open Society Institute, and Josh Machleder, Internews VP for Europe and Eurasia Programs and for the Global Human Rights project, who also used to work for the Open Society Institute.</p></blockquote>
<p>The US government is really becoming an outlet of Soros Inc.</p>
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		<title>State Department Misplaced $6 Billion Under Hillary</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2014 19:57:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just think how much the country will misplace if she ever reaches the White House.]]></description>
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<p>Just think <a href="http://weaselzippers.us/181772-state-dept-misplaced-6-billion-under-hillary-clinton/">how much the country will misplace if she ever</a> reaches the White House.</p>
<blockquote><p>The State Department misplaced and lost some $6 billion due to the improper filing of contracts during the past six years, mainly during the tenure of former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton, according to a newly released Inspector General report.</p>
<p>The $6 billion in unaccounted funds poses a “significant financial risk and demonstrates a lack of internal control over the Department’s contract actions,” according to the report.</p>
<p>The alert, originally sent on March 20 and just released this week, warns that the missing contracting funds “could expose the department to substantial financial losses.”</p></blockquote>
<p>You don&#8217;t say. And that&#8217;s just from misfiling contracts. Imagine how much money is truly being wasted in Foggy Bottom.</p>
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		<title>Why Make Light of PLO Non-Recognition of Israel?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caroline Glick]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Proof that Obama's pursuit of the "peace process" is in the interest of discrediting Israel. ]]></description>
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<p><em>Originally published by the <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Our-World-Why-make-light-of-PLO-non-recognition-of-Israel-344923">Jerusalem Post</a>. </em></p>
<p>Over the weekend, the Obama administration began walking back its support for Israel’s demand that the PLO recognize Israel as the Jewish state.</p>
<p>At a State Department media briefing on Friday, State Department Spokesperson Jennifer Psaki said, “If you look at the issue of a Jewish state and whether Israel will be called a Jewish state, that’s been our position, as you know, for a long time, but that doesn’t reflect what the parties will agree to, which I know you know.”</p>
<p>In other words, the US is neutral. It’s fine with Washington if the PLO accepts Israel’s right to exist. And it’s fine if the PLO continues to refuse to accept Israel’s right to exist. As far as the Obama administration is concerned, making peace between the Arabs and the Jewish state has nothing to do with persuading the Arabs to recognize the Jewish state.</p>
<p>More and more people these days are questioning Israel’s stubborn insistence on being recognized.</p>
<p>Israeli leftists like Finance Minister Yair Lapid, Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, and President Shimon Peres say they don’t care.</p>
<p>“We know we’re the Jewish state,” they thump their chests and say patriotically. “What do we care if PLO chief Mahmoud Abbas agrees with us?” Well, here’s the thing. People who recognize Israel’s right to exist have generally not been waging a terror and political war against it for the past 50 years whose declared aim is to destroy Israel. The PLO has been doing those things. And Abbas and the PLO are now supposed to be our peace partner.</p>
<p>If Abbas and the PLO aren’t even willing to recognize our right as Jews to determine our own destiny and define our own state as our own state, then how can it be said that they are our partners in peace? Their unwillingness to recognize Israel is the only thing that we should care about. It points to the utter futility of the two-state model.</p>
<p>As I explain in my new book, The Israeli Solution: A One State Plan for Peace in the Middle East, the two-state formula places all the blame on Israel for the absence of peace.</p>
<p>By claiming that the cause of the conflict, and through it all the problems of the region owe to the absence of a Palestinian state, and by claiming that the reason that such a state doesn’t exist is because Israel won’t surrender sufficient quantities of land to appease Palestinian demands, the two-state formula says that the Jews are responsible for everything bad in the region.</p>
<p>Israel’s demand that our “moderate” Palestinian “peace partners” recognize our right to national self-determination in our historic homeland is an attempt by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to take this hallucinatory policy and force it into reality.</p>
<p>In reality, the reason that the conflict began, and the reason it continues to this day is because the Arabs writ large, including the Palestinians, and the Islamic political world reject all Jewish rights – to peoplehood and to national self-determination.</p>
<p>The PLO ’s 1964 charter, posted on the group’s UN Mission’s website, sums up the prejudiced sentiment thus: “Judaism, because it is a divine religion, is not a nationality with independent existence. Furthermore, the Jews are not one people with an independent personality because they are citizens to their states.”</p>
<p>Supported by the Arab and Islamic worlds, the PLO ’s fight is not about establishing an Arab state next to the Jewish state. It is about destroying the Jewish state, because, as far as the PLO and its supporters are concerned, Jews have no right to self-determination.</p>
<p>They say we are not a nation, and we have no right to stand up to them. This is why Israel’s demand for recognition is critical.</p>
<p>And this is why people who are wedded to the two-state solution are trying desperately to get out from under it. Livni, Peres and Lapid, along with the State Department and the EU know that the Palestinians will never recognize Israel. And they know that the minute they acknowledge this plain fact, they are going to have to answer some difficult questions about the nature of their continued focus – indeed, in many cases their obsessive focus – on the two-state formula.</p>
<p>For instance, since the Palestinians refuse to acknowledge Israel’s right to exist, why do they continue to say that the two-state plan is a viable policy? Obviously it won’t lead to peace. After all, the Palestinians won’t live at peace with a state they refuse to recognize.</p>
<p>All the good people who say Palestinian aims and intentions are irrelevant also demand that Israel capitulate to all of the PLO ’s territorial, strategic and political demands. What are they trying to achieve? For the Israelis the answer is fairly clear.</p>
<p>The likes of Livni and Peres have based their entire political identity on their support for Palestinian statehood in the framework of the two-state solution.</p>
<p>They have no political existence beyond it. If it is exposed as a lie, they will be exposed as liars. And their careers will be over.</p>
<p>Lapid has less of a personal stake in the perpetuation of the two-state fallacy. But his political party is backed by people who are ideologically and politically committed to it. So he has joined them in trying to undermine Netanyahu by pretending that Palestinian non-recognition signifies nothing.</p>
<p>As for the Europeans, from reports of their internal deliberations, it is apparent that many European leaders agree with PLO /Arab/Islamic bigotry. They too reject the Jewish peoples’ right to assert our peoplehood and our right to national self-determination.</p>
<p>In December 2011, Haaretz reported that in a working paper authored by European ambassadors in Israel sent to Brussels, the EU ambassadors called for the EU to champion the communal rights of Israeli Arabs as a “core issue, not second tier to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”</p>
<p>In other words, the EU is interested in undermining the legitimacy of Jewish rights to sovereignty. If a Jewish government of a Jewish state does not have the right to enforce its laws without prejudice toward both Jewish and non-Jewish citizens of the Jewish state, then Jewish rights are meaningless. Israel is demoted to the position of a Jewish communal organization.</p>
<p>This brings us back to the Obama administration, and the fact that it is taking its first steps toward backing away from supporting Israel’s demand for recognition.</p>
<p>To date, Abbas and his supporters have done everything possible to show that they don’t want peace – beginning with their demand for Israel to release a thousand terrorist murderers from its prisons as a precondition for talks, and ending with their rejection of Israel’s rights to exist.</p>
<p>All along, despite daily proof of Palestinian radicalism, anti-Semitism and bad faith, Netanyahu has maintained his commitment to the peace process and the two-state formula. He has done so largely because he hasn’t wanted to give Obama the ability to blame Israel when the talks inevitably fail.</p>
<p>Obama’s decision to abandon his previous support for Israel’s demand for recognition shows that Netanyahu is being played for a fool.</p>
<p>With Psaki’s statement, it is obvious that Obama will not allow the facts get in the way of his policy. The fact that the Palestinians are uninterested in a twostate solution because they remain committed to the annihilation of the Jewish state is no cause for alarm in the White House.</p>
<p>And that is because Obama’s goal in pursuing a phony peace process is not to achieve peace. It is to weaken and discredit Israel.</p>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Betrayal of Israel as a Jewish State</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2014 04:57:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Klein]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The administration sides with the Palestinians on the key obstacle to real peace.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Kerry.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-220682" alt="Kerry" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Kerry-450x322.jpg" width="315" height="225" /></a>Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has flatly refused to recognize Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state. Such recognition is a key condition that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has demanded for reaching an acceptable peace agreement on a two-state solution with the Palestinians.</p>
<p>Prime Minister Netanyahu explained the importance of such Palestinian recognition, which would amount to an expression of the Palestinians’ good faith intention to truly end the conflict by accepting Israel’s right of self-determination to once and for all live in peace as the Jewish state its founders envisioned:</p>
<blockquote><p>“The central question at the end is of course ‘Are you willing to recognize that the state of Israel is the nation state of the Jewish nation?’. If you don’t have the brunt of the agreement, then why turn to the leftovers. Concentrate on the central and difficult questions that they need to provide an answer for, but they don’t provide an answer. If they do give an answer — its negative. They say that they will not recognize a Jewish state in order to leave the right of return on the table. So then what are we even talking about here? That a Palestinian state will be established but it will continue its conflict against the state of Israel with more preferential borders? We are a lot of things, but we are definitely not fools.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Incredibly, the U.S. State Department backs Abbas’ position. The spokeswoman for the State Department, Jen Psaki, stated in an interview Saturday with the “Al-Quds” newspaper that “[T]here is no need for the Palestinians to recognize Israel as a Jewish state. The American stance is clear in that it recognizes Israel as a Jewish state, but there is no need for the Palestinians to recognize it as such in a final agreement.”</p>
<p>Psaki is ignoring the Palestinians’ intent to throw out any Israelis still living in an independent Palestinian state. Abbas, for example, declared that &#8220;If we want an independent state, I will not accept any single Israeli in our territories.&#8221; He denied that he was against the Jews per se, but such antipathy is precisely what animates the xenophobic, anti-Jewish Palestinian ideology. This ideology starts with the Palestinian Authority’s attempt to falsely re-write the history of the Jewish homeland, denying that Jews have any historic connection to the land at all. Official Palestinian Authority outlets broadcast this lie over and over again. For example, in a documentary appearing last December on an official Palestinian Authority TV station, a woman proclaimed:  &#8220;I&#8217;m not against Jews. They can live. They can live on Mars, Allah willing, but they cannot take over places that are not their places, or land that is not their land and a homeland that is not their homeland.&#8221;</p>
<p>On January 7, 2014, the official spokesperson for President Abbas, Nabil Abu Rudeina, accused the Israeli government of “falsifying history.”</p>
<p>Then there is the provocative statement by Palestinian Authority Minister of Religious Affairs Mahmoud Al-Habbash in a sermon delivered in the presence of Abbas and broadcast on official Palestinian Authority TV. Al-Habbash said that any peace agreement reached with Israel is just the first step towards defeating Israel, citing as the “model” Mohammed’s conquest of Mecca just two years after he had signed a treaty that gave his forces time to gain enough strength to carry out the conquest.</p>
<p>Recognizing Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state would be contrary to the Palestinians’ goal of returning millions of the descendants of the original refugees to pre-1967 Israel. In other words, while insisting that Israel withdraw to the pre-1967 lines to make way for an independent Palestinian state devoid of any Israeli Jews, the Palestinians still demand the right to undermine the Jewish character of Israel, even as it existed pre-1967, by flooding Israel with so-called “refugees” (actually many descendants several generations removed from the original refugees) rather than giving them real homes in an independent Palestinian state.</p>
<p>Thus, Psaki’s dismissal of the importance that Israel attaches to the Palestinians’ recognition of Israel as a Jewish state, as part of any viable peace agreement, enables the Palestinians to continue to pursue their xenophobic, anti-Jewish agenda. However, Psaki is simply reflecting the Obama administration’s willingness to turn a blind eye to Israel’s core concern to maintain its Jewish identity. The Obama administration is willing to bend over backwards to accommodate Palestinian prejudices in pursuit of a vacuous peace. President Obama displayed this callousness during the course of an interview he conducted late last month with Jeffrey Goldberg, a columnist for Bloomberg View. Obama issued a veiled threat of diminished U.S. support for the Jewish state if Israel does not succumb to his demand for more concessions: “If you see no peace deal and continued aggressive settlement construction &#8212; and we have seen more aggressive settlement construction over the last couple years than we’ve seen in a very long time,” Obama said. “If Palestinians come to believe that the possibility of a contiguous sovereign Palestinian state is no longer within reach, then our ability to manage the international fallout is going to be limited.”</p>
<p>Obama made no mention of the Palestinian demand for the “right of return,” which could allow potentially millions of refugee descendants to descend on a land they did not come from in the first place. Why doesn’t he publicly upbraid Abbas for refusing to concede on this unreasonable destabilizing demand?</p>
<p>This brings us back to the issue of the Palestinian refusal to recognize Israel as a Jewish state as part of a final peace agreement. Perhaps there is an alternative solution which might be difficult for the Palestinians to refuse. They should at least be willing to explicitly acknowledge in the final agreement their support of the two-state principle declared in United Nations General Assembly Resolution 181 recommending the partition of Palestine into independent Arab and Jewish states. The Palestinian Authority would have a hard time refusing this proposal since the General Assembly resolution according it observer state status at the UN contains in its preamble the words “The General Assembly…Recalling its resolution 181 (II) of 29 November 1947.”</p>
<p>Moreover, the Application of the State of Palestine for admission to membership in the United Nations, which the Palestinians submitted to the UN Secretary General on September 23, 2011, states as follows:</p>
<blockquote><p>“This application for membership is being submitted based on the Palestinian people’s natural, legal and historic rights and based on United Nations General Assembly resolution 181 (II) of 29 November 1947…”</p></blockquote>
<p>Part II of Resolution 181 contains Section A, entitled “THE ARAB STATE,” and Section B, entitled “THE JEWISH STATE.” Why can’t Abbas at least be willing to repeat these headings in an acknowledgment of the rights accorded both sides in the two-state solution embodied in Resolution 181, the resolution he now relies on as a basis for an independent Palestinian state?</p>
<p>Finally, President Abbas himself said he realized that it was a mistake for the Arab states to have rejected the General Assembly Resolution 181 partition plan. In an interview in 2011 with the Israeli Channel Two, President Abbas said: “At that time, 1947, there was Resolution 181, the partition plan, Palestine and Israel. Israel existed. Palestine diminished. Why? […] I know, I know. It was our mistake. It was our mistake. It was an Arab mistake as a whole.”</p>
<p>What the Obama administration should be telling President Abbas in no uncertain terms is to correct the Palestinians’ historic mistake once and for all by explicitly embracing the principle of a Jewish state and an Arab state living side by side, as outlined in Resolution 181. It is time to call Abbas’ bluff rather than having the State Department run interference for him.</p>
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		<title>Christians Fight for Middle East Religious Freedom Watchdog</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Feb 2014 05:35:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan Mauro]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A campaign to add a new State Department envoy hits a bump.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/copticchristians.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-219112" alt="COPTIC CHRISTIANS PRAY INSIDE CHURCH IN CAIRO" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/copticchristians-450x305.jpg" width="270" height="183" /></a>Global persecution of Christians, especially in the Muslim world, is one of the most overlooked human rights disasters of the 21</span><sup style="line-height: 1.5em;">st</sup><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> century. Christian activists are demanding that the State Department add a new envoy for religious minorities in the Middle East, but their campaign is stymied by those concerned about government redundancy.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Christians United for Israel, Coptic Solidarity, the North American Religious Liberty Association and other groups are fighting for the Near East and South Central Asia Religious Freedom Act of 2013. They believe that the crisis warrants a specially-focused diplomatic post. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Ironically, one of the supporters is the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, a </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.shouldertoshouldercampaign.org/members/">member</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> of the Shoulder-to-Shoulder interfaith coalition that is </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/ryan-mauro/islamist-interfaith-alliance-battles-foreign-law-bans/">allied</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> with the </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/islamic-society-north-america-isna">Islamic Society of North America</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, a U.S. Muslim Brotherhood entity.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://freebeacon.com/republicans-blocking-bill-to-combat-christian-violence/%20">opposing side</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> is Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) and Senator Mike Lee (R-UT). Their position is that this is already the duty of the Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom, who also heads the State Department’s </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.state.gov/j/drl/irf/%20">Office of International Religious Freedom.</a></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Their argument is that adding to the bureaucracy isn’t the proper solution. If the U.S. is failing to address Christian persecution, it’s a failure of policy and leadership and not the configuration of the government.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">At the National Prayer Breakfast, President Obama </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.religionnews.com/2014/02/06/obama-highlights-religious-freedom-national-prayer-breakfast-speech/%20">spoke out</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> against persecution of Christians, calling for the release of a Christian missionary held in North Korea for 15 months and a Christian pastor in Iran that’s been imprisoned for over 18 months. He also criticized blasphemy and defamation laws that are used to suppress religious freedom.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">However, words have not been met with action. The perpetrators of the persecution do not face serious consequences for their actions. It is not a significant part of American global diplomacy and international relations and the American public is not educated about the scale of the problem.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">About </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.dw.de/the-persecution-of-christians-is-increasing/a-17215767">100 million</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> Christians around the world live in a state of persecution because of their faith, according to the Open Doors organization. It is </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.hoover.org/publications/defining-ideas/article/152651">estimated</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> that a Christian is killed every five minutes. The Pew Research Center </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://cnsnews.com/news/article/barbara-boland/pew-study-christians-are-world-s-most-oppressed-religious-group">finds</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> that Christians are the most persecuted religious group, facing oppression in 110 countries.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">And the problem is getting worse. A whopping 76% of the world’s population lives in countries where religious freedom is highly suppressed. That’s 5.3 billion people. About 20% of humanity lives in countries experiencing religious violence, more than double the percentage in 2007.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">A diplomatic post that condemns oppression of Christians would be an improvement, but we must be realistic about what such a figure can accomplish. Condemnations have been made, albeit at a quieter volume than deserved.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The new envoy would only have an impact if he focuses on the core source of that oppression and if he is backed by an administration that is willing to strain diplomatic relations to stand against it. That source is the governmental aspects of Sharia, a politically-sensitive fact that our leadership is loath to admit.</span></p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.opendoorsusa.org/press/2014/January/Persecution-of-Christians-Increases">top 10</a> countries most hostile to Christianity are (in order): North Korea, Somalia, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Maldives, Pakistan, Iran and Yemen. Nine out of the top 10 are Muslim-majority countries. Of the top 50 countries, <a href="http://www.hoover.org/publications/defining-ideas/article/152651">42 are Muslim-majority</a> or have large Muslim populations.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The most common denominator is Islam and, specifically, the commandments of Sharia. These aren’t ethnic conflicts where Christian and Muslim armies are battling. The motivation is the institution of Sharia-based governance.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">For example, Pakistani minister Shahbaz Bhatti, the only Christian member of the cabinet, was murdered in 2011 for opposing blasphemy laws inspired by Sharia. His brother recently </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.ucanews.com/news/brother-of-slain-catholic-minister-flees-pakistan/70258">fled</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> the country due to death threats.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">There are two main premises behind Islamist preaching that is stoking persecution of Christians. The first is that Islam is under attack and Christians, even civilians, should be seen as agents of the West. This is the thinking behind Al-Qaeda-type terrorist attacks on churches.</span></p>
<p>Other Islamists oppose violent targeting of Christian civilians, but still support Sharia governance. They may not want to bomb a church, but they do want restrictions in accordance with Sharia that make Christians second-class citizens.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The blasphemy laws that oppress Christians and other non-Muslims stem from an interpretation of sacred Islamic texts. For example, Quran 5:72 </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.muslimaccess.com/quraan/arabic/005.asp">says</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, “They do blaspheme who say: &#8220;(Allah) is Christ the son of Mary.&#8221; And again in 5:73: “They do blaspheme who say: Allah is one of three in a Trinity: for there is no god except One Allah.” Blasphemy is prohibited under Sharia.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Apostasy, or the decision of a Muslim to leave his Islamic faith, is punishable by death under Sharia. Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader Yousef al-Qaradawi amazingly </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://youtu.be/huMu8ihDlVA">said</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> in a television interview, “If they left apostasy alone, there wouldn’t have been any Islam. Islam would have been finished right after the death of the Prophet.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In the interview, he used Islamic scripture to endorse laws against blasphemy and apostasy. He cited the Sahih Bukhari hadith collection that recorded Mohammed as saying, “Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him.” Qaradawi also cited the hadith of Ibn Abbas that said the same thing and the hadith of Ibn Masud, who said that Muslims can only be killed if they are guilty of murder, adultery or apostasy.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Having an additional official monitoring persecution of Christians would be positive, but it will only bear fruit if the ideological source driving that persecution is identified and confronted.</span></p>
<p><em><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.theird.org/">Institute on Religion and Democracy</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> contributed to this article.</span></em></p>
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		<title>Employee Who Denied Extra Security to Benghazi Mission Promoted to Regional Security Officer</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jan 2014 01:36:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["You can actually get someone killed and be rewarded”.]]></description>
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<p>That seems entirely reasonable and fair. If Hillary is supposed to get the White House, why not make Charlene Lamb a Regional Security Officer?</p>
<p>What<a href="http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/benghazi-snap-shot-failed-department-of-state-employee-given-security-role/"> difference does it make anyway</a>?</p>
<p>At the Congressional hearing, Charlene Lamb stated <a href="http://cnsnews.com/news/article/state-dept-security-chief-we-had-correct-number-assets-benghazi-time-911-what-had-been">that she would not have approved</a> more security for Benghazi and said, &#8220;we had the correct number of assets in Benghazi at the time of 9/11 for what had been agreed upon.&#8221;</p>
<p>That conclusion was shot down by the first friendly insider &#8220;protect Hillary&#8221; report and the second more serious Senate report. Lamb <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/329977/top-revelations-libya-hearing-katrina-trinko">also refused to describe</a> Benghazi as a terrorist attack.</p>
<p>Eric Nordstrom, the regional security officer, <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/10/10/diplomatic-security-in-libya-weak-former-military-team-chief-says/">blamed Lamb directly in his testimony</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>In that interview, Nordstrom said he sent two cables to State Department headquarters in March 2012 and July 2012 requesting additional diplomatic security agents for Benghazi, but he received no responses.</p>
<p>He stated that Charlene Lamb, the deputy assistant secretary for international programs, wanted to keep the number of U.S. security personnel in Benghazi artificially low. He said Lamb believed the Benghazi facilities did not need any diplomatic security special agents because there was a residential safe haven to fall back to in an emergency.</p></blockquote>
<p>So obviously the thing to do is to move Lamb up the ladder.</p>
<blockquote><p>Charlene Lamb, cited for failures in leadership from the Department of State’s own Accountability Review Board report, has been promoted to Regional Security Officer. We’ve heard rumor that she’s slated for international duty in Canada. She started the security officer training last week, much to the dismay of many within the State Department.</p>
<p>She currently holds the rank of MC (Minister Counselor) or the equivalent of a  2-star and is taking a full colonel position. This is usually reserved for people with hardship issues as State is an up-or-out organization.</p>
<p>Rank and file are [upset]and as one put to me, “it shows that as long as you play by the rules with the black dragons you can actually get someone killed and be rewarded”.</p>
<p>She refuses to leave DS (Diplomatic Security) as she has kids in college and is radioactive. No one in the private sector will give them (the DS 3) a look and [no one came] to the rescue with a willing patsy to take her off states hand with a $200k job.</p></blockquote>
<p>Here&#8217;s the Senate Benghazi report on Charlene Lamb.</p>
<blockquote><p>When the Libyan mission transmitted its official request for additional security personnel on March 28, 2012, the push back from Ms. Lamb’s office was swift and significant. While the request, which included five temporary duty Diplomatic Security agents in Benghazi, was clearly reasonable, one of Ms. Lamb’s subordinates asked Mr. Nordstrom why the official cable sought “the sun, the moon, and the stars.” When Mr. Nordstrom stated that he did not understand why this was an issue, the response from Ms. Lamb’s office was telling: “Well, you know, this is a political game. You have to not to make us look bad here, that we’re not being responsive.”</p></blockquote>
<p>The message from Obama Inc. is that loyalists are rewarded, whistleblowers are punished.</p>
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		<title>No TSA Patdowns for Muslim Brotherhood Members Traveling to US</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jan 2014 01:43:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One member had been linked to a child pornography investigation]]></description>
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<p>Or<a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/4269/ipt-exclusive-records-prove-mb-delegates-skipped"> any inspections at all for that matter</a>. Not when <a href="http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=221638">Hillary Clinton</a> is in the State Department.</p>
<blockquote><p>A U.S. official familiar with immigration procedures told the IPT in 2012 that the exemption for the Brotherhood delegation was &#8220;extraordinary.&#8221;</p>
<p>The records, marked &#8220;sensitive but unclassified,&#8221; were obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request. They offer few details. The State Department released a one-page document labeled &#8220;Compiled References to MB Delegation Arrival and Departure&#8221;.</p>
<p>&#8220;In the coming days, we&#8217;re going to write down a list of procedures for dealing with MB visits to the United States,&#8221; an April 16, 2012 entry says.</p>
<p>A March 30 communication offers help dealing with &#8220;FJP Delegation and POE [port of entry] Courtesies: Please let the desk know over the weekend if you&#8217;d like our help submitting to DHS the &#8216;Special Alerts,&#8217; which are used to request that travelers not be pulled into secondary [inspection] upon arrival at a point of entry.&#8221;</p>
<p>But one member of the Brotherhood delegation, which met with U.S. academic and senior government officials, had been linked to a child pornography investigation in the United States years earlier. Under normal circumstances, he likely would have been subjected to extra scrutiny.</p>
<p>The records released do not address that issue. They do, however, report that &#8220;The MB/FJP delegation&#8217;s scheduler reported that their arrival at JFK on Saturday went very smoothly.&#8221;</p>
<p>And the official in question, Abdul Mawgoud Dardery, traveled separately and was escorted through security checks in Minneapolis and New York&#8217;s John F. Kennedy Airport &#8220;In response to a request from the MB &#8230; We did not hear anything further from the MB so we assume to departure went smoothly,&#8221; the records show.</p></blockquote>
<p>No airplanes were hijacked. This time.</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jan 2014 17:38:49 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>Not really news. We knew all this from multiple cables and testimony by Hicks and Nordstrom, but<a href="http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/documents/world/senate-intelligence-committee-report-on-benghazi-attack/748/"> it&#8217;s now firmly on the record </a>from a bipartisan senate panel and without any of the equivocation from Hillary&#8217;s house-cleaning team.</p>
<blockquote><p>On July 9, 2012, Stevens sent a cable to State Department headquarters requesting a minimum of 13 &#8220;Temporary Duty&#8221; (TDY) U.S. security personnel for Libya, which he said could be made up of DS agents, DoD Site Security Team (SST) personnel, or_some combination ofthe two.  These TDY security personnel were needed to meet the requested security posture in Tripoli and Benghazi. The State Department never fulfilled this request and, according to Eric Nordstrom, State Department headquarters never responded to the request with a cable.</p>
<p>Despite the clearly deteriorating security situation in Benghazi and requests for additional security resources, few significant improvements were made by the State Department to the security posture of the Temporary Mission Facility.</p>
<p>Although the Mission facility met the minimum personnel requirements ~or Diplomatic Security agents as accepted by the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli at the time of the August 15 EAC meeting (specifically, the three Diplomatic Security agents were assigned to guard the Mission compound), the Committee found no evidence that significant actions were taken by the State Department between August 15, 2012, and September 11, 2012, to increase security at the Mission facility in response to the concerns raised in that meeting&#8230;</p>
<p>In contrast, the CIA, in response to the same deteriorating security situation and IC threat reporting, consistently upgraded its security posture over the same time period.</p></blockquote>
<p>Ambassador Stevens asked for a minimum of 13 personnel. He got 3 on site and 2 others who came with him.</p>
<blockquote><p>There has been considerable public discussion about the DoD&#8217;s Site Security Team in Tripoli. The SST, which was provided by the DoD at no expense to the Department of State, consisted of 16 special operations personnel detailed to the Chief of Mission in Libya&#8230;</p>
<p>State Department headquarters made the decision not to request an extension of the SST&#8217;s mission in August 2012, approximately one month prior to the attacks, because State believed that many of the duties of the SST could be accomplished by local security forces, DS agents, or other State Department DoD personnel in Libya</p></blockquote>
<p>According to the report, Stevens was to blame for some of this. It appears that he wanted some native security forces and he got them.</p>
<blockquote><p>DoD confirmed to the Committee that Ambassador Stevens declined two specific offers from General Carter Ham, then the head of AFRICOM, to sustain the SST in the weeks before the terrorist attacks. After reading the August 16, 2012, EAC cable, General Ham called Ambassador Stevens and asked if the Embassy needed the SST from the U.S. military, but Stevens told Ham it did not.</p></blockquote>
<p>Stevens is on the record as wanting security personnel, but didn&#8217;t want that form of security, probably for diplomatic reasons. It&#8217;s not terribly surprising that he was complicit in what happened.</p>
<blockquote><p>There were &#8220;tripwires&#8221; designed to prompt a reduction in personnel or the suspension of operations at the Mission facility in Benghazi and although there is evidence that some of them had been crossed, operations continued with minimal change.</p>
<p>State Department documents indicate that its Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs was aware of the fact that many of the tripwires had indeed been crossed and discussed suspending operations, but never did. Given these developments and the available intelligence at the time, the Committee believes the State Department should have recognized the need to increase security to a level commensurate with the threat, or suspend operations in Benghazi. However, operations continued with minimal improvements in security and personnel protections</p></blockquote>
<p>Which did not happen. And <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/frontpagemag-com/robert-gates-revelations-confirm-horowitzs-party-of-defeat-on-the-glazov-gang/">as I said in the interview</a>, that is what this comes down to. Hillary&#8217;s State Department failed to secure a diplomatic facility that they knew was under threat and had been attacked in the past. They failed to meet its security needs as requested by its own ambassador.</p>
<blockquote><p>As noted, one unarmed Predator was diverted to provide surveillance coverage of the Temporary Mission Facility as it was being attacked. This Predator was subsequently replaced by another unanned Predator to enable the first Predator to return to base for refueling.</p></blockquote>
<p>It&#8217;s not stated, but the Predators were unarmed because Libya did not authorize the US to conduct armed flights. The question is why, considering the Al Qaeda presence in Eastern Libya and the difficulty supporting US personnel there, didn&#8217;t Obama Inc. at least insist on having authorization for self-defense.</p>
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		<title>Bipartisan Senate Panel: Benghazi Attack Could Have Been Prevented</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 15 people helpful to the United States have since been killed in Benghazi.]]></description>
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<p>This<a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2014/01/15/bipartisan-senate-report-blames-obama-administration-for-not-preventing-benghazi-attack/"> is a spoke in the wheel for</a> Media Matters&#8217; roll out of the murder of four Americans in Benghazi as a Republican &#8220;hoax&#8221;. The report confirms some of the basic facts including the State Department&#8217;s mishandling and neglect of the situation.</p>
<blockquote><p>A long-delayed Senate intelligence committee report released on Wednesday spreads blame among the State Department and intelligence agencies for not preventing attacks on two outposts in Libya that killed four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens.</p>
<p>The bipartisan report lays out more than a dozen findings regarding the assaults on Sept. 11 and 12, 2012 on the diplomatic compound and a CIA annex in the Libyan city of Benghazi. It says the State Department failed to increase security at the sites despite warnings, and faults intelligence agencies for not sharing information about the existence of the CIA outpost with the U.S. military.</p></blockquote>
<p>It doesn&#8217;t mention, but clearly demonstrates, that assigning the FBI to the case was a foolish strategy.</p>
<blockquote><p>The report also notes, chillingly, that the FBI’s investigation into the attacks has been hampered inside Libya, and that 15 people “supporting the investigation or otherwise helpful to the United States” have since been killed in Benghazi. The report says it is unclear whether those killings were related to the investigation.</p></blockquote>
<p>The lack of protests was known.</p>
<blockquote><p>The report says that on Sept. 18, 2012, the “FBI and CIA reviewed the closed circuit television video from the Mission facility that showed there were no protests prior to the attacks.”</p>
<p>But it took six more days for intelligence officials to revise their chronology of events and say that “there were no demonstrations or protests” at the diplomatic compound “prior to the attacks.”</p></blockquote>
<p>It does make efforts to spread some of the blame around&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>The report says it was problematic that the CIA and State Department were not working out of the same facility together in the dangerous Benghazi environment. That meant the CIA and its well-trained contractors, who had served in elite U.S. forces, were not on location at the diplomatic outpost in the event of a crisis.</p></blockquote>
<p>I&#8217;m not sure that bundling the CIA and diplomats together would have been a wise idea. We do try to maintain a little distance and the CIA would have credibly thought that such an action would endanger the diplomats and interfere with its own operations.</p>
<p>The State Department should have independently protected its mission instead of relying on the CIA.</p>
<blockquote><p>The committee found that the military response to the attacks was slow and hindered, but not purposely so. “At approximately 1:15 a.m. Benghazi time, a seven-man reinforcement team of additional U.S. security personnel from Tripoli landed at the Benghazi airport and began to negotiate with the local Libyan militias for transportation and a security convoy,” the report says. The team would not leave the airport for the annex until more than three hours later.</p></blockquote>
<p>Purposely on the part of the Libyans or the responders? Either way it was a bad decision.</p>
<p>Other elements of the report <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/benghazi-report-that-cia-contractors-were-told-to-stand-down-shot-down-by-report-that-they-were-told-to-stand-down/">however fudge the facts</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Six armed CIA employees and a linguist responded to the attack on the diplomatic compound, the report says. About 30 minutes passed before the CIA team arrived on the scene and “exchanged fire with the attackers.” They neither asked permission to come to the aid of the diplomats nor were told to stand down.</p></blockquote>
<p>That depends on how you define &#8220;stand down&#8221;.</p>
<blockquote><p>At least one of those security contractors, a former U.S. Army Ranger, was told to “wait” at least twice, and he argued with his security team leader, according to his testimony, related by Westmoreland. Westmoreland declined to share the names of the officers who testified because they are still CIA employees.</p></blockquote>
<p>So yes they were told to wait, not stand down. Meanwhile<a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/benghazi-report-that-cia-contractors-were-told-to-stand-down-shot-down-by-report-that-they-were-told-to-stand-down/"> another team was indeed prevented</a> from going.</p>
<blockquote><p>The deputy of slain U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens has told congressional investigators that a team of Special Forces prepared to fly from Tripoli to Benghazi during the Sept. 11, 2012 attacks was forbidden from doing so by U.S. Special Operations Command Africa.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>State Dept Kills New York Times Lie About Al Qaeda and Benghazi</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jan 2014 15:09:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The State Department is expected to tie Qumu’s group to the Benghazi attack]]></description>
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<p>The New York Times produced a hoax report claiming that Al Qaeda was not involved in the Benghazi attack and that the whole thing had been set off by a YouTube video. It was a little like reading the paper claim that the earth was flat.</p>
<p>Ironically, the Times ran its Benghazi hoax report to protect former State Department boss Hillary Clinton. But now<a href="http://weaselzippers.us/?p=166987"> even the State Department is preparing</a> to shoot down the scam report according to the Washington Post.</p>
<blockquote><p>U.S. officials suspect that a former Guantanamo Bay detainee played a role in the attack on the American compound in Benghazi, Libya, and are planning to designate the group he leads as a foreign terrorist organization, according to officials familiar with the plans.</p>
<p>Militiamen under the command of Abu Sufian bin Qumu, the leader of Ansar al-Sharia in the Libyan city of Darnah, participated in the attack that killed U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans, U.S. officials said.</p>
<p>The State Department is expected to tie Qumu’s group to the Benghazi attack when it designates three branches of Ansar al-Sharia, in Darnah, Benghazi and Tunisia, as foreign terrorist organizations in the coming days.</p>
<p>Qumu and two other men, militia leaders Ahmed Abu Khattala and Seif Allah bin Hassine, will be identified as “specially designated global terrorists,” a determination that allows U.S. officials to freeze their financial assets and bar American citizens and companies from doing business with them.</p>
<p>The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the developments.</p></blockquote>
<p>No mention of the dreaded YouTube video of doom either because this is a professional report, not a PR exercise for Hillary 2016.</p>
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		<title>State Dept Whistleblower has 4 Years of Emails Erased in Hack</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2014 19:09:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Someone out there must really be ready for Hillary.]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=219150">Someone out there must really be</a> <a href="http://nypost.com/2013/12/30/state-dept-whistleblower-has-email-hacked-deleted/">ready for Hillary</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>The personal e-mail account of a State Department whis­tle­­blower was hacked, and four years worth of messages — some detailing alleged wrongdoing at the agency — were deleted, The Post has learned.</p>
<p>The computer attack targeted the Gmail account of Diplomatic Security Service criminal investigator Richard Higbie, his lawyer, Cary Schulman, confirmed.</p>
<p>“They took all of his e-mails and then they deleted them all,” said Schulman. He said that he could not prove who was responsible for the hack job, but said the attack was “sophisticated” and called the targeting of Higbie “alarming.”</p>
<p>“Obviously, somebody is not happy with something he’s doing and wanted to get that information and also cause him an inability in the future to have ready access to that,” Schulman said.</p>
<p>The e-mails included evidence about misconduct by top officials at the department, communications with other potential whistleblowers there, and correspondence with members of Congress who are investigating the allegations, Schulman said.</p>
<p>&#8230;</p>
<p>Higbie played a key role in helping fellow whistleblower Aurelia Fedenisn, a former investigator for the department’s inspector general, reveal in June a pattern of alleged coverups by top department officials.</p>
<p>The alleged coverups included keeping quiet separate IG investigations that found that members of then-Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton’s security detail had engaged hookers and that the Belgian ambassador had solicited underage prostitutes.</p></blockquote>
<p>That happens to be <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/state-department-covered-up-pedophilia-by-ambassador-who-was-obama-and-hillary-donor/">the Belgian ambassador who is a Hillary donor</a>. But as the inevitable presidential candidate of 2016 likes to say, &#8220;What difference does it make anyway once all the emails have been erased?&#8221;</p>
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		<title>The Muslim Brotherhood’s Man in the White House</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Spencer]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama’s affection for the Islamic supremacist group has been unstinting. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/obama-egypt.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-208268" alt="obama-egypt" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/obama-egypt-450x338.jpg" width="315" height="237" /></a>When the State Department <a href="http://bigstory.ap.org/article/state-department-us-suspending-hundreds-millions-military-and-other-aid-egypt">announced</a> early in October that it was cutting hundreds of millions in military and other aid to Egypt, it was yet another manifestation of Barack Obama’s unstinting support for the Muslim Brotherhood,<b> </b>a support that has already thrown Egypt back into the Russian orbit. The aid cut was essentially giving the Egyptian people a choice between Muslim Brotherhood rule and economic collapse. Nothing else could have been expected from Obama, who has been a Brotherhood man from the beginning.</p>
<p>Obama’s support for the Brotherhood goes back to the beginning of his presidency. <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2009/01/head-of-muslim-group-with-admitted-hamas-ties-to-offer-prayer-at-obama-inauguration.html">He even invited Ingrid Mattson</a>, then-president of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), to offer a prayer at the National Cathedral on his first Inauguration Day – despite the fact that <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/732/isna-admits-hamas-ties">ISNA has admitted its ties to the Brotherhood</a>. The previous summer, federal prosecutors rejected a request from ISNA to remove its unindicted co-conspirator status. Obama didn’t ask Mattson to explain ISNA’s links to the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas. On the contrary: he sent his Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett to be the keynote speaker at ISNA’s national convention in 2009.</p>
<p>Even worse, in April 2009, Obama appointed Arif Alikhan, the deputy mayor of Los Angeles, as Assistant Secretary for Policy Development at the Department of Homeland Security. Just two weeks before he received this appointment, Alikhan (who once called the jihad terror group Hizballah a “liberation movement”) participated in a fundraiser for the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC). Like ISNA, MPAC has links to the Muslim Brotherhood. In a book entitled <i>In Fraternity: A Message to Muslims in America, </i>coauthor Hassan Hathout, a former MPAC president, is identified as “a close disciple of the late Hassan al-Banna of Egypt.” The MPAC-linked magazine <i>The Minaret</i> spoke of Hassan Hathout’s closeness to al-Banna in a 1997 article: “My father would tell me that Hassan Hathout was a companion of Hassan al-Banna&#8230;.Hassan Hathout would speak of al-Banna with such love and adoration; he would speak of a relationship not guided by politics or law but by a basic sense of human decency.”</p>
<p>Al-Banna, of course, was the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, an admirer of Hitler and a leader of the movement to (in his words) “push the Jews into the sea.”</p>
<p>Terror researcher Steven Emerson’s Investigative Project has documented MPAC’s indefatigable and consistent opposition to virtually every domestic anti-terror initiative; its magazine <i>The Minaret</i> has dismissed key counterterror operations as part of “[t]he American crusade against Islam and Muslims.” For his part, while Alikhan was deputy mayor of Los Angeles, he blocked a Los Angeles Police Department project to assemble data about the ethnic makeup of mosques in the Los Angeles area. This was not an attempt to conduct surveillance of the mosques or monitor them in any way. LAPD Deputy Chief Michael P. Downing explained that it was actually an outreach program: “We want to know where the Pakistanis, Iranians and Chechens are so we can reach out to those communities.” But Alikhan and other Muslim leaders claimed that the project manifested racism and “Islamophobia,” and the LAPD ultimately discarded all plans to study the mosques.</p>
<p>And early in 2009, when the Muslim Brotherhood was still outlawed in Egypt, <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/obama-met-muslim-brotherhood-members-in-u-s-1.277306">Obama met with its leaders</a>. He <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2009/06/-brotherhood-invited-to-obama-speech-by-us/18693/">made sure to invite Brotherhood leaders</a> to attend his notorious speech to the Islamic world in Cairo in June 4, 2009, making it impossible for then-President Hosni Mubarak to attend the speech, since he would not appear with the leaders of the outlawed group.</p>
<p>Then on January 31, 2011, when the Mubarak regime was on the verge of falling in the Arab Spring uprising, a former U.S. Ambassador to Egypt, Frank Wisner, met <a href="http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=258405">secretly</a> in Cairo with Issam El-Erian, a senior Brotherhood leader. That meeting came a week after a Mubarak government official announced the regime’s suspicions that Brotherhood and other opposition leaders were coordinating the Egyptian uprising with the Obama State Department.</p>
<p>Early in February, Obama’s Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, tried to allay concerns about a Muslim Brotherhood takeover in Egypt by claiming, preposterously, that the group was “<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/02/10/administration-corrects-dni-clapper-claim-muslim-brotherhood-secular/">largely secular</a>.” Although the subsequent torrent of ridicule compelled the Obama camp to issue a correction, the subtext of Clapper’s statement was clear: the Obama Administration had no problem with Muslim Brotherhood rule in Egypt, and was not only going to do nothing to stop it, but was going actively to enable it.</p>
<p>And so <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/30/us-usa-egypt-brotherhood-idUSTRE75T0GD20110630">in June 2011</a>, the Administration announced that it was going to establish formal ties with the Brotherhood. The U.S.’s special coordinator for transitions in the Middle East, William Taylor, <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/US-would-be-satisfied-with-Brotherhood-win-in-Egypt">announced</a> in November 2011 that the U.S. would be “satisfied” with a Muslim Brotherhood victory in the Egyptian elections. <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/25/us-davos-usa-egypt-idUSTRE80O24G20120125">In January 2012</a>, Obama announced that he was speeding up the delivery of aid to Egypt, just as U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/us-official-meets-egypts-islamists-171212768.html">held talks</a> with Brotherhood leaders – a move apparently calculated to demoralize the Brotherhood’s opposition in the Egyptian elections.</p>
<p>Not surprisingly, when Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohamed Morsi was declared the winner of Egypt’s 2012 presidential election, <a href="http://www.politico.com/politico44/2012/06/white-house-congratulates-egypts-morsi-127117.html">Obama immediately called Morsi</a> to congratulate him. Then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hurried to Cairo to meet with Morsi <a href="http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765589901/Hillary-Clinton-meets-Egypts-new-Islamist-president-Mohammed-Morsi.html">in July 2012</a>, as anti-Brotherhood protesters gathered outside the U.S. Embassy complex there. The Obama administration’s support for the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt had been so glaringly obvious that foes of the Brotherhood regime pelted her motorcade with tomatoes and shoes for delivering that country up to the rule of the Brotherhood. Protestors held signs reading “Message to Hillary: Egypt will never be Pakistan”; “To Hillary: Hamas will never rule Egypt” and “If you like the Ikhwan [Brotherhood], take them with you!”</p>
<p><a href="http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765589901/Hillary-Clinton-meets-Egypts-new-Islamist-president-Mohammed-Morsi.html">Obama invited Morsi</a> to visit the U.S., although by September 2012, when Morsi had called for the release of Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, the 1993 World Trade Center jihad attack plotter, as well as for restrictions on the freedom of speech, and persecution of Egyptian Christians had increased dramatically, Obama <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2012/09/24/obama-cancels-election-season-meeting-with-egyptian-islamist-morsi/">quietly canceled</a> the proposed meeting.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Obama’s foreign policy displayed a decided pro-Brotherhood orientation. Former U.S. prosecutor Andrew C. McCarthy has <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/354351/huma-unmentionables-andrew-c-mccarthy">listed</a> a great many strange collaborations between Obama’s State Department and Muslim Brotherhood organizations, including:</p>
<p>• Secretary Clinton personally intervened to reverse a Bush-administration ruling that barred Tariq Ramadan, grandson of the Brotherhood’s founder and son of one of its most influential early leaders, from entering the United States.</p>
<p>• The State Department collaborated with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, a bloc of governments heavily influenced by the Brotherhood, in seeking to restrict American free-speech rights in deference to sharia proscriptions against negative criticism of Islam.</p>
<p>• The State Department excluded Israel, the world’s leading target of terrorism, from its “Global Counterterrorism Forum,” a group that brings the United States together with several Islamist governments, prominently including its co-chair, Turkey — which now finances Hamas and avidly supports the flotillas that seek to break Israel’s blockade of Hamas. At the forum’s kickoff, Secretary Clinton decried various terrorist attacks and groups; but she did not mention Hamas or attacks against Israel — in transparent deference to the Islamist governments, which echo the Brotherhood’s position that Hamas is not a terrorist organization and that attacks against Israel are not terrorism.</p>
<p>• The State Department and the Obama administration waived congressional restrictions in order to transfer $1.5 billion dollars in aid to Egypt after the Muslim Brotherhood’s victory in the parliamentary elections.</p>
<p>• The State Department and the Obama administration waived congressional restrictions in order to transfer millions of dollars in aid to the Palestinian territories notwithstanding that Gaza is ruled by the terrorist organization Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood’s Palestinian branch.</p>
<p>• The State Department and the administration hosted a contingent from Egypt’s newly elected parliament that included not only Muslim Brotherhood members but a member of the Islamic Group (Gamaa al-Islamiyya), which is formally designated as a foreign terrorist organization. The State Department refused to provide Americans with information about the process by which it issued a visa to a member of a designated terrorist organization, about how the members of the Egyptian delegation were selected, or about what security procedures were followed before the delegation was allowed to enter our country.</p>
<p>Once in power in Egypt, the Brotherhood government <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/11/egypt-new-constitution-denies-freedom-of-speech-and-equality-of-rights-for-women-but-omits-ban-on-sl.html">drafted a new constitution</a>, enshrining Islamic law as the highest law of the land, restricting the freedom of speech and denying equality of rights for women. The <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_EGYPT_CONSTITUTION_GLANCE?SITE=AP&amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&amp;CTIME=2012-11-29-20-23-22">Associated Press</a> reported that the  constitution reflected the “vision of the Islamists, with articles that rights activists, liberals and Christians fear will lead to restrictions on the rights of women and minorities and civil liberties in general.”</p>
<p>AP reported that the constitution’s wording gave the Muslim Brotherhood “the tool for insisting on stricter implementation of rulings of Shariah,” and that “a new article states that Egypt’s most respected Islamic institution, Al-Azhar, must be consulted on any matters related to Shariah, a measure critics fear will lead to oversight of legislation by clerics.”</p>
<p>Cairo’s Al-Azhar is the foremost exponent of Sunni orthodoxy. Its characterization of what constitutes that orthodoxy carries immense weight in the Islamic world. It hews to age-old formulations of Islamic law mandating second-class dhimmi status for non-Muslims, institutionalized discrimination against women, and sharp restrictions on the freedom of speech, particularly in regard to Islam. Al-Azhar’s having a role in the government of Egypt and its administration of Sharia meant the end of any remaining freedom in Egyptian society.</p>
<p>While forcing this constitution on Egyptians, the Morsi regime became increasingly <a href="http://www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2012/12/11/Nine-shot-in-anti-Muslim-Bros-protests/UPI-26721355237936/">brutal toward dissenters</a>. In a move reminiscent of Communist governments, the Brotherhood regime had opposition leaders <a href="http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Tensions-rising-in-Egypt-as-opposition-leaders-are-investigated-for-high-treason-26731.html">investigated</a> for high treason. Morsi even <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/11/27/clashes-resume-in-cairo-ahead-opposition-rally-against-morsi-power-grab/">tried to arrogate </a>dictatorial powers for himself, although he <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/12/09/egypt-opposition-calls-more-protests-after-president-makes-partial-concession/">backed off</a> after protests. <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/11/27/clashes-resume-in-cairo-ahead-opposition-rally-against-morsi-power-grab/">Huge crowds</a> came out to protest against the Morsi regime – a clear indication that if Obama had backed the Brotherhood because he thought it represented the popular will of the vast majority of Egyptians, he was dead wrong. Yet as all this was happening, Hillary Clinton demonstrated how out of touch the Obama Administration was with what was really happening in Egypt when she said, according to <a href="http://foxnewsinsider.com/2013/01/29/hillary-clinton-on-egypt-we-must-make-sure-the-revolution-isnt-hijacked-by-extremists/">Fox News</a>, that “the U.S. must work with the international community and the people in Egypt to ensure that the revolution isn’t hijacked by extremists.”</p>
<p>The Arab Spring “revolution” was “hijacked by extremists” as soon as the Muslim Brotherhood regime took power. Yet as the turmoil in Egypt increased, Obama responded not by admonishing the Muslim Brotherhood regime to respect the human rights of all its citizens, but by <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/12/10/us-sending-20-more-f-16s-to-egypt-despite-turmoil-in-cairo/">shipping over twenty F-16 fighter jets to Egypt</a>, as part of an aid package amounting to over a billion dollars. A Republican congressional aide noted at the time that “the Morsi-led Muslim Brotherhood government has not proven to be a partner for democracy as they had promised, given the recent attempted power grab.” The Obama Administration <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2012/12/05/white-house-downplays-islamist-push-for-power-in-egypt/">responded</a> by downplaying the significance of the Brotherhood’s increasing authoritarianism, speaking blandly about “Egypt’s democratic transition and the need to move forward with a peaceful and inclusive transition that respects the rights of all Egyptians.”</p>
<p>It was no surprise last summer, then, when millions of Egyptians took to the streets to protest against the Brotherhood regime and it was suddenly and unexpectedly toppled from power, that numerous anti-Brotherhood protesters held signs accusing Obama of supporting terrorists. One foe of the Brotherhood made a music video <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/08/05/hey-obama-you-are-stupid-bad-man-viral-egyptian-music-video-accuses-obama-of-supporting-terrorism-muslim-brotherhood/">including the lyrics</a>: “Hey Obama, support the terrorism/Traitor like the Brotherhood members/Obama say it’s a coup/That’s not your business dirty man.” A protestor in Tahrir Square held up a sign <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/01/sign-in-tahrir-square-obama-you-jerk-muslim-brotherhoods-are-killing-the-egyptians.html">saying</a>, “Obama you jerk, Muslim Brotherhoods are killing the Egyptians.” Signs like that one became commonplace at anti-Morsi protests; another read, “Hey Obama, your bitch is our dictator.”</p>
<p>Yet as the anti-Muslim Brotherhood riots reached their peak, Obama responded by <a href="http://www.kcentv.com/story/22647545/riot-control-training">sending</a> a group of American soldiers to Egypt to help with riot control.</p>
<p>As <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/3868/a-man-and-6-of-the-brotherhood-in-the-white-house">an Egyptian newspaper crowed</a> about the influence of Muslim Brotherhood operatives within the Obama Administration, it was no surprise that Obama would want them in power in Egypt as well. By cutting off aid in October 2013, he was strong-arming the Egyptians until they would have no choice but to agree – or turn to the Russians, as <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/16/us-egypt-usa-idUSBRE99F07220131016">Egypt’s military regime has recently said it might do</a>. Egypt has been an American ally, but is now returning to the sphere of influence of a resurgent Russia – thanks to Barack Obama’s uncritical support for the Muslim Brotherhood.</p>
<p>Egypt, albeit imperfect, was a reliable and pivotal ally of the U.S. in the Middle East for three decades. With the Camp David Accords it kept an uneasy but unmistakable peace with Israel, while the Sadat and Mubarak regimes kept a lid on the Brotherhood and Salafist forces that were clamoring for Egypt to declare a new jihad against the Jewish State. Egypt’s unwillingness to go to war with Israel during that period stymied the anti-Israel bloodlust in neighboring Muslim countries as well, for Egypt’s size, position, and history give it a unique stature in the Islamic world.</p>
<p>All that is gone now. Egypt is on the way to renewing its alliance with Russia, which led it to mount two wars against Israel, in 1967 and 1973. Obama has alienated America’s allies and emboldened her enemies, all in a vain attempt to appease a group that was never going to be a friend of the U.S. in the first place. If he didn’t have so many other blots on his record, this could be the most dangerous aspect of his legacy.</p>
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