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		<title>Obama Frees a Nuclear Terrorist</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2014 05:47:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is there any terrorist Obama won’t liberate?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/ws.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-248323" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/ws-284x350.jpg" alt="ws" width="213" height="263" /></a>Which terrorist will Obama set loose next from Gitmo? A better question might be is there any terrorist he won’t free? Is there an Al Qaeda or Taliban Jihadist who poses too much of a threat to the United States for Obama to free with a lot of airline miles and Michelle Obama’s recipe for arugula fruitcake?</p>
<p>If Obama has a red line when it comes to releasing terrorists, we haven’t seen it yet.</p>
<p>There appears to be no threat that a terrorist can pose and no crime he has committed too severe to prevent him from getting a plane trip out of Gitmo at taxpayer expense.</p>
<p>The last releases saw terrorists rated as high risk freed by Obama. They included fighters with experience on the battlefield and covert operations. <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/obamas-christmas-gift-to-isis-and-al-qaeda/">Obama set loose a suicide bomber</a>, a document forger and a bomb maker who trained other terrorists to make bombs. Those are exactly the sorts of enemies whose license to Jihad will cost lives.</p>
<p>But that’s nothing compared to Obama’s latest gift to the Jihad.</p>
<p>When Mohammed Zahir was caught, among his possessions was found a small sealed can marked, in Russian, “Heavy Water U235 150 Grams.”</p>
<p>According to the classified report, the uranium had been identified by Zahir “in his memorandum as being intended for the production of an “atom bomb.”</p>
<p>Zahir was not just another captured Jihadist. He was the Secretary General of the Taliban’s Intelligence Directorate and was in contact with top leaders of the Taliban and Al Qaeda. His possessions included a fax with questions intended for Osama bin Laden and he had been arrested on suspicion of possessing Stinger missiles.</p>
<p>But that may not have even been the worst of it.</p>
<p>Among the items was a notebook containing references to large sugar shipments to Washington D.C. Investigators believed that sugar was used as a code word for heroin. The Black Sea stops mentioned in the notebook are major hubs for smuggling heroin and for nuclear smuggling as well.</p>
<p>Not only was Mohammed Zahir a terrorist kingpin, but he was also a drug kingpin and the notebook suggested that his eye was on the United States of America.</p>
<p>It was no wonder that Mohammad Zahir had been rated as posing a high risk, but Obama had already freed a number of other high risk Guantanamo Bay detainees. Yet Zahir was the closest thing to a major nuclear terrorist in United States custody. Freeing him was wildly irresponsible even by the standards of a leader who had sacrificed thousands of Americans in a futile effort to “win” Afghan hearts and minds.</p>
<p>Nor did Obama even bother with the plausible deniability of releasing him to a South American country, the way he had with his previous batch of ISIS recruits, or at least to Qatar. Instead Mohammed Zahir went back directly to the battlefield in Afghanistan.</p>
<p>Obama couldn’t have done more without handing over the blueprints for constructing a nuclear bomb.</p>
<p>And yet it wasn’t surprising that Obama would free Mohammed Zahir. He had <a href="http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2014/12/4_gitmo_detainees_tr.php">already freed Zahir’s old boss</a>, the Taliban’s Deputy Minister of Intelligence, as well as another senior Taliban intel official under whom Zahir had used to work. It just happened to be Zahir’s turn.</p>
<p>If the other Gitmo detainees freed by Obama are deadly, Zahir was part of an effort to engage in the mass murder of Americans using weapons of mass destruction. Considering how many Gitmo detainees returned to terrorism once they were released, it is highly likely that Zahir will go on doing what he used to do and that American soldiers and civilians will end up paying the price for Obama’s license to Jihad.</p>
<p>Zahir wasn’t released on his own. Accompanying him back to the motherland of terror were Khi Ali Gul, who was linked to Al Qaeda’s Haqqani Network, Shawali Khan, the member of group that merged with Al Qaeda and Abdul Ghani, who had frequently bragged about his high rank in the Taliban and had participated in rocket and mine attacks on American soldiers.</p>
<p>These men were assessed as very dangerous. Like the last batch released, they’re almost certain to return to the industry of terror.</p>
<p>Even as <a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2014/12/oops-u-s-offers-5-mil-reward-al-qaeda-terrorist-released-gitmo/">a $5 million bounty has been put on</a> the head of Ibrahim al-Rubaysh, a Gitmo terrorist released for rest and rehabilitation in Saudi Arabia, the same mistakes that led to his release continue to be made.</p>
<p>Ibrahim al-Rubaysh returned to play a leading role in Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Mohammed Zahir and his pals will have an even shorter trip to get back into the fight. They won’t even have to go through the charade of being rehabilitated before they return to their bloody trade.</p>
<p>With the release of the latest batch of Taliban figures, Obama is helping the Taliban rebuild its organizational structure at the top. Even while he’s declaring victory over the Taliban, he is helping the Taliban win.</p>
<p>And in the process he is sending dangerous men back into the fight. Men like Mohammed Zahir.</p>
<p>Mohammed Zahir may not go back to his old tasks of smuggling heroin to Washington D.C. or trying to assemble materials for an atomic bomb. Or this top Taliban intelligence official may decide to pick up where he left off. It’s bad enough that Obama is empowering Iran’s quest for a nuclear bomb, but now he has also managed to aid the Taliban’s search for weapons of mass destruction.</p>
<p>Americans no longer expect the man in the White House not to release terrorists. We no longer expect him not to release dangerous terrorists who will go on to kill Americans. Now we also know that it’s useless to expect him not to release terrorists caught trying to assemble materials for a nuclear bomb.</p>
<p>We’ve tried to grade Obama on a curve when it comes to national security, but the curve just got nuked.</p>
<p>The very lowest possible expectation we can have of Obama is that he won’t release a nuclear terrorist. And even this lowest of all possible expectations proved too much for him to live up to.</p>
<p>Which terrorists will Obama release next? The answer appears to be all of them.</p>
<p>Obama had sought to take Osama alive so he could receive a trial in civilian court. The SEALS put a stop to that plan and to Osama, but if they hadn’t, then next week we might be seeing Osama bin Laden boarding a plane to Qatar or Afghanistan with a can of uranium tucked under one arm.</p>
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		<title>10 Reasons the UAE Terrorist Group List Rises Above the Rest</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2014 05:17:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Magdi Khalil]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/HH+Sheikh+Khalifa+Bin+Zayed+Al+Nahyan+UAE+president.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247979" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/HH+Sheikh+Khalifa+Bin+Zayed+Al+Nahyan+UAE+president.jpg" alt="HH+Sheikh+Khalifa+Bin+Zayed+Al+Nahyan,+UAE+president" width="306" height="205" /></a>In November 2014, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) took a bold and unprecedented step for a Muslim nation by designating 85 radical Islamic organizations as terrorist organizations. The UAE’s designation is the most audacious and significant classification of terrorist organizations worldwide, and is superior to the lists developed by the United States, the European Union, the Russian Federation and the United Nations. As to why it is unrivalled, here are a number of reasons:</p>
<p>First: The UAE addressed the roots of the problem, in the sense that terrorist ideology paves the way for terrorist acts; hence, the list included organizations which promote terrorist ideology or seek to secretly recruit Muslims, making them ready and available for organizations engaged in terrorist acts.</p>
<p>Second: The UAE is familiar with the double talk, dissimulation and outright lies that are typical of Islamists. As an Islamic State, the UAE has a good understanding of those deceitful practices. Therefore, it did not hesitate much about organizations that issue vague statements claiming to denounce terror, while their actions aim at stirring up discontent among Muslims to facilitate their recruitment into terrorist organizations. The US Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is a prominent case in point.</p>
<p>Third: It is the first time that Islamic organizations in the United States and Europe find themselves on the designated list of terrorist organizations. These organizations are mostly financed through Arab oil countries, under pretext of defending the rights of Muslims in the United States and Europe. In reality, they are part of the global <i>Jihad </i>network, and are focused on promoting radical ideologies and indoctrinating Muslims in the Western World, steering them to join the universal <i>Jihad</i> against the infidels. These organizations also actively work to isolate Muslims and prevent their integration into their new communities in the West. Furthermore, they have sown the seeds of hatred that many Muslims harbor towards their new home in the West, pushing the idea that loyalty to the new homeland contradicts their devotion to Islam and stands in the way of the battle against the infidels. Examples of organizations that fall under this category in the UAE’s list include CAIR in the United States, the Muslim American Society (MAS), the Federation of Islamic Organizations in Europe, the Islamic Associations in Italy, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Belgium, the Cordoba Foundation in Britain and the Islamic Society of Germany.</p>
<p>Fourth: The UAE’s list also included organizations that hide behind the façade of charity and humanitarian work, while playing a major role in financing terrorist groups such as Hamas and others. Among these organizations are the UK Islamic Relief and the International Islamic Relief organization affiliated with the international Muslim Brotherhood organization.</p>
<p>Fifth: The UAE’s designation also broke through the imaginary divide between moderate Islamic organizations and radical Islamic organizations. On the whole, political Islam organizations that seek power, interfere with politics, promote fundamental ideologies and indirectly support terrorism, deserve to be listed as dangerous terrorist organizations. To illustrate: The Islamic terrorist organization ISIS is in reality a grandchild of the Muslim Brotherhood, since Al-Qaida, which gave birth to ISIS, was itself born out of the Muslim Brotherhood movement. These strong ties explain the stance taken by Muslim Brotherhood leader Youssef al-Qaradawi in defense of ISIS, his announcement that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood movement, and his disapproval of the international coalition’s strikes against ISIS.</p>
<p>Sixth: The inclusion of the “Association of Muslim Scholars” in the list of terrorist organizations was a bold choice on the UAE’s part. This union is essentially an international union of Muslim Brotherhood scholars and radical fundamentalists, which serve the Muslim Brotherhood and Qatar in their quest to manipulate and ultimately control Islamic affairs.</p>
<p>Seventh: By adopting this exceptional designation, the UAE made it evident that the countries which played a role in creating the problem can hardly be part of the solution. These terrorist organizations are the product of the so-called “Islamic awakening” which started in the seventies of last century. Countries that contributed to this awakening include Egypt (Sadat), Saudi Arabia (Faisal), Sudan (Numeri), Pakistan (Zia ul-Haq), Iran (Khomeini), the United States (Carter &amp; Brzezinski), Qatar (Hamad) in the last ten years, and Turkey (Erdogan) in the last five years. It is difficult for these countries, which brought about this Islamic terrorist awakening, to produce a terrorist group designation list on the scale of the UAE. I am confident that Egypt would never entertain the idea of issuing such a comprehensive designation. As for Saudi Arabia, it issued a meagre list that mostly included political dissidents who threaten Saudi rule. It is also surprising and somehow disturbing that the United States has rejected the designation of CAIR, the Muslim American Society and the Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist organizations.</p>
<p>Eighth: The UAE also dealt a strong blow to the skilful manipulation of the notion of &#8220;Islamophobia&#8221; in the West, given that the Islamic organizations designated in the UAE’s list, and which operate in the United States and Europe, have created and pushed the term “Islamophobia,” waiving its spectre around whenever it has suited their purposes. As a matter of fact, Muslims enjoy significantly more freedom and liberties in the West than they do in their Islamic homelands. If that remains in question, then pray tell why is it that Muslims who live in Islamic countries are so intent on fleeing the freedom, happiness, faith and virtue abundant in their homelands only to emigrate to the West where they supposedly fall victims to Islamophobia.</p>
<p>Ninth: Furthermore, the UAE exposed Islamic terrorist organizations that claim to be resistance movements or freedom fighters, such as the <i>Abu Sayyaf</i> group in the Philippines, “the Caucasus Emirate” of the Chechen Jihadists, the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan and Hezballah in Lebanon. These dangerous terrorist organizations have been receiving funds from oil countries and have garnered the sympathy of many Muslims, which has allowed them to recruit radical Muslims from all over the world. The UAE ought to be praised for exposing their true colors.</p>
<p>Finally, the UAE’s designation falls short in only one aspect, and that is the non-inclusion of fMuslim World League and Hamas in the list of terrorist organizations, even though it should be counted as one. This is likely due to the sensitive nature of the Palestinian cause and its impact on Arabic public opinion. That being said, Hamas was behind the creation of the terrorist organization “Supporters of Jerusalem” (<i>Ansar Bait al-Maqdis</i>) in Sinai. The name itself broadcasts a Hamas connection since none of the various Egyptian terrorist groups, as many as they are, ever took on Jerusalem “<i>Bait al-Maqdis</i>” as part of their names. But given that Hamas was majorly involved in establishing said terrorist organization, the reference to Jerusalem is a deliberate echo of Hamas’ philosophy. In addition, Hamas is receiving funds from several countries and from the International Muslim Brotherhood movement, and is actively engaged in recruiting, training and arming the Jerusalem supporters’ members.</p>
<p>The UAE came to the conclusion that the Islamic awakening, which produced those organizations, was not an innocent religious revival but rather a herald of ruin and destruction for the Middle East and the world. Consequently, it chose to unmask those organizations and reveal their true face to the entire world.</p>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Christmas Gift to ISIS and Al Qaeda</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2014 05:24:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A bomb maker, a forger and a suicide bomber in a pear-tree.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/obama-1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-246938" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/obama-1-419x350.jpg" alt="obama-1" width="318" height="266" /></a>Everyone likes presents; even murderous Muslim terrorists.</p>
<p>That must be why Obama decided to give ISIS, Hamas and Al Qaeda an early Christmas present by freeing their followers from Guantanamo Bay and dispatching them to Uruguay.</p>
<p>Why Uruguay? It’s one of several South American countries run by Marxist terrorists.</p>
<p>Uruguayan President Jose Mujica, a former Marxist terrorist, already offered to take in Syrian refugees and a number of the freed Gitmo Jihadists are Syrians who trained under the future leader of what would become ISIS. If they stay on in Uruguay, they can try to finish the job of killing the Syrian refugees resettled there. If they don’t, they can just join ISIS and kill Christian and Yazidi refugees back in Syria.</p>
<p>It’s a win-win situation for ISIS and Marxist terrorists; less so for their victims.</p>
<p>Most of the Guantanamo detainees freed by Obama were rated as presenting a high risk to America and our allies. They include a bomb maker, a trained suicide bomber, a document forger and a terrorist who had received training in everything up to RPGs and mortars.</p>
<p>The only thing Obama left out was the partridge in the pear tree. It probably wasn’t Halal.</p>
<p>These terrorists aren’t about to settle down in a country best known for its agricultural sector. There is no major demand for bomb makers to herd sheep or suicide bombers to milk cows.</p>
<p>Obama’s Christmas gift to Islamic terrorists includes Mohammed Tahanmatan, a Hamas terrorist who told American personnel at Gitmo that he &#8220;hates all enemies of Islam, including Americans, Jews, Christians and Muslims who do not think as he does.&#8221;</p>
<p>Uruguay is filled with these enemies of Islam, but so is the rest of the world. There’s no telling where Mohammed Tahanmatan will take his Jihad against Americans, Christians and Jews; he might go back to Israel or head over to Syria. Or he might just go back to Afghanistan and Pakistan to kill the American soldiers still left there.</p>
<p>Either way the blood of his victims will be on Obama’s hands.</p>
<p>And yet Mohammed Tahanmatan is the least dangerous of the terrorists freed by Barack Obama.</p>
<p>Ahmed Adnan Ahjam, Abd al Hadi Omar Mahmoud Faraj, Ali Husain Shaabaan and Jihad Ahmed Diyab were members of the Syrian Group which left an Assad crackdown to join Al Qaeda in Afghanistan. The Syrian Group was headed by Abu Musab al-Suri, a key ideological figure in international Jihadist circles, who was linked to multiple bombings in Europe, including one that wounded American soldiers.</p>
<p>The Damascus Cell of the Syrian Group was run by the uncle of Al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi who also sat on AQIQ’s advisory council. Al Qaeda in Iraq is known today as ISIS.</p>
<p>Even while Obama bombs ISIS in Syria and Iraq, he releases experienced ISIS recruits from Gitmo.</p>
<p>Ahmed Adnan Ahjam was listed as receiving advanced training from Al Qaeda in the use of a wide range of battlefield weapons up to artillery. He will be invaluable to ISIS in its campaign in Kobani.</p>
<p>Obama’s present of Ahjam to ISIS will aid in genocide against the Kurds of Kobani. Ahjam was rated a “high risk” and should never have been released.</p>
<p>Abd al Hadi Omar Mahmoud Faraj received training at a camp run by Zarqawi providing him with an even more direct link to ISIS. He is a trained suicide bomber. ISIS will make use of him to train suicide bombers including its growing army of brainwashed and abused child soldiers.</p>
<p>Faraj was rated “high risk”. He should never have been released.</p>
<p>Ali Husain Shaabaan also trained at a Zarqawi camp. He was listed as “high risk”. Like Farj and Ahjam, there is little doubt that he will be in Syria before too long.</p>
<p>Jihad Ahmed Diyab is a document forger who provided documents to the Jihadist network of Abu Zubaydah linked to the bombing plot against Los Angeles International Airport, he worked with Zarqawi and associated with 9/11 terrorist recruiter Mohammed Zammar.</p>
<p>Jihad Diyab was not only listed as being “high risk”, but also as being of high intelligence value. He has connections to multiple Islamic terrorist groups around the world. That makes Jihad potentially the most valuable member of the Syrian Group to be released by Obama in his Christmas gift to ISIS.</p>
<p>ISIS will find Jihad Diyab useful for providing forged documents to smuggle its fighters into Syria and also to potentially move terrorists into Europe and America.</p>
<p>And yet giving this gift of Jihad to ISIS may pale next to Abdul Bin Mohammed Abis Ourgy, the final Gitmo Jihadist, who not only has many links to Muslim terrorist groups, but is a bomb maker who also trained terrorists in his explosive arts. The United States suspected that he may have even known beforehand about 9/11.</p>
<p>Ourgy is likely to head for North Africa and his ability to move money around will help strengthen the operations of Al Qaeda and Al Qaeda linked groups in the area. His bomb making skills will be used to train the next generation of terrorists. The blood of those they kill will be on Obama’s hands.</p>
<p>It goes without saying that Ourgy was listed as “high risk” and that releasing a bomb maker who will train other terrorists to build bombs is about as irresponsible as it gets.</p>
<p>Obama didn’t just free six more Gitmo detainees. He dumped “high risk” Jihadists with skills that make them extremely useful to ISIS and extremely dangerous to us into a country run by a former terrorist.</p>
<p>These terrorists are not just Al Qaeda, but the majority of them have personal links to Syria and to the network of what has become ISIS.</p>
<p>“We’ve offered our hospitality for human beings who have suffered a terrible kidnapping in Guantanamo,” President Jose Mujica has said, making it clear once again where his sympathies lie.</p>
<p>The former Marxist terrorist predictably sympathizes with the terrorists, not the terrorized. Obama might as well have given the new ISIS recruits a plane ticket directly to Istanbul. The only difference between doing that and doing what he did is plausible deniability.</p>
<p>As soon as the money gets wired to them from Saudi Arabia or Qatar, they’ll be at Carrasco International Airport. After a plane trip from there to Buenos Aires to Istanbul, the rest will be a jaunt across the border with a wink and a nod from friendly Turkish border guards happy that ISIS is committing the genocide that their prospective position in the European Union won’t allow them to openly carry out.</p>
<p>Of the terrorists released from Gitmo, 100 were confirmed as having returned to terrorism. Thanks to Obama’s Christmas present to Hamas, Al Qaeda and ISIS, that number is about to go up.</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2014 05:58:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Klein]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Palestinian leaders incite brutal synagogue killings in Jerusalem. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ShowImage.ashx_.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245561" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ShowImage.ashx_-450x314.jpg" alt="ShowImage.ashx" width="358" height="250" /></a>Two Palestinian thugs, armed with cleavers, knives and a gun, invaded an orthodox synagogue in West Jerusalem early Tuesday during morning prayers, and proceeded to murder four Jewish worshippers in cold blood. At least a dozen others were wounded. Three of the murder victims were American citizens. The fourth was a British citizen. Three of the victims were also rabbis. Israeli police, arriving at the scene of the horrific massacre and exchanging gunfire with the Palestinians as they tried to escape, shot the murderers to death. But the horrible images of the slain and wounded worshippers with blood everywhere, drenching holy books, prayer shawls and walls of the synagogue, will live on for a very long time.</p>
<p>“To see Jews wearing tefillin and wrapped in the tallit lying in pools of blood, I wondered if I was imagining scenes from the Holocaust,” said Yehuda Meshi Zahav, the veteran leader of a religious emergency-response team as quoted by the <i>New York Times. </i>“It was a massacre of Jews at prayer.”</p>
<p>At least ten Jews have now been run over by cars and killed, or have been stabbed to death by Palestinians during the last month. Call this latest spate of violence the &#8220;Car Intifada,&#8221; as some Palestinian social media refer to it with a song by that name, or the &#8220;Knife Intifada,&#8221; as other Palestinians have coined it. Either way, Palestinian leaders have Jewish blood on their hands after exhorting their followers to commit such violent acts. The inciters to murder are as guilty as the murderers themselves.</p>
<p>Predictably, Hamas praised the cowardly synagogue attack as a “heroic” act. Hamas&#8217;s leadership claimed that the brutal murders were justified as legitimate responses to Israeli actions. “There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad. Initiatives proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time,” a spokesman for Hamas declared. Senior Hamas official Ghazi Hamad told Al Jazeera International to expect “more revolution in Jerusalem, and more uprising.&#8221;</p>
<p>A Hamas official posted <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ana.hor.bahaayaseen/photos/a.634911186630127.1073741830.263328473788402/671934452927800/?type=1"><span style="color: #0463c1;">an image of a grotesque poster</span></a> depicting the attack on his Facebook page. It showed Palestinians brandishing guns and a bloodied knife rampaging through a synagogue with bodies of Jews strewn on the floor and other Jews trying to flee the terror. In the evil perverted minds of Hamas jihadists and their ilk, the killing of Jews even while praying in their own synagogue far removed from the Temple Mount is a cause for great celebration.</p>
<p>Palestinian Authority President Abbas, whose talk of a &#8220;religious war&#8221; and other incendiary rhetoric helped to incite the latest in a series of violent attacks against Jewish civilians in Jerusalem and elsewhere, issued a formulaic condemnation of the synagogue killings. At the same time he continued his lie-ridden rant against Israelis:</p>
<blockquote><p>The president always condemns killings of civilians from any party whatsoever, and condemns the killing of worshipers today in one of the houses of worship in West Jerusalem, and also denounces all violent acts no matter what their source is, and demands an end to the ongoing incursions into the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the provocative acts by Israeli settlers as well as incitement by some Israeli ministers.</p>
<p>The presidency also confirms that it is time to end the occupation and end the causes of tension and violence, affirming our commitment to a just-based solution on the basis of a two-state solution, in accordance with the resolutions of international legitimacy, and maintain an atmosphere of calm and understandings that have been made with King Abdullah II and American Secretary of State John Kerry in Amman.</p></blockquote>
<p>Meanwhile, official Palestinian Authority television is reported to have broadcast disgusting images of Bethlehem residents handing out candy in the streets, to celebrate the attack. And an official spokesman for Abbas’s Fatah party, Ahmed Assaf, said that “the Jerusalem operation was a natural response to the Israeli violations.”</p>
<p>Secretary of State Kerry, who just a few days ago expressed his belief that tensions in Jerusalem were beginning to de-escalate, issued a strong condemnation of the synagogue murders. “To have this kind of act, which is a pure result of incitement, of calls for ‘days of rage,’ of just irresponsibility, is unacceptable,” Kerry said. “The Palestinian leadership must condemn this and they must begin to take serious steps to restrain any kind of incitement …This simply has no place in human behavior and we need to hear from leaders who are going to lead their people to a different place.”</p>
<p>Clearly, Abbas and his henchmen have not gotten Kerry’s message. And Hamas seeks to characterize the synagogue slaughters as delivering a very different type of message. Mushir al-Masri, a Hamas spokesman, wrote in a Facebook post: “We have the full right to revenge for the blood of our martyrs in all possible means.”</p>
<p>For his part, President Obama did personally condemn the bloody slaughters, saying “there is and can be no justification for such attacks against innocent civilians.” But, as usual, Obama tried to link an act of pure evil &#8212; the shedding of innocent blood of worshippers in their holy place of prayer &#8211; to the failed peace negotiations. He said that &#8220;it is all the more important for Israeli and Palestinian leaders and ordinary citizens to work cooperatively together to lower tensions, reject violence and seek a path forward towards peace.” Obama also continued his false moral equivalency narrative by noting that there has been violence committed on both sides. &#8220;Too many Israelis have died, too many Palestinians have died,” Obama said. That’s true, but it is the Palestinians who are at fault. They have rejected real peace, from the original United Nations two-state partition solution more than six decades ago until now, and have instead conducted a relentless campaign of violence against Jewish civilians.</p>
<p>The failed peace talks, the building of additional Jewish housing in Jewish neighborhoods of Jerusalem and the lies about purported Israeli plans to interfere with Muslim worship and invade their mosques serve only as pretexts for Palestinians to satiate their never-ending lust for Jewish blood. Obama’s anti-Israel bias blinds him to the incontrovertible fact that Palestinian leaders have refused to work together with Israeli leaders to lower tensions and reject violence as he has suggested. Only Israel is trying in good faith to lower the temperature and prevent a conflagration. Indeed, while Hamas leaders and Abbas have incited violence with blatant lies about alleged Israeli plans to attack the al-Aqsa Mosque, Prime Minister Netanyahu has tried to de-escalate tensions by even continuing to prevent Jews from exercising their fundamental human right to worship freely wherever they wish, including on the Temple Mount, Judaism’s holiest site.</p>
<p>However, Prime Minister Netanyahu’s patience has just about run out. Now Jews cannot even pray safely in their own synagogues in the uncontested area of West Jerusalem. Such pathological Palestinian behavior must be stopped once and for all.</p>
<p>“This is the direct result of the incitement being led by Hamas and Abu Mazen [Palestinian Authority - PA President Mahmoud Abbas], incitement which the international community is irresponsibly ignoring,” Prime Minister Netanyahu said. “We will respond with a heavy hand to the brutal murder of Jews who came to pray and were met by reprehensible murderers. We will respond harshly,” he added.</p>
<p>The prime minister called for national unity in fighting against &#8220;those human animals who committed this massacre&#8221; and against Hamas, the Islamic movement, the Palestinian Authority and whomever else &#8220;disseminate libels against the state of Israel.&#8221;</p>
<p>Demolition of the Palestinian murderers’ homes and arrests of any and all accomplices are first steps. Security will be beefed up all around Jerusalem. More restrictions may be needed on freedom of movement among at least certain segments of the Palestinian population living in Jerusalem. The two killers were residents of East Jerusalem who carried Israeli identification cards allowing them to travel throughout Israel. They also worked in Jewish neighborhoods. In addition, Israeli officials should bring pressure to bear on social media providers such as Facebook to monitor and immediately remove the kind of hate speech inciting violence against Jews, including babies, on sites that Palestinians are regularly frequenting. If necessary, Israel should use its technological prowess to block access to such sites.</p>
<p>Whatever measures Israel takes to protect its citizens against the Palestinians’ bloodlust should be fully supported by the United States. Anti-Israel resolutions at the UN Security Council should be vetoed. UN Human Rights Council kangaroo investigations of alleged Israeli “crimes” should be met with U.S. withdrawal from this farcical body and de-funding. But that is not likely to happen, since President Obama’s thinking is in synch with the anti-Israel, moral equivalency mindset of the UN. When I asked the United Nations High Commissioner for Human rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein for his comment on the Jerusalem synagogue slaughters, he responded in a similar fashion to President Obama’s statement. He condemned any killings of civilians and said he hoped that calm can be restored. He would not criticize the incitements to violence by Hamas and other Palestinian leaders.</p>
<p>If, as expected, the Obama administration continues its campaign to undermine Prime Minister Netanyahu, rather than wholeheartedly support his fight against ISIS look-alikes such as Hamas and other Palestinian murderers of innocent civilians, the prime minister should go over Obama’s head and take his case directly to the American people. His message should be that Israel and America are fighting the same enemy. Israel’s battles against the Palestinian jihadists are inextricably linked with America’s fight against ISIS and other jihadists worldwide who want to destroy the freedoms we take for granted. He can start with a speech to a joint session of Congress, which large bipartisan majorities in both houses of Congress would welcome, even if President Obama is displeased.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2014 05:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthew Vadum]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why supporters of Palestinian terrorists have made common cause with the rioters in MO.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ferguson-palestine-occupation-ap.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245174" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ferguson-palestine-occupation-ap-450x337.jpg" alt="ferguson-palestine-occupation-ap" width="336" height="252" /></a>The same violent protesters in Ferguson, Missouri demonstrating against the killing of Michael Brown have also been taking it to the streets in Detroit and elsewhere to press for the release of a Palestinian terrorist who killed two Israelis.</p>
<p>Activists are blackmailing the grand jury that is now hearing evidence against Wilson. If the grand jurors refuse to indict Wilson, radical activists are promising even more mayhem. The message is unmistakable: indict the cop, and there will be peace; don&#8217;t, and Ferguson will burn.</p>
<p>Brown is the young, black, 6&#8217;4&#8243;, 292-pound man who was killed by white police officer Darren Wilson on Aug. 9. When media outlets describe Brown they usually omit the fact that he viciously assaulted Wilson and tried to seize his handgun, presumably in an effort to do the officer harm. Journalists also tend to downplay the fact that minutes before Brown attacked Wilson he robbed a convenience store.</p>
<p>The Palestinian terrorist is Rasmea (also spelled Rasmieh) Odeh who was convicted by a Detroit jury on Monday of immigration fraud. Prosecutors accused Odeh of killing Israelis in the Sixties and then lying about it in U.S. immigration papers.</p>
<p>Odeh <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/case/652"><span style="color: #0433ff;">was previously convicted</span></a> in Israel &#8220;for her role in the 1969 bombings of a supermarket and the British Consulate in Jerusalem, which were carried out on behalf of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a designated terrorist organization,&#8221; according to the Investigative Project on Terrorism. Prosecutors said one of the supermarket bombs killed two people and injured others. Odeh received a sentence of life imprisonment but was released after 10 years as part of a prisoner swap.</p>
<p>Odeh used to live in Michigan and resided in Chicago until her bail was revoked Monday. In Chicago she was employed as associate director of the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6462"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Arab American Action Network</span></a> (AAAN), which was founded by terrorist promoter Rashid Khalidi and his wife, Mona. Khalidi, a Columbia University professor and former director of the PLO&#8217;s press agency, is a well-known friend of Barack Obama. AAAN, which is hostile to Israel, claims &#8220;to challenge government policies that violate the civil, political and human rights of the Arab American and Arab immigrant community.&#8221;</p>
<p>The seditious collaboration in Ferguson between anti-American left-wingers, some of whom are well-funded, and anti-American Islamofascists isn&#8217;t all that unusual in U.S. politics but it receives scant attention from the media.</p>
<p>Leftist and Islamist groups routinely work together in the U.S. Not many on the activist Left are wary of their comrades&#8217; working relationship with Muslim totalitarians who would joyfully slit their atheist, infidel throats upon coming to power. One such leftist, Meredith Tax, <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/matthew-vadum/a-leftists-harsh-words-for-the-unholy-alliance/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">acknowledged</span></a> in a book last year that aligning with Islamic fundamentalists was a terrible idea.</p>
<p>But Tax is a very rare bird. Most leftists see America&#8217;s enemies as their natural allies, so when an opportunity for a working partnership arises they seize it with gusto. As they see things, whatever it takes to advance so-called social justice is justified.</p>
<p>As a Sixties radical once wrote, &#8220;The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.&#8221;</p>
<p>In other words, whatever the cause, whether inner city blacks or illegal aliens or women, it is merely a pretext for action. It is an opportunity to advance the real cause which is the accumulation of the power needed to foment and effectuate revolutionary change.</p>
<p>Rana Baker, a writer at Electronic Intifada, <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/rana-baker/palestinians-express-solidarity-people-ferguson-mike-brown-statement"><span style="color: #0433ff;">explained</span></a> the Marxist, identity politics-driven rationale for this cooperation between American leftists and Islamic supremacists in Ferguson. In an article filled with politically correct drivel she wrote:</p>
<blockquote><p>Unsurprisingly, many of the police deployed to crush unarmed protesters demanding justice for the brutal murder of eighteen-year-old black American Mike Brown are Israel-trained. Despotic tactics Palestinians largely associate with Israel’s colonial military, such as teargassing protesters and harassing journalists, have all been implemented in Ferguson. Although Ferguson and Palestine are two different contexts, both places and their people are fighting against white supremacist regimes of oppression which continue to view them as &#8220;disposable others&#8221; and act accordingly &#8230; it is the moral responsibility of every Palestinian to support and foster relations with the struggles of the oppressed all over the world.</p></blockquote>
<p>No one who follows the Left should be shocked to learn that Ferguson has been dominated by rent-a-mobs in recent weeks, complete with leftist astroturfers determined to stir the pot.</p>
<p>Groups endorsing Ferguson October, last month&#8217;s festival of leftist looting and self-righteous posturing in the beleaguered St. Louis suburb, included a hodgepodge of activist organizations &#8211;many of them Saul Alinsky-inspired pressure groups &#8212; that have little or nothing to do with Ferguson, Michael Brown, or Darren Wilson. The only thing these labor movement and Occupy Wall Street activists had in common was that they were left-wing.</p>
<p>Among them were: Action for the Common Good; Advancement Project; Alliance for a Just Society; Amnesty International; CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities (Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence); ColorOfChange.org; Catholic Worker; Chinese Progressive Association; Coalition of Black Trade Unionists; Code Pink; Divestment Student Network; Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation; Fighting Against Natural Gas (FANG); Gamaliel Foundation; International Socialist Organization (ISO); Juvenile Urban Multicultural Program (at Syracuse University); Korean American Resource &amp; Cultural Center; LeftRoots; Million Hoodies Movement for Justice; National Domestic Workers Alliance; National Network for Arab American Communities; National Organization for Women (NOW); New Black Panther Party; New Economy Coalition; PICO National Network; Progressive Democrats of America; Sierra Student Coalition (a project of the Sierra Club); St. Louis Palestine Solidarity Committee; Universal African Peoples Organization; United for Peace and Justice; US Action; US Palestinian Community Network; Veterans for Peace; and Working Families Party.</p>
<p>Many of these groups <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1237"><span style="color: #0433ff;">have taken money</span></a> from radical billionaire George Soros. Those on his payroll include Advancement Project, Gamaliel Foundation, NOW, and US Action.</p>
<p>Lee Cary has also <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2014/11/behind_the_dont_shoot_coalition_in_ferguson_.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">painstakingly detailed</span></a> at American Thinker the 45 organizations that are now placing demands on police agencies in the St. Louis area. The groups, which are part of the Don&#8217;t Shoot Coalition, are <a href="http://legalinsurrection.com/2014/11/ferguson-protestors-deliver-rules-of-engagement-to-police/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">attempting to define</span></a> the rules of engagement between law enforcement and activists to make it easier for radicals to set Ferguson on fire in the event Wilson is not indicted.</p>
<p>Remnants of the ACORN activist empire are involved in organizing unrest in Ferguson.</p>
<p>Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment (<a href="http://organizemo.org/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">MORE</span></a>), a 501(c)(4) nonprofit, is the rebranded Missouri branch of the former Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) which filed for bankruptcy in late 2010. That ACORN state chapter reconstituted itself in December 2009 as MORE under orders from ACORN&#8217;s national headquarters. President Obama used to work for ACORN and he represented it in court as a lawyer.</p>
<p>MORE <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2014/10/is_acorn_behind_violent_unrest_in_ferguson.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">has been active</span></a> in the protests and in efforts to free jailed demonstrators so they can continue vandalizing businesses, intimidating perceived adversaries, setting fires, throwing projectiles and urine at cops, and engaging in the Left&#8217;s usual modes of so-called nonviolent protest. MORE believes that protesters should be given a blank check to inflict whatever harm they wish on the community in pursuit of social justice.</p>
<p>MORE is also a recipient of taxpayer funding &#8212; and to no one&#8217;s surprise &#8212; it is not a good steward of those dollars. MORE received $21,000 for its &#8220;foreclosure prevention&#8221; efforts but &#8220;did not fully comply&#8221; with the rules, according to the St. Louis city comptroller&#8217;s &#8220;fiscal monitoring review&#8221; <a href="https://www.stlouis-mo.gov/government/departments/comptroller/documents/audits/upload/3586_001.pdf"><span style="color: #0433ff;">released</span></a> a few days before Brown was shot.</p>
<p>MORE&#8217;s executive director is longtime ACORN organizer <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-ordower/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Jeff Ordower</span></a>. Ordower, an outspoken vote fraud apologist, previously ran Missouri ACORN and oversaw ACORN&#8217;s Midwest operations. He was also an SEIU organizer in Texas.</p>
<p>The Working Families Party, founded in New York State in the 1990s by ACORN members, is also involved in Ferguson. It endorsed Ferguson October but the extent of its on-the-ground involvement was unclear at time of writing.</p>
<p><span style="color: #222222;">All these superficially distinct groups have come together in Ferguson to pay homage to violent criminals &#8211;a murderer of Israelis and a would-be murderer of a police officer&#8211; for two reasons.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">First, because Rasmea Odeh and Michael Brown are model citizens, according to the leftist worldview. Radical activists see them and their disruptive, antisocial behavior as representing the best that humanity has to offer.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">Second, because banding together and pooling their power to disrupt society helps to create strife and chaos. The subsequent crises can be leveraged to promote the kinds of change that leftists would like to see.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">As the old radical said, the issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.</span></p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Odeh1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-244981" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Odeh1-408x350.jpg" alt="Odeh1" width="324" height="278" /></a>The wheels of justice grind slowly, but they do grind, and convicted Palestinian terrorist Rasmieh Yousef Odeh learned that the hard way on November 10 when a Detroit jury <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/former-palestinian-terrorist-found-guilty-in-us-immigration-case/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">found her guilty</span></a> of committing immigration fraud. She faces up to 10 years in a federal penitentiary and deportation following her incarceration.</p>
<p>The story began on Friday, February 21, 1969 when two unsuspecting Israeli university students, Leon Kaner, 21, and Edward Jaffe, 22, stopped at a Jerusalem supermarket to pick up some last minute provisions for a hike the two were planning to take. They never made it and were blown to bits by a bomb placed in coffee cans on a shelf. Nine others were injured in the blast. Jaffe and Kaner, as well as the nine injured civilians, were targeted for no other reason other than the fact that they were Jews with the temerity to live in their ancestral land.</p>
<p>A second bomb, timed to go off just as first responders arrived, was diffused by security forces. A third bomb placed near the British consulate office in Jerusalem was also discovered and destroyed in a controlled detonation, though another bomb placed near the same vicinity some days later did manage to cause structural damage.</p>
<p>The terrorists had chosen Friday to carry out their act of depravity because they knew the supermarket would be packed with civilians shopping for the upcoming Sabbath. It was their intent to cause a bloodbath and inflict maximum civilian casualties. In a <a href="http://www.jta.org/1969/02/24/archive/jerusalem-supersol-re-opens-for-business-2-young-bombing-victims-are-buried"><span style="color: #0433ff;">testament to Israeli resiliency</span></a>, the supermarket, belonging to the “Supersol” supermarket chain, opened for business just two days later.</p>
<p>On March 1, 1969, Odeh, her sister and three others were arrested for the bombings. All were members of the notorious Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a Marxist group designated by the United States as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO).</p>
<p>Odeh was convicted of all charges and spent the next 10 years in an Israeli prison.  She was released in 1979 as part of a prisoner exchange with the PFLP and spent the next four years living in Lebanon. Following that, she moved to Jordan and then made her way to the United States where her father lived.</p>
<p>In 1995, Odeh, who, according published reports has as many as 9 aliases, <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/case_docs/2541.pdf"><span style="color: #0433ff;">filled out an application</span></a> for an immigrant visa and alien registration and falsely checked off “no” when asked if she was ever convicted of a crime. She also falsely stated that she resided exclusively in Amman Jordan since 1948 when, in fact, she spent at least 10 years in Israel and another four in Lebanon.</p>
<p>In 2004, she applied for US citizenship and filled out an <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/case_docs/2538.pdf"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Application for Naturalization</span></a> where she again lied about her prior arrest, conviction and incarceration. She also checked off “no” when asked if she ever belonged to a terrorist organization. Her application was approved and she was sworn in as a United States citizen in December 2004.</p>
<p>In 2013, Odeh secured employment as an <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/372065/convicted-terrorist-worked-obamacare-navigator-illinois-jillian-kay-melchior"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Obamacare navigator</span></a> in Illinois, a job that required her to assist people with healthcare options, but her employment was revoked once federal authorities commenced proceedings against her. In October 2013, she was indicted on charges relating to immigration fraud, to wit, lying on her 1995 and 2004 applications.</p>
<p>The high-profile case took a number of odd twists and turns. A plea deal that would have involved just six months of incarceration and would have permitted Odeh to remain in the United States for another six months following her release was rejected by the defendant.  Then, the initial presiding magistrate, Judge Paul Borman, <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/trial-set-for-jerusalem-terror-convict-who-moved-to-us/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">recused himself</span></a> from the case because some of his family members owned shares in Supersol and Borman wished to avoid the appearance of impropriety.</p>
<p>Despite the hitches, trial was set for November 4, 2014. Odeh took the stand and claimed that when she filled out the applications she thought the questions referencing arrests, convictions and incarcerations referred to criminal acts on U.S. soil. Her testimony however, was soundly refuted by documentary and testimonial evidence. She also acknowledged somewhat paradoxically that while her answers were erroneous, they were not lies.</p>
<p>Of course, Odeh was not without her supporters. The usual assortment of Islamists and radical leftists who always manage to find common ground when it comes to killing Jews rallied to her defense. They hooted and hollered, claiming that Odeh was a model citizen who was the victim of a US-Israeli conspiracy. Odeh’s cult-like devotees and <a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2014/11/travesty-despite-israeli"><span style="color: #0433ff;">terrorist apologists</span></a> risibly noted that “the immigration charge was nothing but a pretext to attack this icon of the Palestine liberation movement.”</p>
<p>The jury, however, saw it otherwise and cut through Odeh’s pernicious lies and the shenanigans of her supporters and found her guilty of committing immigration fraud. Odeh served a paltry 10 years for participating in a heinous crime that resulted in the murder of two young university students and the maiming nine other civilians. While another 10 years won’t bring back the victims, it does send a powerful deterrent message to terrorists seeking entry into the United States. As <a href="http://www.fbi.gov/detroit/press-releases/2013/naturalized-u.s.-citizen-charged-with-immigration-fraud-for-failing-to-disclose-terrorism-conviction"><span style="color: #0433ff;">William Hayes</span></a>, Acting Special Agent in Charge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, aptly noted, “The United States will never be a safe haven for individuals seeking to distance themselves from their pasts.”  In this case, Odeh’s murderous, terrorist past finally caught up with her.</p>
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		<title>Ottawa Attack: Contrasting the Mothers of Terrorists</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2014 04:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Moshe Phillips and Benyamin Korn]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The stunning difference between Palestinian mothers and Susan Bibeau. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color: #222222;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/canada-ottawa-shooting.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-243674" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/canada-ottawa-shooting-450x344.jpg" alt="canada-ottawa-shooting" width="378" height="289" /></a>The mother of the Muslim terrorists who attacked Canada&#8217;s parliament building on October 22 says she is weeping for her son&#8217;s victims, not for her son. What a contrast with the mothers of Palestinian terrorists who murder Israelis.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">Mrs. Susan Bibeau, the mother of Canadian terrorist Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, told the Associated Press on October 23: &#8220;If I&#8217;m crying it&#8217;s for the people, not for my son…I am mad at my son.&#8221;</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">If only Palestinian mothers felt the same way! Instead, they have the jihad mentality, too.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">Last year (on Jan. 27, 2013), the Facebook page of Fatah, the movement headed by Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas, posted a feature about the mother of 23-year-old Wafa Idris, the first female Palestinian suicide bomber. She murdered one Israeli, and wounded over 100, by blowing herself up in a Jerusalem supermarket in 2002. The posting quoted Wafa&#8217;s mother as saying &#8220;She is a hero…My daughter is a Martyr (Shahida).&#8221; </span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">The Fatah page added: &#8220;Wafa&#8217;s mother said that she is proud of her daughter, and hopes that more girls will follow in her footsteps.&#8221;</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">More recently, in an interview with Israel Television on </span><span class="aBn" style="color: #222222;" tabindex="0" data-term="goog_1099525506"><span class="aQJ">June 29</span></span><span style="color: #222222;">, the mother of one of the Hamas terrorists involved in the kidnap-murders of three Israeli teenagers said: &#8220;If they [the Israelis] accuse him of this [the kidnapping], and if it is a true accusation, I will be proud of him until Judgment Day. If the accusation that he did it is true&#8230;My boys are all righteous, pious and pure. The goal of my children is the triumph of Islam.&#8221;  </span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">Of course, that is not to say that no Palestinian mothers have any regrets about their children carrying out suicide bombing. But those regrets are not always the kind one would hope for. For example, on June 6, 2004,  PA Television broadcast these remarks by the mother of a 15-year-old who died during a suicide attack: &#8220;It was sad and joyous what happened to him, meaning, he always liked the Shahada (Martyrdom). All children at his age do. He always cared for me. I would have preferred that one of his other brothers would have attained Shahada instead of him, because he was the joy of my life.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #222222;">(All translations courtesy of Palestinian Media Watch.)</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">How can one explain the stark contrast between the Canadian mother and the Palestinian mother? It&#8217;s not really so complicated. Different cultures have different values. Canadian culture promotes Judeo-Christian values &#8212; democracy, equal rights, respect for minorities, non-violence.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">By contrast, Palestinian society is dominated by a &#8220;culture of Jihad,&#8221; Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya&#8217;alon said this week.  On his Facebook Page, Ya&#8217;alon wrote that the latest Palestinian terrorist attacks are “clearly the outcome of those in the Palestinian Authority who educate the younger generation to hate Jews and expel them from their homeland.” He added: “The Palestinian Authority does not, and never did, have a culture of peace, but rather a culture of incitement and jihad against Jews. It starts with Abbas’s lying statements against Israel from the UN podium, continues with persistent Palestinian attempts to delegitimize us in the international arena and ends with incitement in the Palestinian education system. These are the harsh consequences.&#8221;</span></p>
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		<title>Thank You, ISIS</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2014 04:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Horowitz]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The beheadings have achieved what all the warnings from conservatives never could. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/bn.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-242804" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/bn-450x262.jpg" alt="bn" width="283" height="165" /></a><strong>Reprinted from <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/">National Review Online</a>.</strong></p>
<p>Beheadings of innocent human beings are unspeakable acts reflecting the barbaric savagery of the Islamic “holy war” against the West — against us. Yet despite the intentions of their perpetrators, they have had an unexpected utility. Their gruesome images have entered the living rooms and consciousness of ordinary Americans and waked them up.</p>
<p>The barbarity of the Islamic movement for world domination has actually been evident for decades: in the suicide bombing of the Marine compound in Lebanon in 1982, in the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993, in the suicide attacks on Jews — men, women, and children — during the second Palestinian Intifada in 2000, in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in 2001, and in the beheadings perpetrated in Iraq by al-Qaeda’s Abu al-Zarqawi and the Salafist group known as Ansar al-Islam during the Iraq War.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, the response to these barbarities on the part of the Democratic party and the liberal elites has been to condemn and marginalize anyone who called them barbarous. In their eyes, it is racist to use the word “barbarism” to describe the acts of any Third World people. To associate Islam with the Islamists was Islamophobic. President Obama is still trapped in this time warp, denying in so many words that the Islamic State is Islamic. For America’s commander-in-chief to make such an obviously moronic statement about his country’s enemy in wartime reflects how deeply settled is the ideology of protecting the Islamists (and jeopardizing the innocent). Even Obama’s predecessor, George W. Bush, could not bring himself to describe the enemy as Islamic. Settling on “War on Terror” as a descriptive term was a way of eliding the fact that the savagery was motivated by not by nihilism but by Islamic faith. The Obama Democrats have gone even deeper into denial, eliminating “War on Terror” from the government vocabulary and replacing it with “overseas contingency operations.”</p>
<p>For more than a decade, a handful of conservatives, of whom I was one, tried to sound the alarm about the Islamist threat. For our efforts, we were ridiculed, smeared as bigots, and marginalized as Islamophobes. In 2004 I published a book called Unholy Alliance about the Islamist movement and the support it was receiving from the American Left. For my concern, Harvard professor and Islam expert Noah Feldman dismissed me as a “relic” in the New York Times Book Review. It was the last time the Times mentioned one of my books.</p>
<p>In 2006 and 2007, I organized nearly 200 “teach-ins” on American campuses, which I called “Islamo-Fascism Awareness” weeks. The idea was to legitimize the term “Islamo-fascist” as a description of the enemy confronting us. These demonstrations were attacked by the Muslim Students Association, which is a recruiting organization for the Muslim Brotherhood, and by Students for Justice in Palestine, a front for the terrorist party Hamas. They also inspired the contempt of the liberal Left. Joshua Micah Marshall of Talking Points Memo devoted two YouTube videos to ridiculing me for holding the demonstrations. Campus leftists called the students who organized them racists, bigots, and Islamophobes.</p>
<p>Resolutions denouncing critics of Islamic misogyny and terror as “Islamophobes” were unanimously passed by leftist-run student councils at UCLA, UC Santa Barbara, and a dozen other elite schools. Lengthy reports on the menace of Islamophobia targeted me and other speakers at our campus demonstrations, including Robert Spencer and Daniel Pipes. These reports, costing tens of thousands of dollars to produce, were published by FAIR, CAIR, the egregious Southern Poverty Law Center, and the Center for American Progress — the brain trust of the Democratic party.</p>
<p>And then came ISIS. The horrific images of the beheadings, the reports of mass slaughters, and the threats to the American homeland have accomplished what our small contingent of beleaguered conservatives could never have achieved by ourselves. They brought images of these Islamic fanatics and savages into the living rooms of the American public, and suddenly the acceptable language for describing the enemy began to change. “Savages” and “barbarians” began to roll off the tongues of evening-news anchors and commentators who never would have dreamed of crossing that line before, for fear of offending the politically correct.</p>
<p>Virtually every major Muslim organization in America is an arm of the Muslim Brotherhood, the fountainhead of Islamic terror. Huma Abedin, who was deputy chief of staff to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (and is still Clinton’s confidante and principal aide), comes from a family of Muslim Brotherhood leaders. Yet legislators who have the power to investigate these matters are still intimidated from even raising them. Representative Michele Bachmann, who did raise them, was excoriated as a racist not only by the Left but also by John Boehner and John McCain.</p>
<p>Language is a weapon in the battle against the threat we face. We cannot fight a war effectively when we cannot name the enemy or describe his methods or examine his influence on our own policy. The Islamic State has created an opportunity for common sense and realism to prevail. The tragedy is that it has taken the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Muslims and Christians in the Middle East and the ongoing extermination of the Catholic presence in Iraq to begin to wake people up. And, unfortunately, the president is still asleep or, less charitably, is hostile to American purposes, is hostile to the military that defends us, and identifies more with the Islamic world that has produced these forces who would destroy us than with the country he is sworn to defend.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2014 04:50:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ari Lieberman]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Palestinian terrorists ramp up their blood libels against Israel. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/F120102IR01.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-242175" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/F120102IR01-450x308.jpg" alt="F120102IR01" width="330" height="226" /></a>The Palestinian Authority’s chief negotiator and ranking member, Saeb Erekat, is once again stirring controversy and fabricating history.  Taking cue from his boss, Mahmoud Abbas, who just days prior accused Israel of committing “genocide, “ Erekat absurdly charged Israel with <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/pas-erekat-claims-96-of-gaza-dead-were-civilians/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">killing 12,000 Gazans</span></a> during Operation Defensive Edge and, just as ludicrous, alleged that 96% of all casualties sustained were civilians. Where he derives his facts he does not say, but who really cares about facts when Israel is the target of the invective?  Just days later, Erekat compounded the vitriolic slander by <a href="http://www.jta.org/2014/09/30/news-opinion/israel-middle-east/p-a-peace-negotiator-erekat-compares-netanyahu-to-isis-leader"><span style="color: #0433ff;">comparing</span></a> Prime Minister Netanyahu to ISIS and then went on to charge the Jewish State with burning mosques and churches. Of course, Erekat offers not a scintilla of evidence to back the spurious charge, but no matter: His <a href="http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/02/02/pa-negotiator-saeb-erekat-claims-family-was-canaanite-in-israel-for-9000-years/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">professed Palestinian pedigree</span></a> (he’s actually from Jordan by way of Arabia) gives him a free pass to fabricate.</p>
<p>Of course, this isn’t the first time that Erekat engaged in mendacious historical revisionism. In April 2002 Israeli forces embarked upon a counter-insurgency campaign in the city of Jenin – dubbed the suicide capital of the West Bank – to rout terror nests that had taken root there and, in an effort to minimize civilian casualties, utilized less lethal methods, <a href="http://www.army.gov.au/Our-future/Publications/Australian-Army-Journal/Past-editions/~/media/Files/Our%20future/LWSC%20Publications/AAJ/2003Summer/09-TheEssentialDebateCombi.pdf"><span style="color: #0433ff;">incurring greater casualties</span></a> as a result. When the battle was over, some 52 Palestinians were killed, the vast majority of them PLO and Hamas combatants. That did not stop the deceitful Erekat from <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/sderot-as-stalingrad-hamas-as-blind-samson-1.239034"><span style="color: #0433ff;">claiming</span></a> that a “massacre” had taken place in which upwards of 500 people – all civilians of course – were killed. Even after a UN commission of inquiry determined that there was in fact no massacre, Erekat refused to issue a retraction, stubbornly clinging to his defamatory fiction.</p>
<p>Not to be outdone, Erekat’s PLO colleague and terrorist apologist Hanan Ashrawi accused Prime Minister Netanyahu of invoking <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/PLO-official-says-Netanyahu-speech-full-of-hate-language-and-slander-376627"><span style="color: #0433ff;">slander, hate language and obfuscation</span></a> in his recent address in the UN General Assembly. Really, Hanan? Do you want to go down that road? In July, when confronted with pointed questions by a CNN reporter concerning Hamas’s use of UN schools to store rockets, a stumped Ashrawi <a href="http://freebeacon.com/national-security/plos-hanan-ashrawi-laughs-about-hamas-hiding-weapons-in-schools/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">laughed awkwardly</span></a> and then deflected, whitewashing blatant Hamas violations of the laws of war.</p>
<p>In March 2013, Ashrawi’s Western funded NGO <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/palestinian-nonprofit-apologizes-for-blood-libel-article/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">published a text</span></a>, in Arabic of course, that repeated the medieval anti-Semitic blood libel that Jews use the blood of Christian children to bake Passover matzah. When challenged, Ashrawi initially attacked the blogger who exposed the canard. She eventually issued an apology for the piece but only after being confronted with the possible loss of Western funding. In other words, her actions were dictated by pecuniary considerations rather than genuine remorse for propagating the most ancient of blood libels.</p>
<p>Erekat’s and Ashrawi’s lies don’t fall far from the poisonous tree. Their boss, ostensibly a moderate, completed his dissertation on Holocaust denial. In the 1980s, Abbas showed us what “Palestinian scholarship” was capable of when he published a <a href="http://nationalinterest.org/commentary/exposing-abbas-5335"><span style="color: #0433ff;">malevolent work</span></a> which, among other gems, posited that less than 1,000,000 Jews were killed by the Nazis and that gas chambers were never employed to murder Jews. Neither the EU nor the Obama administration has taken Abbas to task for spewing such venomous hate, preferring to sweep such inconvenient indiscretions under the rug.</p>
<p>On September 26, in a speech before the General Assembly, Abbas, let loose with an anti-Semitic screed that would have made <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjEO_eoX594"><span style="color: #0433ff;">his Hitler-admiring icon</span></a>, Haj Amin el-Husseini, proud. Chief among his lies was that Israel was waging a “war of genocide” against the “Palestinian people.” That slander proved too much to bear even for the normally hostile State Department, prompting a <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/us-slams-abbas-un-speech-as-offensive/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">stern rebuke</span></a> from its spokeswoman, Jen Psaki.</p>
<p>The notion that a Palestinian leader &#8212; any Palestinian leader &#8212; can make a statement these days without lying through his teeth is laughable. Hamas does not have a monopoly on making outrageous statements and accusations. Its partner in crime, the Palestinian Authority routinely spews forth the vilest of lies designed to vilify Israel and its obscenities often veer into blatant anti-Semitism.</p>
<p>In his address to the General Assembly, Prime Minister Netanyahu highlighted several important matters concerning regional and international threats, including Iran’s proliferation activities, Hezbollah, ISIS and Hamas. But of all the threats Israel faces, perhaps none is more insidious than that posed by Mahmoud Abbas’s Palestinian Authority. Whereas ISIS, Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas wear their colors on their sleeves and mince no words when discussing their desire to eradicate Israel (and the West), the PA is more circumspect, preferring to cloud its nefarious desires with platitudes and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=Q86jQX6GJKA"><span style="color: #0433ff;">vague but clearly menacing statements</span></a>.</p>
<p>In point of fact, the only discernable difference between Hamas and the PA is that members of the latter wear ties. What is crystal clear and beyond dispute is that as long as the PA continues its campaign of vilification, incitement and lies, peace will be as elusive as ever.</p>
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		<title>The Throat-Clearing President vs. the Throat-Cutting Terrorists</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2014 04:51:15 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Screen-Shot-2014-10-01-at-1.29.25-AM.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-242105" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Screen-Shot-2014-10-01-at-1.29.25-AM-383x350.png" alt="Screen Shot 2014-10-01 at 1.29.25 AM" width="326" height="298" /></a>Last week, President Obama spoke to the United Nations about the growing threat of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. In the course of that speech, he discussed a wide variety of threats to Western civilization, ranging from Ebola to global warming, from chaos in Syria to China&#8217;s incursions in the South China Sea. The speech seemed unfocused, meandering. But it held together thanks to one common thread: Barack Obama believes that words solve everything. Particularly his own.</p>
<p>Obama&#8217;s narcissism isn&#8217;t mere arrogance. It&#8217;s messianism. It&#8217;s pure faith that his verbiage can alter the course of history. &#8220;We are here,&#8221; Obama said, &#8220;because others realized that we gain more from cooperation than conquest.&#8221; Well, actually, no — the United Nations exists because evil nations were forced through conquest to admit that cooperation might be a more advantageous strategy.</p>
<p>&#8220;While small gains can be won at the barrel of a gun,&#8221; Obama said, &#8220;they will ultimately be turned back if enough voices support the freedom of nations and peoples to make their own decisions.&#8221; Not exactly — millions of voices in North Korea have not altered the fate of those stuck in the world&#8217;s largest gulag, nor have millions of voices in Iran freed them of the tyranny of the mullahs.</p>
<p>&#8220;The ideology of ISIL or al Qaeda or Boko Haram will wilt and die if it is consistently exposed, confronted, and refuted in the light of day,&#8221; Obama spouted. If good argument killed bad argument, Islamism wouldn&#8217;t be on the march, but on the ash heap of history. Global politics, it turns out, is not a Harvard Law mock trial.</p>
<p>&#8220;We believe that right makes might,&#8221; Obama summed up, &#8220;that bigger nations should not be able to bully smaller ones, that people should be able to choose their own future.&#8221; Hogwash would be too kind a word to describe this sort of highfaluting idiocy — if right made might, millions of Jews would still populate Europe.</p>
<p>In reality, right dictates that right arm itself — right must become might in order to emerge victorious. Americans know that.</p>
<p>Because Americans know that, Obama must occasionally bow to reality. And so, in the same speech in which Obama called for Russian, Chinese and Syrian conflicts to be resolved through diplomacy, he uttered the most un-Obamaesque comment of his entire presidency with regard to ISIS: &#8220;The only language understood by killers like this is the language of force.&#8221;</p>
<p>This is eminently true. It is also so far out of Obama&#8217;s wheelhouse that he almost strained an oblique in making that statement. And, in fact, when polling doesn&#8217;t apply to him, Obama is happy to pressure other nations not to use the language of force — in the same speech, Obama pressured Israel to negotiate with its enemies, even though its enemies are of the exact same ilk as ISIS. If Obama does not bear a striking animus for the Jewish state, the best that can be said is that he wants Israel to be on the cutting edge of Western civilization&#8217;s rhetoric-first throat-cutting. After all, Obama tells Israel, too many Israelis are &#8220;ready to abandon the hard work of peace.&#8221;</p>
<p>Yes, the hard work of peace. With people who want to slit their throats.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s the real Obama, not the puffed-chest commander-in-chief threatening to bomb virtually everyone in virtually every country in the Middle East.</p>
<p>And that&#8217;s the problem. Lack of foreign policy comes from lack of belief in the principled use of force. And so Obama, the messianic narcissist, vacillates between two extremes: empty threats and pathetic wheedling. Neither works.</p>
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		<title>We Don’t Need to Ally with Terrorists to Defeat ISIS</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2014 04:54:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia and Iran aren’t our friends.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/isis.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-241800" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/isis-431x350.jpg" alt="isis" width="289" height="235" /></a>The big foreign policy debate now is whether we should ally with Sunni or Shiite Jihadists to defeat ISIS.</p>
<p>The pro-Iranian camp wants us to coordinate with Iran and Assad. The pro-Saudi camp wants us to arm the Free Syrian Army and its assorted Jihadists to overthrow Assad.</p>
<p>Both sides are not only wrong, they are traitors.</p>
<p>Iran and the Sunni Gulfies are leading sponsors of international terrorism that has killed Americans. Picking either side means siding with the terrorists.</p>
<p>It makes no sense to join with Islamic terrorists to defeat Islamic terrorists. Both Sunni and Shiite Jihadists are our enemies. And this is not even a “the enemy of my enemy” scenario because despite their mutual hatred for each other, they hate us even more.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://cns.miis.edu/reports/pdfs/binladen/indict.pdf">1998 indictment of bin Laden</a> accused him of allying with Iran. (Not to mention Iraq, long before such claims could be blamed on Dick Cheney.) The <a href="http://www.meforum.org/670/irans-link-to-al-qaeda-the-9-11-commissions">9/11 Commission documented</a> that Al Qaeda terrorists, including the 9/11 hijackers, freely moved through Iran. Testimony <a href="http://www.cfr.org/terrorist-organizations-and-networks/al-qaeda-hezbollah-relationship/p11275#p1">by one of bin Laden’s lieutenants</a> showed that he had met with a top Hezbollah terrorist. <a href="http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2011/12/dc_court_iran_showed.php">Court findings concluded</a> that Iran was liable for Al Qaeda’s bombing of US embassies. Al Qaeda terrorists were trained by Hezbollah.</p>
<p>While Shiite and Sunni Jihadists may be deadly enemies to each other, they have more in common with each other than they do with us. Our relationship to them is not that of “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.” That’s their relationship to each other when it comes to us. In these scenarios we are the enemy.</p>
<p>The pro-Saudi and pro-Iranian factions in our foreign policy complex agree that we have to help one side win in Syria. They’re wrong. We have no interest in helping either side win because whether the Sunnis or Shiites win, Syria will remain a state sponsor of terror.</p>
<p>It’s only a question of whether it will be Shiite or Sunni terror.</p>
<p>Our interest is in not allowing Al Qaeda, or any of its subgroups, to control Syria or Iraq because it has a history of carrying out devastating attacks against the United States. We don’t, however, need to ally with either side to accomplish that. We can back the Kurds and the Iraqi government (despite its own problematic ties) in their push against ISIS in Iraq and use strategic strikes to hit ISIS concentrations in Syria. We should not, however, ally, arm or coordinate strikes with either side in the Syrian Civil War.</p>
<p>Both the pro-Saudi and pro-Iranian sides insist that ISIS can’t be defeated without stabilizing Syria. But it doesn’t appear that Syria can be stabilized without either genocide or partition. Its conflict is not based on resistance to a dictator as the Arab Springers have falsely claimed, but on religious differences.</p>
<p>Helping one side commit genocide against the other is an ugly project, but that would be the outcome of allying with either side.</p>
<p>Stabilizing Syria is a myth. The advocates of the FSA claimed that helping the Libyan Jihadists win would stabilize Libya. Instead the country is on fire as Jihadists continue to fight it out in its major cities.</p>
<p>Even if the FSA existed as an actual fighting force, which it doesn’t, even if it could win, which it can’t, there is every reason to believe that Syria would be worse than Libya and an even bigger playground for ISIS. The FSA enthusiasts were wrong in Egypt and Libya and everywhere else. They have no credibility.</p>
<p>The pro-Iranians claim that helping the Syrian government will subdue ISIS, but Assad hasn’t been able to defeat the Sunni Jihadists even with Russian help. The Syrian army and its Hezbollah allies are still struggling despite having an air force, heavy artillery and WMDs. Not only shouldn’t we be allying with Shiite terrorists who have killed plenty of Americans over the years, but it would be extremely stupid to ally with incompetent terrorists. Allying with the FSA or Assad makes as much sense as allying with ISIS.</p>
<p>The difference is that ISIS at least seems to be able to win battles.</p>
<p>Some pro-Iranian wonks claim that if we don’t get Assad’s approval for air strikes, he will shoot down Americans planes. That’s about as likely as Saddam Hussein returning from the dead to audition for American Idol. Assad didn’t even dare shoot down Israeli <a href="http://israelmatzav.blogspot.com/2013/04/report-israeli-jets-buzz-assad-palace.html">planes who were buzzing his palace</a>. The odds of him picking a fight with the United States Air Force are somewhere between zero, nil and zilch.</p>
<p>We don’t need Assad’s permission to hit ISIS targets in Syria and, in one of the few things that this administration is doing right, we aren’t asking for it. Unless Assad experiences a bout of severe mental illness, he isn’t going to fight us for the privilege of losing to ISIS. Not even Saddam was that crazy.</p>
<p>The big potential problem in this war is mission creep. That’s why we should avoid committing to any overarching objectives such as stabilizing Syria. Unfortunately that is exactly what Obama has done.</p>
<p>It’s not our job to stabilize Syria and short of dividing it into a couple of majority states in which the Sunni and Shiite Arabs, the Kurds, the Christians and maybe even the Turkmen get their own countries, it’s not a feasible project. We have the equipment and power to pound ISIS into the dirt when its forces concentrate in any area. We can send drones to target their leaders. If Assad or the FSA want to provide us with intel, we can use it as long as we don’t begin working to help them fulfill their own objectives.</p>
<p>We need to remember that we are not there for the Syrians or Iraqis; we’re there for ourselves.</p>
<p>After September 11 we learned the hard way the costs of letting enemy terrorists set up enclaves and bases. But we also learned the hard way the costs of trying to stabilize unstable Muslim countries.</p>
<p>Al Qaeda, in its various forms, will always find sanctuaries and conflicts because the Muslim world is unstable and widely supportive of terrorism. For now this is a low intensity conflict that denies the next bin Laden the territory, time and manpower to stage the next September 11. We can do this cheaply and with few casualties if we keep this goal in mind.</p>
<p>This isn’t nation building. It’s not the fight for democracy. All we’re doing is terrorizing the terrorists by using our superior reach and firepower to smash their sandcastle emirates anywhere they pop up.</p>
<p>Allying with terrorists to defeat terrorists is counterproductive. The Muslim world will always have its Jihadists, at least until we make a serious effort to break them which we won’t be doing any time soon. But we can at least stop making the problem worse by arming and training our own enemies.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2014 04:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An arm of Hamas inside the United Nations. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/UNRWA-bags-of-building-material-in-Gaza-tunnels-Photo-IDF-300x225.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-237596" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/UNRWA-bags-of-building-material-in-Gaza-tunnels-Photo-IDF-300x225.jpg" alt="UNRWA-bags-of-building-material-in-Gaza-tunnels-Photo-IDF-300x225" width="267" height="200" /></a>The UNRWA is on the front lines of the Hamas War in Gaza. In the headlines, its schools are forever being fired on or found to be stockpiling rockets. If individual Gazans are being used as human shields, the UNRWA often seems as if it is one big organizational human shield.</p>
<p>But the UNRWA isn&#8217;t Hamas&#8217; human shield. The UNRWA is Hamas.</p>
<p>The &#8220;UN&#8221; part of the UNRWA, the blue logos and symbols, fool us into thinking of it as an international humanitarian organization. But the UNRWA in Gaza functions as a large Palestinian Arab organization with a smattering of foreign supervisory staff.</p>
<p>And those foreign staffers often tend to leave during a conflict.</p>
<p>The UNRWA is not an international organization operating in the Middle East. Effectively it&#8217;s a local Arab Muslim organization funded and regulated internationally. Since the UNRWA classifies 80% of Gazans as &#8220;refugees&#8221;, it administers the biggest welfare state in the world on their behalf.</p>
<p>The UNRWA is the biggest employer in the West Bank and Gaza after the Palestinian Authority and the vast majority of its employees are &#8220;locally recruited&#8221;. Varying figures place the share of local employees at between 90 and 99 percent.</p>
<p>Even though there are more Arab Muslims living in the West Bank than in Gaza, there are more &#8220;official&#8221; refugees in Gaza, which means that more UNRWA funding and efforts are directed there. The UNRWA only runs 96 schools in the West Bank, but it runs <a href="http://www.unrwa.org/sites/default/files/2014_01_uif_-_english.pdf"><span style="color: #0433ff;">245 schools </span></a>in Gaza. It employs less than 3,000 education staffers in the West Bank, but over 10,000 in Gaza.</p>
<p>Why does Hamas, which is obsessed with brainwashing the next generation into martyrdom, allow a foreign organization to run an educational system for 232,000 pupils?</p>
<p>It&#8217;s because in Gaza, Hamas and the UNRWA are the same thing.</p>
<p>The UNRWA’s Gaza staff has its own union. In the 2012 election, <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/pro-hamas-bloc-wins-control-of-unrwa-in-gaza/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">a pro-Hamas bloc won</span></a> the support of most of the union <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/09/21/un-agency-faces-criticism-after-candidates-with-ties-to-hamas-win-majority/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">with 25 out of 27 seats </span></a>on a union board.</p>
<p>When there was talk of reforming the UNRWA by removing Hamas members from its ranks, the <a href="https://www.blogger.com/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">editor of a Hamas paper wrote that</span></a>, &#8220;Laying off the agency employees because of their political affiliation means laying off all the employees of the aid agency, because…they are all members of the ‘resistance,’ in its various forms.&#8221;</p>
<p>The official word from Hamas was that it and the UNRWA are the same thing. The UNRWA’s vast majority of locally sourced Gazans are part of Hamas.</p>
<p>The UNRWA does not see that as a problem.</p>
<p>&#8220;I am sure that there are Hamas members on the UNRWA payroll,&#8221; a former UNRWA Commissioner General said, &#8220;and I don’t see that as a crime.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Hamas as a political organization does not mean that every member is a militant, and we do not do political vetting and exclude people from one persuasion as against another,&#8221; he added.</p>
<p>Also if the UNRWA fired Hamas members from its Gaza staff, it would have no one left.</p>
<p>Hamas control over the UNRWA in Gaza is reflected in the schools <a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/733/unrwa-its-role-in-gaza"><span style="color: #0433ff;">which promote Islamic terrorism</span></a>. UNRWA schools have become flashpoints in conflicts between Israel and Hamas because the <a href="http://www.jewishpolicycenter.org/53/how-unrwa-supports-hamas"><span style="color: #0433ff;">UNRWA schools</span></a> are Hamas bases of recruitment and operation.</p>
<p>The current accusations and counter-accusations over attacks on and from UNRWA schools are a reenactment of the same set of events taking place in 2009. Only the locations and the names have changed.<a href="http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=7&amp;x_issue=2&amp;x_article=1625"><span style="color: #0433ff;"> The same headlines</span></a>, “Israeli shelling kills dozens at UN school in Gaza,” and “Massacre of Innocents as UN school is shelled” are repeating all over again.</p>
<p>Then, as now, Hamas launched attacks on Israeli forces from around a UNRWA school. Then it turned out that the attack had happened outside the school and <a href="http://m.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/account-of-israeli-attack-doesnt-hold-up-to-scrutiny/article4286191/?service=mobile"><span style="color: #0433ff;">no one had actually died inside the school</span></a>. Nothing has changed since then. The &#8220;massacres&#8221; in which Hamas terrorists using UNRWA schools as a base are killed pop up in every paper. The UNRWA repeats the same lies.</p>
<p>Then<a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/rockets-found-in-unrwa-school-for-third-time/"><span style="color: #0433ff;"> it &#8220;discovers&#8221; Hamas rockets</span></a> in three of its schools. And that&#8217;s just the tip of the iceberg because every UNRWA school is a Hamas school.</p>
<p>The UNRWA has admitted that Hamas uses its schools to store rockets. It admits that it has Hamas members in its ranks. It <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/07/31/Israel-Shaming-Persists-Even-as-UN-Admits-Hamas-Uses-UN-Areas-for-Rocket-Launches"><span style="color: #0433ff;">admits that rockets have </span></a>been fired &#8220;into Israel from the vicinity of UN facilities and residential areas.&#8221;</p>
<p>What it refuses to admit is that it should in any way be held accountable for functioning as an arm of a terrorist organization.</p>
<p>If an organization consists largely of Hamas members who use it pursue Hamas goals, then the organization is Hamas.</p>
<p>The UNRWA is Hamas.</p>
<p>Hamas use of the UNRWA as its public face is a war crime, but terrorists commit war crimes without a second thought. The UN and the UNRWA however are complicit in the war crime by allowing Hamas to go on exploiting the UN brand.</p>
<p>Hamas is listed as a Foreign Terrorist Organization. It&#8217;s against the law for the United States to fund it. By funding the UNRWA, the United States is paying Hamas and participating in its war crimes. Using civilian and humanitarian facilities for military purposes is a war crime. Using them to stage attacks against civilians by attackers out of uniform adds further crimes to the total.</p>
<p>The United States provided $130 million to the UNRWA in 2013. The UNRWA&#8217;s operations in Gaza would not be viable without that money.</p>
<p>When Kerry visited Gaza in 2009, <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/1000/hamas-takes-advantage-of-us-diplomacy"><span style="color: #0433ff;">the UNRWA&#8217;s Gaza chief </span></a>passed along a letter to him from Hamas. The incident showed that not only was the locally recruited staff working for Hamas, but the UNRWA leadership was clearly cooperating with the terrorist group.</p>
<p>The original &#8220;refugees&#8221; that the UNRWA was set up to cater to are for the most part dead. The UNRWA has become another UN boondoggle funding a welfare state for “refugee camps” that are older, bigger and more developed than many Middle Eastern cities.</p>
<p>UNRWA staff act as terrorists when they use UNRWA facilities for military purposes, but then switch back to UNRWA when Israel fights back. Hamas carries out attacks. The UNRWA demands ceasefires. Hamas uses UNRWA schools and the UNRWA denounces Israel when an attack happens.</p>
<p>The UNRWA has become the mask that Hamas wears.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a tactical asset for a terrorist group that empowers its human shield strategy. The UNRWA is not only endangering Israeli civilians, but it is also endangering Gazans who are exploited as human shields by members of a terrorist group masquerading as the staff of an international humanitarian organization.</p>
<p>This issue has come up before and the UNRWA&#8217;s long record of evasions and denials, admitting the substance of the claims about the Hamas takeover of the UNRWA, while insisting that its Hamas members are neutral and that all the rocket stores and rocket attacks around UNRWA facilities are unrelated to the Hamas members on its staff, are not good enough anymore.</p>
<p>The United States should not be in the business of funding the corruption of young minds. Money should not be taken from American schools to fund the spread of hatred and terrorism.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s time to defund the UNRWA.</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Amanda Botfeld]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/gaza.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-236998" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/gaza-450x330.jpg" alt="gaza" width="274" height="201" /></a>Hamas, an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, is the name of the organization that governs the Gaza strip. It is a violent group that conducts suicide bombings and launches rockets at Israel. It distributes anti-Semitic propaganda and denies Israel’s right to exist. In 1997, the U.S. officially recognized the group as a terrorist organization.</p>
<p>Like Hamas, the Islamic Jihad Movement in the Palestinian-controlled areas is a splinter organization of the Muslim Brotherhood. It made a name for itself in 1987 during the first intifada – a time of violent uprising against Israel. It has carried out bombings and suicide attacks. It has been labeled a terrorist organization by the U.S., the European Union, the United Kingdom, Japan, Canada, Australia, and Israel.</p>
<p>Hamas is firing rockets. Islamic Jihad is firing rockets. Even factions of Fatah are firing rockets. With the attacks all happening at the same time, it is getting harder to tell one terrorist organization from the next.</p>
<p>Yet there is one actor that seems to be slipping under the radar: Iran.</p>
<p>Iran is asserting itself as a major financier. According to the <i>Economist</i>, “Iran now seems to be providing Islamic Jihad with dollops of aid, plus weaponry,” allowing it to amass “at least 20,000 fighters under its command.”<span style="color: #386eff;">[1]</span></p>
<p>That does not mean Hamas is out of the picture. While the Hamas-Iran alliance has been strained due to differences over the conflict in Syria, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has taken strides to rekindle their friendship.</p>
<p>I conducted a phone interview with terrorism expert and <i>Fox News</i> analyst Ryan Mauro, who thinks Iran’s dual involvement is no coincidence. “The idea that the Islamic Jihad – which is tied to Iran – is working with Hamas [that] is now getting closer to Iran completely makes sense.”</p>
<p>It all comes back to Iran.</p>
<p>But Islamist groups are known competitors. Can Iran really puppeteer dueling terrorist organizations?</p>
<p>It doesn’t have to. For the Islamic Jihad to gain ground, Hamas needs to be in some sort of cahoots. Hamas governs Gaza with an “iron fist” – brutally cracking down on any opposing groups.</p>
<p>“If you wanted to hold an anti-Hamas demonstration,” says Mauro, “within a second Hamas would come and throw you in jail, violently disperse you, and make you pay a price.”</p>
<p>“I think that it would be foolish to believe that Islamic jihad or any other terrorist group could now [hold] operations from the Gaza strip without at least Hamas knowing about it and allowing it,” he adds.</p>
<p>Is Hamas’s tolerance of outside Islamists an endorsement? It’s very likely. But on whether they actually cooperate together or not, Mauro insists that the West is missing the big picture: shared ideology.</p>
<p>“They have the same core issue,” he says. “They follow a version of radical Islam that says it’s okay to kill civilians for the sake of implementing Sharia law<span style="color: #386eff;">[2]</span> and defeating Western influence.”</p>
<p>As a matter of fact, Mauro reveals that “the root problem [in Gaza] isn’t Hamas. You can wipe out all of Hamas and another will take its place … Groups like Hamas and their associated terrorists are products of an ideology, and until that ideology – and everything that sustains it – is dismantled, you’re just going to keep dealing with one group after another.”</p>
<p>That does not mean Mauro believes military action is ineffective – far from it. While he acknowledges that it is a short-term fix rather than a long-term solution, he asserts that military action provides both relief and protection.</p>
<p>He even thinks military action against Hamas helps Palestinian Arabs in general. This is because Hamas rockets misfire and injure Palestinian Arabs. More broadly, Hamas has created a terrorism economy: taxing underground tunnels, paying salaries to imprisoned murderers, and stealing aid money that should be going to the Palestinian people.</p>
<p>Only 35% of Palestinian Arabs in the Gaza strip view Hamas favorably.<span style="color: #386eff;">[3]</span></p>
<p>So actions that hurt Hamas help both the Israelis and the Palestinian Arabs. Admittedly, it is a band-aid over a cancerous ideology.</p>
<p>But the true fault of the West is not a matter of short or long-term solutions. It is the failure to recognize the problems in the first place.</p>
<p>The West has consistently ignored the behavior of the Palestinian Authority – dominated by its leading party Fatah – pretending not to notice when its President Mahmoud Abbas double-speaks to the English and Arabic media. In English he wants peace. In Arabic he wants martyrs.</p>
<p>This is what Mauro calls the West’s “core problem.” The West focuses on the tactics – the actual events that happen – rather than the culture one implements. “So the argument goes, ‘well, if Fatah supposedly isn’t killing civilians, well then they’re moderates,’” he laments. “But they’re still contributing to the environment that results in terrorism by doing things like glorifying martyrs and promoting anti-Semitism.”</p>
<p>The Palestinian Authority cultivates terrorism – goading its people into murder – yet it is somehow exempt of any consequences. Where is the line? At what point does the Palestinian Authority get branded as a terrorist organization?</p>
<p>“That would require a flashy attack against Israeli civilians that no one can deny,” Mauro answers. “As long as Fatah can claim – by some stretch of the imagination – that they’re not responsible for attacks on civilians, then there are going to be those in the West that are willing to go along with that because they view Fatah as their great hope for some kind of breakout for peace.”</p>
<p>This is dangerous logic. It allows violent ideology to spread and takes advantage of the goodwill of the West. Ultimately, Mauro calls for a “broader, more grand strategy” that addresses the real issue: terrorism culture.</p>
<p>Otherwise, he warns, we will continue to make the same mistakes.</p>
<p style="color: #386eff;">[1]<span style="color: #000000;"> <a href="http://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21599826-decline-hamas-may-result-new-wave-chaos-whos-charge">http://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21599826-decline-hamas-may-result-new-wave-chaos-whos-charge</a></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #386eff;">[2]</span> Islamic law. Some of the mandates include: criticizing or denying any part of the Quran is punishable by death; thieves have their hands chopped off; women must be circumcised and her testimony in court is only half as much as a man’s</p>
<p style="color: #386eff;">[3]<span style="color: #000000;"> <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/pew-support-for-hamas-hezbollah-collapsing-in-region/">http://www.timesofisrael.com/pew-support-for-hamas-hezbollah-collapsing-in-region/</a></span></p>
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		<title>America: Biggest Bankroller of Palestinian Killers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2014 04:50:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Klein]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Time to stop the near-billion dollars in "aid" to the Hamas-Fatah government. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/hamas11.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-235339" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/hamas11-450x300.jpg" alt="Military Ceremony in Gaza" width="311" height="207" /></a>The search for the three abducted Israeli teenagers, Eyal Yifrach, Gilad Shaar, and Naftali Frenkel (who held Israeli and American citizenship), ended on June 30<sup>th</sup> with the grisly discovery of their bodies in a shallow grave near the West Bank city of Hebron. They were found by civilian volunteers from an Israeli field school in the area, who alerted Israeli security forces. The boys appeared to have been shot, perhaps shortly after the abrupt ending of a cell phone call from one of the teens in which he said, “I was kidnapped.” Cartridges of bullets were found in the burnt out vehicle that was determined to be the car carrying the kidnapped teens.</p>
<p>Israeli security forces have identified two Hamas operatives as being responsible for the abductions. They are Marwan Qwasmeh and Amar Abu Aisha from Hebron. This appears to have been a planned operation, with possible funding, training, logistical support and safe houses being arranged with the support of Hamas’s infrastructure extant in the West Bank itself as well as from Gaza. An intensive search is underway for others involved in the operation. Targeted Israeli attacks on Hamas’s West Bank infrastructure are likely to continue. More action is under consideration as Israeli leaders have reacted to the latest news with fury and disgust.</p>
<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called an urgent meeting of his security cabinet at which they are expected to formulate a response to the kidnapping and murders.  He told the security cabinet that the teenagers were &#8220;kidnapped and murdered in cold blood by animals.&#8221; He added: &#8220;Our hearts bleed, the entire nation is crying with them. Hamas is responsible, and Hamas will pay.”</p>
<p>Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon, declared: “This tragic ending must also mark the end of Hamas! The nation is strong and ready to endure [tragedy] for the sake of a mortal blow against Hamas. … [W]e have to destroy the homes of Hamas activists, wipe out their arsenals everywhere, and stop the flow of money that directly or indirectly keeps terror alive… make the entire Palestinian leadership pay a heavy price.”</p>
<p>Israel’s United Nations Ambassador Ron Prosor demanded that UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon press the Security Council to condemn the murder of the boys, the firing of rockets, and the unity government between Fatah and Hamas:</p>
<blockquote><p>In the past few weeks, Israel has come under attack and felt the bitter devastation that comes with Hamas in a Palestinian government.  Since the formation of the unity government on 2 June 2014, over 70 rockets have been fired from Gaza into Israel…The international community can no longer remain silent as the citizens of Israel are mercilessly murdered and terrorized.</p></blockquote>
<p>Secretary General Ban Ki-moon did condemn the murderous attacks, which he called a “heinous act by enemies of peace.” But he did not call for any action by the Security Council or refer to Hamas by name. Last week the Security Council failed to reach consensus on any statement to issue regarding the kidnapping itself. Jordan, a non-permanent member of the Council, insisted on including a condemnation of Israel in any resolution or press statement, which the United States refused to accept.</p>
<p>President Obama joined Ban Ki-moon and other Western leaders in denouncing the murders. He broke his inexcusable weeks-long silence on the abductions themselves and made this statement about the murders:</p>
<blockquote><p>As a father, I cannot imagine the indescribable pain that the parents of these teenage boys are experiencing. The United States condemns in the strongest possible terms this senseless act of terror against innocent youth.</p></blockquote>
<p>However, Obama characteristically lumped Israel, the victim of this deliberate act of atrocity against its young, with the Palestinians, the aggressors.  While referring generally to the “senseless act of terror,” he avoided any reference to jihadists generally or more specifically to Hamas as the perpetrators who must be found by all means necessary and brought to justice. He insisted that both sides avoid any escalation that could “further destabilize the situation,&#8221; although Obama did make a point of mentioning that, as the Israeli people deal with “this tragedy,” they would have “the full support and friendship of the United States.”</p>
<p>As usual, Obama’s deeds are at variance with his words. A true friend would recognize that Hamas is at war with Israel and act accordingly to provide full support in actions and words to its beleaguered ally. Hamas considers all Israelis to be combatants and legitimate targets, including children. Its rocket attacks launched from Gaza are aimed at Israeli civilians. Indeed, on the same day that the abducted teens’ bodies were found, fifteen rockets from the Gaza Strip were fired by Hamas in three volleys into Israel. Obama is insensitive to the daily plight of Israeli civilians, most notably the children, who must seek out bomb shelters every time they hear a siren go off after yet another rocket launching from Gaza aimed at killing them.</p>
<p>In addition to its rocket attacks, Hamas has publicly declared that the kidnapping of Israelis is a key tactic of their “resistance.” They use kidnapped Israelis, live or dead, as bait to secure the release of hundreds, if not thousands, of the Palestinian terrorist murderers with innocent blood on their hands who are currently behind bars in Israel.</p>
<p>A senior Hamas political leader, Muhammad Nazal, called the kidnapping of the three Israeli teenagers, “a heroic capture” and “a milestone” for the Palestinian people. Hamas chief Khaled Mashaal, while saying that he could neither confirm nor deny Hamas’s direct involvement in the abductions, nevertheless complimented the operation. He accused the three teenagers of being “soldiers in the Israeli army.”</p>
<p>“This is a very important aspect which should be mentioned,” Mashaal said. “They [the three youths] are combatants.”</p>
<p>After the teenagers’ bodies were discovered, Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri told Palestinian Al-Aqsa TV that Israel is using the deaths of the teenagers to &#8220;escalate the situation against our people and our resistance, and Hamas in particular,&#8221; BBC Monitoring reported. He threatened that Israel will pay a price “higher than any price paid in the past” in the event of any confrontation “imposed on us,” ignoring the fact that it is Hamas that has already initiated the latest confrontation.</p>
<p>Despite Hamas’s praising of the kidnappings as to which two of its operatives are suspected of being directly involved and Hamas’s continued defiance, there was not a word in President Obama’s statement on the deaths of the three youths indicating any intention to reverse his decision to establish ties with the recently sworn-in Fatah-Hamas unity transitional government. Although no aid is permitted by Congress for a power-sharing government that includes Hamas as a member, the Obama administration has been doing everything it can to end-run the congressional restrictions by pretending that everything remains business as usual. U.S. State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki made it clear to reporters at a briefing in early June that the Obama administration would not cut off the more than $500 million of annual aid that it supplies to the Palestinian authorities. She added that the United States “will be judging this government by its actions. We will continue to evaluate the composition and policies of the new government, and if needed, we will recalibrate our approach.”</p>
<p>Additionally, the United States remains the largest single-state donor to the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), which have totaled more than $4.65 billion since UNRWA’s inception in 1950. The Obama administration’s budgeted annual contributions to UNRWA are now in the range of $250 million, on top of the above-mentioned half a billion dollars annually in direct bilateral aid.</p>
<p>After the Obama administration effectively legitimized Hamas by its endorsement of the transition unity government and keeping the gravy train flowing, Hamas responded with the abductions and murders. Yet Obama still believes that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas can retain control of the transition government, which is supposed to be technocratic in nature to help prepare for elections in several months. After all, Abbas had provided assurances that the new government would adhere to past commitments to non-violence, renunciation of terrorism and recognition of the state of Israel, and that Abbas himself would continue to uphold his responsibility to maintain security coordination with Israel.</p>
<p>The kidnappings and subsequent murders of the three teenagers in the West Bank, coupled with the resumption of Hamas’s rocket attacks from Gaza, expose the emptiness of Abbas’s assurances, even in the unlikely event that he was sincere when he delivered them. Abbas and his team simply refuse to acknowledge that Hamas is in fact a jihadist organization that kills innocent civilians as part of its deliberate strategy.</p>
<p>One only has to look at a statement during an Arabic interview last April by Saeb Erekat, Abbas’s hand-picked chief negotiator with Israel, who claimed that “Hamas is not and will never be a terrorist organization to us.” Moreover, he said that “Hamas is not required to recognize Israel.”</p>
<p>With Gaza firmly under its control and an infrastructure already established in the West Bank, Hamas is poised to roll over any opposition and dominate the “elected” government unless Israel can thwart it. The Bush administration fell for the faux “democracy” gambit back in 2006 when it endorsed a parliamentary election that Hamas swept and then exploited by expelling Fatah from Gaza altogether. Will the same happen again in the West Bank, with Hamas sweeping to victory and then ending any semblance of democracy immediately thereafter as it embarks unencumbered in its plan to destroy the Jewish state?  Quite likely, but the Obama administration is not likely to learn from the mistakes of the prior administration, much less from its own mistakes which include continued reliance on Abbas to make things right.</p>
<p>Any “new government” with which Hamas is associated, in any way, shape or form, is little more than a smokescreen behind which Hamas and its jihadists brothers will be able to operate with impunity to kill innocent Israeli civilians. U.S. taxpayer monies, to the tune of a half a billion dollars this year alone in direct aid plus another quarter of a billion dollars funneled through the UN, will end up helping to fund this obscenity.</p>
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		<title>The Names of the Victims</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2014 04:41:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The tragic price of exchanging hostages for terrorists. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/F140617ZEL03.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-235087" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/F140617ZEL03-395x350.jpg" alt="F140617ZEL03" width="238" height="211" /></a>Originally published by the <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Column-one-The-names-of-the-victims-360736">Jerusalem Post</a>. </em></p>
<p>Three families in Israel are in agony. On June 12, when their sons Naftali Fraenkel, Eyal Yifrah and Gil-Ad Shaer were kidnapped by Islamic savages, the Fraenkels, Yifrahs and Shaers entered a new world where every breath they take is filled with devastating guilt – that they breathe free while their sons suffer unknown miseries.</p>
<p>Every moment that passes is filled with crushed hope that they will get word that their sons are free, and then the word doesn’t come. And it doesn’t come the next moment, or the next.</p>
<p>And so they will live, in agony, until this ordeal has ended.</p>
<p>Our hearts go out to these families. Our prayers are continuously directed towards them. And in a profound sense that is uniquely Israeli, the people of Israel share their pain. And with this pain comes a sincere and overpowering desire to do something to bring the captive teenagers home.</p>
<p>What can be done? There are only two ways for Israel to free hostages.</p>
<p>The government can devote all necessary resources to gathering actionable intelligence that will lead IDF troops to the boys.</p>
<p>Or the government can surrender to the terrorists by freeing thousands of Palestinian terrorist murderers from Israeli prisons.</p>
<p>So far, the government is concentrating on Option 1.</p>
<p>But Option 2 is lurking around the corner. And we need to confront it now – head on – before it takes center stage.</p>
<p>Over the past 30 years, Israel has released thousands of terrorists from its prisons in exchange for hostages. Thousands more have been freed as so-called “confidence building measures,” to appease our supposedly moderate Palestinian negotiating partners into sharing a table with their Israeli counterparts.</p>
<p>In every instance, these terrorist releases have led to the murder and abduction of other Israelis.</p>
<p>The clock started ticking down to Naftali, Gil-Ad and Eyal’s abduction on October 19, 2011 when Israel released 1,027 Palestinian terrorists in exchange for IDF Sgt. Gilad Schalit who had been held hostage by Hamas for more than five years.</p>
<p>The countdown also began that day for the murder of Baruch Mizrahi, the police officer who was killed in a roadside shooting in April as he drove to a Passover Seder with his wife and children. Mizrahi’s killer was one of the terrorists released for Schalit.</p>
<p>Some politicians are trying to take steps to prevent these swaps in the future. Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman told the media he will prohibit all members of his Yisrael Beytenu party from voting in favor of a hostages-for-terrorists swap if one is on offer in the future.</p>
<p>The day before Fraenkel, Shaer and Yifrah were kidnapped, the Knesset passed a preliminary reading of a bill sponsored by MK Ayelet Shaked from Bayit Yehudi to constrain the president’s power to commute the sentences of some convicted murderers. The idea is that by passing the law, the Knesset will make it impossible for the government to agree to swap murderers for hostages. But then, to avoid the law, all governments will have to do is release prisoners who weren’t sentenced to life without possibility of parole.</p>
<p>The problem with statements like Liberman’s and bills like Shaked’s is that they miss the point. The problem isn’t the law. The problem isn’t that in past swaps MKs were given the freedom to vote as they pleased.</p>
<p>The problem is our media-compliant leadership refuses to act responsibly.</p>
<p>The only way to prevent more Israelis from being abducted in the future is to deter the Palestinians from abducting them.</p>
<p>Deterrence cannot be achieved by cheap political pronouncements or insufficient legislation.</p>
<p>Deterrence can only be built up over time, by behaving consistently in a manner that convinces the other side that it is not in its interest to do something that you don’t want it to do.</p>
<p>Since May 1985, when then-prime minister Shimon Peres freed 1,150 terrorists for three IDF soldiers held hostage by Palestinian terror master Ahmed Jibril, Israel’s behavior has consistently encouraged our enemies to take hostages.</p>
<p>Through their willingness to release murderers for hostages – and even for hostage bodies – our leaders have told our enemies that they should feel free to steal our children. Their payoff is guaranteed.</p>
<p>Through their willingness to free murderers, our leaders have shown our enemies that they should feel free to murder as many Israelis as they can. They know that once their comrades take another Israeli hostage, (or three), they will go free.</p>
<p>And of course, our politicians are not the only ones at fault. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his colleagues and predecessors swim in an acrid stream, where this sort of behavior is required.</p>
<p>To their disgrace, our media consistently behave as advocates and lobbyists for hostage-takers and imprisoned murderers against Israeli society.</p>
<p>For instance, in the case of Schalit, the media worked hand-in-glove with the Schalit family and its public relations firm to convince the public that we should think of a soldier as a child, and not as any child, but as our child.</p>
<p>In more than a thousand media reports, profiles, tear-jerker interviews with Schalit’s kindergarten teachers and siblings, we were told that if we are good and moral people, we must prefer Schalit’s freedom to the continued imprisonment of terrorists who constitute a mortal threat to every other child – and parent – in the country.</p>
<p>Public relations agent Tami Shenkman led the campaign for the terrorists’ release. She was the one who put together the sales strategy for convincing us that capitulating to Palestinian extortion is an act of moral courage.</p>
<p>For her efforts the media lavished her with fawning, heroic profiles.</p>
<p>And for the media’s efforts, three teenagers are now hostages.</p>
<p>True, while our cowardly, irresponsible leaders and demented media encouraged the Palestinians to abduct the three youths, it was the Palestinians that did it.</p>
<p>And this also ought to teach us a thing or two about deterrence.</p>
<p>Our media and our politicians have effusively praised Palestinian Authority President and Fatah chief Mahmoud Abbas for saying a few lines in favor of releasing Eyal, Gil-Ad and Naftali. But with all due respect, Abbas is responsible for their abduction.</p>
<p>Abbas’s statement calling for the boys to be released was the rhetorical equivalent of trying to put an already exploded bomb back in its shell. Indeed, it is even worse than that. It was Abbas pretending to put a detonated bomb back in its casing after Abbas built the bomb, prepared the fuse and gave the bombers a matchbook.</p>
<p>For 20 years, Abbas and his colleagues in the PA have indoctrinated the Palestinians to view Jews as human scum and seek our annihilation. This message is communicated in all venues. From nursery through the universities, in the mosques, in summer camps, on television, radio and the Internet, Palestinians of all ages are taught that Jews have no right to live. They are encouraged to murder us and view contributing to our destruction as their highest goal in life.</p>
<p>Hostage taking – a war crime – is presented as one of the highest achievements possible. This is why the overwhelming majority of Palestinians applauds and celebrates the kidnap of the three teens.</p>
<p>For 20 years, the PA has indoctrinated its society in a culture of hatred and violence against Israel and the Jewish People. And the results were as predictable as the tides. Nearly 2,000 Israelis have been murdered in Palestinian terror attacks since the PA was established.</p>
<p>Israel can take action to punish the Palestinians for their unlawful behavior. We can arrest their imams for soliciting murder. We can close their schools and shutter their television stations for the same reason.</p>
<p>But we have done none of these things.</p>
<p>All Israel has done in the face of this poison is complain to the Americans.</p>
<p>Even worse than doing nothing, we actively facilitate the PA’s wholesale indoctrination of the Palestinians in genocidal Jew hatred.</p>
<p>Israel funds the PA.</p>
<p>We support the US policy of training and organizing a Palestinian army manned by people who have been subjected to this indoctrination for two decades.</p>
<p>Our leaders proclaim Abbas is a moderate. And still today we say he’s a good guy. The problem, Netanyahu says, is Abbas has formed a unity government with Hamas. But if he quits that, then we will have no beef with him.</p>
<p>The people of Israel want the families’ agony to end.</p>
<p>We want the boys’ terror to end. But the only body that can responsibly accomplish that mission is the IDF and the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency). We cannot find them ourselves.</p>
<p>What we can and must do, however, is protect society as a whole from the next kidnapping. To this end, we need to shame – name by name – the media personalities from Avi Tzvi, the CEO of Reshet, Israel’s largest television franchise, to radio hosts and pop stars like Keren Neubach and Aviv Gefen who demanded the government free 1,027 terrorists from prison.</p>
<p>As for our government ministers, and our prime minister, you need to fix the damage you caused.</p>
<p>You knew when you signed the Schalit deal that the ink was the blood of the victims to come. We didn’t know their identities then. But now we do: Baruch Mizrahi, Naftali Fraenkel, Eyal Yifrah and Gilad Shaer.</p>
<p>It’s time you understand that after what you did, the only way to change the enemies’ cost-benefit analysis of abductions and other atrocities is for you to change your way of doing business.</p>
<p>This means you have to stop appeasing terrorists and start punishing them. And the punishment needs to be consistent, and painful. Among other things, this means no more money, no more guns and no more legitimacy, not only to Hamas, but to the PA. If you want to do it gradually, you can do it gradually.</p>
<p>It means that every time the Palestinian media broadcasts anti-Jewish bile, they lose something of value.</p>
<p>True, taking such action will likely make it more difficult for elected leaders and military commanders to vacation in Europe. But no one forced you to take your jobs. You asked for the responsibility of providing for the collective defense. And you can’t fulfill your duty by being nice to terrorists or to outsiders who side with them.</p>
<p>Schalit’s media flacks were right. He is a son of all of Israel.</p>
<p>And so are Naftali, Gil-Ad and Eyal who are now captive because of the deal we signed for Gilad.</p>
<p>As we pray for their speedy and safe return home, we must take action remove the targets from the backs of every citizen of Israel. Those targets were placed there by our treacherous media, and by successive governments who preferred the cheap perfume scent of appeasement over the blood, sweat and tears required to secure our freedom and security.</p>
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		<title>Pragmatism, Obama and the Bergdahl Swap</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2014 04:55:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How ideology blinded a president to the public rejection of trading five terrorists for a deserter. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/article-2646603-1E5E6F6F00000578-125_638x406.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-233714" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/article-2646603-1E5E6F6F00000578-125_638x406-438x350.jpg" alt="article-2646603-1E5E6F6F00000578-125_638x406" width="293" height="234" /></a>Originally published by the <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/OUR-WORLD-Pragmatism-Obama-and-the-Bergdahl-swap-355909">Jerusalem Post</a>. </em></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">US President Barack Obama is an artist of political propaganda. Both his greatest admirers and his most vociferous opponents agree that his ability to manipulate public opinion has no peer in American politics today.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">So how can we explain the fiasco that is his decision not only to swap five senior Taliban terror masters for US Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, but to take ownership over the decision by presenting it to the American people in a ceremony with Bergdahl’s parents at the White House Rose Garden? Clearly Obama overreached. He misread the public’s disposition.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">This much is made clear by the immediate criticism his actions received from the liberal media. It wasn’t just Fox News and National Review that said Obama broke the law when he failed to notify Congress of the swap 30 days prior to its implementation.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">It was CNN and NBC News.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">MSNBC commentators criticized the swap. And CNN interviewed Bergdahl’s platoon mates who to a man accused him of desertion, with many alleging as well that he collaborated with the enemy. It was CNN that gave the names of the six American soldiers who died trying to rescue Bergdahl from the Taliban.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">What was it about the Bergdahl trade tipped the scales? Why is this decision different from Obama’s other foreign policy decisions? For instance, why is the public outraged now when it wasn’t outraged in the aftermath of the jihadist assault on US installations in Benghazi on September 11, 2012, in which US Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans were murdered? Politically, Obama emerged unscathed from failures in every area he has engaged. From Iraq to Iran to Syria to Libya to Russia and beyond, he has never experienced the sort of across the board condemnation he is now suffering. His political allies and media supporters always rallied to his side. They always explained away his failures.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">So what explains the outcry? Why are people like Senator Dianne Feinstein, who have been supportive of Obama’s nuclear appeasement of Iran, up in arms over the Bergdahl swap? There are three aspects of the Bergdahl deal that distinguish it from the rest of Obama’s foreign policy blunders.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">First, the Bergdahl deal was conducted in an unlawful manner and the White House readily acknowledged that it knowingly broke the law by not informing Congress 30 days in advance of the swap. This brazen lawbreaking angered Obama’s loyal allies in Congress who, like Feinstein, were insulted by his behavior.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Second, Obama initiated the story and made himself the sole owner of the swap.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Obama didn’t have to make the Bargdahl swap a story about his foreign policy. He chose to. As commentators have argued, if Obama had simply ordered the Defense Department to issue a press release announcing the swap the story probably wouldn’t have caused more than the normal amount of controversy.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">And whereas Benghazi was a story about jihadists attacking, and Obama was pilloried – and defended – for his response to an act of aggression initiated by US enemies, Obama presented the Bergdahl swap as his brainchild. So it is impossible to blame anyone else for this move, or wish it away.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As the administration saw it, the public would rally around the leader over this feel-good story.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Obama obviously believed that the Bergdahl trade would help him to surmount his opponents’ criticism over the Veterans’ Administration scandal and other issues.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">And this is where his failure to understand the disposition of the American people comes into play.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The third aspect of the swap that distinguishes it from his other foreign policy failures is that by organizing the ceremony at the Rose Garden, and making it a story about himself, Obama denied his supporters the tools they have used in every other instance to explain away his failures and justify his counterproductive decisions.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Obama sailed into office by presenting himself as a non-ideological pragmatist. Obama recognized that the public was tired of foreign policies based on ideology. George W. Bush lost public support for the war in Iraq, and for his foreign policy goal of bringing freedom to the Islamic world more generally, when his ideologically charged rhetoric of American exceptionalism stopped matching the situation on the ground.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">A year after Bush declared an end to major combat operations in Iraq, the sight of US military contractors being lynched in Fallujah soured the public on American exceptionalism. In Obama, they hoped that they found the antidote to Bush – a man who promised to replace ideology with hard-nosed pragmatism.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In the event, Obama turned out to be even more driven by ideology than Bush was. Obama is the anti-Bush not because he matches Bush’s ideology with pragmatism. He is the anti-Bush because he matches Bush’s grand foreign policy based on American exceptionalism with his own grand foreign policy based on American moral deficiency.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">He made this clear most recently at his commencement address at West Point last month where he stipulated that “American influence is always stronger when we lead by example. We can’t exempt ourselves from the rules that apply to everybody else&#8230; .”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As to American exceptionalism, Obama sneered, “What makes us exceptional is not our ability to flout international norms and the rule of law; it is our willingness to affirm them through our actions.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">But while Obama’s critics have pointed out the radicalism at the heart of his foreign policy from the outset of his presidency, his supporters were always able to explain it away.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Obama’s appeasement of the Iranians was pragmatic.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">We don’t want a war there, they say.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">His support for the Muslim Brotherhood is not radical. It too is pragmatic, they soothe.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">And so on and so forth.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As for Benghazi, in the fog of war, the media preferred its commitment to Obama’s reelection over its responsibility to report the truth of what happened.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Obama’s success in getting away with serial foreign policy failures, and his success in hiding the radical ideological basis of his decisions has always owed to his supporters’ ability to plausibly deny both the failures and the ideological motivation for his actions.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">His Rose Garden announcement made such spin all but impossible. Americans are not particularly interested in foreign policy. But there are a few things that they won’t buy.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">They won’t buy that a man who comes to the White House sporting a Taliban beard and praising Allah in Arabic is a normal American father.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">They won’t buy spin that describes a deserter as an exemplary soldier.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">They don’t want to free five senior terrorists and mass murderers in order to buy Bergdahl’s release.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In believing that the public would side with him and Bergdahl and Bergdahl’s dad against critics of the deal, Obama showed that for all his propaganda prowess, he doesn’t understand the public.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The public didn’t oppose the war in Iraq because they thought the US is morally deficient. They opposed the war in Iraq because Bush wasn’t winning it. And the public believed that Bush’s push for the abstract goal of democracy lay at the heart of the failure on the ground.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">For nearly six years, Obama and his supporters have managed to fend off allegations that his foreign policy is even more ideological – and far more radical – than Bush’s by channeling the public’s aversion to pie-in-the-sky rhetoric and obfuscating facts. But the Bergdahl announcement at the Rose Garden ended all of that.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The reason Obama is being denounced for the Bergdahl swap is because he orchestrated a radical spectacle. Try as he may to castigate critics of the deal as partisan and cynical, Obama cannot pretend away the fact that the ceremony he arranged and oversaw was an open celebration of an American defeat, by the US president and the unsympathetic parents of an accused deserter.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">And worse still for Obama’s protestations of pragmatism, his decision to take sole ownership of the swap revealed his ideological myopia. Only someone blinded by a worldview in which America is morally deficient could have thought that Americans would join him and the Bergdahls in celebrating an American defeat.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">And now everyone knows what makes him tick.</span></p>
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		<title>The Puerto Rican Terrorist Day Parade</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2014 04:14:39 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_233600" style="width: 320px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Melissa-Mark-Viverito.PRDParade.jpg"><img class="wp-image-233600" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Melissa-Mark-Viverito.PRDParade-412x350.jpg" alt="Melissa-Mark-Viverito.PRDParade" width="310" height="263" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito</p></div>
<p>The hijacking of the Puerto Rican Day Parade began when New York’s radical leftist Attorney General purged its board of directors. Attorney General Eric Schneiderman had promised during his campaign that Al Sharpton would have “an annex in Albany for the first time in the history of this state.”</p>
<p>When Schneiderman announced the results of his investigation, standing by his side was City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito. Mark-Viverito had called for the Schneiderman “investigation” and its results predictably gave her and her radical allies control over the parade.</p>
<p>Her handpicked board took over and Melissa Mark-Viverito became one of its grand marshalls, along with her close ally, Red Bill de Blasio.</p>
<p>Melissa Mark-Viverito is a class warrior <a href="http://nypost.com/2014/06/06/mark-viverito-has-properties-valued-well-over-1m/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">who owns $1.5 million in land</span></a> back in Puerto Rico. She is a top public official in one of the biggest cities in the United States and also a Puerto Rican separatist who <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/nyc-council-speaker-wannabe-suddenly-embraces-pledge-article-1.1516272"><span style="color: #0433ff;">refused to recite the Pledge of Allegiance</span></a>.</p>
<p>The retooled Puerto Rican Day Parade honored FALN terrorist leader Oscar Lopez Rivera and alcoholic separatist poet Julia de Burgos who served as a top official in the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party before dying of cirrhosis of the liver</p>
<p>The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party was responsible for numerous acts of violence including the attempted assassination of President Truman and an armed attack on Congress. (The surviving perpetrators of both attacks were pardoned by Jimmy Carter.) The latter terrorist attack had been carried out in the name of “our apostle of independence, Don Pedro Albizu y Campos.”</p>
<p>Campos returned the favor by calling the terrorist attack on Congress an act of &#8220;sublime heroism&#8221;.</p>
<p>PRNP leader Pedro Albizu Campos served on the National Committee of the International Labor Defense which had been set up as part of the Comintern&#8217;s International Red Aid network and Communist literature had been found in the apartment of one of the terrorists.</p>
<p>Julia de Burgos edited the culture section of Pueblos Hispanos, a publication set up by the PRNP and the Communist Party. Under Obama, Burgos was honored with her own stamp by the Postal Service.</p>
<p>The “King” of the Puerto Rican Day Parade was Calle 13 frontman Rene Perez Joglar. Joglar, like Melissa Mark-Viverito, is a champion of convicted FALN terrorist Oscar Lopez Rivera. After the death of FALN founder and Macheteros terror group leader Filiberto Ojeda Rios during a shootout with the FBI, Calle 13 released a protest song boasting of “spitting” on the FBI. He performed that song in Castro’s Cuba where he praised Rios as a “good Puerto Rican.”</p>
<p>The biggest shadow over the parade though was FALN leader Oscar Lopez Rivera.</p>
<p>FALN was a Marxist terrorist group whose goal was to direct “an armed and political struggle in accordance with the Marxist-Leninist principle” and to implement “the Stalinist ideological position concerning the concept of ‘nation’ to the North-American context.”</p>
<p>The terrorist campaign began with bombings in New York. The worst of these was the attack on Fraunces Tavern where George Washington had bid his troops farewell. The FALN terror attack killed four and maimed many others. A FALN message demanded freedom for the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party terrorists responsible for the attacks on Truman and Congress.</p>
<p>Oscar Lopez Rivera was busted for receiving 200 sticks of dynamite after investigators stumbled onto his Chicago FALN bomb factory and he was locked away for 55 years.</p>
<p>Following in the footsteps of Jimmy Carter, and at Carter’s request, Bill Clinton and Eric Holder offered FALN terrorists clemency on the condition that they renounce violence. The terrorist leader was the only one to refuse the offer of the man whose wife had political ambitions distinctly centered on New York.</p>
<p>Rivera remained behind bars because he refused to renounce violence even in name only.</p>
<p>When Bill de Blasio first began pushing Melissa Mark-Viverito for the speaker’s post, Joe Connor, the son of one of his victims, asked “How she could possibly expect to have the second-most important position in our city while advocating for a terrorist whose group attacked and murdered New Yorkers.”</p>
<p>But Red Bill got his way and so did Melissa Mark-Viverito. The Puerto Rican Day Parade celebrated a Communist supporter and a Communist terrorist.</p>
<p>Republican City Councilman Republican Dan Halloran blasted Melissa Mark-Viverito, saying, “This terrorist, like all terrorists, should rot in jail forever. It is only a shame the death penalty was not imposed to prevent him from becoming a threat in the future.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I guess the 9-11 bombers could make the same argument. They were merely responding to the &#8216;evils&#8217; of the U.S. Will you be asking for them to be pardoned too?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Some people did not want to call Oscar a patriot but some people consider him a patriot &#8211; there might be divergent opinions but they are all valid,&#8221; the parade’s Chairwoman Lorraine Cortes-Vazquez said.</p>
<p>Lorraine Cortes-Vazquez was a Spitzer appointee and had sworn in Melissa Mark-Viverito during her inauguration. Cortes-Vazquez and a number of the other new Schneiderman/Mark-Viverito board members are tied to the MirRam Group <a href="http://nypost.com/2012/08/26/twited-web-of-political-nonprofits-in-bx/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">which is tangled up with dubious Democratic Party Latino interests</span></a> in New York. The MirRam Group also helped Melissa Mark-Viverito get her speakership.</p>
<p>This may seem like petty politics, but Melissa Mark-Viverito has moved to take control of Puerto Rican culture in New York and that has larger implications for the city, the state and the country. Melissa Mark-Viverito’s targeting of Taller Boricua to take over the Julia de Burgos Cultural Center, like the Puerto Rican Day Parade, is an attempt at imposing her radical vision on Puerto Ricans in New York.</p>
<p>Melissa Mark-Viverito’s FALN heroes were second-generation radicalized Puerto Ricans. Controlling Puerto Rican culture in New York is vital to repeating the process of radicalization. If the process succeeds, then the terrorist attacks can begin again. That is the monster lurking behind the parade.</p>
<p>The Puerto Rican Day Parade, like every cultural Puerto Rican event controlled by her allies, is about the ambition of a wealthy and powerful woman to indoctrinate Puerto Ricans with her hatred for America.</p>
<p>Patriotic Puerto Ricans who oppose Melissa Mark-Viverito’s radical separatist agenda have an opportunity to speak out and reclaim their community and their culture from radicals who once again want to use their sons and their daughters and their way of life as a weapon against the United States.</p>
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		<title>Gitmo: Closing Up Shop?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arnold Ahlert]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What the Bergdahl fiasco may be foreshadowing. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/man-in-suit.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-233273" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/man-in-suit-450x300.jpg" alt="man-in-suit" width="297" height="198" /></a>Lost in the furor surrounding President Obama’s decision to swap five high-level terrorists for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl is a potential ulterior motivation for the deal lurking in the background: fulfilling the president&#8217;s 2014 State of the Union <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/01/28/obama-s-new-guantanamo-deadline-unlikely.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">promise</span></a> to completely shut down the prison at Guantanamo Bay.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">&#8220;This whole deal may have been a test to see how far the administration can actually push it, and if Congress doesn’t fight back they will feel more empowered to move forward with additional transfers,” a senior GOP Senate aide <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/02/bergdahl-deal-could-be-first-step-to-emptying-gitmo.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">told</span></a> the Daily Beast’s Josh Rogin. “They’ve lined up all the dominoes to be able to move a lot more detainees out of Guantanamo and this could be just the beginning.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The principal domino is the notion, getting <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/05/guantanamo-a-perverse-incentive-to-keep-troops-in-afghanistan/371779/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">play</span></a> in the precincts of the left, that once a war ends, the prisoners of that war must be released. In an exchange with Fox News’s Megyn Kelly Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2014/06/03/Inhofe-Bergdahl-Swap-Part-of-Obamas-Obsession-to-Close-Gitmo"><span style="color: #1255cc;">addressed</span></a> the absurdity of that contention. &#8220;So they should have turned Hitler loose and that would have been the end of the war,” he said. &#8220;This isn&#8217;t right, and I just &#8212; it&#8217;s hard for me and people I talk to, a lot of people in Oklahoma, just this morning about this, they can&#8217;t figure out why in the world would we turn loose the five most dangerous people who hate America, who want to kill Americans, who have the equipment and the following to revive the Taliban and that&#8217;s what they are doing.&#8221;</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">It’s part of an agenda a long time in the making. In October of last year, the <i>Washington Post</i> <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/hagel-appoints-new-envoy-to-rejuvenate-efforts-to-close-guantanamo/2013/10/08/6fc99800-301e-11e3-9e92-5dd16061dbe8_story.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">reported</span></a> that Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel appointed Paul M. Lewis, a Democratic lawyer for the House Armed Services Committee and a former judge advocate in the Marine Corps, to a newly-created Pentagon position as special envoy for Guantanamo closure. The appointment fulfilled a promise made by Obama the previous May to create special envoy positions at both the State and Defense Departments to pursue that agenda.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The strategy here was to perpetrate yet another end-run around Congress, which had <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/afghan-wars-approaching-end-throws-legal-status-of-guantanamo-detainees-into-doubt/2013/10/18/758be516-2d0a-11e3-97a3-ff2758228523_story.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">blocked</span></a> the administration from releasing or transferring many of the then-remaining 164 detainees, and taking only a small number of them to trial. The administration was exploring the possibility that the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan would facilitate challenges regarding the United States’ legal authority to continue holding them. The declaration of the war’s end could force that determination to be made about Afghan Taliban captured on the battlefield and allow them to file new appeals in federal courts. “In the words of the Supreme Court, the authority to detain — if you’re detaining based on someone being a belligerent — can unravel as hot wars end. And I think that’s a real question,” Brig. Gen. Mark Martins, chief prosecutor for military commissions at Guantanamo said at the time.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The word “end” is key. When the president announced his intentions to ultimately withdraw from Afghanistan in 2016, he nonetheless <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/obama-hails-approaching-end-of-us-combat-mission-in-afghanistan/2014/05/28/5f9ee2a2-e6ab-11e3-8f90-73e071f3d637_story.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">stressed</span></a> that our combat mission in that nation would end this year, even as 9,800 troops will remain until 2015, and half that number until 2016. An administration official briefing the press prior to that announcement stressed that 2014 would be the end of our “combat mission,” even as he further noted that the U.S. remain open to &#8220;training Afghan forces and supporting CT [counter-terrorism] operations against the remnants of Al Qaeda.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">One is left to wonder what the legalistic difference is between “combat&#8221; and counter-terrorism “support,” but the overall motive remains clear: declaring the war over, regardless of events on the ground, paves the way for the release of enemy combatants—and in turn, the closure of Gitmo.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">One is also left to wonder about the legality of the latest exchange as well. Current law, included as <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/blog/2014/06/02/obama-gave-congress-five-hours-notice-of-gitmo-transfer/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">part</span></a> of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for 2014, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bergdahl-release-arrangement-could-threaten-the-safety-of-americans-republicans-say/2014/05/31/35e47a2a-e8ff-11e3-afc6-a1dd9407abcf_print.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">requires</span></a> the Secretary of Defense to notify Congress 30 days prior to any prisoner transfers, to explain the reason for doing so, and to provide assurances that none of the released detainees would be able to re-engage in activities harmful to the United States or its interests. That law replaced one that was even stricter, and while Obama signed it, he issued a <a href="http://www.coherentbabble.com/Statements/SShr3304-PL113-66.pdf"><span style="color: #1255cc;">signing statement</span></a> contending it was an unconstitutional infringement on his powers as commander in chief, allowing him to override it.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Ironically, the move to a less strict statute requiring only that Congress be notified was due in some part to concern over Bergdahl’s well-being. And while both the Bush and Obama administrations have transferred prisoners to other countries, this swap was the first under the new requirements. Requirements that  were ignored by Obama for reasons best explained by a senior GOP senate aide. “The whole reason the administration ignores reporting requirements is because they know there is no consequence for ignoring them,” the aide said.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">No legal consequences at any rate. As the <i>Wall Street Journal</i> <a href="http://online.wsj.com/articles/trading-with-the-taliban-1401662373"><span style="color: #1255cc;">explains</span></a> presidential power &#8220;is never stronger than in the role of Commander in Chief,” and Congress’s attempt to restrict it may be unconstitutional. Furthermore, Obama already ignored the War Powers Act of 1973 to intercede in Libya and Congress did nothing more than grumble about it. Thus it seems likely that he would be more than willing to push the envelope in whatever way he deems necessary to empty Guantanamo Bay.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Congress is well aware of that reality, and several GOP Senators were working to restrict further releases of Gitmo prisoners before the Bergdahl swap took place. Obama <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/obama-win-guantanamo-prison-short-lived-23848782"><span style="color: #1255cc;">scored</span></a> an initial victory in his effort to close the prison when the Senate Armed Services Committee approved giving him the authority to transfer detainees to the United State if Congress votes to close the facility. Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) chairman of the Armed Services Committee hailed the provision. Inhofe, the top Republican on Committee, voted for the overall defense bill, but will work with the GOP-controlled House to kill it. During the session, two GOP senators won support for key amendments. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) won support for establishing a process in which any administration plan aimed at closing Gitmo would be subject to a joint resolution of disapproval from both houses of Congress, and Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) won support for a one-year ban on transferring Gitmo prisoners to Yemen.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Ayotte’s amendment theoretically prevents the prison’s closure in 2014, because half the remaining prisoners are Yemeni and they would presumably be sent back home, despite the reality that other released detainees from that nation have <a href="http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2010/05/former_gitmo_detaine_4.php#"><span style="color: #1255cc;">resumed</span></a> their terrorist ways. Yet as Rogin notes, timing is key:</p>
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<p style="color: #232323;">The GOP effort, however, will take longer than seven months to have any effect because the defense policy bill won’t even be considered in the Senate until after the election. Typically, the defense bill is passed in late December. There’s no chance Congress will pass an appropriations bill this year, meaning Congress can’t remove the funding for transfers. That gives Obama plenty of time to use the current looseness of the law to push forward the releases of many more prisoners.</p>
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<p style="color: #232323;">Perhaps not. As the National Review’s Andrew McCarthy <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/379417/taliban-swap-and-high-crimes-and-misdemeanors-andrew-c-mccarthy"><span style="color: #1255cc;">explains</span></a> pressure can be brought to bear, not because the president might be overstepping his authority with regard to the requirements of the NDAA, but because Obama &#8220;has returned five senior commanders to the Taliban and Haqqani network <i>while those violent jihadist organizations are still conducting offensive attacks against American troops</i>, who are still in harm’s way and still conducting combat operations pursuant to a congressional authorization of military force.” (italics original)</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">This point is critical because it not only undermines leftist contentions regarding prisoner exchanges, it reveals the utter fecklessness of the president’s desire to end the war, even as our terrorist enemy remains willing to pursue it. &#8220;The Taliban and Haqqani have not surrendered or settled; they are still working hard to kill our troops,” McCarthy writes. &#8220;It is thus mind-bogglingly irresponsible for the commander-in-chief to replenish their upper ranks.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">House Armed Services committee chairman Buck McKeon (R-CA) has <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/katherinemiller/house-armed-services-chairman-there-will-be-hearings-on-berg"><span style="color: #1255cc;">promised</span></a> to hold hearings on the prisoner swap. As of now, he is focused on the violation of the 30-day notice in the NDAA. Any investigation would be far better served focusing on what McCarthy terms the Commander-in-Chief’s &#8220;profound dereliction of duty.” If Republicans pursue the prisoner exchange within that context, Obama’s efforts to continue transferring enemy combatants out of Guantanamo Bay prison becomes a political millstone of gargantuan proportions, even before the details of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl’s <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/03/us/us-soldier-srgt-bowe-bergdahl-of-idaho-pow-vanished-angered-his-unit.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">dubious past</span></a> are  fully confirmed. Regardless, Obama likely remains determined to push the legal and political envelope in pursuit of that odious agenda. Republicans and perhaps even some thoughtful Democrats should be determined to push back just as hard. American lives may depend on it.</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2014 04:52:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bruce Thornton]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Destructive tactics of a destructive foreign policy. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/hy.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-226787" alt="hy" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/hy-450x229.jpg" width="288" height="146" /></a>Every parent should be happy for the Bergdahl family, whose son was returned to them after five years of captivity among the Taliban. But every parent is not the president of the United States, whose primary responsibility is to protect the security and interests of all Americans, both now and in the long-term. The release of 5 “high-risk”––a phrase meaning they’re eager to kill Americans–– Taliban jihadists held in Guantanamo Bay is nothing more than ransom paid to kidnappers, and an invitation to the enemy to take more Americans captive and to hold them as bargaining chips for more concessions. And the release of hardened, high-ranking Taliban terrorists means there will be more dead Americans after theses soldiers of Allah return to the battlefield.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">We shouldn’t give credence, however, to the criticism that Obama’s action uniquely violates the principle that “we don’t negotiate with terrorists.” Obama’s administration has already been negotiating with the Taliban in order to craft some chimeric “peace agreement” with the Afghan government after we leave. And talking with Iran, the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, is de facto “negotiating with terrorists.” But before Obama we have negotiated with terrorists on numerous occasions, and each time we have confirmed the moral hazard that attends trying to talk with fanatic ideologues that, like Auric Goldfinger, don’t expect us to talk, but to die.</span></p>
<p>How else did we secure the release of the 52 Americans held for 444 days by the Iranians starting in 1979, other than by negotiating ransom with hostage-takers? The hostages came home after Jimmy Carter issued a series of Executive Orders that released billions of dollars of frozen Iranian assets in American banks, and that indemnified the Iranians from any lawsuits suing the regime for the destruction of American property and the abuse of the diplomats. So much for Carter’s bluster that “we will not yield to blackmail.” During the negotiations the Iranians serially humiliated the Americans. For example, Carter aide Hamilton Jordan donned a fake moustache and wig to meet with the Iranian negotiator in Paris. After weeks of negotiations, with a deal seemingly close, Ayatollah Khomeini killed it with a public speech in which he called the embassy kidnappings “a crushing blow to the world-devouring USA” and left the decision to the new Iranian parliament, which was months from being seated. Negotiations continued with a series of concessions offered by Carter, all of which were contemptuously slapped down by the Iranians. As a result, the prestige of Iran as the foremost jihadist foe of the infidel West expanded across the globe, providing inspiration and material support to other jihadist groups convinced by America’s weakness that we were a civilization with “foundations of straw,” as bin Laden put it, and ripe for destruction.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Then there’s the sorry spectacle of the 1985-86 Iran-Contra affair that unfolded during Reagan’s second term. This was a Rube-Goldberg plot to secure the release of 7American hostages taken by Iranian terrorist proxies, and to improve relations with the Iranian regime by providing them with 2200 TOW anti-tank missiles and over 100 HAWK anti-aircraft missiles in violation of an arms embargo, with the profits going to arm the Nicaraguan Contras. These were the same Iranians, by the way, that only a few years earlier had trained and funded the jihadists who had murdered 241 American military personnel in the Beirut Marine-barracks bombing, and that were funding numerous other jihadist groups like Hezbollah. The naïve belief in improved relations with these murderers and so-called “moderates” has no better symbol than a cake in the shape of a key––apparently the “key” to better American-Iranian relations–– that the American emissary brought to Iran along with a Bible signed by Reagan, both items bespeaking a criminal ignorance about the nature of the Iranian theocrats with whom they were dealing. In the end, only 3 hostages were released, only to be immediately replaced by three other kidnapped Americans.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Once again, the willingness to provide advanced weaponry to a regime that publicly and frequently expressed its desire to destroy us only confirmed the mullahs in their belief that we are weak and can be manipulated. Indeed, the intervening years suggest their insight has been correct, as they have murdered with impunity Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan, trained and funded numerous terrorist outfits, and continue to pursue nuclear weaponry even as they engage in specious negotiations spiced with contemptuous public statements.</span></p>
<p>Worse than even these examples are the decades we have spent negotiating with the Palestinian terrorist gang known as the Palestinian Liberation Organization, which was rebooted as the Palestinian Authority after the 1993 Oslo Agreements. A whole atlas could be filled with the cities hosting these futile negotiations, many of which delivered nothing but concessions to terrorist murderers. Camp David, Madrid, Wye River, Sharm el-Sheikh, Taba, Annapolis––all have been the sites of negotiations with terrorists for whom violence against Israeli civilians is a negotiating tactic used to complement the tactic of attending “summits” and “conferences” at which the Palestinian leadership has no intentions of negotiating in good faith, instead extracting concessions from gullible Westerners. PLO honcho Yasser Arafat, a die-hard terrorist whose creed was “jihad, jihad, jihad,” was feted and hosted at capitals around the globe and treated as a legitimate chief of state instead of as the head of a murderous, kleptocratic gang that he was. During the Clinton years he visited the White House more often than any other world leader, only in the end to betray Clinton at Camp David by refusing the offered “national homeland” he supposedly wanted, and then launching the Second Intifada that killed 1000 Israelis.</p>
<p>And it isn’t just talk we have shared with the Palestinian terrorists. As the <a href="http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/mideast/RS22967.pdf">Congressional Research Office</a> documents, since the Oslo Accords the U.S. has transferred $5 billion to the Palestinians, with much of the money that escaped the Swiss bank accounts of the PA “leadership” going to fund terrorist outfits. This is in addition to funds channeled through the United Nations Relief Works Agency, the only U.N. entity committed to one refugee group and self-identified as an advocate for Palestinians. The U.S. has provided a quarter of the agency’s funds, which since 1950 has totaled nearly $5 billion. Then there’s the money given since Oslo to train, arm, and support the PA security forces, presumably to fight against terrorists. In fact, these “security forces” have participated in or facilitated terrorist attacks. As Caroline Glick writes in her indispensible <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Israeli-Solution-One-State-Peace-Middle-ebook/dp/B00F1W0DK4/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1401636671&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+israeli+solution+a+one-state+plan+for+peace+in+the+middle+east"><i>The Israeli Solution</i></a>, “The more aid the Palestinian authority receives from the international community, the more terror attacks the Palestinians carry out against Israel.” We’re not just negotiating with terrorists; we’re funding them as well.</p>
<p>There are many reasons for this compulsion to try to talk or bribe out of their hatred enemies who have no intention of peaceful coexistence. Politics, of course, is ever a factor in such bad decisions. For Obama, ransoming Bergdahl deflected attention from the VA scandal with a photogenic feel-good story. Pursuing futile negotiations with the Iranians creates the illusion of action when the administration has no intention of doing anything concrete to keep a malignant theocracy from acquiring nuclear weapons.</p>
<p>More broadly, the modern West clings to the hoary notion that negotiation and diplomacy are the best means of resolving conflicts and creating peace. Obama recycled this received wisdom in his recent West Point address. In addressing global disorder, Obama said, “we must mobilize allies and partners to take collective action. We have to broaden our tools to include diplomacy and development, sanctions and isolation, appeals to international law, and, if just, necessary and effective, multilateral military action.” But as his disastrous foreign policy record demonstrates, negotiation works only with those who sincerely share our goal to end violence, coexist peacefully, and create peace. The jihadist gangs from the Taliban to Iran, and our geopolitical rivals like Russia and China, have other plans. With those actors, negotiation works only when backed by a credible threat of force, something Obama has serially squandered with his “red lines” bluster and bluff. Yet ever the foreign policy naïf, Obama claimed in his statement about Bergdahl’s release, “While we are mindful of the challenges, it is our hope Sergeant Bergdahl’s recovery could potentially open the door for broader discussions among Afghans about the future of their country by building confidence that it is possible for all sides to find common ground.” If sincere, this statement represents a massive failure of imagination, ever the hallmark foreign policy failure. The Taliban have one aim: to impose once more their hegemony over Afghanistan.</p>
<p>Exchanging Bergdahl for 5 seasoned jihadists is a shortsighted, dangerous deal, but it isn’t unprecedented. It’s a recurring bad foreign policy habit driven by politics and idealism.</p>
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		<title>Taxpayers Fund Prof&#8217;s Overseas Meeting with Terrorists</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2014 04:15:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ari Lieberman]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Will San Francisco State University finally take action against Rabab Ibrahim Abdulhadi?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/hezil.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-226454 alignleft" alt="hezil" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/hezil.jpg" width="320" height="213" /></a>In April, I wrote an </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/ari-lieberman/terrorists-on-campus/">article</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> directing the community’s attention to Rabab Ibrahim Abdulhadi, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies/Race and Resistance Studies at San Francisco State University, highlighting some of her very disquieting comments and behaviors. Abdulhadi embodies all that is wrong with today’s social science and humanities fields and her actions unequivocally demonstrate how those fields have been hijacked by extremists whose comments and lectures are devoid of any academic value and often veer into outright Judeophobia and anti-Semitism.</span></p>
<p>Abdulhadi’s pernicious agenda as a professor at SFSU is not to teach but to indoctrinate, not to impart knowledge but to disseminate hate-filled propaganda. In the past, she has been relentless in her efforts to demonize and delegitimize the Mideast’s only democracy, while applying double standards and ignoring those who actually commit egregious human rights violations.</p>
<p>In past speeches, Abdulhadi has <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4l2P-WRSGc">accused Israel</a> of turning mosques into bars, looting churches and desecrating Muslim cemeteries. Of course, she offers not a scintilla of evidence to support her slander and worse yet, completely ignores the plethora of evidence documenting Muslim atrocities and persecution of Jews, Christians and other non-Muslims.</p>
<p>There have been numerous instances where Abdulhadi, with help from her cohorts, created an on-campus atmosphere of fear and intimidation aimed at the pro-Israel community, in an effort to stifle legitimate discourse and promote a hate-filled agenda. Those who have reviewed her odious record can come to but one conclusion; Abdulhadi masquerades as an academic but is in fact a rabid hater of the Jewish State and a racist.</p>
<p>It is one thing however, to maintain marginal beliefs that most of us view as repugnant but an entirely different matter when one engages in dishonest and likely criminal behavior to further those beliefs. According to the findings of a recent investigation, that is precisely what Abdulhadi did and caused SFSU as well as California State University to become complicit in her odious scheming.</p>
<p>According to papers received through the California Public Records Act, on August 11, 2013 Abdulhadi submitted a request for more than $7,000 in State University funds to finance her upcoming excursion to “Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine,” $2,000 of which was accelerated as a “Travel Advance.” As an aside, Abdulhadi, like the terrorist groups of Hamas and Hezbollah, shuns use of the word “Israel” and University officials have shamelessly played along with her insidious charade.</p>
<p>In all, four SFSU documents were submitted in connection with Abdulhadi’s excursion and each of these documents state that the purpose of her trip was related to University business, specifically, she was to present a paper at the 4th conference of the Center for American Studies and Research to be held at the American University in Beirut. In addition, she was to conduct &#8220;research&#8221; and to meet with &#8220;potential collaborators towards [establishing a] memorandum of understanding (MOU) with San Francisco State University&#8221; in Jordan and the West Bank. The noted documents were reviewed and approved by high-level University officials, including Abdulhadi’s Dean, Kenneth Monteiro, as well as University President, Leslie Wong, among others.</p>
<p>Abdulhadi’s stated purpose for the trip was nothing short of a pre-mediated, bald-faced lie. In December 2013, Abdulhadi sent an email to the University’s Risk Management office stating that she would not be attending the Beirut conference claiming that her name was “dropped” as a conference speaker. More importantly, Abdulhadi neglected to note in any of her submitted papers that she would be meeting with members of terrorist organizations, specifically designated as such by the State Department.</p>
<p>While in Jordan, Abdulhadi met with <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4078246,00.html">Leila Khaled</a>, a convicted hijacker and member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a terrorist organization responsible for committing reprehensible crimes targeting civilians, including US nationals. Abdulhadi also met with Sheikh Raed Salah, leader of the northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel who was convicted of providing material support to Hamas. In addition, in 2008 Salah was charged with incitement to violence and racism after giving a speech in which he alleged that <a href="http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/insideisrael/2014/March/Islamic-Movement-Leader-Off-to-Prison-again/">Jews use children&#8217;s blood to bake bread</a>. Apparently, the SFSU professor feels right at home with terrorists who kill American civilians and those who propagate ancient blood libels.</p>
<p>Contrary to her claims of pursuing University business, there is considerable evidence to suggest that the aim of the trip was to further Abdulhadi’s nefarious political goals. Indeed, following her taxpayer funded trip, she noted on the SFSU <a href="http://ethnicstudies.sfsu.edu/content/news-events">Ethnic Studies website</a> that while in the West Bank and “1948 areas of Palestine” (i.e. Israel) she engaged with Palestinian “scholars, artists and activists” to strengthen the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel. Through Abdulhadis’s obfuscation and deceit, SFSU unwittingly facilitated a trip with taxpayer and University funds that enabled meetings to take place between University professors and assorted terrorists and racists and helped strengthen an anti-Semitic movement whose stated goal is the eradication of Israel.</p>
<p>That a miscreant like Abdulhadi can maintain her position as Associate Professor at SFSU speaks volumes on the decayed and decrepit state of affairs of contemporary academia. However, the recently uncovered documentary evidence in connection with Abdulhadi’s excursion to the Levant suggests that not only is she a detestable racist, but a dishonest one at that.</p>
<p>Abdulhadi has had a number of free passes that garnered nothing more than <a href="http://president.sfsu.edu/president/statement-campus-discourse">indirect condemnation</a> from President Wong. Hopefully, this time around, he won’t let her egregious and unscrupulous actions go unpunished.</p>
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