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		<title>Bill Whittle: We&#8217;re Number Two</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2014 05:09:38 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><strong>Recently, China overtook the United States as the largest Economy in the World &#8212; at least when measured by the PPP (Purchasing Power Parity) metric. In Bill Whittle&#8217;s latest Firewall, he shows why this is not just a crying shame &#8212; it&#8217;s a crime &#8212; and he tells us what we can do about it. See the video and transcript below.</strong></p>
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<p>Hi everybody. I’m Bill Whittle and this is the Firewall.</p>
<p>A few days ago, we rather quietly passed a milestone – a big one. For the first time since the 1870’s – that would be during the administration of President Ulysses S Grant – The United States is no longer the worlds largest economy.<br />
“Hold on to your hats, America,” reports Brett Arends of MarketWatch in his online article, “And throw away that big fat Styrofoam finger while you’re at it.”<br />
Now I don’t know anything about Brett Arends politics, but throwing away that big fat Styrofoam finger – the red, white and blue one that says “we’re number one!” is a long held-wish of the progressive left. It’s so gauche, so unspeakably vulgar, this Phillistine business of having pride in yourself.</p>
<p>This news about us taking second place, economically, to China is not a bug for the left – it’s a feature. They hate this country. Collectivists – like our President, let’s say &#8212; have always hated capitalism, always hated individuality, always hated the idea that more work leads to more rewards… in other words, always hated everything that America has stood for.</p>
<p>Just before he was elected, Barack Obama famously bragged that he and the progressive movement would “fundamentally transform the United States of America.” Is that something you would want to do to something or someone you loved – fundamentally transform it? Would the first promise you made to a new bride you claimed to adore be that you could not wait to fundamentally transform her? Progressives are happy we’ve fallen to second. It reduces global inequality.They’ll be happier yet when we’ve fallen to third, or tenth, or twentieth – the way our education system did when they got their hands on it.</p>
<p>Now China, needless to say, has a little more than four times the population of the United States. Surely we should be satisfied with that, right? That one-quarter of China’s population – America – produces just slightly less than they do?<br />
No, dammit, we should not be satisfied. First place is not a statistic. First place is an attitude. First place is an identity. First place is destiny, and the instant you become willing to come in second at anything you will find second place is a sliding slope to nowhere. not where you will remain.</p>
<p>That China is growing at an incredible pace is self-evident. A lot of that is not something we can do anything about – but a lot of it is something we can do something about, but won’t. A significant portion of China’s tech industry is – how should I put this delicately – STOLEN from western research and development. We don’t retaliate because we can’t add; our deficit spending makes us their slaves.<br />
And another significant portion – everything from pirated movie disks to “Adidos” running shoes to “Boreos” cookies to “Arm and Hatchet” baking soda are just flagrant theft worth trillions. But put all that aside. That’s just bitching about a bad call. Or two. Or three. Million.</p>
<p>The reason China has surpassed the US economy is pretty simple, really. The Socialist Chinese leadership has kept the dictatorial essence of socialism while allowing the Chinese people to embrace a capitalist ethic of hard work and reward for effort. Meanwhile, on the other side of the ocean the American Progressives are trying, and succeeding, in foisting laziness, envy, irresponsibility, government dependency and sloth – in other words, socialism &#8212; on the American people.</p>
<p>Record numbers of Americans are on food stamps, unemployment, and other forms of taxpayer support – in other words government forced redistribution of income, at the cost of long-term growth and prosperity. But it’s much worse than that.<br />
The Progressive left has throttled what might have been the most booming economic recovery in American history through irresponsible fiscal policy, higher taxes, and absurd regulations – mostly regulations advocated by environmental hysterics. And none of them make the slightest lick of sense: While doing everything he can to prevent America from cleanly burning the plentiful, inexpensive fossil fuels right beneath our feet, he then sells coal and oil to China – where it’s burned, and not very cleanly, in the same atmosphere we inhabit.</p>
<p>World dominant militaries depend on world dominant economies. World dominant research and innovation depends on the incentive of financial reward and freedom from ridiculous levels of regulation. When guys like Steve Jobs, the founder of the most cash-rich company in the world, says he could never start Apple in America today, that’s not because we’ve run out of garages, or capital, or people willing to risk that capital. Virtually all of the great ideas still come from right here. But the Progressive left, which is significantly too stupid and infinitely to lazy to go out and make their own wealth, taxes and regulates new start-ups to death to feed a government that costs about four thousand billion dollars a year… then you know these shackles are self-imposed, and what we could do if we would just release ourselves from these self-imposed chains would not just astonish the Chinese and the rest of the world – it would astonish us ourselves.</p>
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		<title>The Once Great Country of America is Crumbling Before Our Eyes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2014 05:45:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So what will our U.S. neighbors do about it?]]></description>
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<p>America is a mess and the world can barely tear its eyes away from the unfolding train wreck.</p>
<p>Our friends are at a crossroads and the implications for Canada and the rest of the beleaguered free world are monumental.</p>
<p>Like it or not, the U.S.A. is the symbol of world freedom and liberty. Without it, I shudder to think what will happen to us.</p>
<p>America must fight to survive the Obama debacle.</p>
<p>Freedom-loving people are growing more angry, frustrated, and worried with each passing day.</p>
<p>They send me e-mail after e-mail out of desperation.</p>
<p>&#8220;What do we do now?&#8221;</p>
<p>They have zero faith in their government.</p>
<p>But for Fox, talk radio and conservative online newsites, the media, to its eternal, traitorous disgrace, has gone full Benedict Arnold.</p>
<p>They have been a Democratic lapdog so long, they now act as if they have no choice but to continue protecting Obama.</p>
<p>Former CBS investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson has come as close as anyone to exposing media complicity in covering up scandals such as Benghazi.</p>
<p>And what is the administration&#8217;s push to regulate the Internet but a shameless attempt to silence online critics.</p>
<p>It only gets worse. Various arms of the state including the IRS, designed to be apolitical, have been subverted and weaponized into attack drones aimed at conservative groups.</p>
<p>Attempts to expose what&#8217;s going on are stonewalled at the highest levels.</p>
<p>These are nightmarish attacks on freedom-loving people around the world.</p>
<p>Once respected institutions such as academia, the labour movement and the entertainment industry are viewed with great suspicion &#8212; and so they should be.</p>
<p>But worst of all, there&#8217;s the presidency.</p>
<p>Instead of healing the racial divide, the election of this president has only fanned the flames of grievance and hatred.</p>
<p>The sales pitch/sham that was &#8216;hope and change&#8217; is a smoking ruin, trampled and set ablaze in Ferguson.</p>
<p>If the world is lucky, the failure of hope and change will be his only legacy.</p>
<p>But executive amnesty proves this president wants to tear away at the unifying fabric that is a great country &#8212; its Constitution.</p>
<p>This document is being mocked and ignored by a president sworn to uphold it.</p>
<p>Congress has taken the &#8220;nobody here but us chickens&#8221; approach to keeping a check on executive overreach.</p>
<p>Either the Constitution survives the Obama executive action on amnesty or the U.S. risks devolving further into just another sick, bloated, welfare state where an all powerful, hopelessly corrupt bureaucratic borg smothers what&#8217;s left of individual liberty.</p>
<p>On the foreign front, Obama boasts an impressive and growing string of failures.</p>
<p>But the latest impending policy debacle may be his crowning achievement &#8212; the nuclear power of Iran.</p>
<p>Consider this horrifying piece of irrefutable logic: why would Obama attempt to appease and cut deals with a country like Iran, which despises America, unless this president is in sympathy with the views of that country?</p>
<p>Let that sink in over your Thanksgiving turkey.</p>
<p>Such is the state of a great nation. Americans can&#8217;t rely on the newly invigorated Republican Party to do much but talk.</p>
<p>They think NOT opposing Obama won them their huge victory in the mid-terms.</p>
<p>And now, the GOP think acting like a doormat is a key to winning the presidency in 2016.</p>
<p>But by then, who knows what will be left of their country.</p>
<p>Still, Americans are in a rebellious mood.</p>
<p>Hold onto that, America. It may be all you&#8217;ve got left. There is still time to fight back.</p>
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		<title>Will the UN Security Council Impose a Palestinian State?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2014 05:25:17 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Fnazis.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-244238" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Fnazis.jpg" alt="Fnazis" width="297" height="198" /></a>January, 2015 does not bode well for Israel at the United Nations (UN). The UN Security Council (UNSC) will officially induct five newly elected non-permanent member-states replacing outgoing Rwanda, S. Korea, Australia, Argentina and Luxembourg, representing all the global regions. Unfortunately for Israel, the incoming states, particularly Venezuela and Malaysia, are hostile to the Jewish state. The other three, Angola, New Zealand, and Spain are pondering their position on recognizing Palestine as a full member-state of the UN.</p>
<p>It is apparent that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas will seize the opportunity and try to win an almost guaranteed majority on the UNSC, to grant Palestine full UN membership. In Abbas’ calculations, receiving UNSC recognition will enable him to demand that the UNSC set a deadline for Israel’s withdrawal to the 1967 line. At the same time, he’ll avoid having to negotiate peace with Israel, or make any concessions to the Jewish state.</p>
<p>The Palestinians need nine votes at the UNSC to win acceptance. They previously received seven. This time it appears that they may achieve their goal. Among the five permanent members, China and Russia are likely to support recognition of a Palestinian State. Britain and France are yet undecided, and the U.S will likely object.</p>
<p>Among the ten non-permanent states on the UNSC, Chad will support a Palestinian state, Chile is leaning towards acceptance, Lithuania is likely to object, and Nigeria is still undecided. Malaysia and Venezuela will definitely support the Palestinian quest. If we are to anticipate the votes of the undecided members based on their November 29, 2012 <a href="http://www.un.org/press/en/2012/ga11317.doc.htm">votes</a> at the General Assembly, to accord Palestine “non-member Observer State status,” it is more than likely that Angola, Nigeria, and Spain will also vote for acceptance. This would give the Palestinians 10 votes and full membership in the UN.</p>
<p>The only thing that can prevent the acceptance of Palestine as a member-state of the UN is a U.S. veto. In lieu of the tense relationship between the Obama administration and the Netanyahu government, Israel can no longer count on a US veto as a given. According to <em>YnetNews.com </em>(October 19, 2014) “Diplomatic officials said Israel is taking into bracing for a bad scenario in which the Democrats <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4581556,00.html">lose</a> their Senate majority in the midterm elections, and will then be free of obligations, which might lead them to get back at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for all the public clashes with the Democratic administration at the White House.”</p>
<p>PM Benjamin Netanyahu told the Israeli parliament (Knesset) on Monday (October 27, 2014): “I don’t see pressure on the Palestinians. I see only pressure on Israel to make more and more concessions…The Palestinians are demanding of us to establish a Palestinian state – without peace and without security. They demand withdrawal to the 1967 lines, admitting refugees and dividing Jerusalem – and after all these exaggerated demands they are not prepared to agree to the <a href="http://www.israeltoday.co.il/Newsheadlineslist.aspx">basic condition</a> for peace between two peoples – mutual recognition!”</p>
<p>The U.S. has been reluctant to use its veto power at the UNSC, especially the Obama administration. Yet, the Obama administration in February, 2011 cast its first-ever veto at the UNSC, blocking a Palestinian-backed draft resolution that denounced <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/countries/israel.html?nav=el">Israel&#8217;s</a> settlement policy as an illegal obstacle to peace efforts in the Middle East. In the case of a vote on Palestinian statehood, the U.S. is likely to pressure other UNSC member-states not to support the Palestinian move by offering alternatives such as the revival of peace talks between the Palestinians and Israel. But, the fact that President Obama this time is not seeking reelection, and is unlikely to be deterred by Republican criticism, America’s veto must be considered uncertain at best.</p>
<p>The Europeans are seeking to position themselves somewhere between the U.S. and the Palestinian position. While they may abstain in the vote on Palestinian statehood, they will demand a set of parameters for a permanent agreement that will eventually lead to a Palestinian state. These parameters might include Israel’s withdrawal to the June, 1967 line with land swaps and East Jerusalem as the Palestinian capital.</p>
<p>According to the <em>European Jewish Congress</em> press, “France will <a href="http://www.eurojewcong.org/News%20and%20Views/7091-france-to-abstain-at-un-security-council-vote-on-palestinian-un-bid-britain-will-have-the-same-position.html">abstain</a> at the UNSC vote on Palestinian UN bid, and Britain will do the same.” The French Foreign Ministry issued a statement saying that “While the region is experiencing upheaval, the legitimacy of the Palestinian aspiration for statehood is indisputable. However, the Palestinian request has no chance of success in the UNSC due, in particular, to the opposition expressed by the U.S.” In other words, the Europeans wish to exculpate themselves in appeasing the Arab-Muslim world and their own Muslim constituents, while putting the onus on the U.S.</p>
<p>The Europeans, the State Department, and New York Times to name a few, are unwilling to fully consider the consequences of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza. Israel’s full withdrawal from Gaza in 2005, under unrelenting pressure from the above institutions, brought it numerous wars and unending terror. Israel removed 9,000 Jewish residents by force, destroyed their homes, but left their green-houses to the Palestinians. Hamas terrorists in Gaza have used the areas vacated by the Jewish residents as a base to lob over 10,000 rockets on communities throughout Israel.</p>
<p>A Palestinian state in the West Bank (Judea and Samaria) and Gaza is unlikely to be demilitarized, and Hamas can be counted on to take over within a short time. Iran would immediately rush in heavy arms, and as a sovereign state, these arms shipments would arrive unhindered by air or sea. This would mean that even short range rockets from east of Jerusalem will target and hit Israel’s main population centers, including its international Ben Gurion airport. Israel would be paralyzed, and its economy and security in shambles. Any Israeli government will be compelled to react with force, and that would bring about international condemnation by the UN, and possibly sanctions. In addition, one can anticipate a regional war that might involve Iran’s nuclear weapons, and tens of thousands of Hezbollah rockets fired at Israel.</p>
<p>At a press conference on July 11, 2014, Israel’s PM Benjamin Netanyahu stated, “There cannot be a situation, under any agreement, in which we <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/18/benjamin-netanyahu-palest_n_5598997.html">relinquish security</a> control of the territory west of the Jordan River.”</p>
<p>British PM David Cameron opined that, “We support Palestine having its own state next to a <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/david-cameron/8781566/David-Cameron-Britain-wants-to-see-a-Palestinian-state.html">secure Israel</a>…In the end we have to recognize we will get a Palestinian state alongside an Israeli state by the Palestinians and the Israelis sitting down and talking to each other.”</p>
<p>US Department of State Spokeswoman Jen Psaki stated at a press briefing Friday (October 3, 2014), “We believe <a href="http://en.ria.ru/politics/20141004/193633372/Palestine-Not-Ready-for-Statehood-US-Department-of-State.html">international recognition</a> of a Palestinian state is premature. We certainly support Palestinian statehood but it can only come through a negotiated outcome, a resolution of final status issues and mutual recognition by both parties. I don’t think that we’ve seen evidence that they’re willing and able to either at this point in time.”</p>
<p>Mahmoud Abbas has been greatly encouraged by the Swedish and British parliaments votes to recognize a Palestinian state. Moreover, the new makeup of the UN Security Council as of January, 2015 will give him a tailwind to push for statehood. Only a U.S. veto at the UNSC can stop this madness, and compel Abbas to negotiate with Israel in earnest. Perhaps, in the interim, the Palestinians can evolve into a civil society with the rule of law, discard terror and incitement against Israel, and build a viable economy.</p>
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		<title>Raymond Ibrahim on Obama, the Islamic State, and More</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Raymond Ibrahim—a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center—was recently interviewed on &#8220;The Rino Hour of Power,” with host Rick Moran. The 40-minute interview discussion on a variety of topics dealing with the U.S. and Middle East follows below. (Another shorter, 20-minute interview on Reel Talk with Audrey Russo can be listened to by <a href="http://www.audreyrusso.com/Raymond_Ibrahim_1014solo.mp3">clicking here</a>.)</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/iraqi-christians.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-239038" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/iraqi-christians.jpg" alt="iraqi-christians" width="286" height="200" /></a>Nearly three-and-a-half years ago, before the “Arab Spring” and the plight of Christians became much of a topic, I wrote a FrontPage article titled “<a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2011/raymond-ibrahim/the-silent-extermination-of-iraq%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%98christian-dogs%E2%80%99/">The Silent Extermination of Iraq’s ‘Christian Dogs.’</a>”  Revisiting it is useful, as it highlights some important points.  The article follows below in italics, with new observations interspersed in regular font:</p>
<p><em>Last week [April, 2011] an Iraqi Muslim scholar issued a </em><a href="http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/5200.htm"><em>fatwa</em></a><em> that, among other barbarities, asserts that “it is permissible to spill the blood of Iraqi Christians.”  Inciting as the fatwa is, it is also redundant.  While last October’s Baghdad church attack which killed some sixty Christians is widely known—actually receiving some </em><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/8655/is-the-media-fair-and-balanced-on-christian"><em>MSM coverage</em></a><em>—the fact is, Christian life in Iraq has been a living hell ever since U.S. forces ousted the late Saddam Hussein in 2003.</em></p>
<p>The important point here is that the plight of Iraq’s Christians did not just begin under the Islamic State, as many seem to believe, but rather from the very first day the (secular) autocrat was removed.</p>
<p><em>Among other atrocities, </em><a href="http://www.aina.org/news/20061012004656.htm"><em>beheading and crucifying Christians</em></a><em> are not irregular occurrences; messages saying “</em><a href="http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Religion/?id=3.1.1271835942"><em>you Christian dogs, leave or die</em></a><em>,” are typical.  Islamists see the church as an “</em><a href="http://www.newswithviews.com/NWV-News/news224.htm"><em>obscene nest of pagans</em></a><em>” and threaten to “</em><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/11/01/world/main7011759.shtml"><em>exterminate Iraqi Christians</em></a><em>.”  </em><a href="http://www.csi-int.org/desk_eibner.php"><em>John Eibner</em></a><em>, CEO of </em><a href="http://www.csi-int.org/"><em>Christian Solidarity International</em></a><em>, summarized the situation well in a recent </em><a href="http://www.csi-int.org/pdfs/obama_eibner_iraq_01_11_10.pdf"><em>letter</em></a><em> to President Obama:</em></p>
<p><em>“The threat of extermination is not empty. Since the collapse of Saddam Hussein’s regime, more than half the country’s Christian population has been forced by targeted violence to seek refuge abroad or to live away from their homes as internally displaced people. According to the Hammurabi Human Rights Organization, over 700 Christians, including bishops and priests, have been killed and 61 churches have been bombed. Seven years after the commencement of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Catholic Archbishop Louis Sako of Kirkuk reports: ‘He who is not a Muslim in Iraq is a second-class citizen. Often it is necessary to convert or emigrate, otherwise one risks being killed.’ This anti-Christian violence is sustained by a widespread culture of Muslim supremacism that extends far beyond those who pull the triggers and detonate the bombs.”</em></p>
<p>Again, more confirmation that the savage persecution of Christians in Iraq—including recent acts of genocide and expulsions—is not a product of the Islamic State, but rather something more homegrown, more—how shall we say?—integral to Muslims unloosed from the grips of secularized dictators?</p>
<p><em>The grand irony, of course, is that Christian persecution has increased exponentially under U.S. occupation.  As one top </em><a href="http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0704487.htm"><em>Vatican official</em></a><em> put it, Christians, “paradoxically, were more protected under the dictatorship” of Saddam Hussein.</em></p>
<p><em>What does one make of this—that under Saddam, who was notorious for human rights abuses, Christians were better off than they are under a democratic government sponsored by humanitarian, some would say “Christian,” America?</em></p>
<p>Although I first suggested over three years ago that Christian minorities are the first to suffer whenever the U.S. intervenes in Islamic nations—evincing the types of people the U.S. ends up empowering—this notion is <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/confirmed-u-s-chief-facilitator-of-christian-persecution/">now an ironclad fact</a>, with other examples to add to Iraq, including Libya, Syria, and Egypt, under Obama allies, the Muslim Brotherhood.</p>
<p><em>Like a Baghdad caliph, Saddam appears to have made use of the better educated Christians, who posed no risk to his rule, such as his close confidant </em><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/apr/25/iraq.brianwhitaker"><em>Tariq Aziz</em></a><em>.  Moreover, by keeping a tight lid on the Islamists of his nation—who hated him as a secular apostate no less than the Christians—the latter benefited indirectly.</em></p>
<p><em>Conversely, by empowering “the people,” the U.S. has unwittingly undone Iraq’s Christian minority.  Naively projecting Western values on Muslims, U.S. leadership continues to think that “people-power” will naturally culminate into a liberal, egalitarian society—despite all the </em><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/8790/is-an-egyptian-democracy-a-good-thing"><em>evidence otherwise</em></a><em>.  The fact is, in the Arab/Muslim world, “majority rule” traditionally means domination by the largest tribe or sect; increasingly, it means Islamist domination.</em></p>
<p><em>Either which way, the minorities—notably the indigenous Christians—are the first to suffer once the genie of “people-power” is uncorked.  Indeed, </em><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/31/world/middleeast/31iraq.html"><em>evidence</em></a><em> </em><a href="http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/week-s-end/christmas-requiem-for-iraq-s-christian-community-1.332680"><em>indicates</em></a><em> that the U.S. backed “democratic” government of Iraq </em><a href="http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&amp;art=9206"><em>enables and incites</em></a><em> the persecution of its Christians.  (All of this raises the pivotal question: Do heavy-handed tyrants—Saddam, Mubarak, Qaddafi, et al—create brutal societies, or do naturally brutal societies create the need for heavy-handed tyrants to keep order?)</em></p>
<p>Again, a reminder that it is not just the Islamic State that persecutes Christians, but even the U.S. installed government of Iraq. Moreover, a few months after the above was written, the government of “liberated” Afghanistan <a href="http://www.charismanews.com/world/32161-christian-churches-officially-extinct-in-afghanistan">destroyed the last Christian church</a>—entirely under U.S. auspices.</p>
<p><em>Another indicator that empowering Muslim masses equates Christian suffering is the fact that, though Iraqi Christians amount to a mere 5% of the population, they make up nearly </em><a href="http://www.christiansofiraq.com/mostvulnerable.html"><em>40% of the refugees</em></a><em> fleeing Iraq.  It is now the same </em><a href="http://www.christiannewstoday.com/Christian_News_Report_5024.html"><em>in Egypt</em></a><em>: “A growing number of Egypt’s 8-10 million Coptic Christians are looking for a way to get out as Islamists increasingly take advantage of the nationalist revolution that toppled long-standing dictator Hosni Mubarak in February.”</em></p>
<p><em>At least Egypt’s problems are homegrown, whereas the persecution of Iraq’s Christians is a direct byproduct of U.S. intervention.  More ironic has been Obama’s approach: Justifying U.S. intervention in Libya largely in </em><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/ideals-trump-interests-in-obamas-libya-policy/"><em>humanitarian terms</em></a><em>, the president recently </em><a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/263265/full-text-ndu-libya-speech-nro-staff"><em>declared</em></a><em> that, while “it is true that America cannot use our military wherever repression occurs… that cannot be an argument for never acting on behalf of what’s right.”</em></p>
<p>Indeed, and we have since seen what Obama’s “humanitarian” actions in Libya have led to—the empowerment of Islamists and jihadis, evinced from things like the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi and the dramatic rise of Christian persecution.  Since Obama “liberated” Libya, Christians—<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/three-american-teachers-slaughtered-for-christian-faith-in-muslim-world/">including Americans</a>—have been <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/mass-arrest-and-torture-of-christians-in-libya/">tortured</a> and killed (including <a href="http://morningstarnews.org/2013/09/two-egyptian-christians-slain-in-libya/">for refusing to convert</a>) and <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/hatred-of-christians-unleashed-in-libya/">churches bombed</a>. And it’s “<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/open-season-on-christians-in-libya/">open season</a>” on Copts, as jihadis issue a reward to Muslims who find and kill Christians. This was hardly the case under Gaddafi.</p>
<p><em>True, indeed.  Yet, as Obama “acts on behalf of what’s right” by providing military protection to the </em><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/libya-rebel-strongholds-now-al-qaeda-wellspring/story?id=13266784"><em>al-Qaeda connected Libyan opposition</em></a><em>, Iraq’s indigenous Christians continue to be exterminated—right under the U.S. military’s nose in Iraq. You see, in its ongoing bid to win the much coveted but forever elusive “</em><a href="http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1902334,00.html"><em>Muslim-hearts-and-minds</em></a><em>™”—which Obama has even tasked </em><a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/obama-s-new-mission-nasa-reach-out-muslim-world"><em>NASA</em></a><em> with—U.S. leadership has opted to ignore the inhumane treatment of Islam’s “Christian dogs,” the mere mention of which tends to </em><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110120/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_egypt_al_azhar_vatican_1"><em>upset Muslims</em></a><em>.</em></p>
<p>And now the job is largely done, as Christians and other religious minorities are being <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/world-ignores-christian-exodus-from-islamic-world/">cleansed from large parts of Iraq</a>, not to mention much of the Islamic world.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/cuts.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-237981" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/cuts.jpg" alt="cuts" width="237" height="178" /></a>President Obama has been rightly chastised for his proposed cuts to our military budget. Critics have gone after his Quadrennial Defense Review and its plan to shrink the armed forces, not to mention the clumsy optics of issuing pink slips to thousands of officers still serving in Afghanistan. More troublesome is the reduction of the military’s global mission from its traditional purpose of being able to fight and defeat two enemies at once, to only defeating one while keeping a second from “achieving its objectives,” a conveniently fuzzy criterion.</p>
<p>Worse yet, these cuts are coming just as China and Russia are flexing their geopolitical muscles, the Middle East is exploding in sectarian violence, and Iran is creeping ever closer to nuclear weaponry. As a bipartisan panel created by the Pentagon and Congress concludes of these latest reductions, “Not only have they caused significant investment shortfalls in U.S. military readiness and both present and future capabilities, they have prompted our current and potential allies and adversaries to question our commitment and resolve. Unless reversed, these shortfalls will lead to a high-risk force in the near future. That in turn will lead to an America that is not only less secure but also far less prosperous. In this sense, these cuts are ultimately self-defeating.”</p>
<p>As the national leader and Commander in Chief, Obama deserves much of the blame for this strategic blunder. But let’s not forget the role of us voters in these decisions. Historically democracies have had a bad habit of preferring butter to guns, privileging shortsighted interests over long-term security.</p>
<p>Consider ancient Athens, the first democracy. In the 4<sup>th</sup> century BC, the Athenians created a public fund to pay poorer citizens to attend the theater and religious festivals, which were celebrated on over 130 days a year. Soon a law was passed to divert surplus money into that fund instead of the military fund, and a bit later another law made transference of surpluses to the military fund a capital crime. Unfortunately, during this same period Philip II of Macedon embarked upon a program of aggression against the southern Greek city-states. With his defeat of Athens and Thebes at Chaeronea in 338 BC, Philip achieved his aim, and the Athenians lost their political freedom. Ancient critics linked Athens’ defeat to the decision to starve the military in order to finance “entitlement spending.” Three centuries after Chaeronea, the historian Pompeius Trogus wrote of the Athenians, “The state revenues they had once spent on the army and the fleet were devoted instead to holidays and festivals,” and public money “began to be divided among the people in the city. In this way it happened that in a Greece preoccupied with entertainment the previously lowly and obscure name of Macedon was able to emerge.”</p>
<p>We see a similar dynamic at work in England after the Great War. Just between 1919 and 1921 the defense budget was cut by four-fifths, and continued to decline until 1933. By 1934 the shortfall in funding was such that the whole defense budget for a year would have been needed just to make up for the deficiencies in spending on the army. By 1938, when Hitler began his rampage of aggression, Germany was spending 5 times more on its military than England was. These decades of cuts, moreover, were justified after the Great War by a defense policy, renewed in 1928, based on the “Ten Year Rule,” which assumed that the British Empire would not have to fight a major war during that period, and so did not need an expeditionary force. Germany had other plans, and the folly of scanting the army became obvious in June 1940 with the collapse of the British army in France, and its hairsbreadth escape from annihilation at Dunkirk.</p>
<p>During this period, of course, money was tight in England. The war-debt, much of it owed to the U.S., had to be serviced. At the same time, voters were demanding increased spending on social-welfare programs. From 1.38% of GDP at the beginning of the Great War, welfare spending reached 3.36% in 1933, while spending on health services went from 1.14% of GDP in 1921, to 1.91% of GDP at the outbreak of World War II, despite occasional cutbacks. During this period, despite the growing evidence of German rearmament, disarmament was an explicit Labor Party policy, partly as a way to acquire revenues for increased social welfare spending. In 1934, Labor leader George Lansbury said he would “close every recruiting station, disband the Army and disarm the Air Force. I would abolish the whole dreadful equipment of war and say to the world ‘do your worst.’” That year and the next saw a string of Labor electoral victories, suggesting that the English people were sympathetic to a program of more butter, less guns.</p>
<p>Our current reductions in military spending also have support from the electorate. The cuts today are a consequence of the 2011 Budget Control Act, which called for $1 trillion in reduced spending over the following decade. Half of this amount is to come from defense, while the primary drivers of debt and deficits, Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, have been left untouched. At the time, no great mass of voters protested this unbalanced and shortsighted ratio, reserving their displeasure for the Republicans and their demands for serious deficit reductions during the debt-ceiling crisis, and suggestions that entitlements needed to be reformed. So too today, when the military cuts have not generated any widespread voter interest, let alone protests. Indeed, 37% of Americans say the government spends too much on defense, and 32% say it spend about the right amount­­––­­the latter despite the 31% decline since 2010.</p>
<p>We can fault our leaders for not better explaining that America’s role as the keeper of global order requires it to maintain a military force big enough and lethal enough to deter would-be aggressors. We can see right now the wages of American retreat from that global role, with our rivals and enemies emboldened, and our allies disgusted. And we have our own history to caution us against such shortsighted thinking. Who thought after the collapse of the Soviet Union, when during the 90’s defense spending was reduced 36%, that a new enemy holed up in the badlands of Afghanistan would strike the homeland with such devastation, and trigger two wars? No one knows what new dangers will arise from the current disorder, but we need to be prepared for them. But it’s hard to believe our president agrees with this obvious common sense when he dismisses the metastasizing jihad statelet ISIS by saying, “the rockets aren&#8217;t being fired into the United States.” Not yet they aren’t.</p>
<p>But the fault does not lie just with our leaders. Unfortunately, democracies have a hard time seeing past the next election cycle and today’s interests and passions. As usual, Tocqueville said it best:</p>
<blockquote><p>“A clear perception of the future, founded upon judgment and experience . . . is frequently wanting in democracies. The people are more apt to feel than to reason; and if their present sufferings are great, it is to be feared that the still greater sufferings attendant upon defeat will be forgotten.”</p></blockquote>
<p>The “present sufferings” that are driving military reductions come from the mere thought of trimming social welfare spending and reforming entitlements to keep them from devouring the whole budget. One can only imagine what the “greater sufferings” will be like if we continue to reduce our military and turn our backs on our global responsibilities just to protect our government dole.</p>
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		<title>America Stands with Hamas against Israel</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2014 04:10:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ronn Torossian]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Jewish State's strongest ally joins forces with one of its most vicious enemies. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/hamas_machine_gun_AFP.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-237632" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/hamas_machine_gun_AFP-450x337.jpg" alt="hamas_machine_gun_AFP" width="300" height="225" /></a>The Obama Administration stands with Hamas – an organization which is a designated foreign terrorist organization in America, Canada, the UK and most other civilized countries. Despicable and simply amazing that America is standing with an organization whose leadership and people is anti-American. Shameful, horrible, awful conduct. Clearly, the alliances in the Middle East have changed – Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Israel stand against Muslim extremist fundamentalists – and lining up on the other side is Qatar, Turkey and President Obama’s United States of America. Yes, you read that correctly.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Standing against <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Author.aspx/929"><span style="color: #1255cc;">Israel</span></a> – the most consistent American ally in the region – is despicable.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">This administration &#8212; which has been awful to Israel &#8212; saw <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/ronn-torossian/john-kerrys-blackmail-incitement-insults/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">Secretary of State John Kerry</span></a> present the Israeli cabinet with a draft of a ceasefire agreement that recognized Hamas’s position in the Gaza Strip, promised the organization billions in donation funds and demanded no dismantling of rockets, tunnels or other heavy weaponry at Hamas’s disposal.  Rather than standing against radical Islamists who endanger the entire Western world, America stands with terror.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Yet, the people of Israel will not accept these perpetual attacks upon her people.  Israel will not – and must not – stop until tunnels are destroyed, and terror ceases. Israel’s TV Station Channel 10 had a poll which revealed that 87 percent of Israelis were in favor continuing the operation in Gaza, with another 69 percent in favor of toppling Hamas. Another poll showed that 86.5 percent are against a ceasefire right now because “Hamas continues firing missiles on Israel, not all the tunnels have been found, and Hamas has not surrendered.”  And as America must continue fighting Al-Qaeda for world peace, so too must Israel keep fighting Hamas.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Hamas receives funding from Iran, and consistently stands against America. As Steven Emerson has documented, Hamas has &#8220;an extensive infrastructure in the U.S. mostly revolving around the activities of fundraising, recruiting and training members, directing operations against Israel, organizing political support and operating through human-rights front groups.”</p>
<p style="color: #252525;"><span style="color: #232323;">Who is it that America under Obama and Kerry is protecting? A government Prime Minister, </span><span style="color: #000000;">Ismail Haniya, the leader of Hamas who condemned the killing of Osama Bin Laden, describing the act as a “continuation of the United States policy of destruction.”</span> Haniyeh praised Bin Laden as a &#8220;martyr&#8221; and an &#8220;Arab holy warrior.”  This is the government which must be protected?  A government which endangers its own people – and vows to destroy the State of Israel?</p>
<p style="color: #252525;"><span style="color: #252525;">And the people of Hamas too stand against America.  </span>Ismail al-Ashqar, a Hamas lawmaker, described it as “state terrorism that America carries out against Muslims.” Yehia Moussa, another Hamas leader, noted that Hamas considers anybody killed while fighting “the American occupation and the Israeli occupation as a martyr, regardless of who he was.”</p>
<p>Hamas was democratically elected with 80% of the vote of the Palestinian people – and this is who today’s American leaders stand with. Let’s review the actions of whom Obama and Kerry are standing with when it comes to the 9/11 attacks:<i>  </i>&#8220;Allah has answered our prayers,&#8221; Dr. Atallah Abu Al-Subh wrote in an open letter titled &#8220;To America,&#8221; which appeared September 13, 2001, in the Hamas newspaper Al-Risala.</p>
<p>&#8220;How much hatred has [America] stockpiled. &#8230; Were the eradication of its Marines in Lebanon, the destruction of its military headquarters at Khobar in Saudi Arabia, the destruction of the USS Cole in Yemen, the bombing of its embassies in Zambia [sic] and in Kenya, and the attacks on its soldiers in the Gulf &#8230; not sufficient? The U.S. should have learned the lessons of history &#8230; Today, the U.S. has treated the bitter harvest it sowed in the hearts of millions. Today, we ask: After this, will the U.S. [continue to] think that it is above the law?&#8221; the editor of Al-Risala, Dr. Ghazi Hamad, said in justification of the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center.</p>
<p>For the sake of peace, Israel must destroy Hamas.</p>
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		<title>Obama’s Muslim Founding Fathers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2014 04:24:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Spencer]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The president praises the “contributions of Muslim Americans to building the very fabric of our nation.”]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/obama2.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-237430" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/obama2-450x228.jpg" alt="obama2" width="270" height="137" /></a>In <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/07/27/statement-president-occasion-eid-al-fitr">his message</a> to Muslims on their holiday Eid al-Fitr, issued Sunday, Barack Obama asserted that “Eid also reminds us of the many achievements and contributions of Muslim Americans to building the very fabric of our nation and strengthening the core of our democracy.” He did not, unfortunately, provide even a single example of these “many achievements and contributions” that Muslims have made to “building the very fabric of our nation,” but he said that there were many, so they shouldn’t be hard to list a few, right?</p>
<p>You remember a few of them, don’t you? Remember the Muslim signers of the Declaration of Independence? With Yahya al-Hanqoq’s large signature front and center, so that the infidel King George III could read it without his spectacles? And then there was Ibrahim Clark of New Jersey and El-Bridge Gerry of Massachusetts. Remember also the Muslims who gave James Madison information about Muhammad’s Constitution of Medina – which, as we all know, granted equal rights to women and religious minorities, predating such documents in the West by 1,000 years. Madison, of course, used the Medina Constitution as a model when framing the U.S. Constitution.</p>
<p>Then there were the Muslims who fought so valiantly during the War of 1812 and the Mexican War. And in the titanic struggles over slavery, Muslims were front and center: remember the Muslim abolitionist Senators who faced down the South in the antebellum Senate, the Senate chamber ringing with their oratory about how the Qur’an says to free slaves and so the U.S. government should, too? Remember the Muslim regiments in the Civil War (all on the Union side, of course!)? Then in the aftermath of the Civil War came the Muslim industrialists who brought us railroads, the telegraph, the telephone.</p>
<p>Not to be forgotten are the Muslims who also fought courageously in the Spanish-American War, World War I and World War II, and the Muslim entertainers who kept us laughing on the Vaudeville circuit and on the home front during those terrible world wars with their jokes from the Hadith.</p>
<p>None of this rings a bell? Not to worry. Before too long it will be taught in all the textbooks. Absurd? Maybe – but no more than Obama’s statement itself. And even if they don’t go so far as to Islamize John Hancock and imagine Muslim Americans fighting against slavery and defending America in world wars, public school textbooks already present a ridiculously rosy picture of Islam. A study by the American Textbook Council, an independent national research organization that evaluates the quality of textbooks, found that ten of the most widely used middle school and high school social studies textbooks “present an incomplete and confected view of Islam that misrepresents its foundations and challenges to international security.”</p>
<p>The books present highly tendentious constructions as undisputed truth, making common cause with West-hating multiculturalists to bowdlerize the presentation of Islam, denigrate or downplay Christianity and Western civilization, and transform numerous public school textbooks into proselytizing tracts.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, even though the Constitution of Medina is of highly doubtful authenticity and is contradicted both by Islamic law and by Islamic traditions about Muhammad’s actions, it is already becoming common for Islamic apologists to invoke it as evidence that Islam and democracy are not only compatible, but that Islam originated the idea of republican rule. Ahmadi Muslim apologist Qasim Rashid <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/qasim-rashid/ramadan-message-isis_b_5611232.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000051">recently wrote</a> in the Huffington Post that “when Prophet Muhammad was popularly appointed Medina’s ruler, he entered into a pact with the Jewish communities of Medina. Through this pact, he granted equal political rights to non-Muslims. They were ensured complete freedom of religion and practice.” Undercutting Rashid’s case are the facts that Muhammad ended up exiling two of the Jewish tribes of Medina and massacring the third, and that the Qur’an mandates that Jews (and Christians) in the Islamic state, rather than enjoying “equal political rights,” must “pay the jizya with willing submission and feel themselves subdued” (9:29).</p>
<p>But facts just get in the way of the narrative, and so the facts must go. It feels so good and multicultural to imagine Muslims at the founding of this nation, contributing to its very fabric, doesn’t it? Heck, speaking of fabric, probably Betsy Ross was a Muslim. And doesn’t the flag of South Carolina have a crescent moon on it?</p>
<p>Likewise regarding slavery – I imagine Muslim abolitionists above in pre-Civil War America above, in trying to give some substance to Barack Obama’s absurd statement. In reality, of course, there were no Muslim abolitionists, or Muslims, in the antebellum United States. What’s more, there were no Muslim abolitionists anywhere. Islamic apologists in the West routinely claim that Islam forbids slavery, but in fact the Qur’an takes slavery for granted, and according to Islamic tradition, Muhammad hallowed the practice by owning slaves himself. In some Muslim nations, it is still practiced, even though it is against the law (laws that initially began to be adopted in Muslim countries under Western pressure). Mauritania, for example, abolished slavery in 1981 and made it a crime in 2012, but it is still widespread — because it has Islamic sanction. Yet I myself remember being taught in high school, way back in the 1970s, that the last country to abolish slavery was Brazil, in 1889. There was no mention of Saudi Arabia’s abolishing slavery in 1962, or of the persistence of the practice in some Muslim countries. And that was forty years ago, showing that whitewashing of Islam in the textbooks, now rampant, had begun even then.</p>
<p>So when it comes to Barack Obama’s claim that Muslim Americans have made contributions to “building the very fabric of our nation and strengthening the core of our democracy,” if there were no Muslim Founding Fathers scrutinizing the Constitution of Medina for material they could use in the charter document of their new nation, then they have to be invented. The textbooks have already departed from reality regarding Islam – what could possibly be the problem with a few more steps into fantasy? What difference, at this point, does it make? Yahya al-Hanqoq, grab your quill!</p>
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		<title>Lessons for Obama from Canada</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2014 04:05:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The message of Prime Minister Stephen Harper vs. President of the United States. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><span style="color: #222222;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Canada-Israel-Flag.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-236590" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Canada-Israel-Flag.jpg" alt="Canada-Israel-Flag" width="265" height="198" /></a>This is part of a series on Israel&#8217;s Operation Protective Edge in Gaza. To view previous installments, please visit </span><a style="color: #1155cc;" href="http://www.phillyreligiouszionists.org/lessons-from-the-gaza-war/" target="_blank">www.phillyreligiouszionists.<wbr />org/lessons-from-the-gaza-war/</a><wbr style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">.</span></em></p>
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<p>Israel long ago learned that you can tell who your real friends are when the chips are down. The Gaza war is proving that again.</p>
<p>During the 2012 election campaign, when polls showed that President Barack Obama might lose a significant portion of the Jewish vote in key electoral states, he declared that he &#8220;will always have Israel&#8217;s back.&#8221;</p>
<p>But this past week, as hundreds of Hamas rockets rained down upon the Jewish state, and Israel really needed an ally to have its back, President Obama called Prime Minister Netanyahu to demand that Israel show &#8220;restraint.&#8221;</p>
<p>That was followed the next day by a phone call from Secretary of State John Kerry to Netanyahu, warning against &#8220;escalating tensions&#8221; and pressing Israel to let him &#8220;mediate a truce.&#8221;</p>
<p>The last thing Israel needs is a &#8220;truce&#8221; with Hamas. The Israelis have had two of those already. A &#8220;truce&#8221; means Hamas gets several more years to build up its supply of rockets, in preparation for the next round.</p>
<p>And with every new round, Hamas has new rockets, that can reach even further and cause even more devastation.</p>
<p>By pressing for &#8220;restraint&#8221; and a &#8220;truce,&#8221; Obama and Kerry are, in effect, trying to save Hamas from being crippled or destroyed by Israel. Is that their idea of &#8220;having Israel&#8217;s back&#8221; ?</p>
<p>Now contrast the Obama-Kerry line that with the words of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper this week:</p>
<p>&#8211; “The indiscriminate rocket attacks from Gaza on Israel are terrorist acts, for which there is no justification.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8211; “It is evident that Hamas is deliberately using human shields to further terror in the region.”</p>
<p>&#8211; “Failure by the international community to condemn these reprehensible actions would encourage these terrorists to continue their appalling actions.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8211; “Canada calls on its allies and partners to recognize that these terrorist acts are unacceptable and that solidarity with Israel is the best way of stopping the conflict.”</p>
<p>There was really nothing controversial in Harper&#8217;s words. They were simple statements of fact. But in today&#8217;s upside-down world, it is remarkable when a world leader simply tells the truth about Israel and the Palestinians.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s almost as if we are surprised when a world leader turns out not to be a hypocrite, a political coward, or an appeaser. We&#8217;re so used to the international community&#8217;s outrageous double standards, that it becomes remarkable when a national leader acts like a mensch.</p>
<p>Israel has a true friend in Ottawa. The White House could learn a thing or two from Stephen Harper about what it really means to have someone&#8217;s back.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2014 04:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Internationally renowned Australian author Nick Adams discusses how the world’s greatest ‘turnaround’ nation will do it again.]]></description>
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<p>He came on the show to discuss his new book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1936488841/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1936488841&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=s0231-20%22%3EThe%20American%20Boomerang:%20How%20the%20World%27s%20Greatest%20%27Turnaround%27%20Nation%20Will%20Do%20It%20Again%3C/a%3E%3Cimg%20src=%22http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=s0231-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1936488841"><em>The American Boomerang: How the World’s Greatest ‘Turnaround’ Nation Will Do It Again</em></a>.</p>
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		<title>America: Biggest Bankroller of Palestinian Killers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2014 04:50:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Klein]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Time to stop the near-billion dollars in "aid" to the Hamas-Fatah government. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/hamas11.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-235339" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/hamas11-450x300.jpg" alt="Military Ceremony in Gaza" width="311" height="207" /></a>The search for the three abducted Israeli teenagers, Eyal Yifrach, Gilad Shaar, and Naftali Frenkel (who held Israeli and American citizenship), ended on June 30<sup>th</sup> with the grisly discovery of their bodies in a shallow grave near the West Bank city of Hebron. They were found by civilian volunteers from an Israeli field school in the area, who alerted Israeli security forces. The boys appeared to have been shot, perhaps shortly after the abrupt ending of a cell phone call from one of the teens in which he said, “I was kidnapped.” Cartridges of bullets were found in the burnt out vehicle that was determined to be the car carrying the kidnapped teens.</p>
<p>Israeli security forces have identified two Hamas operatives as being responsible for the abductions. They are Marwan Qwasmeh and Amar Abu Aisha from Hebron. This appears to have been a planned operation, with possible funding, training, logistical support and safe houses being arranged with the support of Hamas’s infrastructure extant in the West Bank itself as well as from Gaza. An intensive search is underway for others involved in the operation. Targeted Israeli attacks on Hamas’s West Bank infrastructure are likely to continue. More action is under consideration as Israeli leaders have reacted to the latest news with fury and disgust.</p>
<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called an urgent meeting of his security cabinet at which they are expected to formulate a response to the kidnapping and murders.  He told the security cabinet that the teenagers were &#8220;kidnapped and murdered in cold blood by animals.&#8221; He added: &#8220;Our hearts bleed, the entire nation is crying with them. Hamas is responsible, and Hamas will pay.”</p>
<p>Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon, declared: “This tragic ending must also mark the end of Hamas! The nation is strong and ready to endure [tragedy] for the sake of a mortal blow against Hamas. … [W]e have to destroy the homes of Hamas activists, wipe out their arsenals everywhere, and stop the flow of money that directly or indirectly keeps terror alive… make the entire Palestinian leadership pay a heavy price.”</p>
<p>Israel’s United Nations Ambassador Ron Prosor demanded that UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon press the Security Council to condemn the murder of the boys, the firing of rockets, and the unity government between Fatah and Hamas:</p>
<blockquote><p>In the past few weeks, Israel has come under attack and felt the bitter devastation that comes with Hamas in a Palestinian government.  Since the formation of the unity government on 2 June 2014, over 70 rockets have been fired from Gaza into Israel…The international community can no longer remain silent as the citizens of Israel are mercilessly murdered and terrorized.</p></blockquote>
<p>Secretary General Ban Ki-moon did condemn the murderous attacks, which he called a “heinous act by enemies of peace.” But he did not call for any action by the Security Council or refer to Hamas by name. Last week the Security Council failed to reach consensus on any statement to issue regarding the kidnapping itself. Jordan, a non-permanent member of the Council, insisted on including a condemnation of Israel in any resolution or press statement, which the United States refused to accept.</p>
<p>President Obama joined Ban Ki-moon and other Western leaders in denouncing the murders. He broke his inexcusable weeks-long silence on the abductions themselves and made this statement about the murders:</p>
<blockquote><p>As a father, I cannot imagine the indescribable pain that the parents of these teenage boys are experiencing. The United States condemns in the strongest possible terms this senseless act of terror against innocent youth.</p></blockquote>
<p>However, Obama characteristically lumped Israel, the victim of this deliberate act of atrocity against its young, with the Palestinians, the aggressors.  While referring generally to the “senseless act of terror,” he avoided any reference to jihadists generally or more specifically to Hamas as the perpetrators who must be found by all means necessary and brought to justice. He insisted that both sides avoid any escalation that could “further destabilize the situation,&#8221; although Obama did make a point of mentioning that, as the Israeli people deal with “this tragedy,” they would have “the full support and friendship of the United States.”</p>
<p>As usual, Obama’s deeds are at variance with his words. A true friend would recognize that Hamas is at war with Israel and act accordingly to provide full support in actions and words to its beleaguered ally. Hamas considers all Israelis to be combatants and legitimate targets, including children. Its rocket attacks launched from Gaza are aimed at Israeli civilians. Indeed, on the same day that the abducted teens’ bodies were found, fifteen rockets from the Gaza Strip were fired by Hamas in three volleys into Israel. Obama is insensitive to the daily plight of Israeli civilians, most notably the children, who must seek out bomb shelters every time they hear a siren go off after yet another rocket launching from Gaza aimed at killing them.</p>
<p>In addition to its rocket attacks, Hamas has publicly declared that the kidnapping of Israelis is a key tactic of their “resistance.” They use kidnapped Israelis, live or dead, as bait to secure the release of hundreds, if not thousands, of the Palestinian terrorist murderers with innocent blood on their hands who are currently behind bars in Israel.</p>
<p>A senior Hamas political leader, Muhammad Nazal, called the kidnapping of the three Israeli teenagers, “a heroic capture” and “a milestone” for the Palestinian people. Hamas chief Khaled Mashaal, while saying that he could neither confirm nor deny Hamas’s direct involvement in the abductions, nevertheless complimented the operation. He accused the three teenagers of being “soldiers in the Israeli army.”</p>
<p>“This is a very important aspect which should be mentioned,” Mashaal said. “They [the three youths] are combatants.”</p>
<p>After the teenagers’ bodies were discovered, Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri told Palestinian Al-Aqsa TV that Israel is using the deaths of the teenagers to &#8220;escalate the situation against our people and our resistance, and Hamas in particular,&#8221; BBC Monitoring reported. He threatened that Israel will pay a price “higher than any price paid in the past” in the event of any confrontation “imposed on us,” ignoring the fact that it is Hamas that has already initiated the latest confrontation.</p>
<p>Despite Hamas’s praising of the kidnappings as to which two of its operatives are suspected of being directly involved and Hamas’s continued defiance, there was not a word in President Obama’s statement on the deaths of the three youths indicating any intention to reverse his decision to establish ties with the recently sworn-in Fatah-Hamas unity transitional government. Although no aid is permitted by Congress for a power-sharing government that includes Hamas as a member, the Obama administration has been doing everything it can to end-run the congressional restrictions by pretending that everything remains business as usual. U.S. State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki made it clear to reporters at a briefing in early June that the Obama administration would not cut off the more than $500 million of annual aid that it supplies to the Palestinian authorities. She added that the United States “will be judging this government by its actions. We will continue to evaluate the composition and policies of the new government, and if needed, we will recalibrate our approach.”</p>
<p>Additionally, the United States remains the largest single-state donor to the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), which have totaled more than $4.65 billion since UNRWA’s inception in 1950. The Obama administration’s budgeted annual contributions to UNRWA are now in the range of $250 million, on top of the above-mentioned half a billion dollars annually in direct bilateral aid.</p>
<p>After the Obama administration effectively legitimized Hamas by its endorsement of the transition unity government and keeping the gravy train flowing, Hamas responded with the abductions and murders. Yet Obama still believes that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas can retain control of the transition government, which is supposed to be technocratic in nature to help prepare for elections in several months. After all, Abbas had provided assurances that the new government would adhere to past commitments to non-violence, renunciation of terrorism and recognition of the state of Israel, and that Abbas himself would continue to uphold his responsibility to maintain security coordination with Israel.</p>
<p>The kidnappings and subsequent murders of the three teenagers in the West Bank, coupled with the resumption of Hamas’s rocket attacks from Gaza, expose the emptiness of Abbas’s assurances, even in the unlikely event that he was sincere when he delivered them. Abbas and his team simply refuse to acknowledge that Hamas is in fact a jihadist organization that kills innocent civilians as part of its deliberate strategy.</p>
<p>One only has to look at a statement during an Arabic interview last April by Saeb Erekat, Abbas’s hand-picked chief negotiator with Israel, who claimed that “Hamas is not and will never be a terrorist organization to us.” Moreover, he said that “Hamas is not required to recognize Israel.”</p>
<p>With Gaza firmly under its control and an infrastructure already established in the West Bank, Hamas is poised to roll over any opposition and dominate the “elected” government unless Israel can thwart it. The Bush administration fell for the faux “democracy” gambit back in 2006 when it endorsed a parliamentary election that Hamas swept and then exploited by expelling Fatah from Gaza altogether. Will the same happen again in the West Bank, with Hamas sweeping to victory and then ending any semblance of democracy immediately thereafter as it embarks unencumbered in its plan to destroy the Jewish state?  Quite likely, but the Obama administration is not likely to learn from the mistakes of the prior administration, much less from its own mistakes which include continued reliance on Abbas to make things right.</p>
<p>Any “new government” with which Hamas is associated, in any way, shape or form, is little more than a smokescreen behind which Hamas and its jihadists brothers will be able to operate with impunity to kill innocent Israeli civilians. U.S. taxpayer monies, to the tune of a half a billion dollars this year alone in direct aid plus another quarter of a billion dollars funneled through the UN, will end up helping to fund this obscenity.</p>
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		<title>U.S. Becomes Chief Enabler of Christian Persecution</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2014 04:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raymond Ibrahim]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Obama.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-225597" alt="Obama" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Obama-450x295.jpg" width="315" height="207" /></a><b><i>Originally published by the </i></b><a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4312/muslim-persecution-christians-january"><b>Gatestone Institute</b></a></p>
<p>Human rights organization Open Doors published its 2014 World Watch List in January, highlighting and ranking the <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/the-existential-elephant-in-the-christian-persecution-room/">top 50 nations that persecute Christians</a>.  The overwhelming majority of countries making the list—and nine of the top ten worst offenders—are Muslim, and include nations from among America’s allies (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait) and its contenders (Iran); from among economically rich nations (Qatar) and poor nations (Somalia and Yemen); from among “Islamic republic” nations (Afghanistan), “democracies” (Iraq), and “moderate” nations (Malaysia and Indonesia).</p>
<p>The report also indicates that every Muslim nation that the U.S. has helped “liberate,” including in the context of the “Arab Spring,” <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/confirmed-u-s-chief-facilitator-of-christian-persecution/">has become significantly worse for Christians and other minorities</a>. Previously moderate Syria is now ranked the third worst nation in the world to be Christian, Iraq fourth, Afghanistan fifth, and Libya 13th. All four receive the worst designation in the ranking process: “extreme persecution.”</p>
<p>Three of these countries—Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya—were “liberated” in part thanks to U.S. forces, while in the fourth, Syria, the U.S. is actively sponsoring “freedom fighters” against the regime, many of whom have been responsible for any number of atrocities—including <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/largest-massacre-of-christians-in-syria-ignored/">massacres, beheadings</a>, and the <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/christians-crucified-again-for-refusing-islam/">crucifixion of Christians and others</a>.</p>
<p>Despite this track record of interfering in Islamic nations only for the human rights of minorities to plummet, and despite the fact that Syria has gotten dramatically worse for Christian minorities, Secretary of State <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/kerry-boasts-of-pluralistic-syria-once-assad-gone/">John Kerry declared</a> in January that, if only Bashar Assad goes away, “I believe that a peace can protect all of the minorities: Druze, Christian, Isma‘ilis, Alawites—all of them can be protected, and you can have a pluralistic Syria, in which minority rights of all people are protected.”</p>
<p>The same was predicted of Iraq over a decade ago, yet today, well more than half of the Christians are either dead or fled, after years of constant attacks on their churches and persons once Arab dictator Saddam Hussein was ousted.</p>
<p>Libya offers a more recent precedent.  Since U.S.-backed “rebels” overthrew Qaddafi, Christians—<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/three-american-teachers-slaughtered-for-christian-faith-in-muslim-world/">including Americans</a>—have been <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/mass-arrest-and-torture-of-christians-in-libya/">tortured</a> and killed (some <a href="http://morningstarnews.org/2013/09/two-egyptian-christians-slain-in-libya/">for refusing to convert</a>), their <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/hatred-of-christians-unleashed-in-libya/">churches bombed</a>, and their <a href="http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Islamists-chase-nuns-from-Libya,-people-pray-for-their-return-27021.html">nuns threatened</a>.</p>
<p>January’s roundup of Muslim persecution of Christians around the world includes (but is not limited to) the following accounts, listed by theme and country in alphabetical order, not necessarily according to severity.</p>
<p align="center"><b>Attacks on Christian Places of Worship </b></p>
<p><b>Egypt</b>: Christian churches were severely targeted during the first month of 2014.  Among other incidents, during New Year Eve church services, Muslim Brotherhood supporters attacked St. George Church in Ain Shams; one young <a href="http://www.copts-united.com/English/Details.php?I=1022&amp;A=12735">Coptic man died</a> from a bullet wound to the head.  International Christian Concern <a href="http://www.persecution.org/2014/01/28/twenty-six-molotov-cocktail-bombs-discovered-next-to-a-church-in-egypt/">reports</a> that on Friday, January 3, Muslim Brotherhood supporters also attacked an Evangelical Church in the Gesr El Suez area of Cairo, “pelt[ing] stones on the church and chanting slogans against Christians,” in the words of a local.  Reports indicate that “there was no security for the church building and that the attackers operated with impunity.”  On Sunday, January 5, security forces in Suez disrupted a terrorist cell belonging to the “Supporters of Jerusalem,” which was plotting to attack a nearby church during January 7 Orthodox Christmas celebrations.  Among other things, a bomb was found in the bathroom of the Three Saints Church in Beni Suef city, which was diffused by police. On January 10, security forces “arrested a bearded person in possession of four hand grenades in a handbag next to the Church of two Saints,” according to a local Christian. (In 2011, a suicide attack on the same church on New Year’s Eve resulted in the killing of over 20 Christian worshippers).  On January 24, authorities found explosives inside a car parked behind the Al Malak church, which was targeted, “to be exploded,” sources told International Christian Concern.  On Saturday, January 25, Security forces in Ismailia Security directorate found 26 Molotov Cocktails inside a bag next to the church of St. Bishoy in Ismailia city. Witnesses say that the person in possession of the bag of explosives was sitting in a car next to the church and that “he fled when he saw the policemen.”  On January 28, “A group of armed men,” <a href="http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Cairo,-Coptic-Orthodox-church-attacked.-One-dead.-30160.html">reported</a> Asia News, “attacked the Coptic Orthodox Church of the Virgin Mary in the governorate of Giza. Police responded to gunfire and one officer died in the shootout, while two others were injured.”</p>
<p><b>Indonesia</b>:   In the province of Aceh, where Sharia law holds sway, Christians, who make up 1.2 percent of the population, continue to be denied permits to build churches.   According to <a href="http://www.fides.org/en/news/35012-ASIA_INDONESIA_Christians_are_increasing_in_Aceh_but_no_permission_is_given_to_build_churches#.U1xiyPldVqU">Agenzia Fides</a>, “There are only three churches in the provincial capital Banda Aceh (one Catholic and two Protestant), and even though the Christian population in Aceh is increasing, the requirements to obtain permits and the pressures of radical Islamic groups on the civilian authorities have made it extremely difficult for non-Muslims to build new places of worship. Moreover, the current governor of the province, Zaini Abdullah, who was elected in 2012, promotes a declared program of islamization of society.”  A human rights leader was reported as saying that the laws that appear within Sharia districts “limit the freedom of minorities to practice their faith and are not coherent with the Indonesian Constitution.”</p>
<p><b>Malaysia</b>: An unidentified assailant <a href="http://www.skynews.com.au/world/article.aspx?id=945379">hurled two petrol bombs at a shrine fronting the Church of the Assumption</a>.  Only one bomb ignited, causing minor damage to the structure.  This came in the context of anger at Christians using the word “Allah” to refer to the biblical God.  “But the incident,” said Sky News, “stirred memories of a wave of such attacks on places of worship—mostly churches—four years ago during an earlier bout of divisions over the dispute in the Muslim-majority country….  Conservative Muslims have raised pressure in recent weeks for Malay-speaking Christians to stop using the word ‘Allah.’”</p>
<p><b>Nigeria</b>: On a Friday in the Muslim-majority north, gunmen suspected of being members of the Islamic organization Boko Haram <a href="http://dailypost.ng/2014/01/11/boko-haram-militants-burn-church-legislators-house-borno/">burned down a church</a> and the house of a National Assembly member. Separately, in the midst of several Sunday morning raids by Muslim Fulani herdsmen, <a href="http://morningstarnews.org/2014/01/islamic-extremists-in-nigeria-attack-christians-at-sunday-worship/">at least fifteen Christians killed</a>.</p>
<p><b>South Sudan</b>:  During clashes between rebel groups and the recently formed government of South Sudan, <a href="http://www.bosnewslife.com/31850-rebels-attack-south-sudan-churches-priests">Catholic and Protestant churches were attacked</a>, priests forced to flee for their lives, and the whereabouts of a bishop who disappeared remain unknown.  Some 600,000 people, most of them Christian, have also fled their homes amid reports of mass slaughters and ongoing attacks on churches.</p>
<p><b>Zanzibar</b>: More than <a href="http://morningstarnews.org/2014/01/muslim-extremists-attack-visiting-preacher-on-tanzanias-zanzibar-island/">100 Muslims stormed a church following an evening worship service and beat the visiting preacher</a>.  According to a church elder, “These rowdy Muslims were shouting and yelling, saying, ‘We are looking for the bishop of the church to slaughter him—we are tired of the existence of this church near our mosque and the noise they are making.’”  The Islamic mob fled when police arrived—but not before tearing the visiting pastor’s coat and shirt, and causing him to suffer multiple contusions requiring medication.  According to another church member, the “congregation has been living in fear for their lives…  At the moment we cannot worship freely because we are being threatened. The Muslims are accusing us of making a lot of noise while they themselves make a lot of noise.”</p>
<p align="center"><b>Attacks on Christian Freedom: Apostasy, Blasphemy, Proselytism</b></p>
<p><b>Algeria</b>:<b> </b>Ali Touahir, a 52-year-old Muslim convert to Christianity, is <a href="http://barnabasfund.org/US/News/Archives/Christian-convert-in-Algeria-loses-wife-faces-death-threats-for-leaving-Islam.html">paying the price for apostasy</a>: his Muslim wife has left him, taking their seven-year-old daughter, and is divorcing him in court.  One of his wife’s brothers has openly threated to kill him.  According to court documents, the wife’s lawyer wrote: “It is not possible that my client [the Muslim wife] still remain under the same roof with a man who has renounced his religion, as he became apostate; and we are not ignorant of the punishment that is due an apostate under sharia [death].”</p>
<p><b>Israel</b>: Christians were <a href="http://www.israeltoday.co.il/NewsItem/tabid/178/nid/24382/Default.aspx?archive=article_title">warned against “slandering” Allah</a>.  A large billboard was posted in Nazareth featuring a picture of an Israeli stop sign, along with Koran 4:171 which reads: “O people of the Scripture [Christians]! Do not exceed the limits of your religion. Say nothing but the truth about Allah (The One True God). The Christ Jesus, Son of Mary, was only a Messenger of God and His word conveyed to Mary and a spirit created by Him. So believe in God and His messengers and do not say: ‘Three gods (trinity).’ Cease! It will be better for you. Indeed, Allah is the One and the Only God. His Holiness is far above having a son.”</p>
<p><b>Kazakhstan</b>:  A court fined two Protestant Christians for possession of Christian publications, which were defined as “<a href="http://www.fides.org/en/news/34979-ASIA_KAZAKHSTAN_Christians_were_fined_for_possession_of_extremist_books#.U2lJ_fldVqU">extremist material</a>.”  According to a note sent to Agenzia Fides, a “tough system of religious censorship imposed by the state” prevails in the nation.  Earlier, in October, 2013, Bibles and icons in a small shop were seized by police and the owner indicted for the sale of religious material without the permission of the state.  Similarly, a 67-year-old Christian Presbyterian Pastor has been under arrest since May 17, 2013, on charges of distributing “extremist material,” that is, leaflets on the Christian faith.</p>
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<p><b>Lebanon</b>:  After blasphemy allegations saying that a decades-old library owned by a Christian and church leader possessed “<a href="http://barnabasfund.org/US/News/Archives/Historic-Christian-owned-library-in-Lebanon-torched.html">material deemed insulting to Islam and Muhammad</a>,” the building was torched in an arson attack; two-thirds of its 80,000 books and manuscripts were destroyed.</p>
<p><b>Malaysia</b>:  Christians using the word “Allah” for worship were <a href="http://www.fides.org/en/news/35063-ASIA_MALAYSIA_Allah_issue_burning_Fr_Andrew_s_portrait_is_equivalent_to_an_attack_against_Christians#.U1MY0_ldVqU">again attacked</a> by Muslim groups.  Similarly, the portrait of one Fr. Andrew Lawrence, Director of the Catholic weekly Herald, was burned, and threats to his life continue.  Msg. Murphy Pakiam, the region’s Archbishop Emeritus, in a letter asked authorities to “take the necessary measures to prevent further provocative acts of intimidation against minorities,” and concluded by saying “let us not forget to pray for our enemies, who have misunderstood our faith.”<b></b></p>
<p><b>Pakistan</b>: Asia Bibi, a Catholic Christian wife and mother who has been on death row for over four years without trial for <a href="http://crossmap.christianpost.com/news/imprisoned-pakistani-catholic-asia-bibi-writes-to-pope-francis-saying-only-god-can-free-her-8244">allegedly blaspheming Islam and/or its prophet Muhammad</a>, sent a message to Pope Francis saying that “only God will be able to free me….  I also hope that every Christian has been able to celebrate the Christmas just past with joy. Like many other prisoners, I also celebrated the birth of the Lord in prison in Multan, here in Pakistan…  I would have liked to be in St. Peter’s for Christmas to pray with you, but I trust in God’s plan for me and hopefully it will be achieved next year.”<b><br />
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<p style="text-align: center;"><b>Dhimmitude and Murder<br />
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<p><b>Bangladesh</b>: Ovidio Marandy, a young Christian and brother of a Catholic priest, <a href="http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Rajshahi:-Islamists-kill-young-Catholic-who-complained-about-anti-Christian-violence-30022.html">was murdered</a>.  According to his brother and family, “Muslim radicals wanted to punish the young man, a well-known figure in the local Catholic community, because he had recently organised a demonstration in his village against Islamist violence,” and more generally was speaking for Christian rights in the Muslim majority nation.  According to the local Christian priest, “We are shocked by what happened.  Christians have the right to vote. Why are Islamists attacking us? We want peace.”</p>
<p><b>Egypt</b>: Yet another Coptic Christian child was kidnapped in Egypt.  Thirteen-year-old Cyril Rif‘at Fayiz was <a href="http://www.christian-dogma.com/vb/showthread.php?p=3386564">abducted</a> in the Minya district by “unknown persons” who later called the child’s parents demanding one million Egyptian pounds, nearly the equivalent of $150,000 USD, an exorbitant sum for Egyptian villagers.</p>
<p><strong>Syria:</strong> <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/armenian-christians-pressured-to-convert-to-islam/">Two Armenian families were compelled to convert to Islam</a> at the hands of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), and one man, Minas, a young Armenian, was killed for refusing. According to <a href="http://www.mepanorama.com/402257/%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B3-%D8%A3%D8%B1%D9%85%D9%86%D9%8A-%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A-%D9%82%D8%AA%D9%84-%D9%84%D8%A3%D9%86%D9%87-%D8%B1%D9%81%D8%B6-%D8%A5%D8%B9%D8%AA%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%82-%D8%A7/">iNews</a>, “Minas and his father were held in ISIL’s prison for 115 days, according to one activist, and his accusation was that he refused to submit [to Islam, i.e., convert].”  The same report mentions other Christian Armenians killed, including one who reportedly had “his head chopped off and placed in a biscuit box.”  Separately,  another Christian man, Fadi, was <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/syria-christian-decapitated-stabbed-with-crucifix/">beheaded and his body stabbed with his own crucifix</a>, which exposed him as a Christian to “rebels” who had stopped his car.</p>
<p><b>Turkey</b>:  Protests against Christmas and New Year celebrations were described as “unprecedented” by <i>Al-Monitor.  </i>The campaign was led by the Anatolian Youth Association (AYA), the youth branch of the pro-Islamic Felicity Party.  In one instance, members displayed posters in various Istanbul neighborhoods that pictured a <a href="http://barnabasfund.org/US/News/Archives/Fears-anti-Christian-campaign-in-Turkey-could-incite-violence.html">Muslim man punching Santa Claus</a> with the slogan “No to New Year’s and Christmas celebrations.”  The group also distributed flyers stating, “We are crying out that the New Year’s and Christmas celebrations held in our country are wrong and constitute a blow dealt to our Muslim identity. “ On 26 December at Beyazit Square in Istanbul, the AYA stabbed an inflatable Santa while chanting against Christmas and New Year celebrations. One Christian bishop expressed concerns that the Santa parody was “like a rehearsal” for attacks on real people: “A handful of Christians are left in this country, and such incidents naturally cause fear… The savage murders of missionaries took place in the wake of similar hate campaigns.”<b><br />
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<p align="center"><b>About this Series</b></p>
<p>The persecution of Christians in the Islamic world is on its way to reaching pandemic proportions.  Accordingly, “Muslim Persecution of Christians” was developed to collate some—by no means all—of the instances of persecution that surface each month. It serves two purposes:</p>
<p>1)    To document that which the mainstream media does not: the habitual, if not chronic, persecution of Christians.</p>
<p>2)    To show that such persecution is not “random,” but systematic and interrelated—that it is rooted in a worldview inspired by Sharia.</p>
<p>Accordingly, whatever the anecdote of persecution, it typically fits under a specific theme, including hatred for churches and other Christian symbols; sexual abuse of Christian women; forced conversions to Islam; apostasy and blasphemy laws that criminalize and punish with death those who “offend” Islam; theft and plunder in lieu of <em>jizya</em> (financial tribute expected from non-Muslims); overall expectations for Christians to behave like cowed <em>dhimmis</em>, or second-class, “tolerated” citizens; and simple violence and murder. Sometimes it is a combination.</p>
<p>Because these accounts of persecution span different ethnicities, languages, and locales—from Morocco in the West, to India in the East—it should be clear that one thing alone binds them: Islam—whether the strict application of Islamic Sharia law, or the supremacist culture born of it.</p>
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<li><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/u-s-chose-to-stay-silent-on-muslim-persecution-of-christians-november-2013/">November, 2013</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-october-2013/" target="_blank">October, 2013</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-july-2013/">July, 2013</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-june-2013/">June, 2013</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/muslim-persecution-of-christians-may-2013/">May, 2013</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/muslim-persecution-of-christians-april-2013/">April, 2013</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-march-2013/">March, 2013</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/muslim-persecution-of-christians-february-2013/">February, 2013</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-january-2013/">January, 2013</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-december-2012/">December, 2012</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-november-2012/" target="_blank">November, 2012</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-october-2012/" target="_blank">October, 2012</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-september-2012/">September, 2012 </a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-august-2012/">August, 2012</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/12215/muslim-persecution-of-christians-july-2012">July, 2012</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/12045/muslim-persecution-of-christians-june-2012">June, 2012</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/11930/muslim-persecution-of-christians-may-2012">May, 2012</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/11713/muslim-persecution-of-christians-april-2012">April, 2012</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/11604/muslim-persecution-of-christians-march-2012">March, 2012</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/11373/muslim-persecution-of-christians-february-2012">February, 2012</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/11152/muslim-persecution-of-christians-january-2012">January, 2012</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/10989/muslim-persecution-of-christians-december-2011">December, 2011</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/10922/muslim-persecution-of-christians-november-2011">November, 2011</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/10724/muslim-persecution-of-christians-october-2011">October, 2011</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/10504/muslim-persecution-of-christians-september-2011">September, 2011</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/10247/muslim-persecution-of-christians-august-2011">August, 2011</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/muslim-persecution-of-christians/muslim-persecution-of-christians-july-2011/" target="_blank">July, 2011</a></li>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Russian thugocrat outwits and humiliates a Radical-in-Chief over and over again.  ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/obama-putin.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-223942" alt="obama putin romney" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/obama-putin-450x270.jpg" width="315" height="189" /></a>Epic Fail.</p>
<p>That would be a generous way to describe Obama’s consistent foreign policy failures – and currently, most dangerously with Russia, where we see the highest-level of tensions since the end of the Cold War.</p>
<p>While Obama is an uber-arrogant failure, so many wise people have recognized the errors of his ways.  Take Nile Gardiner, Ph.D., Jack Spencer, Luke Coffey and Nicolas Loris, who recently wrote that,</p>
<blockquote><p>“The failure of the Obama Administration’s Russian &#8216;reset,&#8217; the unilateral disarming of Europe, and the U.S. reduction of forces and disengagement from Europe have led Russia to calculate that the West will not respond in any significant way.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Simply, as they continued,</p>
<blockquote><p>“The Obama Doctrine has been a monumental failure because it fails to protect and advance U.S. interests. It is the antithesis of Ronald Reagan’s bold approach, which was based on powerful American leadership on the world stage, including a willingness to stand up firmly to America’s adversaries. Perhaps even worse, many of America’s traditional allies are questioning America’s resolve with respect to transatlantic relations and NATO’s security guarantee.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Kim Zigfeld is right saying,</p>
<blockquote><p>“Obama promised us that in exchange for appeasement we’d get Russian help reining in Iran. What we actually got was Russian opposition to U.S. interests, not just in Iran but throughout the Middle East, from Libya to Syria.”</p></blockquote>
<p>While Obama is so soft on foreign policy, he is harsh with those in America who disagree with him – as Morgan Brittany, the actress and political commentator said,</p>
<blockquote><p>“It seems that the Obama administration and the Democrats like Harry Reid are hell-bent on persecuting, harassing and demonizing American citizens while foreign dictators, aggressors and terrorists get little, if any pushback.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Undoubtedly, Putin is a <a href="http://www.5wpr.com/about5wpr/management.cfm">public relations genius;</a> his popularity is at an all-time high. The man also wisely utilizes both foreign and domestic media.<i> (</i>Who can forget that Putin wrote a September 2013 op-ed in the New York Times, which urged the American people to oppose a U.S. initiative for military strikes in Syria &#8212; and his mission succeeded.<i>)</i></p>
<p>And meanwhile, as Steve Huntley notes,</p>
<blockquote><p>“Obama has done little to mobilize public opinion, mostly confining himself to public warnings to Putin, with little effect. Putin annexed Crimea, had his troops overwhelm Ukrainian forces there and massed Russian soldiers along Ukraine’s eastern border, raising fears of a further invasion.”</p></blockquote>
<p>While Putin continues to win the media war, in the last few days, he has threatened to start charging Ukraine in advance for natural gas supplies, and he continues to justify Russia&#8217;s military action to foreign media &#8212; as his troops move forward in Ukraine. This is not a surprise for a man who has said that the collapse of the Soviet empire &#8220;was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.&#8221; Putin is winning the media war, which makes it much harder for world leaders to stand up to him.</p>
<p>Similarly, one must not forget that Putin has a keen understanding of the importance of foreign media. He wrote a September 2013 op-ed in the New York Times, which urged the American people to oppose a U.S. initiative for military strikes in Syria &#8212; and his mission succeeded.  It was a stroke of genius arranging for Edward Snowden to call-in to a recent press conference. Putin does a strong job of sending the message that he is a valiant protector of Russian honor against American interference – and Putin is playing chess – and winning on issues large and small, including Edward Snowden, Syria, and Iran.</p>
<p>Obama <a href="http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/ronn-torossian-russia-ukraine/2014/03/01/id/555497/">foolishly said</a> only a month ago that, “our approach in the United States is not to see these as some Cold-War chessboard in which we&#8217;re in competition with Russia.&#8221;</p>
<p>As Senator John McCain has rightfully noted, Russian President Vladimir Putin continues to succeed in having &#8220;played us so incredibly.&#8221; And as Ambassador John Bolton affirms: &#8220;Putin at this point holds all the high cards — and all we have from the president is rhetoric.&#8221;</p>
<p>Putin is playing America – and Obama is dazed, confused and clueless. It is painful and simply sickening to watch.</p>
<p>Watching the recent press conference where Putin spoke about the need to first marry off his ex-wife before discussing “a new first lady,” I couldn’t help but think if he would marry someone who said – as did Obama’s wife, that “People in this country are ready for change and hungry for a different kind of politics and … for the first time in my adult life I am proud of my country…”</p>
<p><a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/ronn-torossian/taunting-obama/">Putin regularly is taunting Obama</a>.</p>
<p>Are the Obamas now proud of this America? There has never been a time America has had less respect in the world.</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Spencer]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[They knew where bin Laden was. For years.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/pak.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-221452" alt="pak" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/pak.jpg" width="343" height="238" /></a>Journalist Carlotta Gall, who reported from Afghanistan for the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/23/magazine/what-pakistan-knew-about-bin-laden.html?_r=1" target="_blank">New York Times</a> for twelve years, reported Wednesday that</p>
<blockquote><p>“soon after the Navy SEAL raid on Bin Laden’s house, a Pakistani official told me that the United States had direct evidence that the ISI chief, Lt. Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha, knew of Bin Laden’s presence in Abbottabad. The information came from a senior United States official, and I guessed that the Americans had intercepted a phone call of Pasha’s or one about him in the days after the raid. ‘He knew of Osama’s whereabouts, yes,’ the Pakistani official told me. The official was surprised to learn this and said the Americans were even more so.”</p></blockquote>
<p>He shouldn’t have been. It has been obvious for years that the Pakistanis have been aiding the same jihadists that the U.S. government has been giving them billions of dollars to fight. <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2008/09/pakistans-double-game-exposed" target="_blank">The New York Times reported on that at length back in 2008</a>. And now we learn that not only did Ahmed Shuja Pasha, the head of the Pakistani government’s spy service, knew the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden, but also that so did many other top officials in the Pakistani government.</p>
<p>Those who are genuinely surprised by this news probably also think that Islam is a Religion of Peace that has been hijacked by a Tiny Minority of Extremists. After all, this is the country where the jihad terror leader Hafiz Saeed, on whom the U.S. has placed a $10 million bounty, lives openly and comfortably. <a href="http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/terrorist-hafiz-saeed-thanks-brave-man-who-offered-three-son-fight-jihad-1438981" target="_blank">International Business Times</a> reported in early March that Saeed “lives as a free man in Lahore,” even though he is “chief of Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JUD), a parent organisation of banned Lashkar-e-Taiba (LET). The organization was implicated in the 2008 attacks on Mumbai in India, which claimed 166 lives.” Not only that, but “Pakistan had twice placed Saeed under house arrest since 2001, but had let him go under suspicious circumstances.” And today, “JUD operates quite visibly in parts of Pakistan, with its own <a href="http://jamatdawa.org/" target="_blank">website</a> and a <a href="https://twitter.com/JuD_Official" target="_blank">twitter</a> page.”</p>
<p>Meanwhile, <a href="http://www.skynews.com.au/world/article.aspx?id=944379">Sky News</a> reported in January that “Pakistani officials have reportedly used a secret counter-terrorism fund to buy wedding gifts, luxury carpets and gold jewellery for relatives of ministers and visiting dignitaries.” This is better than <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2008/09/pakistans-double-game-exposed.html" target="_blank">funneling to the terrorists themselves the money that the Pakistani government received from the U.S. to fight terror</a>, but it shows how seriously the Pakistani authorities have taken their role in the “war on terror”: not seriously at all.</p>
<p>But they do take some things very seriously indeed. <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24792516" target="_blank">Last November,</a> after Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud was killed in a drone strike, the Pakistani government was furious, and summoned the U.S. ambassador to protest. The Pakistani foreign minister, Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, said the killing of Mehsud was “not just the killing of one person, it’s the death of all peace efforts” and warned that “every aspect” of Pakistan’s relationship with Washington would be reexamined.</p>
<p>And <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/10169655/US-raid-that-killed-bin-Laden-was-an-act-of-war-says-Pakistani-report.html" target="_blank">last summer</a>, Pakistan’s Abbottabad Commission, which was an investigation into the U.S. raid that killed bin Laden, denounced the United States as “arrogant” and said that the killing of bin Laden was the “greatest<b> </b>humiliation” that Pakistan had suffered since the 1971 declaration of independence by East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).</p>
<p>None of this should be a surprise to anyone. Last summer the <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/pakistans-premier-islamist-comeback-kid-19165484#.UZDAXYKAGkg" target="_blank">Associated Press</a> reported of Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif that “critics worry that Sharif, who is known to be personally very religious, is soft on Islamic extremism and won’t crack down on militants that pose a serious threat to Pakistan and other countries &#8212; chief among them the Taliban and al-Qaida-linked groups.”</p>
<p>But he has shown that he knows how to keep the gravy train flowing from Washington.<b> </b>Despite all the evidence above and much more that Pakistan is not a reliable U.S. ally and not even really an ally at all, <a href="http://www.firstpost.com/world/us-pak-agree-to-continue-counter-terrorism-cooperation-beyond-afghanistan-1244911.html?utm_source=hp-footer" target="_blank">last November</a> the U.S. and Pakistan agreed to continue their “counter-terrorism co-operation” even after the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. A joint statement declared:</p>
<blockquote><p>“Affirming their mutual commitment to a strong defence relationship, the delegations agreed that Pakistan-US defence partnership is vital to regional and international security and that it should continue to endure and grow in the years ahead. Both delegations welcomed continued efforts to strengthen bilateral cooperation based on mutual interests and trust.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Mutual interests? Trust?</p>
<p>The U.S. government is in dire need of an intervention: its friends need to get it to seek professional help for its addiction to shoveling huge amounts of money to old Cold War allies that aren’t really allies at all. The problem is that the only friends who could stage such an orchestrated effort are just as far gone themselves.</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arnold Ahlert]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/laptops.afp_.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-221365 alignleft" alt="laptops.afp_" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/laptops.afp_-450x320.jpg" width="315" height="224" /></a>Last Friday, U.S. officials announced plans to </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/us-to-relinquish-remaining-control-over-the-internet/2014/03/14/0c7472d0-abb5-11e3-adbc-888c8010c799_print.html">relinquish</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> control of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which manages Internet infrastructure to the so-called &#8220;global community.&#8221; Despite denials from the administration, the consequences of that move do indeed include the possibility of the Internet falling under U.N. control. That reality has been pursued for years by pro-censorship factions led by Russia and China. As such, enormous questions exist about the future of the Internet under the stewardship of international interests &#8212; questions that the Obama administration seems wholly unconcerned with. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The consequences of relinquishing control of the Internet involve more than censorship. U.S. security could be </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/03/15/ex-bush-admin-official-internet-giveaway-weakens-cybersecurity-opens-door-to-web-tax/">jeopardized</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> as well. “Under invariably incompetent U.N. control, it could mean a hostile foreign power disabling the Internet for us,” former Bush administration State Department advisor Christian Whiton warned. He also sounded the warning on the possibility that any U.N. control of the Internet could engender taxes. &#8220;While the Obama administration says it is merely removing federal oversight of a non-profit, we should assume ICANN would end up as part of the United Nations,” Whiton said. “If the U.N. gains control what amounts to the directory and traffic signals of the Internet, it can impose whatever taxes it likes. It likely would start with a tax on registering domains and expand from there.” </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Since the birth of the Internet, which grew out of a Defense Department program that began in the 1960s, America has always played the principal role in </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/15/us-usa-internet-domainnames-idUSBREA2D1YH20140315">maintaining</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> the master database for domain names, the assignment of Internet protocol addresses and other critical Web functions. That technical system is </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/200889-us-to-relinquish-internet-control">called</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). An agency within the Commerce Department, the National Telecommunications &amp; Information Administration (NTIA), has contracted out IANA&#8217;s operations to ICANN on a biennial basis since 2000. The latest contract </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/200889-us-to-relinquish-internet-control">expires</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> in September of  2015.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">NTIA Administrator Larry Strickling denied the possibility of a U.N. or equivalent type takeover, </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.politico.com/story/2014/03/internet-control-commerce-department-nsa-104686.html">insisting</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> that ICANN must meet four conditions to make the transition. “We will not accept a proposal that replaces the NTIA role with a government-led or an intergovernmental solution,” Strickling said in a conference call. He has asked ICANN to begin the process for making a formal transition that must &#8220;support and enhance the multistakeholder model&#8221; and &#8220;maintain the openness of the Internet.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">ICANN itself wants to get out from under U.S. oversight, and their effort has been abetted by European officials whose promotion of a globalization campaign has intensified in the wake of fugitive Edward Snowden&#8217;s leaks about the National Security Administration&#8217;s overarching surveillance programs. An NTIA official denied the connection, insisting U.S. stewardship of the Internet was always intended to be temporary. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Regardless of which scenario is accurate, ICANN&#8217;s motive is transparent. The organization has elicited the wrath of many in the business community who believe their decision-making is aimed at accommodating the industry that sells domain names, and whose fees provide the lion&#8217;s share of ICANN&#8217;s revenue. They believe ICANN&#8217;s contract with the U.S. mitigates some of those abuses, and that international control would amount to no control at all.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">There is little question that the selling of domain names is a huge business, one with enormous potential for fraud. As a 2012 article in the </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Washington Post</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/donuts-incs-major-play-for-new-web-domain-names-raises-eyebrows/2012/09/24/c8745362-f782-11e1-8398-0327ab83ab91_story.html">revealed</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, several groups have been out to get control of names that would give them a huge advantage over their competitors. Examples include Amazon bidding for control over all the Web addresses that end with “.book,” </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://washpost.bloomberg.com/marketnews/stockdetail/?symbol=GOOG">Google</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> for “.buy.” and  </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://washpost.bloomberg.com/marketnews/stockdetail/?symbol=ALL">Allstate</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> for “.carinsurance.” </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">They further sounded the alarm about Donuts Inc., a company with close ties to a documented Internet spammer. Donuts Inc. bid $57 million for 307 new domains, including “.doctor,” “.financial” and “.school.” At the time, David E. Weslow, a D.C.-based lawyer who represents several major corporations, contended that such top-level domains would precipitate a &#8220;Wild West for fraud and abuse.”  Law enforcement officials agreed, noting that the rapid expansion of new domains would increase the likelihood of cybercrime, even as identifying the perpetrators would become more difficult. In 2012, there were 22 &#8220;top level domains.&#8221; Here is ICANN&#8217;s </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://data.iana.org/TLD/tlds-alpha-by-domain.txt">current</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">&#8211;and vastly expanded&#8211;list.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">ICANN </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-03-17/the-u-dot-s-dot-ends-control-of-icann-gives-up-backing-of-the-free-speech-internet">manages</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> that list via an international structure of governance comprised of “stakeholders&#8221; that include governments, corporations, and civil society activists. Under its contract with the NTIA, it could theoretically be forced to render a website nameless, effectively removing it from the Internet. When that contract ends, a new form of global governance will take its place&#8211;one that has yet to be determined. There have been several efforts over the course of the last decade to transfer control of the Internet to the U.N.’s </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.itu.int/en/Pages/default.aspx">International Telecommunications Union</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> (ITU), whose website claims it is &#8220;committed to connecting the world.&#8221; Yet those efforts have been led by Russia and China, two countries whose commitment to &#8220;connecting the world&#8221; begins and ends with censoring content inimical to their interests. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Unsurprisingly, both believe the only stakeholders that really matter are countries. That&#8217;s because under the current contract, nations can only suppress Internet content. They can&#8217;t prevent websites from registering domain names. If those parameters change, domain name registry could be censored under the auspices of protecting one&#8217;s national sovereignty. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">ICANN president Fadi Chehade dismisses that concern as well as others. “Nothing will be done in any way to jeopardize the security and stability of the Internet,” he promised. He called the Obama administration’s decision &#8220;historic.&#8221; </span></p>
<p>Republicans weren&#8217;t buying it. “While I certainly agree our nation must stridently review our procedures regarding surveillance in light of the NSA controversy, to put ourselves in a situation where censorship-laden governments like China or Russia could take a firm hold on the Internet itself is truly a scary thought,” said Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC). “I look forward to working with my colleagues on the Senate Commerce Committee and with the Commerce Department on this, because&#8211;to be blunt&#8211;the ‘global Internet community’ this would empower has no First Amendment.”</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Former Rep. Mary Bono (R-CA), who sponsored a unanimously-passed 2012 resolution to keep the Internet free from governmental control, concurred. “We’re at a critical time where [Russian President Vladimir] Putin is proving he is capable of outmaneuvering the administration. … As they digest it, I think people are going to be very upset,&#8221; she contended. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">As if on cue, Amnesty International revealed that Russia </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.amnesty.org/en/for-media/press-releases/russia-media-black-out-ahead-disputed-crimea-referendum-2014-03-14">instituted</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> a media blackout that included blocking a number of Internet sites in the Russian Federation prior to secession vote in Crimea. That censorship was enabled by an amendment to the Law on Internet Information signed by Putin on Feb. 1, giving the Prosecutor General’s office the authority to block websites that publish any calls for activities considered to be unlawful.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">An </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.ideaslaboratory.com/2014/03/14/is-the-u-s-government-about-to-give-away-the-internet/">op-ed</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> by Daniel Castro, a senior analyst at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), reveals what&#8217;s at stake. He notes that two years ago, on the 25th anniversary of the registration of the first .com domain name, his company released a </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.itif.org/files/2010-25-years.pdf">report</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> revealing that &#8220;the annual global economic benefit of the commercial Internet equaled $1.5 trillion, more than the global sales of medicine, investment in renewable energy, and government investment in R&amp;D, combined.&#8221; He believes all of it would be at risk if the Obama administration doesn&#8217;t resist giving up control of the Internet. He contends such a move would bring about a &#8220;splintered Internet that would stifle innovation, commerce, and the free flow and diversity of ideas that are bedrock tenets of the world’s biggest economic engine.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Nonetheless, the effort has its defenders. Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John D. Rockefeller IV (D-WVA) called the move “consistent with other efforts the U.S. and our allies are making to promote a free and open Internet, and to preserve and advance the current multi-stakeholder model of global Internet governance.” Gene Kimmelman, president of Public Knowledge, a hard-left group </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2011/04/27/Leftists-Don---t-Form----Public-Interest----Groups---They-Form-Government-Interest-Groups">promoting</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> itself as a public interest vehicle, concurred. “This is a step in the right direction to resolve important international disputes about how the Internet is governed,&#8221; he said.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">This so-called step in the right direction is anything but. It is useful to remember that along with Russian and China, the EU </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/bruce-bawer/eu-unveils-planned-crackdown-on-free-speech/">criminalizes</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> free speech, and the Organization of the Islamic Conference is </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/12/oic-blames-free-speech-for-islamophobia-in-the-west">determined</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> to silence those who resist terror and jihad. And despite Chehade&#8217;s contention that the Obama administration&#8217;s decision &#8220;marks a point of maturity in the ICANN community and the global Internet community,&#8221; he revealed that governments would be welcome as &#8220;equal parties&#8221; with others in the coming discussions for laying out the appropriate transitional process. Those discussions are scheduled to begin at an ICANN meeting in Singapore next week.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">ITIF’s Daniel Castro sounds the ultimate alarm, one that should concern every American. &#8220;Yes, Internet architecture is technical and, frankly, quite boring to outsiders,&#8221; he acknowledges. &#8220;But it is an issue with huge consequences that demands attention from policymakers. It is too important to get wrong. And if the Obama Administration gives away its oversight of the Internet, it will be gone forever.&#8221; </span></p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/18185205.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-220204" alt="18185205" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/18185205-450x337.jpg" width="315" height="236" /></a>The international community looked into Putin&#8217;s eyes and blinked. Multilateralism has failed as badly as it did in the days of the League of Nations, but then again it never actually worked.</span></p>
<p>The international order that everyone pretends is a real force in world affairs is really the United States and a few partners doing all the work and letting the diplomats and bureaucrats of the world pretend that they matter. Without America, the United Nations would be just as useless as the League of Nations. With America, the United Nations is only a deterrent when the United States puts its foot down and the rest of the world doesn&#8217;t get in the way.</p>
<p>It has become fashionable to denounce the United States as a rogue state. A military intervention, even with the backing of its Western allies, but outside the framework of the organizations of the international order, was deemed unilateralism and cowboy diplomacy.</p>
<p>And then Obama rode in on a three-speed bike and won a Nobel Peace Prize for his commitment to doing nothing.</p>
<p>The multilateral system is helpless in the face of aggression. That is as true today as it was eighty years ago. International agreements are worthless without steel and lead behind them. The United Nations is incapable of acting when one of its more powerful members is the aggressor, the foreign policy experts of the left crank out editorials explaining why we can&#8217;t do anything and the Secretary of State explains that our weakness is really a strength.</p>
<p>International law couldn&#8217;t stop Hitler. It couldn&#8217;t stop Japan. It took the United States to do that. The foreign policy experts will deny it, the editorials will decry it and the Common Core textbooks will refuse to print it; but it takes a rogue nation to stop a rogue state.</p>
<p>England and France&#8217;s diplomatic outreach to Nazi Germany led to the seizure of the Rhineland, the annexations of Austria and a portion of Czechoslovakia, followed by the invasions of Czechoslovakia and Poland. American diplomacy and sanctions on Japan led to Pearl Harbor.</p>
<p>The issue isn&#8217;t whether the United States should intervene in Ukraine, but whether it should have the option to do something more meaningful than draw faint red lines and threaten worthless sanctions. Every mob throwing things at soldiers and police isn&#8217;t necessarily composed of the good guys just because they have photogenic protesters and colorful flags.</p>
<p>Our instinct to automatically support the underdog is just another dangerous figment of the multilateral mindset.</p>
<p>The United States has unselectively adopted the human rights agenda of the internationalists and allowed our foreign affairs priorities to be curated by the diplomats of the left who know exactly whom to denounce and what not to do about it. UN Ambassador Samantha Power, wearing a bitter frown, agonizing over the woes of the world, is the face of our senseless and useless diplomacy that forces us to play the moral scold without being able to back it up.</p>
<p>American foreign policy has become indistinguishable from the United Nations agenda and just as impotent, fixated on the recommendations of human rights committees instead of national interests, incapable of addressing historical alliances, and unable to build its responses around anything except the same Powerian empty shriek of self-righteous human rights outrage.</p>
<p>Obama&#8217;s America has turned a cold impartial face to its allies, aspiring instead to become the vessel of international organizations while assigning its morality to an international committee. American foreign policy is under international management and that transfers its decision process from D.C. to an international network of committees incapable of doing anything except generating worthless reports and denouncing Israel.</p>
<p>The United States was the ghost in the machine of the United Nations, but now that the United States is the United Nations, the United States has become the puppet of a puppet.</p>
<p>The weakness of multilateral diplomacy is that it strives to negotiate accommodations to the clashes of the moment without reference to past history or the trajectory of future conquests. This was a weakness that Hitler understood and exploited, reducing the issue to the current status of the Sudetenland or the Rhineland, rather than to past and future war aims. It was only when the Allies broke out of the diplomatic mindset of considering every Hitlerian conquest individually and debating the merits of defending Czechoslovakia, rather than anticipating the conquest of Poland, that real resistance to the Nazi war machine finally began.</p>
<p>Unfortunately the Allies failed to learn from history and accepted Stalin&#8217;s piecemeal takeovers at face value only waking up after much of the world had fallen under the Red Flag. It was President Eisenhower’s &#8220;Domino Theory&#8221; that assigned a value to each conquest not based on its own status, but its place in a chain of conquests in a struggle for regional dominance.</p>
<p>Sarah Palin understood in 2008 what the school of foreign policy &#8220;realists&#8221; did not; that Georgia was not significant in isolation but as a prerequisite to the invasion of Ukraine and likewise Ukraine should be understood in the context of an imperial territorial ambition that stretches far beyond its borders.</p>
<p>Whether or not we choose to oppose that ambition we should understand it on its own terms.</p>
<p>The United States should have a strong military, not so that it can use it, but so that it won’t need to use it. Military budget cuts send the message that we won&#8217;t intervene in international conflicts which makes it more likely that our enemies will start conflicts and that some of those conflicts will drag us in anyway no matter how much of the fleet we mothball and how many transsexual dance troupes we host on what used to be the army bases of a world power.</p>
<p>Military weakness invites war, whether it was the British trying to face down Hitler with no bullets or Obama announcing another round of drastic defense cuts just before Putin rolled into Ukraine.</p>
<p>Diplomacy is only the art of saying &#8220;nice doggie&#8221; until you find the stick if you were stupid enough to throw away the big stick in the first place. And then you had better hope that you are dealing with a very stupid dog that won&#8217;t gnaw your arm off before you can get at that stick.</p>
<p>The United States should have clear commitments and agreements that it keeps, rather than randomly butting into every single conflict and human rights violation on the planet. Its leaders should decide whether they really are serious about Syria or Ukraine or any other place on earth that they issue press releases about and keep quiet about them if they are not.</p>
<p>And if they are serious, they should be ready to act with the same decisiveness that Vladimir Putin showed.</p>
<p>History isn&#8217;t made by nations defending international law, but acting on their own imperatives. Only a rogue nation that isn&#8217;t bound by the chains of multilateralism can take the unilateral action necessary to stop a rogue state.</p>
<p>American cowboy diplomacy is the only defense the world has against commissar diplomacy, cossack diplomacy and caliphate diplomacy.</p>
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		<title>NBC Olympics Coverage: Burying Cold War History</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2014 05:19:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whitewashing the Evil Empire and the U.S.'s triumphs against it. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/miracleonice.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-219119" alt="miracleonice" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/miracleonice.jpg" width="263" height="191" /></a>NBC sportscaster Bob “pink-eye” Costas has taken some heat for portraying Russian strongman </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/02/06/putin-propaganda-nbcs-bob-costas-portrays-russian-leader-as-great-peacemaker/">Vladimir Putin as an amiable and evenhanded diplomat.</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> But that was far from the only snow job in NBC’s coverage of the Winter Olympics at Sochi.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">On Saturday, the United States hockey team defeated Russia 3-2 in game that, by all accounts, equaled the 1980s “Miracle on Ice” in excitement. NBC broadcast the game very early, so the contest doubtless drew a smaller viewership than it deserved. Those who tuned in later for highlights were disappointed.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In their prime-time wrap-up of the day’s events, NBC failed to show any highlights from the 3-2 USA victory. Neither did they show highlights of the 1980 “Miracle on Ice,” at Lake Placid. There a team of American collegians defeated a Soviet team of seasoned professionals, easily on par with the best NHL players and considered a lock for the gold medal. It was as though the junior varsity of Yale or Rutgers had vanquished the mighty Montreal Canadiens in their prime. But none of that for the viewers, even though NBC had on hand Al Michaels, who called the 1980 game and in the closing seconds famously said “do you believe in miracles?”</span></p>
<p>NBC did not have Michaels narrate any highlights from 1980. Instead NBC had him talk about the game. In television talking just doesn’t get it, and Michaels seemed embarrassed not only at the dearth of highlights but the rest of the fare.</p>
<p>Enter Tom Brokaw, not with some memorable moment from the current or past Olympics, of which there are many. The United States also won a gold medal in hockey at the 1960 Olympics at Squaw Valley, California, beating out the USSR and Canada with a no-name team of amateurs. More than a few from that team are still around, including goalie Jack McCartan. The USA’s 1956 silver medal in hockey was another milestone performance. But Tom Brokaw did not showcase any athletes from any country, and nothing about sports at all.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Instead Tom Brokaw, in his unctuous and marble-mouthed style, inflicted on viewers a </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://blog.chron.com/sportsupdate/2014/02/nbc-recounts-u-s-soviet-space-race-in-saturday-documentary-during-olympic-broadcast/">documentary on the “Space Race”</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> between the United States and Soviet Union. The interview subjects included U.S. astronauts John Glenn, Jim Lovell and Tom Stafford, and Soviet cosmonaut Alexi Leonov. Natalya Koroleva, whose father, Sergei Korolev, directed the Soviet space program, also made an appearance.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Jim Bell, executive producer of NBC Olympics, said the space race piece would “give our audience a fresh perspective on how the Russian people experienced the race and, to a degree, the Cold War.” And as Brokaw put it, “We went from pointing missiles at each other to exploring the heavens together. The men who pulled it off, cosmonauts and astronauts, all had the right stuff. They became life-long friends. It’s how the world should work all the time.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Brokaw’s piece conveyed the idea that the USA and USSR were simply two large nations trying to outdo each other in space. The implication was that the two nations were more similar than different, which isn’t true.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">With all its faults, the USA is a democracy that respects human rights, free speech, free emigration, freedom of worship and other bourgeois trifles. The USSR was a goose-stepping Marxist-Leninist tyranny that repressed all freedoms, murdered millions, imprisoned dissidents, persecuted religious believers, and imposed totalitarian regimes on half of Europe for 50 years. Viewers got no concept of that, nor of the USSR’s quest to colonize the world. That was what the Cold War was about. The USA and the West won that war. The “evil empire,” as Ronald Reagan accurately called it, lost that war. That’s how it actually worked out.</span></p>
<p>NBC’s “fresh perspective” was the latest example of what might be called sickle-cell amnesia, the practice of forgetting any unpleasant realities about the Soviet Union. That is, if NBC bosses knew them in the first place.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Meanwhile, Bob Costas’ puff piece on Putin was a bit too much for David Remnick of the New Yorker. “On the world stage, though, remember he [Putin] is an autocrat,” Remnick said. “He is no democrat. He has no interest in LGBT issues or human rights — all the things that are being discussed.”</span></p>
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		<title>A Warning From 1968</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Feb 2014 05:44:42 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/eric-hoffer1.png"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-218860" alt="eric-hoffer1" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/eric-hoffer1.png" width="289" height="320" /></a><strong>Reprinted from <a href="http://directorblue.blogspot.com">directorblue.blogspot.com</a>.</strong></p>
<p><em>Editor&#8217;s note: Remembering Eric Hoffer&#8217;s prophetic words from 1968:</em></p>
<p>The Jews are a peculiar people; things permitted to other nations are forbidden to the Jews. Other nations drive out thousands, even millions of people and there is no refugee problem. Russia did it, Poland and Czechoslovakia did it. Turkey threw out a million Greeks, and Algeria a million Frenchman.</p>
<p>Indonesia threw out heaven knows how many Chinese and no one says a word about refugees. But in the case of Israel , the displaced Arabs have become eternal refugees. Everyone insists that Israel must take back every single one.</p>
<p>Arnold Toynbee calls the displacement of the Arabs an atrocity greater than any committed by the Nazis. Other nations when victorious on the battlefield dictate peace terms. But when Israel is victorious, it must sue for peace.</p>
<p>Everyone expects the Jews to be the only real Christians in this world. Other nations, when they are defeated, survive and recover but should Israel be defeated it would be destroyed. Had Nasser triumphed last June [1967], he would have wiped Israel off the map, and no one would have lifted a finger to save the Jews.</p>
<p>No commitment to the Jews by any government, including our own, is worth the paper it is written on. There is a cry of outrage all over the world when people die in Vietnam or when two Blacks are executed in Rhodesia. But, when Hitler slaughtered Jews no one remonstrated with him.</p>
<p>The Swedes, who are ready to break off diplomatic relations with America because of what we do in Vietnam, did not let out a peep when Hitler was slaughtering Jews. They sent Hitler choice iron ore, and ball bearings, and serviced his troop trains to Norway.</p>
<p>The Jews are alone in the world. If Israel survives, it will be solely because of Jewish efforts. And Jewish resources. Yet at this moment, Israel is our only reliable and unconditional ally. We can rely more on Israel than Israel can rely on us. And one has only to imagine what would have happened last summer [1967] had the Arabs and their Russian backers won the war, to realize how vital the survival of Israel is to America and the West in general.</p>
<p>I have a premonition that will not leave me; as it goes with Israel so will it go with all of us. Should Israel perish, the Holocaust will be upon us all.</p>
<p><i>By Eric Hoffer, 1968.</i></p>
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		<title>Losing India</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Feb 2014 05:20:36 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/360_india_call_center_1016.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-218730" alt="360_india_call_center_1016" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/360_india_call_center_1016.jpg" width="288" height="188" /></a></em><strong>Originally published by <a href="http://www.thecommentator.com/article/4712/losing_india_surely_not_an_option_even_for_obama">The Commentator</a>. </strong></p>
<p>Last week saw India&#8217;s envoy to the US air discontent over imminent moves by US Lawmakers to tighten visa regulations on high-tech firms as part of a larger immigration reform. This move would restrict the ability of US based Indian IT firms to source their employees from India.</p>
<p>It is interesting to note that the uncanny and resigned tone of the envoy&#8217;s statement has come to define US-India relations in recent years. Once seen as blooming and dynamic, this relationship is now showing signs of deep trouble.</p>
<p>Those working in the US State Department and New Delhi&#8217;s South Block on &#8220;diplomatic solutions&#8221; to these increasingly frequent impasses might not succeed in the long run. For these are mere symptoms of a greater malady.</p>
<p>The reason for this deteriorating relationship is two-fold. The first directly arises from President Obama&#8217;s new foreign policy approach. He promised voters in 2008 that as President he would talk to enemies and this is a promise he really <em>has</em> delivered on.</p>
<p>It is a laudable approach to &#8220;positively engage&#8221; enemies, provided we live in an ideal world where good deeds are reciprocated. But the extended hand of friendship by the US has been seen by adversaries as a sign of weakness; encouraging despots like Assad to play &#8220;Russian roulette&#8221; with his chemical weapon stockpile, Iran to carry on Uranium enrichment and China to employ strong-arm tactics on Japan.</p>
<p>It has another unintended effect as well. This approach incentivizes bad behavior by enemies and at times penalizes loyal allies. The concessions made to adversaries have come too often at the cost of loyal friends. India has been quick to notice that in the region and has made no secret of her discontent.</p>
<p>The second aspect of this problem might be related to the first one, but has a &#8220;values&#8221; dimension to it. The current US administration does not seek to be the moral leader of the world. &#8220;American Exceptionalism&#8221; is not a guiding principle of foreign policy.</p>
<p>The US seeks to reduce its geo-political footprint and assume a more &#8220;equitable role&#8221; in the world. Another altruistic position, one might think, but it has an impact on India beyond the framework of disengagement politics undertaken by the current administration.</p>
<p>To put it candidly, India&#8217;s political leadership did not embrace free market capitalism as a result of an acquired conviction, but it was forced upon them after a balance-of-payments crisis in 1991. The initially painful steps imposed on India paved the way for her growth story. The US at that point played the role of a catalyst nudging India to overcome her initial hesitations and embrace free market capitalism.</p>
<p>India&#8217;s economic growth and her foreign policy tilt towards the U.S. have occurred simultaneously and that is by no means a coincidence. India&#8217;s initial ascent on the world economic stage was a direct result of her embracing quintessentially American values.</p>
<p>By curbing government control on private enterprise, cutting taxes, and reducing the size of the government bureaucracy through privatization, India unleashed the entrepreneurship of her hard working and ingenious people.</p>
<p>If one was to summarize India&#8217;s success in one word, it would be &#8220;incentives&#8221;. For the first time in the history of modern India millions of families had a real chance of lifting themselves from poverty, not through government programs, but as a direct result of economic growth and private enterprise.</p>
<p>Economic mobility dented the rigid and inhumane Cast System. Indian women broke new ground and were empowered by their increased participation at all levels of the economy.</p>
<p>However, the last decade saw India falter on this path. Rather than pushing ahead with economic liberalization and focusing on growth, the government is again resorting to the remedy of &#8220;social programs&#8221;.</p>
<p>The US that India had been dealing from the early 90s was assured of the superiority of its values and willing to inspire others to follow her. But with the present US administration focusing on reducing America&#8217;s &#8216;footprint&#8217; and reluctant to even assert the correctness of its values, let alone defend them, India has lost a vital pillar of support.</p>
<p>That said, India does not seem to have any good option but to push through with her economic reforms and re-embark on her long walk to prosperity. India has a billion reasons to do so.</p>
<p>The coming general elections this summer could be a defining moment for India&#8217;s economic future. India has a chance to overcome current political indecisiveness and get back to the path of much needed economic growth by modernizing governance and liberalizing the economy.</p>
<p>However, if India does falter it will have dire consequence for the world&#8217;s largest democracy, and the U.S will surely come to see that as a cause for profound regret.</p>
<p><em>Vijeta Uniyal is an Indian-born analyst based in Germany.</em></p>
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