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		<title>North Korea&#8217;s War on Sony</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2014 05:24:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Tapson]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why pop culture matters.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/north-korea-kim-jong-un.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247994" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/north-korea-kim-jong-un-450x338.jpg" alt="north-korea-kim-jong-un" width="292" height="219" /></a>If anyone still needs convincing that pop culture matters, that even the frivolous fluff can impact politics and world affairs, here is dramatic evidence: an otherwise unremarkable Hollywood comedy that hasn’t even been released yet has led to the crippling cyber-hacking of a major corporation, threats of 9/11-style terrorism against movie theaters and other targets including the White House, self-censorship by the entertainment industry, and increased tension between the U.S. and North Korea’s already unstable and belligerent Kim Jong Un, each of whom blames the other while a suspiciously quiet China watches from the sidelines. And the fiasco isn’t over yet.</p>
<p>For those who haven’t been following the story, it began in recent weeks when a hacker group calling itself Guardians of Peace cyber-attacked Hollywood’s Sony studios and released thousands of the production company’s private emails and other confidential information like employee Social Security numbers. It’s been devastating in a number of ways, including internal turmoil arising out of embarrassing emails that may end in the sacking of film chairman Amy Pascal – not to mention an estimated $100 million blow to Sony.</p>
<p>The instigation for the hacking seems to be an upcoming Sony comedy called <i>The Interview</i>, starring James Franco and Seth Rogan as talk show hosts who are coerced by the CIA into assassinating tyrant Kim Jong Un during a trip to North Korea to interview him. Kim was not amused by the concept; neither were many progressives who felt that a comedy about killing a head of state was in poor taste and that Sony brought the subsequent hacking upon itself (of course, these are the same people who thought that a 2006 <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-405644/George-Bush-assassination-film-wins-award.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">feature film about the assassination of George W. Bush</span></a> was just dandy). Class action lawsuits from Sony employees who were affected by the cyber attack are <a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/new-lawsuit-claims-sony-s-758443"><span style="color: #0433ff;">gearing up</span></a>, claiming that “Sony knew it was reasonably foreseeable that producing a script about North Korea&#8217;s leader Kim Jong Un would cause a backlash.”</p>
<p>After an investigation, the FBI officially <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2014/12/17/us-government-saw-interview-approved-theaters-upping-security/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">declared</span></a> that North Korea was behind the hacking (while not necessarily originating from inside its borders), which Obama called an act not of war, but of vandalism; he promised a “proportional response.” The totalitarian state took great umbrage at the accusation; it not only denied the attack, it generously offered to help the U.S. ferret out the real culprit, much like O.J. Simpson offered to help find his wife’s killer. The North Korean news media even <a href="https://docs.zoho.com/writer/ropen.do?rid=b6wwvb9f5be98f2b840829a0785b152ed84b9#bookmark="><span style="color: #0433ff;">accused</span></a> the U.S. of “gangster-like behavior” and claimed to have evidence that our government itself was deeply involved in the production of <i>The Interview</i>. “Toughest counteraction will be taken against the White House, the Pentagon and the whole US mainland, the cesspool of terrorism,” threatened a statement from North Korea.</p>
<p>The Guardians of Peace followed up the cyber-attack by issuing a threat of possible terrorist activity against any theaters that dared screen <i>The Interview</i>. “The world will be full of fear,” read their English-challenged message:</p>
<blockquote><p>We will clearly show it to you at the very time and places “The Interview” be shown, including the premiere, how bitter fate those who seek fun in terror should be doomed to. Soon all the world will see what an awful movie Sony Pictures Entertainment has made…</p>
<p>Remember the 11th of September 2001. We recommend you to keep yourself distant from the places at that time. (If your house is nearby, you’d better leave.) Whatever comes in the coming days is called by the greed of Sony Pictures Entertainment. All the world will denounce the SONY.</p></blockquote>
<p>The Department of Homeland Security <a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sony-hack-no-evidence-active-758460"><span style="color: #0433ff;">said</span></a> that there was “no credible intelligence to indicate an active plot against movie theaters within the United States.” But stars Seth Rogan and James Franco <a href="http://variety.com/2014/film/news/seth-rogen-and-james-franco-cancel-all-media-appearances-for-the-interview-1201380917/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">cancelled</span></a> all media appearances in the wake of the controversy. Most theater chains <a href="http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/12/18/theater-chains-opting-not-to-show-the-interview"><span style="color: #0433ff;">opted</span></a> not to show the film, and then Sony <a href="http://variety.com/2014/film/news/sony-has-no-further-release-plans-for-the-interview-1201382167/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">decided</span></a> against releasing <i>The Interview</i> at all in any form — including VOD or DVD.</p>
<p>(This wasn’t the only film shut down by the recent North Korean displeasure. Shooting of actor Steve Carell’s thriller <i>Pyongyang</i>, about a Westerner in North Korea who is accused of espionage, <a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/steve-carells-north-korea-thriller-758901"><span style="color: #0433ff;">has been cancelled</span></a> as well.)</p>
<p>President Obama threw Sony under the bus, claiming that they should have called him first rather than set a bad precedent by backing down to North Korea. (This is the same President whose administration blamed the murder of Ambassador Chris Stevens in Benghazi on an unknown YouTube trailer for an utterly incompetent movie about the life of the Muslim prophet Muhammad. Hillary Clinton <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2012/10/25/father-of-seal-killed-in-benghazi-hillary-told-me-we-will-make-sure-that-the-person-who-made-that-film-is-arrested-and-prosecuted/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">told</span></a> the father of one of the Benghazi victims, “We will make sure that the person who made that film is arrested and prosecuted.”) Sony responded by claiming that it <i>did</i> contact the White House first.</p>
<p>Regardless, human rights activists <a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sony-hack-activists-drop-interview-758529?facebook_20141216"><span style="color: #0433ff;">are planning</span></a> to airlift DVDs of <i>The Interview</i> into Kim country via hydrogen balloons. Fighters for a Free North Korea, run by a former government propagandist who escaped to South Korea, has for years used balloons to get transistor radios, DVDs and other items into North Korea in order to open up the outside world to the news-deprived masses. Thor Halvorssen’s Human Rights Foundation in New York has been helping to finance the balloon drops, and will add DVD copies of <i>The Interview </i>as soon as possible.</p>
<p>Halvorssen says that Hollywood is largely unaware that its movies and TV shows are being used so effectively in this manner. The past dozen or so drops, for example, have included copies of <i>Braveheart</i>, <i>Battlestar Galactica </i>and <i>Desperate Housewives</i>. “Viewing any one of these is a subversive act that could get you executed,” Halvorssen says, “and North Koreans know this, given the public nature of the punishments meted out to those who dare watch entertainment from abroad.” [<a href="http://acculturated.com/freedom-and-the-power-of-pop-culture/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">I have written elsewhere</span></a> about these risks that the freedom-starved North Koreans undertake just to watch a contraband film] “<i>The Interview</i> is tremendously threatening to the Kims,” Halvorssen continues. “They cannot abide by anything that portrays them as anything other than a god. This movie destroys the narrative” – much like the satirical 2004 film <i>Team America: World Police</i> famously lampooned Kim Jong Un’s monstrous father.</p>
<p>While our tabloid news media seem obsessed with the more inconsequential and gossipy aspects of this affair – like the emails in which Sony executives disparage Angelina Jolie’s talent and make racial jokes at Obama’s expense – there are serious ramifications of the cyber-hacking mystery. The entertainment industry as a whole, for example, failed to show a quick and united resistance to the threats of a foreign tyrant. But more significantly, the Guardians of Peace exposed America’s vulnerability to the warfare of the future – cyberwar.</p>
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		<title>The Koran and Eternal War</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2014 05:04:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raymond Ibrahim]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If some Islamic texts are banned for inciting terrorism, what about the Koran?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #202021;"><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Koran-book.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-246203" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Koran-book.jpg" alt="Koran-book" width="308" height="216" /></a>Originally published by </em><em><a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://www.vieinter.com/otherregions/the-quran-and-eternal-war/">VIE.</a></em></p>
<p style="color: #202021;">News recently emerged that Russia was banning key Islamic scriptures—including Sahih Bukhari—on the charge that they promote “exclusivity [supremacism] of one of the world’s religions,” namely Islam; or, in the words of a senior assistant to the prosecutor of Tatarstan Ruslan Galliev, “a militant Islam” which “arouses ethnic, religious enmity.”</p>
<p style="color: #202021;">If Sahih Bukhari, a nine-volume hadith collection compiled in the 9th century and seen by Sunni Muslims as second in importance only to the Koran itself is being banned for inciting hostility, where does that leave the Koran?</p>
<p style="color: #202021;">After all, if <a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/is-russia-banning-islam/">Sahih Bukhari contains pro-terrorism</a> statements attributed to the prophet of Islam and calls to kill Muslims who leave Islam, the Koran, Islam’s number one holy book itself is full of intolerance and calls for violence against non-believers. A tiny sampling of proclamations from Allah follows:</p>
<ul style="color: #202021;">
<li>“I will cast terror into the hearts of the unbelievers, so strike [them] upon the necks [behead them] and strike from them every fingertip’” (Koran 8:12).</li>
<li>“Fight those among the People of the Book [Christians and Jews] who do not believe in Allah nor the Last Day, who do not forbid what Allah and His Messenger have forbidden, and who do not embrace the religion of truth [Islam], until they pay the jizya with willing submissiveness and feel themselves utterly subdued” (Koran 9:29).</li>
<li>“Then, when the sacred months have passed, slay the idolaters wherever you find them—seize them, besiege them, and make ready to ambush them!” (Koran 9:5).</li>
<li>“Fighting has been enjoined upon you [Muslims] while it is hateful to you” (2:216).</li>
</ul>
<p style="color: #202021;">That Islam’s core texts incite violence and intolerance has many ramifications, for those willing to go down this path of logic.</p>
<p style="color: #202021;">For example, as I <a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/how-religious-defamation-laws-would-ban-islam/">argued more fully here</a>, although Muslims around the world, especially in the guise of the 57-member state Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), continue to push for the enforcement of “religious defamation” laws in the international arena, one great irony is lost, especially on Muslims: if such laws would ban movies and cartoons that defame Islam, they would also, by logical extension, need to ban the religion of Islam itself—the only religion whose core texts actively defame other religions.</p>
<p style="color: #202021;">Consider what the word “defamation” means: “to blacken another’s reputation” and “false or unjustified injury of the good reputation of another, as by slander or libel,” are typical dictionary definitions.</p>
<p style="color: #202021;">What, then, do we do with Islam’s core religious texts—not just Sahih Bukhari but the Koran itself, which slanders, denigrates and blackens the reputation of other religions?</p>
<p style="color: #202021;">Consider Christianity alone: Koran 5:73 declares that “Infidels are they who say God [or “Allah”] is one of three,” a reference to the Christian Trinity; Koran 5:72 says “Infidels are they who say God is the Christ, [Jesus] son of Mary”; and Koran 9:30 complains that “the Christians say the Christ is the son of God … may Allah’s curse be upon them!”</p>
<p style="color: #202021;">Surely such verses defame the Christian religion and its central tenets—not to mention create hostility towards its practitioners.</p>
<p style="color: #202021;">In short, the argument that some Islamic books should be banned on grounds that they incite segregation and violence is applicable to the Koran itself, which unequivocally defames and creates hostility for unbelievers, that is, non-Muslims.</p>
<p style="color: #202021;">That said, in the “real world” (as it currently stands), the very idea of banning the Koran—believed by over a billion people to be the unalterable word of God—must seem inconceivable.</p>
<p style="color: #202021;">For starters, whenever Muslims are pressed about the violent verses in the Koran, they often take refuge in the argument that other scriptures of other religions are also replete with calls to violence and intolerance—so why single out the Koran?</p>
<p style="color: #202021;">To prove this, Muslim apologists almost always point to the Hebrew Scriptures, more widely known as the “Old Testament.”  And in fact, the Old Testament is replete with violence and intolerance—all prompted by the Judeo-Christian God.</p>
<p style="color: #202021;">The difference between the violent passages in the Koran and those in the Old Testament (as more <a style="color: #cf0000;" href="http://www.meforum.org/2159/are-judaism-and-christianity-as-violent-as-islam">comprehensively explained here</a>) is this: the Old Testament is clearly describing historic episodes whereas the Koran, while also developed within a historical context, uses generic, open-ended language that transcends time and space, inciting believers to attack and slay nonbelievers today no less than yesterday.</p>
<p style="color: #202021;">Thus in the Old Testament God commands the Hebrews to fight and kill “Hittites,” “Amorites,” “Canaanites,” “Perizzites,” “Hivites,” and “Jebusites”—all specific peoples rooted to a specific time and place; all specific peoples that have not existed for millennia.  At no time did God give an open-ended command for the Hebrews, and by extension their Jewish descendants, to fight and kill all “unbelievers.”</p>
<p style="color: #202021;">To be sure, Muslims argue that the verses of the Koran also deal with temporal, historical opponents, including the polytheists of Mecca, and to a lesser extent, the Byzantine and Sassanian empires.</p>
<p style="color: #202021;">The problem, however, is that rarely if ever does the Koran specify who its antagonists are the way the Old Testament does.  Instead, Muslims were (and are) commanded to fight the “People of the Book,” which Islamic exegesis interprets as people with scriptures, namely, Christians and Jews—“<em>until</em> they pay the jizya with willing submissiveness and feel themselves utterly subdued” (9:29) and to “slay the idolaters <em>wherever</em> you find them” (9:5).</p>
<p style="color: #202021;">The two Arabic conjunctions “until” (<em>hata</em>) and “wherever” (<em>haythu</em>) demonstrate the perpetual and ubiquitous nature of these commandments: There are still “People of the Book” who have yet to “feel themselves utterly subdued” (especially all throughout the Americas, Europe, and Israel) and “idolaters” to be slain “wherever” one looks (especially Asia and sub-Saharan Africa).</p>
<p style="color: #202021;">In fact, the salient feature of almost all of the violent commandments in Islamic scriptures is their open-ended and generic nature: “Fight <em>them</em> until there is no more chaos and [all] religion belongs to Allah” (Koran 8:39).</p>
<p style="color: #202021;">This fact will ensure that as long as the Koran proliferates and is read as God’s literal word, its readers will continue to exist in a dichotomized world, themselves versus the rest.</p>
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		<title>The Leftist and Islamic War on the Family</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2014 05:35:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The greatest threat to the totalitarian state is the family.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/war.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-244400" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/war.jpg" alt="war" width="220" height="183" /></a>The greatest threat to the totalitarian state is the family. In Nazi Germany, in the Soviet Union and in the Islamic State, children were split apart from their families, subjected to ruthless indoctrination and taught to turn on their parents at the slightest hint of dissent.</p>
<p>In our more enlightened liberal society where the family is being displaced by the state, children are merely taught to view their parents as ignorant, racist, sexist, homophobic and outdated. The classroom and popular cultural inflate the self-esteem of the next generation by assuring them of their moral superiority to their parents and offering them independence from the authority and values of their parents in exchange for accepting the values and authority of the benevolent liberal state.</p>
<p>It’s a system that is less overtly cruel, but equally determined to replace the family unit with detached citizens cut off from being able to maintain and pass on a set of values opposed to those of the state.</p>
<p>The War on the Family ends with children, but begins by disrupting the relationships between men and women.</p>
<p>While liberalism’s War on Women meme and the sexism of Islamic law may seem like two opposites, they are actually mirror images of each other. Muslims teach men to hate and fear women. Liberals teach women to hate and fear men. Liberalism promotes paranoia about the intentions of men while Islam teaches men to be paranoid about the intentions of women.</p>
<p>Liberalism treats masculinity as a pathology. Islam treats femininity as the root of all evil. Both ideologies insist that one gender and everything related to it is inherently tainted and that the only way to maintain a good society is to purge that gender and everything it represents from the public square.</p>
<p>Liberalism and Islam both seek to create conditions of divisiveness that make trust between the sexes impossible. Even when men and women do connect, both ideologies work to create power imbalances, social, religious and legal, that make family life inherently unstable. Their goal is to prevent the family from becoming the center of human life. Instead the family is transformed into an alien condition that can and does end at any moment by preying on the fears and weaknesses of its participants.</p>
<p>Islam drives women out of public spaces by encouraging predatory male behavior. Liberalism encourages predatory male behavior by disrupting the moral values that keep it in check and then profits from the chaos that it has caused by promoting paranoia about predatory male behavior.</p>
<p>The unspoken truth of the War on Women is that the breakup of the family has made life more dangerous for women and men. It’s a statistical fact that crime rates increase for children from single parent households. Sixty percent of rapists <a href="http://www.rightwingnews.com/top-news/ann-coulter-on-single-mothers-the-statistics-from-guilty/">grew up in single parent</a> households. The real War on Women began with the War on the Family. That is also where it ends.</p>
<p>Unlike liberalism, Islam does not seek to eliminate the family, but to maintain its functionality at the purely mechanical level without allowing for healthy relationships. The members of the Islamic family are alienated from each other. The women learn to fear their husbands, fathers and brothers. The men know to distrust their mothers, sisters and daughters. A misstep can easily end in an honor killing.</p>
<p>Both genders view each other as dangerously unpredictable and predatory. Normal human relationships collapse under the weight of mutual distrust. The Muslim family is outwardly intact, but inwardly broken. Its members are united only by an even deeper suspicion and hostility toward the outside world. Muslim men know that women on the outside are even more immoral and untrustworthy than their female relations and Muslim women expect men outside the family to be even more dangerous.</p>
<p>The sex grooming scandals in the UK are an interaction between two networks of broken families. On one side are Muslim men who have been taught that women are barely human. On the other side are the young casualties of a nanny state that killed the family and replaced it with apathetic social workers and callous cops. The same phenomenon is taking place in Western cities across the world.</p>
<p>Islam destroys the family to create men with nothing to live for. The Muslim terrorist does not die for his family. The idea of dying to protect his wife and children has no emotional resonance for him. He can use women and children as human shields because they matter less than he does. It is his own honor that moves him far more than the lives of his family. Kill his children and he may forget. Humiliate him and he will never forgive. Promise him paradise and he will willingly die for a better world than this one.</p>
<p>The Muslim Jihadist does not submit to Allah. He submits to his own ego and kills in its name.</p>
<p>Liberalism however destroys the family to create helpless individuals looking for the next handout. The protégé of the nanny state is a coward. He is eager to join mobs, but does nothing as an individual. He creates nothing, and therefore has nothing to lose except his material possessions which he uses as gateways to the ‘fun’ that consumes his life. He is capable of violence, but only when he has numbers on his side. Family is a means of sharing resources, but not responsibilities. Like his children, it is disposable.</p>
<p>When families die, human beings begin reverting to a feral state. The inability to sustain family leads to the collapse of civilization. Liberalism and Islam both feed off the social failures that they manufacture.</p>
<p>The violent gangs of Jihadists that can pop up anywhere are symptoms of a society with large numbers of feral men. The rapists and killers of ISIS are animated by a profoundly different ideology, but behave similarly to gangs in Latin America and the United States. Islam and liberalism both produce large numbers of feral young men with no meaningful human relationships who derive their sense of identity from gang membership.</p>
<p>It is why Islam spreads so effectively in prison. The penal system is the ideal Islamic environment. It is a world without family and without choice where the only attribute is honor. It is also the inevitable consequence of liberalism. Liberalism kills the family producing young men destined for prison. Islam sweeps in to pick up the pieces and gives them purpose and meaning by turning them into killers.</p>
<p>Islam is a religion of the clan, not of the family. Liberalism organizes people along the lines of the group. Islam militarizes the clan into an expansionist force through conflict with other clans. Liberalism militarizes group identity into a struggle with every other group. Both promote conflict and isolation, uniting combatants through paranoia and hate, while dividing them so that they cannot make peace.</p>
<p>Liberalism and Islam both perpetuate the crises that keep them going through dysfunction. They can only thrive by maintaining a constant supply of unhappy people who have lost the ability to live fulfilling and meaningful lives. The biggest threat to their empires and caliphates of dysfunction is a strong family.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2014 04:41:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nonie Darwish points to the taboo truth of why we don't see "moderate" Muslim armies killing ISIS terrorists. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Islamic-State.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-243566" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Islamic-State-450x290.jpg" alt="Islamic-State" width="233" height="150" /></a><strong>[<a href="http://horowitzfreedomcenter.us1.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=caa6f67f1482e6214d83be62d&amp;id=c761755bdf">Subscribe</a> to <em>The Glazov Gang</em> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/glazovgang">LIKE</a> it on </strong><a href="https://www.facebook.com/glazovgang"><strong>Facebook.]</strong></a></p>
<p>This week&#8217;s <em>Glazov Gang</em> was joined by <strong>Nonie Darwish</strong>, the author of <em>The Devil We Don&#8217;t Know</em>.</p>
<p>Nonie came on the show to discuss <strong>Not Destroying the Islamic State</strong>, analyzing why Obama does not really want to defeat ISIS and why we don&#8217;t see any &#8220;moderate&#8221; Muslim armies killing ISIS terrorists <strong>(starts at 14 minute mark)</strong>.  The dialogue was preceded by Nonie focusing on <strong>Tricking and Dividing the Muslim World</strong>, shedding light on the best strategies to confront and outsmart our enemy in the terror war.</p>
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		<title>You Can’t Stop Genocide Without Killing Civilians</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2014 04:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Learning the lesson of Afghanistan.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ISIS-Mass-Killing.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-242900" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ISIS-Mass-Killing-450x286.jpg" alt="ISIS-Mass-Killing" width="321" height="204" /></a>By the time World War II was over entire cities had been devastated and hundreds of thousands of civilians had been killed by the Allies in one of the last wars whose virtue we were all able to agree on. The civilians were not limited to enemy German and Japanese civilians, but included French civilians in occupied territory, Jewish prisoners and numerous others who were caught in the war zone.</p>
<p>To the professional pacifist these numbers appear to disprove the morality of war, any war, but they were the blood price that had to be paid to stop two war machines once they had been allowed to seize the strategic high ground. There was no other way to stop the genocide that Germany and Japan had been inflicting on Europe and Asia except through a way of war that would kill countless civilians.</p>
<p>A refusal to fight that war would not have been the moral course. It would have meant that the Allies would have continued to serve as the silent partners in genocide. The same thing is true today.</p>
<p>War is ugly. It is made moral by why it is fought, not by how it is fought.  If we are fighting a war to prevent mass murder, our moral obligation is to win it as quickly as possible. Not as cleanly.</p>
<p>Our attempt to streamline the ugly parts into a drone taking out a terrorist target with no collateral damage is a moral fiction. Civilians die in drone strikes as in any other form of attack and believing that we can have our moral cake and eat it too has convinced some that any other kind of war is immoral.</p>
<p>If we had set out to win World War II as cleanly as possible the price for our morality would have been paid by our own soldiers as well as by the countless victims of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan.</p>
<p>As we can see the way that American soldiers and Afghan civilians paid the price for Obama’s morality.</p>
<p>As I <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/frontpagemag-com/the-great-betrayal/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">wrote in The Great Betrayal</span></a>, “the number of Afghan civilian casualties caused by American forces had dropped between 2009 and 2011, but civilian casualties caused by the Taliban steadily increased&#8230; 2009 proved to be the deadliest year for Afghan civilians with over 2,400 killed… with the Taliban accounting for two-thirds of the total. While the percentage of casualties caused by US forces fell 28 percent, the percentage caused by the Taliban increased by 40 percent making up for American restraint.  This fell into line with the increase in NATO combat deaths which rose from 295 to 520.”</p>
<p>“By 2011, the ISAF forces were responsible for only 14.2 percent of Afghan civilian deaths, while the Taliban were responsible for 79.8 percent of them.”</p>
<p>American soldiers were killing fewer Afghan civilians, but more Afghan civilians were dying. The rules of engagement allowed the Taliban to win which meant that they would be able to kill more civilians. Instead of helping Afghan civilians, we were causing more of them and more of us to be killed.</p>
<p>Obama’s moral approach to war was what the Jewish sages had called the “righteousness of fools.”</p>
<p>This issue takes on a renewed urgency as the United States confronts ISIS genocide in Iraq and Syria. To stop ISIS, we will have to do what we were unwilling to do when it came to fighting the Taliban. We will have to hit them and hit them hard.</p>
<p>There was a time when we could have dealt a setback to ISIS with drone strikes. Obama golfed that golden time away. Pinpoint strikes will no longer stop the Islamic State. Only decisive force will.</p>
<p>The White House was panicked enough to relax the rules on “near certainty” allowing more freedom of action against ISIS, but it’s also not nearly enough. ISIS is not a group of terrorists hiding in caves. It operates like an army. It sustains its forces by maintaining a constant forward momentum. This is something that it has in common with Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, both of whom were running fragile military and economic enterprises that depended on a steady stream of new conquests.</p>
<p>Stopping ISIS will require a willingness to either put boots on the ground or accept heavy civilian casualties. We once again have a choice between “Shock and Awe” or years of occupation.</p>
<p>We made the wrong choice in the past. We have to be willing to make the right one now.</p>
<p>We can break ISIS if we are willing to clear away the obstacles in the kill-chain by moving as quickly as the enemy does. Instead what we have is the worst of both worlds, a process of approving strikes that treats ISIS as if it were a ponderous conventional foe combined with minimal strikes better suited to the kinds of terrorist enemies we were fighting a decade ago.</p>
<p>Our enemy is mobile and resourceful. It knows our tactics and our limitations. Our people need to be free to take immediate and responsive action on the spot instead of relying on a process that has become too slow and inflexible under the bureaucratic pace of drone warfare.</p>
<p>Obama’s delays closed the door on our opportunity to rescue American hostages being held by ISIS. The dithering which has accompanied all of his military decisions is completely unworkable when confronting groups that have learned to quickly adapt and respond. If the war against ISIS continues to be run through the White House, filtered through its advisers and polls, then the war will be lost.</p>
<p>On the battlefield we have to be willing to accept that if we use large scale bombing to go after a military group that uses civilians as human shields, there will be large numbers of civilian casualties. But that number will be far less than what it would be if ISIS gets to carry out its genocides and continues to drag out the war across the region.</p>
<p>The lesson that we should take away from Afghanistan is that finicky attitudes about civilian casualties only end up costing more civilian lives.</p>
<p>Ending a war requires the use of decisive force. The alternative is the miserable situation in Israel in which it hurts Hamas enough to buy some time, but not enough to stop another war two years later.</p>
<p>Sparing terrorists to save civilians is morally and practically backward. Terrorists kill civilians. Sparing terrorists means that more civilians will die.</p>
<p>On September 10, 2001, <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/07/31/clinton-on-sept-10-2001-could-have-killed-bin-laden-but-didnt/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Bill Clinton said that</span></a> he could have had Bin Laden taken out if not for the collateral damage in Kandahar. As a result of his inaction, 3,000 people in the United States and countless civilians in Afghanistan died. By trying to prevent 300 civilian casualties, he actually caused ten times and then a hundred times that many civilian casualties.</p>
<p>We can’t afford any more Clinton moralizing that sacrifices the World Trade Center to spare Kandahar and then has to bomb Kandahar anyway. We can either learn the lessons of Afghanistan or continue losing thousands of Americans to wars that never end.</p>
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		<title>Does Obama Need ‘Time’ to Defeat or Forget ISIS?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2014 04:54:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why does the president insist that it will take years to defeat a “ragtag” team of terrorists? ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/isis-2.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-242633" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/isis-2-450x315.jpg" alt="isis-2" width="301" height="211" /></a>During U.S. President Obama’s televised speech on his strategies to defeat the Islamic State, the president <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/full-text-of-president-obamas-speech-outlining-strategy-to-defeat-islamic-state/2014/09/10/af69dec8-3943-11e4-9c9f-ebb47272e40e_story.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">said</span></a>, “Now, it will take time to eradicate a cancer like ISIL” (a reference to the Islamic State, or “IS).</p>
<p>Now, why is that?</p>
<p>First, we know by “cancer” he is not referring to Islamic ideology—since he does not acknowledge that Islam has anything to do with violence and even <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/obama-administration-bans-knowledge-of-islam/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">banned knowledge of Islamic ideology</span></a> from being studied by law enforcement and national security communities.</p>
<p>Were he referring to Islamic ideology, the need for “time” would of course be legitimate, to say the least.</p>
<p>No, the cancer he is referring to is the very real, tangible, and temporal Islamic State, which exists in time and space.</p>
<p>But this prompts the following question: Why did it take the United States military three weeks to overthrow the very real and tangible regime of Saddam Hussein in 2003 whereas “it will take time”—years, according to most military analysts—for the U.S. to defeat the Islamic State?</p>
<p>This question becomes more urgent when one considers that the Iraq conquered by the U.S. in less than a month had an actual government and longstanding military and was better organized and consolidated—certainly in comparison to the Islamic State, often described as a “ragtag team of terrorists” that seems to have appeared out of nowhere.</p>
<p>The reason it will take years is because Obama refuses to strike the Islamic State decisively and effectively, specifically by sending in U.S. ground forces—the very forces that were responsible for keeping the Islamic jihadis at bay; the forces he withdrew leading to the rise of the Islamic State; and the forces that he refuses to utilize again, even though they are necessary to decisively crush the “caliphate.”</p>
<p>Obama’s “it will take time” assertion prompts the following prediction: U.S. airstrikes on Islamic State targets will continue to be just enough to pacify those calling for action against the caliphate (“we’re doing what we can”).  The official narrative will be that the Islamic State is gradually being weakened, that victory is a matter of time (remember, “It will take time”).</p>
<p>In the meantime, the Islamic State will slowly begin to fade away from the headlines.  After all and unreported in any Western media, soon after pictures and videos of the decapitations of Americans went viral prompting much media attention followed by international shock and outrage, the “caliph,” Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, called for an immediate stop to the videotaping and internet dissemination of such beheadings and other Sharia punishments.</p>
<p>He called on both official channels affiliated with the Islamic State as well as unofficial sympathizers and allies on social media to cease posting such pictures and/or video-clips, adding that IS “would follow any violation of this resolution seriously.”</p>
<p>It is these images of utter savagery that first catapulted the Islamic State into the spotlight, eventually causing Americans to call on U.S. leadership to respond, and it is these images that forced Obama to react to IS.</p>
<p>To be sure, had Islamic State members not posted those many images of cruelty which went viral, the world would know little about them—Western mainstream media would certainly not have been the ones to expose them—and Obama would not now be required to condemn and engage them.</p>
<p>But apparently that was the price the Islamic State had to pay to inspire and mobilize many more Islamic terrorists—to prompt them to raise their heads up high and to “<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/beheading-infidels-how-allah-heals-the-hearts-of-believers/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">heal their hearts</span></a>.”  Time will tell if the majority will heed their new caliph’s resolution or not.</p>
<p>If the jihadis do comply, things will quiet down; the mainstream media will return to more familiar, more Kardashian headlines; we will hear about the occasional victory against IS—this or that leader killed or captured—even as the administration continues to exploit the conflict in a way to attack neighboring Syrian leader Bashar Assad (with the inevitable result that more jihadis will once again fill the vacuum created by his departure, as they did in post-Arab-Spring Libya).</p>
<p>Then, just as they “suddenly” appeared in Iraq, we will “suddenly” again hear—probably first from IS itself—that the Islamic State has made some major comeback, winning over some new piece of territory, as the caliphate continues to grow and get stronger.</p>
<p>In this context, Obama’s call for “time” appears to be less about a true need and more about getting Americans to forget about the Islamic State, at least until he is out of office.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2014 04:45:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[European high society launches a vicious anti-Semitic attack against the Jewish State. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_242550" style="width: 319px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Screen-Shot-2014-10-07-at-1.13.04-AM.png"><img class="wp-image-242550" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Screen-Shot-2014-10-07-at-1.13.04-AM-450x345.png" alt="Screen Shot 2014-10-07 at 1.13.04 AM" width="309" height="237" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Dr. Richard Horton</p></div>
<p style="color: #000000;"><em>Originally published by the <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Our-World-Israel-bashers-phony-contrition-378206">Jerusalem Post</a>. </em></p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Dr. Richard Horton, the editor of the English medical journal The Lancet, was not transformed by his visit to Israel last week.</p>
<p>Horton came to Israel last week the guest of Rambam Medical Center in a bid to dig himself out of the hole he dug himself into. On August 19 Horton published a 1,600-word letter criminalizing Israel. In it, Israel was accused of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity. The authors called for a boycott of Israel, including Israeli academia. Since its publication on Lancet’s website, the letter has garnered 20,000 signatures.</p>
<p>The letter made no mention of the fact that the war this summer was initiated by Hamas through its illegal missile, mortar and rocket offensive against Israeli population centers. The esteemed medical professionals who wrote the letter failed to mention that Hamas’s operational headquarters was located in Shifa hospital in Gaza. And of course, they ignored the underlying fact that Hamas’s entire campaign against Israel was a crime against humanity.</p>
<p>Immediately following its publication, Prof. Gerald Steinberg, the head of NGO Monitor, exposed that the letter’s principal authors are frothing-at-the-mouth anti-Semites. Dr. Paola Manduca and Dr. Swee Ang disseminated a video entitled, CNN, Goldman Sachs &amp; the Zio Matrix. It was produced by the former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan David Duke.</p>
<p>As Britain’s Telegraph reported, in disseminating the video, Ang exhorted her audience to understand that the Jewish threat outlined in the video is a threat to humanity. In her words, it “is not about Palestine – it is about all of us!” For her part, as the Telegraph reported, Manduca has accused Israel of responsibility for the Boston Marathon bombing. And she disseminated an article comparing Israel to a “strangler fig,” which as the Telegraph explained, “grows around other trees and takes their sunlight, often resulting in the deaths of the original trees.”</p>
<p>Steinberg cataloged Horton’s long record of publishing anti-Israel slanders under the guise of a scientific research. Horton responded with indignation to the initial criticisms of his decision to publish the defamatory letter. He told the Telegraph that the anti-Semitic views of letter authors were “utterly irrelevant.” He called criticism of his decision to publish the letter, “a smear campaign.”</p>
<p>Horton then pledged not to retract the letter – which is still posted on Lancet’s website – “even if [criticism of the authors] was found to be substantiated.”</p>
<p>Yet as the outrage mounted against him, and the stench of the Jew hatred of his colleagues grew stronger, Horton began to feel the heat. So after refusing to publish a letter from Israeli doctors from Rambam rejecting the libelous attacks against Israel, Horton accepted Rambam’s invitation to come to Israel last week and learn firsthand how none of his allegations were true.</p>
<p>At the end of his three-day visit, Horton gave a lecture at Rambam where he condemned the Cossack-style Jew hatred of his colleagues Ang and Manduca. But despite his seeming contrition, Horton did not disavow their letter. He did not agree to remove the slander from The Lancet’s website.</p>
<p>Horton’s selective contrition was an expression of contempt for Israel, for his Israeli hosts and for their Herculean efforts over three days to demonstrate to him that Israel is good, not evil. Yet, instead of calling him on his obnoxious behavior, the heads of Rambam and other critics embraced him and praised his transformation.</p>
<p>As Dr. Anthony Luder, the director of pediatrics at Ziv Medical Center in Safed, wrote in a letter to The Jerusalem Post published Monday, “In what looks like an academic version of the Stockholm Syndrome, my esteemed colleagues at Rambam Medical Center have only succeeded in throwing sand in the face of the medical community by providing legitimization for a hateful hypocrite and terrible scientist.”</p>
<p>Horton’s behavior is very much in keeping with what has become standard operating procedure throughout much of Europe today. First, attack Israel. If you get called on it, issue a clarification or a clearing-of-the-throat apology that does not contain any retraction of your falsehoods. For your willingness to rhetorically temper your mendacious allegations, you can expect to be forgiven by Israel and those who care about truth in your country.</p>
<p>CONSIDER THE new Swedish government’s behavior.</p>
<p>During his inaugural speech last Friday, the new Social Democrat Swedish prime minister, Stefen Lofven, announced that his government will recognize the non-existent State of Palestine.</p>
<p>Israel rightly responded angrily to his statement, noting that the reason no peace accord has been signed between Israel and the Palestinians is because the Palestinians have scuttled and prevented negotiations for the past five years.</p>
<p>In the face of Israel’s angry rebuke of Lofven’s statement, the Swedish Embassy in Tel Aviv issued a clarification saying that Sweden supports a negotiated settlement and values its ties with Israel. Ambassador Carl Magnus Nesser told Army Radio that the remark was simply made to jump-start peace talks.</p>
<p>Lofven’s statement was not notable because he revealed himself as a fan of Palestinian terrorists who refuse to recognize Israel’s right to exist. That’s been Sweden’s policy for decades.</p>
<p>What was notable about Lofven’s statement is that he made it in his inaugural address to the Swedish Parliament.</p>
<p>What this means is that in Sweden, supporting the Palestinians against Israel is not a foreign policy issue. It is a domestic policy issue.</p>
<p>As Benjamin Weinthal documented in Monday’s Post, Swedish Social Democrat politicians with no connection to foreign policy have long records of vilifying Israel and condemning Jews that insist on supporting the Jewish state. Lofven’s government reflects this anti-Israel, and frankly anti-Semitic trend.</p>
<p>Lofven appointed Turkish-born Green Party politician Mehmet Kaplan to serve as urban planning and environment minister in his government. Three years ago Kaplan participated in the illegal, pro-Hamas Turkish flotilla to Gaza as a passenger aboard the Mavi Marmara terrorist ship. In a rally over the summer, he used jihadist language and called for the “liberation of Jerusalem,” and the “liberation of Palestine.” Kaplan has likened Swedish jihadists who travel to Iraq and Syria to fight for Islamic State to Swedish freedom fighters who fought against the Soviets in Finland during World War II.</p>
<p>Other leading politicians in the Social Democratic Party have traveled to Israel and participated in riots against IDF forces.</p>
<p>In other words, Swedish politicians have identified anti-Israel activism as a potent tool for garnering domestic support. This is why Lofven spent so much more time discussing it in his inaugural address than he spent discussing the killing fields in Syria and Iraq, for instance.</p>
<p>But just as Horton wasn’t willing to be lumped together with his Ku Klux Klan-supporting comrades, so the Swedes aren’t willing to admit that their hostility towards Israel owes to domestic considerations that have nothing to do with what Israel does.</p>
<p>Horton’s phony contrition and the Swedish embassy’s “clarification” flow from the same source. And they tell us something about what is happening in Europe and how we need to deal with Europe as it transforms itself before our eyes.</p>
<p>Europe is abandoning the ideals of the Enlightenment, and embracing authoritarianism and irrationality.</p>
<p>But it isn’t willing to admit what it is doing. As a consequence, it is possible to harken to those ideals to shame Europeans for their irrational bigotry and so slow the process down.</p>
<p>Horton will no doubt revert to open defamation of Israel in due time. The Swedish government will similarly attack us in due course.</p>
<p>But forcing them to slow down is important.</p>
<p>Whether or not Europe’s downward spiral is unstoppable is irrelevant for Israel because what is clear enough is that if Europe decides to abandon its current path, it won’t be because of anything Israel does.</p>
<p>Facing this situation, Israel must be guided by two goals as it confronts Europe. It needs to stop caring about what Europeans think of it, and it needs to reduce as much as possible its exposure to the European market.</p>
<p>On the latter issue, unless something fundamental changes, it is undeniable that at some point in the next 10 to 15 years, Europe will join the Arab League’s boycott of Israel. Israel needs time to develop alternative markets for its exports.</p>
<p>On the former issue, Europe’s main non-economic weapon against Israel today is the fact that the Israeli public and particularly Israel’s elites still care what Europe thinks of us. Israelis need time to understand that European hatred for Israel has nothing whatsoever to do with anything Israel does.</p>
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		<title>Andrew Klavan: Europe Is For Real</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><span style="color: #000000;">In this special episode, our whimsical host, Andrew Klavan, takes a look at the faith-based story of a young man who dies and goes to the promised land, only to find that it&#8217;s a giant lie propped up by the American taxpayer and military. See the video and transcript below. </span></strong></p>
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<p style="color: #000000;">I’m Andrew Klavan and this is the Revolting Truth.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Today, in a special religious edition of the Revolting Truth, we’d like to take a look at the new faith-based bestseller, “Europe Is For Real.”</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">“Europe is for Real” tells the inspiring story of the adorable 5-year-old Iowa boy Derpy Lipschitz.  One fateful day, in April of 2005, little Derpy complained to his mother of stomach pains and was rushed to the hospital where doctors discovered he had accidentally swallowed a copy of the New York Times while trying to bite the head off his pet canary.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Derpy was taken into surgery but the emergency worsened when the doctors tried to remove the Times’ op-ed page from the child’s colon and couldn’t determine which was which.  In the confusion, a column by Paul Krugman traveled through the boy’s bloodstream to his head causing instantaneous brain death.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">It was then that a miracle happened.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">As 5-year-old Derpy later told his parents, he felt his soul leave his body.  It traveled down the hall to a broom closet where he saw Mommy praying to Jesus, although she pronounced it Hay-soos.  Then, in a spiral of light, Derpy felt himself lifted up to a wondrous place beyond his wildest imagination.  It was a place where there was never any war, health care was free, and energy was green.  Yes, Derpy was in Europe.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Well, the surgery was a success.  The doctors were able to remove the New York Times from Derpy’s brain and colon in a revolutionary procedure called pulling the head out of the ass.  When Derpy woke up in the hospital room, he saw his parents standing over him smiling, and he said, “Daddy, I’ve been to Europe!”</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">And Derpy’s Daddy said to him, “Derpy, Europe is not for real.  Europe is an expensive socialist fantasy which was paid for by American capitalism for 65 years and is now going broke anyway.  They financed their so-called free health care with money they would have had to spend on defense if our military didn’t keep them safe.  Oh, and by the way, the pharmaceutical companies can give them their meds at cheap rates because we pay inflated prices that pick up the slack and fund research and development.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">As for European energy being green, ten years ago Germany trumpeted a transition to renewable resources that was supposed to create jobs, provide cheap electricity and save the planet.  It failed on every front and all across the European Union, green energy initiatives are being quietly abandoned.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">It’s true there’s no war in Europe because they’re protected from outside attack by America.  But as Socialism drains the money and the life out of their societies, and their populations quickly dwindle, the European nations are being conquered from within by Islamist monsters who rape and vandalize almost at will.  No one’s allowed to criticize these animals because that would violate a pious leftist nonsense called multiculturalism&#8230;  and since leftism has destroyed every vestige of patriotism on the continent, no one has the conviction or the guts to stand up to this alien evil anyway.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">So you see, Derpy, Europe is just the myth of a false religion called leftism.  But don’t worry:  Heaven is for real.  Although Mommy can’t go there because of what she did with Haysoos.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">I’m Andrew Klavan with the Revolting Truth.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia and Iran aren’t our friends.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/isis.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-241800" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/isis-431x350.jpg" alt="isis" width="289" height="235" /></a>The big foreign policy debate now is whether we should ally with Sunni or Shiite Jihadists to defeat ISIS.</p>
<p>The pro-Iranian camp wants us to coordinate with Iran and Assad. The pro-Saudi camp wants us to arm the Free Syrian Army and its assorted Jihadists to overthrow Assad.</p>
<p>Both sides are not only wrong, they are traitors.</p>
<p>Iran and the Sunni Gulfies are leading sponsors of international terrorism that has killed Americans. Picking either side means siding with the terrorists.</p>
<p>It makes no sense to join with Islamic terrorists to defeat Islamic terrorists. Both Sunni and Shiite Jihadists are our enemies. And this is not even a “the enemy of my enemy” scenario because despite their mutual hatred for each other, they hate us even more.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://cns.miis.edu/reports/pdfs/binladen/indict.pdf">1998 indictment of bin Laden</a> accused him of allying with Iran. (Not to mention Iraq, long before such claims could be blamed on Dick Cheney.) The <a href="http://www.meforum.org/670/irans-link-to-al-qaeda-the-9-11-commissions">9/11 Commission documented</a> that Al Qaeda terrorists, including the 9/11 hijackers, freely moved through Iran. Testimony <a href="http://www.cfr.org/terrorist-organizations-and-networks/al-qaeda-hezbollah-relationship/p11275#p1">by one of bin Laden’s lieutenants</a> showed that he had met with a top Hezbollah terrorist. <a href="http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2011/12/dc_court_iran_showed.php">Court findings concluded</a> that Iran was liable for Al Qaeda’s bombing of US embassies. Al Qaeda terrorists were trained by Hezbollah.</p>
<p>While Shiite and Sunni Jihadists may be deadly enemies to each other, they have more in common with each other than they do with us. Our relationship to them is not that of “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.” That’s their relationship to each other when it comes to us. In these scenarios we are the enemy.</p>
<p>The pro-Saudi and pro-Iranian factions in our foreign policy complex agree that we have to help one side win in Syria. They’re wrong. We have no interest in helping either side win because whether the Sunnis or Shiites win, Syria will remain a state sponsor of terror.</p>
<p>It’s only a question of whether it will be Shiite or Sunni terror.</p>
<p>Our interest is in not allowing Al Qaeda, or any of its subgroups, to control Syria or Iraq because it has a history of carrying out devastating attacks against the United States. We don’t, however, need to ally with either side to accomplish that. We can back the Kurds and the Iraqi government (despite its own problematic ties) in their push against ISIS in Iraq and use strategic strikes to hit ISIS concentrations in Syria. We should not, however, ally, arm or coordinate strikes with either side in the Syrian Civil War.</p>
<p>Both the pro-Saudi and pro-Iranian sides insist that ISIS can’t be defeated without stabilizing Syria. But it doesn’t appear that Syria can be stabilized without either genocide or partition. Its conflict is not based on resistance to a dictator as the Arab Springers have falsely claimed, but on religious differences.</p>
<p>Helping one side commit genocide against the other is an ugly project, but that would be the outcome of allying with either side.</p>
<p>Stabilizing Syria is a myth. The advocates of the FSA claimed that helping the Libyan Jihadists win would stabilize Libya. Instead the country is on fire as Jihadists continue to fight it out in its major cities.</p>
<p>Even if the FSA existed as an actual fighting force, which it doesn’t, even if it could win, which it can’t, there is every reason to believe that Syria would be worse than Libya and an even bigger playground for ISIS. The FSA enthusiasts were wrong in Egypt and Libya and everywhere else. They have no credibility.</p>
<p>The pro-Iranians claim that helping the Syrian government will subdue ISIS, but Assad hasn’t been able to defeat the Sunni Jihadists even with Russian help. The Syrian army and its Hezbollah allies are still struggling despite having an air force, heavy artillery and WMDs. Not only shouldn’t we be allying with Shiite terrorists who have killed plenty of Americans over the years, but it would be extremely stupid to ally with incompetent terrorists. Allying with the FSA or Assad makes as much sense as allying with ISIS.</p>
<p>The difference is that ISIS at least seems to be able to win battles.</p>
<p>Some pro-Iranian wonks claim that if we don’t get Assad’s approval for air strikes, he will shoot down Americans planes. That’s about as likely as Saddam Hussein returning from the dead to audition for American Idol. Assad didn’t even dare shoot down Israeli <a href="http://israelmatzav.blogspot.com/2013/04/report-israeli-jets-buzz-assad-palace.html">planes who were buzzing his palace</a>. The odds of him picking a fight with the United States Air Force are somewhere between zero, nil and zilch.</p>
<p>We don’t need Assad’s permission to hit ISIS targets in Syria and, in one of the few things that this administration is doing right, we aren’t asking for it. Unless Assad experiences a bout of severe mental illness, he isn’t going to fight us for the privilege of losing to ISIS. Not even Saddam was that crazy.</p>
<p>The big potential problem in this war is mission creep. That’s why we should avoid committing to any overarching objectives such as stabilizing Syria. Unfortunately that is exactly what Obama has done.</p>
<p>It’s not our job to stabilize Syria and short of dividing it into a couple of majority states in which the Sunni and Shiite Arabs, the Kurds, the Christians and maybe even the Turkmen get their own countries, it’s not a feasible project. We have the equipment and power to pound ISIS into the dirt when its forces concentrate in any area. We can send drones to target their leaders. If Assad or the FSA want to provide us with intel, we can use it as long as we don’t begin working to help them fulfill their own objectives.</p>
<p>We need to remember that we are not there for the Syrians or Iraqis; we’re there for ourselves.</p>
<p>After September 11 we learned the hard way the costs of letting enemy terrorists set up enclaves and bases. But we also learned the hard way the costs of trying to stabilize unstable Muslim countries.</p>
<p>Al Qaeda, in its various forms, will always find sanctuaries and conflicts because the Muslim world is unstable and widely supportive of terrorism. For now this is a low intensity conflict that denies the next bin Laden the territory, time and manpower to stage the next September 11. We can do this cheaply and with few casualties if we keep this goal in mind.</p>
<p>This isn’t nation building. It’s not the fight for democracy. All we’re doing is terrorizing the terrorists by using our superior reach and firepower to smash their sandcastle emirates anywhere they pop up.</p>
<p>Allying with terrorists to defeat terrorists is counterproductive. The Muslim world will always have its Jihadists, at least until we make a serious effort to break them which we won’t be doing any time soon. But we can at least stop making the problem worse by arming and training our own enemies.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Screen-Shot-2014-09-25-at-2.56.44-PM.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-241807" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Screen-Shot-2014-09-25-at-2.56.44-PM-408x350.png" alt="Screen Shot 2014-09-25 at 2.56.44 PM" width="319" height="274" /></a>President Obama declared in his recent address to the nation that &#8220;ISIL is not Islamic.&#8221;</p>
<p>But how does he know? On what basis did the president of the United States declare the a group of Muslims that calls itself &#8220;Islamic State&#8221; &#8220;not Islamic&#8221;?</p>
<p>Has he studied Islam and Islamic history and concluded that ISIL, Boko Haram, al-Qaida, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Taliban, Jamaat-e-Islami, Lashkar-e-Taiba (the group that slaughtered 166 people in Mumbai, most especially guests at the Taj Hotel,and which tortured to death a rabbi and his wife), the various Palestinian terrorist groups (all of which have been Muslim, even though there are many Christian Palestinians), and the Muslim terror groups in Somalia, Yemen, Libya and elsewhere are also all &#8220;not Islamic&#8221;?</p>
<p>Has he concluded that the Muslim Brotherhood, which won Egypt&#8217;s most open election ever, is &#8220;not Islamic?&#8221;</p>
<p>And what about Saudi Arabia? Is that country &#8220;not Islamic,&#8221; too?</p>
<p>Oh, and what about Iran? Also &#8220;not Islamic&#8221;?</p>
<p>Isn&#8217;t that a lot of Muslims, Muslim groups, and even nations — all of whom claim Islam as their religion — to dismiss as &#8220;not Islamic&#8221;?</p>
<p>To be fair, these baseless generalizations about what is and what is not Islamic started with his predecessor, President George W. Bush, who regularly announced that &#8220;Islam is a religion of peace.&#8221; And it is equally unlikely that his assertion came from a study of Islam and Islamic history.</p>
<p>The fact is that a study of Islamic history could not lead any fair-minded individual to conclude that all these Muslims and Islamic groups are &#8220;not Islamic.&#8221; Neither Islamic history, which, from its origins, offered vast numbers of people a choice between Islam and death, nor Islam as reflected in its greatest works, would lead one to draw that conclusion.</p>
<p>Killing &#8220;unbelievers&#8221; has been part of — of course not all of — Islam since its inception. Within 10 years of Muhammad&#8217;s death Muslims had conquered and violently converted whole peoples from Iran to Egypt and from Yemen to Syria. Muslims have offered conquered people death or conversion since that time.</p>
<p>The Hindu Kush, the vast, 500-mile long, 150-mile wide mountain range stretching from Afghanistan to Pakistan, was populated by Hindus until the Muslim invasions beginning around the year 1000. The Persian name Hindu Kush was proudly given by Muslims. It means &#8220;Hindu-killer.&#8221; At least 60 million Hindus were killed by Muslims during the thousand years of Muslim rule. Though virtually unknown, it may be the greatest mass murder in history next to Mao&#8217;s.</p>
<p>The groups named above are following some dictates of the Quran.</p>
<p>A few of many such examples:</p>
<p>&#8220;I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve.</p>
<p>Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them&#8221; (8:12).</p>
<p>&#8220;When the sacred months are over slay the idolaters wherever you find them. Arrest them, besiege them, and lie in ambush everywhere for them. If they repent and take to prayer and render the alms levy, allow them to go their way. God is forgiving and merciful.&#8221; (9:5)</p>
<p>&#8220;Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth.&#8221; (9:29).</p>
<p>There is also a different admonition in the Quran: &#8220;In matters of faith there shall be no compulsion&#8221; (2:256).</p>
<p>So a Muslim can also cite the Quran if he wishes to allow non-Muslims to live in peace.</p>
<p>The problem is that Muslim theological tradition, affirmed by many scholars, holds that later revelation to Muhammad supersedes prior revelation (a doctrine known as &#8220;abrogation&#8221;). And the Quranic verses ordering Muslims to fight and slay non-believers came after those admonishing Muslims to live with non-believers in peace and without religious compulsion.</p>
<p>The problem is that Muslim history, in keeping with the doctrine of abrogation, has far more often practiced the violent admonitions.</p>
<p>The problem is that more than 600 years after Muhammad, Ibn Khaldun, the greatest Muslim writer who ever lived, explained why Islam is the superior religion in the most highly regarded Muslim work ever written, &#8220;Muqaddimah,&#8221; or &#8220;Introduction to History&#8221;:</p>
<p>&#8220;In the Muslim community, the holy war is religious duty, because of the universalism of the Muslim mission and (the obligation to) convert everybody to Islam either by persuasion or by force.&#8221;</p>
<p>In other words, Ibn Khaldun boasts, whereas no other religion commands converting the world through force, Islam does. Was Ibn Khaldun also &#8220;not Islamic&#8221;? And so much for the president&#8217;s other claim that &#8220;no religion condones the killing of innocents.&#8221;</p>
<p>None of this justifies bigotry against Muslims. There are hundreds of millions of non-Islamist Muslims (an Islamist is a Muslim who seeks to impose Shariah on others), including many &#8220;cultural&#8221; or secular Muslims. And individual Muslims are risking their lives every day to provide the intelligence needed to forestall terror attacks in America and elsewhere.</p>
<p>It is only a call to clarity amidst the falsehoods coming from the president, the secretary of state, and especially the universities.</p>
<p>As the courageous Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Somali-born woman who leads a worldwide effort on behalf of Muslim women and for reforming Islam, asked in a speech at Yale University this month: If Islam is a religion of peace, why is there a sword on the Saudi flag?</p>
<p>If the president feels he has to obfuscate for the sake of gaining Muslim allies, so be it. But the rest of us don&#8217;t have to make believe what he said is true.</p>
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		<title>Bill Whittle: Obama Is Bush Lite</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2014 04:50:01 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #000000;"><strong>He&#8217;s launched airstrikes and is threatening ground troops but IT&#8217;S NOT WAR. He took a victory lap for Osama bin Laden but opposed the means that got his location. He&#8217;s broken every Progressive policy and gospel on the books, and he&#8217;s doing the same things for the same reasons his predecessor did, only he&#8217;s doing them late, doing them badly and blaming everyone else. In his latest Firewall Bill Whittle shows why Barack Obama is nothing more than Bush Lite. See the video and transcript below:</strong></p>
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<p style="color: #000000;">BUSH LITE</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Hi everybody. I’m Bill Whittle and this is the Firewall.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">President Obama, when told that airstrikes alone very likely would not be enough to stop the murderous scythe of ISIS, as it destroys entire ethnic populations on his watch, has told his Joint Chiefs that he would make a decision about deploying US ground forces “on a case by case basis.”</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">What does that mean? Nobody really knows. He doesn’t really know either. But what it sounds like is that we may need to send troops on specific missions against specific targets – as in a police raid &#8212; but this is in no way to be construed as “boots on the ground.”</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">If Barack Obama has to deploy US Marines to Iraq wearing flip-flops so that he can claim he didn’t put boots on the ground, then that is what he is going to do: anything other than admit that an ongoing campaign of airstrikes and troops on the ground is, in fact, war.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Because Barack Obama is against war. He is launching airstrikes and deploying soldiers and killing people – but this is not war. Any questions?</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Yeah, I have a question. Is there anybody left out there who doesn’t see this Progressive president doing the exact same things as that swaggering Texas cowboy, George W. Bush – and not only doing them, but not doing them nearly as well? Is there anybody out there who once voted for Captain Hopenchange who doesn’t see that he has broken not just every progressive promise but every progressive gospel – and done it late, and done it badly? Anybody who doesn’t see this empty suit for what he is: namely, Bush Lite?</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Where do we begin?</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">How about Executive Order 13492 &#8211; Review and Disposition of Individuals Detained at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base and Closure of Detention Facilities. Barack Obama was sworn into office on January 20th, 2009. Two days later, on January 22, 2009, he signed the executive office ordering the closure of the detention base at Guantanamo Bay. President Bush understood the need for such a secure facility, far from American soil because of the dangers of a large-scale rescue attempt of so many high-value terrorists. Bush Lite called it “a stain on America’s honor.” It’s still open though. You know why? Because as it turns out, there is a need for such a secure facility, far from American soil because of the dangers of a large-scale rescue attempt of so many high-value terrorists. So Bush Lite keeps it open in violation of his own order.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Hey, speaking of Gitmo…</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">President Bush assumed the responsibility – and the concomitant waves of criticism – of ordering the extraordinary rendition – waterboarding – of a very small number of top terrorists. One of these – the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed – KSM &#8212; who not only admitted to but in fact bragged about the murder of more than 3000 American civilians – broke under waterboarding; a procedure which, I might add, our own special forces warriors volunteer to endure at part of their POW training.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Senator – later candidate – Obama denounced this as torture. But it was the waterboarding of KSM that gave us the name of the courier who revealed the location of Osama bin Laden. After dithering and worrying about the possibility a failed mission for at least 100 days, Bush Lite took time from the links to take credit for getting Bin Laden, a victory given to him by his predecessor’s moral courage and for whom not a word of thanks was uttered.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">One more thing: President Bush declared early that he was going to focus on destroying Al Qaedas ability to strike, rather than chasing one single man. That’s why the man that Bush Lite bragged about killing was not connected to the levers of power, moving his chess pieces against the Great Satan through a series of secret conduits. He was a beaten, bitter old man, who sat in a shawl, watching porn and speeches of himself back in his days of glory, before President Bush broke those levers and scattered those pieces by killing Al Qaeda in the sands of Iraq. Bush Lite, bungling a routine Status of Forces Agreement, told the few survivors – actually, he promised them – that we were getting out; those survivors are now known as ISIS.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">President Bush occasionally left the Oval Office for a round of golf. Bush Lite occasionally leaves a round of golf for the Oval Office. And while President Bush, certainly, was not without his faults – they were the faults of a man facing difficult decisions who made them and then owned up to them in the face of merciless political and personal criticism from people like Bush Lite, who now are forced by the same circumstances to make the same decisions, but who makes them late, and makes them badly, and who then blames anyone but himself.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Perhaps President Bush was not, in fact a bad man who just liked killing people for fun. Bush Lite is doing the exact same things he did: is he a bad man who likes killing people for fun too? Or is it that the job may be a little harder than it looks from the outside? That maybe there aren’t good choices; just a bad choice and a worse choice?</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Finally – heresy of heresies! – I think that not only is President Bush a better man than Bush Lite… I think he’s a far smarter man as well.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">WHAT?!!! Obama went to Harvard!</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Bush went to Harvard too. And Yale. He went to both.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">BUT BUSH WAS A C STUDENT!!!</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">True. And Bush Lite on the other hand…</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">…Well, no one knows what kind of student Bush Lite was, because he has, at great expense, kept his records sealed. We do know that when he was elected President of the Harvard Law Review, Harvard Law Review President Lite never wrote a single law review.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">That seemed odd to me for the longest time, until it finally dawned on me: of course Bush Lite wrote law reviews. He just never had any law reviews PUBLISHED. Must be because he was so brilliant, right? That’s why they never published any of the President of the Harvard Law Review’s Law Reviews? Ort is it because once they read one or two of them they realized – as the rest of us are realizing just today! – that the fabled intellect is as dull and mundane as the fabled savvy and fabled strength and fabled everything.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">So do I really think President Bush is smarter than Bush Lite?</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Hell yes I do! Absolutely!! President Bush was an instrument-rated, supersonic fighter pilot. Barack Obama handed out forms. Which one do you think is easier?</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">That’s how Bush Lite likes things though: easy. Relaxed. Let men make the decisions to win wars. The women in his life will tell Bush Lite when it’s safe to grab the credit.</p>
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		<title>Don’t Mention the War</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2014 04:35:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The administration can’t agree on what it needs to find a strategy for.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/obama-0828.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-241123" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/obama-0828-432x350.jpg" alt="obama-0828" width="344" height="279" /></a>Bill Clinton was ambiguous about the definition of “sex” and “is.” Barack Obama is uncertain about what the definition of “war” might be.</p>
<p>And wars are central to the duties of the man in the White House.</p>
<p>Whether or not we’re in a war depends on who you ask and on which day of the week you ask him. Secretary of State John Kerry said that bombing ISIS in two countries wasn’t a war. After the White House spokesman said it is a war, Kerry agreed that maybe it might be a war after all.</p>
<p>Forget about finding a strategy, this administration can’t even agree on whether the thing that it needs to find a strategy for is a war.</p>
<p>Democrats don’t like the “W” word. They bomb more countries than Republicans do, but they find a prettier name for it.</p>
<p>One of the first things that Obama did in Iraq was to change the name of the war. It was no longer Operation Iraqi Freedom. It was now Operation New Dawn. Even though there were 50,000 troops in Iraq, the combat mission was officially over. The 50,000 were renamed “Advise and Assist” brigades.</p>
<p>As John and Yoko said, the “W” word really could be over if you wanted it to be. Or pretended it was.</p>
<p>Obama bombed Libya to implement regime change, but no one called it a war. It was just one of those things where we dropped a lot of bombs on another country in coordination with rebels on the ground to help them take over that country. Definitely not a war. Possibly one of those “man-caused disasters.”</p>
<p>At least that was how Obama Inc. tried to rename terrorism in the early heady days of hope and change.</p>
<p>A compulsive need to avoid calling things what they are is an obvious form of denial. But when a politician at the head of a government begins behaving in that shifty way, it’s also deeply dishonest.</p>
<p>Democrats could defend Bill Clinton’s need to lie about what they termed his private life, but even they can’t defend an administration that plays Clintonesque word games with something as big as a war.</p>
<p>We are currently not in a war with the Islamic State, which according to this administration is neither Islamic nor a State, with a strategy of possibly destroying them (unless that doesn’t work out and then we’ll settle for degrading them) and we are backed in this non-war by a coalition of Muslim nations that can’t as of yet be named, but which have possibly pledged to help us with certain undetermined things.</p>
<p>These undetermined things include aiding the Syrian Islamist rebels, some of whom are fighting alongside ISIS, some of whom are fighting ISIS and some of whom switch back and forth based on their mood, the latest shipment of TOW missiles from the CIA and how much the Saudis are paying them.</p>
<p>We don’t know a lot more about the war, which may or may not be a war, than we know about it.</p>
<p>And that’s the problem.</p>
<p>Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was mocked for talking about “known unknowns” and “unknown unknowns” by people who are too stupid to realize that their ignorance has turned the world around them into “unknown unknowns.”</p>
<p>Obama’s culture of denial, his charm bracelets of Orwellian synonyms for conflict that seem to have been invented by a bureaucrat with no sense of humor, turn everything into unknown unknowns. If we can’t even properly define what we’re doing, how can we do it at all? If we can’t even admit that we’re fighting a war and that ISIS is inspired by Islam, how can we beat an enemy that we can’t fight or name?</p>
<p>For the longest time this administration refused to admit that ISIS was a threat or that it was at war with us. Only when the Jihadists were preparing to knock on the doors of the US embassy in Baghdad, was it finally able, after a delay of some weeks, to use the “W” word.</p>
<p>What you call something is important. Ideologues, like the kind that fill the ranks of Obama Inc, think that changing a name changes reality. It doesn’t. A rose will still be the same plant by any other name and ISIS will still be the same band of Islamic headchoppers even if you insist on referring to them as a junior varsity team of man-caused disasters belonging to no particular faith or religion.</p>
<p>It’s your awareness of reality that changes.</p>
<p>Casinos and credit card companies use substitution to diminish your awareness that you are spending money.  Drug companies play soothing music and show pastoral scenes while telling you the lethal side effects. Car salesmen and cable companies avoid giving you the full amount that you’ll be paying.</p>
<p>Obama has a bad habit of using these same tactics. His administration tried to make the illegal war in Libya look good by refusing to call it a war and comparing the cost to the Iraq War using bogus figures. It tried to erase the existence of terrorism by refusing to use the word to describe terrorist attacks that were taking place, whether at Fort Hood or in Benghazi.</p>
<p>His tactics showed that he didn’t believe that the problem was terrorism, but the overreaction of Americans to terrorism. All he had to do whitewash every attack as an isolated incident that had nothing to do with Islamic terrorism and then Americans would cease to be aware of terrorism. If Iraq were to vanish from the evening news, no one would know that Al Qaeda there was getting bigger and bolder.</p>
<p>In the latest leaked private conversations printed in the <i>New York Times</i>, Obama whines and mopes, he blasts critics and denies that his policies have failed. Despite his muscular rhetoric in public, in private he complains that he is being stampeded into bombing ISIS. It’s a revealing conversation because it shows a man who believes that his failures are not the problem. It’s other people becoming aware of those failures that concerns him and forces him into addressing them. ISIS isn’t the problem: America is.</p>
<p>ISIS is to Obama as Monica was to Bill Clinton. They’re both the dirty little secrets of powerful men that they did everything possible to hide. And once that was no longer an option, they quibbled over words.</p>
<p>Denial only works until reality forcibly intrudes. Even with a friendly media, the philandering of the President of the United States couldn’t continue indefinitely. And even with a friendly media, the rise of a new generation of Al Qaeda after the Arab Spring wouldn’t stay buried in the back pages forever.</p>
<p>It was only a matter of time until everyone knew.</p>
<p>Futile exercises like debating the meaning of “War” are delaying tactics. People are not interested in abstractions like the meaning of “Is,” “War,” “Sex” or “You can keep your doctor.” They take words at their common meaning. If bombs are falling, it’s a war. And if it’s a war, then it has to be won.</p>
<p>Democrats don’t believe in wars now because they don’t believe in winning. Instead of wars, they spend a lot of time on “interventions” as if dropping tons of explosives on a country is like telling your drunk cousin to stop drinking. They never win any of these interventions and that’s fine because Americans don’t really care what happens in Yugoslavia, Haiti or Somalia.</p>
<p>But on September 11, thousands were murdered in one day.  The Democrats don’t like calling what happened on that day an act of war. Americans however know it’s a war and are determined to win it.</p>
<p>Obama was guiding Americans away from the awareness that we were in a war. In wars, someone wins and someone loses. If he refused to call it a war, maybe we wouldn’t realize that we were losing.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why the world thinks America is fighting to lose against Islamic State. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #000000;"><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/WireAP_0bae6af261174ccc93186590385b497b_16x9_992.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-241098" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/WireAP_0bae6af261174ccc93186590385b497b_16x9_992-432x350.jpg" alt="WireAP_0bae6af261174ccc93186590385b497b_16x9_992" width="315" height="255" /></a>Originally published by the <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Obamas-self-defeating-fight-375428">Jerusalem Post</a>. </em></p>
<p style="color: #000000;">The United States has a problem with Islamic State. Its problem is that it refuses to acknowledge why Islamic State is a problem.</p>
<p>The problem with Islamic State is not that it is brutal. Plenty of regimes are brutal.</p>
<p>Islamic State poses two challenges for the US. First, unlike the Saudis and even the Iranians, IS actively recruits Americans and other Westerners to join its lines.</p>
<p>This is a problem because these Americans and other Westerners have embraced an ideology that is viciously hostile to every aspect of Western civilization.</p>
<p>Last Friday, Buzz Feed published a compilation of social media posts published by Western women who have left their homes in Chicago and London and other hometowns to join IS in Syria.</p>
<p>As these women’s social media posts demonstrate, the act of leaving the West and joining IS involves rejecting everything the West is and everything it represents and embracing a culture of violence, murder and degradation.</p>
<p>In the first instance, the women who leave the West to join IS have no qualms about entering a society in which they have no rights. They are happy covering themselves in black from head to toe. They have no problem casting their lot with a society that prohibits females from leaving their homes without male escorts.</p>
<p>They have no problem sharing their husband with other wives. They don’t mind because they believe that in doing so, they are advancing the cause of Islam and Allah.</p>
<p>As the women described it, the hardest part about joining the jihad is breaking the news to your parents back home. But, as one recruiter soothed, “As long as you are firm and you know that this is all for the sake of Allah then nothing can shake you inshalah.”</p>
<p>Firm in their belief that they are part of something holy, the British, American and European jihadistas are completely at ease with IS violence. In one post, a woman nonchalantly described seeing a Yazidi slave girl.</p>
<p>“Walked into a room, gave salam to everyone in the room to find out there was a yazidi slave girl there as well.. she replied to my salam.”</p>
<p>Other posts discussed walking past people getting their hands chopped off and seeing dead bodies on the street. Islamic State’s beheadings of American and British hostages are a cause for celebration.</p>
<p>Their pride at the beheadings of James Foley and others is part and parcel of their hatred for the US and the West. As they see it, destroying the US and the West is a central goal of IS.</p>
<p>As one of the women put it, “Know this Cameron/ Obama, you and your countries will be beneath our feet and your kufr will be destroyed, this is a promise from Allah that we have no doubt over&#8230;. This Islamic empire shall be known and feared world wide and we will follow none other than the law of the one and the only ilah!” These women do not feel at all isolated. And they have no reason to. They are surrounded by other Westerners who joined IS for the same reasons they did.</p>
<p>In one recruitment post, Western women were told that not knowing Arabic is no reason to stay home.</p>
<p>“You can still survive if you don’t speak Arabic. You can find almost every race and nationality here.”</p>
<p>The presence of Westerners in IS, indeed, IS’s aggressive efforts to recruit Westerners wouldn’t pose much of a problem for the US if it were willing to secure its borders and recognize the root of the problem.</p>
<p>But as US President Barack Obama made clear over the summer, and indeed since he first took office six years ago, he opposes any effort to secure the US border with Mexico. If these jihadists can get to Mexico, they will, in all likelihood, have no problem coming to America.</p>
<p>But even if the US were to secure its southern border, it would still be unable to prevent these jihadists from returning to attack. The policy of the US government is to deny the existence of a jihadist threat by, among other thing, denying the existence of the ideology of Islamic jihad.</p>
<p>When President Barack Obama insisted last Wednesday that Islamic State is not Islamic, he told all the Westerners who are now proud mujihadin that they shouldn’t worry about coming home. They won’t be screened. As far as the US is concerned their Islamic jihad ideology doesn’t exist.</p>
<p>So whereas every passenger arriving in the US from Liberia can be screened for Ebola, no one will be screened for exposure to jihadist thought.</p>
<p>And this brings us to the second problem IS poses to the US.</p>
<p>As a rising force in the Middle East, IS threatens US allies and it threatens global trade. To prevent its allies from being overthrown and to prevent shocks to the international economy, at a minimum, the US needs to contain IS. And given the threat the Westerners joining the terror army constitute, and Washington’s unwillingness to stop them at the border, in all likelihood, the US needs to destroy IS where it stands.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, there is no reason to believe that the US is willing or able to either contain or defeat IS.</p>
<p>As US Maj. Gen. (ret.) Robert Scales wrote over the weekend in The Wall Street Journal, from a military perspective, IS is little different from all the guerrilla forces the US has faced in battle since the Korean War. Scales argues that in all previous such engagements, the outcomes have been discouraging because the US lacks the will to take the battle to the societies that feed them or use its firepower to its full potential out of fear of killing civilians.</p>
<p>Clearly this remains the case today.</p>
<p>Moreover, as Angelo Codevilla explained last month in The Federalist, to truly dry up the swamp feeding IS, it is necessary to take the war to its state sponsors – first and foremost Turkey and Qatar.</p>
<p>In his words, “The first strike against the IS must be aimed at its sources of material support. Turkey and Qatar are very much part of the global economy&#8230; If&#8230;</p>
<p>the United States decides to kill the IS, it can simply inform Turkey, Qatar, and the world it will have zero economic dealings with these countries and with any country that has any economic dealing with them, unless these countries cease any and all relations with the IS.”</p>
<p>Yet, as we saw on the ground this weekend with US Secretary of State John Kerry’s failed mission to secure Turkish support for the US campaign against IS, the administration has no intention of taking the war to IS’s state sponsors, without which it would be just another jihadi militia jockeying for power in Syria.</p>
<p>And this leaves us with the administration’s plan to assemble a coalition of the willing that will provide the foot soldiers for the US air war against Islamic State.</p>
<p>After a week of talks and shuttle diplomacy, aside from Australia, no one has committed forces. Germany, Britain and France have either refused to participate or have yet to make clear what they are willing to do.</p>
<p>The Kurds will not fight for anything but Kurdistan. The Iraqi Army is a fiction. The Iraqi Sunnis support IS far more than they trust the Americans.</p>
<p>Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan will either cheer the US on from a distance, or in the best-case scenario, provide logistical support for its operations.</p>
<p>It isn’t just that these states have already been burned by Obama whether through his support for the Muslim Brotherhood and the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak and Muammar Gaddafi. And it isn’t simply that they saw that the US left them hanging in Syria.</p>
<p>They see Obama’s “strategy” for fighting IS – ignoring the Islamic belief system that underpins every aspect of its existence, and expecting other armies to fight and die to accomplish the goal while the US turns a blind eye to Turkey’s and Qatar’s continued sponsorship of Islamic State. They see this strategy and they are convinced America is fighting to lose. Why should they go down with it? Islamic State is a challenging foe. To defeat it, the US must be willing to confront Islamism. And it must be willing to fight to win. In the absence of such determination, it will fight and lose, in the region and at home, with no allies at its side.<br />
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		<title>Defending the Jewish State</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2014 04:03:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What fighting on the front lines has taught me about the cause of peace. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/gaza-troops.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-240421" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/gaza-troops.jpg" alt="gaza-troops" width="333" height="250" /></a>In December 2008, a day before Operation Cast Lead began, I walked through rocket-besieged Sderot, dispensing candies and cards courtesy of my sister’s class in New Jersey. A month later I returned to New York as an NYU undergrad. Then the long war began. In the coming months, my fellow pro-Israel students and I faced protests, one-sided panels, movie screenings and other events designed to ostracize Israel. As co-president of the Israel club at the NYU Hillel, I tried unsuccessfully to engage our critics. I attended meetings held by the Students for Justice in Palestine, joined Facebook groups, and attended anti-Israel events. My repeated overtures to pro-Palestinian groups on campus fell on deaf ears.</p>
<p>Six years later, Israel is again at war, as am I. By day I work in the Medical Corps, assisting in providing medical care to Israeli soldiers, Palestinian children, Syrian refugees, Bedouin mothers, and Ethiopian and Russian immigrants—the oath of the Medical Corps a militarized version of the Hippocratic Oath. At night I again fight the long war, an uphill battle to protect Israel’s name. I talk to the dwindling group of moderates invested in this conflict interested in hearing different perspectives and sharing their own.</p>
<p>My activities over the last month sharpened a long-forgotten observation from campus advocacy days, an insight into the failure of intergroup dialogue. Pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian advocates fail to communicate, because the two groups do not speak the same language.</p>
<p>Much like the Israeli-Palestinian conflict itself, dialogue between pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian advocates often fails because the two groups seek to yell at, rather than talk to, each other. However, even when we do listen to one another, there is a gulf which is more conceptual than linguistic. Israel advocates speak of Peace; Palestinian advocates of Justice.</p>
<p>It’s no coincidence that the Palestinian student advocacy network is called “Students for Justice in Palestine”; their activities are steeped in this rhetoric. Israel advocates, on the other hand, speak in the language of peace. At rallies in Washington Square Park we chanted for “Peace in the Middle East,” a simple, yet elusive, goal. Our message was, is: “stop the rockets, stop the terror, let us all live in peace.” Their message was, remains: “There can be no peace until justice is established.”</p>
<p>There are many pro-Palestinian advocates who believe this message. Justice is a fundamental value in Judaism and Islam, as in many societies. However, the goal is an illusion, the rhetoric misleading, the agenda damaging to Palestinians and Israelis alike.</p>
<p>Every conflict has injustice. A conflict of over six decades offers infinite injustice. Land taken, war started, ceasefire broken, children murdered. There’s endless blame to go around, and it gets worse the farther back one goes. We needn’t give up on justice altogether. But as with any intractable conflict, a hyper-focus on something so eminently subjective and unachievable as “justice” merely highlights reasons to fight. It burns bridges rather than builds them; it tells us that we can never live together until we settle the fight that my grandfather fought with your great-aunt. There will always be many, if not infinite, narratives. Perhaps too, forgiveness and some semblance of justice may occur once we learn to live in peace. But surely we should address our children’s future before we settle our parents’ grievances? Surely peace trumps justice, for both sides?</p>
<p>As an Israeli, I don’t believe that we fight a war with the Palestinians, or that Hamas’s attacks are those of a nation. They are those of a fringe extremist group that has chosen violent resistance, despite the damage that it brings. I do worry though, about the growing number abroad who can’t condemn Hamas, who openly support it, or who tacitly do so, by speaking the language of injustice, rather than of peace. Israelis and Palestinians share an interest in an end, not merely a suspension, of armed hostilities. Our supporters abroad, if genuine, should also share this interest.</p>
<p>I believe the time is long overdue for pro-Palestinian advocacy to change their language, to forget “justice” and embrace peace. Peace, requiring work on both sides, may bring some semblance of justice. Seeking justice will bring neither justice, nor peace. For most of us living here, the answer is obvious. Too many children have lost parents, or parents their children. Most Israelis and Palestinians seek to live in peace, despite political differences. I hope that advocates abroad, rather than demanding vague notions of justice, can help us to build bridges and to promote peace.</p>
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		<title>Ze’ev Jabotinsky to Benjamin Netanyahu On Hamas</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2014 04:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ronn Torossian]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Words of wisdom on the crucial task of protecting the Jewish State. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Zeev_Jabotinsky.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-240557" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Zeev_Jabotinsky.jpg" alt="Zeev_Jabotinsky" width="286" height="278" /></a>On Friday, the former Prime Minister of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, threatened that Hamas would resume the rocket attacks against Israel on September 25<sup>th</sup>.  Haniyeh noted that Hamas will not demilitarize, nor will they “cooperate with any regional or international decision which would see its arsenal &#8216;against the resistance&#8217; harmed.” As he said, &#8220;Weapons are the holy light of the sanctity of the struggle and the land issue, and if they want to demilitarize its weapons, we will only agree if the occupier is also demilitarized and its leaves our land.&#8221; Hamas is clear on their mission to destroy the State of Israel.</p>
<p>Israel, on the other hand, values human life, and takes war very seriously.  The government of Israel made the difficult decision to accept a ceasefire.  Undoubtedly, President Obama pressured Israel, and Kerry and Obama succeeded in stopping Israel from destroying Hamas. Some sort of a fragile “truce” holds and undoubtedly the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, may once again face the difficult decision very soon to strike forcefully.  Netanyahu undoubtedly values human life – and wants peace.</p>
<p>Netanyahu’s late father, Benzion, was known to have had a tremendous influence on his son &#8212; and Benzion was the longtime secretary to <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/ronn-torossian/zeev-jabotinsky-and-the-belgium-terror-attack/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Ze’ev Jabotinsky</span></a>, the founder of revisionist Zionism.  Jabotinsky was a proud, strong nationalist whose ideology has influenced the leaders of many nationalist Israelis.</p>
<p>Amongst Jabotinsky’s wise words as he sought to create a fighting Jewish people was the quote, &#8220;We shall create, with sweat and blood, a race of men, strong, brave and cruel.”  As Hamas threatens Israel today, what would Jabotinsky think – and what would he urge Prime Minister Netanyahu to do?</p>
<p>At the Third World Conference of Betar, Menachem Begin (at the time the head of Betar Poland), and Jabotinsky had an exchange of words which are interestingly relevant to the very dilemma which Netanyahu faces today as he faces an enemy on his borders – and what to do.</p>
<p>Begin noted:</p>
<blockquote><p>With what means will we succeed in achieving our aims? We were taught to use moral pressure on the Western powers, and that Britain will honor her commitments to our nation. But in reality, the British only need take the Arab demands into account. The Arabs receive 95% and do not agree. They fight with their blood. And we who receive only 5%, how are we fighting? It is obvious that the disproportion of strength and honor between Israel and the Arabs must force Britain to first of all consider the Arab demands over ours. Zionism is an eternal idea but its realization will be delayed by decades if we continue on this path. We must fight – to die or conquer the mountain! The Israeli national movement began with Practical Zionism. Then there was Political Zionism. And now we must create a new Zionism – Military Zionism. Our examples will be Camillo di Cavour and Giuseppe Garibaldi. Cavour would have never achieved victory for Italy without Garibaldi.</p></blockquote>
<p>Jabotinsky retorted:</p>
<blockquote><p>Permit me to say a few strong words. As your teacher it is my duty. There are many types of noises in this world. There is the whistle and the noise of heavy machines. But I cannot bear the squeak of an un-oiled door because that noise serves no purpose. You are implying that there is no conscience left in the world and there is no room for such useless chattering in Betar. It is pure despair. With a broom we must sweep away these futile ideas.</p></blockquote>
<p>One wonders: Is there any conscious in the world, when a terrorist organization is supported by countless nations?  No one in Israel wants war – but an enemy devoted to destroying the Jewish people must be countered. It is a reality which faces the State of Israel every single day.</p>
<p>Similarly, Netanyahu must recall the words of Jabotinsky in the legendary essay “Ethics of the Iron Wall”:</p>
<blockquote><p>Human society is based on reciprocity. If you remove reciprocity, justice becomes a lie. A person walking somewhere on a street has the right to live only because and only to the extent that he acknowledges my right to live. But, if he wishes to kill me, to my mind he forfeits his right to exist – and this also applies to nations. Otherwise, the world would become a racing area for vicious predators, where not only the weakest would be devoured, but the best.</p></blockquote>
<p>There is no easy way.</p>
<p><span style="color: #0433ff;"><a href="http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/08/18/zeev-jabotinsky-would-take-on-iran-and-hamas/">Ze’ev Jabotinsky</a></span> wrote in 1929: “The Jewish people – all of us, 100 percent want peace.” Yet, he realized the importance of strength.</p>
<p>Prime Minister Netanyahu has no easy decisions – yet knows that he must protect the only Jewish State in the world.</p>
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		<title>Andrew Klavan: Whatever Leftists Say, It&#8217;s Opposite Day!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2014 04:57:33 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #000000;"><strong>In this special episode, our host, Andrew Klavan, recounts the litany of assurances Barack Obama and his leftist companions have made, none of which are true&#8230; See the video and transcript below:</strong></p>
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<p style="color: #000000;">I’m Andrew Klavan and this is the Revolting Truth.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Hurrah!  It’s Opposite Day — the day when everything is exactly the opposite from what we were told it would be.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">For instance, remember in 2011 when Barack Obama told us “the tide of war is receding?”  Remember during his re-election campaign that year, when he said Al Qaeda had been decimated.  Remember afterwards, when he withdrew all our troops from Iraq and he said, we were “leaving behind a sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq” and “America’s war in Iraq will be over.”</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Well, yahoo!  It’s Opposite Day!.  Everything Obama said is just the opposite!  The tide of war is in full flood and engulfing much of the middle east.  Al Qaeda’s murderous warriors have reconvened as the Islamic State, more powerful and more brutal than ever.  And of course Iraq is awash in bloodshed and if the U.S. doesn’t stop it there, it’ll soon be right here with us!</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">What a crazy day.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Hey, here’s another one.  This is fun, huh?  Remember the 2004 speech when Obama said “There’s not a black America and a white America&#8230; there’s the United States of America&#8230;”  Remember when the Economist and the New Yorker and NPR all told us Barack Obama’s election signaled a post-racial age.  And the New York Times heralded his election with the headline:  “Obama moves America Beyond Racial Politics.”</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Surprise!  It’s Opposite Day!  Yes, Ferguson Missouri has been rocked by the worst racial riots in years. A New York Times CBS poll says 87 percent of Americans feel that race relations in our country have either stayed the same or gotten worse since Obama’s election.  And it’s Obama’s own administration that has stoked the tensions, with corrupt Attorney General Eric Holder playing the race card every time he gets caught in a new scandal, and Joe Biden accusing Republicans of wanting black people back in chains, and Obama himself repeatedly suggesting his opponents are driven by racism.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">This is a great day, right?  Ha, gotcha!  It’s the opposite.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Let’s not stop now!  Remember when Obama pressed the reset button to improve our relations with Russia — those guys who are currently invading the Ukraine.  Or remember when Obama promised a transparent and ethical administration that would “do our business in the light of day” instead of arresting opposition filmmakers on trumped up charges and bugging investigative journalists and auditing conservative groups to shut them up and enforcing only those laws he likes while rewriting other laws without the consent of congress.</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">Oh &#8211; and hey, remember how leftists felt virtuous for supporting Obama and his policies.  Oh, wait, never mind, leftists still feel virtuous&#8230;  because for them it’s always&#8230;   Opposite Day!</p>
<p style="color: #000000;">I’m Andrew Klavan with the Revolting Truth.</p>
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		<title>The Unfinished War</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2014 04:25:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What Israel must do to prevent the next onslaught from Hamas. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/image.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-240067" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/image.jpg" alt="image" width="305" height="245" /></a>Originally published by the <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Our-world-The-unfinished-war-374131">Jerusalem Post</a>. </em></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;">The war with Hamas is not over. What we are experiencing today is a temporary cease-fire.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The most basic reason the war is not over is because Hamas has no existence outside its war against the Jewish state. Hamas exists to obliterate Israel. The goal of each round of fighting is to soften Israel up for the next round.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Hamas will only stop fighting when it is defeated. And Israel did not defeat Hamas.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Not only did Israel not defeat Hamas, according to Haaretz, senior IDF commanders are now lobbying the government to enable Hamas to credibly claim victory.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">According to Amos Harel, senior IDF commanders want Israel to bow to Hamas’s demands for open borders with Israel and for the steady transfer of funds to Hamas’s treasury.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Harel quoted a senior IDF source who said that if Israel doesn’t give in to Hamas’s demands for open borders, Hamas will renew its attacks at the end of September.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In the senior commander’s words, “If we can assist [Hamas] by expanding fishing grounds and easing restrictions on border crossings of people and goods into and from Israel, this will help maintain the quiet.”</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">So to delay the next Hamas onslaught against us, the IDF is lobbying the government to surrender to Hamas.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">This behavior demonstrates two basic truths about Hamas’s war against Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">First, it is impossible for Israel to deter Hamas, but Hamas has apparently deterred the IDF General Staff.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">During Operation Protective Edge Hamas absorbed massive blows to its war machine. The IDF destroyed Hamas’s offensive tunnels that penetrated into Israel. It destroyed thousands of Hamas’s rockets, missiles and launchers. It killed hundreds of Hamas fighters, including some top commanders.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">And yet, less than a week into the cease-fire, the IDF prefers to capitulate to Hamas’s demands, and so allow Hamas to recoup its losses, rather than face its depleted forces on the ground in four weeks.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In other words, despite the blows it suffered, it is Hamas that has deterred the IDF.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Harel’s report is just the most recent indication that the IDF senior command echelon is Hamas’s ace in the hole. Throughout the war, news reports revealed that under Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Benny Gantz, the General Staff refused to present the security cabinet with any viable plan to defeat Hamas. And now, having failed to defeat Hamas, they insist that it is Israel that should surrender.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Hamas went to war with Israel because its back was up against the wall. Due to Egypt’s decision a year ago to seal its borders with Gaza, Hamas lost the ability to expand its arsenal, fuel Gaza’s smuggling-based economy and pay its terrorists their salaries.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Its leadership figured that the best way to reopen its supply lines was by going to war against Israel. The risk-averse behavior of the General Staff both during the war and today tell Hamas’s leadership that they were right.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The General Staff’s behavior isn’t the only reason that Hamas thinks aggression is the way to go. The US and Europe have gone out of their way, both during the fighting and today, to show Hamas that they are right to attack Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">US President Barack Obama adopted Hamas’s demand for open borders as the official position of the US government almost at the outset of the conflict.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">He sought to replace Hamas foe Egypt as mediator with Hamas’s principle state sponsors Qatar and Turkey.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Under Obama the Federal Aviation Administration instituted a discriminatory and unwarranted flight ban on Israel. The repercussions of that move continue to harm Israel’s economy.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Today, the US and the EU are working together at the UN Security Council to draft a resolution that would see the deployment of international military forces to Gaza. The defined role of the force would be to oversee Gaza’s demilitarization, seemingly in line with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s demand.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">But the notion that UN forces would take any steps to disarm Hamas is absurd. The minute such forces arrive in Gaza they will become human shields preventing Israel from defending itself against Hamas aggression. If they are deployed to Gaza, then in the next round of Hamas’s war against the Jews, IDF troops will have to constrain their offensive operations still further to avoid killing Western forces.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">In other words, the deployment of such a force in Gaza will make it all but impossible for Israel to fight Hamas in the future.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">The current discussions at the Security Council tell Hamas it is winning.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">By attacking Israel, the genocidal jihadist group won the support of the West. At the UN today the US and the EU are crafting a resolution that will allow it to attack Israel from behind Western human shields.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">So between the IDF General Staff and the West, Hamas now knows that all they have to do to survive, thrive and expand their war on Israel, is shake the tree. Something will fall out that will reward their aggression.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">If they pay any price at all, it will involve nothing more than the death of the civilians of Gaza. And Hamas leaders couldn’t care less. For them, the death of civilians is yet another means of attacking Israel.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Facing this dire state of affairs, our leadership must dedicate itself today to preparing for the next round of war.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">To this end, Israel must begin acting in three areas, now.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">First, Israel must use whatever means it has at its disposal to scuttle the US’s attempts to pass any resolution related to Gaza at the UN Security Council.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Second, the government must clean the stables in the IDF General Staff.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Gantz is due to complete his tour of duty in February. Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon need to use his departure as an opportunity to replace not only Gantz but several other senior generals. Their replacements must be commanders who understand that the role of the IDF is to win wars, not lose them.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">To date, Netanyahu and Ya’alon have given no indication of their intentions. Senior ministers and the public should use both the General Staff’s support for surrender and its lack of strategic ambition and tactical imagination during the war as a means of pressuring Netanyahu and Ya’alon to conduct a major shakeup of the General Staff.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Finally, the time has come for Israel to expand its military industries.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">During the war both the US and European governments placed obstructions in the path of IDF resupply.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Israel cannot remain dependent on undependable foreign military suppliers. Israel needs to develop its own production lines, starting immediately.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">We have the technology. We have the economic wherewithal. And we have the external markets to cover the costs of development.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">True, this is a long-term undertaking.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">But it has to begin now.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Residents of the south are livid at the government for opting for a ceasefire rather than mounting a full invasion of Gaza and dismantling Hamas piece by piece, terrorist by terrorist. As they see it, Operation Protective Edge failed to bring them the security they deserve and require to lead normal lives.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">There is much validity to their claims. Hamas’s declarations of victory would sound far more disingenuous if the IDF’s leadership wasn’t intent on proving them right.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Their celebrations would ring hollow and even pathetic if the Americans and Europeans weren’t laboring to set up a mechanism to prevent Israel from fighting in the future.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">As it stands, the only way for our leaders to prove their credibility now is by rejecting Hamas’s demand for open borders, even if doing so will require us to go back into battle in a month. After we have seen what Hamas is capable of, the notion that we should allow them to resupply and so rebuild and expand their military capabilities is simply outrageous.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Every general even obliquely tied to this initiative should be given his walking papers.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">So too, our leaders need to demonstrate that they understand the nature of the diplomatic battlefield whose contours are being designed in Washington as well as Europe. To meet this threat, we must devise a clear plan to scuttle the cease-fire initiative at the Security Council, and we must diminish our dependence on our unreliable defense partners by building our own production lines.</span><br style="color: #000000;" /><br style="color: #000000;" /><span style="color: #000000;">Absent these responses, it is difficult to see how we will weather the next rapidly approaching storm. Absent these responses it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the time has come for new elections.</span></p>
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		<title>40 Lessons from Hamas&#8217; War Against the Jews</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2014 04:41:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Steven Plaut]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The hard truths the Jewish State must internalize if it wants to prevail.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="color: #222222;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/hamas2.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-239776" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/hamas2.jpg" alt="hamas" width="339" height="254" /></a>1.      Nice fences do not stop missiles, rockets, and mortars.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">2.      Complete removal of Israeli forces and Jewish settlers from an area merely signals Israeli weakness and invites escalated Arab terror and aggression.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">3.      Hamas (and Hezb&#8217;Allah and ISIS) cannot be defeated with air strikes.  There is no effective alternative to ground invasion and ongoing military control of the ground retaken.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">4.      Unless the Israeli military controls the ground on the other side of fences, those fences achieve nothing.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">5.      Goodwill gestures by Israel increase terror.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">6.      Goodwill gestures by Israel never produce moderation of Arab goals and demands.  They also do not win Israel friends in the West but rather encourage outbursts of anti-Semitism.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">7.      Terror is not caused by Israeli settlements but by the removal of Israeli settlements.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">8.      Terror is not caused by Israeli military occupation but by the removal of Israeli military occupation.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">9.      It is impossible for two sovereign entities to exist between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">10.      No matter how many concessions Israel makes, the world will always justify Arab terrorism because there will always be still one more capitulation Israel failed to make.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">11.      No matter how nice Israel is to its own Arab citizens and no matter how many affirmative action programs it implements, Israel will always be accused of being an &#8220;apartheid regime.&#8221;</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">12.      The Israeli far left is an openly anti-Semitic movement that seeks Israel&#8217;s destruction and automatically endorses the enemies of Israel in nearly all things.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">13.     The Likud is too cowardly to defeat the terrorists.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">14.       The real enemy of Israel is not Arab fascism but Jewish leftism.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">15.       Much of the world has no qualms about seeing Jewish civilians murdered by terrorists.  In fact it celebrates these Jewish deaths and complains that there are too few of them.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">16.       The Israeli Left will oppose every conceivable act of Israeli self-defense.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">17.       Israeli niceness and flexibility fan anti-Semitism.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">18.       Arab terrorists do not morph into statesmen.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">19.       Israel bashers do not care about dead Arab civilians, other than as a useful tool with which to bludgeon Israel.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">20.      Many on the worldwide Left would not raise an eyebrow if Israeli Jews were shipped off to concentration camps in cattle cars – except perhaps to demand improved rail service.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">21.      The vast majority of Israeli Arabs and nearly all Israeli Arab politicians support terrorism and wish to see Israel destroyed.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">22.      There are hundreds of Jewish professors in Israel who serve as an academic Fifth Column and who collaborate with the enemies of their country.  They are the moral equivalent of American and British jihadis who fight for the ISIS.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">23.      The Arabs will not accept an independent Israel within any set of borders, no matter how small. Hence reducing Israel&#8217;s territory does nothing but signal weakness and destructibility.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">24.      The only country on earth expected to respond to the mass murder of its civilians by turning of the other cheek is Israel.  The only country on earth that has spent years trying to defeat aggression and terrorism by turning the other cheek is Israel.  It failed.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">25.      No matter how Israel responds to aggression and terrorism, it will always be denounced as a &#8220;disproportionate&#8221; response.  The only &#8220;proportionate&#8221; response is complete capitulation by Israel.  If an Israeli coughs in the general direction of Gaza, this would be a disproportionate war crime and act of genocide.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">26.      Those who claim that anti-Zionism is different and distinct from anti-Semitism tend, on close inspection, to be anti-Semites themselves.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">27.      The only people on earth whom the Left believes should be denied the right to self-determination and self-defense are the Jews.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">28.      &#8220;Palestinians&#8221; are not a nation in any true sense of the term and never were. They are simply Arabs who happened to migrate or infiltrate into Western Palestine.  They have no &#8220;right&#8221; to statehood.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">29.      Israeli leftists, rather than learn from the failures of their policies and &#8220;ideas,&#8221; will always complain that their policies have not been applied thoroughly enough.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">30.      The moral and legal responsibility for every single Arab civilian killed or injured in the Middle East conflict rests squarely on the shoulders of the Arab terrorists and their Western amen choruses.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">31.      There is no moral or legal reason for Israel to refrain from attacking terrorists and murderers when they hide among civilians.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">32.     Israel is the only country in the Middle East that is NOT an apartheid regime.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">33.      Palestinians are the Sudeten Germans of the Middle East.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">34.      There are no non-military solutions to the problem of terrorism.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">35.       One can only make peace with one&#8217;s defeated enemies.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">36.      There are no significant differences between the agenda of the PLO and the agenda of Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the Moslem Brotherhood, and ISIS.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">37.      One cannot make peace by pretending that war does not exist.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">38.      One cannot buy off anti-Semites and Islamofascists with trade concessions and subsidies.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">39.       The only way to stop terrorism is to kill terrorists.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">40.       No terrorist has ever murdered anyone after he was executed.</span></p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2014 04:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ari Lieberman]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The terrorist group lives to fight another day after ceasefire. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Khaled-Meshaal.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-239800" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Khaled-Meshaal.jpg" alt="Khaled-Meshaal" width="279" height="230" /></a>No sooner had the guns fallen silent in Gaza than Hamas leaders, some emerging from Shifa Hospital, others from five-star Qatari hotels, proclaimed “victory” before a paid crowd of shills and an adoring media. Speaking from his plush surroundings in the pseudo country of Qatar, some 1,000 miles away from the battle, Hamas’s political leader, Khaled Mashaal <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4565395,00.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">comically noted</span></a> that his terrorist group “dazzled the world with its victory and its endurance.” The perfunctory victory proclamation, following defeat at the hands of Israel, has become a cyclical, near ritualistic event in the Arab world.</p>
<p>Gamal Abdel Nasser did it in 1956 after Israel’s takeover of Sinai and routing of his forces stationed there. Anwar Sadat did it in 1973 following the encirclement of his armies by the Israel Defense Forces. Yasser Arafat did it in 1982 when his PLO gangsters were expelled from Lebanon and banished to different parts of the Mideast. Hezbollah’s Hassan Nasrallah did it in 2006 when Lebanon was set back 10 years and Hamas has become proficient in these types of declarations, having performed identical victory rituals twice before, in 2009 and 2012.</p>
<p>Of course these silly, fantasy-like proclamations bare no rational resemblance to reality. In this current round, Hamas took a nasty beating. It lost at least 1,000 of its fighters and some 200 were taken prisoner. Its military leadership was decapitated in a series of punishing strikes. Its rockets were swatted out of the sky by Israel’s marvelous Iron Dome missile defense system and its rocket arsenal was severely depleted. Its command and control was left in tatters and its offensive tunnels, which took years to build and soaked up hundreds of millions of dollars, are no more. Most importantly, none of its demands, the creation of a seaport and an airport and the lifting of the blockade, were met.</p>
<p>The terms which Hamas had agreed to on day 49 of Operation Defensive Edge were precisely the same as those which the organization rejected during the initial days of conflict. To say that Hamas is back to square one would be inaccurate for Hamas emerges from this conflict with substantially less than what it had when it started.</p>
<p>Having been soundly defeated on the battlefield – 10 times since 1948 – Israel’s regressive enemies have adopted a new paradigm for victory – survival.  As long as the aggressor survives the battle with his capital intact – more or less – he can declare victory over the Zionist infidels.</p>
<p>It is not a difficult threshold to meet given that the EU and other Western enablers will always seek to prevent Israel from effectuating complete and total victory. A former high level security official noted that had the Israel Defense Forces been unencumbered by political constraints, it could have <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Fundamentally-Freund-Defeating-terrorists-From-Sri-Lanka-to-Gaza-371428"><span style="color: #0433ff;">conquered Gaza</span></a> within a week and that assessment was echoed by others within the security establishment. Humanitarian concerns and negative world reaction foreclosed that option.</p>
<p>And so, as the brave Hamas groundhogs emerge from their underground shelters situated beneath Shifa hospital and scan the scale of destruction that surrounds them, they declare victory. For the average Westerner, this warped mindset is difficult to explain. But for those well versed in the convoluted machinations of the Arab Middle East, this mentality is a natural outcome of the negative influences that permeate the region.</p>
<p>The Arab world, fed on a steady diet of religious dogma, racist supremacism and xenophobia, where Jews are considered to be the descendants of apes and pigs and non-Muslims are deemed second class citizens, produces thought processes vastly different from those of more progressive societies. Reversals and setbacks, which in the West would produce cause for reflection and introspection, are routinely ignored in the Arab world. A cognitive dissonance of sorts has set in whereby every loss, no matter how complete or devastating, is explained as merely being the will of Allah and a bump on the road toward the path of victory over the infidels.</p>
<p>The guns have now fallen silent in Gaza. In Israel, things will quickly return to normal. Universities will impart knowledge, businesses will thrive and scientific innovation will continue apace. In Gaza too things will return to normal. Hamas will continue to divert humanitarian goods for war making and the Imams will continue preach hate and anti-Semitism, setting the stage for the eleventh round and yet another Arab defeat.</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2014 04:04:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ronn Torossian]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is the endgame of the operation in Gaza? ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/slide_265226_1794010_free.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-239422" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/slide_265226_1794010_free-436x350.jpg" alt="slide_265226_1794010_free" width="288" height="231" /></a>One observes some contradictions when watching Israeli <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhaUVmYBXD0"><span style="color: #0199ff;">Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu</span></a>. On the one hand, as the leader of a nationalist government and Chairman of the right-of-center Likud Party, he is completely dedicated to Israel’s security. Yet, after months of conflict with the Palestinian Arabs and Hamas – and international condemnation – terrorists still fire rockets at the State of Israel. On the eve of a proposed cease-fire, which Netanyahu advocated accepting, the underground tunnels were discovered. Now, we see Netanyahu dispatching negotiators to Egypt, where discussions take place with a team that included representatives of terrorist organizations.</p>
<p>With countless cease-fires broken by the Palestinians, the war and attacks upon Israel continue, there seems to be little vision here. Does Netanyahu seek to over-throw Hamas? Does he want to strengthen the Palestinian Authority? Retake Gaza? What is the plan?</p>
<p>The clear plan comes from Hamas – who continue to relentlessly attack the State of Israel.  They stay true to their charter.  Does the Prime Minister stay true to the citizens of Israel by condemning Israeli security cabinet members who simply want an end to terrorist attacks upon Israel?</p>
<p>This week, Channel 2 reported that Economy Minister Naftali Bennett was yelled at during a cabinet meeting by the Prime Minister for speaking out against the Gaza operation. Bennett was yelled at for demanding an end to negotiations with terrorist organizations in Cairo, and has previously attacked the idea of “calm for cash” whereby the repeated ceasefires allow Hamas to rearm.</p>
<p>Bennett’s stated: “This situation, in which we are biting our nails in nervous anticipation of a reply from a murderous terrorist organization, should be stopped.” This disposition clearly reflects the desire of the Israeli people. He should be commended.  Similarly, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said:</p>
<blockquote><p>I hope that now it&#8217;s clear to everyone that the policy of &#8220;quiet will be met by quiet&#8221; means that Hamas is the initiator and the one deciding when, where and how it will fire on Israeli residents.</p></blockquote>
<p>He noted, &#8220;It happened yesterday, it&#8217;s happening today, and it could happen on September 1 and also Rosh Hashanah evening.”  It is right – not wrong &#8212; for government ministers to demand an end to terror and quiet for the peace of Israel.</p>
<p>What exactly is the Prime Minister&#8217;s vision? Security is not being accomplished as rockets keep flying. There’s certainly not peace.  Surely, the people of Israel are not asking for too much to demand that Israel lives without the constant fear of attacks. Jews worldwide understand that Netanyahu is under tremendous pressure – and they count on him to protect the Jewish State.</p>
<p>On could argue that Netanyahu must, at this moment, channel his inner <a href="http://www.truthrevolt.org/israel-revolt/torossian-zeev-jabotinsky-had-it-right-justice-must-be-done"><span style="color: #0199ff;">Ze’ev Jabotinsky</span></a>, who wisely noted many years ago,</p>
<blockquote><p>We were not created in order to teach morals and manners to our enemies. Let them learn these things for themselves before they establish relations with us. We want to hit back at anybody who harms us. Whoever does not repay a blow by a blow is also incapable of repaying a good deed in kind. Only something who can hate his enemies can be a faithful friend to those who love him.</p></blockquote>
<p>The people of Israel demand the crushing of Hamas.  Let the citizens of Israel have peace and quiet.</p>
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