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		<title>Israeli Leftists Demonstrate Solidarity with Dead Terrorist</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2014 05:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Steven Plaut]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Jewish State's fifth column and its fellow travelers spring into action. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/pli.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245130" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/pli-450x300.jpg" alt="pli" width="321" height="214" /></a>Khair al-Din Hamdan from Kafr Kanna in the Galilee was an Israeli Arab terrorist who was minding his own business a few days ago and attempting to stab Israeli policemen to death.  Kafr Kanna is where the Biblical town of Cana stood and according to the New Testament it is where Jesus turned water into wine.  The tomb of the great Jewish sage Simeon ben Gamliel is nearby, attesting to the Jewish origins of this town now under Arab occupation.</p>
<p>The intended police victims of the terrorist were not amused and were unappreciative of the symbolic value of their being stabbed to death to protest the grievances of Hamdan and his terrorist comrades.  Instead, the police selfishly and immoderately shot Hamdan to death as Hamdan attempted to murder them with his knife.</p>
<p>Israel&#8217;s Arab fifth-column and its fellow travelers then took to the streets and violently protested this &#8220;murder in cold blood&#8221; of the gentle giant Hamdan. He instantly became the poster boy for those loyal Arab citizens of Israel who seek the annihilation of Israel and its Jews.   The neutral and objective foreign media were also outraged at the violation of the Miranda rights of Hamdan, who was killed by the police without legal representation and a trial.   Khair&#8217;s father <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4589580,00.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">expressed the outrage</span></a> of the family that his son had been prevented by the police from murdering Jews &#8212; and was not simply stopped with tear gas or at most a bullet in his thigh.  And the heroic appeasers of the Likud government <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/11219367/Israel-orders-probe-after-police-kill-Arab-in-cold-blood.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">decided to order an official commission</span></a> of investigation into the interruption by the cops of the murder attempt by Khair.</p>
<p>At the same time, some of Israel&#8217;s finest leftists are also taking to the airwaves and the streets to show their solidarity with the young dead terrorist. The Khair lobby claims that video footage shows that, after attempting unsuccessfully to stab the cops, he was in fact backing away from them when he was shot.  Just why his backing away could be interpreted as any reason NOT to summarily shoot and execute him on the spot with extreme prejudice has never been explained by anyone.</p>
<p>Some of the car crash murderers in Israel in recent days have been shot on the spot AFTER crashing intentionally into people.  The only thing wrong with that is that Israel&#8217;s weenie government refuses to pass a law proclaiming that instant execution without trial of ALL terrorists at the scenes of their murders and attempted murders is not only legal but downright laudatory and deserving of a medal of valor.</p>
<p>The emerging leading Jewish leader of the Khair lobby is a Knesset Member from the anti-Israel semi-Marxist MERETZ Knesset Faction, loosely associated with the anti-democratic protest movement &#8220;Peace Now.&#8221;  She is Tamar Zandberg.   She decided to go in person to Kafr Kanna to show her solidarity with the poor innocent victim Khair, a bit like all those demagogues in America making <i>hajj</i> to Fergusan, Missouri to show their solidarity with the violent thug shot there by police.</p>
<p>Sister Zandberg&#8217;s participation in the Salute to Terrorists with Knives event at Kafr Kanna is relayed by herself in Hebrew on her Facebook page.  She also posts a photo of herself without chador sitting on the protest podium with assorted Arab members of the Khair lobby.</p>
<p>Here is my translation of <a href="https://www.facebook.com/tamarzandberg"><span style="color: #0433ff;">what she posts there</span></a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;I visited today in Kafr Kanna, the town in which Khair Hamdan was shot to death.  I went together with Knesset Member Issawi Freij (also from Meretz).  We expressed our solidarity with the feelings of injustice that an entire community feels today, not only because of the excessively light finger on the trigger (by the police), not only because of the fact that the photographs of the event raise serious doubts about the legality of the police actions and the suspicions of an attempt to cover them up, but also because of our recognition that this is NOT an isolated disconnected incident.  It is instead part of the policy of racist discrimination directed against the Arab minority in Israel, a policy directed and implemented from on high by the Prime Minister and his cabinet.</p>
<p style="color: #141923;">While one minister speaks about &#8216;a terrorist&#8217; and another speaks about &#8216;terrorism,&#8217; while the Prime Minister himself raises the possibility of stripping citizens of their citizenship, they are not just commenting on a controversial (<i>sic</i>) incident but rather they are outlining their policy against the Israeli Arab public.</p>
<p style="color: #141923;">This government of intimidation and incitement has now reached new heights of hatemongering.  Its own obstinacy is what manufactured the confrontation whose climax was seen in the Gaza war this past summer.  It has driven Israel&#8217;s international reputation down to a new low.  This same government now paints 20% of the country&#8217;s population as the enemy.  I cannot escape the feeling that this is part of a grand governmental plan of organized destruction against any hope for a better future.  (The word &#8216;destruction&#8217; she uses in Hebrew is the same as the word for &#8216;terrorism&#8217; – SP.) &#8220;</p>
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		<title>Kerry, Qatar and the Poisonous Tree</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2014 04:55:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caroline Glick]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Washington's alarming alliance with jihad supporters -- and how it undermines the cause against the Islamic State. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/132156075_21n2.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-243919" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/132156075_21n2-450x335.jpg" alt="132156075_21n" width="305" height="227" /></a>Originally published by the <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Kerry-Qatar-and-the-poisonous-tree-379979">Jerusalem Post</a>. </em></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">It would be interesting to know which Arab leaders are telling US Secretary of State John Kerry that the absence of peace between Israel and the Palestinians is “a cause of recruitment” to Islamic State.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Is that something he is hearing from Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani? The Qatari leader, whose kingdom has been cited by the US Treasury Department as a major funder of Islamic State (IS), is certainly one of Kerry’s favorite regional leaders.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">If Thani did blame Israel for the rise of IS, then his statement would constitute yet another instance of the double game Qatar has been playing with the Americans. On the one hand, the regime is financing jihad, and other the other hand, it pretends to side with the West against the jihad that it is funding.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">This is certainly the case in Jerusalem.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">According to an investigative report published Friday in Yisrael Hayom, Qatar is financing the violence in the capital. Veteran Jerusalem affairs reporter Nadav Shragai wrote that the Islamic rioters who daily attack Jewish visitors and police forces on the Temple Mount are paid by Qatar through the Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The Qatari government and other Islamic funds are transferring vast sums of money to the Islamic Movement’s radical northern branch headed by Sheikh Ra’ed Salah. The Islamic Movement in turn is paying thousands of shekels every month to hundreds of women and men, mainly Muslim Israeli citizens, who call themselves the Murbitat.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The Murbitat presents itself as an Islamic prayer group, but according to Shragai, the group’s job is to harass Jews and police on the Temple Mount. They scream and curse at Jewish visitors and in recent months have escalated their violence against them, and their police escorts. These violent attacks include assaults with rocks, firebombs and firecrackers.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">To prevent the police from blocking their entry to the Mount, members of the Murbitat enter the mosques in times of relative calm and then remain there for weeks at a time. The women are used as well to smuggle firecrackers and other weaponry onto the Temple Mount by hiding them in their burkas.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In a report published Sunday by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Palestinian affairs researcher Pinchas Inbari explained the goals of the violence.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The riots and assaults on the Temple Mount have two goals. First, they aim to incite the Islamic world against Israel and return attention to the Palestinians. And second, they seek to destabilize the regimes in Egypt and Jordan.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Regarding the goal of galvanizing support for jihad by attacking Israel, Inbari recalled how immediately after longtime Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak was overthrown in February 2011, the Muslim Brotherhood’s most influential cleric, Qatar-based Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi, gave a speech at a mass rally in Cairo and called for the Muslims to march on Jerusalem.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The rally was organized by the Muslim Brotherhood and attended by two million people. It marked the first time that Qaradawi had returned to Egypt since he was forced to flee in the 1960s for his support for jihad.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">From Doha, Qaradawi has become the most influential cleric on the regime-controlled Al Jazeera satellite network. As such, he has become the most important Islamic cleric in the Sunni Islamic world.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As Inbari noted, following his speech in Cairo Qaradawi authored a book titled </span><em style="color: #000000;">Jerusalem: The Problem of Every Muslim</em><span style="color: #000000;">, in which he restated his call for an Islamic conquest of the city.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Saleh, who is extremely close to Qaradawi, stated that “Jerusalem is the capital of the imminently approaching Islamic Caliphate.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In other words, the Palestinians and their Qatari financiers are seeking to galvanize the forces of global jihad, including IS, to view the Palestinian war against Israel and the Jews as the centerpiece of the jihad.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">These efforts are backed by both Fatah and Hamas, who are competing for Qatari money. Fatah chief and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas resonated the claims of the most radical jihadists when earlier this month he referred to Jews on the Temple Mount as “herds of cattle,” and called on Muslims to attack them for they “desecrate” the holy site simply by being there.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Doha-based Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal called on the Palestinians “to defend Jerusalem and al-Aksa, and on the Muslim nation to send a painful message of rage to the world.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As to the goal of using the violence on the Temple Mount to destabilize Egypt and Jordan, Inbari noted that efforts to intensify violence in Jerusalem have grown since the Egyptian military overthrew Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood regime in July 2013. “Presumably,” Inbari argues, “Qatar tried indirectly to help the Brotherhood in Egypt by inspiring support for them on the Jerusalem issue.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The Jordanian regime even more acutely is threatened by the violence on the Temple Mount. Israel recognized Jordan as the custodian of the Temple Mount in its peace treaty with the Hashemite Kingdom. The Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan has capitalized on the violence on the Temple Mount to condemn the regime for what it claims is its failure to protect al-Aksa from the Jews.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In contending with the violence in Judaism’s holiest site, and throughout its capital city, the Israeli government is caught in a trap.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">While telling their fellow Muslims that they must wage a jihad for Jerusalem, Fatah and Hamas as well as the Israeli Islamic Movement tell Western leaders that their violence against Jews in the city owes to actions that Israel has taken to safeguard the lives and civil rights of Jews.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">To appease these specific purported grievances, the Palestinians demand that Israel deny protection and civil rights to Jews by among other things, denying Jews the freedom to visit the Temple Mount and denying Jews property rights in Jerusalem.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Rather than recognize that they are being played by double-speaking Palestinians and their jihadist supporters, Washington and Brussels are going along with their deceit. Both the Obama administration and the EU firmly side with the Palestinian demand that Jews be denied civil rights in Jerusalem. Both have condemned and threatened Israel for not preventing Jews from lawfully purchasing homes in Silwan and for allowing contractors to build homes for Jews in Jewish neighborhoods of Jerusalem.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">This places the Israeli government in an impossible position. It is being attacked by jihadist forces who seek its destruction. It is told by Washington and Europe that if it doesn’t appease those who cannot be appeased by denying protection and civil rights to Jews, then it will lose whatever is left of its good relations with the US and Europe.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">And this brings us back to Kerry’s claim that Arab leaders are blaming Israel for the rise of Islamic State.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As IS forces draw closer to Baghdad and expand their control over Anbar Province in Iraq, it is becoming more and more apparent that the US-led campaign against the terrorist army is failing.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">To a significant degree, Washington’s inability to forge a coherent and feasible strategy for containing and defeating IS owes to its refusal to understand the nature of the enemy and its goals.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">What we see in Qatar’s financing of the violence on the Temple Mount is that the same forces that are financing IS are financing the violence against Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The goal of IS is the establishment of a global Islamic empire. The first targets on its target list are Sunni Mus &#8211; lim states that oppose the Muslim Brotherhood.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The goal of the Islamic violence on the Temple Mount and throughout Jerusalem is to overthrow regional regimes that oppose the Muslim Brotherhood while igniting a pan-Islamic war against the Jewish state.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">By insinuating that Israel is to blame for IS’s rise to power, Kerry was not simply blaming the victim. He was empowering the aggressor.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">For the West to defeat IS, it first needs to recognize that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was right when he said at the UN last month that IS and Hamas – and increasingly Qatari-financed Fatah – are “branches of the same poisonous tree.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">With his announcement Monday that the government had approved the construction of 1,250 new housing units in Jewish neighborhoods in Jerusalem, Netanyahu showed that Israel prefers freedom and security to good relations with Washington and Brussels.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Washington and Brussels need understand that by forcing Israel to make that choice, they are hurting themselves and the cause of their own freedom and security far more than they are harming Israel.</span></p>
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		<title>Hold Obama and the Democrats Accountable for the Terrorist Threat</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2014 04:58:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Horowitz]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The urgency of indicting the Democratic Party for its dereliction of duty. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #000000;"><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/140528-obama-west-point-mn-1155_a321bf5f75359e045403b1c5436f31aa.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-242534" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/140528-obama-west-point-mn-1155_a321bf5f75359e045403b1c5436f31aa-438x350.jpg" alt="140528-obama-west-point-mn-1155_a321bf5f75359e045403b1c5436f31aa" width="327" height="261" /></a>Originally published at <a href="http://www.redstate.com/diary/DavidHorowitz/2014/10/06/hold-obama-democrats-accountable-terrorist-threat/">RedState.com</a>. </em></p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Since 1945 Republicans have not won the popular vote unless national security was the primary issue. But security issues were virtually absent from the 2008 and 2012 elections. This gave victories to Barack Obama, the most anti-military president in American history. Fortunately, the prospects for 2016 are looking marginally better because Republicans are now actually focusing on the fact that an anti-military presidency has ominous consequences for the 300 million Americans whose safety is the primary responsibility of the commander-in-chief.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">That said, there is much to be desired in the Republican message, which is tepid, diffuse and easily missed. When Politico wrote a story about the recent change in Republican strategy it was all about the shift away from the tax-cutting emphasis of recent years, <a style="color: #b82026;" href="http://www.politico.com/story/2014/09/republicans-shift-away-from-tax-cutting-mania-111359.html?hp=f2">rather than towards the national security issue</a>.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">So let me describe the reality we are actually facing, which is a necessary preface to the way the Republican Party should be framing its strategy and should be emphasizing the dangers of having a Democratic president like Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton – or for that matter a Democratic Congress – leading us in wartime.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">I will leave out of this wartime equation the threats from Russia and China, which Obama and the Democrats have done so much to foster. I will focus only on the threat posed by Islamic jihadists, who at this moment can easily penetrate the borders that Obama and the Democrats have done so much to wreck. And carry with them chemical and biological weapons, and – if Iran builds the bombs which Obama the Democrats have made almost inevitable – nuclear weapons as well.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">This is easily the greatest terrorist threat in our history, far greater than what transpired before and after 9/11. ISIS, al Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas and other Islamic terrorist armies now control territory (and attendant resources) from Afghanistan through Iraq Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Mali, Somalia and other regions of Africa, Asia and the Middle East.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Why has this happened? Because Obama and the Democrats have waged a ten-year war against the war on terror, against American military strength, against an American presence in Afghanistan and Iraq, and against the very idea that Islamic forces have declared war on us. For ten years Democrats have been determined to treat terrorists as individual criminals, arrest them and try them in American courts where they will have all the protections of the American legal system that they are seeking to destroy. So hostile has Obama been to the very notion of a “War on Terror” that he has purged the very term from the official government vocabulary and replaced it with “overseas contingency operations” which describes exactly nothing.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">To create the power vacuum which Islamic jihadists have filled, Obama had to defy the advice of his Secretary of Defense and his intelligence advisers. He did this in part by absenting himself from nearly half his daily intelligence briefings, and in part by saying no to absolutely crucial measures that his military staff proposed for countering the threat from ISIS and other terrorist groups. Obama saw to it that America would relinquish its military base in Iraq (a country that strategically borders on Afghanistan, Syria and Iran) or to keep the 20,000 American troops stationed there as his Secretary of Defense and Joint Chiefs of Staff urged him to do.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Obama hated the Iraq War so much that he was willing to betray all the American soldiers who gave their lives to keep Iraq out of the clutches of Iran and safe from the terrorist threat. If Obama had just listened to the advice of his military staff, there would be no ISIS today. Obama’s deliberate, calculated surrender of Iraq (and soon Afghanistan) and failure to stop Syria’s Assad when he crossed Obama’s red line is the greatest and gravest dereliction of duty in the history of the American presidency.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">And make no mistake, Obama was not alone. For ten years the Democrats have been sabotaging the war on terror, beginning with their disgraceful scorched earth campaign against President Bush and the War in Iraq and continuing with their full-throated cry for the abandonment of Iraq after Bush had won the peace and contained the terrorist threat. Their support for Obama’s appeasement of Iran and Hamas, his support for the Muslim Brotherhood, and his diplomatic assault on Israel, America’s only true ally in the Middle East, is not only a national disgrace but the heart of the crisis that is looming on the international horizon.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">If Republicans fail to articulate the sources of this crisis, and specifically to indict Obama, Hillary and the Democrats for their betrayal of America’s interests and their failure to protect the American people then Republicans electoral prospects will be dim, and with them, their country’s future.</p>
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		<title>Personal Encounters With a &#8216;Ball of Fire&#8217; in Sderot</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2014 04:07:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 300th aerial attack from Hamas ruled Gaza since the last cease fire.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/bb.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-235588" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/bb-262x350.jpg" alt="bb" width="262" height="350" /></a>Since the end of operation &#8216;Pillar of Defense&#8217;, through June 30th 2014, 300 aerial attacks have been launched from Hamas-ruled controlled Gaza towards southern Israel.</p>
<p>The fact that many terrorist organizations based in Gaza proudly take responsibility for firing rockets and missiles towards the Israeli civilian population, and not necessary the ruling terrorist group, &#8216;Hamas&#8217;- as the media and Israeli officials continue to emphasize- makes no difference to the families and children of one million Israelis.</p>
<p>Once the siren goes off and they run for shelter and for their lives, they have between 15 and 45 seconds ask which terrorist organization is firing now from Gaza.</p>
<p>Instead, they wonder where the rocket will explode: inside or outside their town.</p>
<p>&#8216;Rocket reality&#8217; is still a basic way of life in the Western Negev on the Hamas-controlled Gaza border.</p>
<p>Compared to recent years, it has been &#8216;more quiet&#8217; than others (after operation &#8216;Pillar of Defense&#8217;), but the Hamas-controlled Gaza threat grows each day.</p>
<p>Realistically, the question is not &#8216;if&#8217; Israel will have to take action in Gaza, but rather, &#8220;when?&#8221;</p>
<p>This time, however, the Russian-roulette reality, finally exploded on Saturday night, just after 8 PM, when an entire factory in Sderot went up in flames that were visible from miles away.</p>
<p>Why are there still those who claim that Hamas is interested in maintaining calm?</p>
<p>Have they forgotten the Hamas charter, which openly calls for genocide of the Jews in Israel?</p>
<p>And what about the statement issued by Al-Zadin El Qassam- the Hamas brigade in Gaza, one week before the first cease-fire in November 2006: &#8220;We are not going to stop firing the Zionist settlement Sderot, until the last citizens of Sderot leaves.&#8221;</p>
<p>Yet these are people who are blind to the reality that over 20,000 aerial attacks have been launched from Gaza towards Israel pulled all of its troops and Israeli civilians out of Gaza in August 2005.</p>
<p><strong>EYEWITNESS ENCOUNTERS</strong></p>
<p>“The Ambassadors of Tomorrow” firsthand accounts were sent to SMC by local residents of Sderot on Saturday night. The goal of this course is to turn Sderot residents into local educational guides in Sderot and the Western Negev for the hundreds of international delegations who visit the area through SMC, and to be prepare themselves for on call for media activity during emergency situations.</p>
<p>Dov Tartchman, Sderot resident, reported:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;The strangest thing was seeing this ball of fire with this thick smoke…it felt like out of a scene from Lebanon, Syria or Iraq. Not like something that could happen here…&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Daniel Madmoni:</p>
<blockquote><p>“Before the end of Shabbat, we sat outside for coffee&#8230; The scent of the new week is in the air&#8230; and then suddenly the &#8220;red alert&#8217; siren went off… This is my home, this is my life, and this is how I start the fresh new week… Rockets will continue to fly and explode, the Israeli flag will continue to wave…”</p></blockquote>
<p>Daniel Ohana:</p>
<blockquote><p>“Saturday, a bit after 8 PM on my way back from a fun and sunny day at the beach, a bit of freshening up after the exam period, my mom calls me in hysterics: &#8220;Get home quickly and drive with your windows open, so you can hear the siren going off&#8230;&#8221; and it starts again. Yes, it&#8217;s started again. I&#8217;m a ten-minute drive away from home and I can already see what mom is talking about… On top of me a huge black cloud, and the closer I got to Sderot, the bigger and more threatening the flames seemed.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Anat Ben-Ami:</p>
<blockquote><p>“Shabbat has arrived, and the excitement is very high in our family home on Kibbutz Mefalsim, a kibbutz overlooking the Gaza strip. The whole family arrived, excited about Saturday night: My 12 year-old Rony&#8217;s 6<sup>th</sup> grade graduation party, and next year off to junior high in the rocket-proof school in Sha&#8217;ar Ha&#8217;negev. From one protected school to another…</p>
<p>The whole day went by very quietly, the family guests didn&#8217;t feel a thing, or just didn&#8217;t want to talk about it. I was very troubled and restless. The night before, I had problems sleeping, having nightmares of buildings collapsing and a world that is washing away and I&#8217;m in this dreaming always trying to find shelter, and hope for quiet and peace, exactly like in my reality…</p>
<p>The evening came, the heat wave continued into the evening, but the house was closed with the air-conditioning, letting us prepare calmly for tonight&#8217;s celebration. We got into the car, and the phones started going off… Rony&#8217;s friend, her age, calls, screaming with tears, telling Rony that the party was canceled…Rony tries to calm her down, but loses faith in what she&#8217;s telling her. Her friend&#8217;s mom was scared to leave the house with her kids. She stayed at home and decided that her daughter, Rony&#8217;s friend, would not to go the graduation party. At that moment we called the teacher, and she told us that for now, the roads are still open and it is possible to get to the party, it&#8217;s not really in the area of the rockets…</p>
<p>We are on our way, couldn&#8217;t imagine another scenario that once again my daughter wouldn&#8217;t experience something so normal and natural for her age. The qassam rocket reality has been part of her entire life… My graduation party for Shaar Ha&#8217;negev school- On our way an explosion of a qassam rocket. Now I&#8217;m thinking maybe the party has been canceled… maybe no children will arrive… we&#8217;re on our way in any case… As we started to drive, we can&#8217;t believe the huge black smoke cloud.   My dad is driving the car…many fire trucks have zoomed right past us to reach Sderot as quickly as possible, to the terror attack scene. I kept on telling myself, it&#8217;s not in our area and on our way, we are keeping on driving… The closer we reach the Sderot industrial area, the scene reveals its horror: with no doubt, the terror attack happened here. I try showing strength, to keep on with the daily routine and not to give up on life… Even if this no normal reality became normal for us… every time this happens, something from the inside breaks….   I pray that the summer vacation will be peaceful, and that we won&#8217;t need to find different places around Israel to host us, far away from our families…</p></blockquote>
<p><em>Noam Bedein is a photojournalist, lecturer and founder/director of </em><a href="http://www.sderotmedia.org.il/"><em>Sderot Media Center</em></a><em>. He has conducted briefings and tours for government officials, diplomats, foreign press, and students from around the world. Recently he produced a short documentary for the US Embassy-</em><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzsuX-dZH9w"><em> ‘Standing Resilient in Israel’</em></a>.</p>
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		<title>The Islamic Tactic of Terror and Lure</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2014 04:50:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nonie Darwish]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A look at a Muslim doctrine that employs two polar opposite weapons against unbelievers. ]]></description>
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<p>As I was watching an <a href="http://aljazeera.net/programs/religionandlife/2008/5/11/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF%D8%B9%D9%88%D8%A9-%D8%A8%D9%8A%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%BA%D9%8A%D8%A8-%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%87%D9%8A%D8%A8">Arabic Aljazeerah TV show</a>, which did not have a date, called “Sharia and Hayaa,” meaning Islamic law and life, the topic was “Dawaa Baina Al Tarhib Wal Targhib,” Arabic for “Preaching between Terror and Lure.” The word &#8220;dawaa&#8221; means preaching or spreading Islam. &#8220;Tarhib&#8221; is derived from the word &#8220;irhab&#8221; or terror, and &#8220;tarhib&#8221; means to instill terror. Incidentally, the Quran encourages Muslims to “instill terror through the hearts of unbelievers.” The word &#8220;targhib&#8221; means luring or making something attractive. I am sure Islamic apologists will dispute the interpretation since they never admit that the word &#8220;kill&#8221; in the Quran means &#8220;kill&#8221; anyway.</p>
<p>&#8220;Tarhib Wal TarghibI&#8221; is an Islamic doctrine that the West and many Muslims are unfamiliar with but that demonstrates yet another clear connection between Islam and terror. This doctrine promotes the use of two extreme tools to bring people and nations to submit to Islam. Such polar opposite and extreme techniques penetrate Islamic society from top to bottom; they are encouraged in child rearing, in the relationship between men and women, leaders and citizens, mosque preachers and the congregation, Arab media and the public, and even between Islamic nations and the West &#8212; the nations they wish to conquer or lure to Islam.</p>
<p>A Quranic verse (The Rock 49-50) was mentioned at the beginning of the show stating that Allah said: “tell my worshippers that I am the beneficent the merciful and my torture [Athab] is a painful one”; two opposite extreme descriptions of Allah, or more accurately Mohammed himself, that became the foundation of the contradictory doctrine of Islam.</p>
<p>It must be noted that Arabic Aljazeerah discusses Islam in a totally different light from English Aljazeerah, which is designed to lure Westerners to the idea that Islam is peaceful while defending terror as freedom fighting.</p>
<p>This doctrine is a summation of what the Quran is all about, terror and lure, and promotes such extremely but powerful and raw cultural attributes of Muslim society; shame and pride. Such a doctrine has also evolved from Mohammed&#8217;s character when he failed to peacefully evangelize through persuasion and &#8220;lure&#8221; and therefore had to flip tactics, going straight to pure terror. Thus his famous saying &#8220;I have been victorious through terror.&#8221;</p>
<p>The show&#8217;s questions were more interesting than the answers. The host, Othman Othman, was trying to bring the guest, Islamic Dawah “preaching” expert Dr. Salman Alawda, to state that Islam equally balances the two extreme tools of terror and peaceful teaching. These were some of his questions: Many say terror and bullying are necessary. How do we achieve balance regarding the names of Allah between punishment and forgiveness? Why is it that the agony side often prevails over the mercy side? Are hardship and pain required for their own sake when it comes to Islamic legislation? Why does the discussion of the torment of the grave, death and the afterlife turn into a terrifying discussion? Why are Salafis more inclined to use fear/terror factor regarding global advocacy? Some ask, shouldn’t we [Muslims] be judged as imperfect humans anyway?</p>
<p>The host, while exalting Islam, the Quran and Mohammed, was desperately trying to get a glimmer of hope with his questions to bring out any trace of joy and hope for Muslims who want to enjoy life right here on Earth, but are not getting such a message from Islamic teachings. Unfortunately the guest provided very little hope when he skillfully spinned that Islam does have a balance. But what failed the guest was the fact that values of joy, life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, and making the world a better place, do not exist in the Quran. The guest could not give the host the good news, when he asserted that seeking pleasure and happiness on earth is equal to death. The guest’s discussion of the good life for Muslims was narrowed down to the after life in the Islamic jannah, heaven. Thus the Islamic promise of virgins and carnal pleasure became the infamous lure Islam uses on the jihadis, pushing them into waging Allah’s war of terror on his enemies: the unbelievers.</p>
<p>The lesson America needs to learn and get united under is that we, the West, right now are under assault by the good old Islamic doctrine of Terror and Lure; two sides of the polar opposite and deceptive face of Islam.</p>
<p>If the West continues to believe that Islam is a religion of peace, then unfortunately for the West they will suffer irrevocable consequences.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Instead of fighting to defeat Al Qaeda, he was working to defeat Bush’s policies.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/alqaeda.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-225794" alt="alqaeda" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/alqaeda.jpg" width="336" height="224" /></a>Last year Obama delivered his own “Mission Accomplished” speech at the National Defense University. Its broad theme was that the War on Terror was over; it was time to shut down Guantanamo Bay and stand down from a war footing.</p>
<p>Obama claimed credit for putting “the core of al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan” on the “path to defeat” with his disastrous Afghan strategy which cost 1,600 American lives while letting the Taliban take over the country. He did not acknowledge that the so-called core Al Qaeda had stopped being relevant even before he was elected.</p>
<p>1,600 Americans died chasing a political slogan that existed only in the heads of his speechwriters.</p>
<p>In 2009, <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/president-obamas-secret-100-al-qaeda-now-afghanistan/story?id=9227861">the CIA determined that</a> there were at most 100 Al Qaeda in Afghanistan. Next year his own CIA director admitted that <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2010/06/cia-at-most-50100-al-qaeda-in-afghanistan/">there were at most 50-100</a> Al Qaeda in Afghanistan.</p>
<p>That same year 499 Americans were killed in Afghanistan.</p>
<p>Obama had declared victory against an enemy that the United States wasn’t fighting while losing a war to an enemy that the United States was fighting.</p>
<p>Meanwhile his own people were telling him that Al Qaeda had not been defeated.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nationaljournal.com/defense/intelligence-leaders-al-qaida-is-not-on-path-to-defeat-20140211">National Intelligence Director James Clapper</a> said, in response to a question about whether Al Qaeda is on the path to defeat, &#8220;No. It is morphing and franchising itself, not only here but in other areas of the world.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;They are not,&#8221; Defense Intelligence Agency Director Michael Flynn added.</p>
<p>These two men were not telling the Senate Armed Services committee anything they had not already told Obama. But their boss was choosing not to listen.</p>
<p>By narrowly defining Al Qaeda as a small number of leaders and fighters in pre-existing war zones in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen, he and his White House staffers were making it easier to claim victory while ignoring the threat from expanding groups such as Boko Haram and Al Qaeda in Iraq and Syria.</p>
<p>Obama’s policy snapshot of Al Qaeda in which Osama bin Laden was still a menace and Al Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan were the biggest threat to America was a decade out of date.</p>
<p>In his Mission Accomplished speech, Obama said that the core of Al Qaeda was no longer a threat.”They did not direct the attacks in Benghazi or Boston.”</p>
<p>Al Qaeda’s core might not have directed either attack, though it’s possible it did, but both attacks emerged from its strategy of building up local franchises and training lone wolf attackers over the internet.</p>
<p>What Obama was celebrating as proof of his victory over Al Qaeda actually reflected his failure to understand and prepare for Al Qaeda’s next move.</p>
<p>He was using the fact that Al Qaeda had outmaneuvered him twice, and carried out devastating attacks, as proof that he had defeated Al Qaeda and that we no longer had to worry about Al Qaeda.</p>
<p>It was a moment of supreme cluelessness.</p>
<p>In the speech, Obama warned against “a boundless global war on terror’”, but a boundless global war had been Bin Laden’s strategy all along. Al Qaeda was never meant to be a bunch of fighters running around caves in Afghanistan. It was and is an international network of cells, militias and individuals financed by international donors. Bin Laden’s money and fame only got the ball rolling.</p>
<p>And it’s still rolling.</p>
<p>Al Qaeda was never bound by Obama’s insistence on limiting the war to the same locations in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Yemen. Al Qaeda could and would spring up anywhere there was an opportunity. While Obama was losing to the Taliban in Afghanistan, Al Qaeda was rising in its hometowns in the Middle East and its old stomping grounds in Africa.</p>
<p>Boko Haram <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/05/11/boko-haram-s-bin-laden-connection.html">was one of the many dragon’s teeth</a> sown by Osama bin Laden. The delay in making that connection and putting Boko Haram on the terror list was caused by a White House which insisted on the distinction between core Al Qaeda and everything else. Meanwhile US intelligence agencies were warning that Al Qaeda was a global network that was no longer dependent on a central leadership.</p>
<p>Obama’s rigid focus on core Al Qaeda made it difficult to understand and prevent what was happening in Syria, Libya and Mali. It was only French intervention that prevented Al Qaeda from seizing Mali, but it was Obama’s intervention that allowed Al Qaeda to seize portions of Libya, murder four Americans and attempt to seize Mali. Obama’s confused and incoherent policy in Syria, where Al Qaeda dominates the opposition, nearly led him to engage in another disastrous regime change intervention that would have turned over a country with WMDs and the remnants of a recent nuclear program to Al Qaeda.</p>
<p>Obama tried to limit the scope of the War on Terror by maintaining rigid boundaries between core Al Qaeda and its affiliates and between its open affiliates and its covert affiliates. This served his political purposes by allowing him to declare victory, but his word games did not change the nature of Al Qaeda.</p>
<p>It only blinded the United States to its next move.</p>
<p>To claim victory, Obama had to define Al Qaeda as narrowly as possible, while Al Qaeda was defining itself as broadly as possible in order to actually win on the battlefield.</p>
<p>Obama saw the war as tying up old business. He pivoted to Afghanistan to finish what he claimed Bush had left undone. He went after Bin Laden to arrest him and try him in a civilian court in order to end the military tribunals. Instead of fighting to defeat Al Qaeda, he was working to defeat Bush’s policies.</p>
<p>Al Qaeda was not viewed as a cunning opponent following a larger plan, but a blowback, an unintended consequence of the bad foreign policy and unthinking imperialism of his predecessors. Like most critics of American foreign policy, Obama found it difficult to take Al Qaeda seriously on its own terms. Instead he viewed Al Qaeda as extremists who could only be defeated by isolating them with a more understanding foreign policy that would address Muslim grievances and empower political Islam.</p>
<p>But the Arab Spring didn’t shrink Al Qaeda. It expanded it into a major force capable of overrunning entire nations.</p>
<p>Even after all that, Obama insisted in his speech that “the next element of our strategy involves addressing the underlying grievances and conflicts that feed extremism”. Like many leftists, Obama conflated Islamic grievances with Islamic ambitions and by addressing them, he empowered them.</p>
<p>Before his speech, <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/may/23/obama-al-qaeda-is-on-a-path-to-defeat/?page=all">an official stated</a>, “The president has indicated and will indicate again that he rejects the notion of global war on terrorism, which is an amorphous definition that applies to a tactic.”</p>
<p>Terrorism is a tactic, but means are often indicative of ends. The alternative to defining the war in terms of means would have been to define it in terms of ends. Al Qaeda’s goal, like those of the political Islamic parties that Obama was empowering, was Islamic rule. And a war on Islam was off limits.</p>
<p>In its obsession with root causes, the left refused to deal with either means or ends. It bypassed what Al Qaeda was or wanted and instead focused on a root cause explaining how it was our fault.</p>
<p>And so instead of defeating Al Qaeda, Obama helped it achieve its goals.</p>
<p>The distinction between political Islam and Islamic terrorists, like the distinction between core Al Qaeda and its affiliates or between its open affiliates and fellow Jihadists, was always fluid. Obama’s insistence on the absoluteness of these distinctions is why he lost and why Al Qaeda is winning.</p>
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		<title>Putin&#8217;s Showdown With Terror</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2014 05:40:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthew Vadum]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Russia gears up for a confrontation with Jihad at the Olympics.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/pk.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-217001" alt="pk" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/pk.jpg" width="305" height="201" /></a>Russian President Vladimir Putin is augmenting security for the upcoming Winter Olympics in southern Russia in the hope of preventing possible Islamic terrorist attacks at the international sporting event.</p>
<p>Putin tried to reassure Russian media that visitors will be safe at the Olympics that will take place from Feb. 6 through Feb. 23 in Sochi in the Caucusus mountains in the region of Krasnodar Krai on the Black Sea, not too far from Russia’s land border with Georgia. Islamists have already threatened to attack the games and authorities are searching for potential suicide bomber <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/01/21/us-russian-forces-hunt-deadly-jihadist-widow-feared-inside-olympic-zone/">Ruzanna Ibragimova</a>, the 22-year-old widow of a jihadist killed by Russian security forces who may have traveled from Dagestan to Sochi. Last week three security officers and four militants who may have been planning attacks on the Olympics were <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/15/us-russia-violence-idUSBREA0E09V20140115">killed</a> in a gunfight.</p>
<p>Parts of Russia are reportedly turning into armed camps as authorities crack down on protests and perceived anti-government activities in the sprawling nation with a significant Muslim minority.</p>
<p>About 40,000 members of Russia’s police and security forces will patrol the events, he said, and elite Spetsnaz fighters will be guarding against violent Muslim separatists.</p>
<p>&#8220;We will try to make certain that the security measures are not intrusive or too conspicuous, so they are not too noticeable for the athletes, the Olympics’ guests or journalists,&#8221; Putin said. &#8220;But at the same time, we will do our utmost to ensure that they are effective.&#8221;</p>
<p>Russian authorities have created a large security zone around Sochi, deployed thousands of extra police and troops, and are spending billions of dollars to keep the games safe. Submarines are patrolling the Black Sea coast while drones keep an eye on the host city from above. S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems are in place, capable of blowing hijacked aircraft out of the sky.</p>
<p>Sochi may as well have a giant bulls-eye painted over it. It stretches more than 60 miles and the Olympic Stadium, media complex, and ice hockey, speed skating, and figure skating facilities are located on the coast. A 44-mile express train route runs from the shore through the mountains to one of the two Olympic Villages, ski runs, and luxury hotels, generating headaches for security experts.</p>
<p>Critics are worried that Putin can’t guarantee security for athletes and tourists in the wake of last month’s <a href="http://rt.com/politics/volgograd-blasts-responsibility-video-900/">Islamist bomb attacks</a> in Volgograd that left more than 30 dead. The U.S. Department of State warns that Americans planning to visit Sochi should be vigilant about security because of potential terrorist threats, crime, and unreliable medical care.</p>
<p>Although former CIA Director Michael Hayden said he’s confident in Putin’s ability to provide the needed security, some American politicians aren’t convinced <a href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2014/01/19/u-s-lawmakers-winter-olympics-arent-safe/">aren&#8217;t convinced</a> that Putin is shooting straight.</p>
<p>After the FBI announced this month they would be deploy special agents to Sochi to assist the Russians in counterterrorism activities, House Intelligence Committee chairman Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), called on Putin’s government to be more cooperative in sharing intelligence with the United States before the games begin.</p>
<p>“Their level of concern is great, but we don&#8217;t seem to be getting all of the information we need to protect our athletes in the games,” said Rogers. “I think this needs to change, and it should change soon,” he told CNN.</p>
<p>Sen. Angus King (I-Maine), a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said he didn’t plan to attend the games himself –  “and I don&#8217;t think I would send my family,” King told CNN.</p>
<p>“It&#8217;s a very serious fear because the Olympics are being held in an area where there&#8217;s a history of terrorist activity, where there&#8217;s been a lot of tension between Islamists in that area and the government of Russia,” King said.</p>
<p>Hosting the Olympics in Sochi is fraught with risk, according to <a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/elite-spetsnaz-fighters-protect-sochi-winter-olympics-from-terrorism-a-941995.html">Der Spiegel</a>.</p>
<p>“For years, tensions have been brewing in the region east of the Black Sea city. Riots continuously erupt between Russians and Caucasians. The federal subjects of Kabardino-Balkaria, Chechnya and Dagestan &#8212; only some 300 kilometers (186 miles) from Sochi &#8212; are active operational zones for Islamist terrorists. In the past year, 33 attacks shook the North Caucasus. Since October alone, 139 people have been killed by terrorists. Back in September at a meeting of the Security Council of Russia, Putin called for the mobilization of all forces to ensure the safety of the Winter Games.”</p>
<p>Dagestan was in the news in the U.S. last year because it has a connection to terrorism stateside. The late Boston Marathon bombing mastermind Tamerlan Tsarnaev frequented a radical mosque in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan, during a six-month visit to that politically unstable, jihadist-friendly Russian republic. The mosque is reportedly a terrorist hangout.</p>
<p>Three years ago Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) warned the U.S. government about Tsarnaev, <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/matthew-vadum/why-were-warnings-on-tamerlan-tsarnaev-ignored/">saying</a> he could be an Islamic terrorist, but those admonitions went unheeded in Washington, D.C.</p>
<p>The clueless bunglers at Obama’s Department of Homeland Security haven’t stopped much of anything in recent years. When a terrorist attack has been foiled, it has been stopped because the plot was uncovered inadvertently (e.g. <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2010/robert-spencer/denying-jihad-again/">Faisal Shahzad</a>) or because by-standers took action (e.g. “underwear bomber” <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/articles/no%2520civilian%2520trials%2520for%2520terrorists.html">Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab</a>).</p>
<p>And if Putin&#8217;s forces learn of legitimate terrorist threats related to Sochi, unlike his American counterpart he won&#8217;t be handicapped by politically correct rules drafted to prevent minority groups from being inconvenienced.</p>
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		<title>CAIR’s Tampa Terror Banquet</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Nov 2013 05:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joe Kaufman]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The infamous "civil-rights" organization features terror-related speakers and raises big bucks. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/siraj.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-211912" alt="072408Wahhaj3wf" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/siraj.jpg" width="300" height="300" /></a>When someone linked to the ’93 bombing of the World Trade Center is a featured speaker at a fundraiser sponsored by a group created by Hamas operatives and run by a Hezbollah defender, one could easily surmise that the function described would be taking place in the Middle East. Yet, this event, which was held this past weekend and raised a large amount of money, took place in a major American city, Tampa, Florida.</p>
<p>On the night of Saturday, November 23rd, the Tampa chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Tampa) sponsored a fundraising banquet featuring what should be considered highly controversial figures from the Muslim community. One of these individuals was an imam who goes by the name of Johari Abdul-Malik.</p>
<p>Abdul-Malik is the Outreach Director of Falls Church, Virginia’s Dar al-Hijrah Islamic Center. He was brought in to head the mosque, after his predecessor, Anwar al-Awlaki, left the United States to become al-Qaeda’s leader in Yemen. And shortly before <i>Awlaki became the mosque’s imam,</i> Hamas fundraiser Mohammad al-Hanooti held the position. [Today, al-Hanooti is <a href="http://www.daralhijrah.net/ns/?page_id=5153">listed on al-Hijrah’s website as the center’s Mufti</a>.] According to the Investigative Project on Terrorism, al-Hijrah itself has been considered by federal law enforcement officials to be <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/1944/government-pays-mosque-it-considers-radical">a front for Hamas</a>.</p>
<p>Since Abdul-Malik has been employed by al-Hijrah, he has supported and/or defended a number of convicted terrorists. They include: Abdul Rahman al-Amoudi, who was sentenced to 23 years in prison, in part for his role in a plot to assassinate Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah; Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, a former al-Hijrah teacher and camp counselor, who is serving a life prison sentence for providing material support to al-Qaeda and for plotting to assassinate President George W. Bush; and Ali al-Timimi, who received a life prison sentence for instructing his Northern Virginia followers to wage war on the United States.</p>
<p>Another of the <a href="http://www.cairflorida.org/event/banquet9.html#Speakers">featured speakers at CAIR-Tampa’s Saturday banquet</a> was the imam of Brooklyn, New York’s at-Taqwa Mosque, Siraj Wahhaj.</p>
<p>In 1995, Wahhaj was named by the United States government as an “unindicted co-conspirator” for a federal trial dealing with the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, an act which resulted in the deaths of six innocent Americans. Wahhaj had been linked to the bomb-maker of the attack, Clement Rodney Hampton-El, and during the trial, he was a character witness for the spiritual leader of the attack, the “Blind Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, whom Wahhaj has openly praised.</p>
<p>This was not the first time CAIR has brought Wahhaj in as a speaker for one of its affairs, so CAIR’s representatives can’t make the excuse that they didn’t know about his insidious background. Indeed, Wahhaj has spoken at a large number of CAIR events and has previously served as a member of CAIR-National’s Board of Advisers.</p>
<p>In reality, no one can expect CAIR to vet terror-related speakers, when the group itself has been, in large part, associated with terrorism.</p>
<p>CAIR was founded in June 1994 as a part of an umbrella organization led by then-global leader of Hamas, Mousa Abu Marzook. In 2007 and 2008, CAIR was named an “unindicted co-conspirator” by the U.S. Justice Department for two federal trials dealing with the financing of millions of dollars to Hamas. The three original founders of CAIR, one of which is still the national Executive Director, were coming from the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP), the then-American propaganda wing of Hamas. CAIR had used its website to raise funds for the then-American financing arm of Hamas, the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF).</p>
<p>Hassan Shibly is the Executive Director of CAIR-Tampa. In June 2011, the <i>Tampa Tribune</i> reported on <a href="http://tbo.com/news/new-cair-leader-draws-starkly-different-reactions-240304">previous statements Shibly had made regarding Hezbollah</a>. Shibly had stated that Hezbollah was “basically a resistance movement” and “absolutely not a terrorist organization.” In 1983, Hezbollah perpetrated a suicide attack which resulted in the murders of 241 American troops stationed in Beirut, Lebanon. Today, Hezbollah is involved with the government of Bashar al-Assad in the mass slaughter of Syrian civilians.</p>
<p>CAIR-Tampa’s banquet – deceptively titled ‘Faith in Freedom’ – <a href="http://www.cairflorida.org/blog/thank_you_for_a_successful_banquet.html">according to Shibly, raised over $200,000</a>. With 400 guests attending, that’s over $500 per person.</p>
<p>Terrorism creates fear in itself. That’s its purpose. But the fact that a group associated with such acts of horror could raise so much money inside the United States should put the fear in all of us.</p>
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		<title>Thanksgiving Terror From Friends of The Council on Foreign Relations</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Nov 2013 05:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Humberto Fontova]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The dark Castroite connections of CFR’s Julia Sweig. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/js.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-211890" alt="js" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/js-450x337.jpg" width="315" height="236" /></a>Here’s how her media friends describe the CFR’s Julia Sweig upon their frequent showcasing of her “expertise:”</p>
<p>“Julia Sweig heads the Latin American division for the Council on Foreign Relations.” (Stephen Colbert)</p>
<p>“Julia Sweig is director for Latin America studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.” (NPR)</p>
<p>“Julia E. Sweig is senior fellow and director of Latin America studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.” (New York Times)</p>
<p>Here’s how the Council on Foreign Relations itself describes their star:</p>
<p>“CFR Senior Fellow and Director of Latin America Studies and the Global Brazil Initiative and award-winning author of <i>Inside the Cuban Revolution</i>.<b> </b></p>
<p>Fine. Let’s turn to the<b> </b>acknowledgments in Julia Sweig’s award-wining book. Here we find:</p>
<p>“In Cuba many people spent long hours with me, helped open doors I could not have pushed through myself, and offered friendship and warmth to myself during research trips to the island…<i>Elsa Montero</i><b><i> </i></b><i>and Jose Gomez Abad championed this project</i>.”</p>
<p>Let’s turn now  to the front page of The New York Times Nov. 18<sup>th</sup> edition. Ah! Here we find that Elsa Montero and Jose Gomez Abad had just been arrested by the FBI for a terror plot against Manhattan that would have probably <a href="http://babalublog.com/2013/08/11/on-glenn-beck-tv-babalusian-exposes-julia-sweigs-cuban-terrorist-colleagues/">put the death toll from 9/11 in second place.</a> Some background<b>: </b></p>
<p>On Nov. 17, 1962, J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI cracked a plot by Cuban agents that targeted Macy&#8217;s, Gimbel&#8217;s, Bloomingdale&#8217;s and Manhattan&#8217;s Grand Central Terminal with a dozen incendiary devices and 500 kilos of TNT. The explosions were timed for the following week, the day after Thanksgiving.  Macy’s get’s 50,000 shoppers that one day.  Thousands of New Yorkers, including women and children—actually, given the date and targets, probably mostly women and children—were to be incinerated and entombed.</p>
<p>At the time, the FBI relied heavily on “HUMINT” (Human Intelligence.) So they’d expertly penetrated the plot, identified the ringleaders and had them tapped. One by one the ringleaders were ambushed and arrested. Among these were Cuban DGI agents Jose Gomez-Abad and Elsa Montero who worked as “diplomats” in Cuba’s UN mission.  Alas, they enjoyed “diplomatic immunity” and were soon back in Cuba as heroes instead of in electric chairs at Sing Sing.</p>
<p>The FBI speculated that as many as 30 others might have been in on the plot, but GMontero and Gomez-Abad were the head honchos. The intent and will by these Castroite terrorists to commit mass-murder was certainly present, only our crackerjack FBI of the time foiled it.</p>
<p>The rest of the plotters for his Manhattan Macy’s Parade Day terror plot were mostly members of the Cuban mission to the United Nations working in concert with members of the Fair Play For Cuba Committee, an outfit that became much better known a year later when member Lee Harvey Oswald <i>really</i> racked up some headlines.</p>
<p>Incidentally, at the time of the Manhattan terror plot, the Fair Play For Cuba Committee also included among its members, CBS correspondent Robert Taber (an early version of Dan Rather, who conducted Castro&#8217;s first network television soft-soaping on Aug. 30, 1957), along with The Nation magazine co-owner Alan Sagner. In 1996 President Clinton appointed Alan Sagner head of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.</p>
<p>Despite his lust to incinerate them, on visit after visit to New York the cities’ Best and Brightest (i.e. those who barely escaped incineration at Fidel Castro’s hand) have welcomed Fidel Castro as the second coming of the Beatles at Shea Stadium. On his 1996 visit for instance, the war-mongering, mass-murdering despot who abolished private property, transplanted Stalin’s penal and judicial system and stole 5,911 businesses worth (at the time) $2 billion from U.S. stockholders—this very gentleman was delighted to <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Longest-Romance-Mainstream-Media-Castro/dp/1594036675/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1376276049&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+longest+romance+humberto+fontova">find a lavish luncheon thrown in his honor by The Wall Street Journal.</a></p>
<p>In her acknowledgements Julia Sweig also thanks Ramon Sanchez Parodi, Jose Antonio Arbesu, Fernando Miguel Garcia, Hugo Ernesto Yedra and Josefina Vidal for their “warmth, their friendship and their kindness in opening Cuban doors.”</p>
<p>America’s top Cuba spycatcher Chris Simmons (now retired from the Defense Intelligence Agency) identified <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Longest-Romance-Mainstream-Media-Castro/dp/1594036675/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1376276049&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+longest+romance+humberto+fontova">every one of the above</a> as Cuban DGI agents. Josefina Vidal was booted from the U.S. in 2003 for espionage, after Simmons himself fingered her.</p>
<p>I haven’t checked Guinness, but effusively thanking the warm support of 7 different intelligence agents of a Terror-Sponsoring enemy nation in your book’s acknowledgements&#8211; three of whom were expelled from the U.S. for terrorism and/or espionage&#8211; <i>must</i> be some kind of record, at least for someone outside a maximum-security federal prison.</p>
<p>Not that in media eyes this affects Sweig’s position as an “impartial expert” on issues pertaining to this Terror-Sponsoring enemy nation (Cuba.) “A<i> nonpartisan</i> resource for information and analysis<i>,”</i> boasts the intro to The Council on Foreign Relations that boasts Julia Sweig as their Latin American “expert.”</p>
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<p><em>Don&#8217;t miss <strong>Josh Brewster&#8217;s</strong> video interview with <strong>Dr. Jamie Glazov</strong> in which the Frontpage editor sheds disturbing light on why the Left venerates communist monsters like Fidel Castro: </em></p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Nov 2013 04:49:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are we winning, or have we already lost?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/terr.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-209930" alt="terr" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/terr-450x327.jpg" width="315" height="229" /></a>In a piece last week in <i>The Atlantic</i> entitled “<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/10/terrorism-itself-could-never-threaten-american-values-the-war-on-terror-is-doing-so/281014/">Terrorism Could Never Threaten American Values—the ‘War on Terror’ Does</a>,” James Fallows says it’s high time that President Obama shows he understands the truth of that article’s title, and calls to put a stop to the “open-ended ‘Global War on Terror.’”</p>
<p>Fallows, a longtime national correspondent for <i>The Atlantic</i>, has <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2006/09/declaring-victory/305124/">argued</a> at least as far back as 2006 that we had al Qaeda on the run, and that even though its “successor groups in Europe, the Middle East, and elsewhere will continue to pose dangers… its hopes for fundamentally harming the United States now rest less on what it can do itself than on what it can trick, tempt, or goad us into doing.”</p>
<p>There is some undeniable truth to this. All one has to do is look at how Shoe Bomber Richard Reid, who wasn’t even successful in his attempt to bring down Flight 63 from Paris to Miami twelve years ago, transformed our air travel experience into a tedious, massively bureaucratic and intrusive TSA nightmare, detrimentally impacting our economy in the process (in a succinct summation of Fallows’ argument, famed atheist Richard Dawkins recently <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/11/04/bin-laden-has-won-atheist-richard-dawkins-voices-anger-after-airport-security-confiscates-his-little-jar-of-honey/">tweeted</a> his irritation over what he deemed the pointless idiocy of airport security extremes: “Bin Laden has won.”). And of course, one could look at how terrorist acts have resulted, even more intrusively, in the surveillance state that emerged under George W. Bush and which has metastasized exponentially under Barack Obama.</p>
<p>“But if it saves a few lives…” goes the seemingly reasonable rationale for all this “security.” Of <i>course</i> we should protect American lives; the question is, are there more effective and reasonable ways to accomplish that and to combat terrorism which also don’t require severely diminishing our freedoms and individual rights?</p>
<p>Fallows acknowledges the seriousness of terrorist acts themselves. “Attacks can be terribly destructive, as we saw in hideous form 12 years ago,” he continued in last week’s article. “But the long-term threat to national interests and values comes from the response they invoke. In the case of 9/11: the attack was disastrous, but in every measurable way the rash, foolish, and unjustified decision to retaliate by invading Iraq hurt America in more lasting ways.”</p>
<p>Perhaps Fallows misspoke here, because surely he knows we didn’t invade Iraq in retaliation for the 9/11 attack. We went into Iraq because during a “decade of defiance,” as Bush put it, Saddam Hussein had become an increasingly clear and present danger: harboring terrorists, financing terrorism, developing weapons of mass destruction, and ignoring years of UN demands about those weapons. Maybe Fallows means that going after Saddam was an unnecessary <i>extension</i> of the ill-named war on terror, but the “lasting ways” in which America has been hurt in Iraq and Afghanistan resulted more from our ongoing, blood-and-treasure-sucking, nation-building efforts there than from our invasions of those countries.</p>
<p>Fallows complains that “over-reach by [the NSA] and the security establishment… is badly harming American interests, ideals, and institutions. The President is the only person in a position to signal a change in course, and he had better do it fast.” He says that “the revelations that come out every day of programs that began under Bush and have continued under Obama suggest that he doesn&#8217;t grasp [the fact that the war on terror threatens our values more than terrorism does] as clearly as he should.” I submit that Obama grasps this perfectly clearly, but he is not about to change course – not because those program are essential to combating terror, but because it suits his broader  <a href="https://secure.donationreport.com/productlist.html?key=MHKAVKVKI6FG">totalitarian agenda</a> to perpetuate and expand them.</p>
<p>Fallows wrote that Obama seemed to recognize his point “as early as 2002, in arguing against the invasion of Iraq… and in 2013 <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/05/what-mattered-in-obamas-speech-today-ending-the-open-ended-war-on-terror/276208/">in saying</a> that it was at last time to conclude the otherwise open-ended ‘Global War on Terror.’” But that war is open-ended not because <i>we</i> have chosen it to be, but because that is simply the nature of the enemy we are fighting and the long war they are waging against us. We’re engaged in a conflict not with a nation-state and its army, which can be defeated conventionally, nor with a guerrilla insurgency limited to al Qaeda and its “successor groups,” but with a vast, decentralized community of ideological fanatics taking us down by any means at hand, from immigration to cultural subversion to violence. Terrorism, which Fallows considers a manageable threat, is only one of those means.</p>
<p>Waging war against such an enemy is not the problem; <i>not</i> waging one, or waging it without a commitment to win, is the problem. When our own Homeland Security does not even allow mention of the words Islam or Muslim, downgrades “jihad” to “workplace violence,” and considers American patriots more of an existential threat than the Muslim Brotherhood, then this administration is ensuring our own defeat. When our soldiers overseas are tasked with winning hearts and minds rather than eradicating the Taliban to the last man, all the while straitjacketed by the most suicidally restrictive rules of engagement in the history of warfare, then this administration is ensuring our own defeat. When our officials actively work with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation toward the criminalization of defamation of Islam rather than defend the First Amendment, then this administration is ensuring our own defeat.</p>
<p>Calling an end to the “war on terror” is not a solution, because terror is not the enemy – Islamic supremacism is, and it has been a threat to the west for many centuries and isn’t going away overnight, particularly not with Barack Obama in the White House. Fallows is right insofar as we must avoid the trap of exchanging our values and liberties for a false security; how do we do that? Stop playing defense, stop reacting, stop trying to win hearts and minds, and take the fight to the enemy on every front, unapologetically committing to total victory in the way we once committed to total victory against the ideologies of Japanese imperialism or Nazism. The enemies of civilization are ruthless, relentless, and morally unconflicted – in defense of civilization, we must be more so.</p>
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		<title>End of an Era for the Muslim Brotherhood?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Aug 2013 04:19:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Wael Nawara]]></dc:creator>
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<p>The interim Egyptian government is threatening to <a href="http://www.dw.de/cairo-threatens-to-ban-muslim-brotherhood/a-17028491">ban the Muslim Brotherhood</a> and place it on the terrorist organization list in Egypt. Blaming a defiant Brotherhood for the deadly confrontations, attacks on churches, police stations and government buildings, Egyptian Prime Minister Hazem el-Beblawi proposed dissolving the group. The Brotherhood’s assets may be confiscated, operations prohibited and membership criminalized. This move could usher in <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/1.542076">mass arrests</a> of members countrywide. If considered a terrorist organization, the Brotherhood will be excluded from the political process. How did we get to this point and what does this mean to hopes of returning to calm and an end to violence in Egypt.</p>
<p>Few people know that the Muslim Brotherhood organization had always been banned in Egypt since 1948. After several assassinations and bombings which took the lives of several prime ministers, judges and even <a href="http://bit.ly/19HuVZD">disavowed members</a> of the Brotherhood itself. The long list included Ahmed Maher, al-Nokrashy, al-Khazendar and Fayez Halawa. In 1954, the Brotherhood made an attempt on Gamal Abdel Nasser, then Egypt’s prime minister. Following that, many of theBrotherhood leaders were arrested and received long prison and even death sentences. In the 1970s, Sadat allowed the Brotherhood and Islamists to regroup in an effort to use them against Nasserists and socialists as the group had been used in the 1940s, against communism. It was ironic for Sadat to be killed at the hands of Islamists in 1981. Most Islamist terrorist organizations that  exist in the world today are spin-offs of the Brotherhood which was never legally resurrected since the 1950s. In Egypt, the Brotherhood started again to operate as a clandestine organization owning businesses, manipulating unions and syndicates, operating charities often linked to mosques and also having its own militias. Money poured from local and overseas operations which the Brotherhood had in 80 countries. Despite having no legal political party, the Brotherhoodwas allowed by the Mubarak regime to field candidates in parliamentary elections since 1983. In 2005, it managed to get around 20% of the seats.</p>
<p>After the January 2011 revolution, the Muslim Brotherhood was allowed to form a political party, the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), without being asked to review the legal, or rather illegal, status of its clandestine cancerous operations. Combining a legal party with a secret international organization, meant that the Brotherhood could have the best of both worlds and enjoy tremendous financial and organizational advantages over its political competitors. Utilizing the Brotherhood’s strong organizational capabilities and vast financial resources, FJP managed to get 46% of the parliament’s seats and their presidential candidate, Mohammed Morsi, earned 25% of the votes in the first round and 52% in the run off. Here is where things get a little weird.</p>
<p>Even after the Brotherhood reached power, it made no effort to legalize its operations, or even separate the FJP from the Brotherhood. The spiritual leader of the Brotherhood, which had no legal standing as a political party, or any legal entity for that matter, continued to set the political directions of the country, meet with foreign leaders, direct the parliament and tellMorsi what to do. Gradually, Egyptians realized that the illegal Muslim Brotherhood organization was the real ruler of Egypt while Morsi was no more than a façade, a mere representative of that organization in the presidency. Protests would often chant for the downfall of the “Morshed”, Mohamed Badei, the supreme guide of the Brothers, now in custody under investigation for his alleged role in ordering the killing of protesters, and not Morsi, whom as they came to discover was a puppet figure at best. In March 2013, after tremendous public pressure, the Brothers filed to register a charity under the name “The Muslim Brotherhood.” But on the books, none of the businesses owned by the Brotherhood appeared on record, since it is illegal in Egypt for political parties or NGOs to own businesses.</p>
<p>Can the government dissolve the Brotherhood? In practical terms, the government cannot dissolve the Brotherhood’s real organization, as opposed to the façade FJP or the newly-formed dummy NGO, because the real organization has no legal status, books or registration of any kind. All of its assets are owned and/or registered in someone else’s name, usually that of a trusted member. Like mafia organizations, it is usually difficult to track what a secret underground organization does or holds. All the government can do is investigate these businesses and associations and review their books. The government can, however, dissolve FJPif evidence suggested it engaged in violence or illegal activities.</p>
<p>Does the government wish to dissolve the Brotherhood? A month ago, that decision was probably still under review, pending the Muslim Brotherhood clarifying its “strategic intent.” Did it aim to improve its leverage and bargaining position in the political process, or is the Brotherhood set on regaining control of the country at all costs and using all possible weapons and scenarios, including destroying the Egyptian State? As the Brotherhood annexed kilometer after kilometer, expanding Rabia’s sit-in until it controlled an area of a big town, the National Defense Council convened and realized that these actions on the ground all added up to one dangerous conclusion. The government kept asking the question “what is the Brotherhood strategic intent?” to everyone who went and met with the brothers, including EU and US intermediaries. Andthey came back invariably with the same answer, the Brotherhood insisted on the return of Morsi and even restoring theShura Council. The uncompromising rhetoric of defiance broadcasted live from Rabia and Nahda stages suggested that the Brotherhood was set on an Armageddon-style confrontation. But the government still waited.</p>
<p>The Brotherhood’s PR strategy seemed to rely on maximizing the death toll as to enforce its position as the victim and win the public’s sympathy thus warranting international intervention. US and EU criticism of the Egyptian government may have been interpreted by the Brotherhood as “stand your ground and give us more corpses and we&#8217;ll send the troops, Libya-style.” That was the wrong bet. By early afternoon on Aug. 14, it seemed that the government was losing. Egypt was losing. The death toll was rising and a few thousand more protesters were pushing in trying to merge with the sit-in. ElBaradei resigned. Egypt was to be held by the throat. The government allegedly used “excessive force,” but still could not break the sit-in. Even after the sit-in was cleared, the high number of fatalities with news of fresh demonstrations announced for the following Friday suggested that the interim government had lost it. The Turkish prime minister was in a frenzy making calls demanding a Security Council emergency session to see what should be done to control the situation in Egypt. The international Brotherhood organization and its allies in Turkey and Qatar started to call for international intervention in Egypt. EU foreign ministers were to meet where news of potential suspension of EU aid to Egypt was leaked. TheBrotherhood plan was to maximize the chaos and death toll as to warrant international intervention in Egypt. These actions, when put together, again pointed to one thing: the Brotherhood strategic intent was not to be a part of the political dialog, the Brothers seemed set on destroying the State of Egypt.</p>
<p>And while news came of a wave of attacks on Egypt’s churches and Christian community, the Muslim Brotherhood’s spokespersons in Western media started to play the “Good Terrorist, Bad Terrorist” argument, suggesting that it was better to accept the Brotherhood with their low level of violence so as not to risk radicalizing more Islamists and ending up with really violent factions. But it was difficult to sustain a victim PR strategy for long while the Brotherhood and their supporters were torching churches and massacring police officers. On Aug. 17, the world started to see a different reality from the al-Fathmosque standoff. The famous picture of an army soldier trying to push the angry crowd aside as to provide Muslim Brothers with safe passage out of the Ramses-square-located mosque said it all. It confirmed what many Egyptians have been trying to tell the world for weeks, but they were ignored by Western analysts and media. Throughout previous weeks, Western media made the limited protests of the Brotherhood look much bigger and influential. It portrayed a poetic picture of peaceful democrats who protested to ask “what happened to my vote?” The media wanted to believe that these protesters represented the sentiments of the majority of Egyptian people rising against the evil generals of the army who had plotted a coup against an elected president. But now the truth was emerging. The reality on the ground showed that Muslim Brothers, throughout the past few months, were increasingly unable to face Egyptians, let alone rule them.</p>
<p>During the past two weeks, the Brotherhood rhetoric materialized into bloody <a href="http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/08/egypt-scorched-earth-strategy-nawara.html">scorched-earth tactics</a>. With a “rule it or ruin it” attitude, the Brotherhood and their allies waged the most threatening assault that the Egyptian state has faced in its recent history. The Brotherhood and their supporters attacked many police stations, in some cases slaughtering every policeman on site and mutilating their bodies. Over 50 churches were attacked in a campaign which also targeted missionary schools, shops and even the homes of Christians. Government buildings, military installations, police and army personnel were also attacked. On Aug. 19., 25 police conscripts were captured in Sinai, their hands were tied and they were made to lie on the ground face down where they were machine-gunned down.</p>
<p>Revealing this malicious strategic intent may have sealed the fate of the Muslim Brotherhood organization in Egypt. During the past few days, most of the leaders of the Brotherhood organization have been arrested on charges of killing protesters. We should not be surprised if these charges were amended to include treason or conspiring to carry out activities that threatened the country’s national security.</p>
<p>It is inconceivable that the Brotherhood will take any part in Egyptian politics in the near future. But how will Egypt accommodate the two or three hundreds of thousands of members of the organization in Egypt? And how about their supporters, another two to three million? The Salafists seem to eye that void with interest but can they fill it? Can Islamist youth regroup while new parties emerge with ideologies which can co-exist with the Egyptian state? What does this mean for violence in Egypt in the coming days, weeks and months? These are all questions which are very much related. Unless these supporters are offered alternative channels adequately representing them, the country can never find peace. Lower ranks of the Brotherhood must also be offered the opportunity to make “revisions” and granted a way out or they will become a destructive force in society.</p>
<p>Such a subtle and intangible thing, intent. But in the Muslim Brotherhood’s case, it was its strategic intent which had sealed the group’s fate. As Egyptians watched the horrific scenes which confirmed the group’s intent to destroy Egypt since they could no longer rule it, they shock their heads in utter disapproval and turned the Muslim Brotherhood’s page, signaling the end of an era.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/contents/authors/wael-nawara.html"><i>Wael Nawara</i></a><i> is an Egyptian writer and activist. He is also the co-founder of Al Dostor Party, the National Association for Change and El Ghad Party. Formerly president of  the Arab Alliance for Freedom and Democracy, he was a visiting fellow at the Institute of Politics, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.</i></p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raymond Ibrahim]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/MuslimBrotherhood.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-198465" alt="MuslimBrotherhood" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/MuslimBrotherhood.jpg" width="375" height="240" /></a><strong>Originally published on <a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3890/egypt-muslim-brotherhood-kills-own">Gatestone Institute.</a></strong></p>
<p>New evidence indicates that some of the pro-Morsi protesters reportedly killed by the Egyptian military, after the Muslim Brotherhood president’s ouster, were actually killed by fellow pro-Morsi protesters. They did this, according to the report, to frame the military, incite more Islamist violence and unrest, and garner sympathy from America, which has been extremely critical of the military, especially in the context of the post-Morsi violence.</p>
<p>The Arabic satellite program, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GK043iY7Y4g"><i>Al Dalil</i></a>,<i> </i>(“The Evidence”) recently showed the evidence, which consisted mostly of video recordings.</p>
<p>One video records events on July 8, during pro-Morsi protests in front of the Republican Guard building in Cairo, where Morsi was being held, and where the bloodshed between the military and Brotherhood began.  The video shows a young man with a shaven head and a Salafi-style beard approaching the Republican Guard barrier; he gets shot, collapses to the ground, and dies—as other protesters fly into a rage against the military.  As the video plays, it seems clear that the military shot him.</p>
<p>However, watching the video in slow motion and in zoom clearly indicates that someone from behind him, from the pro-Morsi throng, shot him.  The whole time he falls, in slow motion, he is still facing the Republican Guard.  Yet when the camera zooms in, the bullet wound and blood are visibly at the back of his head; his front, facing the military even after he falls, does not appear to have a scratch.  Considering that the military was facing him, it seems apparent that a fellow Morsi-supporter shot him from behind.</p>
<p>On the same day this man in the video and others were killed, Muhammad Mahsoub, a former Brotherhood member and politician tweeted the following: “The Brotherhood sacrifice their youth in the streets, even as the sons of their leaders are at the beach resorts… Allah curse the hypocrites [based on a Koran verse];” and “I repeatedly warned al-Baltagi against his plan to antagonize the military in order to implicate it an attack on the protesters, but he insists on his plan…”</p>
<p>Baltagi is a Brotherhood leader who has been especially vocal about “getting back” at the military; he apparently also <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/egyptian-politician-calls-u-s-ambassador-patterson-member-of-muslim-brotherhood-sleeper-cell/">enjoys close relations</a> with the <a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3855/us-ambassador-egypt">widely disliked</a> U.S. ambassador to Egypt, Anne Patterson.</p>
<p>Another video shown on <i>Al Dalil</i> is even more obvious.  An armored vehicle appears slowly driving by a group of pro-Morsi protesters, many easily discernible with their Salafi-style beards.  A shot is heard and the man nearest the passing vehicle collapses.  Again, at first, it appears that the men in the armored vehicle shot the man.</p>
<p>Played again in slow motion, however, it becomes apparent that the man in a <i>gilbab</i> (long Muslim style robe) standing directly behind the murdered man is actually the one who shot him; he then walked over to another man near him, gave him the weapon, and then quickly walked off the scene. Even the man on the roof who is taping this scene is heard to be asked, “Did the car [armored vehicle] shoot?” only to reply, “No, no.”</p>
<p>Even so, the desired effect of all these “human sacrifices” by the Brotherhood was accomplished: as with the other man, shot in front of the Republican Guard, many other pro-Morsi protesters rushed to the fallen man, screaming Islamic slogans and vowing relentless war on the military, as it supposedly “shot first.”</p>
<p>This second incident prompted the Freedom and Justice Party, the Muslim Brotherhood’s political arm, to call for “an uprising by the great people of Egypt against those trying to steal their revolution with tanks.”</p>
<p>To many Islamists, killing an ally to empower Islam is legitimate, especially in the context of two Islamic ideas: 1) <i>jihad</i> [war in the service of Islam], which in Islamic jurisprudence is considered the “pinnacle” of Islam—for its very function, from day one under Muhammad, is to make Islam supreme; and 2)  Islam’s overarching juridical idea that “necessity makes the prohibited permissible,” which means that laudable ends, for example empowering Islam, justify the use of forbidden means.  All that matters is one’s intention, or <i>niyya</i>.</p>
<p>Thus, because making Islam supreme is the greatest priority, anything and everything that is otherwise banned—killing fellow Muslims, <a href="http://www.meforum.org/2538/taqiyya-islam-rules-of-war">lying</a>, <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/the-sex-jihad/">prostitution, even</a> sodomy—becomes permissible, so long as it is seen as a way to advance and empower Islam.</p>
<p>Based on their intention of empowering Islam, those who commit or promote even the most horrific crimes are exonerated, while those “sacrificed” to empower Islam—such as those pro-Morsi supporters killed by the Brotherhood—are deemed martyrs, who will achieve the highest level of paradise.  From an Islamist point of view, it’s a win-win situation.</p>
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<p>The U.S.-sponsored “Arab Spring” continues to expose itself as a Sunni supremacist takeover.  While the indicators are many—from the al-Qaeda Benghazi consulate attack to the ongoing persecution of Christian minorities—attacks on Shia Muslims are also on the rise.</p>
<p>In Syria, where foreign Sunni jihadis, supported and armed by the United States, are attacking all non-Muslims—Christians are prime and obvious targets, and reports of church attacks, abductions of Christians, and their slaughter are many—Shias, who are seen as “false Muslims,” are naturally also under attack. For example, Salafi Sheikh <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Rg4rUBoLIo">Yasir al-‘Ajlawni</a> recently <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/new-fatwa-permits-rape-of-non-sunni-women-in-syria/">issued a fatwa</a> saying that those Muslims fighting to topple secular president Bashar Assad and install Sharia law are free to “capture and have sex with” all non-Sunni women, specifically naming President Assad’s sect, the Alawites, as well as the Druze and other Shia branches.</p>
<p>Days ago, popular news outlet, Syrian Truth, posted <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/syrian-child-tied-by-u-s-supported-jihadis-and-forced-to-watch-killing-of-parents/">a photo</a> of a toddler living in the Deir ez-Zor Governate in eastern Syria, along the Iraq border, who was reportedly tied with chains to a fence from where she witnessed the killing of her Shia mother and father at the hands of the Sunni jihadis making the ranks of the “Free Syrian Army.”  Syrian Truth correctly describes them as <em>takfiris</em>, that is, Muslims who, like al-Qaeda, accuse—and slaughter—other Muslims, in this case, Shias, for not being “true” Muslims.</p>
<p>And now in Egypt, where Shias make roughly one percent of the nation, a Sunni mob reportedly numbering in the thousands—also described by Arabic reports as <em>takfiris</em>—attacked the home of the spiritual father of Egypt’s Shia, Sheikh Hassan Shehata, killing him and four of his followers, and wounding dozens of other Shias that had congregated at his home. The mob descended on his residence last Sunday, savagely beating him and his followers with sticks, before setting his house on fire.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=KQDH-Cy4DiE">Watch the graphic video</a> (also embedded below) as the mob beats the men and drags Shehata’s bloodied body all over the street. According to the general manager of Hawamdia Hospital in Giza, where the Shia leader was taken after his beating, “when Sheikh Hassan Shehata arrived to the hospital, he appeared to be slaughtered from his neck, in addition to several injuries around his body … the rest of the bodies had several injuries as well as skull fractures.” Another report mentions “numerous puncture wounds and severe bruising.”</p>
<p>Eyewitnesses told Ahram newspaper that police stood by and did nothing to stop the attack—just as they invariably do when Egypt’s Christian Copts and their churches are attacked.</p>
<p>Much of these recent attacks on Shias come in response to Salafi clerics—Salafis are ultra “purest” Sunnis—whipping their followers into frenzies against the Shias, especially in the context of the Syrian war.   Countless clerics are calling on Sunni Muslims to go to Syria to join the battle against President Assad, not to mention Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood president himself, Muhammad Morsi, who recently condemned Assad, cutting all ties with Syria.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/cleric.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-194828 aligncenter" alt="cleric" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/cleric.jpg" width="360" height="230" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Egypt: Shia cleric Hassan Shehata, before and after.</strong></p>
<p>Thus the “Arab Spring” is proving to be an Islamic takeover by the largest and strongest Islamic faction—Sunni supremacists—who are cleansing the lands of all “non-believers,” from indigenous Christians like Egypt’s Copts to all Shia branches.  While apathetic Americans living a world away may think this has little to do with them, it is well to connect the dots and realize that all this is prelude to the resurrection of the caliphate—the chief goal of Sunni Islam, whether for the “moderate” Muslim Brotherhood or al-Qaeda.  And the caliphate exists for one ultimate purpose: to expand, until, in the words of Koran 8:39, “all religion is for Allah,” interpreted to mean, until Islamic Sharia law governs the entire world.</p>
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		<title>The Greatest Scandal of Them All</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 04:20:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Solway]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unearthing the biggest disaster plaguing the Obama Administration. ]]></description>
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<p>&#8211; attributed to Marcus Tullius Cicero.</p>
<p>We have been reading of late of the blizzard of scandals that has buffeted the Obama administration. Every week or so a major storm wracks the political climate in the U.S., so much so that it is hard not to grow somewhat blasé. Whether it’s the odium of the Benghazi betrayal and ensuing cover-up; or the IRS training its sights on conservative and pro-Israeli organizations; or the DOJ seizing the phone records of News sources; or the Attorney General caught lying (or conveniently forgetting) about a <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/29/us-usa-justice-holder-idUSBRE94S12I20130529">subpoena</a> against a FOX News reporter; or NSA snooping on Verizon customers under a court order granted in April, as if replicating thriller novelist Brad Thor’s grisly tale about internal espionage, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Black-List-Thriller-Brad-Thor/dp/1439192987/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1370612574&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=brad+thor+black+list"><i>Black List</i></a>; or a follow-up spy program code-named PRISM, expanding an operation begun under George W. Bush that was relatively measured, judicially redrawn and discontinued in 2007, but now, in the <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/matthew-vadum/spy-games-double-standards/">words</a> of Matthew Vadum; “a warrantless surveillance program on steroids”—the time comes when we expect nothing less of a meretricious administration.</p>
<p>The scandals go back years: the Affordable Health Care Act passed in the middle of the night and encrypted in thousands of pages that nobody seems to have read; a multi-billion dollar stimulus project that didn’t stimulate anything; the defrauding of Chrysler’s secured creditors in favor of the UAW when the auto company went <a href="http://notes-ultima.blogspot.ca/2009/06/uawobama-scandal.html">bankrupt</a>; the Fast and Furious gun-running plan yet to be clarified by the Attorney General; the loans and grants to crony Green entrepreneurs who regularly <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/obama-inc-sells-gm-stock-for-10-billion-loss/">fail</a> to meet their goals and end up in default; the numbing disgrace of a <a href="http://www.gloria-center.org/2013/06/the-u-s-governments-disastrous-muslim-outreach-efforts-and-the-impact-on-u-s-middle-east-policy-blind-to-terror1/">Muslim outreach scheme</a> that has seen known terrorists and dubious Islamic groups and individuals welcomed at the White House and operating to influence policy at the highest levels of government. The net result is always the same: a modest degree of public indignation followed by business as usual. Sarah Palin is on the money when she <a href="http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/sarah-palin-america-screwed/2013/06/06/id/508498?s=al&amp;promo_code=13BF8-1">laments</a> that “Obama supporters…naively and blindly (despite failure after failure and scandal after scandal) continue to give him the benefit of the doubt.” After all, this may be a scandal-prone administration, there have been others, let’s move on.</p>
<p>In an article for the <i>Wall Street Journal</i> titled “<a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324412604578519482313147400.html">The Decline of the Obama Presidency</a>,” Fred Barnes argues that Obama’s second term is coming undone not because of scandals but because of inept decisions made during his first term—his sclerotic partisanship, his alienating of potential allies, his broken promises. For Barnes, the scandals themselves are not the major factor in “the Obama breakdown,” though they “have worsened his plight and made recovery next to impossible.” Even <i>The New York Times</i> <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/06/06/new-york-times-editorial-board-says-administration-has-lost-all-credibility/">editorializes</a> that the Obama administration has “lost all credibility.”</p>
<p>In a most important way, however, we have tended to miss the point. We do not have the leisure of indifference or jaded boredom. Concerned citizens have no choice but to grapple, in the succinct <a href="http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2013/06/07/traveling-with-drudge-americas-indispensable-man/2/">depiction</a> of <i>PJ Media</i>’s Roger Simon, with “the absolute Orwellian madness that is the Obama administration.” The issue is not simply that the U.S. government under the suzerainty of Barack Obama is beset by a concatenation of scandals or has proved itself incompetent. Indeed, <i>pace</i> Barnes, poor decision making may be considered scandalous as well. But the real scandal <i>is Barack Obama himself</i>, a man demonstrably unfit to be president of the United States, who makes the hapless Jimmy Carter and the sleazy Bill Clinton look like choir boys. The scandal is that America is being led by a man about whom we know all too little, who has placed his salient records under seal (including his original birth certificate)—a man who, as Bill Schanefelt <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/06/president_photoshop.html">writes</a> in in an article titled “President Photoshop” in <i>American Thinker</i>, has “left surprisingly few documented footprints in the sands of time”; who is assiduously liquidating the economy; who is gutting the military while rendering it a politically correct monstrosity; whose foreign policy lies in shambles as he cozies up to dictators and theocrats or sits on the sidelines twiddling his thumbs; and who gives every indication of having managed to evade the responsibilities not only of his position but of genuine adulthood.</p>
<p>One might be forgiven for thinking of him as a paragon of cluelessness, except for the fact that, like a spoiled child, he is determined to get his way and has mastered the art of persuasion all along the spectrum from the temper tantrum to surreptitious appeal to feigned innocence—whatever works. The prophecy of Isaiah has come to pass: “As for my people, children are their oppressors&#8230;”(3:12). The child in this case is certainly precocious, shows himself adroit at manipulating both his peers and his elders, and has been educated by a battery of mentors whose outlook on the world is indisputably malign—<a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/06/redistributing_wealth_stealing_under_the_guise_of_law.html">theft</a> masking as “social justice” and “redistribution,” antisemitism, unchecked spending, ends justifying means, the evils of free speech, deception as virtue, self-indulgence rather than duty and obligation. The president has been well schooled in the arts of his masters. No one can deny that Obama is clever, but it is a cleverness in the service of moribund and irresponsible policies. This <i>is</i> Barack Obama, a curious amalgam of petty vindictiveness and ingratiating charm, freighted with a leftwing agenda that has faltered everywhere save in his own sectarian mind. Manifestly, he is not presidential material, not by any stretch of the most enamored imagination, as the country will belatedly learn to its own prohibitive cost.</p>
<p>America has put a disaster in the White House. “America, as my generation knew it,” writes Richard McKenzie Neal in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/America-hanging-Richard-McKenzie-Neal/dp/1477229353/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1370705454&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=richard+mckenzie+neal+america...hanging+by+a+thread"><i>America…Hanging By A Thread</i></a>, “is but an abstract distortion of a time when our country was sustained by the substance of its people. Today’s general population seems to live in a vacuum of ignorance and complacency.” In effect, Obama is a reflection of Rousseau’s “<a href="http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/228686/general-will">general will</a>,” the very image and compendium of a lax, frivolous, puerile and intellectually suborned public that has voted into office its own synoptic representation. But Obama has taken the political game a giant step further, enfeebling the republican structure of a once-great nation and governing in a manner that will eventually impoverish, peonize and endanger the same electorate that gave him their trust and adoration and placed the reins of power in his hands. They are the victims-in-waiting of what Michael Savage has aptly called <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Trickle-Up-Poverty-Stopping-Security/dp/B008W2ZESG/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1370714986&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=michael+savage+trickle+up+poverty"><i>Trickle Up Poverty</i></a>.</p>
<p>For under Obama’s leadership, the nation is in full retreat on every front, both domestic and foreign. Domestically, the debt and the deficit are rising exponentially; real unemployment remains staggeringly high and remunerative jobs are drying up, except for the burgeoning public sector and government sinecures; fiat money continues to be printed; a proliferating tangle of business regulations is garroting the economy; entitlement spending is creating an underclass of dependents and parasites that weakens the fiber of the nation; confiscatory taxes are shrinking the Middle Class; environmentalism-gone-mad is sapping productivity; and FBI training manuals are being scrubbed of references to the Islamic source of local terrorism and thus increasing the likelihood of jihadist atrocities on American soil.</p>
<p>The international theater is equally menacing. Obama likes to boast that al-Qaeda is on the run. This is true in a way, for al-Qaeda is indeed running—straight toward us. North Korea is exporting its nuclear technology to America’s enemies while America dithers. China is militarizing and expanding its influence in the Pacific. Russia is flexing its geopolitical muscles. Turkey is aiming for a neo-Ottoman Caliphate. The Palestinians are bloodsuckers on American largesse, offering nothing in return but self-righteous intransigence, a false historical narrative and systemic Jew-hatred. Egypt, Libya and Syria are imploding—the first two thanks to American meddling and the last—well, we recall that Hillary Clinton lauded Assad as a “reformer.” Iraq and Afghanistan are going rogue. Terror-sponsoring Iran is on the verge of nuclear capability and has made no secret of its enmity toward the U.S. Meanwhile Obama does nothing but take vacations, preen on television, switch to <a href="http://pjmedia.com/zombie/2013/06/07/obama-in-palo-alto-fundraising-with-the-rich-radicals/">campaign mode</a>, target his local adversaries, appoint fools, political dandiprats and ideological doppelgängers to positions of power, and blab about “red lines” to no effect but his own embarrassment. “When the blast of war is in our ears,” exhorts Shakespeare’s Henry V, “then imitate the action of the tiger/Stiffen the sinews…/then lend the eye a terrible aspect.” Obama has imitated the action of the sheep, relaxed the sinews, and gazed benignly upon our enemies.</p>
<p>Apart from pursuing a narrow and rigid social(ist) agenda, Obama is in way beyond his depth, especially in the field of foreign relations. Arguably, this may be his intention, to render the United States unrecognizable to itself and ultimately to turn it into an international laughing stock, a waning power no longer to be taken seriously. Given his “disdain for his country,” writes David Horowitz in the explosive pamphlet <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/david-horowitz/how-obama-betrayed-america/"><i>How Obama Betrayed America</i></a>, Obama “has set in motion policies meant to make America far from indispensable—a diminished nation that ‘leads from behind’.” But Obama’s glaring mismanagement of America’s interests may also indicate, perhaps no less plausibly, a feckless and myopic understanding of <i>realpolitik</i> and a complete inability to play with the big boys. His political immaturity coupled with his natural cynicism is equaled only by his bloated self-regard, and America’s adversaries have taken definitive advantage of the debilitating flaws of his temperament.</p>
<p>There should be no doubt about this in any rational mind. The various scandals plaguing the current administration are distractions. Poor decision making is a common trait—Eisenhower’s <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3656288/What-we-failed-to-learn-from-Suez.html">self-admitted mishandling</a> of the Suez Crisis, Kennedy’s Bay of Pigs, Carter’s support of the Iranian Shia revolution, and so on. What we are observing now is different by an order of magnitude, a kind of logarithmic spike on the scandal scale. There is a catastrophe afflicting the U.S. and it is summed up and embodied in the person of Barack Obama—his election to the Oval Office, the policies he has subsequently enacted, the vectors of his character on daily display, the progressively devastating consequences of his tenure. “Let us make no mistake about this,” as the president is fond of saying. The greatest scandal of them all is the present occupant of the White House.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[What will awaken free peoples from their willful blindness?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/sharia.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-191445" alt="sharia" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/sharia.jpg" width="315" height="213" /></a>On this week&#8217;s edition of <em>The Glazov Gang</em>, a coup occurred and Jamie was replaced as host by <strong>Michael Finch</strong>, the Chief Operating Officer at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. Finch&#8217;s hosting abilities were so stellar and the show was so spectacular that doubts now remain if Jamie will ever return &#8212; thus the new name of the gang: <strong>The Finch Gang</strong>.</p>
<p>This week&#8217;s guests were <b>Michael Chandler</b>, Political Commentator, <b>Morgan Brittany</b>, a conservative TV and Movie Star and <b>Ann-Marie Murrell</b>, the National Director of <a href="http://politichicks.tv/">PolitiChicks.tv</a>.</p>
<p>This week the gang discussed: <em>While the West Slept. </em>The discussion occurred in <strong>Part I </strong>and the guests reflected on what will awaken free peoples from their willful blindness. The gang also shed light on: <em>A Beheading, Multiculturalism and Videotape, </em>as the panelists focused on the London beheading and our culture&#8217;s expected Islam-Denial in dealing with it.</p>
<p>In <strong>Part II</strong>, the gang discussed: <em>When Freedom&#8217;s Foes See a Wounded America</em>.  The guests reflected on the perils of a president exhibiting weakness in a world of tyranny and terror. The segment also involved an analysis of: <em>Will Democrats Jump Ship on Obama?</em></p>
<p>Watch both parts of the two-part series below:</p>
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		<title>Inventing &#8216;Jewish Terrorists&#8217;</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p dir="LTR"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/price.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-190953" alt="." src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/price-450x299.jpg" width="315" height="209" /></a>News headlines in the US over the past few weeks have focused on political targeting there by the Internal Revenue Service against conservative groups.  But Israel is now experiencing a far worse form of political targeting by the state.  In Israel the Attorney General is leading an initiative to have a small group of radical juveniles who engage in mischief declared to be a terrorist organization.</p>
<p dir="LTR">The group of politically motivated Jewish vandals operates under the name &#8220;<i>Tag Mechir</i>&#8221; or &#8220;Price Tag.&#8221;   They were founded as a response in kind to Arab rock-throwing and general acts of vandalism against Jews perpetrated in the West Bank and in some other areas.  Much of their &#8220;activity&#8221; consists of writing graffiti on cars and homes of Arabs or Jewish leftists.  Their worst acts of misbehavior have involved vandalizing mosques.   The local police have been unsuccessful in tracking down and arresting those involved, but the perps are thought to be young religious juveniles from settlements in the West Bank.  The media find them as fascinating as the postman who bites the dog.</p>
<p dir="LTR">Most of the political &#8220;Right&#8221; in Israel, including most conservative and pro-settler organizations and parties, regard &#8220;Price Tag&#8221; as an embarrassment.   The vandals have been condemned by almost every rabbi in the country, including those identifying with the &#8220;Right.&#8221;  The legitimate Right fears the &#8220;Price Tag&#8221; mischief and pranks will alienate the general public.  Conservative pundits, and I include myself in this group, have suggested that the proper way to deal with the &#8220;Price Tag&#8221; juveniles is with a hickory switch behind the woodshed.</p>
<p dir="LTR">The Price Taggers have damaged property and needlessly provoke Muslims and others in the most explosive region of the world.  But they have killed no one.  They do not engage in actual violence against humans, except for some revenge-rock-throwing.  The same leftist establishment seeking to define these jackanapes as terrorists bends over backwards to excuse rock throwing by Arabs against Jews as &#8220;protest,&#8221; <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israeli-infant-critically-hurt-in-traffic-accident-caused-by-stone-throwing-palestinians-1.509492">even when it maims children</a>.  The liberal media refuse to label THAT terrorism, but are cheering on the initiative to battle against the &#8220;Jewish terrorists&#8221; from &#8220;Price Tag.&#8221;  Their crimes are closer to fraternity pranks than to actual terrorism.</p>
<p dir="LTR">Moreover, this is not the first initiative by the Israeli political establishment to distort the definition of terrorism as a political bully club against rightist activist groups.   In the past,  Israel (and the United States) defined the radical &#8220;Kahanist&#8221; organizations as &#8220;terrorist organizations.&#8221;  The Kahanist splinters are tiny militant anti-Arab groups whose positions and opinions are regarded as &#8220;racist&#8221; and &#8220;unacceptable&#8221; by the politically correct camp.  The Kahanists had run as a political party in Israel in the 1980s and briefly had a small parliamentary representation.  They were later banned because their political opinions were considered perverse.  But since when does holding bigoted opinions make one a terrorist?   The same politicians who banned the Kahanists proclaim the Holocaust Deniers of the &#8220;Palestinian Authority&#8221; to be &#8220;peace partners.&#8221;</p>
<p dir="LTR">The Israeli government, urged on by the US, later attempted to criminalize the Kahanists and deny them freedom of speech and expression.  It is said that the true test of one&#8217;s devotion to freedom of speech is in one&#8217;s willingness to defend it for those whose opinions one abhors.  The number of professors of law in Israel (who invariably hold leftist opinions) and &#8220;civil rights activists&#8221; who have spoken out against this arbitrary denial of constitutional rights to the Kahanists is exactly zero.  Members of Israel&#8217;s chattering classes are always willing to defend freedom of speech for those holding opinions <i>of which they approve</i>.</p>
<p dir="LTR">So now the same underhanded trick of dictionary distortion is being utilized to battle against the &#8220;Price Tag&#8221; vandals.  Instead of engaging them in debate or denouncing their behavior in the media, the government prefers to deal with them by redefining terrorism to include fraternity pranks and spank-worthy petty vandalism.</p>
<p dir="LTR">As it turns out, in many cases <a href="http://anneinpt.wordpress.com/2012/10/16/slandering-israel-palestinians-and-leftists-filmed-cutting-down-their-own-olive-trees/">leftists and Arabs</a> themselves <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/10/16/did-palestinians-destroy-their-own-olive-trees-and-then-blame-israel-settlers-say-they-have-the-video-to-prove-it/">have vandalized Arab property</a>, including damage to olive trees, as <a href="http://israelmatzav.blogspot.co.il/2010/10/busted-leftists-caught-cutting-olive.html">provocations to be blamed</a> upon &#8220;settlers&#8221; and the &#8220;Price Tag&#8221; group.  Presumably &#8220;<i>Tag Mechir</i>&#8221; <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3976976,00.html">is happy to accept</a> the &#8220;credit&#8221; for these, even when it is <i>not</i> involved.   When a mosque in Israel&#8217;s Galilee was vandalized, the press and the chattering classes instantaneously named &#8220;Price Tag&#8221; as the perps.  Later in turned out the vandalism was done by some local Arabs who live in the same town.  None of the many cases of synagogues being vandalized by Arabs have been defined by the government as terrorism, even when the vandalism is perpetrated by officials in the PLO.</p>
<p dir="LTR">The initiative to proclaim the &#8220;Price Tag&#8221; group <a href="http://www.news-israel.net/%D7%AA%D7%92-%D7%9E%D7%97%D7%99%D7%A8-%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%92%D7%95%D7%9F-%D7%98%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%A8-%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%A9-%D7%9C%D7%94%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%97%D7%9D-%D7%91%D7%95.html">a terrorist organization has come</a> from Israel&#8217;s politicized leftist Attorney General, Yehuda Weinstein.   It was quickly endorsed by members of the leftist herd.  Political hacks from the Likud joined in<a href="http://megafon-news.co.il/asys/archives/151161">, including the Minister of Internal Security</a>, as <a href="http://www.mako.co.il/news-military/security/Article-4c0e56e580fae31004.htm">did Netanyahu&#8217;s Minister of Justice</a>, Tzipi Livni from the <i>Kadima</i> faction.   <a href="http://www.nrg.co.il/online/1/ART2/322/729.html">So did the head</a> of the Shin Bet intelligence agency and the dean of one of the law schools in the country.</p>
<p dir="LTR">Attorney General Weinstein has a long track record of &#8220;differential prosecution.&#8221;  This is manifested in his refusal to prosecute leftists and Arabs, while running a special surveillance agency to spy on right-wing Jews.  When an Arab fascist Knesset Member participated in the &#8220;Hamas flotilla&#8221; seeking to end Israel&#8217;s naval control of the waters around the Gaza strip and when she violently attacked Israeli soldiers, Weinstein refused to prosecute her or even ban her from running in the elections.   Weinstein has studiously defended freedom of speech, but only for radical leftists and Arabs, while <a href="http://www.jewishpressclassifieds.com/pageroute.do/49467">just as studiously seeking its suppression</a> for everyone else.  He has repeatedly indicted rabbis and others for &#8220;incitement&#8221; and &#8220;racism&#8221; when they dare to express political opinions with which the Left disagrees, even prosecuting people for <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/165115">catcalls</a> at a soccer game, but has <a href="http://israpundit.blogspot.co.il/2002/10/judicial-billy-club-of-left-by-dr.html">never indicted any leftists</a> for <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/241322#.UaELzzEUFiw">calling for murder</a>, for mutiny by soldiers, or for other acts of violence.  On the other hand, Weinstein <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/12/the_martyrdom_of_avigdor_lieberman.html#ixzz2FvUvS2II">pursued a frivolous and openly partisan prosecution</a> against rightist leader Avigdor Lieberman for trumped up evidence-free allegations of &#8220;corruption.&#8221;</p>
<p dir="LTR">So what exactly are we to make of this initiative to declare  a group of juvenile vandals and punks a &#8220;terrorist organization.&#8221;   The most obvious problem with it is that it cheapens and empties the entire notion of terrorism of any substantive meaning.  If some teenagers engaging in fraternity-like pranks and malicious graffiti are in the same category with the genocidal suicide bombers of Hamas and al-Qaeda, then how bad can the Islamofascist terrorists really be?</p>
<p dir="LTR">But what is at least as outrageous is that the initiative is really nothing more than an assault against freedom of speech inside Israel.  It is an arbitrary attempt to criminalize the political behavior of a fringe group, while ignoring the violence being perpetrated all the time by groups from the other end of the political spectrum.</p>
<p dir="LTR">&#8220;Price Tag&#8217;s&#8221; worst acts of misbehavior have involved petty vandalism and graffiti, including a few cases of vandalism against mosques.  But the &#8220;<a href="http://cifwatch.com/tag/anarchists-against-the-wall/">Anarchists Against the Wall</a>&#8221; organization that operates in Israel <a href="http://www.israpundit.com/archives/45234">engages in actual violence against</a> actual Israeli soldiers and police every single week.  For years they have been joined by fellow anarcho-fascists from overseas, and hold violent confrontations and assaults against Israeli security personnel, supposedly all as <a href="http://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/opinions/israels-leftists-are-idiots-fence/2012/05/09/">part of their &#8220;protests&#8221; against Israel constructing its security fence</a> against Palestinian terrorists.  They <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/steven-plaut/the-truth-about-the-apartheid-wall/">oppose that fence because it makes it more difficult</a> for Palestinians to send suicide bombers and other terrorists into Israel to murder Jews.</p>
<p dir="LTR">None of the people promoting and cheering on the initiative to proclaim &#8220;Price Tag&#8221; a terrorist organization have endorsed the idea of defining the &#8220;Anarchists Against the Wall&#8221; as a terrorist group.  Why not?</p>
<p dir="LTR">The answer of course is that the &#8220;anarchists&#8221; are promoting the agenda of the Far Left and are seeking Israel&#8217;s extermination.  The &#8220;Price Tag&#8221; people may be misguided delinquents in need of a time-out in their rooms but they are strongly pro-Israel and patriotic.</p>
<p dir="LTR">The &#8220;anarchists&#8221; are not the only violent group from the Far Left that has never been proclaimed a terrorist organization by Israel.  Members of the <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/steven-plaut/a-just-verdict-in-the-rachel-corrie-case/">openly pro-terror &#8220;International Solidarity Movement&#8221;</a> or ISM (which should actually stand for &#8220;I Support Murder&#8221;) wander the country at will, <a href="http://www.israelnewsagency.com/internationalsolidaritymovementterrorism9330405.html">engage in violence</a>, sometimes get deported, but are <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/44473#.UDy1OdYgeII">never defined as members of a terrorist</a> organization.  Neither are any of the anti-Israel Islamic and Arab fascist organizations that operate in Israel.  The &#8220;Islamic Movement&#8221; operates legally in Israel; it is openly pro-terror and is a barely disguised surrogate for Hamas.  Its leader <a href="http://zioncon.blogspot.co.il/2009/06/islamofascist-invited-to-university-of.html">called for suicide bombings</a> against Jews.  It has never been proclaimed a terrorist organization.  Neither have the openly jihadist political parties and movements popular among Israeli Arabs, including the Stalinist communist party HADASH.  <a href="http://zioncon.blogspot.co.il/2006/11/bin-laden-calendar-at-university-of.html">Arab student organizations</a> have endorsed Hezb&#8217;Allah and al-Qaeda but have never been proclaimed terrorist organizations.</p>
<p dir="LTR">Similarly, Jewish radical leftist organizations have never been proclaimed terrorist organizations, although in the 1970s one small group of communists was convicted of espionage.   Many of the small leftist Jewish groups endorse lawbreaking and treason and mutiny by soldiers and world boycotts against Israel.   Why are they not being criminalized, prosecuted, and defined as terrorist groups?</p>
<p dir="LTR">So like with the political targeting of conservatives in the US, Israel&#8217;s political establishment prefers to deal with dissidents disliked by the Left by legislating and regulating them out of existence.  All at the price of democracy.</p>
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		<title>My Thoughts On Boston</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 21:25:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The root cause of this bombing and the Jihad itself is a religious fanaticism within Islam.
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/dzhokhar-tsarnaev.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-186443" alt="dzhokhar-tsarnaev" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/dzhokhar-tsarnaev.jpg" width="296" height="260" /></a>Watching the news about the Boston bombing and the Muslim fanatics who perpetrated the deed, I cannot help reflect on all the nasty attacks that liberals and progressives and Muslim activists have conducted against conservatives who have attempted to warn Americans that their enemies are religious fanatics driven by an apocalyptic hatred of us because we are Jews, Christians, atheists, democrats – in a word, <i>infidels</i>.</p>
<p>It has been said by Nancy Pelosi, George Soros and other Democrats that George Bush created the terrorists by attempting to enforce a UN Security council resolution and take down one of the monsters of the 20<sup>th</sup> Century in Iraq.  It has been said by the late Susan Sontag and other progressive intellectuals that the heinous attacks of 9/11 were the result of American policies. The Center for American Progress and university administrators have relentlessly defamed as Islamphobes and bigots those of us who have had the temerity to talk about the Islamic roots of Islamic terror. If only we ignored the Islamic beliefs behind the terrorism and made nice to all Muslims indiscriminately, the terrorists wouldn’t hate us.</p>
<p>Boston has exposed this as the Big Lie and fatuous delusion that it has always been. The Boston killers were treated better in America than all but an elite among Americans born here who love their country. They were given scholarships, they were admitted to the most exclusive prep schools, they lived in a Cambridge environment where critics of Islamic terror were regarded as Islamophobes and they as a minority deserving special consideration and concern. And yet they hated us. They hated America and ordinary Americans like the victims of their mayhem, and enlisted in the army of our mortal enemies. They hated us because they were fanatical believers in the idea that Mohammed had desired them to kill infidels and purify the earth for Allah. This is the face of our enemy and the sooner the delusional liberals among us wake up to this fact, the safer all of us will be.</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 04:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Israel's Pravda champions putting Jewish baby girls into comas.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/steven-plaut/treason-du-jour-at-haaretz/haaretz/" rel="attachment wp-att-185638"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-185638" title="haaretz" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/haaretz.png" alt="" width="300" height="204" /></a>Something like 6% of Israelis, or one in 16, begins his or her morning each day with a little serving of <em>treason du jour</em> known as Haaretz.  Not only is this the Palestinian newspaper printed in Hebrew, its ideological line no longer differs in any noticeable way from the party line of the Israeli communist party, except when it comes to economics.  (In bizarre only-in-Israel manner, Haaretz&#8217; business section is the most strongly pro-market in all Israeli media.)</p>
<p>In the darkest days of Stalinism, communists and Soviet &#8220;citizens&#8221; would open Pravda (and its clones) each morning to discover just what it is that they think and are expected to think.  In some cases, what they were commanded to think might change throughout the day. The infamous example was the day when the morning edition of all communist papers in the world gushed about the deep friendship and lasting trust between Comrade Stalin and his ally and friend Adolf Hitler.  Then the afternoon editions screamed denunciations of Nazi Germany and Hitler for invading the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa.</p>
<p>The Israeli radical Left works pretty much the same way.  It opens Haaretz each morning in order to discover what it thinks.  And it then spends the rest of the day mouthing these opinions and advocating what its gurus have instructed it to advocate.</p>
<p>Of the 6 percent of Israelis who read the &#8220;newspaper,&#8221; my guess is that 4 out of the 6 read it for the business/economic supplement, which is the best on these subjects in Israel.  Go figure.  Of the remaining 2 percent, some like me read it so they can see just what the enemy is thinking and planning.  The remaining 1 to 2% are the true believers, the goose-stepping rank and file of the ultra-Left, many of these of course being tenured leftists.</p>
<p>Haaretz is openly anti-Zionist and pro-terror and pro-jihad.  It opposes any sanctions and aggressive policy against Iran.  Every day the paper is filled with mailman-bites-dog stories, about how settlers supposedly attack Arabs or vandalize Arab property.  If Haaretz were reporting on World War II using its staff of today, the paper would be filled with reports about the sufferings of innocent German and Japanese civilians as a result of the aggressions of the Western imperialist powers: America and Britain. With no comment at all about Axis aggression.</p>
<p>The newspaper of the thinking Israeli, as it likes to dub itself, openly cheers on Palestinians who throw rocks and molotov cocktails at Jews.  After all, the Palestinians have grievances.  The paper only uses the &#8220;T&#8221; word &#8220;terrorist&#8221; to refer to Jews, never to Arabs. Last week Jack Teitel, the mentally ill ex-American who killed two Arabs and placed a small explosive device near the home of radical anti-Israel professor Zeev Sternhall, was denounced by Haaretz (he was just sentenced to two life terms in prison) as a &#8220;Jewish terrorist.&#8221;  The rest of the Left repeated the mantra in unison: Teitel is not a terrorist but a mentally ill person.</p>
<p>Arabs who murder Jews are always militants and activists in Haaretz lingo.  So are al-Qaeda members.  You will never read about any of those proven cases where Arabs intentionally vandalize Arab property as a provocation to make it look like Jews were the perps.  Haaretz of course was also involved up to its kaffiya in the Anat Kam, &#8211; Uri Blau espionage scandal.</p>
<p>A couple of weeks back, Arabs throwing rocks mortally injured a Jewish baby girl in the West Bank, who was put into a coma.  Haaretz&#8217; responded to the terrorism by running a special Op-Ed by Israel&#8217;s Tokyo Rose, Amira Hass, a Haaretz regular, cheering on Arabs who throw rocks at Jews and demanding more rock throwing by Arabs at Jewish babies to end &#8220;occupation.&#8221;   You can read about her declaration of war against Jews<a href="http://www.vcstar.com/news/2013/apr/04/op-ed-stirs-row-over-palestinian-rock-throwing/"> here</a>.  Of course, if anyone were to claim they have grievances and then throw rocks at the Haaretz building in Tel Aviv, THAT would be terrorism.</p>
<p>Haaretz recently ran a long piece about a group of four innocent Arab victims of Israeli aggression.  It seems they were shot by soldiers when they were minding their own business and merely throwing molotov cocktails at Jews. You know, the same molotov cocktails used in World War II to destroy Panzers.  That story is written by &#8220;reporter&#8221; Gideon Levy, the most openly anti-Israel and pro-terror columnist in the entire Israeli media &#8212; a guy who makes the late Alexander Cockburn (I always called him Alexander Burncock) look like a US patriot.  Levy tries to paint one injured bomb thrower as a truly sympathetic character. The bomb thrower&#8217;s father is asked what his son dreams about.  The father says, replacing the tin roof over his bedroom with a solid construction. Why the father let his son throw bombs instead of sending him to get a job and earn the money needed for the roof is one of those Haaretz imponderables.  Another story is about how settler bullies beat up some poor innocent Palestinian youths who were merely throwing rocks at them and trying to put them into comas like the above mentioned baby.</p>
<p>But Haaretz outperforms even itself in its reporting about the Jimmy Carter debacle at Yeshiva University.</p>
<p>As you probably know, Yeshiva University in NY evidently did not lose enough money and support in the huge Madoff scandal and so has decided to finish Madoff&#8217;s work by losing all remaining support for the institution by granting a special Law School award to Jimmy Carter.  Not only was Carter the very worst president in the entire history of the United States, but he is also an open anti-Semite.  Since being kicked out of the White House with its indoor plumbing and being sent back to his peanut plantation, Carter has spent much of his time demonizing Israel and Jews, denouncing Israel as an &#8220;apartheid&#8221; regime, backing Islamist terrorists, legitimizing the phony &#8220;elections&#8221; in dictatorships,  and seeking Israel&#8217;s extermination.  So what better reason for Yeshiva University to grant him an honor?  I mean, do the YU chiefs seriously think that Carter&#8217;s anti-Semitic groupies will respond to the award by raising money for the university?  Maybe Yeshiva U chose Carter for its reward simply because Louis Farrakhan and David Irving were unavailable for one.</p>
<p>But the stupidity of Yeshiva University is nothing when compared with the spin given the story by Haaretz.  According to the newspaper for the non-thinking Israeli leftist, it is all a vast right-wing conspiracy by American Jewish neocons to paint Carter as a demon.  &#8220;Extremist&#8221; is the adjective used by Haaretz for any American protesting the award to Carter.  It is never an adjective applied to Carter.  And who are these fanatical right-wing Americans? Well, Haaretz informs us, they are lead by that notorious right-winger Alan Dershowitz, who happens to be a notorious liberal two-state-solution guy but one who knows an anti-Semitic ex-president when he sees one.  Dersh says that Carter has never met a terrorist he does not like.</p>
<p>Haaretz adopts the jargon and rhetoric of the Neo-Nazis when it denounces the critics of the award to Carter as &#8220;Israel Firsters.&#8221;  Yes, that is the term used in the article.  Haaretz would never be suspected by anyone of being pro-Israel, let alone a newspaper of &#8220;Israel Firsters.&#8221;   But can you imagine the NY Times or Washington Post denouncing people who are pro-American as being &#8220;America Firsters&#8221;?   Among the radical right-wingers named by Haaretz as opposing the award to Carter are the Anti-Defamation League and the Simon Wiesenthal Center.   These &#8220;fascists&#8221; are becoming the ugly face of Israel as seen in New York, screams the newspaper whose major stockholders include some German ex-Nazis.</p>
<p>Haaretz, the newspaper read by Hamas Firsters and cited all over the world as the authoritative proof that Israel is an anti-democratic apartheid regime, continues to provide ammunition to the world&#8217;s Israel Bashers.  It continues to serve up its <em>treason du jour</em> with the lattes sipped by the Israeli yuppie Ashkenazi leftist&#8217;s who continue to battle against their own country&#8217;s survival.</p>
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