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		<title>Why Do 80% of Palestinians Support Murder?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2014 05:03:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The one issue that unifies Palestinians more than any other. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/F121214IR01-1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247962" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/F121214IR01-1-450x299.jpg" alt="F121214IR01-1" width="342" height="227" /></a>In most parts of the world, it&#8217;s not easy to find a major issue on which 80% of the population agrees. An election victory in the United States is considered a &#8220;landslide&#8221; if the winner receives more than about 60% of the vote. (Such as Richard Nixon winning 65% of the vote against George McGovern in the 1972 presidential race.)</p>
<p>But among Palestinian Arabs in Judea-Samaria (the West Bank) and Gaza, it turns out there is one issue on which there is more support than any other: randomly murdering Israeli Jews.</p>
<p>The Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research last week asked a sample of 1,270 Palestinian Arab adults in the territories what they thought of the recent wave of attacks in which Palestinians stabbed Israelis or ran them over with their cars. Fully 80% responded that they support such attacks.</p>
<p>Note that the respondents weren&#8217;t talking about theoretical future attacks. They were commenting on recent attacks which they know all about. Here is what they are endorsing:</p>
<p>&#8211; Ramming a car into a crowd at a train station in Jerusalem. The fatalities included a three-month old infant.</p>
<p>&#8211; Stabbing an unarmed young woman standing at a bus stop in Gush Etzion.</p>
<p>&#8211; Axing and machine-gunning four rabbis at prayer in a Jerusalem synagogue.</p>
<p>Could the 80% endorsement be a fluke? A one-time aberration? A momentary lapse in good judgment, spurred by recent tensions?</p>
<p>Hardly. There is a remarkable consistency in Palestinian public opinion. The same polling institution surveyed 1,200 Palestinians in the territories in late September and found that 80% support resuming the firing of rockets from Gaza into Israel.</p>
<p>Why is it that 80% of Palestinians embrace the brutal murder and terrorization of Israeli civilians?</p>
<p>Three reasons stand out.</p>
<p>First, there is the general brutality of Palestinian Arab society. Violence by relatives against women suspected of immorality, violence by Muslim extremists against Christian Arabs, violence by the Palestinian Authority regime against dissidents&#8211;it&#8217;s all commonplace in the territories. That makes it easier for the average citizen to see violence as acceptable.</p>
<p>Second, there is a sense that violence works. Kidnapping Israelis led to the release of thousands of Palestinian terrorists from prison. Decades of bombings and hijackings led to widespread international support for Palestinian statehood. The recent attacks in Jerusalem have led to calls to redivide the city (including, most recently, by U.S. Mideast envoy Martin Indyk).</p>
<p>Third, and perhaps most important, is the influence of anti-Israel and anti-Jewish incitement by the Palestinian leadership. Secretary of State John Kerry has correctly pointed out that the Jerusalem synagogue slaughter was, as he put it, &#8220;a pure result of incitement.&#8221; The constant declarations by Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas and other leaders praising terrorists as heroes and accusing Israel of desecrating Muslim religious places, have created an atmosphere in which support for murdering Jews has become the norm.</p>
<p>The normally alleged justification for Palestinian violence – a reaction to “the occupation” – does not stand up. Since 1995, over 95% of Judea and Samaria (West Bank) Palestinians have lived under the administration of the Palestinian Authority, which controls all aspects of Palestinian life except for visas and external security. And since 2005, Palestinians in Gaza have controlled even these.</p>
<p>The Oslo Accords were supposed to have put an end to all that. Palestinian leaders were supposed to educate the public to embrace peace. They promised to change the hearts and minds of average Palestinians, to raise a generation ready to live in peace with Israel. Instead, they decided to do exactly the opposite. And, as the new poll demonstrates, they succeeded.</p>
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		<title>Embracing the Obvious Truth</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2014 04:26:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caroline Glick]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why courageous truth-tellers like actor Jon Voight are vital to Israel's cause against Hamas. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/40482_pro.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-239657" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/40482_pro.jpg" alt="40482_pro" width="280" height="250" /></a></span><em>Originally published by the <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Our-world-Embracing-the-obvious-truth-372428">Jerusalem Post</a>. </em></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">It isn’t hard to understand the truth about Israel and Hamas.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Four-year-old Daniel Tragerman was murdered on Friday afternoon in his home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz by Hamas terrorists.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">They shot him with a mortar launched from a school in Gaza’s Zeitoun neighborhood. At the time of the launch, the school was filled with civilians who had fled to the school for shelter.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">They fled to the school for shelter because they were forced to vacate their homes.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">They were forced to vacate their homes because Hamas terrorists were launching mortars and rockets at Israeli civilian sites, like Daniel Tragerman’s home, from their apartment buildings.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The moral and ideological divide between Israel and Hamas is so self-evident that the only way to ignore it is by embracing and cultivating ignorance.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">This week Richard Behar published an in-depth investigative report in Forbes documenting how the US media is doing just that. As Behar demonstrated, the media is collaborating with Hamas in its war against Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Behar cited example after example of how the US media, led by The New York Times have systematically ignored, obfuscated and downplayed Hamas’s war crimes while swallowing whole its bogus statistics and accusations against Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The greatest threat to faux reporters like the New York Times Israel bureau chief Jodi Rudoren and her colleagues are people who refuse to accept their distortions and insist that the truth be told.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The most dangerous of the truth tellers are the non- Jews who stand up for Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">This week, former British Labour MP Denis MacShane published an op-ed in Haaretz where he spoke to this point. MacShane argued that for Israel to win the information war being waged against it must cultivate non-Jewish defenders.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In his words, “The British media&#8230; is awash with defenders of Hamas and Palestinian resistance. Hardly any are Muslims. In contrast, the prominent journalists – Jonathan Freedland, Daniel Finkelstein, Melanie Phillips, David Aaronovich – who support Israel are, well, Jews.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">MacShane argued that because they are Jews, readers dismiss them.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">They “shrug their shoulders and think privately: ‘They would say that, wouldn’t they.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Israel has an enormous reserve of support among non-Jews. But due to the mainstream media’s commitment to dishonesty and deliberate cultivation of public ignorance and moral blindness in their coverage of Israel, for many, the price of defending Israel is becoming prohibitive.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Israel’s enemies in the West do their best to reinforce this perception.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Consider the case of Jon Voight.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The celebrated Oscar-winning actor is an outspoken champion of Israel. Earlier this month, Voight published an open letter to Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem in Variety where he harshly criticized the Spanish performers for their public statement condemning Israel and siding with Hamas in its war against the Jewish state.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In his words, “I am heartsick that people like Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem could incite anti-Semitism all over the world and are oblivious to the damage they have caused.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Voight was viciously attacked for speaking out.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Last week, two UCLA professors, Mark LeVine and Gil Hochberg, co-authored an article published in The Huffington Post assaulting him for his views and his temerity to suggest that Israel is a moral, embattled democracy fighting genocidal forces committed to its destruction.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The two Jewish academics are supporters of the anti-Israel boycott, divestment and sanctions movement.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The principal aim of the BDS movement is to make it socially unacceptable to support Israel. In 2010 LeVine and Hochberg signed a petition calling for California state universities to divest from companies that do business with Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Online Hollywood commentators, such as Deadline’s Nellie Andreeva, opined that Voight, who was nominated for an Emmy Award for his role in Showtime’s Ray Donovan series, was liable to lose his Emmy bid due to his support for Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Hochberg and LeVine’s assault on Voight was a long-winded voyage into the post-Zionist and anti-Zionist literary moonscape. Their principal criticism of Voight was that he refuses to accept this intellectual wasteland’s rejection of the known facts of history.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Voight is not an academic, nor has he ever claimed to be an expert on Middle Eastern history. He is a non-Jewish American concerned about the future of America.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">That is why he stands with Israel. Voight recognizes that when Israel is under assault, and its right to defend itself is denied while terrorists are supported, the US is endangered. And so he feels compelled to speak out, regardless of the price.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In his response to the threats to deny him the Emmy due to his support for Israel Voight told USA Today, “I’m not speaking to get awards. I’m speaking because I’m concerned about my grandchildren and the life they’re going to live, and the country they’re coming in to. I want to protect them.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Another non-Jewish champion of Israel is former US senator and Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum. Both during his tenure in the Senate and since, Santorum has spoken out strongly against Iran’s nuclear program, insisting that it is a serious threat not only to Israel, but to the US itself.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Like Voight, Santorum recognizes that the fate of the US is directly tied to the fate of Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">For his trenchant support for Israel, and his outspoken concern about Iran’s nuclear program, as well as his support for domestic issues where he has not shied away from taking controversial, inconvenient position, Santorum’s critics have demonized him.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">But undaunted, he continues to speak out.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Last week, Santorum led a solidarity mission to Israel. The majority of his colleagues were non-Jewish opinion shapers from Iowa, the first state to hold Republican presidential contests. Santorum explained that his goal in coming to Israel was not simply to show Israelis that the American people support us. It was to build support among Republicans in Iowa for a robust US engagement in foreign affairs based on supporting Israel, fighting America’s enemies and preventing the forces of hatred, like Hamas and Iran, from expanding their power.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Santorum’s chief concern is that weary of foreign policy failures, more and more Republicans are embracing the isolationism most identified with Senator Rand Paul. Paul is currently polling well in Iowa.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Over the weekend Paul referred to Hillary Clinton as “a war hawk,” and said, “I think the American public is coming more and more to where I am.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Santorum is convinced that if Iowans are educated about the nature of the threats emanating from the region, and of Israel’s singular contribution to the cause of freedom and stability, their position can become the basis for a Republican foreign policy that rejects isolationism and embraces US leadership in world affairs as the only way to secure the US and strengthen its embattled allies.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In other words, like Voight, Santorum’s support for Israel is rooted in his concern about America, and its future. Like Voight, Santorum recognizes that the growing penchant among elite opinion shapers to ignore truth in the pursuit of moral relativism and fake sophistication or isolationism constitutes a danger to America.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">This week the New York Times descended to yet another low, reporting as fact totally unsubstantiated accusations by the son of a senior Hamas terrorist that Israel tortured him and used him as a human shield during a brief incarceration.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">But it appears that the jig may be winding down.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">More and more people are following the lead of men like Voight and Santorum, and insisting that the truth be told.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">This week more than 190 Hollywood luminaries followed Voight’s courageous lead and signed a public statement condemning Hamas.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Quin Hillyer, a reporter for National Review who accompanied Santorum on his mission, wrote Monday, “My visit to Israel last week confirmed that Iran and its fellow jihadists have good reason to see Israel and the United States in the same light. Israelis and Americans share the same humane, Western values&#8230;</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">“Israel is an oasis in a desert – in the physical, topographical sense but also metaphorically. It’s an oasis of reason, human decency and justice appropriately grounded in mercy.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">MacShane is right. It is vital for more non-Jews, who refuse to deny the truth that screams out to be told, to stand up to the lies and publicly stand with Israel. It is the job of Israel and Jewish communities throughout the world to empower them by among other things, reducing the power of Israel’s enemies to make them pay a price for their decency.</span></p>
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		<title>America Stands with Hamas against Israel</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2014 04:10:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ronn Torossian]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Jewish State's strongest ally joins forces with one of its most vicious enemies. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/hamas_machine_gun_AFP.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-237632" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/hamas_machine_gun_AFP-450x337.jpg" alt="hamas_machine_gun_AFP" width="300" height="225" /></a>The Obama Administration stands with Hamas – an organization which is a designated foreign terrorist organization in America, Canada, the UK and most other civilized countries. Despicable and simply amazing that America is standing with an organization whose leadership and people is anti-American. Shameful, horrible, awful conduct. Clearly, the alliances in the Middle East have changed – Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Israel stand against Muslim extremist fundamentalists – and lining up on the other side is Qatar, Turkey and President Obama’s United States of America. Yes, you read that correctly.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Standing against <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Author.aspx/929"><span style="color: #1255cc;">Israel</span></a> – the most consistent American ally in the region – is despicable.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">This administration &#8212; which has been awful to Israel &#8212; saw <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/ronn-torossian/john-kerrys-blackmail-incitement-insults/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">Secretary of State John Kerry</span></a> present the Israeli cabinet with a draft of a ceasefire agreement that recognized Hamas’s position in the Gaza Strip, promised the organization billions in donation funds and demanded no dismantling of rockets, tunnels or other heavy weaponry at Hamas’s disposal.  Rather than standing against radical Islamists who endanger the entire Western world, America stands with terror.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Yet, the people of Israel will not accept these perpetual attacks upon her people.  Israel will not – and must not – stop until tunnels are destroyed, and terror ceases. Israel’s TV Station Channel 10 had a poll which revealed that 87 percent of Israelis were in favor continuing the operation in Gaza, with another 69 percent in favor of toppling Hamas. Another poll showed that 86.5 percent are against a ceasefire right now because “Hamas continues firing missiles on Israel, not all the tunnels have been found, and Hamas has not surrendered.”  And as America must continue fighting Al-Qaeda for world peace, so too must Israel keep fighting Hamas.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Hamas receives funding from Iran, and consistently stands against America. As Steven Emerson has documented, Hamas has &#8220;an extensive infrastructure in the U.S. mostly revolving around the activities of fundraising, recruiting and training members, directing operations against Israel, organizing political support and operating through human-rights front groups.”</p>
<p style="color: #252525;"><span style="color: #232323;">Who is it that America under Obama and Kerry is protecting? A government Prime Minister, </span><span style="color: #000000;">Ismail Haniya, the leader of Hamas who condemned the killing of Osama Bin Laden, describing the act as a “continuation of the United States policy of destruction.”</span> Haniyeh praised Bin Laden as a &#8220;martyr&#8221; and an &#8220;Arab holy warrior.”  This is the government which must be protected?  A government which endangers its own people – and vows to destroy the State of Israel?</p>
<p style="color: #252525;"><span style="color: #252525;">And the people of Hamas too stand against America.  </span>Ismail al-Ashqar, a Hamas lawmaker, described it as “state terrorism that America carries out against Muslims.” Yehia Moussa, another Hamas leader, noted that Hamas considers anybody killed while fighting “the American occupation and the Israeli occupation as a martyr, regardless of who he was.”</p>
<p>Hamas was democratically elected with 80% of the vote of the Palestinian people – and this is who today’s American leaders stand with. Let’s review the actions of whom Obama and Kerry are standing with when it comes to the 9/11 attacks:<i>  </i>&#8220;Allah has answered our prayers,&#8221; Dr. Atallah Abu Al-Subh wrote in an open letter titled &#8220;To America,&#8221; which appeared September 13, 2001, in the Hamas newspaper Al-Risala.</p>
<p>&#8220;How much hatred has [America] stockpiled. &#8230; Were the eradication of its Marines in Lebanon, the destruction of its military headquarters at Khobar in Saudi Arabia, the destruction of the USS Cole in Yemen, the bombing of its embassies in Zambia [sic] and in Kenya, and the attacks on its soldiers in the Gulf &#8230; not sufficient? The U.S. should have learned the lessons of history &#8230; Today, the U.S. has treated the bitter harvest it sowed in the hearts of millions. Today, we ask: After this, will the U.S. [continue to] think that it is above the law?&#8221; the editor of Al-Risala, Dr. Ghazi Hamad, said in justification of the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center.</p>
<p>For the sake of peace, Israel must destroy Hamas.</p>
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		<title>Christians United For Israel Rocks Washington D.C.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2014 04:11:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Loud and passionate support for the Jewish State at a critical moment.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/bh.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-237308" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/bh.jpg" alt="bh" width="302" height="201" /></a>Recent events have propelled <a href="http://www.cufi.org/site/PageServer">Christians United for Israel</a> (CUFI) to the front row of pro-Israel organizations.</p>
<p>The group advertised last week’s <a href="http://www.cufi.org/site/PageServer?pagename=2014Summit_Speakers">Washington D.C. Summit</a>, held July 21, as a more compact two-day program. Last year’s conclave offered a three-day affair. But if anyone thought the faith-based pro-Israel organization was becoming less relevant, they would think otherwise after attending the latest confab.</p>
<p>At the very moment when the Jewish State was under a crushing vise of global criticism for its involvement in Operation Protective Edge, CUFI (pronounced koo-PHI and not koo-FEE) roused its American heartland membership in loud, rollicking support of Israel. It did so in the pivotal capitol of Washington D.C. at a pivotal time.</p>
<p>Led by firebrand evangelist <a href="http://www.jhm.org/">Pastor John Hagee</a>, some 4,800 foot stomping, shofar-blowing Christian delegates traveled from across the nation and some from overseas to attend the non-stop cavalcade of podium grandiloquence, towering video effects, mesmerizing Israeli music, and special informational sessions. Part tent revival and part political salvo, CUFI’s Washington Summit is patterned after <a href="http://www.aipac.org/pc">the mega-gatherings staged by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee</a> in the same hall. CUFI speakers brought clarity and context to its attendees in the midst of the latest fog of the latest Arab-Israeli war.</p>
<p>Indeed, at the very hour CUFI’s convention gaveled open, the Jewish State was fiercely fighting moment-to-moment terrorist threats scampering over the Gaza border fence, paddling in from the sea, streaking in from the sky, and tunneling beneath the ground. Moreover, Jerusalem was contending with a <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/edwin-black/financing-mideast-flamesc_b_4874795.html">well-financed highly-politicized adverse humanitarian political machine</a> supported by American tax-deductible 501(c)(3) donations. So every round of CUFI applause and utterance of support was considered a precious gesture to beleaguered Israelis who right now need a friend.</p>
<p>CUFI’s long A-List roster of speakers included media personalities deputy editorial page editor Bret Stephens from <em>The Wall Street Journal</em>, Bill Kristol from <em>The Weekly Standard</em>, and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Charles Krauthammer from PBS. No fewer than five members of Congress attended.</p>
<p>Particularly on fire were two speakers: Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference of President of Major Jewish Organizations and investigative reporter Erick Stakelbeck from Christian Broadcast Network. Both wowed the crowd with history, insight, and reason as Israel tried to justify its right to exist&#8211;<a href="http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/04/hamas-qatar-relationship-independence.html">free from terrorism robustly financed by Qatari money</a> and others.</p>
<p>Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took time, via taped message, to thank the evangelical crowd for standing by Israel during its hourglass of need. He spoke from Israel, bunkered in a secure room at the height of the conflict that day. To thunderous applause, Senator Lindsay Graham exhorted the Israelis in their Gaza strategy to “go as far as you need to go, and do what you’ve got to do.”</p>
<p>Ambassador Ron Dermer not only exhilarated the crowd, but felt so comfortable with the audience that when he was heckled on three separate occasions by pro-Hamas Palestinian protestors, he defiantly talked back drowning out the disruptors as they were being hustled from the auditorium. Dermer felt so comfortable with the audience that he openly and repeatedly referred to the hecklers as “<a href="http://www.jta.org/2014/07/22/news-opinion/politics/with-jabs-at-obama-cufi-lobbies-for-iran-sanctions-end-to-p-a-aid">moral idiots</a>” as cheering crowds chanted “Israel! Israel!”</p>
<p>Honored special guests were Jewish philanthropists Sheldon Adelson and his wife Miriam who were lauded with a gold award for helping charitable causes.</p>
<p>More than just lip service and sloganizing, CUFI announced several major initiatives. CUFI’s leadership acknowledged from the podium that there was a distinct disconnect with the younger Christian generation — a group they call “the millennials.” Sons and daughters are increasingly detouring from the path their fathers walked, as is so common in generational divides. Increasingly the millennials are buying into BDS, anti-Israel distortions about international law and a rewriting of Israeli’s history.</p>
<p>Moreover, millennials are adopting wholesale rejection of Israel via a wave of campus teachings called “<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersessionism">Replacement Theology</a>,” which maintains God has forsaken Israel and His “covenant” with the Jews has been replaced by a new covenant with the Church. To counter Christianity’s internal upheaval about the Jewish State, the podium proudly acknowledged 800 campus representatives in attendance engaged in a bold new student-led initiative to combat BDS, anti-Jewish agitation, and a rash anti-Israel attacks on campus, from the dorm room to the classroom. This strategy involves talking back to biased professors and the entire notion of Replacement Theology.</p>
<p>The day after the celebration, CUFI’s membership swarmed into the halls of Congress to lobby their representatives from the heartland to stop funding the Palestinian Authority until it ceases paying terrorist salaries, and to stand with Israel’s in its fight against Hamas.</p>
<p>CUFI has proven that it is an expanding organization with a broadening agenda at the precise moment that Israel needs allies in every corner.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.edwinblack.com"><em>Edwin Black</em></a><em> is the award-winning author of the international </em><a href="http://www.ibmandtheholocaust.com/"><em>bestseller </em>IBM and the Holocaust</a><em>. This article is drawn from his just-released newsbook, </em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Financing-Flames-Edwin-Black/dp/0914153315/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1381503145&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=0914153315">Financing the Flames: How Tax-Exempt and Public Money Fuel a Culture of Confrontation and Terrorism in Israel</a><em>.</em></p>
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<p><em>Don&#8217;t miss <strong>Dr. Anna Geifman</strong> on <strong>The Glazov Gang</strong> this week discussing &#8220;Life in Israel Under Siege,&#8221; &#8220;<a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/anna-geifman/who-is-killing-palestinian-children/">Who is Killing Palestinian Children</a><span style="text-decoration: underline;">?&#8221;,</span> and much <span id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">more: </span></span><strong><br />
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		<title>Lessons for Obama from Canada</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2014 04:05:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Moshe Phillips and Benyamin Korn]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The message of Prime Minister Stephen Harper vs. President of the United States. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><span style="color: #222222;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Canada-Israel-Flag.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-236590" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Canada-Israel-Flag.jpg" alt="Canada-Israel-Flag" width="265" height="198" /></a>This is part of a series on Israel&#8217;s Operation Protective Edge in Gaza. To view previous installments, please visit </span><a style="color: #1155cc;" href="http://www.phillyreligiouszionists.org/lessons-from-the-gaza-war/" target="_blank">www.phillyreligiouszionists.<wbr />org/lessons-from-the-gaza-war/</a><wbr style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">.</span></em></p>
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<p>Israel long ago learned that you can tell who your real friends are when the chips are down. The Gaza war is proving that again.</p>
<p>During the 2012 election campaign, when polls showed that President Barack Obama might lose a significant portion of the Jewish vote in key electoral states, he declared that he &#8220;will always have Israel&#8217;s back.&#8221;</p>
<p>But this past week, as hundreds of Hamas rockets rained down upon the Jewish state, and Israel really needed an ally to have its back, President Obama called Prime Minister Netanyahu to demand that Israel show &#8220;restraint.&#8221;</p>
<p>That was followed the next day by a phone call from Secretary of State John Kerry to Netanyahu, warning against &#8220;escalating tensions&#8221; and pressing Israel to let him &#8220;mediate a truce.&#8221;</p>
<p>The last thing Israel needs is a &#8220;truce&#8221; with Hamas. The Israelis have had two of those already. A &#8220;truce&#8221; means Hamas gets several more years to build up its supply of rockets, in preparation for the next round.</p>
<p>And with every new round, Hamas has new rockets, that can reach even further and cause even more devastation.</p>
<p>By pressing for &#8220;restraint&#8221; and a &#8220;truce,&#8221; Obama and Kerry are, in effect, trying to save Hamas from being crippled or destroyed by Israel. Is that their idea of &#8220;having Israel&#8217;s back&#8221; ?</p>
<p>Now contrast the Obama-Kerry line that with the words of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper this week:</p>
<p>&#8211; “The indiscriminate rocket attacks from Gaza on Israel are terrorist acts, for which there is no justification.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8211; “It is evident that Hamas is deliberately using human shields to further terror in the region.”</p>
<p>&#8211; “Failure by the international community to condemn these reprehensible actions would encourage these terrorists to continue their appalling actions.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8211; “Canada calls on its allies and partners to recognize that these terrorist acts are unacceptable and that solidarity with Israel is the best way of stopping the conflict.”</p>
<p>There was really nothing controversial in Harper&#8217;s words. They were simple statements of fact. But in today&#8217;s upside-down world, it is remarkable when a world leader simply tells the truth about Israel and the Palestinians.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s almost as if we are surprised when a world leader turns out not to be a hypocrite, a political coward, or an appeaser. We&#8217;re so used to the international community&#8217;s outrageous double standards, that it becomes remarkable when a national leader acts like a mensch.</p>
<p>Israel has a true friend in Ottawa. The White House could learn a thing or two from Stephen Harper about what it really means to have someone&#8217;s back.</p>
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		<title>Israel in 1968 &amp; 2014: The Jews Are Alone</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2014 05:15:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ronn Torossian]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Revisiting a prescient article by philosopher Eric Hoffer published just after the Six-Day War.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/ds-6day_war-41.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-218536" alt="ds-6day_war-41" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/ds-6day_war-41.jpg" width="222" height="211" /></a>In 1968, a longshoreman named Eric Hoffer wrote an amazing op-ed in the <em>LA Times</em>, which is as relevant today as it was then. He was a non-Jewish American social philosopher who wrote newspaper columns, as well as books. He died in 1983, after writing nine books and winning the Presidential Medal of Freedom. His first book, The True Believer, published in 1951, is widely recognized as a classic.  Eric Hoffer was one of the most influential American philosophers and free thinkers of the 20th Century. </span></p>
<p>Acclaimed for his thoughts on fanaticism, Hoffer&#8217;s <em>LA</em> <em>Times</em> column from May 26, 1968 is worth rereading. Entitled “Israel’s peculiar position,” he said:</p>
<blockquote><p>The Jews are a peculiar people: things permitted to other nations are forbidden to the Jews. Other nations drive out thousands, even millions of people and there is no refugee problem. Russia did it, Poland and Czechoslovakia did it.  Turkey threw out a million Greeks and Algeria a million Frenchman. Indonesia threw out heaven knows how many Chinese and no one says a word about refugees. But in the case of Israel, the displaced Arabs have become eternal refugees. Everyone insists that Israel must take back every single one.</p></blockquote>
<p>Indeed, today in the year 2014 we hear about the Palestinian Arab claim for the right of return – yet no one discusses the one million Jews from Arab and Muslim states, who were forced to flee persecution, imprisonment and pogroms. While there is so much talk today about the need for refugees to be protected, Jewish refugees naturally are ignored.</p>
<p>Hoffer further states:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>Other nations when victorious on the battlefield dictate peace terms. But when Israel is victorious, it must sue for peace. Everyone expects the Jews to be the only real Christians in this world. Other nations, when they are defeated, survive and recover but should Israel be defeated it would be destroyed. Had Nasser triumphed last June [1967], he would have wiped Israel off the map, and no one would have lifted a finger to save the Jews.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>The facts are simply that in 1967, Israel tried desperately to avoid war, endlessly tried to avert it, and this young nation faced threats from the entire world. Israel won the defensive war, and indeed, to the victors go the spoils &#8212; even when they are Jewish.</p>
<p>In 1967, Hoffer said,<i> </i></p>
<blockquote><p><i>There is a cry of outrage all over the world when people die in Vietnam or when two Blacks are executed in Rhodesia. But, when Hitler slaughtered Jews no one demonstrated against him.  The Swedes, who were ready to break off diplomatic relations with America because of what we did in Vietnam, did not let out a peep when Hitler was slaughtering Jews. They sent Hitler choice iron ore, and ball bearings, and serviced his troops in Norway. The Jews are alone in the world.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>Indeed, in February 2014, in Central Africa, 800,000 Muslims have fled their homes, and an entire nation’s Muslims are endangered.  It’s not news – yet every time the Jews lift a finger to protect themselves, the world goes nuts.  As it was in 1968 when Hoffer wrote this article it is in the year 2014, when the world endlessly condemns and criticizes Israel – the Jews are alone in the world.</p>
<p>As Hoffer concluded, “I have a premonition that will not leave me; as it goes with Israel so will it go with all of us. Should Israel perish, the Holocaust will be upon us all.”<i> </i>Indeed, the enemies of Israel remain the enemies of America – there’s big Satan and little Satan for the Muslim fundamentalists.</p>
<p>And I, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ronn-torossian/">Ronn Torossian</a>, realize that history often repeats itself – and this article from 1968 is just as relevant in 2014 as it was then.</p>
<p>Hoffer said in a later interview that</p>
<blockquote><p>A world that did not lift a finger when Hitler was wiping out six million Jewish men, women, and children is now saying that the Jewish state of Israel will not survive if it does not come to terms with the Arabs. My feeling is that no one in this universe has the right and the competence to tell Israel what it has to do in order to survive. On the contrary, it is Israel that can tell us what to do. It can tell us that we shall not survive if we do not cultivate and celebrate courage, if we coddle traitors and deserters, bargain with terrorists, court enemies, and scorn friends.</p></blockquote>
<p>President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry should heed these words – and stop kowtowing to terrorists.  They’d also do well to leave Israel alone – Israel remains the only country in the world that suffers universal criticism and condemnation.</p>
<p>Just last year Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the international community of &#8220;deafening silence&#8221; in response to Hamas threatening to destroy Israel.  As Netanyahu said: “This weekend the leader of Hamas, sitting next to the Hamas leader of Gaza, a man who praised Osama Bin Laden, this weekend openly called for the destruction of Israel. Where was the outrage? Where were the U.N. resolutions? Where was President Abbas? Why weren&#8217;t Palestinian diplomats summoned to European and other capitals to explain why the PA president not only refused to condemn this but actually declared his intention to unite with Hamas? There was nothing. There was silence and it was deafening silence.&#8221;</p>
<p>Indeed, today as in 1968, Israel is very much alone.</p>
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<p>Don&#8217;t miss <strong>Jamie Glazov&#8217;s</strong> video interview with <b> Mudar Zahran, </b>a secular leader of Palestinians in Jordan who has been living in exile in the UK since 2010. He calls out John Kerry on his Mideast &#8220;Peace&#8221; Plan &#8212; and asks why a U.S. Secretary of State is threatening Israel to commit suicide:<em><br />
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caroline Glick]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How Canada's support for Israel has improved the country's geopolitical standing.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/000.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-217213" alt="000" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/000.jpg" width="289" height="233" /></a>Originally published by the <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Canada-takes-its-place-at-the-table-339222">Jerusalem Post</a>. </em></p>
<p>During a press conference with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Tuesday, an Israeli reporter asked Prime Minister Stephen Harper, “Is Canada paying a price for being so supportive of Israel? Is it possible to support Israel and still have ties to the Arab world?”</p>
<p>This question goes to the heart of what is generally perceived as Israel’s greatest weakness. The Arab boycott of Israel and of countries doing business with Israel has served as one of the most potent weapons in the anti-Israel arsenal for over a generation. Indeed, since the OPEC oil embargo in 1974, it has been the Arabs’ single most powerful weapon in their unceasing campaign for the destruction of the Jewish state.</p>
<p>It was Arab economic bullying that forced African nations to cut their ties with the Jewish state.</p>
<p>It was the Arab use of the oil weapon after the 1973 Yom Kippur War that convinced Western Europe to end its diplomatic support for Israel and throw in with the PLO.</p>
<p>More than anything else, it is the Arab economic boycott of companies that do business with Israel that has eroded Israel’s diplomatic standing over the past two generations and transformed the only human rights respecting democracy in the Middle East into an international pariah.</p>
<p>And yet, under Stephen Harper, as the noose of international isolation is drawn around Israel’s neck more tightly every day, Canada has emerged as an outspoken supporter and defender of the Jewish state.</p>
<p>So in essence, the Israeli reporter’s question to Harper could easily be rephrased as, “Are you crazy?” Harper responded to the question by rejecting its premises – that the Arab world behaves as a bloc, and that standing up for your convictions is a losing proposition when those convictions involve taking unpopular stands.</p>
<p>As he put it, “I wouldn’t want to say there is no price, but my general view of the world is that people respect your view, if you express it appropriately and they understand it’s genuine….The fact of the matter is, Canada has deep relations with many Arab countries…. And frankly [there are] many matters where we probably far more often agree than disagree. So look, I don’t think it’s automatically the view that if you have a particular issue where you disagree, that this needs to rupture relationships irrevocably.”</p>
<p>In other words, what Harper acknowledged was that yes, Canada has lost contracts in some Arab countries due to its support for Israel. But by and large, it hasn’t taken a serious hit.</p>
<p>The obvious follow-up question would have been to ask if Canada gains anything from its support for Israel that can compensate for the economic hits it takes for it.</p>
<p>The answer to that question is yes, Canada, and other countries that support Israel now, when such support is more notable than it was in the past, do gain significantly from their actions. This is true on two levels.</p>
<p>First, economically, Israel is in a far different position than it was 20 years ago. During Harper’s visit, Canada and Israel updated their free trade agreement and signed a number of other agreements enhancing cooperation in multiple fields.</p>
<p>As Netanyahu said, “I think that cooperation makes us both stronger and more prosperous and more secure countries.”</p>
<p>Canada isn’t alone in recognizing the economic potential of good ties with Israel. Consider Norway.</p>
<p>For the past 15 years, Norway has distinguished itself as a trailblazer in the European bid to isolate Israel politically and wage economic warfare against it. Norway was among the first European countries to divest from Israeli companies.</p>
<p>Its trade unions have been leading purveyors of anti-Israel propaganda and economic warfare.</p>
<p>Last fall Norway elected a new conservative government. And under the leadership of Prime Minister Erna Solberg, Norway is seeking to rebuild its ties with Israel. Just after the election, the Israeli embassy in Oslo hosted a meeting of Norwegian and Israeli businessmen. Norway’s new finance minister is interested in cooperation between Norway’s oil industry and Israel’s new natural gas sector.</p>
<p>Norway’s new minister of culture, Thorhild Widvey, held a workshop for 160 Norwegian television producers with Israeli producers who successfully sold Israeli series to the US market.</p>
<p>Disowning the boycott Israel movement, Widvey said, “We don’t see the boycott as an effective tool to promote positive change.”</p>
<p>Today, the economies of the Arab world are collapsing. Fracking technologies are lowering demand for Middle Eastern oil. Political instability is drying up foreign investment and tourism.</p>
<p>And local universities are incapable of producing graduates able to function in the global economy.</p>
<p>As a consequence, the Arabs’ capacity to intimidate governments into rejecting the economic benefits Israel has to offer is steadily decreasing.</p>
<p>Israel’s ability to compensate for potential loss of Arab business is not the main reason why supporting Israel helps Canada. Far more importantly for Canada, support for Israel gives Ottawa a say in global affairs. Canada today has the power to shape the global agenda to a degree it never had before.</p>
<p>Until Harper came along, Canada’s foreign policy was mainly characterized by Ottawa’s enthusiasm for all UN-related things. But Canada’s involvement in the UN never bought it a place at the table.</p>
<p>Down south in Washington, to the extent anyone thought about Canada at all outside the contexts of oil, beer and hockey, it was considered a run-of-the-mill NATO ally which occasionally expressed mild hostility to US power.</p>
<p>Under Harper’s leadership, Canada has become a player in the global arena for the first time. And this achievement owes in large part to his decision to support Israel.</p>
<p>Since the US became the leader of the free world at the end of World War II, several of its loyal allies built up their international position by exerting moral leadership and so convincing – through inspiration or shame – Washington to follow their example.</p>
<p>Britain is the prime example of this model.</p>
<p>Both Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher won Britain a place at the table by staking out moral and strategic positions on Communism and other issues that the US was unable to reject without openly breaking with its own interests and stated goals.</p>
<p>Israel has also managed to stake out a position on the global stage – currently on the issue of Iran’s nuclear weapons program – by pointing out the contradictions between the US’s national interest of cultivating a stable Middle East and its current policy of mollycoddling the mullahs in Tehran while facilitating their nuclear weapons program.</p>
<p>By standing with Israel, Canada is filling a part of the leadership vacuum that the Obama administration has created by stepping away from the US’s responsibilities as the leader of the free world. From the G8 to the UN and beyond, Canada’s support for Israel has enabled Ottawa to influence US and European policy to a degree it never has before.</p>
<p>Canada’s enhanced moral stature was demonstrated this week with UNESCO’s abrupt decision to cancel the opening of an exhibition on the Jewish people’s 3,500-year history in the Land of Israel that was scheduled to open at UNESCO’s Paris Headquarters on Sunday.</p>
<p>Canada, Israel and Montenegro co-sponsored the exhibition which was organized jointly by the Simon Wiesenthal Center and UNESCO.</p>
<p>On January 9, the US rejected the Wiesenthal Center’s request for US co-sponsorship.</p>
<p>Kelly Siekman, director of the Office of UNESCO Affairs at the State Department wrote, “At this sensitive juncture in the ongoing Middle East peace process, and after thoughtful consideration with review at the highest levels, we have made the decision that the United States will not be able to co-sponsor the current exhibit during its display at UNESCO headquarters.”</p>
<p>In other words, the Obama administration opted to reject the historical fact that the Jews are the indigenous people of the Land of Israel in order to promote a peace process with the PLO, which, like the Arab world in general, rejects historical fact in its bid to delegitimize with the aim of destroying the Jewish state.</p>
<p>Five days after Siekman rejected the Wiesenthal Center’s request, the Arab members of UNESCO wrote a letter to UNESCO President Irina Bokova demanding that the exhibition be canceled in the interest of the peace process. Bokova quickly bowed to their will, in the interest of the peace process.</p>
<p>While the administration was quick to condemn UNESCO’s decision, it was left stuttering when the media discovered that UNESCO’s actions were of a piece with the administration’s own policy decision.</p>
<p>The administration’s embarrassment at this revelation was exponentially amplified by the fact that its duplicity, hypocrisy and preference for political expedience over historical facts came to light while Harper was in Israel, since unlike the Obama administration, the Harper government did co-sponsor the canceled exhibition.</p>
<p>Harper emerged from the UNESCO affront to the historical record as an unrivaled force of conscience and as a moral leader on a world stage populated by opportunists, at best. His position served as a warning to the US that its sacrifice of truth on the altar of the peace process will not go unnoticed.</p>
<p>Canada, it should be noted, is not the only country whose support for Israel is distinguishing it as a moral leader and facilitating its rise to a position of global influence. Australia’s new center-right Liberal government is also making a name for itself by rejecting anti-Israel nostrums that have become accepted wisdom despite the fact that they are based on lies.</p>
<p>For years, the false Arab claim that Israeli communities beyond the 1949 armistice lines are illegal under international law has gone unchallenged.</p>
<p>But last week, Australian Foreign Minister Julia Bishop dropped a bombshell when, in an interview with The Times of Israel, she broke from the consensus of mendacity saying, “I would like to see which international law has declared them illegal.”</p>
<p>Statements by Australian foreign ministers seldom receive global coverage. But Bishop’s did.</p>
<p>And the more outspoken Australia is in its support for Israel and rejection of the discourse of lies that characterizes the discussion of Israel, the more attention Australia will get and the more influential it will become on the world stage.</p>
<p>Like Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, Harper’s decision to support Israel is rooted in his most deeply held convictions about right and wrong. There is nothing opportunistic about his policy.</p>
<p>It is therefore wonderful and empowering that by staying true to his beliefs, Harper is also transforming Canada into a force to be reckoned with on the global stage. Moreover, he is setting an example that will likely be followed by more and more countries, as the benefits of his embrace of Israel become widely recognized.<br />
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Caroline Glick’s new book, </em>The Israeli Solution: A One-State Plan for Peace in the Middle East<em>, is due out on March 4.</em></p>
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		<title>Evangelicals: Vital for American Support for Israel</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Oct 2013 04:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ronn Torossian]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why outreach is more important than ever. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/We-Stand-with-Israel.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-207304" alt="We Stand with Israel" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/We-Stand-with-Israel-450x298.jpg" width="315" height="209" /></a>American Jewish support has long been viewed as vital for the State of Israel’s political interests. The particulars of the recent high-profile Pew Research Center <a href="http://www.pewforum.org/2013/10/01/jewish-american-beliefs-attitudes-culture-survey/">survey of American Jews</a> should result in radical re-thinking of that theory (with the exception of Orthodox Jews.)  Those who are concerned with Israel’s future must now consider placing even more emphasis upon the Evangelical Christian community.  The study found that Christians are more supportive of, and potentially more important for the needs of the State of Israel. Israel’s political future in America has become increasingly contingent upon Evangelical Christians; not the American Jewish liberal communities.</p>
<p>While <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/ronn-torossian/how-liberal-jewish-groups-harm-america-and-israel/">liberal American Jewish</a> organizations publicly condemn Ministers in the Israeli government for criticizing a &#8220;Two-State Solution,&#8221; those very American liberal Jews are overseeing the largest rate of assimilation ever.  Norman Podhoretz’s words can now be seen as prophetic – as he proclaimed, “liberalism has become much more than a set of political opinions for political Jews: It has become a religion in its own right, with its own Torah of liberalism and its own set of commandments.&#8221; For them, “The new Torah will always trump the old.”</p>
<p>And with the Pew survey showing that 71 percent of non-Orthodox Jews intermarry and two-thirds of Jews do not belong to a synagogue, the proof is that years of American Jewish liberal leadership have led Jews away from Judaism and now, the State of Israel too. Assimilation and the pursuit of liberal values to the extent that it rejects true Judaism are simply not in the best interest of Israel, or America, and now we know that it is also not good for Jewish continuity.</p>
<p>Valuing America as a Judeo-Christian nation means stressing the common ethical standards of Christianity and Judaism, which liberal American Jews no longer do as they have abandoned traditional values. The Evangelical audience’s religious faith is predicated upon Israel – and unlike liberal Jews they practice their religion, and do not try and force their liberal values upon the State of Israel. Evangelical Christians simply stand by the Jewish state, care for Israel, and raise money for Israel and needs of the Jewish people.</p>
<p>When Jewish organizations were built in America, the leadership had a common sense of social values that dictated freedom and equality for all because they knew the cost of racism and bigotry.  They pursued those ideals to protect Jews and preserve their abilities to remain proud Jews.  Today, generations later, liberalism has now been amended to oddly reject Judaism.  It seems that advocating for the rights of those who would see Jews and Israel disappear by opposing Jews as well has become the mantra of liberal Jews.</p>
<p>This schism is the reason that the Pew survey found that 61% of American Jews say “Israel and an independent Palestinian state can coexist peacefully,” and only 42% of Evangelicals agree.  Evangelicals are more hawkish and strident about Israel’s defense than American Jews – with the exception of traditional, religious Jews.</p>
<p>54% of American Jews say American support of the Jewish state is “about right,” while 31% say the U.S. is not supportive enough. Thirty-one percent of Evangelicals say American support of the Jewish state is “about right,” while 46% say the U.S. is not supportive enough. (Politically speaking, even if support was enough, why not ask for more?).</p>
<p>As a proud American Jew, I believe closer partnerships with the Evangelical community will encourage more pro-family values, which would benefit the American Jewish community; which will also make America a greater, stronger country.  By building even closer ties, Jews and Israel can be strengthened in the manner that is in American Jewry&#8217;s and Israel&#8217;s best interests. It is also in the United States of America&#8217;s best interest.</p>
<p>More focus should be put on people like Pastor John Hagee, the ACLJ and their <a href="http://www.cbn.com/700club/guests/bios/jay_sekulow.aspx">brilliant leader Jay Sekulow</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/DavidCerulloINSP">David Cerullo</a> and Inspiration Network, and not American Jewish &#8220;leaders&#8221; like David Harris&#8217;s American Jewish Committee, The New Israel Fund or J Street.  It is in the best interest of the civilized western world.  May G-d bless America and the State of Israel.</p>
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		<title>ObamaCare on the Edge</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Sep 2013 04:15:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tom Thurlow]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The nation's revolt against the health care overhaul could come sooner than we think. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/41188240001_2636975066001_vs-521f9fd2e4b068e86c06344e-86366013001.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-205502" alt="41188240001_2636975066001_vs-521f9fd2e4b068e86c06344e-86366013001" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/41188240001_2636975066001_vs-521f9fd2e4b068e86c06344e-86366013001.jpg" width="212" height="160" /></a>Recall from history that one of the Eastern Block’s longest-serving and brutal dictators, Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu, fell from power after a single <a href="http://youtu.be/uv7-LVFgd8U">speech</a> in front of his subjects.  On December 21, 1989, President Ceausescu spoke from a balcony in Bucharest to a group of about 80,000 Romanians, during which opposition to Ceausescu’s rule galvanized.  A few people in the crowd began booing and jeering, totally unheard-of during Ceausescu’s rule.  The booing spread, then the crowd began chanting opposition slogans, and eventually charged the presidential building en mass.</p>
<p>The popular opposition galvanized despite unanimous support of the military and state-run media.  Within three days of the speech, Ceausescu and his wife had been deposed and executed, and Romania became a newly-freed, former communist country.  It was a staggeringly-swift turn of events.  And it all began and gathered momentum during a single speech, now known as the Ceausescu Balcony Speech.</p>
<p>Metaphorically, Obamacare has just now walked onto the balcony and has begun to speak to its subjects, us Americans, who will be held captive by its new regime of laws, regulations and distortions.  Despite widespread positive coverage from the mainstream media, liberal <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/health-reform-implementation/307821-celebs-you-might-see-promoting-obamacare">celebrities</a>, and even politicians who accuse opponents of <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/05/29/louisiana-democratic-chair-opposition-to-obamacare-is-about-race/">racism</a>, doubts are coalescing.  Popular support has <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/repeal_of_health_care_law_favoroppose-1947.html#polls">never</a> been that strong, and people are only now coming face to face with the real problems of Obamacare, and they don’t like them.</p>
<p>The media is starting to cover horror stories of healthcare premiums doubling and tripling, and thousands of workers getting laid off or converted to working less than 30 hours a week.  Doctors are <a href="http://www.humanevents.com/2013/07/19/thanks-to-obamacare-doctor-shortages-set-to-quintuple/">retiring</a> to avoid having to deal with it.  Retired workers are <a href="http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2013-05-15/news/chi-emanuel-to-shift-retired-city-workers-to-obamacare-20130515_1_retired-city-workers-health-care-health-insurance">losing</a> their insurance and told to go to the Obamacare exchanges or coverage.  Health insurance companies are <a href="http://blog.heritage.org/2013/07/02/obamacare-impact-another-insurer-leaves-california-market/">exiting</a> states.  A new problem has also emerged: Americans are being told of a newly-discovered Obamacare “<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/09/23/aca-family-glitch-issues/2804017/">family glitch</a>,” in which many workers will be able to keep their healthcare coverage but their spouses and children will be dropped.</p>
<p>The hundreds of millions of dollars <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2013/08/hhs-obamacare-navigators-95575.html">spent</a> by the Obama administration to provide paid “navigators” to “get the word out,” and help from liberal celebrities can only sugar-coat things so long.  Within the next few weeks Americans will receive notices in the mail describing the true, terrible details of changes to their healthcare coverage.</p>
<p>A few lucky Americans, like some unions and members of Congress and their staffs, will be exempt from Obamacare.  Agents at the IRS, who will enforce Obamacare on the rest of us, are <a href="http://capwiz.com/nteu/issues/alert/?alertid=62634726&amp;type=CO&amp;utm_source=Illinois+Policy+Institute&amp;utm_campaign=7790111647-0613_ecompass&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_0f5a22f52c-7790111647-10830129">urging</a> Congress to vote against a <a href="http://beta.congress.gov/bill/113th/house-bill/1780">proposal</a> that will place them in the same healthcare boat as the rest of us.  Seems like the healthcare that is good enough for the rest of us is not good enough for the IRS.</p>
<p>And whatever happened to President Obama’s promises?  Remember when he <a href="http://youtu.be/1LRcLMScEqo">told</a> us &#8220;if you like your doctor or healthcare plan, you can keep it”?  The White House doesn’t want us to remember those comments.  President Obama also probably wants us to forget when he <a href="http://youtu.be/N8Jfku9aL_c">said</a> that under Obamacare a typical family’s healthcare premium will decrease by $2,500.  The <a href="http://www.nationaljournal.com/domesticpolicy/obama-s-affordable-care-act-looking-a-bit-unaffordable-20130829">reality</a> is that for most Americans, their health insurance premiums will <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2013/09/23/its-official-obamacare-will-increase-health-spending-by-7450-for-a-typical-family-of-four/">rise</a> dramatically, and they may not be able to keep their current insurance coverage at all.</p>
<p>The dynamics in Congress are just beginning to change.  A few days ago the House of Representatives passed a continuing resolution to fund the government <i>except</i> for Obamacare.  Even some Democrat representatives voted for it.  Only a few weeks earlier, this would have been unthinkable.</p>
<p>While the Democratically-controlled Senate is expected to pass a resolution that will fund Obamacare, Democratic Senate Leader Harry Reid is trying his best to pass the resolution in such a way that vulnerable Democrat Senators up or re-election in 2014 do not need to publicly show their support for Obamacare.  Voters back home in Alaska, Arkansas or North Carolina, for example, might not approve of their senators voting to keep Obamacare in place.</p>
<p>Texas Senator Ted Cruz’s filibuster did not win a vote on defunding Obamacare, but he was at least successful in presenting to the general public some of the arguments against Obamacare that are usually ignored by the mainstream press, and Democrats in general are on the defense.</p>
<p>Yes, the bottom is falling out of Obamacare support, and like the end of Nicolae Ceausescu, it could be very quick.</p>
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		<title>Morsi&#8217;s Boasts of a Pro-Brotherhood U.S. Come True</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Aug 2013 04:43:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raymond Ibrahim]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Startling omens from the final dialogue between the ousted Islamist and General al-Sisi. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/obama-and-morsi-1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-202557" alt="obama-and-morsi-1" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/obama-and-morsi-1-450x337.jpg" width="270" height="202" /></a>Originally published by <a href="http://blogs.cbn.com/ibrahim/archive/2013/08/26/morsis-boasts-of-a-pro-brotherhood-u.s.-come-true.aspx">CBN News</a>.</i></p>
<p>Nearly two months after Egypt’s June 30 Revolution, it is interesting to note how the final dialogue between ousted President Morsi and General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi—full of threats and vows of determination on both sides—have all come to pass, including in the very details, specifically the U.S. government’s role.  On July 5, the Arabic language, Egyptian newspaper <i>El Watan</i> published what it said were the final words between the two Egyptian men, as transcribed by an eyewitness, before the general put the president in prison.  (<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/exposed-final-conversation-between-morsi-and-sisi/">Original and complete English translation here</a>.)</p>
<p>The relevant portions of the dialogue between Sisi and Morsi follow, interspersed with my retrospective observations where appropriate:</p>
<p><b>Abridged Exchange Between Morsi and Sisi</b></p>
<blockquote><p><b><i>Morsi</i></b><i>: What’s the military’s position concerning what’s going on? Is it just going to stand by watching? Shouldn’t it protect the legitimacy?</i></p>
<p><b><i>Sisi</i></b><i>: What legitimacy? The entire army is with the will of the people, and the overwhelming majority of people, according to documented reports, don’t want you.</i></p>
<p><b><i>Morsi</i></b><i>: My supporters are many and they won’t be silent.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>Morsi’s first threat is generic and subtle.  Not yet pushed to the brink, Morsi simply alludes to his “supporters,” who “are many and they won’t be silent.”  No word yet as to who these supporters are or what they will do.</p>
<blockquote><p><b><i>Sisi</i></b><i>: The army will not allow anyone to destroy the nation, no matter what happens.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>An early indicator of military resolve, one that, to this day, does not appear to have diminished.</p>
<blockquote><p><b><i>Morsi</i></b><i>: What if I don’t want to leave?</i></p>
<p><b><i>Sisi</i></b><i>: The matter is settled and no longer up to you. Try to leave with your dignity and tell those whom you call supporters to go back to their homes in order to prevent bloodshed, instead of threatening the people through them.</i></p>
<p><b><i>Morsi</i></b><i>: But this way it will be a military coup, and America won’t leave you alone.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>While technically a military coup, the military was reacting to a popular revolution: tens of millions of Egyptians—many more than in the original 2011 revolution against Hosni Mubarak—took to the streets for several days demanding new elections (as many Egyptians from the very start insisted that <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/did-the-muslim-brotherhood-really-win-egypts-presidency/">Morsi never even won the presidential election</a>).  And nearly two month later, months of <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/egyptian-military-warns-obama-supporting-terrorism-in-egypt-is-red-line/">intense pressure and threats</a>, the U.S., in Morsi’s words, certainly shows no signs that it will “leave you [Egyptian military] alone.”</p>
<blockquote><p><b><i>Sisi</i></b><i>: The people concern us, not America. And since you’ve started to talk this way, I’ll talk to you candidly. We have evidence to condemn you and to condemn many governmental officials of compromising Egypt’s national security. The judiciary will have its say and you will all be judged before the whole people.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>Once Morsi becomes more specific about who his supporters are—the United States, a foreign entity—Sisi also becomes candid, pointing out to him that the military has evidence to condemn Morsi and his Brotherhood cabinet.  In recent weeks and days, talk of this evidence has become more widespread.  According to many Egyptian political activists, the Brotherhood and the Obama administration made a deal, which has seen the exchange of vast sums of money, possibly at the hands of President Obama’s half-brother, Malik Obama.  Add to this the <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/obamas-brother-muslim-brotherhood-leader/">recent assertions</a> of Tahani al-Gebali, Vice President of the Supreme Constitutional Court in Egypt: “Obama’s brother is one of the architects of investment for the international organization of the Muslim Brotherhood.”  Moreover, that the U.S. government, including ambassador <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/u-s-ambassador-to-egypt-muslim-brotherhoods-lackey/">Anne Patterson</a> and Senators <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/john-mccain-proves-u-s-leadership-allied-to-muslim-brotherhood/">Graham and McCain</a>, has been pressuring Egypt to release Morsi and other key Brotherhood figures, such as multimillionaire Khairat al-Shatter—even though they are also being held in connection to incitement and terrorism against Egyptian civilians—only validates the idea that imprisoned Brotherhood leadership, when tried, may well spill the beans as to the nature of the relationship between Morsi’s ousted government and the Obama administration, hence the reason the latter is so adamant about getting them released.</p>
<blockquote><p><i>[…]</i></p>
<p><b><i>Morsi</i></b><i>: Don’t think the Brotherhood is going to stand by if I leave office. They will set the world on fire.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>True, indeed.  While the Brotherhood’s media wing in Qatar, also known as “Al Jazeera,” has been blasting a 24/7 media propaganda campaign dedicated to demonizing the military and garnering sympathy for the Brotherhood—often by <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/exposed-al-jazeera-airs-fake-brotherhood-injuries-and-deaths/">flagrantly lying</a>—the Brotherhood and its supporters have quite literally been “setting the world  on fire,” most visibly in Egypt, where some <a href="http://www.aina.org/news/20130818125428.htm">80 churches and other Christian institutions</a>, not to mention government buildings, etc., have been set aflame.</p>
<blockquote><p><b><i>Sisi</i></b><i>: Just let them try something and you’ll see the reaction of the army. Whoever among them wants to live in peace, he’s more than welcome; otherwise, [if they try anything] we will not leave them alone. We will not single anyone out, and the Brotherhood is from the Egyptian people, so don’t try to use them as fuel for your disgusting war. If you truly love them, leave office and let them go to their homes.</i></p>
<p><b><i>Morsi</i></b><i>: Anyway, I’m not going, and the people outside of Egypt are all with me, and my supporters are not going.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>Again, Morsi indicates who his two main supporters are: “the people outside of Egypt,” that is, the United States, and “my supporters,” the Muslim Brotherhood and its many Islamist sympathizers in and out of Egypt.</p>
<blockquote><p><i>[…]</i></p>
<p><b><i>Morsi</i></b><i>: Okay, if I agree to be removed, will you allow me to travel abroad and promise not to imprison me?</i></p>
<p><b><i>Sisi</i></b><i>: I can’t offer you any promises. It’s the justice [department] that will pass its verdict.</i></p>
<p><b><i>Morsi</i></b><i>: Okay, if that’s the case, I’ll make it war, and we’ll see who will prevail in the end.</i></p>
<p><b><i>Sisi</i></b><i>: Naturally the people will win.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>The verdict is still out concerning the fate of Egypt.  For true to Morsi’s threats, the U.S. and the Brotherhood and its allies—from church-burning thugs in Egypt’s streets, to Al Jazeera’s media manipulations—are still trying to undermine the Egyptian people’s June 30 Revolution against the corrupt, Islamist rule of the Muslim Brotherhood.</p>
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		<title>A Rallying Cry from Christians United for Israel</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the world turning on Israel, steadfast friends show their support.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/cufi.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-198470" alt="cufi" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/cufi-450x193.png" width="315" height="135" /></a>In a world in which the Jewish State has very few friends it can rely on, the Christians United for Israel (CUFI) organization looms large as an invaluable friend.  Founded in 2006, CUFI has 1.3 million members spanning all fifty states of the U.S. On Tuesday, July 23, 2013, CUFI held its 8<sup>th</sup> national Night to Honor Israel at the Washington, DC Convention Center, packing 4,500 enthusiastic members and supporters from throughout America and beyond, waving American and Israeli flags, and cheering loudly at all references to Israel by an impressive array of speakers.</p>
<p>CUFI was founded and is chaired by Pastor John Hagee, the Senior Pastor of the Cornerstone mega-Church in San Antonio, TX, and the President and CEO of John Hagee Ministries.  Hagee’s ministry is centered on straightforward Bible teaching, and unwavering support for the Jewish State of Israel and the Jewish people. The John Hagee Ministries occupies a 50,000 square-foot production center, which houses both radio and TV studios.  Currently, Hagee telecasts on eight major networks, 162 independent TV stations, and 51 radio stations throughout the globe, broadcasting in more than 190 nations. David Brog, former chief of staff to the late US Senator Arlen Spector of Pennsylvania, serves as the executive director of CUFI.</p>
<p>CUFI on Campus, founded in 2009, has become a major source of advocacy for Israel on college campuses where BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) campaigns by pro-Palestinian Muslims, leftist students and outside professional provocateurs have hitherto dominated. Since its inception, CUFI has trained more than 2,000 students to effectively advocate for Israel. There are currently 120 CUFI chapters on campuses nationwide, and they maintain an active presence on more than 250 campuses. The organization has also recently launched CUFI Young Professionals, which enables CUFI on Campus graduates to continue their organized Israel advocacy. According to Brog, with the experience that these graduates have acquired, they will be an effective voice in support of Israel at our nation’s capital, and in their communities and churches.</p>
<p>Many of the Jewish attendees of the Night to Honor Israel that this reporter interviewed were touched by the CUFI audience, especially first timers.  Albert Shlamowitz of Richboro, PA, a commercial realtor, a first-time attendee, had this to say: “I was awe struck by the sincere devotion to Israel the crowd at this conference displayed, and I was amazed by the commitment of so many of these people to help Israel. For the first time in my life, I was thoroughly thrilled.”  Israeli native Malka Kantor of King of Prussia,PA, a longtime financial advisor, said that she was “overwhelmed and deeply touched by the display of unconditional love for Israel, and their strong stand for Israel.” She added, “I was overwhelmed by the diversity of the attendees.”</p>
<p>For Shlamowitz, Kantor and the others, it was not just the pro-Israel fervor of the audience. It was the CUFI leadership and speakers, including US Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), Pastor Hagee, Malcolm Honlein (Executive Vice Chairman of the Conference of major Jewish Organizations), Ron Prosor (Israel’s Representative to the United Nations), and Glenn Beck (author, radio and television personality). It was, however, Akaya Lee, former CUFI on Campus Chapter President at the University of Arkansas and a CUFI on Campus Young Professional, who really stole attendees&#8217; hearts. Her heartfelt conviction in God’s promises of the land to Israel was poignantly expressed when she said, “CUFI could well have been called Christians United for Jacob, but his name was changed to Israel after struggling with God’s angel.”</p>
<p>Having Ted Cruz address the audience was a pleasant surprise.  He was not listed on the program.  The maverick senator from Texas struck the audience as an articulate and sincere politician and as a potential presidential candidate in 2016.  With a Hispanic surname and a Cuban father, Ted Cruz has a moving story &#8212; the son of an immigrant who rose from below. Cruz’s mother was born in Delaware to an Irish and Italian working-class family and was the first in her family to go to college. She graduated from Rice University with a degree in mathematics and became a computer programming pioneer in the 1950s. Ted’s father was born in Cuba, fought in the revolution, and was imprisoned and tortured. He fled to Texas in 1957, penniless, not speaking a word of English. He washed dishes for 50 cents an hour, paid his way through the University of Texas, and started a small business in the oil and gas industry. Today, Ted’s father is a pastor in Dallas.</p>
<p>Introduced by Pastor Hagee, Senator Ted Cruz blasted Obama’s foreign policy as one that displays “weakness” and “appeasement.” He exhorted the audience “to speak the truth in an era when so many believe they know better than eternal truth,” a reference to God’s promise to the Jewish people.  He added that “the alliance between the US and Israel must remain completely and entirely unshakeable.” In a clear dig aimed at Obama, he stated that the “US needs leaders who clearly understand that America and Israel are not what’s wrong with the world.”  He questioned President Obama as to why sending arms to the Syrian rebel groups is in the interest of the US, criticizing Obama for supporting the Muslim Brotherhood and the deposed President Morsi of Egypt. He stressed that “there is no greater threat to US security than Iran,” and added, “the US alliance with Israel is not a gift but a benefit to the security of the US.”</p>
<p>Cruz praised Israel for providing freedom and democracy to all its citizens, including Christians. Cruz noted that “there is an irony that many don’t seem to understand &#8211; that weakness encourages violence and military conflict whereas clarity and deterrents are the best way to avoid conflict.” As Iran is moving toward acquiring nuclear weapons, Cruz pointed out, “there is very good reason for the mullahs to believe that the threats from the US are hollow.”  He mocked the Obama administration for its double-speak in calling terrorism “workplace violence.” In conclusion, Senator Cruz declared, “Do not expect the UN Security Council to pass a resolution that calls for the protection of Christians in the Middle East.  Israel is the only obstacle to a Muslim Empire.”</p>
<p>Following the presentation of the Defender of Israel Award to Malcolm Honlein, Pastor Hagee in his booming and prophetic cadence suggested that the world is divided into two parts: those who support Israel and those who do not.  “The Jews of Israel,” Hagee said, “own the land of Israel because God gave it to them.”  He went on to say that “Since Obama declines to support Israel against Iran, let us signal to the enemies of Israel that we support Israel unconditionally.” Alluding to Obama’s refusal to call terror by its name, Hagee made it clear that “the war on terror is not over, it has not even begun.”</p>
<p>Hagee commended US Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) for his legislative initiative to put the military option against Iran on the table.  Addressing the media’s typical misguided characterization of Iran’s President-elect Hassan Rohani as “moderate,” Hagee said, “he may walk like a moderate, speak like a moderate, but he is not a moderate.” The election of Rohani to replace Ahmadinejad has changed nothing.  Iran continues to accelerate its nuclear program.  Turning to the peace process, Hagee asked rhetorically, but quite seriously, “when will the Palestinians be asked to make sacrifices for peace?” He proposed ending US aid to the Palestinian Authority until it recognizes Israel as a Jewish State. “How can you make peace” Hagee said, “with someone who wants to kill you?” He was referring, of course, to the Palestinians.</p>
<p>Nearing the end of his presentation, Pastor Hagee roared, “When America draws a red-line our enemies should tremble.” But not when it comes to our current administration. He then exclaimed his heartfelt beliefs. “We Christians stand with Israel now, tomorrow, and forever,” adding that “Christians and Jews are a marriage made in Heaven.”</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jul 2013 04:30:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An impassioned defense of the Jewish State. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/flet.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-198228" alt="flet" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/flet.jpg" width="280" height="210" /></a>Thousands of participants at the 8<sup>th</sup> Annual Christians United for Israel Summit waved Israeli and American flags Tuesday night, as CUFI’s “Night to Honor Israel” put a spectacular cap on a gathering that critics and friends alike call “a beast.”</p>
<p>Judging from the conversations, both in hallways and on the dais, where Malcolm Hoenlein—who delivered a thundering address Tuesday afternoon—rubbed elbows with evangelical leader John Hagee, the San Antonio pastor, who has mobilized more than one million people to advocate for Israel under the CUFI umbrella, seemed upbeat. In an address before the Summit participants, he reminded all of the positives:</p>
<p>“The Holocaust ended in statehood,” said the man who began developing close ties with Israeli and American Jewish leaders decades ago.</p>
<p>David Brog, a former Washington attorney (and cousin of Ehud Barak), is executive director of CUFI, and he used a breakout session to deliver a masterful response to those who say the Arab-Israeli conflict is a result of what the Left call the Occupation.</p>
<p>“It’s absurd on the face of it,” Brog said, delivering a clear and concise history of the region since 1948. Noting that the PLO was formed in 1964—three years before Israel took the West Bank, Golan Heights, and Sinai in a defensive war—Brog provided participants with plenty of information to answer charges they hear back home in their churches.</p>
<p>On Tuesday afternoon, in a ballroom session titled “Middle East Briefing,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the gathering, and noted his long friendship with Hagee:</p>
<blockquote><p>“What an achievement! I salute you. You are an oasis of support for Israel, and we have no better friends than you, anywhere on the globe.”</p></blockquote>
<p>In an interesting response that seemed to resonate with Christians who are becoming aware of an infiltration of the Palestinian narrative into American churches, Israeli Tourism Minister Uzi Landau said that “Arab money and the radical Left” have fueled media attacks on Israel. The comment showed a growing awareness of the problem, as CUFI Western Regional Director Randy Neal outlined similar problems to hundreds of college students Sunday afternoon. More than ever, there was sense at this CUFI Summit that the era of unchallenged attacks from the Left is over.</p>
<p>House Majority Leader Eric Cantor related a dual story that underscored the difference in the cultures of jihadists and those who oppose them. Cantor said that he had been part of a delegation that heard a detailed briefing on the Iron Dome project, which has saved thousands of Israeli lives during rocket attacks from Gaza.</p>
<p>Cantor said that the designer of the Dome, distraught when a single rocket claimed the life of an Israeli, went “back to the lab” to perfect the defense shield. Cantor noted that this stood in stark contrast to a Palestinian woman from Gaza who was treated in an Israeli hospital, but upon returning for a follow-up visit, she was stopped at a checkpoint, where her bomb belt was discovered. The woman had planned to blow up the very doctors and nurses that had saved her life.</p>
<p>Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish organizations, relished the opportunity to inject a more aggressive response to critics of Israel, telling the participants: “The Jewish lobby is a myth; it’s our job to make it a legend!” Hoenlein also knew what type of language would resonate with the CUFI Summit participants when he said, “Don’t bet against the Jews.”</p>
<p>Many in attendance were brought to tears by the address delivered by Richard Kemp, commander of British forces in Afghanistan. Kemp began by revealing his own Christian faith, and invoked the name of another legend, whom he called “The greatest Christian Zionist in Britain.” He went on to say that he had, that morning, spoken to Orde Wingate. Many in the crowd smiled but were puzzled.</p>
<p>“I spoke to him this morning at Arlington,” Kemp said. Wingate, the British major-general who was a Christian Zionist, helped train what would become the Haganah, the forerunner of the Israel Defense Forces. Wingate was killed in a plane crash in India, in 1944, but remains a beloved figure for Israelis and their American supporters.</p>
<p>Kemp delivered an impassioned defense of Israel that brought many in the room to tears. He mentioned several of Israel’s major battlefield achievements, calling the 1976 Entebbe rescue, “The most breathtaking special forces operation the world has ever seen.”</p>
<p>Kemp also referred to the CUFI Summit as a “remarkable event,” and indeed it was. Jews and Christians alike were moved by such displays as the “Wall of Remembrance,” which profiled the 1,000 Israelis killed by jihadist terrorism since 2000.</p>
<p>On Wednesday, participants met with their representatives on Capitol Hill.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 04:45:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why shrinking Jewish support for Obama may be too little, too late. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Picture-72.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-135040" title="Picture-7" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Picture-72.gif" alt="" width="375" height="253" /></a>This week, a Gallup poll showed that President Obama’s support level among American Jews had dropped from 74 percent in 2008 to 64 percent. That drop is twice as large as the drop for any other racial or ethnic group. It still leaves two-thirds of Jews standing in support of a President who will not  stand by the Jewish State. But it does mean that a growing population of Jewish voters understand the threat that Obama poses – even if they had supported his socialistic domestic agenda.</p>
<p>The Obama administration proved again last week just why Jewish voters should be troubled. On Friday, June 7, the Obama administration blocked an Israeli request to join the Global Counterterrorism Forum (GCTF) in Istanbul, Turkey. Now, for the past several years, Turkish sentiment has been turning against Israel.  Once the two countries&#8217; had a vibrant defense relationship, but Israel now has to fight off flotillas of armed terror-supporters launched from Turkey. Turkey’s Head of state, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, is living proof of what happens to a heretofore secular state falls to the scourge of Islamism.</p>
<p>Instead of seeing Turkey as a threat, however, the Obama administration sees it as a model for the Middle East. Egypt has been allowed to go Islamist; so has Iraq (which now has Shariah law as its default under its constitution); so have Libya and Tunisia. All, like Turkey, went Islamist by popular demand. And all, like Turkey, have become radically anti-Israel.</p>
<p>When faced with the intransigence of Islamism, the West has two choices: they can call upon the Islamists to drop the nonsense and begin dealing reasonably with the Jewish State. Or they can cave.</p>
<p>The Obama administration caved.</p>
<p>The GCTF, a crowning achievement of the Obama administration’s foreign policy, was opened in September 2011; it was the United States that chose Turkey as the site of this month’s conference. So when Israel asked to join, America could have told the Turks to deal with it.</p>
<p>Instead, they told Israel to get out, even as they invited Algeria, Egypt, Indonesia, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia. Non-Middle Eastern nations like China, Russia, and countries of West Europe showed up, too.</p>
<p>Not Israel, however. “The GCTF sought from the outset to bridge old and deep divides in the international community between Western donor nations and Muslim majority nations,” said one U.S. official. “And it has, I think, done that quite effectively.”</p>
<p>Not <em>that</em> effectively. Israel remains a bridge too far for the Arab and Muslim world, which seeks its destruction above all else. And yet the Obama administration acts as though the international scene is one big happy family, anti-terror to the core.</p>
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		<title>Saudi Arabia Prosecutes PR Groups Aiding Terror</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 04:10:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ronn Torossian]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[....While American PR firms and Twitter continue to provide PR cover to terrorism.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/saudis23.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-132465 alignleft" title="saudis23" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/saudis23.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="280" /></a>In an interesting development, a special Saudi Arabian criminal court recently began a criminal trial where one of the defendants is charged with among other counts, providing PR support to terrorists. Among the criminal charges being faced: “utilizing media to support terrorism, publishing inflammatory statements on a number of electronic sites.” One wonders if Saudi Arabia is charging people in criminal court for providing Public Relations support for terrorists, why are terrorists allowed to continue using American technology and PR Firms to spread their message?</p>
<p>There are many great uses for Public Relations, but a justified cause is not enough to be right these days, either in politics or in business. In any battle, preparation for any war includes a PR battle plan, and the bad guys seemingly get it. Terrorists and their supporters continue to use modern day public relations tools and they are increasingly skilled at doing so.</p>
<p>Hamas, which was designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the U.S. Department of State in April 1993, tweets regularly at <a href="http://twitter.com/hamasinfo" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/hamasinfo</a>. This, despite a 2004 U.S. Department of Justice statement that Hamas threatened the United States through covert cells on American soil.</p>
<p>One can join the over 9500 followers of The al-Qassam Brigades in their very active twitter account at <a href="http://twitter.com/AlqassamBrigade" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/AlqassamBrigade</a> &#8211; an organization which was founded in 1992 as Hamas’ military wing, and only 10 years ago was designated by the U.S. as a foreign terrorist organization.</p>
<p>In March 2010, the U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions against <em>Al-Aqsa TV </em>and designated it a terrorism-financing organization which serves as a primary Hamas media outlet that airs programs &#8220;designed to recruit children to become Hamas armed fighters and suicide bombers upon reaching adulthood.&#8221; They continue to tweet at <a href="http://twitter.com/AqsaTVChannel" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/AqsaTVChannel</a>.</p>
<p>Hezbollah tweets regularly from al-Manar News account <a href="http://twitter.com/almanarnews" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/almanarnews</a>, with over 11,000 followers. A recent English-language tweet links to a story on Al-Manar News which states: &#8220;Ahmadinjead: Central Bank Strong Enough to Defeat US plans.”</p>
<p>Will Twitter allow this to continue even as Saudi Arabia prosecutes someone for providing PR support to terrorists? Is Twitter enabling terrorists to spread their word and succeed? I recently wrote about how <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/11576" target="_blank"><strong>PR firms assist in selling terror and brutality</strong></a>. From Assad’s Syrian regime to previous representation of Libyan dictator Moammar Qaddafi, terrorist organizations Hamas and Hizbullah have hired PR agencies to lobby for them in the press and on the world stage.</p>
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		<title>Pakistan: An Enemy Regime</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 04:08:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alan W. Dowd]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What America should do now over the duplicitous country. ]]></description>
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<p>What would you call a country that employs terrorism as part of its foreign policy, that allows its intelligence agencies to coordinate attacks on U.S. forces, that purposely outs CIA agents operating in its territory, that provides support to groups that wage bloody attacks on its neighbors, that participates and even bankrolls attacks on U.S. embassies and U.S. bases, that allows its army to ambush U.S. troops, that cedes its territory to America’s enemies, that knowingly, even willfully, provides safe haven to the most-wanted, most-notorious terrorist in history?</p>
<p>Most people would call that country an enemy, and they would be right. This enemy regime is better known as Pakistan, and it receives some $2 billion in American aid annually.</p>
<p>For a while, in the early days of the post-9/11 campaign against terror, Pakistan changed its ways and behaved like an ally. It wasn’t easy. After all, Islamabad had helped spawn the Taliban in Afghanistan. But an enraged superpower can be very persuasive. Hours after the 9/11 attacks, Washington <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/09/21/60minutes/main2030165.shtml">warned</a> Pakistan to get on board, get out of the way or “be prepared to be bombed…be prepared to go back to the Stone Age.”</p>
<p>The government of Pervez Musharraf got the message and sided with the United States—for a while.</p>
<p>Then came phase two of Pakistan’s post-9/11 relationship with the United States. This second phase—call it the “frenemy phase”—was marked by cooperation in some areas and duplicity in others. For instance, hundreds of Pakistani troops died fighting the Taliban and its al Qaeda partners, and a high percentage of NATO’s equipment in Afghanistan was carried into the landlocked country via Pakistan. But all the while, Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) was hatching plots against the post-Taliban government of Afghanistan, arming people who wanted to kill American troops, and providing training to groups with designs on destabilizing India and Afghanistan.</p>
<p>In this frenemy phase, Pakistan was not a black-and-white problem, but rather a gray area.</p>
<p>If the frenemy phase of the relationship didn’t end on May 1—when SEAL Team 6 found Osama bin Laden “hiding” in a mansion just outside Pakistan’s capital, in a city that serves as host to the Pakistani military academy—then it certainly is over now.</p>
<p>Today, we know that “with ISI support,” in the words of Adm. Michael Mullen, Haqqani operatives in Afghanistan have planned and conducted truck bomb attacks on U.S. and NATO bases, assaults on the U.S. embassy, and deadly attacks on commercial and government facilities in Kabul. The ISI-backed Haqqani network is responsible for the 2009 attack on a CIA base in Afghanistan, which killed seven CIA operatives. According to The International Herald Tribune, ISI’s “S Wing” is helping coordinate Taliban operations in southern Afghanistan.<br />
In other words, Pakistan has now come full circle. It supported terrorist groups in Afghanistan before 9/11 in pursuit of its own craven interests, and it has returned to what it knows best.</p>
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		<title>The Killing of Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 04:35:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kerry Patton]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why is the Vatican silent about this atrocity?]]></description>
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<p>The <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/278400/iran-execution-apostasy-seems-imminent-nina-shea">11th branch of Iran’s Gilan Provincial Court </a>upheld the apostasy conviction and execution sentencing of Christian Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani this week. Social media accounts like <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23Nadarkhani">Twitter</a> have swarmed support for Pastor Nadarkhani. But where is the critically needed support from nation states—let alone, from where the Vatican?</p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.ediplomat.com/np/post_reports/pr_va.htm">Vatican</a> is an internationally recognized sovereign state with full diplomatic status. The Holy See has a legal personality under international law, giving it recognition as a sovereign state, which allows it to enter into treaties and to send and receive diplomatic representation. Knowing the Vatican has these powers, why hasn&#8217;t it spoken up on behalf of the Christian minister?</p>
<p>It is understood that the Vatican does not have its own military. However, history exemplifies the power of the Vatican to bring nations together to defeat its arch enemies through either diplomatic means or military might. This does not imply cause for a militant exhibition. However, it does imply, in a historical sense, the power of the Vatican. Has that power been lost today?</p>
<p>At the <a href="http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/urban2-5vers.html">Council of Clermont</a>, Pope Urban II addressed the world to aid the Greeks and recover Palestine from Muslim rule. It was here that Pope Urban II requested aid from the West to fight against the Seljuq Turks. Nation states listened to the Pope and launched armies to engage battle against the Muslims, which lasted approximately 175 years. Some believe the ninth crusade was initiated by Muslims ten years ago on that horrific and tragic September day often referred to as 9-11.</p>
<p>Assyrian-born Chaldean Catholic <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2010/1026/Tariq-Aziz-international-face-of-Saddam-s-regime-sentenced-to-hang">Tariq Aziz</a> served as deputy prime minister to Iraq until 2003. During his tenure and immediately prior to the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, Saddam Hussein repeatedly sent Aziz to the <a href="http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/secretariat_state/2003/documents/rc_seg-st_20030219_migliore-security-council_en.html">Vatican</a> in an attempt to delay and or resolve military confrontation against the United States. Needless to say, when you commit crimes against humanity as Aziz had, it’s extremely tough for the Vatican to assist you.</p>
<p>Iran constantly commits <a href="http://www.unarts.org/H-II/ref/IMReport1988.pdf">crimes against humanity</a>. War crimes have been committed, relentless killings of innocent people, torture, and so much more comes directly out of this Shiite-dominated state—yet they sit on the <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/04/29/elects-iran-commission-womens-rights/">United Nations Commission on the Status of Women</a>. The Vatican failed in delivering any statement opposing this newly appointed Iranian UN position.</p>
<p>Lately, instead of fighting for the morale and values bestowed before a loving and peaceful Christian faith, Pope Benedict seems to have embraced Iran. In 2008, <a href="http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2008/04/30/vatican-iranian-dialogue-agrees-on-faith-reason-non-violence/">Pope Benedict</a> actually conferred that the two entities agreed with one another on faith-based principles.  Pope Urban II must be rolling in his grave.</p>
<p>Since 2001 alone, there have been well over 2,000 innocent <a href="http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/Pages/ChristianAttacks.htm">Christians brutally murdered</a> by Muslims. None of these people were military members engaged in any of the wars fought in Iraq or Afghanistan. They were faith-based community members or missionaries, some of which were actual clergy. Not once in any of the aforementioned atrocities did the Vatican make a global outcry for the victims. Yes, some statements can be found in Vatican records, but they failed to saturate international media news as they should have.</p>
<p>If anyone believes that the Vatican will step up today in safeguarding one of their own practitioners who preaches the word of God to fellow Christians, they will likely be let down. As a practicing Roman Catholic, I am at times ashamed of my own religious denomination, yet for whatever reason, I maintain my faith.</p>
<p>There are currently numerous <a href="http://freedomslighthouse.net/2011/07/15/video-urges-prayer-for-christian-pastor-yusef-nadarkhani-facing-execution-in-iran-for-his-faith/">prayer calls for Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani</a>. Numerous petitions exist requesting the <a href="http://www.pcusa.org/news/2011/7/29/pressure-mounts-iran-acquit-christian-pastor/">United States Department of State</a> intervene. While fully recognizing the power of prayer, maybe it’s time to simply do more about Iran and follow the war cry of Pope Urban II not just for the sake of Pastor Nadarkhani but for all of those who have faced the horrors of Iran’s evil.</p>
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		<title>UN Prolongs Palestinian Problem</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[How a UN body fuels the fire of terror. ]]></description>
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<p>Supporters of Palestinian statehood prominently display &#8220;194&#8243; next to their flag. That number refers not only to its proposed place in the UN next-in-line, but their goal.</p>
<p>Citing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) as guarantor of the right to leave and return to one&#8217;s country, they use that to justify the &#8220;Palestinian right of return.&#8221;</p>
<p>But there is no such “right.” UNGA Resolution 194 (1948) refers to all refugees, Jewish as well as Arab, and does not confer automatic rights to return. Repatriation (or return) was suggested as one option, but this is based on conditions that Arabs have never fulfilled. Resettlement was also recommended in this and subsequent resolutions. All were rejected by the Arabs.</p>
<p>What to do with millions of Arab &#8220;refugees,&#8221; most of whom are cared for by UNRWA, is one of the most difficult and contentious issues that snarls any resolution of the dispute between Israel and the Arabs. UNRWA is at the core of the problem.</p>
<p>For sixty years, this agency has promoted an anti-Israel agenda that supports the &#8220;Palestinian right of return,&#8221; holds Israel alone as responsible for the plight of Arab refugees, and refuses to resettle them anywhere except in Israel.</p>
<p>Why, then, does Israel&#8217;s Ministry of Foreign Affairs support it?</p>
<p>Citing agreements, the MFA acknowledges that it cooperates with UNRWA&#8217;s humanitarian efforts, albeit with &#8220;reservations about [its] political aspects.&#8221; But making this distinction practically is impossible.</p>
<p>UNRWA&#8217;s humanitarian work can be assumed by the UN High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR), which assists all other refugees. Why continue to support a separate organization only for those who claim to be Palestinian refugees and their descendants?</p>
<p>Israel&#8217;s support for UNRWA, moreover, prevents donor countries from insisting on change and reducing or restricting funds, thus enabling one of the most anti-Israel organizations to flourish.</p>
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		<title>Republican Face-Off</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The GOP presidential candidate campaign takes off. ]]></description>
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<p>Last night, a group of seven GOP presidential hopefuls held the second Republican debate of the season at Saint Anselm College in New Hampshire. For three of those candidates, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, and Michele Bachmann, it was the first appearance of the 2012 election campaign. The other four panelists were Herman Cain, Tim Pawlenty, Ron Paul and Rick Santorum. Overall, the debate was a very civil affair, even surprisingly so. None of the candidates attacked each other, focusing almost exclusively on challenging the Obama administration&#8217;s agenda. And although there was no discernible victor, Monday night’s debate was certainly a watershed moment in the developing campaign season, offering the first near-complete look at the Republican presidential field.</p>
<p>Depending on which poll one believes, the current GOP front-runner is Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. What kind of front-runner? According to an <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/07/us-poll-obama-idUSTRE7560UH20110607">ABC-Washington Post</a> poll, one tied with Barack Obama at 47 percent apiece, and the leading Republican candidate to date. But according to a more recent <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/08/us-usa-campaign-poll-idUSTRE75749V20110608">Reuters/Ipsos</a> poll, although Romney is still Mr. Obama&#8217;s closest rival, he trails the president by a 51 to 38 percent margin. Romney&#8217;s principal advantage is a high-degree of name recognition. His principal disadvantage is a similar degree of recognition regarding RomneyCare, the Massachusetts healthcare plan that Democrats purportedly used as a model to create President Obama&#8217;s healthcare overhaul plan.</p>
<p>This apparent Achilles’ heel has earned Romney significant ridicule from fellow presidential hopeful Tim Pawlenty in recent days. Pawlenty, the former governor of Minnesota, has made efforts to target Romney directly, most recently in the coining of the term “ObamneyCare.” Although strategically concerned with proving that he is a threat to the presumptive GOP front-runner, Pawlenty has also struggled with charisma, which he hopes a solid conservative record will overshadow. This is unlike Pawlenty’s fellow Minnesotan and newly-confirmed GOP presidential contender Rep. Michelle Bachmann. A Tea Party favorite, Bachmann’s primary challenges are broadening her support base and proving that, while she is ambitious, she is also a serious candidate. Bachmann stands the greatest chance at channeling enthusiastic Sarah Palin supporters in the absence of the former Alaskan governor’s run, which might explain why her newly-hired campaign consultant, Ed Rollins, <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2011/06/07/bachmann-consultant-ed-rollins-palin-hasnt-been-serious-for-years/">criticized</a> Sarah Palin almost immediately upon getting the job.</p>
<p>A number of pundits thought businessman Herman Cain, former Godfather’s Pizza CEO, <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504943_162-20060614-10391715.html">won</a> the first GOP debate in South Carolina in May. With no political experience &#8212; which he considers an advantage in the current political climate &#8212; Cain is the &#8220;outsider candidate.&#8221; And although he suffers from a lack of name recognition, a <a href="http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/Gallup-Cain-GOP-president/2011/05/25/id/397722">Gallup poll</a> declared his supporters to be the &#8220;most fervent&#8221; of any GOP candidate. He is also adept as using the same <a href="http://www.adotas.com/2011/06/social-media-advertising-for-beginners/">social media</a> Barack Obama used to his advantage in 2008.</p>
<p>A key moment emerged early in the debate when Tim Pawlenty was given the opportunity to draw a distinction between himself and Mitt Romney with respect to healthcare and his &#8220;ObamneyCare&#8221; characterization of Romney&#8217;s plan. Pawlenty had noted earlier to the press that he did not intend to bring up his neologism because he did not want to create a distracting “rift.” Thus, when CNN moderator John King asked, &#8220;If it was Obamneycare on &#8216;Fox News Sunday,&#8217; why isn&#8217;t it Obamneycare standing here with the governor right there?&#8221; Pawlenty backed down from his association of Romney and Obama’s policy records, reinforcing the idea that he lacks the fire necessary to challenge Obama.</p>
<p>As for Romney, he was very steady, and smartly returned to his overall economic theme of &#8220;Obama has failed America&#8221; as often as possible without forcing the issue. Another concept he came back to repeatedly was states&#8217; rights and the idea that problems should be solved at the local level, or even by private enterprise wherever possible. If there was a moment when he seemed ill at ease, it was when he explain the nuances of his differences with the Obama administration regarding the auto bailouts. As the purported front-runner going into the debate, there was nothing that occurred last night which would radically alter that perception.</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 04:45:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Defense Secretary departs the world stage with blunt warnings.  ]]></description>
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<p>Defense Secretary Gates, due to step down at the end of this month, apparently wanted to go out speaking his mind. His around-the-world farewell tour has included visits to several US bases and major addresses to our allies in Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and Afghanistan. At every stop, he has made a point of reaffirming our commitment to our friends and alliances, while warning that after a decade of war and a rising debt, the US may not be able to maintain the same level of support that it previously supplied to meet security threats around the world.</p>
<p>The bluntness is unusual coming from a man known for his pragmatism and low-key management style at the Pentagon. His tenure &#8211; one of the most consequential for any secretary of defense in recent decades &#8211; has been marked by consensus building and an ability to work with a conservative like President Bush, as well as the liberal President Obama. He is leaving at an unsettling time when a drawdown of forces in Afghanistan and massive defense cuts loom on the horizon.</p>
<p>His speech in Brussels last Friday was particularly harsh in its assessment of the state of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), which is desperately searching for relevance in a changed world following the collapse of the Soviet Union. The defense secretary was <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/pentagon-chiefs-speech-exposes-soul-searching-on-tap-for-aging-splintered-nato/2011/06/12/AGLXryRH_story.html">particularly galled </a>by the “real possibility of collective military irrelevance,” due to the refusal of several member nations to increase their combat capabilities in order to reflect the needs of the alliance in Libya and especially Afghanistan. Unless alliance nations increase their participation in combat operations, Gates warned that NATO&#8217;s future is &#8220;dim, if not dismal.&#8221;</p>
<p>He criticized NATO nations for their lack of defense spending, pointing to the fact that in Libya, NATO is now <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/11/world/europe/11gates.html?ref=robertmgates">running out of bombs</a> after just 11 weeks. The US has had to increase its support substantially to make up for the deficient stockpiles of weapons, and Gates <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/11/world/europe/11gates.html?ref=robertmgates">was incredulous </a>that “the mightiest military alliance in history is only 11 weeks into an operation against a poorly armed regime in a sparsely populated country — yet many allies are beginning to run short of munitions, requiring the U.S., once more, to make up the difference.”</p>
<p>He even raised the possibility that it may reach the point that the US might not see the need for a European alliance any longer. “The blunt reality is that there will be dwindling appetite and patience in the U.S. Congress — and in the American body politic writ large — to expend increasingly precious funds on behalf of nations that are apparently unwilling to devote the necessary resources or make the necessary changes to be serious and capable partners in their own defense.”</p>
<p>Without naming any nations specifically, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/11/world/europe/11gates.html?ref=robertmgates">Gates complained </a>of a &#8220;two tiered&#8221; membership in NATO “between those willing and able to pay the price and bear the burdens of commitments, and those who enjoy the benefits of NATO membership but don’t want to share the risks and the costs.” He also scolded the alliance for being “apparently willing and eager for American taxpayers to assume the growing security burden left by reductions in European defense budgets.”</p>
<p>In truth, while the lack of defense spending by Europeans is certainly a big part of the problem, it is the failure to define a new mission for the aging alliance that appears to be a stumbling block to unity. Should NATO <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/pentagon-chiefs-speech-exposes-soul-searching-on-tap-for-aging-splintered-nato/2011/06/12/AGLXryRH_story.html">be an alliance</a> that stresses combat missions &#8212; the US view &#8212; or should it opt for “soft” power, like “humanitarian, development, peacekeeping, and talking tasks,” as Gates put it. The latter view is held by most European countries who have their own problems with debt and weak economies, and who also lack the national will to sustain casualties in combat operations like Afghanistan and Libya.</p>
<p>The test in the coming months will be how the alliance holds together when we begin to withdraw our combat forces from Afghanistan. Most NATO troops are not currently engaged in combat due to <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7061061.stm">&#8220;national caveats&#8221;</a> that prevent the alliance from putting their soldiers in harm&#8217;s way. This led <a href="http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?97286-NATO-let-Canada-Down&amp;s=cb3f5766b9984969a7e45472318361f0&amp;p=2088308&amp;viewfull=1#post2088308">one Canadian officer</a> to remark, &#8220;How many battalions does it take to protect Kabul airport?&#8221; Indeed,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Security_Assistance_Force#Contributing_nations"> as an example</a>, the bulk of Germany&#8217;s 5,000 troops are attached to Provincial Reconstruction Teams in quiet provinces in the north of Afghanistan. Efforts to get nations like Germany, Spain, Turkey, and Italy to alter those caveats have proven unsuccessful. As Gates said in Brussels, it isn&#8217;t a matter of nations refusing to participate as much as it is that they are incapable of doing so. “The military capabilities simply aren’t there,” he said.</p>
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		<title>The Canadian Left Backs Upcoming Gaza Flotilla</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 04:13:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matt Gurney]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Left-wing political leaders reach out hand of solidarity to terror. ]]></description>
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<p>It was just over a year ago that Israeli commandos went aboard seven ships that had set sail from Turkey, intent on challenging Israel&#8217;s arms embargo on Hamas-controlled Gaza. Six of those ships were seized with little trouble. But on the seventh, the <em>Mavi Marmara</em>, the passengers attacked the Israeli boarders with improvised weapons. The Israelis were not prepared for the violence and were forced to use lethal force against the passengers. Nine civilians died and many more were wounded. For the crime of defending themselves against the passengers&#8217; vicious attack, activists, politicians and opinion-makers all over the globe condemned the Israelis&#8217; actions and the legitimacy of the entire embargo.</p>
<p>Since then, anti-Israeli would-be martyrs been plotting how to recreate the triumph of the original flotilla. One such group is preparing to send a <a href="http://www.tahrir.ca/">Canadian-owned ship</a>, loaded with Canadian volunteers, to Gaza, with the express purpose of forcing the Israelis to respond. Rather than reflecting the strange views of a fringe minority of a rabble-rousers, however, the plan — known unimaginatively as the Canadian Boat to Gaza — has attracted some high level political support, including at least two politicians of the left-wing New Democratic Party, Canada&#8217;s newly minted parliamentary opposition.</p>
<p>In the federal election just held in Canada on May 2nd, the New Democrats (NDP) benefited mightily from the collapse of two other Canadian federal political parties, the Liberals and the Quebec-based Bloc Quebecois. Millions of voters shifted their votes to Canada&#8217;s right-wing Conservative Party, which won a strong majority in parliament, and the NDP, which finished a distant second and formed the Official Opposition. So dramatic and unexpected was this sudden shift in voter support that many of the NDP candidates had never seriously considered the possibility that they would actually win their races. Such people, who put their name on the ballot to buff up their resume or as a favor to a friend inside the party, now wield considerable moral authority (if limited political influence) as members of Canada&#8217;s federal government.</p>
<p>This is worrisome because the NDP has never before held such clout. Thanks to the electoral collapse of its rivals on Canada&#8217;s left-wing, it almost tripled the size of its parliamentary delegation. By necessity, it has absorbed many political rookies who were only given a cursory vetting, if party officials scrutinized their pasts at all.</p>
<p>Barely a month after the election, the anti-Israel fringe of the NDP (a party with deep ties to organized labor and self-styled “progressives”) is emerging in full force. Surprisingly, it has come not from an unvetted rookie, but from a relative veteran of the party. Alex Atamenenko, who has represented a largely rural area of the province of British Columbia since 2006, has publicly endorsed the objective of the Canadian Boat to Gaza, and is listed on their website along with the usual collection of labor leaders and journalists. Nor is this the first time that Mr. Atamenenko has taken a stand against the Jewish State. He was sharply critical of Israel&#8217;s justified response to the original flotilla and of Israel&#8217;s defensive war against Hamas during Operation Cast Lead in 2008-09.</p>
<p>Mr. Atamenenko has a right to his views and to endorse whatever causes that he sees fit. But what is worrisome is the muted response of his political superiors within the NDP. Last year, while still the third-place party in Canadian politics, the party reacted swiftly and strongly when one of its elected members was caught on videotape seeming to question the legitimacy of Israel&#8217;s right to exist. Jack Layton, leader of the NDP, quickly met with Israel&#8217;s ambassador to Canada and assured her that such comments did not represent the party&#8217;s position and was publicly critical of the woman who had made them (no doubt under pressure, she backed away from her marks quickly).</p>
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