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		<title>The Presbyterian Church USA&#8217;s Terrorist Ties</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2014 05:02:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ari Lieberman]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why the Hezbollah-allied church could soon lose its tax-exempt status. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/pcusa.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-247061" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/pcusa.gif" alt="pcusa" width="233" height="235" /></a>On April 18, 1983, an explosive laden truck driven by a Hezbollah terrorist slammed into the U.S. embassy in Beirut killing 63 people, including 17 Americans, some of whom were CIA operatives. According to the CIA, it was the <a href="https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/2014-featured-story-archive/flashback-april-18-1983-u-s-embassy-bombed-in-beirut.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">most lethal</span></a> attack ever against the Agency. Just six months later, Hezbollah terrorists struck again, this time hitting the <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/06/13/world/meast/beirut-marine-barracks-bombing-fast-facts/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">U.S. Marine compound</span></a> in Beirut.  In a repeat of the embassy bombing, a Hezbollah homicide bomber crashed his explosive laden truck into the barracks killing 220 marines and another 21 U.S. service personnel. It was the largest single-day loss of life sustained by the marines since Iwo Jima.</p>
<p>Hezbollah’s atrocities against the United States and its allies did not cease with the embassy and marine compound outrages and have in fact, continued unabated in intensity and scope since that time. Hezbollah has recently carried out a global campaign of terror spanning five continents including an attack and bombing of a civilian tourist bus in Bulgaria that resulted in the deaths of six civilians.</p>
<p>Despite Hezbollah’s involvement in international terrorism and its designation as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) by the United States, the Presbyterian Church USA (PCUSA) has had extensive contacts with the organization according to a federal complaint filed by the legal advocacy group, Shurat HaDin, Israel Law center.</p>
<p>The 38-page complaint filed with the Internal Revenue Service alleges that PCUSA has engaged in “a range of activities prohibited under U.S. tax law” which are wholly inconsistent with PCUSA’s stated aims when it filed for tax exempt status in 1964.</p>
<p>In its 1964 filing with the IRS, PCUSA posed as a religious body whose purpose was to engage in “peaceful relationships with individuals of all faiths and wholly unengaged in political activities.” But the federal complaint filed by Shurat HaDin paints a completely different picture and alleges that PCUSA has repeatedly met and established dialogue with Hezbollah terrorist officials.</p>
<p>The complaint also alleges that PCUSA violated its tax-exempt status by “publishing anti-Semitic materials, enacting a racist policy to divest from American companies doing business with Israel, lobbying the U.S. Congress, and distributing political advocacy materials&#8230;”</p>
<p>Indeed, as far back as 2004 PCUSA officials met with Hezbollah operatives in Lebanon with one PCUSA official, perhaps in an attempt to endear himself to his Hezbollah hosts, making crude <a href="http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/294.htm"><span style="color: #0433ff;">anti-Jewish</span></a> remarks. Though PCUSA subsequently disavowed itself from the remarks as well as the meeting, PCUSA sanctioned meetings with Hezbollah continued.</p>
<p>In October 2005, a PCUSA delegation headed by Robert Morley and Father Nihad Tomeh <a href="http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/1535.htm"><span style="color: #0433ff;">met with</span></a> Nabil Qaouk, a senior Hezbollah commander in Lebanon. During the exchange, Qaouk complained that U.S. policies in the region were dictated by Israel. It is the same banal complaint often regurgitated by an assortment anti-Semitic groups and conspiracy types. Nevertheless, the delegation, rather than challenging Qaouk, concurred with him stating that PCUSA was blameless because its members had voted for the Democratic Party and the organization was under pressure from U.S. Jewish groups due to its divestment efforts against Israel.</p>
<p>The Israel-Palestine Mission Network of the PCUSA has been engaged in a relentless effort to delegitimize Israel. As <a href="http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=7&amp;x_issue=37&amp;x_article=2712"><span style="color: #0433ff;">detailed</span></a> by the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA), the IPMN has been linked to a number of anti-Israel initiatives the most notorious of which is a malevolent publication called “Zionism Unsettled.”</p>
<p>“Zionism Unsettled” adopts a viscerally anti-Israel narrative, in line with the views of Hamas and has won praise from the who’s who of Judeophobes including former KKK “Grand Wizard” David Duke.  Among its many pernicious lies is that Jews had “harmonious relations” with Muslims prior to the ascendancy of Zionism and that Zionism is the sole cause for Palestinian suffering. The screed was peddled and offered for sale on PCUSA’s website and was taken down only after encountering extremely negative feedback and intense public pressure.</p>
<p>PCUSA took its anti-Israel political advocacy to new levels when in June 2014, its General Assembly <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/presbyterian-shame-article-1.1844099"><span style="color: #0433ff;">voted</span></a> by a narrow margin to attack Israel’s legitimacy by divesting itself from three companies doing business with Israel. A similar resolution in 2012 failed but remains testament to the relentless effort PCUSA places on political advocacy when it comes to harming relations with the Jewish State.</p>
<p>PCUSA, by both word and deed, has made itself out to be a leading purveyor of anti-Semitism. Its divestment initiatives hold Israel to a standard expected of no other nation. By peddling an anti-Semitic screed on its website, it becomes an integral party to anti-Semitism. By meeting and maintaining dialogue with Hezbollah, a Foreign Terrorist Organization that next to al-Qaida was responsible for more American deaths than any other terrorist group, it provides aid and comfort to the enemy.</p>
<p>In 1964, PCUSA presented itself to the IRS as a benign religious organization with an apolitical agenda. The facts however, prove otherwise. As Shurat HaDin’s founder, Nitsana Darshan-Leitner accurately summed it up in an email to me; “The Presbyterian church long ago abounded any claim that they are not a political organization with ties to terror groups and an Israel-bashing agenda.  The IRS is obligated to investigate PCUSA and strip it from its tax free status. The PCUSA would need to decide ultimately whether they are a church or a political group.”</p>
<p>Given the PCUSA’s aggressive political agenda and its anti-Israel machinations, it is patently clear that they’ve already made that decision.</p>
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		<title>&#8216;Cuddly&#8217; Justice For Muslim Terrorists in Germany</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2014 05:09:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stephen Brown]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Germans outraged by light sentences court gives to al-Qaeda killers.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/PHO-09Apr28-159822.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245519" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/PHO-09Apr28-159822-450x334.jpg" alt="-" width="325" height="241" /></a>While many Germans are calling the sentences a Dusseldorf court handed down to four convicted al Qaeda terrorists last week <i>‘ein Witz’ </i>(a joke), it is no laughing matter.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">And it is no wonder Germans are taking such a gloomy view of their justice system. This latest group of Islamist killers to appear before a German court received what many regard as ‘soft’ sentences, ranging from only four and half to nine years, for planning homicidal acts of terrorism that were aborted only by their arrests. In this case, the ‘Dusseldorf cell’, as the German media dubbed them, intended to massacre as many Germans as possible with ‘<i>splitterbomben’ </i>(anti-personnel bombs) in carefully prepared attacks.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The sentences handed out last week for plotting such horrific and deliberate acts of slaughter, as well as the perceived kid-glove treatment of other Islamist and non-Islamist violent criminals by German courts in general, have earned the German justice system the nickname <i>‘Kuscheljustiz’</i> (‘cuddly justice’) among more law-abiding Germans.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">“This verdict is shameful and a punch in the face for all those who have been killed by such types,” wrote one upset reader in a German newspaper. “Here, there can and should be only one sentence: imprisonment and isolation forever.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">“Not bad for planned mass murder of infidels,” sarcastically wrote another of the light sentences, while a third writer commented that “tax evasion is punished more severely” in Germany.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The leader of the terrorist cell, 33-year-old Abdeladim El-Kebir, received the longest sentence of nine years, despite having been described as the “highest-ranking al Qaeda terrorist (to appear) before a German court until now.” In 2010, El-Kebir, a native of Morocco who has German citizenship, travelled to an al-Qaeda training camp in Pakistan where he received his terrorist education and had “direct contact” with al-Qaeda leaders. After his return to Germany, he wrote in one of his emails to the al-Qaeda leadership: “Oh, our sheikh, we shall keep our promise. We shall start the slaughtering of the dogs.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">And Germans are not expected to be angry about El-Kebir’s <i>kuschel</i> sentence after reading this?</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The planned terrorist attack in Germany appears to have had the approval of Osama bin Laden himself, indicating its importance. The German newspaper, <i>Die Welt,</i> reports that among the documents US Navy Seals seized during the raid on the bin Laden compound in 2011 that resulted in the al Qaeda leader’s much unlamented death was an unfinished note, hand-written by bin Laden himself, which, purportedly, contained El-Kebir’s name.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">“The USA supplied an English translation of the Arabic letter to several European intelligence services, among them also Belgian intelligence,” <i>Die Welt </i>reported. “The possible reason for this is that bin Laden speaks of several terror cells in the letter and mentions other terrorist suspects by name.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">El-Kebir was taken into custody just five days before the raid on bin Laden’s compound. But it was warnings in the fall of 2010 about possible terrorist attacks that first put German intelligence, assisted by the CIA and Moroccan security agencies, on his trail. Three of the four terrorists, including El-Kebir, lived together near the University of Dusseldorf, where authorities kept them under 24-hour observation for more than a year.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">“When the activities in the apartment and the purchases made by the men indicated the building of a bomb, the three were arrested…,” reported <i>Die Welt</i>.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The fourth man, who was responsible for the cell’s financing and logistics, resided in Bochum, another Rhineland city near Dusseldorf. In doing his part to carry out the murder plot, he committed internet fraud with ebay accounts to raise money, rented several apartments, and obtained false identity papers, reportedly from Morocco. Strangely, he was not considered a member of the cell and received the lightest sentence of four years and a half years despite El Kebir having once emailed him: “Brother, let us carry through the work to the end.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Like El Kebir, the three other convicted Islamist terrorists are German citizens of Muslim immigrant background.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">German anger about the sentences is compounded by the fact that El-Kebir will most likely remain in prison only for six years, since he is eligible for a sentence reduction of about a third for ‘good behaviour’.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">But besides anger, there also exists a feeling of anxiety among Germans about the case. With good reason, some believe that after serving their short sentences, the four terrorists will simply take up where they left off in regard to trying to kill as many Bundesrepublik citizens as possible. After all, they will have plenty of time in prison to plan new strikes. America experienced a similar situation with some Guantanamo prisoners who returned immediately to terrorism upon their release. And such Islamist fanatics often leave prison angrier and more determined to kill infidels than before they went in.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">In this particular case, it was reported none of the Dusseldorf cell members expressed any remorse for their homicidal actions. In fact, they remained silent during their two-year trial that saw 22 experts, including an FBI official, and 145 witnesses testify. No regrets and no admissions.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">“In cases such as this one, our ideal of re-socialization is simply out of place,” commented one German observer.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">And since it is all but impossible to integrate these Islamist criminals into German society and in order to protect themselves from possible future attacks, a growing number Germans are calling for two things. The first is that the Dusseldorf cell terrorists, and other convicted Islamists like them, be kept in isolation when in prison. This would help prevent them from both laying future plans for mass murder and from radicalising and recruiting other prisoners to help carry them out.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Such a move is not unprecedented in Germany. The Baader-Meinhof and other left-wing terrorists were isolated for similar reasons when imprisoned during their heyday in the 1970s. And while deadly, Germany’s leftist killers did not pose anywhere near as grave a threat to German lives and society as the Islamists do today.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The second measure concerned Germans want to see adopted is the immediate deportation of the four back to their countries of origin upon their release. Such a move would include stripping them of their German citizenship, a privilege they have more than abused. Only with permanent removal from their country would Germans know that they are safe from any further homicidal plots by these particular criminals.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">But besides security reasons, some maintain that deporting the Dusseldorf cell is the only measure that would remove somewhat the sting of the ‘soft’ sentences. As well, there are financial benefits for the German taxpayer in short sentences combined with deportation. Besides avoiding the obvious expense associated with longer prison terms, the Dusseldorf cell’s removal would save the taxpayer the costs of police observation upon their release, the social welfare benefits they will most likely receive, and the financial burden of any possible future trial and second prison term.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Unfortunately, sensible Germans are under no illusion that their government, tied down by the fallacies of multi-culturalism and political correctness, will act soon upon such urgent, possibly life-saving measures. Instead, they expect to see Islamist criminals, like those in the Dusseldorf cell, continue merrily on their way upon release from prison, happily plotting the murder of innocent people and the destruction of German society while their “cuddly” justice system hands out sentences that do not protect them from, let alone deter, Islamic terrorism, but rather serve to encourage it.</p>
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		<title>Dr. Anna Geifman on &#8220;Bolsheviks, ISIS &amp; Sexual Slavery&#8221; &#8212; on The Glazov Gang</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2014 04:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The author of "Death Orders" unveils the nightmarish similarities between Soviet and Islamic terror.]]></description>
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<p>This week&#8217;s <em>Glazov Gang</em> was joined by <strong>Dr. Anna Geifman</strong>, the author of her most recent book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Death-Orders-Terrorism-Revolutionary-International/dp/0275997529"><em>Death Orders: The Vanguard of Modern Terrorism in Revolutionary Russia</em>.</a> She is currently a Research Associate in the Political Science Department at the University of Bar-Ilan (Israel).</p>
<p>Dr. Geifman returned on the show this week<strong> (see Part I <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/frontpagemag-com/who-is-killing-palestinian-children-on-the-glazov-gang/">here</a>) </strong>to discuss <strong>Bolsheviks, ISIS &amp; Sexual Jihad, </strong>unveiling the nightmarish similarities between Soviet and Islamic terror <strong>(starts at the 17:50 mark).</strong> The dialogue was preceded by her analysis of <strong>Hamas and Terrorists&#8217; Child Sacrifice, </strong>explaining why Islamic terrorists &#8212; and totalitarians in general &#8212; target children. She also expanded on her Aliyah back to Israel, what terrorists do when they capture power and much, much more:</p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" tabindex="0" data-ft="{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}"><span class="hasCaption">Don&#8217;t miss this week&#8217;s second episode with <strong>Dr.</strong> <strong>Mark Christian</strong>,  the President and Executive Director of the <a href="http://globalfaithinstitute.org/">Global Faith Institute</a>. He is the son and nephew of high ranking leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood in his home country of Egypt. After his conversion from Islam to Christianity, Dr. Christian dedicated his life and work to the proposition that &#8220;the first victims of Islam are the Muslim themselves.&#8221; </span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Dr. Christian joined the show to discuss <strong><span id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" tabindex="0" data-ft="{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}"><span class="hasCaption">Confronting the Muslim Brotherhood in the American Heartland</span></span></strong><span id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" tabindex="0" data-ft="{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}"><span class="hasCaption">, explaining </span></span><span id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" tabindex="0" data-ft="{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}"><span class="hasCaption"> Global Faith&#8217;s battle to stop <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/joe-herring-and-dr-mark-christian/omahas-tri-faith-initiative-mirrors-pact-of-umar/">Muslim Brotherhood front groups&#8217; malicious plans </a>within the &#8220;Tri-Faith Initiative&#8221; in Omaha, Nebraska. He also shared his conversion from Islam to Christianity, the dangers he has faced for doing so, his views on ISIS&#8217;s Islamic inspirations, and much more:</span></span></p>
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		<title>Dr. Anna Geifman on &#8220;Hamas and Terrorists&#8217; Child Sacrifice,&#8221; Part II &#8212; on The Glazov Gang</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The author of "Death Orders" explains why Islamic terrorists -- and totalitarians in general -- target children. ]]></description>
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<p>This week&#8217;s <em>Glazov Gang</em> was joined by <strong>Dr. Anna Geifman</strong>, the author of her most recent book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Death-Orders-Terrorism-Revolutionary-International/dp/0275997529"><em>Death Orders: The Vanguard of Modern Terrorism in Revolutionary Russia</em>.</a> She is currently a Research Associate in the Political Science Department at the University of Bar-Ilan (Israel).</p>
<p>Dr. Geifman returned on the show this week<strong> (see Part I <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/frontpagemag-com/who-is-killing-palestinian-children-on-the-glazov-gang/">here</a>) </strong>to continue her analysis of <strong>Hamas and Terrorists&#8217; Child Sacrifice, </strong>explaining why Islamic terrorists &#8212; and totalitarians in general &#8212; target children. She also expanded on her Aliyah back to Israel, what terrorists do when they capture power, the similarities between Islamic Jihad and Bolshevik terror, and much, much more:<strong><br />
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" tabindex="0" data-ft="{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}"><span class="hasCaption">Don&#8217;t miss this week&#8217;s second episode with <strong>Dr.</strong> <strong>Mark Christian</strong>,  the President and Executive Director of the <a href="http://globalfaithinstitute.org/">Global Faith Institute</a>. He is the son and nephew of high ranking leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood in his home country of Egypt. After his conversion from Islam to Christianity, Dr. Christian dedicated his life and work to the proposition that &#8220;the first victims of Islam are the Muslim themselves.&#8221; </span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Dr. Christian joined the show to discuss <strong><span id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" tabindex="0" data-ft="{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}"><span class="hasCaption">Confronting the Muslim Brotherhood in the American Heartland</span></span></strong><span id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" tabindex="0" data-ft="{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}"><span class="hasCaption">, explaining </span></span><span id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" tabindex="0" data-ft="{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}"><span class="hasCaption"> Global Faith&#8217;s battle to stop <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/joe-herring-and-dr-mark-christian/omahas-tri-faith-initiative-mirrors-pact-of-umar/">Muslim Brotherhood front groups&#8217; malicious plans </a>within the &#8220;Tri-Faith Initiative&#8221; in Omaha, Nebraska. He also shared his conversion from Islam to Christianity, the dangers he has faced for doing so, his views on ISIS&#8217;s Islamic inspirations, and much more:</span></span></p>
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		<title>Lois Lerner&#8217;s Vendetta</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2014 04:45:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Toxic partisanship revealed in new emails. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/medium.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-237489" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/medium.jpg" alt="medium" width="303" height="240" /></a>House Republicans have released a Lois Lerner <a href="http://waysandmeans.house.gov/uploadedfiles/lerner_email_a.pdf"><span style="color: #1255cc;">email</span></a> exchange from November 2012 that “clearly demonstrates why Ms. Lerner not only targeted conservatives, but denied such groups their rights to due process and equal protection under the law,” wrote House Ways and Means Committee Chair Dave Camp (R-MI) in a <a href="http://waysandmeans.house.gov/uploadedfiles/camp_to_holder_-_referral_supplement_7_30_2014.pdf"><span style="color: #1255cc;">letter</span></a> to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. The emails were part of additional evidence the Committee turned over to the Justice Department (DOJ) to support a thorough investigation of the IRS’s criminal behavior. “While the Committee has not seen an evidence of a serious investigation by your Department, it is my sincere hope that in light of this new strong evidence that you immediately begin aggressively investigating this matter or appoint a special counsel. The failure to do so will only further erode public trust in not only the IRS, but the Department as well,” Camp warned.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The emails are indeed damning, and they were sent by Blackberry while Lerner was apparently traveling in Great Britain. Lerner begins an exchange with a personal associate who <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/irs-official-called-gop-crazies-email-24774313"><span style="color: #1255cc;">did not work</span></a> at the IRS, during which the former director of the Exempt Organizations Unit makes no effort to hide her contempt.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Lerner begins this part of the exchange by saying she overheard some women say America was bankrupt and &#8220;going down the tubes.” The friend replies, “You should hear the whacko wing of the GOP. The US is through; too many foreigners sucking the teat; time to hunker down buy ammo and food, and prepare for the end. The right wing radio shows are scary to listen to.” Lerner responds, “Great. Maybe we are through if there are that many assholes.” The friend replies, “And I’m talking about the hosts of the show. The callers are rabid.” Lerner responds, “So we don’t have to worry about aliens terRorists (sic). It’s our own crazies that will take us down.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Camp is using this information to make the case that Lerner’s bias is self-apparent, and that the DOJ should get more involved in reviewing her, along with the IRS. He also reiterated his contention that Holder <a href="http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/213792-new-emails-lerner-cursed-conservatives"><span style="color: #1255cc;">has yet</span></a> to make a determined effort to do so. “Despite the serious investigation and evidence this Committee has undertaken into the IRS’s targeting of individuals for their beliefs, there is no indication that DOJ is taking this matter seriously,” he said in a statement. “In light of this new information, I hope DOJ will aggressively pursue this case and finally appoint a special counsel, so the full truth can be revealed and justice is served.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">In his letter to Holder, Camp reveals that the Committee also discovered that Lerner used her personal email account for official business “including confidential return information” and noted that the DOJ could use its resources to discover “whether there was unauthorized disclosure of taxpayer information in violation of the law.” Camp further refers to an email dated February 22, 2012, in which Lerner contacted an IT professional about a “Virus on Home PC,’” further indicating  she kept work info on her home computer, “some of which may have been lost.” Lerner speculates that her computer may have been hacked “because my password was too simple,” raising additional concerns that taxpayer information may have been leaked.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">“Leaked” may be too kind. In April, the House Oversight Committee released <a href="http://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/FN-Combined.pdf"><span style="color: #1255cc;">IRS emails</span></a> revealing that staff members for the Committee&#8217;s Democratic Ranking Member, Elijah Cummings (D-MD), had a number of <a href="http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2014/04/09/new-emaisl-show-lois-lerner-fed-information-about-true-the-vote-to-democrat-elijah-cummings-n1822247"><span style="color: #1255cc;">exchanges</span></a> with the agency in 2012 and 2013 regarding True the Vote, a conservative entity that focuses on the prevention of vote fraud. Because the IRS and Cummings&#8217; staff asked for nearly identical information from True the Vote, there is a strong indication there was a coordinated and improper effort to share confidential information. Prior to this revelation, Cummings claimed no such communication had occurred and he labeled the IRS investigation a “witch hunt.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Lerner was directly involved in attempting to get True the Vote information to Cummings. In an email exchange with deputy Holly Paz, who has since been put on administrative leave, Lerner asked, “Did we find anything?” Paz said no, and Lerner replied, “Thanks, check tomorrow please.” The exchange occurred January 28, three days after Cummings staffers asked for info.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The latest revelations about Lerner follow an equally damning April 2013 exchange revealed earlier this month by the Committee. In that one, Lerner <a href="http://legalinsurrection.com/2014/07/lois-lerner-email-we-need-to-be-cautious-about-what-we-say-in-emails/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">expresses</span></a> the need to be “cautious about what we say in emails” because they might be part of a Congressional search. She then wonders about whether conversations contained by the OCS, the IRS’s internal messaging system, are “searchable.” &#8220;[Instant] messages are not set to automatically save as the standard; however the functionality exists within the software,&#8221; an IRS official wrote back. &#8220;My general recommendation is to treat the conversation as if it could/is being saved somewhere, as it is possible for either party of the conversation to retain the information and have it turn up as part of an electronic search.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">&#8220;Perfect,&#8221; Lerner replied.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">And of course <i>that</i> revelation, indicating that IRS officials may have routinely communicated through a system that wasn’t archived, follows the incredulous assertion last month by IRS Commissioner John Koskinen that two years&#8217; worth of Lerner’s emails were “lost” because her computer <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/irs-lost-lois-lerners-emails-in-tea-party-probe/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">crashed</span></a> in 2011—and her hard drive had been <a href="http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Articles/2014/06/20/IRS-Head-Defends-Destruction-Lois-Lerner-s-Hard-Drive"><span style="color: #1255cc;">thrown away</span></a>. It was a revelation the agency withheld from the Committee for over a year, while it <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/gop-leader-subpoenas-irs-chief-over-missing-emails/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">violates</span></a> the Federal Records Act (FRA) requiring the IRS to preserve key documents. Since then, deputy associate chief counsel<b> </b>Thomas Kane told the Committee that some of those emails might be available on backup tapes.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;"><span style="color: #1255cc;"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2014/07/21/six-questions-from-it-experts-about-the-missing-irs-emails/">Six questions</a></span> posed by Barbara Rembiesa, president and founder of the International Association of Information Technology Asset Managers (IAITAM), a group of IT experts, provided a roadmap for getting to the truth. The first one, &#8220;What happened to the IRS’s IT asset managers who appear to have disappeared at a key juncture?” is followed by a revelation that at least three of the IRS’s IT managers were indeed moved out of their positions around the time the May 2013 Inspector General’s (IG) <a href="http://www.treasury.gov/tigta/auditreports/2013reports/201310053fr.pdf"><span style="color: #1255cc;">report</span></a> detailing the agency’s improper targeting tactics was released. Other probing questions concern the lack of documentation proving Lerner’s hard drive was destroyed, by whom, and IRS policies and procedures for document preservation and disaster-recovery.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The final question was prophetic: &#8220;Where are Lois Lerner’s Blackberry e-mails?” Rembiesa pressed that particular issue. “It is difficult to imagine that none of the emails in question were done on a mobile basis,” she said. “If so, there may be a freestanding stream of email records that would not be impacted by the Lerner hard drive loss.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Two federal judges have made it clear IRS stonewalling on the issue is no longer acceptable. On July 10, U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan gave the agency 30 days to submit a written explanation—under oath—explaining how it lost the emails. The ruling was a response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit brought by Judicial Watch. A day later, U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton <a href="http://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2014/07/11/second-federal-judge-wants-info-on-lost-irs-emails"><span style="color: #1255cc;">demanded</span></a> to know what became of Lerner’s hard drive. If it was destroyed, he wants a sworn affidavit to that effect. He also wants information about the IG&#8217;s investigation. Walton’s ruling was in response to a lawsuit filed by True the Vote, who is also asking the judge to appoint an independent expert to investigate the lost emails. True the Vote’s lawyer, Cleta Mitchell, explained why. &#8220;We don&#8217;t trust the IRS,” she told Walton.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Judicial Watch’s Jay Sekulow is calling for the appointment of a Special Prosecutor based on <a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/jw-obtains-irs-documents-showing-lerner-contact-doj-potential-prosecution-tax-exempt-groups/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">emails</span></a> between Lerner and the DOJ regarding the targeting of conservative groups, as well as the reality that the DOJ investigation (such as it is) is being conducted by Barbara Bosserman. Bosserman is an attorney from the DOJ&#8217;s Civil Right division, not the Public Integrity Section of the Criminal Division that handles public corruption. She has also been a campaign contributor to President Obama and the Democratic Party, presenting what Sekulow, as well as <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/368132/real-and-perceived-bias-irs-investigation-hans-von-spakovsky"><span style="color: #1255cc;">members</span></a> of the Committee, consider a blatant “conflict of interest.” &#8220;There could be no more clear example of the need to appoint a truly objective and independent prosecutor than in this case,” Sekulow <a href="http://aclj.org/free-speech-2/testifying-before-congress-doj-compromised-justice-demands-special-counsel"><span style="color: #1255cc;">contends</span></a>.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">It’s not going to happen. It would be up to Eric Holder to do so, and the most transparently political Attorney General in more than forty years isn’t about to let it happen.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">In the meantime, Lois Lerner remains in the eye of the storm. And what little information has been gleaned from those emails discovered so far reveals her to be every bit the partisan hack those victimized by her efforts have accused her of being.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The Committee should continue its investigation, but in a very measured way: it is not beyond the realm of possibility that Lerner’s emails exist, that they contain no more incriminating information, and that IRS officials who hid the revelation about their destruction are waiting to spring a politically-calculated trap aimed at blowing the investigation out of the water. If that possibility sound conspiratorial, Americans should ask themselves if a year ago, they could have imagined an Obama administration abetting human trafficking by allowing a wholesale invasion of our Southwest border, and shipping thousands of illegal aliens around the nation—in <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/07/25/Over-200-Illegal-Immigrant-Children-Shipped-to-Indiana"><span style="color: #1255cc;">secret</span></a>. When the one rule that governs the implementation of one’s agenda is “by any means necessary,” all things are possible.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why the murder of Muhammad Khdeir must not prevent Israel from dealing decisively with Hamas. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/000_Nic6345898-e1404485005909-635x357.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-235925" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/000_Nic6345898-e1404485005909-635x357-423x350.jpg" alt="000_Nic6345898-e1404485005909-635x357" width="282" height="233" /></a>Originally published by the <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Our-World-Fighting-enemies-from-within-and-without-362004">Jerusalem Post</a>. </em></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Sixteen-year-old Muhammad Abu Khdeir was doing his own thing last Tuesday when he was abducted by Jewish terrorists, who slaughtered him. They killed him because he was an Arab, and they are racist murderers.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The police made solving Abu Khdeir’s murder a top priority. In less than a week, they had six suspects in custody. Three confessed to the murder.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">There are dark forces at work in Israeli society. They need to be dealt with.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">And they will be dealt with harshly.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">They will be dealt with harshly because there is no significant sector in Israeli society that supports terrorism.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">There is no Jewish tradition that condones or calls for the murder of innocents. In Jewish tradition, the line between protecting society from its enemies and committing murder is long, wide, unmistakable and unmoving.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">This is why, for instance, at the memorial service for 20-year-old Shelly Dadon, who was murdered by an Israeli Arab terrorist from the Galilee in early May, the placards held up by the 2,000 participants called for the police to protect the public.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">“Our blood is not worthless,” “Today it’s Shelly, tomorrow it could be you,” and, “Death penalty for murderers,” they read.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Not surprisingly, when on Sunday the police revealed both that they had arrested Abu Khdeir’s Jewish killers and that they had arrested Dadon’s Muslim murderer, public interest in the former story far surpassed interest in the latter.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The story of an Israeli Muslim terrorist murdering an Israeli Jewish woman is a dog bites man story.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The story of Israeli Jewish terrorists murdering an Israeli Muslim teenager is a man bites dog story.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The same goes for violent rioting.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The anti-terror demonstration in Jerusalem scheduled for last Tuesday quickly became a violent anti-Arab riot with rioters assaulting helpless Arab passersby. The police arrested 47 Jewish rioters. And the public as a whole condemned them.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Without public support, such deviant behavior has little longevity. Mob violence, as a general rule, plays to the audience at home. With no public support, the riots were over after one night.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In contrast, Jerusalem Arabs began rioting on Wednesday night. The riots spread to the north and south of the country by the end of the week. And there seems to be no end in sight.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">There are several factors prolonging them. The most troubling is the depraved state of Arab society – both Palestinian Arab and Israeli Arab.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Whereas aside from fascist soccer fan clubs there are no significant Israeli Jewish groups that condone terrorism or racial violence, hatred of Israel and support for terrorism and the destruction of the Jewish state are widespread among Israeli Arab leaders and the general Arab public.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As for the Palestinians, there are no significant forces in Palestinian society calling for peaceful coexistence with Israel. The only voices celebrated are those calling for murdering Jews and destroying the Jewish state.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">There is also the issue of the unfortunate timing the current violence.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The month of Ramadan has only just begun. During Ramadan, Muslims generally sleep during the day, wake up in the evening to eat and stay up all night long. With the widespread societal support for committing violence against Jews, rioting after the holiday meal is an attractive option for young people.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Moreover, we are in the midst of summer vacation. Teenagers with nothing to do can easily keep rioting through the night until school starts on September 1.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Monday night was witness to some encouraging signs. Several Arab mayors took to the streets to discourage continued rioting. The mayor of Kalansuwa, whose residents firebombed Jewish cars over the weekend and beat their drivers, began cleaning up the road. But the rioting is far from a spent force.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Beyond the local cause for their continuation, there are the outside forces itching to take over the action.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Israeli Arabs do not operate in a vacuum.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">If the rioting continues, the current situation, in which much of the violence is spontaneous and locally organized, is not likely to last.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In 1987, the Palestinian uprising began as a spontaneous riot in Gaza City following a traffic accident involving an Israeli driver. At the time, from its distant base in Tunis, the PLO was searching for a way to be relevant.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Yasser Arafat and his goons quickly seized on the riots in the territories and took control of them through a campaign of bribery, extortion and murder.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Today Fatah and Hamas are in the midst of a power struggle. Each is keen to take control of the riots to assert supremacy over the other.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In Fatah’s case the effort still appears limited to incitement. On Monday for instance, Fatah’s Facebook page addressed Israel saying, “Sons of Zion, this is an oath to the Lord of the Heavens: Prepare all the body bags you can for your body parts.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As Palestinian Media Watch has reported, this post was of a piece with other posts Fatah has published in the past week, all making clear that Fatah supports the riots and wishes to subsume them into a larger Fatah-led terror campaign against Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Hamas today faces severe challenges.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Egypt is starving Hamas by blocking the smuggling tunnels from Egypt to Gaza. Fatah is starving Hamas by refusing to pay its employees’ salaries.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Internally Hamas in Gaza is facing a growing challenge from Islamic Jihad on the one hand and al-Qaida and ISIS affiliated terror cells on the other.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As Hamas sees it, no doubt rightly, the best way to rally its people behind it, weaken Fatah and alleviate Egypt’s stranglehold of Gaza is to go to war against the Jews. Operationally, it believes that it has a momentary advantage because a significant number of Israeli forces are tied down in Judea and Samaria.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The Netanyahu government gave Hamas good reason to believe it should press its perceived advantage.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">By openly calling last Thursday for a cease-fire with Hamas, the government demonstrated severe weakness at a critical moment. It is not at all surprising that by Monday Hamas had escalated its attacks and extended the range of the rockets it has deployed to the outskirts of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Nor is it surprising that by Monday night, the government was compelled to launch Operation Protective Edge to destroy Hamas’s missile arsenal.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The Jewish terrorists who murdered Abu Khdeir have made a bad situation much worse for Israel. The largely anti-Semitic international community had difficulty denying Israel’s right to self-defense after Naftali Fraenkel, Gil-Ad Shaer and Eyal Yifrah’s bodies were found last Monday.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Now, despite the obvious differences between Israel and its Arab neighbors, the man-bites-dog story these Jewish terrorists created has relegated Israel again to its normal position of defendant in the continuous Kafkaesque trial that is the Jewish state’s diplomatic fate.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Unfortunately, we cannot stand down because we are mortified by the sick margins of our society.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">We must build on these first signs of remorse and quell the Israeli Arab riots as quickly as possible. Aside from their obvious human toll, every day the riots continue, the prospect of Palestinian terror groups taking over and directing the violence expands.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">So too, Israel has no choice but to fight another round of war with Hamas. And it must win this one decisively.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">It would have been far more advantageous if Israel could have sat back and watched as Hamas and its foes destroyed one another. But this is not an option. Hamas is determined to fight. Israel must defeat it.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Once the dust has settled, or even as it continues to storm, Israel will have to deal with our Jewish terrorist problem.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The weeds of our society must be uprooted. And we must take action to heal Israeli Arab society. We cannot repeat the mistake we made in 2000, by appointing a commission that strengthened the most dangerous forces in Israeli Arab society in an attempt to appease them.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">We must build on the actions of the Arab mayors who have begun to stand up to the rioters and actively encourage Israeli Arabs to integrate into Israeli society while enforcing the laws without prejudice against those who incite, condone, facilitate, organize or otherwise abet mob violence and irredentism among Israeli Arab society.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Israel faces a difficult, violent period ahead. But there are certain imperatives of freedom that we cannot shirk.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Defeating enemies – from within and without – who act to destroy us is one of them.</span></p>
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		<title>The Taliban Got Back Their Terrorists – Now Castro Wants His</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2014 04:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Alan Gross/Cuban-Five deal?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/cf.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-233504" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/cf.jpg" alt="cf" width="292" height="148" /></a>It didn’t take long. Exactly two days after the announcement of the Berghal/Taliban-Five deal, Cuba’s Terror-Sponsoring (official classification by U.S. State Dept.) regime started clamoring for an Alan Gross/Cuban-Five deal.</p>
<p>Alan Gross is a Jewish American held hostage by the Castro regime since December 2009 when he was arrested while distributing computers and satellite phones to Cuba’s microscopic ( and mostly regime-collaborationist) Jewish community while on assignment for USAID (United States Agency for International Development.) After a “trial,” the Castro regime formally sentenced Gross to fifteen years in prison.</p>
<p>“The Cuban Five” are Cuban terrorist/ spies nabbed in south Florida in 1998 and convicted in U.S. federal courts of 26 counts of espionage along with conspiracy to commit murder&#8211; of three U.S. citizens. Two of the five communist spies have already had their sentences reduced and been returned to heroes’ welcomes in Cuba.</p>
<p>To add grotesque insult to Alan Gross’ injury, the very people he was attempting to help, “testified” against him in Castro’s kangaroo court almost <em>en masse</em>. You have to be very careful when entering a snake pit like Castro’s Cuba.</p>
<p>Alan Gross’ heart seemed in the right place, but the wisdom of his Cuban mission can be debated. The people he was trying to help—the few Jews who remained in Castro’s Cuba after over 90 per cent fled the communist revolution—were mostly old Bolsheviks who couldn’t bring themselves to break with the old time religion. As mentioned, they and their descendants did their duty to the Castro regime by ratting out Alan Gross during judicial procedures perfectly mimicking those presided over by Andrei Vishinsky during The Great Terror’s show trials.</p>
<p>“<em>Et Tu Adela</em>?” might have been gasped by the hapless Alan Gross during his trial. But we don’t know because his “trial” was closed to the (uncomplaining) press –from CNN to ABC from NBC to CBS from NPR to PBS&#8211; who infest Cuba. After all, these “gallant crusades for the truth!” (as Columbia school of Journalism hails it’s graduates) have plenty on their Cuban plates already, what with the vital tasks of transcribing the Stalinist regime’s steady flow of propaganda hand-outs and reporting such bombshell scoops as what Beyonce and Jay-Z wore on their Havana visit.</p>
<p>“Adela” refers to Castroite apparatchik Adela Dworin, who performs as president of Havana’s “Jewish Community House” for gullible tourists and “cultural exchange” ambassadors to the Castro family fiefdom. Later, as a proper cap for the revolting Stalinesque charade, Adela Dworin visited Gross in his cell and posed smilingly with her arm around the gaunt but bitterly smiling American hostage she swindled, framed and helped condemn to fifteen years <a href="http://babalublog.com/2014/05/05/alan-gross-poses-with-the-fine-folks-who-duped-him-spied-on-him-and-helped-convict-him/">in a KGB-designed dungeon. </a></p>
<p>A declassified KGB document from May, 20, 1981 revealed by Vladimir Bukovsky snickers the following: “Cultural exchanges with foreign countries are our most effective propaganda.”</p>
<p>To say nothing of a handy-dandy cash pipeline and hostage buffet. As mentioned, Alan Gross was on assignment for USAID. But the scamming of U.S. agencies has never offered even modest sport for Castro’s people. The only challenge might be&#8230;.remember how on the old Carol Burnett show how Carol, Harvey Korman and Tim Conway always cracked up during skits? After trying to stifle the guffaws?</p>
<p>Well, who could possibly blame Castro and his people for similar facial contortions when sneaking vital data to our crackerjack CIA sleuths. To wit:</p>
<p>“We’ve infiltrated Castro’s guerrilla group in the Sierra Mountains. The Castro brothers and Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara <em>have no affiliations with any Communists whatsoever.”</em> (Havana CIA station chief Jim Noel Nov. 1958.)</p>
<p>“Fidel Castro is not only <em>not</em> a communist –he’s a strong <em>anti</em>-Communist fighter. He’s ready to help us in the hemisphere’s anti-communist fight and we should share our intelligence with him.” (CIA Cuba “expert” Frank Bender, after conferring with Fidel Castro upon the latter’s <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Longest-Romance-Mainstream-Media-Castro/dp/1594036675/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1376276049&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+longest+romance+humberto+fontova">visit to the U.S. in April, 1959.)   </a></p>
<p>In an unguarded moment while speaking to the Simon Weisenthal’s Rabbi Abraham Cooper who was allowed to visit Gross last year, a Castro official spilled the beans on Gross’ arrest. Naturally, the U.S. media (eager to maintain their cushy Havana bureaus) have “overlooked” this fascinating item<em>. “Everyone knows that the Jews have a lot of clout in Washington,”</em> the Castro official told Rabbi Cooper, “somewhat sheepishly”&#8211; so sentencing Gross to 15 years could be the key to win the freedom of their agents jailed <a href="http://www.capitolhillcubans.com/2014/04/must-read-was-alan-gross-arrested.html">in the U.S., the thinking went.” </a></p>
<p>Point is, Castro got his American hostage in December 2009, and &#8212; convinced he held a good hand &#8212; immediately cranked up the propaganda campaign to swap his convicted terrorists for Alan Gross. This “Free the Cuban Five” campaign features a rogue’s gallery of Castro’s American agents–of-influence, on the payroll and off; from Danny Glover to Martin Sheen and Susan Sarandon, from Oliver Stone to and Tom Hayden and Jimmy Carter.</p>
<p>Yes, the “Elder Statesmen” of America’s<em> majority</em> political party lends his name to a communist propaganda campaign to unconditionally free the KGB-trained terrorist guilty of&#8211; from the FBI affidavit:</p>
<p>*Gathering intelligence against the Boca Chica Air Naval Station in Key West, the McDill Air Force Base in Tampa and the headquarters of the U.S. Southern Command in Homestead, Fla.</p>
<p>* Compiling the names, home addresses and medical files of the U.S. Southern Command’s top officers, along with those of hundreds of officers stationed at Boca Chica.</p>
<p>* Infiltrating the headquarters of the U.S. Southern Command.</p>
<p>* Sending letter bombs to Cuban-Americans.</p>
<p>* Spying on McDill Air Force Base, the U.S. armed forces’ worldwide headquarters for fighting “low-intensity” conflicts.</p>
<p>* Locating entry points into Florida for smuggling explosive material.</p>
<p>One of these Castro agents, Gerardo Hernandez, also infiltrated the Cuban-exile group Brothers to the Rescue, who flew unarmed planes to rescue Cuban rafters in the Florida straits, also known as “the cemetery without crosses.” The estimates of the number of Cubans dying horribly in the “cemetery without crosses” run from 50-85,000. Brothers to The Rescue risked their lives almost daily, flying over the straits, alerting and guiding the Coast Guard to any <em>balseros</em>, and saving thousands of these desperate people from joining that terrible tally. (Prior to Castroism, by the way, Cuba was swamped with more immigrants per-capita than the U.S., including during the Ellis Island years.)</p>
<p>By February of 1996, Brothers to The Rescue had flown 1,800 of these humanitarian missions and helped rescue 4,200 men, women and children. That month Danny Glover’s and Jimmy Carter’s <em>cause célèbre’</em> passed to Castro the flight plan for one of the Brothers’ humanitarian flights over the straits.</p>
<p>With this info in hand, Castro’s Top Guns, jumped into their MIGs, took off and valiantly blasted apart (in international air space) the lumbering and utterly defenseless Cessnas. Four members of the humanitarian flights were thus murdered in cold blood by communists. Three of these murdered men were U.S. citizens, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Longest-Romance-Mainstream-Media-Castro/dp/1594036675/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1376276049&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+longest+romance+humberto+fontova">one a decorated Vietnam veteran.</a></p>
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		<title>Five Jihadis For One Deserter</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2014 04:58:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Spencer]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Bergdahl prisoner exchange defied intelligence reports and endangers Americans.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/USA_PFC_BoweBergdahl_ACU_Cropped.png"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-226856" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/USA_PFC_BoweBergdahl_ACU_Cropped.png" alt="USA_PFC_BoweBergdahl_ACU_Cropped" width="305" height="275" /></a>When he announced the exchange of five Guanatamo detainees for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who had been held by Islamic jihadists in Afghanistan since 2009, Barack Obama <a href="http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20140531/NATION/305310043/U-S-soldier-freed-from-captivity-Afghanistan"><span style="color: #0433ff;">declared</span></a> that the swap was “a reminder of America’s unwavering commitment to leave no man or woman in uniform behind on the battlefield.” However, as ever more damning information came to light about both the deal and Bergdahl himself, it became increasingly clear that the prisoner exchange was actually a reminder of Barack Obama’s unwavering commitment to appeasing and aiding jihadis.</p>
<p>Many people have questioned the wisdom of this deal that sends five seasoned, committed, and ruthless jihadis back to Afghanistan, where they will undoubtedly resume their jihad against the American troops there. The freed jihadis include, according to the <a href="http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20140531/NATION/305310043/U-S-soldier-freed-from-captivity-Afghanistan"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Associated Press</span></a>, “Abdul Haq Wasiq, who served as the Taliban deputy minister of intelligence”; “Khairullah Khairkhwa, who served in various Taliban positions including interior minister and had direct ties to Mullah Omar and Osama bin Laden”; and “Mohammad Fazl, whom Human Rights Watch says could be prosecuted for war crimes for presiding over the mass killing of Shiite Muslims in Afghanistan in 2000 and 2001.”</p>
<p>Even more disturbing, however, are the questions swirling around Bowe Bergdahl himself. Former infantry officer Nathan Bradley Bethea, who served with Bowe Bergdahl, wrote in the <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/02/we-lost-soldiers-in-the-hunt-for-bergdahl-a-guy-who-walked-off-in-the-dead-of-night.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Daily Beast</span></a> on Monday that “Bergdahl was a deserter, and soldiers from his own unit died trying to track him down.” Refuting reports that Bergdahl got separated from his unit while on patrol, Bethea declared: “Make no mistake: Bergdahl did not ‘lag behind on a patrol,’ as was cited in news reports at the time. There was no patrol that night. Bergdahl was relieved from guard duty, and instead of going to sleep, he fled the outpost on foot. He deserted. I’ve talked to members of Bergdahl’s platoon—including the last Americans to see him before his capture. I’ve reviewed the relevant documents. That’s what happened.”</p>
<p>Corroborating this was an <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/us-concluded-2010-bergdahl-walked-away-185047684--politics.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Associated Press</span></a> report that was also published on Monday, stating that “a Pentagon investigation concluded in 2010 that Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl walked away from his unit, and after an initial flurry of searching the military decided not to exert extraordinary efforts to rescue him, according to a former senior defense official who was involved in the matter.” This official said that the evidence that Bergdahl had deserted was “incontrovertible.”</p>
<p>Why might Bergdahl have deserted? A clue may lie in the fact that <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1305184/Bowe-Bergdahl-Taliban-claim-captured-U-S-solider-teaching-fighters-bomb-making-skills.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">the Taliban claimed in 2010</span></a> that Bergdahl had converted to Islam and was teaching bomb-making to its jihadists. His father, Robert Bergdahl, appears to be a convert to Islam, as during the ceremony with Obama in the Rose Garden announcing the exchange, <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/06/01/obama-submits-to-taliban-demands-allows-praise-for-allah/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">he proclaimed</span></a>: “<i>Bismillah al-rahman al-rahim</i>” – the phrase, “In the name of Allah, the compassionate, the merciful,” which is the heading of 113 of the Qur’an’s 114 chapters. (Journalist Neil Munro noted <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/06/01/obama-submits-to-taliban-demands-allows-praise-for-allah/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">in the Daily Caller</span></a> that “although Bergdahl quoted the Quran verse, the White House transcript did not translate it or even include the Islamic prayer. Instead, the transcript simply said Bergdahl spoke in the Pasho language, which is the language of the Pushtun tribe, which forms the vast majority of the Taliban force. In fact, ‘Bismillah ir-Rahman ir-Rahim’ is Arabic.” The lavishly-bearded Robert Bergdahl has also called for the release of the jihadists in Guantanamo and has implied that American troops are killing Afghan children in <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Robert-Bergdahl.png"><span style="color: #0433ff;">a tweet he concluded with “ameen,”</span></a> the Arabic form of “amen.”)</p>
<p>What’s more, it was also <a href="http://nypost.com/2014/05/31/the-bizarre-tale-of-americas-last-known-pow/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">revealed Monday</span></a> that in an email to his father just days before he deserted, Bergdahl wrote: “I am sorry for everything here. These people need help, yet what they get is the most conceited country in the world telling them that they are nothing and that they are stupid.” He thundered: “I am ashamed to be an American. And the title of US soldier is just the lie of fools. I am sorry for everything. The horror that is America is disgusting.”</p>
<p>His father thundered back: “OBEY YOUR CONSCIENCE!”</p>
<p>Apparently he did, by walking away from his unit and seeking out the Taliban. Nor was his action entirely unexpected. James Rosen reported at <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/06/02/sources-intelligence-community-investigated-bergdahls-conduct/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">FoxNews.com</span></a> Monday that Bergdahl &#8212; “both in his final stretch of active duty in Afghanistan and then, too, during his time when he lived among the Taliban — has been thoroughly investigated by the U.S. intelligence community and is the subject of ‘a major classified file.’” In conveying as much, the Defense Department source confirmed to Fox News that many within the intelligence community harbor serious outstanding concerns not only that Bergdahl may have been a deserter but that he may have been an active collaborator with the enemy.”</p>
<p>It strains credulity to imagine that Barack Obama was not apprised of the existence of this file and these suspicions about Bergdahl. In any case, high-level officials appear to have been aware of them and embarrassed by them for quite some time, as they have enforced a gag order on the members of Bergdahl’s unit, <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/06/02/Former-Officer-Soldiers-Were-Threatened-if-They-Questioned-Bergdahl-Story"><span style="color: #0433ff;">threatening legal action</span></a> against them if they revealed what happened on the night Bergdahl disappeared.</p>
<p>Why the cover-up? Were Obama Administration officials afraid that the story of a Muslim soldier (if the <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1305184/Bowe-Bergdahl-Taliban-claim-captured-U-S-solider-teaching-fighters-bomb-making-skills.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Taliban claim</span></a> is true) deserting his post and joining up with the enemy would have negative repercussions for Obama’s disastrous fantasy-based policies in Afghanistan and elsewhere? Did they think that such news would provide a fresh basis to challenge the “diversity” in the military that military brass value more than life itself – as Army chief of staff George Casey demonstrated <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2009/11/us-army-general-lack-of-diversity-in-army-is-worse-than-mass-murder"><span style="color: #0433ff;">when he said</span></a> right after the Fort Hood jihad massacre that “as horrific as this tragedy was, if our diversity becomes a casualty, I think that’s worse”?</p>
<p>Whatever his reasoning may be, Obama has now traded five battle-hardened jihad warriors for someone he was in a position to know was a deserter and possibly a traitor, who had said that he was ashamed to be an American. If the mainstream media and the Democratic Party covers for the President in this, the latest in his long string of insults to the American people, it will be an outrage. But there is no doubt that they will do so. And quickly this incident will be forgotten, like all of Obama’s earlier insults. But if there are any free people left in America, they will not let this incident be forgotten – and will use it as the linchpin to begin the massive change we so desperately need in the political and media culture.</p>
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		<title>Negotiating With Terrorists Doesn’t Work</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2014 04:40:39 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/John-Kerry-and-Mahmoud-Ab-009.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-222864" alt="John Kerry and Mahmoud Abbas" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/John-Kerry-and-Mahmoud-Ab-009.jpg" width="326" height="275" /></a>Let’s set aside the moral issue that it’s wrong to negotiate with terrorists and the practical issue that negotiating with terrorists encourages more terrorism. Those are both right and obvious, but there’s also a third issue. Negotiating with terrorists doesn’t work unless they intend to stop being terrorists.</span></p>
<p>The peace process between Israel and the PLO has never worked and will never work because the members of the terrorist group never intended to stop being terrorists. The PLO yammers on about Palestine, a country that never existed and a name that has nothing to do with the Arab conquerors they descend from, but functions like a terrorist group, not like a state.</p>
<p>Diplomats and politicians write up annual reports claiming that the Palestinian Authority has made progress with its civic institutions and its economic development. The truth is that if anything it has actually gone backward.</p>
<p>Mahmoud Abbas has no intention of running for office. The elected legislature has long been defunct and actual decisions are made by the PLO Council. The Palestinian Authority is a dictatorship run by high profile leaders of a terrorist group. It is less open and democratic than it was a decade ago and it wasn’t very open and democratic back then either.</p>
<p>The only progress that the latest incarnation of the peace process achieved was to give Abbas enough confidence to boot his Prime Minister who was there to assure the Euros that there was some slightly competent management at the helm. The same pundits who were praising Fayyad for salvaging the Palestinian Authority have already forgotten about him.</p>
<p>The international community has poured fortunes into the Palestinian Authority to construct civic institutions and engage in economic development. Despite all that, the Palestinian Authority is a smaller scale model of every regional tyranny with economic monopolies for the sons of Abbas, no freedom and no elections that matter.</p>
<p>Unlike them, it’s also incapable of paying for anything or maintaining its own economy.</p>
<p>Imagine if Assad’s regime was entirely subsidized by foreign donors. Imagine that it was also largely run by foreign experts free of charge. Imagine if it didn’t actually do anything except use aid money to pay its gangs of terrorists and bureaucrats who don’t actually do anything either except occasionally kill people.</p>
<p>That’s as good as the Palestinian Authority ever gets. It’s not a state, it’s a welfare state run by terrorists.</p>
<p>And that’s the problem.</p>
<p>Terrorists and states negotiate differently.  Terrorists escalate a conflict to achieve leverage for their latest demand. They don’t seek a final settlement. There can be no final settlement because that would mean the end of terror.</p>
<p>Arafat and Abbas always negotiated the same way. They arrived prepared to disrupt the negotiating session at a crucial moment. The “peace process” was their hostage and they always hijacked it and began issuing demands.</p>
<p>It’s no surprise that the same thing happened yet again.</p>
<p>Faced with having to compromise, Abbas looked around and took the peace process hostage. Again. Now the process is, once again, on the brink of collapse. Netanyahu is resigned because this is what he knew would happen all along; as did anyone who had been paying attention for the last twenty years.</p>
<p>That doesn’t include John Kerry or most Western politicians and diplomats who still assume that if you get the parties to sit down at a table, they will compromise and work things out.</p>
<p>Negotiations work when both parties view them as an end to the conflict, rather than an extension of it. Terrorists treat a willingness to negotiate as a sign of weakness. Negotiations are their punctuation marks between bombings. The negotiations don’t end or even interrupt the conflict, they perpetuate it.</p>
<p>Arafat and Abbas never abandoned terrorism. Not only did they fight like terrorists, but they also negotiated like terrorists. And terrorists can’t be negotiated with because they don’t view negotiations as a long term peace process, but as a short term means of achieving their latest demand.</p>
<p>Abbas approached the latest pre-negotiating negotiations with Israel the same way that his terrorists approached airplane hijackings. Instead of seeking a final outcome, he instead took the negotiations hostage repeatedly to secure the release of some of his terrorists. Having achieved that goal, he then took the process hostage again to extract the release of even more important terrorists.</p>
<p>Israel and the United States have long term goals, but Abbas only has short term goals. He isn’t out to “liberate” Palestine, but to score some easy victories that will let him coast along as a terrorist leader.</p>
<p>Unlike Arafat or Bin Laden, Mahmoud Abbas is not an ambitious man and that’s a very good thing. Ambitious terrorists are much more trouble. Abbas is content with the status quo, but always looking for an angle. He may get around to getting statehood for his piece of the West Bank as long as it can include enough Israeli territory that his responsibilities and his power structure don’t have to change.</p>
<p>Abbas is not interested in change. Neither are most of his comrades who live very comfortably at the top of the Fatah heap. That is also why he isn’t interested in the peace process.</p>
<p>Israel and the United States want to end the conflict, but Abbas wants to keep it going. The conflict has been good to him. Ending it would stick him with a tiny country, accusations of treason and the tedious tasks of government.</p>
<p>And what’s in it for him?</p>
<p>The teenager who has been educated and indoctrinated by the system set up by Arafat and run by Abbas believes in dying for Palestine, but Abbas knows quite well that Palestine is just Greater Syria misspelled and that Syria isn’t looking too promising these days.</p>
<p>He doesn’t believe in Palestine. He believes in terrorism. He believes in Abbas.</p>
<p>Abbas knows his own limitations. He’s not a great leader. He isn’t capable of running a country and when it comes to playing politics, he isn’t very good at it. If the Palestinian Authority had anything like real democracy, it’s doubtful that anyone would elect him dogcatcher.</p>
<p>The president of the Palestinian Authority is a very lucky man and he knows it. He has wealth, power and foreign leaders take him seriously. But that’s only because he holds the key to the peace process. Fast forward another five years into some imaginary utopia in which a final settlement has been achieved and he would have trouble getting anyone to return his phone calls, let alone provide him with the foreign aid that allows him to live in the manner that he has become accustomed to.</p>
<p>Peace has nothing to offer Abbas. It has nothing to offer Fatah. It’s just the bait in the trap that keeps money flowing into their pockets.</p>
<p>Arafat didn’t have a plan for a country. He had a plan to for an international mercenary force that would fight and die in the name of a country that never existed and that he had no expectation of ever creating. The peace process didn’t change that. What it did was increase his leverage over Israel, the United States and the world.</p>
<p>The peace process always ends in conflict because the side that cares least about peace has all the leverage. That is why no matter how many times the negotiations begin, they always end in war.</p>
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		<title>Releasing Murderers for Peace</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2014 04:19:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ronn Torossian]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The insanity of the "peace process." ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/abbas-released-terrorists-550x317.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-222239" alt="abbas-released-terrorists-550x317" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/abbas-released-terrorists-550x317.jpg" width="283" height="221" /></a>If one believes the narrative told by the mainstream media and the Obama Administration, peace will come when Israel returns strategic parts of the Jewish homeland (which Israel won in a defensive war), releases terrorists, allows the return of millions of Palestinian Arab refugees, divides Jerusalem, abandons Holy sites to Muslim control and carries out a series of other “concessions.” Then, the Arabs will suddenly and miraculously recognize peace.  Anyone who believes this tale surely believes in flying elephants. (My </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.5wpr.com/">PR Firm in NYC</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> is selling The Brooklyn Bridge also if you are interested.)</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Most recently – it was ignored by every single mainstream worldwide media outlet – </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/pa-official-jews-have-no-right-to-western-wall/">two Palestinian Authority officials stated that Jews must be forbidden from praying at the Western Wall</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> and at the Temple Mount. Located in Jerusalem, The Temple Mount is Judaism&#8217;s holiest site, of which The Western Wall is located at the foot of the western side of the Temple Mount. It is the location of the two holy temples of Jerusalem, the latter of which was destroyed by the Romans in 70 C.E. Currently, Jews pray freely at the Western Wall (except when being showered by rocks being thrown by Arabs), although Jewish prayer is restricted at the Temple Mount.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">This week, Tayseer Al-Tamimi, former Chief Justice of the Palestinian Authority Religious Court, said, “Allah decreed that the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque is Islamic and belongs to Muslims alone. It is part of the religious belief of a billion and a half Muslims, and the Jews have no right to it… or the right to pray in any part of it. The Al-Aqsa Mosque includes all its courtyards… and specifically, its western wall.” In December 2013, on official Palestinian Authority TV, the Palestinian Authority Minister of Religious Affairs Mahmoud Al-Habbash said that &#8220;The Al-Aqsa Mosque will remain, by divine decree, a Muslim mosque, will not be shared with anyone, will not be forfeited, and no one besides Muslims will pray in it.” In the interview he said that the Western Wall is “an authentic part of the Al-Aqsa Mosque only.” </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">An Israeli non-government organization, Palestinian Media Watch, released translations of these comments, yet the world media has ignored this story. Publicizing these speeches would not support the narrative that media pursues &#8212; Israel is the &#8220;apartheid state&#8221; and Arabs are oppressed.  The reality is that Israel offers all citizens – and religions – freedom of prayer, and more. While Jews – until today – have limited visitation to the Temple Mount, the Arabs worship freely throughout Israel. Meanwhile, Palestinian Arabs – and the Arab world – are clear that they do not accept Jews. Now which one is intolerant?</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Only two years ago, in 2012, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said, “Jerusalem is a Muslim and Christian city, and there will be neither peace nor security until the Israeli occupation, settlements, and settlers leave the city. Jerusalem’s identity is Arab, and the city’s and Christian holy sites must be protected from Israeli threats.” Abbas said, “there will be no peace or stability before our beloved city and eternal capital is liberated from occupation and settlement.” Talk of concessions and co-existence is always directed at Israel, and focused on pressuring the only Jewish State in the world.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">What is it that the Arabs have sacrificed (other than countless terrorist martyrs)? Abbas and the entire Palestinian Arab world say Jews will not be permitted to pray – or live – in Jerusalem, the holiest city for Judaism.  Despite this – and regular acts of terror – Israel is expected to continue with this absurd “peace” process?</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The next step in this “peace” process is Israel being expected to release murderers in pursuit of peace. Logical &#8212; if you live in an insane asylum. These negotiations are leading nowhere and the Palestinians continue to get concessions from Israel – </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Kerry-destroy-Abbas-peace/2014/01/01/id/544682/">in a desire to destroy Israel piece by piece through this sham “peace process.”</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">  How can peace be made with people who say Jews cannot live anywhere they choose?</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Murderers going free is not peace, and cannot lead to peace. </span></p>
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		<title>The Israeli Left Pursues the Treason Vote</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Steven Plaut]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How dare anyone deny terrorists and their families the benefits of welfare payments! ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/abbas.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-219530" alt="abbas" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/abbas-450x253.jpg" width="315" height="177" /></a>It has long been Israel&#8217;s answer to merging Orwell with Chelm, the mythical town of amusing stupidity in Jewish folklore.  For years, the Israeli government has provided social security and other social welfare payments to convicted Arab terrorists and murderers.  If an Arab otherwise entitled to unemployment insurance, welfare payments, pensions, or other &#8220;social&#8221; payments happens to engage in terrorism and happens to be imprisoned, he and his family continue to receive the welfare payments.  If the terrorist dies, his dependents collect survivor benefits, like orphans in the US whose parent has passed away but was covered by social security.  Terrorists disabled while planting bombs or attacking Jews could collect disability insurance stipends.</p>
<p>In 2012, an initiative was begun in the Knesset led by David Rotem (from the Yisrael Beitenu party), to cut the stipends and pensions paid to convicted murderers and terrorists by 50%.  That is correct – the Knesset was only one-half working against welfare support for terrorists, by preserving only half of the stupidest idea in human history.  Rotem wanted to eliminate the Paychecks for Terrorists Program altogether but there was too much opposition from the rest of the Knesset and the government&#8217;s pin-headed lawyers. Israel&#8217;s Ministry of Justice bureaucrats opposed any reduction in the welfare benefits for the mass murderers.  It would be unjust, you see.  Insensitive to the needs of the families of the terrorists.  The Israeli Left denounced the initiative as &#8220;anti-democratic.&#8221;</p>
<p>This past week a related initiative in the Knesset sought to deny pensions to convicted terrorists freed from prison, such as in any of those mind-numbingly stupid &#8220;prisoner exchanges&#8221; in which Israel sets the mass murderers free to wander the avenues and byways.  The bill does not really strip them of welfare payments  altogether, it just says they cannot start collecting benefits until the full prison term to which they had been sentenced is finished.  That way they cannot collect early if they are released before the end of the sentence.</p>
<p>What is amazing is that the Israeli Left voted <em>against</em> the bill. How dare anyone deny terrorists and their families the benefits of Israeli welfare payments!  The Menshevik Israeli Labor Party voted <em>against</em> the bill, showing that its  electoral strategy seems to be to challenge the ultra-leftist Meretz party over which party will attract the most votes from the treason constituency.  But even within the Netanyahu coalition, there were dissidents who voted against the bill and in favor of the terrorists.</p>
<p>In particular, Amram Mitzna <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/177678#.UwdZivmSz-q">voted for the terrorists</a>.  Mitzna is now a member of Tzipi Livni&#8217;s party, which is part of the Netanyahu coalition.  This is the same Mitzna who once was a contender for Prime Minister from Labor, and before that served as the Third-Worldish mayor of Haifa.</p>
<p>Meanwhile the Israeli Left continues to endorse boycotts and more boycotts against Israel.  In some cases it claims it &#8220;only&#8221; wants boycotts directed against settlements, and in other cases it supports world-wide boycotts against all of Israel.  Since all of Israel built and maintains the &#8220;settlements,&#8221; there really is not much of a difference. Ex-Meretz Kommissar Yossi &#8220;Call Me Ishmael&#8221; Sarid is the latest to endorse boycotts, <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.575481">writing in Haaretz</a> this week.</p>
<p>It needs to be emphasized that these endorsements of anti-Israel boycotts show how fundamentally anti-democratic the Israeli Left is.   The Israeli Left has failed miserably over decades to persuade the Israeli electorate and public of the correctness of its &#8220;ideas.&#8221;  Since the vast majority of Israelis REJECT the platform of the Left, the Leftists stoop to anti-democratic means &#8211; by attempting to get their anti-Israel friends all over the world to subvert Israeli sovereignty and impose the will of the tiny Israeli Leftist minority on the country through extortion and economic warfare.</p>
<p>There is no difference between boycotts of settlements and boycotts of all of Israel.   A democratic Left would attempt to peddle its opinions in the Israeli marketplace of ideas and try to persuade the Israeli public of the correctness of its positions.  If successful, the voters would elect governments who would force the &#8220;settlers&#8221; to leave the &#8220;occupied territories.&#8221;    The &#8220;settlers&#8221; are where they are because the Israeli government and the bulk of the electorate want them to be there, in &#8220;settlements.&#8221;   The economic warfare against &#8220;settlements&#8221; is in fact a program of aggression against the electorate who decided to have &#8220;settlements&#8221; constructed and maintained in the first place, and who continue to wish these &#8220;settlements&#8221; to thrive and grow.   The settlements are the will of the Israeli people and the voting public.</p>
<p>The boycotters, including their amen chorus within the radical Left in Israel, are opposed to democratic rule.  They want to strip the Israeli electorate of its rights of sovereignty.  They want to coerce the country into accepting a program endorsed by perhaps two or three percent of Israelis and opposed by the rest.  The Left insists that removal of &#8220;settlements&#8221; is the path to peace.  But the rest of Israelis think that removal of settlements simply eliminates all obstacles to the erection of a new Islamofascist terrorist entity in the suburbs of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, one that will be used by the terrorists to launch endless massive rocket and missile attacks against the Jews.</p>
<p>Israelis who are <em>not</em> part of the tiny Leftist fringe see the settlements as mine canaries that measure the true intentions of &#8220;Palestinians.&#8221;   They also believe that Israelis have at least as much of a right to live in &#8220;settlements&#8221; in Judea and Samaria (the &#8220;West Bank&#8221;) as Arabs have to live inside Israel.   The Jews are the true indigenous population of the Land of Israel and they are no more &#8220;occupiers&#8221; when they live in the West Bank than Native Americans are when they live in North America.</p>
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		<title>The Lawless Presidency &#8212; on The Glazov Gang</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Feb 2014 05:34:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Will Congress ever hold Obama accountable for his usurpation of power? ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Barack-Obama.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-219281" alt="Barack-Obama" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Barack-Obama-450x248.jpg" width="315" height="174" /></a>This week’s Glazov Gang was joined by <strong>Ann-Marie Murrell</strong>, the National Director of <a href="http://politichicks.tv/">PolitiChicks.tv</a>, <strong>Tommi Trudeau</strong>, the Producer of <a href="http://www.stage32.com/profile/6385/Project/GROOVY-FOODS">Groovy Foods,</a> and <strong>Nonie Darwish</strong>, the author of <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Devil-Dont-Know-Revolutions/dp/1118133390">The Devil We Don&#8217;t Know</a></em>.</p>
<p>The Gang gathered to discuss <em><a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/arnold-ahlert/the-lawless-presidency/">The Lawless Presidency</a></em>. The dialogue occurred in <strong>Part II (</strong>starting at the<strong> 16:15 mark) </strong>and focused on when (if ever) Congress will hold Obama accountable for his usurpation of power. The discussion was preceded by a focus on <em><a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/tommi-trudeau/video-a-day-in-the-life-of-trying-to-sign-up-for-obamcare/">A Day in the Life of Trying to Sign Up for ObamaCare,</a></em> in which Tommi Trudeau shared his harrowing odyssey in the eerie world of the &#8220;Affordable Care Act.<em>&#8220;</em></p>
<p>In <strong>Part I,</strong> the Gang discussed <em><a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/nonie-darwish/the-islamic-grinch-who-stole-the-olympics/">The Islamic Grinch Who Stole the Olympics</a></em>, gauging why the Olympics strike at the heart of Islamic ideology &#8212; and why jihadists yearn to annihilate them. The segment also dealt with <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/nonie-darwish/jihad-migrating-to-red-states-with-obamas-blessing/"><em>Jihad Migrating to Red States With Obama’s Blessings,</em></a> analyzing why the president is easing immigration requirements for those linked to terror. <em></em></p>
<p><strong></strong>Watch both parts of the two-part episode below:</p>
<p><strong>Part I:</strong></p>
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		<title>The Long-Term Cost of Releasing Terrorists</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jan 2014 05:52:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why would the Palestinians end their terror war when they know that intransigence works? ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/ShowImage.ashx_.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-214835" alt="ShowImage.ashx" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/ShowImage.ashx_.jpg" width="314" height="232" /></a>Originally published by the <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Our-World-The-long-term-cost-of-releasing-terrorists-337282">Jerusalem Post</a>. </em></p>
<p>On Sunday, Issa Karaka, the Palestinian Authority’s minister for jailed terrorists, announced that in the next round of terrorist releases, Israel will release not only Palestinian terrorist murderers, but Israeli Arabs who murdered Israeli Jews in terrorist attacks.</p>
<p>As late as last week, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu was said to have completely rejected the Palestinian demand. But in response to Karaka’s statement, Netanyahu’s spokesman said only that the release of Israeli Arab terrorists would be subject to the approval of the government. In other words, Karaka was probably telling the truth.</p>
<p>The question is what has changed? Why happened over the past week that forced Netanyahu to cave? The obvious answer is that US Secretary of State John Kerry came to Jerusalem, again. And he forced Netanyahu’s hand, again.</p>
<p>Kerry is the Palestinians’ ace in the hole. He used the US’s limitless leverage on Israel to coerce Israel into agreeing to pay for the privilege of speaking to Palestinian negotiators who reject our country’s right to exist and extol as heroes the terrorist scum who murder us.</p>
<p>For the pleasure of their company, Kerry forced Israel to agree up-front to release scores of Palestinian terrorist murderers. And he did so in bad faith.</p>
<p>According to a high-ranking government official, Israel told Kerry it would release 82 murderers, none of whom are Israelis. And he agreed.</p>
<p>But then, during a joint appearance with Kerry, PLO chief Mahmoud Abbas announced that Israel had agreed to release 104 terrorists, including Israeli citizens. Rather than correct him, Kerry went along, and so locked Israel into a concession it had never made.</p>
<p>And now, with Kerry’s support, Karaka said that if Israel refuses to release Israeli Arab murderers in the next round of releases, the PLO will abandon the talks. The EU has already announced that it will blame Israel for any PLO walkout.</p>
<p>It has been clear for some time that Israel is playing a sucker’s game here.</p>
<p>The deck is stacked against us. Every step Israel takes to either buy time or lessen US pressure only leads to more pressure.</p>
<p>Netanyahu reportedly agreed to release terrorists from prison because Kerry told him that he had to make a big concession: either release murderers or effectively surrender Israel’s national rights to Judea and Samaria and Jerusalem by abrogating Jewish property rights in those areas through a so-called construction freeze. As law professor Eugene Kontorovich explained last week in Commentary, Netanyahu chose the terrorist release as the lesser of two evils because it involved no long-term, substantive concession of Israel’s national and legal rights to the Palestinians.</p>
<p>But then along came the Palestinian- American demand for Israel to release Israeli Arab terrorists, and transformed the Palestinian-American demand for Israel to release terrorists from just another act of bad faith into an assault on Israel’s right to exist.</p>
<p>For sovereignty to mean anything, a national government needs to have the capacity to enforce its laws without prejudice on all of its citizens. If this does not occur, over time, members of the group toward which national authorities fail to apply the law will feel less loyal, less attached and less obligated to that authority and, if there is a competing authority filling the vacuum, that authority will come to enjoy more loyalty, attachment and obligation from the spurned or immune citizens of the weakened national authority.</p>
<p>The PLO’s demand that Israel release terrorists who hold Israeli citizenship, (or in the case of Jerusalem residents, permanent residency), is a clear bid to weaken Israel’s sovereignty over Jerusalem, and over the Galilee and the Negev.</p>
<p>More generally it is an attempt to undermine Israel’s right to assert its sovereign authority over non-Jews.</p>
<p>By the PLO’s calculations, if Israel’s right to assert its sovereignty over its non-Jewish citizens and residents is sufficiently discredited, then over time, the PLO can destroy Israeli democracy and undo Israel’s national rights and sovereignty.</p>
<p>Since the onset of the so-called peace process between Israel and the PLO in 1993, one of the PLO’s strategic goals has been to win the Israeli Arabs over to its side and cause the Israeli Arabs to reject their Israeli identity. The same has been the case for Arab Jerusalemites who are permanent residents of Israel.</p>
<p>From 1993 through 2000, the PLO spent tens of millions of dollars to advance this aim. And to a large degree, they were successful. By the start of the Palestinian terror war against Israel in 2000, the vast majority of Israeli Arabs rejected Israel’s right to exist and all Arab MKs were openly opposed to Israel’s existence. The Arab Israeli riots in October 2000, during which Israeli Arabs launched mob assaults against Jews were a direct consequence of PLO incitement and subversion of the Israeli Arab community over the previous seven years.</p>
<p>Over the ensuing years, some of the deadliest terror attacks were carried out by terror cells that included Israeli Arabs or Jerusalemites. The Silwan terror cell from Jerusalem, which was most active in 2002 and 2003, carried out multiple massacres that killed 35 Israelis and wounded hundreds more.</p>
<p>But while some Israeli Arabs and Jerusalemites joined the Palestinian campaign to destroy Israel, many more embarked on an opposite path of full integration into Israeli society. Since 2000, tens of thousands of Jerusalemites have applied for Israeli citizenship.</p>
<p>Each year more and more Arab parents in Jerusalem – and increasingly in the Galilee and Haifa – are registering their children in Hebrew-language, Jewish schools.</p>
<p>The number of Christian Arabs enlisting in the IDF has increased hundreds of percentage points over the past few years. The number of Muslim and Christian Israeli Arabs volunteering in national service is similarly skyrocketing.</p>
<p>Even Jerusalem residents are volunteering for national service. And adult Arabs are integrating into all levels of the job force countrywide.</p>
<p>As Nadav Shragai reported in Friday’s Yisrael Hayom, Israel’s acquiescence last month to the Palestinian-American demand to release five terrorist murderers from eastern Jerusalem endangers the integrationist trend in the city. It strengthens the hand of Hamas and the PLO over Israel by weakening the Arabs’ assessment of Israel’s national authority.</p>
<p>Obviously, the same will occur in the Galilee and Negev if Israel releases Israeli Arab terrorist murderers from prison.</p>
<p>One of the reasons that most Israelis now recognize that the peace process is a hoax is that the PLO continues to signal that a “final” accord will not settle all Palestinian claims against Israel. The PLO intends to use a “Palestine” in Judea, Samaria, Jerusalem and Gaza to threaten and weaken Israel’s sovereignty in its remaining territory. The PLO’s demand that Israel free its own citizens from prison for acts of treason and murder is a clear indication that this is in fact the group’s long-term plan.</p>
<p>Kerry’s support for the PLO’s demands on terrorists shows Israel two things.</p>
<p>First, at a minimum, Kerry doesn’t have a problem with the Palestinian claim that Israel’s sovereign rights over non- Jews – and hence Israel’s right to sovereignty generally – is limited at best. Second, it shows that there are no concessions that Netanyahu can make to Kerry that will not have dire long-term consequences for Israel.</p>
<p>Walking away from the phony negotiations will be painful. But as Kerry’s demands indicate, the price for remaining at the table gets higher by the day.</p>
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		<title>Legal Support for Terrorism at the University of Haifa</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Nov 2013 04:24:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Steven Plaut]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The alleged crusaders of "human rights" show their true colors. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/haifa-university.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-210754" alt="haifa university" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/haifa-university.jpg" width="245" height="194" /></a>In recent days the University of Haifa in northern Israel, where I am also employed,  has come under intensive criticism because the &#8220;legal clinics&#8221; operated by its School of Law here are assigning law students the task of counseling and defending convicted Arab terrorists and mass murderers of Jews.   The President of the University recently issued a statement defending the activities of these &#8220;clinics.&#8221;  The <a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2207730">Dean of the Law School</a> together with the head of the &#8220;clinics&#8221; went on the attack and denounced those who criticize the practice of the &#8220;clinics&#8221; to counsel and defend the terrorists.</p>
<p>The Dean, <a href="http://weblaw.haifa.ac.il/he/Faculty/barzilai/Publications/29_FantasiesofLiberalism_prepub.pdf">Prof. Gad Barzilai</a>, <a href="http://www.tau.ac.il/law/plilim/abs5.html">is a radical</a> active in leftist &#8220;human rights&#8221; groups and involved in academic <a href="http://israel-academia-monitor.com/index.php?type=large_advic&amp;advice_id=8662&amp;page_data%5Bid%5D=171&amp;cookie_lang=en">politicization </a>in Israel (<a href="http://seattletimes.com/html/opinion/2008682441_opinb29gaza.html">Barzilai</a> was a defender of the Department of Politics at Ben Gurion University &#8211; the worst anti-Israel agitprop center in the country &#8211; when an international panel of experts called for shutting it down).  He claims that all criticism of the law school for its involvement with terrorists is politically motivated.  In particular he denounced the Zionist student movement &#8220;<i>Im Tirtzu</i>&#8221; for <a href="http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=13065">criticizing the law school</a>.  Several faculty members at the University called for filing SLAPP suits against the students to silence them, and <a href="http://isracampus.org.il/third%20level%20pages/HaifaU%20-%20Micah%20Leshem%20-%20Pens%20Anti-Semitic%20Cartoon.htm">one anti-Israel faculty extremist</a> complained that the clinics were not defending the terrorists <b><i>enough</i></b>.</p>
<p><i>Im Tirtzu</i> <a href="http://www.nrg.co.il/online/1/ART2/518/845.html">claims that 80% of the cases</a> taken on by the University of Haifa legal clinic for &#8220;prisoner rights&#8221; involved Arab terrorists and spies.  <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/173559#.UoR3dK8UHQw">One involved a terrorist and convicted rapist</a> seeking a furlough.  Dean Barzilai insists that the law school is simply devoted to &#8220;repairing society&#8221; and defending the &#8220;weakened populations&#8221; of Israel.  In the past, the law school <a href="http://zioncon.blogspot.co.il/2011/06/university-of-haifa-bans-hatikva.html">prohibited the singing</a> of Hatikva, the Israeli national anthem, at its graduation ceremonies, claiming it would offend the sensitivities of Arab students.</p>
<p>On a discussion list for faculty members in the University of Haifa, I posted the following statement on November 13, 2013 as a response to the statement from the Dean of Law:</p>
<p>To:  The Segel-Plus Discussion List<br />
From:  Prof. Steven Plaut<br />
Re:  Some more Ideas for the Law Clinics to Achieve Social Justice and Help the Weak<br />
Date:  November 13, 2013</p>
<p>I am sure we are all grateful for the amazing statement distributed by the Dean of Law and the head of the &#8220;law clinics&#8221; in the school of law.  It is chock full of impressive claims and arguments.  There we learn how the law school is dedicated to achieving reforms of and repairs of society without any need for students (or faculty?) to study social science.  We learn how the law school is dedicated to rehabilitation of prisoners without the need to take any courses or training in social work. We learn there is such a discipline taught at the law school entitled &#8220;feminist law,&#8221; as well as dedication to supporting &#8220;Palestinian Israelis,&#8221; whatever that is, and not only via prohibition of the singing of <i>Hatikva, </i>the national anthem.  How fortunate that, unlike the <i>Im Tirtzu</i> student group, the law school is not politicized!  And most importantly, we learn that the law school is dedicated to recruiting students to counsel and serve imprisoned terrorists and mass murderers because of the school&#8217;s concern for &#8220;weakened populations,&#8221; but clearly not counseling and serving the families of the victims of these terrorists.</p>
<p>Numerous questions arise from reading the distinguished statement by the Dean of Law and the head of the &#8220;clinics.&#8221;  First of all, we would all like to know whether the University&#8217;s law clinics will be defending the gentleman who stabbed the soldier Eden Atias in the neck this morning in Afula, after which he bled to death.  It goes without saying that the law school will not be sending any students to help the family of Atias defend itself or litigate.  After all, they live in Upper Nazareth and so are not part of any &#8220;weakened population.&#8221;  After that, can we expect the law clinics to be sending out students to counsel and defend the convicted murderers of the child Dani Katz, who was kidnapped and murdered by Arab terrorists just a few steps from the campus? Surely they are as deserving of such counseling as the other terrorist clients of the law school clinics.  And since the family of Dani Katz lives in Denya (a luxurious upscale neighborhood), they clearly are not part of any &#8220;weakened population&#8221; in need of any special attention from the clinics.</p>
<p>But why stop here?  What about the terrorists who participated in the massacre of children in Maalot in 1974?  I do not know if any of the perps are now in prison or will ever be, but &#8211; if they are &#8211; surely they are deserving of a special clinic in which students are sent out to promote social justice by defending them.  As for the victims of the massacre and their families, these are no doubt well entrenched in the middle class these days and so there is no need for them to be treated as clients of the clinics.  And why not get ahead of current events?  Why should not the law school clinics offer their services to the leaders of Iran, so that, if Iran ever uses nuclear weapons against Israel, those Iranian leaders will know they can expect to get qualified legal counseling and representation from the clinics?</p>
<p>Among the folks who clearly can never be part of the &#8220;weakened population&#8221; are settlers, Ultra-Orthodox <i>Chareidim</i>, Russian immigrants, soldiers, and members of <i>SHAS</i> (religious party of Oriental Jews). More generally, would it not be simpler just to announce openly that the test for being part of a weakened population is participation in anti-Israel activities, while the test for being in a non-weakened population is to be the victim of any of the former? And since all anti-Israel political groups in the universe these days define themselves as &#8220;human rights defenders,&#8221; while never of course defending the Jewish victims of Arab terrorism because <b><i>clearly those</i></b> folks are entitled to no human rights, the law school can form alliances with such anti-Israel groups in the name of human rights.  Just as long as it never forms any alliances with any non-leftist or pro-Israel NGOs.</p>
<p>Finally, it is always refreshing when people openly promote the idea that the purpose of a university is to indoctrinate students in far-Leftist ideology and to engage in political advocacy.  It helps prevent confusion of purpose. It helps to convey the single correct point of view.  After all, alliance, collaboration, and semi-merger with far-Leftist anti-Israel activist groups is not political at all for a university department.  Only the <i>Im Tirtzu</i> student group is political.</p>
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<p><em>Don&#8217;t miss <strong>Jamie Glazov&#8217;s</strong> video interview with <strong>Mudar Zahran, </strong>the leader of Palestinians in Jordan who now resides in the U.K. as a political refugee. He discusses his support of Israel, points to the Palestinian homeland in Jordan, and denounces the Islamists. He also calls out the western media for being Israel haters and not caring about the Palestinians:</em></p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/en_0501_martin_640x480.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-210373" alt="en_0501_martin_640x480" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/en_0501_martin_640x480-450x336.jpg" width="270" height="202" /></a>In another triumph of idiocy, the Obama administration is <a href="http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2013/11/07/US-Yemen-hold-talks-on-detention-facility-for-Guantanamo-inmates/UPI-46711383852089/">negotiating</a> with the Yemeni government to release Guantanamo Bay and Afghan terrorists to a &#8220;rehabilitation&#8221; facility to be constructed outside Yemen&#8217;s capital city of Sana&#8217;a. <a href="http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-yemen-gitmo-20131107,0,3163913.story%23axzz2kMsdL3Os">According</a> to the <i>Los Angeles Times</i>, the detainees &#8220;would undergo counseling, instruction in a peaceful form of Islam, and job training in Yemen before any decision on freeing them,&#8221; would be made.</p>
<p>The deal is part of the president&#8217;s ongoing effort to close Guantanamo Bay. He <a href="http://tribune.com.pk/story/629201/closing-guantanamo-obamas-sudoku/">reiterated</a> that intention on November 4, asking Congress to once again consider lifting restrictions on detainee transfers. Speaking on behalf of the president, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney contended that Congress has “significantly limited our ability to responsibly reduce the detainee population and ultimately close the facility.”</p>
<p>Rightfully so. Unlike the Obama administration, Congress recognizes that many nations refuse to repatriate potential terrorists, as well as the reality that some released prisoners rejoin the ranks of those seeking to destroy the West. A <a href="http://www.dni.gov/files/documents/September_2013_GTMO_Reengagement_UNCLASS_Release_FINAL.pdf">report</a> released early last month by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) revealed that out of the 603 terrorists released from Gitmo, 100 have been &#8220;confirmed of reengaging&#8221; in terrorist activities, and another 74 are &#8220;suspected of reengaging.&#8221;</p>
<p>In other words, as many as 174 thugs we had already risked Americans lives to capture are now free to pursue jihad against our soldiers all over again. Not only is such a reality apparently a reasonable tradeoff for an Obama administration determined to elevate politics over the safety of Americans, it is a willful determination to ignore the threat that Yemen itself presents and has presented for quite some time.</p>
<p>In 2009, Senate Intelligence Committee member Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) joined Republicans <a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/73883-senior-democrat-halt-detainee-transfers-to-yemen">calling</a> for a halt of Gitmo prisoner transfers to Yemen because it was &#8220;too unstable.&#8221; Nine days earlier, the Obama administration had released 12 detainees from Guantanamo Bay, six of whom ended up in Yemen. Four days after that, Yemen-trained &#8220;underwear bomber&#8221; Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab tried to <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/underwear-bomber-abdulmutallab-sentenced-life-prison/story?id=15681576">blow up</a> Northwest flight 253, and a Yemen-based al Qaeda affiliate claimed credit for the attempt. Furthermore, ABC News revealed that the Christmas Day plot was abetted by two Gitmo detainees released to Saudi Arabia in 2007.</p>
<p>At the time Obama blamed it all on a “systemic failure” of Yemen&#8217;s security apparatus. He imposed a moratorium on releasing detainees to Yemen in January 2010, and promised not to release any detainee who posed a threat to the American people. Yet in spite of the ongoing terror threat emanating from that nation, Obama lifted his moratorium on May 23, 2013. He did so despite the belief of intelligence officials that the al Qaeda affiliate in Yemen represents the greatest threat to the U.S. homeland and that the affiliate&#8217;s creation was abetted by several former Gitmo detainees released in 2006.</p>
<p>But it gets worse. According to al Qaeda on the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) expert Gregory Johnsen, the formation of AQAP was the result of a merger between a &#8220;handful of former Gitmo detainees, primarily Saudi citizens&#8221; who slipped into Yemen, and al Qaeda members who staged a 2006 break from a maximum security prison in Sana&#8217;a. Regardless, the president remained defiant. “I think the lifting of the moratorium reflects a changing U.S. policy that reflects a changing Yemen,” said White House Press Secretary Jay Carney in August.</p>
<p>Thus, the president is continuing the effort to create a de facto &#8220;half way house&#8221; for the Yemeni prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay. Yemenis comprise more than half the facility&#8217;s remaining 164 inmates.</p>
<p>Details of the negotiations remain closely guarded, but the Yemeni government has reportedly drawn up plans for the new facility just outside Sana&#8217;a. Yet many questions remain unanswered. There are deep disagreements regarding who will fund the facility, with the Yemeni government urging U.S. and European officials to fund its construction, as well as the training of security guards and other staff. Yemen&#8217;s president, Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi, reportedly offered to fund the project when he met with Obama in August. But that offer was rescinded due to a government budget shortfall. U.S. officials insist America will not fund the project either, because Republicans, many of whom are against closing Gitmo, will not appropriate money for a facility in Yemen. The White House has acknowledged that they are asking the United Nations and other governments for help with the project.</p>
<p>Yemeni officials have political reservations as well. They do not want to be seen as offering America an alternative to the &#8220;unpopular&#8221; Gitmo, and they worry that the new prison would be a prime target for terror attacks, requiring heavy fortification as a result.</p>
<p>As of now, the Pentagon has designated 55 Gitmo prisoners for transfer to the Yemeni government. Twenty-five are considered &#8220;low risk&#8221; and have been approved for an &#8220;immediate&#8221; transfer. The other 30 will be moved if Yemen provides satisfactory assurances that they will not return to violence.</p>
<p>Considering the <i>United States</i> failed to prevent as many as 174 Gitmo prisoners from returning to jihad, it remains impossible to see what constitutes &#8220;satisfactory assurances&#8221; of anything. Obama administration officials contend that the program based on the aforementioned counseling, instruction in peaceful Islam, and job training is modeled after a &#8220;successful&#8221; Saudi Arabian undertaking, also aimed at reintegrating former terrorists into society.</p>
<p>That would be the Saudi rehabilitation program that &#8220;graduated&#8221; deputy al Qaeda leader Said Ali al Shihri, who organized a 2008 bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Sana&#8217;a, as well as additional car bombings that killed at least 16 people. In 2009, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, detailed other notable failures of the Saudi program in a <a href="http://www.judicialwatch.org/files/documents/2009/Sessions-Holder-letter-12092009.pdf">letter</a> sent to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. Sessions revealed that of the 85 &#8220;top wanted terrorists&#8221; listed in February 2009 by Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Interior Ministry, 11 had been part of the Saudi rehabilitation program. All 11 were also former Gitmo detainees. That&#8217;s a recidivism rate of 13 percent. In 2010 the Saudis were <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Editorial-Board-Blog/2010/1102/Terrorist-rehab-in-Saudi-Arabia-A-success">boasting</a> that their recidivism rate was 20 percent. This year they are claiming that of the of 2,336 al Qaeda prisoners who have been through rehabilitation, the recidivism rate &#8220;does not exceed 10 percent,&#8221; <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4370252,00.html">according</a> to Said al Bishi, director of a <i>luxury</i> rehabilitation center in Riyadh.</p>
<p>Thus it seems the administration is OK with the idea that <i>at least</i> one-in-ten terrorists will be rejoining the fight against America.</p>
<p>Caitlin Hayden, spokeswoman for the National Security Council, agreed with the move: &#8220;We believe that the establishment of a credible, sustainable program would be an important step for the Yemeni government in bolstering their counter-terrorism capabilities,&#8221; she said. Yemen&#8217;s foreign minister, Abubakr Qirbi, apparently agreed. &#8220;We are currently planning to construct this facility and taking legal steps for the return of the 55 people who the U.S. has agreed to send home, those who do not pose a threat,&#8221; he said, according to Yemen&#8217;s official news agency.</p>
<p>Human rights activists were on board as well, threatening to oppose any facility that was primarily a prison. &#8220;I don&#8217;t think [it] should exist unless it&#8217;s an actual rehabilitation program,&#8221; said Andrea Prasow, senior counter-terrorism counsel with Human Rights Watch. &#8220;There&#8217;s no way I would find it acceptable for [returned Yemeni detainees] to be held against their will.&#8221;</p>
<p>The aforementioned ODNI report reveals the fatuousness of such thinking. While noting the inevitability of recidivism in general, it spelled out the hazards associated with countries like Yemen. “Transfers [of detainees] to countries with ongoing conflicts and internal instability as well as active recruitment by insurgent and terrorist organizations pose a particular problem,” it said.</p>
<p>Yemen may be the most &#8220;particular problem&#8221; in the Middle East. Even the discussions about the prison were held in Rome due to security risks in a country &#8220;battling an insurgency by warring tribes backed by Islamist groups that has caused a sharp decline in security in recent months,&#8221; according to the <i>Times. </i></p>
<p>Despite all of it, reality takes a back seat for a president looking for another &#8220;signature achievement,&#8221; no matter how reckless the consequences. In a better world, those who believe in terrorist &#8220;rehab&#8221; would be forced to live amongst their subjects, much like the Americans troops who were quartered with their Afghan trainees. That particular rehab effort was finally abandoned, but not before <a href="http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/082012-622865-obama-exposed-troops-to-afghan-insider-attacks.htm?p=full">more than</a> 100 <i>unarmed</i> U.S. and NATO troops were killed in the effort to &#8220;build trust&#8221; with their <i>armed</i> Afghan counterparts. Any Islamist rehab program deserves the exact same fate. We&#8217;ve sacrificed more than enough American lives on the alter of political correctness.</p>
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		<title>Peace Is Not at Hand</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jul 2013 04:56:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[P. David Hornik]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[U.S., Israel bow to Palestinian blackmail.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/ce40f_w-abbas-netanyahu-cp-930906.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-198513" alt="ce40f_w-abbas-netanyahu-cp-930906" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/ce40f_w-abbas-netanyahu-cp-930906-450x317.jpg" width="270" height="190" /></a>American-sponsored Israeli-Palestinian peace talks—or perhaps, talks supposedly leading up to peace talks—are on for today in Washington. A last-minute hitch was cleared up.</span></b></p>
<p>Last week Israel’s international relations minister Yuval Steinitz had <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-Politics/Steinitz-Israel-to-free-Palestinian-prisoners-in-peace-talks-renewal-320433">announced</a> that Israel had agreed to a Palestinian demand and would, in the course of the talks, be freeing 84 Palestinian security prisoners from the pre-1993 period, some of them, as he put it, “heavyweights.”</p>
<p>The heavyweights <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/170324">include</a>, for instance, Mahmoud Salam Saliman Abu Harabish and Adam Ibrahim Juma’a-Juma’a, who in 1988 hurled a firebomb at an Israeli civilian bus in the Jordan Valley. Twenty-six-year-old Rachel Weiss, her three children aged three, two, and nine months, and a young soldier who tried to rescue them all burned to death.</p>
<p>For many people, the fact that Abu Harabish, Juma’a-Juma’a, and many others like them will—if the talks progress—be released, in compliance with the Palestinian demand, is perfectly compatible with high hopes for peace and an end to what they call the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.</p>
<p>Things seemed to be running smoothly, then—except that over the weekend the Palestinian side upped their demand from 84 prisoners to 104. And they made it a flat, brazenly extortionate ultimatum: 104 prisoners, not 84, or we’re not showing up on Monday.</p>
<p>The United States and Israel caved.</p>
<p>To say that the Obama administration caved is probably a misnomer, since there is no indication that President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry find the release of the Palestinian prisoners in the least bit troubling. Indeed, Kerry first began <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/davidhornik/kerrys-shocking-demand-to-israel-free-terrorists">heavily pressuring Israel to release them</a> immediately after the Boston Marathon terror attack.</p>
<p>For Israel the pill was a bit harder to swallow.</p>
<p>A poll had already found 84% of Jewish Israelis <a href="http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=10959">opposing the release of terrorists</a> as a condition for restarting talks with the Palestinians. Seventy-eight percent opposed releasing them even if the talks resumed and releases were required to keep them going, and 73% said that, in any case, the talks would not lead to an agreement that would resolve the conflict.</p>
<p>These numbers contrast sharply with the large majority of Israelis who supported the release of a thousand Palestinian security prisoners, including heinous terrorists, for captive soldier Gilad Shalit in October 2011. In that case, Israelis felt they were getting something precious—the life and freedom of the soldier—in return. In the present case, a large majority feel they’ll be getting nothing in return except sham talks.</p>
<p>Aware of this problem, over the weekend Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wrote an <a href="http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=10983">open letter to the Israeli public</a> that seeks to explain and justify the prisoner release.</p>
<p>It’s an interesting document, tantalizingly open to interpretation. In its key passage Netanyahu states:</p>
<blockquote><p>At the present time, I believe it is of the utmost importance for the State of Israel to enter a diplomatic process. This is important both to exhaust the possibilities of ending the conflict with the Palestinians and to establish Israel’s position in the complex international reality around us.</p>
<p>The major changes in our region—in Egypt, Syria and in Iran—not only pose challenges for the State of Israel but they also present significant opportunities for us.</p></blockquote>
<p>Here Netanyahu seems to imply that Israel will be in a stronger position, with greater sympathy and diplomatic backing, to attack Iran’s nuclear program if it is perceived to be behaving well by holding talks with the Palestinians. The other possibility is that the words were crafted as a sop to hawkish Israelis who tend to bitterly oppose the prisoner release.</p>
<p>In any case, there has been no indication that the letter mollified the Israeli public’s opposition to the move. On Sunday relatives of victims of the prisoners slated to be released <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4410416,00.html">held an anguished demonstration</a> outside of the government complex in Jerusalem. On Sunday afternoon the Israeli cabinet <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-Politics/Palestinian-prisoner-release-passes-cabinet-by-wide-13-7-margin-321296">voted 13-7</a> to approve the prisoner release, while also approving a bill to submit any peace agreement to a national referendum.</p>
<p>Peace is not at hand. The demand to free a hundred murderers as a precondition for talking peace is a barbarian demand. It was made by Mahmoud Abbas’s Palestinian Authority, a tiny, corrupt, economically tottering, <a href="http://www.palwatch.org/">hate-ridden</a> dictatorship. It was submitted to by the United States and Israel, still the two leading lights of civilization in our time. It is not a pretty sight.</p>
<p>By the most favorable possible interpretation, for Israel the whole charade—including the prospective prisoner releases—is a necessary sacrifice toward larger purposes. But that, too—with so many hints and threats already having been issued regarding Iran—needs to be seen to be believed.</p>
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		<title>Syria and Commonsense</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jul 2013 04:50:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Americans are united in opposing sending arms to terrorists. So why is Washington ignoring them? ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/syrian-terrorists.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-197993" alt="syrian-terrorists" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/syrian-terrorists.jpg" width="260" height="209" /></a>Rarely has there been a policy as universally supported in Washington D.C. and as universally rejected by Americans of all ages, races, genders, incomes and religions as the proposal to send weapons to the Syrian terrorists.</p>
<p>The average American who has never heard of the Al-Nusra Front, is utterly in the dark about the differences between the various brigades of the Free Syrian Army and hasn&#8217;t the faintest idea that the entire thing has been a Muslim Brotherhood operation of varying degrees of subtlety from Day 1, still thinks that sending weapons to them is a terrible idea.</p>
<p>Even a public that is weary of war and not at all enthusiastic about jumping into another one would rather invade Syria than arm the Syrian rebels.</p>
<p>At least those are the results of <a href="http://www.quinnipiac.edu/institutes-and-centers/polling-institute/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=1920">a recent Quinnipiac poll</a>, which found that sizable majorities of Republicans, Democrats, men, women, whites, blacks and Hispanics (and possibly even the mysteriously reclusive white Hispanics) all opposed the proposal to send arms to the rebels; even without being told that rebel is a polite term for Islamic Jihadist and Islamic Jihadist is a polite term for the guy wearing explosive underwear next to them on their vacation flight.</p>
<p>The college-educated and those who made it through the basic twelve, Protestants and Catholics, those making under 50K and those making over 100K, callow 18-year-olds and superannuated seniors, all came together to oppose an insane policy of giving weapons to terrorists who are certain to use them against us.</p>
<p>They came to this conclusion without a thorough grounding in foreign policy, without having ever read one of those massive tomes that outgoing secretaries of state throw together to explain their failures, and without even being told anything true and meaningful about the Free Syrian Army. The only analytical tool at their disposal was their common sense.</p>
<p>In a time when the country is sharply divided along class, race, gender and hoodie, this was a refreshing show of unity. The United States of America, in town and city, mariachi band, hip hop concert and hoedown, came together to oppose giving weapons to terrorists.</p>
<p>And no one in Washington, D.C. paid attention. Why should they? They already have it all figured out.</p>
<p>The intelligence committees in the Senate and House of Representatives, which had briefly kicked up a fuss over Obama&#8217;s plan to send guns to terrorists, withdrew their objections after being promised regular updates. If those updates are nearly as interesting as the ones for Fast and Furious, a program which merely put lighter weapons into the hands of Mexican drug lords, they should make for some entertaining reading.</p>
<p>The weapons smuggled into Libya, with the complicity of Uncle Barack, and the ones looted from Gaddafi&#8217;s ample storehouses, have already shown up in Gaza, led to the Islamist conquest of Mali (requiring French military intervention), and have, naturally, shown up in Syria.</p>
<p>Where will the weapons dispensed like candy to the Syrian rebels end up? The real question is where won&#8217;t they end up. The Middle East is a giant arms market and the United States is abandoning the policy of plausible deniability that existed during the Libyan War to directly run guns to terrorists</p>
<p>Considering the havoc that a mere 2,000 Fast and Furious guns caused in Mexico, what exactly will come of shipping anti-tank weapons to the same sort of Islamist militias who launched a full-blown assault on the American mission in Benghazi?</p>
<p>It is widely accepted wisdom in Washington, D.C. that we have to send weapons to Syria. How did a notion that is rejected out of hand by the man on the street for reasons of common sense become accepted in Washington, D.C. also for reasons of common sense? Is there a different common sense in Washington, D.C. than in Peoria, Miami or Fargo? Or is there a lack of common sense?</p>
<p>During the heyday of the Arab Spring, it was hard to find anyone with policy influence who would agree that we should just stay out of it. They all knew that Mubarak had to go and that democracy was inevitable. And they all knew that it would somehow work out because freedom is stronger than tyranny and talking points are stronger than common sense.</p>
<p>The consensus on Syrian smacks of that same empty conviction that something must be done. &#8220;Inaction is not an option,&#8221; say the advocates of every stupid policy from amnesty to guns for terrorists.</p>
<p>But considering the outcomes of their policies, inaction doesn&#8217;t seem so bad.</p>
<p>The net foreign policy outcome of all our interventions in Egypt to make the Egyptians love us is an Egypt that now hates us more than ever. Hating us is the one thing that Egyptians from all walks of life can agree on. It&#8217;s their national equivalent of shipping guns to Syrian terrorists.</p>
<p>Not only did Obama&#8217;s Cairo speech, his command that Mubarak depart and his latest attempts at pressing for the restoration of the Muslim Brotherhood, not win over anyone, he has made Egypt more unstable and made us more hated.</p>
<p>The Libyan intervention, begun to protect the Islamist militias of Benghazi, ended with a burning diplomatic compound in Benghazi and Islamist militias gunning down two former Navy SEALS.</p>
<p>So what&#8217;s the worst that could happen in Syria?</p>
<p>The most destructive influence on domestic and foreign policy is that sense of inevitability. &#8220;Something must be done,&#8221; are the four words that have undone the reason of even credible conservative politicians. The next six words, &#8220;It will happen even without us&#8221; are nearly as toxic. These are the words that have convinced countless politicians to sell out on domestic policy in exchange for having some control over the final outcome.</p>
<p>That false sense of power and consensus is driving an idiotic policy in Syria.</p>
<p>Officially we are supporting the Syrian rebels because we support democracy, even though the vast majority of the rebels are Islamists and the only democracy they want will disenfranchise Christians, Shiites, women and anyone else left standing after the black flags sweep into Damascus. Morsi also deserves our support because he was democratically elected, even though during his time in office, he tried to amass total power and tortured his opponents.</p>
<p>What democracy really means is that Washington, D.C. has decided that the Muslim Brotherhood is inevitable and so we might as well get on their good side by helping them take over a few countries before it&#8217;s too late. Never mind that the Muslim Brotherhood doesn&#8217;t have a good side. Peel back the layers of front organizations and you find yourself looking into the hooded eyes of Yusuf al-Qaradawi who enjoys suicide bombings and long walks on the beach.</p>
<p>The inevitability of the Muslim Brotherhood&#8217;s victory has become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Since they&#8217;re bound to win down the road, we should help them win now. And if they start losing, then we have to ship weapons to their militias, because while their victory is inevitable, its inevitability must be assured with American weapons against the will of the American people.</p>
<p>Washington, D.C. is full of Ivy League grads that have spent a lifetime reading about the Middle East, but lack the most basic sort of common sense. It&#8217;s not that they can&#8217;t comprehend the risks; it&#8217;s that they have been taught to think that either they support the Syrian rebels or the whole thing will happen without them and they will be left out of the loop.</p>
<p>And what could be worse than that?</p>
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		<title>Time to Confront Obama</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 04:51:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week's events show Israel cannot afford to wait. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/obama-press-reut-670.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-187299" alt="obama-press-reut-670" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/obama-press-reut-670-450x319.jpg" width="270" height="191" /></a>Originally </i><a href="http://www.jpost.com/LandedPages/PrintArticle.aspx?id=311131"><i>published</i></a><i> in The Jerusalem Post. </i></p>
<p>The time has come for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to confront US President Barack Obama.</p>
<p>A short summary of events from the past three days: On Tuesday morning, the head of the IDF&#8217;s Military Intelligence Analysis Division Brig. Gen. Itay Brun revealed that the Syrian government has already used &#8220;lethal chemical weapons,&#8221; against Syrian civilians and opposition forces. Brun described footage of people visibly suffering the impact of chemical agents, apparently sarin gas.</p>
<p>Hours later, US Secretary of State John Kerry said Netanyahu had told him on the telephone that &#8220;he was not in a position to confirm&#8221; Brun&#8217;s statement.</p>
<p>It is hard to imagine the US was taken by surprise by Brun&#8217;s statement. Just the day before, Brun briefed visiting US Defense secretary Chuck Hagel on Syria. It is not possible he failed to mention the same information.</p>
<p>And of course it isn&#8217;t just the IDF saying that Syrian President Bashar Assad is using chemical weapons. The British and the French are also saying this.</p>
<p>But as a European source told Ma&#8217;ariv, the Americans don&#8217;t want to know the facts. The facts will make them do something about Syria&#8217;s chemical weapons. And they don&#8217;t want to do anything about Syria&#8217;s chemical weapons.</p>
<p>So they force Netanyahu to disown his own intelligence.</p>
<p>Thursday afternoon, in a speech in Abu Dhabi, Hagel confirmed, &#8220;with some degree of varying confidence,&#8221; that Syria used chemical weapons, at least on a &#8220;small scale.&#8221;</p>
<p>What the administration means by &#8220;some degree of varying confidence,&#8221; is of course, unknowable with any degree of varying confidence.</p>
<p>Then there is Iran.</p>
<p>Also on Tuesday, the former head of IDF Military Intelligence, Maj.-Gen. (res.) Amos Yadlin, said that Iran has already crossed the red line Israel set last year. It has already stockpiled 170 kg. of medium-enriched uranium, and can quickly produce the other 80 kg. necessary to reach the 250 kg. threshold Netanyahu said will mark Iran&#8217;s achievement of breakout capability where it can build a nuclear arsenal whenever it wants.</p>
<p>Yadlin made a half-hearted effort Wednesday to walk back his pronouncements. But his basic message remained the same: The die has been cast.</p>
<p>Due to American pressure on Israel not to act, and due to the White House&#8217;s rejection of clearcut reports about Iran&#8217;s stockpile of enriched uranium, Iran has crossed the threshold. Iran will be a nuclear power unless its uranium enrichment installations and other nuclear sites are destroyed or crippled. Now.</p>
<p>True, the Americans set a different red line for Iran than Israel. They say they will not allow Iran to assemble a nuclear bomb. But to believe that the US has the capacity and the will to prevent Iran from climbing the top rung on the nuclear ladder is to believe in the tooth fairy &#8211; (see, for instance, North Korea).</p>
<p>Iran has threatened to use it nuclear arsenal to destroy Israel. Have we now placed our survival in the hands of Tinkerbell? And yet, rather than acknowledge what Iran has done, Netanyahu, President Shimon Peres and Defense Minister Moshe Ya&#8217;alon carry on with the tired act of talking about the need for a credible military option but saying that there is still time for sanctions and other non-military means to block Iran&#8217;s quest for the bomb.</p>
<p>Perhaps our leaders are repeating these lies because they want to present a unified US-Israel front to the world. But the effect is just the opposite.</p>
<p>What their statements really demonstrate is that Israel has been brought to its knees by its superpower patron that has implemented a policy that has enabled Iran to become a nuclear power.</p>
<p>Indeed, the US has allowed Iran to cross the nuclear threshold while requiring Israel to pretend the course the US has followed is a responsible one.</p>
<p>The announcement that the US has agreed to sell Israel advanced weapons specifically geared towards attacking Iran should also be seen in this light. Israel reportedly spent a year negotiating this deal. But immediately after its details were published, the US started backing away from its supposed commitment to supply them. The US will not provide Israel with bunker-buster bombs.</p>
<p>It will not provide Israel with the bombers necessary to use the bombs Israel isn&#8217;t getting. And anyway, by the time Israel gets the items the US is selling &#8211; like mid-air refuelers &#8211; it will be too late.</p>
<p>When, after overthrowing Saddam Hussein&#8217;s regime in Iraq, the US failed to find chemical weapons in the country, then-president George W. Bush&#8217;s Democratic opponents accused Bush of having politicized intelligence to justify his decision to topple Saddam. In truth, there is no evidence that Bush purposely distorted intelligence reports. Israel&#8217;s intelligence agencies, and perhaps French ones, were the only allied intelligence arms that had concluded Saddam&#8217;s chemical weapons &#8211; to the extent he had them &#8211; did not represent a threat.</p>
<p>The fact that Bush preferred US and British intelligence estimates over Israeli ones doesn&#8217;t mean that he politicized intelligence.</p>
<p>In contrast, what Obama and his advisers are doing represents the worst case of politicizing intelligence since Stalin arrested his senior security brass rather than heed their warnings of the coming German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941.</p>
<p>Never in US history has there been a greater misuse and abuse of US intelligence agencies than there is today, under the Obama administration.</p>
<p>Take the Boston Marathon bombings. Each day more and more reports come out about the information US agencies had &#8211; for years &#8211; regarding the threat posed by the Boston Marathon bombers.</p>
<p>But how could the FBI have possibly acted on those threats? Obama has outlawed all discussion or study of jihad, Islamism, radical Islam and the Koran by US federal government agencies. The only law enforcement agency that monitors Islamic websites is the New York Police Department.</p>
<p>And its chief Ray Kelly has bravely maintained his policy despite massive pressure from the media and the political class to end his surveillance operations.</p>
<p>Everywhere else, from the Boston Police Department to the FBI and CIA, US officials are barred from discussing the threat posed by jihadists or even acknowledging they exist. People were impressed that Obama referred to the terrorist attack in Boston as a terrorist attack, because according to the administration-dictated federal lexicon, use of the word terrorism is forbidden, particularly when the act in question was perpetrated by Muslims.</p>
<p>Then there are the Palestinians. On Thursday, it was reported that in the midst of everything happening in the Middle East, Obama is planning to host a peace conference in Washington in June to reinstate negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians.</p>
<p>The terms of reference for the conference are reportedly the 2002 Arab League &#8220;peace plan.&#8221;</p>
<p>Among other things, that plan requires Israel to accept millions of hostile foreign-born Arabs to whatever rump state it retains following a &#8220;peace&#8221; agreement with the PLO. In exchange for Israel agreeing to destroy itself, the Arab peace plan says the Arabs will agree to have &#8220;regular&#8221; relations with Israel. (&#8220;Regular&#8221; by the way, is a term devoid of meaning.) During his visit here last week, Kerry announced that the new US policy towards the Palestinians is to pour billions of dollars into the Palestinian economy. Among other things, the administration is going to convince US companies like Coca-Cola to open huge plants in Judea and Samaria.</p>
<p>Sounds fine. But as usual, there is a catch. The administration wants US firms to build their factories in Area C, the area of Judea and Samaria over which, in accordance with the agreements they signed with Israel, the Palestinians agreed Israel should hold sole control.</p>
<p>In essence, the policy Kerry announced is simply an American version of the EU&#8217;s policy of seeking to force Israel to give up control over Area C.</p>
<p>Area C, of course, is where all the Israeli communities are, and almost no Palestinians live.</p>
<p>Those Israeli communities and the 350,000 Jews who live in them are the strongest assertion of Israeli sovereign rights to Judea and Samaria. So the EU &#8211; and now the Americans &#8211; are doing everything they can to force Israel to destroy them. The campaign to coerce Israel into surrendering its sole control over Area C is a central component of that plan.</p>
<p>It cannot be said often enough: The administration&#8217;s focus on the Palestinian conflict with Israel in the midst of the violent disintegration of the Arab state system and the rise of jihadist forces throughout the region, coupled with Iran&#8217;s steady emergence as a regional power, is only understandable in the framework of a psychiatric &#8211; rather than policy &#8211; analysis.</p>
<p>For the past five years, perhaps Netanyahu&#8217;s greatest achievement in office has been his adroit avoidance of confrontations with Obama. With no one other than the US willing to stand with Israel in public, it is an important national interest for Jerusalem not to have any confrontations with Washington if they can possibly be avoided.</p>
<p>This attempt to avoid confrontations is what made Netanyahu agree to Obama&#8217;s anti-Jewish demand to deny Jews their property rights in Judea and Samaria in 2010. This is undoubtedly what stood behind Netanyahu&#8217;s decision to apologize to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan during Obama&#8217;s visit to Israel last month. That apology constituted a moral abandonment of the IDF naval commandos who Netanyahu&#8217;s government sent &#8211; virtually unarmed &#8211; to face Turkish terrorists affiliated with al-Qaida and Hamas aboard the Mavi Marmara terror ship.</p>
<p>To a degree, all of Netanyahu&#8217;s seemingly unjustifiable actions can be justified when weighed against the need to avoid a confrontation with America.</p>
<p>But by now, after five years, with Iran having passed Israel&#8217;s red line, and with chemical weapons already in play in Syria, the jig is up.</p>
<p>Obama does not have Israel&#8217;s back.</p>
<p>Contrary to the constant, grinding rhetorical prattle of American and Israeli politicos, Obama will not lift a finger to stop Iran from becoming a nuclear power. He will not lift a finger to prevent chemical weapons from being transferred to the likes of al-Qaida and Hezbollah, and their colleagues in Syria, or used by the Syrian regime.</p>
<p>From Benghazi to Boston, from Tehran to Damascus, Obama&#8217;s policy is to not fight forces of jihad, whether they are individuals, organizations or states. And his obsession with Palestinian statehood shows that he would rather coerce Israel to make concessions to Palestinian Jew-haters and terrorists than devote his time and energy into preventing Iran from becoming the jihadist North Korea or from keeping sarin, VX and mustard gas out of the hands of Iran&#8217;s terrorist underlings and their Sunni competitors.</p>
<p>No, Israel doesn&#8217;t want a confrontation with Washington. But we don&#8217;t have any choice anymore.</p>
<p>The time has come to take matters into our own hands on Syria and Iran. In Syria, either Israel takes care of the chemical weapons, or if we can&#8217;t, Netanyahu must go before the cameras and tell the world everything we know about Syria&#8217;s chemical weapons and pointedly demand world &#8211; that is US &#8211; action to secure them.</p>
<p>As for Iran, either Israel must launch an attack without delay, or if we can&#8217;t, then Netanyahu has to publicly state that the time for diplomacy is over. Either Iran is attacked or it gets the bomb.</p>
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		<title>How the Left Yearned for a White American Bomber &#8212; on The Glazov Gang</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 04:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Obama32.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-187241" alt="Obama3" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Obama32.jpg" width="252" height="378" /></a>This week&#8217;s <em>Glazov Gang</em> had the honor of being joined by actor <strong>Basil Hoffman</strong>, (The Artist), actor <strong>Dwight Schultz</strong> (DwightSchultzFansite.nl) and<br />
<strong>Ann-Marie-Murrell</strong>, the National Director of PolitiChicks.tv.</p>
<p>The Gang members gathered to discuss<em>: How the Left Yearned for a White American Bomber. </em>The discussion occurred in <strong>Part I</strong> and centered on the Boston Massacre and David Sirota&#8217;s article in <em>Salon</em> which expressed his wish that the Boston Marathon bomber would be a white American terrorist. (See Daniel Greenfield&#8217;s analysis of it <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/praying-for-a-white-american-terrorist/">here</a>.)</p>
<p><strong>Part II</strong> focused on <em>Rachel Maddow’s Brain Numbing Attack on David Horowitz. </em>The Gang analyzed why MSNBC&#8217;s terminally sophomoric host scoffs at an author&#8217;s books without reading them. The dialogue shed light on how and why progressives oppress blacks and Hispanics while pretending to be their saviors. (See Frontpage&#8217;s article on it <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/frontpagemag-com/rachel-maddows-brain-numbing-attack-on-david-horowitz/">here</a>). The segment also touched on: <em>Will Americans Soon Live Like Israelis? </em></p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 21:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Boston Marathon bombers were two Chechen Muslims.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/jihad.gif"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-186401" alt="jihad" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/jihad.gif" width="336" height="189" /></a>It has now been revealed that the Boston Marathon bombers were two Muslims from southern Russia near Chechnya: Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was killed in a firefight with Massachusetts police early this morning, and his brother Dzhokhar, who as of this writing is still at large.</p>
<p>As more and more material comes to light about the pair, their motivations become clear. On a <a href="http://vk.com/id160300242">Russian-language social media page</a>, Dzhokhar features a drawing of a bomb under the heading “send a gift,” and just above links to sites about Islam. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/muazseyfullah/videos?flow=grid&amp;view=15">Tamerlan’s YouTube page</a> features two videos by Sheikh Feiz Mohammed. According to a report published in <a href="http://www.news.com.au/national-news/police-seize-muslim-kill-enemies-videos/story-e6frfkw9-1111112861925" target="_blank">The Australian</a> in January 2007, in a video that came to the attention of authorities at the time, Mohammed “urges Muslims to kill the enemies of Islam and praises martyrs with a violent interpretation of jihad.”</p>
<p><a href="http://deadspin.com/heres-everything-we-know-about-tamerlan-tsarnaev-the-476415081http:/deadspin.com/heres-everything-we-know-about-tamerlan-tsarnaev-the-476415081">Tamerlan also says</a>, “I’m very religious.” He notes that he does not drink alcohol because Allah forbids it: “God said no alcohol,” and that his Italian girlfriend has converted to Islam. Even his name indicates the world from which he comes: Tamerlan Tsarnaev is apparently named for the Muslim warrior Tamerlane. <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2005/10/killing_from_quranic_piety_tam.html">Andrew Bostom wrote in 2005</a> that “Osama bin Laden was far from the first jihadist to kill infidels as an expression of religious piety….Osama lacks both Tamerlane’s sophisticated (for his time) military forces and his brilliance as a strategist. But both are or were pious Muslims who paid homage to religious leaders, and both had the goal of making jihad a global force.”</p>
<p>Combine all that with the fact that the bombs were <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/17/us/officials-investigate-boston-explosions.html?pagewanted=all">similar to IED’s that jihadis use in Afghanistan and Iraq</a>, and that Faisal Shahzad, who tried to set off a jihad car bomb in Times Square jihad car bomber,<a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/04/boston-bombs-were-similar-to-ieds-used-by-jihadisin-afghanistan-and-iraq.html" target="_blank"> used a similar bomb</a>, and that instructions for making such a bomb have been published in al-Qaeda’s <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2013/04/16/Pressure-Cooker-Bomb-Construction-Detainled-in-al-Qaeda-s-Inspire-Magazine" target="_blank"><em>Inspire</em></a> magazine, and the motivations of the Tsarnaev brothers are abundantly clear. It is increasingly likely also that they were tied in somehow to the international jihad network, as is indicated by how they fought off Boston police early on Friday with military-grade explosives – where did they get those? And where did they get the military training that they reportedly have, and displayed in several ways during the fight Friday morning?</p>
<p>Yet despite all this, the mainstream media continues to obfuscate the truth. <a href="http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/19/17824210-suspects-in-marathon-bombings-are-brothers-authorities-say?lite">NBC doesn’t see fit</a> to mention any of the brothers’ connections to Islam in their profile of them. <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/19/us/boston-area-violence/index.html?hpt=hp_t1">CNN warns</a> that “it should not be assumed that either brother was radicalized because of their Chechen origins.” And this, of course, follows days of speculation about how the bombings appeared to be the work of “right-wing extremists,” “Tea Partiers,” and the like. According to Victor Medina in the <a href="http://www.examiner.com/article/cnn-esquire-blame-the-right-wing-for-boston-marathon-bombing" target="_blank">Examiner</a>, “Esquire Magazine’s <a href="http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/boston-marathon-bombing-041513" target="_blank">Charles P. Pierce attempted to link the bombings to right wing extremists similar to Timothy McVeigh</a>, the Oklahoma City bomber. In another, <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2013/04/15/CNN-Natl-Sec-Analyst-Speculates-Right-Wing-Extremists-Could-Be-Behind-Marathon-Bombing" target="_blank">CNN national security analyst Peter Bergen speculated that the type of bomb device could link it to right wing extremist groups</a>.” <a href="http://www.salon.com/2013/04/16/lets_hope_the_boston_marathon_bomber_is_a_white_american/">Salon hoped</a> that the bomber would turn out to be a “white American.”</p>
<p>Will Pierce, Bergen, and all the others who offered similar analyses apologize now? They almost certainly will not – and even worse, they will not be held accountable. No matter how often mainstream analysts are wrong, they never get questioned or jettisoned.</p>
<p>But in one sense, they were right: the bombers were indeed white, if not American. That demonstrates once and for all the vacuity of the mainstream media and Islamic supremacist claim that opposing jihad and Islamic supremacism is “racism.” Islam is not a race, and the massacre of innocent civilians is not a race. Opposing jihad is not racism, but the defense of freedom. The Tsarnaev brothers have confirmed that. However, nothing is more certain than that next week, Islamic supremacist and Leftist spokesmen will be featured on NBC and CNN decrying “racism” and an imagined “backlash” against innocent Muslims, which is always a feature of mainstream media coverage after a jihad attack, even though the “backlash” itself never actually materializes.</p>
<p>And there will be no accountability for that nonsense, either. Nowadays, it’s much more of a path to success to be politically correct than to be correct.</p>
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