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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>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Puder]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Only a potential U.S. veto stands in the way.]]></description>
				<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>Obama&#8217;s Peculiar Position on the Islamic State</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2014 04:13:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ali Sina]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a former Muslim, I challenge the president's position on Islam.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/obama5.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-241940" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/obama5-450x281.jpg" alt="USA-ESTONIA/" width="280" height="175" /></a>In his speech addressed to the UN general assembly, Barak Hussein Obama said, “ISIL is not Islamic. No religion condones killing innocents.” He also stated, “ISIS is hiding behind a false Islam.” We know about Mr. Obama’s admiration for Islam.  The following are a few of his statements:</p>
<p>·         “The sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer.”</p>
<p>·         “We will convey our deep appreciation for the Islamic faith, which has done so much over the centuries to shape the world — including in my own country” (i.e., USA, not Kenya).</p>
<p>·         “Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.”</p>
<p>·         “Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism – it is an important part of promoting peace.”</p>
<p>·         “Ramadan is a celebration of <a href="http://www.nowtheendbegins.com/blog/?p=15101">a faith known for great diversity and racial equality</a>.”</p>
<p>·         “I look forward to hosting an Iftar dinner celebrating Ramadan here at the White House.”</p>
<p>In addition to the above, he has also made many unfounded statements such as, “Islam has always been a part of America’s story.” And <strong>“</strong>In ancient times and in our times, Muslim communities have been at the forefront of innovation and education.”</p>
<p>Does Obama really know Islam better than Muslims?</p>
<p>If Islam is as wonderful as Obama says, why did he leave it? He did leave Islam, didn’t he? He <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/sep/11/obama-my-muslim-faith/?page=all">was raised Muslim</a> and, therefore, it seems strange that one could have such a high admiration of a religion that one no longer believes in.</p>
<p>It is also quite strange that Obama does not seem to have the same admiration for the faith that he now claims to be a part of. He has said with sarcasm,</p>
<blockquote><p>“Which passages of scripture should guide our public policy?  Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and that eating shellfish is an abomination?  Or we could go with Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith?”</p></blockquote>
<p>Of course the Qur&#8217;an is full of verses instructing the believers to slay the unbelievers, cut their heads from above their necks and be harsh with them. But Mr. Obama chooses to ignore all that. Instead, he emphasizes, “We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation.”</p>
<p>Obama&#8217;s opinion about Islam is also highly problematic.  ISIS is indeed very much Islamic. Al Baqdadi, the self-appointed caliph of Islamic State, was, like Obama, also born and raised as a Muslim, but unlike Obama he has a PhD in Islamic Law. And a great number of Muslims agree with his interpretation of Islam.  <a href="http://pamelageller.com/2014/06/muslims-west-express-support-islamic-state-aka-isis.html/">ISIS is now enjoying increasing shows of solidarity from the Middle East and from across the Muslim world – and also from Western countries</a>.  Watch this politician on an interview on a Jordanian television passionately endorsing IS while shouting,</p>
<blockquote><p>“<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1koyPZ8nlrY#t=33">There is nothing such as ‘ISIS ideology’ – It is Islam</a>. … if these Muslims are terrorists, I salute those terrorists. I salute the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.”</p></blockquote>
<p>These Muslims know their religion. There is nothing that Islamic State is doing that is un-Islamic. They follow the Sunnah (examples set by their prophet) to the letter. Muhammad raided villages and towns, destroyed temples, massacred his captives, enslaved and sold their women, tortured his enemies, and as he repeatedly bragged, he cast terror in the hearts of unbelievers.</p>
<p>IS has also been condemned by some Muslims. Take the example of Maqdesi, a supporter of the al-Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front, who <a href="http://tawhed.ws/pr?i=8325">criticized the Islamic State</a> group for its brutal methods. &#8220;Is this caliphate a sanctuary for the vulnerable and a refuge for all Muslims, or a sword hanging over those Muslims who disagree with them?&#8221; Maqdesi asked.</p>
<p>Maqdesi is not against violence.  He is a terrorist after all. He just thinks Muslims should kill non-Muslims and not fellow Muslims.  His interpretation is simply different.  According to IS, the Shiites are heretics and killing them is justified by the Sunnah.  Muhammad ordered to burn a mosque built in Dhu Awan, a population to the North of Medina, with the worshipers inside, because someone told him the Muslims there are heretics.  So if the Shiites are declared heretics, they should be killed.</p>
<p>More than 120 Muslim scholars around the world released a statement denouncing ISIS militants as un-Islamic. The statement said,</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;It is forbidden in Islam to torture, to attribute evil acts to God, to force people to convert to Islam, to deny women and children of their rights.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>This sounds hollow to those familiar with the history of early Islam.  Muhammad tortured his enemies, and he did force people to convert.  Okay, maybe I take that back. He actually gave them three choices: Convert to Islam, leave the country, or die.</p>
<p>Muhammad also took women and children as slaves and sold them. He allowed his followers to rape women they had captured in their raids.</p>
<p>The scholars also criticized the declaration of caliphate by IS:</p>
<blockquote><p>“The mere announcement is not enough to establish a caliphate&#8230;The concept of a caliphate is not legitimate unless it is established by consensus from the Islamic community.”</p></blockquote>
<p>This is true, but when virtually all caliphs, from Umar onward, received their consensus by force and by killing their detractors, we can’t really condemn al Baqdadi for doing the same.</p>
<p>The fact that many Muslims oppose IS does not make IS un-Islamic.  There has never been a time in the Islamic annals that Muslims were united.  They have always disagreed with each other and, as usual, always shed each other’s blood over their disagreements.</p>
<p>Even though Muslims don’t agree over anything, as long as they believe in Muhammad and Allah they are Muslim. Some follow the footsteps of their prophet more closely and others a little less. But they all follow him. IS, al Qaida, Boko Haram and Shabab are a bit stricter in their adherence to the Sunnah of their prophet.  They of course disagree with each other just as many companions of Muhammad did.  One of the biggest wars in early Islam where thousands were killed was the War of Camel between Aisha, the preferred wife of Muhammad and Ali, his cousin and son-in-law.  Sunni Muslims regard both these figures as exemplary salafs.</p>
<p>In regards to Mr. Obama’s statement that no religion condones killing innocents, we must keep in mind that the definition of innocence in Islam is not exactly the same as non-Muslims understand it.  According to Muhammad, everyone is born Muslim. It is that later in life they reject it. Those who are not Muslim are apostate and as such not innocent.  The word kafir is erroneously translated as infidel or unbeliever.  That is not the correct translation. Kafir sounds like cover, and it has the same meaning. Kafir is one who covers the truth &#8212; an unbeliever is ignorant. A kafir is one who knows the truth and yet hides it and denies it out of malice. Those who don’t believe in Islam do so because there is sickness in their heart. They are not innocent.  So, although it is true that killing the innocent is not condoned by any religion, Islam allows it, by taking innocence out of the innocent.</p>
<p><em>Ali Sina is the author of “Understanding Muhammad and Muslims.” He has also written a complete biography of Muhammad and a script for his biopic. He is looking for backers for making the movie and a publisher for his book. He can be reached at <a href="http://faithfreedom.org">faithfreedom.org</a>, <a href="http://alisina.org">alisina.org</a> or by tweeter @AliSinaOrg.</em></p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2014 04:57:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Shapiro]]></dc:creator>
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<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/obama-un-speech.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-241845" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/obama-un-speech-450x253.jpg" alt="obama-un-speech" width="342" height="192" /></a>Speaking at the United Nations on Wednesday, President Obama performed the signal feat of cramming his head so far up his own ass that his head actually emerged from his mouth again, thereby creating the first human Escher loop. His speech at the United Nations was chock-full of moronic platitudes, internal contradictions, and morally disgusting sentiments.</p>
<p>Here are the top fifteen:</p>
<p><strong>“Together, we have learned how to cure disease, and harness the power of the wind and sun.”</strong> Which is, of course, why disease remains rampant in Africa – so much so that Obama is sending 3,000 troops there to combat Ebola virus – and why America garners a whopping 4.13 percent of her electricity from wind and 0.23 percent from the sun. But the Godking hath reined global forces to his chariot, and shall ride the moonbeams!</p>
<p><strong>“We are here because others realized that we gain more from cooperation than conquest.”</strong> Well, no. We are here because civilized nations banded together to defeat Nazis and then communism, not because of some global revelation about the power of cooperation. This is a third grade rendition of history.</p>
<p><strong>“</strong><strong>We believe that <span style="text-decoration: underline;">right</span> makes might – that bigger nations should not be able to bully smaller ones; that people should be able to choose their own future.”</strong> If Obama believes this, he has the mental capacity of a chipmunk. Obviously, right does not make might. If it did, millions of Jews would still be living in Germany and Poland, the Soviet Empire never would have risen, and the Yazidis would be decimating ISIS. We actually believe that it is the duty of right to grow its defense capacity and then fight for its principles – both notions foreign to President Obama.</p>
<p><strong>“</strong><strong>While small gains can be won at the barrel of a gun, they will ultimately be turned back if enough voices support the freedom of nations and peoples to make their own decisions.”</strong> Again, no. Millions of voices have cried out for freedom in North Korea and China for decades, to no avail. It isn’t about raising voices. It’s about strategically outflanking evil nations and crippling their capacity to continue functioning.</p>
<p><strong>“My message to Iran’s leaders and people is simple: do not let this opportunity pass. We can reach a solution that meets your energy needs while assuring the world that your program is peaceful.“</strong> Iran’s mullahs are still laughing at this one.</p>
<p><strong>“America is and will continue to be a Pacific power, promoting peace, stability, and the free flow of commerce among nations. But we will insist that all nations abide by the rules of the road, and resolve their territorial disputes peacefully, consistent with international law.”</strong> The Chinese politburo is still laughing at this one.</p>
<p><strong>“On issue after issue, we cannot rely on a rule-book written for a different century.”</strong> Who wrote this rulebook? And why, if Obama is presenting a new rulebook, do his rules so closely conform to those of his leftist predecessors?</p>
<p><strong>“Islam teaches peace. Muslims the world over aspire to live with dignity and a sense of justice. And when it comes to America and Islam, there is no us and them – there is only <span style="text-decoration: underline;">us</span>, because millions of Muslim Americans are part of the fabric of our country.”</strong> Well, actually, there is a “them” – as in the <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/09/04/myth-tiny-radical-minority">huge portion</a> of Muslims who support the goals and aims of al Qaeda and ISIS.</p>
<p><strong>“The ideology of ISIL or al Qaeda or Boko Haram will wilt and die if it is consistently exposed, confronted, and refuted in the light of day.”</strong> Then why are we bombing them? Why not send pamphlets? (Note: to support this notion, Obama actually cited a sheikh who has endorsed murder of US soldiers in the Middle East.)</p>
<p><strong>“Next year, we should all be prepared to announce the concrete steps that we have taken to counter extremist ideologies&#8230;”</strong> Next year. Always next year.</p>
<p><strong>“There is nothing new about wars within religions. Christianity endured centuries of vicious sectarian conflict. Today, it is violence within Muslim communities that has become the source of so much human misery.”</strong> Nothing like citing history from centuries ago to downplay Muslim sectarian violence today.</p>
<p><strong>“But the only lasting solution to Syria’s civil war is political – an inclusive political transition that responds to the legitimate aspirations of all Syrian citizens, regardless of ethnicity or creed.”</strong> And what, pray tell, would this magical political solution look like, given that last year President Obama was busily telling the UN that Syrian dictator Bashar Assad must go, and this year is busily telling the UN we must bomb those who oppose Assad?</p>
<p><strong>“[T]he countries of the Arab and Muslim world must focus on the extraordinary potential of their people – especially the youth.”</strong> This would be a grand idea, except for the inconvenient fact that a disproportionate number of terrorists are Muslim and Arab youths. Oops.</p>
<p><strong>“No God condones this terror. No grievance justifies these actions. There can be no reasoning – no negotiation – with this brand of evil. The only language understood by killers like this is the language of force….the violence engulfing the region today has made too many Israelis ready to abandon the hard work of peace. But let’s be clear: the status quo in the West Bank and Gaza is not sustainable.”</strong> Self-defense for America, but not for the Jews, according to the President. The Jews must continue to pursue the “hard work of peace,” even if they’re experiencing rocket fire every day; America, however, can bomb the hell out of ISIS even if ISIS is located thousands of miles away and largely threatens other Muslims. The hypocrisy is rank, and moral equivocation repulsive.</p>
<p><strong>“In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri – where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.”</strong> Officer Darren Wilson can chat with the YouTube “Innocence of Muslims” filmmaker below the bus as he becomes a symbol of all American racial intolerance, despite complete lack of evidence. Thanks, Mr. President!</p>
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		<title>ISIS: Remove Us From UN Terror List or We Won&#8217;t Release UN Hostages</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2014 14:43:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What better way to establish that you aren't terrorists than by taking hostages?.]]></description>
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<p>This <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/syrian-rebels-issue-demands-for-captive-un-troops/">might actually work with the UN</a> which ordered<a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/filipino-soldiers-defied-un-order-to-surrender-to-isis/"> peacekeepers to surrender to the Al-Nusra Front</a> which has pledged allegiance to ISIS.</p>
<blockquote><p>Syrian rebels have issued three demands for the release of 45 Fijian peacekeepers they’ve held captive for five days, Fiji’s military commander said Tuesday&#8230;</p>
<p>Brig. Gen. Mosese Tikoitoga said that the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front wanted to be taken off the UN terrorist list&#8230;</p></blockquote>
<p>What better way to establish that you aren&#8217;t terrorists than by taking hostages and making demands.</p>
<p>Now it&#8217;s up to Ireland to save them&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>Irish troops in armored vehicles exchanged fire with rebels Saturday as they rescued Filipino troops from one of the besieged border posts. The Indian-led, 1,250-member force includes soldiers from Fiji, India, Nepal, the Philippines and the Netherlands.</p>
<p>Coveney said the Irish unit remained on standby for a potential rescue of the seized Fijian troops</p></blockquote>
<p>Now we&#8217;re really internationalizing this mess on multiple fronts.</p>
<blockquote><p>“I’ve made it very clear that I’m not going to continue to commit Irish troops to this mission unless there’s a very fundamental review of how it’s going to operate. Clearly this is no longer a demilitarized zone,” Irish Defense Minister Simon Coveney told RTE state radio in Dublin.</p>
<p>“We need to get a significant reassurance from the UN, and the Syrian side, that we can operate a mission safely. The risk levels, given what’s happened over the last three days, are not acceptable.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Syria isn&#8217;t capable of providing assurances as to the behavior of the people it&#8217;s fighting. The UN is completely useless. It makes sense to relax the rules of engagement, but at this point what&#8217;s the point?</p>
<p>1. The UN peacekeepers don&#8217;t actually keep the peace</p>
<p>2. If the UN peacekeepers are now going to fight ISIS, I doubt anyone will object, but it&#8217;s not what they&#8217;re there for which means if they start really taking casualties, they&#8217;ll pull out.</p>
<p>3. The current proposals to have some international force in the Jordan Valley or on the Gaza crossings is the same species of madness. No country really wants the job and will pull out the moment things get hot.</p>
<p>The sensible thing would be to let Israel deal with the situation and stop acting like international peacekeepers do anything useful.</p>
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		<title>Appoint a Qualified Special Envoy for Religious Freedom, Mr. President</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2014 04:32:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lindsay Vessey]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Radical-in-Chief's inaction in the face of genocide against religious minorities in Iraq and Syria.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/o3.gif"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-239265" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/o3-333x350.gif" alt="o3" width="256" height="269" /></a>President Obama’s rhetoric on religious freedom and actions reflect a disparity in priorities. Throughout the summer we have seen a literal genocide targeting all religious minorities in Iraq unfold. There is a plethora of videos and reports depicting the barbaric slaughter of Christians, Yazidis, and Shi’ite Muslims in Iraq. Most of the minorities fortunate enough to escape left with only the clothes they were wearing and had all possessions of value stolen by these terrorists. Some of these refugees have died of thirst and starvation on Mt. Sinjar while Western governments and the United Nations have vacillated on an appropriate response.</p>
<p>President Obama signed a bill into law which provides for the appointment of a Special Envoy to Promote Religious Freedom in the Near East and South Central Asia on August 8, 2014. The bill sat unsigned for 10 days which is not a lot of time. But, considering the dire state of religious minorities worldwide and the President’s statements on the topic, one would think he could have made time to keep the process of appointing a Special Envoy moving forward.</p>
<p>Now that he has signed the Special Envoy bill, the president needs to immediately appoint a qualified Special Envoy who can work alongside the newly appointed Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom, Rabbi Saperstein. The Special Envoy is tasked with promoting religious freedom in the Near East and South Central Asia, the region of the world that is experiencing the greatest threats to religious freedom and cost of human lives through religiously motivated attacks. The Special Envoy will have access to the President and ensure the needs of religious minorities are included in top-level national security and foreign policy discussions. The Special Envoy also has a critical role in helping address urgent needs of minorities according to their religious identity. Thus, the Special Envoy would assist with issues such as the refugee crisis of Christians and Yazidis in Iraq and Syria, and the on-going socio-economic predicament associated with these displaced religious minorities who no longer have a means to earn an income.</p>
<p>It is critical that a Special Envoy be appointed to address these issues in concert with the Ambassador at Large for Religious Freedom who, as the head of the Office of International Religious Freedom, oversees the annual monitoring of religious freedom worldwide and will also be engaging in diplomacy in support of these minorities. The US Representatives and Senators who drafted this legislation envisioned two individuals focusing on different aspects of religious freedom issues, working harmoniously together to better integrate and prioritize the promotion of religious freedom in US foreign policy, recognizing the key role of this first freedom.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, President Obama doesn’t have a particularly good track record of acting on behalf of persecuted minorities. Speaking at the National Prayer Breakfast on February 6, he said, “I look forward to nominating our next ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom to help lead these efforts.  And we’re moving ahead with our new strategy to partner more closely with religious leaders and faith communities as we carry out our foreign policy.” Yet, Obama left that very same position vacant for over nine months.</p>
<p>The ongoing genocide against religious minorities in Iraq and Syria, as well as increasing attacks and limitations on religious freedom for minorities in places such as Egypt, Pakistan, and Libya demonstrate a clear need for the administration to act quickly in defense of religious minorities by appointing a Special Envoy to promote religious freedom in the Near East and South Central Asia.</p>
<p>The Special Envoy should have demonstrated policy and diplomatic experience, specifically in the field of international religious freedom, not just an interest in this area or religious leadership experience. The candidate should have a reputation for collaborative and professional efforts in the promotion of religious freedom and already be acquainted with the major players in this field. Individuals such as Dr. Katrina Lantos-Swett (Mormon), Dr. Robert P. George (Christian), or Dr. Zuhdi Jasser (Muslim) of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom would all fit the criteria and each have a different faith background from the Ambassador at Large for Religious Freedom, Rabbi Saperstein. There are a number of other individuals in this field who have the requisite experience. There is no reason the position should be filled as soon as possible.</p>
<p><strong><em>Lindsay Vessey is a human rights activist and the director of the Coptic Solidarity organization in Washington.</em></strong></p>
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		<title>UN Says Reconstruct Hamas-Controlled Gaza Now and Investigate Israel</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2014 04:35:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Klein]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/un.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-239027" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/un-450x281.jpg" alt="un" width="325" height="203" /></a>The United Kingdom’s United Nations Ambassador Lyall Grant, serving as this month’s president of the Security Council, said that the Security Council met on August 18<sup>th</sup> in closed consultative session following a public briefing on the Middle East by Robert Serry, the UN’s Special Coordinator for the Middle East. The main focus was on Gaza. The members discussed a number of parameters they considered necessary for a durable ceasefire in Gaza going forward.</p>
<p>“There would need to be guarantees for Israeli security, there would need to be an opening up of Gaza for greater economic activity, a return of the Palestinian Authority, verification and monitoring mechanisms,” Ambassador Grant told reporters following the Security Council’s closed door session.</p>
<p>Both Ambassador Grant, and Mr. Serry in his own remarks to the Security Council and the press, were vague on how to ensure Israel’s security if border crossings were to be opened to more goods beyond the strictly humanitarian supplies that have entered Gaza without interruption.</p>
<p>The closest Ambassador Grant came to addressing any consideration by the Security Council of the possibility of demilitarization of Gaza to accompany reconstruction was to say that “[T]here wasn’t any discussion in detail about demilitarisation options, but a number of Members, including particularly the European Members, raised the point that there would probably need to be some form of international component to that, and indeed the EU could play a role in doing that.”</p>
<p>Mr. Serry emphasized that the “main priority” in his view was the reconstruction of Gaza. Without providing any details, Mr. Serry asserted that the system under which the UN has been importing construction materials for UN projects, undertaken in coordination with the Israeli government, has “demonstrably worked” in preventing the diversion of materials to military use. “We stand ready to explore with the relevant stakeholders how the UN’s proven mechanism can be expanded to monitoring a PA-led, private-sector-driven reconstruction programme in Gaza,” he said.</p>
<p>The problem with Mr. Serry’s assertion of a successful UN monitoring program is that it was undermined by several recent events. First, there was the discovery of Hamas rockets stored in at least three UN schools. Second, there was the diversion of concrete that Israel itself had sent into Gaza for peaceful construction purposes to the building of Hamas’s terror tunnels, which Israeli forces discovered when they entered those tunnels. Third, an internal audit report of the UN’s Development Programme regarding construction work in Gaza found, according to Fox News, lack of careful procurement monitoring. Fox reported the audit’s conclusion that “a U.N. Development Program office that funds and monitors spending on construction in the territory allowed at least five non-staff contract employees to handle ‘core’ procurement processes that only staffers are supposed to handle, including those for ordering up ‘significant’ civil construction activities.”</p>
<p>Moreover, the United Nations cannot be trusted when it comes to having even the slightest genuine concern about Israel’s security from jihadist attacks against Israel’s civilian population. Israel has over-reacted in using “disproportionate” force in responding to Hamas’s provocations, the UN’s highest officials have declared over and over again.</p>
<p>As Israel’s UN Ambassador Ron Prosor told reporters, the “only thing ‘disproportionate’ is the accusations being made against Israel.”</p>
<p>One need look no further for proof of such disproportionality than the &#8220;kangaroo court&#8221; that the UN Human Rights Council selected to conduct an “investigation” into possible violations of international human rights and humanitarian law in Gaza. William Schabas, the Canadian professor of international law who was chosen to head the panel, reached his verdict regarding Israel’s culpability years ago.</p>
<p>In 2011, he claimed that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should be &#8220;in the dock of an international court.&#8221; And in a 2011 interview, Schabas criticized the International Criminal Court’s focus on prosecuting Sudan’s President al-Bashir for crimes against humanity and war crimes in Darfur while not going after Israel’s former president. “Why are we going after the president of Sudan for Darfur and not the president of Israel for Gaza? Because of politics,” Schabas said.</p>
<p>In 2013, Schabas demonstrated his willingness to manipulate the law in order to get Israel. He said that “by twisting things and maneuvering” it would be possible to prosecute Israel for “crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression, all of which I think can be shown have been perpetrated at various times during the history of the state of Israel.”</p>
<p>Schabas’s sidekick on the UN Human Rights Council’s “kangaroo court” is just as biased, if not even worse. He is Doudou Diene, who has served in the past as the UN’s Special Rapporteur on racism. In that capacity, Diene took a UN-paid junket across the United States in the spring of 2008 to “investigate,” among other things, Islamophobia in America. He met with such “reliable” sources of information as leaders of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and a former top fundraiser for the Texas-based Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, which has been found guilty of illegally funneling more than $12 million to Hamas. Diene “balanced” his tour, so to speak, by meeting with far left human rights advocates in New York City, including the New York Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Constitutional Rights. Not surprisingly, in his report to the UN Human Rights Council, Diene concluded that “[R]acism and racial discrimination have profoundly and lastingly marked and structured American society.”</p>
<p>In 2009, at a rally in Geneva that included demonstrators with signs stating “Zionism equals racism” and “Israel is an Apartheid State,” Diene fed the crowd the red meat that it craved, accusing Israel of perpetuating colonialism and racism in Palestine.</p>
<p>The UN might as well issue its anti-Israel report on Gaza right now and save the time and money that will be wasted by Schabas, Diene and whomever else the Human Rights Council appoints to its “kangaroo court.” Moreover, the United Nations cannot be trusted to take responsibility for ensuring the proper civilian use of construction materials brought into Gaza in the future. Far more robust on-site multinational supervision will be required to ensure Israel’s security, including the prompt removal of rockets and mortars from the hands of Hamas and other jihadists as well as the destruction of all remaining tunnels.</p>
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		<title>UN Probe Head Says Netanyahu is a War Criminal, Can&#8217;t Say if Hamas are Terrorists</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>Don&#8217;t ever change UN. Then we might have to start taking you seriously.</p>
<p>International Law Professor William Schabas, appointed to head the UNHRC probe into Israel&#8217;s defensive strikes against Hamas has already decided what the verdict will be.</p>
<p>Because <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/183963#.U-uORvlr7J8">it&#8217;s the UN</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Neuer also noted that Schabas once called for “going after” Israel&#8217;s then-President Shimon Peres in the ICC, saying, “Why are we going after the president of Sudan for Darfur, and not the president of Israel for Gaza?” Last year, Schabas declared, &#8220;My favorite would be Netanyahu within the dock of the International Criminal Court.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>But he&#8217;s remaining carefully neutral on the question of<a href="http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/anti-israel-un-investigator-prof-william-schabas-cant-say-if-hamas-is-terrorist-entity/2014/08/13/"> whether Hamas terrorists.</a>.. are terrorists.</p>
<blockquote><p>The man chosen to head the United Nations Human Rights Council’s latest probe into the war in Gaza won’t state clearly whether Hamas is a terror group.</p>
<p>Kushmaro: “By the way, do you consider Hamas a terror organization?”</p>
<p>Silence.</p>
<p>And then Schabas sighed and said, “It would be inappropriate for me to answer a question like that, uh, given what I said earlier, about having to start basically with a blank sheet and start to study this question in as neutral and objective a manner as possible. It would be inappropriate for me,” he repeated, “given my position.”</p></blockquote>
<p>That&#8217;s a &#8220;No&#8221;.</p>
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		<title>Fighting Without Silver Bullets</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2014 04:50:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caroline Glick]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/f140419ns85-1-e1405849325482.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-237936" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/f140419ns85-1-e1405849325482-426x350.jpg" alt="f140419ns85-1-e1405849325482" width="242" height="199" /></a>Originally published by the <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Our-World-Fighting-without-silver-bullets-370171">Jerusalem Post</a>. </em></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">Hours before Israel accepted the Egyptian-brokered cease-fire deal on Monday night, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu traveled to the south to try to allay the fears of area residents.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">It’s not at all clear how successful he was.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Residents of the communities bordering the Gaza Strip who evacuated their homes are skeptical of the IDF’s claims that it is safe for them to return.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In an interview with NRG website, Yael Paz-Lahiany, a mother of three young children from Kibbutz Nahal Oz just across the border from Gaza professed profound confusion and concern.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">“I really don’t understand what is happening here and don’t know what to think. Just on Saturday we had 10 red alerts at Nahal Oz and I don’t know what to say. I also don’t understand what the prime minister said [Saturday].</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">I just know that I am staying at Kibbutz Dorot, and here too they are operating on emergency footing, the nurseries are only partially open, and no one is going back to normal. So if 10 kilometers from Gaza they haven’t returned to their routine, how are we supposed to go back to our lives 800 meters from the wire?” Israel’s operations in Gaza so far have been based on the hope that Hamas can be convinced to stand down.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Israel has destroyed its tunnels. The IDF killed hundreds of Hamas terrorists. The IDF destroyed Hamas’s bases.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Hamas’s missile arsenal is depleted. Its leaders are safe only so long as they remain hidden in their illegal bunkers under Shifa hospital. Hamas remains cash strapped and without access to resupply from Iran or other allies.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Assuming that Hamas maintains the 72-hour ceasefire that it requested, in negotiations that may ensue for a more detailed cease-fire agreement if the US is unable to coerce Israel and Egypt into agreeing to open the borders and save Hamas, Hamas will be destroyed through attrition.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">If this happens, Israel will have won a great victory.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">But if Hamas continues to attack southern communities at any level Israel will have no choice. It will have to send its forces back into Gaza with the mission of retaking control there.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">There is only one thing worse than reasserting Israel’s military control over Gaza: Losing southern Israel. So long as residents of the south fear returning to their homes, Israel is losing southern Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">This looming prospect of having to retake Gaza would be bad enough if Israel only had to concern itself with Gaza. But Israel enjoys no such luxury.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Far more dangerous than Hamas is Hezbollah. Whereas Hamas’s missiles are unguided, Hezbollah has guided missiles that are capable of reaching every centimeter of Israeli territory. And their payloads are big enough to destroy high-rise buildings.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Unlike Hamas, Hezbollah has anti-aircraft missiles and anti-ship missiles capable of disrupting air and naval operations.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Hezbollah has drones that it has launched successfully.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">And the possibility that Hezbollah has some level of unconventional weapons cannot be ruled out.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Hezbollah commanders and fighters have gained massive experience fighting in Syria and Iraq. They have sophisticated intelligence gathering capabilities including human intelligence and signals intelligence assets.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">They have advanced command and control systems.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">And by all accounts, Hamas’s terror tunnels are nothing in comparison to Hezbollah’s extensive network of tunnels that run beneath the border with Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Hezbollah’s announced war plans involve invading and taking control over communities in the Upper Galilee.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In the face of Hamas’s repeated aggression in recent years, many Israelis are now looking wistfully at our quiet northern border. It was the massive destruction Israel wreaked on Lebanon during the 2006 war, they say, that is responsible for this tranquility. We deterred Hezbollah.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Unfortunately, this is dangerous nonsense that bespeaks a fundamental refusal by those that express this view to reconcile themselves with the nature of Hezbollah and its decision making process.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Hezbollah’s decision to go to war in 2006 was made in Tehran, by Hezbollah’s Iranian masters. The decision not to go to war since has also been made by Tehran.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Tehran decided to deploy Hezbollah to Iraq and Syria.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">And Tehran will decide, based on its own sense of priorities, when Hezbollah and its massive arsenal of terror should attack Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The only way that Israel’s operations in 2006 have impacted Hezbollah’s future aggression is by enabling it. Israel agreed to a cease-fire that enabled Hezbollah to rearm, reassert control over southern Lebanon and expand its influence over the Lebanese military and state. Had Israel routed Hezbollah in 2006 or refused to accept the pro-Hezbollah cease-fire terms embodied in UN Security Council resolution 1701 then the situation would be different.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">This brings us to Iran, the hidden hand behind the 2006 war, and at least to some degree behind the present war with Gaza, and the direct threat that it constitutes for Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Last month US President Barack Obama bought himself and Iran four more months. Iran can continue to develop its nuclear weapons until after the US midterm election unconstrained by international scrutiny.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Obama can pretend for four more months that he is going to achieve a nuclear deal that will prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Israel however, was not given four months.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Without the Iranian nuclear umbrella, Iran’s terror proxies in Gaza were able to develop weapons to attack nearly the entire country. What will they develop if that nuclear umbrella is instated? Prime Minister Netanyahu is correct. Iran’s nuclear weapons program is an existential threat to Israel. And it needs to be wiped out.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Given the threats from Lebanon and Iran, it is clear that Israel’s decision to try to limit its operations in Gaza was necessary. Israel cannot afford to tie its forces down indefinitely. And if Israel is forced to retake control over Gaza, it will need to deploy its forces in such a way that it maintains sufficient reserve capacity to handle Gaza, Lebanon and Iran simultaneously.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">This would be challenging enough under the best of circumstances. Unfortunately, the situation is made all the more complicated by the Obama administration’s strategic aim of appeasing Iran by enabling it to develop nuclear weapons and by siding with Hamas against Israel and the US’s traditional Sunni Arab allies.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The administration’s unswerving devotion to this policy aim was again clarified on Monday when Palestinian sources at the Cairo talks told the media that the US had again joined forces with Hamas-supporting Qatar to achieve an alternate cease-fire, undercutting Egyptian efforts and giving Hamas reason to walk away from the table.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Just last week the US media lambasted Secretary of State John Kerry for supporting Hamas against Israel in cease-fire negotiations. The fact that the Obama administration continues to act in this manner suggests that it is completely committed to this course of action.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Israel can cope with all of these challenges and surmount them. But it won’t be easy.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In recent days a spate of government ministers and foreign supporters have recommended bevy of options that involve getting someone else to deal with Hamas for Israel. Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman said Monday that Gaza should become a UN mandate.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Justice Minister Tzipi Livni and her colleagues on the Left, joined by former Bush administration deputy national security adviser Elliott Abrams say that Fatah can be brought into Gaza to fight Hamas for Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">These suggestions are all based on wishful thinking and an extraordinary capacity to ignore reality.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The UN is institutionally committed to delegitimizing and ultimately destroying Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Fatah can only come into Gaza after Hamas has been destroyed completely and driven from leadership by Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Under any other circumstance, Fatah will collaborate with Hamas against Israel, as it has always done. And if Hamas is routed and destroyed Fatah would only destabilize the situation.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The time has come for us to recognize that there are no easy answers for Israel. IDF operations in Gaza in recent weeks have dealt a harsh blow to Hamas. Perhaps the terror commanders have been deterred. Perhaps not.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Whatever the case may be, if Israel and Egypt are able to continue to block US attempts to open the borders for Hamas resupply until Kerry gets swept up in another major crisis, then Hamas can be defeated through attrition.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">If not, then Israel will have no choice but to retake control of Gaza while maintaining enough forces in reserve to respond to a second front in the North, and finally end Iran’s dream of becoming a nuclear power.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">There are no silver bullets. The price of freedom is hard work and vigilance.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Only if we act in full cognizance of the gravity of the moment and the absence of easy answers will we navigate the minefield we find ourselves in successfully and restore the safety of the south, the north, the east and the center of the country. </span></p>
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		<title>Hamas’s Nazi-Style Rocket Blitz</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2014 04:47:49 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/76121111_10126676-04ad-417a-8d2a-280c7dd2a2c5.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-235917" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/76121111_10126676-04ad-417a-8d2a-280c7dd2a2c5-450x337.jpg" alt="_76121111_10126676-04ad-417a-8d2a-280c7dd2a2c5" width="260" height="195" /></a>The Palestinian unity government, via its co-equal partner Hamas, is committing war crimes and crimes against humanity against Israeli civilians.  Hamas has launched scores of rockets from Gaza aimed at major Israeli cities covering more than half of Israel, including Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa and Caesarea. The attacks have escalated from 6 on June 27<sup>th</sup> to more than 160 on July 8<sup>th</sup>. This is Hamas’s version of the Nazi-style air blitz, meant to terrorize the Israeli population into submission. Imitating Nazi tactics is a logical extension of the great esteem which Hamas leaders and their Palestinian forebears have held for Adolf Hitler.</p>
<p>&#8220;For the first time, the (Ezzedine al-) Qassam Brigades strike Haifa with an R160 rocket, and strike occupied Jerusalem with four M75 rockets and Tel Aviv with four M75 rockets,&#8221; a Hamas statement boasted.</p>
<p>Hamas also attempted to invade Israel with a naval commando landing on Ashkelon’s Zikkim beach, which the IDF repelled.</p>
<p>In response to these acts of clear Palestinian aggression, Israel to date has carefully controlled the extent of its reprisals. Israel waited several weeks and issued a series of warnings before finally launching its military operation against Hamas on July 7<sup>th</sup>.</p>
<p>Israeli air strikes have been limited so far to targeting Hamas operatives and facilities used to launch or support their rocket assaults.  Although there have been some unintended Palestinian casualties, they have been kept to a minimum, despite the fact that Hamas insists on hiding its weapons and operatives amongst the civilian population and using Palestinian civilians as human shields. Israel has never declared all Palestinian children to be legitimate targets as Hamas has done with respect to Israeli children. Israel condemned the recent killing of the Palestinian youth Muhammad Abu Khdeir and promptly arrested the alleged right-wing Jewish extremist perpetrators with a vow to prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sent his condolences to the Abu Khdeir family, saying, “We do not differentiate between terrorists, and we will respond to all of them.” In contrast, Hamas’s leaders praised the kidnapping of the three Israeli teenagers who were murdered. The Palestinian government has yet to show any urgency in finding the perpetrators of the abduction and murder of the three Israeli teenagers.</p>
<p>Despite the unrelenting rocket attacks, Israel has held back so far on any large scale ground operation in Gaza, which, however, may become necessary if Hamas refuses to stop its escalating violence. 40,000 additional reservists have been called up for duty in case it is determined that a ground operation will be needed.  Israeli military tanks have reportedly been assembling near the Israeli-Gaza border town Sderot.</p>
<p>As DEBKAFile reported on July 8<sup>th</sup>:</p>
<blockquote><p>The government and the IDF have billed the operation as a long-term, staged offensive to destroy Hamas’ logistical and strategic infrastructure, to be escalated stage by stage as needed, up to a limited ground incursion, which would require additional reserve call-ups, as well targeted assassinations. This progression will be adjusted to the enemy’s response and how quickly ‘quiet is restored to the South.</p></blockquote>
<p>United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called on both sides to exercise “maximum restraint” and avoid further civilian casualties. The rocket attacks should cease, Mr. Ban said, but he spent more space in his statement lamenting the plight of the Palestinians. He said he was “extremely concerned at the dangerous escalation of violence, which has already resulted in multiple Palestinian deaths and injuries as a result of Israeli operations against Gaza.&#8221;</p>
<p>UN Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay has sunk even lower than this in the swamp of moral equivalency.  &#8220;From a human rights point of view, I utterly condemn these rocket attacks,” she said, “and <i>more especially</i> I condemn Israel&#8217;s <i>excessive</i> acts of retaliation.&#8221; (Emphasis added.)</p>
<p>This moral equivalency position is getting very old.  Hamas and its fellow jihadists remain primarily responsible for the escalation by continuing their full-scale deliberate rocket assaults against Israeli civilians despite repeated warnings to stop.  Palestinian Authority President Abbas’s decision to include Hamas in the Palestine unity government makes him responsible as well for his government partner’s rocket assaults, since he claims to be the president of the entire putative unified state of Palestine that includes Hamas-governed Gaza.</p>
<p>As if Hamas were not bad enough, ISIS (more recently calling itself the Islamic State), which is presently ravaging parts of Syria and Iraq, is reportedly infiltrating Gaza. ISIS shares Hamas’s goal of creating an Islamic caliphate but believes that Hamas is &#8220;too moderate&#8221; in its approach. As described by the Jerusalem Post last month, unlike Hamas, which is presently focused on ousting the Jewish state from what it claims to be the land belonging to the Palestinian people, “ISIS is a globalized movement that lacks deep roots in any particular society and has no nationalist project.”</p>
<p>However, ISIS and Hamas do share the supremacist ideology of Islam and the jihadist fervor to spread Islam and sharia law by force. In the short run, at least, they will use each other, but in the long run ISIS is even more dangerous than Hamas as it looks to expand its reach from its bases in neighboring Syria and Iraq into Jordan and Egypt, encircling Israel, and beyond. While Israel must do whatever is necessary to keep Hamas under control, it must be careful not to fool itself into thinking that eliminating Hamas alone will mean eliminating an even more dangerous and ruthless jihadist threat that is growing like a cancer on its doorstep.</p>
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		<title>Detroit: How the Left Made Water More Expensive Than Cell Phones</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2014 04:56:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Progressives' cruel assault on the poor unmasked. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/8734154122_8229fb3d2f_z-629x420.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-234754" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/8734154122_8229fb3d2f_z-629x420-450x300.jpg" alt="8734154122_8229fb3d2f_z-629x420" width="290" height="193" /></a>The latest news from Detroit, the poster child for failed progressive policies that have dominated that city for more than a half-century, is not good. In March of 2014, the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department (DWSD) <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/detroit-cuts-off-water-to-thousands-of-residents-as-activists-plead-with-un-for-help-with-human-rights-abuse-9556171.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">announced</span></a> it would begin cutting off water service for customers at least 60 days overdue or more than $150 behind in their water bill payments. Activists outraged by the decision have taken their case outside the city—all the way to the United Nations.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The DWSD has targeted 1,500 to 3,000 business and residential customers every week as part of a get-tough approach that would enable them to begin recouping the $118 million owed from delinquent accounts. Accounts that comprise nearly half the city’s total number. As a result, the Department has shut off water service to <a href="http://www.opposingviews.com/i/society/detroit-shuts-water-thousands-activists-ask-un-intervene"><span style="color: #1255cc;">more</span></a> than 7,500 properties in the past two months alone.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">&#8220;We really don&#8217;t want to shut off anyone’s water, but it’s really our duty to go after those who don’t pay, because if they don’t pay then our other customers pay for them,&#8221; <a href="http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2014/06/23/nearly-half-of-detroit-water-customers-cant-pay-their-bill/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">said</span></a> DWSD spokeswoman Curtrise Garner. &#8220;That’s not fair to our other customers.” Garner also noted that the city has programs that help those &#8220;totally in need,” but that many of the customers who can afford to pay their bills don’t bother, &#8220;and we know this because, once we shut water off, the next day they are in paying the bill in full. So we do know that that has become a habit as well,” she contended.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">It’s not the only habit of non-payment afflicting Detroit. In 2012, it was revealed that <a href="http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130221/METRO01/302210375#ixzz35VEVs5Qi"><span style="color: #1255cc;">almost half</span></a> of the city&#8217;s 305,000 property owners failed to pay their tax bills the previous year.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Yet the thousands of families who no longer have access to water, along with those who will shortly follow, has generated a backlash by a coalition of leftist organizations striving for <a href="http://www.blueplanetproject.net/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">“water justice,&#8221;</span></a> including the <a href="http://peopleswaterboard.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">Detroit People’s Water Board</span></a>, the <a href="http://www.blueplanetproject.net/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">Blue Planet Project</span></a>, the <a href="http://mwro.org/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">Michigan Welfare Rights Organization</span></a> and <a href="https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">Food &amp; Water Watch</span></a>. They have submitted a <a href="http://www.blueplanetproject.net/index.php/detroit-submission/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">report</span></a> to Catarina de Albuquerque, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Right to Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation, calling on that organization to intervene. &#8220;What we see is a violation of the human right to water,&#8221; said Meera Karunananthan, an international campaigner with the Blue Planet Project. &#8220;The U.S. has international obligations in terms of people’s right to water, and this is a blatant violation of that right. We’re hoping the U.N. will put pressure on the federal government and the state of Michigan to do something about it.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The groups have framed the argument in typically leftist terms, accusing the DWSD of attempting to rid itself of low-income customers in an effort to spur a private takeover of the utility. DWSD has denied the charge, but city officials are considering at least a partial takeover by private entities as one of a variety of strategies aimed at reducing the $18 billion of debt that has driven Detroit into bankruptcy. The DWSD accounts for $5 billion of that debt, and as of March, 150,806 out of the 323,900 DWSD accounts in the city were <a href="http://www.freep.com/article/20140322/NEWS01/303220010/Detroit-resume-water-shutoffs-delinquent-customers"><span style="color: #1255cc;">delinquent</span></a>.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Detroit did attempt to integrate its water system with the water systems in the suburban counties of Oakland, Macomb and Wayne, hoping to <span style="color: #1255cc;"><a href="http://www.freep.com/article/20140406/NEWS01/304060082/Water-authority-Orr-Kevyn-Detroit-bankruptcy">create</a> </span>a jointly managed regional authority in return for a $47-million-per-year minimum lease payment. But the deal fell through when those counties wanted no part of the DWSD’s debt, its delinquent customers, or an aging infrastructure “with a history of disinvestment,” <a href="http://www.freep.com/article/20140406/OPINION01/304060057"><span style="color: #1255cc;">according</span></a> to the <i>Detroit Free Press</i>.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Despite that disinvestment, Detroit has seen a steady rise in its water bills, including a staggering 119 percent <a href="http://www.mintpressnews.com/groups-appeal-to-un-to-stop-water-cut-offs-in-detroit-and-restore-basic-human-rights/192731/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">increase</span></a> over the last decade. The average water bill is now an outrageous $75 a month, <a href="http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2014/06/23/nearly-half-of-detroit-water-customers-cant-pay-their-bill/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">compared</span></a> to national average of $40. For perspective sake, the <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2012/04/16/pf/cell-phone-bill.moneymag/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">average</span></a> cell phone bill is $71 per month.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Nonetheless, as recently as last week the Detroit City Council <a href="http://www.freep.com/article/20140617/NEWS01/306170107/City-Council-water-rate-hike"><span style="color: #1255cc;">approved</span></a> an 8.7 percent increase in DWSD rates expected to add an average of more than $5 per month to the current bills. Council President Brenda Jones cited infrastructure repair as the reason for the hike. “I do realize that in order to get the repairs done to our system, it’s going to take a lot of money to get those repairs because our system is very old,” Jones said.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The activists are apoplectic, claiming those affected were given no time to prepare for a shut off and that some accounts were suspended prior to the deadline. &#8220;Sick people are left without running water and running toilets,” <a href="http://ecowatch.com/2014/05/28/water-cut-offs-detroit-violation-human-rights/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">writes</span></a> Blue Planet Project Founder and Food &amp; Water Watch Board Chair Maude Barlow.</p>
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<p style="color: #232323;">People recovering from surgery cannot wash and change bandages. Children cannot bathe and parents cannot cook. Is this a small number of victims? No. The water department has decreed that it will turn the water off to all 120,000 residences that owe it money by the end of the summer although it has made no such threat to the many corporations and institutions that are in arrears on their bills as well. How did it come to this?</p>
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<p style="color: #232323;">Unsurprisingly, Barlow blames &#8220;decades of market driven neoliberal policy that put business and profit ahead of public good.” A less delusional examination reveals the usual suspects: free-spending, progressive Democrats, allied with labor unions.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Beginning in 1962, Detroit <a href="http://mic.com/articles/20567/america-s-future-looks-too-much-like-detroit"><span style="color: #1255cc;">elected</span></a> an unbroken string of Democratic mayors and other city officials determined to impose a progressive agenda on a city that was once the richest, per capita, in the entire nation. Democrats oversaw the failed the “Model City” program, fashioned after Soviet Union centralized efforts to transform entire urban areas at once. They were in control when the riots of 1967 destroyed black businesses and drove more than 140,000 people from the city. They bestowed outlandish salaries, benefit packages, and highly inefficient work rules on city unions, a move largely responsible for driving the city’s mainstay auto industry to right-to-work states. And they were responsible for a series of corruption scandals, culminating in a <a href="http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/story/23658979/kwame-kilpatrick-sentenced-to-28-years-in-prison"><span style="color: #1255cc;">28-year prison term</span></a> for former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">All of it led to the <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/system/wire/DA6TMNC00"><span style="color: #1255cc;">largest</span></a> municipal bankruptcy in the history of the nation, in June of 2013.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">And make no mistake: DWSD workers were an integral part of the problem. As recently as 2012, the DWSD employed a full-time <i>horseshoer</i> collecting $56,245 in salary and benefits &#8212; despite the inconvenient reality that the department had no horses. They also had 257 separate job classifications designed to maximize the number of workers required to do even the simplest of tasks &#8212; workers whose average compensation packages <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/kylesmith/2013/02/21/detroit-gave-unions-keys-to-the-city-and-now-nothing-is-left/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">came to</span></a> $86,000 in 2013.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">2012 was also the year when an independent <a href="http://www.freep.com/article/20120809/NEWS05/308090260/Detroit-water-department-cut-81-workers-under-new-proposal"><span style="color: #1255cc;">report</span></a> concluded that the city could <a href="http://www.mackinac.org/17370"><span style="color: #1255cc;">slash</span></a> the staffing levels at DWSD by 81 percent, due to the reality that it was using twice the number of employees per gallon as cities like Chicago. In response, John Riehl, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 207 that represents many of the DWSD employees, told the <i>Detroit Free Press</i> the department needed more workers.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">When the Detroit Board of Water Commissioners approved the cutbacks, 950 DWSD workers went on strike in October 2012, defying a restraining order issued by a federal judge in the process. The strike lasted five days, and Riehl declared it a victory &#8220;because it has set the precedent that unions, the community and the City of Detroit can stand up against the whole array of powers-that-be and win.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">In light of Detroit’s eventual bankruptcy, it was a temporary and Pyrrhic victory.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Today, Detroit is a city with an unemployment rate of <a href="http://ycharts.com/indicators/detroit_mi_unemployment_rate"><span style="color: #1255cc;">more</span></a> than 14 percent, and a poverty rate of about 40 percent, courtesy of the very same Democratic social engineering that has driven water to unaffordable levels for many of the city’s poorest residents. Even more telling, given that Detroit’s population is <a href="http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0884135.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">82.7 percent</span></a> black, this crisis disproportionately afflicts the very same minorities Democrats claim to be protecting and nurturing.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">“The case of water cut-offs in the City of Detroit speaks to the deep racial divides and intractable economic and social inequality in access to services within the United States,” claim the activists taking their case to the United Nations. No, it doesn’t. It speaks to 52 years of progressive Democratic policies that have destroyed the city formerly known as the &#8220;arsenal of democracy.” The very same policies these leftist groups would exacerbate in their quixotic quest for UN-sponsored “water justice.&#8221;</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Russia_Putin_07a53_image_982w.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-223659" alt="Russia_Putin_07a53_image_982w" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Russia_Putin_07a53_image_982w-450x323.jpg" width="270" height="194" /></a>Russian President Vladimir Putin shamelessly told United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon during a recent phone call that he expected “clear condemnation” of what he characterized as the “anti-constitutional” operation by the Ukrainian central government in Kiev against the armed thugs whom have illegally occupied government buildings in eastern Ukraine.</span></p>
<p>Putin did not get his wish. Instead, a report issued by the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on April 15th, which was based on first hand reporting by human rights monitors on the ground in Ukraine including Crimea, exposed the baselessness of the Russian propaganda.</p>
<p>The report analyzed events up to April 2<sup>nd</sup>, using information collected during two missions to Ukraine in March by Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights Ivan Šimonović and a team of UN human rights monitors on the ground since March 15<sup>th</sup>.  It found that “while there were some attacks against the ethnic Russian community, these were neither systematic nor widespread. There are also allegations that some participants in the protests and clashes in eastern Ukraine were not from the region, and that some had come from the Russian Federation.”</p>
<p>Speaking to the Security Council on April 16<sup>th</sup> about the report, Mr.  Šimonović said the transformation of protesters in eastern Ukraine into “quasi-paramilitary forces must be stopped.” The international community recognizes Russia’s complaints about alleged attacks against Russian-speaking citizens, and its vows to protect them, for what they really are - the pretext for direct Russian military intervention further into Ukraine, following on the heels of Russia’s illegal military occupation and annexation of Crimea.</p>
<p>Undeterred, Putin warned of potential military intervention if the Ukrainian government persisted in using force against the protesters in eastern Ukraine. Recalling the authorization he received from his pliant Parliament to use military force in Ukraine as he deemed necessary, Putin warned:  “I really hope that I do not have to exercise this right and that we are able to solve all today&#8217;s pressing issues via political and diplomatic means.”</p>
<p>As if on cue, senior diplomats from the United States, Russia, Ukraine and the European Union meeting in Geneva on Thursday worked out a framework to defuse the crisis, according to Secretary of State John Kerry. The separatists in eastern Ukraine would disarm and vacate the buildings and public areas they have occupied. In return, the Ukrainian government would offer amnesty to virtually all of the separatists who disarmed. The government also &#8220;committed to going as far as they can to reach out to opponents&#8221; as part of a &#8220;comprehensive, inclusive process,&#8221; in advance of the upcoming presidential election on May 25<sup>th</sup>, according to Kerry. In a bow to Russia’s demands for turning Ukraine into a more decentralized federation, the Ukrainian government reportedly agreed to consider constitutional amendments giving eastern Ukraine more regional autonomy than it has today. Crimea reportedly did not come up as part of the discussions. Nor apparently did the continuing presence of thousands of Russian troops remaining close to the Russian-Ukrainian border.</p>
<p>&#8220;We worked hard and we worked in good faith in order to narrow our real differences… and find a way forward for the people of Ukraine,&#8221; Kerry said. &#8220;The parties agreed today that all sides must refrain from the use of violence, intimidation, or provocative actions.&#8221; At the same time he warned that &#8220;we will have no choice to impose further costs on Russia&#8221; if the separatists do not respond favorably by the weekend. How many times have we heard similar threats that have failed to deter Putin and his thugs from doing what they wanted?</p>
<p>A fair diplomatic solution that avoids the specter of civil war and further Russian military intervention would be the most desirable outcome, if it respects Ukraine’s sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity. However, we must recognize the sad truth that American weakness under President Obama has created power vacuums, emboldening bad actors such as Putin and making the world a more chaotic place. Obama created the vacuum for Russia to fill in the first place when, in 2009, he inexplicably reversed President George W. Bush&#8217;s decision to locate ballistic missile defense installations in Poland and the Czech Republic without getting anything in return. The “reset” with Russia would follow, leading Putin to size up Obama as an all talk, no action adversary. Obama’s abandonment of red lines and vacuous warnings of serious consequences in response to prior Russian provocations and aggression only served to confirm Putin’s initial impression. In short, the inexperienced community organizer has had little chance against the former KGB officer from the first time they dealt with each other.</p>
<p>In Ukraine, Putin has used the threat of force and the creation of favorable conditions for pro-Russian separatists on the ground as leverage to extract significant concessions. His strategy is a variant of the maxim by Carl von Clausewitz, the Prussian general and influential military theorist: “War is merely the continuation of policy by other means.”</p>
<p>The concessions involve the Ukrainian government acceding to constitutional reforms on Russian terms. Yulia Tymoshenko, twice prime minister of Ukraine and a former political prisoner who is a candidate for president in the May 25<sup>th</sup> election, described Putin’s preferred endgame in stark terms:</p>
<blockquote><p>Putin’s gambit is akin to the infamous Yalta Conference in 1945, where Joseph Stalin made Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt complicit in a division of Europe that enslaved half of the continent for almost a half-century. Today, Putin is seeking to make the West complicit in the dismemberment of Ukraine by negotiating a Kremlin-designed federal constitution that would create a dozen Crimeas — bite-size chunks that Russia could devour more easily later.</p></blockquote>
<p>Referring to Putin’s past proposal for a diplomatic solution, which remains his minimum ask price to resolve the crisis, Tymoshenko suggested looking at “the Russian proposal’s fine print: Ukraine’s new federal units would have a powerful say over ‘Ukraine’s foreign-policy direction.’ That provision would enable Putin to try to coerce and manipulate Russian-speaking regions into vetoing the country’s European future.”</p>
<p>Hopefully, when all is said and done, a diplomatic solution that preserves Ukraine’s sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity will take hold. But just in case diplomacy does not succeed, is it too much to hope that President Obama has a Plan B, such as imposing major sector-wide sanctions that could cripple Russia’s economy and plans to install missile defense systems in Poland, the Czech Republic and even the Baltic states to give Putin something to really worry about? Perhaps when pigs fly.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2014 04:10:41 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Hassan-Rouhani.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-223148" alt="Hassan-Rouhani" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Hassan-Rouhani-450x345.jpg" width="315" height="241" /></a>This week, top Iranian officials, including deputy foreign minister for Arab and African affairs Hossein Amir Abdollahian, pointed out that their assistance and aid to the Assad government is solely humanitarian and based on good will.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Iranian official state media made international news, which spread in the liberal mainstream media, by announcing that the Islamic Republic of Iran has delivered 30,000 tons of food supplies to Syria on Tuesday in order to assist the Syrian government in dealing with its food shortages created by the internal conflict, terrorism, and civil war.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Abdollahian insisted and emphasized that the Islamic Republic’s assistance to Syria is only restricted to humanitarian aid and goods such as medicine and food. He continued that the Islamic Republic is not involved in other military actions.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The double standards, hypocrisy, mendacity, and duplicity of the ruling clerics, Ayatollahs, and Iranian regime have been profoundly manifested in the actual geopolitical, economic, and geostrategic position they have taken on the Assad regime. Although the Obama administration has been incompetent and weak, with no particular foreign policy agenda towards Syria, the Ayatollahs have been very determined and clear about their stance towards Assad’s regime through their military, economic, advisory, intelligence support and their thousands of troops on the ground.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Recently, Tehran extended a $3.6 billion credit line to Damascus. The credit line enables Damascus to buy oil products from Tehran and assist in shoring up Syrian currency (Pound), which has significantly devalued in the last two years.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">First of all, the Islamic Republic has been instrumental in preventing the Syrian government’s economy from collapsing.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Assad’s government lost its daily revenue of approximately 7 millions dollar from oil exports after the US and European countries banned oil exports from Damascus. Moreover, Damascus lost an estimated 7 billion dollars in revenue a year from tourism. Before the conflict, Syria had the capability of producing most of its domestic food necessities as well as exporting wheat. Nevertheless, according to the U.N. World Food Program (WFP), Syria will hit a record low this year by producing 1.7 to 2 million tons of wheat. Iran’s economic support is not only pivotal in sustaining the economic status of Assad, but also in assisting the regime to pay for its army, militia groups, and intelligence forces.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In addition to the extension of billions of dollars in credit and economic assistance, the Islamic Republic has been playing a crucial function, through its proxy Hezbollah as well as the Quds Forces— a special forces unit of Iran&#8217;s Revolutionary Guards Corps— to provide military, intelligence, geopolitical, strategic and advisory aid and backing to ensure that Assad’s government will retain its power for over the last three years of conflict. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Iran’s Islamist proxy and ally, Hezbollah with the leadership of Hassan Nasrallah, as well as other militia groups have been sent by the Iranian regime, ruling cleric and Ayatollahs to wage street warfare and assist al-Assad.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Iranian Ayatollahs, who claim that Islam is the only true value supporting human rights and that the Islamist state is the only legitimate power system to fulfill this mission, have been providing the required military capabilities, training, intelligence and financial means for the Assad regime to continue the crack down, bombardment and violence.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">According to the United Nations, the official documented numbers reveal that more than 150,000 people have been killed. In this, history’s most-documented manmade disaster, nine million Syrian civilians, roughly 42 percent of the population, have been forced out of their homes, according to the UN. This would be an equivalent of 132 million people in the United States being driven out of their houses. Among the refugees, an estimated number 1.3 millions are children, half a million less than the age of 6, where 90 percent do not have access to education and basic needs.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">With the assistance of the Ayatollahs and Iranian leaders, and with their direct military interventionist policies, intelligence, sophisticated training, economic and advisory aid, the Syrian regime has recently intensified its bombardment of neighborhoods with missiles, heavy artillery, tanks, chemical weapons, poisonous gas, and explosive barrels.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">With the backing and aid of the Islamist regime of Iran and with the direct interventionist policies of the Ayatollahs, approximately 700,000 homes have been ruined, unemployment reached 50 percent according to the Damascus-based Syrian Center for Policy Research, and approximately 50 percent of Syria’s hospitals damaged. Thousands of people have been dying from malnutrition impacts and easily preventable disease causes. According to the United Nations Children&#8217;s Fund (Unicef), 5.5 million children need urgent aid. Approximately one fifth of young girls are forced into marriage in neighboring Islamic countries.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">This week, High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay briefed the U.N. Security Council and called for the opening of a case in International Criminal Court (ICC) for prosecuting war criminals in Syria.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The UN Security Council will have to unanimously vote for approval and referral of the case to the ICC, but it goes without saying that Russia and China will veto the referral and will shield the Syrian regime.  If the referral passes though, Iranian officials, who have been instrumental in preserving and ratcheting up the ongoing violence by keeping Assad in power through their continued aid, should be held responsible in the International Criminal Court as well. Without the Islamist regime of Iran, Assad would not have been capable of keeping power so long and the war would have not been ratcheted up to this level with this heartbreaking record of human rights violations.</span></p>
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		<title>Netanyahu at UN: Stop Iran &#8212;- or We Will</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Oct 2013 04:48:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Substituting reality for “charm.”]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/net5.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-205968" alt="net5" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/net5-450x300.jpg" width="315" height="210" /></a>In his speech to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu provided a dose of much-needed realism and clarity on the Iranian nuclear issue.</p>
<p>After some rhetorical flourishes about Jewish history, Netanyahu began with the “charmer,” Iranian president Hassan Rouhani. Why a poker-faced Holocaust denier was found charming by so many people is a good question, but charming they found him, and there probably wasn’t a single mainstream news outlet that didn’t call President Obama’s brief phone chat with him “historic.”</p>
<p>So Netanyahu reviewed some hard facts about Rouhani that reality-oriented commentators have been noting for a few months now. In the past he was a sinister terror chief, head of Iran’s National Security Council in the years of the Buenos Aires bombing and the Khobar Towers bombing, which killed 85 mostly Jewish civilians and 19 American servicemen, respectively.</p>
<p>He’s also a seasoned con man, proud of having duped the West in the past on Iran’s nuclear program. “While we were talking to the Europeans in Tehran, we were installing equipment in Isfahan,” Rouhani wrote in 2011 about his 2003-2005 stint as Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator—Isfahan, as Netanyahu clarified, being the facility where Iran turns uranium ore into uranium for the bombs it will soon be producing en masse unless something is done about it.</p>
<p>Still more material on Rouhani has surfaced in an <a href="http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/who-is-hassan-rouhani">overview</a> by Steven Ditto of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. It turns out, for instance, that Rouhani blamed 9/11 on the “wrongs and mistakes of American policies,” and said Flight 93, which crashed in Pennsylvania, was “shot down by the U.S. Air Force.”</p>
<p>Anyone still charmed by the charmer is, well, determined to be charmed no matter what.</p>
<p>If the “charm offensive” is, then, a transparent fraud, and Iran remains, as Netanyahu put it, a “fanatic regime” that keeps building ICBMS that will be able to reach the U.S., rapidly amassing stockpiles of both 3-percent and 20-percent enriched uranium, and adding thousands of new centrifuges including advanced ones—does much-vaunted diplomacy still have any role to play?</p>
<p>Netanyahu said it did, but said diplomacy would have to “require Iran to do four things” that are, unfortunately, unimaginable:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>First, cease all uranium enrichment…. Second, remove from Iran’s territory the stockpiles of enriched uranium. Third, dismantle the infrastructure for nuclear breakout capability, including the underground facility at Qom and the advanced centrifuges in Natanz.</i></p>
<p><i>And, four, stop all work at the heavy water reactor in </i><i>Arak aimed at the production of plutonium. These steps would put an end to Iran’s nuclear weapons program and eliminate its breakout capability. </i></p></blockquote>
<p>They would, but getting Iran to go through with them would, of course, require a very tough and resolute leader of the West. “Tough and resolute” are words no one would have applied to Obama’s foreign policy even before the Syrian debacle, even less after he allowed himself to be played by Russian president Vladimir Putin on the world stage.</p>
<p>In spelling out what shape successful diplomacy would have to take, however, Netanyahu sought to convey two things: that Israel does not oppose diplomacy in principle, in fact would prefer it if it could succeed; and that Israel will not settle for a sham diplomatic “solution” that leaves enough of Iran’s nuclear facilities in place that it will stay on its path toward the bomb.</p>
<p>And if Iran’s program is left standing, Israel, Netanyahu said toward the end of the talk,</p>
<blockquote><p><i>will never acquiesce to nuclear arms in the hands of a rogue regime that repeatedly promises to wipe us off the map. Against such a threat, Israel will have no choice but to defend itself. </i></p>
<p><i>I want there to be no confusion on this point. Israel will not allow Iran to get nuclear weapons….</i></p></blockquote>
<p>Netanyahu gave his talk on a day when <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4435193,00.html">the <i>New York Times</i> and others were reporting</a> that the sanctions are taking a very serious toll on Iran’s economy; as he put it, “the international community has Iran on the ropes.” Netanyahu can take the credit for finally getting the West to relate seriously to the problem and make Iran pay a price for its blatant defiance of Security Council resolutions meant to curb its nuclear program. Netanyahu cannot, however, rest easy with the thought that a Ronald Reagan is now in the White House who would know how to exploit the situation and bring a totalitarian enemy to its knees.</p>
<p>Not surprisingly, since it would be impolitic especially on U.S. soil, Netanyahu did not raise the possibility of a U.S. strike on Iran. Whether or not he believes such a possibility exists is a function of his hours of talks with Obama and the impression he derives from them. Again, it seems unlikely that Netanyahu puts much stock in such an outcome.</p>
<p>If, then, all else fails, will Israel indeed take matters in its own hands? Given the depth of Netanyahu’s identification with Jewish history and the power of his sense of responsibility, the working assumption should be that it will.</p>
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		<title>Unilateralism, Obama-Style</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Aug 2013 04:18:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Left's romance with international consensus suddenly dissipates. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/afp-516123548-4_3.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-202257" alt="afp-516123548-4_3" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/afp-516123548-4_3-450x337.jpg" width="315" height="236" /></a>The United Nations Chemical Weapons Team led by Swedish Professor Sellstrom has decided for security reasons to postpone for at least a day any further visits to the locations of the most recent alleged chemical weapons attack in the Damascus suburbs last week. It came under sniper fire on August 26<sup>th</sup> as it tried to enter the affected area, but team members were able to take some samples, visit two hospitals and interview survivors, eyewitnesses and doctors in the western district of Muadhamiya.</p>
<p>In a statement issued on August 27th, the UN Secretary General’s Spokesperson Office said the following:</p>
<blockquote><p>Following yesterday&#8217;s attack on the UN convoy, a comprehensive assessment determined that the visit should be postponed by one day in order to improve preparedness and safety for the team.  Considering the complexities of the site, confirmation of access has not been obtained but is expected later today.</p></blockquote>
<p>Secretary of State John Kerry, meanwhile, all but declared the UN expert team’s investigation irrelevant. He claimed during a news briefing, without citing any concrete evidence, that the Assad regime’s use of chemical weapons in the August 21<sup>st</sup> attack against opposition strongholds is now “undeniable.” He dismissed out of hand the distinct possibility that Islamist elements of the opposition forces, which include al Qaeda affiliates, could have launched the chemical weapons attack themselves with weapons they were able to obtain, and staged it to look like an attack by the Syrian government. Black and white, pre-determined assumptions are driving Obama administration policy, not hard evidence.</p>
<p>Accordingly, the Obama administration, under increasing pressure from the United Kingdom, France, Turkey, and hawkish members of Congress to take military action, is poised to launch a missile strike against the Assad regime. According to Reuters, “Western powers told the Syrian opposition to expect a strike against President Bashar al-Assad&#8217;s forces within days.”</p>
<p>With four destroyers already in the eastern Mediterranean Sea within striking distance of Syria and with warplanes in the region as well, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel pronounced the U.S. military “ready to go&#8221; if and when President Obama gives the order to proceed.</p>
<p>Obama has little room to avoid a military confrontation, having backed himself into a corner by declaring a red line last year on the use of chemical weapons and doing nothing about it until now. The problem is that Obama has no clear strategy in the Middle East to align U.S. interests with the least unfavorable outcome, since we can expect no real positive outcome in that part of the world no matter what we do – only a choice between the lesser of two evils. It is true that even a couple of days of missile attacks on weapons arsenals, aircraft, command and control centers, and other military facilities that the Obama administration may now be contemplating can weaken some of Assad’s military advantage. This may create some space for the opposition forces to regroup and regain some momentum in the fighting that it has lost in recent weeks. However, such limited-scope use of force will have no major strategic effect, especially with both sides to the conflict knowing that the Obama administration has no appetite for wider and more sustained military involvement. And helping the opposition means helping the al Qaeda affiliates and other Sunni jihadist groups that are fighting to replace the Assad regime with an Islamist state. A decisive victory by such Islamist forces would be even worse for the United States than the status quo.</p>
<p>The best we can hope for in terms of U.S. national interests is to help create the conditions for a stalemate, which draws Iran and Hezbollah even further into the Syrian conflict on one side and al Qaeda and other Sunni jihadists on the other side. It works to our advantage by having these terrorists fight each other to the death, but it will likely be at the cost of many more innocent lives as well.</p>
<p>Ironically, if Obama does proceed militarily as planned, he will be doing so without the imprimatur of the United Nations Security Council, whose authority under international law to legitimize the use of outside military force against a member state Obama has stressed in the past. This appearance of double standards by the United States is a problem of Obama’s own making. He has relied too much previously on the UN’s capacity to deal with issues affecting international peace and security, even those on which geopolitical rivalries and colliding national interests prevent a consensus necessary for the Security Council to act.</p>
<p>The result of Obama’s decision to operate outside the auspices of the UN this time will be to hand Russia and China cheap propaganda points, as one or both countries will be likely to demand an emergency session of the Security Council to protest what they will no doubt denounce as naked aggression. Any chance for the Geneva II peace conference that Kerry has labored to set up with his Russian counterpart, for the purpose of bringing Syrian government and opposition leaders to the table to negotiate a political solution, will be greatly diminished in the near term.</p>
<p>&#8220;Attempts to bypass the Security Council, once again to create artificial groundless excuses for a military intervention in the region are fraught with new suffering in Syria and catastrophic consequences for other countries of the Middle East and North Africa,&#8221; Russian foreign ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said in a statement.</p>
<p>There is no good outcome that can be expected to emerge from the Syrian conflict. However, President Obama should at least avoid making things worse, which requires a well thought-out strategy for the entire Middle East region that is sorely lacking at present.</p>
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		<title>A Tyranny&#8217;s Madness</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jun 2013 04:10:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[North Korean UN envoy blames the United States for all his country's problems. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/sinafp.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-194217" alt="sinafp" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/sinafp-450x276.jpg" width="270" height="166" /></a>At a news conference held on June 21st at United Nations headquarters in New York,  UN Ambassador Sin Son Ho of the Democratic People&#8217;s Republic of Korea (referred to in short as North Korea or DPRK) accused the United States of being &#8220;entirely responsible for the ever-worsening situation on the Korean Peninsula.&#8221; In his rare appearance before a packed room of reporters, he warned that the &#8220;DPRK will never give up its nuclear deterrent unless the US fundamentally and irreversibly abandons its hostile policy and nuclear threat toward the DPRK.&#8221;</p>
<p>Ambassador Sin Son Ho charged that the United States was using the misnamed &#8220;UN Command,&#8221; which is the unified command structure for the military forces led by the United States that have supported South Korea during and after the Korean War, &#8220;as a tool for an aggressive war&#8221; against North Korea. He repeatedly called for the dissolution of the UN Command, which he said has nothing really to do with the United Nations system. &#8220;The US is dishonoring the United Nations by abusing the name of &#8216;UN Command&#8217; as if the United Nations is a warring party in the Korean War,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Like so, the dignity and fairness of the UN is so much damaged.&#8221;</p>
<p>North Korea&#8217;s ambassador added that the United States was defiantly rejecting his government&#8217;s proposal to replace the 1953 Armistice Agreement with &#8220;a Peace Treaty.&#8221; North Korea, he said, had offered to conduct senior-level talks between North Korea and the United States to pursue North Korea&#8217;s peace proposal. Instead of embracing this offer and agreeing to dissolve its command that was &#8220;abusing&#8221; the UN name, the United States was seeking to transform the UN Command into a multinational force command which, the ambassador declared, &#8220;would serve as a matrix of the Asian version of NATO.&#8221;</p>
<p>Switching from its months of dangerously bellicose military threats against the United States and South Korea, North Korea is now trying to paint itself as the &#8220;peace loving&#8221; victim of U.S. aggressive designs. It is exploiting the platform it has at the United Nations as a member state to lodge its mendacious verbal attacks.</p>
<p>Turning history on its head, Ambassador Sin Son Ho claimed that the Korean War started because South Korea had invaded North Korea. In truth, it was the other way around. North Korea invaded South Korea on June 25, 1950. The UN Security Council responded with several resolutions. These included Resolution 83, recommending that members of the United Nations provide assistance to the Republic of Korea &#8220;to repel the armed attack and to restore international peace and security to the area,&#8221; and Resolution 84, adopted on July 7, 1950, recommending that members providing military forces and other assistance to South Korea &#8220;make such forces and other assistance available to a unified command under the United States of America.&#8221; The military forces of over a dozen member states participated in the war, which were overseen by the United States in a unified command structure that became known as the United Nations Command.</p>
<p>The North Korean ambassador is technically right that the title for the command should be something other than &#8220;United Nations Command,&#8221; since it is not under UN control. But North Korea is not simply looking for a name change to correct false labeling. It wants the force completely dissolved, no matter what name is attached to it. However, since the force is located within South Korea with South Korea&#8217;s full consent, it is South Korea&#8217;s sovereign decision alone whether to continue hosting the U.S.-led forces, whatever their formal title happens to be. North Korea has no more say in this matter than South Korea has in telling North Korea whom it may invite into its sovereign territory. Moreover, North Korea&#8217;s own incredible military build-up, continuous pattern of acts of aggression and threats against South Korea and the United States since the signing of the Armistice Agreement in 1953 render North Korea&#8217;s complaints completely hollow.</p>
<p>Nearly a million North Koreans have starved to death since the 1990s. North Korea has allowed this calamity to happen while it diverts its scare resources to feed its vast military machine. North Korea&#8217;s military expenditures are approximately 22.3% of its gross domestic product. South Korea&#8217;s percentage is approximately 2.8%.</p>
<p>North Korea&#8217;s active military force eclipses in size the combined active forces of South Korea and the United States stationed in South Korea.</p>
<p>North Korea&#8217;s total active duty military personnel strength is approximately 1.2 million. By comparison, South Korea&#8217;s active duty armed forces number nearly 700,000, backed by about 28,500 U.S. troops assigned to South Korea.</p>
<p>There are no nuclear weapons permanently located in South Korea. In fact, President George H. Bush&#8217;s unilateral nuclear disarmament initiative, announced on September 27, 1991, led to a withdrawal of all nuclear weapons from South Korea by December 1991.</p>
<p>North Korea has gone in the opposite direction. Beginning in 2006, it has conducted nuclear bomb tests of increasing power. North Korea has also tested medium and long-range missiles with potential nuclear weapons delivery capabilities.</p>
<p>&#8220;Where in the past, there may have been some ambiguity about what North Korea was seeking to achieve, there is a clear recognition that they are pressing toward a nuclear capability with a potential longer-range delivery,&#8221; Kurt Campbell, the top U.S. diplomat for Asia from 2009 until earlier this year, said at a forum this past May in Seoul.</p>
<p>United States and South Korean attempts at engagement and negotiation have been met with more acceleration of North Korea&#8217;s nuclear and missile programs.</p>
<p>North Korea&#8217;s UN ambassador added to his credibility problems with his preposterous assertion that his country does not have any human rights problem. As Amnesty International more accurately described the situation in North Korea: &#8220;Millions of people in North Korea suffer extreme forms of repression and human rights violations that violate nearly the entire spectrum of their human rights. Hundreds of thousands of people—including children—are arbitrarily held in political prison camps and other detention facilities where they are subjected to human rights violations like forced labour, denial of food as punishment, torture and public executions.&#8221;</p>
<p>Ambassador Sin Son Ho blamed his country&#8217;s economic woes on the imposition of economic sanctions, which he labeled &#8220;the blackmail policy of the United States.&#8221; He failed to acknowledge that China, with whom the ambassador said North Korea still has &#8220;friendly relations,&#8221; co-drafted the latest Security Council sanctions resolution against North Korea which passed unanimously.</p>
<p>In sum, the North Korean ambassador ranted on for over an hour from his UN-provided soapbox with the kind of propaganda, vicious anti-U.S. rhetoric and self-congratulatory praise of his own country&#8217;s supposed peaceful intentions that hearkened back to the dark days of the Cold War.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 04:52:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Secretary of Defense nominee proposed forced two-state solution and troop occupation. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/joseph-klein/chuck-hagels-plan-for-u-s-forces-in-palestine/chuck-hagel-e1361561112940/" rel="attachment wp-att-179040"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-179040" title="Chuck-Hagel-e1361561112940" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Chuck-Hagel-e1361561112940-450x312.jpg" alt="" width="270" height="187" /></a>On the eve of a Senate vote to confirm Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense, <a href="http://www.fmep.org/analysis/analysis/A-Last-Chance-for-a-Two-State-Israel-Palestine-Agreement.pdf">a 2009 report co-authored by Hagel</a> has surfaced titled &#8220;A Last Chance For A Two-State Israel-Palestine Agreement.&#8221; It called for Israel to make &#8220;the hard compromises and painful concessions for peace&#8221; without asking anything comparable from the Palestinian side. Indeed, the report warned against &#8220;the Jewish-American and Christian Zionist groups that feel comfortable amplifying the positions of Israeli politicians hostile to hard compromise and painful concession.&#8221;</p>
<p>One of Hagel&#8217;s principal co-signatories on the report was Zbigniew Brzezinski, who had advised Obama on foreign policy during his first presidential campaign. Brzezinski has been openly hostile to Israel, accusing it of &#8220;brutal repression&#8221; and colonialism among other things &#8211; i.e., the Palestinian party line.</p>
<p>Hagel was obviously not interested in teaming up with an objective analyst, as reflected in the report. Its tone was set when it questioned the historic &#8220;intimacy of the American-Israeli relationship,&#8221; which it said is presenting &#8220;policy and security challenges for the U.S. in the Middle East and beyond.&#8221;</p>
<p>The principal painful concession recommended in the report was a two-state solution that would result in Israel having to retreat largely behind the indefensible pre-June1967 lines, with minor land swaps.  President Obama&#8217;s own proposal for a two-state solution mirrored this recommendation.</p>
<p>The report also endorsed a Jerusalem divided into two national capitals &#8220;with Jewish neighborhoods falling under Israeli sovereignty and Arab neighborhoods under Palestinian sovereignty.&#8221; The reality on the ground, however, is that there is no such strict separation of populations all over Jerusalem. Rather there are some mixed Arab-Jewish neighborhoods. Many Jerusalem-area Arabs also would not want to give up so easily the benefits of living under Israeli sovereignty, such as superior health care, social security and better access to jobs.</p>
<p>Christian holy places would be administered by Palestine, a dubious proposition considering the experience in Palestinian-administered Bethlehem where Christians were a majority in 1990 and constitute only 15% of the population today. Christians there found the same type of conditions that Christians in Egypt, Iraq, Libya and other Muslim-controlled countries and regions have encountered &#8211; beatings, Palestinian occupation of churches, discrimination and other forms of intimidation. The one safe haven for Christians in the Middle East turns out to be Israel, where the Christian population has grown nearly five-fold since Israel gained its independence in 1948.</p>
<p>The report envisions a non-militarized Palestinian state for at least a transitional period, which has about as much chance of succeeding as the failed plan for disarming Hezbollah and other militias in Lebanon.</p>
<p>Who would enforce an imposed two state solution according to the recommendations signed off by Hagel? A &#8220;U.S.-led multinational force&#8221; which would be &#8220;under a UN mandate&#8221; and &#8220;feature American leadership of a NATO force supplemented by Jordanians, Egyptians and Israelis.&#8221; Jerusalem would have &#8220;a special security and administrative regime of its own.&#8221;</p>
<p>A NATO researcher estimated that about 60,000 US/NATO troops and about 160 billion dollars over 10 years would be required to carry out this UN mandate.</p>
<p>Moreover, our troops would be sitting ducks for the kind of terrorist attacks that have killed thousands of American soldiers in Iraq, Afghanistan and Lebanon. And if the report&#8217;s recommendation to include Jordanian and Egyptian soldiers in the U.S.-led multi-national force is followed, there is a risk of jihadists committing acts of terrorism from the inside as we have seen all too often in Afghanistan.  The last thing we need to do is engage in another long nation-building exercise that Islamists will propagandize as a Western crusader occupation and use to recruit more foot soldiers for jihad.</p>
<p>In providing a thumb-nail revisionist history of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict by way of background, the report highlighted the &#8220;considerable and ongoing Palestinian suffering&#8221; that accompanied &#8220;the creation and sustaining of a democratic Jewish State in the wake of the Holocaust.&#8221; This buys into the Palestinian victimhood narrative that they were innocents forced to pay a heavy price for a European event in which they had no part.  The truth is that the Palestinian leadership and its Arab neighbors threw away the chance for an independent Palestinian state which they could have had for the last sixty-four years. Moreover, the Palestinians under the leadership of such men as Haj Mohammed Effendi Amin el-Husseini collaborated with Nazi Germany. They ended up on the losing side, but still could have had their own state, living side by side in peaceful co-existence with Israel, if it weren&#8217;t for their determination to destroy the Jewish state from its inception.</p>
<p>Hamas maintains the same rejectionist stance today, but the report bearing Hagel&#8217;s name recommended U.S. engagement with the jihadist terrorist organization:</p>
<blockquote><p>In brief, shift the U.S. objective from ousting Hamas to modifying its behavior, offer it inducements that will enable its more moderate elements to prevail, and cease discouraging third parties from engaging with Hamas in ways that might help clarify the movement’s views and test its behavior.</p></blockquote>
<p>The idea that there are any &#8220;moderate elements&#8221; in Hamas is an oxymoron. Hamas is dedicated to the complete destruction of the Jewish state. This has not changed since the enactment of Hamas&#8217;s founding charter, which remains in effect.</p>
<p>Last December, for example, Hamas political leader Khaled Mashaal stated:</p>
<p>”We are not giving up any inch of Palestine. It will remain Islamic and Arab for us and nobody else. Jihad and armed resistance is the only way. We cannot recognize Israel’s legitimacy. From the sea to the river, from north to south, we will not give up any part of Palestine — it is our country, our right and our homeland.”</p>
<p>So much for engaging Hamas on the contours of a two-state solution.</p>
<p>In 2011, Hamas&#8217;s former minister of &#8220;culture,&#8221; Atallah Abu Al-Subh, called Jews &#8220;the most despicable and contemptible nation to crawl upon the face of the earth.&#8221;</p>
<p>Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense will be in a position to push the disastrous recommendations of the report he co-authored. It would not take much to convince Obama that they are worth trying, particularly if the UN puts its stamp of approval on the plan and it is conducted under the UN&#8217;s auspices. Any Senator foolish enough to confirm Chuck Hagel, given his demonstrated incompetence, will also have to explain to U.S. soldiers put in harm&#8217;s way if the recommendations endorsed by Hagel move forward.</p>
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		<title>The United Nations&#8217; Year-End Message to Israel</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2012 04:50:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Klein]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/joseph-klein/the-united-nations-year-end-message-to-israel/moon-8/" rel="attachment wp-att-170494"><img class=" wp-image-170494 alignleft" title="moon" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/moon.jpg" alt="" width="315" height="210" /></a>United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon devoted part of his year-end press conference on December 19th to bashing Israel for its announcement of plans to build new housing in and around Jerusalem. He claimed that the Israeli announcement was a &#8220;near fatal blow to a very fragile Middle East peace process.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I am deeply concerned by heightened settlement activity in the West Bank, in particular around Jerusalem,&#8221; the Secretary General complained.  &#8220;This gravely threatens efforts to establish a viable Palestinian state.&#8221;</p>
<p>A Palestinian reporter asked the Secretary General whether he would support Palestinian efforts to join the International Criminal Court and pursue criminal charges against Israel to stop settlement activities. While not answering the question directly, he said that Israel&#8217;s settlement activity was &#8220;clearly a violation of international law&#8221; and that &#8220;with the enhanced status of the Palestinian Authority in the General Assembly [with] non-member observer status, I think they have the right to sign the Rome Statute, but it is up to the Palestinian authorities.&#8221;</p>
<p>Adding insult to injury, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said that Israel should risk its own security by opening its borders to more than 100,000 Palestinians fleeing a refugee camp in Syria that had come under attack, so that they can safely reach the West Bank and Gaza by transiting Israel.</p>
<p>On the same day that Ban Ki-moon was putting Israel through the wringer, France led a chorus of members of the UN Security Council also condemning Israel for building more housing for its residents in Jerusalem.</p>
<p>Israel’s UN Ambassador Ron Prosor countered, in remarks to the press after the Security Council met to discuss the Israeli housing announcement among other issues, that the real obstacles to peace remain &#8220;the Palestinians&#8217; quest for the so-called &#8216;claim of return&#8217;, terrorism, and Palestinian incitement.&#8221;</p>
<p>There is no credible Palestinian leadership willing and able to stop jihadist terrorism against Israeli civilians. There is no credible Palestinian leadership willing and able to end the extreme anti-Semitic indoctrination so pervasive in Palestinian society, which nurtures a culture of hatred and incitement to violence.  The so-called &#8220;moderate&#8221; Palestinian leadership under Palestinian Authority President Abbas &#8211; feckless at best, malevolent at worst &#8211; is the real reason that the peace process is in a deep freeze. Israeli housing construction is nothing more than a convenient excuse for the international community to use in irresponsibly transferring the blame to Israel.</p>
<p>Indeed, Ambassador Prosor might have added the United Nations itself to his list of real obstacles to peace. Last month&#8217;s General Assembly resolution created the illusion of Palestinian statehood by upgrading their status at the UN to an observer state, with borders based on the lines in effect before Israel&#8217;s victory in the June 1967 Six Days War.  On Dec. 17th, the UN&#8217;s head of official protocol wrote to the Palestinian delegation informing them that as a result of the General Assembly&#8217;s vote &#8220;the designation of &#8216;State of Palestine&#8217; shall be used by the Secretariat in all official United Nations documents.&#8221;</p>
<p>The General Assembly became a tool in the Palestinians&#8217; hands to &#8220;legislate&#8221; their claim to state recognition within the borders that the Palestinians unilaterally defined, in direct violation of the Oslo Accords signed by Israeli and the Palestinian representatives. The Oslo Accords had called for direct &#8220;permanent status&#8221; negotiations between the parties on the issues of &#8220;Jerusalem, refugees, settlements, security arrangements, borders, relations and cooperation with other neighbors, and other issues of common interest.&#8221;  Using the UN to decide these issues by fiat is anything but direct negotiations.</p>
<p>The Oslo Accords were intended to help implement the objectives of UN Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338, which called for the peaceful resolution of the Arab-Israeli conflict through territorial compromise. The framers of these Security Council resolutions realized that the pre- June 1967 borders were indefensible.</p>
<p>Under the Oslo Accords, both borders and settlements were identified as negotiable issues.  Jerusalem was referred to as one whole city &#8211; not artificially divided into eastern and western parts that would become the capitals of two separate states.</p>
<p>When the General Assembly adopted the Palestinian observer state upgrade resolution, it put its weight clearly on the side of the Palestinians&#8217; unilateral position on the borders issue.  It also endorsed the Palestinians&#8217; claim to &#8220;East Jerusalem,&#8221; which in reality is nothing more than a geographical designation of the portion of the city of Jerusalem that Jordan illegally seized and annexed as a result of its illegal war aimed at destroying the new state of Israel in 1948. It is a complete distortion of international law to claim that the Palestinians are rightful heirs to the old portion of Jerusalem with its holy sites, which Jordan illegally seized in the first place and then proceeded to desecrate.</p>
<p>Israel responded legitimately to the General Assembly&#8217;s interference in the direct negotiations process by affirming its inherent right to expand housing within existing Jewish residential communities in Jerusalem and to begin longer term planning for possible residential development in an area contiguous with Jerusalem. There is no basis under international law to support the claim that Jews cannot live wherever they choose in and around Jerusalem and build the housing they need in order to do so.  Yet the international community was outraged, as evidenced in the condemnations on December 19th by the UN Secretary General and all members of the Security Council except the United States.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the critics of building more housing for Israeli residents in their own city look the other way as Hamas threatens Israel with extinction while re-arming and Hezbollah has amassed at least 50,000 deadly missiles in Lebanon with likely access to Syria&#8217;s chemical and germ weapons of mass destruction.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2012 04:55:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Spencer]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Morsi-Ahmadinejad1.png"><img class="size-full wp-image-145868 alignleft" title="Morsi-Ahmadinejad1" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Morsi-Ahmadinejad1.png" alt="" width="340" height="245" /></a>Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Mohammed Morsi, arguably the foremost exponents today of Sharia rule, both spoke at the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday, and their speeches together amounted to an Islamic supremacist wish list for the world.</p>
<p>The foremost item on their list, not surprisingly, was the destruction of Israel, although both knew better in the glare of international media than to state their aspirations quite so baldly.</p>
<p>Ahmadinejad drenched his address in Islamic piety, beginning with a traditional Islamic invocation: “In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful. All Praise Belongs to Allah, the Lord of the Worlds, and May Peace and Blessings be upon the Greatest and Trustworthy Prophet and His Pure Progeny, His Chosen Companions, and upon all Divine Messengers. Oh, God, Hasten the Emergence of Your Chosen Beloved, Grant Him Good Health and Victory, Make us His Best Companions, and all those who attest to His Rightfulness.” And then: “I thank the Almighty God for having once more the chance to participate in this meeting. We have gathered here to ponder and work together for building a better life for the entire human community and for our nations.”</p>
<p>And how can we work together for building a better life? Ahmadinejad ticked off a list of things that he posited had interfered with international brotherhood and harmony, including “egoism, distrust, malicious behaviors, and dictatorships,” as well as the Dark Ages and the Crusades (although he didn’t mention the centuries of murderous jihad warfare all over the globe).</p>
<p>His list culminated with his principal bogeys, the chief things he believed interfered with global peace: “the occupation of Palestine and imposition of a fake government”; Saddam Hussein’s “invasion” of Iran; 9/11 and the subsequent U.S. military actions in Iraq and Afghanistan; and a host of others. Among them, he complained about the supposed denial of “the right to criticize the hegemonic policies and actions of the world Zionism.” It was hard not to wonder at such moments in his speech what planet he was on, since the Palestinian jihadist propaganda machine has had such success in demonizing Israel in the world media; but of course a linchpin of that success has been to complain that the situation is exactly the opposite, and so that is what Ahmadinejad did in New York Wednesday.</p>
<p>In a speech that was heavy on Islamic proselytizing, after his survey of the world’s ills Ahmadinejad asked: “Does anybody believe that continuation of the current order is capable of bringing happiness for human society?” And further: “Who is responsible for all these sufferings and failures?” He left that question unanswered at that point, although at another point he railed against the “uncivilized Zionists,” and he went on to delineate his prescription: “There is no doubt that the world is in need of a new order and a fresh way of thinking.” Foremost this would be “an order in which man is recognized as God&#8217;s Supreme Creature, enjoying material and spiritual qualities and possessing a pure and divine nature filled with a desire to seek justice and truth.” Consequently he called upon the nations to “place our trust in God Almighty and stand against the acquisitive minority” – in other words, to adopt Sharia and stand against Israel.</p>
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		<title>When Israel Had a Champion at the UN</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2012 04:53:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Collier]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kirkpatrick defended Israel with unyielding critique of UN, charging anti-Israel diplomacy "has nothing to do with peace."]]></description>
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<p><strong></strong> <em>Editor&#8217;s note: Peter Collier is the author of the recently published, <em>&#8220;Political Woman: The Big Little Life of Jeane Kirkpatrick</em>&#8221; (<a id="Y7243283S5">Encounter</a> Books, 2012). To order it,<a href="https://secure.donationreport.com/productattribute.html?productId=6329"> click here</a>.</em></p>
<p>Jeane Kirkpatrick experienced an epiphany shortly after Ronald Reagan appointed her America’s permanent representative at the UN in 1981 when Israel’s ambassador Yehuda Blum came to her office for his first official visit.</p>
<p>She had been appalled during the previous four years by what she regarded as the Carter administration’s contemptuous attitude toward the Jewish state, and particularly by the way that preceding UN ambassadors Andrew <a id="Y7243283S6">Young</a> and Donald McHenry had, respectively, criticized the Jewish state as “stubborn and intransigent” (and met secretly with the PLO representative), and voted for Resolution 465 condemning Israel’s occupation of “Arab territories including Jerusalem.”</p>
<p>But she didn’t realize how deeply these attitudes had penetrated the US mission until she saw the way the <a id="_GPLITA_1" title="Powered by Text-Enhance" href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=271929#">career</a> foreign service officers she inherited from the previous administration dismissively referred to Blum by his first name and rudely interrupted him on this first visit. She sternly pointed out to them that Blum was a Holocaust <a id="Y7243283S1">survivor</a> who spoke nine languages, and angrily ordered them out of the room.</p>
<p>“You can see what it has been like for Israel here,” Blum told her after they sat down. Kirkpatrick replied, “It will be different now. No one will be treated better in this mission than Israel.”</p>
<p>And this was true. She and Blum cooperated on several initiatives and often escaped with key <a id="AdBriteInlineAd_staff" name="AdBriteInlineAd_staff" target="_top"></a>staff members for private strategy dinners at a small restaurant in Brooklyn they both favored. The personal relationship was political for Kirkpatrick. Seeing the hatred of Israel in her first days at the UN, she told her colleague Richard Schifter with a stricken look on her <a id="Y7243283S8">face</a>, “I think the Holocaust is possible again. I didn’t think so before I came to the UN, but I think so now.”</p>
<p>She brought this feeling to president Reagan who agreed with her that the US had to stand against “the obsessive vilification of Israel.” Along with preventing the spread of Marxism-Leninism in Central America and driving a stake through the heart of the Soviet Union, this became Kirkpatrick’s chief objective during her time at the UN.</p>
<p>After the bombing of Iraq’s Osirak nuclear reactor in 1981, she argued strenuously that the US should simply abstain from the resolution advanced by Iraq after the attack <a id="AdBriteInlineAd_calling" name="AdBriteInlineAd_calling" target="_top"></a>calling for sanctions against Israel but was overruled by the State Department.</p>
<p>She then worked behind the scenes to get the resolution watered down to a condemnation and made her feelings known when even this question was called by raising her <a id="AdBriteInlineAd_hand" name="AdBriteInlineAd_hand" target="_top"></a>hand reluctantly to half mast and allowing a look to cross her face of someone who has just detected a fecal odor in the room.</p>
<p>Kirkpatrick defended Israel by her unyielding critique of what it faced at the UN. Charging that diplomacy regarding the “Arab- Israeli conflict” at the world body “has nothing to do with peace, but is quite simply a continuation of war against Israel by other means,” she said that the UN, as a result, had become a place where “moral outrage was distributed like violence in a protection racket”; a place where Israel is regularly and routinely attacked for manufactured crimes amidst deafening silence “when 3 <a id="_GPLITA_0" title="Powered by Text-Enhance" href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=271929#">million</a> Cambodians died in Pol Pot’s murderous utopia&#8230; when a quarter million Ugandans died at the <a id="AdBriteInlineAd_hands" name="AdBriteInlineAd_hands" target="_top"></a>hands of Idi Amin&#8230; and when thousand of Soviet citizens are denied equal rights, equal protection of the law; denied the right to think, write, publish, work freely or emigrate.”</p>
<p>She pointed out repeatedly that hatred of Israel deformed all aspects of UN operations: “A women’s conference is suddenly transformed into a forum for the denunciation of Israel” because of assertions that “the biggest obstacle to the realizations of women’s full enjoyment of equal rights in the world is Zionism&#8230;.A meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency becomes so absorbed in negotiations and debate over a resolution to expel Israel that it almost forgets to worry about nuclear <a id="Y7243283S7">non</a> proliferation.”</p>
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		<title>Teaching Your Child to be a Dictator&#8217;s Lackey</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 04:06:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Model UN in the classroom promotes UN rule over America.]]></description>
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<p>Imagine your child&#8217;s school teaching him how wonderful dictatorships are by having him and his friends model their very own group of dictatorships as part of their education. Like so many other Orwellian nightmares in the American educational system, this one is very real and takes place through the Model UN program.</p>
<p>The Model UN program teaches American students that global government is better than national government and that the corrupt kleptocracy on Turtle Bay is the ideal state of mankind. Finally it trains them to put American presidents on trial for violating United Nations laws.</p>
<p><a href="http://bestdelegate.com/model-un-conferences-database/#high-school-north-america">Twenty-two Model UN events </a>are scheduled to take place in November alone and many more are set to follow month after month throughout the school year as the advocates of global government exploit the school system to indoctrinate a new generation in their roles as servants of the conclave of totalitarian regimes.</p>
<p>The Model UN program teaches students to act out roles as representatives of different UN nations, but its real goal is to teach them to reject American exceptionalism in favor of multilateralism by convincing them that countries vary in interests, not in character, and that the People&#8217;s Republic of China and Saudi Arabia are no different than the United States in their legitimacy or their form of government.</p>
<p>The great lie that the United Nations was built on is that the voices of all nations are equally valid, regardless if they are banana republics, brutal Islamic theocracies, Communist tyrannies or nations with free and open elections that offer human rights to all. The United Nations is a democracy, but it is <a href="../2011/09/23/10-reasons-to-abolish-the-un-1-2-1/">a democracy of dictatorships</a>.</p>
<p>The vast majority of the world&#8217;s population lives in the thrall of tyrannies and the Model UN program models the farce that this great collective of the oppressed is legitimately represented by the lackeys of tyrants who speak in their name under the United Nations flag. There are 26 full democracies to 55 authoritarian regimes with the latter outnumbering the former in population three to one. The average UN representative is not representing a people or a nation, he is there as the personal representative of an Assad, a Kim Jong Il or a Khaddafi.</p>
<p>The <a href="../2011/09/23/10-reasons-to-abolish-the-un-1-2-1/">democracy of dictatorships </a>is why global multilateralism does not work and can never work, but the Model UN program helps embed the lie that it can and should into the growing minds of the leaders of tomorrow.</p>
<p>&#8220;You may be playing a role, but you are also preparing for life,&#8221; UN Secretary General Ki Ban Moon said in an address to the students of a Los Angeles classroom, &#8220;You are acting as global citizens.”</p>
<p>Global citizenship under the auspices of the United Nations is incompatible with American citizenship. It violates the United States Oath of Allegiance which states, &#8220;I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty&#8221; and it sets aside the national sovereignty of the United States and its open system of government in favor of a closed global system ruled by foreign princes and potentates.</p>
<p>What is not taught to students at the Model UN is that while American, Canadian and Australian leaders can be changed through national elections, and they can then recall their representatives, the majority of the UN&#8217;s representatives answer to rulers who cannot be recalled or removed except through revolution, civil war or death. That makes the UN a closed system whose charade of democracy disguises its core undemocratic and unrepresentative nature. Instead students are tricked into admiring its oppressive edifice and acting out their parts in its global tyranny.</p>
<p>The most widespread UN Model program is conducted through the Global Classrooms program of the United Nations Association of the United States of America. The UNA-USA&#8217;s National Council is chaired by none other than former president, Jimmy Carter, who did more than any previous leader to undermine America&#8217;s national sovereignty.</p>
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